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Profitez de la campagne isolée de réglage avec des étangs, des cygnes et des jardins! Il est parfait pour le week-end escapade, petit mariage, retraite d 'entreprise ou pour les voyageurs d'affaires qui aime la paix et la tranquillité. Choisissez parmi notre élégante Suite Rose, Violet chambre ou la salle de Blue Bonnet! Faites votre jour de mariage un moment spécial en ayant un petit mariage de jardin! Cérémonies ont lieu sur notre plate-forme inférieure avec les cygnes et étang en arrière-plan-fait de superbes photos!
5 sur septembre 28, 2016
Sleeping arrangements (bed + room) were extremely comfortable and I am very particular. The innkeepers were cordial and accommodating without being too involved/friendly which is a fine line that they executed well. To suit my work plans, they served me an extra early breakfast, which they didn't have to do, but was very much appreciated!
5 sur août 18, 2016
Upon our arrival, we were greeted warmly by the Inn keeper and she was very helpful in helping us find a place to eat dinner. The town of Apex is a cute town and friendly community. We stayed in the Blue Bonnet Room and it was lovely. Breakfast was delicious!
5 sur juin 28, 2016
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5 sur décembre 01, 2015
This B&B was very comfortable. The Rose room was very spacious and a great view of the lake. Resident swan, Romeo, was a delight! What a lovely, relaxing stay.
5 sur novembre 25, 2015
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My sister and I hosted an "after the wedding" breakfast for my niece at this wonderful Bed & Breakfast in Apex NC. We could not have dreamed up a more lovely property NOR more wonderful Innkeeper and owner than Beth and Linda. They acted like an extension of family- polishing OUR silver, delivering our misplaced notebook to our hotel, helping us utilize all the areas of their property for our special occasion. We not only enjoyed the event, but we enjoyed putting it together with their help. The facility is more beautiful than the pics even show and the grounds are immaculate. We had such a marvelous experience that I would recommend this TREASURE SPOT for any occasion. This is the spot for your wedding or special occasion!!!!!!
5 sur septembre 15, 2015
The Innkeepers were very welcoming. The property was beautiful, and the room was lovely and very relaxing. The complimentary wine was exceptional. The home and grounds are simply serene!
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The weekend was great and such a blessing. The Inn was so appropriate for our group. The atmosphere was calm and quiet, so peaceful. The Innkeeper's kindness will not be forgotten. I had a new experience in riding the paddle boat. I wish I could have stayed longer! Thank you and God Bless.
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We attended an event here and the location was perfect and the inn keeper was the perfect host. She made our stay even more pleasant.
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We celebrated Mother's Day with a trip to Plants Delight Nursery, and stayed in the Rose Room. It was very enjoyable, and the host and hostess (Tom and Linda?) were equally enjoyable. Recommend the B&B highly.
Nommé pour notre fille belle, Julie. Un lit à baldaquin king-size et une grande salle de bain privée fait dans de belles roses et blancs donnent à cette pièce un style victorien definate. Un grand salon donne sur les beaux étangs et jardins! Parfait pour une escapade tranquille ou lune de miel!
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Thursday 17th March 2016 - Wyre Forest (Worcs.)
Today was a glorious sunny day and with this in mind I decided to pop into one of the quieter areas of the forest and look for reptiles. At first it seemed there were none about but after an hour or so of searching I came across 2 basking Common Lizards (one with it's tail and one without). I took my time to observe and photograph these before continuing my travels.
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Adders (Vipera berus)
Common Lizards (Lacerta Zootoca vivipara)
Sunday 20th March 2016 - Holt Sling Pool (Worcs.)
Today I decided to drive over to Holt and check out Sling Pool. I'd been here a few weeks before and on seeing the marshy pools between the Juncus and thought to myself that it looked good for a passage wader and perhaps even a Garganey. On arrival I got out my scope and started panning across the marsh when I picked up not one but 3 Garganey (2 drakes and a female), result! Garganey are a small dabbling ducks that are fairly scarce annual migrants through Worcestershire, with only small numbers recorded each year. It just goes to show that if you visit the right habitats at the right times of year there is always a chance of finding something good.
♂ Garganey (Anas querquedula) - cropped distant record shot
Thursday 24th March 2016 - Venus Pool NR (Shropshire)
Today Bev & I decided to have a drive out to the Shropshire Ornithological Society's Venus Pool nature reserve near Shrewsbury. We started our visit by scanning the pool and islands and soon picked up on 2 ♀ Goldeneye that were present. Other wildfowl of note included 64 Shoveler, 14 Shelduck and 16 Teal. On the wader front, we noted 2 Oystercatcher, 6 Common Snipe and a small number of Lapwing. At one point a ♂ Sparrowhawk went through putting up the Lapwing.
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Finally we spent some time in the members only hide where we were treated to good views of the aforementioned Chiffchaff flitting about in the bushes outside the hide. We also picked up in another herald of Spring in the form of 2 Sand Martin that flew through.
♀ Brambling (Fringilla montifringilla)
Friday 25th March - Holt & Grimley (Worcs.)
Today Bev & I returned to Holt Sling Pool to have another look at the Garganey. There were still 2 Garganey (1 drake) present and new in that morning was an absolutely stunning summer plumage Black-tailed Godwit that had been found by local birder Patch H. Also of note at Sling Pool were 9 Common Snipe, 1 Green Sandpiper and 3 Oystercatchers.
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At Stanklyn Lane paddocks there were a pair of Green Woodpecker busy feeding and 2 Mistle Thrush were also noted. Stanklyn Lane also provided the day's highlight in the form of a ♀ Brambling that was perched in the hedgerow with c.40 Chaffinch. Sadly, they all took flight and flew towards the grounds of the Islamic School before I could get a record shot...ah well!
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Beautiful, clever and the price is "WOW"!!!
Very NICE.....it looks beautiful next to your bench!
Thank you, I couldn't believe how well the two pieces matched when I got them home. I think they were meant to be together. :)
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The Howl of the Wolf Tattoo
Like the bear, wolves are very prominent tattoo subjects. Get inspiration for your next wolf tattoo!
Wolf tattoo will embody strength and fearlessness.
