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Steamboat-based air ambulance service logs close to 300 missions
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Johnross Joseph Doyel flies the Steamboat-based air ambulance around Hahns Peak.
More than 19 months and nearly 300 missions later, the air ambulance service based out of Steamboat Springs has made a strong comeback.
It is a service that Steamboat resident Chris Arnis had hoped he would never need, but he is eternally grateful that Classic Air Medical was there March 15.
"They saved my life," Arnis said.
At about 4:10 p.m., Chris Arnis, a former Division 1 ski racer, was coming down the right side of Rainbow trail at the Steamboat Ski Area when he approached an area rutted out by skiers through speed control fencing that had been pulled near the end of the day for grooming.
"It left a huge rut, and it was glazed over when I came down the hill, and I didn't see it," Arnis said.
Arnis said he hit the rut hard, and it knocked his ski off. He said he must have hit his head during the crash but he does not remember.
Ski patrollers quickly arrived to help Arnis, and they held his head. The call was made to have Arnis airlifted straight off the mountain.
Arnis said after the Classic flight crew landed, he was put in an air cast.
"I felt like I was going to be taken care of, and I was going to be OK," Arnis said.
By 5 p.m., Arnis said he arrived at Denver Health Medical Center. He underwent surgery for a C-4 spinal cord injury and was later transferred to the Craig Hospital in Englewood for rehabilitation.
Between the crash and being flown to Denver, Arnis said he was completely immobilized and was grateful that he was not taken off the mountain on a sled.
"I got a lot of mobility back just because I didn't get moved a lot," Arnis said. "I just can't thank them enough."
Today, six months after the crash, Arnis is able to move both his arms, toes and fingers.
"It's still a work in progress," Arnis said.
Community need
Paula Golden knows how important it is to get patients the best medical treatment as fast as possible. In the medical field, it is known as the golden hour.
"During the first hour of care is when you're going to have the greatest impact," Golden said.
Golden is the Yampa Valley Medical Center Emergency Department Director and married to David Golden, who suffered a heart attack in 2012.
Golden said when the Flight For Life flight team arrived at YVMC to pick up her husband, he went into full cardiac arrest. David Golden was shocked, stabilized as best as possible and packaged for the flight to Loveland, where he was shocked another 25 times. Golden credits her husband's survival to the air ambulance service.
"Even with that distance, we still save lives," Golden said.
Before Classic opened for business at the Steamboat Springs Airport on March 1, 2014, Steamboat had been without a locally based ambulance for nearly 10 years.
During that 10-year void, YVMC mainly relied on Flight For Life based out of Summit County to transfer its most unstable patients. As a Level 4 trauma center, YVMC does not have the resources to treat severe head injuries, spinal injuries, serious heart conditions and multi-system traumas.
Golden said Classic is now YVMC's first choice when they have to fly a patient.
"We are really blessed to have them within close proximity to us," Golden said.
YVMC and emergency responders now have more choices and resources in the field, which recently was tested.
On Aug. 24, in two separate simultaneous calls, air ambulances were needed at the Steamboat Ski Area. A 55-year-old broke his neck mountain biking and a 40-year-old man had a seizure. Classic and Flight for Life each airlifted a patient from the mountain to Front Range hospitals.
Golden said transporting a patient to the Front Range by ambulance is a last resort. The three to four hour drive presents more risks, and it takes emergency responder resources away from the area.
Steamboat Springs Fire Rescue Chief Mel Stewart said his department has transferred patients to the Front Range before by ambulance, and the medical community in the past has discussed starting a service.
"We don't have a lot of patients that we transfer out that don't need to go in a rapid fashion," Stewart said.
Although cheaper, it still costs the patient about $5,000.
Serving rural communities
Classic is a family-run business that started as a Bryce Canyon National Park helicopter tour company in Utah. The growth of medical evacuation operations was driven by demand in the area and officially started on Memorial Day 1988 as a seasonal service for the Lake Powell area.
Today, Classic has about 200 employees and is headquartered in Woods Cross, Utah, with nine bases in Wyoming, Arizona, Colorado, Oregon and New Mexico. This summer, they opened a fixed-wing base in Craig.
"We try to grow as we see a need somewhere," Classic CEO Tony Henderson said.
Classic services small communities, with Steamboat and Los Alamos being their largest population bases.
"We like to find places that are underserved, and their wait times for critical care are real long," Henderson said. "It's amazing the amount of lives we save when we go into communities where they don't have access to care faster."
One of Classic's larger missions is community involvement, said Chad Bowdre, a Steamboat resident, Routt County Search and Rescue member and former Steamboat Springs Winter Sports Club coach. He is now in charge of Classic's public relations and business development.
Classic is sponsoring the rubber ducky races in Steamboat and Craig and just recently attended North Routt Barbeque, benefiting the North Routt Community Charter School.
Steamboat's base manager Lisa Connelly said working in rural communities has its advantages over big cities.
"You'll never see your patients, and here you will," Connelly said. "It's nice that they remember us, and we remember them."
Running an air ambulance service is not cheap. Just the helicopter equipped with all the medical equipment at the Steamboat Springs Airport costs about $3.5 million. The Steamboat base employs four medics and four paramedics, who work nine days each month with 72 hour shifts.
"It allows us a lot of free time to play," flight nurse Anne Harris said.
Pilots work 12-hour shifts for 14 days and then have 14 days off.
The ongoing training of staff also adds to Classic's costs.
Bowdre said Classic tried to keep its costs comparable to other air ambulance providers, and a medical evacuation from Steamboat to Denver can cost between $30,000 to $35,000. He said insured patients typically have to pay between 20 to 50 percent of that cost.
Classic does offer a membership program for people with insurance. For $60 a year, a household is covered for all out-of-pocket costs. Classic also offers group rates for companies and organizations wanting coverage for their employees.
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Routt County Search and Rescue volunteers consider Classic a valuable resource.
Classic affords Search and Rescue up to two, free hours of flight time for missions. After that, the Routt County Sheriff's Office is billed for the flight time, and the agency can be reimbursed through a state search and rescue fund.
"That's a huge benefit for Search and Rescue," Search and Rescue member Jason Weber said.
Search and Rescue also utilizes Zephyr Helicopter Company based out of Steamboat for missions. Zephyr and Classic helicopters were used last week during the search for a missing hunter in North Routt County.
Weber has loaded the Classic helicopter twice for missions.
On one mission, Weber searched the roads and trails in the Big Red Park area from the air looking for a woman who got lost. After finding the woman, Weber directed a ground team to the woman.
"She was very grateful that we were out there looking for her," Weber said.
On another mission, Search and Rescue used Classic to insert members and the coroner at Devil's Causeway to retrieve a body.
"It saved us a good 15 hours of hiking and retrieving the person," Weber said.
Search and Rescue also trains with Classic. Last summer, they rehearsed the best method for rescuing someone from the King Solomon Falls, where people have gotten seriously injured cliff jumping. Without a solid plan and the help of air support, it can take six or more hours to rescue someone from the remote area in North Routt County.
Recently, Classic trained with Search and Rescue at the old Stagecoach Ski Area. Following that exercise, Weber said Search and Rescue members got their air cards, which allows the members to load and unload the helicopter while the rotor is still spinning.
Inherent risks, striving for safety
Anne Harris understands the risks in working in the air ambulance business.
For the past 2 ½ years, Harris has been a flight nurse. Her husband, Dan, also works for Classic in Steamboat as a paramedic.
Before deciding to fly, Anne Harris said she asked her two daughters — now 12 and 9 years old — for permission.
"It's a job that has a little more risk to it, and I wanted to make sure with both Dan and I flying," Harris said.
The girls did not object.
"They think it's cool that we work in this industry," Harris said.
The Steamboat community is also aware of the risks associated with the air ambulance business.
This past January, community members gathered at Yampa Valley Medical Center to remember those who died 10 years ago in a Yampa Valley Air Ambulance crash.
On the night of Jan. 11, 2005, the Yampa Valley Air Ambulance plane was en route to Rawlins, Wyoming to transport a patient from the Rawlins Municipal Airport to Casper. The plane crashed on approach about three miles northeast of the airport. EMT Tim Baldwin was rescued after a multiple-hour search for the plane's wreckage.
Pilot Tim Benway and flight nurses Dave Linner and Jennifer Wells died in the crash.
The National Transportation Safety Board determined ice built up on the plane likely caused it to crash.
The crash investigation found insufficient evidence to indicate Benway was pressured into taking the flight, but investigators did not rule out the possibility that Benway put pressure on himself to take the mission.
Steamboat-based air ambulance service was discontinued soon after crash.
Classic has also experienced losses.
A midair collision on June 29, 2008, involving Guardian Air and Classic helicopters killed seven people.
The Classic helicopter was flying to Flagstaff Medical Center from the Grand Canyon. The crash occurred about ¼ mile from the airport.
The NTSB found poor communication between the pilots and dispatchers contributed to the crash.
Classic's pilot, paramedic, flight nurse and patient died in the crash.
"It was a sad thing for both agencies," said Henderson, whose father Mark Henderson started classic.
Henderson said after the crash, Classic equipped all its helicopters with equipment to detect other aircraft in the area.
Nationally, 2008 was the deadliest year for helicopter air ambulance service with five accidents that claimed 21 lives.
The Yampa Valley Air Ambulance accident was one of many EMS flight crashes studied by the NTSB. In 2006, the NTSB issued a special report that recommended the Federal Aviation Administration require EMS flight operators to develop and implement flight risk-evaluation programs. That and other recommendations were the result of a study of 55 air ambulance accidents between January 2002 and January 2005.
In 2014, the FAA implemented new rules to improve helicopter safety, affecting the 75 air ambulance companies that operate 1,515 helicopters in the United States.
According to the FAA, the new rule represented the most significant improvements to helicopter safety in decades and responded to government's and industry's concern over continued risk in helicopter operations.
"This is a landmark rule for helicopter safety," United States Secretary of Transportation Anthony Foxx said. "These improvements will better prepare pilots and better equip helicopters, ensuring a higher level of safety for passengers and crew."
Among the rules was a requirement that all helicopter operators, including air ambulances, use stricter flying procedures in bad weather.
The FAA examined helicopter air ambulance accidents from 1991 through 2010 and determined 62 accidents that claimed 125 lives could have been mitigated by the new rules.
Classic touts itself as going beyond the mandated safety guidelines and is accredited by the Commission on Accreditation of Medical Transport Systems, an independent agency that audits air ambulance providers for industry-established standards.
"We have the highest standards for pilots," Henderson said. "We have some of the highest standards in the area for nurses and paramedics too."
If any single member of the Classic crew thinks it is unsafe to fly, they do not fly.
"Three to say 'go,' one to say 'no,'" Bowdre said.
When a pilot gets a call from dispatch, they are simply told the origin, destination and the weight of the patient.
"They just choose, can I safely make this flight," Bowdre said.
Pilots are not given information about the severity of the injuries, or perhaps if the call for service involves a child.
"You can't have that added pressure," Bowdre said.
Inside the Classic's Steamboat Bell 407 helicopter, pilot Johnross Joseph Doyel demonstrated systems that warn him of dangerous terrain, threatening weather and other aircraft in the area. During night missions, the crew wears night vision goggles.
"Classic has been well ahead of the curve in implementing these technologies," Doyel said.
Henderson said the maintenance performed on the Classic fleet is top notch.
"Safety is a huge part of our company, and we go above and beyond," Henderson said.


