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Learning and Behavior, 7th Edition, Paul Chance
LEARNING AND BEHAVIOR, Seventh Edition, is stimulating and filled with high-interest queries and examples. Based on the theme that learning is a biological mechanism that aids survival, this book embraces a scientific approach to behavior but is written in clear, engaging, and easy-to-understand language.
About the Author
Paul Chance received his Ph.D. in Psychology from Utah State University. He started his career as a school teacher (grades 7-9), and has been an Adjunct Instructor at the California Polytechnic State University in San Luis Obispo and at Salisbury University (Maryland). Formerly, he was Book Review Editor of PSYCHOLOGY TODAY magazine, a senior fellow of the Cambridge Center for Behavioral Studies, and a member of the Association for Science in Autism Treatment advisory board.
13 years ago, I was directed to the books of Paul Chance by by a professor of ABA. Since then, of all the books I have read on Applied Behavior Analysis, Paul Chance's "Learning and Behavior" is the book for ongoing reference. An easy read for the layman and an excellent tome referred to over and over again. I have literally worn out several copies of different editions of this book as it was picked up and handled so often when referencing various aspects of how applied behavior analysis might apply to the world of both humans and animals.
While written as a college text, this book provides an excellent resource for the animal trainer who hopes to understand why animals behave as they do. "Learning and Behavior" provides clear examples under each of the topic heading discussed backed up by the research that has been done. With each edition, it also becomes clear that Chance keeps up with the current literature while acknowledging the history of ABA.
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- Publisher: Cengage Learning; 7 edition (February 26, 2013)
- Language: English
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Chances Are, You Didn't Just 'Lose' Your Laptop at JFK
No matter what the police told you.
So many laptops, wallets, and suitcases are reported stolen at JFK Airport that police have been ordered by the Port Authority to record some of the thefts as other types of losses. This keeps the absurd number of thefts at an artificially low official rate. Here's how police explain away the ruse, according to the Post:
"Their position is that if a [victim] does not see his property being taken, then he does not have knowledge of a theft and hence, it's a 'lost property.'"
Of course, the fact that items at airports usually only get stolen when one is not looking is breezily ignored by the Port Authority, as though crime is performed at JFK as if it is some gloomy alley at night where hooded men mug screaming women and then flee safely into the darkness, and not a brightly lit airport that is crawling with police officers where literally every exit is guarded and videotaped. One note from a top PAPD captain on a report regarding a laptop stolen while the victim was checking in actually said, "Although we can assume the laptop was stolen, probable cause is not articulated to sustain a larceny. Make this a lost property." You know that rage you save up to use on the airline companies? Better save a little bit of that for the PAPD in case you "lose" something.


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Want to learn more about heirloom plants? Attend a lecture by biologist Vicki Medland at the Neville Public Museum in Green Bay on Wednesday, February 9, 2011. The lecture, "Understanding and preserving agricultural diversity - Heirloom plants", begins at 6:30pm and runs about 30-45 minutes. There will be a question and answer period afterward.
The presentation is part of Neville Museums' natural history lecture series, which is on the second Wednesday of every month. Local naturalists discuss various natural history topics using slideshows and even live animals. The cost of the lectures is free.
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WEDNESDAY, Aug. 27, 2014 (HealthDay News) -- There's been controversy for years over whether the use of common antidepressants by women during their pregnancies might raise the odds of mental health issues in their children.
Now, a study involving more than 13,000 children finds no rise in the risk of autism in children whose mothers used an antidepressant while pregnant, but some data suggesting a heightened risk of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) in these youngsters.
The findings challenge prior research pointing to a link between exposure to antidepressants in the womb and a greater risk of autism. Instead, severe maternal depression may be the risk factor boosting a child's odds for autism -- not any antidepressant a woman took during her pregnancy, the new study's authors said.
"We know that untreated depression can pose serious health risks to both a mother and child, so it's important that women being treated with antidepressants who become pregnant, or who are thinking about becoming pregnant, know that these medications will not increase their child's risk of autism," study senior author Dr. Roy Perlis, of the department of psychiatry at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, said in a hospital news release.
In the new study, Perlis and colleagues analyzed data from thousands of children with either an autism spectrum disorder or ADHD and thousands more children without either disorder. In total, they looked at the antidepressant use of mothers of 1,400 children diagnosed with an autism spectrum disorder and 4,000 kids without the condition. The team did the same for 2,250 youngsters with ADHD and 5,600 without.
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We all know that there are millions of unemployed youth in South Africa. But SA is not unique. A recent global review identifies that youth unemployment is far higher than the overall population unemployment in many countries.
This is a global problem., but that doesn't mean that we should relax. We still need to solve our unemployment problem.
What can skills-universe members contribute to solving our youth unemployment problem?
In your experience - as human resource practitioners, business owners, and training service providers - how would you advise youth?
What do they need to do - or do differently - to increase their chances of employment?
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The Skills shortage and unemployment rate in South Africa is of great concern to many including the government. However if government wants to boost the economy, it needs to focus on the standard of education and job creation. This is a massive undertaking that will take years to achieve.
So where does this leave our lyout and our school leavers? Still unemployed unfortunately.
There are several things young people could do to improve their prospects of getting employed and furthering their education.
An internship is a work arrangement where an inexperienced but educated and usually qualified person joins a company to be mentored and trained by other staff members. The objective would be to learn as much about the specific industry as possible and to learn about specific jobs and opportunities within the specific industry.
Some internships offer a monthly income or subsistence allowance while you are being mentored and trained – This is at the discretion of the company. So if you are offered such an opportunity and decide to accept the position then don't complain later about the stipend or allowance paid.
If the person undergoing the internship shows enthusiasm, behaves in a business manner, and indicates they have potential they could be offered permanent employment. The most important thing is that you would have gained invaluable exposure and invaluable exposure to the industry.
An apprenticeship is similar to an internship in that it offers on-the-job training and work experience. Apprenticeships were very common 15 or so years ago and were phased out after independence.
Apprenticeships are once again becoming popular and are appropriate for specific trades such as mechanical, electrical, plumbing and so on. They offer practical, hands-on exposure to such specific trades.
Many apprentices eventually become full time employees of the company where they trained or go on to start their own business. There are various programs in place to encourage apprenticeships in various skills which are seen to be critical and scarce in terms of the government initiatives. These apprenticeships are offered by many of the SETAS and are aimed at people from previously disadvantaged backgrounds.
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While still studying or if a young person has no job yet they should try to get involved in a new hobby or skill in order to become more marketable. This also has a big advantage as it shows initiative and willingness to assist themselves. Employers and personnel practitioners will be impressed by the initiative shown.
They should find out what some of the skills they should have in order to be effective in the business world and if they can they should take on some part time studies.
Our youth must now realise they need to take responsibility for their personal development and not sit back and wait for others to do something for them. We are only entitled to get out in accordance with what we put in.
To all unemployed Youth in South Africa you mustn't look yourself down but walk tall. Make sure you keep yourself busy with your qualifications by getting involve in community projects like volunteering to those that are still at school and mix yourself with business owners by engaging more into entrepreneurship like business seminars and feed yourself with knowledge of what is happening around in the world of entrepreneur opportunities.