Wolf tattoo symbolizes being wild and skilled hunters. They are regarded as supreme hunters of the forest. They value their freedom, thus their reputation for being untameable.
Let's skip the part about how many usually think about teenage werewolves on the mainstream when they hear the word 'wolf'. I'm not a big fan of TeenWolf or Twilight or whatever and I'm not here to make fun of them, no matter how tempting, it's sad that wolves are reduced to teen lovers versus sparkly vampires these days. Let's all be excited again with wolves and remember how vicious as f-ck they actually are.
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As we all know, wolves travel in packs. Which is why they are commonly associated with family and close ties. It has a lot to do with territorial advantage among actual wolves. They have that sense of unity by being a part of a clan. And on a light note for closet hopeless romantics, wolves only mate with one partner for their whole life, until the other dies that is. Despite being bloodthirsty beasts, wolves are nurturing parents. The whole pack takes part in taking care of the pups.
Wolves not only play a part in Native American symbolisms but they also appear in mythologies and tales. In the modern age, many can identify themselves with wolves while some see the wolf as the foe they go against in inner battles. The big, bad wolf becomes the lad you unsuspectingly fall in love with, who ends up eating you alive in the end. Or maybe we should start talking about how Jacob is so right for Bella.
Let's not forget about the lone wolf or the rogue wolf, as some may call them. Lone wolves are those who have broken off from the pack or where thrown out from the pack they were born into. The lone wolves may be the old alpha who's grown weaker. Or maybe it's the omega who's grown tired of the other pack members' shit. It's that kind of angst people can sympathize with.
People may get a wolf tattoo for various reasons, but never too distant from one another. It's always somehow connected to the best qualities of wolves and the things people see in wolves that reflect themselves. A wolf tattoo owner talks about how his tattoo is important him, "My tattoo reminds me I always have the support of a pack when I need it, but also have the freedom to be independent."
I'm not going to delve deeper about every single one of wolf symbolisms and their origins (because they will be mainly boring) but in most cultures, the wolf is largely associated with protection. Protector of secrets, protector of the innocence of children and many others. They also act as guides since wolves does a lot of travelling in the wild, even on their own they find a a place for themselves.
Anyway, here's a nice story I read a while ago.
An old grandfather told his grandson: "My son, there is a battle between two wolves inside us all. One is evil. It is anger, jealousy, greed, and resentment. The other is good. It is joy, love, hope, humility, kindness, empathy, and bravery."
The boy thought about it, and asked, "Grandfather, which wolf wins?"
The old man quietly replied, "The one you feed."
A wolf howling at the moon is symbolizes the calling of the animal for the Great Spirit, perhaps for guidance, for protection, or for its heart's desires.
A man might befriend a wolf, even break a wolf, but no man could truly tame a wolf.
— George R.R. Martin
"We have doomed the wolf not for what it is, but for what we deliberately and mistakenly perceive it to be –the mythologized epitome of a savage ruthless killer – which is, in reality, no more than a reflected image of ourself."
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"Throw me to the wolves and I'll return leading the pack" ―Unknown
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This is such an adorable underboob tatt, something I'd probably get. Its 'shitty-idgaf' style which is becoming more popular these days really appeals to me.
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In 2009, ChipMOS Technologies (Bermuda) almost collapsed after two of its top customers, which together accounted for 40% of its revenue, went belly up. Today, it is positioned for growth that could boost its shares by 30% from current levels. And they have already doubled this year.
The small semiconductor assembly and testing outfit's remarkable comeback is being fueled by some of the hottest markets around, including smartphones, tablets, and vehicle infotainment systems.
Established in 2000, ChipMOS bases its operations in Taiwan. (Its holding company, however, is located in Bermuda; hence the name.) ChipMOS (ticker: IMOS), along with Chipbond Technology (6147.Taiwan), are the main players in the global test-and-assembly industry. The company, which has a stock-market value below $500 million and annual sales of around $600 million, processes, checks, tests, and modifies silicon wafers produced by Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing (TSM), Intel INTC 1.1848341232227488% Intel Corp. U.S.: Nasdaq USD34.16 0.4 1.1848341232227488% /Date(1480716000411-0600)/ Volume (Delayed 15m) : 21083511 AFTER HOURS USD34.14 -0.02 -0.0585480093676815% Volume (Delayed 15m) : 409023 P/E Ratio 16.11320754716981 Market Cap 161884239276.886 Dividend Yield 3.0444964871194378% Rev. per Employee 539860 More quote details and news » (INTC), Fujitsu 6702.TO 2.034011337112371% Fujitsu Ltd. ADR U.S.: OTC USD30.6 0.61 2.034011337112371% /Date(1480634399000-0600)/ Volume (Delayed 15m) : 228 P/E Ratio 12.533278722097071 Market Cap 12381366545.3465 Dividend Yield N/A Rev. per Employee 262149 More quote details and news » (6702.Japan, Texas Instruments TXN 0.44027836954977984% Texas Instruments Inc. U.S.: Nasdaq USD70.72 0.31 0.44027836954977984% /Date(1480716000211-0600)/ Volume (Delayed 15m) : 5818630 AFTER HOURS USD70.72 % Volume (Delayed 15m) : P/E Ratio 22.45079365079365 Market Cap 70683652763.0445 Dividend Yield 2.828054298642534% Rev. per Employee 438503 More quote details and news » (TXN), Himax HIMX -0.2789400278940028% Himax Technologies Inc. ADR U.S.: Nasdaq USD7.15 -0.02 -0.2789400278940028% /Date(1480716000404-0600)/ Volume (Delayed 15m) : 5089811 AFTER HOURS USD7.15 % Volume (Delayed 15m) : P/E Ratio 23.388943408570494 Market Cap 1229826535.75355 Dividend Yield 1.8181818181818181% Rev. per Employee 410967 More quote details and news » (HIMX), Micron Technology MU 1.6774891774891776% Micron Technology Inc. U.S.: Nasdaq USD18.79 0.31 1.6774891774891776% /Date(1480716000176-0600)/ Volume (Delayed 15m) : 25556790 AFTER HOURS USD18.86 0.07 0.37253858435337944% Volume (Delayed 15m) : P/E Ratio N/A Market Cap 19570480945.0107 Dividend Yield N/A Rev. per Employee 394873 More quote details and news » (MU) and other customers, and assembles them into components for use in electronic devices.
