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Wright Words: Jason Wright: Notre Dame won a much more valuable prize than BCS championship this year
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If you watched the BCS championship game last week between Alabama and Notre Dame, you may have caught an ESPN feature on the adoption of 14-year-old Sam Grewe of Middlebury, Ind., by the Notre Dame football program. And, if you saw it, you're more likely to remember his inspiring story than the game itself.
Especially if you're a fan of the Fighting Irish.
But isn't that how it should be? During the 2012 season, Notre Dame's coaches and players won something much more valuable and lasting than a crystal trophy and championship rings.
They won a brother.
Like millions of viewers around the country, I was awed that such a storied football program would adopt the young cancer patient. Why add anything else to the white-hot hype and expectations that bloom like Indiana's perennial purple coneflowers?
For Sam, the story began when he was diagnosed with Osteosarcoma, an aggressive cancer in the bone. It often appears in the leg and can lead to amputation. But when presented with options, the athletic and competitive Sam convinced his parents to permit a rare Van Ness rotationplasty. The procedure involves removing the femur and knee joint. With the tumor gone, the foot and ankle are pulled up, rotated and reattached.
It may look like something from a sci-fi movie, but the reversed foot actually becomes the knee and the stump provides better mobility and a receptive joint for attaching a prosthetic leg. Doctors explained to Sam and his family that the unusual procedure — it's estimated there are just 20 such surgeries each year in the U.S. — was his best shot at ever playing sports again.
That's all he needed to hear.
Meanwhile, Notre Dame coach Brian Kelly had approached South Bend Memorial Hospital, asking if they had a cancer patient the hospital could recommend to be adopted for the season by the team.
Did they ever.
Just two days before his surgery, the football team gathered for an adoption ceremony. It's a sweet gesture, right? Give him a T-shirt, maybe a few jerseys and pose for pictures while the cameras roll. Make him an honorary member of the team and then get back to spring practice; you've got a title to chase, after all.
That might have been the easy way, but that wasn't the Notre Dame way. He didn't become just a friend, assistant or booster. He truly became a brother.
A few days ago I spoke with Sam Grewe's mother, Michelle. I wondered, "Is this genuinely how it worked? How real was this? How much was about optics, public relations or some obligatory service program required of the players?"
"Jason," she said calmly, "Sam had opportunities with that team that would make grown men cry."
Not only was Sam and his family given tickets to each home game, he was invited two hours early to the stadium to spend time in the locker room. At kickoff he watched the game with his parents before joining the team on the sidelines during the fourth quarter. After the final whistle, he could often be seen back in the locker room enjoying the postgame celebration and sharing his favorite highlights.
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Brilliant hotel. Completely safe. We stayed therePosted Oct 14, 2014
Brilliant little hotel, couldn't fault it at all. Hotel staff were really friendly, and the room was just beautiful. Only 5 minute from.the nearest metro station which had links to all the major tourist places like the Eiffel tower.
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Great location close to the Luxembourg GardensPosted Oct 14, 2014
Close to everything in Saint Germain, walking distance to plenty of cafes and bars
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Nice hotel, well located for Left Bank devotees -Posted Oct 1, 2014
Pros: breakfast - good food and service housekeeping - attentive and effcient
Cons: floor of the shower stall was very slippery - a protective mat should be provided
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very agreeable - convenient location, helpful staff, breakfast buffet provided a good start to an active day
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Well positioned city centre hotelPosted Sep 29, 2014
Cons: Nothing further to add really
Location: Near a metro station,buses and Montparnesse and a very pleasant walk to the Luxembourg Gardens
Rooms had everything one needed,small as you would expect for Paris but perfectly acceptable
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Much better than expectedPosted Aug 17, 2014
Pros: Everything except shower facility
Cons: More staff at breakfast time.
Location: Great
Great 3 star property. Looks new and well maintained. Great location,friendly staff. Breakfast room is very busy. Breakfast itself is great. The room is very small as stated in the web site but very well planned. It is to be seen to believe how user friendly a 15 sq m room can be. The shower enclosure however is a challenge even for a " normal " size individual.
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Good location, great stay.Posted Jul 17, 2014
Pros: Location was great. Staff was great. Facilities are ultra-modern and clean!
Location: 200 yards from the Metro and with many restaurants, I'd say 15 within a 5 minute walk. Some are next door or across the street.
This hotel is located within about 200 yards of the Vavin Metro and in a neighborhood with many restaurants. The hotel staff was very friendly and helpful, fluent in English. The room was small but the facilities in the hotel are ultra-modern and very clean. The room size is not an issue as we enjoyed everything else about our stay. I would recommend this hotel and the Mercure Hotel chain as we had a similar experience at the Mercure hotel in Le Havre. We'd seriously consider this hotel on our return to Paris.
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Great location, comfortable hotel, excellent.Posted Jul 4, 2014
Pros: Close proximity to Vavin Metro station. Very comfortable beds. Quiet rooms. Pleasant and courteous staff.
Cons: Room was too warm at night and there was no way to adjust the temperature. The twin beds were actually two single beds pushed together, not separate.
Location: Very close to Vavin with connections to Gare Montparnasse, Île de la Cité and Gare du Nord. Great for connections from CDG with Port Royal 10mins walk
This hotel was great for a short stay, in my case for a photography trip. Checking in was smooth and the room was excellent value. The hotel itself was very quiet and the windows did an excellent job at insulating the room from the outside sounds of the street. Would recommend.
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Comfortable roomPosted Jun 23, 2014 on Hotels.com
The bed and the room in general were comfortable. I was on the ground floor and the bedroom had a window through into the rest of the lobby.. seemed as though people would be able to see into the room but the privacy screen was effective from the other side. Still- maybe something to watch out for.
by Barryfrom Hawaii
Small room and don't eat breakfast therePosted Jun 23, 2014
Didn't expect a huge room, but expected a enough room to lay down 2 suitcases. Just enough leg room around the bed to walk around it. Breakfast - they post a E7 price - BUT you need to eat outside the 'restaurant' and its only coffee and pastry. Walk through the door and its E17 for cereal, cold cuts, breads and juice. Really? And I thought Hawaii had outrageous prices!!
