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Some of my family's holiday traditions are generations old.
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grandmother emigrated from Germany. Every year she calls us on Dec. 5 to remind
us to put out our shoes so St. Nickolaus will bring us presents. And sure
enough, on Dec. 6, we receive a package St. Nickolaus filled with goodies.
If your family traditions don't span back that far, you can
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from the Old Country. You can find some inspiration here.
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An acting chameleon who can easily lose himself in the life of his film and television characters, Clifton Collins Jr. is a native Angeleno who grew up destined to become a part of the Latino entertainment industry. His great-grandparents on his mother's side were a Mexican trumpet player and Spanish dancer who formed a traveling family act, and his grandfather was well-known character actor Pedro Gonzalez Gonzalez, most famous for his humorous sidekick roles in 1950s/1960s John Wayne westerns (he played the excitable hotel keeper in "Rio Bravo") and in sitcoms. His uncle and aunt dabbled in the business at one point as well. While his famous grandfather was unable to break out of the old unflattering Latino stereotypes, Collins Jr. has done Pedro proud in the new millennium. Playing everything from policemen to boxers to serial killers, he has managed to transcend the typical racial trappings of his grandfather's era and play flesh-and-blood, three-dimensional characters. It was not always that way.
Born short, lean and mean on June 16, 1970, he started his career in 1988 using his real name of Collins, but two years later began billing himself as "Clifton Gonzales-Gonzales" as a tribute to his aged grandfather and his early accomplishments. Pedro, who died in 2006, lived long enough to witness his grandson's achievements. Toiling in typical "barrio" roles at the beginning of his career, Collins Jr. found himself stuck in bit parts either as a struggling blue-collar worker or urban thug. In the mid-1990s, he began to search out and wing standout roles that enabled him to break the confines of the Latino stereotype. He slowly moved up in billing, even in mediocre material such as the futuristic prison film "Fortress" and the mindless 1970s rock-era comedy "The Stöned Age". His breakout role as Cesar, the vicious student and gangbanger in "One Eight Seven" opposite Los Angeles substitute teacher Samuel L. Jackson, set him on the right path. This led to a mesmerizing collection of other portrayals, both good-guy and bad-guy, in such films as "The Replacement Killers", "The Wonderful Ice Cream Suit" and "Tigerland". His versatility finally tested, he played everything from a gay Mexican hitman in the critically acclaimed "Traffic" to a psychological profiler for the FBI in the mainstream actioner "Mindhunters". A number of top guest appearances came his way on such series as "NYPD Blue" and "The Twilight Zone" and he had recurring roles on "Resurrection Blvd." and "Alias".
A monumental shift forward in his career happened recently with his hypnotic portrayal of killer Perry Smith, the object of writer Truman Capote's obsession, in the art-house favorite "Capote". Decades ago, Robert Blake played the same part in the gripping Capote book-to-film "In Cold Blood". This heralded achievement has enabled Collins to move into the co-producer's chair of late, notably for "Rampage: The Hillside Strangler Murders", in which he inhabits the role of serial killer Kenneth Bianchi. Obviously, there is plenty more in the works for this major talent.
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A Student'S Guide To Building An Esthetic Foundation
Posted 14 September 2010 - 11:06 AM
A Student's Guide to Buildingan Esthetic Foundation
The expansion of your conception of what contemporary art and craft are and are not, will be the beginning of your foundation on esthetics and philosophies. In my classes, I ask you to look beyond commercialism to find your own visual voice. With that in mind, there are certain ideologies and objects that are inappropriate directions of study and research in my classes. Not to say there is no place in the world for these types of generic expression; there certainly is, but not in a college level class. Watered down, overtly commercial i.e. tourist trade, cookiecutter art or Kraft objects are unacceptable. Examples that fall into these categories include ash-trays,pot pouri burners, teddy bears, hearts, big beer mugs that say bet ya can't on them, bongs, pipes, piggy banks, religious orother club-oriented iconography, light houses and sea gulls. This is only a short list and I do reserve the right to include other examples if they come up. Reasoning for certain esthetic rules lie in the fact that to learn about the art and craft of ceramics or any other media, you must look beyond the blatantly obvious. My classes are not about creating a product; they are about learning skills to create, building a conceptual direction and about learning to see. Searching for an individual voice through historical and contemporary reference points outsideof commercialism will be your main objective in my classes.
Whether you build on a visual voice that is directed towards a socio-political agendaor based on ideals of beauty, your visual voice begins with your investigation into the almost inexhaustible accomplishments of the past and the present. Your individual voice builds as an amalgamation of historical and contemporary work and grows with your understanding of both. Your audible voice grew by learning to speak through your mom, dad and other voices,you then furthered your education by learning to read and finally thinking more for yourself. I hope that even theway you speak and think continues to grow. Remember, a major aspect of learning is acquiring a taste that you may presently want to spit out or won't even try and being open to new ideologies that presently you may not understand.
If you allow yourself to taste things that may be too sweet, too bitter, too ugly or incomprehensible to you now, you may open your mind to flavors that will make your mouth (or mind) water later. Everyone has disliked some food as a child and now loves it because they have learned the subtleties, textures or nutrition of that taste. The same direction can be taken when learning a visual (or musical) language if you listen to music or look at art more in depth and try to see or hear what it is saying you will expand your horizons and see the bigger picture. For instance there are probably quite a few songs you listen to and really like but you don't know what the lyrics are. Once you figure out what the lyrics are sometimes you say to your self, "Wow what a stupid song". In turn there are probably some songs you don't like for some reason but what they are singing about you may totally be in agreement with. We all start out somewhat sophomoric atfirst, just making meaningless noise in music or marks in art, and then start to build dexterity through practice and knowledge of the tools. Just like the gibberish (gib·ber·ish n.spoken or written language perceived as incomprehensible, and probably not worth comprehending) of a toddler. It is after more and more exposure to the historical and contemporary use of the media that you will begin to see beyond the obvious. Looking at art and listening to music becomes like reading; if you don't open your mind to what is out there you just become a mocking bird and never learn to sing with your own voice.