No matter what people are saying about you been educated and not having a job just remember that is not your fault but the system. Find the right people to be associated with. Network, Network, Network....
Bring Career Guidance back to schools.
The Youth should be trained how to be social students, if there could be a way to link their school/college activities with community development practical activities. Youth can be thought how to sell stuff, develop innovative ideas and Government should partner with local Entrepreneurs and subsidize them with funds to design business incubators for those young brilliant minds who have a potential to create self employment.
Networking, Networking. Talk to everybody in your circles that you are looking for a job. Network with what you are good at, your skills and knowledge. Add some training and internships if possible. Volunteer - this always looks good on your Cv. Have a professional and personal CV and Cover letter. Looking for a job is full time job.
The whole debate around unemployment and jobs is barking up the wrong tree; mass employment is an industrial age phenomenon and that age is rapidly drawing to a close as the digital age emerges. Mass employment as we have known it will be a tiny spike on the timeline of human history in the same way that human history is a mere speck on earth's timeline.
The first thing I tell any person who thinks they are unemployed is that they are not. We may live in a job-scarce world but we are surrounded by an abundance of viable opportunities for income security ... far more than there are people willing to take them up.
Our focus should be on promoting income security.
Here are two snippets from my letter to the Sunday Times in response to Bobby Godsell's article on "50 Million Wealth Creators" (http://wp.me/p1ehyd-4j)
I assert two things in my challenge about unemployment (although you will need to see the full letter to understand the rationale).
It is merely the way we think about work, employment and income security that makes unemployment a central challenge as asserted by many.
Here is how you can enter the new digital age and end unemployment in your life in less than 30 seconds (in ascending order of difficulty and complexity).
You reap what you sow. For those who sow diligently and persistently the harvest is usually abundant.
Motivate Cape Town is an initiative to inspire people to hope and to reclaim power in their lives. On Saturday we launch Challenge 2012, an experiment in crowdsourcing positive solutions for effective change by empowering communities to turn their innovative ideas into sustainable projects. The potential is massive. I have just come from a meeting where one team are going to crowdsource "Free Wi-Fi for Cape Town" starting in the townships, the impact could put the digital age into the hands of anyone with a Wi-Fi enabled phone.
If you live in Cape Town come an join the adventure. Joburg and Durban are next.
Unemployed youth should empower themselves by networking, interacting with people that can innovate and build them. In addition I think they should start small businesses, such as car washes to raise funds for pocket money. It might seem like a waste of time at the time but life is all about give and take...the busier one is the more chances of opportunities coming.
My advise is youth must not let unemployment become a disease or let it take over their mind...they must strive to be bigger than the unemployment.
My advise is youth must not let unemployment become a disease or let it take over their mind...they must strive to be bigger than the unemployment.
Very well said, Palesa! That is worth tweeting :) Check @MagicLifestyle
Read Nick Clegg's speech during the 5th National Apprenticeship Week in the UK...the Deputy Prime Minister is making Apprenticeships something everyone will want to have...and he has some of the biggest industries signing up to takin on apprentices.
Click on the link below to find out how apprenticeships are taking off in the UK...some of the biggest companies are signing apprentices up. It's a great time to be a training provider, lots of competition now as training provision is open to most enterprises who can show they can get young people into apprenticeships and keep them in employment and complete the programme.
Hi Madam Sylvia,
Compliments for the season!
Your conversation on 'how to advise unemployed youth in SA' is a progressive thought provoking question which has been preoccupying so-called SETA's for many years with no tangible breakthrough.This question will never be answered unless we are 'real',practical of the question of crushing the system of capitalism-a system which 'progress against the brutal or harsh realities of determining how many workers should be employed and how much they should earn.The neo-liberal system of prioritizing more and more profits at the expense of squeezing labourers to sweat for nothing is a problem......
The private sector has the capacity to create millions of quality jobs,if not trillions[a worker has not even counted wages up to that level]....The right to work,the right to decent working conditions is a pipe-dream unless companies must practically or ideologically buy-in in humanizing mankind through job creation.....
The Greece marches against job cuts must descend in South Africa for demanding job creation....
Career guidance and/or SETA's are some of the vehicles or platforms to be utilized to motivate youth,perhaps,to take alternative career pathing because many studied food service on the basis that some wanted,for example to study at UJ or WITS by hook or crook...and many realize that it meant that they must seek work at restuarants-worst employers or abusers of labour rights.
Me think,the current FET's must unlock solutions to skilling the youth for self-employing jobs which many South Africans despies,such as carpentry,painters,boilers,mechanic etc....every youth want to drive a ferrari on first salary and it is not ayoba.Many working or doing white collar jobs ended in jail for fraud,dribbling systems...pitied!
The debate is genuine Madam Sylvia.........
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Former POPCRU National Spokesperson
As master's students we had a discussion around what makes one more employable? It is clear that a certificate (degree or diploma) does not ensure you to get a job. You need more than that. But what is the more? Skills? If the answer is skills, one needs to define skills. Then another question, how you are going to assess skills?
Another challenge is that many workplaces, if not most, expect one to have previous experience. In a way this is unfair, because you need employment to be able to get experience. I always advise my students to try and get a job as quickly as possible, even if the salary is not 'good'. This is how you will start building up experience.
As a part of the training that we offer we include many hours of in-service training which can be seen as experience. Our students do in-service training at different ECD sites and by doing this, these sites have approached them to apply for a vacancy at the site.
Volunteer in your free time (not always possible with all types of employment), because the workplace staff will get to know you and see what you are capable of doing.
When you apply for a job, you must think of what will make your application stand out amongst other people's.
Sylvia, you asked for advise, but I came up with more questions!
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Ken G. Smith
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Ken G. Smith is professor emeritus and formerly held the Dean's Chair in Strategic Management, Smith School of Business. He is well known for his research in the areas of competition, competitive advantage, and strategic decision-making. Many of his articles have been published in leading scholarly journals, such as the Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Review, Administrative Science Quarterly, Management Science, Organization Science, and the Strategic Management Journal. He has also co-authored two books: The Dynamics of Competitive Strategy (Sage Publishing, 1992); and Strategy as Action: Competitive Dynamics and Competitive Advantage (Oxford Publishing, 2005) and co-edited the International Handbook of Organizational Teamwork and Cooperative Working (Wiley & Sons, 2003), and Great Minds in Management (Oxford Publishing, 2005).
Smith's research has won a number of awards, including the Best Paper Award from the Academy of Management Journal in 1999, Best Published Paper Award from the Organizational Behavior Division of the Academy of Management in 2001, and the Best Paper Award from the Journal of Management in 2003. In 1991, Ken served as a Fulbright Fellow in Strategic Management at the University of Limerick, Plassey, Ireland, he was Visiting Professor of Strategy in Spring 2000 at INSEAD, France and was Distinguished Visiting Scholar at Tuck School of Business, Dartmouth College, spring 2007.
