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COLUMBIA, Mo. For seniors, dancing isn't just for fun; it also can be therapeutic. Two recent studies conducted by University of Missouri researchers found that participation in dance-based therapy can improve balance and gait in older adults. Improved functionality among seniors can decrease their risk of falling and reduce costly injuries.
"Creative interventions such as dance-based therapy have the potential to significantly reduce falls in older persons," said Jean Krampe, a registered nurse and doctoral student in the Sinclair School of Nursing. "In the studies, we found improved levels of balance, gait and overall functionality among seniors who participated in regular dance-therapy sessions. Nursing and eldercare professionals can help move these programs into practice to reduce the detrimental burden caused by falls."
The researchers used a dance-therapy program called The Lebed Method (TLM), which includes a combination of low-impact dance steps choreographed to music. Sessions were led by certified TLM instructors and adjusted to fit the specific needs of the seniors who participated.
The most recent study was conducted with residents at TigerPlace, an independent-living community developed by MU nursing researchers to help seniors age in place. The study included 18 dance sessions offered throughout a two-month period. Participants reported that they enjoyed the sessions and wanted to continue the program.
"We found that many seniors are eager to participate and continue to come back after attending sessions because they really enjoy it," Krampe said. "Among seniors that stand up and move during sessions, we found that dance therapy can increase their walking speed and balance, which are two major risk factors for falling."
In 2008, Krampe and MU researchers conducted a six-week pilot study with the Alexian Brothers PACE Program (Program of All-inclusive Care for the Elderly) in St. Louis. More than h
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The EPA NYC team has a terrific evening planned with great music, complimentary food, dessert & cocktails (wine, beer & pink vodka lemonade) as well as networking with fellow event professionals. Please arrive early for check-in, the event begins at 6pm and the Yacht will sail at 7pm sharp. Here is a link for directions: http://www.worldyacht.com/
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Gone are the hockey-like line changes. So, too, are extended minutes on the court for most of the non-starters on the Camden boys basketball team which has gone to a more traditional substitution pattern under interim head coach Ron McKie Jr.
First came the shriek; a sound which Von Duncan has heard way too many times this season.
Its steel girders dwarf the neighboring and, to this date, the only covered show ring at the South Carolina Equine Park (SCEP) in Camden.
Normally, a two-point first quarter would mean a quick and painless death for a basketball team. But this was anything but a normal night at The Castle in Boonetown.
Mitch Lowder did everything he could to try and slow down Andrew Jackson center Alexxus Sowell. The one thing the North Central girls' basketball coach could not do, though, was to make his post players taller.
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Ron McKie Jr. would make a terrible "spin doctor" on one of the many Sunday morning TV talk shows in which men and women try to convince viewers that the news and facts may not be as good or, as bad, as they may seem.
With her team coming off back-to-back wins in the post-Christmas Lake Marion Invitational and with games against region and state heavyweights Lower Richland and Dreher coming up, Camden girls' basketball head coach Natalie Jeffcoat felt Tuesday night would be the perfect time for her team to make a statement that the Lady Bulldogs were back.
Imagine sitting inside a banquet hall filled with past and the current Heisman Trophy winners and getting the chance to meet 2014 winner Marcus Mariota.
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It was the late great Al McGuire who once said that "the best thing about freshmen is that they become sophomores."
With only a handful of race days left before horses celebrate another birthday on Jan. 1, several runners with Camden ties are closing out their 2014 campaigns with winning performances.
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Cavalcade of Whimsy
Nov. 24, Part 2
24, Part 1
The C.O.W. airing of the grievances followed by the feats of strength
With the voting season for the big awards upon us,
I'm going to help out the voters with who deserves
these things. I'm given a choice of finalists to
select for some of the awards, and in other cases I
had to go by the finalists presented.
12. Mackey Award – Nation's Best Tight End
Finalists: Dorin Dickerson, Pitt; Aaron Hernandez, Florida; Dennis Pitta, BYU
The Vote Will Likely Be: 1) Dickerson, 2) Hernandez, 3) Pitta
My Vote: 1) Hernandez, 2) Dickerson, 3) Cody Slate, Marshall
Player Who Should Be A Finalist But Isn't … Slate
Dickerson will end up winning the award because he's a tremendous receiver with great stats, but Hernandez was the nation's best all-around tight end this season. The Florida passing game did a whole bunch of nothing outside of the short to midrange passes to Hernandez over the first half of the season, and without him there would be even more dive plays than usual. Pitta is a wide receiver masquerading as a tight end, and he's been a slight disappointment.
