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Boiling the backchannel1 October 2013
I enjoy attending conferences.
Unfortunately I don't attend as many as I'd like because so many of them are prohibitively expensive, are beyond my travel budget, or demand too much time out of the office.
Whenever I do attend, however, I enjoy hearing and seeing what other people have to say and show, because they validate my own ideas, introduce new ideas, and spark tangential ideas. I also like meeting new people in the industry and re-connecting with those whom I already know.
Another aspect of conferences that I enjoy is the real-time chat on Twitter – aka the "backchannel". When I'm not at the conference, the backchannel clues me in to the key learnings; when I am at the conference, I can peruse the observations of my fellow audience members and share my own. It's also a great way of putting a face to a name to facilitate the aforementioned networking.
Of course, healthy backchannel activity is in the interests of the conference organiser too. While it may seem counterintuitive, loads of attendees sharing their observations with the Twittersphere for free won't discourage other people from attending (as the backchannel is inevitably an inferior substitute for the real thing). On the contrary, the backchannel is a vehicle for precious WOM that can raise awareness of the event among the Twitterati and – if it sounds appealing enough – encourage them to attend next time.
So I see heating up the backchannel as a critical aspect of the conference organiser's role. Here are my suggestions for getting it to boil…
1. Inform everyone of the official hashtag.
If you don't, your audience will splinter and they will use various permutations of acronyms and digits which will then dilute the conversation.
So tell everyone up front what the official hashtag is. Even better, include it on your marketing material to get the conversation going before Day 1.
2. Explicitly invite the audience to tweet.
Not only does this give many in the audience the moral authority they seek, but it also reminds those who might otherwise have forgotten.
3. Provide free Wi-Fi.
I realise this might be pricey, but if you want your audience to use the Internet, this is a big juicy carrot.
And if you do offer free Wi-Fi, for crying out loud inform everyone of the access details.
4. Host a charging kiosk.
Even the most ardent of tweeters can't do much with a dead device.
5. Inform the audience of the presenter's handle.
Tweeters like quoting the presenter, but they're less likely to do so if he or she isn't on Twitter. Even if they are on Twitter, the search function is so awful that it can be difficult to find them.
Putting the presenter's handle on the last slide is comically late. Put it on the first slide instead, and in the official program too.
6. Resist dressing mutton up as lamb.
I'm constantly amazed by the number of presenters who try to pass off a product flog as a pedagogical exposition. I'm not so much amazed by the fact that they try it on, but that they think we're dumb enough to fall for it.
Conference organisers need to know that any self-respecting Tweeter will withhold social mention of this imposture in protest.
So change its title to reflect what it really is: a product demonstration. Plenty of people will want to see that, and they'll tweet about it in kind.
7. Join in.
The conference organiser should actively participate in the backchannel too.
Favouriting and re-tweeting others is a nice way of acknowledging their contributions (and motivating them to continue), while tweeting your own observations keeps the activity humming during flat periods.
Adding extra hashtags (eg #edtech, #gamification, #mobile) will also extend your reach.
So if you're a conference organiser, I hope my suggestions help you improve the experience for your attendees and promote your event to potential newcomers.
And if you have a free ticket to give away, I'll tweet up a storm!
Categories: event management, social media
Tags: augmented conference, backchannel, conference, event management, hashtag, live tweeting, marketing, mobile, social media, social media marketing, tips, Twitter, Wi-Fi, WOM
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Is the pedagogy of MOOCs flawed?26 August 2013
This is a question that I tackle in my Udemy course The Wide World of MOOCs.
Almost immediately after I uploaded this preview to YouTube, someone on Twitter
politely challenged me.
She took umbrage to my assertion that MOOCs are pedagogically richer than "regular" online courses.
Her counter argument was that the pedagogical devices that I cited – readings, online discussion forums, social media groups and local meetups – are the same learning and teaching functionalities available in any LMS.
While this claim is partly true, I wish to share with you my [elaborated] defence of my initial assertion. Why? Because I think it's important to hear all POVs, and I'd like to know whether you agree…
Right off the bat, I don't believe that all the pedagogical devices that I cited are available in any LMS. They may be available in many LMSs, but certainly not all of them. Moreover, although an organisation may have a subscription to an LMS that offers these devices, it may not have them activated.
That of course is not to say that the e-learning designer is prevented from using these devices; for example, he or she might leverage other non-LMS technology within the organisation or in the cloud. However, in my experience and in conversations with others, it is clear that they often don't.
Again, that's not to say that no e-learning designers integrate devices such as online discussions and social media groups into their LMS-hosted courses, but even if they do, the target audience tends not to play ball. How to encourage active participation on social platforms is a hot topic in the L&D sphere, and there is no easy answer because it's a question of organisational culture which can't be "fixed" over night.
As for local meetups, in all my years I have never seen this offered in a regular online course!
MOOCs, on the other hand, are the polar opposite. All of the MOOCs I have experienced include readings, online discussion forums, social media groups and local meetups. And the participants do participate. Sure, that's to be expected given the massive scale of MOOCs, but that doesn't make it any less true.
Case in point, the University of Edinburgh's E-learning and Digital Cultures MOOC is one of the best online courses I have ever experienced. While it had its fair share of pro's and cons, it was a hell of a lot richer than the boring page turners that too many among us have learned to associate with "e-learning".
And there was no LMS in sight.
Categories: instructional design
Tags: #edcmooc, culture, e-learning, E-learning and Digital Cultures, elearning, instructional design, learning management system, LMS, meetups, MOOCs, organisational culture, organizational culture, participation, participatory culture, pedagogy, social learning, social media, The Wide World of MOOCs
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Porn, weed and fireworks29 October 2012
Last weekend I was privileged to contribute to the Human Brochure – a world first initiative by Australian Capital Tourism to promote the nation's capital city, Canberra.
When I told my friends that I was going down to Canberra for the weekend, they invariably asked: "Why..?"
You see, Canberra has a reputation among Australians as being boring. As the home of yawners such as Parliament and the High Court, Canberra is associated with porky politicians and pompous legal types.
Paradoxically, Canberra is also notorious well-known for its sale of X-rated erotica, its decriminalisation of cannabis, and its availability of pyrotechnics. Yep, our very own Amsterdam.
But like most places where people haven't actually been, its reputation is about 20 years out of date.
And the Human Brochure set out to prove it.
The idea of the Human Brochure was to invite 250 social media-savvy people to Canberra; feed them; shelter them; and cart them around to several major tourist attractions. In return, we were asked to "spread the word online" about "all the great things" we got up to.
I joined the Arts & Culture stream. We were treated to national treasures such as the Australian War Memorial, the National Museum of Australia, the National Film and Sound Archive, the Australian National Botanic Gardens and Canberra Glassworks – not to mention lunch at Two Before Ten, dinner at Mezzalira and z's at the Diamant Hotel.
That may sound excessive (and yes, we were spoiled out of our minds) but it all boils down to how much you value word-of-mouth marketing. The point of the exercise was for us to share our thoughts, opinions and experiences with our followers on Twitter, Facebook, Pinterest and Instagram.
