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19 March 2011
I wanted to play with the sunlight on splashing water. Even though the conditions were not the greatest I think I got a few decent shots.
I am going to play with this more.
Sequentially numbered buses and the only buses liveried with an advert for Edinburgh Zoo "The Lemur bus - we like to move it move it!"
Sequentially numbered Death Star dash 2's have tied onto the headend to give some extra muscle to get a manifest over the hill. A little less than 40 years separate the build dates of this ex-BN pair and the new Tier 4 right behind them as they start the grind up and over Byron.
Knottingley depot
DB liveried lickey banker 66055
and
EWS liveried lickey banker 66056
await next duties.
Sequentially numbered Class 90's 048 & 049 also provide a contrast in liveries, with 049 in what is now the previous 'Heavyhaul' livery and 048 in the current Genesee & Wyoming orange/black.
The last two Central Railroad of New Jersey GP40s in passenger service on NJ Transit are staged in the depot prepared to head west as they have been doing over the last 48 years since they arrived new to the CNJ in 1968.
Hoboken Terminal, Hoboken, NJ
NJTR GP40PH-2 4100 (CNJ GP40P 3681)
NJTR GP40PH-2 4101 (CNJ GP40P 3672)
The helpers on X-6228W is UP 3300/3301. 3300 was still looking pretty sharp in this view from November 30, 1996.
High potential? Parents want to know
Psychological examinations are increasingly common to identify gifted children. It’s a trend that hides a complex reality, as gifted children can also be prone to failure.
Enéa gets good marks. But she disturbs the class, talks a lot and complains often. This situation surprises her mother, Stéphanie Laurent. At home, this seven-year old schoolgirl from Lausanne is quiet, responsible and not the type to bother others. What’s wrong? School. Enéa is bored. A teacher friend advised Stéphanie Laurent to enter her daughter for tests to determine whether she was “high potential”. And the result came back positive.
High potential (HP) children are referred to as gifted or precocious. They are sometimes compared with child prodigies, which is one reason for the increase in requests for psychological examinations. “Interest in these tests is growing,” states Pierre Fumeaux, a child psychiatrist at Lausanne University Hospital who is currently conducting a study on the subject. “A few years ago when parents or teachers had to deal with a difficult student, they would ask the doctor if the child was hyperactive. Now the term ‘high potential’ has taken centre stage in the media.” Contrary to popular belief, gifted is not always synonymous with success. High potential children can also be prone to failure.
A different brain
To be diagnosed as “HP”, an individual has to obtain a score of at least 130 on IQ tests. “But the score isn’t enough,” explains Claudia Jankech, a psychotherapist in Lausanne specialised in child and teenager psychology. “We also need to understand their family and social context and their personality.”
Surprisingly, a high number of HP children have trouble in school. “When it’s too easy for them, they get used to being on autopilot,” says the psychologist. “They’ve never learnt how to learn.” These difficulties are partly due to what specialists call arborescent thinking. “Normal people develop logical reasoning through linear, sequential thinking. However, the thought process in HP children is like fireworks exploding with ideas and impressive intuition. They can solve complex equations but will have difficulty explaining how they came up with the answer,” explains Pierre Fumeaux.
Surprisingly, a high number of HP children have trouble in school. “When it’s too easy for them, they get used to being on autopilot,” says the psychologist. “They’ve never learnt how to learn.”
Studies suggest that HP children’s brains function differently. Information moves better between the two cerebral hemispheres. “We assume that they use both their left and right brains easily and have excellent abilities in both logic and creativity,” says the child psychiatrist. “Other work has shown that HP children can more easily juggle with concepts and think in the abstract, such as performing mental calculations. “In a functional MRI, a dye is injected to highlight the areas of the brain with the highest blood flow.
Using a scanner, we can then see which areas are activated,” Pierre Fumeaux explains. “A stimulus or given task will activate certain areas of the brain in normal individuals. In HP children, sometimes several larger areas are activated at the same time,” he adds. These indicators help doctors understand how an HP mind works. “But our knowledge in neuroscience remains limited,” the researcher admits. “Being high potential is not an illness, but a special cognitive ability. And that’s not a priority for researchers.”
INTERVIEW: “The methods of diagnosis are debatable”
In a survey conducted on gifted children, the French sociologist Wilfried Lignier noted that specialists do not agree about the tests designed to diagnose giftedness.
In Vivo You observe that most gifted children don’t have difficulty in school or psychological problems. Why then do parents have them take tests?
