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KS3 Testing and Validation (14-16 years)
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A-Level Software Development Lifecycle (16-18 years)
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Testing is the name given to the process of discovering if something works and if so if it works well. Testing is used in computer hardware and software development to determine whether objectives are being met. It is done at significant checkpoints in the development process.
Purposes of Testing
- To be able to assess objectively how a system conforms to the agreed requirements and conditions.
- To verify that the system meets the various
- To validate that the system is what the user needs.
- To improve the quality of product.
Example of Testing in Software Development
- Product objectives are tested by product use representatives
- Finished code is tested at the module level by each programmer
- Finished code is tested at the component level by all programmers involved
- Finished code is tested at system level when all components are integrated
- A product or service may also be tested for usability
Test Data
Test data is the data used to run the tests on testware, or any other system. It has to be accurate and comprehensive so it can expose any defects.
Test Data Generation
- Random Test Data Generator – this is the simplest kind of data generator, and can be used to test many programs.
- Goal-Oriented Test Data Generator – this produces input for any path specified.
- Pathwise Test Data Generator – this assigns a specific path to follow.
- Intelligent Test Data Generator – this fundamentally depends on the deep examination of the code which needs to be tested.
Test Data Management
Test Data Management is very important during the testing phase.
Test Data Management Process:
- Detect recurrent test data elements
- Age, encrypt, and archive test data
- Rank and distribute test data
- Produce metrics reports and dashboards
- Form and implement business rules
- Create an automation group for master data planning
Test-Driven Development
Test-Driven Development (TDD) is initiated with the development of test scenarios for each of the various functionalities involved. The test can possibly fail, as the test scenarios are developed even before the development of the system itself. The development team then tweaks and rewrites the code to pass the test.
TDD Process
- Add a test
- Run all tests and see if one scenario fails
- Write some code
- Run tests and rewrite code
- Repeat
Context of Testing
- Valid inputs
- Invalid inputs
- Errors, exceptions, and events
- Boundary conditions
- Anything and everything that could conceivably break
Benefits of TDD
- Much lower debug time
- The code has been proven to meet requirements
- The tests become the program's safety net
- Almost zero defects by the end of the process
- Shorter development cycles are required
Test Driver
Test drivers are utilised during bottom-up integration testing to replicate the behaviour of the modules that are not yet integrated.
Test drivers are also utilised when the software is planned to be integrated into an external system.
Test Environment
The test environment supports test execution. Software, hardware, and network features are configured in the test environment. The test environment configuration must be the same as the production environment configuration, so that any environment- or configuration-related issues may be exposed.
Test Environment Checklist
- Diagnose if the test environment requires archiving.
- Confirm the network settings.
- Establish required components, like server operating systems and databases.
- Determine the number of licenses needed by the team.
Test Execution
Test execution is simply executing the test scenarios and then comparing the actual results with the expected results that had been identified prior to running the test scenarios.
Test Execution Method
- Choose a portion of the test group to be performed for the cycle.
- Distribute the test cases in each test group to testers for implementation.
- Perform tests, take note of bugs, and record test status throughout the process.
- Solve delaying issues as they arise.
- Communicate status, fine-tune assignments, and reassess plans and priorities regularly.
- Communicate the test cycle results and status in order to keep everybody on the same page.
Test Management
Test management is the process of managing the tests. It is performed using tools to manage both automated and manual tests.
Test management tools have various capabilities, among them testware management, test scheduling, logging of results, test tracking, incident management, and test reporting.


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The Algona-based Hydrogen Engine Center has inked a deal with a firm from India to test and market one of its engines. Company president Ted Hollinger says the H-E-C has signed an agreement with Grasim Industries Limited which is a chlorine company that makes its product from salt water with a by-product of hydrogen.
Hollinger says much of the hydrogen is burned off as waste, but the hydrogen can be captured and burned as fuel in an H-E-C engine that would produce electricity. Grasim, one of India's largest companies, promises to help market the engine to other chlorine companies if a test is successful.
H-E-C shares went up eight-percent yesterday, trading at nine-fifty on the over-the-counter bulletin board.

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tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1484061334032211360.post7729464087414107462..comments2023-03-19T04:37:03.666-07:00Comments on Purple Chocolat Home: Pancakes and PinterestJacquelinehttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-1484061334032211360.post-33514549224328689622014-05-19T18:58:32.851-07:002014-05-19T18:58:32.851-07:00I didn't "know" you back in 2011 whe...I didn't "know" you back in 2011 when this post came out. It's weird to see you explaining Pinterest!!! Now it's one of those things that just about everybody knows about! Funny the difference a few short years can make. I can't imagine my life without Pinterest now! I have so many cool things on my boards that really help me to stay organized, do projects, etc.

Four cups of flour??!??!?!! This must be enough batter to feed a small 3rd world country!!! My goodness! I'm going to pin the recipe (of course!) and give these a try in the morning since Ramon doesn't have to go in to the hospital tomorrow. Maybe the fragrance of cinnamon will make him be extra nice to me, too!

I know you're out cavorting across the Atlantic right now, but I wanted to leave a comment just the same. Take care!Alycia Nicholshttps://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-1484061334032211360.post-30443740957687211792013-11-09T14:18:32.482-08:002013-11-09T14:18:32.482-08:00These are sooo good! Thank for you for posting thi...These are sooo good! Thank for you for posting this recipe, I think this is going to be a great favorite in my home now...Katie Wickhamhttps://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-1484061334032211360.post-88908751544952890992013-08-24T08:19:54.970-07:002013-08-24T08:19:54.970-07:00Curious as to how many pancakes this recipe makes?...Curious as to how many pancakes this recipe makes?? Just am estimate would be helpful. We have a small family and I wonder if we'll have lots left over. If anyone has an idea of how many this makes and could let me know, I would sure appreciate it! Thanks!!!sweethappylifehttps://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-1484061334032211360.post-19248927000334988342013-03-08T10:12:44.789-08:002013-03-08T10:12:44.789-08:00I made these for breakfast this morning, and they ...I made these for breakfast this morning, and they are sooooo good. I halved the recipe because otherwise it would have made too much for us...so tasty. Thank you so much for sharing this recipe. I just need to work on my swirling technique.Christyhttps://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-1484061334032211360.post-54734567200209212202013-01-26T02:57:30.151-08:002013-01-26T02:57:30.151-08:00Thank you for sharing this recipe. When I lived in...Thank you for sharing this recipe. When I lived in the US, cinnamon rolls were my fav. breakfast. But they are not available in Germany and I don't like to make things that include yeast dough. But this recipe tastes exactly like my memory and all things are available in German shops.

