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Viking marauders descend on a much-plundered island, hoping some mayhem will shake off the winter blahs. Watch animator Chris Roth's short adaptation of Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned -- the title story of Wells Towers' highly anticipated debut story collection.
Book Review - 'Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned,' by Wells Tower - Review - NYTimes.comThis polished debut story collection takes its sustenance from class conflict, rough men and strong women, and the intersection between hotheads and cool customers.- The New York Times
Wells Tower's short stories and journalism have appeared in The New Yorker, Harper's Magazine, McSweeney's, The Paris Review, The Anchor Book of New American Short Stories, The Washington Post Magazine, and elsewhere. He received two Pushcart Prizes and the Plimpton Prize from The Paris Review. He divides his time between Chapel Hill, North Carolina and Brooklyn, New York.
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AREA FOOTBALL ROUNDUP: Water Valley, 5-0, rolls into showdown with Highland
SAN ANGELO, Texas - There's only one high school football team in Tom Green County that is still sporting a perfect record.
The proud owner of that 5-0 mark is the Water Valley Wildcats.
Water Valley has quietly pieced together an undefeated season so far, punctuated by back-to-back wins the last two weeks that came by way of the 45-point mercy rule, including last Friday's 47-0 win over Eden.
The Wildcats should get their toughest test of the season this week when they host state power Highland. In the meantime, Water Valley is enjoying the view from the top.
"The more that you win, the more that people come to see what's going on," said head coach Justin Esquell, who is in his first year leading the Wildcats. "Every week, I think we're gaining a little bit more."
The Wildcats didn't start particularly fast, battling for a 38-22 win over Klondike in the season opener, then edging Paint Rock 28-24 the next week in a game called at halftime due to rainy conditions.
But they've been rolling ever since, winning their last three games by at least 37 points.
"We've been getting more and more focused each time I think," senior center Ambrose Ledezma said. "I can see a lot more determination in the guys."
Ledezma is the leader of an offensive line that Esquell said has been the biggest difference from last season.
That line paved the way last week for an offense that produced 340 yards in less than three quarters. Even more impressive, the Wildcats had no punts, no fumbles and no interceptions.
They'll need another mistake-free outing like that this week against a Highland team that is 3-0 and has defeated its opponents by a combined score of 156-16. One of those wins was a 46-0 rout of the same Paint Rock team that Water Valley edged.
"I told the kids, 'As long as we don't turn the ball over and execute, we have a chance to continue to be successful,'" Esquell said. "Hopefully, we learned something along the way to do stuff like that."
As for Water Valley's defense, which Esquell said is led by junior defensive end Adrian Herrera, the Wildcats are coming off their first shutout of the season last week.
"Anytime you put a goose egg up on anybody in six-man, it's a feat in itself, because it's pretty tough to do that," Esquell said.
Water Valley returned four starters on each side of the ball from last year's team that went 5-5. The Wildcats got off to a 4-1 start last year before winning just one game in a brutal district that could be even more difficult this season.
That's the harsh reality waiting down the road for the Wildcats. Despite their 5-0 start, they won't be favored to make the playoffs in a district whose four other teams are Fort Davis (5-0), Rankin (5-0), Garden City (4-1) and Sterling City (3-1).
To top it off, those four teams' coaches have all taken teams to the state semifinals or further in their careers.
"It could be one of the toughest, if not the toughest district in the state," Esquell said. "Just the level of coaching, too. I'm telling you, this district has some phenomenal coaches in it. ... They've all coached in some real big games, and they all know what they're doing."
That makes this week's game against Highland even more important as it will give the Wildcats one last chance to play one of the state's top teams before taking a week off and jumping into a district full of top teams, beginning at Rankin on Oct. 16.
"If we keep practicing the way we have been recently, I think it'll be pretty good," said Ledezma about the team's chance in district. "I have high hopes for this team."
Regardless of what happens over the next six weeks, it will be hard to diminish what the Wildcats have accomplished already in a new system with a new coach and only five seniors.
"It's a learning experience," Esquell said. "It's just getting a little better every week. They've been real open to everything we've asked them to do. It's been a real pleasure to work with those guys."
San Saba off to strong start
San Saba is way out on the edge of the Standard-Times' coverage area, but don't overlook one of the area's best teams.
The Armadillos are 4-1, and their only blemish is a 27-7 loss to Goldthwaite, the No. 4-ranked team in Class 1A.
"That was our setback there, but we did a lot of things good against a good team," San Saba head coach Jeff Pannell said. "We learned a lot of things from it."
San Saba scored an impressive 21-13 win over Mason to go along with victories over De Leon (36-0) and Johnson City (35-27), capped by last week's 35-6 win over Dublin in both teams' District 8-2A opener.
Running back Jack Whitten led the way last week with 128 yards on 11 carries, including a 59-yard touchdown run.
Pannell said Whitten has carried the load nicely in the absence of fellow running backs Gary Gant and Hayden Oliver, who have been out with injuries. Whitten has also been a leader on defense, along with fellow linebacker Tucker Cromer.
The offensive and defensive lines, led by Tyler McIntosh and Anthony Salinas, have been some of the biggest strengths of the team, Pannell said.
San Saba faces an important game this week when it hosts 3-1 Bangs.
"They're a well-coached, good, quality team. They have just about everything," Pannell said. "We're looking forward to the challenge here Friday night."
Miles' rolleR coaster continues
The Miles Bulldogs have seen all sorts of results this season.
They began the year with a 50-0 win over Christoval, then lost a close one, 21-12 to Roby. After that, they were on the losing end of a 46-6 rout to Menard before bouncing back last week with a 26-13 win over Irion County.