11. Lou Groza Award – Nation's Best Kicker
Finalists: Kai Forbath, UCLA; Leigh Tiffin, Alabama; Blair Walsh, Georgia
The Vote Will Likely Be: 1) Forbath, 2) Tiffin, 3) Walsh
My Vote: 1) Forbath, 2) Tiffin, 3) Walsh
Player Who Should Be A Finalist But Isn't … Grant Ressel, Missouri
Layup. Forbath is the UCLA offense, and without him, there would be no bowl, this would be a losing season, and Rick Neuheisel might be in a little bit of trouble. Tiffin has been good, but Forbath leads the nation in field goals and it's not like they've been cheap. Ressel deserves to be in the mix having hit 20-of-21 kicks on the year.
10. Ray Guy Award – Nation's Best Punter
Finalists: Drew Butler, Georgia; Zoltan Mesko, Michigan; Chas Henry, Florida
The Vote Will Be: 1) Butler, 2) Mesko, 3) Henry
My Vote: 1) Butler, 2) Mesko, 3) Henry
Player Who Should Be A Finalist But Isn't … Matt Reagan, Memphis
Forbath deserves to be a slam dunk for the Lou Groza, but Butler is the lead-pipe lock of the year. Mesko has been terrific and deserves to be a finalist, bailing the inconsistent Wolverine offense time and again, while Henry has been fine the few times he has seen the field. Butler doesn't just lead the nation in punting, he leads by a ten-mile wide margin averaging 48.84 yards per kick while No. 2 man, Matt Reagan of Memphis, averages 45.72.
9. Outland Trophy – Nation's Best Interior Lineman
Finalists: Mike Iupati, Idaho; Russell Okung, Oklahoma State; Ndamukong Suh, Nebraska
The Vote Will Be: 1) Suh, 2) Okung, 3) Iupati
My Vote: 1) Suh, 2) Terrence Cody, Alabama, 3) Gerald McCoy, Oklahoma
Player Who Should Be A Finalist But Isn't … Cody
(Heavy sigh) Mike Iupati is a big-time NFL prospect because of his size and
athleticism, but an Outland Trophy finalist?! This
is supposed to be about who's having the best
season, and it's not like the Idaho O line is
killing WAC defensive lines because of its future
first round draft pick. I freely admit that I don't
know enough about him outside of what I've heard; he
seemed fine the few times I've watched Idaho, but an
Outland Trophy finalist spot goes to the pretentious
extreme (a line I blow past on a regular basis).
Believe me, maybe two people who voted for Iupati
could tell you anything about him. I could make up a guy, sell it right, and some voters would fight for him.
"Art Vandalay is flying under the radar because San Jose State is having such an awful season, but several scouts are talking about him as the highest riser in the draft. He was a late bloomer, but he has been destroying everyone and more than held his own against in the opener against USC. The coaches are saying he could turn out to be the best blocker the program has ever had."
The lesson? SIDs, if you have a stud offensive lineman worthy of post-season honors, sell him and sell him hard. The voters will bite (admittedly, myself included).
It doesn't matter. Suh might get every first place vote, and rightly so.
8. Davey O'Brien Award – Nation's Best Quarterback
Finalists: Case Keenum, Houston; Colt McCoy, Texas; Tim Tebow, Florida
The Vote Will Be: 1) McCoy, 2) Tebow, 3) Keenum
My Vote: 1) Keenum, 2) McCoy, 3) Dan LeFevour, Central Michigan
Player Who Should Be A Finalist But Isn't … LeFevour
The voters will pick McCoy in a lifetime achievement sort of way. They won't do that for the Heisman and their guilt will be alleviated with by picking him for the Davey O'Brien. To me, LeFevour deserves the lifetime achievement honor, too, as the greatest MAC player of all-time (not pro prospect, but college player), and it's flip a coin time right now between Keenum and McCoy. Keenum beat Texas Tech and Oklahoma State, just like McCoy, but he has had to do more for his team. Texas would still be unbeaten without McCoy.
7. Doak Walker Award – Nation's Best Running Back
Finalists: Toby Gerhart, Stanford; Mark Ingram, Alabama; C.J. Spiller, Clemson
The Vote Will Be: 1) Ingram, 2) Gerhart, 3) Spiller
My Vote: 1) Gerhart, 2) Ingram, 3) Ryan Mathews, Fresno State
Player Who Should Be A Finalist But Isn't … Mathews
Is Spiller a first-team All-ACC running back? As an all-around player, yeah, but I'm not so sure that Georgia Tech's Jonathan Dwyer and Virginia Tech's Ryan Williams weren't better. I can't decide between Gerhart and Ingram. Ingram probably deserves it for carrying the Tide offense to an unbeaten record, but Gerhart has been unbelievable. I might flip-flop on this late in the game.
