Students line up outside the classroom and are asked questions or at least say hello to the teacher as they enter the room. This gives each student some personal attention, shows any parents waiting outside what their children can do in English and stops them rushing into the classroom together. You can also use this as an opportunity to give them instructions on what to do as they come in, e.g. "Boys on the right, girls on the left, pencils out, bags on the hooks". You can add a bit of fun to an entrance drill by adding a challenge (e.g. count the fingers that the teacher or the previous student very quickly flashed up) or an element of chance (paper scissor stones) and sending students who fail to back on the queue, but make sure this doesn't make the entrance drill take so long that it cuts into classroom time or makes the kids already in the class restless. You might anyway need to do one of the livelier activities below straight afterwards. When they have got used to doing an entrance drill, the student who was just let into the classroom can take the teacher role and ask questions, set a challenge etc, but note that this will probably extend the activity further and so might not be a good use of class time with a large class.
Many kindergartens start their normal classes with this, and dispensing with it can make it seem like English is not a proper lesson (for better or worse). To add some fun you can move straight onto Stand Up Sit Down (see below) after choral greetings, or you can vary the greetings with substitution (saying "Good morning cow" etc instead of "Good morning teacher" to flashcard cues), instructions on how to give the greetings ("Good! Now one more time, but slower/ faster/ louder/ quieter/ sadly/ angrily/ deeper/ higher/ three times in a row quickly"), trying to catch them out with the cue to start the greeting ("Wait. Wait. Wait. Now!" or "Reeeeeady. Steeeeady. Steeeeeady. Go!"), or correcting the teacher or a puppet who gets the greetings wrong ("Happy Birthday!" "No!" "Good night!" "No!" "Good morning class" "Yes! Good morning class, good morning teacher").
Another way of varying choral greetings is to turn them into a song instead. Many collections of kindergarten songs for EFL and ESL classes have songs including "Hello", "Pleased to meet you" etc. The main problem I find with these is that, unlike goodbye songs, there is not an obvious action to do when saying hello. I tend to get kids of 4 and above shaking hands (three year olds love shaking hands with the teacher but don't work so well together), sometimes adding fun by getting them to shake hands very vigorously, shake hands with as many people as quickly as possible and/ or shake hands with the right hand as normal and then with the left hand crossed over it and then spin each other round. You might want to avoid the last one if the kids will become convinced that it is a normal English greeting! The other problem, sometimes also connected to lack of actions, is that hello songs tend not to be good energizers and so might be best avoided if there is a quite controlled stage like a story or an entrance drill before or after this stage.
One way of avoiding the stiffness of a hello song is to just say hello very quickly and then move into an action song where students move about by: doing typical actions like jumping; touching parts of their body, clothes or classroom objects; pretending to be animals; or stepping or jumping as they count numbers. Unlike many other activities at the beginning of a class, as long as it is a familiar song (see below) you don't have to worry about the transition into it as you can just press play on the CD player and let the appearance of music make what they have to do obvious. To avoid too much organising when they are still not warmed up, don't bother with songs where they have to link hands such as Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush or the Hokey Cokey (= Hokey Pokey), which are best left for use as finishing songs at the end of the class.
One way that you can make a transition into an action song or move from a dull standing up opening into more of a warmer is to ask students to sit down and then instantly ask them to stand up again. Then ask them to sit down and stand up increasingly quickly, throwing in some instructions that mean that they should just stay where they are. You can then move onto other actions like "jump" or classroom language to mime (or really do) like "open your books" or "quiet please".
A general concept tied into some of the ideas above is to use the fact that the students are sitting down and still alert as an opportunity to do some things that take advantage of that such as presentation of new language and drilling. Stretching that out as long as you can (meaning of course, as long as students are still learning!), you can then move into a much more active game involving running around to burn off the excess energy they have been building up and to help the students who learn better actively, perhaps using Stand Up Sit Down or an action song as the transition. The transition into a more active stage can be decided on by when you predicted would be best for the students, in order to spend a set amount of time in that class doing particular kinds of tasks, because it is the best way of introducing or practising the next language point, or (best) decided on by the teacher sensing when the kids are getting restless and not paying attention anymore and so moving into one of the activities you planned that you sense would suit their present mood best.
An alternative way of looking at the variable energy levels and attention spans of preschool kids is to plan to getting them running, jumping, shouting and singing until sitting down and doing something more "serious" will come as a welcome break. This is particularly suitable for classes that have just come straight from running around elsewhere, e.g. a sports class or the playground. If what happens before the class varies all the time, it might be worth planning both a "tire them out" start to class and a "try their patience" start, and choose which one to use depending on what the other teachers tell you about the kids' schedule or on how you judge their mood as they enter the class.
The third option is to do a short warmer and then settle down for alternating sit down guessing the flashcard etc and stand up stuff, similar to a traditional TEFL lesson plan for older kids and adults. I don't usually find that my kids need warming up in this way, the main exception being after a long break when doing something familiar and lively in English at the beginning of the new term can remind them of some of the language that has been replaced in their heads by the names of insects in L1 over the summer, and remind that English can be fun. Doing a warmer can also have the effect of getting a class working as one and so prepare them choral drilling, team games etc.
Another general concept of a good start for a preschool class is that it should be something that the children are familiar with. In the first few lessons with a new class this might be difficult to achieve, but try to find out: what they have done with other classes; what English songs children in that country tend to be familiar with (often the ABC song, Head Shoulders Knees and Toes, Jingle Bells and maybe something from Sesame Street); what songs and games there are versions of in their own country; what English greetings and social questions they tend to know, etc. You can then introduce what you want to be your standard starting language game, song and/ language in the middle of those first few lessons and then move to them to the start from the third or fourth class.
Many parents and school managers expect classes to start with personal questions about name, age, favourites etc (even though learning to recognise the difference between "How are you?" and "How old are you?" can take the same amount of classroom time as learning 100 items of vocab and they could have learnt it instantly if we had left introducing it until they were 12 year olds). Ways of making it fun and so hopefully make it stick in their brains include using a puppet, spinning round and point your finger at one random person who must answer the question, and throwing the beach ball to pick who goes next.
A good concept to include in any preschool lesson plan, especially with under 4s, is some one to one interaction with the teacher. This can be done right at the beginning of the class with an entrance drill or "Give me five!" (or just "Touch!), shaking hands, or handing out things they will need for the first activity such as little plastic hands to touch the classroom objects or flashcards with.
A storybook is something else I use in absolutely every kindergarten English lesson, and this can be tied in with personal questions and making use of their concentration powers near the beginning of the class. Use a story that starts with "Hello", "My name is…", "Pleased/ nice to meet you" etc. and get the students to ask the questions to the character in the book and then answer the questions with their own information. If you are lucky, the rest of the book will then go onto present or revise language that you want to cover in the rest of the lesson. If not, you might be able to get away with skipping pages to get that part over with quickly, or there might be a similar page in the textbook that you can use in a similar way to a story. If the latter is true, you might be able to use the tip below too.
Using a puppet from the very start of the class can achieve many of the things mentioned above- something familiar, an obvious context for personal questions, someone to model the answers to questions and actions, and even something you can throw to the students in place of a beach ball.
This tip also includes the advantages of several of the things mentioned above, especially personal questions and personal attention. It can also be a good way of moving onto students asking the questions rather than just answering them and getting them ready to play team games (with older kids). As you ask a question or say hello to one of the children, pass them an object such as a cuddly toy, a puppet or a piece of plastic fruit. They should then ask the same question and pass it onto the next person or any other student of their choice. Once they are used to this, in future classes you can get them to race (passing and asking questions along rows as quickly as they can) or you can pass out more and more objects so that they are going in all directions at the same time.
Along with spinning with your finger out, using a beach ball (maybe rolling it along the floor with students who can't catch yet) and Stand Up Sit Down, this is one of the games that I play in preschool classes that is most suitable for using from the very start of the class. The teacher tries to run after and tag one of the students. That student must then answer the question the teacher asks and is then "it" and must run after the other students to try and tag them and ask the same question. You can make who is "it" and so therefore the rules of the game clearer by having an object that they must touch other people with, then passing that object onto the next person who is "it".
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Located in the largest city in Vermont, just 45 miles south of the U.S.-Canada border, is the almost 100 percent NATCA facility, Burlington Tower (BTV).
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The variety of aircraft that BTV NATCA members serve is broad. Latvala says they serve the Vermont Air National Guard 158th fighter wing, also known as "The Green Mountain Boys," who were named after General Ethan Allen's militia during the Revolutionary War. The 158th Fight Wing "Boys" fly F16s and are based at BTV, along with the Vermont Army National Guard. The Army National Guard flies UH60s, UH72s, and UH58s. Latvala says BTV also has two flight schools, itinerant commercial service aircraft, and a large FBO that services a large variety of general aviation aircraft.
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I Want to Be a Part of the Change
It's tough to figure out what to write and post. I know I need to listen, yet I also need to write and act—even when I'm not certain about what is the right thing to do or say.
Along with many, I've felt fear and a collective ache and grief since the murder of George Floyd by a policeman in Minneapolis. I'm sorry it's taken until now for me to really wake up to the degree of ongoing injustice in the United States—for Black Americans. I regret my complacency.
The struggle for justice goes on.