Ken is a three-time winner of the Krowe Award for outstanding teaching from the Smith School of Business, was granted the University of Maryland Distinguished Scholar Teacher Award in 1996, and in 2011 won the Distinguished Educator Award from the Academy of Management. A former entrepreneur, Ken was editor of the Academy of Management Review from 1996-1999, elected a fellow of the Academy of Management in 1998 and from 2006-2007 served as President of the Academy of Management. He was also elected fellow to the Strategic Management Society in 2006. Ken currently lives with his wife Laurie in Wakefield, RI.
Primary Research Areas
- Business Strategy
Selected Publications
Smith K. G. & M. A. Hitt, 2005. Great Minds in Management. Oxford. (Paperback edition).
Pfarrer, M., K.G. Smith, K. Bartol, D. Khanin, & X. Zhang. Coming Forward: The effects of social and regulator forces on voluntary restatement of earnings. Organization Science. (forthcoming).
Zhang, X., K. Bartol, K.G.Smith, M. Pfarrer, D. Khanin. CEOs on the edge: Earnings manipulation and stock-based incentive misalignment. Academy of Management Journal (forthcoming).
Derfus, P., P. Maggitti, C. Grimm, & K.G. Smith. The Red Queen Effect: Competitive action and firm performance. Academy of Management Journal (forthcoming)
Pfarrer, M., K Decelles, K.G. Smith & S. Taylor. After the fall: Reintegrating the corrupt organization. Academy of Management Review (forthcoming).
Honors and Awards
Best Published Paper Award Organizational Behavior Division of the Academy of Management.G. Audia, E. A. Locke, and K. G. Smith. "The Paradox of Success: an archival and laboratory study of strategic persistence following a radical environmental change" Academy of Management Journal. 43(5) 837-854.
Runner up Best Paper Award, Academy of Management Journal.G. Audia, E. A. Locke, and K. G. Smith. "The Paradox of Success--an archival and laboratory study of strategic persistence following a radical environmental change" Academy of Management Journal. 43(5) 837-854.
McKinsey & Company Second Place Best Conference Paper Award, Strategic Management Society 2000.Ken G. Smith, C. Collins, K Clark, and C. Stevens. Organizational Advantage: combining and exchanges resources to create value.
Best Paper Award, Academy of Management Journal W. Ferrier, K. G. Smith, and C. Grimm. "The Role of Competitive Action Market Share Erosion" Academy of Management Journal. 42 (4) 372-388.
Editorial Boards
- Academy of Management Journal
- Strategic Organization
- President, Academy of Management, 2006-2007


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Alrighty then!! I'm back and ready to roll. In case you were wondering if I enjoyed my "No Media Day" yesterday, the answer is undoubtedly "hell yea!" However, a lot has happened since then and I need to say a few things.
There are many things in this world that I don't understand. For instance, why does the offense go on "hut," and not something spunkier like "boing" or something? I guess I'll never understand much about offense people, except that you can always count on them being offensive.
Like today when Troy Kropog told me in the weight room that I should stop writing. This surprised me, but before I could even reach, Michael Parenton clarified Troy's statement. He said that what Troy really meant was that I should cut off both of my hands so I could never write anything ever again! Now that wasn't very nice.
Sarah, I wish that I can tell you how I proceeded to lay the smack down on these two blasphemers while finishing my set of bicep curls, but I can not...for two reasons. First, I didn't lay the smack down on them because I couldn't come up with a witty reply in time. Second, I wasn't really doing bicep curls. I was actually slacking and trying not to be seen. I do want to add, however, that my biceps are very defined and plump. Maybe Troy and Mike are just jealous of me because of my guns!
Now don't get me wrong, Troy and Mike are nice guys and sometimes I do deserve some harassment from time to time - but not always. For example, when the other players start talking about their recruiting stories while I am present, now that's just not cool. Where were the recruiters when I was in high school? After every game when I was at Fordham Prep, all everyone ever told me was, "Don't worry Dave, they'll be her next week." Well everyone was wrong! They never came!!!! (Have you ever seen Euro Trip?) And that really hurt my feelings, Sarah.
I know you wouldn't expect it from a dominating, muscular, well-rounded, highly-sophisticated, handsome, and soon-to-be-very-single man like myself, but that made me cry. It's like The Big Lebowski said in the movie, ironically enough called The Big Lebowski, "Strong men cry, too."
Thanks for listening and hopefully, I'm not going to be single for too long,
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Oliver Named Conference USA Player Of The Week
Senior honored for first time in career
Mustangs Cap Off Season With Thrilling Five-Set Victory Over Tulsa
Stewart set single-season record in win
Four Mustangs Earn All-Conference USA Honors
Manning named to first team; Powell collects fourth accolade of career
Mustangs Conclude Regular Season Against Tulsa Saturday At 1 P.M.
SMU hosts conference champion on Senior Day
Mustangs Tie Record In 3-2 Loss Against UCF
Powell posts 20th double-double of the season with 15 kills and 18 digs
2010 (Jr.): Played in all 124 sets for the Mustangs... Named All-Conference USA Second team...Earned AVCA All-Midwest Region Honorable Mention selection...Finished season with 324 kills and 116 blocks... Recorded 10+ kills in each of the last nine matches of the season...Averaged 2.61 kills and 0.94 blocks per set during the season; MatchHighlights: Registered 15 kills on only three errors against Sacramento State... Added a season-high 24 kills on 43 attacks with only 3 errors (.488 hitting percentage)against UCF... Recorded 15 kills against UC Santa Barbara... While only making one attack error,notched 13 kills against ECU... Put up a double-double with 14 kills and a season-high10 blocks at UTEP... Posted 14 and 13 kills respectively in the final two games against Rice and at Tulsa... Added two service aces at East Carolina.
2009 (So.): Played in 109 games for the Mustangs... Tied for fourth on the team in kills (183)... Was third in total blocks (109.0) and blocks per set (1.00)... Was fifth in points (239.0) and points per set (2.19)Match highlights: Opened the season with 12 kills, a dig and a block against Northern Colorado (8/28)... Notched 13 kills, 2 digs and six total blocks against North Texas (9/2)... Collected 11 kills and four blocks against Tulane in the C-USA tournament.
2008 (Fr.): Played in all 31 matches and 111 of 116 sets...Averaged 1.55 kills while hitting .176...also totaled 83 blocks with a 0.73 average...Had five or more kills in 20 matches...Had four or more blocks in nine matches...Team Rankings: 3rd in blocks (81, 0.73), 5th in kills (172, 1.55), 5th in hitting percentage (.176), 5th in points (216, 1.95)... Match Highlights: Just missed a double-double with nine blocks and nine kills at Tulsa 11/16...Totaled nine kills and six blocks at East Carolina 10/26...Had 13 kills and four blocks at Denver 9/20...Hit .500 (8-1-14) against Eastern Illinois 9/12...Hit .500 (9-1-16) vs. UT-Arlington 9/3.