So after 10 years you've given me back my fav. guilty pleasure.
BTW - I found you on Pinterest!Anonymoushttps://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-1484061334032211360.post-85883979047264136892012-11-17T00:05:26.622-08:002012-11-17T00:05:26.622-08:00Is the "T" next to veg oil & cinnamo...Is the "T" next to veg oil & cinnamon firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-1484061334032211360.post-23718804757721362862012-11-07T22:20:53.124-08:002012-11-07T22:20:53.124-08:00AWESOME! 11/10 Stars was what my family rated the...AWESOME! 11/10 Stars was what my family rated these pancakes! My only change is to NOT melt the butter forthe sugar/ cinamon mixture (the butter separates and it isn't as pretty). Instead soften the butter until almost melted -the cream with the brown sugar and cinamon in the baggie -this make perfect BEAUTIFUL pancakes. THANK YOU for this recipe!
DELIGHTFUL -andmaybe our new christmas morning tradition!
firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-1484061334032211360.post-74297778921372431142012-05-04T09:13:58.077-07:002012-05-04T09:13:58.077-07:00I made these this morning when my kids asked for c...I made these this morning when my kids asked for cinnamon rolls. They are VERY easy to make! They taste as good as they look, too! Only suggestion would be to squeeze the cinnamon mixture out til all the liquid is out & the true mixture is coming out. First one I didn't & it made the pancake runny. Still tasted great tho; just harder to turn. Oh, & I mixed powdered sugar & milk for our "icing."firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-1484061334032211360.post-524883917821715542012-03-29T11:01:36.908-07:002012-03-29T11:01:36.908-07:00Oh. My. Word... I missed this post! Jain at FFT se...Oh. My. Word... I missed this post! Jain at FFT sent me over~ how utterly delicious & decadent! The best of both worlds, pancakes & cinnamon rolls :)Maryhttps://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-1484061334032211360.post-1386834819679283362012-03-12T16:32:46.844-07:002012-03-12T16:32:46.844-07:00I missed this post, and wanted to let you know tha...I missed this post, and wanted to let you know that I also made them when I found them on Pinterest. Aren't they awesome?Debbie@Mountain Breathshttps://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-1484061334032211360.post-43850955857542912772012-03-03T21:22:04.233-08:002012-03-03T21:22:04.233-08:00We made this for our breakfast dinner this week an...We made this for our breakfast dinner this week and LOVED IT!! I was worried it would be too sweet, but it was perfect. However, when I was making it I noticed your recipe is missing a number for the amount of cinnamon. Using the original posting I guessed it was 2 Tablespoons and did that. If you used something differnt let me know, but they did turn out great. Thanks for introducing a new recipe to our breakfast for dinner night :)firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-1484061334032211360.post-82223939120806690422012-02-08T16:41:28.075-08:002012-02-08T16:41:28.075-08:00thanks for sharing the recipe...oh my gosh! I thin...thanks for sharing the recipe...oh my gosh! I think I gained five pounds just reading it!!
Yummmm
NancyWild Oak Designshttps://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-1484061334032211360.post-42489535304023272642011-11-23T05:40:40.419-08:002011-11-23T05:40:40.419-08:00OMG, I found the link to this on Pinterest this mo...OMG, I found the link to this on Pinterest this morning and jumped at the chance to make them right away. I am so glad I did. These are DELICIOUS!! I am considering getting a room with this pancakes, as I think I could show them a good time. ;)Anonymoushttps://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-1484061334032211360.post-83409391974568280182011-10-27T08:22:22.627-07:002011-10-27T08:22:22.627-07:00I missed this! This is a def to make for the gkid...I missed this! This is a def to make for the gkids! They look so sweet and delicious they make my teeth hurt! Good for your B. And Z as their teeth won't hurt as they are tooth impaired! :)Kathleenhttps://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-1484061334032211360.post-56103133486115258432011-10-11T20:53:24.929-07:002011-10-11T20:53:24.929-07:00Cinnamon rolls and pancakes put together? What...Cinnamon rolls and pancakes put together? What's not to love? Must try these very soon!Hollie @ I'm Busy Procrastinatinghttps://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-1484061334032211360.post-42570292480573280882011-07-20T19:01:03.436-07:002011-07-20T19:01:03.436-07:00My grandson is here for two weeks- he loves pancak...My grandson is here for two weeks- he loves pancakes and I hope we get a chance to make these. They look so good! :)Betty @ scrambled henfruithttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-1484061334032211360.post-9994693248848049012011-07-20T15:18:59.479-07:002011-07-20T15:18:59.479-07:00yes I will be making these...holy moly!yes I will be making these...holy moly!Anonymoushttps://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-1484061334032211360.post-43337742396359309662011-07-20T14:29:01.602-07:002011-07-20T14:29:01.602-07:00Definitely drooling all over this post! I love pa...Definitely drooling all over this post! I love pancakes and cinnamon rolls. Will have to make these. ~ SarahSarahhttps://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-1484061334032211360.post-54687168258436875302011-07-19T20:13:35.328-07:002011-07-19T20:13:35.328-07:00I AM drooling over these! Your photos(and the pan...I AM drooling over these! Your photos(and the pancakes) look amazing! Thanks for the mini Pinterest tutorial:)Suehttps://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-1484061334032211360.post-10013988639277297702011-07-19T01:39:21.501-07:002011-07-19T01:39:21.501-07:00Looks yummy I most try this:-)) Greetings, Liliane...Looks yummy I most try this:-))
Greetings,
LilianePeeters Lilianehttps://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-1484061334032211360.post-41721935344874657972011-07-18T19:17:04.570-07:002011-07-18T19:17:04.570-07:00These really do take pancakes up another level -- ...These really do take pancakes up another level -- so beautiful and so are your pictures. I still haven't figured out the Pinterest stuff...JoniRed Couch Recipeshttps://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-1484061334032211360.post-39344407228070494492011-07-18T19:10:17.892-07:002011-07-18T19:10:17.892-07:00thanks for the hint about pinterest, i'll have...thanks for the hint about pinterest, i'll have to give it a look! email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-1484061334032211360.post-33750435706906962652011-07-18T17:22:42.666-07:002011-07-18T17:22:42.666-07:00Your pancakes look delicious! I'd love to have...Your pancakes look delicious! I'd love to have some right now! They are really pretty, too. You are very good at creating beautiful things, Jacqueline.
Blessings, BethBethhttps://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-1484061334032211360.post-84742429536969930882011-07-18T12:46:45.810-07:002011-07-18T12:46:45.810-07:00These are such pretty pancakes! I have a Printere...These are such pretty pancakes! I have a Printerest account and would love to follow you! I put a link to follow me on Printerest in my blog posts. It is quite addicting, but fun!Pat @ Mille Fiori Favoritihttps://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-1484061334032211360.post-80214632555049370642011-07-18T10:57:22.528-07:002011-07-18T10:57:22.528-07:00That just makes your mouth water...That just makes your mouth water...A Little Cuppa Teahttps://email@example.com


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With the 2018 NFL Season now over and the 2019 Memberships run well underway, we thought it best to catch you all up with happenings with the UK chapter, recent events news and what's next in 2019 off the back off of an AMAZING 2018.
We will begin with catching you all up with figures from the unprecedented success that was the London Weekend back in October 2018.
London 2018
As anyone who went to any of the events, or the game itself, you know how huge a success the weekend was. Not only for ourselves but the teams and the representatives we have come into contact with have lauded the success and fun which was had by all.
One part of that was the 600+ of you who attended the Saturday night festivities in Leadenhall. Your money was plunged behind the bar readily for a night which was unreal to witness.
We were joined by personalities like Blitz from the Seahawks, the Radio commentary team of Steve Raible and Dave Wyman, 710 ESPN's Jessamyn McIntyre and The Athletic's Michael-Shawn Dugar. It was a great night and with the auction and Hilinski Hope merchandise on offer we raised an incredible amount of money.
Our chosen charities have been funded with £10,000 off of the back of the weekend in London. It's a truly incredible figure and from all of us on the committee we thank those who dug deep into their pockets.
That weekend will forever live in the memories for those who were there. We can only hope it happens again one day soon.
The Chapter Charities & Committee Members
As we moved on past London- which was tough to do eh!?- we can announced that as dictated in our notes from the 2018 AGM the charities will have 'two year tenures' and thus will continue thru 2019.
Those charities are: Hillinski's Hope, Archie's Smile, SSAFA and the Paul Allen Charitable Foundation.
The same is to be said for our Committee make-up too. President Sean Wilson stays atop the committee and we are all delighted he is the face and voice of our group as we move into new grounds in 2019. The regional 'heads' also stay the same with the obvious encouragement of other members around the country and Ireland to chip in and bring ideas to the table. This is an open book and after 2018, we are always looking for new avenues and people to take the initiative.
Congrats to all committee members ahead of a hectic 2019.
2019 Membership
As the calendar ticked over to 2019 work had already begun on the Member packages for the 2019 year. Those have recently begun to be sent out to early-joiners and we thank everyone who has done that so far and we urge you all to click on the 'How To Join' tab on the top of the page to get your hands on yours gifts for 2019.
The 4th Annual National Meet
Off the back of London and all the good feeling that brought to this chapter, we have also recently arranged and announced the 2019 National Meet. After previous meets taking place in Manchester, Nottingham and Bristol; this year we are moving on a little further north and taking our talents (of partying excessively) to the banks of the River Tyne and to Newcastle.
On Saturday May 18th 2019, we are hosting our fourth National Meet. Details are below and a snazzy poster will soon be posted for the details concisely put on there.
Over the past three we have welcomed in 100's of guests, new and old friends from both sides of the channel and Atlantic to our shindigs. This year is shaping up to be even better and bigger.
There will be the usual drinking and merriment as well as a raffle and auction with some already very cool gifts donated by some of Seattle sports biggest names.
Keep checking this site, the Facebook page and over on Twitter @SeahawkersUK for all the information.
Until next time…
The UK Seahawkers Committee


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Oke Taiko is a signature model supervised by Leonard Eto. Adopted to the taiko are the important "light weight" and "power". The tremor and rim of the highly-durable silver-carbon body has been optimized.
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Hirado O-taiko (Flat-bodied Big Drum)
This instrument gives out brighter sounds than the full-bodied O-taiko because of its shallow body. A colorful variety of sounds can be obtained by using different Bachi sticks. Leonard Eto invented the method of using a long Bachi stick. He also devised a revolutionary style of playing this O-taiko when he was composing "ZOKU" (1989), and that is to place the taiko in a slanted angle on tree stumps. The style has won much popularity ever since.


