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After nearly a decade in career limbo, Miguel finally broke through in 2012, quickly becoming a go-to collaborator in the worlds of R&B and Hip-Hop, due in part to the commercial and critical success of his album Kaleidoscope Dream. Throughout his career, the San Pedro, Los Angeles native has collaborated with the likes of Janelle Monae, Big Sean, Talib Kweli, DJ Drama, Rick Ross, Pusha T, Curren$y, Nas, Swizz Beatz, Paul Oakenfield, Asher Roth, Johnson & Johnson, Blu, Esthero and more. Most recently, he accompanied Drake, Future and Jhene Aiko on the "Would You Like A" tour and was arrested and hit with a DUI charge in L.A. Also, he'll be performing at the 56th Annual GRAMMY Awards alongside Macklemore, Robin Thicke, T.I. and more. (He describes his music as fly, funkadelic, intergalactic-hip-hop-meets-sexy-orgasmic crazy, dope shit, by the way.)
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first exposure to a rigorous defense of liberty was in The Cato
Journal, published by the Cato Institute. I came across it almost
by accident in the journals section of my college library, and there
found an article advocating the abandonment of public education.
Nearly a decade later, I found an
issue devoted to the legacy of Mises and Hayek, which aroused
curiosity leading me to the Mises
Institute and eventually to LewRockwell.com.
I continue to read Cato's Daily Commentaries and Daily Dispatches,
which have nearly always supported liberty and (to repeat myself)
opposed war.
Cato's Response to 9-11
September 11, however, the Cato Institute has given a rousing endorsement
of the administration's war on terrorism. Many of the commentaries
do, of course, suggest restraint in
different areas (controlling the symptoms of the war). But the
call to war is unmistakable. One of the early Daily Commentaries
simply assumed, without analysis, that "military
action is the appropriate response." Another early comment stated
that waging war "is
entirely justified," although the "war" spoken of was that against
the terrorists involved. Then appeared a Commentary equating warfare
with wealth (later followed by one stating that military
action increases stock prices). Then, still early on, David
Boaz set the tone for the future, denigrating those who dissent
from President Bush's fight as enemies
of market freedom. Mr. Boaz' commentary was interesting. He
praised Bill and Hillary Clinton for their patriotism, then desperately
attempted to categorize every enemy of war as an enemy of "progress
and pluralism, tolerance and freedom." His first target was Jerry
Falwell, for daring to suggest that God might not protect a wicked,
godless people. (Boaz edits "abortionists" out of Falwell's comments
to suit his point.) Falwell is then lumped in with Bush haters,
flag haters, and market haters, all of whom supposedly blame America
for the attacks out of a Puritan envy of pleasure, and none of whom
address the American evil most obviously linked to terrorism: our
government's conduct in the Middle East. Rather than address this
argument, Mr. Boaz prefers simply to join Bush in calling America
"good" and terrorists "evil."
now we know the ethical philosophy of the Cato Institute: when our
enemy is indisputably evil, we can deflect without analysis the
question of our own evil. This is, apparently, a philosophy much
more suited to our times than one now two millennia old. Matt. 7:1-5;
Matt. 19:17.
taken up the cause of warfare, Cato did not look back. Gary Dempsey
took the war cry to its extreme, arguing that terrorists should
not be tried, but should be treated as illegal combatants "subject
to summary execution upon detection." The closest support which
I have been able to find for this proposition is that illegal combatants
are subject to "targeting" just as any other combatant (and thus
lose the protections of their apparent civilian status), that captured
or surrendered illegal combatants lose prisoner of war status (and
thus can be prosecuted under local law), and that illegal combatants
can be prosecuted for war crimes. I have found nothing to support
"summary execution upon detection" of those not in combat when encountered,
though I am open to correction if in error.
from positive law to legal theory, the only strain in liberal theory
which could support "summary execution upon detection" would be
anarchy. Anarchy would (under most constructions) uphold the individual's
right to be a judge in his own cause without granting him immunity
for making an erroneous judgment. Every theory of anarchy which
I have seen, however, also recognizes that making every man a judge
of his own cause creates such a threat of error and retaliation
that most will seek public legitimacy through some adjudication
generally accepted as reliable. In addition, the possibility of
error raises not just a utilitarian justification for public legitimacy,
but also a moral element: it is not just dangerous, but immoral
to take the life, liberty and property of the innocent. The power
to judge is not license to judge carelessly.
the government the power of summary execution adds the additional
likelihood that the conduct of the executioner will be attributed
to the governed by those threatened with summary execution, or by
the heirs of those summarily executed. If a power which endangers
innocents both foreign and domestic is to be employed, the government
should at a minimum support its claim by "let[ting]
Facts be submitted to a candid world." No facts, of course,
have been forthcoming.