Recommendedby Philfrom Paisley
Great hotel in a nice area.Posted Jun 5, 2014 on Hotels.com
Hotel is located in the Montparnasse area, quiter end but still plenty of restaurants and bars catering for all. Only a 5 minute walk to central area of bars/restaurants. The Vavin Metro station is just across the road and very handy. Hotel itself was clean, good condition. Staff were very helpful, particularly as our booking was missing but all sorted. Only slight negative is our room was on the small side but seems to be the norm for Paris. Ideal for couples.


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Depends what they have on their team. If you see its balanced between their physical dps and their mages, then by all means get an aegis. Otherwise get whatever would counter their main source of damage.
I pick up Aegis first on Rammus because it helps the team and the passive helps out Rammus' passive. After that everything I build is influenced by what the other team has team comp wise.
I'm thinking about starting to pick up heart of gold first though.
people hating on tanks for getting tank items?
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not really good on amumu/galio/rammus to be honest. a faster banshees/randuins/sunfire will be better
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Thornmail is never a good first item. You want a combination of hp and armor as rammus, so Heart of Gold and Sunfire Cape are good options. Aegis is a great 2nd item to get after your first one, and basic boots (or even advanced boots if you like).
But it's not a MUST have every game. It's still a great item though.
I consider Omen to be a core item for Rammus, so HoG is always first (to get that extra gold flowing). But there's nothing wrong with picking up an early Aegis.
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my neighbors just gave me a huge amount of zucchini from their garden.
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I've made the following salad three times now and everyone thinks i'm a big gourmet! Easy as anything. And oh so good. The melon paired with the slightly salty zucchini and the nutty parm next to the citrus and yummy olive oil.....mmmmmm. I didn't bother with smoked chicken, just sauteed some chicken with a bit of salt, pepper, garlic and onion powder.
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Halve the zucchini and use a melon baller or spoon to create a zucchini "boat".
Roughly chop the flesh. Saute in olive oil with some chopped onion, garlic, alt, pepper, some fresh thyme and anything else you like. (my husband likes when I make meat stuffing for them)
When the onions are soft and the mixture is fragrant add panko or anykind of bread crumbs and alot of fresh grated parmesan to make a soft/moist stuffing. Stuff the zucchini boats and place on cookie sheet/jellroll, cover with foil and bake until boats are tender. Remove foil and continuing baking until top is browned and crispy.
This also great with greek seasoning- make the stuffing with mint and replace the parmesian with feta cheese. The comninations are endless.
re: foodiex2
I do this with summer squash (but with ricotta and egg and parm) but hadn't thought of doing it with zucchini - DUH! Thanks for mentioning it.
I found a recipe for "fake crab cakes" made with zucchini and old bay seasoning but I haven't tried them yet. Sounds interesting and the recipe looks like it calls for a good amount of zucchini.
I like to make zucchini bread that's flavored like a moist spice cake, & I always add toasted walnuts. I try different recipes from time to time and haven't found a favorite yet.
This isn't a sophisticated dish but more of a "comfort" food way of cooking zucchini. My grandma used to make her "calabacitas" this way:
(No measurements)
Zucchini cut into fourths then about 1/2" slices
Onion chopped
Fresh tomato chopped
Saute above in vegetable oil just until onion is soft.
Sprinkle with salt, pepper and sugar (liberally)
Turn to simmer and cover. Cook just until tender (maybe 10 minutes or so)
Turn off heat, add grated monterey jack cheese and cover again just until cheese melts. Serve
Anyone I've ever served these to has just loved them.
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A baked version of this, done with coarsely shredded zucchini, was one of the few dishes I actually enjoyed at my university cafeteria.
Zucchini does really well with lots of butter, which is why I never really think of it as a 'healthy' food. Fried with onion and butter until soft, and tossed through pasta is one way to do it.
Cut it into thin strips, salt and pepper it and oven dry it. Cut it up and use it in your favorite pasta with a simple sauce. You can use long strips or circles. It is great with sweated onion, EV Olive Oil and Pecorino Cheese. It shrinks to less than 1/6 th the original size if you do it right. A ton if it turns into a handful but packs quite a whallop.
Believe it or not, these are very good, though more like a chocolate snack cake than a brownie. I skip the frosting and usually reduce the sugar a bit.
I can't believe nobody's suggested zucchini bread yet! This is what we always did with, especially, the random giant zucchini that managed to hide itself until it was too big to eat like a normal zucchini.
This recipe is adapted from the Silver Palate Cookbook, and it's really tasty:
Zucchini Bread
3 T. sweet butter
3 eggs
1-1/4 c. oil
1-1/2 c. granulated sugar
1 tsp. vanilla extract
2 c. grated unpeeled raw zucchini
2 c. unbleached all purpose flour
2 tsp. baking soda
1 tsp baking powder
1 tsp. salt
1 tsp ground cinnamon
1 tsp ground cloves
1 c. shlled walnuts, chopped
Preheat oven to 350F. Butter a 9x5 loaf pan. Beat eggs, oil, sugar and vanilla until light and thick. Fold in grated zucchini.
Sift dry ingredients together and stir into zucchini mixture until just blended. Mix in walnuts.
Pour batter into loaf pan. Bake on middle rack of the overn for 1 hour or so (start testing around 50 minutes) (note the original recipe calls for 1 hr. 15 minutes, but from my recollection, this is too long), until a cake tester insterted in the center comes out clean. Cool slightly remove from pan and cool completely. (Also, I haven't made this for a while but I have a vague recollection that this recipe makes enough for 2 loaves, not one, so have another loaf pan at the ready).
