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A few days ago, I mentioned that Michelle and I had seen an interesting piece of art at the Palazzo Strozzi, Christian Nold's "Emotion Mapping Greenwich Village", in which he'd created a mood map of Greenwich Village by hooking up perspiration sensors and a GPS to people as they walked that section of New York. I said I thought the concept was great but the aesthetic execution weak.
As if to underline the point, we saw an awesome exhibit today that showed how to do great electronic art that is really, truly art.
The pieces we saw were part of the Florence Biennale 2007, a slightly weird but vast collection of art from all over the world. The show is sponsored by the U.N., and has the artists come with three of their works, where they are displayed one next to the other next to the other in a vast, sterile feeling exhibit hall.
Most of the work was really, really good and incredibly diverse, but the puzzle was "what's in it for the artists?" Many of them sat uncomfortably in plastic chairs next to their pieces waiting to talk to anyone who came by, but, at least while we were there, there were very few attendees. As most of the artists began by asking us if we were exhibiting our work there, I got the sense it was mostly just them. It was a shame that the production value of the exhibit hall and the advertising was so below the quality of the art being displayed.
Given that there were 840 artists and over 2,500 works of art, I could go on for ages about all the different pieces we saw, but I'll try to stick the point I started on and focus on the electronic art.
There were seven pieces under the umbrella of Ars Electonica, an Austrian-based group supporting the digital arts.
The most impressive piece was Se Mi Sei Vicino ("if you are close to me"), by Sonia Cillari, Steven Pickles and Tobias Grewenig. From the blurb:
A core element of the work is a sensor floor on which a performer is standing, functioning as a human antenna; when coming close to or being touched by members of the audience, the body movements are registered as electromagnetic activity. Surrounding the floor are large projections showing real-time algorithmic organisms connected to audio compositions, which change form according to fluctuations in the electromagnetic field.
Here you can see it in action:
Beautiful, isn't it? I mean, it's one thing to rig an an electromagnetic sensor that can detect distance between bodies and render that onto a computer screen (one really big thing, honestly), but it's yet another to make it aesthetically compelling, beautiful. These guys pull it off. That it involves you, as the audience, becoming a participant is pure gold bonus.
Another "audience participation" piece was Noise and Voice by Golan Levin and Zachary Lieberman (calling themselves Tmema). Here there were two large projection screens that created visualizations based on input from two microphones. Again, what impressed me most about this one was not just seeing my voice realized in color and motion, but how attractively (and whimsically) they'd manage to render it. It's difficult to see in the (shaky) video, but the objects they create have a very warm, old time woodcut feeling to them, while at the same time moving and undulating with an authentically organic motion:
The last piece I loved mostly because of my previously mentioned fascination with sundials. Watchful Portrait by John Gerrard had two 3-D renderings of a woman's face, each rotating slowly over the course of the day to face the sun and the moon, respectively.
There were four other pieces that were all equally cool. Instead of describing them, I'll just invite you to come to Florence and check them out!
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December 6th, 2007 at 4:44 am
Firstly, I wanted to stay I've thoroughly enjoyed reading on all your myriad escapades across Europe. Jordan, love your writing style –clean, concise yet enrolling. Where you choose to pause and what you report is as poignant as it is quirky.
Secondly, you mentioned your fascination with sundials and having just come from the world's largest I thought I'd mention it: Yantra Mandir (accurate to 2 secs) is part of a celestial center called Jantar Mantar in Jaipur, Rajasthan. The brain child of one curious Maharaja , it was amazing to see the manifestation of this king's commitment to understanding movement in the heavens. I find it fascinating how light or its absence can translate space into time. The whole set-up is reminiscent of a cosmological Plato's cave, where cast shadows help discern an unfathomable reality.
Thirdly, that electronic art installation (Se Mi Sei Vicino) totally blew my mind -conceptually and aesthetically. They've given life to that sacred space that connects people. I've always regarded relationship as a kind of organism /child born of two parents, with a life and character of its own. To actually represent and animate this idea so beautifully (in real time!) was an exquisite feat. Thank-you for sharing that bit of magic.
Am in N. Thailand now (Chiang mai), enjoying the last shards of sun before heading back to T.O next week -have been gallivanting though Asia for the last 3 months. I'll be moving to NYC as of Jan 2008, so if you and Michelle are ever in the Apple, let's make pie.
Keep sending subjective postcards; they are a welcomed delight in my inbox.
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December 20th, 2007 at 11:43 pm
There is also a book related to the Yantra Mandir that was the first tread to follow and that leaded to the moment I arrived to Jaipur:
and my favourite book for some years.
Thanks for the nice reports!

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Think about how you or the people you work with approach the creation of a blended learning lesson plan. The first steps of coming up with and flushing out your initial idea. Then, scouring the web to find safe, factually accurate sites that are not blocked by your school filters and checking the fine print …
This method of teaching does require a certain amount of bravery. There is a very real chance that when a student asks you a question (How do I add media? How do I change the font? How do I import pictures? etc. etc.) you will have to say the dreaded "I don't know". But the neat thing is, your students are ok with this. You're all learning as you go. More often than not another child in the class will be using the same site or will have at least used it before. If a classmate knows the answer, they can step into the role of teacher – from which much confidence is gained and leadership skills are learned.
Even the most reserved kid really enjoys teaching their teacher a trick or two. If no one knows the answer, they can collaborate to find the solution; an activity that provides important life skills with many real-world applications. All while leaving the initiative, process development and ownership of the learning itself right where it belongs, in the hands of the learners.
Gust MEES: I started with it in 2002 already and was a pioneer in my country, BUT I got BEST results! Make sure to work TOGETHER as a TEAM with the students, learners, create ALSO some groups where the BEST work together with the weakest. YOU will love it later and YOU will miss it as it gives YOU a direct feedback of WHAT THEY learned and YOU adjust on demand and necessity... WHEN the BEST feel boring, give THEM a special task to motivate THEM ;) ===> Adjust <===.