President Bush moderated Mr. Dempsey's "summary execution" approach
by providing at least the show of a military tribunal before execution.
(Another Cato writer later
objected to the domestic use of military tribunals.)
J. Michaels then claimed that our allies should drop their Kyoto
demands because (of all reasons) it hampers the government's ability
to pollute during wartime. He then assured our green allies that
it will be OK, since the war will leave the world with even bigger
governments, which they can use to make life even worse than under
Kyoto (he really
says this!).
Boaz then returned to the fray, arguing that all true libertarians
must support
the war. He supported, among other questionable objectives,
the removal of the Taliban from power, now accomplished.
Three Historical "Catos"
for the Institute's name is the pen name adopted by John Trenchard
and Thomas Gordon, who wrote the libertarian Cato
Letters in the early 1720s. Trenchard and Gordon were in
turn inspired by the Roman statesman Cato the Younger and his opposition
to the same evils which they saw in the administration of Robert
Walpole: bribery and corruption. Colonial American political thought
was strongly inspired by the Cato Letters, to the point that
Americans considered them "the most authoritative statement of the
nature of political liberty." Bernard Bailyn, The Ideological Origins
of the American Revolution 36 (1992).
Since 9-11, however, the Cato Institute has assumed the position
of another historical Cato: Cato the Elder, also known as Cato the
Censor. Cato the Elder had developed a passionate hatred for Carthage
(there was apparently much to detest), Rome's enemy in two prior
wars. For the last seven or eight years of his life, Cato the Elder
ended every speech with the words: Delenda est Carthago ("Carthage
must be destroyed"). Cato the Elder was posthumously rewarded for
his persistence by the Third Punic War, in which Rome destroyed
Carthage and spread salt over the ruins. Now that today's Rome is
completing the destruction of today's Carthage, let it likewise
be remembered that this is Cato's war.
11, 2001
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This Article applies the method of text and principle to an important problem in constitutional interpretation: the constitutional legitimacy of the modern regulatory state and its expansive definition of federal commerce power. Some originalists argue that the modern state cannot be justified, while others accept existing precedents as a "pragmatic exception" to originalism. Nonoriginalists, in turn, point to these difficulties as a refutation of originalist premises.
Wasting the Corporate Waste Doctrine: How the Doctrine Can Provide a Viable Solution in Controlling Excessive Executive Compensation
In the midst of the global recession of the late 2000s, there was an outcry against corporate executives and what the public deemed to be their excessive compensation. Although this anger is still featured in today's headlines, it is nothing new. In fact, excessive executive compensation complaints arose when the very concept of a corporation was still new. Most of the complaints that the public has leveled have had little effect on boards of directors' decisions. Occasionally, however, the outcry is so great that the public compels a company's leadership to take action. This happened early in 2009 when American International Group ("AIG") stated that it was paying its top executives $165 million in bonuses. Within days, AIG, a company most Americans had not heard of, was at the center of the excessive compensation debate. Under enormous political and public pressure, fifteen of the top twenty AIG executives agreed to give back their bonuses. This compromise is not typical, however; for every AIG-type controversy, many other payment plans some consider excessive are never publicly discussed. Both private and public proposals are currently under consideration that will limit excessive executive compensation in one way or another. This Note contends that the already existing corporate waste doctrine can serve as a preferable alternative to legislative or executive actions. While the corporate waste doctrine is rarely used by plaintiffs, it could be effectively enforced by using a legislative tool, the say-on-pay provision, as a gatekeeper for the courts. This judicial solution using a legislative act would allow those who are actually affected by the excessive compensation-the shareholders-to pursue effective legal action against the corporation. The corporate waste doctrine would be enforced more narrowly than a statutory scheme, avoiding the possible unintended consequences of a broadly applicable legislative or regulatory action.


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France's Hadopi finally punishes someone for infringement -- a guy whom everyone agrees isn't an infringer
19 Responses to "France's Hadopi finally punishes someone for infringement -- a guy whom everyone agrees isn't an infringer"
I take your gun and rob a bank. Its you that does the time. Same logic.
More like, I take your gun & then I don't actually rob anyone because copyright infringement isn't theft, & then you get punished.