When in Crete I have had zucchini croquettes, made with grated zucchini. potato, cheese, mint and with a slight crumb topping. They were served in ordinary tourist restaurants but usually on Sundays at the family type restaurants. I don't know how to do the link but here is the web address: www.purecrete.com/recipes.php - it looks authentic to me.
While I realize this is a four year-old thread, it is also the summer harvest season for zucchini. I'd recommend zucchini gratin--I made this over the weekend and loved it. In place of the Gruyère, I used a local farmstead garlic-herb cheese, which complemented the zucchini nicely. Link here:
re: nofunlatte
I like the looks of zucchini strips made with a vegetable peeler. Peel one side of a whole zucchini (or cuke) until you reach the seeds, then stop, do a quarter-turn, and start again, repeating until nothing is left but the seed core. Use raw for salad, or cook very briefly.
Grill slices, then make a pasta-free lasagna of any variety, layering sauce, other veggies, meat if desired, cheese, etc. Bake.
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Would you be willing to share the cake recipe, or post a link to it if it's online?
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HI, Did you ever find this recipe? I am looking for it. Had it at Ragin' Sage Coffee Roasters but can't find recipe.
This is a great recipe. Dont use fat free products though, light works well. I use brown rice too.
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The season has begun! I picked three favorite on epicurious.com to give to friends:
zucchini raisin bran muffins
roasted vegetables with garlic-tarragon butter
zucchini-currant pancakes
I started a folder of recipes. This weekend tried:
farmers market quesadillas - kind of bland but has potential
zucchini appetizer squares - needed something more
Planning on trying:
orzo with zucchini and lemon
zucchini cheddar wedges (round bread)
zucchini oatmeal cookies (recipe called them St Patricks Day cookies because of the flecks of green skin
or maybe zucchini spice cookies
Past hits have included:
zucchini whoopie pies (a 4-H recipe)
thai zucchini with peanuts was tasty just not a hit
I agree with Dana that bread would be a great way to use the zucchini, and another thing I love is adding it to pasta, and also fried zucchini slices dipped in a creamy cucumber dip.
Add some to pasta sauce or on pizza. We've had chocolate zucchini cake (don't recall which cookbook, at the moment) and our nephew who normally won't touch veggies said he liked it.
Another thing I like to do with zucchini is a simple saute: zucchini, diced pepper (red or green), onion, tomato, and kernels from fresh corn. Sauté in olive oil, add salt, pepper, and any fresh herbs to taste. Tastes of summer!
Did you see this thread from a couple of weeks ago?
I like little zucchini pancakes w/ gazpacho . . . the recipe's in the above thread along w some very interesting zuke ideas.
I added some halved and thinly sliced zuke to Armenian lentil soup last night. I often add greens but I'm currently on a low K diet for medical reasons.
I made Zuni's zucchini pickles a few weeks ago and they are excellent. Wouldn't try this without a mandoline though.
Googled the recipe and found it on MS's website http://www.marthastewart.com/recipe/j...
Not too far off from what you have been doing, but I love grilling zucchini. Marinade in a little olive oil, balsamic vinegar, garlic, salt, and some oregano or basil or both. The balsamic and the char on the zucchini give a completely different and delicious character from the sauteed version.
Lately, we've had lots of zucchini sauteed with onions, garlic, jalapeño, and mushrooms. We often have this with brown rice, quinoa, or rice or corn pasta.
Zucchini Bacon Roll-ups
Slice zucchini very thin, layer on a strip of bacon then a chunk of cheese, roll up the zucchini and bacon around the cheese and secure with toothpicks. Dip in beaten egg, then panko crumbs, and bake til golden and gooey.
Couscous with grilled vegetables and feta
1 sweet onion
one red and one yellow bell pepper
two zucchini
an eggplant
20 cherry tomatoes
1 clove garlic
300 g couscous
200 g feta cheese
fresh oregano
vegetable broth
Preheat the oven to 200° C degrees. Wash all the vegetables, cut the zucchini into rounds not too thin, do the same with the peppers and the eggplant and the tomatoes will go in the oven whole. Slice the onion and arrange everything in a single layer on a baking tray covered with greaseproof paper. Sprinkle with olive oil just enough to lightly grease all the vegetables.
Do not add salt completely before cooking, they would lose all liquids are too dry to cooked, and remember that different vegetables cooked evenly if cut into smaller or less similar.
Bake for about 40-45 minutes until the edges of the vegetables will be a bit 'scorched.
Meanwhile prepare the couscous following the directions on the package and using instead water a good vegetable stock, season with all the grilled vegetables, crumbled feta, fresh oregano and a dribble of olive oil. Season with salt and pepper.
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re: cosmopolita
This is kind of similar to the couscous recipe cosmopolita just posted. This only calls for 6 oz of zucchini, but I didn't have squash on hand so I just used a LOT of zucchini. It was so delicious - the feta really made the dish, we used Greek feta in brine.
from Smitten Kitchen: http://smittenkitchen.com/2007/09/cou...
She also has a recipe for a pizza with squash/zucchini and goat cheese which looks heavenly.
I don't know what this dish is called - I've been making it for years! Saute sliced zucchini, sliced red onions, sliced mushrooms and Italian seasonings in some olive oil until slightly browned. Add a few glugs red wine and simmer until done. Grate some fresh parmesan or crumble feta over the top. This goes really well with Chicken parmesan.


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Dollar Tree, a discount retailer known for selling everything for $1, said Monday it plans to buy Matthews-based Family Dollar for $8.5 billion, weeks after an activist investor started pushing the company to sell itself.
Billionaire investor Carl Icahn did not think Family Dollar was profitable enough. Retail analyst Howard Davidowitz, an investment banker, told NPR's Sonari Glinton why low-end retailing is expanding:
DAVIDOWITZ: The story is the growth of the sector and that mirrors where America is.
GLINTON: So what I'm curious about is, while the dollar stores are doing well, then there's the Sears, the JC Penney.
DAVIDOWITZ: Are getting destroyed because they're middle-class stores.
