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Finance Minister Lindsay Tanner said yesterday on Meet the Press that the government choosing to buy Australian made products was like him doing his 15 year old daughter's homework.
I'm not sure what he means by that, but it's clear he hasn't been doing his own homework when it comes to using the government's stimulus packages to create the most jobs possible.
In fact, the government choosing to source products overseas is like getting the neighbour's kids to come over and mow the lawn, and then wondering why your own kids are hitting you up for pocket money when you go to the shops.
The global economic crisis is severely affecting Australian manufacturing and it's 1.3 million employees.
In the last 12 months 77,000 manufacturing workers have lost their jobs.
That is why the Australian Manufacturing Workers Union (AMWU) and the Australian Workers Union (AWU) have formed a new Manufacturing Alliance to work towards a plan to help save jobs in this important part of our economy.
The Manufacturing Alliance is about putting jobs first.
In the face of the global economic crisis, we believe the Federal Government must take clear action.
First of all, the government must have a national plan that helps our manufacturing industries get through the economic downturn without losing the productive capacity that will be crucial when the economy does recover.
The government can do this with a 'Fair Go' purchasing policy that prioritises Australian made goods, particularly for Government funded infrastructure projects.
The 'Fair Go' purchasing policy is about weighing up the real costs of not buying Australian. It means considering the full economic benefits of creating jobs here, and the cost of unemployment payments if we don't. This is consistent with our international trade obligations and all we are asking the government is to do is the full cost/benefit analysis for the Australian taxpayer dollar.
It is not protectionist. There is not a tariff in sight.
We are simply asking the government to look at the full benefits of spending government money to create jobs. The benefits to Australians who get new jobs, who keep their existing job, and the benefits of helping the industry through a tough time, so that we come out of the crisis a lot quicker.
In order to ensure workers and industries are well-positioned to bounce back after the crisis, we are also calling for a Training Grants Scheme to minimise further job losses and give employees the chance to upgrade their skills instead of being unemployed.
Why should we wait for people to become unemployed before the government gets involved to support them? There is a much greater benefit in keeping people in jobs, and using spare time during a downturn to improve skills.
These are policies that will support and help this industry grow and create wealth and jobs for Australians.
We know that the public supports this approach.
In a national opinion poll taken last month, 85% of Australians agreed that when purchasing goods and services, the Australian Government should by Australian-made, even if it costs a little more.
89% agreed that maintaining manufacturing industries is important for Australians economic independence, and 85% agreed or strongly agreed that the Federal Government should take action to prevent local manufacturers from closing down and losing jobs.
Both the AMWU and AWU will be voting together at this week's Labor Party conference for policies that support our members' jobs in manufacturing.
This might be a surprise for some, but we are working together because we both know that the scenario confronting Australian manufacturing workers is bigger than left and right factionalism in the Labor Party.
The Alliance will give us a stronger voice in politics, with industry and Governments, and a stronger voice to ensure that Australia remains a nation that makes things.
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Jim says:
A big problem is Government accounting. A product may be cheaper for Department X if bought from overseas but is it cheaper in whole of government terms? Often not as the increased social security payments and reduced taxation revenue more than outweigh the saving. But this would require imagination to implement and the Treasury is poorly equipped to do that!
Patrick says:
No no NO! this *is* protectionism. You start giving preference to "Australian made products", and China and other countires will start giving preference to "Chinese made products", killing off international trade. It is as simple as that, and the stupidity of your position is compounded by the fact that Australia is primarily an export driven economy. You might "save" a few thousand jobs in the short term, but you will greatly damage Australia's prosperity in the long term with stupid policy like this. This country's prosperity rests on engagement with Asia and the world, not retreating into some economically isolationist bubble.
Shinsengumi says:
This suggestion is patently absurd. How dare our government spend money back into our economy? The simple fact is our industries are not competitive with China, India, Brazil, Pakistan, Bangladesh, etc. We've been living like spoilt, mollycoddled children, expecting absurd things like superannuation, a pension, retirement at 65, workers compensation, OH&S, workers rights, social security and the complete absurdity of a government paid for medical system. This rot has to stop - we need to compete with the slave labo- err, I mean the progressive, efficient labor markets of Asia. For far too long Australians have lived in a fantasy; I find it personally offensive our Government, which we vote for, and which we pay taxes to, would protect us in any way shape or form. Disgusting!
B says:
If the 'public' that apparently support this aren't willing to buy locally produced goods themselves even if it means paying a little more, why should the government? It's another case of 'let somebody else take responsibility'. If we were willing to pay a bit more to support local industry, perhaps they could achieve economies of scale to reduce prices that allow them to compete without protectionist measures.
RodneyA says:
Don't do as I do Do as I say! I recall a town I worked in several years ago where the elected officials voted to have the Council administration buy local and give local contractors a preference over non locals. When it came to supporting the local business by the elected officials - that was a joke, mnay were seen on weekends shopping in another town 200 kms away. I guess my remarks to the story is "If the Unions want this" then they have to also ensure a commitment by all union members are doing the same to "Buy Local" No more imported TV's, DVD's, mobile phones and so on.