Concerning the questions from the students, please check my advice here:
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Via Gust MEES
Ivon Prefontaine's insight:
I am not sure what is being suggested is putting students in charge. It is more about a complicated conversation between teachers and students about the subject matter. There is an in-between space where teachers and students meet.
Gust MEES's comment, May 28, 3:40 PM
@Ivon Prefontaine Hi, give me some time (???), please and I will create a blog about how I did it ages ago (2002-2003), thanks. For the moment GO for #DeepTHINKing and try to find out (paper & notes & ideas) how You could realize it with your actual #ProfessionalDevelopment, make some #Brainstorming with THE #LEARNERS in mind ;) A good exercise ;) Let me know, thanks ;)
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@Ivon Prefontaine I will take it is a priority to create THAT blog, stay tuned, please ;)
Patricia Williams: The rise in academic book bannings and firings is compounded by the US's growing disregard for scholarship itself
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Ivon Prefontaine's insight:
It is an impressive list of banned authors and books. Fear instigates this process and there is more than one way to ban books and ideas. Bosses who dictate and order their teachers is similar.
This has been happening for years.
Sharrock's curator insight, December 24, 6:50 AM
excerpt: " The court found that the content of Evans-Marshall's teachings concerned matters "of political, social or other concern to the community" and that her interest in free expression outweighed certain other interests belonging to the school "as an employer." But, fatally, the court concluded that "government employees… are not speaking as citizens for First Amendment purposes." While the sixth circuit allowed that Evans-Marshall may have been treated "shabbily", it still maintained (quoting from another opinion) that "when a teacher teaches, 'the school system does not "regulate" [that] speech as much as it hires that speech. Expression is a teacher's stock in trade, the commodity she sells to her employer in exchange for a salary.'" Thus, the court concluded, it is the "educational institution that has a right to academic freedom, not the individual teacher."
When I started writing my book on leadership, The Virgin Way, I openly admitted that I've never read a leadership advice book. However, I have picked up some useful leadership tips from some brilliant minds along the way. Here are 10 of my favourite quotes on how to be a great leader.
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Ivon Prefontaine's insight:
Grace Hopper and Lao Tzu on the same list is inspiring.
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For decades, the idea of a language instinct has dominated linguistics. It is simple, powerful and completely wrong
Ivon Prefontaine's insight:
Learning language has challenged many great minds i.e Whitehead, Derrida, Chomsky, etc. It likely will continue to do so. That is the power of questions about language.
What will make your life quest meaningful? Will peace be present? Will you have the courage to be authentic?
Via Anne Leong, Ricard Lloria
Ivon Prefontaine's insight:
Being consistent in words and actions is important. This is especially true in classrooms.
"Here are two trainable personal qualities which predict success four times more than intelligence.
"Being open to experience and conscientious is four times more important than intelligence in predicting academic success, a new research review finds.
"People who are open to experience are more likely to be imaginative, sensitive to their feelings, intellectually curious and seekers of variety.
"Conscientious people, meanwhile, are disciplined, dutiful and good at planning ahead."
Via Jim Lerman
Ivon Prefontaine's insight:
When we experience the world, we have an opportunity to be intuitive and connect with phenomena we encounter differently.
That's me in the corner. "Losing My Religion," R.E.M. The Christmas season has always been the lowest point of the year for me. It has taken years and years to figure out all the elements, and comi...
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Derrida suggested presence indicates absence exists and vice versa. The same can be said about teaching and learning. They are inextricably intertwined.
"Effects of socio-economic status on educational outcomes can be mitigated, and this can be done on a whole-school and system-wide basis by the very people and the same schools where low performance was once the norm.
Via Suvi Salo
Ivon Prefontaine's insight:
These three points seem important to the supposed turn-around:
Supporting and mentoring the principal as instructional leader by focusing on the further development of core leadership capacities, practices and competencies;Providing job-embedded professional learning for staff with a focus on improvement and enhancement of teaching and learning, including providing time for staff to learn from each other;Improving achievement outcomes for students, particularly those who do not appear to be on track to graduate.
I say supposed, because when we look inside the numbers this is not Canadian and their are communities left out. What does it mean to graduate?
Charles Jennings promotes a 70:20:10 framework for organizational learning, where on-the-job experiential/informal learning and social learning represent the preponderance of each employee's overall learning. Only 10% is from formal learning activities.
The reason this framework works is that it more or less reflects what's actually true for employees in the typical workplace. Formal education has its place in preparing people for the workplace. Once those people become employees, they have a job to get done. People aren't hired to learn, they're hired to increase productivity or capability. There are productivity expectations and organizational needs to be met.
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School is a challenging place to learn to be a teacher. We are often isolated and it is difficult to learn informally.
The concept is great and it takes effort to put it in place.
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If we are to do great things we must always be motivated to take bold risks. If you're feeling timid or uncertain, find the inspiration to do what you are meant to do
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Lao Tzu and Mark Twain begin the list.
I'm a big fan of music, and use it a lot when working, but I had no idea about how it really affects our brains and bodies. Since music is such a big part of our lives, I thought it would be interesting and useful to have a look at some of the ways we react to it without even realizing.
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Using music for learning is productive.
Free lessons and resources for teaching people's history in K-12 classrooms. For use with books by Howard Zinn and others on multicultural, women's, and labor history.
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This is an interesting site with resources.
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Here are some more links to educational articles.
This recent quote from an early PayPal exec is absurd: "If meritocracy exists anywhere on earth, it is in Silicon Valley." It's pretty common for successful people to imagine that their success is solely the result of merit. It's more...
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Humans love hierarchies and organize themselves accordingly. Jacques Ranciere wrote about the desire to create intellectual inferiority and superiority rankings which work against equality.
