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New Car Review
by Jonathan Crouch
Nissan LEAF new car review
The Nissan LEAF has always been a car that divides opinion. Some love this fully electric vehicle for its bold engineering and surprisingly enjoyable driving dynamics, but to date, many other green-minded potential buyers have struggled to make a case for it. But things are changing. For the latest model year, the brand has introduced a fresh driving sound to alert pedestrians to this car's approach. And it wants to bring the uprated 62kWh 'e+' version of this model more to the fore with its longer driving range. Plus value has been prioritised across the line-up.
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You're probably already aware of this - but it bears repeating: the Nissan LEAF is the world's best selling electric vehicle. You might think that would equate to sales in their tens of millions. Actually, the truth is that following its launch back in 2010 and throughout a production life that lasted nearly eight years, the first generation version of this battery-powered Nissan shifted 283,000 units. Worldwide. So we really aren't talking massive numbers here.
That says less about the LEAF - a design we've always thoroughly respected - and more about the slow global take-up of battery-powered cars, which continues to lag behind industry predictions. Mostly, that's been because of the restrictions that fully battery-powered vehicles put on driving range, though that's something that's changing as automotive electric technology changes. It's certainly developed enough to make this second generation LEAF well worth another look if you couldn't quite justify the purchase of its predecessor. Particularly in this latest form.
Range Data
Price 29845 37710
Insurance group 1-50 21 21
Max Speed (mph) 89 89
0-62 mph (s) 7.9 7.9
Combined Mpg 235 310
Length (mm) 4490 4490
Width (mm) 1788 1788
Height (mm) 1530 1530
Boot Capacity (l) 310 310
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Nissan wants to tell us about the more appealing 'Canto' sound the latest version of this model makes. But here we're going to start by dealing quickly with the first thing you'll want to know about: driving range. We remember vividly setting off in the first generation LEAF model back in 2010 and struggling to get much more than 60-70 miles out of it between charges. With this second generation design, Nissan claims a homologated WLTP driving range of 168 miles from the standard 40kWh model - or 239 miles (WLTP) from the alternative 'e+' version with its 62kWh battery. Even if you think in terms of a 'real world' driving range being about two-thirds of those total figures (which is our experience anyway), you can't deny that these readings represent an impressive improvement, representing a 50% increase over the final version of the original generation model.
The 40kWh lithium-ion battery that virtually all LEAF models still use produces 110kW (which equates to 148bhp) and 320Nm of torque - making the LEAF feel quite fast from a standing start: Nissan say that the 0-62mph time is about 9.8s. In the past with LEAF models, the amount of retardation you got when lifting off the throttle meant that the brake pedal was something you rarely needed to use. With this second generation model, you'll hardly need it at all thanks to 'e-Pedal' technology that can bring the car to a complete stop when you come off the accelerator. The key news here though is that the larger 62kWh battery 'e+' version of this car has now been priced much more accessibly - and this uprated model's longer 239 mile driving range could be key in convincing potential buyers who might otherwise be swayed by longer-running EV rivals in this segment.
There are two routes to styling an all-electric car. Either you make it look exactly like a conventionally-engined model, as Volkswagen did with the e-Golf, or you go for something overtly futuristic, as Nissan did with the first generation LEAF model. That approach continues on with this second generation design, which gets a sleek body featuring a flat floor, a sharp nose and an aggressively tapered rear end. There are though, familiar cues from more ordinary Nissan models - things like the company's signature 'V-motion' front grille, the 'boomerang'-style lights and the kicked-up rear shoulder line for example.
The MK2 model shape is certainly slippery; Nissan says it now has a drag coefficient of 0.27Cd. And the whole structure's stiff too, torsional rigidity having improved by 15% over the earlier design. Importantly, interior practicality is much like any combustion-engined family hatch, notably in terms of boot space, which is rated at 435-litres. The designers have also tried to give the cabin quite a premium feel, with smart trim materials and a smart look for the 7-inch centre-dash infotainment touchscreen. To remind you of this car's eco-friendly remit, there's vibrant blue stitching on the seats, the dashboard and the steering wheel. Two adults can fit comfortably across the back seat - and three could fit at a push.
Most LEAF models feature the 40kW battery and are now priced more affordably in the £26,000 to £30,000 bracket, once the government £1,500 grant has been deducted from the asking price. There are 'Acenta', 'N-Connecta' and 'Tekna' trim levels. The longer range 62kWh battery 'e+' models now start much more accessibly at around £30,500 and are available in 'N-Connecta' and 'Tekna' trims, with pricing up to around £32,500.
The vast majority of customers will take ownership using some kind of finance scheme. These can make the prospect of running this Nissan look quite affordable but when all's said and done, this car still remains a relatively expensive way of showcasing your eco-friendly world outlook to the neighbours. You'd certainly have to run it for far longer than most owners will want to if you're to get back the premium you've paid over what a comparably-sized Focus-class family hatchback would have cost.
Part of this is because Nissan feels the need to offer even the most basic versions of this car with lots of sophisticated equipment. This, for example, is the only model the company makes which features its 'ProPilot' autonomous driving technology as standard, this a set-up which on motorways, can steer, brake and accelerate for you. There's also a 'ProPilot Park' system which will take control of all steering, acceleration, braking and gear selection to automatically guide the car into a parking slot. Inside, every variant gets a 7-inch colour centre-dash infotainment touchscreen featuring 'Apple CarPlay'/'Android Auto' smartphone-mirroring technology. Plus there's a package of 'Safety Shield' features familiar from other Nissan models.
As the UK's electric car charging infrastructure becomes more advanced, it's becomes obviously much easier to make a case for cars like this. Quite a number of 50kW charging points are springing up in our cities and once you locate one of these, you'll be able to regularly re-charge your LEAF from empty to 80% capacity in just 40 minutes. As for domestic charging, well obviously if you plug into an ordinary three-pin plug socket - as you might have to do if you're out and about, say visiting relatives - re-charging still takes ages, though you can get quite a lot of it done with an overnight charge. Of course, for home re-charging, you'll want to fit a proper re-charging wallbox. Nissan can sell you a 7.5Kw domestic charging point that will be able to fully charge the car from empty in five and a half hours. Use a more normal 6kW charger and the replenishment time rises to about eight hours. A nice touch is the inclusion of an LED inspection light in the car's charging point so that owners won't have to rely on street lighting to connect their cars to an electric source at night.
Add these quick charging times to the increase in driving range that this current generation LEAF model has delivered over its original predecessor (a WLTP-rated figure 168 miles is quoted for the standard 40kWh model) and LEAF ownership could now add up for people who previously couldn't have justified it. To further strengthen its case, Nissan will want EV folk to consider the alternative 'e+' model, which uses a 62kWh capacity battery and is supposed to be able to extend that WLTP range to 239 miles.