THE COMPANY'S WOES stemmed from an expansion spree that left it heavily in debt, just as the 2008-2009 financial crisis shook the global economy. Its stock, in the mid-$20s before the downturn, sank to a low of 18 cents in December 2008. "It was a very difficult time," Chief Financial Officer Shou-Kang Chen recalls in a telephone interview from the company's headquarters in Hsinchu. "Our expansion was predicated on contracts with our customers who were hurt badly by the recession, which was out of our control. But we were able to renegotiate our debt, spread out payments, freeze our capital spending, and generally weather the storm."
It also didn't hurt that 2010 saw the start of a turnaround for the semiconductor industry. Or that ChipMOS was able to collect $100 million owed by its biggest customer, Spansion (CODE), which had gone into receivership.
"Because ChipMOS wasn't well known, even though it's listed in the U.S., many investors expected it to go bankrupt, as well," says analyst Richard Shannon with Craig-Hallum Capital in Minneapolis. "But because its business was basically stable, and it was only one of two players in its particular business niche, they were able to recover relatively quickly, moving from a negative 29 cents a share of free cash flow in 2010 to $4.24 in 2011, and toward an expected $3.60 in 2012 and $4.11 in 2013."
At a recent price of $12.63, ChipMOS stock was trading at less than four times this year's expected free cash flow, the metric "that really tells the story of how cheap the stock is, and is the best way to judge the true value of a stock like this," says Shannon. He rates the stock a Buy, with a 12-month price target of $26.
Comments Taz Turner, who runs the New York-based South Shore Capital Partners hedge fund: "Four dollars a share in cash flow this year and probably $5 next year is pretty hard to ignore. And earnings should start to rise in earnest this year, as the company works out from under heavy depreciation and debt left over from its overexpansion in 2006-2007. It's been kind of a Lazarus stock—back from the dead."
Management has focused on the strong demand for liquid-crystal displays for smartphones and tablet computers from customers such as Apple aapl 0.37446342131701527% Apple Inc. U.S.: Nasdaq USD109.9 0.41 0.37446342131701527% /Date(1480716000257-0600)/ Volume (Delayed 15m) : 25971488 AFTER HOURS USD109.76 -0.14 -0.12738853503184713% Volume (Delayed 15m) : P/E Ratio 13.288996372430471 Market Cap 586021205548.573 Dividend Yield 2.0746132848043675% Rev. per Employee 1846780 More quote details and news » (AAPL), Hewlett-Packard hpq 0.398406374501992% HP Inc. U.S.: NYSE USD15.12 0.06 0.398406374501992% /Date(1480716184091-0600)/ Volume (Delayed 15m) : 8234344 AFTER HOURS USD15.12 % Volume (Delayed 15m) : P/E Ratio 10.647887323943662 Market Cap 25868444569.8308 Dividend Yield 3.5105820105820107% Rev. per Employee 168077 More quote details and news » (HPQ), Toshiba 6502.TO 1.1463250168577208% Toshiba Corp. ADR U.S.: OTC USD22.5 0.255 1.1463250168577208% /Date(1480720801000-0600)/ Volume (Delayed 15m) : 15900 P/E Ratio N/A Market Cap 15918236702.6439 Dividend Yield N/A Rev. per Employee 251427 More quote details and news » (6502.Japan), and Dell (DELL). The LCD business produced about 35% of ChipMOS' revenue last year, versus 22% in 2009.
Turner adds that "2012 could shape up to be a terrific year for this segment of the semiconductor business, and assembly and test capacity could become tight," given the demand created by Apple's iPad and iPhone, Amazon.com's amzn -0.44510186243528543% Amazon.com Inc. U.S.: Nasdaq USD740.34 -3.31 -0.44510186243528543% /Date(1480716000227-0600)/ Volume (Delayed 15m) : 3463719 AFTER HOURS USD740.98 0.64 0.08644676770132642% Volume (Delayed 15m) : P/E Ratio 169.63545127511858 Market Cap 351785143756.926 Dividend Yield N/A Rev. per Employee 554562 More quote details and news » (AMZN) Kindle e-reader, smartphones using Google's (GOOG) Android operating system, and lightweight ultrabook laptops from a host of manufacturers.
ChipMOS marketers have also won new customers, such as Asahi Kasei Microdevices 3407.to 2.313475997686524% Asahi Kasei Corp. ADR U.S.: OTC USD17.69 0.4 2.313475997686524% /Date(1480720800000-0600)/ Volume (Delayed 15m) : 5678 P/E Ratio 14.025212082771743 Market Cap 12417170200.9003 Dividend Yield N/A Rev. per Employee 511976 More quote details and news » (3407.Japan), which is aggressively expanding outside Japan and could be generating up to 5% of ChipMOS' sales by 2013.
With growing cash flow, the company is likely to be nearly debt-free by year end. Instead, it will have seven cents a share of net cash, versus a negative $2.86 for 2011, estimates Shannon. He sees net cash reaching $4.15 a share in 2013 and $7.22 in 2014.
At the same time, earnings are climbing. Shannon estimates that profits will be $1.85 a share this year and $3.00 in 2013, versus a pro forma 13 cents last year. The company reports first-quarter results on May 18.
Brian Grad, an analyst and portfolio manager with ChipMOS' top institutional shareholder, Bannockburn, Ill.-based DLS Capital, calls the company "massively undervalued." DLS has owned the stock for three years and holds 2.25 million shares, about 7% of the total outstanding. "You can make an argument that ChipMOS is a $30-plus stock…. The industry trades at a multiple of five times to six times and seven times at peaks. That would translate into a $31 stock" by year-end 2013, based on his cash-flow estimates.
THE STOCK ALSO LOOKS cheap on the basis of its price/earnings ratio—seven times expected 2012 net, in an industry that typically fetches 10 times forward earnings. On the same basis, its price-to-earnings growth (PEG) ratio is a modest 0.45.