George: They can't convict a husband and wife for the same crime!
Michael: Yeah, that's not true. At all.
George: …I have the worst f—ing attorneys.
These "you're responsible for what happens on your internet connection, even if the actual guilty party has stepped forwards" laws don't go nearly far enough. How about:
• You get caught drunk driving, but you borrowed your friend's car, so they get their licence suspended and criminal charges brought against them.
• You get caught robbing a bank, so the bank manager gets arrested.
• You get caught committing any crime on public property, the chief of police is prosecuted.
• You get caught committing any crime in France and the prime minister and his entire cabinet are sent to the guillotine.
The world will be safe soon enough.
The first one has almost certainly happened somewhere. It just fits the profile of many "justice" systems perfectly. Somebody has to be penalized.
I remember something like this:
Guy gets busted for drunk driving. Cop decides to be nice and say if someone can come drive his car home he will let him go without arrest. Friend comes, drives friend home or toward home and at some point gives the keys back to the drunk guy, who then drives and kills some people and himself, I think.
Or you won't have any cars, banks, police chiefs or prime-ministers.
OK. Sorry. As you were.
Living off the grid is so difficult for so many now that the threat of losing access to it is digitally akin to throwing a person outside the city gates into the wilderness to forage.
One who can't live outside of it would certainly pay any amount to avoid that fate – hence the extortion possibilities for cash strapped governments. Pay for the privilege of your own surveillance!
Pay for the privilege of your own surveillance!
Bra-zeeeel …
"a guy whom anyone agrees isn't an infringer" – shouldn't it be "who", not "whom"? "Guy" is a subject of "guy isn't an infringer".
"Whom" is the object of "agree".
Don't forget the program cost 11 million Euros.
Just 73,000 more hackers punished and we'll be there!
The program cost 11 million Euros… per year
I am outraged! Only 150 euro for the infringement?! That's pocket change…France should be more strict like the US and ask 15,000+ per infringement. We need to teach these freeloaders that crime doesn't pay!
But that'd take the estimate of revenue lost to the content owner from trillions into the quadrillions. Not to mention the job losses into the millions.
You wouldn't happen to work for the MPAA would you?
Of course not. I work for creative america and strive to make as much money as possible for our exec…I mean artists as possible.
I was honestly surprised that the fine was only 150 based on all the ridiculous rulings in the US. 8m not saying that 150 is acceptable. I would prefer the whole hadopi thing to disappear. Like an above poster had said only 70000 more convictions of innocent people to break even…
Maybe it's low because los poderosos realise most people will be able to afford 'small' fines. If the fine's too big then the state – i.e. the taxpayers – will just end up paying it on the transgressor's behalf.
Am I the only one reading "HADOPI" in Ken's voice?
This Hadopi thing is becoming even more ridiculous


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One of the best things about having been a part of a number of Internet Marketing communities (in particular the Immediate Edge and Thirty Day Challenge) and making some talented friends and acquaintances along the way, is that I have the opportunity occasionally to Beta test cool new tools.
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English spoken, friendly staff will assist you in where to visit and how to get there.
Airport pick up available on request
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On Third Rd. coming from Central Pattaya Rd., Soi Lenkee is the second on the right after X-Zyte disco.
Motorbike taxi from bus station will cost about 60 B.
- Address:
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A/C restaurant and bar open 24 Hours,wide screen TV, pool Table.
Near entertainment, shopping and beach.
Daytime activities can be arranged, from Golfing, Fishing, Visiting Tropical Gardens with Elephant show, Crocodile Farm, Tiger Zoo, Ripleys believe it or not complex
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- If at all suspicious of fraud, ask to see their website, or any other literature they can provide or send to you. Ask them for contact details for guests who have previously stayed on their property insisting on telephone numbers. Be suspicious of emails that originate from free email services (yahoo, hotmail, gmail, etc)
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[1]The grabber dropped the victim's wallet and his own black "A's" hat in the tussle. Deputies retrieved video and secured digital photographs of the perp: a white male, approximately 6 feet tall, mid to late 20`s, with scraggly facial hair, navy blue sweat shirt, blue jeans, and Van`s type black shoes. Seen him? Call 996-3601.
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Rep. Bruce Braley (D-IA) announced he will introduce "the most comprehensive overhaul of the nation's school bus safety system in over 15 years" to address illegal passing incidents, students struck by their own school buses, driver training, lap/shoulder seat belts and federal grant programs to assist school districts.
