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The T is for Training Meme

1) Your One Sentence Bio — Professor of practice and consultant focused on digitization, digital libraries, copyright, social media and web 2.0, and having fun doing it.

2) Do you blog? If yes, how did you come up with your blog name? — Yes, I blog. Both blog names play off of the idea that we need to learn and that learning starts at the beginning. Hence, Digitization 101 and eNetworking 101: The Blog.

3) What is your professional background? — I’ve worked in radio, IT and corporate libraries before striking out on my own as a consultant. Radio gave me more confidence for speaking in public. IT helped me understand technology and speak the lingo. Librarianship is what I wanted to do since fifth grade.

4) What training do you do? staff? patrons? types of classes? — Besides teaching graduate classes in the School of Information Studies at Syracuse University, I teach workshops to library staff members on digitization, social media and copyright.

5) What training do you think is most important to libraries right now — Connecting with users.

6) Where do you get your training? — A lot of my training has been on the job and learning from others, as well as diving into topics myself. I find interacting with people at conferences to be very helpful.

7) How do you keep up? — I used to say that I kept up by reading blogs, but I do more skimming than reading these days. I pick up info via Twitter, FriendFeed, podcasts, etc. There is so much I could read/listen to/watch that is it tough. I try to stay focused on the areas/topics that matter most but even then there is so much content.
What do you think are the biggest challenges libraries are facing right now? — Getting their users to advocate on their (libraries’) behalf for funding.

9) What are biggest challenges for trainers? — Staying ahead of people’s training needs.

10) What exciting things are you doing training wise? — Learning new technology to use in my classes.

11) What do you wish were you doing? — Living in Paris.

12) What would you do with a badger? — Have it tell me how long winter is going to last.

13) What’s your favorite food? — At this moment, coffee.

14) If you were stranded on an island, what one thing would you want to have with you? — Wifi

15) Do you know what happens when a grasshopper kicks all the seeds out of a pickle? — She eats it.

16) Post it notes or the back of your hand? — Post it notes.

17) Windows or Mac? — Windows.

18) Talk about one training moment you’d like to forget? — I’ve forgotten it already.

19) What’s your take on handshakes? — Better then being hugged by people I don’t know. Given recent germ activity, though, waving is perfect.

20) Global warming: yes or no — Yes.

21) How did you get into this line of work?

22) Why is the best part of your job? — No two days are the same.

23) Why should someone else follow in your shoes? — You get to interact with tons of people, have some influence over what they think/do, and have fun doing it.

24) Sushi or hamburger? — Sushi

25) LSW or ALA? — LSW

26) What one person in the world do you want to have lunch with and why? — Hard for me to narrow down to one person. I’d like to have lunch with someone like Greg Mortenson who has dedicated his life to making a corner of the world better. I remember seeing a news story about someone who was teaching street kids to skateboard in Afghanistan and bet that would be a fascinating lunch conversation!

27) What cell phone do you have and why? — iPhone. I’m been an AT&T/Cingular person for 10+ years and the iPhone just had my name written all over it! And it’s even better than I imagined.

PADI Course London: London Diving Makes Diving Lessons Fun

Article by Hall Andrew

Scuba diving enthusiasts and novices can rely on the experienced dive masters of London Diving to give them diving and swimming lessons recognized and approved by the world over. The diving team from London Diving has credentials for basic dive courses, and other PADI courses that offer variety and specialized training. A PADI Course London certification is awarded to all who have completed specific training under the supervision of experts who make diving lessons also fun.

London Diving offers several PADI courses. London diving courses for both adults, children and for individuals with special needs or disabilities are available while advanced courses include:* Rebreather* Instructor* Rescue diving* First aid* Scuba tune up* Master scuba diver* Divemaster

London Diving also offers tailor-made courses for individuals who want one-on-one instruction and elective dives such as underwater digital photography and videography, diver propulsion vehicle dive, dry suit dive, search and recovery, night dive, enriched air nitrox dive, and peak performance buoyancy dive. You have an option for combination deals that can be structured for an additional but minimal fee.

The London Diving school is ready to assist individuals make choices for elective dives based on their personal interests and professional concerns. Organized trips for open sea diving in other beaches outside London can be arranged.