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By Jon Vanderford
GRAND ISLAND, Neb. (KOLN) - We caught up with a man who has an incredible car collection, and his aim is to build a future event center where the cars can one day be showcased.
John Nikodym currently houses his car collection in what was most recently a bowling alley. "This building was hit by the Grand Island tornado," Nikodym said. "It was most recently called Super Bowl. When I was looking to relocate to Grand Island in 2019, this property was for sale. I bought it with the idea of stripping out the bowling equipment and having a place for my cars."
Nikodym says he wants to turn the old bowling alley and storage space for his vehicles into an event center. "As of a year ago, we started a housing development around the building," Nikodym said. "There's 20 acres around this property and the whole development plan includes the complete remodeling of the former Super Bowl into an event center, that will also house my car collection. So there would be a car museum within the event center." The event center would also feature a coffee shop.
The car collection features many highlights. "I was told by a friend of mine that I should consider buying a Viele car, because Willard Viele was John Deere's grandson," Nikodym said. "I was able to purchase in 1997 a 1918 Viele touring car. Then I got a little carried away, and one thing led to another, and now I have a substantial collection of early cars. The core of my collection is Viele cars. Veile Motor Company of Moline, Illinois, built cars from 1909 to 1928. I have in my collection one of each year, and the star of the collection is the very first Viele built, which is serial number 1."
"Other cars I have in my collection, I have a group of Moline automobiles," Nikodym said. "The Moline automobile company built cars from 1904 to 1924. They started out as the Moline automobile, then they were called the Moline-Knight, and then in 1902, they changed the name to R & V Knight. The parent company was Root and VanDervoort, which started by building gasoline engines. I also have three unique cars in my collection, they were all built in the state of Nebraska. I have a 1909 Jonz car that was built in Beatrice. I have a 1919 Douglas car that was built in Omaha, and I have a 1909 Fuller car that was built in Angus, Nebraska. I also have a 1917 Rauch and Lang electric car, and a 1900 Milwaulkee steam car. It's kind of a unique collection of the odd, unusual and unique."
If you would want to see this collection, it's by appointment only. Nikodym says when the event center and museum is eventually built, the cars will be more accessible.
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This was installed by our plumber during an extensive remodel. He found the fixtures from signature were not standard American plumbing specifications. The faucet aesthetically is fine. I find the handle feels flimsy and it is very slow to shut off the water which dribbles for a bit after shutting it off. Being polished nickel it does make it difficult to keep clean.
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Do take a look at this Disney Parks Blog article for other reasons behind my recommendation. Magic Kingdom Park currently offers 33 attractions without height requirements. This would maximize the number of rides the entire family can enjoy together.
If you could also visit at least one other theme park, I would highly recommend Disney's Animal Kingdom Theme Park. Currently, it boasts 34 attractions without height restrictions. Simply walking underneath the floating mountains in the Valley of Mo'ara at Pandora – The World of Avatar makes this park worth the visit.