GLINTON: Put the dollar stores?
DAVIDOWITZ: The dollar stores are doing better because they have more and more customers who are trading down. If you look at the reality, you will see what's happening in the economy. And it doesn't look too pretty.
Bad economic news for America is good business for low-end retailers such as NC state budget director Art Pope, who owns Variety Retailers. He's expanding into groceries.
Art Pope's Variety Wholesalers has purchased the vacant Kroger store in Southeast Raleigh with plans to establish the company's first standalone grocery in an area that badly needs one.
The company, which owns Roses, Maxway and other discount stores, bought the property on Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard last week for $2.57 million – well below its assessed tax value of $5.65 million.
Pope plans to split the store into a Roses and a separate grocery store. It's a neighborhood where over half the families earn less than $35,000 per year, according to the News and Observer.
The NAACP has picketed one of Pope's local Maxway stores "accusing Pope of using store profits to support conservative causes and candidates."
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Before becoming Ronald Reagan's vice-president, George H.W. Bush called trickle down theory voodoo economics. He was wrong about that. Zombie economics is more accurate. Trickle down won't die and stay dead.
"Private wealth creation requires huge investments in commonwealth," David Cay Johnston told Chris Hayes last night on "All In." Tax cut after tax cut — primarily favoring the entrepreneurial class — were sold on the premise that they would spur investment and hiring by the entrepreneurial class and lift all boats, as it were. Those tax cuts have instead cut into public investments over the last decade-plus, costing the average family a lot of money, says Johnston.
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Rachel Maddow last night explored how Kansas's massive tax cut has not worked out so well, either. That — "surprise" — if you cut out all the revenue, it leaves a big hole in the state's budget for funding needful things like the public schools mandated by the state constitution. And — "surprise" — citizens in deep-red Kansas are not so keen on the GOP agenda now that they're saddled with it. Looking on from next door, neighboring Missouri is thinking the same thing, Maddow reports. In addition, Gov. Sam Brownback's miracle cure for the Kansas economy seems to have created a structural deficit.
Brownback's biggest cheerleader is a Missouri version of North Carolina's Art Pope.
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Some of those makers — you know, job Creators (it is capitalized, right?) — are wheeling and dealing and spending millions on technology to shave milliseconds of high-speed trades. That is, they are investing in speed — milliseconds — digitally running ahead of a stock order to buy it first and sell it to the buyer at a markup when the order arrives. Something like "The Wire" in the movie, "The Sting." Speculators are boring through mountains between New York and Chicago to put in straighter, shorter fiber-optic cables to make this con work.
Paul Krugman this morning:
What are we getting in return for all that money? Not much, as far as anyone can tell. Mr. Philippon shows that the financial industry has grown much faster than either the flow of savings it channels or the assets it manages. Defenders of modern finance like to argue that it does the economy a great service by allocating capital to its most productive uses — but that's a hard argument to sustain after a decade in which Wall Street's crowning achievement involved directing hundreds of billions of dollars into subprime mortgages.
What this game shows is how finance has become a game not of job creation or productively allocating financial resources, but of playing small-time investors for suckers. This is what the so-called makers are in the business of making. And Fox thinks you're the parasite.
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What's the matter with eastern Washington state? asks Danny Westneat in his Sunday column at the Seattle Times. It seems that out east of Seattle people really hate their government. Even though the region received far more stimulus money than any other in the country — eight times more per person than the national average.
Rep. Doc Hastings (R-WA 4th District) has spilled a lot of ink railing against the "reckless spending" that benefited his voters. He wrote, "Central Washingtonians know that the way to grow the economy is not to grow the federal government."
Westneat asks,
Do they? Because of the top 10 employers in the Tri-Cities, six are the federal government, while the other four rely heavily on federal grants or subsidies. The stimulus meant more than 3,000 jobs at the Hanford nuclear reservation alone and, during the darkest days of 2009, propped up the economy there. When the Tri-Cities finally took a hit from the recession, it was because the stimulus ended.
Hastings' district is basically a company town — with that company being Uncle Sam.
Dave Neiwert from Seattle-based Orcinus blog comments on Facebook,
I think there is a simple answer to Danny's question: People on the east side of the mountains have such a deep-seated animus toward all things Seattle (excepting, of course, the Seahawks) and anything associated with its liberalism that they would be willing to cut their own throats to defy it. They don't understand, or don't care, that they thrive when Seattle does.
With a little help from Uncle Sam, of course.
Hey Dave, you should visit Asheville. You'd feel right at home.
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If we ever want a country that operates on different ideological footing, we won't just need to defeat the conservative opposition. We need to change our own tactics–and our own ideas.
Atkins and others are responding to Adolph Reed's essay in Harper's Magazine and interview with Bill Moyers. Reed believes that the Left has put too much faith in electing political personalities at the expense of building movement and infrastructure to hold them accountable.
Neoliberals, Atkins contends, buy into progressive ideas on social issues while promoting conservative ones on economic policies and chasing the same big-donor money as the right. This has turned national Democrats into a party "whose organizing principle is that society will be perfected when even a transgendered racial and religious minority can also become a plutocrat or head of state, so long as not too many people are dying on the street …"
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G: What I think is really interesting as well is that we've seen a separation in capitalism. There is the traditional capitalism of the worker and the factory owner, but now what we've seen is the rise of a financial class, which is even harmful to the traditional capitalists themselves.
Prof. H: That's right. Instead of industrial capitalism, if you look at writers from the 19th century, everybody from Marx to business school professors expected the destiny of industrial capitalism to be to bring finance out of the medieval period into the modern period. The idea was to make banks serve the industrial system. That's what the Saint Simonians advocated in France. They were the idealists of the 19th century. They developed the idea of investment banking that the Reichsbank and the large German banks did most effectively. It's what Japan did after WW2, simply because they didn't have any other source of money except by their ability to create their own credit through industrial banking.