As an educator it is my goal to make you realize you have a voice, train it a little, get you to practice a lot, and then you can sing solo or join a band. I intentionally rely on analogies to help you relate to this ideology as it relates to any field ofstudy; creativity is important in every discipline. We call areas of study, disciplines because that is what it takes. I really don't believe that one is born with talent; I believe one acquires it if they want to or if they have a nurturing environment that allows them to. I will try to make the environment as nurturing as possible for those who have the discipline and work ethic it takes to learn and not just play around and have fun. Learning should be fun also so I will try and make it so. However you are paying for this education and if you do not want to get your moneys worth that is more your decision then mine. Show up to class and do the 6 hours a week of homework and I guarantee you will be on your way to being what ever you want to be. It is a creative approach to growth and knowledge that makes any student successful and always above average. So not only showing up and doing the assignments but also going to the extra steps of studying the material will reward you greatly in the end. If you are in the class to obtain a grade and get credit then you may be in the wrong class. If you are in the class to learn about art and how art imitates life and how clay touches your life then I am excited to get to know you and help you along the way.
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CWU offers; BA, BFA, and MFA Degrees, (Post Baccalaureate also available). Images of CWU Ceramics studio can be seen at
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Candace Birchfield
Posted 08 February 2011 - 04:28 PM
I like to think that teachers actually want students to do well although I did have a professor who immediately told the class he never issued a perfect grade because only God was perfect but I managed to eke out a nearly perfect grade even thought the class was sheer drudgery. I had lunch with a friend of mine who teaches ceramics at a local junior college. when I went to let him know I was there I watched as several students were finishing up their work. There was one young lay who did a very nice clay sculpture of the Caterpillar in the "Alice in Wonderland" movie. The caterpillar was complete, sitting on his mushroom smoking his hookah and at that point it struck me that what she had sculpted was a bong. The execution was excellent, the design was excellent, I would have hated to think that your first paragraph would have stifled her attempt at art as not being worthy of even consideration.
The last thing I would deign to do is try and tell you how to teach, or how to set your goals, you obviously have reached a level of ability, education and obviously of respect in your field as a result of your hard work and dedication. I merely suggest that your goals for a class of young brains full of mush might be severely daunting. I know that at 45 years ago It would have certainly had me looking for alternatives and I believe that 45 years ago education was a lot more demanding of the student than it is today, at least as I see it manifested in California. I believe that it is far more productive to guide a student along a path to a goal.
I also believe that with the goals you set also set up expectations from students that are not readily attainable. We recently had a resident artist at a local art center who had recently been awarded his MFA. This young man was an excellent potter wo liked to throw large and he created lifelike and lifesize scupltures. He did an installation at the Art Center with large wood-fired bullet shaped pieces which he placed at random in a room both hung from the ceiling, set on the floor and set on pedestals. In the room he played an audio recording of voices in aparrent attempt at making a social statement regarding war. I spoke to the artist over tea one afternoon and we discussed his installation. I expressed that I did not completely understand his work. The artist stated that neither did he completely but it was a work that was directed by and individual at the art center and one for which he felt no affinity. I believe that there is a lot of pressure on artists to make social statements which they may not feel, but it seems that the powers that be demand it. In my oopinion art needs to flow from the soul and not all art needs to have a social implication, some of it might just be free spirited fun. One of my favorite visual artists seems to believe the same. Dale Chihuly is a very playful man and in my opinion therein lies his charm.
Anyway, I've gone out on a limb, left myself no safety net and fully expect the limb to be chopped off behind me but I felt it needed to be said. Sometimes we fall prey to the ivory tower syndrome. In my long and varied engineering carreer I have found that it is very healthy to go out into the field, visit the trenches talk to the people on the front lines actually doing the dirty work. When one surrounds oneself with like-thinking individuals I believe on loses perspective. Of course some say that the perspective from the ivory tower is best . The foregoing is my opinon, and you know what they say about opinions.
Best regards,
Posted 09 February 2011 - 09:37 AM
"But it does move," said Galileo under his breath.
#5 Guest_Herb Norris_*
Posted 09 February 2011 - 12:10 PM
and at some of the other links he has provided above.
I think Mr. Robison is at least making a "plea for danger." He's trying to get students to stretch their aesthetic, visual, and imaginary "muscles" if you will. I can't imagine that is done much these days, in ANY educational setting, or maybe I am cynical.
I would like to take a class where something was expected of me that required more effort than just showing up, and this class seems like it would be that way. I have taken several classes at a major art center, and at one point I asked the Director if there was a syllabus for the classes they teach, so that students have some structure, and so they all learn the basics of clay. She looked at me like I had two heads. Structure, standards, and discipline seem to be anethema to most (visual) art instruction (music, I think, is different).
I think Mr. Robison is somewhat like Bernard Leach, in that he wants to establish a standard, and from what I have seen of his pots, he succeeds. I think Leach talked a good game, but was "all hat and no ranch," his pots do absolutely nothing for me. They seem pale imitations of Eastern aesthetics, filtered through a Western perspective, and who needs that? Yeah, he hung with Hamada, but so what?