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Q: Aggregation of data depending on the value of the field I need to optimize one old legacy sql query that started to fail due to lack of free disk space on database server during the query execution (it uses 20 Gigs for temporary tables and exits with an error).
Query is a bit complicated as it aggregates data depending on the value of one of the fields in queried tables into different aliases. Main idea is to query table with groups of options and make values of that aliases columns of resulting table.
Samples of schemas and query are here: http://sqlfiddle.com/#!9/64e86/2/0. In the real query there are something like 10-12 opt_types in the IN clause.
The problem is that it's like 2.5kk rows and 18.5kk rows in both tables respectively.
On smaller amount of data (70k and 750k) this query runs perfect and in a very short amount of time.
Any idea how improve this query to make it run on large amount of data?
Database is MySQL 5.6. Query is populated to the server by bash script using native mysql < query_file.sql command.
PS Quiet frankly, I'm not really into understanding how this query works (to be exact, the part with using GROUP_CONCAT(DISTINCT IF(...) ORDER BY ... ASC SEPARATOR ', '))

A: GROUP_CONCAT simply concatenates all the field values withinin the group - except nulls, they're dropped. Pretty much like SUM does, or any other aggregator function: MAX, MIN, whatever.
In this case, it yields the sorted list of all different (from each other) values with particular type that happened within the group, separated by comma.
Now to your question... increase the disk space, just that!
Cheap & simple.
Really, there's no actual ways for significant optimization of particularly THAT query.
And I presume changing it, or database schema, would break the app on the other side. Right?
Ok, not really "break", but require logic changes, which you want to avoid.

