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Features Archive
This page compiles together all of Sambiglyon's articles and features prior to Jan 1 2012 within a centralized historical archive.
EDITORIAL ARTICLE HUB
FLEET GOLDENBERG ARTICLE SPECIALS
FLEET'S GOLDEN FUTURES
FROM THE LAB
IDEAS FROM THE WORLD OF WARCRAFT
SAMBIBLYON ROCKCASTS (PRE-2012)
SPEECHES
EDITORIAL ARTICLE HUB
The Sambiglyon Community Manager, Fleet Goldenberg, writes a weekly 'front page' editorial column in the Sambiglyon newsletter on a wide range of subjects. Links to these editorials are collected together on a hub page for easy finding and reference, with the first two paragraphs of the article provided as an aid to content finding.
FLEET GOLDENBERG ARTICLE SPECIALS
The Benefits of Using Furcadia in Schools for Pre-Teen Students (12/11/2011)
With the closure of 'Lego Universe' in January 2012, elementary-level school teachers are again left with few options for a User Generated Content online virtual world, aside from 'Minecraft', for pre-teen students, let alone one that will run on Macs or even iDevices. There is an option you may not be aware of though: Furcadia.
Dreams Help to Develop Reality (12/02/2011)
In this article, we look at some examples of dreams experienced by Fleet Goldenberg that were learnt from or applied to practical projects ...
Reducing Randomness (11/28/2011)
Randomness is a quality that is both celebrated and despised by humans. It can bring us the excitement of a lottery machine's ball-pick or a playing card draw, or serious illness if one's internal biological mechanisms stray in the wrong direction. It also has a powerful influence on science and technology ...
Rising to Sporting Challenge (11/19/2011)
In this article, we expand our understanding of the 'Challenge Force' technique covered in previous Sambiglyon articles by applying it to some example applications that are firmly grounded in the real world: high school and college sports ...
Living & Learning Tool Selection Chart (11/08/2011)
The Living & Learning Tool Selection Chart is a yes / no diagram that can be used to easily identify which of the tools in Sambiglyon's 'Living & Learning' self-enhancement training system is best suited to addressing a particular type of problem...
Building a Consultancy Team of Parallel You's (11/04/2011)
If there are a practically infinite number of alternate you's that have been generated by a practically infinite number of possible different choice combinations during the course of your lifetime, then it seems reasonable to think that practically every kind of career path in the world would have been pursued by at least one of those alternates. But how does one even begin to approach the finding of an alternate version of you that has the knowledge that you need when there are innumerable multiversal search options? ...
Concerning Flight (10/28/2011)
Learn how the origins of the 'Gravity Crush' technique were planted decades ago with a boy and a flight of stairs ...
Ten Decisions - The Shaping of Fleet Goldenberg (10/10/2011)
Every major decision that we take in our lives, every left or right turn, shapes how our future unfolds. But being unable to go back and change those decisions need not be a cause for regret ...
Chakras Are Like Car Engines (10/07/2011)
Some religious belief systems such as Buddhism and Hinduism feature a spiritual concept called 'Chaka Points', a set of energy power-points within the body. Although it may seem a difficult idea to grasp, it is not so hard if looked at in terms of petroleum engine mechanics ...
10 Ways Schools Can Emulate Videogame Companies (09/21/2011)
In some ways, the structure of a school campus is not so different from that of a videogame development company. In this article, find out how your school can increase the efficiency of both its operations and its learning curriculum by integrating elements of the professional dev-studio environment ...
Affordably Making Libraries Amazing - 2011 Edition (09/10/2011)
Building an excellent library is not completely dependent on having a large budget. Learn why this is the case in Sambiglyon's second annual edition of its look at library enhancement on the cheap ...
The Heart Connection - Part 1 (08/07/2011)
The Heart Connection - Part 2 (08/11/2011)
Just as wireless communications can connect together electronic devices situated across the world, humans are hard-wired from birth with their own cable-free natural interpersonal network: the 'Heart Connection' ...