Prep: Member of the USA Volleyball High Performance Team (A2 Red Team...All-American Third Team in 2006 and 2007...First-team All-State, District Offensive MVP, and Team Captain in 2006 and 2007...Also named first-team all-district and TAPPS Offensive Player of the Year following her senior season when she totaled 1055 assists, 685 kills, 130 blocks, 61 kills, and 67 aces...In 2007, she averaged over nine assists per game and 2.45 digs per game...Team won the 2006 District Championship.
Personal: Parents are John and Angela Oliver...Born in June of 1990...Lists Flo Hyman as her favorite athlete.
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LONG BEACH, Calif. (AP) — Former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton likened Russian President Vladimir Putin's actions on the Crimean peninsula of Ukraine to those of Adolf Hitler in the 1930s.
Clinton made the comments Tuesday during a fundraising luncheon for local Boys and Girls Clubs, the Press-Telegram of Long Beach reported.
Putin contends ethnic Russians in Ukraine need to be protected. Clinton said that's what Hitler did when he maintained ethnic Germans outside Germany in places such as Czechoslovakia and Romania were not being treated right and needed to be protected.
"Now if this sounds familiar, it's what Hitler did back in the '30s," Clinton said, according to the newspaper. "All the Germans that were ... the ethnic Germans, the Germans by ancestry who were in places like Czechoslovakia and Romania and other places, Hitler kept saying, 'They're not being treated right. I must go and protect my people.' And that's what's gotten everybody so nervous."
The newspaper quoted Clinton as saying Putin is a man "who believes his mission is to restore Russian greatness."
"When he looks at Ukraine, he sees a place that he believes is by its very nature part of Mother Russia," she said at the private event.
A bit of the pot calling the kettle black if you ask me.
Hillary got her Hitler analogies mixed up. The duly elected government of Ukraine was violently deposed by a fascist coup led by the Right Sector, a vicious right-wing outfit which traces its origin to the Ukrainians who sided with Hitler during WWII. Hitler also led a fascist Putsch in Germany in his road to totalitarian rule. Putin is hardly a fascist, which is more than can be said for the current rules of this besieged country.
you righties better forget benghazie which has been vetted to the max and Hillary has been absolved of any wrongdoing. she Will be your next president for the next eight years after '16. you have no one who can beat her. your best hope was Christie who might wind up in jail. so fuhgetabotit.
It's also what Reagan and Bush did back in the '80s (with Grenada and Panama)…


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After securing the program's first-ever victory in the postseason conference tournament on Wednesday, the Red Raiders will face Baylor Friday at 8 p.m. in San Antonio for a chance to at the conference championship.
"The spirits are high," Texas Tech head coach Tom Stone said Thursday. "We had a great day of practice today, and we just want to make sure we are prepared and ready for Baylor tomorrow night."
The Red Raiders (15-4-1) used two second-half goals Wednesday afternoon to earn its second victory over Kansas this year. Big 12 Rookie of the Year and reigning Disney Soccer NSCAA Player of the Week Janine Beckie scored the initial goal before senior Dawn Ward put the game away in the 82nd minute with her third goal of the season.
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"And you get paid for that?" Since I've been writing about cars, I've heard that phrase plenty of times. And damn, did I hear it a lot over the past few days. But that's going to happen when you're at your friend's birthday party and you get to answer the innocuous "so how was your […] More »
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What is the idiomatic way to do the following
- tar to stdout
- read this tar output from stdout and extract to some other folder.
My solution is
tar --to-stdout .. | tar -C somefolder -xvf -
But may be there is more idiomatic way to do it.
The same
GNU tar uses stdio by default:
rsync is also popular.
Just adding another use-case here. I had a large directory structure on a system nearly out of disk space and wanted to end up with a tar.gz file of the directory structure on another machine with lots of space.
This saves on network overhead and means you don't have to tar on the other side in case you'd wanted to use rsync for the transfer instead.


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As I write a series of thoughts on the pursuit of excellence in programming, I must preface my essay by asking you to ignore that I wrote these words. I invite you to evaluate the opinions and ideas presented here not ad hominem, but rather on the basis of their own merits. It would be easy to otherwise mistakenly dismiss them with the infamous question posed by Steve Jobs to a blogger: "What have you done that's so great?".
This is to say that I talk about the ambitious and noble goal of achieving excellence in programming, fully conscious of not having achieved said excellence. For the time being, I don't feel like I can point my finger at something that would impress Steve Jobs (or less critical observers). I'm just a traveler on the journey of learning, with a desire to share his experiences and plans.
Two visions of intelligence
Mastering a complex discipline such as programming requires a great amount of learning over the course of several years, perhaps even decades. Maximizing one's ability to learn is therefore an early investment that can quickly repay itself.
The biggest impact on my ability to learn was caused by a shift in the way I considered the matter of intelligence. There are mainly two ways to think about it. You can either consider intelligence to be a static, intrinsic ability or a more dynamic, cultivable characteristic of human beings.
Cognitive scientists and psychologists conclusively determined that people who perceived intelligence as a dynamic characteristic, outperformed and were more successful than people who internalized intelligence as an intrinsic, static ability.
It's worth noting that it's not really important whether intelligence can actually be developed through application. It's the perception of it that forges students' approach to learning.
This difference in perception is often conditioned by early parenting. Kids who are encouraged to work hard to achieve results and are praised on the basis of their effort, tend to develop a perception of intelligence and results as something they can work on. Other kids are conditioned to think that they are doing well because they are "smart" and that their intelligence alone will most likely lead them to success.
Society has a fascination with genius, and parents like to fancy their little ones to be several standard deviations better than the norm, but conditioning children this way has dangerous and counterproductive consequences.
Kids who are labeled and praised because of their "innate capabilities", will often suffer from an overconfidence that will affect their ability to challenge themselves through the depths of the unknown, because they feel it would threaten their status. What if they fail? It would mean, in their eyes, that perhaps they are not the smart person they have been assumed to be all along. We all have seen such kids failing here and there, and quickly making excuses such as, "Oh, I wasn't trying at all".
A parent who is cultivating a kid's interest in hard work, may be more likely to encourage their child with words such as, "It's OK. Keep studying, and you'll definitely do better next time". A parent proposing a model of static intelligence, may justify their child's failure in a given subject by concluding that "maybe you are not cut out for subject X". [1]
When facing failure, the "static intelligence" child may crumble under the weight of his own demise, as if failure was a reflection of their intrinsic value rather than a temporary speed bump and occasion for growth. A "dynamic intelligence" child will simply try harder next time. Genius or not, excellence and mastery of any subject requires hard work and many "smart" kids fall short when the bar is raised high enough so that "smartness" alone won't cut it anymore. This usually corresponds with the switch from high school to college.
I'm very familiar with all of this, because I was one of those kids. I was labeled by my parents and science teachers as a "genius". Even psychologists at school, who came to help us figure out what careers we were better suited for, ended up telling me that I could pursue virtually any career (at the time I was interested in nuclear physics) and that according to their (virtually meaningless) IQ tests I would be classified as a "genius".