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i'd heard todd temple's name a few times as a young buck youth worker who attended youth specialties conventions and got their catalogs in the mail. i knew he'd been the vice president of student events at one time. but i'd not met him. so when i was sitting in a planning meeting for the junior high track of dcla 94 (the meeting was taking place in 1992), and he and his ministry partner darrell pearson (now a youth ministry prof at eastern college) were mentioned as some guys who might be able to help us with programming a late night program for junior highers, i remember thinking, "hey, i remember him."
todd attended our next meeting, at a small upstairs suite in a residence inn in the tech center area of denver. and a friendship was birthed. a few months later, todd and darrell brought their traveling junior high program (eventually called "wild truth") to my church in orange county and i hosted them.
the years that followed included lots of dcla planning meetings in various parts of the country, a handful of actual dcla events (including absurdly late nights and the closeness that comes from hard work side-by-side), bringing todd in as a speaker for various events, a hundred conversations and dreams and a growing mutual deep level of respect.
about the time todd and darrell parted ways, and todd started a content development ministry called 10to20 (later renamed flannelgraf), he and i started talking about me writing a book for a new publishing company he was going to start, called 10to20 Press. we landed on the idea for what became wild truth journal, with darrell — who had inherited the 'wild truth' name from their former events — giving us permission to use that phrase and concept. before i started writing, youth specialties asked me to consider writing something for them. i suggested noel becchetti, then the publisher at ys (now the ceo or exec director of center for student missions), and todd talk, and see if our little book idea could become a ys book — which it did.
over the years, then, todd and i collaborated on 8 more books in the wild truth line. i did the writing, but todd concepted each of the three sub-series. (btw, i never had a book contract with ys on any of those 9 wild truth books: my arrangement was always with 10to20 press, which had a contract with ys.)
then todd started this little thing called mediashout. and about that time, i came on staff at ys. we started using mediashout for the core, and added it into a handful of ys products. todd helped me concept every picture tells a story, and i helped him concept various projects he was working on, and asked him to write a couple books for ys. his personal company, flannelgraf (as opposed to mediacomplete, the company he founded and was president of, but not sole owner), was contracted to provide media support at all the ys conventions for years, and i had reason to hang out with todd 6 or 8 or 10 times a year, all over the country. oddly enough, we both live in the san diego area, and only see each other about once a year here.
three weeks ago our core team was in reno, nevada, for the core premiere. todd was there to make sure all our presenters computers were working well for mediashout this year. and, while he was there, he got engaged. his new fiance, marna, lives in reno, coincidentally. then, one week later — less than two weeks ago — todd called me and asked what i was doing on saturday the 27th. shockingly, i had nothing on my calendar. he said he and marna were getting married that day (gotta love a 3 week engagement!), and wondered if i would perform the wedding. i said yes, of course, that i would be honored. and that's when he mentioned that the wedding was in reno, not san diego (sneaky dog).
so, i'm currently sitting in the san diego airport, waiting for my delayed flight to leave, so i can perform the wedding tomorrow morning for my long time brilliant friend, todd temple. what a sweet honor. all that said, i'll be really glad to be home tomorrow night, and will be home for an entire week!


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At the beginning of the innovation funnel, concept development is the most creative and exciting stage of new product development. As discussed in one of my early blog posts, it is critical to have an understanding of what the product will be before rushing off and trying to build it. But what do you do once you have a concept for your product? The next stage is the first step in bringing your ideas to market: design and planning.
If you have been following this blog for a while, you know I am enthusiastic about Agile project management techniques. It may seem that a defined design and planning stage at the beginning of a project is anti-Agile. It isn't. If you use Scrum or any other Agile technique, you know how important it is to have a prioritized Product Backlog. This is the stage in which that happens.
Why is planning in the innovation funnel so important? It is in this stage that you:
- Break a large project down into smaller, more manageable pieces
- Determine the team(s) needed to create the product and how to structure the work
- Align the team on the product vision
- Create the Product Backlog, prioritize it, and do a preliminary Release Plan
- Do any preliminary research or prototypes, if needed, to understand or mitigate risks (or find out if the product is even worth developing!). This could also be done early in development, but for high risk or short timeline projects, you may want to do this on a smaller scale while you are still in the funnel.
If you do not take the time to do these things early in the project, you will constantly be playing catch-up with your Backlog prioritization and Release Planning, rather than just adapting to normal changes that happen in development. It will also be very difficult to keep the team aligned with the vision and the product's definition of done if you are only able to plan ahead a sprint or two. Starting full development without completing this stage is a recipe for unnecessary stress and failure.
To make the most out of the design and planning stage, you need to have the following:
- Clearly defined goals. Just like when your project is in full development, you need a clear Definition of Done. What are you trying to accomplish? How will you determine when that is done? These goals also need to be prioritized.
- A serious deadline. At some point, decisions need to be made. Either the project is killed or full development starts. To prevent this phase from just getting absorbed into the next phase, there needs to be a serious deadline. That way, the high priority goals get accomplished and there is a clear kick-off for full development.
- A small team. Even if your goals are just to build and prioritize the product backlog, you still need your small core team to determine the size of the stories, break down large stories, validate that the backlog makes sense and identify any risks. Be careful of the team getting too large at this stage or you risk divergence as many people try to create their own version product. Small teams are also more nimble.
- A tolerance for failure. If you are doing any research or prototyping, be prepared that some things will not work, will be more difficult than expected, or will just not be possible. Be prepared to change some of your ideas of what the end product will be, depending on what you find. It is better to fail early, learn and adapt, than to stay the course and bring a bad product to market.
How do you start a new product development or an innovation project? What planning do you do before starting full development? I would love to read your experiences or questions in the comments.


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We've had a nudge from Best Mobile Contracts with news of the upcoming Xperia S. Now if I didn't know better I'd say that they're after free advertising, and for some reason they don't want to send us free beer, but it all sounds pretty plausible so here we go.
According to their sources, rstock will arrive on March 5, which is just under three weeks away.
If you want the full low-down on the Xperia S, have a look at our earlier story.
Link – Best Mobile Contracts
Credit – Daryl Astbury