I'm no political analyst nor historian, but my grandfather flew airplanes for the German army during WWII. My great-grandmother, a house-cleaner and not well-educated—had tried to warn her daughter. She knew Hitler was dangerous. But my grandmother, her daughter, was swept up in the years, Nazi-youth, and didn't listen to her mother's warning. Hitler lead the country into the worst of human behavior, and he did it by instilling hatred between groups of people.
I felt shame for decades, knowing this history in my blood. But I grew up with the stories: Desperate people followed a crazy man, listened to a leader who lead them into darkness. He cradled their fears. He promised more wealth and power to those who wanted more for themselves and their children at the expense of the "others".
So many died, and I'm sorry for these losses. The best I can do now is to keep alive awareness and to speak out and take part in action.
Like so many people I know, a deep unease grew when the current president moved into the White House. Throughout his campaign he had spread hatred and demonstrated himself a bigot, misogynist, and clearly a man more interested in division than in unity or justice for all.
Continue reading "No More Silence"
This includes supporting our body's Immune System!
Welcome back to LIT ― Live(s) Inspiring Today! If you haven't been here before, THANKS for sharing some moments now!
Our first Portland snow fell this morning, in mid-March; a friend was in town for a conference this past week and sent home after hundreds had arrived to Portland from as far away as Chile; people all over the world feel worried in new ways. YET, I feel a lovely surprise of "free time" to do what I often don't do―such as blogging.
Given the challenges of now, let's talk about the wondrous human body―and immunity. We want to stay healthy and strong. I might even bring poetry into this conversation!
Mostly, I what to remind you and me what we can do any moment of our lives to grow and remain resilient. Not that we control much, yet even when stuck at home, even as plans go berserk and we miss our usual workouts and events are canceled, even when our livelihood feels at stake―on our own time, in our own homes, phone calls and webinars–we can make small decisions that will help not only ourselves but neighbors we've never met.
Self-care is good for everyone!
Growing scientific evidence shows that stress reduces the ability of our bodies to fight off ALL diseases and illnesses.
Fantastic if none of these suggestions are new to you! Here goes:
1. Food First: We are what we eat, and when it comes to staying healthy, a colorful plate is an image to behold. While there is no one best diet for all of us, we each need a balance of all three macro-nutrients (fats, protein & carbohydrates).
We need good fat to utilize the protein we consume, and we need protein in our diet in order to digest fat. Carbs are everywhere, and getting enough of those is not a worry for most of us. Don't forget the greens–lots of them!
Keep in mind that constant snacking is a drain on the body: If always busy breaking down and absorbing food, the body can't complete its other essential functions―such as detoxification―imperative to a strong immune system and our vital organs working well. Continue reading "Let's Stay Strong & Find Joy in the Moments!"
Colleen Bunker's Journey: Nutrition, Needles, Ease & Flow
"We live in a vastly complex society which has been able to provide us with a multitude of material things, and this is good, but people are beginning to suspect we have paid a high spiritual price for our plenty."
Euell Gibbons
When I first met Colleen Bunker, LAC, with her needles and certification as a Nutritional Therapist, I was waking up at 2 or 3am many mornings and lying restless for hours. I suffered a chronic hip pain and hoped acupuncture might help me to hike the mountains and snooze through the night. Almost 50, enrolled in massage school, and learning g to use my brain, body and hands in new ways, I felt stressed.
Colleen had begun acupuncture school at age 45, after years of managing a whole-food co-op in Maine. Before that she had an acre market-garden, three green houses and grew food for the store and elsewhere.
While working at the co-op, her father fell terminally ill and moved into her home. She still had two teenage boys around, and a man on the board of the co-op noticed her di stress: "You need to come see me," he said, and those visits were her introduction to acupuncture.
She also met her now-husband, Joe, at the co-op, also a board member. They eventually moved to Vermont where he studied Meditation and Conflict Resolution. She continued to receive acupuncture treatments, and several years later they moved to Portland, Oregon where she enrolled at OCOM (Oregon School of Oriental Medicine). Continue reading "Colleen Bunker's Journey: Nutrition, Needles, Ease & Flow"
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Kinesiology, Shakespeare & Dog Training
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Please forgive me for neglecting my blog–and choosing instead to focus on kinesiology!
Studying the muscles of the human body, memorizing where they originate and where they attach isn't something I'd ever imagined myself doing. I am comparing this course of study to when I first began to read Shakespeare: It made no sense. As You Like It required translation. Before I could appreciate Orlando and Rosalind's story, I bought a little red paperback–an American-English translation of this Shakespearean play.
As time went by, I took many more Shakespeare courses before earning my B.A. King Lear was my favorite–but the language of all the plays became natural to read and understand. My vision: Let it be so with kinesiology!
Rather than write to you about muscles and the miracle of the human body, I'd like to introduce you to one of the students I've met: Continue reading "Kinesiology, Shakespeare & Dog Training"
Brooke Hall's Leap Into the Wilderness
"Ethical behavior is doing the right thing
when no one else is watching
– even when doing the wrong thing is legal."
Aldo Leopold, 1887-1948
Ecologist & author of A Sand County Almanac
" My interest in the outdoors started when I was horseback riding as a child," says Brooke Hall, now a Naturalist teaching children survival skills, ethnobotany, bird language, primitive crafts and wildlife tracking.
"Some of my favorite memories of riding are through fields outside of San Antonio–finding a swarm of bees in a tree, or encountering a rattle snake on a road. In New Hampshire, I remember being bundled up on chilly fall days, following trails amongst the colorful fall trees."
Brooke says she did lots of exploring and loved being outside with the horses and all of the hard physical work that went along with the sport. "I loved being covered in hay, dirt, horse hair, and sweat."
Though her parents aren't outdoorsy types, they supported their only child to do what she loved.
Riding taught her how to jump into things and not be afraid to get dirty.
"I probably wouldn't have had the courage to cover myself in mud and crawl around on the forest floor practicing native scout skills this year if I hadn't had those early experiences."
Brooke spent nine months as a student in the Wilderness Awareness School's Anake Outdoor School–about 30 miles northeast of Seattle. She learned to track wolves, build fire from friction Continue reading "Brooke Hall's Leap Into the Wilderness"
When No One Is Watching: Thank You Parents–and It Takes a Village
Wear gratitude like a cloak and
it will feed every corner of your life.
~Rumi
The other day I had my annual appointment with *Jennifer, my dental hygienist.
"You have two kids, right?" I say in-between fingers in my month. She'd already told me about her son who's off to college.
"He's always been so easy. Things always turn out for that kid." Happy glow she tells me how once he told an elementary school teacher, "This is my favorite holiday–not because it's Halloween but because it's my mom's birthday, too."
"My youngest is 16–a strange age." Her voice tightens. "He's driving now and he got himself a job, but recently he said to me, 'It's okay if I'm a little late,' –and I about went wild on him."
She looks at me for confirmation and I smile.
"This generation! I can't stand that kind of attitude–as if it's okay to be casual about everything. That is NOT okay! People are counting on you," she told her son.
"Then he asked me a week later if he can go to the Homecoming Dance. He was scheduled to work that night, but he says to me, 'I can leave early,' and I tell him 'No. No you can't: You made a commitment. You can't just leave early. People are counting on you.'"
I nod sympathetically, wondering how this story is going to turn out. "At least he got himself a job," I manage as she completes the polish.
"The next week he asks if he can take a day off work to go watch his girlfriend's volleyball game. It's the same conversation, and I ask him this time, 'How long have you known about her game?' and he says 'A couple of weeks.'"
He was talking to his mom about this conflict the day before the volleyball game.
After each of these scenes, Continue reading "When No One Is Watching: Thank You Parents–and It Takes a Village"
John Fox, Poetic Medicine & the Art of Listening
"Wherever I can find a place to sit down and write, that is my home."
Mary TallMountain
John Fox at Gleann Cholm Cille in Ireland
At Groiler's, the one-room poetry bookstore in Harvard Square, back in 1996, I bought a copy of Finding What You Didn't Lose— John Fox's first book, subtitled, "Expressing Your Truth and Creativity Through Poem-Making."
"It's important to be a witness and to be present to someone so they can edge out a little, then a little more. If I can be without judgment–or at least not show it–people feel safe," he tells me.
It would be almost two decades before I would meet this kind listener, poet and poetry-therapist, though I thumbed through the chapters year-by-year–always a believer: Writing can heal. Writing does heal.
In the English 101 courses I taught for almost 20 years, I saw it happening. In essays students wrote week-by-week, journals they kept, conversations we shared, the world shifted.
Students learned about themselves, writing words on the page. And we read poetry aloud and talked and wrote in response. They–and I, too–made connections and discovered possibilities for our lives. It was fun, and some who had recoiled in the beginning opened with the poetry.
From a young age, John knew he was a writer. Planning to study poetry with Ann Sexton and George Starbuck, he went to Boston University. Sexton would leave before her time, of course, and eventually John would transfer to Bard College. He continued his studies of literature though never called to deep-academia–earning a Ph.D. or publishing scholarly articles about Renaissance-men. He memorized Blake, Yeats, Ezra Pound and began exploring his spirituality with the likes of Ram Dass, later Stephen Levine, and he would eventually meet Joy Shieman–a poetry therapist Continue reading "John Fox, Poetic Medicine & the Art of Listening"
Lives That Touch Our Own: Karen Turner–More than English Professor
"Nobody sees a flower–really–it is so small–we haven't time–and to see takes time like to have a friend takes time."