Has this car's time finally come? Probably not quite yet, but the improvements Nissan continues to make will open up a much larger market for it. In developing this second generation model, the Japanese maker has clearly listened to customer feedback. The biggest issue of course was driving range, but as well as enhancing that with the alternative 'e+' variant, the brand has also added a package of technology that will make buyers feel that they're at the cutting edge of automotive technology.
Of course, some of the previous issues still remain. The car is still quite expensive to buy, the looks will divide opinion and you won't even be able to consider it unless you have off-street overnight parking. Little by little though, all-electric motoring is widening its customer reach. And, as it's always been, the LEAF remains right at the forefront of that change.
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I'm excited to start a new series today called The Stacks: Must Have Books of the Season. In this series, you'll find reviews of some of my new favorite books, giveaways, & Christmas gift ideas for the book lover in your life!
Stop everything and buy this book! Kregel sent me a copy to review for my blog, and I read it cover to cover (although, yes, it did take a while simply because it's almost 5oo pages).
It outlines the theological significance of the structure of Jesus' Bible (the OT) – how and why the Bible is arranged into a meaningful whole.
This book is a visually-driven book.
You will love the charts, maps, photographs from the Middle East, and the graphics that help to visually organize the massive amount of information in the OT.
For this reason, this book is well worth the purchase price to keep on hand for a reference book. But it's also a really great read, too.
Read as a whole, the OT is one book about God's covenant love for his people as shown through his promises of a coming King. When we read the OT as individual books, we miss out on this crucial theme. Each contributor draws out this thought as the primary unifier in the OT.
The editor, Jason DeRouchie, offers introductory material on each of the main sections of the OT – Law, the Prophets, and the Writings. Each of these sections relates to God's covenant in some way (called the covenantal structure).
The Writings are about the old covenant enjoyed.
This is extremely helpful as we seek to understand how Jesus read and used the Bible. It's also important as we seek to read the OT forward instead of backwards (reading the NT back into the Old).
For example, in his chapter on the 12 prophets, scholar Stephen Dempster points out that in Jesus' Bible (the Hebrew Bible) the 12 prophets were contained on a single scroll and organized just before the Writings – a little different arrangement than our English version.
I never knew the prophets were intended to be "sung together" – a point that has great theological significance.
After reading this book, it is impossible to consider the OT as a boring ole book of gloom and doom, somehow inferior to the NT, or completely irrelevant for our lives.
What are your biggest misgivings or struggles when studying the Old Testament? Share your thoughts in the comments. If you hurry, can snag What the Old Testament Authors Really Cared About: A Survey of Jesus' Bible for $31.88 on sale at Amazon!
Disclaimer: I was provided a free copy of this book to review. View my full disclosure policy here.
I love studying the Old Testament. This sounds like a GREAT book! Thanks!
It is! there is actually a NT companion to this book that also looks nice, although I haven't read it.
This sounds like a wonderful book! I love the Old Testament and I definitely will put this on my list of books to read.
As a fairly new believer, this sounds fantastic! The OT is a tough one to get one's head around and it sure seems like this book will be a huge help in doing so. Can't wait to get it!


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Trump Doubles Down on Climate Science Denial Live on FOX
Jul 27, 2016 7:31AM EDT Home
By Sierra Club Political Committee
Donald Trump doubled down on his fringe climate change conspiracy theories on FOX news (watch at minute 4:00) late last night, confirming that he still believes it is a "hoax" when pressed by Bill O'Reilly.
Trump's continued dismissal of science would keep him isolated on the world stage, where every single world leader acknowledges the dangers and science of climate change (you can find and read quotes from every world leader here).
It's clear why Clinton pummels Trump by 38 points on the issue of climate change, the widest spread between them on any single issue, according to Gallup.
"If Donald Trump thinks he can negotiate with the hard facts of climate science, he's going to fail just as badly as he did in Atlantic City," Khalid Pitts, Sierra Club national political director, said. "His unhinged conspiracy theories denying science would embarrass our country around the world and endanger families across the country who are already feeling the pain of extreme droughts and storms fueled by the climate crisis."
Here's the transcript of Trump on FOX News:
O'REILLY: Okay. But did you ever call climate change a hoax?
TRUMP: Well, I might have because when I look at some of the things that are going on, in fact, if you look at Europe where they had their big summit a couple of years ago, where people were sending out emails, scientists practically calling it a hoax and they were laughing at it. So, yes, I probably did. I see what's going on and you see what's going on.
O'REILLY: Do you believe that that man-made fossil fuels and gases have eroded the environment so that the sun is more intense on Earth? Because that's the basic thing? Do you believe that's happening?
TRUMP: Well, they are saying man made and I say it could have a minor impact but nothing, nothing to what they're talking about.
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Deal reportedly in final stages as Tottenham Hotspur prepare to make change
By Jonny Gorrie
With Tottenham Hotspur yet to make any major moves in the market, the punters propping up the bar in the Transfer Tavern are eager to read as many rumours and reports as humanly possible.
Desperate for something to read about, our north London locals have been intrigued about reports emanating out of Turkey.
Indeed, according to Gunebakis, Spurs outcast Moussa Sissoko could soon leave the club, little under a year after joining. The Frenchman has failed to convince in the slightest since leaving Newcastle United for Hotspur Way for £30m and has been linked with a move to West Bromwich Albion.
However, according to this report, Trabzonspor of the Turkish Super Lig are in the final stages of negotiating a loan deal to end the 27-year-old's nightmare. Spurs are believed to be willing to loan him out to a club in Europe, with this story even claiming a deal could be done within the next week.
While the Tottenham-mad punters were desperately hoping to see Sissoko recreate the performances he put in for Les Bleus at Euro 2016, Sissoko has been a major flop and his potential exit isn't likely to cause too many tears.
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Woman hit by falling wooden rocking horse in Temple Bar tells of 'frightening' experience
Tracey Blackstone says that she 'didn't really know what was going on'.
By Rónán Duffy Tuesday 23 Jun 2015, 10:34 AM
Jun 23rd 2015, 10:34 AM 23,661 Views 21 Comments
Image: Leah Farrell/Photocall Ireland
AN ENGLISH WOMAN has spoken about how she is still frightened after being hit by a falling wooden rocking horse that came from a second-storey window in Temple Bar last week.
Tracey Blackstone was visiting Dublin for her friend's birthday when she was struck by the flying rocking horse at about 1am on Friday 12 June.
Speaking on The Ray D'Arcy Show on RTÉ Radio, she says she now has eight stitches running from the crown of her head to the back of her ear.
"It was pretty surreal and pretty painful as well, I feel pretty sick when I think about it now," she says, adding that she was unconscious for a brief period.
"It was about 1am and we were just leaving for the hotel. I'd just walked outside and I didn't get as far as the pavement, that's as far as I got…I think for a few moments I passed out but then I came round, I didn't really know what was going on.