Nobody expected that finance capitalism would dominate and ultimately stifle industrial capitalism. But that's what's happening.
All the futurists, even socialists, were optimists about capitalism. They thought it was going to evolve naturally into socialism, with an increasing government role in the economy to provide infrastructure, including banking. Instead, you have governments being carved up. That's what neoliberalism is. It's really neofeudalism. It's a dismantling of democracy in favor of a financial oligarchy, to rule by appointing proconsuls and technocrats such as you have in Italy under Monti or in Greece under Papademos. You have a rolling back of history, and of the Enlightenment. If your college curriculum, your religion and the popular press doesn't even talk about the enlightenment and about the history of economic thought, you're not going to realize that what's happening is a rolling back of the last 500 years.
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E-Learning with Camtasia StudioNovember 26, 2014 at 4:36 pm | Posted in lecture recording, software | Leave a comment
I've been a fan of Camtasia for some years now, and this screen recording/video editing software has been the subject of several posts on this blog, so I wasn't too surprised when I was approached by Packt Publishing to review their ebook E-Learning with Camtasia Studio. Weighing in at 188 pages, it turned out to be a really useful introduction to the thinking, processes and planning required for almost any multimedia learning/training resource, as well as covering Camtasia-specific features. The author, David B. Demyan has obviously has a great deal of practical experience in using Camtasia to produce interactive learning and communicates this clearly in his writing.
As mentioned, a significant portion of the book is devoted to non-technical but essential issues, from establishing the learning outcomes and the learner profiles to planning, scripting and storyboarding. It goes on to cover the essentials of creating and editing using Camtasia – introducing each of the key features (such as pan-and-zoom) without un-necessary detail of every option. This is a good thing as there are plenty of other online resources including the TechSmith website that provide that level of detail. What is really useful and new, however, are the chapters on the addition of interactive features (hotspots, quizzes) and the integration with learning management systems using SCORM. Even if you already know Camtasia, you will probably find that these sections alone justify the modest cost. The e-book comes with a ZIP file of sample files that you can download so that you can follow through the exercises and example production – and this includes all the planning documents as well as the media files. Recommended.
Packt Publishing offer two further books on Camtasia by different authors – one on Advanced Editing and Publishing and another on Building an E-Learning Course with Camtasia Studio – and the latter seems to broadly cover the same material.
I've also been a long-time subscriber to Daniel Park's helpful emails about Camtasia from dappertext.com, although I never got around to buying his well reviewed (but more expensive) Camtasia Guide. Prompted by writing this review, and looking through the sample chapters Daniel provides, I think that the book reviewed above is not as comprehensive, but provides better coverage of the topics it does include – and the example project management files are the icing on the cake.
"Because we've always done it that way…"November 10, 2014 at 2:37 pm | Posted in waffle | Leave a comment
Tags: future, MOOC, storytelling
The ILIaD was launched on 3 November with a conference on the theme of 'revolutionising education'. All members of ILIaD were encouraged to submit proposals, and I decided to tackle two entrenched features of Higher Education which I think are ideal targets for revolution. The first is the shocking under-utilisation of expensive buildings and facilities that seems to reflect a model of education 150 years old; why are they only used Monday-Friday, 9am-6pm for 30 weeks of the year? I accept that is a simplified view and that research facilities and study spaces such as the Library are used much more intensively, but it is still broadly true. The second is the straight-jacket of the hourly timetable for administrative convenience rather than educational need. We get lectures that are 50 minutes long (minus the time needed to set up and settle down) which is too long for anyone's attention span if it is 'just a lecture' and too short if it is to be properly interactive. And don't even get me started about three-hour lectures without a break and the wasted time moving between lectures…
When I found that my proposal had been accepted, but was to be a 7-minute Petcha-Kucha-style slot immediately after lunch, I realised that radical action was needed. It needed to be lively enough to wake people up, but wasn't going to have any time to really unpack or discuss the issues. Inspiration arrived in the form of Hieroglyph, a bold project by Arizona State University and an anthology of 'science-fiction' stories that extrapolate current technologies to offer a positive vision of the future, in contrast to the more usual dystopias.
I framed the issues using a story; a history lesson from the future, delivered online by LearnU, one of the leading commercial universities in 2050. The lesson comes from a unit on 'A century of educational revolution in the UK 1945-2045′ and compares current (early 21st century) university practice (utilisation and timetables) with the model offered by LearnU. Their 'learning centres' are located in rented retail units in shopping malls that are open from 7am-midnight, seven days a week, 51 weeks a year., and include café franchises so that students can socialise easily. The educational promise is 'learn while you earn', an explicit recognition of the fact that most students will need to have a job to survive while they study.
Their model is an easy-to-envisage extension of MOOC technologies and pedagogies that includes small-group (virtual) seminars facilitated by (under-employed freelance) postgraduates to provide the personal and individual mentoring that good education requires. I also suggest that assessment technologies will have evolved to the point where they can provide automated feedback on essays – although peer assessment will also be an important part of the equation for both cost and educational reasons. The net result is that LearnU can provide degrees at a total cost of around £6000, spread over two to five years of part-time study, and that around 60% of students choose to study this way for reasons of cost and convenience. What about degrees such as medicine or engineering that require expensive labs? Well, in LearnU's view those are 'someone else's problem'… perhaps industry's or whatever is left of the NHS?
Needless to say, this has had a drastic impact on traditional public universities, many of which have failed financially. The story doesn't say so, but it is clear that some elite universities continue to thrive, providing a first-class education for those who can afford it – or are lucky enough to be be awarded bursaries. This is definitely a two-tier system, with the elite institutions perpetuating the all-important social networks of the 'haves'. See my video 'Different Trains' for another story about this. This isn't a vision of the future that I would welcome, although it does have some good features… so not entirely a dystopia. And I see LearnU as a consortium of EU public universities and academic publishers, so for some institutions it is a route to survival and growth.
My talk included two key questions:
- What are the factors that prevent universities from breaking out of their current inefficient utilisation patterns?