"It's been up and down," Miles head coach Lynn Cauley said. "We've had several kids not come out that we were counting on. Then our running back (Tyler Salinas) breaks his leg in our first scrimmage.
"The kids have had to deal with a lot of adversity already, and they've handled it real well."
Quarterback Garrett Brandon led the Bulldogs last week by running for 127 yards and three touchdowns on only seven carries, while running back Hayden Ray added 110 yards and a touchdown on 16 carries.
Cauley said the offensive line deserves a lot of credit for the team's success, especially considering the injuries the Bulldogs have had to deal with. Those underappreciated big men are Colin McGuire, Caleb Gentry, Ryan Rodriguez, Jonathan Kraatz and Bradley Hudson.
Cauley said the defense has been led by linebacker Zane Sewell.
Miles hosts Rotan this week before kicking off District 12-1A play next week at Albany.
Some quick notes
n Ozona rallied from a 12-0 deficit last week to beat McCamey 19-18. Running back Abey Lara tossed a 37-yard touchdown pass to Kyle Sewell with 8:56 left in the fourth quarter to tie it, then Zane Hernandez kicked the extra point for the win.
n Wall lost 26-20 last week on the road to perennial state power Crane. The Hawks overcame a 19-0 halftime deficit to get within 19-13 early in the fourth quarter.
Crane didn't ice it until a late stop led to a touchdown in the final minute. Wall then added another touchdown with 11 seconds left.
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Authorities have identified the 57-year-old man who was killed this week in a car crash near the Santa Barbara County line.
Will Spens of Santa Barbara was driving east on Bates Road under Highway 101 near Rincon Point about 3 p.m. Tuesday. For an unknown reason, his car to swerved into the concrete bridge abutment, according to a prepared statement from the California Highway Patrol.
Spens was not wearing a seat belt.
He died from blunt force head and chest injuries, said Deputy Ventura County Medical Examiner Michael Tellez.
Spens was a television and radio reporter who worked for WABC and WNBC in New York City for many years and reported for KNBC in Burbank, KCBS in Hollywood and KNX Newsradio in the early 1990s, City News Service reported.
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La Nina conditions intensifying in the Pacific region
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THE latest update from the Australian Bureau of Meteorology (BoM) indicates that climate patterns in the Pacific evolving during January and February have continued to support a likely La Nina event in early 2006.
The Climate Prediction Centre of the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) of the US had earlier last week announced the "official return" of La Nina.
A condition characterised by cooler than normal sea surface temperatures (SSTs) across much of the equatorial and central Pacific, La Nina is the reverse of El Nino. It has been known to generate higher than average precipitation in Australia, India and Indonesia.
Sea surface temperatures have continued to cool during January, with cooler than average conditions extending further west to cover much of the equatorial Pacific.
Recent weeks have seen a slight intensification of these cool temperatures. A La Nina event recurs about every three to five years. The last one occurred in 2000-2001 and was a weak episode.
According to the BoM, should the current conditions over the eastern and central equatorial Pacific persist for another three months, it will be an official La Nina event. Subsurface waters in the eastern equatorial Pacific are particularly cool, but surface temperatures are only bordering on La Nina thresholds.
The prolonged period of decreased cloudiness is in keeping with the cooling trend observed in ocean temperatures, and is similar to that expected in a weak to moderate La Nina.
Another strong indicator was the value of the Southern Oscillation Index (SIO), which was above +10.
The SOI is calculated from the monthly or seasonal fluctuations in the air pressure difference between Tahiti and Darwin.
Sustained negative values of the SOI often indicate El Nino episodes.
But positive values are associated with stronger Pacific trade winds and warmer sea temperatures to the north of Australia signifying a typical La Nina event.
All computer models predict neutral eastern Pacific conditions in June 2006, though five predict weak La Nina conditions over the next few months.
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A devolution from open-world brilliance and a far cry from compelling, Crysis 3 is a serviceable sci-fi shooter with noteworthy multiplayer and a story that just barely warrants attention.
We like
- Gorgeous visuals and art direction
- Engaging multiplayer
- Five-hour campaign won't waste your time
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- Hollow story and characters
- Thinly veiled linearity
- Game-breaking glitch prevents progress for some players
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In this console generation's twilight months, it's easy to associate brand fatigue with the most sterling examples: annualized franchises that change very little in their thirst for early-November retail domination. To suggest that one might simply tire of a triple-A series whose main releases, by contrast, were staged four and two years apart seems silly--there must be something else at work.
Well, there is. Like a bottle of soda left open for days, Crysis has run its course. In fact, a better analogy might be that of a tarnished apple rapidly rotting on your kitchen counter after the first bite. What began as a wildly ambitious foray into open-world, super-powered shooting with 2007's Crysis has devolved rather rapidly into thrills for thrills' sake--a bombastic light show with little in the way of substance and a serious case of Michael Bay Syndrome. The shooting is serviceable, the environments are pretty, and the illusion of choice is compelling at first scent, but the core of this once-great apple reeks of hollow storytelling and lack of care.
Editor's note: The saga of Crysis 3 here at PSU is one of turmoil. We received a retail copy of Crysis 3 from EA for review alongside other press outlets, but my playthrough of the game was plagued by a serious technical issue that prevented me from finishing the single-player campaign. The issue in question has not been resolved as of this writing, but after more than a month of waiting for Crytek to respond with a patch, I opted to use a workaround to finish the game and move ahead with scoring. Look for details below, and read up on this problem--which affected my score--here.