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The Inaugural UK Maritime Safety Week is a unique opportunity to recognise the contributions of PSS member ports and to celebrate success. No organisation can have a good reputation, good productivity and poor safety. all three are interlinked and as the minister rightfully points out 'Safety Underpins Success'. This also provides us with an opportunity to celebrate the various successes that we have been achieving as an industry and broadcast it to the rest of the UK.
In order to stimulate conversations and make connections under the banner of the Maritime Safety Week, the minister, various industry bodies including PSS will be retweeting throughout the week the various initiatives of member ports with the hastags #martimesafetyweek and #maritimesafetymatters.
We would be pleased to retweet your initiatives to the industry if you notify us using our hashtag #Saferports. Conversely, do send us an email regarding your initiatives and photos, and we would gladly tweet or post your successes to our social media channels on your behalf.
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Ultimately I'm not interested in blogging unless I can take an idea forward, so I've taken my time to try to dig-deep into this. I truly believe the points I generate break new ground.
Personal – 'Small c creativity' – is not the same as Socio-Cultural – 'Big C Creativity.
Progressivism has two completely separate goals related to educating for creativity – personal fulfilment and societal salvation.
In the way it champions personal fulfilment with 'Small c creativity', Progressivism is actually crippling its potential to solve upcoming Socio-Cultural problems.
Traditionalism can better achieve Socio-Cultural creativity with some simple 'tweaks'.
My depiction of Progressivism may strike some people as a straw man based on their personal practical experience, but I think it presents a very real voice at the back of many sincere people's minds; representing an ideal which they believe they should be aiming for if only they were freed from the demands of exam boards and statutory curricula.
Let's think. What do we count as creativity?
If a child is given some paint and freely dawbs on a piece of paper – are they being creative? Or rather just 'expressive', or 'experimental' ?
What if the same abstract 'dawbings' are in response to being told to paint a garden? Is 'personal interpretation' always being creative?
What if the child explains, they were trying to copy – as best they could – a picture they'd seen? Is their 'highly original' painting creative… or merely a failure?
What if the child 'creates' a great painting by carefully using a 'paint by numbers' set? Have they created, or merely 'made'?
Most infant teachers would probably group all the efforts of the child above in the category of them being creative (or learning to be creative). What about the following two cases?
The adult individual who is able to adapt to constantly changing workplace demands, reinventing themselves several times during their career?
The inventor who comes-up with a completely new form of electrical storage, based on principles not normally considered in that industry?
Are these last two people creative? If so, what is their link with the first set of examples?
Psychologist Robert Sternberg points out that the lack of clear focus in psychological research on creativity comes from a muddled mix of societal ideas about it. As Keith Sawyer explains, creativity as we know it isn't a scientific concept – it's something culturally and historically specific, meaning different things in different contexts. He distinguishes between individual creativity and socio-cultural creativity.
Individual creativity – is what Sawyer and Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi both call 'Small c creativity' – something which occurs at the level of personal originality – something which is simply new for that person to come up with. The Socio-Cultural form of creativity however is what we might think of as something more game-changing – what they refer to as 'Big C Creativity'. This is the kind which results in innovations for all of us.
Now, the human capacity for creativity is hard for any of us to dispute. Nevertheless, progressive educationalists sometimes slip into almost mystical assertions about where the building blocks of creativity originate from – suggesting that the answers to our problems are simply ready to be unleashed from the human mind if only we would allow them out. They worry – not unreasonably – that as we learn established knowledge structures, the less we are likely to experience and tolerate divergent – unconventional – thinking. Therefore we should cherish and try to keep open the apparently more fertile imagination of the child as actively as possible.
It is indeed true that in growing-up we learn to more quickly filter-out the less cogent random associations which arise in our minds – the ones seemingly less likely to go somewhere rational. I believe that children indulge them more than adults due to a lack of reasoning structures and experience rather than greater inherent creativity.
What has become the key definition of creativity for researchers – and Sir Ken Robinson – is that creativity is originality with value – or 'applied imagination' as Robinson puts it. It may well be that personal pleasure is sufficient value to be gained from the creative act, but he's adamant that the two creative adults I outlined earlier are the kind we need to be educating for. Rapid population growth and the speed of technological transformation mean we're hurtling into a world situation which may be beyond our current controls.
His solution is for us to produce creative individuals who can produce novel solutions to new global problems, as well as being able to adapt to a workplace of as yet unknown multiple job roles.
Now, my focus here isn't the 'Shift Happens' side-line to this, asserting the need to teach transferable skills in place of fundamental knowledge to prepare people for the jobs that don't exist yet. I think THIS gives one of the best answers to that.
No, I'm actually going to agree with Sir Ken, and say – YES, as a species we are going to need to be able to adapt creatively, more rapidly than ever before. We could indeed be hurtling towards a precipice we have no current control over, changing many certainties in our lives.
HOWEVER, THERE ARE TWO THINGS GOING ON HERE WHICH ARE CHRONICALLY MIS-ALIGNED.
You see, Progressivism likes to align its methods as being the best way to achieve this fresh headline goal for education because it involves talk of the need for creativity, and it has always been keen on creativity for a completely different reason: Namely, that we should open up children to creative experiences because, whatever they want to do in life, the act of 'creating' in some way – just like the act of acquiring knowledge for traditionalists – is an intrinsically worthwhile form of human experience. I have no problem with this as a goal – I think it is a value worth having.
BUT… the fulfilment of the first goal requires 'Big C Creativity', whereas the second is satisfied with 'Small c creativity', and focusing on the second one the way progressive education does cripples the first.
The ability to think 'divergently' – going beyond the natural stream of thought.
The freedom to allow your personal expression out – not repressing it in the face of conventional opinion.
An intrinsic interest in pursuing novel solutions to a problem, rather than doing it because you are required to.
The mastery of a domain of knowledge which allows you to fully survey the range of existing approaches to it.
The access to, and due respect from, a field of influential experts who can evaluate the quality of your creative insight and give it the approbation to allow it to succeed.
Secondly, you can only get a breakthrough if you, and particularly influential others, are in a position to knowledgeably evaluate your innovation. Why should this idea be worth anything?
Progressivism mitigates against this happening because it shuns the acquisition of established domain knowledge in favour of 'transferable skills', reducing the opportunities to become real experts in a specific field. Just having the information skills to access lots of knowledge as and when it seems to be required simply isn't the same thing as having spent years internalising knowledge and gaining intuitive mastery of a domain.
Progressive educationalists may struggle with this. Based on their traditional focus of enabling everyone to express their innate creative muse, they constantly bear witness to incredible, original demonstrations of the power of creativity. You don't need a lifetime of training to be ground-breakingly creative!
Here's the thing though: It is easier to witness 'the ordinary person' having creative inspiration in the arts than with – say – technology. In the case of visual art for instance, we are all constantly seeing a rich mixture of things in everyday life, and through the marvels of TV we can all gain an incredibly diverse tacit knowledge of visual concepts. Diverse musical notions are also easy for anyone to absorb in our modern world (and the technical means to bring new ideas to the attention of others is now much easier too), and even narrative ideas abound amongst the least cultured due to the ubiquity of story-telling on screen.
In the Arts in general then, it seems that pretty broad creative innovation can arise from almost anyone if they just have the technical capacity and opportunity to express it. In other professional areas however this is much harder to achieve – access to the richer knowledge base isn't something which you naturally pick-up through walking down the street or watching TV. Additionally, in the Arts it's generally easier to find someone who thinks your creativity is worth something to them. Your mate Bill might enjoy listening to you singing in the local pub, but he might not want to buy the new Smartphone you say you've just invented in your shed.
Now, so far all I've really done is reiterate the common criticism by traditionalists regarding the progressive focus on skills rather than knowledge.
But there are further, insidious sides to Progressivism's pursuit of 'personalisation' which I believe are less obvious, but also ultimately damaging to 'Big C Creativity'.
by seeking from the start to uncover a child's 'element' – the thing that their natural passion and aptitude seems to indicate would be their most naturally satisfying success area through life . I think ideally we would all find our element – but after a nutritiously formative period of battling with and exploring what we feel disinclined towards.
by prioritising what is considered relevant to a child based on their professed interests and cultural background – in pursuit of pleasing 'engagement'.
by attempting to teach them in the way that a child appears most inclined to enjoy – in pursuit of easy, trouble free learning.
Progressivism seeks to give people earliest access to the area where they may have the passion and aptitude to be their best. However as well as trivialising the deep knowledge which real specialists require, it also discards the wider awareness of contrasting fields of knowledge which characterises the great innovators in a field.
The knowledge areas which seem less relevant to children – less obviously appealing – are the grains of sand which sit unused in the recesses of the mind slowly creating pearls. The whole point of creativity is that it is unexpected. If we just focus on the things that most obviously fit together for us, then we are unlikely to be surprised by a creative insight.
Divergent thinking properly takes us to new places when we've had divergent experiences.
I've spoken about transferable skills previously. I think they do exist in two forms: If you learn about a field in depth, some aspects of what you've learned in that area will be applicable to pretty much any other human domain (once you know enough about that domain to spot the relevance). Also, there is a narrow slither of skills and dispositions which can be taught separately and be used flexibly. Their usefulness may only be marginal though.
For instance, the skills which Progressivism can give to people to help them become the adaptable workforce of the future are rather like saying you've trained people to be able to work successfully anywhere in the world by showing them how to get through airports and teaching them 'please and thank-you' in twelve languages. Handy, but not really the hallmarks of groundbreaking success. Oh, and it would have to be a place in the world that appeals to them. Progressivism works to produce individuals who are qualified to flit between the shallows of different domains, as long as it appeals to them. Are these the adaptable productive citizens of the future?
Ponder this: Irrespective of whether Learning Styles exist or not – I have always had problems with the assumption of teachers that a knowledge of learning styles should result in them aiming to teach a child through their preferred sensory domain. Surely we should use our 'knowledge' of learning styles to help strengthen the weaker faculties of a child – not collude in making them yet more limited?
Personalisation is broadly used to make things easier for a child – to get obstructions out of the way of them enjoying a smooth-flowing learning process. Aside from the obvious character development benefits to children of desirable difficulties, the experiences which go against the grain of the child also sow the seeds for the most interesting creativity later in life.
Ultimately, through easing children into doing what they most want to do, we actually make them less likely to be adaptable to an uncertain future workplace. Our precipitous future isn't simply about undreamed of opportunity, it's also about unpalatable, but essential, necessities. We're creating a generation of children who are used to the world being adapted to their needs and choices, so that everything fits them better. What aspect of this is meant make them more able to cope with changing demands imposed on them?
Adaptable adults are those who have learned to take the rough with the smooth – to cope with necessity as well as opportunity.
There's more as well though… I pointed out before that real innovation in a field requires the knowledgeable appraisal of new ideas in order for them to be adopted and developed further. Progressivism even makes this less likely. How? By championing an unprecedented level of 'creative noise'. The gatekeepers to real power in all kinds of knowledge domains have probably never been as bombarded as they are now by other people's creative ideas. What I'm writing now could be a stroke of genius, but since anybody can set-up a blog to write thoughts about education (and we're all widely encouraged to do it!), why should my own thoughts get noticed?
It has become the norm now to reword nouns with verbs and replace 'synthesise' with 'creating', moving it up above 'evaluating'. So… when a child dawbs paint freely on some paper, they are exhibiting the most sophisticated form of thinking…?
The thing is, synthesising was above analysing for a reason. Newsnight presenters seem to find it easy to analyse and rip to shreds the arguments of politicians. It's much harder however for them to create a brilliant new political strategy from the pieces left behind. It is indeed easier to distinguish the separate parts of a whole, than it is to visualise a previously un-thought of new whole from a given bunch of separate parts.
Of course, such synthesising should rightly be associated with the concept of creativity BUT not all creativity should be associated with synthesising.
Now, hands up – what's the problem with any pyramid of this kind? What if 'remembering' was replaced with 'listening' and 'creating' was replaced with 'talking'? Like many teachers I give pupils the pithy advice "you have two ears and one mouth – listen twice as much as you talk".
Given the access to information we now have – a wonderfully talented individual could become quite an expert in a field without having 'chartered' access to its traditional systems of power. They could indeed conceivably produce radically better ways of doing things. But no one will hear them, because everyone is creating, and no-one is seriously considering it all. There just isn't the time.
So having ripped into Progressivism for undermining 'Big C Creativity' and the production of adaptable workers of the future, what is my creative way to achieve this goal?
My prescription would be to give children a traditional education, which seeks to transmit the heart of what we culturally most value in what has previously been said and done, but with tweaks to ensure that open, inquiring, creative minds don't become stifled.
Stick close to the knowledge – that is what you are aiming to teach – not transferable creativity. However – there is 'what' you teach, and there is 'how' you teach it. Keep a constant awareness of the oblique learning that can occur through how you do things.
Now, the beautiful thing for progressives is that traditionalists now believe that you only really acquire knowledge if you actively think about it, and there is little which requires as much thought as trying to think creatively about areas of knowledge. Consequently, once you've presented your key knowledge area and gone through your process of choice to ensure it's accurately understood, present pupils with challenges to creatively think about this work. You can do this constantly with questioning, discussion and paired talk without it needing a whole project.
Be astute of course – getting them to do a poster or a PowerPoint about it may involve no creative thinking whatsoever about the content of learning. It may purely be aesthetic creativity, which is missing the point.
Secondly – point out to them that although knowledge is what we consider the most convincing and compelling version of the truth as we know it, any factual phenomena can logically be explained by more than one explanation and anything that we do can be done in a different way. The trick is to have good reasons to prefer a different version. In other words, there's always more than one way to do, or to explain anything.
Thirdly – get them to grasp that we can never fully know the extent of what we don't know.
If both teachers and pupils believe these three facts, why should any pupil ever lose their impulse to be creative?
Hi there, just to clarify, I don't class myself as 'progressive' or even as an 'educationalist'. I find that labels have a tendency to narrow and polarise (and are sometimes used specifically for that purpose), so I personally try my hardest not to use them.
I'm actually not trying to suggest that creativity comes from somewhere mystical in my blogs about it (perhaps you are mistaking my use of metaphor for me being literal), rather, I'm suggesting that human beings seem to be genetically inclined towards creative approaches. (See here for a good example: https://suecowley.wordpress.com/2013/11/09/the-spark-2/ of how creative ideas 'strike'). The hard work that comes afterwards is part of the creativity, but it's not really the same as that initial creative impulse or linking of concepts. If you work with small children, there is no denying that they can be amazingly creative, with only tiny amounts of what you might refer to as 'knowledge'. They seem to have an automatic instinct or impulse to create, it is an immensely satisfying activity for many human beings.
