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The Gory Details of the UN reform bills
No word today from my Senators on their positions on UN reform.
Here are some of the gory details. This is from Section 601 of the House version of UN reform.
(1) IN GENERAL- Except as provided in paragraph (4) and in accordance with paragraph (2), until such time as all certifications (or alternate certifications) are submitted in accordance with subsection (a), the United States shall appropriate, but withhold from expenditure, 50 percent of the contributions of the United States to the regular assessed budget of the United Nations for a biennial period.
I believe it is the Secretary of State doing the certifying. What types of things are being certified? Most are bureaucratic/personnel type matters. But a few are higher-level policy matters. Here is an example (from Section 201, paragraph (b)) related to the Human Rights Commission
(1) A Member State that fails to uphold the values embodied in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights shall be ineligible for membership on any United Nations human rights body.
(2) A Member State shall be ineligible for membership on any United Nations human rights body if such Member State is (A) subject to sanctions by the Security Council; or (B) under a Security Council-mandated investigation for human rights abuses.
(3) A Member State that is currently subject to an adopted country specific resolution, in the principal body in the United Nations for the promotion and protection of human rights, relating to human rights abuses perpetrated by the government of such country in such country, or has been the subject of such an adopted country specific resolution in such principal body within the previous 3 years, shall be ineligible for membership on any United Nations human rights body. For purposes of this subsection, an adopted country specific resolution shall not include consensus resolutions on advisory services.
(4) A Member State that violates the principles of a United Nations human rights body to which it aspires to join shall be ineligible for membership on such body.
(1) and (4) are kind of fuzzy. But (2) and (3) are objective criteria. If a country under sanction from the Security Council is allowed on the Human rights Commission, then UN funding is withheld.
The Senate version adds an extra layer of procedure. This is from Section 12 of the Senate bill
(a) In General- The President is authorized to withhold 50 percent of United States contributions to the United Nations in a year if the President has determined in the most recent report submitted under section 11 that the United Nations is not making sufficient progress to implement the reforms described in this Act.
The Senate bill contains provisions about the Human Rights Committee similar to the House bill. The difference is, in the Senate bill, allowing a country under sanction from the security council does not trigger an automatic funding cut; it gives the President the right to withhold funds.
There are arguments for both approaches. Which option do you think is better? And which approach do Senator Reed and Senator Chafee think is better?
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How is Mandarin used in the fictional universe of the SciFi-Series "Firefly"?
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2.1 The languages of the 'verse
2.2 Domains and Code-Mixing & Switching
3. Data and statement ofresults
4. Discussion: in which way is Mandarin used in Firefly ?
5. Conclusion: Difficulties with data/argumentation, suggestions for futureresearch . .
Bilingualism is a frequent phenomenon in our present society, and it is as varied as it is frequent. In a survey which was carried out by the European Commission in 2006, 56% of the inhabitants of the then 25 EU countries as well as Bulgaria, Romania, Turkey and Croatia stated that they were able to have a conversation in a language other than their mother-tongue. It is evident from these numbers that Bilingualism is an area ofresearch that can offer many insights that may speak not only about the usage of language itself, but also about the culture and history of theregion it is used in. In the past, Bilingualism has beenresearched to great extent. Whatremains a smallresearch area within Bilingualism is theresearch area of fictional speech communities which can be found in many worksranging from SciFi to Fantasy. My subject ofresearch will therefore be the fictional speech community of the SciFi- series Firefly. In it, the viewer is confronted with a future in which humanity has left Earth- that-was (as the present Earth is called in the Firefly -universe) due to extensive pollution and overpopulation and populated new star systems via terra-forming. Throughout this generation-spanning process of emigration, the languages of the previously geographically separated areas were mixed,resulting in a multilingual society whose main languages are English and Mandarin, presumably the two majority languages on Earth-that-was. In this paper, I aim to uncover some findings about the characteristics of the usage of Mandarin in Firefly as well as some insights into the speech community portrayed in Firefly. As a multilingual society which has developed through a fundamental uprooting and transplanting, it is interesting to examine the visible (or hearable)result of this process. Thisresult will be data gathered from the series, focused on verbal utterances made by the characters of the series (visual signs of Bilingualism like street signs and inscriptions will be omitted). To gain insights on the characteristics of the usage of Mandarin in Firefly, I will examine the domains in which Mandarin is typically used in conversation, and examine the way in which it is used. As code-switching and code-mixing are a phenomenon which occursrather often, I will use a numerical approach to create an overview over the number of Mandarin utterances, and analyze them further by comparing my findings with the features found in Holmes 2013. In doing so, I hope to prove that Mandarin seems to be the language which is more easily at the disposal of the speakers, in opposition to English, which seems to be the official language used in everyday situations.
The speech community of Firefly is multilingual, blending languages from different former geographic areas in a "intergalactic melting pot". Although the distribution of Mandarin and English varies throughout the galaxy ("core planets" who have been populated for a longer time are more likely to have a more distinguished use of English while "Border planets" are more likely to have an accent-coloured variant of English, the main cities also have linguistic particularities: Londinium is mostly English-speaking, Sihnon mainly Mandarin-speaking, the distribution within the speech community of the space ship Serenity, in which most of the dialogue takes place, seems to use both languages with the same proficiency. The process which led to this "intergalactic melting pot" is very fittingly summarised when Ilse Lehiste writes: "languages come into contact when speakers of those languages come into contact" (qtd in Mandala 2012: 38). Susan Mandala describes in her book "Languages in Science Fiction and Fantasy" this contact as the main catalyst for all linguistic phenomena associated with Bilingualism such as code-switching or lexical borrowing. What is interesting is that languages do not seem to be affected negatively by the presence of other languages within their speech community, on the contrary, they seem to thrive on the exchange. This is a phenomenon which is also described by David Sankoff in his article "How to predict the evolution of a bilingual community" when he writes: "The vitality of a language depends not so much on how many people know it, [which can be derived from the census], than on how much they use it in diverse contexts" (Sankoff 2008: 192). From this quote I derived that the languages which a community tends to use more often must pose a certain ability to either fit into the environment of a given community or to be capable of adaptation. Firefly offered me an interesting opportunity to look at a community which is faced with a completely new geographical environment but old cultural patterns. The question which arose was: why do the people of the 'verse (as the universe is called in Firefly) speak English and Mandarin?
The most obvious argument is quantitative. According to a survey done by ethnologue.com in 2013, Mandarin is the language spoken by most people in the world (889 million), with English (339 million) as the third most spoken language (Lewis et al. 2016). The argument thus is a practical one: it is better to be able to communicate with the majority of those around you.
A different argument is the ability of adaption. English offers a wide variety of formation processes (compounding, derivation, conversion (Kortmann 2005: 94-109)). Mandarin seems to incorporate words differently (Miao 2005: 152), but it does so nonetheless. Both languages seem to be highly adaptable and thus provide a fitting code for conversation in the Firefly universe. Nevertheless it seems that both languages are not used in the same way. English is, at least from what can be seen and heard throughout the show'srun, the language which is used in day-to-day conversation. So whichrole does Mandarin play within the speech community of Firefly ?
2.2 Domains and Code-Switching & Mixing
Mandarin, as opposed to English, is spoken lessregularly in Firefly, which points to a specialrole or a character which the language assumes. To illuminate thisrole or character, I will examine the domains in which Mandarin is used. Domains are, as Janet Holmes summarises, typical interactions between typical participants in typical settings (Holmes 2013: 22). This may, for example, be a typical interaction in a work environment. The typical domain of Mandarin in Firefly is varied. It is used not only in the conversations between the crew-members of the Serenity, the space ship who carries the protagonists of the series, but also in bars, in families and hospitals. This indicates that Mandarin is a language which does notrepresent a low variation of speech, on the contrary: we see Mandarin being used in high society, by members of academia and thieves alike, in situationsranging from balls to hostage negotiations.
What is interesting is the usage of Mandarin itself: the utterances are alwaysrather short. The code-mixing and switching with and to Mandarin often occur within a sentence. An argument has been made that these code-switches and mixes occur to avoidrestrictions made by the series air station, FOX. For this paper I will ignore this argument and stay within the series' narrative for my analysis.
The corpus I analysed is the product of my close viewings and the personal knowledge andresearch of Kevin Sullivan the man behind fireflychinese.kevinsullivansite.net, as well as my own additions. It is focused on audible utterances in Mandarin, the charts omit visual occurences of Mandarin such as street signs or posters and usages of curses in other languages which are used in the Firefly - universe (such as Czech). As the distribution of used languages is around 80% English, 19% Mandarin and 1% other languages, the occurences of Mandarinremain arather small number. A difficulty while evaluating the data was the categorisation of what seems to be a curse and what could be categorized into "other usages" of Mandarin.
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Q: Why do datasheets document protocols from the ground up? I'm reading a datasheets for a component with I2C interfaces.
I can recall the same for datasheets of other components in the past.
In these datasheets they include a full description of the I2C protocol, start bits, address, R/W bit, data bits, ACK and so on.
Why doesn't the datasheet simply states that it is I2C and then document the higher levels specific to the device?
This could reduce the document from 4 pages to 4 paragraphs.
I'm not too familiar with I2C so I can't tell if what is documented follows I2C or deviates from the spec.
Assuming the documentation states that the device is I2C compliant, is it safe to assume that although they go into full detail that what they document is I2C?