Sure, Australian Capital Tourism could have pumped the money into yet another traditional advertising campaign, but we all know how they've been tracking. Instead, they tapped into the power of personal influence.
Here are a few of my tweets…
One of a fine collection of old fighter planes @AWMemorial #HumanBrochure twitpic.com/b7mylc—
Ryan Tracey (@ryantracey) October 26, 2012
A real convict shirt from 1820 @Nat_Museum_Aust #HumanBrochure twitpic.com/b7o6nu—
Ryan Tracey (@ryantracey) October 27, 2012
Walkman eat your heart out. Here's a portable record player from the '60s @NFSAonline #HumanBrochure twitpic.com/b7qnjf—
Ryan Tracey (@ryantracey) October 27, 2012
The @ANBG contains a third of all known Australian plant species. #HumanBrochure twitpic.com/b806t3—
Ryan Tracey (@ryantracey) October 28, 2012
Glass making demo at the Canberra Glassworks #HumanBrochure twitpic.com/b81aae—
Ryan Tracey (@ryantracey) October 28, 2012
I was mindful not to sound like an over zealous salesman. I endeavoured to present only genuine thoughts and share only real experiences. Luckily that was easy to do because I thoroughly enjoyed just about everything!
I did provide some constructive feedback to the National Museum (it conspicuously omits Parramatta, one of Australia's most important historical places), and I suggested the NFSA play more of its precious footage to visitors (they have since pointed me to their excellent YouTube channel).
But miniscule gripes aside, I expect the Human Brochure will prove to be a roaring success. Not only was the glory of Canberra amplified throughout the social media metasphere, but the initiative itself was the subject of interstate media attention.
Time will tell whether ROI is achieved. My prediction is that other tourism boards will copy the Human Brochure concept, and that will be the ultimate endorsement.
Regardless, I can say hand on heart, I had a wonderful time in Canberra.
Even without the porn, weed and fireworks.
Categories: digital influence, innovation, social media
Tags: #HumanBrochure, ACT, advertising, Australian Capital Territory, Australian Capital Tourism, Australian National Botanic Gardens, Australian War Memorial, Canberra, Canberra Glassworks, Diamant Hotel, digital influence, Facebook, facebook marketing, Human Brochure, influence, innovation, Instagram, Internet, marketing, Mezzalira, mobile telepresence, National Film and Sound Archive, National Museum of Australia, online marketing, Parramatta, Pinterest, social business, social media, social media marketing, tourism, Twitter, Two Before Ten, Visit Canberra, why social media, WOM, word-of-mouth
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I've been bot-bombed!3 September 2012
Just as I was getting excited about reaching the 2,000 follower milestone on Twitter, I suddenly jumped to 26,000 followers.
No. I'm not that popular.
Smelling a giant stinking rat, I perused my follower list and saw that I was being followed by the likes of @TAKAKOD8STIN and @ELKEg00CALL. Brilliant.
I was afraid this might happen one day. You spend years earning a genuine, mutually respectful following, diligently weeding out the free iPad merchants and the curiously single bikini models, only to be bot-bombed overnight and your follower metric to become instantly meaningless.
Why did it happen? I do not know.
Maybe someone didn't appreciate my social commentary. For example, I recently wondered whether Julian Assange would start publishing Ecuador's diplomatic cables. Did a WikiLeaks fanboi take offence? Unlikely.
Another lead stemmed from Twitter itself. When I looked up the profiles of the phony followers, @DoctorKarl, @mariekehardy and @774melbourne were suggested as being "similar" to the bots. Did I upset Auntie ABC? Hardly.
Conspiracy theories aside, the only rational explanation I can think of is that someone, somewhere purchased a batch of followers, and they were mistakenly assigned to me.
Well, despite 26K looking mighty attractive, I had no intention of leaving it that way. To do so would not just be misleading, but also a bit sad.
But how does one shed so many followers?
The best free tool I could find was TwitBlock which analyses your followers and lists those which it thinks are junk (according to certain criteria). This is great, except it maxes out at 3,000 followers and you have to block them one by one. It also continues to scan your followers while you're trying to to block them, which means the list is constantly shuffling. Very annoying!
I asked the developer of TwitBlock if he might add check boxes to facilitate mass blocking, but he politely declined on the basis that it would encourage thoughtless blocking. I found this understandable, yet my problem persisted.
The best premium tool I could find was Tweepi which enables you to do a range of follower management tasks. Tweepi only lists a maximum of 100 followers per page, and you can't select all of them in one go via the top level checkbox (which they blame on Twitter's terms of service), but I discovered a neat trick with the shift key that made "forced unfollowing" a hell of a lot quicker.
Having said that, you'll notice I haven't gotten very far.
One of my friends, @ainsliehunter, suggested I grab a nice red, spend a night in front of the TV and cull away. I've been doing just that – in addition to squeezing in some opportunistic blocking while on the wrong end of endless dial-in meetings.
If you have a better suggestion, please let me know…!
Categories: social media, Twitter
Tags: block, bot, bot bomb, bulk block, follower management, followers, mass block, popularity, social media, spam, spambot, tool, Tweepi, TwitBlock, Twitter
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Everyone is an SME20 August 2012
One of the recurring themes on my blog is a call for Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) to share their knowledge with the wider organisation.
In my view, this isn't just an expectation: it's an obligation. Organisations whose people embrace collaboration will prosper, while those who don't will be left behind.
While the stereotype of an SME is a Sheldon-like character with superhuman intellect, the convenient truth is that we're regular folk.
Of course the level of expertise in a particular domain will vary across a population, and the label of "expert" will naturally be assigned to those who have the most. However, it would be a folly to assume that the eggheads are the only ones who have anything to contribute.
You see, everyone is an expert in something. When humans work in a domain day in, day out, they familiarise themselves with it; they grow to understand its subtleties; they think up ideas to improve it; and they recognise the difference between business reality and academic fallacy when other people talk about it.
So while they might not be experts in the entire domain, they will be experts in parts thereof.
Take Sam for example. He's an administrator in the back office of a financial services organisation.
He's no expert in superannuation, but he sure knows how to process a unit switch – even complicated ones. He processes dozens of them every day.
So when you need someone to record a unit switching tutorial, who you gonna call? It sure as hell won't be Carl the CFP, or Mary the MBA, or anyone else with an acronym after their name. It will be Sam, the unit switching expert.
When we view the concept of subject matter expertise through this lens, we realise our roles as learning professionals need to change:
- We need to stop deifying the few. This creates an "us & them" mentality which – even if affectionate – discourages the participation of the mortals.
- We need to empower the many to share their expertise. In the modern workplace, this will involve social technology.
- We need to cultivate a participatory culture. The best technology in the world is useless in an organisation with inhibitive policies and attitudes. Tools are meant to be used.
So unless they are doe-eyed novices, all the employees in your organisation have knowledge and skills to share. And if they don't or won't, let them find alternative employment with your competitors.