Georgia O'Keefe, American Artist
Many of you, I imagine, have had this same experience: A friend, teacher, pastor, rabbi, astrologist, lover, sister, doctor, neighbor–someone in life–is like a fixture. We take them for granted. We don't realize how important they are or how we've depended on them until it's too late.
Not to sound dramatic, but you probably know what I mean. It's human–waking up a bit too late. For me, it wasn't losing my mother that left me reeling in the way of "I never realized how important she was." I had regrets, but I knew Mom was important in my life. Her diagnosis spun me into a panic and regret, but I would have some time near the end of her life to say goodbye, make some peace, and let her know how I appreciated her. I tried–as difficult and awkward as I was.
When she died, I was just 31 and hugely sad. The loss called me to attention in a way nothing had. I wanted to make her proud. I wanted to live a life that would show my mother's efforts and all she gave of herself to me was worthwhile.
A couple of years later, I traveled to India Continue reading "Lives That Touch Our Own: Karen Turner–More than English Professor"
Celebrating Education for All–and Tomato Starts
"The mind is not a vessel that needs filling, but wood that needs igniting."
Plutarch (from Ian Kidd's translation of Essays)
Oregon Food Bank Learning Garden
A couple of Saturdays ago I spent three hours potting tomato starts in the greenhouse at the Oregon Food Bank's Learning Garden. That's when David, one of the volunteers, talked about a Modern Poetry class he'd taken through Coursera. Everyone else potting tomatoes that morning seemed to know about this online platform where anyone can "Take the world's best courses online for free!" — says their motto.
Coursera–not the first in the MOOC (Massive Online Open Courses) movement–started in 2012 with Stanford University, Princeton, the University of Michigan, and the University of Pennsylvania as partners. Today Coursera partners with 108 institutions in 641 countries–and has 7.1 million users worldwide (Wikipedia).
A couple of professors from Stanford University, Daphne Koller and Andrew Ng, started Coursera: They hoped to offer high-quality learning communities where students could pursue life-long learning from top-notch instructors.
After my morning in the OFB greenhouse, I decided to catch up with the world and see what I might like to learn. Though I wasn't looking to start immediately, I found a course I couldn't resist: "Understanding the Brain: The Neurology of Everyday Life." Forever I've wanted to learn more about how the brain works.
Recent discoveries of brain plasticity fascinate me, and I've been intrigued by the work of Jon Kabit-Zinn and Rick Hanson, and have wanted to learn more about pain and the nervous system. Since I survived a brain tumor as a kid, I've always wondered what goes wrong–and how the brain recovers.
I decided to jump in. Continue reading "Celebrating Education for All–and Tomato Starts"


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Q: middleware not working in laravel's lumen I have just started learning lumen micro framework and having trouble as my middleware doesn't seem to work. here's my code.
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A: Fix you class name (just for convention). AgeMiddleware (rename the file and the class).
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Make sure you put this snippet above the return statement.
Hit /hello/18.
If this doesn't work, you probably have another route above this one getting /home/something get requests.

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Twilight on the Lighthouses
Twilight on the Lighthouses Twilight on the Lighthouses
Jim Gibbs
The safety of countless people has depended on lighthouses, beacons that cut through fog and darkness to alert seafaring souls of shores ahead. A former lighthouse keeper tells the dramatic stories of the sentinels that line the coast from California to British Columbia. Vintage and color photos of these lighthouses, coastal landscapes, and even tragic shipwrecks are presented as part of a narrative that focuses on human courage. As technology inexorably advances, the job of the lighthouse keeper is gradually being phased out. This is the twilight of the lighthouses' use for navigation, and this work is a tribute to a way of life that is an important part in the American maritime cultural fabric.
Size: 8.5in x 11.0in | Pages:152 | over 500 color & b/w photos
Jim Gibbs is a lighthouse keeper and former editor of Seattle's Maritime Digest. He resides now at Cleft of the Rock Lighthouse is Oregon.


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Odyssey -- Day 4
The writing workshop continues its inexorable tide. It's going well, I think, and there are odd moments when I remember what it's like to be a student on a college campus. Last evening, crossing a stretch of lawn on my way back from the dining hall, the bell carillon chimed the hour. The shadows were long on the freshly mowed grass, and if I closed my eyes, I could put myself back forty years to my own college campus, re-creating almost exactly, for one brief moment, that younger and lost self .
In one respect, however, this campus is different from my summer experiences at college. The place is almost deserted. The only people on campus are we SF writers, a huge gaggle of teenage girls here for hockey camp, and a monastery full of Benedictine monks. As you might imagine, the three groups have nothing to do with each other.
Although it might be interesting if we did.
Steven Francis Murphy said...
Now the short story exercise might be coming up with a science fictional situation that is not cliche that provides a reason for the three groups to have something to do with each other.
Respects,
S. F. Murphy
Random nexus points:
1. Jody Bottum, in First Things (Thursday, July 10, 2008) wrote in an essay, "The Red Planet"
"Vibrant cultures want something; exhausted cultures don't. And what do we actually want, today? For a thought experiment, imagine hearing this on tomorrow evening's news shows:
The Vatican announced today that it will soon begin colonizing the planet Mars. Many parts of the mission remain unclear, but the plans to launch the first rocket from a pad on the island of Malta appear definite, with a tentative launch date in July 2010. The goal will be to establish a colony capable of sustaining itself within 20 years, with the long-range aim of completing the terraforming of Mars within 100 years. Accompanying the initial group of 142 Catholic settlers on the 297-day flight will be a priest and an auxiliary bishop from the diocese of Rio de Janeiro."
2. Then, too, we have the Benedictine monk, Stanley Jaki, who holds doctorates in theology and in physics and who observed the implication of Goedel's theorem on the Theory of Everything a long time ago.
3. Not to mention The Space Vulture, a sci-fi space opera co-authored by the Archbishop of Newark, who is not a Benedictine monk, but what the heck. How many archbishops write space opera anyway?
http://www.spacevulture.com/index.html
So there is a nexus between the monks and the SF.
4. I'm still working on the girls' hockey team. But all that makes it through the haze of medication is something to do with elastic collisions and frictionless surfaces. Flubber on Ice. A puck made of unobtanium.
5. Benedictine nuns playing hockey....
6. Alien Benedictine nuns playing hockey.... Wait. Too cliche....
Connecting the three might be a challenge for a writing class. I'm reminded of Fr. Brown's suggestions in "The Honour of Israel Gow," in suggesting fanciful connections among three clues.
Nancy Kress said...
Mike-- Even in a "haze of medication" your mind is an amazing and strange thing.
You should see me off my meds.....
That's pretty cool, Mike.
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The Chisel Sculpture and Design Team, Nashua, NH
Roberta Woitkowski worked for many years at Sanders, a large defense electronics firm in Nashua in cost and schedule control. She is currently the Chairman of the Triangle Credit Union Supervisory Committee, and a past Chairman of Nashua's Historic District Commission. Also, she is a former Trustee of the Hunt Memorial Library Building in Nashua, and photographer for The Broadcaster, a weekly newspaper in the Nashua area. As an amateur photographer, she won an award from the NH Governor's Wildflower and Lilac Commission's photograph contest. Roberta's background includes classes in art and architecture.
Margaret Woitkowski is a retired schoolteacher and volunteer for many groups in the City of Nashua, NH. One of her volunteer positions was at the Hunt Memorial Library Building, Nashua's first free standing library. It was built by Ralph Adams Cram and is on the National Register of Historic Places. Margaret is a co-chairman of the Lithuanian concert series that presents an annual concert in Nashua. She has worked as a ballot inspector during elections in Nashua and also dabbles in painting.
David St. Onge, a native of Lowell, MA, who has lived in Nashua for many years, has extensive experience in hands-on construction and design. David specializes in detailed, custom carpentry and has worked for Tomolonis Properties for several years. His designs include innovative solutions. David's varied background also includes building machinery for packaging, and making parts for and assembling custom pool cues. David has volunteered for the Muscular Dystrophy Telethon for many years, has made four donations of his hair to charities that make wigs, and volunteered at the Senior Center in Wilmington, MA.
Danny Tomolonis , who will be the hands-on sculpture fabricator, is a general contractor and owner of Tomolonis Properties, LLC and Tomolonis Painting. He has many years of experience as a painter and contractor. In his work, he has to prepare cost and schedule estimates and follow through on his projects. He coordinates efforts with local government officials as well as tradesmen and the homeowners. He is a Contractor Supervisor certified in lead paint abatement in New Hampshire and Massachusetts. His company participated in the Project Pawsitive project at EPONA Farm horse rescue in Epping, NH. His uncompensated contribution to this effort was power washing and painting the horse barn.
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The four members of the Chisel Sculpture and Design team are Nashuans whose families have lived in the city for over 100 years. While the team members have experience in artistic media other than three-dimensional sculpture, our skill sets will enable us to meet the schedule and to create a beautiful sculpture for Nashua's Riverwalk. This year's theme, Diversity, is reflected in our design through an interpretation of the globe and structures that emanate from it that represent the seven continents.