Inspired by questions from my last article, How Mindful Children React Different to Challenges, about how to actually teach mindfulness to kids, I'm putting out a new weekly post with FUN mindfulness exercises for the family.
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These are excellent for adults as well. Imagine sounding like a bee in the middle of a staff meeting?
23 quotes that support focusing on creativity in education.
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I enjoy a good quote and there are 23 here.
Ivon Prefontaine's insight:
There are many categories of students and learning. It is more complex than some who care and some who don't. How much do they care is important, as well. Teaching is about inviting and re-inviting students into their learning.
Our definitions of educational success vary. So too do our definitions of "character". Can you really teach something that is so individual, asks Eleanor Doughty
Via Sarantis Chelmis
Ivon Prefontaine's insight:
I think it can be learned. Teachers provide powerful role models and their behaviour is important in this learning.
Lon Woodbury's curator insight, December 23, 12:41 AM
In a day public school its difficult, and my experience is mostly with therapeutic boarding schools, created specifically for character education, emotional growth and therapy along with academics. The following links to a discussion with a head of school, Maryann Campbell of Glenholm School in Connecticut, who described several things they do that could be applied even in a public school. http://ow.ly/Gk6qJ
Through music autistic people can show their creative gifts. Performing and practice for workshops allows friendships to develop
Via Collection of First, Lon Woodbury, Suvi Salo
Ivon Prefontaine's insight:
Music provides creative spaces for all learners.
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There is a link that takes one to the original post.
"Those who implement changes in assessment, grading, professional practices and policies risk not only confrontation, but also unpopularity, social isolation, public humiliation, and ultimately, even their livelihoods."
I experienced the isolation for many years without even being aware of it. Being different in School is not a good place to be.
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". . .people who have been mentored themselves are much more likely to mentor others. In essence, a culture of mentoring becomes self-perpetuating."
Via Elaine Roberts, Ph.D
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I suspect the opening paragraph summarizes many realities. Most people want to translate "their knowledge" into some form of remuneration.
Elaine Roberts, Ph.D's curator insight, December 20, 5:23 PM
It's not just leaving a legacy, but mentoring others and ensuring that what one has learned and established is passed on to others as a foundation for continuing to build means that the organization can continue to be healthy and productive.
(Originally posted on the Edunautics blog) I've already written about one of the key paradigm shifts that I think needs to happen in education: education needs to be real. See "Online Education is ...
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Education in a sense has to do with the concept Bildung which is a forming process. We are being and becoming more skilled in the forming as we become more sensitive to the learning that is happening.
One thing I know from my work is that mindful children react differently to challenges. To show you exactly what I mean, I've created a few illustrations....
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Each time we step into new teaching and learning, we should decide what that means and who it involves.
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Insightful read on workplace learning and the training and development industry as a whole based on George Bernard Shaw's perspective.
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When we think about leadership, we tend to focus almost entirely on the leader. Yet without followers, there is no leader. Leadership is participatory: leaders and followers exist in a mutually beneficial relationship where each adds to the effectiveness of the other.
Key to this process is listening, because leadership is as much about listening as it is about talking, or perhaps more so. From the beginning, a leader must be informed by the followers' values, beliefs, and aspirations, the followers' identity. The commitment gap people frequently experience, the difference between what the leader desires and what the followers actually do, can often be traced back to not aligning the elements of leaders' and followers' identities—who they think they are—to find common ground on which to function and grow.
In an article that appeared in the August 2007 issue of Scientific American Mind, titled "The New Psychology of Leadership," authors Stephen D. Reicher, Michael J. Platow and S. Alexander Haslam present research supporting the idea that effective leaders—those who can move followers from one behavior to another—grasp what their followers believe they are and represent, and then create a shared identity. They write, "The development of a shared identity is the basis of influential and creative leadership. If you control the definition of reality, you can change the world."
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Derrida argued that absence suggests presence. Leadership suggests there are followers. If absence and presence co-exist and are somewhat interchangeable, can we say the same about leading and following?
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I've had I have trouble both connecting to my past and think about the future. I find it actually very difficult to picture what I want, dream or even hope for the next year or two or ten. Oh, there are things I would like and I'm working towards but I can't really visualize those things.
I wish I could say that this has given me a zen-like approach to life. For the most part, it has. A lot of life is just leaning back, trusting the rope and celebrating the small stuff. And a lot of the meaning I've found, I've had to work hard at but don't ask me what my five-year plan is. I can't think that far ahead!
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TURNERS FALLS, Mass. Frank C. Stratton, 86, died Thursday, March 28, 2013, at Buckley Healthcare Center in Greenfield.
He was born July 20, 1926, in Northfield, Mass., the son of Clarence and Jenny (Saxton) Stratton.
He served in the U.S. Navy during WWII.
He was a truck driver for most of his life, retiring from Wheeler Trucking Co. in Rutland, Vt.
He married the former Shirley Olsen, who predeceased him in 2005. They lived in Rutland, Vt., for many years and he moved back to Turners Falls a few years ago.
He was known in the Rutland area as Flip the Clown, appearing at many special occasions.
He raced stock cars and was an avid collector of Hess Toy Trucks and clown memorabilia. He also enjoyed woodworking.
Survivors include three daughters, Sandra Marcy of Turner Falls, Pamela Stratton of Pueblo, Colo., and Tammy Stratton Aliseo of Palenville, N.Y.; three stepdaughters, Shirley LaFountaine of Enfield, Conn., and Rita English and Mary English, both of Rutland, Vt.; and two stepsons, Roger LaFontaine of West Springfield, Mass., and Eric LaFontaine of Rutland, Vt.; 29 grandchildren; 38 great-grandchildren; and eight great-great-grandchildren. He was predeceased by a daughter, Nancy (Stratton) Williams; a stepdaughter, Brenda Welch; and two stepsons, Edward and Gary LaFontaine.