As a funny co-incidence, I have attached a picture that I made using Picasa two years ago, and I ocassionally use it for my wallpaper. I had no idea who made these pots, I just thought they were interesting; turns out that all of them (except the last one) were made by Stephen Robison! I had stumbled onto his flickr stream somehow, and was interested. The clay world can be really small sometimes!
robison wallpaper
Posted 09 February 2011 - 08:33 PM
Music is often used as a parallel art but the structure of music is much more defined and the path to learn music is more obvious. I am a fairly accomplished musician. I play keyboards primarily and synthesizer and organ specifically. One has to start with the common language and terms of music and how they are implemented. If one does not study notation and understand fingering one is never going to be an accomplished musician regardless of how one tries: talented, popular, commercially viable but never accomplished. Even within music there is subjectivity. I personally like Bach and Beethoven and detest Mahler but that is just my opinion. I know lots of people who like Mahler. Have you ever been made aware of performance on a prepared piano? A prepared piano is one in which the strings have been enhanced with other objects to alter the sound. There is a whole body of music out of the 1930s up until the advent of electronic music written for prepared piano. However as subjective as music is to many the actual making of the music is pretty exact and not subjective at all: notes are specific frequencies, tempo lives in real time, even dynamics fit within envelopes. music is actually pretty precise. One can actually say that one is wrong if the composer intended you to play an F# and you decide to play an A instead. The closest thing to visual art in music might be Jazz but still if everyone is playing in the Mixolydian mode and you decide to go Phrygian I suspect even the jazz dilettante will know something is wrong.
I am just suggesting that in the visual arts as with music there is a lot of subjectivity and a lot of objectivity. I suspect that Da Vinci would be appalled at Pablo Picasso just as Beethoven might consider Mahler dreck! Yet today we consider all 4 to be at the pinnacle of their art. So I suggest that instead of presenting lofty goals that the student might be hard-pressed to define, especially at the beginning of the semester that the syllabus might give more objective goals so that the student can get a sense of direction and then, within the structure of the class, introduce more abstract concepts and provide a framework for understand those abstract concepts.
Again I meant no slight to Mr. Robison and this is just my opinion as silly as it may sound: I am not a teacher I am a user of the teachers' products. One needs to bear in mind however the necessity to pay the bills and to keep classrooms full as well as to achieve one's loftier goals. Lets face it the vast majority of students in one's class are never going to be the next great artist. I would venture to guess that of all the students an art teacher sees in school the vast majority will be doing something a lot less lofty than proposed and their lives will be consumed by the minutiae of making a living, raising a family and taking their place as members of the hive not as outstanding artists.
To take a page from my own education, every engineering professor I had, taught me to design lofty structures, high-rises, engines of industry, devices that altered the social structure of the world while upon graduation I was ushered to a small cubicle where I was to design stairways and ladders for tanks and there were people in my immediate circle who had been designing the same stairways and ladders for the same types of tanks for over 30 years and were ready to retire. Unfortunately education sometimes sets goals that are not realistic.
Teachers are extremely vital to our future as a civilization. I am only suggesting that education may be better served by a more quantifiable approach in the arts. But then what do I know, I am not a teacher and the resposnes to Mr Robinsons syullabus have been positive. Sometimes people in a closed group understand one another but may not see how it looks from the outside. I was only giving my perspective as a user of that service.
Best regards,
Posted 09 February 2011 - 09:13 PM
#8 Guest_Herb Norris_*
Posted 11 February 2011 - 07:40 PM
I simply wanted to convey my enthusiasm for Mr. Robison's work, and the fact that he is trying to get his students to try harder.
I apolegize if you thought otherwise...
Now, about the fact that you play the synthesizer... I have been listening to a lot of Morton Subotnick lately. Do you like his music?
(Yes, I'm very familiar with prepared piano!)
Posted 11 February 2011 - 09:08 PM
Wow, Charles, that is quite a response! I hope you are not thinking that I thought you were denigrating Mr. Robison in any way, the thought never crossed my mind. I have read many of your posts, and you are certainly nothing if not an intelligent, insightful, and diplomatic forum member.
I simply wanted to convey my enthusiasm for Mr. Robison's work, and the fact that he is trying to get his students to try harder.
I apolegize if you thought otherwise...
Now, about the fact that you play the synthesizer... I have been listening to a lot of Morton Subotnick lately. Do you like his music?
(Yes, I'm very familiar with prepared piano!)
Thank you for the kind words. I have no problem with teachers trying to get the most out of students they can: that is their job. I try very hard to stay on subject. Sometimes I believe people respond to disagreement on a personal level and I have nothing against either you or Mr. Robison, I was just responding with my thoughts on the subject which I understood to be Mr. Robisons expectations of his students and how I believed it may have been misunderstood and actually a disincentive.
I am pleasantly surprised to hear that you know of the prepared piano, most people just kind of shrug like it is some oddity that some might indulge in but not in the mainstream. I always felt that the prepared piano was an attempt at extending the vocabulary of he piano. I am a little bit familiar with Subotnik, mainly through the work of Don Buchla and Leon Kirchner. While most people like Robert Moog worked with frequencies and variable oscillators Buchla made a synth that utilized voltage control, a very interesting variant. I have a baby Moog but my primary synth is a Kurzweil 3600. Besides a couple of pianos I also have a Hammond X-66 and a Rodgers Cambridge hybrid organ with both pipes and electronics. I am not a great fan of dissonance and while Slubotnik's music was interesting and even fascinating structurally I don't find it pleasant for listening. I enjoy jazz along the lines of Dave Brubeck, Ramsey Lewis, Thelonius Monk, I love the classics in particular Beethoven and Bach. One of my most memorable mountain bicycling experiences was while blasting through the redwood forest listening to the Brandenburg #6! I particularly enjoy playing the two part inventions and for the organ the Toccata and Fugue in D minor to me is probably the ultimate auditory experience (especialy the Fuge). I also like some Rock and Roll; Ray Manzarek is a wonderful Hammond organist, I certainly enjoyed him as an artist on the Doors albums, Greg Rollie (early Santana band) is another I've enjoyed. I've been actively involved with the Oaktown Jazz Project run by my good friend Khalil Shaheed (Pharaoh Sanders and Jimi Henrix) in Oakland, CA. I tend to like opera also, especially some of the Sopranos and Coloraturas. Anyway enough about that, I do like music and can go on and on and on ad nauseum.