A: Datasheet is typically written by a team of engineers.
Design Engineer writes how the IC works, guided by the project definition (an internal, company confidential document). Those confidential in-house product specifications always include diagrams of the relevant interface bus (such as SPI or MIPI whatever), because that's the document that guides the actual IC development. As a result, this information (as interpreted by the design team) is included in the datasheet.
Test Engineer writes how the IC is tested, especially the big Electrical Characteristics table -- these Minimum / Maximum values are what determines whether an individual IC is shipped or scrapped.
Applications Engineer or Product Engineer tests out the IC from the outside, as a customer would, and also collects the typical performance data that appears in the various "scope shots" and other plots. The Apps team also does bench testing of the IC against what the datasheet claims. If the IC does not perform to spec, then the Apps team can reject the IC design. The idea is that the datasheet should show the customer everything relevant to what the part actually does.
You mention I2C specifically; note that the I2C standard itself has gone through several revisions, first increasing the speed, then adding more complexity to support even more speed. And subsequently I2C was used as the basis for the SMBus and PMBus standards. So it's very risky for a datasheet to just reference "the standard", since the standard can change. If the vendor released an IC that was compatible with I2C (version 1.0) and then turned out not to be compatible with I2C version 2.0, then that vendor has a serious legal liability if they did not further capture the actual guaranteed performance in their own datasheet.

A: Stealing comment from @Tut, please upvote their answer if they decide to post one.

I2C was a proprietary bus (Philips Semiconductor) and required
  licensing fees until 2006. I believe many got around this by not
  calling it I2C and defined their particular use of the protocol in the
  datasheets. Also there are variations in the use of the bus (such as
  Intel's SMBus which is a subset of I2C).