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Summary of the Vietnam seminar
Publicerad i Nyheter den 5 jun 2013 Etiketter: Afrika, Asien, brukande- och ägandefrågor, Chile, Globalt, governance, Industri, Kompetensutveckling, Marknadsfrågor, Plantations, REDD, Restaurering, Skogspolicy, tropikerna, Vietnam
An event organised by the Secretariat for International Forestry Issues (SIFI)
Background to the seminar
The original initiative for this seminar was taken by Prof. Reidar Persson, who for many years had argued, within the KSLA International Forestry Committee (steering group for SIFI) and elsewhere, that there is a need to analyse what lessons could be learnt from the Bai Bang project, one of the largest, initially most controversial, and, in the end, most successful Swedish development cooperation undertakings ever. Several persons who had been directly involved in the programme were consulted and in October 2011 a roundtable planning discussion was held at KSLA at which it was decided to organise a full scale seminar. Contacts were also established with the Vietnamese Institute of Policy and Strategy in Agriculture and Rural Development (IPSARD), the Stockholm based Institute for Security and Development Policy (ISDP) and researchers at SLU, all of which had worked on analyses and research on the Bai Bang project. They all agreed to collaborate in organising and contribute to the seminar. Through SIFI, a student from SLU, Marcus Hallenberg, was commissioned to summarise the history of the project based on various documents, evaluation reports, research papers, and interviews. Finally, a special issue of the SIFI Newsletter (No. 11 – May 2013) on "Experiences from Vietnam", with short articles by several of the speakers and others, was prepared as a background document for the seminar.
The seminar – participants, presentations and discussions
The great interest in the subject was evidenced not only by the fact that between 55 and 60 persons attended the seminar, but also by the large number of "old Vietnam and Bai Bang veterans" that came and actively contributed to a very lively and interesting discussion. Among them were two former Directors General of Sida, several senior executives and programme leaders from the various Swedish industry and forestry consulting companies that worked in Vietnam between 1970 and to date, researchers from SLU, IPSARD, SEI and ISDP who had worked, or still worked, on forestry issues in Vietnam, and many others.
The seminar was divided into three main sections:
First, there were four background presentations summarising the project: by Dr. Nghia Dai Tran from IPSARD on "The future of the Vietnam forestry sector"; by Prof. Reidar Persson on "Introduction to the Bai Bang development project", by Mr. Petter Otterstedt on "Swedish experiences from Bai Bang", and by Dr. Mats Sandewall on "Lessons learned from Bai Bang".
Second, a panel of commentators provided very interesting comments, supplementary vies and examples from other parts of the world (Africa, Asia except Vietnam, and Latin America) on the various issues that had been raised from Bai Bang and Vietnam by the presenters and in the background documentation; the panel was made up of Eva Lindskog (SEI), Antti Marjokorpi (Stora Enso), Pär Oscarsson (African Opportunities), Mattias Goldman (Global Utmaning), Ngolia Kimanzu (Swedish Coopertaive Centre), and Jan-Erik Nylund (SLU).
Third, there were questions and inputs from the audience; given the vast experience and first-hand knowledge from Bai Bang and Vietnam that was represented among the participants, it is not surprising that many inputs were not a matter of simple questions, but rather of supplementary facts and figures, and/or opposing opinions to what speakers and back-ground material had presented – a very lively and rich discussion, indeed!
All printed background material, including the SIFI Newsletter mentioned above, and the four PP-presentations by the main speakers are available at the SIFI and KSLA home pages (www.sifi.se and www.ksla.se ).
Some reflexions on the Bai Bang project
It is not possible to summarise all facts, figures and opinions that were presented at the seminar – for this, reference is made to the above mentioned home pages and the back-ground material. A few important features of the project, and why it eventually has become a success, were repeatedly mentioned and are worth briefly highlighting:
First, one may wonder how a project that was originally not only questioned by many on political grounds – Sweden supporting a communist country with a huge investment, not only during the cold war but at the tail end of the very hot "Vietnam war" – but also on economic grounds (a far too small pulp and paper mill in a global context), eventually could become something that most people consider successful and non-controversial. Naturally, the end of the Vietnam war, the end of the cold war, Vietnam joining the ASEAN countries, and virtually all its old "enemies" now looking upon it as a dynamic economic place well worth investing money in, explains why the Swedish involvement in the country's forest industry sector is no longer controversial. But it still doesn't explain why it has been successful!
During the seminar, two factors were emphasised, which contributed to the success. The first was the early realisation that there was, contrary to such statements, no secure wood fibre supply to the pulp mill, and the enormous and determined efforts that were made to establish such a supply through plantations and finding the right tree species.
However, without the radical policy changes that took place in Vietnam during the period 1987-1993, with a gradual shift towards a market economy and land and tenure reforms that made it economically worthwhile for farmers and communities to grow trees commercially for the mill, it is doubtful whether the tree planting efforts would have sufficed on their own.
In other words, it is probably the combination and fortunate sequencing of financial, technology and knowledge inputs, extensive training at all levels, determination at the Vietnamese and Swedish sides that the project should succeed, the historical development leading to the defusing of the political controversy, and policy reforms, that have resulted in the fact that this originally questionable "white elephant" project eventually has turned out to be an economic, social and land rehabilitation success story. The fact that it has had several positive spin-off effects also in other parts of Vietnam and its forestry sector is an added feature.
Lessons learnt
Finally, back to the main purpose of the seminar, i.e. what lessons can be learnt from the long Swedish involvement in this Vietnamese forestry and forest industry project? Reidar Persson and Bo Ohlsson summed it up in 10 lessons, which also Mats Sandewall and Petter Otterstedt agreed on:
There must be a market for the wood produced;
Local populations must get something out of investments in large-scale commercial plantations;
Best if farmers/communities can take part in or own the process;
Secure tenure is necessary;
More acceptance if part of wood production is used locally;
Better to work with individual farmers rather than communities;
Plantations often succeed where "governments are strong";
Farmers must trust both the market and the Authorities;
And, Authorities (and donors) must trust the farmers; and,
Some strong actor(s) must defend the right of farmers
These lessons are all further elaborated and explained in the back-ground material.
Dr. BjörnLundgren, Chair the Secretariat for International Forestry Issues (SIFI)
Picture: Bo Ohlsson
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P Otterstedt c10
LESSONS FROM BAI BANG RPBO
The Bai Bang project from a forestry perspective
10 LESSONS FROM BAI BANG RPBO
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P Otterstedt c
M Sandewall c
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TV, music, movies, and books we're into this week
We can help start your weekend right!
Remik Szul
If you're staying in this weekend to enjoy some me-time, you might be looking for some ideas on how to keep yourself entertained. What better way to kick back and relax than with some great tunes, a quality movie, or a real page turner? Not sure where to start? Check out these media recommendations from Team Windows Central.
Here are some of the movies and TV shows Windows Central is enjoying this week.
Bomb City
Recommended by Daniel Rubino, executive editor
Growing up in the 1990's I was knee deep in my local punk scene that spanned from New York to Boston. The California band Filth was very underground but the song "The List" was iconic even on the east coast.
To my surprise though I had little idea about the murder of Brian Deneke in Texas in 1997 and the resulting controversial trial.
Bomb City is about that event and what lead to the premature death of Deneke.
With a Rotten Tomato score of 86 percent, the movie is well done and captures the punk scene – whether you love or loathe it – with accuracy, detail, and poignancy. It's also just an excellent drama that captures the ongoing debate about what is murder and how class, privilege, and money can all to often determine what is considered justice in America.
See at iTunes
Recommended by Dan Thorp-Lancaster, staff writer
Cartoon Network was my main channel of choice growing up, which meant I saw a lot of classic cartoons. I have a lot of good memories of them all, but some of my favorites were the old reruns of Jonny Quest. So naturally, as I got older and got hooked on Cartoon Network's Adult Swim block, I was immediately drawn to The Venture Bros. and its hilarious lampooning of Jonny Quest.
The Venture Bros. features a whole cast of characters that are built off of references to characters from Jonny Quest, The Hardy Boys, and other pop culture figures. And like the characters they're based on, the characters in the show are always stumbling into absurd adventures and situations. And the Venture family's bumbling main adversary, the Monarch, is probably one of my favorite characters of all time.
I haven't watched the show in a few years, but I've been catching back up this week. If you're a fan the type of comedy you typically see from Adult Swim shows, but have never tune in to The Venture Bros., it's definitely worth checking out.
See at Hulu
Sword Art Online: Ordinal Scale
Recommended by Russell Holly
Sword Art Online: Ordinal Scale is available in English on the Windows Store. Crazy good VR and AR movie. Matter of fact, a photo of Jez Corden watching this movie in HoloLens would make my entire year.
People Just Do Nothing
Recommended by Cale Hunt, staff writer
I stumbled upon People Just Do Nothing by accident, though I am a sucker for British television (Fawlty Towers is the best, isn't it?). This is a show filmed in the mockumentary style about an underground radio station ― Kurupt FM ― manned by a group of senseless rappers.
Led by MC Grindah and backed by DJ Beats, this group (with the help of their entrepreneur friend Chabuddy G) is constantly trying to make it big without putting in much time or much effort. This is cringe TV at its best, and you'll no doubt find yourself involuntarily looking away from the screen when the writing gets really good.