Nice to hear from you, there is nothing to apologize for.
Best regards,
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Obama's New Climate Plan Leaves Canada in the Dust
Carol Linnitt | June 3, 2014
By Carol Linnitt • Tuesday, June 3, 2014 - 14:39
In the ongoing battle to win approval of the Keystone XL pipeline, Canada has repeatedly justified its climate inaction by pointing to the fact that it shares similar emission reductions targets to the U.S. In August of last year, Prime Minister Stephen Harper even wrote a letter to President Barack Obama inviting "joint action to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in the oil and gas sector" if such efforts would help green-light the Keystone XL.
But this week's announcement that Obama will use his executive authority to introduce a nationwide emissions reduction plan that targets more than 1,000 of the country's most highly polluting power plants might leave Canada squarely in the dust.
Obama's new plan — already being called the "most ambitious anti-global warming initiative of any U.S. president" — will introduce new standards by 2015 to decrease the greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions of power plants (responsible for 40 per cent of the country's carbon pollution) by 30 per cent from their 2005 levels by 2030.


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Purity Rings Have An Expiration Date On "RHOA"
I wanted to be excited that Kim Zolciak's 13-year-old daughter Brielle actually asked her mom for a purity ring on the latest episode of "The Real Housewives of Atlanta," but the whole thing fell apart for me when she started negotiating her abstinence expiration date. 18? 19? 20? I don't know a whole lot about abstinence rings (or abstinence), but I was under the impression that wearing one meant you were saving yourself for marriage, not for college. So just to recap, Brielle got a $3,000 diamond ring to keep her hymen intact until college. And Kim thinks this is brilliant. Am I missing something here? Do purity rings expire whenever you want them to? And … what the hell is Kim wearing? Please help me understand.


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Optimizing High Performance CPUs, GPUs and DSPs? Use logic and memory IP—Part II
In Part I of this two-article series we described how the combination of logic libraries and embedded memories within an EDA design flow can be used to optimize area in CPU, GPU or DSP cores. In Part II we explore methods by which logic libraries and embedded memories can be used to optimize performance and power consumption in these processor cores.
Maximizing Performance in CPU, GPU and DSP CoresClock frequency is the most highly publicized attribute of CPU, GPU and DSP cores. Companies that sell products that employ CPU cores often use clock frequency as a proxy for system-level value. Historically, for standalone processors in desktop PCs, this technique has had value. However, for embedded CPUs it's not always easy to compare one vendor's performance number to another's, since the measurements are heavily influenced by many design and operating parameters. Often, those measurement parameters do not accompany the performance claims made in public materials and, even when the vendors make them available, it's still difficult to compare the performance of two processors not implemented identically or measured under the same operating conditions.
Further complicating matters for consumers of processor IP, real-world applications have critical product goals beyond just performance. Practical tradeoffs in performance, power consumption and die area — to which we refer collectively as "PPA" — must be made in virtually every SoC implementation; rarely does the design team pursue frequency at all costs. Schedule, total cost and other configuration and integration factors are also significant criteria that should be considered when selecting processor IP for an SoC design.
Understanding the role common processor implementation parameters have on a core's PPA and other important criteria such as cost and yield is key to putting IP vendors' claims in perspective. Table 3 summarizes the effects that a CPU core's common processor implementation parameters may have on its performance and other key product metrics.
High Performance Critical Path Optimization TechniquesPerformance of CPU critical paths can be maximized by selecting the high speed logic libraries and memories and using various design techniques including starting with a proper floorplan, library usage, incremental synthesis, script settings, path group optimization and using over-constraints.
One of the best ways to minimize these critical paths is to start with a good initial floorplan to minimize the physical distance between the memory I/O pins and the critical registers within the processor logic. The ability to change this floorplan is critical as the design progresses and engineering tradeoffs are made to achieve the goals. A good floorplan based on the number of cores and the rest of the high performance core interconnectivity requirements can minimize the physical distance in the top level of the design and reduce timing bottlenecks.
Library usage refers to selecting the best library architecture (in this case High Speed), and selecting the optimal VT and channel length libraries to introduce in the synthesis and place and route flows. This also refers to the practice of don't_use lists to encourage the tools to select the highest performance cells by "hiding" some of the more area-efficient cells to trade performance for area.
Incremental compile techniques include running synthesis multiple times, sometimes introducing different synthesis options and additional libraries or cells to improve performance with each run.
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The Allen family has been involved in the movie theatre business in Canada for many decades. The Allens managed to build the finest and largest circuit in the world by 1920. Premier Operating Corporation Limited and its subsidiaries and affiliates are the current remaining parts of the Allen organization. The companies in the group are Canadian-controlled private corporations and are owned, managed enterprises. Premier has been involved with the Drive-in theatre market since 1960, when it purchased the 5 Drive-in in Oakville Ontario. Currently the company owns and manages theatres in Oakville, London, Hamilton, Smiths Falls, and Simcoe. Additionally, Premier books theatres in Kincardine, Uxbridge, Peterborough, Georgetown, Port Bolster, and The Docks in Toronto.
Premier also makes its drive-in theatres available for private gatherings, promotional events, and location shooting for television and films. With the remodeling of the 5 drive-in in an authentic 50's style, we now have the ideal location for that perfect retro feel.


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My daughter is absolutely stressed about what she should study - she would be a great lawyer but also is looking at engineering on the advice of her dad who is a civil engineer. She's not sure what branch of engineering she should look at and also how women get on in this male dominated profession. I would be particularly interested in anybody's experience - their degree, career path, whether they enjoy/regret their career.