Some shareholders expect ChipMOS to initiate a dividend eventually. The company will say only that it expects to have sufficient cash flow if its board ever wants to. ChipMOS already has authorization to buy back $10 million worth of its shares, but has difficulty doing so because of Nasdaq regulations.
A boon for shareholders could come if the company's main subsidiary, ChipMOS Taiwan, is listed in Taipei, as bulls believe it will be. ChipMOS Technologies (Bermuda) common, now listed on Nasdaq, would be exchanged for the Taiwan stock, which, in turn, would list American depositary receipts in New York on Nasdaq. The company says it "wouldn't rule out the option," but is noncommital.
Observes Scott Bishins, a Boca Raton, Fla., investor who owns about 1%, or 320,000 shares, of ChipMOS: "If ChipMOS were trading at the same valuation in Taipei as Chipbond currently is, it would be changing hands somewhere between $35 and $40."
Finally, ChipMOS's low price and good prospects could tempt an acquirer, although there's no indication that they have. But deal or no deal, investors who own the stock should eventually be in the chips.
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An 83-year-old man has achieved a double by becoming the oldest living kidney donor in the UK and the oldest person in the country to give a kidney to a stranger.
Nicholas Crace is the latest member of an exclusive club known as altruistic donors - someone who gives a kidney to somebody on the NHS waiting list whom they do not know.
The former charity director, from Overton, Hampshire, said:
''I knew that 7,000 people are waiting for a kidney and that one person dies almost every day while waiting.
''I couldn't have lived with myself with the knowledge that I had had the chance of changing someone's life and turned it down.''
The operation, which took three hours, was carried out recently at the Queen Alexandra Hospital, Portsmouth.
Tests at the hospital revealed that the widower's kidneys functioned as well as those of someone in their 40s.
Mr Crace said:
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''In fact, given a halter, he would gladly have led me into the winner's enclosure at the Smithfield Show to have a rosette pinned on.''
Annabel Ferriman, chairwoman of Give a Kidney - One's Enough, a charity dedicated to raising awareness of altruistic donation, said:
''Altruistic donors are very special people.
''They have the imagination to understand the suffering that people go through on dialysis while waiting for a transplant and the courage and generosity to do something about it.''
Mr Crace explained that his thoughts turned to donating a kidney after his wife Brigid died last summer.
He also realised he was too old to be a bone marrow or blood donor, having given blood 57 times previously.
Mr Crace, who is a volunteer driver for a local hospice, said:
''I cannot remember quite what put the idea of being a living kidney donor into my mind but in September 2011 I thought that it might be worth investigating.
''After all, I was in good health, had no dependants and had plenty of time at my disposal.
''Giving a small part of me to someone else will make little difference to my life but a huge difference to someone else's - it was an easy decision for me to make.
''I was lucky to be in a position to help someone else less fortunate than myself.''
The process involved Mr Crace undergoing a number of tests during 14 hospital visits in a six-month period.
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''We know from numerous studies that a living donor kidney performs better, works quicker and lasts longer than one from a deceased donor.
''All the detrimental factors related to being on dialysis are completely taken care of by a good, functioning kidney.
''An altruistic donor coming forward is an amazing thing for us. The recipient just gets a new lease of life.''
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Reading :: An Interdisciplinary Theory of Activity
An Interdisciplinary Theory of Activity
By Andy Blunden
Andy Blunden has been involved in activity theory circles for a long time. He has been a frequent contributor on xmca and has transcribed innumerable important works on Marxists.org (such as Vygotsky's Thinking and Speaking) as well as posting his own work.
This deep familiarity has given Blunden a familiarity of activity theory that is hard to match. But that means that he sees its drawbacks as well as its advantages. In this book, he traces its development, then critiques it, then proposes some changes to activity theory to make it truly interdisciplinary. This proposal is intriguing, and to my mind persuasive—in part.
Blunden lays out the book and its proposal in the introduction. "This work is a friendly critique of Cultural Historical Activity Theory (CHAT)," he says in the first sentence (p.3). CHAT should be interdisciplinary: "It was the difficult conditions in the Stalinist USSR which restricted the scope of CHAT to psychology, and it is the aim of this work to resolve those features of CHAT which have prevented it from fulfilling its potential as an interdisciplinary approach to the human sciences in general" (p.3). To resolve those features, Blunden attempts an "immanent critique" (p.4), one that is conducted solely through the voice of the subject matter—that is, one that offers a critique solely on the terms of the subject matter being critiqued. Based on this critique, Blunden promises, he will offer a proposal for iterating CHAT. The proposal offers these changes:
First, replace the ambiguous term activity with the concept of project:
something projected … by the subject, rather than an object to which the subject is drawn; the subject may be an individual or many people who are united precisely in that they are pursuing the same project. A project is an on-going collection of actions and is both the aim of the actions and the process of attaining that object. A project is a concept, but every individual has a different concept of the project, these constituting the various shades of meaning and connotations to be found in representations of the project. (p.9)
Second, add the concept of collaboration:
The notion of collaboration is to give definite conceptual form to the notion of 'joint' when CHAT theorists talk about 'joint activity'. Collaboration is always and essentially working together in a common project. (pp.9-10)
Collaboration includes two limiting cases: management and cooperation (p.10).
Together, project and collaboration (which are "mutually constitutive") form "project collaboration as a new unit of analysis for activity. … Nothing is changed here; only the conception of the whole, that is, the context of action" (p.10).
So this is Blunden's proposal for CHAT: replace the unit of analysis (activity) with a similar one, one that is grounded in the coincidental but not identical concepts of an ongoing shared project undertaken by different participants. It's a relatively modest proposal, but one that redirects CHAT from a Stalinist concept of a shared objective world to a more intersubjectivist stance.