Dallas Beaufort says:
Mr Oliver, are you wearing clothing made in china, of which affords you other affordable choices, whose value now seems oblivious to the uninitiated.
Ricky says:
so, lets subsidise unprofitable, unproductiove business here in australia at the taxpayes expense just to keep these businesses viable. What happens when the govt contracts run out and these australian manufacturers run out of customers….. Again small minded, narrow visioned union rubbish simply to try tio justify why these organisations are sucking money out of peoples pockets on a weekly basis. Keep paying your union fee's workers and watch the union reps live the high life on your hard work.
Razor says:
Next time you get an X-Ray or MRI Scan make sur eyou get it done by an Australian designed and built machine.
You can't?
But I'm sure you'll get it done anyway.
Formersnag says:
I suggest killing 2 birds with 1 bullet. Instead of introducing an ETS, (isn't trading in carbon default swaps, derivative forestry futures, shares in timbercorp, great southern, etc, what got us into the first GFC, and will bring on the next one?) we give reduced corporate taxation to "good corporate citizens" who satisfy a set industry standard for all corporate behavior including polluting, employee share ownership for all, etc.
Encouraging good corporate citizenship can hardly be called protectionism.
Sam c says:
Australian progress so far has been because of exports rather than satisfying the domestic demand. The writer conveniently forgets what happens if our other trade partners choose the same he is preaching?
Ben Payne says:
Our manufacturing sector is doing just fine, but unfortunately, there are no positions for *people* within this automated and mechanised environment.
Technological Unemployment needs to be addressed in fairly short order, because the service sector (which traditionally has taken in the majority of the displaced manufacturing workers) is itself becoming automated, and displacing its own workers.
But don't worry; I'm sure the CEOs of these companies will tip you a dollar when you clean the windshield of their Rolls Royce at the traffic lights.
Michael says:
Dave Oliver, you sir are naive.
It's called RETALIATION. You stop buying their goods, they stop buying your goods.
Shane from Melbourne says:
Hmmm it's okay for the United States, Europe, China and Japan (to name a few obvious offenders) to have protectionism but not Australia? Obviously the Federal government and readers believe that Free Trade exists and the impass on the Doha round of GATT is a figment of my imagination. I've never heard such rubbish from the PM in my life….
Andrew says:
Apparently you have a very simplistic understanding of what protectionism is Mr Oliver. Tariffs are one way to pursue a protectionist agenda but it is certainly not the only way. Your example about lawn mowing was interesting but let's alter it to show how the Australian economy actually works.
You could pay your own child to mow the lawn but perhaps they might demand $30 from you to compensate them for the leisure time they have given up to mow the lawn (which they estimate to be worth $20) and to give them enough money to go to the shops with their friends (which will cost them $10).
Now assume that your neighbour's child offers to do it for $15 because he only places a value of $10 on his sacrificed leisure time and only needs $5 to spend at the shops.
Therefore you can now get your lawn mowed and pay for your kid to go the shops for only $25 instead of $30. Which would you choose?
Sure you kids have lost out the $20 but they are still going to get to go the shops so they probably won't be too disappointed. You've saved $5 so your better off and the kid next door has made $15 and he's happy too. This is how a competitive economy works.
Jason says:
Try getting competitive rather than expecting the rest of us to protect you from the global economy with our tax dollars. stupid unions never seem to get the big picture.
Harry Cole says:
Well, having read all of these comments I now remember why I can longer be bothered to fight for workers rights! It's disheartening to say the least, to see how effective the bosses' economists have been in brainwashing the workers.
When you manufacture locally you add value to raw materials locally. That wealth is local wealth. You either choose to keep an Australian employed, and pay him or her a reasonable wage, or you keep an overseas worker employed on a slave wage and let the corporation pocket the difference. It seems to me, from reading these comments, that the majority of people prefer the latter. Well that's fine, but don't whinge when you lose your job!
If protectionism is so bad, ask yourself this: why was the Australian worker's standard of the living the highest in the world when it was in place?
You've been sold a lemon!
Honestly, if I could go back in time I would tell our forefathers: the men (and women) who were beaten and jailed for organising trade unions and fighting for an Australian manufacturing base, not to bother.
Read your own history!
miantiao says:
andrew it's not that simplistic. what happens to your own kid, he's unemployed and relying on handouts?
since the 70s tariffs on imports have been gradually lowered and we've signed FTAs with some nations. however, although we've accomodated other nations in their bid to develop we still find the door closed for many of our exports. in particular china. apart from commodities, for obvious reasons, exporting into china is difficult and and impossible in some instances
i tried importing roo meat into chengdu only to be told that china doesn't allow such agricultural imports. in fact when questioned further, the official eventually lost it and said that we are cruel to roos and that roos carry disease and are not safe to eat. russia has come out with similar bs. the eu are happy eating our roos.given recent events, chances of an fta with china eventuating in the near to mid-term seems rather slim.
g.hardstaff@big pond.com.au says:
What makes everyone think that Australian Manufacturing is not
competitive or profitable. I work for a company that is both profiable and
competitive and yet, a Managing Director from our Chinese plant is
coming to Austraia next week to take our jobs and profits to prop his
plant, in China which is running at a loss.