The incident happened the night before the Ireland-Scotland football match so Temple Bar was full of travelling Scottish fans. One of them came to Tracey's aid after he saw what happened, using his jersey to stop the bleeding.
Craig MacDougall told the programme that he had first aid training and needed to stop the bleeding after he saw the deep cut to the woman's head.
"As typical Scotsman I was well on my way with a bit of drink at 1am on a Friday night, as you can imagine. Then seeing that rocking horse being thrown out the window was quite surreal," he describes.
As soon as I got there the cut just seemed to open up and it was very deep as Tracey said, my only thought was to stop the bleeding straight away and my top was the only thing I really had on me.
Tracey had been trying to get in touch with Craig to thank him for intervening. She did so on the show and both said that the incident would not stop them returning to Ireland.
Watch: Bemusement the order of the day as Dublin tourists realise all the pubs are shut >
Read: From packed pubs to lone survivors at 4am: See St Patrick's Day unfold in Temple Bar >
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Texas Officials Warn: Marijuana Much Preferable to Fake Marijuana
Home » Marijuana News
"It felt like my body was just failing on me," a teen wrote on Erowid.org, describing the highs promised by synthetic marijuana, the random scraps of plant material sprayed with random chemicals sold in gas stations, smoke shops and on the street as a cheap, and sometimes sort-of-legal, alternative to actual cannabis. In case you think that sounds like fun—don't.
"My organs were not working any further, it was just shutting down," the teen wrote. "I began to shake much like someone would during a seizure."
The serious health risk posed by synthetic cannabinoids are becoming well known, which is good, because they sound like fake news. Synthetic marijuana is believed to be the cause of the "mass casualty event" last summer in New York, when ambulances were dispatched to reports of people wandering around in a "zombielike' state. Fake weed is causing such a stir in San Antonio, Texas—with first responders responding to eight calls of synthetic marijuana poisoning in a four-hour period on Jan. 26 and users experiencing the same mannequin challenge-winning "freezing (like a statue)" seen in New York, as well as vomiting, nausea, kidney problems and the occasional psychotic episode—that fire officials are showing tacit approval for much-safer, regular, old, outlawed marijuana.
"The main thing that we are pushing out is that this is not marijuana," said David Miramontes, M.D., the medical director of the San Antonio Fire Department, at a widely-covered press conference on Thursday.
Marijuana, as you know, has never killed anybody, is not known to render its users comatose in an unwelcome way. That would be preferable to this stuff.
"This is dangerous." Miramontes confirmed.
There's also something special in the batch that's arrived in San Antonio, a stronger, more potent flavor of the stuff, to which the city's homeless population is taking a shine. It's so bad that officials are worried someone will accidentally buy some—thinking it's weed. As fire chief Charles Hood observed, innocent visitors could find themselves "in a situation where they think they're buying a simple marijuana joint and they're getting something synthetically altered."
The media and police are still struggling to quantify just how bad this stuff is… and how to identify it.
As Fox News San Antonio helpfully noted, "Doctors say one of the warning signs if you are approached with this new drug is if it is already rolled up like a cigarette or a joint." Except the kind of joint that's the kind that melts your mind because it's not a joint at all. How to tell the difference aside from the obvious after effects?
San Antonio authorities can't help you there, aside from restate the obvious: Real weed is better.
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Guaranteed Offer Scheme - (Partners)
This scheme is only available to students from St John's, and encourages students to achieve their potential in exams by giving a guaranteed conditional offer, at the typical entrance requirement level for the degree programme applied for.
The Guaranteed Offer Scheme applies to all degree programmes at Newcastle University, except where selection is based on grades, plus other criteria (such as assessment, portfolio and interviews).
Supported Progression
The current scheme is open to students currently in Year 12.
The scheme offers a substantial package of academic and financial support, as well as admissions guidance. Students will take part in a coherent, structured programme of events including an assessed summer school in Year 12.
Those who successfully complete this phase of the scheme will be recognised as having achieved a qualification equivalent to 40-60 UCAS tariff points that can contribute towards meeting the entry requirements for a programme of study at Durham University, along with a guaranteed offer and bursaries of up to £2000 towards university costs.
University of Birmingham, University of Bristol, University of Essex, University of Exeter, King's College London, University of Leeds, University of Leicester, University of Liverpool, University of Manchester, Newcastle University, University of Warwick, University of York
St John's students can access this programme which will give access to 12 Realising Opportunities partner universities. The programme is worth 40 UCAS points, plus additional consideration when applying to the partner universities through UCAS.
Passport Scheme
The benefits to Passport students:
exclusive access to online resources
personal invitations to events
the opportunity to try out university courses
find out what admissions tutors are looking for and impress them with your commitment
a stronger application to university
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Sport, Business and Health Studies
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Sixth Form Council
The purpose of the Sixth Form council will be voice student opinions to the Sixth Form leadership team.
The Sixth Form council will take a leading role in shaping the sixth form of the future.
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the council will provide opportunities for sixth form students to work with students in the main school


What is a Fashion Employment Agency?
Entering the fashion industry can offer you entrance into an interesting and ever-changing world. Choosing to dedicate your life's work to fashion can open the door to many high-paying fashion careers. The path is riddled with hard work and you need to be determined, but if you succeed you will gain access to fashion industry events and other industry benefits. If high-paying fashion careers interest you, begin your journey by contacting a fashion recruitment agent in NYC to acquire additional information on NYC fashion careers and fashion industry events.
If you have ambitions to make it in the city, as well as a natural sense of style, a career in fashion may be perfect for you. Blending sewing skills, art aptitude, and business, a career in fashion design combines creativity with common sense. In 2010 it was reported that 21,500 fashion designers were making an annual average income of $64,530. Working independently, or free-lancing as a fashion designer, can earn you more money than if you were a salaried employee working for an apparel manufacturer. In addition, you would have greater creative and business authority.
In pursuing most fashion careers, a postsecondary education is not required; however, due to the competiveness of the field, it may help having one. It would be beneficial to have some formal education in computer-aided design (CAD) or artistic-rendering courses, to give you a hiring edge. In addition to being creative, you must possess a general understanding of the technical process of accessories, clothing and/or footwear. As a fashion designer, you can be hired at a long list of different positions. Some places where a designer could work include apparel companies, clothing retailers, design firms, manufacturers, wholesale outlets, and even at dance companies, theaters and on TV and film sets. New York City and Los Angeles are home to 75% of the fashion industry.
Because the fashion industry is an international market, one of the greatest benefits of being a fashion designer is being able to travel overseas for work, experiencing the beauty and food of these countries. With high-definition photography and an online storefront, a talented designer can instantly create a professional virtual sales space. This allows a fashion designer to build a client base through social media platforms, made easier with modern technology, up-and-coming designers and independent brands. To get recognized in the fashion industry, you must work hard. You can also hire a fashion recruitment agent in NYC who can provide you with useful contacts.