See also: Wikipedia I2C

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2023 Africa Eco Race postponed to 2024
The Africa Eco Race prides itself in following the original route of the Dakar Rally beginning in Europe and ending in Dakar, Senegal. However, amidst flooding in Dakar and concerns about other weather events, organisers have elected to postpone the 2023 edition from its 11–26 March slot to 30 December, meaning it will run through 14 January 2024. It is not clear if the new date will also take the place of a 2024 Eco Race.
Organisers cited heavy rain and resulting floods in Dakar, especially at the Lac Rose pink lake where the Eco Race finishes; the flooding throughout the city had resulted in multiple deaths in 2022. Concern was also due to the recently concluded Dakar Rally in its current home Saudi Arabia, where the first half was plagued by rain which caused an already difficult 2023 course to become even harder for competitors. Dakar officials had to make multiple scheduling changes to work around the situation such as shortening Stages #3 and #7 as well as cancelling Stage #7 for Bikes.
Weather had also impacted the 2022 Eco Race, though on the opposite end as racers had to contend with more extreme heat and dust storms.
"After several editions impacted by the Covid 19 pandemic, we did everything possible to go on the adventure again in March 2023," reads a statement from organisers. "However, despite all our commitment, and in consultation with the Senegalese Federation of Motor Sports and Motorcycling, we have regretfully taken the decision to postpone the 15th edition of the AFRICA ECO RACE.
"Indeed, like other sporting events, the current climatic upheavals are forcing us to rethink and adapt our human activities. Other races have also been hit hard at the beginning of 2023, like the one that has just ended in Saudi Arabia in harsh and unsatisfactory conditions.
"The AFRICA ECO RACE is an adventure rally-raid that challenges athletes to go beyond their limits.
"As we are writing these lines, the mythical Lac Rose in Dakar, the finish line of our race, is in the grip of major flooding, with water levels rising by almost three meters on its banks. Mauritania and its wild landscapes, awaited by all on our event, is one of the most fragile territories due to the extreme events that occur there, such as the sandstorms or the extreme heat that we experienced during our 14th edition, in October 2022.
"Based on these observations. we have decided to postpone our event.
"As you know, the strength of the AFRICA ECO RACE is its resilience, its history but also its capacity to innovate. Thus, the 15th edition will return to its historical dates, and will start on December 30th 2023 to finish on the shores of the Lac Rose on January 14th 2024. The weather will be more clement, and less likely to cause extreme events. This edition will innovate, by allowing the greatest number of participants to follow in the footsteps of Thierry Sabine.
"True to itself, our race will retain its values of mutual aid, benevolence and friendship.
"We are counting on you, but above all, you can count on us."
The Eco Race has undergone difficult times since the turn of the decade, with the 2020 and 2021 editions being cancelled due to COVID-19. Organisers have also had to deal with the political situation in Western Sahara, where control is disputed between the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic and Morocco; the SADR warned the race to not cross Western Saharan borders due to the ongoing war, though it has proceeded as planned. However, the 2022 AER was marred by tragedy when Bike rider Armindo Neves died of injuries sustained in a Stage #2 fall.
The new date means the Eco Race will come into direct conflict with the 2024 Dakar Rally as the latter is consistently held in the first two weeks of the new calendar year. Although neither race has a relationship with each other, the clash could present concerns for competitors who had planned to do both. The Eco Race also has a much smaller profile than the historic Dakar Rally despite the latter no longer racing through the location in its name.
Despite the AER's worries about the weather in Dakar, it is set to be the finish line for the Intercontinental Rally on 4 February. Branding itself as the "Real Way to Dakar", the Intercontinental Rally more closely follows the original Paris to Dakar route of the Dakar Rally, beginning with a pre-start in Paris on Thursday before racing commences in Morocco on 23 January.
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Marnick Builders have recently completed extension work to Falmouth's busy in town café and restaurant Harbour View. With no on-site parking and a mid town location where it was always busy, the project was not the most straight forward.
The work was undertaken and completed in the quieter, off peak months of January, February and March to work around the café trading hours.
The finished extension adds much more internal space and light. With the addition of four sets of aluminium bi-fold doors the Café can still keep its popular outside seating feel to be enjoyed whatever the weather, with views to the street and also undisturbed views of Falmouth docks and the harbour.


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Clazosentan drug shows promise against TBI in rats
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Children with SDB may have better QOL after adenotonsillectomy
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摘要:在机器视觉领域, 颜色恒常性是实现计算机视觉颜色校正和保持机器对颜色识别稳定性的重要因素. 该模型通过心理物理实验获得由人眼感知得到的颜色恒常感知数据, 将其放入神经网络中进行样本训练, 并用遗传算法优化BP神经网络的连接权值和阈值. 将所建立颜色恒常感知计算模型应用到图像颜色校正, 通过主观和客观两个方面对校正结果进行对比评价, 结果表示所建立的颜色恒常感知计算模型计算精度和效率高、复杂度低, 比几种经典算法处理误差要小, 针对图像的颜色再现有着更为符合人眼感知的特性.
Abstract: In the field of machine vision, color constancy is an important factor in achieving computer vision color correction and maintaining the machine stability to color recognition. By means of the psychophysics, the model gains the color perception data obtained by the human eyes perception, and puts it into the neural network for sample training, then optimizes the connection weights and thresholds of the BP neural network using the genetic algorithm. The color constant perception model is applied to the image color correction, and the correction results are evaluated in terms of the subjective and objective measures, the results show that the established algorithm has high precision and better efficiency, low complexity and less error than the classical algorithm, the color representation of images is more consistent with human perception.
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Flickr Photo by StuartWebsterI could down Italian cream soda by the gallon.
It's not your typical cream soda: This one is homemade using soda water, flavored syrup, and cream or milk.
I used to drink them all the time when I lived in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, thanks to Cornerstone Coffeehouse where my sister worked. She made them just right, and I had to restrain myself from gulping it down.
Since moving to NYC, there are very few places I can find them. They make them at Crumbs but that's a hike for me.
So, I started making them myself with homemade vanilla syrup.
Combine soda, vanilla syrup, and milk or cream to taste. Stir, don't shake. Add ice. Enjoy.
In a pot, combine sugar and water. Heat on low until all the sugar dissolves into the water. You shouldn't be able to see any crystals. Remove from heat.
Add vanilla to taste and let cool. Pour into an old clean bottle and set in fridge for vanilla syrup on demand.