Please note that the problem wasn't so much the label. Most smart kids figure out that they are smart on their own rather quickly. The real problem was that I wasn't taught the value of long-term intellectual effort. Effort itself was considered as being somewhat detrimental to my status. Not only was I supposed to succeed, but I supposedly had to do so without putting forth any effort (a "utopic" ambition).
One of the first example of this that I can remember is when my father "caught me studying" for a few hours the same book before a test in middle school. He told me something along the lines of "Why do you need to study? A genius like you should figure out the test without studying.". It's absurd, I know, and probably one of the dumbest things my — otherwise bright — father has ever told me. As a young kid though, such a statement can have a strong impact on you.
Another example has to do with Latin. My teacher was a palm reading, crazy cat lady and I had no respect for her from the start. So I didn't pay attention in class, on top of not studying Latin at home, I set myself up for failure. When the first translation assignment came around, I got a mildly negative score. My less than professional teacher told me, "Oh I thought you were good, but I guess you are not". Afterwards my father added to this by saying something along the lines of, "Well, don't worry, I guess languages are not your strength.".
Boom. That was enough for me to stop having any interest in Latin and completely ignore a subject at which I wasn't excelling. Nobody could tell me, "You are stupid because you don't understand Latin," if I didn't try at all. So I was the high school kid who did advanced Calculus stuff on his own for fun, when my classmates where struggling with Algebra, yet I pretty much sucked at Latin. (In retrospective, the thought patterns required to excel at Latin where not very different from those required to excel at math or mastering English as a second language. I suspect that had I put in some effort I could have been very good at, and actually enjoyed, the subject.)
Over the years I had to readjust this perception entirely. By falling on my face more than once, I learned that excellence is only achieved through a combination of talent and effort. The real genius may lie in the ability to put in thousands of hours of focused study and practice, in the pursuit of whatever one person is trying to learn and understand.
If people knew how hard I worked to get my mastery, it wouldn't seem so wonderful at all. — Michelangelo
By this new definition, I was a complete idiot who had to entirely learn from scratch how to appreciate the value of effort to hone and develop his "talent" (which is nothing but a seed on its own).
Learning to learn
Being very interested in programming, computer science, mathematics, and science in general, I decided at some point that I had to entirely change my attitude towards learning if I were to master any of those disciplines. Effort was now more important than intelligence on its own, and I would feel satisfied only when doing a really good job in the pursuit of something challenging, that couldn't be achieved by sheer "talent".
The saddest thing in life is wasted talent, and the choices that you make will shape your life forever. — Calogero 'C' Anello from A Bronx Tale
In the process, I started to internalize a few principles and I dealt with issues related to both the art of learning and the art of programming.
An awful feeling
There is a cognitive bias known as the Dunning-Kruger effect [2], in which subjects who are inexperienced or less competent within a given discipline, tend to overestimate their abilities (they are in other words affected by illusory superiority [3]).
The other side of this coin is that the more you study, the more you realize how little you know and how much there is to know (a concept put forward by Socrates back in the days of Ancient Greece). This is both a pleasure and a discomfort. There is a huge amount of satisfaction in finding things out. Yet, being in doubt and fully aware of how little you know tends to be an unpleasant side effect all learners have to live with. Doubt truly is the water that's fundamental for the growth of the flower of intellectual curiosity. [4]
My approach in this case is to embrace and dominate my ignorance and fears. Whenever there is a concept that I feel particularly ignorant about or that is way over my head, I try to tackle it as if my life depended on it. There are still countless things I'm ignorant about, but this approach as really paid off for me over the years.
If you are trying to learn a whole branch of computer science or mathematics, it will take a long time, so you may want to start first with smaller "fears" that can be mastered, at least at an introductory level, in a short amount of time. Rather than thinking, "Oh yeah, I should really learn Git", for months, act on the thought. The essential knowledge to work with Git or Hg doesn't take months to learn (assuming you have a need for either of these particular tools).
But you are in this for the long run, so don't be afraid of improving your craft by studying advanced topics that require a bigger commitment in terms of time as well. There is no royal shortcut, mastery of our craft will require thousands of hours of dedicated study and practice.
Theory and practice
Masters of any intellectual discipline tend to have good working knowledge of both theoretical and practical aspects. Pursuing excellence in programming requires the study of many insightful books that will widen your view of the field and as a result necessarily improve your craft.
Working with books alone is not enough though. Programming requires writing and reading programs every day for years. That's why I have a rule: I refuse to go to sleep if I haven't read and written some code on a given day (this doesn't include the code I write for work, of course). So far, this rule has had a positive impact on my ability to code.
It is a mistake to think that the practice of my art has become easy to me. I assure you, dear friend, no one has given so much care to the study of composition as I. There is scarcely a famous master in music whose works I have not frequently and diligently studied. — Mozart
Breadth Vs. Depth
As we progress in our journey towards the pursuit of excellence in programming, a question that will no doubt pester people's minds is whether one should go for breadth of knowledge, or depth. There are countless programming languages, paradigms, methodologies, technologies, et cetera.
The truth of the matter is that if we are to become GrandMaster programmers, we cannot ignore either of them. In practice, depth has a much stronger impact in the way we construct software. It is through deep understanding that we can see the whole through the parts. There is therefore value in specializing in just a few languages and technologies, and really mastering them in-depth.
Getting things done in software development requires a certain pragmatism and proficiency with the tools at hand. There is no escaping it. Depth is therefore necessary, but not sufficient.
I find that the web is particularly good at covering the breadth aspect of things. There are always new and interesting areas I can learn about and experiment with. I don't need a whole 600 page book to get a feeling for — or to better understand — certain technologies that are not crucial to my area of specialization.
While there are quite a few exceptions I could mention, I'd say that I tend to use the Internet as an aid for horizontal scaling of my knowledge, and books for vertical scaling. And again, more often than not, the depth level is mostly determined by the amount of time, practice and effort I put into it, rather than the media I'm using.
Where to find time
One of the objections I hear often, particularly when it comes to reading books is, "I don't have time!". In a few extreme cases, that may actually be true, but I think that most people severely underestimate how much time is "wasted" on a daily basis (even just surfing online).
Breaks are extremely important, and I'm not advocating any regime of incessant study. I simply know how crucial it is to be constant. It's a marathon, not a sprint.
My second rule is: I refuse to got sleep if I haven't read at least a chapter of a book that day. Very often I get caught up in the book I'm reading or working through, and end up getting through much more than just one chapter (it really depends on the book, of course). But for me the rule is clear: no sleep allowed until one chapter has been read every day.
Try this approach and you'll see that reading doesn't have to take up much time, yet doing so you can still read several books (including technical ones) every month.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit. — Aristotle
For certain books, it is convenient to have the book in PDF format on your computer, as you switch from the book to the editor/console and back. However, generally speaking the computer tends to be quite distracting and thoughts like "I'll just check my email quickly" can easily lead to hours spent doing something else.