In the past two decades, the manufacturing portion of the fashion industry has declined by 80%, from 900,000 to 150,000 jobs. Another fact to add to the list of fashion industry statistics is fashion designers' annual average wage, which ranged from $44,100 in Virginia to $80,650 in New York and Maine.
Some fashion industry statistics include how much consumers spend on apparel. In 2010, households spent an average of $1,700 on apparel, footwear, and related products and services. If you love fashion and are considering pursuing NYC fashion careers, hire a fashion recruitment firm for a leg up.


A year and a half ago, 39 Indians were taken hostage by ISIS from a construction site in Mosul, Iraq. On June 30, 2015, Gaurav Kumar Bansal, a lawyer filed an RTI to the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) requesting for information on the rescue operations of these hostages. Through the Embassy of India, Iraq-Baghdad, the lawyer was informed that no protocols had been issued by the MEA for securing the release of the abducted Indians.
In absence of the same, the lawyer filed a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) in January this year, stating it to be a violation of Article 14 of the Indian Constitution. It also stated that the lawyer had learnt from some media sources that one of the missing persons, Harjit Masih, who managed to escape from the lands of the ISIS was claiming that all Indian nationals were asked to kneel shoulder to shoulder by militants dressed in black, near a railway track, and were shot out one by one. However, as per the PIL, the MEA had denied the statement of this witness and even added that there is no reason to believe that the missing Indian nationals are no more.
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Android 11 (codinomeado Red Velvet Cake no desenvolvimento) é uma versão do sistema operacional móvel Android desenvolvida pela empresa Google, lançado em setembro de 2020.

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Q: reference for: no finite set of positive (integer) binary quadratic forms represents all primes This recent question asks for a set of forms (binary quadratic) representing all primes.
Set of quadratic forms that represents all primes
When the question was asked on MSE last month
https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/3820129/non-linear-forms-for-all-prime-numbers
I made the claim that no finite set of positive binary forms would suffice. This still seems right to me, but I lack a proof or any reference. The subject is traditional, I would guess there is a mention in, say Dickson's History, which I do have. I will check.
Let's see, this will take some time, but there is no problem writing a Manjul Bhargava style "truant" program, begin with $x^2 + y^2,$  prime $3$ missing says add $x^2 + 2 y^2,$ then $7$ missing says add $x^2 + xy + 2 y^2,$  and so on. Eventually I would expect to see some non-principal forms as the smallest absolute discriminant form.

A: This is indeed correct; I don't know a reference, but here's a proof.  Let ${\mathcal D}$ be a finite set of $K$ negative fundamental discriminants.  We want to show that the set of primes not represented by any binary quadratic form with discriminants in ${\mathcal D}$ has density at least $2^{-K}$.
Let $X$ be large.  We are interested in
$$
\sum_{p\le X} \log p \prod_{d\in {\mathcal D}} \frac{(1 -\chi_d(p))}{2}
= \frac{1}{2^K} \sum_{j=0}^{K} (-1)^j \sum_{\substack{ d_1, \ldots, d_j \in {\mathcal D} \\ \text{distinct} }} \sum_{p\le X} \Big(\frac{d_1\cdots d_j}{p}\Big) \log p.
$$
The term $j=0$ gives a contribution $\sim X/2^K$.  If $j$ is odd, then $d_1 \cdots d_j$ is negative, and therefore the character $(\frac{d_1 \cdots d_j}{\cdot})$ is non-principal, and the sum over primes cancels out.  If $j$ is even, then it is conceivable that $d_1\cdots d_j$ is a square when the character $(\frac{d_1\cdots d_j}{\cdot})$ is principal, but here $(-1)^j =1$ and so these terms only increase our density of primes.  That completes the proof.
Obviously the argument breaks if indefinite forms (positive discriminants) are allowed, since one can have an odd number of terms in the product equalling a square (e.g. take discriminants $5$, $17$, $85$ and all the binary quadratic forms with these discriminants).

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Dinosaurs exhibition guide for teachers
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An outline of what you will see in each section of Dinosaurs and highlights some of the key components.
Dinosaurs is divided into four main sections:
Dinosaur Life
Surviving Dinosaurs
The threshold area features two spectacular dinosaur specimens in a dynamic pose.
These specimens are both from Niger and are known to have interacted.
Jobaria was a sauropod. This group of dinosaurs are typically known for their large size and long necks. However, Jobaria and its closest relatives differed from other sauropods because they had relatively short necks and spoon-shaped teeth. It is one of the few sauropods known from an almost complete fossil skeleton.
Afrovenator was a large predator and may have hunted in packs. The strong, lightweight skeleton and relatively short arms of Afrovenator are typical of large theropods and suggest this species was a hunter that relied on speed and power for attack.
Section 1: Dinosaur World
... barely recognisable, dominated by reptiles, changing over millions of years. How did dinosaurs fit in?
What is a dinosaur?
Where and when dinosaurs lived
Plate tectonics and the existence of supercontinents
What other animals lived at the same time as the dinosaurs?
Gondwana: the southern super-continent
Australian fossil sites and specimens
Dinosaurs are a group of reptiles with a set of physical features that are different from those of all other reptiles. They include extinct animals we know from fossils and the birds we see today. The word 'dinosaur' means 'terrible lizard' in Greek. It was coined in 1842 by Sir Richard Owen, an English Professor of Comparative Anatomy and Physiology.
Eoraptor was one of the first dinosaurs to appear in the fossil record and scientists agree that the first dinosaurs may also have had these features and looked something like Eoraptor. This agile two-legged dinosaur may have eaten meat, plants and insects. Its relatively small size was typical of early dinosaurs.
Just like a family tree shows your ancestors and present-day relatives, the evolutionary tree displayed in this section shows how dinosaurs are related to other groups of animals and to each other.
When dinosaurs first appeared in the Middle Triassic, about 230 million years ago, they were simply another group of small reptiles in a world full of reptiles. By the end of the Triassic they dominated life on land and would for another 140 million years, till the close of the Mesozoic. Not all dinosaurs lived at the same time. Different types emerged, evolved and became extinct. One group, the birds, is still with us today.
The Mesozoic Era spanned 251 to 65 million years ago - a tiny part of the Earth's long history. This history stretches over four billion years and is known as geological time.
The large wall graphic in this section of the exhibition illustrates the changing world of the Mesozoic. Here we see, smell and feel how the landscape, vegetation and animals changed. This large wall graphic has specimens imbedded into it, peepholes to find out which dinosaurs lived in which time period and even the prevailing scent of the time.
Late Triassic - 225 million years ago
Middle Jurassic - 175 million years ago
Early Cretaceous - 125 million years ago
Late Cretaceous - 75 million years ago
The globes above the illustrations show how the continents changed position over time. This didn't only occur in the Mesozoic, but is happening right now. The Earth's crust may feel solid and stable, but it is actually a slowly moving 'jigsaw' of continental plates (that move about the same speed as your fingernails grow). These plates collide into or move away from each other, resulting in the continual creation and destruction of the crust.