Here's some of the music the Windows Central team is listening to this week.
Does This Look Infected? ― Sum 41
Recommended by Richard Devine, reviews editor
It's hard to believe Sum 41 is embarking on a 15-year anniversary tour for Does This Look Infected?. This was one of my favorite albums of my teenage years and recently something that found its way back onto my stereo. It's a 100 percent pop-punk riot with the odd splash of '80s metal thrown in for good measure, and the songs still sound as fresh today as they did all those years ago.
Elvis Presley: The Searcher (The Original Soundtrack)
This soundtrack from the three-hour HBO documentary with the same name has some amazing Elvis tracks, pulled from different times in his career.
I'm not a diehard fan of Elvis by any means, but I have to respect his work. After listening to this soundtrack, I'm eagerly anticipating the documentary, which is expected to air April 14.
Here are the books we're reading this week!
The Road ― Cormac McCarthy
This post-apocalyptic story by author Cormac McCarthy has a lack of punctuation and flowing style that gives the reader a sense of the anxiety that the main characters feel as they deal with the reality of roving bands of cannibals marching down highways, a serious lack of clean water and food, and only one bullet in an aging revolver.
A father and young son are the "good guys" in this story, though the decisions they make and fear they may one day be forced to make blur the line. It's tense, it's frightening, and, in my opinion, it's one of McCarthy's best novels.
See Kindle book at Amazon
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Your favorites?
What have you been watching, reading, and listening to this week? We want to know, so drop a comment and share your recommendations.
If none of these recommendations strike your fancy, check out a list of all of our past recommendations. We promise you'll find something you'll like.
Tons more recommendations from Team Windows Central
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^ a b c 藤原, 敬介 (2013-03-30). "<書評>『ニューエクスプレス・ベンガル語』丹羽京子(著),2011年,白水社." (PDF). 印度民俗研究 12: 89-108. http://hdl.handle.net/11094/50057 2017年10月24日閲覧。.
^ a b c d e "Bengali language". Encyclopaedia Britannica. (2017-07-28). https://www.britannica.com/topic/Bengali-language 2017年10月16日閲覧。.
^ Oberlies, Thomas (2007). "Chapter Five: Aśokan Prakrit and Pāli". In Cardona, George; Jain, Danesh. The Indo-Aryan Languages. Routledge. p. 163. 978-1-135-79711-9.
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does the expatriate stay or return?
gurbet is described as a distant land a migrant worker travels to, a place where one wasn't born but migrated to for better opportunities...traditionally people would go "gurbete" for a while, save up and return home. the word expatriate can be used, however one can be in the country of their birth yet in gurbet.


Mare Barrow's world is divided by blood - those with red and those with silver. Mare and her family are lowly Reds, destined to serve the Silver elite whose supernatural abilities make them nearly gods. Mare steal what she can to help her family survive, but when her best friend is conscripted into the army, she gambles everything to win his freedom. A twist of fate leads her to the royal palace itself, where, in front of the king and all his nobles, she discovers a power of her own - an ability she didn't know she had.
Except... her blood is Red.
To hide this impossibility, the king forces her into the role of a lost Silver princess and betroths her to one of his own sons. As Mare is drawn further into the Silver world, she risks her new position to aid the Scarlet Guard - the leaders of a Red rebellion. Her actions put into motion a deadly and violent dance, pitting prince against prince and Mare against her own heart.
I've done my very best to remove all the hype from my mind. I've done my very best to remove its similarities from Red Rising. I've done my very, very best to look at the good things on this novel since some readers have claimed it to be great.
Red Queen has that formulaic dystopian setting where lower class people are openly oppressed. Where the government is handled by people with power and they have their own internal conflicts. Politics being played around by those with power. Family hierarchy is present. The powers were quite generic. Elemental. I mean I don't find it really interesting or fascinating or anything else although I have to admit that the idea about blood color caught my attention.
I like dystopian novels because of all the political warfare - the thirst for power and how everyone fights for it mixed with an elaborate rebellion going on. Red Queen had all that but not executed in a way that really engaged me. I find the family and ability system quite interesting (heavily reminded me of Red Rising though particularly on the family alliances).
Mare Barrow is a strong and determined heroine. I think she's well established but I did not really like her. I think that she looks so low on her friend, Kilorn. I think that she tries to shoulder everything. I think that she's too trusting although she tries not to. Actually, I think everyone in the novel is too trusting (even the rebellion group, Scarlet Guard. Seriously the way they accept new members is just too convenient. ugh).
Let's talk about the three men in Mare's life: Kilorn, Cal, and Maven. I think that Kilorn is such an inconsistent or maybe convenient character. At first he was such a wimpy character and Mare is treating him as one then next thing I know he's joining the rebellion. Just what is up with that?
Cal and Maven's relationship were gradually established as Mare lives with them. I like both Cal and Maven. I like Cal's loyalty to his father, to his blood, and to his position. I think that he's worthy for the throne. Maven, on the other hand, is a well established character. While I've somehow seen through the things he's doing, I still liked his character.
Red Queen is pack with twists. I expected and completely predicted some of them generally because I've come across too many reviews hinting of twists (so yeah, I read too much when that happens). Here's the thing about it: if you really look through everything, you'll see through what will happen; if you look back at Red Queen following through a general formula (and maybe comparing it to similar books), you'll see through what will happen; and obviously if you look through the next pages and chapters, you'll know what will happen. What I'm generally saying is that it's easy to see through Red Queen. There are interesting twists but they're predictable.
OVERALL, Red Queen is a nice dystopian fantasy read. I enjoyed it and would love to read what happens next. It's got an interesting world, a well established heroine, and a good amount of twists (but really, don't expect so much since they're predictable). While I did not completely like some of the elements of the novel, I still recommend Red Queen for those who enjoy dystopian fantasy novels. I think readers who enjoy book series with characters that have powers (or unusual abilities) will like this series.


This will be my last outfit post for awhile as the camera got packed away last night and I don't have any back up pics for you. Except iPhone pics. Which are terrible. Don't get me wrong, the iPhone 4 has a great camera, but the mirror in our bedroom is small and the background is messy. You don't want to see them. So anyways, I hope you all have a fantastic weekend! It's a long weekend here in Canada, Monday is Labour Day. Do you you US ladies have that too ?
Yes, Monday is Labor Day here in the US also.
Love you in a long black maxi - this outfit is so simple but it's so chic. Good luck with the big move!
This is such a laid-back, chic look - perfect for the transition from fall into summer! Love it!
I love this maxi dress on you. You know how to work it!
Love that maxi skirt, I think I need one just like it!
Love the long weekend! Cheers to Labor Day!
that skirt looks WONDERFULLY comfortable and it's pretty too!


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Energy Department Seeks to Bolster Place-Based Regional Innovation
January 27, 2023 January 27, 2023 Arch StreetLeave a comment
DOE National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), Golden, CO
The Department of Energy aims to strengthen place-based innovation activities by leveraging DOE national laboratories, plants, and sites for the benefit of the American people.
Consistent with provisions of last year's CHIPS and Science Act, DOE is gathering input on how initiatives that promote and strengthen regional ecosystems can power the next wave of American innovation and economic prosperity by leveraging its national laboratory system.
Led by the DOE Office of Technology Transitions and the Office of Science, the Department has released a formal Request for Information (RFI) soliciting ideas on:
Accelerating commercialization of breakthrough technologies
Driving development in the industrial and technology sectors of the future, such as innovations in advanced manufacturing, and supply chains, among others
Fostering sustainable and equitable economic growth in underinvested regions of the United States
Creating long-term high paying jobs in existing and new industries
Facilitating engagement and partnership with local and regional communities
Training and educating both the current and future diverse, equitable, and inclusive workforce.
According to DOE, innovation ecosystems anchored around DOE national laboratories, plants, and sites can directly support DOE's missions, including advancing new and emerging clean energy technologies, combatting the effects of climate change, developing technologies to support our nation's security, the cleaning up of legacy nuclear waste, and building a technically skilled workforce.
Responses are due by March 28, 2023.
Commercialization, Economic Development, Energy, Innovation
Latest from Arch Street: CHIPS and Science Act and the New NSF TIP Directorate
November 28, 2022 November 28, 2022 Arch StreetLeave a comment
The CHIPS and Science Act created several new initiatives within the Directorate for Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships that the National Science Foundation created early this year. This includes establishing priority technology focus areas and authorizing new programs supporting technology commercialization, regional innovation, and workforce development.
Tim Clancy of Arch Street breaks down these TIP provisions in his latest article for the American Institute of Physics — FYI Science Policy News.
CHIPS and Science, Congress, Federal R&D, FYI Science Policy, Innovation, scienceNSF, Science, technology
Webinar: How Can the CHIPS and Science Act Deliver on Its Promises?
October 31, 2022 October 31, 2022 Arch StreetLeave a comment
The CHIPS and Science Act is one of the most significant pieces of science legislation in years. With $180 billion for research and development over the next five years, it aims to bolster the semiconductor industry as well as federal science agencies like the National Science Foundation and Department of Energy. But now comes what many observers view as the hardest part: not only must the money be appropriated, but the act must be implemented in a way that meets its many objectives. In the journal Issues in Science and Technology, several experts explore the ways the CHIPS and Science Act can deliver on its promises to spur innovation, strengthen regional economies and workforce, and promote US competitiveness. In addition, there will be a webinar on November 1st at 3 p.m. where these experts discuss how implementation of this important legislation can best meet—and balance—its many goals.