I"m with you Dave!
Andrew says:
RE: Miantiao
I know that in reality it's not that simplistic it was merely a simplistic model for illustration. It's true that your own kid will be unemployed and relying on handouts because he is not willing to work for a competitive wage which is an unfortunate circumstance for him to be in. If we isolate the scenario to only him then it appears that we should be protectionist and have him mow the lawn and not the neighbours kid. However if we do this we ignore the fact that both you as the parent and the neighbours kid will be worse of under protection.
In all situations there are economic winners and economic losers and there are no simple choices to be made. We face a trade-off as to which is the best outcome and what we will choose is determined by our own personal values. Personally, I think that encouraging competition provides the best welfare to society as a whole and that the Government should intervene and assist those who are unable to compete in the marketplace, however this assistance shouldn't be at the expense of those who are competitive.
miantiao says:
Andrew, don't get me wrong. I'm a supporter of free trade and i'm dissapointed my lucrative plans to import roo meat into china has hit a brick wall. Free trade only works when everyone steps up to the plate. It can't be a one way street. What happens to the nation that that allows tarrif free imports but has exports subject to restrictive protectionist policies of trading partners?
One last thing. I hope I never see the day my son has to compete in the same labour market as a Guangdong factory worker.
miantiao says:
here is a thought. china presently justifies its ban on exporting rare minerals for strategic reasons. Perhaps our iron-ore could be treated the same way.
Want steel? well here is some land, and here is your labour force, grab some cash jump on a plane and go for it! Of course, you'll require a local partner and are not allowed more than a 49% share in your investment. Oh and by the by any technologies you use will become property of the state.This scenario is ridiculous in the extreme, but that is what is facing businesses that want to expand into the largest and fastest growing marketplace in the world.
Andrew says:
Free Trade does need to be a two way street, but just like in any relationship someone has to take the first step as an act of goodwill. As an industrialised economy Australia has less to lose and much to gain from Free Trade.
Furthermore, my advice to you son would be to invest in his personal human capital stock by attaining skills that a Guangdong factory worker doesn't have so he'll never have to compete with them.
miantiao says:
We have been acting in good faith since the 70s. China, the US, the EU, Russia, they are all industrialized economies. Who loses out when one industrialized economy closes the door to anothers imports whilst at the same time retaining access to the others's market?
We are on the same side here Andrew, we support the thing, free markets.
Cheers for your advice, he's off to the US next year on a football scholarship, he'll probably choose to study mandarin, like his father.
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New National Park In The Congo Will Protect Lowland Gorillas
Located in the northern region of the country, the Ntokou-Pikounda National Park spreads out over 1765 square miles. The interior of the forest is said to be so dense that explorer J. Michael Fay, who spent 455 days walking across the region back in 1999, once called it a "green abyss." The lush rainforest is the perfect place for the gorillas to make their home, however, and they share the new preserve with an estimated 8000 elephants and nearly a thousand chimpanzees – two other species who face extinction as well.
Because the park is still so new, there isn't a significant tourism infrastructure built up around the destination just yet. But the region is home to a number of small villages and towns, which hope to see a boost to the local economies in the future. Tourism dollars have been used effectively in nearby Rwanda and Uganda to not only improve conditions for the people that live there, but also fund conservation efforts for gorillas and other animals.
When the WCS visited the Republic of Congo back in 2008 they were surprised to find a population of 125,000 gorillas living in remote regions there. But the species continues to come under threat from increased deforestation, illegal poaching and the Ebola virus, which has been known to decimate gorilla populations. The creation of this new park should help ensure that the lowland gorillas that live there will have a measure of protection for the future.
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(Reuters) - Platform Acquisition Holdings Ltd PAH.L, founded by Jarden Corp (JAH.N) Chairman Martin Franklin, said it would acquire privately held specialty chemicals maker MacDermid Inc MCDMD.UL for about $1.8 billion.
Denver-based MacDermid makes specialized chemicals that are used by manufacturers of automobiles and consumer electronics, and in the offshore drilling industry.
The deal underscores British-born Franklin's quest of building a conglomerate of unrelated consumer brands.
Jarden's portfolio consists of about 100 brands that range from Mr. Coffee and Sunbeam appliances to Crock-Pot slow cookers and Aviator playing cards. It supplies to retailers such as Wal-Mart Stores Inc (WMT.N), Target Corp (TGT.N) and Bed, Bath and Beyond (BBBY.O).
The company bought Yankee Candle Co, the largest scented candle company in the United States, for $1.75 billion last month from private equity owner Madison Dearborn Partners.