Dinosaurs lived alongside a changing and diverse array of animals. Some were bizarre-looking creatures that we only know from fossils. Others were the ancestors of animals you see today. This section features many specimens that lived alongside the dinosaurs, on the land, in the air and in the water. Specimens you will see in this section include: fish, mayfly nymphs, cockroaches, dragonflies, ammonites, crabs, lobsters, turtles etc.
Pteranodon was a short-tailed pterosaur. Pterosaurs used all four limbs for flying and had relatively light bodies and hollow bones.
'Eric' the pliosaur probably lived like a modern seal, eating fish and swimming in shallow waters. 'Eric' had a small body, long neck and small head. 'Eric' was named after a Monty Python comedy sketch in which all the animals were called Eric. This important specimen was found by an opal miner in 1987.
At the beginning of the Mesozoic, Gondwana formed the southern part of the single continent Pangaea. When Pangaea split about 200 million years ago, Gondwana began its own isolated journey and gradual break-up into the landmasses we know today - Australia, South America, Africa, India, Madagascar, Antarctica and New Zealand.
A highlight of this section is the reconstruction of a scene from Lightning Ridge in the Early Cretaceous. At that time, Lightning Ridge was on the edge of the Antarctic Circle. Temperatures were cool, although not as cold as the Antarctic region today, particularly in winter. Mild summers, harsh winters, long periods of darkness and remarkable animals and plants adapted to life on the edge of the polar zone.
Just as remarkable is that some of these animals and plants were preserved as rare opalised fossils. The fossils on display here are a highlight of the Australian Museum collections.
Muttaburrasaurus had an unusual skull with a bony bump on the snout. The skin over the snout may have inflated to make loud calls or could have been brightly coloured and used for display purposes. Muttaburrasaurus could have walked on two or four limbs, and probably stood on its back legs to reach food. This large plant-eater probably ate cycads, which were common at the time, and also club-mosses, ferns and podocarps. It may have lived in herds.
Section 2: Dinosaur Life
... from diet to defence, senses to sounds and pack-hunting to herding. How can we reconstruct all this from fossils?
A life among plants
Predator and prey - the Winton trackway
Dinosaur Life is the largest of the four sections and includes many full- sized specimens, models and interactive activities as well as two huge wall projections recreating the environment of the dinosaurs. Visitors are encouraged to explore the methods scientists use to uncover 'how we know what we know' about dinosaurs. There are opportunities to touch specimens, compare dinosaurs to modern animals, make the sound of a dinosaur, see like a dinosaur, stand in a dinosaur footprint and much more.
Plant-eating dinosaurs dominated the landscape, far outnumbering their carnivorous counterparts.
One way to learn about what dinosaurs ate is by examining their teeth and jaws and comparing them to modern animals whose diets we know. There are opportunities to see a variety of different teeth and explore some questions:
Who had teeth for grinding?
Who had teeth for snipping?
Who had leaf- shaped teeth?
Who had teeth at the back but not at the front?
Who didn't chew their food but swallowed stones to help break up their food?
Plant fossils indicate what food was available to dinosaurs. They also show how food options changed over time. Rare fossils on display reveal specific diets in ways that plants and teeth cannot. For instance, the ankylosaur Minmi was found with seeds and leaves in its gut contents, whereas twigs, berries and tough plants were found in the stomach region of a hadrosaur.
Life in a crowd
Many plant-eating dinosaurs lived, walked (and stepped on each others toes and tails), and died together. The evidence for this can be seen in communal nesting sites, bone injuries, trackways and bone-beds. What does this mean for our understanding of dinosaur life?
Psittacosaurus probably lived in social groups and cared for young. A fossil of an adult with a crèche of 34 juveniles was found in China.
We know from research that living in herds is complex. Animals need to recognise who's who, fight for social positions and compete for mates. Success at these requires strength or size, display features like horns or antlers, or adopting certain behaviours. If we can detect any of these in dinosaur fossils, it suggests they faced similar concerns - and that we need to take another look at their spikes, horns and fancy headgear.
Chasmosaurus lived in large herds. Bone-beds containing the remains of 200-300 animals have been found.
Parasaurolophus had crests that fully developed at maturity and may have varied in size depending on the sex. It is possible that this skull was male, although this is debated. It is also likely that crests helped produce distinctive sounds. These factors suggest this species lived in social groups where communication and display were important.
Helmet or headdress?
It sounds like a fancy dress party gone wrong: horns, dome-heads, crests, frills, noise, head-butting and rivalry. But they are really about using your head and some plant-eating dinosaurs excelled at it. For years we thought dinosaurs only used their head adornments for defence against predators. However, the growing evidence from fossils and modern animal behaviour has revealed they were used for much more than that. Do you think these features were more suited for surviving an attack from a predator or the complexities of life in a herd?
Stegosaurus fossils are rare and there is no evidence yet for social behaviour. They fed on ground-level ferns, cycads and seeds. Their jaw structure suggests they probably did not chew their food. The plates of Stegosaurus were most likely embedded in the skin along their back in a double-row of alternating plates. This may have helped regulate their body temperature. This species also had bony neck armour, probably for protection from sharp cycad leaves rather than from predators.
Like all ankylosaurs, Minmi had longer back legs than front legs. This moved its centre of gravity forwards, providing extra stability when assuming a defensive posture. However, its legs were longer than other ankylosaurs so it may have moved faster. It lacked the tail-club of most ankylosaurids. There is no evidence that Minmi lived in herds. Fossilised gut contents show it ate seeds and leaves of flowering plants.
Armour or amour?
Armoured skin, body spikes, plates and clubbed tails - just try to sink your teeth into that!
Stegosaurs and ankylosaurs were built for defence. The ankylosaurs took it to the extreme, with thickened skulls, fused vertebrae and compact bodies earning them the nickname 'nature's tanks'.
Interestingly, there is no evidence that either group lived in herds so reliance on self-defence makes sense. However, nothing is quite as simple as it seems. Some of these features may also have been used for mating displays, regulating body temperatures, or to help recognise others of their species.
The carnivores
These are the sharp-toothed, ferocious dinosaurs of popular imagination - the ultimate predators built purely to kill. Or are they? Collectively known as theropods, they range from bus-sized to chicken-sized, and include the outlandish parrot-faced, feathered, toothless and ostrich-like.
The teeth of meat-eaters are adapted for killing and eating specific types of animals, be they insects, fish, reptiles or mammals. We can determine the likely diet of a meat-eating dinosaur by making comparisons with living animals. Look at how the teeth of these modern carnivores differ, depending on what they eat.
Getting a sense of your prey
Modern predators such as cats, owls and wolves use their excellent vision, hearing or sense of smell to detect prey. What senses do you think dinosaurs used? Lift the flaps of the Giganotosaurus to find out how dinosaurs used their senses.