Categories: collaboration
Tags: collaboration, enterprise 2.0, expert, expertise, knowledge sharing, organisational culture, organizational culture, participatory culture, role, SME, social business, social learning, social media, subject matter expert, subject matter expertise
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How social are our intranets?30 July 2012
I tailed my previous blog post with the question:
What is the SII of your organisation's intranet?
By "SII" I mean Social Intranet Index – a metric I have proposed to measure the degree of social functionality afforded by the platform. From 1 through to 10, the SII represents an increasing level of sociability.
I posed this question to 23 intranet managers from around the world, and they kindly rated their respective platforms against a 10-point likert scale. The results are displayed in the following graph.
Graph 1. The current distribution of Social Intranet Indices across 23 organisations
I also asked the respondents to rate what they thought the SII of their organisation's intranet would be in 12 months' time. These results are displayed in the next graph.
Graph 2. The future distribution of Social Intranet Indices across 23 organisations
While my sample size is no doubt too small to indicate statistical significance across the wider population, simple observation suggests the following:
We expect our intranets to become more social than they are today.
As you can see in the first graph, the ratings are quite spread out across the scale (x̄=5.1 σ=3.3). In other words, the level of social functionality is variable among our different intranets. Plenty of us are still using the platform as a broadcast medium, while others have added social elements.
As you can see in the second graph, however, the ratings shift noticeably to the right (x̄=7.5 σ=2.4). In other words, we expect the level of social functionality to increase over the short term. Whether we are planning, hoping or praying for this to happen, plenty of us think that in a year's time our intranets will be personalised and our target audiences will be producing the content.
As an e-learning professional with a passion for peer-to-peer knowledge sharing, I hope we realise this future state sooner rather than later.
Categories: enterprise 2.0, intranets, social media
Tags: collaboration, enterprise 2.0, intranet, intranet manager, knowledge sharing, SII, social business, social intranet, Social Intranet Index, social media
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Well done! Nice to have the choice of jobs but in the end you must pick the one best suited to your skills and with the best prospects for the future!
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Well done! Nice to have the choice of jobs but in the end you must pick the one best suited to your skills and with the best prospects for the future!
congrats and all....
pity you can't have a mix of the two, A sounds an interesting job, but they're not using Proper Mailservers, whereas B hints at travel to exotic locations.
decisions, decisions. :)
Well done matey. What a choice you have, including the other school that makes 3 :D
As the others have said only you really knows which job is right for you. But i'm sure you'll be happy in whichever job you choose.
Yay, well done! :D
Congrats. Do the FCO have a site near MK or will you have to relocate and become a Metro Geek?
They have a site just outside MK in the middle of the countryside as well as their large presence in London.
Tis very much like my days at HSBC where we worked in tellytubbyland [Google Earth S75 3DJ - you can't see it very well, but there are large green pipes sticking up out of the ground and there were rabbits on the landscaped grass!].
Fortunately for me, it's very close to where I live and means that I will be able to get there within 20 minutes of a morning. I shall become an expert at dodging pheasants on the backroads though!
Congrats IG, I am sure which / what ever you choose you will enjoy it, I must admit I love the fact I am so close to work, makes me think twice bout changing jobs, do i really want say a 1hr commute to work instead of 20 mins, but do whats best for you, your future and family.
Congratulations! :D
I hope you're still going to be updating your blog! :P Its a great read and you really do portray your NM as a complete idiot! But then he's a Liverpool fan so what do you expect! <me>runs and hides</me> :)
It must be so satisfying to know that you no longer have to work with him! ;)
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If you knock Liverpool there is nowhere that you would be able to hide where we couldn't find you ...
After all ... we are Geeks ... we run the world you know!!!
To be fair however, I've been to Liverpool a few times (to see friends) and found it to be a top place with the friendliest people I've ever met! Its a Capital of Culture and all that too! (Is that enough to escape being hunted down!?) :twisted:
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Well of course I will update my blog, it may change it's title somewhat but I'm sure there are as many numpties in the FCO as there are in schools(!). I'm sure the NM will plague me like a bad smell for the first few months that I'm gone... I expect a phonecall at least every day........ :roll:
It is satisfying to know that I'll be getting out... problem I have now is that the security clearance could take a few months... so I'll be around for that bit longer.
Well CM786 I'd agree with you that his failings point to his choice of football team, but then I'm just as bad (we have had some arguments over the year, I can tell you), what with being a Gooner 'n all that *runs & hides*


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"I am a billboard on the move," says S.Shanuvas, an autorickshaw driver. His vehicle sports a promotional advertisement board of an arts festival in the city, on its rear.
"I get about Rs.40 a month. It is not much, but is a free source of income," he says. Autorickshaws in the city on an average clock around 100 km a day and in the clogged, congested roads, offer vast scope for visibility.
With the Chennai Corporation banning the use of posters, murals, and hoardings on most arterial roads in the city since 2009, autorickshaws are emerging as an unconventional yet cost-effective medium for advertising.
The result is that slogans such as 'Pennin thirumana vayadhu: 21' or "Do not pollute the air' have given way to strip ads that sell computer parts.
While setting up a hoarding on Elliot's beach might cost lakhs, an advertisement can be put up on an autorickshaw that frequently plies on beach road for as little as Rs.50 to Rs.100.
P.Suresh, an autorickshaw driver, says that festivals such as Deepavali and Pongal offer a lot of opportunities. "Garment outlets such as Co-optex come forward to replace the black top on our vehicles with a covering which showcases an Ad. In exchange, drivers usually get bit cloth (sic) for uniform or even T-shirt and jeans sometimes. If you put up a Vasanth & Co. Ad, you get a hot pack lunch box for free," he adds.
However, drivers such as M. Palanival say that most do not bother to go collect the monthly payments. "Initially, a nominal amount is paid to put up the Ad. No one bothers to waste fuel and go after the advertising agencies after that. Many don't pay anything anyway. Advertisers are just using us."
As for the legal framework, advertisement on vehicles is permitted only if it is authorised by a Motor Vehicle Inspector. He can grant permission, for a period of one year, based on the condition that the advertisement does not decrease visibility and hinder road traffic.
J. Seshasayanam, general secretary of Madras Metro Auto Drivers' Association says that advertisers have got it covered on that front. "Transport Department officials rarely fine us. Even if they do, we take the payment receipt to the agency and the fine amount is reimbursed."
Roos Gerritsen, a cultural anthropologist at Leiden University (Netherlands) who is currently doing a study on Chennai's visual culture, says that with the Corporation prohibiting advertising on 3,000 stretches of public walls, the response from advertisers is "interesting".
"They are exploiting cheap digital printing technology and finding creative means. As Chennai adapts itself to fit into political visions of a 'modern' city, modelled after Singapore, a battleground is emerging in the use of public spaces," she adds.