I am Sylvia Martinez, and here is how Generation YES experiences might apply to OLPC.
As a company, Generation YES started in 2001. But it's really the result of decades of work by Dr. Dennis Harper. Dr. Harper brought computers to schools in dozens of countries around the world, teaching Logo and other uses of computers to students and teachers.
He wrote the first textbook for teachers about computers in education. Along the way, he found that teaching students how to support teachers in their classroom was the most powerful way to introduce computer use in schools.
Dennis became technology coordinator for the Olympia, Washington schools and immediately started to transform the district into a showcase of student-led, student-centered technology use. Back then he called the approach "Generation WHY." Not only did the students have access to technology in their classrooms, they sat on planning committees, pulled cable, taught teacher workshops, negotiated with vendors, and knocked on doors to get out the vote for technology bonds.
There is more history on our website, but let's fast forward to today. Our curricular materials teach K-12 educators how to create and sustain a model of reverse mentoring for technology in their own schools. The model, now called GenYES, is simple but deep. Students learn about technology, develop planning and collaboration skills, and learn about how people learn. After this, each student partners with a teacher in the school.
These student/teacher teams look at the teacher's curriculum and decide on a future lesson that could be enhanced with technology. The student then plans and creates the project, with the teacher providing the pedagogy and content. When the project is completed, the teacher has a lesson they can use in their classroom, understands technology better, and can directly observe the impact on students.
A single teacher or staff member at the school facilitates all of this as the GenYES teacher. We have a decade's worth of research that shows that this model improves teachers' use of technology in the classroom more than any other kind of professional development.
This partnership creates a collaborative learning community grounded in constructivist pedagogy. Both the student and the teacher are bringing important skills and knowledge to the relationship.
Improving technology use in schools is an authentic problem worth solving. Working together creates mutual respect and understanding about each other's roles. Administrators and parents love to see students bloom and teachers finally teaching with new technology.
Dr. Seymour Papert said, "The genius of this idea is that by contributing to solving a recognized problem facing schools, it rallies support from schools for something that goes against the grain of their traditional ways of thinking."
The model works because it facilitates a constructivist atmosphere in the whole school, not by teaching teachers how to teach, but by giving students an authentic problem to solve and asking teachers to help. It builds on the pedagogical models developed by Dr. Papert and the years of research about what constructivist teachers do in classrooms.
But we don't waste time drilling teachers about that - if you put the kids to work it happens naturally. It's what Dr. Papert calls, "kid power" in the OLPC plans.
We encourage our lead teachers to get students working on projects as quickly as possible - give them time and space, and create an atmosphere that rewards risk taking. Most of the time teachers tell us that GenYES starts to work when they "get out of the way." Kid power is real.
One of the roadblocks to our model in US schools is that there is not enough technology available for students, so teachers become gatekeepers. The OLPC solves that problem. There will simply be too much momentum to be stopped. Even if a few people oppose it, short of locking the computers in a closet, good things will happen with or without teachers. Learning will occur in the time the child spends outside of school. Parents and people in the community will benefit from access to the technology and the expertise of young people. Teachers will want to share that excitement.
Traditional models of teaching technology to teachers and hoping that it trickles down to the classroom have failed for 30 years in the US. Let's not pretend that this flawed model of teacher professional development will suddenly work if we just find the magic formula of teacher workshop content. It won't work and it's not worth negotiating.
Government and business leaders say and do a lot worse things to teachers than Dr. Negroponte who wants to create 21st century learning environments and has the guts, like Dr. Papert, to ask teachers to do better on behalf of children.
The gifts and passions of kids are leveraged and accelerated by the OLPC. It will be successful because teachers like kids and are willing to work with them. In other words, I find it hard to believe that teachers will reject the power being provided to children because of insecurity or pettiness or some squabble with Dr. Negroponte.
I took a look at the GenYes website and I was pretty impressed. Unfortunately, it appears that all of your content is proprietary. Is there any chance you will open-source a good chunk of it? Most developing countries won't be able to afford your materials in the short-run but they could immensely benefit in the long-run and so could GenYes.
What's the cost of this program?
Is there any independantly verifiable data bout this program, showing student academic achievement? Where has this program been implemented in the US?
Why do you think this statement is true: "Traditional models of teaching technology to teachers and hoping that it trickles down to the classroom have failed for 30 years in the US" ?
As far as I can tell, the US education system is working fine. It is NOT the best in the world, but it is not a failure, either. In fact, Mr. Negroponte has made a career off his association with MIT, a USA academic institution that is part of the "failed" American education system.
Your post, in all sincerity, comes off as a rather shameless attempt at profitting from the OLPC project.
and email has declined over the past three years.
were more likely to be primarily focused on the creation of presentations (e.g.
focused on Web page design than in previous years.
Bryan - There is quite a bit of information on our website and research where people can learn a lot about the model for free. We just can't support it for free.
We obviously don't own the idea of students helping out. People do this on their own - they call us and tell us that all the time. What we do is offer a way for schools to learn how to do this quickly and make it stick.
Troy - I'm sorry it this comes off as a shameless plug. It wasn't intended that way. I didn't expect Wayan to go to all the trouble to add pictures to the post. It's nice and looks better than the plain text I wrote, but it does look more like an ad than I expected.
But I don't want to make this worse by discussing prices, we have various levels and try to make it very affordable. It typically works out to less than $200 per teacher supported per school per year.
I never said the US educational system is a failure, I said the way we do technology professional development has failed. This post is in direct response to the many calls for the OLPC to be implemented using a teacher-centric model.
Troy #2 - the quotes you picked out of context are from a Northwest Regional Educational Labs report. They were later discussed in that report in light of the changing demographics of the sample over the years studied. The original schools involved were a self-selected sample who chose to participate. They tended to be more well off and concentrated in the states of Washington and Kansas. As more schools joined, they tended to be more spread out over the country and poorer because they had access to funding. Over the same time the demographics changed as well, looking more like the total US population.
Powerpoint is there to prevent understanding and make the public stop thinking.
Bottom line: OLPC cost per unit ~150USD. Add as much for the GenYES software. I am not personally against it (although the titles proposed are honestly not very encouraging). However, I want to see what was the impact of this software in all these years of operations. Did scores go up? Did SAT tests score higher? Did this help improving the conditions in US schools in depressed areas?
Those are the real questions, that need to be addressed. Otherwise it's an inappropriate ad.
I'm impressed you've spent so much time combing through the website to find snippets of things that you don't like, and a price list for a completely different set of products that I never mentioned.
Often in US schools, PowerPoint is the ONLY piece of software that is widely available for teachers and students to use. That is an indictment of the purchasing decisions and Office-centric thinking by IT departments, not of kids and teachers.
You also missed the part of the independent study by the NWREL that said that slideshow presentations are often the first attempt for teachers to use technology, and this changes in later years. As these studies tend only to be done in the first few years of implementation, it stands to reason that the projects reflect this.
Again, this is not a "pitch" that this model be adopted along with OLPC implementations. The post is support for the OLPC intention to focus on "child power" as opposed to school gatekeepers.
1. I would argue that your model is successful because teachers love children and both are given the tools to discover how they can collaborate together and learn from each other. A process, or implementation plan, that took decades of work and the continuous personal involvement of Dr. Dennis Harper in its day to day management to succeed.
Kudos to Dr. Harper (and you). Now let's hear the same message from OLPC. That they will spend as much time, energy, effort at the local level to install a similar model instead of Negroponte saying "forget the teachers and a plan, the kids will magically do it themselves."