For this reason I prefer to read from a paper book which is also easier on the eyes for extensive reading after a day in front of a computer screen. Even if I'm using the computer at the same time to input code, the physical presence of a book next to my laptop is enough to remind me that I shouldn't get distracted online. (For me the depth and focus required by books is also an antidote to the re-wiring that the web tends to do to our brains. [5])
By the way, a few days ago Amazon announced a gorgeous, brand new graphite color Kindle DX [6]. I think I may pull the trigger and get it for my upcoming 30th birthday. Buying numerous paper books is expensive, and given the price of Kindle books, this move would end up being cheaper in the long run. The large e-ink display almost looks like paper and the device is not as distracting as an iPad (you read on a Kindle, and that's it). Plus, it's lighter than most technical books and surely takes up less space in your home.
Achieving focus
With so much going on within the programming world, distractions are easy to come by. My approach is to focus only on the given macro-task at hand. If I'm trying to learn about process calculi for example, then for the next few months my "learning time" will be ruthlessly dedicated to that subject, as if the rest of the programming ecosystem stopped in time.
Then there is focusing at a micro-task level. Learning about a given subject can always be divided into a long series of smaller steps. When I'm focusing on one such, tiny step, then everything else ceases to exist (or at least in theory).
One trick I use to achieve solemn focus on micro-tasks, whether reading code, writing code, or reading a technical book, is the use of the Pomodoro Technique [7]. In short, I use timer software [8] which alerts me when 25 minutes (a pomodoro) have passed, and gives me a 5 minute break for each pomodoro. Every 4 pomodoros, I can take a longer break.
When I first started using this technique I thought it was mostly a gimmick and I had a hard time taking breaks. I just wanted to keep going and the "tracking" seemed silly. However, I must say that it strikes an elegant balance between the desire to focus for extensive periods of time and the importance of taking regular mini-breaks.
This approach has become routine for my mind now, so even if it is just a gimmick, it's still a good way for me to get focused and "in the zone".
Aiming for sprezzatura
The pursuit of excellence requires a huge drive from within, and a fundamental dissatisfaction with just being good at a given discipline. I believe this is true regardless of the profession at hand.
As I progress in my journey, I'm discovering how the key is to make the pursuit of excellence a habit. This goes against my nature of being an intellect sprinter, but I'm in for the long run and I'm really learning to enjoy the, marathon like, process.
My long-term goal is to program with sprezzatura [9], where the process is so internalized and part of my subconscious that it almost looks effortless (as if the act of programming was committed to muscle memory). It will be an overnight success, 15 years in the making.
Regardless of the improvement level achieved, I will always have the joy, privilege and need to continue to learn for the betterment of myself and my craft. When there is no set destination, the journey is what really matters.
Ancora imparo. (I'm still learning.) — Michelangelo
[1] These concepts are explained, in a much more eloquent manner, in the early chapters of the excellent book, The Art of Learning by Josh Waitzkin.
[2] Dunning-Kruger Effect on Wikipedia.
[3] Illusory Superiority on Wikipedia.
[4] For more on the importance of doubt in science, check out the beautiful epilogue in What do you care what other people think? by Richard P. Feynman.
[5] For more on this phenomenon, read The Shallows by Nicholas Carr.
[6] The new Kindle DX on Amazon.
[8] Pomodoro for Mac OS X.
[9] Sprezzatura on Wikipedia.
Carlos Marcelo Cabrera translated this article into Spanish: La búsqueda de la excelencia en la programación.
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Really nice, thanks a lot for sharing your thoughts and practices.
An excellent, if long, article. (I'll admit fading a little toward the end) I agree in a large part, and especially that intelligence is a dynamic thing. I've noticed an improved focus and mental acuity when I read at least a little on a regular basis, and less when I don't. Certainly a hard working person with a little sense will have more success than an exceptionally gifted person who is lazy.
Also, I've taken a [half] conscious approach to the question of breadth versus depth. I've favored breadth of knowledge with depth where passionate, then also depth where needed. I trust my ability to learn and apply when I need something. By learning some on a variety of areas, I will know available options for addressing a problem. With that breadth of knowledge, I can identify a use and add depth to apply it then.
By no means am I more gifted or exceptional, but mildly creative and perhaps more willing to work and achieve than many. That's what makes me a good developer, in my opinion.
Great insight Antonio! Thank you for an awesome article.
Really, really helpful guide for people like me, who're just about to graduate from University ('Ancora Imparo' is my University's motto :)). Thank you so much for sharing your thoughts.
Hi! Im really interested in the source for the following statement:
Cognitive scientists and psychologists conclusively determined that people who perceived intelligence as a dynamic characteristic, outperformed and were more successful than people who internalized intelligence as an intrinsic, static ability.
I know Iv read some article about it but can't for the life of me figure out where.
Thanks in advance.
Great post, really interesting…
I'd like to add this link related to skill acquisition: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dreyfus_model_of_skill_acquisition
I started designing and writing HTML 7 years ago as a middle school student. From the get-go, I always outsourced and programming work. It would be 3 or 4 years before I even tried to write JavaScript.
I always had a desire and interest in programming – and over time developed an incredible respect for software engineers – but from fear of failing never just jumped in and started learning. I knew it would be a difficult journey, something I "didn't have time for", so I never wanted to start it.
This year, after many failures related to relying on other people to make software for me – I finally committed myself to learning. I'm still in the very rudimentary levels of programming – ie coding websites (php), working with mysql, linux server admin, etc. – but I'm finding that I DO get better with time and practice.
Your post was inspiring and definitely right on the mark. For those of us who are just beginning our journey – thank you for the reminder that it IS long, and it IS arduous – but it's totally worth it = ).
Enjoyed the quotes, insights, and sincerity. To your success!
Excellent article, lots of good advice. Thanks for sharing your thoughts!
Thanks for this excellent post. I found it illuminating
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By 'Excellence', i think you mean the 'relative' kind and also in very much a 'restricted' sense ( parameters measurable by other equally circumscribed programmer types ) — the 'western' influence on analysis' of such topics ( those dealing with the 'self'/'I'/'my' ) forces 'goals'/'contexts' and 'motives' to be sanitised from the 'topic' of discussion.
The 'Problem space' ' motives' and 'big picture' understanding must have an influence in the definition of 'excellence' in any area of pursuit. ex: Supremely smart and intelligent and very possibly 'excellent' phd quants concocting mind-boggling BS structures enabling wall street to wreak worldwide havoc is not 'excellence' in anybody's book. A synthetic world view and an exposure / understanding of the very much central 'human' issues coloring every pursuit — is essential.
An 'excellent' programmer needs to make parallel and fervent efforts to be an 'excellent' human too.
Considering the impact 'Programmers' are going to have on the world in the future .. I think this is essential
Unlike ' b-schools ' who 'teach' MBAs ethics !! .. i think programmers who in general are more self-motivated , self-taught and high-potential – generally tend to ignore the impact of these 'core' choices.
A broader discussion of 'excellence' would probably highlight these issues too.
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Wonderful article, thank you very much!
Some question please:
a) What you think about the "environment" in which a developer finds himself, "how much" it's important? If a developer is surrounded by people who "don't care" he has to change immediately?
b) What do you think about the importance of the "school" or the "master craftsman" role for a developer?
c)just a personal curiosity, are you a 'fan' of Richard Feynman?