The Wall Street Journal reported earlier on Thursday that Platform was in advanced talks to buy MacDermid. Platform is a shell company created by Franklin and billionaire Nicolas Berggruen for making acquisitions.
If completed, the acquisition will constitute a reverse takeover, Platform Acquisition said in a statement.
After the deal, Platform Acquisition will be renamed Platform Specialty Products Corp (PSP), its headquarters will be moved to the United States and its listing to the New York Stock Exchange.
MacDermid's Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Daniel Leever, will be appointed as the new company's CEO. Frank Monteiro, MacDermid's Chief Financial Officer, will become the CFO of PSP.
The deal is expected to close by the end of the year.
Platform Acquisition's shareholders include sovereign wealth funds, hedge fund investors and William Ackman's Pershing Square Capital Management.
MacDermid was taken private for $1.3 billion in a management-led buyout in 2007. It generated about $740 million in revenue for the year to September.
Shares of Platform Acquisition were halted on the London Stock Exchange on Thursday. They closed at 10.50 pence on Wednesday.
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Robbie Ivey, 12, of Iron River harvested a 22-pound wild turkey with an eight-inch beard on opening day of the spring season, April 23, at 6:45 a.m., using a Mossberg 12-gauge shotgun.
This was his third year turkey hunting, but his first successful kill. Robbie was outfitted with specialized equipment and a handicap accessible hunting blind to accommodate his needs. A couple of wild turkeys were called into shooting range by Dave Painter of Crystal Falls and Robbie's step-dad, Brad Kaiser. With one shot to the neck, Robbie downed the tom. He said that there was also a jake that came to the decoys.
The hunt took place on the property of Dave Grondin in Crystal Falls. Many organizations and individuals provided the wild turkey season hunt for the young sportsman. Robbie, who has muscular dystrophy, was set up with a specially equipped hunting blind that was borrowed from the Bay De Noc Gobblers Chapter of the National Wild Turkey Federation through the Wheelin' Sportsmen NWTF program for disabled hunters. The shooting equipment in the blind was designed by Be Adaptive Equipment out of Indiana. Robbie made his shot with this innovative hunting equipment to harvest a 22-pound tom with an eight-inch beard. He was using a Mossberg 12-gauge shotgun with a scope. Assisting with the hunt was Dave Painter of Crystal Falls and Robbie's step-dad, Brad Kaiser. Wildlife Unlimited of iron County is initiating the building of similar blind for disabled hunters. (Painter photo)
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Thompson's Station Dog & Pony Show
Presented by Thompson's Station Community Association (TSCA) at Thompson's Station Park
September 28, 2013
The Thompson's Station Dog & Pony Show is a free family-friendly, pet-friendly festival in Thompson's Station Park. Festivities include dog agility trials, a dog-and-owner costume contest and other pet-friendly activities; equine demonstrations, live music all day, with evening co-headliners Mike Farris & The Roseland Rhythm Revue and The Wood Brothers, a kids' zone with face painting, pumpkin painting,...
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With the first fit of your data complete, you should look at the data and model to see how well they match up. Xspec can plot the data and model for you to inspect.
First, however, you will want to change one of Xspec's defaults. By default, Xspec will plot the "channel" of the data on the x-axis. The channel is related to energy of the detected light. However, the channel-to-energy conversion will be different for different detectors, and in the same detector, it may change over time. To make the results more meaningful, you will want to have the plot display photon energy on the x-axis.
To change the plot from "channel" to energy, type the following in the Xspec command window: setplot energy
Now, to put Xspec into plot mode, type to following: iplot data
With Xspec in plot mode, you can make the plot prettier by changing the limits on the x-axis and adding color to the data to make the model stand out more. The following commands will do this for you: Type: R x 0.5 10 color 2 on 1 plot
Plot of black body model (bottom line, in black) and data (top line, in red) after fit.
The red line is data and the black line is the model. Evaluate the model. does it appear to be a good fit for the data? In other words does it seem to represent the data well? Do they overlap?
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- When Saturday, March 10, 2012 at 10 p.m.
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Dash Berlin is a true deejay at heart with a profound passion for the comprehensive culture of dance music. He is often described as an invigorating and charismatic newcomer, with the unique ability to leave a long-lasting impression upon his audience well after the night is over.
The front man of the group is the DJ Jeffrey Sutorius. Kalberg and Molijn have been contributing to the international dance scene for over ten years, with award-winning and platinum-selling hits for dance acts such as Alice Deejay, Vengaboys, Candee Jay, Pronti & Kalmani and Solid Sessions.
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Treviso were fresh from humbling reigning champions Ospreys 12-6 in round one but never looked likely to come out on top in Ireland.
Munster fly-half Ian Keatley pulled the strings as well as looking infallible from the tee as he collected 14 points but his team's margin of victory deserved to be greater.
The Biancoverde seemed always to do just enough to deny the home side a second try but not always in a legal fashion and centre Alberto Sgarbi saw yellow in the second half as referee Andrew McMenemy lost patience with their methods.