On his Facebook page Thursday, Braley posted: "For many schoolchildren, their safety is more at risk coming and going from school than in the classroom or on the playground. That's why today I introduced the School Bus Safety Act, the most comprehensive overhaul of the nation's school bus safety system in over 15 years."
The legislation has yet to be filed as it must first be officially introduced on the House floor. A spokesman for Braley's office said that won't take place until Congress is back in session later this month.
Braley's bill is considered aggressive because it encompasses five provisions, including another attempt at passing a federal law requiring states to enforce school bus passing laws and to match the penalties Iowa implemented for violations. Kadyn's Law in Iowa mandates that first offenders face fines of at least $250 and the possibility of jail time of up to 30 days. For a second offense within five years, fines would range from between $315 and $1,875 with up to one year of jail time. The law there was passed in 2012 in response to the death of Kadyn Halvorsen, a 7-year-old girl who was struck by a motorist while attempting to cross the street to her waiting school bus, which was stopped with its federally mandated stop arm extended and its eight-way flashing lights engaged.
Braley said that the fine for illegally passing a school bus is as low as $30 per offense in some states.
In 2012 Braley also introduced a federal Kadyn's Act, but the bill did not advance in the House. As with the last iteration, the new School Bus Safety Act would require the U.S. Department of Transportation to withhold 10 percent of a state's share of the federal highway safety fund apportionment for failure to enact legislation in compliance with Kadyn's Act.
The Act would also direct the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration to assess using technology to get drivers to stop for school buses. For example, Braley said studying how a particular lighting system might help prevent motorists from illegally passing stopped buses. This could also help with the situation that led to the death of Kadyn Halverson in Iowa – utilizing technology that can get people to slow down and stop, in addition to increased penalties.
The new legislation also targets a reduction of student deaths resulting from being struck by their own school bus. It would also allow the Department of Transportation to provide state grants to equip school buses with motion-activated dection systems using radio or radar waves that would alert drivers with an audible tone to the presence of a pedestrian anywhere around the bus "danger zone" prior to pulling away from a stop. States would also be required to submit a report to the Department of Transportation that provides data on the effectiveness of the motion detectors, including whether or not the systems prevented children from being hit by a school bus and a cost analysis of using these systems.
Another requirement of Braley's legislation would require all states to perform background checks on school bus drivers. While many states already have requirements in place for fingerprinting new driver applicants, for example, he pointed out that Iowa enacted its law in 2012. And some states are still operating without this requirement. States would be required to implement standards similar to Iowa or lose 10 percent of their federal highway safety funds.
The bill would require the U.S. Department of Transportation to create a "School Bus Seat Belt Demonstration Program." It would allow states to apply for funding to purchase new school buses with lap/shoulder seat belts or to equip current ones with the three-point restraints, which would mean retrofitting the buses.


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ENGL 450 7-12 Teaching Reading in the Content Area
Instructor Information
|Dr. Nancy G. Moose
|Office location:
|111 Beadle Hall
Course Information
|Course title:
|7 - 12 Teaching Reading in the Content Area
|Course number:
|Course discipline:
|Course description:
|Introduction to the teaching of reading skills in all academic areas in secondary education. This course is required for South Dakota secondary teaching certification, and it cannot be counted toward an English major, minor, or specialization.
|227 Beadle Hall
|Meeting day(s):
|Meeting time(s):
|Admission to Teacher Education
|Additional Information
|ENGL 450 stresses the competencies needed by secondary teachers to help them teach their own students how to read and think more efficiently. The course will concentrate on the concepts and strategies in the text, though some time will be spent on the practical application of them. Students will teach actual reading assignments as they would teach in their own discipline.
|The special value of this class is that the skills and knowledge you learn in this class can be used in your student teaching experience. Besides learning the basic concepts of teaching reading, you can pick up some very specific and practical strategies for your classroom teaching as both intern and as a practicing professional.