As Blunden reminds us in Chapter 2, CHAT's gestation during the Stalinist period led it to suppress its "revolutionary Marxist character" (it was too revolutionary for the Stalinist milieu):
After 30 years in hiding, it escaped only to take root in the bastion of capitalism and anti-communism, where in order to survive it had to keep its Marxism under wraps. But in a double irony, the crisis which befell Marxism in the wake of the collapse of the Soviet Union left CHAT largely unscathed, because of the non-political shape it had adopted for the purposes of survival in the past. (p.21)
To get us to his proposal, Blunden must review this history. He reviews the intellectual foundations of CHAT in Goethe (Ch.3), Hegel (Ch.4-9), and Marx (Ch.10-12), then turns to the contributions of Vygotsky (Ch.14-18). From there, he reviews the development of activity theory in the USSR (Ch.19-24) and the development in the West under Engestrom and Cole (Ch.25-26). That's a lot to cover—it's a long book, and the above is just the history review, not the later part of the book where Blunden makes his proposal—so I'll just hit the highlights here.
In Ch.7, Blunden reviews the Hegelian contrast between the abstract and the concrete. "By 'abstract' Hegel means undeveloped, lacking in connections with other things, thin in content, formal; as opposed to 'concrete', which means mature, developed, having many nuances and connections with other concepts, rich in content. He does not use the words abstract and concrete to indicate anything like the difference between mental and material" (p.62). (This passage helped me to better understand the notion of ascending from the abstract to the concrete.)
In Ch.11, Blunden notes that Marx's "Theses on Feuerbach" was "surely the founding document of Activity Theory, even though it remained unknown until after the author's death" (p.94). Later in the chapter, Blunden notes that according to Marx, "Social activity is possible only thanks to the use of artifacts of some kind (including words and images, but also land, etc.) with which people identify themselves and each other. Symbols and icons are invariably used in this way to constitute social groups; there is no 'natural' form of political association. All these symbols are meaningful because of their connection with certain concrete concepts, associated with certain modes of life. Just as Feuerbach demonstrated in relation to Christian imagery, all social formations represent themselves symbolically" (p.101).
In Ch.12, Blunden gets to Marx's critique of political economy. Marx notes that, in Blunden's words, "Abstraction is not just a process of thought reflecting upon activity, but a product of activity itself" (p.107). As Blunden says, this insight went relatively unnoticed until Ilyenkov picked it up and developed it within CHAT. Another, more well known insight supplied in Marx's Capital was that "All interactions between people are mediated by artifacts" (p.111, Blunden's italics). So those artifacts become vested with meaning and value. And value is not subjective, it is "embedded in real social relations sustained by the market. Value adheres to products, while at the same time, value expresses nothing more than the relation between the consumer and producer of the commodity" (p.112).
In Ch.13, Blunden asserts that "Marx was able to appropriate Hegel's Spirit through the notion of activity" (p.113). He also notes that Marx, like Goethe, developed tools to support holistic analysis. Goethe uses the figure in which "'the light of the Sun is reflected in every droplet of water'" (qtd. in Blunden p.115), a figure that Vygotsky later used when arguing that word meaning should be the unit of analysis.
Vygotsky, at long last, is discussed in Ch.14, which focuses on his critique of behavioralism. As Blunden notes, Vygotsky's 1924 speech to the Congress of Psychoneurology—the speech that brought him to Luria's attention, resulting in his job in Moscow—was an immanent critique of reflexology: "Without disturbing the universal claim that 'everything is a reflex', Vygotsky had turned the concepts and methods of reflexology against themselves and proved that reflexology, that is to say, the study of the physiology of the nervous system, must merge itself with the methods and concepts of subjective psychology, its opposite" (p.122). Moreover, he demonstrated that the characteristics of behaviorism are incompatible with emancipatory human science, which was Marx's aim (p.127). Vygotsky pointed to alternatives to physiological behaviorism, including social behaviorism in the works of William James (p.128).
In Ch.15, Blunden elaborates on the "romantic science" of Vygotsky and Luria, which heavily involved collaboration "at three levels: amongst the research team, between researcher and experimental subject, and in relation to other researchers in the field. As we shall see, collaboration was not only central to their way of working, but also to the content of the theory of psychology that they developed" (pp.137-138). (I am skeptical of this point, given the fact that Luria repeatedly used subjects who were unable to decline their participation, who participated under what could be construed as implicit cultural threat, or who were too young to give informed consent. Similarly, Vygotsky primarily wrote about children in classrooms, who by definition had unequal power relations with teachers and researchers.)
In Ch.16, we read about Vygotsky's thoughts about units. This was one of the most rewarding parts of the book for me: Blunden carefully discusses what Vygotsky meant when he proposed word meaning as a unit of analysis. First, Blunden separates "unit of analysis" from "microcosm."
- Microcosm. Vygotsky says that word meaning is a "microcosm of human consciousness," that is, a phenomenon that if studied to the end (just as Pavlov did for the salivary reflex) can "unlock the entire domain of human consciousness for analysis" (pp.144-145).
- Unit of analysis. Vygotsky says that word meaning is also a "unit of verbal thinking"—not a unit of analysis for consciousness in general (p.145). Blunden quotes Vygotsky: "Word meaning is nothing other than a generalization, that is, a concept" (quoted on p.145; Vygotsky's italics). Blunden notes that here Vygotsky is in agreement with Hegel (p.145). Vygotsky's "claim is that verbal thinking, the highest development of human consciousness cannot be understood through phonetics and semantics, the 'elements' of verbal thinking" (p.146), but instead is "a unique conjunction of two distinct psychological functions" (p.146; cf. my review of Thought and Language 2ed).
At any given moment, the social situation in which the child finds themself [sic] constitutes a predicament, a predicament from which the child can only emancipate themself by making a development, that is to say, by a qualitative transformation of their own psychological structure and the structure of their relationship with those who are providing for their needs, a transformation that frees them from the constraints in which they were trapped. … (p.154)
This is the basic concept of the social situation of development: a predicament from which the child emancipates itself by making a development. Note that this concept is radically different from the conception of social advantage/disadvantage used in positivist social science, made up of a list of factors to be added up for and against development. Rather than a list of attributes, Vygotsky gives us the concept of the social situation. (pp.154-155)
In Ch.18, "The Significance of Vygotsky's Legacy," Blunden argues that "Vygotsky's greatest methodological virtue was that he always posed very specific problems entailing quite specific functions of individual human beings; he never operated with abstract generalizations. His is a cultural psychology, but he used no abstractions to represent culture; we hear nothing of 'social norms', 'social class', or 'the dominant ideology'; he just deals with two people using an artifact together" (p.164). This parsimony intrigues Blunden—and me as well. But it has drawbacks: "Without further qualification, the picture of society that Vygotsky leaves us with is that of a mass of dyads or small family groups, using a common resource of artifacts, but we have no way of conceptualizing how those dyads and groups interact with one another to form a social formation. Nor actually do we have any idea of the source of motivation for the actions individuals carry out, and this is the most serious problem" (p.164). With this insight, Blunden takes us to the discussion of activity theory.