Instantly I feel bad that I've associated you directly with my critique, and that wasn't the intention at all. I mentioned the straw man at the beginning because I wanted to unravel an ideology rather than a person. I'm more than happy for you to distance yourself from what I've written about, and I'll create a slight edit at the top to try to make this a bit clearer.
I agree with you (honest!) about the need to retain playfulness in learning – I have no problem with that. The reason I make the point about making learning 'easy' is because I'm talking about a more subtle process which is not the obvious one (It's not about dumbing down or too much 'engagement'). Why do teachers aim to differentiate to children according to their learning style if they aren't actually deaf or blind etc? (again, irrespective of the actual respectability of learning styles theory). It is to remove obstacles and complications from the whole learning process – NOT something representative of the world we want them to be able to adapt to.
I also now need to be really careful about how I say this last bit, because I greatly admire your achievements and respect your intellect, your integrity and your reputation. I also think that your 7 T's of Differentiation book is probably the best single volume I've read on the subject (please do read my post on Differentiation if you haven't already!). SO THIS ISN'T ABOUT YOU! What I want to say though is that writing 25 books can indeed be seen to be a tremendous outpouring of personal creativity, BUT such creativity could have no bearing on whether a field is changed one way or another, and indeed society developing the ingenuity to solve the problems of our precarious future, as Sir Ken Robinson is adamant it should do. As I explain, there can be a complete separation between 'small c creativity' and 'Big C Creativity' – and indeed a profuse amount of the former may go counter to the achievement of the latter.
Thank you once more for your time and care!
a) Children's creativity does not come out of thin air. They are still making connections with what is known to them.
b) Following a child's interest is not bad in itself however, I can't be alone in having changed my interests over time. Also, how can a child know what they are interested when there is so much of the world that is unknown to them. I didn't know about the Romans before I learnt about them in school. If you had asked me before I had then I may have expressed my interests very differently. That was the start of my love affair with history but it didn't happen until I was 8. Again I would not have realised what that history truly motivated me if I had not continued to learn about different types of history and still maintain that interest and motivation.
c) Education for me is about opening up the world not narrowing it – that seems to be what the progressive agenda has done. Constantly focusing on oneself is a recipe for naval gazing and little else.
d) Last but not least – in all honesty while there are many who are breaking out in defence of their 'traditional' education, I can't see the progressive equivalent. Having dominated education for over 30 years one has to question why that is. In the end the proof of the pudding is in the eating and if the progressive agenda can not put forward shining examples it has to be questioned why.
True creativity in the sense of pulling something from nothing is extremely rare, especially at this late stage in human development. Most new ideas derive from prior knowledge/experience – what makes them creative is the new slant, interpretation or association that is fostered. One can only do these things if one has good working knowledge of one's domain – and ideally others with which cross-fertilisation might occur.
Even in areas like fine art or music much new work is actually the product of existing knowledge – even if in the form of a violent reaction against it.
So yes, traditional education can enhance creativity rather than destroy it. One of the fundamental failings of progressives is to ignore the distinction between information and knowledge. The former is indeed fairly useless on its own: it's like having a pile of data without an operating system to process it.
All information needs to be contextualised in order to turn it into useful knowledge – and arguably then again to turn it into wisdom. Traditional education at its worst probably was about the mindless absorption of information – but at its best it is about the evaluation of that information in a way unstructured, unguided progressive techniques rarely achieve. As you say, this is the essential part of the traditionalist's approach – what you *do* with the knowledge. One way of doing something with it is to evaluate it in the light of alternative understandings. That's critical thought, and can of course be taken to an extremely high level.
Thank you so much for all your time with this ij – I do keep aiming for a pithy 1000 words, but I'm not doing very well am I? I feel compelled to lay out my argument as completely as possible, but goodness knows how far most viewers get!
Google Cars and the numerous facsimiles are coming. Unlike the number of horses at the beginning of the motor vehicle era we can't reduce the numbers of people that will have been employed in the numerous facets of this 'industry'. I suspect for many of this workforce the future is pretty bleak. And they are the first in line of the AI (artificial intelligence) revolution. Apparently the top thirty odd areas of employment in the world are ripe for some degree of automation. Are we too late to be discussing creativity as something that needs enriching in our educational mix or do we need to fundamentally change our education systems to make it the only game in town?
Thanks Tim – I'm delighted your comment has managed to stick this time!
I'm getting a slightly nauseous feeling: The kind of change you are talking about (where professional drivers may become unemployed in large quantities over a relatively short period of time) clearly implies two big needs from society: The ability to innovate society as well as technology, and the ability for individual humans to adapt to changes imposed on them.
Now, as I've argued above, there is a big difference between creativity which relates to these capabilities, and the personal creativity which tends to be the focus in early schooling. Indeed, I think that the personal adaptability aspect only relates to creativity at all in as much as people might need to think outside the box in terms of how they could re-invent themselves. Beyond this, it seems to be about resilience and being motivated to start afresh. There is some mileage here for 'transferable skills' talk, but my biggest concern is that it largely involves throwing off all the expectations that an education system built up around 'personalisation' has created in us regarding what to expect from life.
The two striking thoughts for me however are… What kind of 'knowledge base' – and indeed power base – does it require for creative people to be able to successfully innovate society when effectively a human need disappears? Almost innevitably it is done through evolution rather than clever social engineering – we have global depressions, social unrest and gradually individuals reinvent themselves in whatever way appears to enable them to better survive (and eventually thrive). Ouch…!
The second thing is the really queasy bit for me… Assuming we do become better at educating people to knowingly innovate (Big C Creativity) – this will inevitably accelerate the production of problems as well as solutions. The more capable we become of societally innovating ways to help us cope with change, the more capable we will become at creating fresh technological reasons for our changes… !
Quick – who do we warn…?!
This is (once again) why it is so important to educate for the whole person. Notice the word 'for': I am not suddenly turning all progressive 😉 The whole instinct to educate with a specific purpose in mind is doomed to failure because we cannot know what that purpose needs to be – or in what circumstances those being educated will find themselves. That applies equally whether that purpose is economic participation or some notion of creativity.
I agree that the future does not look promising – and that's without the contradictions we seem to have built in, such as aiming to produce more graduates at a time when much work is being dumbed down and causalised. But we can't really know what else will emerge to fill the gaps, such as perhaps work in the green sector.
The only watertight purpose, so far as I can see, is to aim to develop the intellect. That means exposing the brain to situations where it is best able to develop its higher functions, be they rational or creative. In fact, I suspect that amounts to the same thing, if one thinks about it in terms of neural connectivity. The only difference is the part of the brain being used. I believe that the best way of doing this is through the rigorous use of formal intellectual activity – even if it superficially appears 'useless' it is the best way to target the necessary cognitive processes. It is also as much about equipping people with knowledge of the world around them as it is the skills to manipulate it.
By focusing on, for example, workplace skills, one only closes off other aspects of development, such as the ability and desire to pursue leisure activities for their inherent interest. This particularly concerns me as I see far too many pupils whose lives seem to consist only of work and loafing. Increasingly few seem to have much notion of lines of thought pursued simply for the intrinsic pleasure involved. They also seem to have worryingly scant conceptions of the social and cultural landscape in which they belong, or which they might help create. Perhaps the only widespread exception to this is participation in sport, which seems to be more about the 'body beautiful' than the 'mind beautiful'.
We need people to have not only the developed intellects but also the perception of the need to deploy them in all aspects of life, including the workplace, but also in their personal lives, leisure lives and the communities and environments in which they might participate. Only by doing this do we stand any chance of future-proofing humankind against whatever comes next.
Thanks again ij – two things which I think go very powerfully together from what you said were… Educating 'for' the whole person, rather than trying to educate 'the' whole person, added to… focusing on developing the intellect plus the importance in people of then applying it to all aspects of life.
It was also good to see you mentioning our inability to be able to predict specifically what an individual will need from their education, as this echoes my concerns about personalisation in my previous blog on differentiation.
I am now of the opinion that the only teachers who should really seek to facilitate creativity are actually those working with young adults. The rest of us really need to make damn sure that children have very high levels of skills and knowledge required to solve those unknown problems of the future. and children should be made to learn rather than indulged if they are to develop the character to withstand change in the future.
Also, you should be highly commended for not seeking to use easy, emotional ploys to get people on your side. You remain at the higher level of reason, pragmatism and logic.
Thanks QT – I posted my most recent comment on your own post after you'd posted this, but I wasn't paying attention!
Your comments about young adults are interesting, and at first I thought a little extreme! I think we can 'massage' creative faculties and impulses from the year 'dot' in the way I outlined at the end of my post, and keep weaving in more benign opportunities for delivering creative satisfaction, which I am progressive enough to see as a good in itself.
There's lots of different aspects to this…!
I teach a small group of 13 to 18 year olds. One has a genuine SEN. One of them can't read at all (not the one with the genuine SEN. Enquiries revealed that no-one had ever tried to teach him to read.) We suspected that several of the group are dyslexic but we have now realised that they haven't been taught how to read properly. When they come across a word they haven't seen before they simply ignore it. If there are too many new words they give up. None of them are interested in finding out the meaning of new words. All they have to do is ask, but that would mean an explanation involving the risk of meeting more new words. So they never ask. It took an hour of hard work to discover that they had assumed that "North", "South", "East" and "West" were peoples' names. That is why my first attempt to teach map reading didn't work.
All of them avoid reading whenever they can. There is almost no chance at all of them learning any of the things I taught myself from books by the time I was 10 years old. They don't have the vocabulary and they resist learning any. They won't go looking for information unless it is in the form of pictures or videos.
By contrast we had two pupils from a private school. They were quiet, well mannered and I suspect had numeracy and literacy skills well beyond my own. They soon left.
Thanks Alan – that makes a powerful point in a way which should be a stark warning.
The gap is growing between state and private schools and this is not alarming the progressives as you say the chris says their concern is personal creativity. The fact that those who they teach are not necessarily becoming productive young adults is less of a concern. It makes me wonder to what end it is a vanity project for some teachers. They can congratulate themselves on how well they have helped nurture a child but then abdicate responsibility for their failures.
It's also interesting that people are using the 'children who are privately educated' as an example, because again my experience is that private schools have much more freedom to educate in an holistic manner, with a focus on the arts and wider enrichment as well as technique and knowledge. If you look at Tricia Kelleher's school (The Stephen Perse Foundation, among the top independent schools in the UK), you will see exactly what I mean. This may be at least partly to do with parental support and input. If you are not having to deal with children from very deprived or chaotic homes, and you have far smaller classes and much better facilities, then this gives the teachers a head start in having the freedom to allow for a wider expression of what 'education' can look like. It does trouble me that we are seeing a narrowing of the curriculum for the most deprived, while those from advantaged homes are more likely to have access to the widest and most enriching experiences.
Thank you Sue – I'm glad you've made a rejoinder.
I personally think almost every teacher works with a fair degree of cognitive dissonance as they simultaneously try to balance a mixture of voices at the back of their minds, matching up ideals which aim to achieve different goals. My own aim here was to look closely at the logical implications of one of those ideals, and you're right we shouldn't make it about 'us and them'.
I also agree that it shouldn't slide into a 'private vs state' debate, as that again is a different issue, and I agree with the spread of differences which can be prominent in Independent schools, leading to differences in outcome.
I guess the difficulty is that – assuming that the ideals I talk about in the post DO exist at the back of some peoples minds – people will naturally start to reflect on the circumstances in which they've seen them come to the fore, which I guess is what has been happening in the comments.
I'm certainly keen not to 'other' you – I've been working on several extended metaphors for you for a start, for you to post on your blog ;-D … Got two humdingers of posts which are more pressing for me to nail at present though, and my paid job…!
The thing that bothers me most here – with this post – is how we best prepare people for that world of 'necessity' which apparently is ominously circling our global population with unavoidable problems we've never experienced before (but which keeps tending to be slightly eclipsed in our by that alluring world of opportunity which dazzles the young).
… So…I guess my question is… do you think that this thriving of the creative industries is matched by greater innovation in our non-creative industries and professions…? – The ones that we will be relying on to solve the problems thrown up by our rapidly changing world…? I suppose this is the thing I've been driving at with this post. Those at the top of their games in the industries which we rely upon for survival still rely very heavily on knowing in as much detail as possible 'what's what'. In a literal sense, we can't pin our destiny on people who think it might be worth spending time trying to reinvent the wheel. We've been there, done that, and we need to make sure our young realise what we've been there and done (good and bad) as efficiently as possible if they are going to benefit from the wisdom we've already accrued.
My angle then is for us to aim to keep the creative juices flowing naturally while our youth learn as much as they can about how the world works, rather than to give them bits of incidental knowledge as we focus on developing their creativity.
Ha! 😀 … Well I've creatively decided to Google it – but the closest I could find was 'Saffy' standing for Serious Active Forward Facing Youth – which I don't think quite is what you are probably referring to.
Having said that, I guess this acronym was chosen because it represents the daughter Saffy from Ab Fab… and you could say that her own approach to things came about partly as a reaction against the excesses of her mother… So maybe the Saffy Effect is how movements arise as a reaction to the perceived excesses of another movement, and this can keep going backwards and forwards like a pendulum?
I certainly think that this is the case in education. I personally believe that what we try to achieve is a paradoxical blend of contrasting goals, which mirrors the paradoxes at the heart of life in general. Therefore we can never quite fully define what the perfect education would be for example. I think that there is a truthful resonance at the heart of progressivism representing something essential about human existence, in the same way that there is a truthful resonance at the heart of traditionalism (notice again I'm talking the theoretical 'isms' not the mythical 'ists'!).
My own belief is that if we stand back the right distance to bring everything into resolution, then we'll see that the truthful resonances at the heart of each movement are both vital and reconcilable. Indeed, I think that this could be the longer term goal of this site.