Course Objectives and Assessment Criteria
Course Goals
|Students completing this course will: 1) Describe the process by which individuals acquire, understand, and use both oral and written communication · Assessment: Paper One; Essay Exam 2) Demonstrate the knowledge of the processes by which one learns to read and write, including vocabulary development, word recognition, interpretative comprehension, and applications in English a. by explaining and defining the principles of the reading process; b. by describing the inextricable role of reading in creating independent and creative thinkers; c. by describing and applying techniques for extending and reinforcing vocabulary. d. by describing assessment strategies of reading and learning. · Assessment: Paper One, Essay Exam 3) Describe approaches to assessment, interpretation, and diagnosis of students' reading and listening abilities (decoding) · Assessment: Paper Four; Essay Exam 4) Develop the ability to apply teaching strategies to specific needs; a. by practicing reading strategies that will help them become independent readers themselves and, consequently, more apt to teach and model these strategies in their classrooms; b. by defining the reading process well enough to apply strategies at the pre-reading, during-reading, and post-reading stages; c. by describing the application of reading and discussion strategies; d. by describing teaching strategies and attitudes that exemplify the principles outlined in the course. · Assessment: Paper Four; Paper Five; Essay Exam 5) Clarify the role of teachers in the specific reading demands of their discipline. · Assessment: Paper Two, Paper Four; Essay Exam 6) Reflect on their own reading habits and attitudes and how they will influence their teaching styles. · Assessment: Paper One; Paper Six 7) Describe the interrelatedness of all four language aspects (speaking, listening, writing, and reading) in learning. · Assessment: Essay Exam 8) Define meta-cognitive processes and recognize the application to reading and thinking. · Assessment: Essay Exam 9) Describe the relationship of the teacher, text, and students in a classroom learning situation. · Assessment: Paper Five; Essay Exam 10) Describe a process for evaluating instruction. · Assessment: Paper Four; Paper Five; Essay Exam 11) Describe a simple process for improving reading rate. · Assessment: Essay Exam; 12) Describe and use processes for building background knowledge (Schema) · Assessment: Paper Five; Essay Exam 13) Define and exemplify the levels of comprehension · Assessment: Essay Exam 14) Recognize and use text organization as a meta-cognitive process. · Assessment: In-Class Presentation; Essay Exam 15) Define and apply the principles of unifying high-level and low-level abstraction in reading and writing. · Assessment: Paper Four; Paper Five; Essay Exam 16) Describe and apply techniques of writing that enhance reading, i.e. thinking creatively. · Assessment: All papers; Essay Exams 17) Define and practice the requisites of good discussion in both small group and large group learning. · Assessment: Essay Exam; In-Class Presentation 18) Recognize and reflect on the diversity of learning styles and the special problems of coping with special needs of minority students. · Assessment: Essay Exam
Writing Intensive Goal
Student Learning Outcomes:
Students will refine their understanding and practice of reading and writing as integral parts of researching, learning, discussing, and presenting academic material.
As a result of taking courses meeting this goal, students will:
1. Read extensively and respond critically in written discourse, e.g. do significant outside reading with corresponding writing assignments;
· Assessment Criteria: Students will complete 11 essay exams.
2. Use writing to learn course content by practicing writing as an integral, on-going part of the course and applying writing conventions of appropriate style manuals (MLA, APA, Chicago),
· Assessment Criteria: Students will complete six 3 to 5 page papers and one short paper.
|ADA Accommodations
Additional information:
|If you have a documented disability and/or anticipate needing accommodations (e.g., non-standard note taking, test modifications) in this course, please arrange to meet with the instructor. Also, please contact Dakota State University's ADA coordinator, Keith Bundy in the Student Development Office located in the Trojan Center Underground or at 256-5121, as soon as possible. The DSU website containing additional information, along with the form to request accommodations is http://www.departments.dsu.edu/disability_services/. You will need to provide documentation of your disability. The ADA coordinator must confirm the need for accommodations before officially authorizing them.
Participation and Attendance
|Participation and attendance are required. It is especially important that students keep up with assigned work. Lack of participation in this class reflects badly on your decision to be an educator, and will also affect your grade. Each absence will cause you to lose 20% of your participation grade.
Use of Tablets in the Classroom
|The Tablet PC platform has been adopted across the DSU campus for all students and faculty, and tablet usage has been integrated into all DSU classes to enhance the learning environment. Tablet usage for course-related activities, note taking, and research is allowed and encouraged by DSU instructors. However, inappropriate and distracting use will not be tolerated in the classroom. Instructors set policy for individual classes and are responsible for informing students of class-specific expectations relative to Tablet PC usage. Failure to follow the instructor's guidelines will hinder academic performance and may lead to disciplinary actions. Continued abuse may lead to increased tablet restrictions for the entire class. Because tablet technology is an integral part of this course, it is the student's responsibility to ensure that his/her Tablet PC is operational prior to the beginning of each class period.