Funeral services will be Tuesday, April 2, 2013, at 11 a.m. at the Kidder Funeral Home, 1 Parker Ave., Northfield, Mass. The Rev. Charles Bordonaro, pastor of the Northfield Baptist Church, will officiate. Burial with full military honors will follow in Farms Cemetery, Northfield.
Calling hours were Monday, April 1, at the funeral home.
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Value investing guru Mario Gabelli is finding value in some intriguing areas of the market, including the auto and health and wellness industries. Gabelli tells Fox Business Network how he tries to balance long-term and short-term factors. "We try to look out over the next 10 years, what sectors will work," he says. "For example the rising middle class in India and China and what does that mean for companies like Boeing and what does it mean for global consumption and the economy. We also try to think out in the United States, health and wellness, how do we eat better? Organic, natural foods. But at the same time you've got to think about what's going to happen tomorrow. You want to be aware of the sugar high that we've had since Bernanke gave us QE2 and how does that wear off and who and what and how do we maintain that." Gabelli also talks about his bottom up investing approach, and why he thinks the beverage industry is a great place to look for opportunities.
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Top value strategist Mario Gabelli says that if he were Warren Buffett, he would be looking to purchase companies with some very specific characteristics. Gabelli tells Bloomberg that he'd target companies with "cash flow, sustainability, and a U.S. base that have global earnings power and that can index with inflation". What might such a company look like? "If you bought Heinz, you could buy a cereal manufacturer," he speculated. Gabelli also talks about Berkshire's portfolio construction, and some of its core holdings.
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PAS Awards 2014 accolades all the participants, the nominated entries and finally the winning entries that stood out for their out-standing creative and effectiveness.
From among 197 entries that participated this year, PAS Awards 2014 went out to the winners in the 27 regular categories and 4 special categories. And not forgetting the two special awards - "Campaign of the Year" and "Best Original Local Campaign".
We extend our appreciation to all our sponsors and partners who supported us throughout to make PAS Awards 2014 a success.
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"As one of the Founder Members of the PAS representing Tapal Tea Pvt Ltd , it really is very exhilarating to see how this body struggling for survival at its inception has gained the prominence that it deserves as a representative body of the Advertisers of Pakistan.
The PAS Awards 2013 is a special initiative taken by this august body amongst other initiatives to encourage, appreciate and recognize the efforts made by the advertisers to promote their Brands in a creative and distinctive manner because advertising has a responsibility of being credible. The CSR aspect of the advertising medium is also recognized.
I was involved in the process as a judge last year and I must admit that the experience was an unbelievable one because of the strictness of the criteria's on the basis of which the judgment and selection is made.
All the best to the PAS on this renewed initiative."
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"The Awards are usually given in any field for the sole purpose of encouraging the practitioners of that field to excel in their work. Advertisers expect from there consultants or team members to be creative; however, this creativity has to remain within the ambit of product brief and stated objectives and judged on the basis of achieving the stated objective. This enchained creative environment makes PAS Awards unique."
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Monday, March 5, 2012
Thank you, Diane, and congratulations on the incredible new space here. Very glamorous. Keep growing.
Thanks to Tom and to Andy, for inviting me today and congratulation on the launch of The Alliance. It's great to be with you. The Commonwealth needs your leadership and your voice.
As Diane said, I hope we can spend most of our time in conversation today; I just wanted to make a couple points to set the table around doing business here in Massachusetts.
First of all, Massachusetts is already a great place to do business. You know that. Our concentration of brainpower, our well-educated workforce, and our tradition of invention and entrepreneurship over many centuries now make us an especially attractive place for the innovation industries so critical to today's and tomorrow's economy. We are the global hub, today, of the Life Sciences and Biotech sector, with an edge in research and development and rapid growth in related pharmaceutical and medical device manufacturing. The IT sector has rebounded in really interesting and exciting ways, with an emphasis on new media, communications, robotics, and support for financial services and other industries; this whole idea of big data which is a movement, a new phenomenon really in IT, particularly around biotech and other innovation sectors are influencing the direction of IT here in Massachusetts as well. The clean tech sector has seen solar generation grow 25-fold in the last couple of years; wind generation 13-fold in the last couple of years, and jobs growing as a result at a rate of 6.7 percent last year. That rate is expected to double in 2012.
Exports are also growing nicely (up nearly 25 percent in the last two years) as our companies are increasingly opening new markets in other regions of the country and the world.
And in state government, we continue to try to do our part. We can point to legislation like the Life Sciences Initiative or the Green Communities Act, to public-private undertakings like our collaborations with the MassTech and Financial Services Leadership Councils, and to the more indirect but no less important work of expanding broadband to every region of the Commonwealth, un-served and under-served areas alike and reinvesting in transportation infrastructure and affordable housing. The trade missions matter, too, by the way, as we shift the business culture so that we are looking out, not just in.
We have cut business taxes by 16 percent, and have settled into a competitive position relative to other states in overall tax levels, right in the middle of the national pack. We have brought health insurance premiums down from an average of 16 percent increase two years ago to less than 2 percent this year. Starting this month, thanks to legislation we passed about a year ago now, small businesses will be able to obtain plans in the market for as much as 20 percent less than current rates.
What are the results?
Well Diane mentioned some of them. We've moved from 47th in the nation in job creation in 2006; to 5th in the nation today. Our economy is expanding at a good clip overall and our innovation industries in particular are booming. We are first in the Kauffman Foundation's New Economy Index. And we have come from the bottom third to sixth best state for business in America for business on the CNBC survey. Some of you have heard me say before, sixth is hard to say. First is easier to say. That is where we're going.
To get there, we will have to continue to do some of the things we have been doing already, most especially, investing money, time and imagination in education, in innovation and in infrastructure. This has been a consistent strategy and a winning one for our Commonwealth in the last several years, and we will need your help to help keep the Legislature's feet to the fire and our own to sustain those investments. That means advocating for the resources our schools and universities need, for better transportation and for public infrastructure and the like – as well as helping us move in new directions, such as how to use our community colleges and voc-tech schools as a system to better prepare people for the middle skills jobs we have today and will have tomorrow.