6. Biletnikoff Award – Nation's Best Wide Receiver
Finalists: Freddie Barnes, Bowling Green; Jordan Shipley, Texas; Golden Tate, Notre Dame
The Vote Will Be: 1) Barnes, 2) Tate, 3) Shipley
My Vote: 1) Tate, 2) Barnes, 3) Danario Alexander, Missouri
Player Who Should Be A Finalist But Isn't … Alexander
Barnes is putting up monster stats, but he only came up with 70 yards on ten catches against Missouri and caught four passes for 24 yards against Boise State. Basically, he blew up the MAC. Tate not only has been consistently special, but he carried the passing attack when Michael Floyd was down. Sorry, C.J. Spiller, but Tate is the most electrifying player in college football. Alexander has been better this year than Shipley, especially over the last three games, catching 34 passes for 587 yards and four scores as the catalysts of a nice second half rebound for the Tigers.
5. Thorpe Award – Nation's Best Defensive Back
Finalists: Eric Berry, Tennessee; Joe Haden, Florida; Earl Thomas, Texas
The Vote Will Be: 1) Haden, 2) Berry, 3) Thomas
My Vote: 1) Haden, 2) Perrish Cox, Oklahoma State, 3) Trevin Wade, Arizona
Player Who Should Be A Finalist But Isn't … Cox
Cox has been a terrific playmaker and Wade might be the best pure cover-corner in the country this year, but Haden has done it all for the Gators with a team-leading 44 solo tackles (and seven more stops than Brandon Spikes), three interceptions and three sacks. He has also broken up six passes including two in the key win over LSU. There's no arguing against Berry or Thomas, but Cox has been better against the pass.
4. Butkus Award – Nation's Best Linebacker
Finalists: Sergio Kindle, Texas; Rolando McClain, Alabama; Eric Norwood, South Carolina; Brandon Spikes, Florida; Sean Weatherspoon.
The Vote Will Be: 1) McClain, 2) Spikes, 3) Norwood
My Vote: 1) Greg Jones, Michigan State; 2) Pat Angerer, Iowa, 3) Luke Kuechly, Boston College
Player Who Should Be A Finalist But Won't Be … Jones
Of all the awards, this one is the most embarrassing whiff and it's not even close. McClain is a phenomenal player, and he'll end up winning it, but he also benefits from having Terrence Cody and a tremendous line to work behind. Stats-wise, McClain shouldn't be in the discussion, and he didn't have anywhere near the season that my three choices had. Greg Jones was the best all-around linebacker in America, and he did it all without having a bunch of stars around him. But I get it; Michigan State wasn't a spotlight team. However, it's not like Iowa was hidden, and there's no excuse for Pat Angerer to not be a finalist. If Mark Herzlich, who missed the season recovering from cancer, had come up with the season that Luke Keuchly had, he'd have won the Butkus in a landslide. Kindle, Norwood and Spikes don't deserve to be within ten miles of winning the award.
3. Bednarik Award – Nation's Best Defensive Player
Finalists: Terrence Cody, Alabama; Brandon Spikes, Florida; Ndamukong Suh, Nebraska
The Vote Will Be: 1) Suh, 2) Spikes, 3) Cody
My Vote: 1) Suh, 2) Greg Jones, Michigan State, 3) Pat Angerer, Iowa
Player Who Should Be A Finalist But Isn't … Jerry Hughes, TCU
Having Spikes as a finalist is an embarrassment; he wasn't even the best defensive player on his own team this year (that was Joe Haden). Suh was the best defensive player in college football as the star and leader of a defense that carried the Huskers to the Big 12 Championship game. On an interesting note, the pass rushers didn't get a whole bunch of love this season. Hughes should've gotten on some list as the top player on a loaded TCU D.
2. Maxwell Award – Nation's Best Player
Finalists: Mark Ingram, Alabama; Colt McCoy, Texas; Tim Tebow, Florida
The Vote Will Be: 1) Ingram, 2) McCoy, 3) Tebow
My Vote: 1) Ingram, 2) McCoy, 3) Tebow
Player Who Should Be A Finalist But Isn't … Toby Gerhart, RB Stanford
The Maxwell often becomes the booby prize for the guy who won't win the Heisman. Tebow doesn't deserve to look at this list, much less be on it. Like all the major awards involving the offensive stars, I'm waiting to see more. No one has grabbed the reins this year.
1. Heisman – "The most outstanding college football player in the United States for 2009."
The Vote Will Be: 1) Mark Ingram, RB Alabama, 2) Colt McCoy, QB Texas, 3) Tim Tebow, QB Florida
My Vote: 1) Toby Gerhart, Stanford, 2) Ingram, 3) Case Keenum, Houston, but …
I'm waiting to the last possible nanosecond before submitting my vote. I'm a believer that the Heisman should go to the signature player of a season, and there hasn't been one yet. At the moment, Tebow shouldn't be in the discussion, but if he's the reason Florida beats Alabama and plays for the national title, he might be it. Yes, it all might come down to one game.