Content Reading and Literacy: Succeeding in Today's Diverse Classrooms, Donna E. Alvermann and Stephen F. Phelps, Allyn and Bacon, 5th Edition; 2007, ISBN: 0-205-48938-9
Prentice Hall Reference Guide, Muriel Harris, Prentice Hall; Custom 6th Edition for DSU; ISBN: 0-536-06188-2
Instructional Methodologies
|The major method of instruction will be class discussion and writing.
|You will sometimes be part of small group discussion in preparation for large group discussion. Since discussion techniques are one way to improve reading, we shall try to practice what we preach. You shall be asked to write throughout the course. The major impact of lecture in this course will be my attempt to prepare you for the actual reading. Since one of the major goals of all teaching is to make students independent, we shall again try to practice what we preach. I will also use lecture to clarify and amplify important ideas and concepts throughout the course. I hope, in that sense, to model the way I want you to teach. What we need to learn is that students need to be prepared to read; they must, in fact, learn to read by using tested principles in reading research.
|Grading Scale:
|Grading Percentages:
|The student's grade will be determined in the following manner: Chapter essay exams 35% Participation 20% Miscellaneous quizzes and activities 10% Six papers 35% Total 100%
Required Papers and Inventory
|Write a three-page paper examining their attitudes toward reading in school and reflection on how they were taught. (PAPER ONE) Write a three-page paper analyzing and evaluating two college teachers' teaching practices in aiding students to process text. (PAPER TWO) Locate resources on reading research in professional journals and write three analysis/reaction papers (one to two pages each), one of which may be used to lead a class discussion as part of a small group project. (PAPER THREE) Interview two high school or middle school teachers about what they do to help students read text. Write a two to three page paper analyzing and evaluating the teacher's techniques and practices. (PAPER FOUR) Observe 20 public school class hours in their discipline and write, in a three to five page paper, an analysis and evaluation (based on the information in our textbook) of the teacher's use of reading/learning strategies and the students' reaction to them. In addition, describe and evaluate the two reading lessons that you taught. (PAPER FIVE) Write a three to five-page reflective essay in which they describe how their attitudes toward and understanding of reading have changed during the course (this includes outside readings). (PAPER SIX) Take the Nelson/Denny Reading Test to understand the rationale and uses of a standardized reading test.
Paper Requirements
|Please format your papers and tests using one inch margins and double space all of your work. Use 12pt. Times New Roman font. Please use APA guidelines for citing your sources.
Course Outline
|Tentative Schedule:
|Week Assignment Week 1 Introduction--Preview Chapter One Chapter One Week 2 Finish Chapter One; begin Chapter Two Paper One due Chapter Two Finish Chapter Two; begin Chapter Three Week 3 Chapter Three Finish Chapter Three Paper Two due Test over Chapters One, Two, and Three Week 4 Begin Chapter Four Chapter Four Finish Chapter Four; begin Chapter Five Week 5 Chapter Five Take Nelson-Denny Exam Finish Chapter Five; begin Chapter Six Week 6 Chapter Six Finish Chapter Six; Test over Chapters Four, Five and Six Week 7 Begin Chapter Seven Chapter Seven Finish Chapter Seven; begin Chapter Eight Week 8 Chapter Eight Paper Four due Finish Chapter Eight; begin Chapter Nine Week 9 Chapter Nine Finish Chapter Nine Test over Chapters Seven, Eight, and Nine Week10 Level III Observations Level III Observations Level III Observations Week 11 Level III Observations Level III Observations Level III Observations Week 12 Level III Observations Level III Observations Level III Observations Week 13 Begin Chapter Ten Chapter Ten Paper Five due Finish Chapter Ten; begin Chapter Eleven Week 14 Chapter Eleven Finish Chapter Eleven; begin Chapter Twelve Chapter Twelve; begin Chapter Thirteen Week 15 Chapter Thirteen Finish Chapter Thirteen Test over Chapters Ten, Eleven, Twelve, and Thirteen Week 15 Final Exam: 10:10-12:10 Paper Six due
Freedom in Learning
|Students are responsible for learning the content of any course of study in which they are enrolled. Under Board of Regents and University policy, student academic performance shall be evaluated solely on an academic basis and students should be free to take reasoned exception to the data or views offered in any course of study. It has always been the policy of Dakota State University to allow students to appeal the decisions of faculty, administrative, and staff members and the decisions of institutional committees. Students who believe that an academic evaluation is unrelated to academic standards but is related instead to judgment of their personal opinion or conduct should contact the dean of the college which offers the class to initiate a review of the evaluation.