That also means eliminating unnecessary barriers to doing business. Now, every state has what business people call barriers or red tape. Sometimes it comes from a rule or regulation that has outlasted its usefulness. Sometimes it comes from our regulators wanting to improve on a regulatory approach in common elsewhere, making our own version unique. Sometimes it's just about a new idea being layered on top of an old one.
Every state has regulations because every state government has responsibility for governing for the public good, and regulatory power is one way that that happens. But just as state government has a duty to protect the public's interest, state government also has a duty to do so effectively and sensibly. If the role of government is to balance the business bottom line with the human, social and community bottom lines, we ought to examine from time to time that balance to see that it has been struck wisely.
That's why we cut the time that it takes to get state permits from nearly 2 years when I took office to less than 6 months today, 3 months in the case of new insurance products, and I want to thank publicly Secretary Bialecki and his team for helping to drive that. That's why we added an ombuds role in the Office of Business Development so that businesses have one stop where you can go to address all of your permitting and approvals needs.
But we need to do more.
All business is burdened when regulations are unnecessarily complex. Especially small businesses. Over 85 percent of Massachusetts businesses are small. Nearly half of all working people in the Commonwealth work in small businesses. Whether it's a biotech start-up, an insulation installer, a new media firm, a local caterer, or a "mom and pop" in your neighborhood, small businesses represent the best opportunities for the Commonwealth in the future. Our collective growth and prosperity depends on the growth and prosperity of those small businesses.
So, from now on, as a prerequisite to approving every proposed regulation, we will conduct a small business impact analysis. Business impacts will be clearly laid out and addressed during the public rulemaking process. If compliance can be made easier and cheaper, we will make it easier and cheaper. If compliance is too cumbersome or costly, relative to the benefits, the proposed regulation will not take effect.
At the same time, and in the same spirit, we will look back at existing regulations. We have launched the Commonwealth's first comprehensive, coordinated regulatory reform effort, and will ultimately review all existing regulations that have been on the books 12 years or more.
We began our first phase last October with a review of over 200 regulations representing approximately 10% of the total. Out of that pool, our staff identified 41 regulations to eliminate outright and 107 regulations to improve. And of those recommended for improvements, 25 will seek to align Massachusetts with a national model or standard that is utilized by other states, making our rules easier to understand and to comply with for businesses in interstate commerce.
The recommendations range far and wide. One recommendation seeks to replace ten separate rules for food manufacturers with a single, modernized food safety regulation – in, here's a radical idea, plain English. Another aims to simplify licensing processes for industries ranging from architecture to mental health services to child care. For example, nail salons, it turns out, used to have to close while their licenses were being transferred to new ownership; that's over now. Commercial fishermen will no longer have to measure surf clams to meet a state minimum size because the federal government has different and superseding rules.
Now, these changes may seem small to some of you, but not to the small businesses that have to deal with them. The fact is that we have taken 200 steps so far to modernize state government and improve the Commonwealth's business climate, by helping thousands of small businesses. And we aren't stopping there.
By the end of August, we expect to have reviewed 600 of these old regulations. By the end of the year, 1,000 of them. Agencies will keep working through small business impact analyses, and making changes or eliminating regulations as a result, until every old regulation has been reviewed. We invite you and all of the members of the Alliance to bring to our attention specific regulations that you feel should move up on our priority list. I am especially interested in ways that you might suggest for state government to use technology or other process improvements to make it easier to comply with those rules that remain in effect.
As I said, we can strike a better balance between protecting consumers and the environment and enabling entrepreneurs to start and grow businesses here, and government must constantly strive to do so. Recent work within the Department of Environmental Protection is a really nice example of this; some of you are personally familiar with this example.
Over the past year, DEP has done a top-to-bottom review of its regulations to reduce burdens on both businesses and the agency itself without compromising their core mission. Working hand-in-hand with both business and environmental stakeholders, DEP identified more than 20 changes to its regs and policies across the who agency.
These changes will streamline environmental permitting, such as by eliminating state permits that are of low environmental protection value or that duplicate local approvals, and by reducing barriers to environmentally beneficial projects like renewable energy projects. I want to commend the Commissioner, Commissioner Ken Kimmell and his team for their leadership on striking this better balance and I also commend those of you here who helped DEP rethink their IT systems to meet current demands and do more with less. So many stakeholders came to the table to help in a spirit of trust and pragmatism.
And let me conclude on that point. Everybody needs to pitch in. I am not interested in either the whiners or the zealots, do you understand what I'm saying? I'm interested in people who are bringing their most pragmatic, their most sensible, their most forward looking thinking to how we get this right.
On the government side, we're ready to go to work. As you see and as I've said, we are already well underway in our review process. Today I sent a video message to all state employees asking for their best ideas and encouraging them to continue their pursuit of innovation in government. We are fortunate, by the way, to have the dedication and appetite for ingenuity of so many state workers today and I look forward to working with them to improve our regulatory climate.
But government cannot and should not do this work alone. We do need you and your colleagues in the business community. Just as you have played a positive role in education reform, pension reform, transportation reform, health care reform and so many other ways, in partnership with this administration, I ask that you play a positive role now in regulatory reform. It's a little drier than the others, maybe, but it's just as important and can have just as meaningful and lasting an impact on the strength of our Commonwealth. Secretary Bialecki has appointed Assistant Secretary April Anderson Lamoureux, who is also here and many of you know, to act as the point person for business. I hope you will connect with April to share your perspective on what we can do to make Massachusetts the best state in the nation in which to do business.
Remember what I said: 6th: too hard to say. First: easier to say. And working together, that's where we're going.
Thank you all for having me.