The 'Living & Learning Tree' Tool and its Use as a Flowchart (05/12/2011)
Sambiglyon's 'Living & Learning Tree' tool can be used as a personal / professional planning tool, a concept working-out sheet, an information archiver and a way to break down a large volume of complex information into bite-sized pieces. It can also be used for more metaphysical life-analysis tasks as well though ...
What happens outside of the school classroom is as important as what happens inside it. And unfortunately, the existence of student bullying means that promising learners can end up crushed by forces that are not attributable to their teaching. Fleet Goldenberg provides suggestions for tackling this critical school-life problem ...
The Nature of Data (04 / 17 /2011)
Raw digital data is often only meaningful if you know how to interpret it And to interpret it, you need to understand the nature of the forms that it can take ....
Rock Stars of Learning (03/10/2011)
The motto of Sambiglyon is 'The Rock Stars of Living and Learning'. In this article, find out why the company describes its education activities in these terms ...
Content Creation, The Fleet Goldenberg Way (02/01/2011)
The Community Manager of Sambiglyon, Fleet Goldenberg, explains some of the innovative methods he uses to create new content for Sambiglyon ...
Having Faith in Virtuality (09/16/2010)
There is a common suspicion amongst religious and conservative administrators about having an identity online. There are strategies that you can make use of though to help to put their concerns at rest and convince them to green-light a social website or virtual-world project ...
The Challenge Force (06/29/2010)
Every person, no matter their level of physical or mental capabilities, has dormant potential within them that may never be tapped during that person's lifetime. The 'Challenge Force' technique of Sambiglyon's 'Living & Learning' system can help with this problem though ...
Discovering the Digital World (06/28/2010)
The digital universe and its various 2D and 3D forms of presentation can described in terms of a 'Star Trek' style transporter beam system in which stored data – which is the equivalent of raw, formless energy – gradually forms into solid structures ...
Affordably Making Libraries Amazing - 2010 Edition (06/06/2010)
An excellent library is not completely dependent on having a large budget ...
Science to Spirit - Easy Mode (03/10/2010)
A drawback with Sambiglyon's 'Science to Spirit Ring' tool is that it must be presented on print or electronic media in order to be used, meaning that the user has to carry it around with them on their display medium of choice if they wish to be able to use it at any time or place. There is a solution to this minor inconvenience though: the 'Science to Spirit - Easy Mode' tool, which converts the ten phases on the Ring tool into human finger positions, allowing the hands to be used as a portable problem-solving tool ...
Rangership Made Simple (02/25/2010)
For many years the Power Rangers have kept kids entertained with their high-powered heroics, acting as an example to youths of a consistent set of positive values, especially friendship, courage, teamwork and a set of compulsory Core Values. In this article, we explore how Rangership can be introduced into the lives of everybody in the real world ...
The Science to Spirit Ring (02/11/2010)
Sambiglyon's 'Science to Spirit Ring' tool provides a visual proof that scientific method and spiritual belief do not have to be opposed to each other and considered to be irreconcilable but are in fact - if differences in moral principles are put aside - the same model of the operational mechanics of the Universe described in two very different frames of reference but still sharing the same set of Universal rules nonetheless ...
The Personal Settings Slider (02/05/2010)
The 'Personal Settings Slider' tool demonstrates how the sliding of the finger across an image of a green slider bar can act like a slider bar on computer menus, enabling a person to make adjustments to their mental state as though they were changing its settings with a mouse ...
Fleet Goldenberg offers his predictions for what may be waiting ahead for humanity in the year 2020 ...
A variation of Sambiglyon's 'Personal Settings Slider' tool, the 'Time Slider' can be used for the purpose of placing a person in a state of mind where they are mentally receptive to ideas about the future that they can apply to the present day ...
Budgeting To Make You Smile (05/30/2010)
In this article, Fleet Goldenberg looked at the 2010-11 school budget year and how education might best cope with the financial trials of that time ...
Starting Towards the Future - 2010 to 2070 (05/22/2010)
How might the next sixty years unfold? Fleet Goldenberg looks ahead and makes some predictions, whilst encouraging people to create the future that they want to see instead of waiting for one that they don't want to see ...