Academic Honesty
|Just so that we have no misunderstandings about the consequences of cheating, I want you to know that I shall give a failing grade to anyone whom I catch cheating on tests. I will also give failing marks to anyone who hands in papers that are plagiarized, and the student's name will be forwarded to DSU's Academic Integrity Board. Again, since you are entering the field of education, your conduct in class is an important indicator of your future success in the field of teaching. Most students are honest and wouldn't cheat. But there are always a few who try, for whatever reason, and I shall deal severely with them. DSU's policy on academic integrity (DSU Policy 04-05-00)is available online at http://www.departments.dsu.edu/hr/newsite/policies/040500.htm


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The Science of Making Your Story Memorable
Feb 25, 2014
General Nonsense
When I created a
Slideshare preview
of my book
How to Fail...
I worked with Dr. Carmen Simon at
Rexi Media
to get the slides just right, from a design and message standpoint, but also from a cognitive science perspective. I thought my blog readers would enjoy a peek under the hood to see what techniques we used. This is useful stuff.
Dr. Simon explained to me that it helps to think of your presentation in terms of these three elements.
Drilling deeper, all three elements can be activated by emotions. And all three elements can be influenced by automatic or deliberate factors.
Automatic factors (examples)
A shiny object grabs your attention reflexively
The sight of a red apple reminds you of a friend's cheeks
After a sleep-deprived night, you decide to eat a donut even though you're on a diet
Deliberate factors (the stuff you care and think about)
What you want out of life
What you expect to see or hear
What you already know
Now let's see how the science is applied to my slide show titled
Passion is Overrated and Goals Are for Losers.
To get attention, your material must stand out in some way (e.g. through color, size, location, etc.)
The color palette for my slides (grayscale - including white - accentuated with red) puts emotionally powerful colors in stark contrast. Red has a deep psychological impact: It makes breathing harder, quickens the heart, and demands attention. The lack of competing color "noise" makes the color contrast more attention-grabbing.
The first slide in the deck is the most important for drawing-in viewers. We had a powerful color palette, but we also needed a title that grabs attention. Dr. Simon says the four title approaches that do this well are:
Promise a story
Promise a reward
Provoke curiosity
Evoke concern
My slideshow's title "
Passion Is Overrated and Goals Are for Losers
provokes curiosity while evoking concern that one might have been doing things wrong until now.
We know from cognitive neuroscience that attention is rooted in emotion. So words that carry a strong emotional load (e.g. "overrated" and "losers") grab attention. Putting all of that together, on the very first slide we have powerful color contrast, curiosity, a reason for concern, and two emotion-charged words.
Balance Recognition and Surprise
Cognitive neuroscience nerds tell us that
attention can be thought of as a clash between an object and its environment
. One of Rexi Media's insights, based on research, is that any time you want an audience's attention, serve up something viewers expect
something they did
expect. In other words, you want a balanced combination of
recognition and surprise
. In my slide show, widely-recognized Warren Buffet has Einstein's hair, and Mark Zuckerberg has a Zorro mask.
The Benefits of Being Unclear
Conventional wisdom says that your slides need to be as clear as possible. This is not always the case. Research shows that when stimulation is degraded in some way, attention and recall are higher. For example, if I show you a word that is faded out, the cognitive strain in comprehending it leads to
attention and therefore better recall because "I made you look." Rexi Media applied this approach in several slides in my presentation. For instance, the phrase "terrible sound bite" is not written in a way that is easily digested. You have to strain a bit, and linger longer, giving it extra attention. This is not a practice you would repeat on all slides in a presentation. Use it only on a few phrases you consider important.
Violate a Pattern
One of the ways to get attention and re-energize the brain is to break a pattern that people have learned to expect. After the reader's brain gets habituated in my slides, the pattern is intentionally violated.
One of the reasons people don't pay attention to slides after a while is because they are too predictable. From an evolutionary standpoint, if we think we know what happens next, and everything is safe, we are better served by putting our attention elsewhere.
Rexi Media advises presentation designers to look at their slides in the view shown below (slide sorter view), because it tells you instantly two important things: Do you have a pattern and do you break it? The former is critical because sometimes slide designers fall into the other extreme where there is NO pattern. The brain needs sameness in order to detect the
One way to break a pattern is by moving from slides that are visually intense to slides that are visually simple. Or you could move from a pattern of seriousness to something humorous. Or you could move from something appropriate for your audience to something inappropriate (e.g., the "bull$#!%" slide). All these switches guard against habituation and serve to refresh the viewer's attention.