In Ch.19, he begins the section on activity theory by arguing along with Davydov that activity should be an interdisciplinary area of study, not confined to psychology (by historical accident) (p.171). Beginning with AN Leontyev, Blunden discusses the basics of activity theory, including a discussion of Leontyev's take on Engels' origin story (p.175). After some discussion, Blunden concludes, "Human life is thus conceived as a system of needs and the means of their satisfaction. But it is striking that in this view, the human being is seen in continuity with the natural world, as just another organism pursuing the objects of its needs" (p.176).
Skipping to Ch.21: Here, Blunden discusses criticisms of Vygotsky's concept of activity. Summarizing the earlier discussion, Blunden says that a unit of analysis
- is a conception of a singular, individual thing
- exhibits properties of a class of more developed phenomena
- is itself an existent phenomenon (p.190).
The core idea here makes abundant sense, but its use without a realistic sense of social life in any epoch undermines its value. All that is required here is to detach this key idea from the Stalinist fairy tale. (p.218)
(From a rhetorical perspective, I would argue that the fairy tale was what allowed AT to survive. Now its further survival hinges on how easily that fairy tale can be detached. And in another milieu, what other baggage will AT have to take on or shed? But that's a Latourean analysis, not an AT one.)
Blunden further argues that Leontyev's notion of the object is either tautological—"the object of activity is the outcome toward which it tends"—or "devoid of meaning," just a reification of the activity itself (p.219). Blunden wraps up by noting that "what is needed is a psychology which recognizes the diversity of real relations to be found in bourgeois society here and now"; "So as a theory of psychology Leontyev's activity theory still works, just so long as the content of 'activity' is not taken too seriously. But in that case, what does activity theory add to Vygotsky's original formulation?" (p.221).
Chapter 22 tackles the question of groups. Blunden argues that identity is central to the formation of social subjects, yet the problem of identity seems to have escaped Leontyev's attention; it is presumed rather than explained (p.223). Drawing on Lektorsky, Blunden argues that "identity is always contested, multiple, and conditional, but never individual" (p.225). Yet Leontyev's only mode of identity is group membership (p.226).
Chapter 23 gets to Engestrom's model, the famous triangle, which Blunden says "tackled a lot of the problems in Leontyev's model": specifically a "three-way relationship of mutual mediation" (p.229). Blunden notes that Engestrom presents the activity system as a "root model," but not a unit of analysis—and Blunden adds that it really can't be one, even though it is deployed as one (p.230). The triangle is a "handy pocket manual of social analysis," but not a concept per se (p.232).
Skipping ahead a bit, let's get to Blunden's wrap-up of his immanent critique. He argues that one cannot include context (open-ended totality) in a unit of analysis—doing so wrecks the unit of analysis (p.251). And this brings us to Blunden's proposal, mentioned in Chapter 1 and elaborated in Ch. 28-on.
In Ch.28, he proposes a new unit of activity: project collaboration (p.255). The rest of the chapter elaborates on the constituent elements, collaboration and project. (cf. my own All Edge, which discusses project collaboration but does not elaborate it theoretically to nearly the same degree). Here, artifacts are also projects; actions may belong to multiple projects (p.257). Collaboration in a project is active in contrast to object-oriented activity, which implies a passive response (p.257).
Blunden also discusses some limiting cases of collaboration: management (hierarchical cooperation) vs. division of labor, which itself can be subdivided into cooperation (divided labor, no mutual critique) and exchange of commodities (that is, a market) (pp.259-260).
In any case, the collaborative project is the unit of analysis for activity (p.260). (Here, Blunden is interested in bounding the context of the activity. For some parallel thinking on this problem, see my "Losing by Expanding.") Such projects can nest in each other. To identify such a project, Blunden says, we must start not with societal needs but with people's motivations (p.262).
In Ch.30, Blunden boldly argues that Leontyev's activity theory is incompatible with Marx's critique of political economy, since Leontyev insists that "each system of activity is objectively motivated by an object, which is a need of the whole society" and thus satisfies a definite social need (p.275).
Let's skip to the last chapter. Blunden ends by essentially saying that he has settled the unit of analysis: "This work has now been done, and the meaning and significance of the idea of unit of analysis has been settled. … the proposal has to be responded to" (p.317). You have no choice, reader!
We always have a choice. But I am intrigued by this proposal—intrigued enough to spend three hours (!) writing this review. And as you may have noticed by my links to my own works, this book gets at some things that I have been trying to think through (although not nearly to the extent Blunden has). If you're also thinking through activity theory and its implications, I urge you to pick up this book. Even if you are not convinced of Blunden's critiques and proposal, you will find some valuable and thought-provoking work here.
Presentations :: What's Wrong with CHAT?
In early August, I was thrilled to be involved with an interdisciplinary, international set of scholars who discussed writing research at Dartmouth University. The format included a weeklong discussion of six working papers followed by a three-day conference.
My working paper was entitled "What's Wrong with CHAT?"—an extension of the presentation by the same name from CCCC 2016.
And since the working paper discussion involved three hours of response, I put together a second slide deck to guide that discussion, entitled "What's wrong with 'What's Wrong with CHAT?'?"
If you didn't make it to Dartmouth, no worries: I've linked to both presentations below.
Reading :: The New Man in Soviet Psychology
The New Man in Soviet Psychology (Russian Research Center Studies, No. 7)
By Raymond A. Bauer
Alex Kozulin cites this book a couple of times in his own writings on psychology in the Soviet Union. It was published in 1952 and is no longer in print, but fortunately Amazon had a used copy at a very reasonable price. I found it to be surprisingly insightful and relevant.