Thank you - I know there is a shortage of engineers and too many lawyers so this may be a more sensible option if she enjoys the subject matter.
She's 16 now - so University applications next October - this is why we're doing masses of research at the moment.
I would advise booking her onto an engineering taster course to see if she likes it - they run next summer and that's time enough for the ucas application.
If you google Headstart they will come up for you to browse
She needs to think carefully about her A Level choices, and look at the websites of various universities to see what courses they offer, and what A Levels they require. Clearly sciences and maths (sometimes further maths) are necessary for engineering, but it will be easier to get onto a law degree with essay based A Levels like Eng Lit, History, Politics and MFLs.
OP is in France so I'm guesing the daughter is doing a BAC (S).
Boomting-she has already started her A level course.
No engineering courses actually require FM because some schools don't even offer it.But it does help or at least make sure you do the Maths mechanics modules
If she is good at Maths what about Actuarial Science?
That's what I do although I first did a civil engineering degree and am married to an electronic engineer - engineers pay is crap for the job they do and the abilities they have. Unless you go down the oil side.
Actuaries are highly paid for a cushy job and there are so many areas you can work in, lots of them interesting. And we are not all weird geeks these days ;-)
Yes - French - she's on Bac S. (with additional maths offered by the school for the prepa).
beck I'm going to google the engineering taster courses.galway I'm going to look up Actuarial Science - that's a new one on me.
The engineers I know have much more balanced lives than the lawers I know. They do get paid less, but I think they tend to find it very interesting.
One option would be to do engineering with a view to becoming a patent attorney as this it the overlap between law and engineering.
I am a female civil engineer. Got here through a rather circuitous route, but have always either worked for a consultancy (12 years) or the public body I do now (8 years). I have never felt discriminated against at all for being female, and have always enjoyed my work. I'm never going to be rich though... I used to think that I'd always have a job though, but DH (same field) was made redundant last year, as have many of our friends recently.
Engineering and Law are very different disciplines, surely she should choose the one she feels she has most aptitude for, regardless of her father's profession (fwiw my dad was a solicitor!).
www.actuaries.org.uk is a good place for information.
If she did the undergraduate degree she could get exemptions from up to all of the CT series of exams depending on how well she did. That would leave her with 4 exams and 3 courses to do while working although unlike some professions which pay peanuts while you're studying she would be on high 20s which would increase in large increments as she passes each exam/course. You get time off to study - roughly a day a week. Newly qualified she'd be on mid to high 50s plus bonus in an insurance company or a lot more in consulting.
You can work in pretty much any country in the world with the only barrier being language.
I know it's not all about money but I see how pissed off my husband gets at how much more I get paid and I don't work any harder.
Plus there are loads of interesting areas to get involved in.
An engineering taster course sounds like an excellent idea. If either direction appeals, I'd nudge her towards engineering - there are so many options with that path and, as you say, there are probably enough lawyers in the world! I know lots of lawyers who are unhappy with their profession.
I'm a solicitor. It's VVVHARD work, for a LONG time. I work in the City where it's perfectly normal (and, of course expected) to work through the night, round the clock, to get the deal done. 12 hour days are a bare minimum, every day. Money is good, but not nearly as good as banking/finance careers which a maths-biased student (with an interest in accounting and finance qualifications) would make (if you want to become a millionaire it will take half a lifetime and joining one of a very few top firms to do this with law, there are dozens of routes with investment finance). If "she'd make a great lawyer" means she's good at arguing (!) then that's more litigation. Even harder to make it and make it big as a litigator (whether barrister or solicitor). The undergrad degree also bears little resemblance to practising law. It's hours and hours and hours of reading and reasoning and pontificating minutiae whereas practising is more practical and much more about volume of work you have to contend with! Is she a "straight A student"? If she's not I wouldn't bother with the dream of a legal career. Traineeships and pupilages and becoming fewer and competition more intense. We look for straight As (or equiv.) or as near to that as dammit and at least a 2:1 from a redbrick or better.
As for "jobs in law are about who you know not what you know", I'd say not so, unless you're mediocre and a kindly uncle in a tiny practice takes pity. I'm northern working class 1st generation Uni and applied through the standard route (vacation placement at top 20 firms) and got my training contract through that. All decent law forms have these schemes and would only recruit the very best candidates. (it costs about £200-£250k for a City firm to take a trainee from day one to qualification, including their postgrad study fees) so it's not in the firms interests to just pick kids of clients and partners who are rubbish and can't hack the job!
All that said, I hate my job, just resigned to have a career change - not sure what, although corporate law with its horrendous hours was always going to do that to me.
I have lots of lovely engineering friends but know nothing of the subject, other than the pay appears to be quite poor for the level of expertise. That said, most are in "dream" jobs, working for Maclaren F1 and the like and they seem happy, happier than I was in my job!
I used to practice in a City law firm but now working as an in-house lawyer (for the better hours/work life balance) still in a City law firm.
At OP's dd's age, it was a toss up between engineering and law too for me. I am glad I chose law. The pay is good and work (to me) is interesting and cutting edge. The best thing is working with my brilliant colleagues. I think they make better conversationalists than engineers.
I note the difficulty in getting training contracts these days. I would not encourage my dcs to do law unless they could get into at least a RG uni.
Oi, I used to work with engineers, they are fine conversationalists. And there are plenty of tedious lawyers!
Ask your dd what she would rather do with her life - make amazing stuff like this or make a few fat cats even fatter? (OK, I know not all law is city stuff, but still, engineering is about problem-solving, law is largely about making money out of problems.
That's the missing bracket from the last sentence...
I know lots if amusing engineers and couldn't have married a man who wasn't an engineer, it was essential for me.