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Okay I read through the forums and as far as I can tell I'm hooked up right. The tube works, powers up and thumps! But I'm having some issues. I dont have the FAST system just the harness that plugs into the tube and then gets wired to the head unit. I'm using the RCA's connected to the rear/sub outs on the head unit, the red wire is hooked to 12v constant (yellow on my head unit), the blue/white to 12v switched (red on my head unit) and a good ground. Problems....It (the tube) thumps when I turn on the vehicle. And if I adjust anything bass, mid, treb, etc....it effects the tube? Suggestions? :confused:
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Sharks forward makes daily trips to the gym, where he's pushed by Bob Thompson and by self-motivation
Ryane Clowe (right) takes a breather during one of his daily off-season training sessions at the Noel Browne High Performance Centre inside the Newfoundland and Labrador Sports Centre (PowerPlex) on Crosbie Road in St. John's. At left is fellow professional hockey player Mark Lee. — Photo by Kenn Oliver/The Telegram
Who doesn't look forward to a little well-earned time off?
Ryane Clowe certainly does. The San Jose Sharks' forward says every hockey player wants to play as late into the season as possible, but given the physical and mental toll that exacts, the need for a break is extremely important to a pro athlete.
"You're so focused, and put so much pressure on yourself to compete at the highest level," says the Fermeuse native. "During the off-season, it's kind of nice not to have that. At some point, hockey is the farthest thing from your mind."
Clowe says most players take four to six weeks after the season ends to simply recover and relax. In his case, that begins with an annual team trip to Las Vegas.
"We have a good time. We have 15 to 20 guys, so it is what it is," says Clowe when asked exactly how good a time they have.
After that, it's back to St. John's to spend time with family, especially two-year-old daughter Willow.
Once that period of relaxation comes to and end, it's back to work preparing for next season.
"After your four to six weeks off, we're going Monday to Friday for three hours (daily) in the gym. That's no picnic when you're training pretty hard at an intense level."
Still, Clowe enjoys pushing himself, especially with a focal point.
"I'm sure most guys feel their goal is to have a great year individually, and team-wise, to have a chance at a Stanley Cup. If you can't get motivated to go to the gym every day for that, you're in the wrong sport."
Helping him get ready for training camp and the grind of the upcoming season is personal trainer Bob Thompson, who has been working with Clowe for over a decade.
"He's helped get me to the next level, he's pushed me and he's done the same for the other guys who train with him," says Clowe.
"He's adapted to the changes in the fitness and physical strength training of hockey players through the years and he's got his own input as well.
"He's on top of things,"
Other local hockey players working with Thompson include the Tampa Bay Lightning's new $13.5 million man Teddy Purcell, the Ottawa Senators' Colin Greening, European pro Mark Lee, AHL forward Robert Slaney and Marcus Power of the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League's Rouyn-Noranda Huskies.
Clowe says Thompson is in regular contact with Sharks' strength coach Mike Potenza. Asked if the organization had an opinion of Thompson's work, Clowe says it's evident what the trainer has helped accomplished by his tip-top conditioning on arrival at training camp each September.
"I feel like that's what helped me get to the next level, my fitness and my conditioning. That's something I've always took pride in and I feel that's an area I where I can probably get an edge on guys. " he says.
"When you're fighting for jobs, and you're in the NHL competing at a high level, you try to get any type of edge.
"So yeah, Bob's done a great job."
Trying to get his game back on the links
Hockey isn't the only game Clowe is working on these days. For up to three days a week, he's trying to lower his handicap on the Clovelly Golf Club's Osprey course. His current handicap is 15. which is pretty good. Problem is, it hasn't been getting better. In fact, it's regressed.
"Five years ago, I was quite a bit lower than that, but I've been getting frustrated and I feel like I'm becoming a worse golfer.
"I think you peak and then you have nowhere to go but down," explains Clowe who says it's never hard to find friends to play a round.
"For as much as I golf, I should be better. I need to get my game back."
Clowe sometimes hits the links with Purcell and Dallas Stars sniper and Bonavista native Michael Ryder, who has a reputation for being a near scratch golfer.
"(Ryder) hits his driver like he shoots. He pounds it and consistently hits as straight and as long as anyone as I've ever played with," says Clowe.
"He's great to golf with. He kicks my butt every time."
Once Clowe heads to training camp, there's still more golf to be played. Last year, he played one of the more memorable rounds of his life.
"Last year myself, (Joe) Thornton, Brent Burns and Jason Demers played Pebble Beach. It was gorgeous," says Clowe, adding he hopes to use his connections to arrange another outing there this fall.
"It's one of those courses you play on a video game or you know every hole from watching it on TV and then you get to play it. It was pretty neat."
Clowe and Purcell hold their fourth annual charity golf tournament at Clovelly, with proceeds assisting, among others, the City of St. John's R.E.A.L. program. Other NHLers set to take part are Demers and Burns, as well as the Lightning's Vincent Lecavalier and Ryan Malone.
"I get asked a lot (about) how one puts a team in the tournament and I wish I could help get everyone in, but obviously there are only so many spots and they fill up quick," explains Clowe.
"But you can't complain about that. It'll be another good year."


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Few events in American literary history have been more curious than the sudden rise of Emily Dickinson into a posthumous fame only more accentuated by the utterly recluse character of her life and by her aversion to even a literary publicity. The lines which form a prelude to the published volume of her poems are the only ones that have come to light indicating even a temporary desire to come in contact with the great world of readers; she seems to have had no reference, in all the rest, to anything but her own thought and a few friends. But for her only sister it is very doubtful if her poems would ever have been printed at all; and when published, they were launched quietly and without any expectation of a wide audience; yet the outcome of it is that six editions of the volume have been sold within six months, a suddenness of success almost without a parallel in American literature.
One result of this glare of publicity has been a constant and earnest demand by her readers for further information in regard to her; and I have decided with much reluctance to give some extracts from her early correspondence with one whom she always persisted in regarding--with very little ground for it--as a literary counselor and confidant.
It seems to be the opinion of those who have examined her accessible correspondence most widely, that no other letters bring us quite so intimately near to the peculiar quality and aroma of her nature; and it has been urged upon me very strongly that her readers have the right to know something more of this gifted and most interesting woman.
On April 16, 1862, I took from the post office in Worcester, Mass., where I was then living, the following letter:--
MR. HIGGINSON,--Are you too deeply occupied to say if my verse is alive?
The mind is so near itself it cannot see distinctly, and I have none to ask.
Should you think it breathed, and had you the leisure to tell me, I should feel quick gratitude.
If I make the mistake, that you dared to tell me would give me sincerer honor toward you.
I inclose my name, asking you, if you please, sir, to tell me what is true?
That you will not betray me it is needless to ask, since honor is its own pawn.