Wilfried Lignier These parents are very concerned that their children will face difficulties, whereas they actually have every chance of success. They think that the school’s assessment is not enough. Psychology offers greater legitimacy for their concerns.
IV You approach giftedness as a “debated and debatable” issue. Why?
WL Many psychologists don’t recognise giftedness mainly because they doubt the credibility of IQ tests. These tests are meant to assess something other than academic skills, but in form they are quite similar to the exercises performed in school. Furthermore, children also have this impression. After the test is over, some say that they did well in the “maths” section, referring to the logical reasoning, or the “language” section, referring to the vocabulary. Being so similar to exercises done in school, these tests contradict the idea that intelligence isn’t the same as academic performance. Yet most of the social repercussions expected from test results are based on the idea that they tell a truth that school does not.
IV You show that the diagnosis swings in favour of one gender. How do you explain that high potential is more often diagnosed in boys?
WL Parents tend to express greater concern about their future, as it more readily carries their hopes of upward social mobility. The fact that boys have greater chances of having “symptoms”, such as openly expressing their boredom or not being able to stay still, also plays a role.
Hyper-sensitivity
HP children also typically have emotional characteristics featuring high sensitivity or a high level of empathy. Stéphanie Laurent’s two other children, boys, have also been diagnosed as high potential. “Nathael, age six, cries at Christmas because poor people are cold and have nothing to eat.” His hyper-sensitivity distresses him. “It can take on huge proportions. At one point, Mathys, age eight, felt unreasonable fear because he knew that there was a core on fire at the centre of the earth.” Myriam Bickle Graz, a developmental paediatrician at Lausanne University Hospital who wrote a thesis on the subject, says, “The children seen at consultations were often overwhelmed by their emotions. For some, it was incredibly difficult; they have no filter,” she explains. “The fear of death, for example, comes very early.” They develop symptoms such as anxiety, sleep disorders, strained relationships with other children and aggression.
THE HAPPIEST HP CHILDREN ARE THOSE WHO ARE NOT IDENTIFIED AS SUCH AND MANAGE TO ADAPT.
As in the Laurent family, there are often several gifted siblings. “Not all siblings are necessarily going to be HP, but there is a certain degree of genetic heritage. However, that hasn’t been proven scientifically,” explains Myriam Bickle Graz. “It remains a clinical observation.”
Although some high potential children suffer, the majority of them lead normal lives. As summed up by Pierre Fumeaux, “the happiest HP children are those who are not identified as such and manage to adapt.”
Arborescent thinking deploying in several directions, simultaneously, extremely fast and without boundaries. While it is a important source of creativity, it also implies: Difficulties to identify relevant information; all these thoughts in all directions may be confusing when the child is faced with a question, a problem or a task at school, An absolute need to organise these thoughts within a sturdy frame so that the child feels affectively, emotionally and socially secure. A “global” information processing system, with analogic and intuitive thinking. While it enables a very rich and deep understanding, with photographic memory, it also implies: Serious difficulties to adapt to the traditional schooling systems which treat information in details and sequentially (one thing after the other), An inability to develop arguments or justify their reasoning. Gifted children usually can’t explain their results, they consider the answers obvious, they know intuitively. The necessity to use in parallel the traditional school learning methods and their own knowledge aquisition systems; they do not want to feel useless, rejected or stupid. A thinking mode that needs meaning to function and complexity to develop and bloom. While it is an endless source of information data stored in an exceptional memory, it also implies: Difficulties or even refusal to acquire skills or information which they consider useless, too simple or not exciting enough to justify their attention and efforts, Constant challenges of established rules and norms, to satisfy their needs for meaning, To “learn how to learn” while taming their impatience through inventive and stimulating methodologies, with deep enrichment on all subjects. A way of thinking constantly integrating affective aspects of its environment. While it is a rich incentive to learning, it also implies: Frustration, even rejection of some teachers whom they see as incompetent in their teaching methods or behaviours, Excessive, even pathological reactions if these children, who try to master their environment and their variations, cannot find reassurance. They are scared by what they do not understand and they know, from a very young age, many things that they cannot put in perspective due to their short life experience. A need for constant reassurance on their learning progress, with a learning methodology adapted to their needs and offering a long-term continuity and homogeneity, thus reducing affective disruptions as much as possible.
anhugar.wifeo.com/arborescent-way-of-thinking.php A difficulty encountered by many gifed children is the fact that they think in an arborescent way instead of a linear one. The usual teaching methods are linear - when forced to learn in that mode, gifted children need to make a lot of efforts to voluntarily slow-down their “processing” thinking pace.