Lawyers don't just make money out of problems! They earn good money solving them, as do engineers - engineering is no more altruistic than law. They are paid well because it's bloody hard and you have to be brilliant and dedicated to do it. Whenever a lawyer does a deal, of the long list of professionals working on it, the lawyers will work the longest hours, for the smallest proportion of the total fees charged by professionals (Corporate financiers/merchant banks always first then accountancy firms second).
Plenty of fat cats will have engineering businesses in their portfolio, making them fatter....
I don't love my job or my profession but let's try to stick to the facts!
Engineers often do work on products that are good for society such as medical devices, robots to clear landlines, safety systems on cars. Obviously this doesn't apply to all engineers, but generally they work towards something tangible which they can see the applications and benefits of.
My heart bleeds for the lawyers working the longest hours for the least fees.
Engineering probably has flatter hierarchies within it than working within practice as a lawyer. With most professional services there is a pyramid structure with the very few people at the top earning shedloads and creaming profit from the people below them who are all scrabbling to get to the top, so working their arses off to compete with each other for those few spaces. While there are hierarchies in engineering this working like crazy to be one of the survivors doesn't seem to happen.
If she enjoys Physics and Maths, she should definitely do engineering as a degree. Then afterwards she can decide what she wants to do. Basically doing engineering will keep all her options open (as others have mentioned) whereas doing law means she is closing off the technical career path. Also I think an engineering degree would be a lot more interesting.
Afterwards she would have to decide based on interest, work-life balance, salary etc. I think the work-life balance as an engineer is very good. OH did an engineering degree, and is now a software engineer. He works from home 9-5pm. Salary at 27 years old is £45k with a good bonus. Other friends who did engineering degrees are still in engineering jobs with similar work-life balances and all very much like what they do (not sure on salaries, they aren't earning big bucks but have a decent wage). A couple of engineer friends work abroad.
I don't know much about law except for patent law. If she likes both engineering and law, this could be a good option as she will be using her technical knowledge on a daily basis and still be keeping up to date with all the latest inventions. Basically, after doing the engineering degree, she would apply to patent law firms for trainee positions. It then takes 4-5 years to train and pass all the exams. The salaries on qualification are very good, and it is still a 9-5 job. Usually firms look for trainees with a 2.1 or 1st from a red brick or Oxbridge. There are lots of trainee positions in electronics, and quite a lot in mechanical.
here, I was reacting to blue's post: 'The best thing is working with my brilliant colleagues. I think they make better conversationalists than engineers.' From someone in the city, ffs.
I am neither a lawyer nor an engineer but I suspect if you tot it all up, engineers contribute a hell of a lot more to society.
OP, I know you're not in the UK, but when I was 17 I attended a week-long course at Birmingham U called "Insight into Engineering" - aimed specifically at girls thinking of studying Engineering at university. They ran them at several universities across the UK. I think they're still run, but can't find a coordinated website.
I studied Chemical Engineering (about 1 in 7 were women on my course), then went onto a graduate training scheme with a blue chip corporation. Have dabbled in manufacturing and engineering in my various roles but am currently in a non-related role. Of my classmates, I reckon about half ended up in the city as consultants, bankers and accountants. One went into patent law. Probably about a third went into industry. My experience is that the women who study engineering tend to stay closer to engineering as a profession.
Some useful sources of information might be WISE and The Year in Industry (sorry can't link), which places students for 1 year with industrial companies between A-levels and university.
I have to say, I did get a huge sense of satisfaction from designing, installing and commissioning a big shiny piece of kit, and there are a few items in the shops which I can look at and say "that's made on my machine!". Dh finds me very tedious .
I don't think there will be much difference between engineering and law here, but I did get a shock after becoming a mother, because it's hard to work part-time when your work is mainly project-based. I felt as if I was always playing catch-up. A few of my fabulously talented female engineer friends have "downgraded" their roles and responsibilities at work in order to try and manage work and family.
For what it's worth, I think both engineers and lawyers contribute a lot to society. And they can both sell their souls for money. Most people see lawyers as a problem due to the adversarial nature of law, but engineers do plenty of harm too.
That being said, the snide comments of some posts does show that your DD will likely need a thick skin to be a lawyer. But there's buckets of students in law school right now, and not that many jobs. In 4 years this bulge will perhaps have gotten through, but law isn't the sure thing it was in the 80s.
I'm not sure if the engineering schools are having similar probems for prospective graduates, but that's what I would look into, and all the types of work she could do with engineering or law.
Good luck to her! It's an exciting time!
On DH's degree he was required to do a work placement in the first summer. This set him up with a pattern of doing a work placement every summer and they seemed to be easy enough to find. By the end of his degree he had a fairly clear idea of what it is like to work in engineering, had been sponsored for a bit by one company, had contacts and references and was offered a job by the one that sponsored him. So I think you can come out of an engineering degree with a very god sense of whether to persue a career in it or not.
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I've blogged before about my attempt to focus on food more as "fuel" than "fun". That's a challenge for a foodie.
Especially one who really doesn't consider cooking a strength.
I will always eat healthfully. And whenever possible, make my family do the same. I've even mastered a muffin that's a combination of quinoa, rice flour, flax seed, chia seeds, apples, bananas, honey – sometimes even a teaspoon of kelp! I promise, it's edible.
But baking has never been a challenge for me. Cooking dinner has. Hard to do when you are delivering the news at 5, 6 and 10pm! Just doing the grocery shopping and getting up at the crack of dawn to pack school lunches was a challenge.
So, learning to cook a proper dinner was one of my big 'to-dos' when we moved to New Zealand: learn to cook – properly – for my family. Leaving wiggle room to allow for Indian take-away, obviously.
One of my new-found friends shared my goal with her daughter, who apparently responded with total confusion. She asked, with a worried frown, "How has she managed to raise a family, if she doesn't know how to cook?".
Fair question. One that needs a little cultural context.