CHIPS and Science, Commercialization, Economic Development, Federal R&D, Innovation, NIST, Semiconductor
Announcement: Arch Street Now Supporting FYI Science Policy News
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Arch Street is very pleased to announce that we are working with FYI Science Policy News to produce content for their regular bulletins on science and technology policy. FYI is the the editorially independent science policy news service from the American Institute of Physics and is considered the go-to source on science policy information and topical updates. Arch Street's first bulletin on Regional Innovation Provisions in the CHIPS and Science Act is now live. Special thanks to Mitch Ambrose and Will Thomas of AIP for their encouragement and support.
Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo Announcing CHIPS for America Program
CHIPS and Science, Commercialization, Economic Development, FYI Science Policy, Innovation, Uncategorizedcompetitiveness, Science, technology
Round 2 of the Energy Program for Innovation Clusters (EPIC) Prize Open
September 29, 2022 Arch StreetLeave a comment
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Technology Transitions (OTT) recently launched the second Energy Program for Innovation Clusters (EPIC) Prize. The EPIC Prize recognizes the nation's most innovative incubators in the field of energy. EPIC awards cash prizes to regional incubator teams that submit the most creative and impactful plans, then implement those plans to develop strong clusters, connections, and support for energy startups and entrepreneurs. A total of $4 million is available for multiple awards. For more information about EPIC and how to apply see the program FAQ. Proposals are due by October 25, 2022.
Commercialization, Energy, Federal R&D, Innovation, Uncategorizedcommercialization, competitiveness, energy, technology
New Survey: Semiconductor Market Hampered by Demand/Supply Mismatch, Lack of Manufacturing Capacity
January 25, 2022 January 25, 2022 Arch Street
The U.S. Department of Commerce (DoC) released the results of a request for information (RFI) seeking data on the state of the semiconductor supply chain.
The DoC confirmed that there is a significant, persistent mismatch in supply and demand for chips, and survey respondents did not see the problem going away in the next six months. Median demand for the chips highlighted by the buyers who responded to the RFI was as much as 17% higher in 2021 than in 2019, and buyers aren't seeing commensurate increases in the supply they receive.
The main bottleneck identified is the need for additional manufacturing or fab capacity. In addition, companies identified material and assembly, test, and packaging capacity as bottlenecks.
The RFI received more than 150 responses, including from nearly every major semiconductor producer and from companies in multiple consuming industries.
Other findings include:
The median inventory of semiconductor products highlighted by buyers has fallen from 40 days in 2019 to less than 5 days in 2021 (see Figure 2). These inventories are even smaller in key industries.
The RFI allowed us to pinpoint specific nodes where the supply and demand mismatch is most acute, and we will target our efforts moving forward on collaborating with industry to resolve bottlenecks in these nodes.
The primary bottleneck across the board appears to be wafer production capacity, which requires a longer-term solution.
DoC urged passage of semiconductor legislation pending in Congress — the United States Innovation and Competition Act (USICA) including $52 billion in funding to support domestic chip manufacturing. That legislation remains stalled due to disagreements between the House and the Senate as well as a slowdown in annual appropriations across all agencies.
Commercialization, Congress, Innovation, Semiconductor, Uncategorizedcommercialization, competitiveness, semiconductor, supply chain, technology
Communicating the Value and Impact of Technology Transfer
The Technology Transfer Society, DC Chapter will be holding an online presentation on how to better communicate the value and impact of technology transfer. A recent article in Issues in Science & Technology entitled Settling for Second Place? by former Lockheed Martin CEO Norm Augustine and former NSF Directorate Dr. Neal Lane sounded the alarm that America's world leadership in science and technology is being challenged like never before.
While many focus on basic and applied research investments, technology transfer and commercialization activities — bridging the technology 'valley of death' from scientific discovery to commercial product — have become pivotal to capturing the value of R&D at universities, national laboratories and industry labs. Unfortunately, tech transfer efforts are often misunderstood and poorly resourced at many major S&T institutions. The presentation will address how to better communicate the value of these functions to key decisionmakers to help them better understand the growing value of technology transfer beyond patent licensing.
Commercialization, Innovation, Technology Transfer, Uncategorizedcommercialization, techtransfer
Investing in Rural Prosperity — New Approaches
Rural communities throughout the United States are vibrant places, with great people, rich culture and heritage, and deep social ties. But recent structural changes to the economy, along with long-term challenges, have left many in these communities at a crossroads, wondering which direction will lead to prosperity for all.
Investing in Rural Prosperity, a forthcoming book from the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis and the Federal Reserve Board, seeks to help people living in rural areas navigate the challenges and opportunities they face to reach a future in which economic prosperity is a reality.
Chapter 9 is available in advance on the St. Louis Fed's website. It outlines a new framework for fostering shared economic prosperity in rural communities. The authors' proposed approach to rural development—abbreviated with the acronym "TRIC"—is tailored to the specific goals, assets and organizational infrastructures of communities. It is designed to be resilient in changing circumstances; inclusive about who is at the decision-making table and who benefits from local development; and promotes a collaborative process. The chapter explores each of the principles in the TRIC framework, including their meanings, their interconnectedness and interdependence, and their ability to inform and shape rural development.
For more information see: Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis – The "TRIC" to Fostering Shared Economic Prosperity in Rural America
Economic Development, Economy, Innovation, Rural
White House Releases Nanotechnology Plan
The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) and the National Nanotechnology Coordination Office (NNCO) unveiled the 2021 National Nanotechnology Initiative (NNI) Strategic Plan on October 9, 2021. The strategy seeks to ensure that the United States continues to lead the world in nanoscience discoveries as well as in translating and manufacturing its products to benefit all of America. In addition to identifying priorities for the NNI to best support the research community in the United States, the plan prioritizes efforts to expand sustainable infrastructure and advance equity in the nanotechnology workforce.
The plan emphasizes the need for specialized nanotechnology research tools and facilities, emphasizing the need to expand and refresh the research infrastructure, and provide access to these facilities for research and industry. The plan also links investments in research infrastructure to the training of the future nanotechnology workforce and continued growth in high-paying jobs.
Federal R&D, Innovation, sciencenanotechnology, OSTP, White House
Tech Transfer Presentation: The Maryland Industrial Partnerships Program
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Washington Area Chapter of the Technology Transfer Society (T2SDC) will be hosting an online presentation on the Maryland Industrial Partnerships Program on Wednesday, October 20, 2021 from Noon to 1 p.m..
The Maryland Industrial Partnerships (MIPS) program leverages the resources of the University System of Maryland (USM) to help create new products and services that feed the growth of Maryland businesses. Since the program's inception in 1987, MIPS–enabled products have generated sales of $42 billion.
MIPS provides funding, matched by participating companies, for university-based research projects that help the companies develop new products. The program is administered at the flagship campus at the University of Maryland, College Park, and works throughout the 12 member institutions of the University System of Maryland, plus Morgan State University and St. Mary's College. In these academic-industrial, public-private partnerships, MIPS connects the resources of the Maryland public universities to businesses from all parts of Maryland.
Presenting will be Joseph Naft, Director of the Maryland Industrial Partnerships (MIPS) program of the University of Maryland (UMD).
To register, please go use the following link.
Commercialization, Innovation, Uncategorizedcommercialization, innovation, Maryland, partnerships, technology, technology transfer
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See you in Ukraine!
To Ukraine for Study
Universities Invite
How to Enroll?
Why Ukraine
About Ukraine
Born in Ukraine
Civilization Catalysts
Culture Luminaries
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Historical Towns
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Dnipropetrovs'k. Is Dnepr on the Dnipro River?
Dnipropetrovs'k, the third largest Ukrainian metropolis, is located 479 km in the southeastern direction from Kyiv, the capital of the country, down the course of the Dnipro River. Once it was called Katerynoslav, in honor of Russian Empress Catherine the Great. It was her idea to found here "the Southern Palmyra" of the Russian Empire back in 1776.
Its residents call their city by the lovely name "Dnepr", the same as the river on which both banks the city lay stretched, the same as with Kyiv. But here, the Dnipro River is wider and Dnipropetrovs'k residents will definitely remind you of that. Catherine the Great did not manage to create "the Southern Palmyra" right away on the model of St. Petersburg in the North, but iron-ore and coal deposits, which were discovered 100 years later after the founding of the city, gave a strong impetus for industrial development. And the city transformed into an industrial giant at an incredible rate, and today the city remains that giant. The iron industry, mining industry, machine-building – this is what Dnipropetrovs'k has been famed for up until now. Dnipropetrovs'k residents' special pride is spaceships, in particular, the ecologically safe "Zenit" rocket carriers, used in the "Sea Launch" project. In Soviet times, the city's rocket industry was a big secret, which is why foreigners were not welcome in the city then, but everything changes in this world. Dnipropetrovs'k is an unusual city; a city of contradictions and contrasts. It is spread out and active and here natural beauty runs side by side with industrial smokestacks. People either fall crazily in love with the city or don't understand it at all. However, there is no doubt that the city has a unique look and local flavor. And you will feel it. Come out on one of the biggest embankments in Europe. It stretches for 23 kilometers! Here, you especially feel the size of the city, the grandeur of the Dnipro River, and the beauty of the city's bridges. And during the warm season of the year, while walking around the city, it is such a pleasure to sit near one of the numerous fountains. We are sure you will like it!