The 'From the Lab' series uses content creation tools to offer quick visual ideas for things to do or make.
Episode One: Make a comforting sound-bear (07/04/2011)
Music is the food of the soul, it is said. There is another important element to music though - its vibrations. These in themselves can have a relaxing effect when felt. Plush toys are another primary source of comfort for some. This Lab therefore combines these two sources of comfort into one 'teddynology' by making a plush with headphone earpieces inside, so that when the hands / paws are squeezed by a person holding the toy, they will feel the relaxing musical pulses against their skin ...
Episode Two: Add 3D-glasses compatible elements to an image (07/22/2011)
You are likely to be familiar with modern cardboard 3D glasses given away in some magazines that make elements on a page 'separate' from the page and seem to be hovering over its surface. Featured in this Lab is a simple guide to adding raised 3D layers to your own imagery that will work with these very affordable glasses ...
Episode Three: Found your Challenge Force? Now harness it! (08/05/2011)
In a follow-on from Episode 2 of Sambiglyon's 'RockCast' podcasting series, we explore how the potential released by the Challenge Force needs to be directed into a purpose in order to be useful ...
Episode Four: The Sam prototyping process (08/12/2011)
In this Lab, we take Sambiglyon's 12-stage internal idea prototyping process - referred to as 'sandboxing' - and demonstrate the merits of using the system in your own work by running an example idea through the system all the way from keywords to final prototype ...
Episode Five: The 'Gravity Crush' exercise (08/19/2011)
In Episode Three of the From the Lab series (above), we looked at a technique for harnessing latent human potential called the 'Challenge Force'. Now, in this Lab, we will look at an exercise for practising the 'Challenge Force' technique in your own home - the Gravity Crush ...
Episode Six: Creating your first Android app (09/07/2011)
In this Lab, which follows on from our easy guide to setting up an Android app development environment on your computer, we apply the same Sam-plication to creating a test app!
Episode Seven: Measuring potential (09/16/2011)
It is important not just to be able to learn how to reach one's maximum potential but also to measure it through a scientific methodology and track a person's potential development over a period of time. This Lab explains how the Challenge Force may be measured in order to provide a rough guide to one''s true level of theoretical potential ...
Episode Eight: I'mPhone - Taking Hardware Out of the Equation (10/16/2011)
There is an inherent risk that, as people integrate more and more of their daily lives into the technology that they carry around with them, they risk losing more and more of their personality and capability in a way that is less likely to happen with larger, less portable technology. However, as this Lab explains, there is a way to reclaim your personality from your mobiles whilst still making the most of their benefits ...
IDEAS FROM THE WORLD OF WARCRAFT
The 'Ideas from the World of Warcraft' series features snapshots from Sambiglyon's travels in the Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game (MMORPG) 'World of Warcraft'. that demonstrate ideas that are applicable to life in the real world.