The letter was postmarked "Amherst," and it was in a handwriting so peculiar that it seemed as if the writer might have taken her first lessons by studying the famous fossil bird-tracks in the museum of that college town. Yet it was not in the slightest degree illiterate, but cultivated, quaint, and wholly unique. Of punctuation there was little; she used chiefly dashes, and it has been thought better, in printing these letters, as with her poems, to give them the benefit in this respect of the ordinary usages; and so with her habit as to capitalization, as the printers call it, in which she followed the Old English and present German method of thus distinguishing every noun substantive. But the most curious thing about the letter was the total absence of a signature. It proved, however, that she had written her name on a card, and put it under the shelter of a smaller envelope inclosed in the larger; and even this name was written--as if the shy writer wished to recede as far as possible from view--in pencil, not in ink. The name was Emily Dickinson. Inclosed with the letter were four poems, two of which have been already printed,--"Safe in their alabaster chambers" and "I'll tell you how the sun rose," together with the two that here follow. The first comprises in its eight lines a truth so searching that it seems a condensed summary of the whole experience of a long life:--
We play at paste Till qualified for pearl; Then drop the paste And deem ourself a fool. The shapes, though, were similar And our new hands Learned gem-tactics, Practicing sands.
Then came one which I have always classed among the most exquisite of her productions, with a singular felicity of phrase and an aerial lift that bears the ear upward with the bee it traces:--
The nearest dream recedes unrealized. The heaven we chase, Like the June bee Before the schoolboy, Invites the race, Stoops to an easy clover, Dips--evades--teases--deploys-- Then to the royal clouds Lifts his light pinnace, Heedless of the boy Staring, bewildered, at the mocking sky. Homesick for steadfast honey,-- Ah! the bee flies not Which brews that rare variety.
The impression of a wholly new and original poetic genius was as distinct on my mind at the first reading of these four poems as it is now, after thirty years of further knowledge; and with it came the problem never yet solved, what place ought to be assigned in literature to what is so remarkable, yet so elusive of criticism. The bee himself did not evade the schoolboy more than she evaded me; and even at this day I still stand somewhat bewildered, like the boy.
Circumstances, however, soon brought me in contact with an uncle of Emily Dickinson, a gentleman not now living; a prominent citizen of Worcester, a man of integrity and character, who shared her abruptness and impulsiveness but certainly not her poetic temperament, from which he was indeed singularly remote. He could tell but little of her, she being evidently an enigma to him, as to me. It is hard to tell what answer was made by me, under these circumstances, to this letter. It is probable that the adviser sought to gain time a little and find out with what strange creature he was dealing. I remember to have ventured on some criticism which she afterwards called "surgery," and on some questions, part of which she evaded, as will be seen, with a naive skill such as the most experienced and worldly coquette might envy. Her second letter (received April 26, 1862), was as follows:--
MR. HIGGINSON,--Your kindness claimed earlier gratitude, but I was ill, and write to-day from my pillow.
Thank you for the surgery; it was not so painful as I supposed. I bring you others, as you ask, though they might not differ. While my thought is undressed, I can make the distinction; but when I put them in the gown, they look alike and numb.
You asked how old I was? I made no verse, but one or two, until this winter, sir.
I had a terror since September, I could tell to none; and so I sing, as the boy does by the burying ground, because I am afraid.
You inquire my books. For poets, I have Keats, and Mr. and Mrs. Browning. For prose, Mr. Ruskin, Sir Thomas Browne, and the Revelations. I went to school, but in your manner of the phrase had no education. When a little girl, I had a friend who taught me Immortality; but venturing too near, himself, he never returned. Soon after my tutor died, and for several years my lexicon was my only companion. Then I found one more, but he was not contented I be his scholar, so he left the land.
You ask of my companions. Hills, sir, and the sundown, and a dog large as myself, that my father bought me. They are better than beings because they know, but do not tell; and the noise in the pool at noon excels my piano.
I have a brother and sister; my mother does not care for thought, and father, too busy with his briefs to notice what we do. He buys me many books, but begs me not to read them, because he fears they joggle the mind. They are religious, except me, and address an eclipse, every morning, whom they call their "Father."
But I fear my story fatigues you. I would like to learn. Could you tell me how to grow, or is it unconveyed, like melody or witchcraft?
You speak of Mr. Whitman. I never read his book, but was told that it was disgraceful.
I read Miss Prescott's Circumstance, but it followed me in the dark, so I avoided her.
Two editors of journals came to my father's house this winter, and asked me for my mind, and when I asked them "why" they said I was penurious, and they would use it for the world.
I could not weigh myself, myself. My size felt small to me. I read your chapters in the Atlantic, and experienced honor for you. I was sure you would not reject a confiding question.
Is this, sir, what you asked me to tell you? Your friend,
It will be seen that she had now drawn a step nearer, signing her name, and as my "friend." It will also be noticed that I had sounded her about certain American authors, then much read; and that she knew how to put her own criticisms in a very trenchant way. With this letter came some more verses, still in the same birdlike script, as for instance the following:--
Your riches taught me poverty, Myself a millionaire In little wealths, as girls could boast, Till, broad as Buenos Ayre, You drifted your dominions A different Peru, And I esteemed all poverty For life's estate, with you. Of mines, I little know, myself, But just the names of gems, The colors of the commonest, And scarce of diadems So much that, did I meet the queen Her glory I should know; But this must be a different wealth, To miss it, beggars so. I'm sure 't is India, all day, To those who look on you Without a stint, without a blame, Might I but be the Jew! I'm sure it is Golconda Beyond my power to deem, To have a smile for mine, each day, How better than a gem! At least, it solaces to know That there exists a gold Although I prove it just in time Its distance to behold; Its far, far treasure to surmise And estimate the pearl That slipped my simple fingers through While just a girl at school!
Here was already manifest that defiance of form, never through carelessness, and never precisely from whim, which so marked her. The slightest change in the order of word--thus, "While yet at school, a girl"--would have given her a rhyme for this last line; but no; she was intent upon her thought, and it would not have satisfied her to make the change. The other poem further showed, what had already been visible, a rare and delicate sympathy with the life of nature:--
A bird came down the walk; He did not know I saw; He bit an angle-worm in halves And ate the fellow raw. And then he drank a dew From a convenient grass, And then hopped sidewise to a wall, To let a beetle pass. He glanced with rapid eyes That hurried all around; They looked like frightened beads, I thought; He stirred his velvet head Like one in danger; cautious. I offered him a crumb, And he unrolled his feathers And rowed him softer home Than oars divide the ocean, Too silver for a seam-- Or butterflies, off banks of noon, Leap, plashless as they swim.
It is possible that in a second letter I gave more of distinct praise or encouragement, for her third is in a different mood. This was received June 8, 1862. There is something startling in its opening image; and in the yet stranger phrase that follows, where she apparently uses "mob" in the sense of chaos or bewilderment:--
DEAR FRIEND,--Your letter gave no drunkenness, because I tasted rum before. Domingo comes but once; yet I have had few pleasures so deep as your opinion, and if I tried to thank you, my tears would block my tongue.
My dying tutor told me that he would like to live till I had been a poet, but Death was much of mob as I could master, then. And when, far afterward, a sudden light on orchards, or a new fashion in the wind troubled my attention, I felt a palsy, here, the verses just relieve.
Your second letter surprised me, and for a moment, swung. I had not supposed it. Your first gave no dishonor, because the true are not ashamed. I thanked you for your justice, but could not drip the bells whose jingling cooled my tramp. Perhaps the balm seemed better, because you bled me first. I smile when you suggest that I delay "to publish," that being foreign to my thought as firmament to fin.