Scuba Diving for Children

The London-based diving school also offers customized courses and hire out diving equipment for children from eight to ten years old. A requisite for children is, of course, the ability to swim. PADI course London experts are also adept at being able to instruct children, which make the lessons fun and the diving a memorable experience.

Children who finish the Seal Team course learn new skills, develop self-confidence in the water, meet new friends, and enjoy an experience of a lifetime in the scuba AquaMissions structured by London Diving. This is a fun-packed water activity at the pool with real diving to a depth of three metres. Completing five AquaMissions qualifies the child for the coveted Seal Team membership and the chance to join the Master Seal Team.

Before signing up fro the Master Seal Team, children have to present their Seal Team rating. For Master Seal Team, they have to complete ten AquaMissions and during the course, they learn new diving skills to prepare them for the Junior Open Water Diver course, a beginning incursion to adult diving or upgrade to Open Water Diver Certification from London Diving.

All Season Diving Lessons

The year-round diving lessons from London Diving makes it convenient for anyone who have weekends to spare or during certain times of the year to take advantage of the expertise of PADI certified DMs.

The PADI course London-based company like London Diving offers flexible modules for entry level and advanced courses, which make it easier for people with busy schedules, complete specific lessons. There are no pass and fail ratings for these diving courses and those interested can join the 2008 diving excursions to the Egyptian Red Sea, a treat for singles or couples who want to enjoy a diving holiday. Other diving destinations are the UK diving spots of Stoney Cove and Leicesterhire; a Malta diving weekend and a Philippines diving holiday in the premiere Puerto Gallera teeming with marine life.