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Double trouble: two authors in the house
Posted by Roz Morris @Roz_Morris in How to write a book, The writing business on August 18, 2013
The other day Porter Anderson at Writer Unboxed examined the popular notion of the lonely writer hammering out a novel in solitude. It provoked some interesting discussions about the way we do our work or accommodate our hobby in a busy life.
Chez Morris there are two writers. With no children. When you've read this post you'll agree that's for the best.
I realise some of our routines and habits must look peculiar to outsiders. But maybe they'll also look familiar too – especially if you are similarly afflicted.
1 Zombie face
When we're both deep in writing, it is hilariously difficult for us to have a conversation. When we do, it's as if we're trying to talk over a noisy background of in-head chatter: story problems we didn't solve and new ideas that are streaming in. The real person on the sofa seems to be at the far end of a tunnel.
2 Random outbreaks of notes
We are drowning in paper. Junk mail and envelopes must be binned immediately or they will start to grow a colony of notes. Once this begins, the notes must stay where they were born and may not be thrown away for months.
The most everyday conversation might trigger a sudden need to scribble. While in the car, Dave (who does not drive and therefore has his hands free) often finds himself instructed, like a secretary, to grab the notebook and take dictation. Of course we have a notebook in the car. Don't you?
3 Other rooms requisitioned
We each have a study, but sometimes we need a change of scene to refresh, cogitate, read or pace with a busy mind.
Suddenly one of us will find we can't use the dining table because husband is outlining his screenplay on index cards. Wife starts to rue the day she wrote Nail Your Novel. (But is also amused that husband uses it.)
4 Books
Our rooms would be 15% bigger if we didn't have such a book-buying habit. Upside: no need for pictures.
…which leads to
With such a vast book collection, they have to be kept in organised places. Dining room for books on history and exotic locations; bedroom for SF, short stories and poetry; my study for fiction; Dave's study for comic books, mythology and folklore. This careful organisation is banjaxed when a book is appropriated for a WIP. It will make its way into a mysterious pile whose order must not be disturbed. It might grow a fringe of cryptic Post-It notes saying 'Anne's sunrise' or 'part 2'. Apocalyptic fall-out if other partner wants to use it too.
6 Inability to make long-term arrangements
When a book is near to boiling point, whether there is an external deadline or not, making plans with friends is impossible. Do we want to go to a concert with x and y in three weeks' time? Er, don't know, is the answer, because the WIP seems to fill up everything. Even though when that evening comes we might knock off at 7 and open the wine.
7 Moral support
We both know that writing involves a lot of time despairing that our work is rubbish. And we also know how precious we sound when we agonise about it. And how writing is not truly hard like, say, brain surgery or bomb disposal or counselling traumatised asylum seekers. We know we're soft and ridiculous.
8 Unflinching critiques
Yes, we critique each other, and the kid gloves are off. They were never on anyway. Dave is used to collaborating with writing partners. I'm used to editing and ghostwriting. We're both too bothered by rough work to worry about ruffled feathers. So our manuscripts get tough love and there is grumbling. But it's better to keep mistakes within our walls than let an editor, programme controller or a reader see them.
9 Self-publishing v traditional publishing
We're from different publishing cultures. Which is interesting. Dave's written more than 80 books (I had to google that) for traditional publishers and he's worked for games companies. When he has an idea, he knows how it fits the market and which editors might like it.
Me, I write and then find I don't fit any commercial editor's needs. Thus I discovered the culture of entrepreneur indie-writers.
(Dave is now also publishing under his own imprints (here and here), but my books don't even fit there. Did I mention tough love?)
And so we are a curious microcosm. In one room, commercial traditional publishing. In the other, commercially-challenged literary indie. In times of strife, the grass often looks greener.
For instance: when we both launched works of fiction.
With My Memories of a Future Life, I'd have sold my soul for an influential endorsement. When Dave launched his reimagining of Frankenstein with Profile books, he was phoned by the national newspapers, appeared on several BBC radio arts programmes and given a login to blog on the Huffington Post. While I was thrilled to see him get such major attention, there was a bit of green-eyed grousing. Several times he was treated to the speech that went: 'no matter how good my book is, I could not get a start like that' etc etc. (A lot of etc.) But a year or two on, he's not as free as I am to make different editions, market it worldwide and do what he feels is needed to keep the book alive. Swings and whatnots.
Anyway: those books are done and more are incubating.
And so we return to #1.
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I've now got Eric Satie's Gnossiennes on repeat in my head – and so will you once you've read this week's Undercover Soundtrack. Satie helped my guest conjure a lulling, heady summer in France; a five-year-old girl running wild while her mother grapples with tragedy, late pregnancy and looming disaster. The novel is The Night Rainbow, the author is Claire King, and she's on the Red Blog with her Undercover Soundtrack. Even better, you could win a copy for sharing the post and commenting!
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A growing number of internet users are worried about the amount of personal information that is available online, according to a new survey from Pew Research Center.
In 2009, thirty-three percent of internet users said they were concerned about their information online. Today, that number has grown to 50 percent.
The survey found that most internet users would like to remain anonymous and 86 percent have taken steps to remove their "digital footprints."
Users attempt to mask their online activity by clearing cookies, encrypting emails, avoiding using their real names and using virtual networks to hide their internet protocol (IP) addresses.
Fifty-five percent of users said they have taken steps to avoid observation by specific people, organizations and the government.
Many users say they have experienced security-related problems as a result of information that is visible online.
Twenty-one percent have had an email or social networking account compromised by someone else without permission, and 11 percent have had information such as Social Security numbers, credit cards or bank accounts stolen. Six percent say they have lost money as a result of an online scam.
Online information has also affected users' personal relationships with 13 percent reporting trouble with a friend or family member as a result of something that was posted on the internet.
Six percent say that their reputation has been damaged because of something that happened online, and four percent of users have been led into physical danger.
With the recent revelations of NSA spying and allegations that big tech firms are snooping on emails, it isn't surprising that more internet users are concerned about their personal information.
The online paranoia has even prompted one company to offer services that help users "vanish" from the internet.


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It is a capital mistake to study the corrosive effect of the utterly corrupt Citizens United decision only in the context of the presidential contest, or in the context of other highly visible individual races, like the one for a U.S. Senate seat or last night's Wisconsin recall. The rot in the system is poisonous, general, and spreading.
(And have I mentioned really how utterly stupid it is to have an elected judiciary, especially in the current cash-soaked political atmosphere? It is the second-worst idea ever behind the Balanced Budget Amendment, aka The Stupidest Fking Idea Of All Time.)
Very soon, there is not going to be a single political campaign, no matter how small, that directly affects anything having to do with America's corporate power, which is practically everything, that will not be swamped by anonymous cash laundered through bagmen organized under the banner of some nobly monickered political whorehouse. (While considering the names of the front groups, it is always important to remember the blog's favorite quote from Sam Spade, of the firm of Spade And Archer: "The cheaper the crook, the gaudier the patter.") As the NYT says:
"...Justice John Paul Stevens predicted that such spending would overwhelm state court races, which would be especially harmful since judges must not only be independent but be seen to be independent as well. North Carolina is proving him right."
Of course, I'm sure that, sometime later this week, an earnest young scribe from Politico will tell me that everything's okay because Democrats spend money, too, and, anyway... unions! So, coming soon to your town: the $40 million race for Register of Probate, and won't that be fun?
Charles P Pierce is the author of four books, most recently Idiot America, and has been a working journalist since 1976. He lives near Boston and has three children.