Arborescent thinking is very adequate for gifted people; it allows them to use all their mental capacities and their knowledge simultaneously. However, it needs to be guided and framed otherwise their thinking takes them far away from the subject of that day.
Here is an example from Jeanne Siaud-Fachin: The teacher gives a spelling test. He dictates “the boat sails on the sea”. The gifted child will initially visualize an image of a boat on the sea before seeing the sentence made of 6 words. Following the image, her thoughts will go in all directions: well, it is not a good idea to sail today because there is a lot of wind are there any people on that boat? my friend Frank owns a boat, he’s lucky but his parents are divorced, that is not fun I hope my parents will never get divorced yet, Frank has twice as many presents for Christmas now that he has 2 homes which reminds me, I have not yet prepared a wish-list for Christmas etc. While the other children have finished writing the initial sentance, the gifted child does not remember it at all and if she’s pressed, she may write the last sentence that went through her head “ I have not yet prepared a wish-list for Christmas ”.
Also
www.talentdifferent.com/la-pensee-en-arborescence-901.htm...
www.asep-suisse.org/joomla/index.php?option=com_docman&am... (pdf) How to help such children overcome their ‘handicap’
From the main link in the title (translated from the French by Google Chrome, I think): Surprisingly, a high number of high potential children have trouble in school. “When it’s too easy for them, they get used to being on autopilot,” says the psychologist. “They’ve never learnt how to learn.” These difficulties are partly due to what specialists call arborescent thinking. “Normal people develop logical reasoning through linear, sequential thinking. However, the thought process in HP children is like fireworks exploding with ideas and impressive intuition. They can solve complex equations but will have difficulty explaining how they came up with the answer,” explains Pierre Fumeaux.
Surprisingly, a high number of HP children have trouble in school. “When it’s too easy for them, they get used to being on autopilot,” says the psychologist. “They’ve never learnt how to learn.”
Studies suggest that HP children’s brains function differently. Information moves better between the two cerebral hemispheres. “We assume that they use both their left and right brains easily and have excellent abilities in both logic and creativity,” says the child psychiatrist. “Other work has shown that HP children can more easily juggle with concepts and think in the abstract, such as performing mental calculations. “In a functional MRI, a dye is injected to highlight the areas of the brain with the highest blood flow.
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These four sequential images are of the Squirrel species that abide in our mountain retreat. We're at 9600 ft. msl in the Jemez Mountains of NM. This species in found mainly in the southern Rockies. Each of the four Corners States (AZ, AM, CO, and UT) include at least some mapped area for these Squirrels... most are found in New Mexico's mountains. They seem to favor the lower Ponderosa Pine forests up here... we're in a mixed conifer region and this species is regular, but not common, at this altitude. The tassles are a feature of adult Squirrels... this is an adult.
IMG_3826; Abert's Squirrel
the assignment was to make a 4 block statement...the first block is to be the name of your supposedly running strip work...I mention Oech in the bottom note...Roger Von Oech has written tons of books...a Whack In The Head is just one...
it's sure great to get some feedback here as I didn't get one instructor's remark that I know of, from the skool..on any class I took this term...learned some cool stuff, tho...
this type of "art" has been known as the "comics"...or I'd say "commentary" , such as Mad Magazine etc...with the graphic art novels, such as Ethel & Ernest by Raymond Briggs...a true story...it's a whole new exciting ball game. Comics And Sequential Art by Will Eisner would be worth buying for those who want to enjoy it, even more...rsvp if you have something to add ...
I am looking forward to trying a Day In The Life Of Me...assignment, next....
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Sequentially numbered Dash 9's 9499 and 9498 bracket a third Dash 9 sister as intermodal train 20T speeds east into Springfield, Illinois. In the background a large September moon prepares to set behind the western horizon.
NS 9499 - D9-44CW
NS 9287 - D9-44CW
NS 9498 - D9-44CW
Cockrell Lane - Springfield, IL
September 4, 2020
At the end of a week of sequential storms rolling into Northern California, 16 to 20 ft swells continued slamming the Northern California coast. Friday's clearing last week provided an opportunity to get to the Point Reyes coast in hopes of a dramatic clearing at sunset. I packed up camera gear, food, water and storm gear and drove to McClures. Read on in comments for what happened next.