Professional Diving School question by fukitol: So everyone can STOP asking!! You might be gay if…?
1. You regularly use the phrase “window treatment”.
2. Your kitchen drawer contains a shrimp de-veiner, a mushroom brush, or a lemon reamer.
3. You’re over thirty and thinner than you were in high school.
4. You know all the lyrics to any musical besides Jesus Christ Superstar.
5. Your Christmas decorations include dried roses or baby’s breath.
6. You know the difference between a “soundtrack” and an “original cast album”.
7. You tape Martha Stewart Living religiously.
8. The only professional sports you watch on TV are gymnastics, diving, and figure skating.
9. You know what a sconce is.
10. You have a pet named “Liza,” “Gypsy,” or “Talullah”.
11. You have more ties than teeth.
12. You know how to spell Barbra’s first name.
13. You’ve never felt the need to use Barbra’s last name.
14. You know whether Rogers or Hammerstein wrote the music.
15. You’ve ever watched the Miss America pageant and said, “Where did she get that dress?!”
16. It took you a while to realize that International Male was a catalog.
17. You’ve ever canceled a date because it conflicted with the Tony Awards.
18. You know the difference between “seafoam” and “celadon”.
19. Your video collection contains All About Eve, The Women, or Mommie Dearest.
20. You’ve ever been to a professional football game, spent the whole time watching the cheerleaders, and critiqued their performance.
21. You receive a floral arrangement and can name more than three flowers.
22. You’ve ever used the phrase “floral arrangement”.
23. Your Christmas stocking as a child contained bronzer or a moisturizer.
24. You know where to find tulle really cheap.
25. You can tie a bow tie on someone else.
26. You know whether Chita or Rita did the film version of West Side Story.
27. Your mother calls you for decorating tips.
28. The names Jeff Stryker, Ryan Idol or Casey Donovan mean anything to you at all.
29. You have “dress” sneakers.
30. You own more than two throw pillows, and they didn’t come with the couch.
31. You’ve ever seriously considered purchasing a divan.
32. You chose your socks this morning to bring out your eyes.
33. You use a Crate and Barrel bag as a lunch box.
34. The only reason you learned how to use the record function on your VCR was because it was male-strippers day on Donahue.
35. You know exactly where you were the night that Judy, Ethel or Lucy died.
36. Special K means something to you besides breakfast.
37. You own any article of clothing with the logo “2(x)ist”.
38. You still mourn the premature demise of Conran’s.
39. You’ve ever bought a Barbie doll for your niece’s birthday but her party comes and goes and she never actually opens up a Barbie
doll for a present.
40. You’ve ever walked down the street, had a dozen beautiful men say hello to you, and not been able to recall a single face or name.
41. You own a pair of kneepads yet play no organized sport.
42. You’ve ever uttered the phrases “Get her!,” “She’s a mess,” or “What’s her problem?”
43. You talk in italics.
44. You’ve ever needed a massage because you’d overworked your eyebrows.
45. You’ve ever even for a second wondered what size butt plug you’d take.
46. You simply hate the color lavender because it makes you look sallow.
47. You know a guy who swears that his brother-in-law was the admitting doctor in the emergency room when Richard Gere came in with a
gerbil up his butt.
48. You know for sure that Richard Gere isn’t gay because you know a guy who slept with Gere’s brother, who is gay and who swears
that Richard isn’t.
49. Someone says “How ’bout them Bulls?” and all you can think of are petite picadors in tight pants.
50. You see a sign for IKEA, Pottery Barn, or Hold Everything and your palms start to sweat.
51. You require two syllables to say “please,”.
52. Your pairs of shoes outnumber days of the week.
53. Your underwear drawer is filled with nothing but Calvin Klein, in assorted styles and colors.
54. You save the packaging materials from said Calvin Klein purchases.
55. At eighth grade dances you were the only boy who could stay on the beat.
56. You’ve ever, while walking down the street, executed an impromptu series of grande jetttes.
57. You still can’t get over the fact that Sunday in the Park with George lost out to La Cage Aux Folles in nearly every category in the 1984 Tony’s.
58. You’ve ever gone to a Mel Gibson movie, merely in the hope that he will repeat his butt-bearing performance in Lethal Weapon.
59. You’ve ever felt guilty at being attracted to someone as homophobic as Mel Gibson.
60. You know what Lyle Waggoner, Sam J. Jones, Christopher Atkins, Fabian, and Tommy Chong have in common.
61. You display in any public form a reproduction of Michaelangelo’s David.
62. You’ve ever trimmed your pubic hair to make “it” look bigger.
63. You’ve ever sighed with jealousy at the sight of a starlet in a feather boa.
64. You take a size-13 pump.
65. You own any chaps and they weren’t designed by Ralph Lauren.
66. You’ve often had a “beard,” but never had facial hair.
67. The last time you put on a floor-length organdy ball gown, you first had to shave your chest.
68. By the time the bus has arrived at your stop, you’ve given every other passenger a “fashion score”.
69. You’d sooner skip a day at the gym than show up in a work-out ensemble that just didn’t match.
70. You’re the only male sibling in a family of ten and grandmother left you the Limoges.
71. You can think of more than five uses for a doily.
72. Whenever you hear the name “Christina,” you get the urge to shout “Bring me the axe!”
73. You’re currently wearing a studded, leather ring approximately 3 inches in diameter, but no one can see it.
74. You know who Dorothy Gale is.
75. You’ve ever spontaneously quoted any of the lines from Auntie Mame.
76. You’ve ever run a red light because you were too busy thinking about what you were going to wear to the White Party.
77. You’ve ever bought a pair of jeans because they gave you a nice “basket”.
78. You’ve bookmarked www.menonthenet.com.
79. You’ve ever turned when someone yelled “Hey, Mary!” and your name isn’t Mary.
80. You worship Marky Mark, but own none of his CDs.
81. You can tell on sight the difference between a salchow and a triple lutz.
82. You’ve sworn never ever again to get drunk and do your Bette Davis impersonation.
83. You’re the only one in the class picture wearing spats and an ascot.
84. You used adverbs before the age of two.
85. You know exactly where to find those Brad Pitt photos on the Internet.
86. You can give directions to the nearest “glory hole”.
87. You prefer Maria’s 1958 Normas to her 1959 Normas.
88. The idea of a car-parts store with the name “Ellis the Rim Man” makes you giggle.
89. You have more friends named Richard, Steven, and Michael than Rich, Steve, and Mike.
90. You’ve ever coed so aggressively that you drew blood.
91. The last time you danced at a wedding, you accidentally started to follow.
92. People admire your “six-pack,” and you don’t drink soda or beer.
93. You’ve ever introduced someone as your “partner,” and you’re not in business together.
94. You’ve ever sent anything in black latex as a gift.
95. You’re known as someone who works “The Circuit,” but you have no knowledge whatsoever of electronics.
96. In your last “divorce” you fought over who would get the Soloflex.
97. You’ve ever asked for a sweat towel at the gym, but accidentally said “cum towel” instead.
98. You’ve ever answered the phone at night to the sound of a husky male voice and asked “So, what’re you into?’ only to find the guy’s from Citibank.
99. You regularly slap other men on the butt, but you don’t coach a football team.
100. Your home decor encompasses more than one kind of Chippendale.
101. Your dog is smaller than a bread box.
102. To you the antonym for “no” is “fabulous”.
103. At the gym you spend more time in the shower than on the stairmaster.
104. You’ve ever entered a house and audibly admired the wainscoting.
105. You regularly “toss the salad,” and it involves no greenery or vegetable of any kind.
106. You’ve ever said “Look at the tits on her!” and there were no women anywhere in sight.
107. You’ve ever gone 5 blocks out of your way to walk through Times Square to check out the latest Antonio Sabato billboards.
108. You’ve been to “The Mineshaft” but you weren’t digging for coal.