Random Acts of Nutty … Provocative musings and tidbits to make every woman want you and every man want to be you (or vice versa) a.k.a. things I didn't feel like writing bigger blurbs for.
- Miami's Jacory Harris said the team got fired up after a sluggish start when they heard Duke players singing. Either 1) Miami is mentally soft because it needs something so innocuous to get jacked up and 2) that's an indictment of the coaching staff that it can't flip the switch needed to get this team to play at its best. Miami should be playing for the ACC title, and isn't because it didn't always play up to its talent.
-How great are college football fans? Notre Dame has blocked the school plane's flight information on flightaware.com. Why? It wants to keep it hidden if the plane goes to, say, Gainesville or Norman.
- You think college football fans are crazy? Check out the soccer world over in Europe and the bizarre situation with the Thierry Henry hand ball situation. Henry set up a goal with "Le Hand of God," controlling the ball with his hand leading to the game-winner to give France a win over Ireland. It has become such a big deal that Irish Prime Minister Brian Cowen and French President Nicolas Sarkozy are getting involved. College football fans get crazy, but soccer fans take nuts to a whole other level.
- To give Iowa a look-see later, I recorded the Minnesota game. For the first time ever, I used the "Hell, Yes … Please Delete Now" button.
- Uhhhhhh, isn't Connecticut in the Big East? In an attempt to make a bigger story out of the situation, everyone seemed bent on playing the Little Engine That Could card after the win over Notre Dame. It's not like this was Western Kentucky coming up to the FBS level and pulling off the upset. Connecticut is a living, breathing, BCS conference team.
C.O.W. shameless gimmick item … The weekly five Overrated/Underrated aspects of the world
1) Overrated: Kari Wuhrer … Underrated: Marisol Massey
2) Overrated: USC trying to pick up the pieces over the last few week … Underrated: Los Angeles trying to brace itself for the invasion of Oprah
3) Overrated: The Ohio State throwbacks ... Underrated: The Oklahoma throwbacks
4) Overrated: All things Stoops, apart ... Underrated: All things Stoops when they were together at Oklahoma
5) Overrated: UGA VII ... Underrated: Stefanie Spielman (Sorry to be so crass to
express utter sorrow of the tragic passing of Chris Spielman's wife in this way. Life sucks sometimes. A lot. http://www.komen.org/.)
"It takes a big man to admit he's wrong, and I am not a big man." …
The three lines this week that appear to be a tad
off. Yeah, I'm back on my 1-2 kick. I press on. … 1)
Florida -23 over Florida State, 2) Arizona -3 over
Arizona State, 3) Auburn +13.5 over Alabama
Week 11 Results: 1) Iowa -10 over Minnesota (W Iowa 12-0), 2) Kent State +13.5 over Temple (L, Temple 47-13), 3) Stanford -7 over Cal (L, Cal 34-28)
… Record So Far: 12-22-2.
My Heisman ballot this week would be (if the college football season ended right now) … 1) Toby Gerhart, RB Stanford, 2) Mark Ingram, RB Alabama, 3) Case Keenum, QB Houston
Sorry this column sucked, it wasn't my fault … I thought I could spike the ball and get my field goal team on to the field even though I was out of time outs and there was one second left on the clock. I hurried up to the line and should have enough time to get out one final pl ...
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Perkins police
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Buidling phoneme as a shared library
I'm trying to build phoneme foundation as a shared library.
The approach i'm taking currently is to use ld to link the generated object files into a shared library.
gcc -shared -fPIC -o obj/libmala.so --export-dynamic obj/*.o -lpthread -ldl -lm
My problem is after launching the cvm, via an external application invoking ansiJavaMain, i get a signal 11. I traced that problem in the initialization of Class
(runStaticInitializers method).
I'm wondering if there is a specific method or linker options that are needed in order to build phoneme as a shared libary.
Should the above method work? Or is there something in phoneme that will not work as a shared library?
Thanks for any help,
Building CVM as a dll is not supported, but you might be able to get it to work. If you are on MIPS, you'll first need to apply the following patch:
Make sure you get the formatting correct. A previous user had spaces after the backslash (\) line continuation character, which messed up the macro.
Thank you very much Chris.
With the patch phoneme works as a library smoothly up to now.
I believe that the crucial thing was the -fno-unit-at-a-time flag in GNUMakefile.
-fno-unit-at-a-time seems to have the beneficial side affect of restoring %gp after every function call. I've looked at the -fno-unit-at-a-time documentation and there is nothing in its description that indicates it should do this. MIPS code only needs to restore %gp after a function call if the callee needs it again, and you do see cases of it not getting restored when you don't use -fno-unit-at-a-time.
The JIT generates code that will clobber %gp. However, since with -fno-unit-at-a-time it seems to always gets restored, this gets around the problem of JIT code clobbering %gp, and never restoring it. This is a somewhat fragile fix, and could break if the mips code generator stops being so kind about %gp restoration. The proper fix involves a lot of changes in the MIPS ccm glue assembler functions so they properly save and restore %gp.