When I arrived I was stunned by the dramatic and visceral release of energy as the wave fronts crashed and the surf advanced towards the seemingly indomitable bluffs, …Newton's three laws of motion all in full play. High storm tides, around 5 1/2 feet (about 3 to 4 feet above the mean high tide), greeted me at McClures Beach just before the peak height.
From a short distance below the foot of the trail, besides the vigorous fresh water flow from the adjacent drainage, I surveyed the the scene as far as I could to the north and south. Recalling a conversation I'd just had with some rangers at the trailhead, telling me that one of their colleagues had been chased ten paces, back up the trail, by a high rogue wave the day before, I wrestled internally if perhaps this might not be a good time to get settled in here with my trip. I was also keenly aware that a woman had been reported missing in the area, perhaps succumbing to the dangerous storm conditions at the beach. However, after observing the surf's reach for about 30 minutes and noticing that even the highest surf didn't reach the bluffs to the south of the trail, I found a spot in the shattered granite where I felt relatively safe to stage my gear and look for a decent composition (still not stellar at composition, but I'm learning). Relatively safe being perhaps a little misleading. I knew that a higher energy rogue wave surge could find its way to me if I was too low. Plus, the bluffs behind me had recently been actively yielding parts of themselves to the sea. So having made the perhaps risky choice to remain, I had to find a composition spot that had a secure escape route, depending on which direction the threat would come from. Having decided to wait until about an hour after high tide, I finished my lunch and enjoyed the full on wonder of the scene, the light gradually warming on the horizon, while I continued my internal dialog and alertness about the safety of the situation.
After trying to dial in a composition for some longer exposure shots, I finally found a suitable high spot where deep surf (y'know, just over my boots), hadn't reached in about 30 minutes. I was there for about 20 minutes trying to dial something in, often looking through the viewfinder (since my old D70s has no live view) constantly having to adjust exposure with advancing and receding white foam. For about 10 minutes, I clicked off a few exposures to try and capture the magic motion swirlies.
Then, …a split second following the above exposure, the surf was upon me. With what I thought would be no more than about a foot of water swirling at my feet, holding fast my tripod, I suddenly braced sideways to the sea and all was ok. The surf wasn't splashing high and my gear stayed dry. Hearing the message clearly, I started to lift my tripod to run up through the rocks an then, …the next wave's surf, perhaps 2 seconds behind the first, rose and surged around me. Yes, my back was turned. I know, never ever turn your back to seas like that. As time slowed down, I steeled myself for the water's energy, using two firmly planted vibramed feet, knees bent and core tight. Suddenly, the water had me. With right hand gripping tripod and camera, seconds lasting minutes, I lost my balance. As I was falling towards the rocks, my left hand reached out blindly into the surf, to find something, anything to arrest falling fully into the surging surf, soaking myself and likely ruining my camera and lens. Miraculously finding purchase with my left hand and holding a firm stance, the surf washed over my shoulders, seeking and rapidly finding openings in my storm gear. Instinctively hunting for more immediate stability, my left knee blindly dropped through the white surf to the rocks as I looked up at my camera. Yes! It was still out of the water! Confident I was not going to get pulled back to sea or bashed on the rocks, able to think instead of relying on survival instinct, I realized that I had been struggling to maintain my balance not just for myself but to keep my camera dry. As I looked up to the sky, there it was, held high at arms length like a trophy, made even higher by the tripod, enough to avoid the splashing surf around me. As the water receded, I carefully righted myself, buzzing and wide eyed from adrenaline, and confirmed I was uninjured and my gear was indeed dry. WOW! THAT was crazy! Amazed at my luck, I walked, dripping, back up to my staging spot, hyper-alert for more rogue attacks from the sea.
It wasn't that cold, so I removed all my wet gear to wring everything out. I discovered a couple scrapes and bruises, but it was nothing compared to the possibilities. Within about 20 minutes, with the tide having receded a bit more, I was dressed and ready to get back to what I went there for. Yes, I picked a slightly higher spot and rehearsed my escape. I clicked away until after sunset, remaining energized by my adventure and reviewing how lucky I was.
I know there are few folks in my Flickr community that love to photograph coastal locations. I think its safe to assume they're probably somewhat smarter than me. Although I think I've been sent a clear message and I count myself a little wiser now. Perhaps some of you have experienced similar adventures. Everyone please be careful out there.