If fame belonged to me, I could not escape her; if she did not, the longest day would pass me on the chase, and the approbation of my dog would forsake me then. My barefoot rank is better.
You think my gait "spasmodic." I am in danger, sir. You think me "uncontrolled." I have no tribunal.
Would you have time to be the "friend" you should think I need? I have a little shape: it would not crowd your desk, nor make much racket as the mouse that dents your galleries.
If I might bring you what I do--not so frequent to trouble you--and ask you if I told it clear, 't would be control to me. The sailor cannot see the North, but knows the needle can. The "hand you stretch me in the dark" I put mine in, and turn away. I have no Saxon now:--But, will you be my preceptor, Mr. Higginson?As if I asked a common alms, And in my wondering hand A stranger pressed a kingdom, And I, bewildered, stand; As if I asked the Orient Had it for me a morn, And it should lift its purple dikes And shatter me with dawn!
With this came the poem already published in her volume and entitled Renunciation; and also that beginning "Of all the sounds dispatched abroad," thus fixing approximately the date of those two. I must soon have written to ask her for her picture, that I might form some impression of my enigmatical correspondent. To this came the following reply, in July, 1862:--
Could you believe me without? I had no portrait, now, but am small, like the wren; and my hair is bold, like the chestnut bur; and my eyes, like the sherry in the glass, that the guest leaves. Would this do just as well?
It often alarms father. He says death might occur, and he has moulds of all the rest, but has no mould of me; but I noticed the quick wore off those things, in a few days, and forestall the dishonor. You will think no caprice of me.
You said "Dark." I know the butterfly, and the lizard, and the orchis. Are not those your countrymen?
I am happy to be your scholar, and will deserve the kindness I cannot repay.
If you truly consent, I recite now. Will you tell me my fault, frankly as to yourself, for I had rather wince than die. Men do not call the surgeon to commend the bone, but to set it, sir, and fracture within is more critical. And for this, preceptor, I shall bring you obedience, the blossom from my garden, and every gratitude I know.
Perhaps you smile at me. I could not stop for that. My business is circumference. An ignorance, not of customs, but if caught with the dawn, or the sunset see me, myself the only kangaroo among the beauty, sir, if you please, it afflicts me, and I thought that instruction would take it away.
Because you have much business, beside the growth of me, you will appoint, yourself, how often I shall come, without your inconvenience.
And if at any time you regret you received me, or I prove a different fabric to that you supposed, you must banish me.
When I state myself, as the representative of the verse, it does not mean me, but a supposed person.
You are true about the "perfection." To-day makes Yesterday mean.
You spoke of Pippa Passes. I never heard anybody speak of Pippa Passes before. You see my posture is benighted.
To thank you baffles me. Are you perfectly powerful? Had I a pleasure you had not, I could delight to bring it.
This was accompanied by this strong poem, with its breathless conclusion. The title is of my own giving:--
[Note by the writer of the verses.] I spelled ankle wrong.THE SAINTS' REST. Of tribulation, these are they, Denoted by the white; The spangled gowns, a lesser rank Of victors designate. All these did conquer; but the ones Who overcame most times, Wear nothing commoner than snow, No ornaments but palms. "Surrender" is a sort unknown On this superior soil; "Defeat" an outgrown anguish, Remembered as the mile Our panting ancle barely passed When night devoured the road; But we stood whispering in the house, And all we said, was "Saved!"
It would seem that at first I tried a little,--a very little--to lead her in the direction of rules and traditions; but I fear it was only perfunctory, and that she interested me more in her--so to speak--unregenerate condition. Still, she recognizes the endeavor. In this case, as will be seen, I called her attention to the fact that while she took pains to correct the spelling of a word, she was utterly careless of greater irregularities. It will be seen by her answer that with her usual naive adroitness she turns my point:--
DEAR FRIEND,--Are these more orderly? I thank you for the truth.
I had no monarch in my life, and cannot rule myself; and when I try to organize, my little force explodes and leaves me bare and charred.
I think you called me "wayward." Will you help me improve?
I suppose the pride that stops the breath, in the core of woods, is not of ourself.
You say I confess the little mistake, and omit the large. Because I can see orthography; but the ignorance out of sight is my preceptor's charge.
Of "shunning men and women," they talk of hallowed things, aloud, and embarrass my dog. He and I don't object to them, if they'll exist their side. I think Carl would please you. He is dumb, and brave. I think you would like the chestnut tree I met in my walk. It hit my notice suddenly, and I thought the skies were in blossom.
Then there's a noiseless noise in the orchard that I let persons hear.
You told me in one letter you could not come to see me "now," and I made no answer; not because I had none, but did not think myself the price that you should come so far.
I do not ask so large a pleasure, lest you might deny me.
You say, "Beyond your knowledge." You would not jest with me, because I believe you; but, preceptor, you cannot mean it?
All men say "What" to me, but I thought it a fashion.
When much in the woods, as a little girl, I was told that the snake would bite me, that I might pick a poisonous flower, or goblins kidnap me; but I went along and met no one but angels, who were far shyer of me than I could be of them, so I have n't that confidence in fraud which many exercise.
I shall observe your precept, though I don't understand, always.
I marked a line in one verse, because I met it after I made it, and never consciously touch a paint mixed by another person.
I did not let go it, because it is mine. Have you the portrait of Mrs. Browning?
Persons sent me three. If you had none, will you have mine?
A month or two after this I entered the volunteer army of the civil war, and must have written to her during the winter of 1862-3 from South Carolina or Florida, for the following reached me in camp:--
DEAR FRIEND,--I did not deem that planetary forces annulled, but suffered an exchange of territory, or world.
I should have liked to see you before you became improbable. War feels to me an oblique place. Should there be other summers, would you perhaps come?
I found you were gone, by accident, as I find systems are, or seasons of the year, and obtain no cause, but suppose it a treason of progress that dissolves as it goes. Carlo still remained, and I told himMy shaggy ally assented.Best gains must have the losses' test, To constitute them gains.
Perhaps death gave me awe for friends, striking sharp and early, for I held them since in a brittle love, of more alarm than peace. I trust you may pass the limit of war; and though not reared to prayer, when service is had in church for our arms, I include yourself. . . . I was thinking to-day, as I noticed, that the "Supernatural" was only the Natural disclosed.But I fear I detain you. Should you, before this reaches you, experience immortality, who will inform me of the exchange? Could you, with honor, avoid death, I entreat you sir. It would bereaveNot "Revelation" 't is that waits, But our unfurnished eyes.
I trust the "Procession of Flowers" was not a premonition.