Maybe Crysis 3 is a victim of its time: games are redefining what the medium can achieve as a narrative art form almost monthly. In its defense, the journey starts off promising, and Crytek does an admirable job tying together loose plot threads from previous games into a coherent package that makes a certain kind of wacky sci-fi sense. The narrative anchors of Crysis are the Nanosuit, the elite soldiers who don them, and the alien Ceph who threaten our world. By the events of Crysis 3, the only hero left wearing a Nanosuit is Prophet, a persistent figurehead in prior installments who makes his first playable appearance here. 24 years post-Crysis 2, New York City is encased in a massive dome that the malevolent CELL Corporation uses to protect assets that could ultimately enslave the world. Meanwhile, the threat of another Ceph invasion lingers.
Thankfully, Prophet has the tools to handle it. All of the Nanosuit's familiar functions return in Crysis 3, from invisibility to amplified armor and a healthy dose of speed in a pinch. The Nanosuit, as always, elevates Crysis on a gameplay pedestal that's marginally compelling at worst and downright fun at best. Sliding under beams and behind cover links movement in a smooth manner and sneaking behind enemy lines while cloaked remains tense--for a couple hours. Crysis 3's super-powered first-person shooting commits no cardinal sin in the game's stunningly short five-hour runtime. Its biggest folly is not innovating upon itself, and that makes all the difference in the world.
Failure to change would be less egregious if the rest of the industry hadn't already beaten Crytek at its own game. But where Far Cry 3, Borderlands, Fallout, and others continue to plumb the depths of open-world gameplay and what's possible in the genre, Crysis has wheeled back from its trendsetting origins to something disappointingly familiar. Scripted sequences and space marine machismo do not make a great story, and "sandboxes" littered with glaringly obvious pathways do little to inspire exploration or creative solutions. If you see a vent or access tunnel, chances are you'll bypass an entire area of enemies by moving through it. Ammo crates often rest behind wide pieces of cover; what better place to hunker down for a fight? If neither pacifism nor Hulk Hoganism suits you, activate the Nanosuit's way-too-lengthy invisibility and walk through the area, putting a few arrows into alien backs for good measure.
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If more Americans are rediscovering their food, digging into the issues surrounding their daily nutrition, can the politicians be far behind?
After digesting a groaning table of new books on food policy, Michael Pollan wrote an essay in The New York Review of Books pondering how far the discussion has come in recent years. With First Lady Michelle Obama raising food issues from her new White House garden, does that mean some of the federal policies that led to the current American state of food be ready for overhaul?
Lest we forget, Pollan writes, it was massive federal intervention on behalf of certain corporate sectors of the food industry that brought us here:
Americans spend a smaller percentage of their income on food than any people in history—slightly less than 10 percent—and a smaller amount of their time preparing it: a mere thirty-one minutes a day on average, including clean-up. The supermarkets brim with produce summoned from every corner of the globe, a steady stream of novel food products (17,000 new ones each year) crowds the middle aisles, and in the freezer case you can find "home meal replacements" in every conceivable ethnic stripe, demanding nothing more of the eater than opening the package and waiting for the microwave to chirp. Considered in the long sweep of human history, in which getting food dominated not just daily life but economic and political life as well, having to worry about food as little as we do, or did, seems almost a kind of dream.
Readers familiar with Pollan's concerns about sustainability and the petroleum-based corporate agricultural system will find him hitting some familiar themes here and there. But the essay is worth reading as a useful overview of five recent books that add to the national conversation about what we eat, where it comes from, and why we ought to care.
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INDIANAPOLIS - Indiana House Republicans today rejected a proposal from State Rep. Clyde Kersey (D-Terre Haute) that would have reduced textbook taxes paid by middle class Hoosier families.
During second reading debate on House Bill 1427, majority Republicans voted down Kersey's plan to establish a school textbook tax credit for families with children who attend public and private schools in Indiana.
[Listen to audio of Rep. Kersey explaining the need for the middle class textbook tax cut he proposed.]
The proposal was the first middle class tax cut plan offered during the 2013 session of the Indiana General Assembly, which just entered its sixth week.
"The textbook taxes paid by parents of schoolchildren in Indiana have been one of our state's longest and most regressive taxes," Kersey said. "Families find themselves paying hundreds, if not thousands, of dollars each school year for the textbooks their children need to learn basic skills.
"I cannot imagine a tax cut that would have a deeper, more wide-ranging impact at a time when our middle class families need relief more than ever," he added. "It is very disappointing to see that the House majority chose not to consider a plan that could keep a little more money in the pockets of the middle class."
In recent years, Kersey noted that the Republican-controlled Indiana State Legislature had approved measures that reduced corporate taxes and gave tax breaks on paying educational expenses for parents of children who attend private schools.
The cost of the textbook tax cut would be far less than the corporate tax cuts passed in recent years, Kersey said.
"We seem to be paying attention to everyone except the people who need it the most," Kersey said.
"It is a shame that we have waited nearly six weeks to debate and vote on plans that can actually help Hoosier families and the middle class, and to see it rejected out of hand is very disconcerting," he continued. "However, there will be other opportunities to offer relief to the middle class this session, and I will make sure that there are other chances to debate and vote on this proposal before we adjourn at the end of April."


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Larry Fredrick Gilbert, 68, of Athens, passed away Wednesday, Jan. 16, 2013, at Huntsville Hospital. He was born Feb. 2, 1944, in Fort Payne, to Almer Fletcher Gilbert and Sybel Mitchell Gilbert.
The funeral will be at 2 p.m. Saturday at Lusk Chapel United Methodist Church in Dawson. He will lie-in-state from 1 to 2 p.m. at the church.