Professional Diving School best answer:

Answer by Harold V
omigod! i am gay!

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Taking dendro smples underwater can be hard work (despite the fact that this is just a teaching session…)

Would You Like To Check out Scuba Diving? Some Swimming Lessons Will Be In Order

Article by Wayne Hemrick

If you live in or close to Boulder, Colorado and have in no way been scuba diving ahead of, you will want to get some guidelines in how scuba diving is carried out prior to you head out. For this objective you will want some swim lessons boulder potential divers have numerous choices for swim lessons commencing out with novices courses and possibly doing work up to become a expert diving instructor.

You will first want to commence out with some introductory scuba swimming lessons. boulder residents can enjoy a quick intro course in which the devices is offered for you and you can give it a attempt in a safe and sound swimming pool underneath an instructor’s supervision in the course of the swim lessons. Boulder, CO children as younger as 5 many years old might take introductory classes to give a small safe exposure to getting in h2o.

Children that are 8 or 9 a long time outdated can indication up for a lot more introductory swim lessons. Boulder mothers and fathers can give their little ones lessons that enable them to go pool diving with an instructor. Boy scout and girl scout troups can also take part in swim lessons. Boulder troups can just take portion in classes that enhance their knowledge about diving and then offer them with introductory drinking water skills instruction in the course of the swimming lessons. Boulder kids can also take pleasure in other activities during swim lessons. Boulder swimmers can, for illustration, also consider introductory snorkeling classes as prolonged as they have standard swimming abilities by now.

There are also classes obtainable for grownup swim lessons. Boulder beginning scuba divers might want to consider open h2o swimming lessons. Boulder pupils will want to get a class with a very low student to instructor ratio during the swim lessons. Boulder dive instructors will give you training in proper diving tactics, so that you will be ready for more schooling.

If it has been a even though considering that your previous dive, you can also just take refresher course swimming lessons. Boulder divers will uncover classes that will evaluation dive expertise and emergency methods so that you will be prepared for your subsequent diving trip.

More advanced divers will take pleasure in continuing education swim lessons. Boulder, CO instructors are prepared to train you in a variety of regions for the duration of swim lessons. Boulder, CO divers can understand about advanced open h2o strategy, emergency initial response, rescue diving, products specialization, and a number of areas of specialty diving for the duration of their swimming lessons. Boulder, CO fanatics can train to turn out to be digital underwater photographers or videographers, or can discover about dry suit diving while taking swimming lessons. Boulder, CO instructors can also consider you pro, so that you can turn out to be a divemaster, an assistant teacher or a grasp scuba diver trainer, between other locations covered throughout swimming lessons, boulder co dive instructors can provide all this, so contact a diving college nowadays for a lot more information.

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The gray skies and whipping wind promised rain that threatened to dampen every little thing at Haigh Quarry in Kankakee on Thursday morning. Every little thing, that is, other than the spirits of the 43 Lyons Township Higher School college students who woke up at about 7 a.m. and slogged by way of freezing h2o to generate their Professional Association of Dive Instructors certification.