Put your head in the vision-viewer and see like a theropod (top). How is it different from the way your plant-eating prey sees (bottom)?
So just how big was T. rex's brain? For its body weight, the brain size of T. rex was comparable to many modern reptiles. A cast of the brain reveals that it had enlarged olfactory lobes, the part of the brain responsible for the sense of smell. This sense must have been important to T. rex.
Attack!
The ability to overpower another animal requires a combination of strength, speed, balance and weaponry. The theropods displayed in this section have the same general body plan - powerful lightweight frames, two relatively long legs, stiff counter-balancing tails and sharp claws - for this purpose. Now take a closer look. Theropods also vary in body size, arm length, skull structure and claw shape. This suggests they used different methods to overpower prey. By looking closely at these features, and comparing them to those of modern predators, we can detect what these methods may have been. Try it yourself with the claws displayed. Can you work out which were used for killing, for catching or for subduing prey?
Velociraptor was a small and agile meat-eater. One fossil specimen from Mongolia preserves it locked in death with its prey Protoceratops. There is no evidence that it hunted in packs, although some of its close relatives did. Velociraptor had many bird-like characteristics, including long arms, feathers and a wishbone. It had a specialised claw on the second toe that it held off the ground when walking. This claw may have been used to pierce or hold on to prey.
Compare the amount of food required by a herbivore and a carnivore and remember
what goes in must come out ... so don't miss the poo pile!
Our picture of the lone predator is changing. Recent fossil discoveries suggest some lived in co-operative packs, raised their young and were probably quite social. This helps shatter the 'built purely to kill' stereotype, but creates a whole new set of questions. Were groups family-based, male- or female-dominated, or something else? Did they hunt in packs or compete for social positions and mates? Fossils, although intriguing, cannot provide clear answers. Our only insights come from living predators - which simply tell us that theropods could have interacted in any number of ways.
Giganotosaurus displaced Tyrannosaurus rex as the largest meat-eating dinosaur when its discovery was announced in 1995. Giganotosaurus possibly lived in family groups, as at least four of these dinosaurs of varying ages were found in a fossil bone-bed in Argentina.
The odd ones out
Just when you thought you could tell a meat-eater by its sharp teeth! The theropods described here have unusual features that make it difficult to determine what they ate. They include the beaked and toothless oviraptorosaurs, the ostrich-like filter-feeding ornithomimosaurs and the enigmatic therizinosaurs.
Oviraptorosaurs like Ingenia were meat-eaters with no teeth. They had relatively large heads with short, deep beaks and jaw muscles powerful enough to crush bones. They may also have eaten plants, molluscs and eggs.
Footprints and trackways
Imagining dinosaurs in motion is to bring them truly to life. Mere fossils now become lumbering, bulky, fleet-footed, agile, four-legged, two-legged or even bird-like. How is this transformation possible? What techniques do we use to put muscles on bones and movement into skeletons? Take a walk through the evidence...
Footprint of a large theropod
Footprint of a small ornithopod
Skeletons and muscles
Look at living animals and you see how skeletons, and the muscles that power them, reveal varying ways of getting around. Fast animals have long limbs, light-weight skeletons and streamlined bodies. Slow animals tend to have weight-bearing legs and bulky bodies. We can find out whether a dinosaur was fast, lumbering or bird-like by comparing its fossil bones to living animals. We can also reconstruct its approximate weight, bone strength and structure and use these to determine its movement and speed capabilities.
Look at the three footprints on the floor. Could you outrun the meat-eating dinosaur that made this trackway?
Lifecycles - from go to woe
Dinosaur life started out in a hard-shelled egg. These came in a variety of shapes and sizes depending on the species, but all had shells with internal structures more similar to modern bird eggs than to those of any living reptile. Most were laid in nests of mud or hollows scooped in sand, although some sauropods appeared to lay their eggs in simple lines. Large nesting colonies have also been found, suggesting breeding was social for some species - just like many birds today.
Check out the size of this egg!
Aepyornis maximus egg. This extinct bird laid some of the largest eggs of any known animal. This egg is close to the maximum size for an egg.
It appears that dinosaurs cared for their eggs and hatchlings in different ways, just like living animals. Some species probably left the young to fend for themselves while others used their bodies to incubate or protect their eggs. Many nested in rookeries and a few even practised communal creching with hatchlings - typical bird behaviours. Imagine a mother dinosaur regurgitating food for her young!
Maiasaura nest with eggs and hatchlings Maiasaura, whose name means 'good mother lizard', has one of the most complete records regarding eggs, embryos, nests and juveniles of any dinosaur. Evidence shows they used communal nesting grounds and tended their newly hatched young. The young also grew quickly, reaching about three metres in length after one year.
Many dinosaurs, particularly large theropods, hadrosaurs and sauropods, probably grew very quickly during the early years of life and slowed as they reached adulthood. However, it appears they had unique growth patterns that were faster than living reptiles but slower than most mammals or birds...Compare yourself to the size of a dinosaur at birth, 5 years and fully grown, featured on the wall graphic.
Dead as a dinosaur!
In living animals, life span depends mainly on size and metabolism. For instance, reptiles with slow metabolisms tend to have longer life spans than warm-blooded birds and mammals of the same size. As evidence suggests that many dinosaurs had metabolisms more like birds, they probably did not have the same relative life spans as large reptiles. It is possible that sauropods reached 50-100 years, large theropods a bit less and smaller dinosaurs could live to about 10 or 20.
We can never witness the awesome reality of a dinosaur stalking and attacking its prey. However, one fossil trackway near Winton in Queensland gives us the rare opportunity to reconstruct such a moment - to 'relive' the movement, reactions, fear and panic.
In the early 1960s a local grazier uncovered some odd-shaped footprints preserved in rock. Later excavations revealed that these footprints - over 3000 of them - were left by dinosaurs on the shore of a lake about 95 million years ago.
Look carefully at the fossil on display and decide:
How many different kinds of prints can you see?
Did the prey run towards or away from the predator?
What do you think happened here?
Now watch the projection and see the story come to life.
Section 3: Discovering Dinosaurs
... from the initial discovery, to preparation, dating and putting flesh on the bones. How do science, art and chance recreate the past?
What are fossils and where are they found?
How do fossils form?
How are fossils found?
How are fossils excavated and dated?
Dinosaur reconstruction
The word 'fossil' comes from the Latin word fossus, which means 'dug up'. This refers to the fact that fossils are the remains of past life preserved in rock, soil or amber. Generally, the remains were once the hard parts of an organism, such as bones and shell although, under exceptional circumstances, soft tissues have also fossilised. There are different types of fossils because remains can be preserved in a variety of ways. In this section you will see examples of trace fossils, mineralised fossils, impression fossils and fossils with organic material preserved.
