6/21/24 Report = Tropics Heating Up. Decreasing Surf. More Pin Finds. Reader Email. Object Recognition.

 

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It's that time of year. The Atlantic is heating up and we already have our first names tropical storm. I haven't been checking for tropical activity but now that has changed. We will be hearing more about tropical activity. The past years have taught us a lot. Things can change quickly. You have to be ready.

You can see a little system going into north Florida/Gergia.

Going back to surfguru, you can see that Thursday we had more waves, but it will be decreasing for a while.  

SurfGuru.com.

Keep watching for developments in the Gulf and Atlantic.

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I've been trying to organize my metal detecting finds better.  A few days ago I came across several lapel pins and gathered them with some other lapel pins I had around. Same thing with Indian Head pennies yesterday.  I don't know what I'll do with the lapel pins, but this is the first time I've paid them any attention.  As a group they make a decent collection, but individually nothing very good so far.

Anyhow. here are some that are church or religious pins.  The first three have no specific words or letters.  They are common symbols of a religious nature.

White Dove Lapel Pin.

White doves are symbols of purity, hope, properity, peace, and connection to the divine. Because they mate for life, white doves also represent love, faithfulness, and everlasting partnership.  In a Christian context, they signify the Holy Spirit.

Cross Lapel Pin.

Here are two different cross pins.

Cross Lapel Pin.

The next is a vintage Sunday School perfect one-year attendance pin.  There were add-ons for additional years.

Sunday School Perfect Attendance Pin.

And the next one says it all.  

Presbyterian Church National Missions Pin.

The last two weren't metal detector finds.  They were in with my mom's stuff.

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In response to my yesterday's post on Indian Head pennies, Norbert B. sent the following email.

In my long detecting career, I always thought the rare coin I would find would be a 42 over 1 Merc dime. I dug so many of them back in the 1970’s and 80’s. I found a 1921 Walking Lib Half but it was only a Good/Very Good and an “S”. If you know your Walking Lib Halves, you know in the lower grades the “P” and the “D” are more valuable. The “S” mint mark passes them up by the time you get to Extra Fine. The two rare coins I did find were both of the tough Indians. I found the 1877, a terrible, green, corroded, but unmistakeable, About Good, that I sold to my dad for $25. He traded it to a coin dealer in Elgin Illinois. I found the 1909S in the yard of the apartment I lived in in 1985. The house was a 3 flat and had been built in 1899. The 1909S was a Very Fine and I traded it at a coin show for a 1911S $10 Indian probably 30 years ago now. It worked out. That 1909S Indian hasn’t really moved but the $10 Indian has more than doubled.

 

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There were some good beach areas that produced good numbers of older US coins.  Not so much lately though.  Jupiter used to be great before they put in the concrete parking lots and stuff.  The old blind creek area and down through Walton Rocks was good for that at one time.  I suspect another storm might open up some good US coin areas in the future.  

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The link below would seemingly take you to an article on object recognition, but they talked a lot about learning styles.  It was done by a stie that attempts to provide academic information in non-academic terms.  I hoped to learn more about object recognition, something we often attempt.  The article wasn't very good, but it wasn't a total waste.

The main point was that in education they make a big deal of different learning styles, but according to the article, allowing students to learn by their "preferred style" had no beneficial effect.  Taht isn't vey surprising because intelligence is generally defined as a general trait and not specific to the specific sensory modality involved.  Educational theory and practice is predominately false science. 

Closer to the subject of "object recognition," they did report that people who were good at identifying things visually were also good at identifying things auditorily, by touch, etc.  Skill at object recognition, according to the article, is not specific to the sensory modality.    That is not surprising if you consider that the involvement of the central processing system in the task.  Of course the relationship is far from perfect. The central processing system does more of the processing for that kind of task than the sensory systems.

Here is the link to that article.

The same people excel at object recognition through vision, hearing and touch – another reason to let go of the learning styles myth (msn.com)

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