Visitation will be from 5 to 7 p.m. tonight at Limestone Chapel Funeral Home. Burial will be in Lusk Chapel Cemetery with Tony Boyles and Mike Green officiating.
He was a member of Round Island Baptist Church.
He is survived by his wife, Shelby Hamley Gilbert of Athens; daughter, Selena Padgett and husband Raymond of Moulton; step-daughter, Angela Waddell and husband Randy of Falkville; step-son, Dion Ledlow of Hartselle; brother, Donald Joe Gilbert and wife Norma of Dawson; grandchildren, Hannah Padgett, Taylor Padgett, Bailey Padgett, Lindsey Waddell and Will Waddell.
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Council tax cruelty and living high on the hog
3:04pm Thursday 31st January 2013 in Skipper
There can only really be one subject for this week's column: the decision to make the very poorest working people in Cornwall pay to fill a council tax black hole at Cornwall Council. Shameful does not even come close.
But first I want to raise a question about modern business. We are told how investment unlocks potential and how we need to speculate to accumulate, but is it just me who has noticed that a business does not seem to be a business these days without some sort of Soviet style support?
A press release from the Cornish LEP, that's a Local Enterprise Partnership to you and me, arrived in front of me this week.
It celebrated the move of a wind power company to the Newquay Airport Enterprise Zone.
Now I would love someone to explain this to me, so get in touch if I am wrong, but is this business in 2013?
A taxpayer funded quango celebrates the arrival of a company from an industry that relies on taxpayer subsidy to a zone set up and funded by the taxpayer.
Now it cannot be only me that thinks this is a touch strange, and expensive to those who are paying for it all, the taxpayer? Let me know if I am barking up the wrong tree.
Now back to the council tax hole. We had a councillor saying rich people struggled more than the poor as they had higher bills, while others competed to cover themselves in sackcloth and ashes as they "reluctantly" dammed families to destitution.
But I have railed against this cruel decision before, so I will let someone who called to say they face the very real impacts have the final say: "Final financial nail in the coffin for me and my nine year old boy. Eighty quid a week coming in, time to turn off the heating."
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This new toilet paper is made with actual cashmere -- one of the more expensive fibers on earth, normally associated with high-end clothing. The new toilet paper is being sold at Britain's Waitrose supermarkets at a price of under $4.50 for a pack of four.
Just remember to flush it. Just because it's cashmere doesn't mean it's worth wearing.


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To be honest, I've never much cared about the whole "legalize marijuana" argument.
Sure, on some vague level I'm in favor of decriminalization, since it seems like prosecuting potheads is a misallocation of police resources. And I've never known anyone under the influence of cannabis to be dangerous—or particularly sharp, for that matter.
But when I read that Huntington Beach's congressional representative Dana Rohrabacher recently spoke out in support of it caused me to think a little more deeply about the issue.
I still can't say that I care all that much. Mostly I think there are quite a few other injustices that should rank higher on a national priority list. Of course, it's possible my general indifference to legalization may be because California is a particularly lax state when it comes to marijuana enforcement.
The people I know who use the drug responsibly are, for the most part, able to do so without fear of severe consequence. Still, since Rohrabacher brought it up, let's talk about it.
I think the thing that has always struck me about the debate is the relative naïveté of both sides. Though regular users of the drug will often claim that there's no evidence that cannabis has long-term consequences, there is a large body of scientific research that has shown strong correlations between long term use and the degradation of memory, and even IQ with continued use.
Usually, apologists will object that those studies are inconclusive or that there are other contradictory studies, which is fine, but if continued cannabis usage does not affect the body in adverse ways, it would be the first substance ever discovered to work without side effects—an unlikely possibility.
I've always thought, however, that this argument is precisely beside the point. We regularly use drugs and technologies that involve negative consequences: alcohol, fast food, automobiles, . Indeed, our willful ignorance of this reality follows a straight line to the various arguments for cannabis criminalization.
Namely, that there is no way to take these drugs responsibly.
We, of course, know that this isn't true. Drugs can be taken responsibly. It happens all the time. But our deeply ingrained fears of impurity and sin lead many of us to these erroneous conclusions.
This is where the gateway-drug argument comes in—which there is almost no evidence to support. The gateway-drug argument is essentially a re-creation of the drama of original sin: eat this fruit and you're damned forever—that is, unless you can be redeemed by some kind of savior (e.g., a daytime talk show host, or one of the many "anonymous" sponsors haunting multipurpose rooms all over America.)
The truth is that long-term marijuana use is harmful for most people, and it has retarding effects on our cognitive capacities in the short term. But, it's also a lot of fun for the people that use it, serves genuine medical purposes and opens up alternative mental states that are a welcome respite from the accelerating industrialization of human behavior.
Marijuana is like every other substance or tool: The advantages gained come with a price. However, the people that use the drug and pay the price should be the ones to decide if the exchange is worth it. I regularly decide that an ultimately unhealthy choice is worth the short-term boost every time I drink too much, fail to exercise or order a Double-Double-Animal-Style-hold-the-pickles from In-N-Out.
I applaud Congressman Rohrabacher's stand, even though in a country of sinners playing at saints, he's fighting a losing battle.