Specialist Diving College query by Dwell to DANCE ✩: Do I do a very good volume of dance classes?
Ok, so I do four dance classes a week… modern, jazz, ballet and acrobatics.
I have contemporary on a Tuesday, ballet on a Wednesday, jazz on a Friday and acrobatics on a Saturday. On Mondays and Thursdays I train for diving, which, when you add in school, only leaves Sunday and portion of Saturday. Is this as well significantly / very good / not enough? Suggestions, make sure you? I never want to go specialist, so please do not give me the aspiring-specialists-do-at-least-20-several hours-a-week speech.
Thanks in advance!! X
Sorry wherever it says at-least-20-ho I truly wrote 20-hours-a-week but it cutt off.

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If your acquiring fun and enjoy it and can nonetheless do your research as properly as other items you like, then it is fantastic. Only you know if it is to considerably for you or not ample for you.

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London Scuba Lessons From Diving Colleges London

Article by Hall Andrew

Summer time is here. It is time for the family to learn scuba diving. Diving universities, like London Diving have PADI diving instructors all set and waiting to instruct you. The London scuba is a ought to and London diving are ready to help you unlock the door to a total new sensational knowledge.

The very same outstanding PADI diving instructors of London diving schools operate you via a series of diving lessons that are created to get you off the heated pool and into the open h2o fast. Scheduled lessons commence you on the fundamentals of safe and sound diving, preparing dives, and proper use of diving devices. Once the scuba essentials are mastered, the next phase is to check your mettle in London’s renowned diving spots.

London scuba universities in London have total amenities for scuba diving lessons. They also observe stringent instruction requirements for beginners and scuba instructor coaching. London diving schools ensure that all diving students learn the basics of protected diving and correct use of diving equipments and master confined water diving before an open sea dive is carried out in London’s beaches.

Students preferring to just take comprehensive their scuba diving lessons exterior London, they are supplied open sea referrals from the diving universities. A diving referral will allow students to get their open sea dive in any PADI affiliated seashores all over the world. Consequently, London scuba universities offer a more affordable alternative – college students are all set for the open sea when they seek out the Caribbean or the Seychelles for the diving challenge.

London Diving educational institutions offer modules-confined water diving, understanding further scuba concepts to enhance the standard diving capabilities acquired underneath the near supervision of PADI licensed instructors, for this reason modest courses of 8 to ten pupils are performed for each session. More compact classes make for powerful and centered instruction.

It takes about 3 days for novices to find out scuba diving with the help of present day scuba diving equipments-breathing regulators, buoyancy devices, scuba masks, gauges and fins that can be purchased from the diving universities. London scuba educational institutions give top rated manufacturers like Uk Lights, and Scubapro and a host of other top rated names in scuba diving products and gear.

Picking the London Scuba Diving College

There are several scuba diving schools in and all around London. Diving enthusiasts and newcomers can pick the London scuba diving headquarters accessibly handy for them. An extra comfort is the diving module on video that you can enjoy at home prior to the up coming lessons in the pool.

There are different varieties of scuba diving and London scuba instructors have the credentials for recreational, technical, business, and military scuba diving. Specialized scuba diving for night time diving, ice diving, altitude diving, rescue and cave diving are also presented for sophisticated pupils and hobbyists. Request the diving educational institutions for their competencies for the diverse scuba diving courses and examine their rates and services, or their proximity to your hotel or residence.

Before enlisting in a London scuba center, inform them if you have any disability and if you are totally free from healthcare troubles that may interfere with your training. Luckily, diving universities in London can tailor match diving lessons for people with disabilities and children with specific wants.

London scuba diving schools give summer getaways in exotic diving spots teeming with marine everyday living and nearby culture. Make it this yr or up coming yr, but 1st learn how to dive safely and expertly with the authorities.

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Dive Schools query by christian cook: what is the difference among Combat diving college and just dive college?
i was asking yourself simply because in most or all special ops pipeline they go to combat diving school, and it only says dive college for navy eod. So i was wondering what the variances are.

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Nicely they each dive even so they have way diverse duties. The Navy crew has the career of disposing of explosive threats. Threats like Air ordnance, improvised explosives, nuclear ordnance and underwater ordnance. See link beneath.

The Fight diving school goes farther with infiltration and extraction training. They also teach the use of the ZODIAC boats. Closed circuit diving and compass navigation in addition much more. See the website link under.