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Only God should be feared.Submitted by David Infinger on Sun, 07/28/2013 - 20:55
When we think about what we should fear, it is only God that comes to my mind. He is by all accounts the only one that can destroy both our body and condemn our soul to a endless time away from his presence. His grace has sustained our forefathers and his power has given us the strength to resist evil.
Now we are set upon once again by another despot who believes he has the authority to kill us and get away with it. No one with an IQ over room temperature is not now aware that America has gone rogue. She is like a speeding train rolling down the mountain side with no engineer guiding her. Only God almighty can save this lost Country.
But be of good cheer, because we are living in exciting times. It will be what we do or don't do for that matter which will be written about in the history books. In the not to distant future, we will be known by our works, not our words. Only the fool will miss out on this opportunity to make a difference in history. We are by no means the first to face these challenges nor will be be the last, but for the first time in our life we, those of us who are awaken realize how important each and every one of us are.
I for one hope that I am up to do my part. Our neighbors are waking up by the minute and our leaders which we have elected are realizing that they are not fooling the general public any more. They have put into place a system of government that will shield them from those who they were elected to represent. As it has always happened, devils have reached for the levers of power to control their fellow man, but why should we fear these demons when we have God on our side.
Now some of you may be an atheist or a Deist and that of course is your choice but as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord and trust in him. "But we will also resist evil with every breath in our body." We will look on high to Him who gives us life and restores our soul. This is once again another time in history where evil will not prevail and good will rise up to save our most precious Country.
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If there were no GOD, man would have to create one.
Fear = respect
One of the older meanings of fear is respect or reverence. Generally in the Bible, when the fear of God is mentioned, it is referring to this respect or reverence for God, not "being afraid" of God. Luther used the phrase "we should fear and love God" many times in his writings, and he was saying we should respect and love God (above all things). God hates sin, not the sinner. Because of my faith in God and his plan of salvation, I have no reason to be afraid of God. But should I lose my faith and turn on God, I will suffer the consequences of sin, eternal death.
Please, don't bother to argue this with me because you won't change my mind. Besides, I'm not particularly fond of religious discourse on a political website. It is what it is. God's plan of salvation is offered to all, free of charge. You have the free will to take it or leave it. I'm not going to force it on you.
I John 4:18
'There is no fear in love; but perfect love casts out fear, because fear involves punishment, and the one who fears is not perfected in love.'
Because God is Love, as He draws people to Him, such fears will be dissolved -- but not the reverence, which is a different kind of 'fear', as you said.
It would be a whole long discussion which you probably wouldn't want to have here, but I am more optimistic about even those who will face the second death. I believe God's Love is bigger even than that and will never give up until every lost sheep is found. Even if the sentence is eternal (debatable about what the Greek 'aionion' means there), He who holds the keys to hell would yet have the authority to commute such sentence. Otherwise sin and evil is merely swept under the rug and contained, not really dealt with, for most of Creation. I can't see a loving God just throwing up His hands and saying 'oh well' at that point.
The presence of God will be a fearsome thing for those who have tried their best to put up barriers between Him and themselves. Our God is 'a consuming fire.' But when the Truth is revealed, and a prodigal cries out with longing to be restored to Love and grows to hate that which has led them away from Light and Love, I believe they will then see that the purifying 'fire' of justice (however that will be made manifest to each individual) is actually healing mercy which refuses to abandon them until they are restored and reconciled. I don't believe in punishment just for the sake of punishment -- restorative justice, not just retributive.
With that view, I don't embrace the Gospel so much out of fear of hell, as out of a desire not to grieve the heart of the Good Shepherd, Whose Love for us is undying and unquenchable.
You don't have free will.
Prove it.
The Granger said:
"It's more like, as a believer, which I am, ... miracles happen. Had one just last night, and to top it off, this magnet appears, "Miracles Happen". I was like "Wow!" THANK YOU GOD!"
This is what i have a big problem with...Why would God spend precious time out of his BUSY, BUSY schedule to send a butterfly to land on someone's nose? Or to help The Granger find a magnet?
If "God" was sending these little "miracles" at me I'd be like "Whoa, God. Priorities bro, why don't you put that effort into something more useful? Like, I don't know, feeding some starving kids in Africa or stopping apartheid? Preventing WW3?" But no. He spends "his" time performing little "miracles" for The Granger
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God should be feared? God
God should be feared?
God should be fired.
All the answers for this earth are in knowing the orion nebula.
All the truths of christianity are borrowed from ancient times, far out dating what you think was only written 2 to 6 thousand years ago.
Christianity as you and most on here know it, is meant for one thing only. Control. Alright, two things. Add money to that.
The one and only one way to ever know the truth is to go across cultures. From the oldest times possible. And guess where they all point to? Orion. Even the bible is full of astrology. You just don't know it yet.
I respect my Creator but I fear no man made god. You fear a man made god. You just don't know it yet.
Fear who, what??
Which one do I fear Yahveh, Allah, Shiva, Xabalanque, Quetzaecoatl, Anu, Yeshua a messiah, Yhi, Brahman, Anataboga, Tekkeitsertok, Wendego, Apotemkin, Loki, Abellio, Jupiter, Bunyip, Ogmios, Abassi, Abzu, or anyone of the 2870 official supernatural somethings recorded around the world as deities?
I'm confused and do not know which one to listen to, and as I sit here and ponder this dread I am supposed to feel I decided to not bother.
Why bother with waiting for a directive from some invisible being residing somewhere in the sky to communicate with me by what, mental telepathy? Why should I wait for this communication to happen as this ethereal something has no substance and is invisible so it cannot speak to me, nor can it have a brain with which to telecommunicate with me. I'd rather watch a good documentary, drama, or comedy on TV.
There's more substance.
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I prefer to love God and to fear (some) men.
I prefer to love God rather than to fear Him.