I just returned from a visit to the US, where I went shopping at Costco. For my American friends, who are familiar with the concept, bear with me for a minute, as I explain the jaw-dropping range of gourmet-style pre-prepared meals you can buy. Everything from fresh chicken and pasta salad to frozen but fabulous crab cakes, with plenty of ethnic diversity. You really don't ever have to cook again, with a place like that in the neighbourhood. If you don't mind a few preservatives, or usually "nuking" your meals, as some call cooking them in the microwave oven.
Costco and stores like it, as well as gourmet groceries, fill a need in American society today: to provide the second-best thing to homemade food for busy families. The problem is, many American families would now be lost without them.
Before I left the US (and my broadcasting career), I did a story on a family who hired a Happiness Expert, named Christine Carter, to rescue them. So stretched with school and work and their kids' wildly demanding sports schedules, they ate nothing but microwaved meals. And rarely ever together.
Her RX? Simple: plan a family meal at least once a week. She started by getting them to clear the dining room table that had been lost for years under piles of paperwork. The parents were in the habit of feeding the kids as they sat on barstools. They just stood and snacked. With Christine's guidance, the family worked together to carve out windows of opportunity on the calendar so they could plan, shop, cook and finally, commune – together at the family table.
Sounds far-fetched? Maybe this family was an extreme example?
Well, consider this: a Kiwi friend of mine is now living in the States – just for a year. She wrote to me, describing how overwhelmed she felt. The kids can't take public transport to their respective sports, so she has to drive them all over the city, then dash home in time for them to do their hours of required homework. She struggles to find time to stop at the store and buy the ingredients, let alone cook a family dinner – something she took for granted living here.
She is counting the days until they come home. Where the pressure isn't so palpable that it eats away at childhood and prevents families from simply spending time with one another.
In New Zealand, many of my friends still do "the baking for the week" on Sunday afternoons. I'd only heard of that on black and white television programs.
Hopefully this explains how and why I fed my family for more than a decade on a few simple recipes and a Costco membership.
But it didn't make me happy. I wanted to do better.
When I moved, I made learning to cook a priority. I started by pulling recipes from local magazines and then gathering a few from my new friends. I learned to use local specialties, with a twist – like couscous lamb burgers! But I still shied away from anything that required more than 3 or 4 instructions.
That's when some Kiwi 'Mums' shared their secret – a service that changed my life: "My Food Bag". Each week, fresh, locally sourced groceries arrive at my door, complete with recipes for the ingredients! No planning, no stressing – just cooking! (And sometimes lots of chopping…)
Now, I have no choice but to make what they provide. I also don't take the blame if my kids don't like the recipe. It was provided, not chosen. Sometimes they'll even help me make the fun stuff. They have, by the way, discovered that they like more than they realize. And I no longer flinch at the number of steps required. We've broadened our minds as well as our palates.
I've made things I never would have dared to try on my own: duck, dumplings, and Vietnamese rice wraps among them. I consider it my culinary crash-course – learning what spices work with which foods, and how to trim meat and all these things that take years to learn, preferably as you grow up watching your mother cook in the kitchen.
My mother worked. We lived on crock-pot meals most of the time.
I now have a library of preferred meals and feel confident enough to close the book and try my own ideas. When they turn out tasting great, it's funny how rewarding it feels – like it's a big accomplishment.
Wasn't getting women out of the kitchen considered a real advancement less than a hundred years ago?
After World War II, as my Dad tells me, Madison Avenue started to market tv dinners and all kinds of canned foods as fast and convenient. It was a way to repurpose production lines that no longer needed to provide C-rations for troops, or so he says. Whatever the initial motivation, the marketing worked. Freeing housewives from the drudgery of daily meal preparation offered what the invention of the washing machine once did – more time and opportunity to use our creative energy in other areas.
This ready-made trend didn't take root just in the United States. It swept the world. But we paid a price for convenience.
Today we see the backlash: slow-food movements and events popping up all over the world, and kitchen gardens back in vogue. Even France fell victim. There, they've now introduced a symbol that restaurants display to prove that they home-cook meals and don't just microwave pre-produced selections. Stunning.
Yet, some societies never really strayed too far from convention. On a recent family trip to Vietnam, we saw fresh produce turned into works of art. The wildly popular 'street' food' that we'd heard so much about was made with freshly harvested ingredients. Even what's flogged to tourists at the famous Floating Villages is a mix of the expected processed and packaged – alongside fresh produce.
The Vietnamese also practice what I'd call extreme gardening: every green patch that can be seized for cultivation, is. Even in the cities, where the pace of life today is as fast as anywhere else in the western world, people snap up fresh greens from sellers on sidewalks with baskets hanging from a single stick balanced across their shoulders. Buyers zoom up on their motorbikes, and zip off with bundles of green leaves and shoots sticking out from the back of their seats. Heading home to cook them, albeit often with prepackaged noodles.
Apparently there is a way to balance our busy modern lives with traditional rituals that nourish us. For some us, it requires taking a step backward to re-learn (or learn for the first time) the skills and knowledge required.
So, yes, this health-conscious foodie has finally learned to cook after moving to New Zealand. While there are plenty of fast food restaurants and frozen meat pies and patties at supermarket freezer sections, it seems the Kiwi culture hasn't gone too far down the pre-prepared path. So there aren't as many steps backward needed.
As I've said before, you really could call this the land of milk and honey – as those are two of the more famous Kiwi exports and kitchen staples.
It's also a land where families really do still sit down to enjoy home-cooked meals, instead of waiting for the ding on the microwave to shuffle their stools closer to the kitchen counter.
It's been only a matter of weeks since I was lucky enough to see a big juicy dream of mine come true. And unlike much fleeting felicity in life, I have been able to savor the experience for the intervening weeks. (I'm still on a bit of a high, truth be told…)
One thing, though, I felt compelled to do: write down my moment by moment emotions on the day itself…to help me preserve the "memory mosaic", with all its rich colors and hues.