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SHEFFIELD — Vermont State Police say a driver has died in a crash on Interstate 91 in Sheffield.
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This blog post was part of a series of student posts written during coursework for the Ethnographic Practicum courses ANT473 and ANT6200, "Ethnography of the University 2019: Focus on Time"
Studying Up: Navigating the complexity of conducting research with "the powerful" By Miya Draga & Morgan O'Brien
When we imagine conducting research under ideal circumstances, we imagine being able to access any site, talk to any person, and get the complete, contextual, and honest information that we want. However, research is rarely conducted under ideal circumstances. This is especially the case when "studying up." Studying up can be defined as studying actors – be it people, institutions, or organizations – with greater societal power than us researchers. In this context, when we say "studying up," we mean studying the innate power structures of the institution that we are all embedded in – the University of Toronto. Specifically, we mean studying university administration, or the administration of smaller university organizations.
"Studying up" brings with it a unique set of challenges, something we quickly discovered when we initially started exploring field sites to conduct our ethnographic research. One issue was that as students, we were far removed from the leadership structures permeating the institution. We had few contacts; we had no "ins". As a result, the first point of contact with our sites – that is, campus groups and organizations – was frequently through email. Often, we did not receive a response at all. When we did, the responses were rarely promising. One of us, upon sending out three emails with no response, decided to try the "knock on the door" approach with a small research group on campus. She was quickly turned away, and never heard from the group again. Another one of us had hoped to interview the executive director of a campus centre. Although she was able to get ahold of him initially, he didn't follow up for the interview. When she finally got a scheduled phone interview, the participant was late. He only stayed on the phone with her for 15 minutes before abruptly leaving. In each of these cases, barriers arose in the early stages of building rapport, and prevented us from getting the information we had hoped for.
It is possible that our participants did not feel like they had much to gain from our ethnographic work. It is also likely that the participants we aimed to recruit were simply busy people with many responsibilities and not enough time to dedicate to a small research project. A more cynical idea, perhaps, is that by allowing to be studied, organizations are opening themselves up to criticism, challenge, or even negative exposure. Seen through this lens, we may consider that for a powerful organization to agree to be studied, they are taking a "leap of faith" that the research will not negatively impact them. They are demonstrating their trust in you, as a researcher; trust that you will "do no harm." This trust is key to not only gaining access to a particular setting, but to being able to collect rigorous, accurate data.
As budding researchers, our experiences led to several questions about studying the powerful. For instance, how do you balance the desire to conduct rigorous, meaningful research with the concern that certain topics may be seen as controversial by the participating organization? How do you work with, or around, sensitive material that you uncover through your research? How do you make sense of when it is acceptable to prod at sensitive topics, and push people's comfort zones – and when to back off? Gaining and maintaining trust is important, as it is key to getting access to study particular settings, maintaining positive relationships, and conducting rigorous research. It is difficult to gain, and easy to lose. As researchers, it is our responsibility to figure out how to build lasting relationships with our participants, built on trust. Only then can we begin to navigate the nuances of doing research with the powerful.
Researching in a Place with an Already Established Position, By Olivia Verstraete
In this year's research, I decided to study and research in a space that I work in and previously worked in last year. I wanted to do research in this space because students from all disciplines, years, and cultural backgrounds use the space and they each use it differently, with some commonalities between them. I was also curious about why the students would primarily use the space for homework when events weren't going on, but at times they would even use the space for homework WHILE an event is going on. It isn't all and only used for homework, but this was an initial interest to me because I did not associate that with relaxation time. From working in the space and seeing the difference in what is expected to be done in a wellness space and what is actually done. I was hesitant to study the space because I wondered if my role will get in the way of performing my research because of existing relationships with the students as well as the fact that I am in a position of power.
To remedy these concerns, the class suggested putting up a poster with my face and the dual role I would be playing in the room this semester. Some students noticed it and inquired about the research and how it was going, and some students didn't even realize that it was there until I point it out to them if the topic of research comes up. After creating this poster, it was much easier to mention the dual role because I had it explained on the page, and could just supplement information, it also made it easier for students to remember that I had multiple positions in the space.
After getting over the initial discomfort with having to establish a new role that is kind of weird and could be taken poorly as it involves watching and doing things with people, I found that my already established position actually assisted in discussing these things with students. Ideas about wellness are abstract and sharing practices could be personal, so I think already having a repour with the students helped with a level of comfort. So they had the comfort that they already know me and talk about a lot within the space and they know that their name will never be shared. Another reason why this worked so well in this study site is because of the nature of the space. It is meant to be opening and welcoming, and students find this true so they come into the space and share lots about their lives and experiences. I thought my new added position of a researcher would diminish the experience but it actually enriched it as some of the students were interested in the research.
Studying a site where you already work in an established position can be very interesting, insightful and rich, but this might not be the case for all field sites like this. The space I am in encourages sharing and using community support to get through a shared experience, the university, therefore it worked well with facilitating anthropology research.
Adaptability, By Agha Saadaf
Over the course of the semester doing research, I got to really understand how one's circumstances can affect the roll-out of their ethnographic work, either positively by maybe sparking inspiration to focus one's study or negatively by delaying it. In this entry, I will focus on the latter, as I found myself encountering a very unexpected minor medical emergency that prevented me from carrying out any substantial work on my project this week. It should serve as a reminder that when planning out a schedule to conduct one's work, it is important to consider that life sometimes gets in the way in truly unpredictable manners, resulting in having to adapt one's plans on the fly. Case in point, one week earlier in the semester, I planned on having a certain set of interview questions ready and beginning interview calls for potential interlocuters. I, however, had an urgent dental issue that arose very unexpectedly and required immediate attention, taking several days to heal. This resulted in approximately 2-3 days worth of time lost in resolving this, while I also had to meet deadlines for other classes and responsibilities with the Anthropology Student Association. As such, this post serves as a gentle reminder that it is very important to be adaptable to unforeseen circumstances when doing research.
Those 2-3 days were not entirely unproductive. I took whatever time I could scrounge up to look over a text on autoethnography as I had flirted with the idea of adding an autoethnographic component to my project to discuss how my own conceptualizations of my time at the University this year have been reshaped under the provincial government's OSAP cuts. This reading gave me some more insights on how to approach this should I choose to follow through with this component, such as how reflexivity should "engage in a critical reflection on one's relationships with other…both within and outside the academy." (Meneley and Young 2005, 7). This specific line offered a lens through which I could self-reflect on my own position within my research. Thus, despite my unfortunate circumstances that week, the delay was not insurmountable for the adaptable student ethnographer, which really goes to show the importance of adaptability when conducting independent research.
Work cited
Meneley, Anne, and Donna Jean Young, eds. Auto-ethnographies: The anthropology of academic practices. University of Toronto: PressHigher Education, 2005.
Financial Privacy Meets Ethnographic Authority, By Agha Saadaf
As my research involved some intimate financial details from the part of my interlocutors, I often had to work with estimated numbers and figures given to me by my interviewees. This had a few pros and cons; on one hand, the argument can be made that this detracts from the factuality of my statements and puts my "ethnographic authority" in doubt, on the other hand an ethical transgression would have the same effect to a more significant degree.
With that said, it was interesting to see what interlocutors were willing to divulge about their personal lives and finances in comparison to what they weren't, and what they changed their minds about over the course of my research. For instance, a couple of my interlocutors had agreed to show me his OSAP statements during our interview, but did not want screenshots of his statements up on the final paper for (perfectly understandable) privacy reasons. Though inserting my own experiences as a subject of autoethnographic research had other benefits in my paper (such as being able to corroborate other students' experiences from my own firsthand accounts), it also helped to offer more specific and personal ethnographic details on the matter; I was okay with being open about my personal finances for the purposes of my research. However, despite my own willingness to discuss certain details about my own personal financial situation, along with the willingness of other interlocutors to share more private aspects of their lives, I chose not to include any screenshots of anything in the final paper, using specific numbers only when they were provided. Overall, this method offered a good compromise between providing rich ethnographic data and protecting the privacy of others.
Confessions of a Community-based Fieldworker, By Sarah Chocano Barboza
When conducting my ethnographic study of student leaders, I faced the challenge of negotiating my role as both a researcher and a member of the community. Although there were many advantages to being part of the group I was studying, I also found myself struggling with my dual positionally.
The pros:
Michel Foucault urges us to look at history to understand the unique processes that have led to who we are today. In the case of fieldwork, anthropologists need to become familiar with their field site's history to understand what led to their interlocutors' discourses and practices. Conducting fieldwork in my community allowed me to draw on my past experiences and re-think the history of student leadership. For example, I was able to reflect on how, in many ways, previous student leaders' leaders' practices of community building dictate my involvement. More specifically, I was able to look back at my initial motivations to become involved within my college, reflecting on how this involvement came about. Accordingly, this process of reflection is useful because it increased my engagement with theory, allowing me to push back on previous academic understandings of the University. This direct engagement with theoretical frameworks is meaningful and valuable because you can use your own life experiences as a means to revise and build on a claim that does not seem entirely on track.
The most apparent benefit of being a researcher within our communities is that you have a preexisting relationship with your interlocutors. In the case of my research, as a student leader of my college, these preexisting relationships provided me the unique opportunity to access various settings and to gain rapport with fellow students and staff members.
The cons:
However, there are some challenges that I had to face throughout my research. My first challenge regards disclosure. For instance, my insider status gave me the advantage to personally know the people in the field. Still, the disadvantage of this access is that I also knew the rumors, rivalries, and drama that naturally arise in a tight community setting. I was very hesitant to disclose these rivalries because I do not want to feed into the drama. Therefore, I decided that even though these rumors were substantial ethnographic data that would better illustrate student leaders' leaders' experience throughout their involvement, the inclusion of them would disregard my interlocutors' mental health.