2. I agree, one of the roadblocks to learning with technology is that there is not enough technology available for students, so teachers become gatekeepers. However OLPC will only solve that problem if a government is capable of spending Billions of dollars on technology. For some countries, like say, Nigeria the richest country in sub-Sahara Africa, it would still be 73% of their entire government's income to go one laptop per child. Yes, this would be Billions less than traditional computers, but its still too expensive for all but the richest.
3. Traditional models of teaching technology to teachers and hoping that it trickles down to the classroom have _not_ failed for 30 years in the US. I, and many of OLPC News readers, are a direct product of that imperfect yet functional teaching model. I learned on a TRS 80 in a classroom, an early school-based computer lab. Now I learned much more on my own afterwards, but I needed that initial familiarization to know how to operate the machine.
Hopefully Sugar will remove that initial barrier, but still a child will need a teacher to understand algebra, informed debate, even skilled writing, no matter how intuitive or learn learned a child is through the XO. While a child can learn basic ideas through interaction with things, it takes human teachers (formal and informal) for full educational development.
Would it be fair to conclude that, based on the information you have provided, your company does NOT have any data showing how use of your products has affected the academic achievement of participating students?
Is there such data on your web site?
Many of you seem to have missed the point in Sylvias article. GenYes do charge a fee to help implement their education strategy but they are a business.
The real point to all this is empowering students as part of the education process. They become part of the process rather than as a result of the education process.
I'd personally love to see a methodology implemented with the OLPC that allows students to help evolve their own education strategies. Why cant the kids help educate the teachers in the process?
Great article Sylvia and I wish GenYes a great future in improving education and educators.
Thanks Robert for getting this discussion back on track.
I'd be happy to answer specific questions about GenYES in other places, but seems like we should focus on OLPC here.
1. Thanks for the kudos for the hard work. I'm at a loss to understand how you could look at the OLPC and not see the same effort and much more brainpower. I just don't hear, "forget the teachers". I hear "focus on the students". Different.
Just because it's a big investment doesn't mean it's a bad investment.
3. I had a similar experience as you did. Lots of teachers back then brought computers into schools and figured out ways to introduce them to kids. I doubt your teacher taught from a lesson plan. Mine said something like, "look at this cool thing, let's figure it out." I hope lots of OLPC kids and teachers have exactly that opportunity.
You might be shocked by the huge majority of "intro to computer" classes today that are little more than keyboarding, copying things in Word, and vocabulary tests. Yet they are all done with "well-planned curriculum."
Despite the fact that the ratio of computers to students has increased so much in the past 20 years, there has been no corresponding increase in the use of computers in classrooms. I consider that a failure. A few bright spots created by exceptional teachers doesn't change the overall picture.
2. A big investment should have big validation. Government will be betting entire cohorts of kids and $$ millions at Negroponte's investment level. I would hope they would buy in with more than a "Trust me" or "Trust in the children"
3. I had a defined lesson plan based introduction, but I understand you point, however I disagree. I do not think technology = education. The Greeks did damn well with only Aristotle and bed sheets. Its takes a community to educate.
Technology can be a nice tool, but is only one small part, which I think is the main difference in our approaches. And note I am no Luddite, but I do think that there is often too much emphasis or hope placed in computers. With OLPC all hope and emphasis is placed in one kind of computer.
What has GenYes' use done for the academic achievement of participating students? How did it impact their official scores?
Where are the "before" and "after" scores?
As soon as I saw Dr. Harper's cheap toupee, I knew something was not kosher.
A cursory look at the "curriculum" (http://www.genyes.com/programs/genyes/units)confirmed my fears: this is just a bunch of people out to make a quick buck by hyping and misrepresenting technology's role in the classroom.
Sorry to be so blunt, but I like to call it the way it is.
Glad to see you focusing on what really matters in education - hairstyles and test scores.
What can I say, Sylvia?
Your scam operation is too much of a sad joke...but, in all honesty, I give yo credit for having the gusts to come here and pretend, with a straight face, that your "product" could enhance the OLPC project ("how Generation YES experiences might apply to OLPC").
Obviously there has been a shift in the public criticism of OLPC moving its center of gravity from initially hardware over software to nowadays mainly roll-out plan, pedagogy and learning content.
This shift is natural since it is a reaction on the number of still unknown facts and associated uncertainties and misunderstandings at a certain point of time. When these facts are established and become known and understood the criticism is decreasing a lot and it gets more factual and less polemic.
What are the differences about the hardware/software part of the OLPC development compared to the logistic and pedagogic part of the development?
There were initially rel. clear specs for the hardware and - somewhat less clear - for the software.
There was and is a core team, subcontractors and a community doing development.
There were regular and detailed reports about the progress.
The audience knew quite well what was already there and could more or less see what was planned next.
The results can be measured and compared with the specs, the general status quo and other projects.
The specs or project plan here are not so clear. There is a rather general and vague philosophy of constructivism not telling how it is really intended to be implemented using XO's. On logistics there is almost nothing published.
There are no regular reports published on progress about content development. It is not clear who is working on it. Is OLPC staff involved or is it entirely done by national authorities? Is there a community involved? Will there be scores to measure educational achievements that can be compared to the status quo and other projects?
There is not much information published on those questions. It is no surprise that this unclarity leads to speculations and misunderstandings. Why is this part of the project so much undocumented? Is it because the OLPC leadership does not want to tell about their plans? Why? Or even worse: Don't they have detailed plans yet themselves?
Why not start a small core project team which again starts an open source community working publically on it? This model worked quite well for hard/software. This way some principles of constructivism and genYes could still be implemented in free and open-source contents and curricula. Such a community project could serve as a basis for local language translation and local content adjustments. Many governments would probably take over a good part of it in order to save time and effort. Local teachers could participate and increase local acceptance among their peers and the public.
If OLPC is not going to take action or to tell soon about their plans - if there are any - then maybe an independent community has to form to do this. The content could be designed to work with XO's as well as Classmates and other platforms. The content could be adopted freely by all schools in the first, second and third world. Education results and experiences could be exchanged.
No matter where, education is too important to leave it to governmental administrations or the OLPC leadership alone.
I'll take that as a strange compliment.
I appreciate Wayan's invitation to post a guest article and have valued the constructive comments and responses. Again, I never made any claim about "enhancing" OLPC or tried to sell anyone anything.
Since the OLPC is at such a preliminary stage, I think skepticism is wise and warranted. That's why I read OLPC News.
It's just smart to look at existing programs and practices (like GenYES) that might be relevant to make better educated guesses about the future.
I think this was a very interesting article with some very good ideas. There are always students in a class that can work with computers better than teachers, and it makes sense to engage those students to improve technology integration.
troy, I don't think it's fair to ask about test scores.
1. Why would you assume students' increased computer competency affect test scores in other subjects? If the computers don't teach algebra, you can't expect higher algebra scores, can you? Even if there were standardized tests for computer literacy, I doubt they would measure some important things, e.g. the ability of a student to use a new program never before encountered.
2. By having students help prepare educational material, you are teaching them to teach and to collaborate; these skills are valuable but not detected by exams. Think about how many geeks there are (myself included) who got high test scores but never learned social skills or collaboration skills in school. Students may learn to answer multiple-choice questions, yet have no idea how to explain what they know to another human being. In summary: test scores aren't everything.
3. Many factors affect test scores. Even if the program did tend improve test scores, and even if this was reflected in measured data, a critic would rightly point out that the increase could be attributable to any number of factors.