From personal experience
Vishal Ratnakar, theoretical physicist (India-Ukraine)
I graduated from Kharkiv State University in 1991. The Kharkiv School of Theoretical Physics was known throughout the world. Now I work as a consulting engineer at an international company. My knowledge of the Ukrainian mentality and the skills of gripping any subject quickly, which I acquired at the university, have proven very helpful in my current job. The only recommendation I have for my countrymen who are going to come to Ukraine to study is that you must learn, first and foremost, that the front passenger seat in a car here is on the right side. The rest is easy to learn.
Wu Li, Manager (China-Ukraine)
This year I have graduated from a higher educational institution in Kyiv and obtained a diploma. Currently, I am an intern at an international travel company operating in Ukraine. In the future, I plan to manage the business of a Chinese company in Ukraine's market. I have the necessary knowledge for this, and cooperation between our two countries is on the rise. Besides, I have many good friends here. I would like to warn my compatriots who want to come to Ukraine that winters here are the same as in the northern provinces of China. So, do not forget warm clothes. But it is much warmer in the houses.
Not from hearsay
Olga Nemirovskaya, future lawyer (Russia-Ukraine)
Two years ago I decided to enter an educational institution in Kyiv and now I am here, studying. First, it is cheaper than in Moscow. Second, I have relatives and friends here who can support me. And third, I looked for new impressions, new places, and new discoveries. Kyiv proved the right choice for me. It combinesbeauty, antiquity, and the rapid rhythm of life typical of other big cities! I would like to say to my countrymen who are contemplating study in Ukraine that I study here in Russian and communicate in Russian as well. As for Ukrainian, it is a friendly and understandable language. I can already speak it a little. It's cool!
Ukraine in fokus
Information and Image Center Mission "Ukraine-Cognita"


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Home > Laws > 2016 Florida Statutes > Title XL > Chapter 720 > Section 301
Title XL REAL AND PERSONAL PROPERTY
Chapter 720 HOMEOWNERS' ASSOCIATIONS Entire Chapter
720.301 Definitions.—As used in this chapter, the term:
(1) "Assessment" or "amenity fee" means a sum or sums of money payable to the association, to the developer or other owner of common areas, or to recreational facilities and other properties serving the parcels by the owners of one or more parcels as authorized in the governing documents, which if not paid by the owner of a parcel, can result in a lien against the parcel.
(2) "Common area" means all real property within a community which is owned or leased by an association or dedicated for use or maintenance by the association or its members, including, regardless of whether title has been conveyed to the association:
(a) Real property the use of which is dedicated to the association or its members by a recorded plat; or
(b) Real property committed by a declaration of covenants to be leased or conveyed to the association.
(3) "Community" means the real property that is or will be subject to a declaration of covenants which is recorded in the county where the property is located. The term "community" includes all real property, including undeveloped phases, that is or was the subject of a development-of-regional-impact development order, together with any approved modification thereto.
(4) "Declaration of covenants," or "declaration," means a recorded written instrument or instruments in the nature of covenants running with the land which subject the land comprising the community to the jurisdiction and control of an association or associations in which the owners of the parcels, or their association representatives, must be members.
(6) "Developer" means a person or entity that:
(a) Creates the community served by the association; or
(b) Succeeds to the rights and liabilities of the person or entity that created the community served by the association, provided that such is evidenced in writing.
(7) "Division" means the Division of Florida Condominiums, Timeshares, and Mobile Homes in the Department of Business and Professional Regulation.
(8) "Governing documents" means:
(a) The recorded declaration of covenants for a community and all duly adopted and recorded amendments, supplements, and recorded exhibits thereto;
(b) The articles of incorporation and bylaws of the homeowners' association and any duly adopted amendments thereto; and
(c) Rules and regulations adopted under the authority of the recorded declaration, articles of incorporation, or bylaws and duly adopted amendments thereto.
(9) "Homeowners' association" or "association" means a Florida corporation responsible for the operation of a community or a mobile home subdivision in which the voting membership is made up of parcel owners or their agents, or a combination thereof, and in which membership is a mandatory condition of parcel ownership, and which is authorized to impose assessments that, if unpaid, may become a lien on the parcel. The term "homeowners' association" does not include a community development district or other similar special taxing district created pursuant to statute.
(10) "Member" means a member of an association, and may include, but is not limited to, a parcel owner or an association representing parcel owners or a combination thereof, and includes any person or entity obligated by the governing documents to pay an assessment or amenity fee.
(11) "Parcel" means a platted or unplatted lot, tract, unit, or other subdivision of real property within a community, as described in the declaration:
(a) Which is capable of separate conveyance; and
(b) Of which the parcel owner, or an association in which the parcel owner must be a member, is obligated:
1. By the governing documents to be a member of an association that serves the community; and
2. To pay to the homeowners' association assessments that, if not paid, may result in a lien.
(12) "Parcel owner" means the record owner of legal title to a parcel.
(13) "Voting interest" means the voting rights distributed to the members of the homeowners' association, pursuant to the governing documents.
History.—s. 33, ch. 92-49; s. 52, ch. 95-274; s. 4, ch. 99-382; s. 44, ch. 2000-258; s. 16, ch. 2004-345; s. 13, ch. 2004-353; s. 62, ch. 2008-240; s. 16, ch. 2011-196; s. 15, ch. 2015-97.


The router has both operating. I shut off the 5 just to test but it made no difference.
"can't connect to this network" is all it ever says.
There are 8 networks currently visible.
There are 6 networks currently visible.
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Uninstall 18.025.0204.0009\amd64 REG_SZ C:\WINDOWS\system32\cmd.exe /q /c rmdir /s /q "C:\Users\Me\AppData\Local\Microsoft\OneDrive\18.025.0204.0009\amd64"
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Not sure what you mean...Theres only 2 WiFi adapters?
The AC1200 is disabled: I have no idea what a virtual adapter is or where it is as it doesn't show up in the Device Manager. The RealTek came with the computer and is the only adapter enabled.
The AC1200 is 3-4 times faster than the Realtek bgn that is built in. The AC should connect to the 5g network well. Look in Network and Sharing, Change Adapter Options, you can right click and disable/enable whichever you choose. Older devices connect to 2.4g network, so both need to be enabled in the router.


Jessica Borusky says it was studying a Diego Velazquez painting in an art history class that sparked her interest in performativity in the visual arts. Velazquez often inserted his visage into compositions with royalty as he ascended to the role of portrait painter for King Philip IV's royal court in the mid 1600s.
You get the sense that Velazquez knew he really didn't belong- not properly or traditionally-in any royal setting, an idea that seems to inspire Borusky's performative approach today. She's a failed cowgirl, a failed corporate drone. Most people are failures at this or at least they fail at finding happiness through the typical personifications of the American Dream. But Jessica tries on these personas anyway, just to see what it's like. As a result, her work can be very humorous. The humor pivots into an analysis of historical traumas that mark and mar our national identity.
To get the idea behind Borusky's engaging and no doubt entertaining confluence of the funny and traumatic, just check out one of my favorite performances she's done in Kansas City: Armor, Gilt, and Integration. Here Jessica, looking like a hot mess, uses language and actions that place her somewhere between Martha Stewart land and that of an undertaker. And, of course, there's barbecue sauce.
I had the pleasure of visiting the artist on a recent trip to Kansas City where Borusky is currently an artist-in-residence in the Charlotte Street Foundation's residency program, a curator for the Art in the Loop's public arts program, and an art faculty member at the University of Missouri-Kansas City.
When I first contacted her for the interview, Jessica said she was curating some art during the lunch hour and that I should meet her at Oppenstein Park downtown. I assumed she meant curating a series of objects, and that she needed/wanted privacy. When I arrived at Oppenstein Park, rather than a curator standing amongst a bunch of paintings I found a man reading letters aloud to an audience of knitters.
Below is a portion of José Faus's performance that day. Sitting next to him is Emily Evans Sloan. Both Faus and Sloan are local KC artists. To give you some background, the letters Faus is reading describe a time when Fidel Castro meets a young Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis in a New York City bar before she marries the future president. Their meeting (Castro calls her an angel) inspires him to start the revolution in Cuba. All this is explicated in recordings and letters between the historical figures.
From what I could gather by peoples white-collar "drag," we were in the midst of the downtown financial sector. Men in ties and the typical suits scurried along. Security guards looked on at the performance with amusement. It is with great certainty that I can say, as a tourist, I would have never enjoyed this part of Kansas City had it not been for the performance taking place in front of me.
After thanking the artists for their performance, Jessica showed me her studio and the other studios at the residency. I clumsily videotaped the artist as I asked a series of questions about her creative work at Charlotte Street. Borusky is quick to acknowledge that it is her voice and body that entices others-her chosen medium to make art. So it makes some sense that I would, however shabbily, do a video interview. That's what I'm telling myself anyway. Hope you enjoy. And thank you Jessica Borusky!