On the other hand, I certainly fear the hidden agendas of men who either want to destroy God by making illegal the positive idea I can have of Him, and/or, also usually soon thereafter, to replace Him by making themselves the new organizers of Humanity and Nature.
Or also, men who claim to speak on his behalf, too; another gross trick similar to the former.
Either way, "because all of the above know better", of course.
I don't fear men who have nothing to say about Him when they don't have faith otherwise.
Sure, YMMV.
"Cyril" pronounced "see real". I code stuff.
"To study and not think is a waste. To think and not study is dangerous." -- Confucius
Fear? What is there to be afraid of?
Death is what people fear, not God. Why in the world does anybody need to fear God? The only reason people believe that they will be punished by God in the afterlife is because they were told to believe it. We are supposed to be afraid? That sounds so silly to me. So many people refer to God as "He." God is not a man. God is presumed to be understood by men. The fact that so many personify God with human qualities is an indication of their lack of knowledge about the spiritual nature of being alive. God is so complex that any attempt to say one completely understands is full of it. Just full of it! It is beyond our complete understanding, although this doesn't stop authority figures and institutions from demanding they have a true understanding of it. We should humble ourselves.
Everybody, including you, is going to die someday. That is what people fear. We are going to die. We don't fear God, we fear death!
"There is only one God and his name is Death. And there is only one thing we say to Death...
I don't like the thought to
I don't like the thought to live in fear of your deity but I am not one to say you can't do so if its your wish. My believes are very similar to Taoism, I see our lives as a journey.
The journey of our lives are very varying some long and always changing others short and one way. On our path we will encounter others walking similar and different paths, hinders, diversion and stops, we will all make choices that affects it. But one thing is true for all journeys it has a start and an end.
Some paths are chosen by the one who travels it some paths are just followed, others are laid by other travellers to make their own path easier and then there are those who help others by removing their bumps and hinders.
You should not need to live in fear, everyone reaches the end of his or her path at some point. What happens after we don't know for sure, but living in a constant fear hinders your path. It's better to take a path that gets you to where you want to be even if it shortens your journey than to walk a long path that gets you nowhere.
Some say Good and Evil, right and wrong, I say travel your path as you want to travel it. Always focus on what's ahead until you reach the end and do not dwell on the past other than to learn from mistakes made.
When you reach the end it is the memories of the journey you took that will be your greatest treasure, not your money in the bank nor the number of possessions you've managed to accumulate. Thus be happy on you journey, make others happy and you will be happy too. A simple smile is often all it takes.
I Fear This Guy
"The fear of Yahweh is the beginning of wisdom"
Good post but I would like to critique some points.
God does not destroy the body and condemn the "soul" to an endless time away from him or an eternal existence in a burning hell, He destroys them both. Mat_10:28 says: "And fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell."
You say that only "God Almighty" can save this country" and you are right but He is not interested in saving this country because this country, from the majority of it's citizens to the highest government office, is at enmity to Him. Without repentance there is no salvation.
I wouldn't be to worried about history books since they will all be destroyed in the end. The only book we should be interested in is the Book of Life. We should endeavor to righteousness so that our names will be written within.
You say we are not the first to face these challenges and we wont be the last. I hope and pray that you are wrong. I pray that His kingdom will come and put an end to mans wayward rule over other men and the righteous will live in His Kingdom forever.
God is only on our side if we obey Him. We may resist evil but God is the authority over what constitutes evil and some evil is easily identified but rejection of His law is the most damning evil. As much as we hate the obvious evil that surrounds us which we identify by our physical discomfort it is spiritual evil within that we must repent of and seek lawfulness in order to find favor in His eyes.
Lastly and again. This country is not precious in God's eye because it is not lawful and never has been Scripturally. This country is no more special than Russia or Italy or any other country no matter how much "man" tries to convince himself it is. God is not in the nation building business any more and we will all be judged individually regardless of national affiliation.
True believers should not be worried about propping up what ever country they live in. It is His Kingdom that we should desire and if that is not the desire of our heart then our desire is misplaced.
"Only God almighty can save this lost Country." ???
That is the ultimate cop out. So, unless you can get yourself to believe certain inherently improbable propositions, you must abandon all hope. Its learned helplessness. The exact opposite of individual responsibility.
You can sit back and do nothing but have "faith" that "God" will save this country. All the while it will be the duty of those of us who have evolved beyond the need for an invisible playmate in the sky to actually do something to effect change.
I am reminded by a book that
I am reminded of a book that I read many years ago which said we perceive.5 things in life, seeing, smelling, tasting, hearing, feeling. This is why most atheist do not believe in God, because they say, "you can't see Him, you can't touch Him, you can't hear Him and you can't taste Him, and you can't smell Him, it is their right, and no one has a right to judge an atheist except God almighty.
But most Christians live in a world that not only do they perceive these five things but are also conscious of things. These things that we're conscious of are love, joy, happiness, being content, feeling sorrowful,and feeling anger. Even though none of these things can be perceived, they still exist as objects in our life. So too is God felt in a Christian's life. He can't touch God with his hand, nor can he see His face when he wakes up, or hear His voice when he goes out of his house nor smell His fragrance when he sits down, but he is conscious of Him just like he is conscious of gravity. He doesn't see the force pull down the object but he is conscious of it.
You have chosen to believe that it will be you and your actions that will turn the tide. But remember this, we are all but specs of sand on the seashore and without the help of "Almighty God," our battle will be lost. I never one time in my letter above said that I planned on sitting on my hands and do nothing. Christians have fought for freedom for this Country and it was Christians who were the ones that gave us a Constitution, not atheist. Name one atheist who ever held the levers of power that led a nation that you would want to live under. I think you would be hard pressed to find one. Even Thomas Paine, who became a Deist after many pastors in churches across this land refused to revolt against King George still believed in God. He never became so naive as to think that man came from a spec of bacteria, and from there evolved into some sort of simian which allowed him one day to climb down out of a tree and become Tarzan.