Munster were forced into making a pre kick-off change after Donncha O'Callaghan was given leave to be with his wife for the birth of his second child.
O'Callaghan was replaced by Dave Foley but it was Treviso who drew first blood when Alberto Di Bernardo kicked a penalty to make it 3-0.
The lead didn't last long though. With a long line-out throw the catalyst for the try-scoring move skipper Howlett went in under the posts before the ten-minute mark.
Keatley kicked the easy conversion and he added three more points when the Italians were penalised for coming in from the side on 14 minutes.
It was 13-3 when the Treviso scrum came in for a torrid time on 24 minutes and Keatley kicked the three points again.
More Italian ill-discipline was punished on the half-hour mark with yet another penalty from the former Connacht fly-half who took the half-time margin to 13 points.
Treviso brought on the experience of Fabio Semenzato at scrum-half in place of Luca Morisi at the start of the second half but it was the home side who started the stronger with captain Howlett making a searing break from the acting fly-half position.
But his inside pass to the man with the ten on his back Keatley didn't stick and Treviso escaped from a certain try.
The Italians took the Munstermen's warning shot seriously and when two surges from centre Casey Laulala brought the home side to within five metres of the line Sgarbi was shown his yellow card for hands in the ruck.
Keatley slotted the follow-up penalty to make it 19-3 but Treviso soon cancelled it out as their forwards drove up the middle of the pitch to win a series of penalties.
Fly-half Di Bernardo took control to kick one from close range under complete silence from the Thomond Park crowd.
But they were in full voice again when club legend Peter Stringer entered the fray in place of Duncan Williams at scrum-half.
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On February 13th I attended a workshop on TEI and Markup Fundamentals sponsored by the Graduate Quantitative Methods Program. The workshop was given by Rochelle Gold and Kimberly Hall from the Department of English at UC Riverside.
TEI (Text Encoding Initiative) is a method of encoding texts with markup language for digital representation. TEI markup focuses on rendering the semantic qualities of texts more visible. For example, sentences and clauses can be marked within a text, as well as the lines and features of a poem. This granular level of encoding allows for digital representations of these texts to carry details and information beyond their normal forms, which is valuable for critical interpretation.
Adding TEI markup to a document is an "intimate" process as described by Hall. With the addition of every XML tag the encoder must make a series of choices based on the priorities of the project. The TEI process can be quite time consuming, but the close reading required for this encoding also fosters a deep understanding of the text itself.
The basic process of TEI encoding consists of three parts:
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What is the text, and what are your research and interpretive priorities?
2. Encoding
Adding markup to the digital version of the text. For texts that have not been digitized, this is also a process of transcription into digital form.
3. Output
Our workshop concentrated on the fundamentals of TEI, so we didn't yet delve into output. However, the first two steps appear to be the primary focus of TEI, as the encoding is more concerned with semantic representation than visual production.
Overall, the workshop was very well done, and it brought to light new possibilities for my own historical teaching and research. Many of the sources I share with students are digitized, and hyperlinks are helpful for connecting to other sources of information. With TEI these linkages can be broadened greatly — for example, I could encode mentions of historical places, uses of foreign language, or references to Classical antiquity and mythology. Integrating TEI into this workflow will be very helpful, allowing students to see primary source texts in new ways, and adding a new dimension to my own research.
Cross-posted at Book, Archive, and Manuscript Studies @ UC Riverside:
Event Archive: Rethinking Debates on Digital Learning . 12 Feb 2014
February 13th, 2014
Steve Anderson
Yesterday CDH sponsored a talk by Professor Juliette Levy of the Department of History at UC Riverside. In her discussion, Professor Levy described her own evolution toward using digital technology in order to broaden the learning experience for her students.
Professor Levy's talk began with a common experience many in academia have shared — traditional methods of teaching are not being adapted to the changing needs of students in our modern world.
The RSA talk by Sir Ken Robinson, which was turned into an animated video, was central to describing this need for change. There is a great chasm between the needs of students and the pace of innovation within the classroom.
Central to this movement toward digital learning in the traditional classroom is the need to meet students "where they are" with digital technology. The call for action is not to expand the technological savvy of the students, but to leverage their preexisting familiarity with digital culture and devices in order to expand the classroom experience.
Harnessing the digital skills of students can extend the learning experience outside of the classroom walls, and it can also create more collaboration between the students themselves. For example, every student may not have a smartphone, tablet, or laptop, but many do. Sharing these devices and skills during group exercises can help students get to know each other, while at the same time thickening the learning experience.
Most interaction with technology in the classroom is with a Learning Management System or LMS, like Blackboard or Canvas. These LMS systems are very necessary for grades, enrollment, and automated exercises like quizzes. The key, however, is to move beyond the reliance on the LMS, which was designed to assign, control, automate, and distribute information, and experiment with more decentralized and multi-nodal methods of digital interaction. Decentralized digital platforms like Twitter and Piazza allow for traditional academic hierarchies to be broken-down and remixed in new ways that are rewarding for students and professors alike.