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Mr. Market finished higher this week, despite the best efforts of reality to sway his opinion. The Dow, S&P and NASDAQ all posted modest gains, even as the nation's economic firmament continued to weaken like the good intentions of a boozed-up quarterback on prom night.
How did this jovial market mood come to pass? Did the jobs situation improve? Nope. Housing prices go up? No way. Did the debt load of the United States suddenly start to shrink? You've got to be kidding. How about a change in policy…a move toward austerity…public denouncement of the idiots that got us into this mess? What? Have you lost your mind?
For years behavioral economists have been busy erecting a body of evidence to substantiate what we already know: that human beings cannot be trusted. Or, more correctly, that they can be trusted…but only to make stupid decisions. [This is not to say that we would infringe on their right to do so; only that it helps to know why so we might avoid making similar mistakes ourselves.] The reasons for this are many and varied. We are plagued with biases and tendencies that lead us to feel comfortable getting things wrong.
The endowment effect, for example, illustrates how people demand more money to replace an object than the thing cost in the first place. When presented with a wager where the subject stands a 50% chance at losing $100, most people will settle for nothing less than the potential of a $200 gain in order to take the bet. Obviously, any potential gain over $100 ought to be a mathematically sufficient enticement (depending, of course, on how much of your total wealth $100 represents).
In the words of psychologist Daniel Kahneman, "a good is worth more when it is considered as something that could be lost or given up than when it is evaluated as a potential gain." We might better recognize this as a bird in the hand being worth two in the bush.
While it is not difficult to see how evolution has selected for precisely this kind of risk aversion, we wonder about the associated opportunity cost and how, knowing this tendency of ours, politicians might skew their rhetoric to play exactly to this weakness. Consider the ranting and raving that invariably precedes each new round of market intervention by the feds.
"If we don't sign this check, we may not have a market on Monday."
"If we don't pass this bill, unemployment could reach…"
"We are standing on the edge of the abyss."
Notice how before each new round of meddlesome intervention, voters were lulled into taking the bet on pain of losing something dear to them…the market, their jobs…even their gravitational reality. Given our propensity to guard what we have, even at an expense greater than the value of what we may stand to gain, it is little wonder people go in for such nonsense.
Instead, we might think to ask ourselves what US taxpayers might have done with their own cash, for example, had the government not mopped the streets of Midtown Manhattan with it on their behalf? Might they have opened a little corner store, a bakery, or a barbershop? Might they have spent it at their friend's new corner store, bakery, or barbershop? Perhaps. Perhaps not. The only thing we can be sure of is that now we'll never know.
And what of these so-called "too big to fail" institutions themselves? Might other companies, those that were more prudent during the bubble era, have swooped down to feast on the carrion? Might the market have found, for example, a fifty cents- (or twenty cents-…or one cent-) on-the-dollar clearing price for AIG's cluttered basement of mark-to-model junk? And wouldn't that have been better than watching the government – in either a pitiful display of negotiating ineptitude or a criminal act of collusion – absorb it, unquestioningly, at face value? Again, we'll never know. Investors and voters were spooked with apocalyptic stories of what might be lost – a gazillion jobs, access to fresh water, the cat – if they didn't acquiesce to the plans of the all-knowing, all-seeing state.
Of course, the endowment effect is but one of many predictable tendencies we carry around with us, for better or for worse, both in life and in the markets. Consider our apparent eagerness to engage in herd mentality and to judge our successes or failures relative to the rest of the mob.
It's somehow easier to stomach a quarterly loss if we know the market, as a whole, is down too. And it's easier still if we know our next-door neighbor has performed even worse. Presumably, therefore, there should exist no greater thrill for a man who's real estate portfolio is in the red than to watch every other house on his street enter into foreclosure. That may be of some comfort to Floridians and Californians, where foreclosure notices are more or less issued at point of sale, but it's hardly a recipe for progress.
To add insult to mental injury, the list of our irrational biases is as long as it is disturbing. There's the "denomination effect" – the tendency to spend more money when it is denominated in small amounts than when we have a pocket "full of Benjamins." There's "normalcy bias," defined as a refusal to plan for, or react to, a disaster that has never happened before. We must also contend with "irrational escalation," the tendency to justify increased investment in a decision based on our cumulative prior investment, despite new evidence suggesting that the decision was probably wrong. And, one of our personal favorites/weaknesses, the phenomenon of "reactance," an urge to do the opposite of what we are told to because of a need to resist a perceived attempt to constrain our freedom of choice.