Lift up your eyes from where you are!
When life is not perfect, how often do we get tunnel vision and only see what is right before us?
• We see only the challenges of the moment.
• We see only our difficult situation.
• We see only a hum drum life with no future.
• We see only our personal failures.
When we don't take this word God gave to Abram and apply it to our lives what do we miss?
• We see only the challenges of the moment, NOT the refining work God is doing in us for future victories.
• We see only our difficult situation NOT those around us that need more than we need and miss the opportunity to fill that need.
• We see only a hum drum life with no future, NOT the gifts of the moment that God is gracing us with so that we can use them to His glory and be given others in the future.
• We see only our personal failures, NOT God showing us a better way to victory.
God's word to Abram here reminded me that I need to always be looking up. Proverbs 3:5-6 tells us to trust in the Lord in all our ways and acknowledge Him.
I've shared in the past that the word acknowledge means we must always be seeking His face, acknowledging His presence in our lives.
I love how God's word here reminds me once again to look up and see what God wants me to see and to see His promises for a future.
Father God, You see me. You know my name. Help me to see You in everything I do, in every situation I am in, in every challenge and in every victory. I want to see You. I want to know You. Thank You for the gift of Your word that gives me insight to who You are and all that it means to me and my life. Thank You for the gift of the cross so that I can have intimate fellowship with You! I'm looking up Lord. Keep my eyes on You. It is in the name of the one that went to the cross that I pray; Your son, Jesus Christ. Amen.