Brilliantly put. I'm going to try the one chapter per day trick!
About >> Not only was I supposed to succeed, but I supposedly had to do so without putting forth any effort (a "utopic" ambition).
It seems silly, though it is partially true. Mental capabilities are very much like physical capabilities. Your genes decide your athletic abilities and your lifestyle choices will determine if you reach your potential. Of course Michelangelo worked very hard, but he was also very talented (or then simply lucky!)
You shouldn't be telling little children to not work hard, but you should identify fields they are good in. Because you were aware of your mathematical talent, it was easy for you to pick a career in science.
What if no one had highlighted your talent and you ended up as a Latin professor? Would you have enjoyed that today? Why not simply pick a field at which you naturally excel rather than having to work doubly hard than some talented chap?
Thanks for the post, it gave me another thing to think about. I noticed the same thing in me a few years ago: I was always "working hard" in order to appear from any point of view to obtain sprezzatura (amazing word btw). And that was almost always about it.
In the end, even that pays off, but it's somewhat a not-really-healthy way of doing things.
Now I'm switching to an approach similar to the one you've described, so thanks again because you gave me an insight about how you are working on it. 🙂
So much material!
Like you, I believe "labelling" of people is counter-productive – regardless whether the label is "good" or "bad" – and is especially damaging to children.
I would differentiate your "Two visions of intelligence" to talent vs. skill. To me, talent is innate and of lesser value. Skill is acquired through long hard work and has greater utility.
"Learning to learn" is an outcome of schooling – but its an easy skill to lose. It requires constant practice and I believe most people (including me) avoid that practice out of fear that their innate sense of inadequacy will be proven correct – that "awful feeling". BUNK, STUFF and NONSENSE!!! (I say to myself.) It just takes diligence. I'm really not as stupid as I look.
"Theory" is intriguing and may help stimulate creative application. But I've given up on finding a "unified theory" of programming. What matters to me is getting stuff done – the physical deliverable. Practice! Practice! Practice!
"Breadth vs. Depth" has always been a difficult choice for me. I want to know everything! Yet I find that no matter what depth I go to, there's always greater depth to plumb – and someone's been there before me. Nowadays, I try to go deep enough to feel that I grasp a concept, then move on. When I use the concept, I'll often pursue greater depth – but only to the level that I need to apply the knowledge.
"Where to find time?" Well, what are you doing – sleeping nights? There's work to do!
"Focus", as you say, is a matter of habit. I do functional decomposition down to a level where I can describe a physical deliverable – then get to work. I try to get up and change focus about once an hour. If I'm into it, looking at one more thing "before bed" sometimes turns into "before breakfast". Not necessarily sensible or effective – but fun!
I do want to get good, but mostly I want to be effective and useful. When I find that I seldom "look it up" any more, I lift my head and look around and find that I've been doing the same kind of thing for 10 years and it's time to "re-invent myself". That's intimidating to me, but I try anyway and relearn how to learn and overcome my sense of inadequacy and just try to focus on getting something done and the next time I lift my head – it's 10 years later.
Not a bad cycle, but not easy!
This is a wonderful essay Antonio, thank you!
Excellent post. One of the best, if not the best, I've read on the subject of learning.
I think in similar terms and though I think I'm dedicated, I just found out by reading your post, that I'm not dedicated enough.
Your article inspired me to do better.
Having a rule of reading a chapter a day, writing and reading some code every day before sleep is an excellent idea. I'm thinking of doing something similar. I would like to hear some more details of how you actually do it (what code you read/write, etc).
Anyway, I loved reading this post.
Simply brilliant, it's articles like these that give me the motivation to continue learning. I've been trying to follow the former of your rules for a few weeks now and my programming has definitely improved. Six months ago I was struggling to achieve my goal of improving at programming, solving more logical problems quicker and more efficiently, and then I realized; I'm not improving because I'm not actually doing much programming. I need the end to justify the means as well.
Your second rule is going directly into my routine, I have a pile of technical books that I'm very slowly going through, mostly because I get distracted with online articles and communities, however the books I have at hand offer a plethora of knowledge, and I need to focus my goals.
Keep up the good writing, can't wait to see more.
Read the Bible, God exists.
When you get older, you'll laugh at your young self and the obsession with intelligence. You'll come acros young bulls and say, ba ha, out to prove themselves. Hopefully, you'll have accomplishments and have grown beyond that stage of competativeness.
You're off to a good start with some humility. When I see a young buck full of arrogance, they are generally buffoons. You want a buffoon, read St. Augustine.
Pride comes before a fall and humility before honors, as much as the night, the day.
I appreciate your point of view, however I'm not sure that it is applicable to this author. There is no obsession with intelligence, here, but with learning. In fact the author posits that intelligence might even be a detriment to learning in some cases, when one is conditioned to rely on their intelligence rather then apply a solid work ethic toward learning.
The author admits that he was labeled a 'genius' as a child, but I believe that was included not as a boast, but to lend relevance and credibility to the position he has taken regarding one's approach to learning. In particular, he asks the reader in the very first paragraph to ignore any personal, public achievements that he has, or has not, achieved.
The world is full of baseless braggadocio, to which your comment would apply and would receive my wholehearted endorsement, but I cannot see that any can be found here.
Great post 🙂
I had posted about one of my favorite cartoons about the perception that programming involves reading a few how to books that profess to teach you x in y time.
great post. long but, well articulated. resonates a lot with my own understanding & experience.
loved the part "use internet for horizontal scaling and books for vertical scaling"
I went to college for about two years. And then I had many problems to focus to study the lessons. Before I went to college I was labeled like "genius" too. So I developed the "bad" static intelligence.
It's more an evidence to proof this article.
Well done. Very good article.
P.S.: I will change!
One word : Inspiring !
Hi Antonio
It has been a pleasure to read this article and I sincerely appreciate the time and effort you've put in here to expose in clear crystal words what it takes to achieve a well doing in whatever you love and to show people the (often invisible) barriers that limits their success
I appreciate this so much that I'll like to translate this to Spanish and mail it to you if you can re-post this in Spanish or ask for your consent to do it so in any public place clearly citing the original source
And again, thank you very much !
Simply inspiring.. May be the best Web article I ever read!
But the problem with motivation is that it wears down if u don't constantly feed it. I have heard, read or seen a lot of motivating talks, which makes me feel like achieving everything that is to be achieved in a single day. But after some days, I am back to square one.
I have a lot of interests, Web Programming, System Programming, Designing, Guitars, to name a few.. simply too many to handle. As a result, I keep on juggling through them randomly throughout the day and never really reach anywhere in any of them.
Really wonderful. Thank You. Very much.
Deja vu ! The Art of Learning by Josh Waitzkin!!!
This is an amazing article! Congratulations.
