The Brand New Bulk Carrier Golden Pearl on Its Way to Riga

The brand new Hong Kong flagged bulker Golden Pearl (183 m x 27 m) was this afternoon in the Sound on its way to Riga:




The Golden Pearl approaching Helsingør this afternoon.



The Golden Pearl, minutes later.





Helsingborg - An Important Industrial and Port City in Sweden

The Port of Helsingborg this afternoon, seen from the north.

Helsingborg, located at the narrowest point of the strait of Öresund, is an important industrial and  port city in southern Sweden. The Port of Helsingborg is Sweden's second largest container port.

Cunard's Queen Elizabeth and Baltic Betina met this morning in Øresund

Cunard's Queen Elizabeth (294 m x 36 m) was this morning on its way to Copenhagen in gray and rainy December weather:

Queen Elizabeth and the small cargo vessel Baltic Betina met in the  Sound.

The Royal Danish Navy's Diana Class Patrol Vessel Najaden (P523) in Helsingør

Patrol vessel Najaden in Helsingør.

 

The Royal Danish Navy's Diana Class patrol vessel Najaden (P523) was this afternoon moored at the port of Helsingør.

The main tasks of the 43 m x 8.2 m Diana Class vessels:

Surveillance, maintaining of sovereignty, Search and Rescue, Diving sickness management, environmental protection and surveillance, assistance to the Police and  Explosive Ordnance Disposal.

The "Christmas lunch" - A popular Tradition in the Nordic Countries

"Christmas lunches" are a very popular tradition in the Nordic Countries. Most companies e.g. host such pre-Christmas lunches for their employees. In Helsingborg the Wave Restaurant on the Scandlines ferry Aurora is a favourite location for the traditional Christmas "smörgåsbord¨:

A Sunset Surfer in the Sound on Second Sunday of Advent

When I looked out through my living room window late this afternoon, I was surprised to see a surfer in the Sound just as the sun was about to set. Unfortunately I managed to get only this less than perfect picture of the surfer in the sunset:

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Here is the sunset without the surfer:

Professor Frank Furedi's tribute to the traditional university lecture

(image by Wikipedia)

University of Kent professor of sociology Frank Furedi has written a fine tribute to the traditional university lecture.

Here is an excerpt:

To its detractors, I say this: a lecture is a pedagogic technique. A lecture represents scholarship in action. A lecture given to an undergraduate audience provides a disciplinary context for the topic under discussion. And more than any other academic experience, the lecture provides students with meaning about the subject under discussion.
Ideally, this is accomplished through a combination of intellectual mastery and communicating with the passion the pursuit of scholarship demands. What students gain from a lecture is much more than an introduction into new facts and ideas. At its best, it is a total experience. And years later what students recollect from that unforgettable lecture are not its details but a performance that validated their academic experience.
Of course, many lectures are far from memorable, and listening and taking notes requires commitment and effort. But so long as the lecturer is well prepared, the format should provide students with the basic principles of their discipline. It also illustrates the fact that even knowledgeable academics struggle to communicate those ideas.
I have always regarded a lecture as the fundamental ritual of academic life. It is the one experience that has the most potential of forging a community of learners. It creates a common intellectual experience for students and allows otherwise solitary undergraduates to become part of a continuous conversation. This is a conversation that is difficult to achieve through tutorials, seminar groups or chance encounters.

The entire article is well worth reading. You will find it here.