- What will universities need to do to enable them to not only survive but thrive in a world where commercial universities can offer a degree for £6000?
By all means post your thoughts to the comments…
FOOTNOTE: In the story I suggest that the currently-controversial Transatlantic Trade and Investment Programme (TTIP) is the key that enables US providers to start offering degrees in the UK. This may not be true, but a 2014 briefing paper written by the European Universities Association states:
The EU and the US have embarked on negotiations designed to culminate in a major trade deal. Will it lead to unrestricted market access to higher education services? This is not the first time that the issue has arisen. The question is complex, the implications uncertain, and the answer unknown.
ILIaDNovember 8, 2014 at 5:53 pm | Posted in Uncategorized, waffle | 2 Comments
This Monday (3 November) saw the official launch event for ILIaD, the Institute for Learning Innovation and Development at the University of Southampton. I've supported the use of learning technologies at the university for 23 years now, and in that time I've always been part of teams with acronym names; the ILC, CLT, LATEU, TELE and most recently CITE. I think ILIaD is my favourite so far, but maybe that's only because I've always been interested in the Greek myths and the tales of the Trojan war.
For those of you without the benefit of a classical education, the Iliad is Homer's epic tale of the forbidden love between Paris and Helen of Troy, the wrath of her husband King Menelaus, the gathering by King Agamemnon of the greatest warfleet ever and the subsequent 10-year siege of Troy (the kingdom) and fair Ilium (the city). Both sides displayed the greatest heroism as well as despicable brutality and essentially fought each other to a bitter stalemate. It was only the cunning of Odysseus and his plan for a wooden horse that finally allowed the Greeks to take the city, burn it to the ground, slay and enslave its citizens and reunite Helen and Menelaus. A second epic tale, the Odyssey, tells of the ten year journey home for Odysseus as the gods and fates blow him this way and that.
If you want a highly readable version, I recommend Black Ships Before Troy by Rosemary Sutcliff, illustrated by the excellent Alan Lee (who did much of the visual design for the Lord of the Rings movies). There is a companion volume, The Wanderings of Odysseus. Do not under any circumstances watch the execrable film Troy, with Brad Pitt – we're still waiting for a decent retelling, but the all-star 1971 The Trojan Women tells of the aftermath from a female perspective.
ILIaD's mission is to 'revolutionise education' at the University, perhaps by using the trojan horse of learning technologies to infiltrate new pedagogies into the ivory towers of academe? Let's hope it doesn't take us ten years!
making MOOCs: Archaeology of PortusOctober 23, 2014 at 5:51 pm | Posted in MOOC | Leave a comment
Tags: FutureLearn, map, photoshop, Portus
Archaeology of Portus was the FutureLearn course that I really wanted to be involved with, as I have always been interested in Roman archaeology and have visited many sites in Britain and Europe, including the extensive ruins of the ancient port of Ostia at the mouth of the Tiber near Rome. Portus was an artifical port built about 3km up the coast to provide additional port capacity at the height of Roman Imperial power.
Almost my first task on joining the project was to push forward the completion of the promotional video trailer for the course. I saw a need for a map that showed the location of Portus and its relationship to Rome, and thought that it would be fitting if it looked like a mosaic. I started by finding a suitable map of Europe on Shutterstock and cropping it to the area, 16:9 aspect ratio and 1920×1080 resolution that we wanted:
Image © Aleksandra Gigowska /Shutterstock
I then searched for advice about how to create a mosaic effect and found exactly what I needed on DKauffman's blog. After some experimentation I arrived at the result I wanted, including colouring the tessarae (tiles) to show the extent of the Roman empire at in 117AD, when the Emperor Trajan constructed the fabulous hexagonal basin at Portus:
Of course it doesn't really look like a Roman mosaic, which would mainly consist of roughly square tessarae – but overall I was very pleased with the effect. It forms the basis of several maps used in the course's videos, for example showing the trade routes between Roman Mediterranean ports:
The trade routes are speculative and there was some discussion with the academic team about whether we should show such definite routes, given their expertise from the Roman Port Network project. The Wikipedia article on Roman Commerce has a really interesting map showing the movement of goods around 'Mare Nostrum'!
Going online to enhance face-to-face teachingOctober 16, 2014 at 11:27 am | Posted in Uncategorized | Leave a comment
Tags: #sotonpeer, lecture capture, peer learning, Twitter, zappers
This was the title of a talk by Professor Simon Lanacaster from UEA, who was visiting our Chemistry department. The lecture room was packed and his dynamic and enthusiastic presentation did not disappoint. His aim was, as far as possible, to get his audience to experience first-hand the methods that he has adopted to teach his courses in a radically different way – and that won him the Royal Society of Chemistry Higher Education Teaching Award in 2013 for "innovative use of technology to engage, challenge and enthuse students by blurring the boundaries between the internet and the lecture theatre.
Right at the start he encouraged us to avoid taking our own notes and to tweet our comments and observations instead using the hashtag #sotonpeer. The idea is that Storify could be used after the session to weave the best tweets into a coherent summary – and true to his word, he made that available at 1am this morning, just 8 hours after the talk. In everyday use this task would fall to the students and there might be several alternative summaries to choose from.
Maybe we (the audience) need more practice or advice on how to tweet effectively, but in my opinion the Storify fails to capture much of what was said and includes a lot that is irrelevant (if amusing). But there are a few gems in there – in particular Richard Treves linked to a post by Clay Shirkey which includes strong evidence against the use of laptops, tablets and phones in class, except when specifically requested by the tutor. He argues that they are a constant (and highly effective) form of distraction, and that multi-tasking interferes with learning: "Multi-taskers often think they are like gym rats, bulking up their ability to juggle tasks, when in fact they are like alcoholics, degrading their abilities through over-consumption." For myself, I did find that tweeting and reading others tweets during the session was a major distraction, and that the notes I took (I was bad and ignored his request) did capture the points I found interesting. Why didn't I tweet them instead? Because they mostly took more than 140 characters. I also wonder how appropriate Twitter is for the diagram-heavy notes that chemistry requires.