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Not a good experience at "Sundown in the City"
Cathy McCaughan: We stumbled into the Sundown in the City area last week just to peek at the party. The crowds wandering in and out of the gated area seemed sober and happy. The gates were not to control crowds or charge admission, they were just a controlled way to search what was being brought into the area. This was a 'buy it from us,' not a 'bring a cooler' event. Once you made it into the gated area, the crowds were absolutely elbow to elbow. It was a giant moshpit, except in moshpits every single person isn't dangling a cigarette from their fingers. I wonder how many burns were treated in the first aid area that evening. I felt under dressed in my jeans and tank top. Women were wearing heels and going clubbing dresses. Breastfeeding women show less skin than the teenage girls at Sundown. The elbow to elbow conditions worked well for conversations, because talking involved putting your lips to someone's ear and screaming. It was so loud that the music was almost indistinguishable from the roar of the mass of people screaming at each other. I didn't have the courage to shove my way down the sidewalk in search of a restaurant that wasn't elbow to elbow. We ended up going to Cumberland for food. The worst part of the event was that we took our children. The best part was that we learned not to allow our teenagers to attend.


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Stopping to think: reflections on the use of portfolios
Karen Barton and Fiona Westwood, Glasgow Graduate School of Law
This paper from Vocational Teachers Forum V describes a pilot project into the use of portfolios at Glasgow Graduate School of Law (GGSL). The pilot was rolled out to new trainees in five law firms and a number of Diploma in Legal Practice students from September 2005, and from 2006 was taken forward as an e-portfolio – see Getting started with e-portfolios: GGSL case study for details.
In many professions the use of portfolios is now commonplace as a route to qualification, revalidation or continuing practice. The benefits of portfolios for professional development include their capacity to look at technical development over time, to reflect on and demonstrate progress, and to support the integration of work-based learning and assessment.
For example, the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors' Assessment of Professional Competence (APC) is a highly structured two year programme leading to membership of the Institute. Under supervision, trainees maintain daily diaries and monthly logbooks, undertake interim reviews and set professional development plans. Prior to a final assessment interview trainees must submit a portfolio that includes proforma reports, logs and a critical analysis of a project they have been involved with.
The medical profession has been required recently to look more closely at the issues of professional standards, lifelong learning and fitness to practice. In the wake of Shipman and the Bristol Royal Infirmary Inquiry the profession has shifted its emphasis towards public accountability, revalidation and continuing professional development, as opposed to a combination of an historical record of a doctor's initial qualifications and a system that responds to complaints of poor practice. The General Medical Council (GMC) outlined this new approach to professionalism in their Good medical practice document published in 2001.
In response to this, in 2002 the Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP) set out the standards for revalidation of GPs in Good medical practice for general practitioners. In Scotland a 'revalidation folder' has been introduced to facilitate and streamline the process of producing and organising the evidence required for appraisal and revalidation, structured under the GMC's seven headings of good medical practice. Each has criterion statements and standards to be applied against these criteria, together with descriptions of valid evidence that can be used to demonstrate the standards are being met and various pro formas to help with organisation – for full details see the Appraisal & Revalidation section of RCGP Scotland's website.
Higher education has also seen the introduction of processes to formalise reflection. At undergraduate level, as part of an increasing realisation that encouraging reflective practice and lifelong learning is a fundamental tenet of tertiary education, university students are gaining more experience with portfolios in individual modules and courses as well as through the introduction of personal development planning schemes.
The legal profession, however, is currently someway behind. While there are good examples of portfolios in use within some law subjects at undergraduate level – see for example the case studies in the UKCLE publication Developing reflective practice – is there a place for portfolios within the legal profession and professional qualification? Are there any specific issues about legal practice that we need to consider? Do portfolios provide an additional dimension to vocational legal education and training that is currently missing, or are they just more work and a passing fad?
These were some of the questions raised at a conference organised by the Law Society of Scotland in December 2004 to discuss developmental ideas for legal vocational training. In Scotland, qualification as a solicitor and entry to the legal profession requires an undergraduate Bachelor of Laws degree (LLB), followed by a professional training programme consisting of a one year, full time Diploma in Legal Practice course and two year traineeship. During the traineeship, activity logs are completed and individual quarterly reviews take place within the training firm. Trainees are also required to attend an accredited Professional Competence Course consisting of a core skills course and a number of electives. In a research study commissioned by the Law Society of Scotland into the usefulness of the Diploma in Legal Practice and presented at the conference (Westwood, 2003), it was reported that the perception among the profession was that none of this training is currently inter-linked.
Among other topics aimed at addressing this issue, the applicability of portfolios to the legal profession was discussed. The conference agreed that this particular area required further research. As a result, the Glasgow Graduate School of Law (GGSL) decided to set up a two year pilot project, inviting a small group of law firms who take on trainees on a regular and structured way to work with us to ensure that contributors gain directly from their involvement in the project. The pilot seeks to investigate the use of portfolios within the Scottish legal professional training framework and to determine whether portfolios have the potential to improve the development of trainees' skills and knowledge, and to maximise employer investment in taking the time to train them.
Reflective practice: why?
The aim of the Diploma in Legal Practice is to equip students with the basic skills, knowledge and competencies required in order to practice as a lawyer. However, if we are serious about preparing law students for legal practice then the Diploma should not just focus on equipping them with a set of 'legal skills', but should also seek to develop values, attitudes and an ethical approach to professionalism (Moore, 1970; Paterson, 2000) In the words of Schon (1987), it should be about preparing them to survive the 'swamp'.
The 'swamp' of legal practice requires lawyers to meet both their professional and commercial aspirations (Paterson, 1996; Westwood, 2001 & 2004). Increased consumerisation is resulting in clients who are suspicious of their legal advisors and more likely to complain about their services (see recent Annual Reports of the Scottish Legal Services Ombudsman). The current debate on the removal of self regulation highlights public dissatisfaction with the profession's current system of reflection at the macro level. At the micro level, if the legal profession is to respond to these external pressures its members are required to reflect on and improve their current provision and to develop new services and products.