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MAINZ, GERMANY—According to a statement released by Johannes Gutenberg University, researchers led by Cees Passchier employed software usually used for 3-D modeling geological formations to examine pieces of marble recovered from a second-century A.D. villa in Turkey's ancient city of Ephesus. The thin sheets of green-veined cipollino verde quarried on the Greek island of Euboea were used as cladding to decorate the walls of a room in the villa. Saw marks on the marble indicate that the slabs had been cut in a water-powered sawmill. Analysis of these marks and the veining in the marble suggest that 42 slabs, each measuring about three-fifths of an inch thick, were cut from a single block weighing three to four tons. The slabs were then hung side by side in book-matched pairs in the order in which they had been cut to produce a symmetrical pattern, Passchier explained. A digital reconstruction of the process suggests that only about three-tenths of an inch of material was lost with the cutting of each slab. An interruption in the pattern indicates that two of these slabs were not hung, however, perhaps because they had been broken during polishing or transportation. This is still only a five percent loss, Passchier said. The block was probably transported intact from Greece and cut at Ephesus, he added. To read about a massive marble plan of ancient Rome, go to "Mapping the Past: The Forma Urbis Romae."
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New Palm Treo Smartphone Nothing Special
Archive, Smartphones by SmartHouse Admin February 26, 2008 June 16, 2017 Share
The Palm Treo 500 has a form factor and Operating System similar to other smartphones we have reviewed over the past few months, so what's so special about it?
Sure, it has a built-in camera, a QWERTY keypad, runs on Windows Mobile 6, and has several pre-installed software that may help increase office productivity while on the go, but it missed out on a touchscreen panel. It relies heavily on directional keys and keypad for menu navigation, making it difficult for (Palm) users who are used to using the stylus.
The Treo 500 reminded us of the Asus M530w we reviewed a month ago because of its similar layout up front. It sports a 320 x 240 Transflective colour screen, comes with five-way navigation keys, left and right softkeys, send and end buttons, home button, back button, and a full QWERTY keypad. The keys on the device are miniscule, making it hard for us to press the keys unless we use our fingernails.
Users can find a power button on top of the unit, a volume key and side button on the left side, a headset jack and mini-USB port at the bottom of the unit, as well as a 2-megapixel camera and a speaker (for voice conference) at the unit's rear. A microSD card slot is also available but is inconveniently placed under the battery, which removes the possibility of hot-swapping between memory cards.
The Palm Treo 500 uses an Intel PXA720 processor and runs on Windows Mobile 6 Standard. The main menu displays the latest accessed programs, a Wireless Manager icon that turns the Bluetooth on/off or put the phone in flight mode, upcoming appointments, phone profile, and received text messages. Pressing the right softkey automatically brings a user to their contact list, while pressing the left softkey displays the sub-menus.
Programs like Internet Explorer, Windows Live Messenger, Office Mobile, Picture and Video Explorer, and Mobile Windows Media Player were available and did not come as a surprise because of its OS. It also has a calendar and task function that reminds a user of upcoming meetings, parties, and important dates. Personal and work e-mails can also be checked as the Treo 500 can connect to web-based e-mail like Hotmail, Yahoo, and Gmail, and supports Microsoft Exchange Server to access Outlook e-mails. And just so that you don't lose any saved data, the Treo also comes with a Sync function that saves information to the PC.
A program that will be very useful for those who are constantly on the road is the Google Maps software. This software will allow users to get from one location to another and even find nearby places of interest, although users will be charged by their telcos for data usage.
Slapping a 2-megapixel camera may seem to be a great idea since most phones in the market have it, but we think that Palm should have just missed out on this feature. We were very disappointed with the camera as a whole. The unit did not have any dedicated camera buttons, with users having to go to the Pictures and Videos sub-menu in order to start taking photos. It also did not have any auto-focusing mechanism and built-in flash, making night shots next to impossible.
The Treo 500 is a 3G handset that can stream videos and audio files with minimal buffering, has Bluetooth connectivity, and claims to have up to 4.5 hours of talk time or 10 days standby time.
There is nothing special about the Palm Treo 500. Most of its main features can be found in other Windows-based smartphones, its keypad is too small for our taste, and it does not have any other programs or connectivity features that could have set it apart from the rest. The price will probably be appealing to potential buyers though, with this Windows Mobile 6 smartphone having a price tag of $649.
Platform: Windows Mobile 6 Standard
Display: 320 x 240 pixel Transflective colour screen; supports 16-bit colour (up to 65K colours)
Radio: GSM/GPRS/UMTS radio
GSM bands: 900/1800/1900
UMTS bands: 2100
Bluetooth Wireless Technology: Version: 2.0 + EDR
Profiles: Headset, Handsfree, EDR, serial and OBEX.
Memory: 256MB memory (150MB available user storage)
Camera: 2-megapixels with 2x digital zoom and video capture support
Expansion: microSD card
Connector: mini USB
Battery: Removable 1200mAh, lithium-ion
Talk time: 10 days standby, up to 4.5 hours of talk time
Dimensions: 110 x 61.5 x 16.5 mm
Palm Treo 500 | $649 | | www.palm.com/au
For: Construction; full QWERTY keypad; Office-oriented applications
Against: Small keys; microSD card slot not hot-swappable; built-in camera does not have auto-focus or flash; no secondary camera
Conclusion: Appealing price, not so appealing features.
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package de.saxsys.mvvmfx.examples.contacts.ui.detail;