A few key points from the talk:
1. Model the behavior.
Modeling the behavior, such as live-tweeting lectures, will help instructors to retain a sense authority while also allowing for more flexible pathways of interaction. Also, modeling provides students with concrete examples of what digital technologies are available, and also how to use them professionally. Teaching assistants can begin processes like these with Twitter, or tweets can be scheduled to automatically post during the lecture. Students should be encouraged to tweet also, in order to gradually take over the entire note-taking and note-sharing process.
2. Incentives and risks.
Some incentives and risks are set by the professor through the syllabus in an explicit fashion, such as attendance or exam dates. Other incentives and risks are more subtle, but they can also be very powerful and possibly limiting. For example, it's difficult to harness the technical prowess of students if they are not allowed to use digital devices in the classroom. Of course some students might be inclined to wander off into the far reaches of the Internet, but they should be redirected toward more fruitful material rather than completely restricted.
3. Experiment and innovate.
A sense of experimentation in the classroom can also lead to a sense of excitement. Involving students in the process of the course through polls on Piazza, for example, can foster a sense of student empowerment. Also, if students are aware that the professor is experimenting with pedagogy, they're also more likely to push the boundaries of the assignments in positive ways. Many students are afraid to take risks academically for fear of failing, and a sense of experimentation in the class can help relieve that pressure.
All in all, Professor Levy made it clear that she is not advocating for building larger lecture halls, or relying on MOOCs to educate the masses. Instead, she calls for the directed application of digital technology in order to expand the traditional classroom experience with the consideration and participation of the students themselves.
Critical Digital Humanities is hosting a talk on debates on digital learning by UCR History Professor Juliette Levy.
The event will take place on Wednesday, February 12th from 4-5:30pm in the English department conference room (HMNSS 2212).
Please consider joining us for a lively discussion on digital pedagogy. Light refreshments will be provided. See attached flyer for more info.
We hope to see you there!
A conference sponsored by The Mellon Research Initiative in Digital Cultures
May 15-16, 2014 at the University of California, Davis
Submission Deadline: March 1, 2014
Send submissions to email@example.com
As algorithms permeate our lived experience, the boundaries and
borderlands of what can and cannot be adapted, translated, or
incorporated into algorithmic thinking become a space of contention.
The principle of the algorithm, or the specification of the potential
space of action, creates the notion of a universal mode of
specification of all life, leading to discourses on empowerment,
efficiency, openness, and inclusivity. But algorithms are ultimately
only able to make intelligible and valuable that which can be
discretized, quantified, operationalized, proceduralized, and
gamified, and this limited domain makes algorithms necessarily
Algorithms increasingly shape our world, our thought, our economy, our
political life, and our bodies. The algorithmic response of NSA
networks to threatening network activity increasingly brings privacy
and political surveillance under algorithmic control. At least 30% of
stock trading is now algorithmic and automatic, having already lead to
several otherwise inexplicable collapses and booms. Devices such as
the Fitbit and the NikeFuel suggest that the body is incomplete
without a technological supplement, treating 'health' as a
quantifiable output dependent on quantifiable inputs. The logic of
gamification, which finds increasing traction in educational and
pedagogical contexts, asserts that the world is not only renderable as
winnable or losable, but is in fact better–i.e. more effective–this
way. The increased proliferation of how-to guides, from HGTV and DIY
television to the LifeHack website, demonstrate a growing demand for
approaching tasks with discrete algorithmic instructions.
This conference seeks to explore both the specific uses of algorithms
and algorithmic culture more broadly, including topics such as:
gamification, the computational self, data mining and visualization,
the politics of algorithms, surveillance, mobile and locative
technology, and games for health. While virtually any discipline could
have something productive to say about the matter, we are especially
seeking contributions from software studies, critical code studies,
performance studies, cultural and media studies, anthropology, the
humanities, and social sciences, as well as visual art, music, sound
studies and performance. Proposals for experimental/hybrid
performance-papers and multimedia artworks are especially welcome.
Areas open for exploration include but are not limited to: daily life
in algorithmic culture; gamification of education, health, politics,
arts, and other social arenas; the life and death of big data and data
visualization; identity politics and the quantification of selves,
bodies, and populations; algorithm and affect; visual culture of
algorithms; algorithmic materiality; governance, regulation, and
ethics of algorithms, procedures, and protocols; algorithmic
imaginaries in fiction, film, video games, and other media;
algorithmic culture and (dis)ability; habit and addiction as
biological algorithms; the unrule-able/unruly in the (post)digital
age; limits and possibilities of emergence; algorithmic and
proto-algorithmic compositional methods (e.g., serialism, Baroque
fugue); algorithms and (il)legibility; and the unalgorithmic.
For more information, especially on updates regarding featured keynote
speakers and performers, check out the conference website at:
Please send proposals to firstname.lastname@example.com by March 1, 2014.