Replacement of organic material in bone with minerals - dinosaur femur (leg bone).
For a plant or animal to become a fossil, a series of events must occur. The remains have to be buried before they completely decompose or are eaten. The conditions of burial must then be suitable for the remains to leave an impression or have their organic material replaced by minerals. Finally, the fossils must survive millions of years of pressure, uplift and erosion if they are to come back to the surface.
Fossils are mostly found where sedimentary rocks of the right age - which for dinosaurs is the Mesozoic - are exposed. The best places are river valleys, cliffs and hillsides, and human-made exposures such as quarries and road cuttings.
Background research enables scientists to locate and excavate suitable sedimentary rocks. Chance also plays a role as many fossils are found accidentally by bushwalkers, construction workers, miners and farmers.
Specimens of different rock types are displayed along with a jacketed fossil.
Most of the time, fossils are only partially uncovered on site. They are removed individually or in blocks and often protected by plaster jackets before being taken back to a laboratory.
Fieldwork also includes preserving the context of the fossils through mapping, photographing, recording and collecting rock samples. This helps determine how and when the remains were buried, and what other animals and plants lived at the same time.
Humerus (upper forelimb) of a 75-million-year-old ceratopsian, Centrosaurus apertus, still in its plaster jacket. The fossil was excavated in Canada and covered in plaster to protect it during transport to the Australian Museum.
Dino lab
Most of what we know about dinosaurs comes from work done in the lab. It is here that the mass of information held in fossils is 'read' - a fascinating yet, at times, frustrating job that involves science and detective work and the acceptance that there are things we may never know.
This area is a replica of a working palaeontology lab where you can see a fossil slab, the tools used to excavate, the stages of excavation, microscope, computer interactives where you will have the opportunity to design your own dinosaur, reference books and more. A slide show traces the journey of our fossil slabs from the Canadian site where they were found, back to Australia.
Nigersaurus is an important discovery as it provides exciting new evidence that diplodocoids (the sauropod group it belongs to) were not completely extinct by the Late Jurassic, but survived into the Cretaceous period on southern continents like Africa. The jaws are wider than the actual skull and packed with nearly 1000 tiny teeth.
Also in this area you will find:
a children's fossil dig - unearth and try to identify which fossils you've found
dress-ups - try on the tail and headdress of a dinosaur
books - find out more facts about dinosaurs
a large wooden puzzle - put together the pieces and make a Stegosaurus.
Section 4: Surviving Dinosaurs
... icons of failure or modern success stories? What really happened 65 million years ago?
-Living dinosaurs
-End of an era - mass extinction
Living dinosaurs
In this section we explore the links between birds and dinosaurs.
The idea that birds evolved from dinosaurs is not new. It was first suggested in the 1860s after the famous fossil discovery of the primitive bird Archaeopteryx. Gradually falling from favour, the theory was resurrected by a series of new discoveries including spectacular feathered dinosaurs found in the 1990s. In the same way that we evolved from a mammal ancestor and are mammals, birds evolved from a dinosaur ancestor and are dinosaurs.
Discovered in the 1860s, Archaeopteryx was the first fossil evidence linking birds to dinosaurs. It had feathers like modern birds and a skeleton with features like a small non-avian dinosaur. Although it is the earliest and most primitive bird known to date, it is not considered the common ancestor of all birds.
The discovery of Sinosauropteryx prima in 1996 was one of the most important fossil finds of the century. It was the first non-avian dinosaur found with feather-like structures, providing further evidence for the link between dinosaurs and birds. Its name means 'first Chinese lizard wing'.
Modern birds, early birds and coelurosaur dinosaurs share many physical features:
hollow and thin-walled bones
modified shoulder and forelimb enabling hands to fold against the lower arm
modified wrist (semilunate carpal)
Check out the amazing Bambiraptor.
End of an era - mass extinction
The Mesozoic came to an abrupt end 65 million years ago in a dramatic extinction event. An estimated 70 per cent of plant and animal species perished.
Many theories have been suggested for its cause. The few that are accepted as scientifically valid are placed into two opposing groups. The 'catastrophists' believe the mass extinction happened suddenly due to a meteorite impact. The 'gradualists' consider it was prolonged and caused by climate change or volcanic activity, with the meteorite only providing the final blow.
Examine the evidence provided and decide what you think happened 65 million years ago.
Extinction Film
Impact layer
This rock sample from New Zealand shows the layer formed during the end-Mesozoic extinction event. Over 200 extinction layer sites around the world have produced elevated levels of the metal iridium. Iridium is rare in the Earth's crust but relatively common in meteorites.
The Wheel of Misfortune
Who survived? Who didn't? Put 'your' 'life' on the line and give the wheel a whirl!
Survival?
Finding out what caused the mass extinction is one thing. How and why some groups of animals survived when others did not is another. Unfortunately, gaps in the fossil record and our knowledge about the extinction event mean we may never have all the answers. Even finding a dinosaur under a lump of meteorite only explains what happened to that individual.
A few patterns do emerge. Life in the seas was hardest hit. Many groups of land animals that were either large or warm-blooded, such as non-avian dinosaurs, pterosaurs and primitive birds, also suffered severe losses. Those that survived tended to live in freshwater rivers or lakes, were small, had widespread distributions or were cold-blooded.
Watch out for the escaping dinosaurs flying overhead!
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Wild Planet self guided program
Australian Museum as a Site Study-Stages 4-6
Artlook self guided program
Visual Arts, Science
Surviving Australia self guided program
Surviving Australia
Stage 1 - Stage 3
Surviving Australia exhibition guide for teachers
Exhibition guide
The Cultural Kilometre
200 Treasures: Storytelling through objects educator led program
With a focus on enquiry skills, students will handle and investigate real and replica mystery objects from varying cultures.
English, Geography, History
Australia's First Scientists educator led program
Students explore science through Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultural artefacts.
Geography, History, Science
Invertebrate Animals educator led program
This session gives students a hands-on experience with real invertebrate specimens from our collections.
Rocks and Minerals educator led program
This session will give students the opportunity to explore real rocks and minerals.
English, Geography, Maths, Science
Dinosaurs educator led program
This session allows students to get a hands-on experience with real and cast fossils as they learn how scientists find out about dinosaurs.
English, Maths, Science
First Australians galleries educator led program
Explore the history and culture of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples through this guided tour.
Geography, History, Science, Visual Arts
School students explore the history and culture of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples through this guided tour.
Geography, History
Animal adaptations: Past to present educator led program
During this session students will investigate animal specimens and cast fossils to learn about features which help animals to survive.
English, Science
Earth & Environmental Science Fossils educator led program
In this session students investigate the diversity of Australian Megafauna and possible causes for their extinction.
Fascinating Fossils educator led program
Students investigate real and cast fossils through hands-on activities in this Museum educator led program.