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Q: Big Subview to Fit in Another Small Subview Im trying to create a secondary view to my main view. This subview needs to be of small height and it needs to fit another big UIView with a label in it.
Problem is that when I'm using UIView addSubview, the third UIView will be shown out of bounds of secondary UIView.
For ease of understanding my situation, I have created those Subviews using Interface builder with the photo and the result on simulator with the photo.
Any help would be much appreciated.
Thanks

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A: You need to activate the clip to bounds property of some of those views.
fooView.clipsToBounds=YES;

That should solve your problem.  Just set the appropriate views to clip to their bounds.


The advantage of doing one of your ancestors' descending genealogy is that you get to learn about people you would have never heard of precisely because they didn't have any descendants. Then, why write about them? So many reasons I think. To get the whole picture. To have everyone accounted for. And to learn about history. History and the family history.
Charles Tourville is one of those persons. His burial record dated July 19, 1847 (found under the name of Courville) states that he died at age 29 in Montreal and that he was a policeman.
I was digging in La Minerve newspaper recently and Charles Tourville came back to my mind. I thought, and what if he died in the line of duty?
I was looking up for an entry after July 18, date of his death, and though I couldn't come up with anything, I kept reading articles about the immigrants, the Sheds, and sick people. A quick check at the dictionary made me realize that 1847 was also the year of the typhus epidemic in Montreal brought by the Irish emigrating to Canada. Unlike the 1832 cholera epidemic, the civil population was not affected by the typhus so much but the immigrants living in the Sheds, the religious community members taking care of them, and the policemen on the front line were victims of it.
Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec, La Minerve, Thursday, July 22, 1847 — TRANSLATION: A fourth member of the Grey Nuns Congregation died last night. Sister Marie Rosalie Barbeau, known as Sister Marie, passed away at midnight at the age of 44 years, 7 months and 18 days old. Sisters Bruyère and Caron are most likely to die and 16 other nuns are still bedridden. Another policeman died Monday and eleven others are off work owing to illness. More than 1500 immigrants are close to death in the Sheds but as reported by the Ministry confident that all this is nothing but business as usual: "Everything will be fine".
Charles Tourville's name does not appear in the newspaper but it has to be him. That Charles Courville is surely « our » Charles Tourville as he died only six months after his marriage to Sophie Lemire, dite Marsolais, on January 11, 1847 at Notre-Dame Church of Montreal, and that Sophie gave birth to a son, Charles (hereafter for ease of reference, "Charles Jr."), on October 30, 1847, in Montreal. The baby is said to be the son of the « late » Charles Tourville, carter of Montreal. When Charles [Jr.] died on January 31, 1849, he is once again identified as the late Charles Tourville's son, carter of Montreal. At the time of his marriage Charles Tourville was a carter from the parish of Montreal, like his own father.
Being born on January 18, 1818 in Mascouche from Charles Tourville and Marie Pauzé, he was indeed 29 years old at the time of his death in 1847. Furthermore, I couldn't find any Charles Courville born near the date of 1818. A lot of Tourvilles are identified as Courvilles in the church records; sometimes the « T » looks like a « C », sometimes it might be the priest who made a mistake.
According to the newspapers, the Montreal Police was recruiting hoping to prevent the spread of the epidemic. Was Charles hired before the disease got out of hand? Was he out of work as a carter? From what I have read, the Police was implemented in the City in 1843. I doubt I can get anything as I am not sure a paper trail still exists. Nonetheless, during my summer vacations, I do plan to go to the Archives of Montréal to see if I can discover anything on policemen working for the city in 1847. I think it's worth a try.
To learn more on the 1847 typhus epidemic, click here and here.
Have you ever heard of the well-renowned Montreal's photographer, William Notman (1826-1891)? Thanks to the McCord Museum Website and its online database, you can take a look at the wonderful portraits taken by this great artist who has welcomed in his studio many famous people of the time.
If it hadn't been for my passion for genealogy, would I have been able to identify "Mrs. R. Forget" as being Alexandra Tourville, wife of Rodolphe Forget?
Born in 1863, Alexandra was the daughter of Louis Tourville, co-founder of the Banque d'Hochelaga (known today as Banque Nationale du Canada or National Bank of Canada), and Célina St-Jean. Alexandra was married to Rodolphe Forget on October 12, 1885, in St. Jacques' Catholic Church, in Montreal. This picture was taken one year after her wedding at the age of 23 years old. In 1889, she gave birth to a daughter, Marguerite Marie-Louise. Alexandra died at age 27 years and 11 months.
La Minerve, May 14, 1891 – TRANSLATION: Death- FORGET- At 86 Cherrier St. on the 12th, at age 27 years and 11 months, died Alexandra Tourville, wife of Mr. Rodolphe Forget, of L.J. Forget et Cie. The funeral will be held on Monday the 16th, at 8:45 am at the Gesu. Family members and friends are requested to attend.
If the name of Rodolphe Forget rings a bell, well he's the one! He married his second wife Blanche McDonald in 1894. One of their children was Thérèse Forget, more commonly known as Thérèse Casgrain.
I thought, what a shame I am not related to that great pioneer of the Women's rights movement. Well, I was wrong, we are related. Rodolphe Forget's direct ancestor is the brother of Élisabeth Forget, wife of Augustin Tourville. Aren't we all cousins?