The study of law at undergraduate level tends to concentrate on the application of legal principles to specific subject areas, rather than focus on the vocational aspects of lawyering. As a result:
"In order to find points of contact between professionals' education, knowledge and work, one must use other concepts of knowledge – such as the reflective type of knowledge – which can better explain how professional proficiency is embedded in practice itself, with the contextual conditions that are tied to specific situations."
— (Svensson, 1990:69-70)
We therefore need to think about "intuition, insight and artistry" (Schon, 1983), and developing not just competent, but also reflective and ethical practitioners. And to do this we need to engage the students in experiential learning and reflective practice (McLoughlin & Luca, 2002).
At GGSL we already do this in a number of ways, for example through the use of simulations, role plays, elective projects, reflective reports, activity and personal logs, and discussion forums. Our virtual town of Ardcalloch, where students practise in firms and undertake a series of legal transactions over the course of the year, is a good example of successful experiential learning in practice, and the benefits of this learning environment have been widely disseminated (see Maharg, 2001; Maharg, 2004a & 2004b).
Within this environment we also try to encourage reflective practice, and we see this as being vital for a number of reasons, including that:
- it is important to the development of professionals because it enable us to learn from experience (Beatty, 1997)
- students need to develop meta-cognitive skills because these skills affect their ability to understand and make sense of experience and are essential to the process of reflection and working in situations of uncertainty (Svensson, 1990)
- reflective practitioners draw on intuition to do what feels right (Schon, 1983)
- asking students why they behaved or interpreted a situation in a particular way provides useful insights not only into how much and what they understand but also the extent to which they draw on intuition (Hinett, 2002)
Why portfolios?
There are several models of portfolios, depending on whether the emphasis is on showcase, process or product. In the sense we are using it here the key quality is that the portfolio should enable learning through a combination of experience and reflection on experience. The principal feature is that this form of portfolio is produced as part of a learning process. The process is important, and highlights the difference between doing and learning – we can do a lot and learn little. One of the results of the traditional assessment systems we tend to use is that they condition students into focusing on products and ignoring the process of standing back and reflecting that allows them to become more knowledgeable – "'high ground' learning alone will not enable competent practice" (Maughan & Webb, 2005:35).
A second feature is that portfolios contain direct evidence of work and learning. They include multiple examples of real, context rich work, plus evidence of an individual's ability to make choices. As a result they make learning more understandable and directly relevant to the learner. Portfolios represent achievement and learning. They offer a look at development over time, an ability to add to and reflect on previous entries, and demonstrate progress towards a goal. They may also comprise an explicit demonstration that specified learning outcomes have been achieved.
In creating portfolios individuals go though an experiential cyclical of doing, collecting, selecting and reflecting. The end result is an extremely authentic learning process and form of assessment that:
- provides an opportunity for continuous assessment over the duration of a course, a professional development programme or even as an ongoing process
- supports the integration of learning and assessment, particularly if there is an element of work-based learning
- supports the demonstration and valid assessment of a wide range of personal and professional capabilities which are difficult to assess by other methods (for example, attitudes and professionalism)
- shows reflection on and analysis of evidence and learning, higher order levels of thinking and key features of professionalism that we want to develop, and help build links between theory and practice
- is more versatile than other assessment methods in that a variety of evidence can be used to demonstrate one or more outcomes have been achieved
- places responsibility for learning on the student/trainee
- moves students from describing the course in terms of subjects (for example, "I'm studying Professional Ethics or Private Client") or assessments to be done (for example, "I've got an exam or an essay") to describing learning and achievements (for example, "I've learned how to communicate with clients more effectively")
These are among the advantages of portfolios highlighted by Baume (2001) in general and by Webb (2003) with particular reference to the study of law.
We therefore see the introduction of portfolios to the professional legal training regime as entirely consistent with our current approach, and also as a valuable tool to bring together all the elements of the Diploma course and subsequent traineeship into a 'coherent tale of learning' (Baume, 2001) for the student. Moreover, a key quality of portfolios is that not only can they enable learning for an individual, but they can demonstrate that learning effectively to multiple audiences, including assessors, employers, peers and the public. It is perhaps this feature of portfolios that is potentially the most powerful and persuasive argument in their favour.
Portfolio pilot plan
At the Law Society of Scotland conference in 2004 a potential model for a portfolio was proposed, spanning the three years of professional training and education and culminating in a final assessment of the portfolio itself. While delegates expressed some interest in the idea, there was clearly a need for further research. Following the conference a team at GGSL discussed the possibility of setting up a portfolio pilot project and devised a research project plan, running over two years and covering three phases:
- Awareness raising and recruitment of firms.
- Setting the parameters of the pilot in partnership.
- Implementation and review of the scheme.
Phase 1: awareness raising
We wrote to 18 training firms that we worked with on the Professional Competence Course, outlining the pilot project and inviting them to a workshop on portfolios in professional practice. Nine firms attended the initial workshop. The Deputy Director of the Law Society of Scotland presented at the workshop, along with the President of Royal College of General Practitioners in Scotland, who explained the rationale behind the revalidation folder and demonstrated their approach. The firms discussed and agreed current issues with regard to trainee development and the feasibility of introducing portfolios as part of the training process. Following the workshop we wrote to the firms again asking them to confirm their willingness to be involved. Five agreed to take part.
A one to one meeting was arranged with each of the firms, where we asked them to identify their current trainee support mechanisms and the benefits they would like portfolios to achieve. All participating firms met together again for a feedback meeting to review the findings, consider sample processes and tools and agree the level of involvement and timescales. At the same time we devised an elective project as part of the Diploma course that would require students to construct their own portfolio.