About labeling people I got myself in a dilemma:
I was a very smart child, clearly above the average. Everybody was telling me I was intelligent, from my father to my colleges. And they were right, but the problem was the environment I was living in. I was the one-eyed king a blind land, without never noticed it. Well, I came into college and there I was super confident in my capacities, thinking life was easy, and wondering how far I could go like an electronics engineering I am being. As the years were passing through my course I started having some difficulties in keeping good marks. After all, only those good students get in the university. I was never again the best one… I was only one more, and I got a big delusion when I realized it, seeing how hard is to do something really useful. For so many times I had just thinking
"Why would I have to come into the college? and to an engineering course? what was I thinking? it would be much more easier if I had a job like normal people have (work on a factory, be a waiter, or a simple truck driver… — a job where I wouldn't need to effort, just doing every days the same)"
When my delusion started to pass I thought better "I wouldn't go so low. Where were my dreams? No, I have dreams, I'll realize them".
And here comes the dilemma: What if I was not labeled as a man that cannot fail, I would never had the hope to go far and do science for the community, not for me. Probably I only would care to get my wage, managing it to some bears and hoping nobody to annoy me. That's sad, but that's what I see from my friends whom never cared too much to study.
Antonio, what is your opinion about this? I know label people is a bad thing, but how much is it?
Best Regards,
I really enjoyed your article and I would like to publish a translation of it in my blog. I understand that, with all rights reserved, not enough to reference the original but I must ask your permission. So, do you allow me to translate and publish your article?
Articolo stupendo!
Volevo solo chiederti quando dici che ti sei imposto come regola quella di non andare a dormire se non hai almeno letto e scritto un pò di codice al giorno, che cosa significa precisamente? Che tipo di codice scrivi e quanto ne scrivi? Leggere ok, c'è né moltissimo in rete di codice da leggere, anche se la gran parte non è di buona qualità e rischia di confonderti anziché aiutarti, ma scrivere codice può portare via moltissimo tempo perfino settimane, quindi cosa consigli di scrivere piccoli pezzi di codice didattici finalizzati all'apprendimento di determinati concetti o scrivere codice di progetti reali?
Scusa se ho scritto in italiano, ma ho visto che anche tu lo sei 😛
great article, ta!
Reading this article was a truly mind-blowing experience. Thank you sir.
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How to Fill Out a Recharacterization Form
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A recharacterization form instructs your individual retirement account (IRA) plan provider to change a contribution you made from one type of IRA to another. You can also revoke a previous IRA conversion. If you file your income taxes on time, the IRS automatically grants you a recharacterization filing extension. You have until October 15 to file your recharacterization form for conversions or contributions for that tax year. However, if you do so after you file your taxes, you typically need to file an amended tax return.
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1998 -- won second NCAA title, defeating Casey Cunningham (Central Michigan), 3-1 in the finals...three-time all-American...won first two NCAA matches by pin...won second Big Ten title, defeating Jason Davids of Minnesota, 6-0 in the finals...named Outstanding Wrestler of the Big Ten Tournament...won 19 of his first 20 season matches, and won his last 11 matches...scored 11 team bonus point victories...won Northern Iowa Open title and placed third at Midlands Open...was 5-2 in overtime matches...won team Sacrifice award and shared Team MVW award with Mark Ironside and Joe Williams.
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Women's Hockey Faces Cornell in ECAC Quarterfinal Series
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PRINCETON, N.J. (2/26/14) - The Princeton women's hockey team makes its 20th appearance in the ECAC Tournament as the Tigers are seeded No. 6 and face No. 3 Cornell in a best-of-three series at Lynah Rink this weekend. With the Cornell men's team concluding the regular-season at home this weekend, the series will be played in the afternoon (Friday at 3:30, Saturday at 2 and Sunday at 2).
Princeton is the No. 6 seed in the ECAC Playoffs with a 10-9-3 ECAC record and a 14-11-4 overall record. In Jeff Kampersal's 18 years as head coach he has taken the team to the quarterfinals 15 times. The Tigers return to the Tournament after missing out last year for the first time in 12 years.
Senior Denna Laing sits atop the scoring column with 25 points on 12 goals and 13 assists. Junior Brianna Leahy and senior Sally Butler both have 20 points. Leahy has eight goals and 12 assists while Butler has a team-high 16 helpers and four goals. Sophomore Jaimie McDonell is next on the list with 15 points. Three defenders follow - senior Rose Alleva and junior Ali Pankowski both have 14 ponts while senior Gabie Figueroa has 13. Cassidy Tucker leads the freshmen class is scoring with 12 points. Three other skaters have 10 points. Sophomore Kimberly Newell is 12-11-4 in goal with a .908 save percentage and a 2.64 goals against average.
Princeton leads the series with Cornell 41-30-3 but has a two-game edge when playing at Lynah Rink, 17-15. The Tigers ended an eight-game winless streak in the series last Saturday with a 4-3 win at Lynah Rink, their first win in the series since the 2008-09 season.
Princeton and Cornell have never met in the ECAC Playoffs. The teams did play each other five times in the former Ivy League Tournament between 1980-89.
After an 0-2 weekend last weekend Cornell dropepd from first place in the league to third. The winless weekend halted the Big Red winning streak at six games as the team is now 20-5-4 overall and 15-4-3 in the ECAC. Cornell is ranked No. 6 in this week's USCHO poll. Cornell will be out for revenge as its loss to Princeton last Saturday came on Senior Day and gave Harvard the Ivy League title instead of taking it itself.
A pair of juniors lead the Big Red in scoring. Jillian Saulnier has 46 points on 23 goals and assists. Emily Fulton adds 39 points on 17 goals and 22 assists. Senior Jessica Campbell has also reached the 30-point threshold. Three defenders follow in points - Alyssa Gagliardi, Cassandra Poudrier and Hayleight Cudmore who have 24, 24 and 22 points respectively. Senior Lauren Slebodnick is 15-1-3 in goal with a .907 save percentage and a 2.30 GAA. Freshman Paula Voorheis backs up and has seen action in 12 games, including the Princeton game when she came in on relief. Voorheis sports a 1.65 GAA and a .936 save percentage.


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Cheneval, Francis (2011). Constituting the dêmoi democratically. Challenges to Democracy in the 21st Century 50, University of Zurich, National Centre of Competence in Research (NCCR).
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The original constitution of the dêmos by democratic means (dêmos problem) is a fundamental
problem for normative democratic theory. In this paper, I make an assessment of different solutions
to the dêmos problem that have been presented in recent literature. I find that none of them is
adequate, and thus hold that the dêmos problem remains unresolved. At the end of the paper, I
propose a constellation in which multiple dêmoi are thought to be constituted at the same time. I
show that this leads to a mitigation of the negative consequences that are implied in the proposed
solutions analysed in previous parts of the paper. Constituting the dêmos according to the democratic
ideal is more expedient under the conditions of a large number of individuals having the option
to form a plurality of dêmoi. This overall conclusion means that the democratic legitimacy of the
dêmos itself is critically dependent on a relational setting of relatively open but independent dêmoi.
The relations between dêmoi and the freedom of movement among them is thus not something
which is added to ideal democratic theory as an external and foreign element reducing the legitimacy
of a democracy. Rather, the norm that states that there should be multiple dêmoi that openly
relate to each other is actually part of the hard core of democratic legitimacy.
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