I ran the updates for the website this morning, for both the WordPress engine itself (3.8.1), and also the plugins.
The CDH site is being backed-up automatically with the Backup Buddy plugin to the iThemes cloud, and also locally.
I made some edits to the Events page, and I added a post for the upcoming Professionalization in the Digital Humanities event with Professor Wernimont.
There's a nice Calendar plugin I've come across recently, and it might be easier to use than the code for the current Events page (it's free):
The Events Calendar from Modern Tribe: http://tri.be/shop/wordpress-events-calendar/
– this plugin is in beta mode with The Center for Ideas and Society at UCR: http://ideasandsociety.ucr.edu/events/
– the "List" mode might be good for CDH uses too: http://ideasandsociety.ucr.edu/events/upcoming/ (Month or List mode can be chosen at the top right of the calendar)
Call for papers: Papers are invited for a special issue entitled "New Work on Electronic Literature and Cyberculture." Ed. Maya Zalbidea Paniagua (Universidad La Salle Madrid), Mark Marino (University of Southern California), and Asunción López Varela-Azcárate (Universidad Complutense Madrid). CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture 16.5 (2014):http://docs.lib.purdue.edu/
Author: Sarah Lozier
As a humanities graduate student interested in looking at digital media, digital processes, and digital sociality, it is tempting to define myself professionally as a Digital Humanities scholar. But this definition isn't particularly helpful, since it almost always elicits the response — "And what does that actually mean?" Indeed, being a DH professional seems to "mean" differently for different people, and these definitional slippages become increasingly problematic when it comes to those non-research necessities of being an aspiring academic (getting jobs, applying for grants, and teaching undergraduates). In an effort to think through some of these slippages and their politics, I'd like to look at one specific resource for DH professionalization — the University of Victoria's Digital Humanities Summer Institute (DHSI) — to think about what this program suggests effective DH professionalization is and does.
The DHSI is "a week of intensive coursework, seminars, and lectures," all focused around issues pertinent to the digital humanities. This year's twenty-seven seminars cover a wide range of topics ranging from "Text Encoding Fundamentals" to "Electronic Literature in the Digital humanities," but all twenty-seven are organized along a kind of divide between building digital skill sets — coding, software use, etc — and dealing with fairly traditional issues of humanities study applied to digital objects — "reading" electronic literature, applying "theory" to digital media, etc.
This divide strikes me as potentially indicative of the larger problem of professionalizing in DH, and that is the question of what a DH professional does. While these seminars cover topics dealing explicitly with navigating the Digital and topics dealing explicitly with navigating the Humanities, there aren't any seminars that explicitly deal with digital AND humanities navigation, DH as one unit. They suggest that DH is still D and H, Digital and Humanities. The problem with this "and" is analogous to the problem of the hyphen conceived as the splice that Katherine Hayles discusses in the fifth chapter of How We Became Posthuman. That is, D (and) H imagines a "separate but equal" relationship between the items on either side of the and, even as it officially splices them together (DH) as one item. Scholars who do this thing called "DH" must actually do "D and H," making the discipline a necessarily exclusive rather than inclusive one. In the hectic world of the modern academy, where tenure is disappearing and we are asked more often than not to work "for free," today, being a DH professional is all but closed off to those who already have the time and resources to equivalently pursue D and H — established, funded academics. Until we can more effectively splice D and H into DH, this exclusivity and definitional slipperiness will continue to exist.
UCR's Critical Digital Humanities and Medical Narratives Mellon research groups are hosting a Lunchtime Lightning Talks Event, Transgressive Research Methods: What Happens when the Humanities Engages with Science? on October 24, 2013 from 11:30 – 1:00 in HMNSS 2212. This event is open to faculty, graduates, and undergraduates, and lunch will be provided.
This Discussion-Based event will take the form of 5-7 minute "Lightning" talks, presented by faculty and graduate students. These quick interventions will focus on the ethics, values, limitations, and possibilities of interdisciplinary research methods, with the goal of generating inquiry, reflection, and discussion among the participants around the following, and other related, issues:
What features characterize "truly interdisciplinary" research?
How does the blend of methodologies, topics, and questions from across humanistic and scientific disciplines both limit and/or expand our notions of Research?
What are the ethical considerations involved in cross-disciplinarity?
How do we assign (or reject) value to work that straddles disciplinary borders?
How does the future of the disciplined academy and academic work appear, as grants and honors become more available to work that claims "interdisciplinarity."?
We look forward to your participation at what promises to be a lively, critical, and thought-provoking event! If you have any questions, please contact Sarah Lozier at firstname.lastname@example.com or Kyle Harp at email@example.com.