Simon did say that he used Twitter comments by students as a source to guide 'just-in-time' teaching, adapting it to their concerns and questions. He also uses a Twitter widget in their VLE (Blackboard) so that students who choose not to use Twitter can still see the tweets from other students. He encourages students to post photos of their experimental results, and they are very motivated by getting responses from around the world. There is also a #hashtagane meme…
The session then moved on to the use of screencasts (screen and voice) and compared this to lecture capture (screen, voice and video). There is plenty of evidence that students use recorded lectures for last minute revision, binge-viewing all the lectures like a HBO Box Set shortly befor exams – hardly a good use of their time! A better idea is to flip the classroom, so that students view recorded material before they come to a session that can be much more interactive because it doesn't have to transmit the content. The challenge is of course that student may come unprepared, and need to quickly learn that that is a bad idea. As Simon put it "Turning up to a flipped session is like attending a fancy dress party without dressing up, you're missing out on the experience."
Simon uses Camtasia Studio to create and edit his screencasts, and has used the advanced functionality of that application to produce 'vignettes' – a key chunk of a longer screencast that is augmented by quiz questions.These focused learning/revision resources are needless to say extremely popular with students. However, one challenge is the amount of tutor resource required to create these vignettes, and his solution is to get his undergrads to prepare and present presentations that are then recorded using Camtasia. The students are paired and allocated a revision topic. They produce a draft in PowerPoint which is reviewed by their tutor. Feedback is provided by adding narration to the PowerPoint. The drafts are also shared with their peers who give provide further feed-forward advice about how to improve them before they are presented. The recordings of the best presentations are then used as learning resources for future cohorts.
Throughout the session Simon used TurningPoint ResponseWare to gather instant feedback from the audience on the points he was making – for example "What would it take for your department to adopt some of the methods used today?" where option 1 was "An Act of God"! Handsets were available for any members of the audience who did not have a web-enabled device to hand. This worked really well, although my phone battery was getting low by the end of the session and at present this is a concern as tutors make more use of in-class mobile technologies. That said, the latest phones have a fast-charge facility where they can recharge to 50% in just 15 minutes, so this is likely to be a non-issue in a couple of years.
The final part of the talk was on the benefits of peer learning, and the use of a Student Response System such as ResponseWare to faciliate conceptual questions that really get students to engage with and discuss the subject. This is of course based on the fully researched and proven learning gains of the Peer Learning techniques developed by Professor Eric Mazur of Harvard. Simon's advice is "Don't ask recall questions in a flipped sessions; they need to be challenging and require understanding of a concept. Questions need to be in 'the Goldilocks zone' where not all students will be able to answer correctly.". He has asked students to suggest possible answers in class, typed them directly into TurningPoint and polled the cohort. This has the advantage of crowd-sourcing student misconceptions rather than trying to anticipate them. I was amused that the example question Simon used required a basic understanding of the principle of accelleration under gravity, yet the majority of a room packed with PhD-level science academics failed to get it right, even after further 'peer instruction' discussion.
So a great talk with some excellent take-home ideas, with the benefits coming from the integrated use of a range of technologies and plenty of student activity and input.
making MOOCs: Exploring Our OceansOctober 14, 2014 at 12:15 pm | Posted in Uncategorized | Leave a comment
The first in an occasional series reflecting on some of the work I have done to assist the creation of FutureLearn courses.
Exploring Our Oceans was Southampton's second course, and my contribution was to create some of the images and diagrams. One example I am really pleased with was for a step in week 2 'How much water is there on Earth?'. Learners were presented with the data they needed to calculate the answer to these three questions:
- If the global oceans were of uniform depth, what would that depth be?
- What is the ratio of the average depth of the oceans to the radius of the Earth?
- If you could take all the ocean water off the planet to form a ball of water, what would be its radius?
We knew that many learners would not have the GCSE-level maths skills required, so I produced a set of four slides (PDF) that showed the answers to these questions using visual analogies that any learner could understand. For example:
- The calculated uniform depth is 3743m, which I compared to the 3776m height of Mt. Fuji in Japan – so as deep as a mountain!
- The ratio of depth to radius is 1/1700, which I compared to a sheet of office paper wrapped around a football.
- The ball of water would be just over 1/10 of the radius of Earth, so about the same size as a pea compared to an orange.
For that final question, I also used PhotoShop to process a stock illustration from Shutterstock by Anton Balazh to show that ball of water hanging above North America and the oceans empty of water:
onlineTED pollingOctober 14, 2014 at 11:30 am | Posted in student response systems | Leave a comment
Tags: SRS, zappers
onlineTED https://onlineted.de/ is a free online polling service for educators developed by the Technical University of Munich which has over 5000 users and won an Innovations in Teaching Award 2013.
Running a poll
As a tutor, your first step is to create an account and log in. The main screen displays a large QR code that students can snap with their phones directly from the screen in the lecture hall. There is also a URL and access code for students using laptops or non-QR-enabled devices. There is no need for students to create an account; they just need to enter the access code for the poll.
As soon as tutor starts a poll, students see the answer choices (only) on their mobile devices, not the question or any media. The question, media and answer choices are all displayed on the tutor's screen, as well as the URL and access code in case students need to reconnect.
Students make their choice by touching or clicking a choice. This is immediately recorded and they cannot change their choice afterwards. The number of votes is shown at the bottom of the screen (in German, e.g. 17 Stimme)
The tutor starts a 6-second countdown, shown graphically on screen, then the results are automatically displayed as bars showing the % who voted for each option. The length of the bar is proportional and the correct answer (if there is one) is coloured green rather than blue.Tutors can run more than one poll in a session if they wish, so for example they could do a quick in-class evaluation at the end in addition to the main educational poll.