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In this excellent package, you will gain access to a range of various US Navy boats. These Destroyer Class naval units are some of the most revered in recent US history, and offer a large change to some of the more vulnerable boats that came before them. For FSX users, the possibilities are now there for you to take off into the skies and see the world of FSX from a whole new perspective. With the help of this package, you'll gain access to;
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The DDG-100 boat, used by the AI at all times
However, this isn't just four big templates stuck into the water and left to be incredibly basic. Each naval unit that you now have access to is effective and built upon their real thing, making it so much easier for you to get involved with the boats themselves and find a whole new level of entertainment from FSX.
Moreover, the main thing that is brought to the table with the help of this package is the realism and the accuracy within everything from the models to the armaments that each boat comes with. If you are interested in finding out what each boat is about and how they actually perform within FSX, then this package will give you the most accurate recreation of either of these aircraft yet. It's a truly exciting and enjoyable part of the FSX experience and offers something new, something even more challenging than flying an aircraft at times!
Additionally, you'll gain access to professional documentation which actively spells out everything that you could possibly need to know about these naval units as well as what makes them so incredibly popular with people from all across the globe. With these guides, you'll be able to learn all of the main procedures as well as the most telling statistics about these boats.
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The USS Gridley was the fourth to take the same name, and was also the 51st Arleigh Burke-class destroyer to be enlisted into the US Navy. It was a stunning 155.3m in length, with a 20m beam and 9.4m draught. It was moved by using four general electric LM2500-30 gas turbines as well as 20 shafts. With a speed of around 56kph, despite carrying more than 300 people onboard, this ensured that the Gridley was a sturdy and challenging boat that would make it really difficult for people to catch up with in naval terms.
The Gridley was extremely well-equipped, too, with various vertical launch systems and ballistic missile launchers such as RIM-66 SM-2 and BGM-109 Tomahawk missiles ready to be deployed whenever they were needed. It also carried two SH-60 Sea Hawk choppers, making it a useful part of the military force for the US Navy as it offered minimal transport as well as significant naval firepower.
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The USS Sampson is also an Arleigh Burke-class Destroyer, and was first brought to existence in 2002 – it was the fourth ship to have the name USS Sampson, named after the famous Rear Admiral William T. Sampson. This was a hugely celebrated piece of military creation, bringing a fresh level of strength to the US Navy at the time. Although it holds the same size and proportions as the USS Gridley, it also manages to house a minimally larger crew of 383 and carried some more impressive firepower. Its typical gun firepower, for example, was upgraded to 4 x 12.7mm guns as well as 2 x 25mm gungs, and one large 62mm gun to accompany its wide barrage of missiles.
This naval unit was a mild improvement over the 101, and offered slightly more firepower although it required slightly more men. It was, however, only capable of hitting slightly lower speeds of up to 55 km/h, as opposed to the more impressive 56 km/h offered by the 101.
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The USS Sterett, though, was the most recent addition to the grouping after being brought in slightly later than the DDG-102. Started in September 2002, this was "christened" in 2007 and afterwards has become a far more important part of the US Navy in the many years to come. It was the fourth ship in the US Navy to have this name, taking it from the naval officer Andrew Sterett who fought in both the Quasi-War and the Barbary Wars.
An Arleigh-Burke class destroyer like its colleagues above, it has many of the same attributes. It holds a crew of around 348 and also manages to fit some extra firepower on there in the mark of 2 x Mk46 triple-torpedo tubes. It also carries two Sea Hawks like the Destroyers above, but other than that it features many of the same features as its predecessors. That being said, the Sterett is arguably the most famous of the three as it was the only one to serve in official conflict with Somalian Pirates, during a negotiation for US hostages in February 2011. As you may imagine, it passed with flying colors!
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Q: How to get table field into grid? I have created tableA with fields itemid, name, qty.
I have created one button. In that button I created one clicked method in which I have written a query for selecting itemid.
My question is how to assign selected itemid into grid?

A: By deciphering you code I conclude you want to select records based on an unbound field.
I would recommend you use two data sources in your form:

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*InventTransOriging, InnerJoin or ExistsJoin to InventTrans

In the modified method of your item number (or in the clicked method of your button) call executeQuery:
public boolean modified()
{
    boolean ret = super();
    inventTrans_ds.executeQuery();
    return ret;
}

In the init method apply the static range:
public void init()
{
    super();
    this.queryBuildDataSource().addRange(fieldNum(InventTransOrigin,ReferenceCategory)).value(queryValue(InventTransType::Sales));
}

In the executeQuery method apply the variable range:
public void executeQuery()
{
    SysQuery::findOrCreateRange(this.queryBuildDataSource(), fieldNum(inventTrans,ItemId)).value(StringEditItemNumber.text());
    super();
}

This will give the inventory transactions for sales orders to the entered item.
You can avoid all code if you can use the standard search methods of AX. For example use Ctrl-G to open the search line in the grid.


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Introduction: This research has been conducted with the purpose of addressing the relationship between excessive use of mobile phone and the academic burnout and experience of distress of students.
Methods: This research is a descriptive-correlation and practical research. The statistical population of this research includes all the educational sciences students of Payame Noor University of Ahvaz having who have been students during 2016-2017 academic year and they were 518 people. According to Morgan's table, 210 people were chosen by random sampling method. The tool for gathering information was questionnaire. In order to analyze the data, frequency table, frequency percentage, mean, and standard deviation were used in the descriptive statistics section, and Pearson correlation test was used in the inferential statistics section.
Results: According to the results of Pearson correlation coefficient, there is a significant and positive relationship between the variables of excessive use of mobile phone and academic burnout (r = 0.92) at the confidence level of 99 percent (P < 0.01). Also, there is a negative and significant relationship between the variables of excessive use of mobile phone and experience of distress (r = -0.51) at the confidence level of 99 percent.
Conclusions: The results of the research indicated that there was a relationship between endurance distress and excessive use of mobile phones among students. Also, the results showed that there is a significant relationship between the excessive use of mobile phones and academic burnout.


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C-Verdensmesterskabet i håndbold for kvinder 1986 var det første C-VM i håndbold for kvinder, og turneringen blev afviklet i byerne Sagunto, Mislata, Alicante, Denia, Valencia, Burriana og Castellon i Spanien i perioden 1. – 8. november 1986. De ti deltagende hold spillede om tre ledige pladser ved B-VM året efter.

Mesterskabet blev vundet af Østrig foran Danmark og Spanien, og dermed kvalificerede de tre hold sig til B-VM 1987.

Resultater

Indledende runde

I den indledende runde var de ti hold opdelt i to grupper med fem hold. I hver gruppe spillede holdene alle-mod-alle, og de to bedste hold i hver gruppe gik videre til finalerunde om placeringerne 1-4. De resterende seks hold spillede videre i placeringskampene om 5.- til 10.-pladsen.

Gruppe A

Gruppe B

Placeringskampe

Finalerunde

Finalerunden havde deltagelse af de fire hold, der sluttede på første- eller andenpladsen i de indledende grupper. Holdene blev samlet i en gruppe, hvortil resultater af indbyrdes opgør mellem hold fra sammen indledende gruppe blev overført, således at holdene ikke skulle mødes en gang til.