Lastly, one of the biggest challenges that I encountered was making the familiar strange. Even now, I feel that my findings are clear because they are part of my quotidian life. It was tough for me to have an objective and critical eye on my research findings because they were very similar to my experiences as a student leader—experiences of exhaustion, stress, and tiredness. Nonetheless, reading theory allowed me to make my familiar experience strange and, therefore, have a critical understanding of my community's involvement. This awareness was essential when analyzing my findings and making them worthwhile.
Reading the Room, By Charlotte Stewart
When I first entered my field site, a meeting of the student activist group Climate Crisis Response University of Toronto (CCRUT), one of my primary goals was to gain a sense of who the group's leaders were. This seemed like a good place to start firstly in terms of helping me to figure out how CCRUT operated, and secondly because a group leader seemed like the most appropriate person to consult about seeking consent to conduct my research with the group. On that particular day, the facilitator was someone I will call Joanna, whom I recognized as one of the speakers from the anti-pipelines rally that had led me to this meeting. I assumed, accordingly, that she was the person to talk to. When I approached her at the end of the meeting, however, she responded positively to my introduction of myself as a researcher but seemed rather flustered to have been asked to speak on behalf of the group. She suggested, rather, that I start a discussion thread about it in CCRUT messaging and productivity app to get collective feedback on my request.
CCRUT, as I subsequently learned, has an egalitarian and consensus-based organizational structure. Roles such as facilitating meetings, taking minutes, planning events, and otherwise contributing to the group's climate justice campaigns are not set, but rather rotate on a voluntary basis. Joanna, as I came to understand over the course of my research, is one of the founders and most active members of Climate Crisis Response at U of T (which draws its mission statement but is not subject to oversight from a nationwide organization). While extremely articulate, confident, and clearheaded in her politics, she seemed deeply disinterested in asserting control over the group, presenting herself as an expert, or seeking credit for her activist activities. In other words, her personal praxis and that which she encouraged in the group seemed very much in line with her theoretical understanding of social and environmental justice. My mistake as a new researcher, it seemed, was making assumptions about the universality of hierarchal distributions of power.
At the same time, Joanna was respected in the group for possessing a great deal of knowledge about CCRUT's goals. By virtue of the great deal of initiative she took towards the group's activities, and the time she dedicated to seeing them through, she often ended up in leadership roles. Once, during the debriefing portion of a meeting which Joanna did not attend, someone asked of an upcoming event, "So who knows what's going on with that?", to which the reply was a shrug and the quip that without Joanna, we were lost. The lesson, then, that what people say, what they try for, and how group dynamics play out in reality are all different things. Flows of power, it seems, exist in every space.
Untitled, By Marwa Turabi
Forming a research question is difficult. During my work in this practicum, I found this to be particularly true because I have so many questions. Here, the problem with overzealous curiosity is that it is disorienting. These questions push, and pull, the ethnographer in so many directions. And, consequently, at times propels us into, what I have learned to call the: "I could not tell you what I am even studying anymore" abyss. This is especially an issue if your time in the field is incredibly limited. But, how do we use the plethora of provocations we encounter to produce a 'good' research question? To put this "overzealous curiosity" to use, I, as inspired by this practicum, leaned on Michael Burawoy's advice for doing ethnography. Burawoy, as cited in the ANT6200 Winter 2019 Syllabus, suggest that "it is imperative you record all your experiences around entry – all the resistance and all the anxiety [because] this is not a pre-play, this is the act." I took this to suggest that "your experiences" include the questions you meditate with, and on. Therefore, it is important to record your questions as they emerge. This may seem obvious. However, despite previous ethnographic projects, it was in this practicum that I chose to practice scribbling down all of my questions as they arrived. My hope was that eventually one of these questions would act a research question. However, instead, I discovered another benefit to this practice. Towards the end of my fieldwork, I could follow these questions to see the trajectory of knowledge that I was pursuing all along. In simpler words, they hint at your research question.
For example, these are some of the questions that emerged at the start, and middle, of my project:
I was inundated by the elusiveness of 'time': is it an experience? A possession? Or, perhaps an impossible resource?
Should we think of digital media as propelling "life-negating habitation" (Duclos 2017: 22) for students? Or, by articulating the act of immersing oneself in digital media, and speed, as 'life-negating', do we neglect a possibility that 'inhabiting media' is one-way students reckon with – or, "pull on the emergency brakes" (Caduff 2017: 19) to stop – acceleration "[which appears as a] form of overstimulation and task overload" (Rosa 2013: 15)?
How do students uses of 'time' demonstrate their own power? How is power negotiated by different uses, and applications, of time? When do these conceptions of time-management clash, and what happens to the student-university relationship when they do? How might students embody the results of this clashing of time-use beliefs? Is space a negotiation of different-temporalities?
Do other faculty members also differentiate the 'sane and humane' from the 'indoctrinated academic' when thinking about how to manage time, especially in the face of personal crises (large, or small)? What is being indoctrinated? How does this 'indoctrination' produce different ways of seeing time? Why, and how is it, that I understood – and agreed with – what they meant when talking about the importance of finding time for SSHRC as 'indoctrinated academics'?
In all of these inquiries, it is evident that I am preoccupied with how the graduate student community embodies, and performs, 'stress' by overwhelming their schedules. From analyzing these questions, I could distill a research question: What do graduate student time-use practices suggest about success? And relatedly, how does the "stress=success" ethos affect graduate students management of time?
Indeed, in this way, my research question was actually baking throughout the execution of my project. I found that by heeding my curiosity and collecting my questions in my notes made them: (1) less overwhelming; and (2) useful for forming my final research question. Perhaps, then, these questions are as telling as ethnographic material.
Is my phone my third limb?, By Isaac Consenstein
As I began to think about the role of time in my daily life, right away I thought of my iPhone. My iPhone is my alarm clock, my timer, my communicator, my entertainer, and my main distraction. During most in between times throughout the day, I find myself relying on my phone. When I'm waiting to meet someone, I might scroll through Instagram or look at the news. When I'm waiting for food to cook I will often tell Siri to start the timer, or even if I'm in the company of others and no longer feel like talking, I might take my phone out to see what's happening on the internet. Every time I pick it up, I feel excited about what might show up on my Instagram or Facebook feed, or how the score has changed in whatever basketball game is on. Almost every time, my phone lets me down after a couple minutes of browsing, as there is nothing particularly new or exciting happening. Each cellphone visit was just as dull as the previous one, but for whatever reason, I love checking in.
I am at my worst when I don't have things to do and I can play with my phone guilt free. This semester, I always had too much to do, so my phone-induced procrastination guilt increased. In addition, iPhone has added features to remind users how much we look at our phones. Realizing the amount of time, I spend on my phone made me feel ashamed. This feature also allows users to place limits on specific apps. After 45 minutes of social networking, my phone tells me my time is up for the day. I usually ignore the message and keep browsing.
Given my lack of self-discipline, I told myself the only solution would be to leave my phone behind when I go study. During the first week of school I went to Robarts Library without my phone and immediately got restless. I gave myself a manageable study goal, yet I could not stop touching my thigh the entire time. Every time I realized there was no phone, I resorted back to my readings for a brief period. But my lack of distraction became too aggravating. I got restless at the library, so I ran off to do some errands. By the time I was finished shopping and it had been several phone-less hours, I was very anxious to get home. Instead of walking home I got on the streetcar so I could reunite with my phone as fast as possible. I did not know how long I was waiting or when to expect the streetcar. My anxiety and restlessness came from not knowing. Ultimately, my phone doesn't only orchestrate my time, it allows me to know time. Google Maps can project an estimated time for my commute, and the TTC app can tell me how long my wait for the streetcar will be, and social media gives me an escape from awkwardness or impatience. Lacking my phone caused me to feel the discomfort of not knowing, as I only a vague understanding of time and I became overly immersed with the noise, eye-contact, or any other sights I would rather escape from.
The Art of Analysis: Auto-Ethnography or Auto-Biography, Marwa Turabi
What are the actual possibilities of auto-ethnography? And, am I a worthy enough 'thing' to ethnographically inquire on and about? At the start (and truthfully, through to the end) of this practicum, I meditated on these questions immensely. While ethnography is a social scientific method which contemporaneously forgives and embraces 'the subjective', something about auto-ethnography feels like it overwhelmingly perverts the 'objectivity promise' of the empirical process. This dilemma is not new. In fact, Ellis, Adams and Bochner (2011) manage this anxiety by asking their readers to wonder how we can re-caliber our attitudes towards studying the self as a political, socio-economic and cultural thing. To reconcile with our worries about the 'validity' of auto-ethnography, they recommend that we treat this genre as both "process and product" (Ellis, Adams & Bochner 2011). And so, that's what I did while considering my relationship – as a graduate student, and caregiver – to time.
In one weekly-reflection I detail one part of a long process:
"I am incessantly tracking my time – with a whiteboard calendar, phone calendar, timer, day-planner, sticky-notes all over my office desk. I deem these things necessary because I don't want to seem incapable of keeping up with the demands, and rigour of graduate student-work life. As well, I have to be able to make caring for my ill-family member fit with these demands. Additionally, I (apparently) have to make taking care of myself (by going to the gym, being with friends/family, sleeping, and eating) fit within my schedule. Yet, I constantly choose to compromise/shift my definition of 'self-care', to meet expectations I set for myself, as endorsed by university, and familial expectations. In fact, I often say I am incapable of mindful meditation because my schedule compels me to always be thinking about 'what is next?'"
The product, however, was the intense introspection I allowed myself for the purposes of doing auto-ethnography. To leave these thoughts as they are is to do an autobiography. However, to do ethnography of the self is to follow with an analysis that begs questions like one I posed at the start of my project: "What is it that I'm failing – neoliberal logics (?) – if I cannot adequately schedule, and meet, all of my responsibilities while privileging my career?" An autoethnographic process and product means contextualizing our everyday actions, language, and interactions in the stuff of our social milieus insofar as doing so makes it possible for us to do good, and critical introspection. Shifting our ethnographic lens towards our own selves means doing auto-ethnography.
Reference Cited
Ellis, C., Adams, T. E., & Bochner, A. P. 2011. Autoethnography: an overview. Historical Social
Research/Historische Sozialforschung, 273-290.
Landmark as Self-Definition, By Sarah MacDonald
In my investigation of the Landmark renovation I found that the project's various offices mobilized time to construct an identity for the project. The Landmark project is a disruptive, multi-million dollar renovation aimed at reimagining St. George campus's core. It covers Front Campus, Back Campus and Hart House circle, as well as the adjoining areas. Over the next few years the project will remove the 'modern artifacts' around this part of campus (cars, parking meters, asphalt roads) and replace them with more green space, seating areas and pathways. Speaking with David, a member of Landmark's marketing team, he expressed the goal of Landmark as elevating the university's sense of prestige by enhancing and revitalizing the historic aspects of its campus. However, the three motivations I came to identify as to why the university constructs an identity are: i) to attract donors ii) to define itself amongst other universities as 'high-ranking' (a more specific interpretation of David's hunch) and iii) to maintain relevance and appear 'sensitive' to the current social moment. Through discourse and physical space, the project mobilizes the temporalities of History and Future to construct an identity in relation to other campuses and city spaces.