A Quick Poll feature enables tutors to quickly evaluate student opinion using the following scales:
- Nominal (yes/no/undecided)
- Ordinal (very low/low/medium/high/very high)
- Ordinal (very good/good/satisfactory/sufficient/insufficient)
- Rating (strongly agree/agree/neither agree nor disagree/disagree/strongly disagree)
Creating a poll
Tutors can log in to prepare polls for use in class. The Poll Editor starts simple; all you do is enter the poll name and a single question with up to 5 answers. One of the answers can be selected as correct and a note (not displayed in poll) added. When this is saved, you are returned to the Poll Editor screen which lists all your polls, and you need to edit the poll to add further questions. The edit screen provides many more options: add question, show statistics and print view. Each question can be edited, deleted, re-ordered, or have a single media uploaded (max. 2MB GIF, JPG, PNG, MP3 and MOV).
Viewing results
The results are of course shown on-screen in class, and the tutor can use next/previous buttons to review the responses to any question until they leave the poll. After that, they must use the Poll Editor to edit the poll to be able to view statistics. They must choose the exact time/date of their poll from a drop-down list of ALL polls by all users. They can compare results with a previous run of the poll (again chosen by exact date/time). Both these views (result and comparison) can be displayed in a print-friendly format.
This free system has many strengths; the simple interface, the ease of student access, the clear countdown and results display. The Quick Poll feature provides a simple way to quickly gain student feedback on impromptu questions. Drawbacks are that students cannot change their vote and that viewing results of a poll later involves knowing the exact date/time that it finished. Another concern is that as this free service grows in popularity, how will its developers fund its maintenance and infrastructure? One option could be for the project code to become open source, so institutions could run their own servers and join a community of developers.
Polls by BlackboardOctober 13, 2014 at 11:48 am | Posted in software, student response systems | Leave a comment
Tags: zappers
This free beta service from Blackboard Labs enables educators to create simple multiple choice questions that students can vote on in-class using any device with web access. They control the poll using a web interface and see the results of the votes in real-time.
- All users access the service via http://polls.bb/vote – there is also a dedicated iOS app.
- US users can also use SMS text messages to vote.
- Educators have to sign in with Facebook to create polls.
- Voting in a poll can be anonymous or require a Facebook login.
- The website needs you to share your location so you can join nearby polls, listed by name.
- Alternatively, you can search for polls by name.
- Questions can have between two and five answers.
- Questions can include an uploaded image.
- Answers can be rearranged by drag-and-drop.
- Questions do not have 'correct' answer indication.
The educator uses the service to create the poll questions in advance of the session, then logs in during the session to open the poll.They can select the questions in any order (or use the next/previous buttons) and must click a button to open each question and enable voting. They click again to close a question and disable further voting. The tutor display shows a pie-chart summary of the voting which updates in real time as votes come in or students change their vote. When voting on all questions is concluded, the educator clicks a button to close the poll.
Once a poll is closed it cannot be re-opened, but you can review the saved pie-chart results, which show the % of voters who chose each option. You can however duplicate a closed poll to create a new poll, make changes if needed and run that one as normal.
This service offers free basic polls that are easy to create, manage and vote on using any web device. The ability to have a question image is very useful. The requirement for tutors to log in using Facebook may be a barrier to some. Tutors may need to minimise the browser window or run the poll from a separate device if they want to keep the voting secret until the students have voted and the question is closed.
RebootOctober 13, 2014 at 11:15 am | Posted in Uncategorized, waffle | Leave a comment
Tags: ILIaD
This post should mark my return to this TELic blog after an absence of around 18 months. In the interim I have been heavily involved in the production of FutureLearn MOOCs for the University, so to start with there was lots of interesting stuff that I couldn't talk about (commercial confidentiality) and then so much to do that I simply didn't have time to post about it. There may well be some reflective catch-up posts about that experience, but for now I just want to write a few quick reviews of online 'student response systems' that facilitate in-class voting and feedback.
Oh, and the unit I belong to has transformed from CITE (Centre for Innovation in Technologies and Education) to ILIaD (Institute for Learning Innovation and Development). Onward and upward!
Different TrainsFebruary 27, 2013 at 10:53 pm | Posted in Uncategorized | 2 Comments
Tags: #edcmooc
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Different Trains is all about the widening gap between the educational experience of the rich and poor – or these days between the rich and everyone else. There is a concern that MOOCs could be seen as a viable alternative to decent funding for education, and that elite universities will essentially go private while the rest go to the wall. In the video I explore the educational journeys taken by two young people just a few years in the future – in February 2026.
Kaz is studying online to gain the qualifications he needs to gain a contract job with an online insurance business, and this involves working his way through virtual reality business simulation games in which he needs to get a good score to progress to the next level. The system provides him with personalised feedback to help him, but each level costs – so this is education by instalments.
Lucy, on the other hand, has wealthy parents and is having the 'Oxford experience' at the University of Edinburgh – so lots of personal tutorials and the opportunity to build the network of contacts that lead to a top job. As always, it is not just what you know, but who you know…
Their story is told through the phone messages they send and receive. Kaz is on his way to a face-to-face job interview (having presumably passed the online interviews) while Lucy is returning from Milan where she was fitted with cybernetic eye lens that provide access to Vir (the name in the story for the digital information space). Invented jargon is used to make the language unfamiliar – so for example HiNet means wealthy (High Net Worth) but also encompasses class distinction from LoNets – and Lucy's friends display some contempt for them. As for the hùndàn zhōngo lawyers… well, you can guess…
Technically, the entire thing was created using PowerPoint:mac 2011 and a collection of Flickr CC images. I used the animation timing to fine-tune the appearance of each message and was really pleased that it required very little fiddling to get it to match the wonderful music sevenhundredbeats by Duncan Beattie that I found on ccMixter. I recorded the video using an evaluation copy of Camtasia 2 for Mac. Overall effort was around 10 hours but quite a lot of that was spent searching for the right images and music.
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