Even if we do manage to curb these behaviors, who is to say the guy next to us will do so, or the guy next to him? And what does this say about politics, for example, when representatives are chosen by majority vote? The inimitable H. L. Mencken was probably onto something when he once described democracy as "the pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance."
This could also explain why markets tend to act irrationally, overshooting to the upside before overcorrecting in the opposite direction. They are merely representing, magnifying even, the irrational biases of the myriad participants within them. We've been saying for a while that we're due for another big pullback, but what do we know? Everywhere we look we see signs of an impending implosion: a textbook case of confirmation bias.
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Joel Bowman is a contributor to The Daily Reckoning. After completing his degree in media communications and journalism in his home country of Australia, Joel moved to Baltimore to join the Agora Financial team. His keen interest in travel and macroeconomics first took him to New York where he regularly reported from Wall Street, and he now writes from and lives all over the world.
Good article. I'll have to remember those examples…
I'd add another, but not sure what to call it. Self delusion, laziness, self inflicted injury… A real life example. I was being hired to design instruments for a wind power system. The client was planning on investing $250,000 to buy the prototype and that was the expected cost for more units. My first question was "what is the expected peak power?" ( need to know to size the instruments ). I was told that was all secret. The one thing I could learn was the physical size of the system ( from the site pictures ). From that and the average wind at a good site it's a matter of 15 minutes to calculate how much energy is available to the structure. Also knowing the price it's not hard to figure out how much money it has to produce to meet the minimal payments on a 20 year loan. The best any wind generator can extract is 58% , in real life you are doing very well at 38%. The numbers for this system worked out to 1000% just to break even ( that's not a typo ). Three observations. There is no free lunch. The inventors couldn't have even calculated the available energy and potential returns before they had spent $250,000 to build the prototype. The prospective buyer ( who had others lined up to spend their own money ) was madder then a wet hen over having this golden opportunity shot down. It's the third part I find most interesting. Given facts that can be proven with grade school math and at most high school physics ( E= 1/2MV^2 ) there are still people who will reject that with the phrase "numbers lie" and want to replace calculation and past empirical science, with pure wishful thinking.
It's no wonder people get defrauded, when at least some will do it to themselves.
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Might the market have found, for example, a fifty cents- (or twenty cents-…or one cent-) on-the-dollar clearing price for AIG's cluttered basement of mark-to-model junk? And wouldn't that have been better than watching the government – in either a pitiful display of negotiating ineptitude or a criminal act of collusion – absorb it, unquestioningly, at face value? Again, we'll never know. Investors and voters were spooked with apocalyptic stories of what might be lost – a gazillion jobs, access to fresh water, the cat – if they didn't acquiesce to the plans of the all-knowing, all-seeing state.
yup. and, many, many BElieved the apocalyptic stories! so, they STILL believe the propaganda! years later, after Reckoners have dispelled the myths, they're still good li'l Energizer Bunnies…
this is EXACTLY what happened in IRAQ, too, scooby-doo! same political/corporate/fascist types, same propaganda ministry, same "shock & awe" delivered to the homer simpson brains who go directly from the car to the TV for the "reasons" for everything, and, of course, the solution to every propagandized problem—-just what "we" need to make everything ALL better, and feel "safe", again too!
t.y., joel.
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Today, Kay Thompson is remembered largely as the author of the iconic 'Eloise' books and for her picture-stealing turn as the Diana Vreeland-like fashion editor in 'Funny Face'. But the preternaturally talentEd Thompson was so much more: singer, vocal arranger, nightclub star, radio personality, fashion innovator, sometimes shrewd businesswoman, mentor-and world-classeccentric. In 'Kay Thompson: From Funny Face to Eloise', film director and producer Sam Irvin delivers the first full-length biography of this inimitable personality who left her indelible mark on show business-and on the lives of millions of readers. The book will be released November 2, 2010.
Born in St. Louis in the first decade of the twentieth century, the Midwest could not contain the ambitions of Catherine Louise Fink. By the time she was a teenager, she was playing piano concerti with the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra and appearing on local radio programs. Before long she hightailed it to California, where she soon became a fixture singing on radio and in such swanky venues as the Cocoanut Grove. Armed with a new name and, thanks to the first of many plastic surgeries, a new nose, Kay Thompson exerted her talents as a vocal arranger. Ambitious as she was gifted, she and a revolving series of backup singers appeared on countless radio shows on both coasts.
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With two bank holidays in four days, social rides were planned for Good Friday and Easter Monday around Thetford Forest. These usually take in off-piste sections are are really good to find hidden gems of singletrack
7 riders assembled at High Lodge on Friday morning, setting off some time after 10am towards the pump track soon picking up the Beater trail then off-piste. Unfortunately due to weather and forestry activities the trail was blocked by trees - this would become a common theme throughout the ride.