In the texts I read while thinking about the renovation and what it's doing, most of the material I connected with was concerned with 'public memory' – unpacking and analyzing memory as a communal phenomenon. Revitalizing the 'core' of campus, Landmark is seeking to impact public space, and is therefore directly speaking to the public's relationship to this space. In an article titled Places of Public Memory, the authors argue that 'material supports' (also referred to as 'technologies') are employed to facilitate engagement with the past – calling images, objects and places the 'infrastructure' of public memory (Dickinson et al. 2010: 10). With Landmark's material supports projecting imaginings of more than the school's history (aka. its future), we can claim that these technologies are deployed to help us engage with multiple temporalities. One aspect of the project that we can unpack in thinking about its use of time to connect with the public is its title. What is a 'landmark'? It is an easily recognizable object or feature that helps you know where you are situated in a landscape.
In the article 'Landmarks', Wapke Feenstra considers landscapes to be pieces of land with different dimensions created upon them, and argues that landscapes 'narrate our relationship to our environment' (Feenstra 2010: 114). It's landmarks – layers added to the land – that create these new dimensions by 'making visible' a new perspective (dimension) of the landscape (Feenstra 2010). Using Feenstra's understanding of landscapes and landmarks to think about the decision to name this project, we can infer that this project – in defining itself as a landmark – is intending to reveal and shape new dimensions on campus. Constructing discourse/ rhetoric and physical space that emphasizes the university's historic character and future utility, the Landmark project reveals both the social life of a space and the importance we place on time as a marker.
Works Cited
Dickinson, Greg, Carole Blair, and Brian L. Ott, eds. Places of public memory:
The rhetoric of museums and memorials. University of Alabama Press, 2010.
Feenstra, Wapke. "Landmarks." Performance Research 15.4 (2010): 107 – 114.
Making Time to Study Time, By Agha Saadaf, Hayley Lessard, Olivia Verstraete
As students we are all tremendously time constrained. Being pulled around by demands from other classes sometimes made it difficult to focus on conducting research and many times impeded on our ability to deeply analyze situations and data. Alternatively, we would sometimes feel the need to sacrifice homework from other classes that may not have held as much priority in our schedules in order to catch up on research and theory-finding. Studying other students made schedule conflicts more likely to occur, as it was not only us who had busy schedules, but also those we were studying. This occasionally made it difficult to "make time" to meet up with our interlocutors and conduct interviews, shadow or interact with busy students in the field.
Moreover, it's also important to consider how aspects of life outside of the academic realm can affect how we made time to study time. As students, we felt the need to have jobs outside of the academic realm to keep up with personal, and sometimes educational expenses, which many times affected how much time we could spend on research. Generally, we found our work schedules often limited the time we had to conduct research or go through theory when required. On top of this, we all encountered various social obligations throughout the semester that directly obstructed time scheduled to do work on our research projects; things like birthdays, family events, friends needing support during the stresses of midterm season. And finally, in some of our cases, poorly-timed health concerns often arose where scheduled research time was pushed aside in favour of taking care of ourselves and going to the doctor's, setting research back to be caught up on later.
As you can see, it can be quite paradoxical to find the time to study time. While this cannot fully be avoided, we had employed ways to maximize our time for doing research. When researching within the school, it is always intriguing to explore a topic that is completely foreign, but it can be very beneficial to explore a site that you already frequent. There are likely many questions and puzzles present that you have already thought of but have yet to manifest, and with the addition of the ethnographic lens, it can become even more interesting. Another way to maximize your time is to use your existing social networks to gain interviews and interlocutors. By using people that you know (and keeping them anonymous) the interview can be easier to schedule and richer due to the rapport that already exists. Finally, use of the internet and electronics can be critical. In our experience of students studying students, schedules don't often align, therefore the use of videochat interviews or online surveys can save a lot of time. It may seem less intriguing to study the familiar, but it can be an eye-opening project and effective way to use your time.
The Institutionalization of care: The University as the Pastoral Apparatus, By: Priya Saibel & Solomiya Draga
We live in an era of the expanding pastoral apparatus. A generation ago, the university looked like a different place than what it is today, albeit another pastoral apparatus. This term is derived from the historic notion of the church as the pastoral (Foucault, 2007), delivering social welfare programs and services through the pastors. Ample examples of these types of care-taking initiatives exist across the university, ranging from support-based initiatives that encompass a wide range of social services, to institutionalized centers like the Healthcare clinic. Take for example the free flu shots that were offered in November 2019 to students, staff and faculty or the ongoing health and wellness initiatives: mindfulness workshops, yoga and the various workouts offered across campus. Through researching pastoral care at the university, we can see the institutionalization of care, and its existence in both highly funded, professionalized departments, and through voluntary initiatives.
For instance, in the Family Care Office (FCO), the staff are enabling and promoting self-care (Jones, 2018) of the student parent. They do so in a responsive way by attempting to address their needs, and in a tactical way by 'teaching' and 'promoting' the methods of care to the student parent, thereby equipping them with the tools to be self-sufficient. The FCO was founded in 1993 and is well-funded by the University. They are also comprised of several professionalized personnel, have a clearly defined reporting structure and have a definitive mandate. Their motto is 'Every family belongs', and the staff work very hard to make sure that they are catering to all family needs that arise at the university. In the office, there is a large common area with a corner of toys, literature on support programs and initiatives within and outside campus, and several books on parenthood. Plenty of resources are displayed to support families, and there are workshops that deal explicitly with parenting. The peculiarity is that the FCO is undertaking topics and tasks that were previously dealt with privately; that is, in the home and with other family members. Thus, familial forms of care have fallen under the rubric of university services.
We can see similar pastoralist trends in Grad Minds (GM), the mental health group under the University of Toronto's Graduate Students Union (UTGSU). GM arose in 2013 when the UTSGU recognized the need for mental health resources on campus and has become one of UTSGU's largest groups. It is comprised of around a dozen student volunteers who plan and administer mental health workshops, educational sessions, and advocate on behalf of the graduate student body. Unlike the FCO, GM involvement is completely voluntary, and their members are elected annually through a democratic process. GM, as the "voluntary pastoral," focuses on filling in the mental health gaps that exist for graduate students. The group members are dedicated to the cause and work extremely hard to ensure the effectiveness of the group on attending to the graduate community. However, the voluntary nature of the group poses certain issues. For instance, high turnover is a particularly salient barrier to fulfilling their mission. Although members often join with enthusiasm, many quickly get frustrated with the lack of change, lack of funding and the inability to follow-through with proposed initiatives. Thus, this group is less institutionalized than groups such as the FCO, and as a result faces unique challenges in their efforts to provide the student body with pastoral care.
Despite the differences between the structure and level of institutionalization of the two groups, their functions are largely the same. Both the FCO and GM work to foster a sense of community and belonging, provide students with much-needed services, and support the university community by providing resources to maximize student wellness. Thereby, these groups extend the reach of the pastoral through professionalized and voluntary undertakings.
Foucault, Michel. 2007. Security, Territory, Population: Lectures at the Collège de France 1977-1978. Senellart, Michel (ed.). New York: Palgrave MacMillan.
Jones, Lorelei. 2018. 'Pastoral power and the promotion of self-care.' Sociology of Health & Illness 40 (6):988-1004.
Student Caregivers in the University: Locating an Invisible Population for Ethnographic Research, By Kristen Bass
The contemporary student is a subject understood by the University as only a student. This ideal student, as a self-interested actor attending university for future economic gain, makes education their top priority. Understanding a student this way, however, has consequences for those who do not fit this model. Mature students or students with caring responsibilities, for example, exist outside the ideal student model because of their other roles beyond the University. In addition to their student role, they may also be a worker, a partner or spouse, a parent, a primary caregiver of an aging family member, or a combination of these. In the context of the classroom, however, these roles remain invisible.
A student-parent interlocutor spoke to the University's assumption of the idealized student when she stated:
It can feel isolating or weird because everyone is assumed to be a full-time student. […] That's their number one. And I think that professors are often a little unforgiving and they just don't even get it. […] I've had teachers where they basically insinuate that school is all you do.
Here, she describes her interactions with professors who do not see, or do not acknowledge, that some students have other roles and obligations that may shape how they approach their student role.
Moreover, there are limited sites on campus where mature students and student caregivers gather, further augmenting their invisibility. Demanding schedules are often such that this group tends to remain on campus only when they have to. Consequently, their presence as a collective group with shared experiences is unseen by other students or administration. Speaking to this, a student-parent interlocutor said:
I was thinking, […] it would be so cool if people could meet together. And I'm like, I don't have time for that! And it's so funny, I was just thinking it's this whole community that can't really exist because everyone's too busy.
Here, she gets at the challenge of locating this group on campus. Because of the demands of their other roles, which tend to take priority over school, their presence on campus is often nebulous.
This invisibility proves to be a challenge when conducting ethnographic research. How does an ethnographer gain access to sites or subjects that are not visible? Where does this group study or spend time? How does an ethnographer identify a "mature student" or "student parent"? Is the group recognizable by their age? Perhaps a younger, non-mature student is also a parent or caregiver. Categorizing this group simply by age may have exclusionary results. Their invisibility in the university means that access to this population often requires social networks. As such, these challenges make researching invisible populations difficult.
While the uncloaking of invisible populations is challenging, it is perhaps ethically necessary. As ethnographers, it is of immense importance to dignify all of the roles that make up the person. Surely, if we want our representations to be close-to-true understandings of our interlocutors' personhood we should take great care to appreciate the different roles of our subjects and the extent to which these roles articulate personhood.
Moreover, doing so might also demonstrate new and relevant knowledge to stakeholders of our research. How might the Family Care Office at the University offer resources that are considerate of the many roles each student caregiver has? Indeed, a significant way in which we do this work of dignifying is by explicitly acknowledging all parts, or roles, of a person. Further, if the University recognizes the struggles of student caregivers and acknowledges the barriers they encounter by providing supports, this may have positive effects on the educational experience of this group. To be seen, to be recognized, is to attain validation for one's personhood, in all of its complexities.