import de.jensd.fx.fontawesome.AwesomeDude;
import de.jensd.fx.fontawesome.AwesomeIcon;
import javafx.beans.property.SimpleBooleanProperty;
import javafx.fxml.FXML;
import javafx.scene.control.Button;
import javafx.scene.control.Hyperlink;
import javafx.scene.control.Label;

import de.saxsys.mvvmfx.FxmlView;
import de.saxsys.mvvmfx.InjectViewModel;
import javafx.scene.control.Labeled;

public class DetailView implements FxmlView<DetailViewModel> {
	@FXML
	public Label nameLabel;
	@FXML
	public Label birthdayLabel;
	@FXML
	public Label roleDepartmentLabel;
	@FXML
	public Hyperlink emailHyperlink;
	@FXML
	public Label phoneLabel;
	@FXML
	public Label mobileLabel;

	@FXML
	public Label cityPostalCodeLabel;
	@FXML
	public Label streetLabel;
	@FXML
	public Label countrySubdivisionLabel;

	@FXML
	public Button editButton;
	@FXML
	public Button removeButton;

	@InjectViewModel
	private DetailViewModel viewModel;

	public void initialize() {
		removeButton.disableProperty().bind(viewModel.removeButtonDisabledProperty());
		editButton.disableProperty().bind(viewModel.editButtonDisabledProperty());

		nameLabel.textProperty().bind(viewModel.nameLabelTextProperty());
		initVisibilityBindings(nameLabel);

		birthdayLabel.textProperty().bind(viewModel.birthdayLabelTextProperty());
		initVisibilityBindings(birthdayLabel);

		roleDepartmentLabel.textProperty().bind(viewModel.roleDepartmentLabelTextProperty());
		initVisibilityBindings(roleDepartmentLabel);

		emailHyperlink.textProperty().bind(viewModel.emailLabelTextProperty());
		emailHyperlink.setOnAction(event -> viewModel.onEmailLinkClicked());
		initVisibilityBindings(emailHyperlink);

		phoneLabel.textProperty().bind(viewModel.phoneLabelTextProperty());
		initVisibilityBindings(phoneLabel);

		mobileLabel.textProperty().bind(viewModel.mobileLabelTextProperty());
		initVisibilityBindings(mobileLabel);

		// the email hyperlink should always look "unvisited".
		emailHyperlink.visitedProperty().bind(new SimpleBooleanProperty(false));

		cityPostalCodeLabel.textProperty().bind(viewModel.cityPostalcodeLabelTextProperty());
		initVisibilityBindings(cityPostalCodeLabel);

		streetLabel.textProperty().bind(viewModel.streetLabelTextProperty());
		initVisibilityBindings(streetLabel);

		countrySubdivisionLabel.textProperty().bind(viewModel.countrySubdivisionLabelTextProperty());
		initVisibilityBindings(countrySubdivisionLabel);

		initIcons();
	}

	private void initVisibilityBindings(Labeled label) {
		label.visibleProperty().bind(label.textProperty().isNotEmpty());
		label.managedProperty().bind(label.visibleProperty());
	}

	private void initIcons() {
		AwesomeDude.setIcon(birthdayLabel, AwesomeIcon.BIRTHDAY_CAKE);
		AwesomeDude.setIcon(roleDepartmentLabel, AwesomeIcon.USERS);
		AwesomeDude.setIcon(emailHyperlink, AwesomeIcon.AT);
		AwesomeDude.setIcon(mobileLabel, AwesomeIcon.MOBILE_PHONE);
		AwesomeDude.setIcon(phoneLabel, AwesomeIcon.PHONE);

		AwesomeDude.setIcon(editButton, AwesomeIcon.EDIT);
		AwesomeDude.setIcon(removeButton, AwesomeIcon.TRASH_ALT);
	}

	@FXML
	public void edit() {
		viewModel.editAction();
	}

	@FXML
	public void remove() {
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La Sal's Second Life
July 5, 2020JPEG
This photograph, taken from the International Space Station by an astronaut, illustrates the influence of human exploration both on and below the land surface near the La Sal Mountains in eastern Utah.
Since the 1950s, the Lisbon Valley has been a haven for natural resource extraction and ephemeral towns. Several settlements were built and inhabited while mining operations were ongoing, and then swiftly depopulated when the mines shut down. Many of these abandoned settlements, commonly called ghost towns, are associated with mines in and around Utah.
The town of La Sal is often mislabeled as a ghost town due to its association with Old La Sal, a town just out of frame to the northeast. When the residents of Old La Sal moved westward, they took their town name with them and established the settlement in the photo, leaving a ghost town behind. Local historians are careful to note that it was the downfall of the cattle economy, not mining, that caused the abandonment of Old La Sal.
Today, the La Sal mine is a source of uranium and vanadium. The site is similar in geologic character to deposits in the Uravan Mineral Belt of southwestern Colorado. Mining operations at the La Sal complex include both above-ground and below-ground components.
Uranium and vanadium are not the only natural resources extracted from the Lisbon Valley. The Lisbon Anticline is an arched geologic structure that yields oil and gas. On the northeast flank of the anticline, the network of light tan roads and rectangles are likely oil pump pads. Tailing ponds from a nearby open-pit copper mine are also visible in the scene.
Astronaut photograph ISS063-E-40191 was acquired on July 5, 2020, with a Nikon D5 digital camera using an 800 millimeter lens and is provided by the ISS Crew Earth Observations Facility and the Earth Science and Remote Sensing Unit, Johnson Space Center. The image was taken by a member of the Expedition 63 crew. The image has been cropped and enhanced to improve contrast, and lens artifacts have been removed. The International Space Station Program supports the laboratory as part of the ISS National Lab to help astronauts take pictures of Earth that will be of the greatest value to scientists and the public, and to make those images freely available on the Internet. Additional images taken by astronauts and cosmonauts can be viewed at the NASA/JSC Gateway to Astronaut Photography of Earth. Caption by Alex Stoken, Jacobs, JETS Contract at NASA-JSC.
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Il Douglas XP-48 era il progetto per un aereo da caccia, realizzato nel corso del 1939 dalla statunitense Douglas Aircraft Company. Sottoposto alla valutazione degli United States Army Air Corps, non risultò completamente soddisfacente ed il suo sviluppo venne abbandonato prima ancora di arrivare allo stadio di prototipo.

Storia del progetto
Il progetto nacque con la designazione interna di Model 312: si trattava di un disegno, nato su iniziativa propria dell'azienda, riguardante un caccia leggero. Lo sviluppo di questo tipo di velivoli fu preso in esame in diversi paesi negli anni immediatamente precedenti la seconda guerra mondiale, spesso con progetti derivati da aerei da competizione capaci di prestazioni considerevoli, accompagnate da strutture di piccole dimensioni e pesi contenuti.

Il progetto venne sottoposto all'attenzione dell'USAAC il 5 agosto del 1939: le autorità militari si dimostrarono interessate, tanto da assegnargli la designazione ufficiale di XP-48.

L'interesse suscitato dal progetto era basato, in modo preponderante, sulle prestazioni previste dalla casa costruttrice che stimava per il piccolo monoplano la possibilità di raggiungere la velocità massima di circa 525 mph, pari a 845 km/h.

Successive verifiche sui calcoli delle prestazioni condussero i tecnici dell'USAAC a ritenere grossolanamente sovrastimate le potenzialità del progetto della Douglas; nel mese di febbraio del 1940 venne quindi deciso di non concedere finanziamenti per lo sviluppo del progetto che, pertanto, la stessa Douglas decise di abbandonare definitivamente.

Tecnica
Il progetto dell'XP-48 prevedeva la fusoliera con sezione ovale, con abitacolo completamente chiuso posizionato nella sezione posteriore.

Il velivolo avrebbe dovuto essere caratterizzato da ala bassa ad elevato allungamento e impennaggi di tipo classico; il carrello d'atterraggio sarebbe stato di tipo triciclo anteriore, con gli elementi posteriori destinati (in ragione del ridotto spessore alare) a ritrarsi in alloggiamenti ricavati nella fusoliera.

Il progetto prevedeva l'impiego del motore Ranger V-770: si trattava di un dodici cilindri a V invertita, raffreddato a liquido e dotato di compressore centrifugo di tipo meccanico a singolo stadio e ad una sola velocità, capace di sviluppare la potenza di 520 hp (pari a 388 kW).

L'armamento previsto era costituito da due mitragliatrici sparanti, mediante sistema di sincronizzazione, attraverso il disco dell'elica: una di calibro .30 in ed una calibro .50 in.

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XP-48
Aerei militari dal 1931 al 1945
Aerei sperimentali

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