The Critical Digital Humanities and Medical Narratives Mellon Workgroups
Review: "Media in the Archives: Libraries, Popular Culture, and the Digital" Panel Discussion
October 18th, 2013
Kimberly Hall
by Sarah Lozier
On October 17th, 2013 I had the opportunity to attend a panel discussion hosted by UCR's History Department on the topic of Media in the Archives. In general, the panelists described various forms that archival work can take, whether one is working in an academically-supported research archives like the Huntington, a corporate pop-cultural exhibition-supported archived like that of NBCUniversal, or a digitized archive of material documents like the California Digital Newspaper Collection (CDNC). Given the range of archives presented, it is no surprise that there were many different strategies for navigating the challenges and perks of archival work. What was perhaps, more surprising, was that there were nearly as many similarities as differences presented, particularly among theoretical axes of authenticity and originality. Here, however, I'd like to focus on one archival issue in particular that did not get much attention, but that can be particularly provocative when material and digital cultures and archives collide—the issue of the User.
The User did enter the conversation yesterday when Brian Geiger described the invaluable role of the untrained, amateur user to correct errors in the text that occur in the digitization process due to the limits of computer-based text recognition. Dr. Geiger pointed out that allowing these amateur users this level of access to affect and change the archival material is a bittersweet affair. On the one hand, it frees up the trained, degree-holding archivists to spend time on work that requires the specialist's hand; while at the same time potentially expediting the digitization process, and with fewer mistakes, due to an increased human labor force. (This introduces the problem never far from DH labor discussions of Crowd-Sourcing, but that is best saved for another post). On the other hand, the CNDC is still an institutionally accredited archive, and there are very real possibilities that this untrained labor force is introducing as many (if not more damaging) errors to the archival materials than the computer. Indeed, the untrained user could only get this kind of access to a digital archive; the very notion would be unthinkable for a material and physical archive like the Huntington or NBCUniversal's Archives, where the "user" is either a trained researcher operating under the watchful eye of the archivist, or a spectator who is encouraged to Look-Don't-Touch.
So who is the archive's User? What does it mean to really use an archive? Can using be limited to accessing? Or can it be expanded to include interacting, as in the shift of replacing "reader" with "user" in conversations about e-Lit? What are the stakes and potential effects of this conceptual expansion, particularly given the slippery place of labor in accessing, using, and interacting? Are we, the institutionally-supported and access-granted DH scholars, the Privileged Users, willing to support this?


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- Mar 11:
- Denver 4/20 rally likely will go on after smoothing legal rift
- Mar 4:
- Mayor Hancock says Denver 4/20 rally's pro-pot stance concerns him
- Feb 26:
- Denver officials consider denial of 4/20 permit in Civic Center
- Feb 24:
- "Colorado Pot Rush" a balanced Harry Smith CNBC documentary
- Jan 13:
- Denver police citing one person per day for public marijuana use
- Dec 31:
- Partygoers celebrate the end of marijuana "prohibition"
- Colorado governor and Denver mayor won't attend pot retail sales
- Dec 30:
- DIA first Denver facility to ban marijuana possession
- Dec 27:
- Denver issues finalized licenses to recreational marijuana stores
- Dec 24:
- Denver's Pot-friendly Cannabition party forced to find a new home
- Denver council decriminalizes marijuana for young adults
- Dec 10:
- Denver pot committee considers whether the city is ready for Jan. 1
Have questions about marijuana? The city of Denver is hoping to have that covered after it launched an informational website Dec. 9.
The site is simple in construction and serves to answer frequently asked questions such as "is it illegal to drive high?" and "is it illegal to consume marijuana in public?" The answer to both questions is yes, by the way.
The city's marketing office put the site together after embarking on the endeavor in late October.
"The goal was to provide clarity and I think the site does that," said Sarah Kurz, director of strategic marketing for Denver.
Kurz said her office met with several outside groups such as Denver Public Schools, Denver Health and AAA Colorado to determine what questions should be answered on the site. She said all the groups were insistent that the information needed to be out there as soon as possible.
View the site at colorado.gov/marijuanainfodenver.
"All the groups were united behind the idea that we needed to get the facts out there as quickly as possible about what is not allowed," she said. "There's a lot of misinformation out there. It's a really confusing topic."
The site is broken down into four categories, including residents and visitors, parents and neighbors, business and property owners, and marijuana retailers and home growers. Questions are catered to each group.
Another page has informational fliers and notecards available for printing. Kurz said the city plans to distribute them to recreational marijuana retailers as they open. The city is asking owners to place a poster with six facts about what is not allowed concerning marijuana and also distribute postcards to customers.
She said the city has been asking owners at their licensing hearings and most have been receptive.
"For those who are going to be purchasing it legally, we want them to understand the basics on what the law does and does not allow," Kurz said.
The city has no plans to distribute posters to anyone else, but they are available for print on the site.
The Downtown Denver Partnership will be placing six of the posters throughout the mall near transit stops in January. A seventh fact will be added that states "it is illegal to display or transfer marijuana on the 16th Street Mall."
"We are doing our best to put up signs along the mall in several highly visible locations near transit," said Brittany Morris Saunders, vice president of public affairs for the Downtown Denver Partnership.