Because the belief that man came from an ape is as silly as believing that Tarzan was raised by an Ape. The educated man will always go with a world which was developed by law, order and design, and no right thinking man would ever believe that our planets just happened to fall just far enough away from the sun to sustain life and the rotation of our planet is in such a way that it promotes life and sustains it with its seasons. Or having a moon just far enough away from the earth to bring our tides in and out. And I could give you countless reasons of why it is much more probable there is a God but in your heart, you have chosen to be your own God but it is my belief that a man who has God on his side will always be more dangerous to evil than a man who believes that morality is neither Holy nor virtuous. Well if God does not exist, then why do you take the pains of living a good life? What makes you want to continue to do good? What drives you to do good? Is it because you're a good man, or is it because something was put into you by your creator which makes you yearn to be good.
Men with the ability to think, realize that the probability of there not being a God is far less than the probability that there is a God. There are only so many times you can roll seven before you realize that the dice are either loaded or someone else is making the dice hit seven. One need only to study, "Discrete Probability Distributions," to realize that you have a better chance of rolling seven on an unloaded set of dice ten thousand times in a row, than God not existing. He made this World and all that is in it, "to believe anything else is just plain foolish."
I believe "insane" is that
I believe "insane" is that missing 6th sense you're looking for.
Jesus kicks ass
If I believed in gods I would be terrified. They are usually the unliving embodiment of every base impulse in the human heart.
I tire easily these days, particularly when I hear theists clucking about gods' blessings that THEY managed to survive some horrific disaster, as if god chose THEM over thousands of other innocents. When they start blaming oh mighty allah for all the banes of the world in addition to the boons, I will try to take them a little more seriously.
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Never understood...
Never understood why he should be feared. I thought the message is one of love & understanding, goodwill, etc...
"One resists the invasion of armies; one does not resist the invasion of ideas" Victor Hugo
I'll tell you why
The message is love, mercy, forgiveness, peace. To fear God, is to fear losing love, mercy, forgiveness and peace
Fear of the loss of something great - is that it?
"One resists the invasion of armies; one does not resist the invasion of ideas" Victor Hugo
It's more like, as a believer, which I am, ... miracles happen. Had one just last night, and to top it off, this magnet appears, "Miracles Happen". I was like "Wow!" THANK YOU GOD!
So, when one has found a path (God's will- Be NOT afraid) where life is wonderful, as my life is wonderful, good, wholesome. I have so many blessings to count, the things that are not so nice that happen, when friends turn against you, it doesn't hurt. Where in the past, I would have been devastated, cried, moped, given my soul to be in their good graces, to feel THEIR love, to be needed by them, and to do for them, just so they would approve of me. I would have every excuse to serve them, above myself. I would fear them hurting my love for them.
So when GOD becomes that ONE, that significant other, and you have a real relationship, serendipity, miracles, wonderful things happening, and when you feel not so good about, "the world", instead of being upset and angry, or twisted, a clam serenity, I don't know how to put it into words. But it's like I KNOW; everything is going to be OK.
So my "fear of God", is to act in such a way, to lose hope, trust, faith, that this wonderful life would end, and I would be miserable, no matter how much money. For I have been happy living with nothing. It's KNOWING I'm going to be OK. Fearing God is to have doubt, harbor and act on hate, vengefulness, spite, and not giving a damn about God, myself, my life or anyone else.
Only if you were lucky enough
Only if you were lucky enough to pick the right religeon pal. The rest of you poor bastards are going to learn the meaning of fear in a trillion year barbeque where YOU and everyone you love is on the menu!
Should have been a Jewmormonistian Witness. I keep telling you people. The Supreme Master of the Multiverse has been trying to tell you since the day you were born out of sheer boundless love, but in your evil, you purposfully block HIM out because you want to throw yourself into Hell. I really pity all you poor suckers and will pray for you, especially when im basking in perfect bliss with all my favorite celeberties and pets in Heaven. *snicker*
I realize you were telling a
I realize you were telling a funny but you may be onto something. Most people do have the mindset that God is some man in the sky who you can ignore, that was your message, was it not? When almighty God brought his only son down to earth to save it, and people snicker about him, that my friend is when it is time to fear God. The Bible says, " God is not mocked." I for one believe that verse.
That was not exactly what I
That was not exactly what I was trying to say... no. What I was trying to say is that there is nothing worse on the planet than some self-satisfied shitbag who smuggly thinks that dispite having no moral/intellectual/behavioral advantages over his fellow humans, he is somehow going to be the recipient of cosmic bliss while everyone else gets tortured forever based wholly on the fact that he selected his particular inane superstition to believe in.
The idea that most religeous people have that you will be judged based on what you beleived in rather than your actions is vexing to say the least. I don't personally believe you will be "judged" by anyone save your fellow humans and yourself as you lay dying and reflecting on how you lived your life. That said, if I was going to believe in fantasy super-powered wizards/kings with amazing powers, I would at least amend my psychosis to include a behavior clause to the heaven/hell contract.
Afterall, why would the cosmic overlord want to surround himself with a bunch of sniveling yes-men who never questioned authority or altered their behavior as requested; but instead felt content to appologise to their pillow every night for doing all the same stuff everyone else does... as if this was enough to placate the highest level diety in our multiverse?
But then, if I was going to engage in that sort of delusion, i'd probably go for a REAL God, like Thor. Excuse me but ill take the brawling, drunken mead hall in the sky brimming with scantaly attired valkyrie babes over the dull, boring golden city filled with boot-licking chaste suck-ups and halo-wearing, dickless werebirds any day of the week.
Valhalla rocks!
To each their own!
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Thank you... Ill be here all
Thank you... Ill be here all week.


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Did Wharton see benefits in 1979 when the Penn men made the F4?
Can some of these students who cared enough about basketball to let it influence their application choices tutor men's players to up their chances of graduation?


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