I cannot explain this extraordinary signature, substituted for the now customary "Your Scholar," unless she imagined her friend to be in some incredible and remote condition, imparting its strangeness to her. Mr. Howells reminds me that Swedenborg somewhere has an image akin to her "oblique place," where he symbolizes evil as simply an oblique angle. With this letter came verses, most refreshing in that clime of jasmines and mocking-birds, on the familiar robin:--
THE ROBIN. The robin is the one That interrupts the morn With hurried, few, express reports When March is scarcely on. The robin is the one That overflows the noon With her cherubic quantity, An April but begun. The robin is the one That, speechless from her nest, Submits that home and certainty And sanctity are best.
In the summer of 1863 I was wounded, and in hospital for a time, during which came this letter in pencil, written from what was practically a hospital for her, though only for weak eyes:--
DEAR FRIEND,--Are you in danger? I did not know that you were hurt. Will you tell me more? Mr. Hawthorne died.
I was ill since September, and since April in Boston for a physician's care. He does not let me go, yet I work in my prison, and make guests for myself.
Carlo did not come, because that he would die in jail; and the mountains I could not hold now, so I brought but the Gods.
I wish to see you more than before I failed. Will you tell me your health? I am surprised and anxious since receiving your note.Can you render my pencil? The physician has taken away my pen.The only news I know Is bulletins all day From Immortality.
I inclose the address from a letter, lest my figures fail.
Knowledge of your recovery would excel my own.
Later this arrived:--
DEAR FRIEND,--I think of you so wholly that I cannot resist to write again, to ask if you are safe? Danger is not at first, for then we are unconscious, but in the after, slower days.
Do not try to be saved, but let redemption find you, as it certainly will. Love is its own rescue; for we, at our supremest, are but its trembling emblems.
These were my earliest letters from Emily Dickinson, in their order. From this time and up to her death (May 15, 1886) we corresponded at varying intervals, she always persistently keeping up this attitude of "Scholar," and assuming on my part a preceptorship which it is almost needless to say did not exist. Always glad to hear her "recite," as she called it , I soon abandoned all attempt to guide in the slightest degree this extraordinary nature, and simply accepted her confidences, giving as much as I could of what might interest her in return.
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United States of America
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Airports in Seattle
Seattle-Tacoma International Airport (SEA)
Tacoma International Airport, more commonly known as Sea-Tac Airport, is just 12 miles (19km) south of Seattle and is America's 18th busiest airport. Sea-Tac Airport has a central terminal surrounded by four concourses. There is ample parking available at the airport as well as a range of other passenger facilities.
Sea-Tac Airport is well-connected to airports across the world. It also boasts an attractive array artworks displayed throughout the airport. Staff are exceedingly helpful and eager to ensure that passengers depart with only positive feedback for the airport.
The airport is situated 12 miles (19km) south of Seattle and 20 miles (32km) north of Tacoma.
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Global Trade Justice
Doing right by our global neighbors.
The "Battle in Seattle" at 10
by Mark Englerposted Nov 30, 2009
- WTO+10: Did the 1999 protests against the World Trade Organization actually make a difference?
The WTO and the Myth of Activist Violence
by Rebecca Solnitposted Nov 25, 2009
- The people who have made our world through direct action have been treated as dangerous, even if they are revered when their radical acts are at a safe distance.
Waking Up to the Dangers of "Free Trade"
by Fran Kortenposted Nov 25, 2009
- WTO+10: When Fran Korten first started warning people about NAFTA, many had never heard of it. But the 1999 protests in Seattle showed that Americans were learning what many in the developing world had known for years: free trade agreements are not just esoteric rules about what goods can cross borders. They are about who rules—corporations or people.
The Meaning of Seattle: Truth Only Becomes True Through Action
by Walden Belloposted Nov 25, 2009
- WTO+10: Before 1999, the momentum of globalization seemed to sweep everything in front of it, including the truth. But in Seattle, ordinary women and men made truth real with collective action.
Poverty, Global Trade Justice, and the Roots of Terrorism
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- To combat terrorism, we should address the root causes of poverty, says former "economic hit man" John Perkins.
Clash on Investment
by Sarah Andersonposted Nov 04, 2009
- Corporations are fighting for the right to sue over government actions—including health, environment, and other public interest regulations—that diminish the value of an investment.
The Virtues of Deglobalization
by Walden Belloposted Sep 25, 2009
- What do we do now that neoliberal globalization has failed? Walden Bello outlines 11 pillars of a deglobalized economy.
Seattle + 10
by David Kortenposted Jul 15, 2009
- Time to declare our independence from Wall Street
Advice for Obama from the Hemisphere
by Manuel Pérez-Rochaposted Apr 22, 2009
- The Institute for Policy Studies invited Latin American and Caribbean civil society leaders to share their recommendations for transforming the U.S. government's relationship with the hemisphere.
Food Rebellions: 7 Steps to Solving the Food Crisis
by Eric Holt-Gimenezposted Feb 13, 2009
- Resistance to the trade and "aid" policies that displace farmers and increase hunger.
People We Love :: Isabel Latorre
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- Coffee for women's rights: Profile of Isabel Latorre, founder of Café Feminino
Ideas for a Better Food System :: Processing
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- The women of Georgia Southern Alternatives Agriculture Co-op are providing jobs for young women by independently processing and selling their pecans.
The End of Poverty? :: Film Trailer
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- 500 years after imperial globalization began, have we achieved the end of poverty?
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- Photographer Kevin Sharp paired his photos of the 1999 event with stills from the new film. You might be surprised by what's real and what's not
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- Watch the trailer to Stuart Townsend's account of the WTO protests in Seattle in 1999.
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The struggle of working Americans took center stage as Black Friday protests covered the country. The struggle for wages that do not leave families impoverished is one that affects us all and highlights the unfair economy created by a class war waged by the wealthy for decades. The 'Walmartization' of the US economy has created a downward spiral in wages and destroyed small businesses and communities while heightening the wealth divide that is at the root of so many problems. The war on working people is a war on all but the wealthiest Americans.
The people are fighting back and the elites recognize it. We have seen how aggressive they are in how they responded to Occupy and other protest movements. Thousands of Americans have been arrested exercising their Right to Assembly, more than 7,500 in Occupy alone. There is fear in the investor class as they see people organizing and mobilizing. Corporations are now investing more time and money in preparation to protect themselves from investor actions and legal challenges. The actions of corporations and governments against the people are a sign of their fear, and a sign of our unrealized strength.
Noam Chomsky writes in his new book, Occupy: Class War, Rebellion and Solidarity, that the "business class" is always engaged in class warfare. They continually act to protect their interests, wealth and power. The class war manifests itself in every aspect of our lives from the attack on our public institutions and civil liberties to climate change and the global race to the bottom and racially unfair police enforcement and mass incarceration. It defines our foreign policy including trade agreements rigged for big business and wars for resources, cheap labor and the positioning of American Empire.
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There are many active fronts of struggle. In last week's report we emphasized the bold and creative protests against climate change, extreme energy extraction and toxicity in our environment. This week we focus on another critical front, worker rights and wages; and highlight the necessity for persistence, solidarity and transformation.
Henry Giroux recently spoke with Bill Moyers about his book Zombie Politics and Culture in the Age of Casino Capitalism. Giroux said, "The real changes are going to come in creating movements that are longstanding, that are organized, that basically take questions of governance and policy seriously and begin to spread out and become international."