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CONTENTS
FISH ALL THE RUBBISH OUT
DEEPER ON DOWN
TALK TO THE ANIMALS
FUEL, NOT FEAST
I AM NOT A NUMBER
The beginner fisherman in Warcraft only catches junk items such as weeds, tattered cloth, driftwood and empty rum bottles (and some Sickly Fish) for a while until they have increased their Fishing skill through repeated attempts. In the real world, however, casting a line into the water with an alternative to a hook that would catch onto junk but not lodge in a fish's mouth would be a way for kids to safely help to clean up a waterway from the bank! CogDis guild member and Australian high-school level teacher Sapphre offered a further suggestion - if all you are retrieving from a river or lake in the real world is junk then it could indicate that an invasive, aggressive species has infiltrated the water and wiped out the indigenous species. Thanks for the idea, Sapphre! In the Darkshore region of the World of Warcraft, a gigantic whirlpool fissure known as the Maw of the Void has been opened up after the evil dragon Deathwing burst from his prison deep within the ground and unleashed his wrath upon the world of Azeroth. In the real world, being able to artificially generate a whirlpool that opened up an air-filled gap down to the ocean floor would be very useful indeed. Presuming that no sea creature could pass through the swirling outer wall of the whirlpool and so would not be at risk of falling into the void and asphixiating, human explorers who were inside the 'eye of the storm' at the center of the pool could observe the deepest levels of ocean life without being crushed by the tremendous water pressure at the deepest depths or fall prey to the deep-diver hazard of nitrogen narcosis. Even if a disturbance could not be generated that was powerful enough to extend all the way down from the water's surface to the ocean floor in one continuous tunnel, a helicopter style hovering submersible vessel could conceivably be created that generated a whirlpool around it, forming a non-crushable air bubble around the craft. Another application for such a technology would be to uncover ancient land connections between countries that were lost when the depth of oceans rose and swallowed them up. The number and diversity of tamed pets and wildlife (and there's some -really- wild life!) in Azeroth is huge. Yet they all have one thing in common. The chances are that unless those creatures are magical or you are, conversation with them is going to be a one-way street. In the real world though, human-animal communication, although still difficult, does not require magic. Sambiglyon's Living & Learning self-enhancement training system provides a tool with which to accomplish it: the 'Personal Settings Slider'. Bearing in mind (no pun intended) that it would be awkward to carry the Slider tool around on a piece of paper on your nature hikes, we will adapt it here for hands-free use. Instructions 1. Identify the animal that you wish to communicate with. 2. Place the finger of one hand on its head and keep it held there gently. If it not a tame animal, then pointing a finger at its head from a distance and imagining that you are pressing the finger against the head will be sufficient. 3. Form in your mind a thought statement that says: "Connect me to this [name of animal species]" or, if it is a named pet, "Connect me to [name of pet]". 4. Immediately after forming this thought in your mind, place the tip of your index finger on your other hand (the one beside your thumb) to the base of your thumb and then slide the finger up the thumb. This replicates the 'slide to activate' function in the paper version of the Personal Settings Slider tool and provides a signal to the mind to activate the connection process. If it has worked, you should feel a slight physical sensation of being energetic. 5. The next stage is to form in your mind a thought statement about what you wish to communicate to the animal. For higher mammals such as cats and dogs, an ordinary language statement (e.g English) will suffice, since the statement will be automatically translated into the mental syntax of the receiving animal. For lower creatures such as squirrels, birds, ants, etc, language does not work so well. Instead, they understand images and emotions better. For example, if you wanted to show a wild bird trapped inside your house how to find an open window to escape through, you can send the bird a series of mental 'photographs' depicting the route from where it is trapped to the window (the stairs, then the hall, then the lounge and then an image of the open lounge window with a 'movie' in your imagination of the bird flying through it). A similar technique can be used with an ant nest in your house: if you want them to leave, send mental photographs of them marching in a single file column along the route to an exit point where they can leave the house. 6. Once your mental statement has been issued, listen calmly and quietly in your mind for a thought response. If you are communicating with a higher animal then the response should come immediately, expressed as a thought that sounds like your own mental voice. For lower animals that communicate through imagery, closing your eyes can help you to identifying incoming pictures from the animal's mind. Also, be ready to identify a change in your emotions that indicates how the animal is reacting to you. Remember that lower animals do not perceive the world in the same way that humans do. A squirrel may believe a human to be a horse, simply based on the human's height, if they have seen a horse before, as it will be trying to identify you based on the experiences it has had so far during its life. And if they are afraid of horses then they will transmit a mental image to you of a horse, with an