Our role in the pilot was to act as coordinator to monitor and support participants, and in return to gain unique insight into the practical implementation of this new approach within training firms. The employers would benefit from sharing sample documents, working practices and experiences.
Pros and cons
The initial workshop asked the firms to discuss what they saw as the benefits of introducing portfolios. They identified consistency, validation of the assessment process and the linkage between the Diploma outcomes and professional practice as key advantages. The creation of a personal learning record that involved clients and colleagues and could help identify personal preferences and directions for trainees was seen as being especially valuable. In particular, they saw the portfolio as a useful tool to help them in the thorny area of the recruitment of trainees and in the selection and retention of them at the end of their training period.
However, they were also quick to express reservations in several areas, including the time cost involved in monitoring and interpretation. There were concerns about possible duplication with the current Law Society logbooks and a potential increase in the responsibility placed on firms. All of this was seen as crucial to gaining the buy-in of partners. Maintenance of standards, as well as general concerns about attitudes and a 'fear factor' within the firm, were also raised.
As far as the practicalities went, there was a lengthy debate about the structure of the portfolio itself. The concerns raised focused around who was responsible for the specification, as well as the flexibility of the structure itself. Would the portfolio be organised around learning outcomes, categories of work, a diary, or combinations of these? And, of course, client confidentiality and limits to the size of the portfolio were also highlighted as issues.
As a first step to towards addressing some of these issues we were aware that we needed to define, minimally, learning outcomes or headings for each stage, as well as tools or pro formas to be used (for example, learning logs, significant event analysis forms, client feedback forms, skills assessment tools for key areas). It was clear that the portfolio specification must be clear and simple and allow alternative models, but we also needed to look at the support mechanisms trainees would require. Guidance on the use of portfolios and examples would be necessary so that they were aware of what was expected. Trainees would require the help of mentors, but we also needed to support conversation and peer support within the firm. The use of forms and checklists might help avoid 'empty box syndrome', and regular reviews and feedback were crucial.
Phase 2: setting the parameters
Having debated the main issues as a group we then met with each firm individually to discuss the pilot in more detail and how it could be integrated into their current processes and procedures. As a direct response to the concerns they had raised as a group we felt it was important to identify their own style of approach and provide encouragement that the pilot would be able to adapt to them, rather than the other way round.
Our discussions with individual firms revealed a number of common support mechanisms currently in place for trainees. All firms used the Law Society log books and quarterly reviews, as would be expected, but they also engaged in one to one formal interviews with a senior member of the firm as well as informal chats and shadowing. All firms organised in-house training sessions which trainees attended. They also provided support with elective selection on the Professional Competence Course and required written handovers between seats from one trainee to the next.
In addition, some firms ran informal evenings or more formal in depth induction sessions with trainees. One firm had drawn up their own competency framework and skills matrix. Another had devised a system of formal allocation of scores for quarterly reviews to demonstrate improvement over the two years of the traineeship. Most firms reported they had mentors and a system of mentor training in place. One firm used assistants or associates as mentors in year 1 and partners in year 2 to reinforce the transition from 'learning the job' to 'career development'. One to one discussions with mentors before trainees commenced their final seat were used in at least one firm to help trainees make the correct career choice.
Following these individual meetings we met together again as a group to consider what we had learned and agree a way forward. At this meeting we discussed the aims of the pilot, timescales, procedural issues and the outcomes that would allow us to measure the success of the pilot upon completion.
Measures of success: trainees and students
Primarily, we agreed, there must be some benefit to the participants themselves. Among these we would expect to see trainees and students:
- take ownership of their learning, identify and action areas for improvement
- provide evidence of work carried out and learning achieved over time
- complete self development reports linking reflection, learning and ownership
- demonstrate more proactive input in completion of the review forms
- demonstrate a tangible improvement in professional and personal skills
- demonstrate improved learning from courses on the Professional Competence Course
- succeed in securing jobs after completion of traineeship
- recognise the investment being made by the firm in their own development
- own a valuable resource to fall back on to reflect learning and tools to tackle learning situations
Measures of success: firms
For the firms taking part in the pilot there must also be some tangible benefits. Essentially, the benefits identified concerned improvements in monitoring, planning and decision making regarding trainee development, plus improvements in the firm's ability to:
- obtain good quality evidence of learning during traineeship
- place the onus for learning on individual trainees
- forward plan for trainee development in a comprehensive and consolidated way
- achieve more consistency between trainees' individual abilities
- achieve better objective structure of assessment between mentor and trainee
- deal more effectively with any trainee's underperformance
- demonstrate within the firm the investment being made in trainee development
- obtain objective evidence of future employability of trainees
Measures of success: GGSL
While we were interested in these measures of success from a practical point of view, we also had a number of our own motivations and measures to keep in mind. These included information and suggestions to:
- assist us on the areas of skills development covered by the Diploma in Legal Practice and Professional Competence Course
- inform us about the needs of employers as they impact on the employability of our students
- feed back to the Law Society of Scotland about the current systems of trainee development
- improve the linkages between the Diploma in Legal Practice and the Professional Competence Course
- build on the existing relationships between ourselves and the training firms
There were also other measures that were more esoteric and difficult to quantify, but important none the less, and required us to refocus on the underpinning theories we hoped to test.
If we accept that reflection can be used as a way of helping individuals to take responsibility for their own learning and to identify ways to advance their practice and professional conduct then we must attempt to measure how successful the portfolio approach is in achieving this. From the evidence and reflections they produced, we would hope to find that trainees had developed the perspective to ask why, given a set of circumstances, lawyers should 'do' something in a particular way. We would expect to see trainees express themselves clearly, choose appropriate courses of action, evaluate decisions and juggle clients and problems more effectively.