An area in which this is happening to a great extent is in global trade. The World Trade Organization (WTO) will meet in Bali, Indonesia on December 3. Ever since the Seattle protests in 1999, the WTO has been unable to move forward on their agenda. This week WTO Director General Roberto Azevedo announced they were unable to move forward once again. U.S. Ambassador to the WTO Michael Punke expressed "great sadness," while we applauded the failure of corporate trade. Activists and small countries being bullied should be wary, this could be a negotiating ploy and they need to continue to fight back.
We are on the cusp of a new era of fair trade instead of rigged corporate trade. Our tasks are to stop the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) which is reaching completion and the new Trans-Atlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TAFTA) from being signed into law and then go on the offense to demand a trade process that is inclusive, democratic and transparent. Protests were held every day last week in Salt Lake City where the TPP negotiators were meeting and 250 showed up to protest the TPP in Beverly Hills at a high dollar fundraiser featuring President Obama, Majority Leader Reid, and Minority Leader Pelosi. Opposition is growing.
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Edwin Bidwell Wilson (April 25, 1879 – December 28, 1964) was an American mathematician and polymath.[1] He was the sole protégé of Yale's physicist Josiah Willard Gibbs and was mentor to MIT economist Paul Samuelson.[2] He received his AB from Harvard College in 1899 and his PhD from Yale University in 1901, working under Gibbs.
E.B. Wilson compiled the textbook Vector Analysis, based on Gibbs' lectures, as Gibbs was at the time busy preparing his book on thermodynamics. In 1904 Wilson reviewed Bertrand Russell's text on foundations of mathematics called The Principles of Mathematics. He wrote "The Space-Time Manifold of Relativity" with Gilbert N. Lewis in 1912.
Wilson went on to write two more textbooks: Advanced Calculus (1912) and Aeronautics: A Class Text (1920).
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- ^ "Obituary: Edwin B. Wilson". Physics Today 18 (6): 88. June 1965. doi:10.1063/1.3047526.
- ^ How I Became an Economist by Paul A. Samuelson, 1970 Laureate in Economics, 5 September 2003
- Jerome Hunsaker and Saunders MacLane (1973) Biographical Memoirs v. 43, pp. 285–320, National Academy of Sciences of USA.
- O'Connor, John J.; Robertson, Edmund F., "Edwin Bidwell Wilson", MacTutor History of Mathematics archive, University of St Andrews.
- Edwin Bidwell Wilson at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- Vector Analysis: A Text-book for the Use of Students of Mathematics and Physics, (based upon the lectures of Willard Gibbs) by Edwin Bidwell Wilson, published 1902.
- Advanced Calculus by Edwin Bidwell Wilson, published 1912.
- Aeronautics: A Class Text By Edwin Bidwell Wilson, published 1920.
- Edwin B. Wilson (1904) "The Foundations of Mathematics", Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society 11(2):74–93.
- Edwin B. Wilson & Gilbert N. Lewis (1912) "The Space-time Manifold of Relativity. The Non-Euclidean Geometry of Mechanics and Electromagnetics" Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences 48:387–507.
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The 2010 Catalogue of Life Annual Checklist was launched on 1st of April. It is available on Catalogue of Life and Species 2000 websites.
The Catalogue of Life is the most comprehensive and authoritative global index of species currently available. It consists of a single integrated species checklist and taxonomic hierarchy.
This year's edition contains 1,257,735 species from 77 databases.
Ten new databases joined the project since the last year edition:
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This year's edition is dedicated to the International Year of Biodiversity and endorsed by the UN Convention on Biological Diversity as part of its Global Taxonomy Initiative (GTI) and the Global Strategy for Plant Conservation (GSPC) Target 1.
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A top city official Tuesday called for more security in Griffith Park in the wake of an assault that left one victim severely injured.
Cal State LA To Hire 27 Faculty Staffers
California State University, Los Angeles, is set to hire over two dozen new full-time faculty members, officials announced Monday.
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Teachers want officials to restore pay cuts and boost the number of nurses, librarians and other key positions as part of a proposed $6.8 billion budget plan for the coming school year.
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Cal State Long Beach and other CSU campuses statewide will hire hundreds of new faculty members to help make up for massive cutbacks during the recession, officials said Monday.
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Disney Interactive, a video game and digital media subsidiary of The Walt Disney Co., is eliminating about 700 jobs, according to reports Thursday.
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- 1/2 cup (1 stick) butter, melted, cooled
- 1/2 cup finely chopped almonds
- 3 tablespoons poppy seeds
- 3 tablespoons golden brown sugar
- 2 tablespoons sugar
- 1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- 1 1-pound loaf frozen white bread dough, thawed
Brush 13x9x2-inch glass baking dish with 1 tablespoon melted butter. Combine almonds, poppy seeds, brown sugar, sugar and cinnamon in shallow dish.
Cut bread dough into 12 equal pieces. Roll out 1 dough piece on floured surface to 9x1-inch strip. Dip both sides of dough strip into melted butter, then dip into almond mixture, coating well. Roll up into spiral and stand in prepared baking dish. Repeat with remaining dough pieces, melted butter and almond mixture. Sprinkle any remaining almond mixture over rolls. Drizzle with any remaining melted butter.
Let rolls rise in warm draft-free area until doubled in volume, about 1 hour 15 minutes.
Preheat oven to 375°F. Bake rolls until golden brown, about 25 minutes. Serve rolls warm.
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Nutrition Informationper serving (12 servings) POWERED BY Edamam
- Calories225
- Carbohydrates26 g (9%)
- Fat12 g (18%)
- Protein5 g (10%)
- Saturated Fat5 g (27%)
- Sodium199 mg (8%)
- Polyunsaturated Fat2 g
- Fiber3 g (10%)
- Monounsaturated Fat4 g
- Cholesterol20 mg (7%)
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Inclusive instruction : evidence-based practices for teaching students with disabilities
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I felt this way last year. I'm done with him now.
Now that he's not playing third, the Tigers are hoping he can be good enough to play second in the field. Meantime, he hasn't hit better than .250 in over 5 years. During that time, his average yearly stats are as follows:
.227 AVG, 14 HR, 59 RBI, 124 K (1 K every 3.67 AB), 44 BB (1 BB every 9.8 AB)
That's barely MLB caliber there. Even if you give him his best stats in each of those categories over the past 5 years, you get:
.243 AVG, 27 HR, 84 RBI, 134 K (1 K every 4.33 AB), 43 BB (1 BB every 8.07 AB)
The only thing that was saving him is his glove. Now, we're
he is able to transition to a new position
improving his average 15 points, hitting 13 more HR, getting almost 1 more AB between K's and improving his walks by almost 2 AB per?
Not going to happen.
He's a waste of a roster space. Tigers need to move on, and move on now.
You're right....I tend to think more emotionally than realistically with players like Brandon Inge, but the reality of it is that he is a weak spot and needs to be replaced.
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