accompanying fear emotion. For best reliability, repeat the connection process again from the start if you are not satisfied with or do not understand the result, or if you wish to ask a different question. The reason for doing this is because the longer after asking the question that you listen for, the more likely it is that your own thoughts will pop into your head and be mistaken for inter-mind communications. The general rule of thumb is “If the thought seems alien to your own mind, it probably is from elsewhere”. Good luck! Food and its creation is an integral part of the World of Warcraft. Azerothians are as passionate about making and consuming quality, wonderful tasting food and drink as we are. As enjoyable as food and cooking also is in the real world though, it can also cause problems if it becomes an obsession or people become fixated on a preference for particular types of food to an extent where they shun most other kinds, Once food passes the taste buds of the mouth then its taste is no longer detectable, although a trace of that taste is left behind in the mouth. After it has passed through the throat then its function changes. It is no longer a means of pleasure but instead becomes simply a source of fuel for the body. This is a principle well known to survivalists in the wild - it does not matter if the edible items that they find taste nice, because their consumption helps the person to survive the environment that they are in. Children tend to first become picky eaters in their toddler years once they gain the mental capacity to discern what is 'nice' and what is merely bland, or 'yuck'. If baby foods were neither sweet nor sour then they might be willing to try a greater range of foods later on instead of refusing meals, because they will be less likely to form early opinions on what makes food 'right' and 'wrong' before they have gained the mental processing capacities to weigh up the reasons for their preferences in greater detail. A common theme in the World of Warcraft is the enslavement of the weak by powerful evil people or creatures, as illustrated by the above image that depicts simian slave labor in the deeper levels of the Deadmines who are subjugated by goblins. Another form of slavery was enforced by the Lich King, who - before his downfall at the hands of Azerothian champions - mind-controlled an army of the undead that multiplied by killing the living and converting them into zombie servants. In the real world though, slavery still exists in some places and takes numerous forms, including human trafficking, enforced prostitution and unpaid work gangs under the control of gang-masters. Although nobody is raising a battalion of warriors to eradicate these evils, people are taking action against it in other ways. In December 2011 it was announced that Google had pledged $11.5 million in grants to charitable organizations that combat it. In Western countries there are mechanisms for the authorities to free enslaved people, if only they receive information about where they are. On other continents though, there are far less protections or hopes of escape for those who are unfortunate enough to become snared in the trade. The battle may be a long one, but it can be hoped that if humans increasingly tune into their Heart Connection and acknowledge their responsibilities to advancing the well-being of the wider world then the number of people who would do harm to others for personal gain will gradually diminish. The Sambiglyon RockCast is a series of podcasts that explore and explain a range of topics through the mediums of audio and video illustration. We Really Can't Wait: Accelerating the Pace of Provision of Disability Accessibility (03/10/2012) Whilst the pace of provision of accessibility for disabled people is increasing more and more as new assistive technologies emerge and old buildings give way to ones that are designed from the beginning with the needs of the disabled in mind, are there ways in which provision can be accelerated even further? ... Increasing Ability with the 'Challenge Force' Mind Technique (09/17/2011) Every person, no matter their level of physical or mental capabilities, has dormant potential within them that may never be tapped during that person's lifetime. The 'Challenge Force' technique of Sambiglyon's 'Living & Learning' system can help with this problem though ... The idea of what defines an Artificial Intelligence (AI) has for decades been primarily associated with data and electronics. From HAL 9000 in '2001: A Space Odyssey' and the droids in 'Star Wars' to Jarvis, Tony Stark's AI computer in 'Iron Man'. But these are just some of the possibilities for how AI may develop in the future. Fleet Goldenberg explains how partnerships between artificial intelligence and humans might be redefined through the use of User Imagined Entities ... Could malfunctions in machines be treated more effectively in the future by using the principles of human medicine? ... The Necessity of Change (02/07/2010) Change is both frightening and necessary. Without it, a society stands still and stagnates and the future that we aspire to create cannot come to fruition. And yet too much change at once can be as difficult for humanity as none at all. It doesn't have to be this way though ... Humanity - The Ultimate Energy Source (06/23/2007) Many believe the development of new artificial energy sources will be vital to the advancement of the human species. Our universe already provides all of the energy that we could possibly need though ...FISH ALL THE RUBBISH OUT
DEEPER ON DOWN
TALK TO THE ANIMALS
FUEL, NOT FEAST
I AM NOT A NUMBER
SAMBIGLYON ROCKCASTS (PRE-2012)
EPISODE 1
What is a 'Rockstar of Living and Learning'?EPISODE 2
What is the 'Challenge Force'?EPISODE 3
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