I won't go into details of where we went because a) I can't remember and b) join a social ride to find out where we go. After spending a bit of time on the High Lodge side we headed to the BCP side, which was where the first crash occured -front wheel washout on a muddy corner, nothing damaged just pride.
After more singletrack we headed back to High Lodge side to play in some of the pits, with a fantastic save in Tom's, a close call on the exit of the Skip and a minor off on the Beast, most of the group headed back to High Lodge for food and drinks.
Bank Holiday Monday came, with marshals in the car park and 15 of us, old and new faces, left at just after 10am. We headed out towards the middle of the Beater trail at quite a pace, and quite soon the first crash occurred just before Duck and Cover, with a second through Duck and cover.
When we reached the exit road from High Lodge we headed towards St Helen's side of the forest which was less crowded then High Lodge. After some fireroads we soon hit the various pieces of singletrack that litters this part of the forest.
A snapped pedal, motocross bike, quadbike and a big off greeted us here, and after the last crash it was decided to head back to High Lodge with all riders making it back safely.
Both rides were really enjoyable, even if the trail conditions on Friday were far from ideal, and it's good to find those obscure gems of singletrack.
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Primary teaching - honestly what is it like?
Started by mum201 , Dec 25 2012 01:57 PM
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Posted 25 December 2012 - 01:57 PM
Hi all,
I have DS, who is a year old. When I had him, the idea was that I would go back to my corporate role in 6 months. DH and I visited every daycare in the area and couldn't agree on one and finally figured out the problem was not the specific daycares, but both of us not wanting him in daycare at all. Plus we realised that both parents being out of the home for 12 hrs a day just wasn't going to work for us - so I packed in my job, and am a sahm.
Now that I am thinking about it, I don't think my previous life is ever going to mesh well with being a mummy so I am going to have to retrain and do something more appropriate. I have done a bit of undergrad study before for fun and enjoyed it so am now thinking about going down that path again. At first I was thinking Accounting and doing bookkeeping from home or for a local business, and whilst this seems to be a sensible option, I would find it painful and I wouldn't love it.
Then I thought about teaching. I used to teach kids martial arts and was good at it. I am patient, am great with little kids, and want to do something that makes a difference in the world - and I feel this fits the bill. It's also a skill that is transportable. Plus, it fits in perfectly with having a child. So, enough of my long winded post. Do you enjoy being a primary teacher?
Posted 25 December 2012 - 03:30 PM
I love teaching and having my own class.
I do not love casual teaching.
Some people are lucky and get a job straight away, but there is also the very real possibility that you could end up going a few weeks with no work, and if you are just casual, ALL holiday periods are unpaid.
Posted 25 December 2012 - 03:34 PM
QUOTE (naomi_j86 @ 25/12/2012, 03:30 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
I love teaching and having my own class.
I do not love casual teaching.
Some people are lucky and get a job straight away, but there is also the very real possibility that you could end up going a few weeks with no work, and if you are just casual, ALL holiday periods are unpaid.
3 years without a job before ANZAC day, and only 2-3 casual days before then.
The teaching is fine. The getting a job is the crap bit.
Posted 25 December 2012 - 04:30 PM
Teaching is a wonderful career for all the reasons you mentioned.
It can also be exhausting, especially in the junior grades when you are on your feet nearly all day, constantly on the go...multitasking galore. There is physical preparation of resources and paperwork preparation at home, assessments, portfolios, reports, committee meetings, staff meetings, professional development research, arranging incursion, excursions, special event days, displays...just some of the aspects of working year. In other words it is not a 9am - 3pm job and whilst the holidays are generous some of those days are used to set up the room and prepare lots of resources for the term.
I have two young school age boys who also go to the same school I work at - it's a bonus in some ways (no need for outside care arrangements) and not in others. I often have to take them early to school with me so I can set up for the day and then they are there after school as I try to clean up.
When we get home they need prompting with their homework, I listen to their home reading, cook dinner and prompt the whole bedtime routine.
Some days I thrive on the business of it all and sometimes I fall asleep on the couch my 8pm.
The above views/ways are just my own and of course not common to all teachers.
Best of luck with any career choice you make.
Posted 25 December 2012 - 05:00 PM
Next year will be my 5th year as a teacher. You want honesty so here it is: (tired so using dot points)
* hated the 4 years of study, expensive (even with hecs) and time consuming
*first year out I hated it, long long hours and very stressful
*2nd year out a bit better, but still wasn't sure I was going to stick it out
*3rd year could only get small contracts and relief work, okay, but not good for the budget
*4th year: totally in love with teaching! But in saying that my kids are older and I devoted a lot of time and energy to my class.
I am still on contract and I probably won't get a permanent job for a few years yet as they are very rare. I mostly work 9 hour days, my students are on my mind a lot, the weekends involve work but also preparing for the working week, like ironing etc. As I am too tired at night to do much.