Aboriginal Fibres and Weaving educator led program
This hands on workshop introduces students to traditional Aboriginal weaving techniques used to create dilly bags, fishing line and nets.
English, History, Maths, Science
Animal Adaptations: The effects of climate change educator led program
This session allows students to get hands-on and investigate how changes to weather and climate are impacting Australian animals.


So I thought to share my story, triggered by the workshop that Steve Bynghall and Chris Tubb hosted at the recent edition of IntranetNow. They showed their newly developed "Intranet and Digital Workplace Skills Matrix" which can be used to help teams determine if all relevant skills are covered and if not, which gaps need to be filled.
But…it can also be a useful and fun exercise for yourself. In the workshop, Steve and Chris asked us to mark those boxes where we have experience. It was interesting to see that I have worked in each of the 5 categories and I think I was the only one who could say that. I usually describe my work as "helping people with using SharePoint and Office365" but within that definition I appear to have had very different roles over the years.
After 20 years in new (food) product development, I started a role in Knowledge Management in the same organization, which at that time focused on new product development. Part of the project meant I had to share the outcomes on the intranet. This ticked a number of boxes in the Content and Communication "arm" mainly.
During my Knowledge Management project I met the intranet team and they asked me to help them create more awareness and use of the intranet. In this role I tried to make people aware of the intranet and how people could use it for themselves. I also did some basic troubleshooting, support and training. At that time (around 2003 or so) intranets were generally custom-built and options were limited – apart from a Frontpage website, a home-built "document cabinet" and a Forum tool there was not much else. Still, in an international organization even these limited tools helped to share information with colleagues in other locations and businesses, so a number of people were very active on the intranet.
The boxes ticked made a shift to the right.
Skillset moving to the right in my second role.
That was a wonderful job which taught me a great deal about business processes AND about SharePoint!
Business Analysis and requirements specification was a large part of my third role.
After being made redundant as result of a reorganization, I found another job at a multinational organization. My role was to act as the site collection administrator, making sure procedures around customizatons were adhered to, the site collection did not grow too large (yes dear reader, in that 2007 SharePoint each site collection was allowed 2 GB, which is not much in current standards), doing housekeeping on empty sites etc. I also configured sites, did troubleshooting and gave advice and trainings.
When we had launched our new intranet on SharePoint Online, I was part of the support team, figuring out issues with permissions, document management, pages and web parts, Yammer and Video. I also curated and created help materials and was in charge of a successful Yammer group on Office365, where we answered questions and informed people about changes in functionality or issues, and where people shared tips and tricks.
My last role at that organization was to help people use the various elements of their digital workplace. The focus was on Office 365 but other all-employee tools were in scope as well, such as Adobe Creative suite license changes and a new password reset system. I was helping with software launches and changes by figuring out how much and what type of adoption effort was needed, finding help materials (or creating them if they were not available) and providing communication and training to local support people.
A few months ago I had the opportunity to change jobs..in a big way! After 35 years of working in multinational commercial manufacturing organizations, I now work in an all-Dutch mental health care organization.
I am still providing second line support, I am an Office 365 portal administrator, I help people understand all tools within Office 365, I invent solutions for awkward processes, I create training materials if I can not find them in Dutch, co-decide which of the endless changes in functionality needs to be communicated, and everything else about Office 365.
Currently needed skills – quite a wide range, which is great!
You can see some skills coming back in almost every role. Of course I have my personal interests that I try to incorporate into each role. But also my (then) existing skillset and earlier experience have influenced the boxes that I have selected. I always try to create a role with maximum interest and learning opportunities for myself.
I can heartily recommend this to get an insight into your own career. Give it a try!


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MEDIA & TECHNOLOGY, PRIVACY, SOCIAL MEDIA, THE INTERNET, THE ISSUES
Before MARCH 1ST: How To Delete Your Google Browsing History Before Privacy Changes
Posted by LadyKBrandt ⋅ February 28, 2012 ⋅ Leave a comment
Filed Under Browsing, Data, Delete, Electronic Frontier Foundation, Federal Trade Commission, Gmail, Google, Google Web History, History, How To, Privacy, Privacy policy, YouTube
via John Thomas Didumus, Digital Journal
With just days to go before Google changes to its new privacy policy that allows it to gather, store and use personal information, users have a last chance to delete their Google Browsing History, along with any damning information therein.
Tech News Daily reports that once Google's new unified privacy policy takes effect all data already collected about you, including search queries, sites visited, age, gender and location will be gathered and assigned to your online identity represented by your Gmail and YouTube accounts. After the policy takes effect you are not allowed to opt out without abandoning Google altogether. But now before the policy takes effect, you have the option of deleting your Google Web History by modifying your settings so that Google is unable to associate data collected about you with your Gmail or YouTube accounts.
Tech News Daily reports that Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), a nonprofit organization based in San Francisco that advocates for online privacy, says: "Search data can reveal particularly sensitive information about you, including facts about your location, interests, age, sexual orientation, religion, health concerns, and more."
EFF advises all Google users to delete their web history.
Meanwhile, Center for Digital Democracy has filed a complaint with the Federal Trade Commission, asking the Commission to sue Google to stop the policy change. Tech News Daily reports FTC can impose fines up to $16,000 per day for violation.
Daily Mail reports that deleting your browsing history before March 1 when Google's new privacy policy comes into effect will limit Google's ability to track and record your every move online. The process is simple. Follow the steps below:
1. Go to the google homepage and sign into your account.
2. Click the dropdown menu next to your name in the upper-right hand corner of your screen.
3. Click accounts settings
4. Find the "Services section"
5. Under "Services" there is a sub-section that reads "View, enable, disable web history." Click the link next to it that reads: "Go to Web History."
6. Click on "Remove all Web History"
When you click on "Remove all Web History," a message appears that says " Web History is Paused." What this means is that while Google will continue gathering and storing information about your web history it will make all data anonymous, that is, Google will not associate your Web History information with your online accounts and will therefore be unable to send you customized search results.
Google's ability to gather personalized information about you by assigning data to your Gmail and YouTube accounts will remain "Paused" till you click "Resume."
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Rescued Dog Was Too Weak To Walk — But His Tail Never Stopped Wagging
Now he's like a whole new dog.
There's a lot we can learn from the resilient spirit of a formerly mistreated dog -and this pup named Tarzan is certainly no exception.
Volunteers from Hope for Paws, a California-based animal rescue group, recently came to aid of the frightened stray, who'd been living for weeks in brambles on the side of a freeway. It's unclear how he came to be there, desperately clinging to life all alone, but he seemed to understand the moment when his sad ordeal was finally drawing to an end.
Suddenly, he never stopped wagging his tail, as this touching video of his rescue shows.
Tarzan's story, of course, doesn't end here; he still needs to find a forever home of his own. To learn about adopting him, contact his caretakers at Road Dogs and Rescue.
To help support more rescues like this one, consider making a donation to Hope for Paws.