A few notes. Bauer studied under Jerome Bruner, who also wrote the Foreword. Writing at the height of the Cold War, Bauer examined the state of psychology in the USSR, which was at that point still under Stalin (who would die the year after this book was published). Once Stalin died, the leading psychologists in the USSR would find their voices, publishing their major books; but at the point Bauer was writing, Soviet psychological publications were essentially dormant. Bauer even notes in his preface that "The major psychological journals ceased publication in the period 1932-1934, and after these years, publication facilities for psychological research were very sparse until 1946" (p.xii).
Given this situation, it's a bit of a shock to see how Bauer discusses the Vygotsky Circle—who are more or less seen as a marginal group with some odd, jury-rigged ideas. Back to that in a moment.
Bauer notes that at this point in the Cold War, Soviet leaders proclaimed that the social and political work in the USSR was scientific, in contrast to that of the rest of the world. At the same time—paradoxically, he says—"the Soviet leaders subject Soviet science to active and explicitly political interference to an extent unheard of in any other modern state." As one consequence, "In range of activity, Soviet psychology has narrowed from an extremely broad discipline which studied animal and human, normal and abnormal, child and adult subjects to one which focuses most of its attention on the study of normal, healthy children" (p.4).
Intriguingly—and this is the core of Bauer's analysis—
Viewed in the light of psychological theories of the twenties, man was a machine, an adaptive machine which did not initiate action but merely re-acted to stimuli from its environment. Concepts like "consciousness" and "will" were suspect; they smacked of subjectivism, voluntarism, idealism. After all, man and his behavior were determined by antecedent social and biological conditions. Man as depicted in present day Soviet psychology is not passive in the face of the environment. He takes the initiative away from the environment. Rather than being determined by his environment, he determines it. Furthermore, he shapes his own character by training and by "self-training." Whereas the proper subject of psychological behavior in the twenties was objective behavior—the correlation of external stimuli with externally observable responses—today psychology is the study of consciousness, "the highest form of organized matter" and the instrument whereby man shapes himself in his environment. (p.5).
Bauer claims that "developments in psychology have reflected the resolution of the conflict between two doctrinal trends in Marxism" (p.5).
What are these trends? Later in the book, Bauer explains that
The development of Stalinism involved essentially the conflict between two alternate sets of assumptions embedded in Marxism, one focused on the understanding of causal relationships, the other focused on the achievement for some purpose. The first corresponds to what has become known as "mechanistic Marxism," the latter as "dialectical Marxism." Seeing these positions in direct opposition to one another is an unwarrantedly abstract and schematic distinction. These systems of thought were not the exclusive property of any individual or group of individuals; they were alternate assumptions which any person might use in a given situation. (p.14)
Both aspects were latent in the works of Marx and Engels. The first gives Marxism-Leninism its teleological aspects—and convinced the Mensheviks that they could work incrementally, since Socialism was always and inevitably fated to take over the world. The second was picked up by Lenin and the Bolsheviks, who believed that man must ultimately make his own history (p.17).
Bauer says that "extreme mechanistic Marxism" has these postulates:
(1) Man is a product of his inheritance and his environment; therefore society is responsible for man's character and behavior, rather than man's being responsible for society. (2) All social events are determinately related; therefore the trend of future events can be predicted. (3) Essentially, the course of events is determined by abstract forces external to man himself, and there is little that he could or should do to direct them. (4) Since all oppressive and repressive institutions are a function of conflict in class society, a classless society will speedily do away with repression. (5) Class society is a result of a particular form of economic relations, and a change in the economic base of society will eliminate class divisions, which in turn will result in the withering away of the state and bring about ideal social conditions. (6) Man is inherently rational and inherently good; and once he is freed from the institutions of a class society, he will revert spontaneously to rationality and goodness. In addition to these premises, mechanistic Marxism posits the desirability of a freely developed and fully expressed personality, of freeing man from excessive burdens and of respecting his dignity. (pp.18-19)
"However, as the history of the Soviet Union unfolded, it became evident that these postulates were untenable in various areas of society," Bauer adds (p.19). The USSR (nominally) achieved a classless society, but problems persisted, the State did not wither away, and the predicted worldwide Revolution did not come. The early 1920s saw a crisis in economic planning, leading Stalinists to claim that "mechanists had no place for chance (accident) in their thinking" (p.23). The Stalinist victory led to many changes. "It made official the view that man is the master of his own fate" (p.24); the dialectical view became seen as the correct one; dialectical, not mechanistic materialism became "the accepted methodology of science" (p.24). At the same time, the crisis meant that the State had to ask more of its individual citizens (p.24).
In philosophy, Bukharin and his followers took the mechanistic view, while Deborin and his followers took the dialectical. The latter were supported in 1925 by the Russian publication of Engels' Dialectics of Nature as well as parts of Lenin's notebooks (p.25). By 1929, the dialecticians had won, imposing the dialectical view in science (p.26).
Interestingly, the dialectical view insistent that contradictions were not external but internal to a given system (see Ilyenkov); "the dynamics of the system were derived from forces within it and not from forces impinging on it" (pp.27-28). (Note: Depending on how you read Engestrom, he either disregards or supplements this claim with his modeling of quaternary contradictions in activity networks.) The dialectical view also led to studying systems—and that led to studying what was qualitatively different in man vs animals, since the laws of the human system could be qualitatively different from the laws of animal systems (p.29). It also led to the rediscovery and relegitimization of the human psyche (p.29). And it introduced the notion of levels of development as opposed to a continuous process (p.30).
This shift had other far-reaching consequences. For instance, the notion that the State would wither away is a quintessentially mechanistic one (p.35); it led educators to claim that education should be based on spontaneous processes within beneficial environments—there would be a "withering away" of school. This notion dominated until 1931! (p.44). But by that point, efforts began to restore the teacher to his/her traditional position. The notion of carrying out education by focusing on the environment was finally killed in 1936—by the infamous pedology ban (p.45).