So I thought, why not share it with you?
On the day of TEDxHomeBushRdWomen event, I was scheduled to speak last. That meant I sat on pins and needles for hours and clearly couldn't allow myself to get carried away by all the inspiration that day – for fear I'd forget my own words! (More than a little difficult with all the wit and wisdom being shared onstage.)
Over the past few months we'd met and mingled, marvelled at each other's expertise and inspiring stories…and then, finally relaxed into a comfortable rapport. We'd collaborated on crafting our messages and listened with satisfaction as various versions of each person's presentation evolved. But on the day itself, there were still plenty of surprises: new words, new twists and fresh energy – combined with audience feedback – it all left me transfixed. So much for trying to stay un-carried away!
And it wasn't just the speakers.
As I found myself gazing at the block letters, "TEDx", directly in front of me, something became instantly clear. The letters didn't just spell out the name of the event, they articulated a dream I hardly dared to admit to myself. A dream I was about to see come true. Those four red letters symbolized so much, they made me as emotional as the day I got married! To my surprise (and certainly beyond my control) came tears, joy, excitement – one emotion welling up right after the other. I didn't know if would burst out crying or in dissolve in nervous laughter! But I held it together. And, also just as the day of my wedding, I remembered to savor what was happening. I took a "heart picture", as my grandmother used to call it, to help me remember the moment forever.
Finally, after four hours, it was my turn to step onto the stage.
Not just onto the stage, but onto the little round red TED Talk rug. The place where it would all come together or all fall apart.
It came together. That little spot of carpet became my source of strength…where I finally found my voice. The voice that's tried to be heard since I was a young girl and wrote fanciful fairy stories; then as a philosophy student, striving to extract new meaning out of ancient texts; and later in life, edited to fit the clipped script of a new anchor. After more than four decades of hopeful expression, my voice finally emerged on my TEDx talk day, once again reinvented – but finally sounding real.
Then, in what seemed like just moments, it was over.
Posing for pictures with everyone afterward, I realised I had a "wedding headache". You know the kind that spreads across the back of your head – that comes from wide smiles that last longer than usual? The TEDxHomeBushRdWomen crew was in celebration mode, as we moved onto the "reception" (a dinner at a local pub). There, we had a chance to exhale and deconstruct the day, weeks and months of meticulous planning and practicing and promoting required to pull this all together.
A coup, a triumph: the first TEDx Women event in New Zealand. Ever.
As always, just a few of us had the chance to shine in the spotlight that day onstage, while the many who made the dream real remained in the shadows, unsung but much appreciated. That night, we could properly acknowledge them. We thanked them, hugged them and toasted their talents: from the firecracker organizer (a dream-maker extraordinaire) to the cadre of committed volunteers, astute advisers, sponsors (better described as "believers"), down to the goodie bag fillers – whose job was for more important than they may even have realized.
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When the night finally ended and the party disbanded, once again I was surprised. I felt a little bereft. For a few brief months we'd created a "tribe" – women woven together by a common purpose, focus and strength. Not just sharing our beliefs but taking a shared risk: Would all this hard work make an impact? Would TEDXHomeBushRdWomen be successful?
It was.
And really, it wasn't over. To counter the letdown that comes at the end of a wedding day, there is something called "the honeymoon". Ours is seeing our "Ideas Worth Spreading" start to wend their way around the world online. That said, we aren't content just to sit back and watch. We know this "basking in the afterglow" won't sustain us for long. No, we're already looking forward to our anniversary.
Next year?
All of us involved with TEDxHomeBushRdWomen hope we've earned the chance to put Wellington, New Zealand on the map once again. It will require even more commitment, planning and dreaming.
Believe me, it all began even before our very own TED Talk stage went dark…
Part of that process? Finding out exactly what impact we might have had. Watch – and let us know if and how any our words may have impacted your lives.
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Dear Statalisters,
I have a short and simple question: Under what conditions does one use
the liv() option in xtdpd (dynamic models)? The manual's only comment on that option is:
"liv(varlist) specifies additional standard instruments for the level equation. Specified variables may not be included in iv() or in div(). Levels of the variables are used as instruments for the level
equation. You may specify as many additional sets of standard instruments for the level equation as you need within the standard Stata limits on matrix size."
"strictly exogenous variables are handled using div(), iv(), or liv()".
All empirical examples of dynamic models given in the manual (and elsewhere) always
use the div() option for using exogenous variables as instruments--whether
the estimation is of the difference-GMM or system-GMM type. liv() in
contrast is never used. Can
someone give me an example or a context in which one may want to use liv()?
I am wondering whether the usefulness of liv() may come in when, in a
system-GMM estimation, one wants to make use of time-invariant exogenous
regressors as instruments--since these can't be included in div() as they
obviously drop out of the instrument set when differenced. Is my hunch
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CHAMPAIGN – City officials this week are asking for further feedback on goals to improve the relationship between the community and the police force that were developed following a March 15 community forum.
The city has set up a website where users can comment on an outline of initiatives based on about 300 community members' comments during the March meeting.
"Our goal from day one was to keep the community engaged in this process," said Joan Walls, the city's deputy city manager for community relations.
Bill Glithero, a member of the working group and the city's Human Relations Commission, said the group is looking for input from groups that did not participate directly in the first steps of the process, "so that we can put together a plan that everyone has a part of and can be a part of."
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City officials also contacted the forum attendees to ask them to make sure the plan was consistent with what they suggested during the forum.
"This plan is what citizens said," Walls said. "So we don't want to stray away. We don't want to change content."
The March 15 forum and the plan presented on the website complete one of six initiatives announced in January that city officials hope will help repair the relationship between police and community members that was strained following the October 2009 fatal police shooting of 15-year-old Kiwane Carrington.
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