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Friday, December 14, 2012
[4.00/10] The Cold Light of Day (2012)
12 comments:
- Alex J. Cavanaugh said...
Think I'll just skip it.
- December 14, 2012 at 7:38 AM
- Arun said...
Did you get the idea that Cavill will make an excellent Superman, based on his performance in this (otherwise dull) movie....
- December 14, 2012 at 8:02 AM
- George Beremov [Nebular] said...
Alex, that is a smart decision. :)
- December 14, 2012 at 8:38 AM
- George Beremov [Nebular] said...
B2B, to be honest, I kind of like Henry Cavill, and think that he'll make a great Superman. He's got the looks, the talent, and the charisma, so... I think he's going to shine. At least I hope so.
- December 14, 2012 at 8:41 AM
- Arun said...
Superman adaptations have not found much success for a long time, with the first 2 Christopher Reeve movies and Smallville being rare exceptions.
With Chris Nolan overlooking the project, I have high hopes for Man of Steel. My only concern is Cavill himself. He has never exuded the kind of leading man charisma, an actor needs to pull off Superman. This is true of Immortals and he is kind of bland in the trailer for Man of Steel also.
- December 14, 2012 at 6:34 PM
- George Beremov [Nebular] said...
B2B, I'm more excited about the fact that Snyder directs it rather than Nolan produces it. Don't get me wrong, Chris Nolan is a legend, but I think Zack Snyder's style is way more expressive.
Cavill definitely LOOKS like Superman, but I'm not sure if he's capable of carrying the weight of such an iconic character. I think he has a strong screen presence, and don't find him bland at all. Well, we'll have to wait and see. :)
- December 15, 2012 at 1:56 AM
- Unknown said...
I think Cavill was outstanding in the trailer for Man of Steel. I don't understand how anyone could think that he was bland in that trailer. I was worried when I first heard that Snyder was directing. I love him, Dawn of the Dead and 300 are epic, but Watchmen was awful. Then again, that whole story just never appealed to me. The "super" heroes were all neurotic, self-absorbed shitheads.
- December 21, 2012 at 9:38 PM
- George Beremov [Nebular] said...
Mel, not sure the word outstanding is appropriate in this case, because the trailer was way too short to judge Cavill's charisma and acting skills, but yeah, I liked him too.
You thought Watchman was awful? You've got to be kidding me... :) This one probably the most unique superhero movie I've ever seen. Loved it! Snyder one of the coolest directors out there, I think. The only Snyder film that didn't really blow my mind was Sucker Punch... but I still liked it.
- December 22, 2012 at 6:04 AM
- Unknown said...
I absolutely could not stand Watchmen. I could not even think of them as heroes. They weren't even anti-heroes to me. Seriously, that whole world is just one I did not like at all. Something about it was too bizarre and I found myself bored for the most part.
I finally saw Sucker Punch and did not like it. I thought the acting was subpar and I did not like the cheesecake costumes the girls were wearing. Women, despite what men think and say, do not ever imagine ourselves scantily clad like that. Nor would we realistically imagine ourselves in a brothel. Especially when we have been abused. We would imagine instead, full on armor. Which Snyder would have known had he bothered to research abuse victims for realistic reactions. This story was supposed to be in Babydoll's mind, from her POV, but it was strictly a geek boy sex fantasy and I was disappointed.
- December 22, 2012 at 10:13 AM
- George Beremov [Nebular] said...
Mel, in my opinion the whole point of Sucker Punch was, that when you win the battle in your head, that helps you win it in real life too, which all made sense to me. Yes, this film was overly stylized, but hey, that's Snyder we're talking about, and we all know he's not a fan of the 'less is more' philosophy.
As for Watchmen... well it's supposed to be an anti-hero film, and that's exactly what it was. The superheroes in it were flawed and humane, with all their weaknesses and strengths. The vintage vibe of the whole thing made me like it even more.
...but as you often say, great minds do not always think alike. :)
- December 22, 2012 at 10:34 AM
- Unknown said...
That's right, our brilliant brains do not always travel the same path and that is awesome. Part of why I love you so much. :)
- December 22, 2012 at 10:45 AM
- George Beremov [Nebular] said...
Mel, I know, hon.. I love you too. :)
- December 22, 2012 at 1:27 PM


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