This is key: The pedologists, in Bauer's account, were founded on mechanistic Marxism's claim that environment determines behavior. Thus they tended to deny consciousness as an idealistic notion (as noted in other books I've reviewed) and focus on improving school environments. This outlook was colorable in the early 1920s, when problems in education could be laid at the feet of the capitalist status quo ante. But by the 1930s, this viewpoint was politically unwise. The Soviets had run the schools for a decade and a half, so if educational problems were the result of the environment, the Soviets had to own that problem!
Bauer briefly reviews the behaviorally oriented work of the 1920s, including the replacement of Chelpanov by Kornilov, noting Luria's early work as an innovative bright spot (p.58). But mechanism dominates; the notion of the unconscious falls into disfavor by 1925 due to charges of idealism, and the very notion of consciousness also becomes unpopular.
"The only clear reversal of trend during this period was the work of L.S. Vygotskii and his associates, mainly Luria and Leonti'ev," he adds (p.73). Bauer is clearly bemused by this work and the "curiously oblique approach they took to consciousness and man's control over his own behavior. Consciousness, said Vygotskii, is 'the capacity of the organism to be its own stimulus.' Their general approach to the problem of the control of man's behavior is that man does this by learning certain instrumental techniques—such as mnemonic devices to improve memory—and that he uses these devices as external stimuli to direct his own behavior. … Thus, even the most deviant trend of the period accorded to consciousness only a mediated role in the control of man's behavior" (p.74).
Most other pedologists, Bauer says, fixated on the idea that environment determines development and intelligence (p.84). Their conception of man's nature was passive (p.86), a view that suggested that the individual wanted to simply maintain equilibrium with the environment (p.89). This view, as noted above, became politically radioactive in the mid-1930s. With the victory of the dialecticians, the mechanistic model was accused of being capitalist (p.98) and psychology turned to the task of educating the new Soviet man, one who would assert his own agency in service of the State. "Of the reigning premises of the twenties only that of the plasticity of man's organism remained" (p.102).
In Chapter 8, Bauer takes a closer look at the Pedology Decree. He notes that even though Vygotsky bucked the mechanistic trend by studying consciousness, his theory was not in step with the new program to train the new Soviet man: Not only did Vygotsky give too little weight on training, "He maintained that learning proceeded from the unconscious to the conscious; that is, general principles could be understood only after one had learned how to do something" (p.117).
By 1935, Stalin proclaimed that "cadres decide everything," that is, Soviet society now demanded trained people rather than just material, mechanical, and organizational changes (p.123). Changes were introduced to stabilize social relationships, increase social controls, and make workers more effective at serving the needs of the State (p.123).
Consequently, "'Conscious, purposive action' has become not only the norm of conduct of the Soviet citizen, but the central focus of psychology, and the principle of 'conscious understanding' is the fundamental tenet of Soviet pedagogy" (p.132). And "The Soviet conception of consciousness is above all tied to action" (something that should sound familiar to activity theorists) (p.132). Soviet psychologists, Bauer says, claim "that conscious goals play an essential role in voluntary action, but these goals are themselves determined by previous experience. The stimuli of the immediate situation are mediated through the conscious goal determined by previous events" (p.133). Thus man is responsible for his own immediate behavior; he is nonetheless rightfully subjugated to the demands of society; and he can consciously achieve freedom through voluntary service to the state (pp.133-134). "Consciousness is the concept whereby the Soviet citizen is, in fact, liberated from determinism and tied to the service of the state. It is also the pivotal concept of modern Soviet psychology" (p.134).
Bauer goes on to discuss some tenets of modern (circa 1953) Soviet psychology. Among them:
- operations are automatized actions
- consciousness allows man to focus on goals beyond the immediate situation
- the study of psychic functions is always related to man's motives and goals
- consciousness must always be studied in concrete action (p.136)
It is no coincidence that the 1936 decree against pedology occurred in the same year as the inauguration of the new Soviet constitution and the declaration that socialism had been achieved. … If a person is imperfect, then the responsibility lies in his earlier environment—or in him personally. (p.147)
Let's stop there. Bauer's book is a fascinating time capsule, the view of Soviet psychology from the US in the last years of the Stalin era. It arguably misunderstands some things about Vygotsky's work, but then again, it portrays the political and rhetorical situation of Soviet psychology in clear, insightful, and illuminating ways. Most importantly, it provides a big-picture view of the shifts in Soviet warrants, shifts that had large implications for the shaping and legitimacy of different strands of Soviet psychology.
If you're interested in Soviet psychology, Vygotsky, activity theory, or just the Soviet Union, of course you should get this book—if you can find a copy.
Reading :: Lev Vygotsky
Lev Vygotsky (Bloomsbury Library of Educational Thought)
By Rene Van Der Veer
The Bloomsbury Library of Educational Thought has a series on different influential thinkers. This one is written by Rene van der Veer, who is certainly qualified. If you're interested in a slim Vygotsky bio, this book might fit the bill; if you've been reading works by and about Vygotsky, as I have, the book will not be a game-changer, but it will fill in some gaps.
For instance, I discovered that
- Vygotsky wrote most of his unpublished book on the crisis in psychology during a hospital stay in 1926 (p.23).
- According to van der Veer, Vygotsky's likely fate if he had survived tuberculosis would have been the Gulag. "The disease killed him; otherwise he might have been murdered" (p.29).
- His textbook Educational Psychology was written at Gomel, but published in 1926, years after he had moved to Moscow University (p.43).
- Vygotsky was strenuously anti-racist—but he was demonstrably ethnocentric (p.57). He assumed that cultural differences were developmental differences (p.100). Nevertheless, he insisted that intelligence tests be based on the subject's own cultural tools, a principle that underpinned the Uzbek expedition (p.98).
- Vygotsky is known for the Zone of Proximal Development (ZPD), but he claimed not to have invented it; unfortunately, he did not make its origin clear (p.79).
- The ZPD might have been posited to explain the "leveling effect," which we now believe to be an artifact rather than an actual phenomenon (p.86).


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12/6/2016Dec 6 YLC Holiday Brew Ho-Ho
12/8/2016Dec 8th YLC-Criminal Breakfast CLE
12/9/2016Dec 9th Bar Goes Local Lunch Meeting
12/12/2016Dec 12th Trial Practice CLE Seminar