One of our main aims is to help trainees develop ways of discovering and integrating their personal values into their professional practice, by promoting the idea that reflection is central to professional conduct. As law is an "ethically saturated arena" students and trainees need tools to reflect on their own values and to equip them to reach decisions (LeBrun & Johnstone, 1994:165). As lifelong learners, we should encourage their "resilience, resourcefulness and reflection" (Claxton, 1999:180). We therefore need to investigate how well portfolios provide students and trainees with coping mechanisms and an ability to cope with constructive feedback.
Feedback from firms
Each of the representatives of the firms responded positively to our group discussions and suggestions, seeing the relevance and application of what was being proposed. Enthusiasm from within the partner firms was not quite so high. A few of the firms had useful feedback to offer as well as discerning comments to make. Some questioned the practicality of what was being proposed, calling it "too esoteric and impractical to implement". There were reservations about the idea of reflection, suggesting that it was too difficult, or did not sit comfortably within the culture of the firm, and that "a list of practical tasks would be better than a list of evidence". An element of numerical scoring to help trainees to know where they were was suggested. The issue of confidentiality of evidence was raised again, and doubt expressed whether trainees would submit work as evidence that they knew to be below par. The level of support and amount of time needed from mentors in order to get the trainees through the process was seen as daunting, and reservations expressed that it would be asking too much of trainees to complete the trainee logbook and the portfolio alongside it.
Phase 3: implementation
Taking these perceptive observations on board we proposed a three level model of participation in the pilot project, to address individual firms' reservations and suit their existing practices.
- Level 1 involves the trainee in a simple three stage reflection prior to each quarterly review summarising:
- what went well (with supporting evidence)
- what needs to be improved (with supporting evidence)
- what is planned to do as a result
- Level 2 requires the firm to adapt existing processes to include more formal collation of evidence and written personal reflection by the trainee
- Level 3 involves the firm in introducing a more advanced portfolio format using some of the tools and templates that we developed
Each participating firm was allowed to select the level appropriate to its preferred style of approach.
At the same time 35 volunteers were recruited for the project on the Diploma course. This number included all the students who had already secured a traineeship with one of the partner training firms, plus more than 20 others who elected to participate. The group was representative of the demographic profile of the whole Diploma cohort, in terms of age range, gender and route of entry to the course.
An initial workshop was held with this Diploma pilot group where the concept of experiential learning and reflection was introduced. A number of reflective exercises were carried out by the students individually, including a 'values' exercise, practising reflection and reflective writing. Students were provided with tools such as personal logs, structured reflection and critical incident analysis pro formas. Around six weeks after the workshop the students were asked to complete an interim personal statement and invited to a review meeting with their mentor, where the completion of personal logs and the collation of evidence were discussed.
Initial reflections
Although only six months into the pilot it is worthwhile stopping to reflect on what we have learned so far.
Te pilot has highlighted the fact that the legal profession currently lags somewhere behind other similar professions in the introduction of reflective practice. The discussions at the December 2004 conference displayed a lack of a basic understanding of either the processes of reflection or the core elements of portfolios. This was reinforced by the types of questions asked at the initial workshop and during the one to one interviews with legally qualified participants (as opposed to human resources professionals).
This lag has not only led to the need for the initial awareness raising stage but has also led to a disappointing success rate in the numbers participating in the pilot and their level of participation. Even where the main point of contact was both informed and committed, he or she experienced considerable internal resistance from the firm's partners (and trainees). All of this leads us to observe that there is a great deal that needs to be done by the Law Society of Scotland if portfolios are to be introduced at all. It is also important to overcome partner suspicion and/or resistance for our pilot to be able to provide substantive business and professional benefits.
From the initial feedback we have received from the training firms, and bearing in mind the measures of success outlined earlier, training managers and partners are pleased at the improvement in trainees' attitudes to their quarterly reviews, which they seem to be taking more ownership over.
The feedback from the students involved in the Diploma pilot shows that many are writing in a reflective way in their personal logs and are better able to recognise their learning from particular episodes, projects and formal skill assessments in a more holistic way. However, we have needed to provide additional support, especially with reflective writing and the identification of tangible evidence.
Our students have already identified some personal benefits. Those yet to find traineeships feel that completing the values questionnaire that formed part of our initial session with them will provide them with confidence to discuss this aspect during any interview selection process. However, they found the tick box approach of the skills self assessment less useful, as this approach encouraged a superficial response. (This confirms the views of the employer firms of the current Law Society tick box logs). All made an attempt to complete the second stage 500 word personal statement. Many found matching this with tangible evidence difficult, and have needed encouragement to recognise opportunities for empirical learning and deep reflection.
Reflecting for ourselves, although at an early stage in the project the signs are encouraging. We feel that we underestimated the lack of knowledge that exists in the legal profession in Scotland about the use of reflection as a professional and personal development tool. We are encouraged, however, by the responses on our Diploma project, where our one to one support is providing direct benefits to our students as indicated above, and for ourselves in the shape of positive reinforcement of our initial aspirations. We are aware of the need to continue to monitor and review over the remainder of the project, and feel confident that the results will provide useful information to inform the legal profession in Scotland on the use of portfolios in practice.
References and bibliography
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- Beatty L (1997) Developing your teaching through reflective practice Birmingham: SEDA
- Claxton G (1999) Wise up: the challenge of lifelong learning London: Bloomsbury
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- Maughan C and Webb J (2005) Lawyering skills and the legal process (2nd ed) Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
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