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IHF – Women's World Championships C
Women Handball World Championship 1986 Group C

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Håndbold i 1986
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I'm finally back. After being gone for over a month, I have tales to tell and photos to share from my adventures down south. In today's blog post I'll give you an overview of my trip as well as a few tips for planning your own South American voyage.
I'm far from an expert when it comes to traveling, but I have learned a few tricks since my last trip in February to Southeast Asia. Namely, a) procrastinating your photo editing means your photos simply don't get edited and b) travel blogs should be broken into bite-sized chunks. While I still have several thousand photos from my Southeast Asia trip to go through, in comparison I am happy to report that I am over halfway done with editing the 10,825 photos I took on this trip.
Best location on the trip: That would have to be Easter Island, hands down. This was my first visit to Polynesia, and while it took some time to adjust to the laid back 'island life,' the scenery was absolutely beautiful. Easter Island is only a five-hour flight from Santiago, and it is worth the commute.
Worst location on the trip: While I enjoyed every city I visited on this trip, there were some places I enjoyed more than others. Although it feels like sacrilege to say this, the city I enjoyed the least was Buenos Aires. The city is beautiful and functions like a well-oiled machine with restaurants, ATMs, and shops just like we have back in the USA. But that's the problem – the city reminded me too much of New York and just wasn't exotic enough to keep me interested. Of course the final city on my trip always receives brunt of my wrath no matter where I am. Hong Kong suffered a similar fate last year as that was the final city on my tour of Asia. I will allow that if I had known someone in the city to provide me with an 'insider' take, then my review of the city might have been better.
Best experience on the trip: With the help of a local photographer in Buenos Aires, I arranged a tango photo shoot with experienced dancers. The photos produced were fantastic, and it got me excited about the prospects of setting up other photo shoots on future trips. For that matter, I would love to create a similar program here in NYC for other traveling photographers.
Worst experience on the trip: Again, nothing bad happened on this trip and I pretty much enjoyed every moment. The only dicey situation came when I had to drive across a river in the Atacama Desert because the road was out due to excessive rain. Driving on the roads in the desert turned out to be much more challenging than expected.
What was definitely worth it: a private tour across the salt flats of Uyuni. I am not a fan of tours, and this was my first tour in years. But because this was a private tour, I could ask to stop where and when I wanted to for photos. In comparison, most of the other tours were four to eight people in a car and it was like a clown car exploding at each pre-arranged stop. Not my type of traveling.
What wasn't worth it: The only experience I might have cut out was a wine tasting event in Santiago that – while educational in the extreme – wasn't very fun.
Best hotel: Hotel Manavai on Easter Island. This hotel is a little slice of tiki paradise, complete with luscious gardens and a pool.
Worst hotel: Hostal y Cabanas Mangai Rapa Nui the hotel I originally stayed in on Easter Island. I nicknamed this hotel the 'roach motel' for the three roaches a day I found in my room every evening. I finally left after two horrific nights and moved to the Manavai.
In general, the food was pretty bad on this trip. I like my food extra salty, and food throughout this part of South America lacks any salt or spice. On my next trip I'll be bringing with me plenty of seasoned salt and hot sauce.
Best food: I ate at a restaurant called Peumayen Ancestral Food in Santiago, and it was the best meal of my entire trip. The restaurant serves a chef's tasting menu of food from Chile. Each dish was delicious and the evening was an entertaining education in the history of Chilean food.
Worst food: Eating at Gustu in La Paz was the most revolting dining experience of my entire 44 years. I wanted to like this place because it is praised to the heavens by 'foodies.' But when a cheese-dusted bug larvae is the tastiest thing on the menu, you know you're in trouble.
Safety in general: I always scare myself before trips by reading about the crime statistics of a given city. In particular, I was worried about Buenos Aires. The reality couldn't have been farther from the truth. Every place I visited, including Buenos Aires, felt safe. I didn't feel the least bit anxious as a woman walking the streets alone.
Transportation in general: It was easy getting around this part of the world. With the exception of some challenging roads both on Easter Island and in the Atacama Desert, driving wasn't a problem. The subway is easy to navigate in both Santiago and Buenos Aires. And if you need a cab, I recommend the apps Cabify and Grab as these apps are used far more often than Uber or Lyft. The one public transportation challenge I had was in Lima. The traffic situation here (and in La Paz) is horrible.
Costs: I was completely spoiled by prices in Thailand, and in comparison, South America is very expensive. In particular, island communities like Easter Island and remote destinations like the salt flats of Uyuni, charge a premium just because they know they have a captive audience. I don't regret the money spent, but if you are planning a similar trip then know that the days of South America being a low-cost destination are gone. Inflation and taxes has caused prices of just about everything to be equivalent with US prices.
I had a great time on my trip, and would definitely recommend this part of the world to anyone looking to venture beyond the North American continent. That said, the world is becoming the same all the way around. In particular, I felt that Santiago and Buenos Aires were just like New York, and as a result, visiting these cities was less exciting of an experience. Perhaps my current travel cravings for more exotic locations could be better quenched with destinations such as the Amazon, Patagonia and the Galapagos Islands.
I'll share all the details of my trip in future blog posts, starting with a trip report from my visit to Easter Island. In the meantime, I would love to get some feedback from any of you who have visited South America. What was your trip like? Do you share my sentiments? If you are planning a similar trip and would like a copy of my exact itinerary, drop me a line and I will be happy to send it to you. Oh, and don't forget to check out my Instagram page (@KellyWilliamsPhotographer) where I am posting photos on a daily basis. Happy travels, y'all!


Fraser Dawbarns LLP > About Us > News > General > Happy Retirement Lynn!
On Sunday 7th April, Several staff members from Fraser Dawbarns got together at Bank House to throw a retirement party for Lynn Wilkes.
Lynn has been a secretary in the Family Department at Fraser Dawbarns working in the King's Lynn office for over 19 years and in that time has formed close relationships with many Fraser Dawbarns staff past and present.
Staff attending treated Lynn and her partner Roger to afternoon tea as well as presenting her with gifts of flowers and vouchers.
Fraser Dawbarns staff appreciated having the opportunity to pass on their love and best wishes to Lynn and they enjoyed catching up with some former members of staff who had become friendly with Lynn during her time at the firm.
Not everyone who would have liked to have attended was able to make it but there was still a great turnout and everyone who came thoroughly enjoyed themselves.