Audience Engagement
Audience engagement is a great way to solidify memories. But how do you create audience engagement when you're not presenting the material in person? For my slideshow, we created engagement in two ways:
1. By not making everything so obvious (i.e. giving people the joy of "getting it")
2. By inserting rhetorical questions. The latter works because every time you ask a question, even if it is rhetorical, the brain is mandated to answer. Do you think that's true? (See what I did there?)
This slide combines the joy of "getting it" (when you realize which movie the graphics come from) and the power of a rhetorical question.
If we were to ask people which slide was more memorable from the deck, many would quote this slide because of its powerful combination of psychological elements.
If you want your audience to make some sort of decision, you need motivational drivers. In my slideshow, Rexi Media made sure I used two.
Principle of Reciprocity
Humans are social animals. When someone gives you a gift, it activates in you an automatic impulse to reciprocate. Salespeople have been using this concept forever. The approach works in presentations as well.
My slideshow has both entertainment and informational value. I put a lot of work into it and provided it to you for free.
Social Proof
We are more likely to act if we see that people who are like us have acted. That concept is embedded in the testimonials about the book in the end. (The 5-star reviews on Amazon.com have the same effect.)
I don't have a way of measuring how much the methods described here boosted views of my slides. There's no control on this experiment. But we can compare my slide show to a promotional video for the same book that I made at about the same time. The video was designed to be entertaining but it didn't employ this level of cognitive science. At this writing, the slide show has about 50% more views than the straightforward video.
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To be fair, there are plenty of reasons that can account for the difference in number of views. The video was probably too long and that crimps the viral potential. It required sound, which is bad for office viewing. And it was more commercially "needy" in its design. But it also came first, and one would expect some audience fatigue on the topic of my book by the time the slideshow came out. You can think of a dozen other factors in play as well.
That said, cognitive science would predict that the slide show would get more views than the straight-forward video approach. And it did, by far.
If you want to see more examples of Rexi Media's slide designs, here's a
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recently, using different slides from the ones in the Slideshare deck. Backstage, the question I heard most often was "Who designed your slides? They're incredible." And that was from the people who do this work for a living. When I asked what they liked about the slides, no one could put a finger on it. Unlike you, they didn't get to look under the hood to see the design science.
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Feb 26, 2014
I have done two slide shows so far and each made an impact. One was about how to avoid eye injuries, the other how to avoid hernias. I showed lots of cautionary medical pictures of actual injuries. Several people had to leave the room. I would have preferred positive reinforcement but people surely seemed to work more safely after that. I used the same gross-out method instructors used in Drivers Ed classes when they showed pictures of car accident victims. Part of the reason I am like this is from 25 plus years of reading Dilbert cartoons. Thanks, Scott.
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How did you get a "peak under the hood"? What kind of peak - mountain peak, ice cream peak, peak performance, etc.?
I pretty much lost interest in the rest of the presentation still thinking about the peak.
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Feb 26, 2014
When I went through the slides, starting at slide nr 3, my bulls*** meter starting ringing.
That's largely due to the fact that I just don't agree with the message, and once you realize something you're reading doesn't add up in your mind, everything sounds like its coming from an obnoxious salesman. That being said, I still went through every last slide. You'd think that once you discover that you don't agree, you'd have to be mad to keep reading. Yet, there was just something strangely enticing about the slides. My bulls*** meter kept ringing, and I kept going.
It surprises me that the techniques you listed above were _that_ effective.
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Feb 26, 2014
Cognitive appeal has a smaller timeline than actual experience.
Management is still not such an exciting life science for the regimented worker.
It's only as interesting as a piece of daily news. (Like, wait for something new tomorrow or find something else.)
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I watched the speech to IBM, fascinating. Just examples that resonated: after lazy winter period, out of the blue I downloaded exercise videos and went for a jog to mine own surprise (and delight). I recall now that I have put on my gym trousers that morning for I had nothing else to wear at home. As for noticing more things when one feels lucky - Derren Brown's "The Secret of Luck" (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O4mN33w5Ftw) - a nice experiment by Scott's "colleague" hypnotist.
And I will definitely go to the interview with KPMG for a position I don't want. Just after I go to amazon to order "how to Fail.. [...]".
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Feb 26, 2014
Brilliant Scott. Many thanks for this.
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Feb 26, 2014
Good stuff, Scott, thanks for freely sharing!
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