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External loans
The Museo Carmen Thyssen Málaga temporarily loans works from its Permanent Collection to other Museums and cultural institutions. The objective of these loans is to diversify the audience for the Collection by means of participating in exhibitions organised outside the Museum or by temporary exhibit within these institutions.
The loan of work contributes to building collaborative relationships between institutions, as well as the dissemination beyond the walls of the Museum of the works that comprise the Carmen Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection exhibited in the Museum.
Movements of the Collection
On occasion the works that make up the Permanent Collection are included in temporary exhibitions that are organized within the Museum itself. This entails not only a change in the location of the work within the exhibition space, but also a new occasion for the visitor to make a renewed reading of the work thanks to its new context.
On other occasions the works are temporarily withdrawn from their usual location for conservation.
History of external loans and internal movements
Model Making Mischief
c. 1885 Invitadas. Fragmentos sobre mujeres, ideología y artes plásticas en España (1833-1931) 06/10/2020 - 14/03/2021 Museo del Prado
Ramón Martí Alsina
The Seasonal Stream at Argentona
1870-1880 Influencers en l´Art 26/09/2019 - 27/09/2020 Museo Carmen Thyssen Andorra
Carlos de Haes
Landscape with Drove of Cows
1859 Influencers en l´Art 26/09/2019 - 27/09/2020 Museo Carmen Thyssen Andorra
The Passing of the Train
Landscape at Hernani
c. 1900 Paraísos. De Pissarro a Monet y Gauguin. Colección Carmen Thyssen 14/02/2020 - 28/06/2020 Fundación Bancaja de Valencia
Guillermo Gómez Gil
1902 Paraísos. De Pissarro a Monet y Gauguin. Colección Carmen Thyssen 14/02/2020 - 28/06/2020 Fundación Bancaja de Valencia
c. 1920-1930 Paraísos. De Pissarro a Monet y Gauguin. Colección Carmen Thyssen 14/02/2020 - 28/06/2020 Fundación Bancaja de Valencia
Fritz Bamberger
Beach at Estepona with a View of the Rock of Gibraltar


Isabella is a cut the ribbon for many reasons.For being a model with a different attitude and a normal body. For being the best, and long lived, cosmetic ambassador. For being a famous surname that established her personality no matter what they had been saying. For being loyal with her roots and history. For being involved in so many good causes, from animals to sexual education. For being the image of a different Italian in New York and for loving,truly loving, photography. For this picture by photographer James Balog that she commented in her book "Looking At Me" . "In the pictures Balog wanted to do a photographic essay on the differences and similarities between man (me) and our closest relative, the chimpanzee…Yet in these photographs I seem to come across as a contemporary woman. I wonder how that was possible when I was naked and wearing no make up. I really don't know what betrays my attempt to be timeless – maybe it's just that stupid haircut".


I'm sure they'll work, those mythical wheels.  Let us see the pics too!
> Has anyone seen and/or tried these wheels ?
> Wheel bearing housing, brake rotors(UFO's), and offsets are the same.
> There are only 4 left in the US and I am going to try them.
> any info would help.


In Part I, we presented the simplified process, and discussed the various supplies and equipment. Now let's go into the details of the process.
Parkerizing only works on clean plain steel parts. It will not work on stainless steel, brass, or other metals. If your parts have previously been cadmium plated or zinc plated, you will need to remove those in an acid bath. We'll discuss that in a minute. If your parts have been chrome plated or nickel plated, you will need to have a plating shop professionally strip them.
First step is to mechanically clean the parts to get them as clean as you can.
Next you should bead blast them if you have the equipment available. After blasting, wear cotton gloves so your skin doesn't touch the parts, since the natural oil in your skin will interfere with Parkerizing. Use a clean wire wheel on your bench grinder, or a clean toothbrush-like wire brush to get the majority of glass beads and bead dust off the part.
If you don't have bead-blasting equipment, you should use an acid bath. Put on your gloves and safety glasses. Pour the concentrated muriatic acid into an appropriate container, then add your parts. It will remove zinc and cadmium plating within a few seconds. A minute will clean most things down to bare metal. Now remove the parts and put them in another container of cold water. Turn the cold water tap on and let the flowing water rinse away the acid.
Pour the used acid into a plastic milk jug with a small plastic funnel and save it for next time. Pouring it through a stainless steel strainer is a handy way to catch any small parts. When it gets really gunky, carefully pour it into a large amount of cold water, and dispose of it.
Your parts must be squeaky clean. Dirt, grease, even the natural oil in your skin will prevent the Parkerizing process from "taking". Handle your parts with clean towels or white cotton gloves to avoid contamination.
Before Parkerizing, it's a good idea to put your parts in a hot water (190-200 degree F) bath for 5 minutes to get the parts at the same temperature as the Parkerizing Bath. Otherwise, the cold parts will reduce the temperature of the Parkerizing Bath, reducing its effectiveness. This also opens the pores of the metal so any glass beads / bead dust will fall out, and does a final rinse of any muriatic acid.
This step is optional. It will require another pot and another heat source. You could heat the parts in your barbeque, but that won't get the glass beads/dust out as effectively.
Put on your gloves and safety glasses. Fill the pot with enough solution to cover the parts and 50% more. Heat it up on your heat source to 190-200 degrees F. Use the cooking thermometer to check the temperature. Keep the lid on to prevent evaporation of the solution.
Drop the parts into the pot. They will immediately start fizzing. After about 5 minutes the fizzing will stop, and the parts will have turned a nice gray color. Some metal will turn a medium gray, some will turn a charcoal gray, some will turn almost black – it depends on the metal composition of the part. 5 minutes should be all that's required.
Remove the parts using your tongs, or stainless steel strainer. You can give them a dip in your hot water bath to rise off the Parkerizing solution. Towel dry.
Don't. The directions that come with most Parkerizing solution are written primarily for gun owners, as they are much more plentiful than antique motorcycle buffs. The directions may tell you to rinse the parts in a cold water bath. Here's where you might want to NOT follow the directions.
Why? Gun owners routinely disassemble, clean, and oil their guns. They don't drive them through puddles or let them sit out in the rain. So gun owners are more concerned with pristine appearance, and less concerned with optimum rust proofing. For motorcycles, we want optimum rust protection. We're doing nuts and bolts that few people will ever examine up close. For motorcycles, skip the cold water bath.
Many directions tell you to spray the parts with WD-40, or use some proprietary kind of preservative. WD-40 might be great for guns, but for motorcycle parts, motor oil is a better choice. I don't think it matters much whether you use genuine Harley 60 weight or good old 10W-40.
Some people say to use the dirtiest used motor oil you can find. Used oil contains acids formed by the internal combustion process, so clean new oil is a better choice.
It's best to put hot parts in warm motor oil for maximum absorption, although you can put cold parts in cold oil. So, heat a pan or pot of motor oil in your backyard barbeque. Put your dried parts in the oil and let them sit for an hour. Or overnight. Then wipe the oil off and leave them on a towel. The next time you look at them, they will be oily again. They will continue to weep oil for quite some time.
The Parkerizing solution can be reused over and over. It takes quite a while for a large pot of the solution to cool, so to speed things up, plug the drain of your laundry tub, add cold water, and then put your Parkerizing pot in it. When the outside of the pot reaches room temperature, you can transfer the used Parkerizing solution into your HDPE #2 milk jugs.
The solution will have some white sediment in it – this won't hurt anything, but it's best to decant the solution and discard the majority of the sediment. You can also use a coffee filter in a funnel to strain out most of the glop. You will lose some solution to evaporation while cooking. You will lose some during decanting. Just add fresh solution to make up for the losses. When you first mix up your solution, mix up two or three times what you'll need on day one, and you'll be have enough to last you for years.
Clean your stainless steel cooking pots with a nylon or stainless steel Scrungie. Don't use steel wool or anything with plain steel in it. Plain steel particles will embed themselves in the stainless, and you'll soon find that your stainless is rusting! If you get a buildup of limescale on the bottom of your pots, try some muriatic acid – it will dissolve the limescale after soaking for 30 minutes or so.
One idea for a practice Parkerizing run would be to buy some plain steel 5/16 and 3/8 fine thread nuts and lockwashers from someone like McMaster-Carr. Or buy zinc-plated ones and acid strip them. Parkerize a bunch of them. If you mess up, well, it's only nuts and lockwashers. Succeed, and now you've got a stock of the most common fasteners used on a Harley.
The name "Parkerizing" comes from the Parker Rust-Proof Phosphating Company of America, which started business in 1915. Today, "Parkerizing" is a trademark of Henkel Adhesives Technologies, although like "xerox machine" it is used generically. The term "Bonderizing" was used in some of Parker's early patents, but the origin of the term is unknown.
Manganese phosphate and zinc phosphate are similar, but manganese is best as a final finish. Manganese phosphate typically gives a darker color than zinc. Zinc is better for parts that will be painted. You can paint over either kind, but do not do the oil bath if you plan to paint the part. Industrial companies, like Harley, may do the process in large pressure-cookers where the temperature may reach 1000 degrees. This is hard to achieve in the home garage.
That's pretty much all there is to Parkerizing. It really is as easy as boiling water.