I absolutely love my job/vocation and have already started planning what I will teach next year, researching and working out my classroom layout. Like most teachers, I do spend a few thousand of my own money each year as well.
You do not teach for the money!
Posted 25 December 2012 - 05:01 PM
Does anyone know if it's also hard to secure a secondary teaching role in NSW?
Posted 25 December 2012 - 06:01 PM
I forgot to mention that I am one of the very lucky ones who is a permanent teacher. I am very grateful for it each year. As so many others commented it's heart breaking to watch so many casual teachers unsure where or if they will have a job year to year. These are good - great teaches who put in way above and beyond effort to add to their resume in hope of standing out for selection. I can only imagine the stress of them and their family due to the uncertainness of work year to year. I've never, ever noticed there being a hint of a 'teacher shortage' in primary schools about me - I think the fine print would read 'teacher shortage of high school maths teacher in extremely remote community.'
Posted 25 December 2012 - 06:09 PM
QUOTE (Flylikeabutterfly @ 25/12/2012, 06:01 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
Does anyone know if it's also hard to secure a secondary teaching role in NSW?
Depends what you are teaching. Maths and Science yes. English and history in Western Sydney. Most everything else is hard.
OP , as someone who went from corporate to teaching, the work hours are a lot more manageable as a teacher. Sure it's not 9-3, but less then corporate that's for sure
Posted 25 December 2012 - 06:16 PM
My friend is a high school teacher and has been a on contracts at the same school, fulltime for 4+ years. Only now has he finally be offered a permanent role. It's really been very hard on his family being financially unstable all those years. He loves teaching the teens, hates the politics of how the school is run and the instability of contract roles.
Posted 25 December 2012 - 06:28 PM
Edited by Tyrone Finkelmeyer, 26 March 2013 - 08:43 PM.
Posted 25 December 2012 - 07:18 PM
QUOTE (proudmama1 @ 25/12/2012, 08:12 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
Still waiting for DS to wake up! He did not fall asleep until 10.30 last night...
Thank you for your replies! A lot to think about indeed! My sister teaches secondary school, so I have been probing her for her opinion as well. She agrees with a lot has been said here and also added that the staff room politics can be crappy, but she wouldn't do anything else. She also feels it could be a good personality fit. Urgh..... I have a lot of thinking to do....... But I am actually a bit excited about it.
But thanks again all.
Posted 26 December 2012 - 09:29 AM
Honestly, I teach Prep and at the school I am currently at there is no way I could continue my career if I had a family Its far too exhausting and far too much work. I get to school at about 7.30-8am and don't leave until around 6pm, I also do schoolwork almost every evening when I get home and on the weekend. I love the job, it's very rewarding and I love the children I work with and seeing them grow - but at my current school it is very demanding and I don't think I could continue if I had young children. I only speak on behalf of my own experience, though!
Edited by Kalota, 26 December 2012 - 09:30 AM.
Posted 26 December 2012 - 12:25 PM
I used to be a teacher and got permanency in nsw straight out of uni there is definitely LOTS of out of hours work. Also I worked in schools where children came from disadvantaged backgrounds and I often struggled with wanting to do more for the kids and feeling bad that I couldnt. I hated that society seems not to value teachers as I see teaching as so important. Also be prepared to be yelled at, sworn at and complained about- from teachers and students. That isnt just my experience, surveys by teachers federation indicates if happens much more than you think. Just some examples one six year old was kicking other six year olds and calling them mother f#@! Ers. I had him sit separately for a short time. His dad went off that I was picking on him. Many parents think that because they have 1 or 2 kids they could effectively teach a whole class and are often quick to let you know. Politics in schools can be crazy as you mentioned. Also while I found teaching to be challenging it wasnt intellectually stimulating. In primany school be aware you have to teach music as well as sport, art, history etc etc.
Posted 26 December 2012 - 12:38 PM
QUOTE (Penguin78 @ 25/12/2012, 07:09 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
Depends what you are teaching. Maths and Science yes. English and history in Western Sydney. Most everything else is hard.
OP , as someone who went from corporate to teaching, the work hours are a lot more manageable as a teacher. Sure it's not 9-3, but less then corporate that's for sure
I went from corporate to teaching (secondary) and have found the hours much longer. Maybe not in terms of "office" hours, but the prep and marking done outside of school takes up a lot of time. And the difference is that you are always thinking about school in the back of your mind. It's not a job you can just leave at the office and forget about it.
And not to nitpick, but it's less thAn! Sorry, one of my pet peeves as an English teacher!
Edited by Niamh23, 26 December 2012 - 12:39 PM.
Posted 26 December 2012 - 12:44 PM
It's hard work, it's underappreciated and is unstable for at least 4-5 years.
Posted 26 December 2012 - 07:43 PM
Edited by bye, 29 March 2013 - 03:04 PM.
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