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America's Cultural Revolution- The Obsession with Self Esteem
Or Alternatively- The Talk-儿子, 一个男子汉要能吃苦.Yan Shen
Mad World
An increasingly common cliché these days is that America is mired in the midst of its own Cultural Revolution. One of the most fascinatingly telling incidents to this effect occurred in a library at the University of Washington around January 2017, shortly after Trump had delivered his inauguration speech.[1] Various protestors stormed what was supposed to be a quiet place of study, loudly chanting over and over again, "Who's got the power? We've got the power."
What happened next has become the stuff of internet legend. As the Social Justice Jihadis became increasingly more disruptive, they were suddenly confronted by a bespectacled gentleman most likely of Chinese or Korean descent, who authoritatively declared, "Hey, hey, hey, hey. This is library." A somewhat uncomfortable silence ensued and thus one of the clearest dispensations of 21st century Confucian wisdom came to pass. Although the incident was undoubtedly a source of amusement to many, to me the surreal confrontation highlighted not only just how deeply rotten modern day American culture had become, but also the clear extent to which East Asian and non-East Asian cultural values had diverged in the 21st century.
A recent article by Wesley Yang derided the fact that in contemporary American society "therapeutic concepts of harm have metastasized to encompass what we all once understood to be the unavoidable vicissitudes of daily life."[2] His discussion focused on the increasing sensitivity of millennials, in particular highlighting the fault line separating minorities from whites. In my opinion, equating the problem with the political left misses the heart of the matter entirely. Left-wing political correctness is merely a symptom of the more insidious underlying disease, which as Amy Chua alluded to in her now infamous essay Why Chinese Mothers Are Superior, is the American obsession with self-esteem.[3] In its current form this obsession has become rather unproductive and self-defeating and it certainly transcends political and ideological boundaries.
Dunning-Kruger and the East Asian Exception
That Americans tend to seek positive feelings of self-worth is a well-known fact that extends beyond Tiger Mother style anecdotes. For instance, the famous Dunning-Kruger effect typically shows that less competent individuals have a tendency to overrate their actual ability more so relative to more competent individuals. East Asians though are a clear exception to the Dunning-Kruger phenomenon as observed.
Regardless of how pervasive the phenomenon is, it is clear from Dunning's and others' work that many Americans, at least sometimes and under some conditions, have a tendency to inflate their worth. It is interesting, therefore, to see the phenomenon's mirror opposite in another culture. In research comparing North American and East Asian self-assessments, Heine of the University of British Columbia finds that East Asians tend to underestimate their abilities, with an aim toward improving the self and getting along with others.
There are cultural, social and individual motives behind these tendencies, Heine and colleagues observe in a paper in the October 1999 Psychological Review (Vol. 106, No. 4). "As Western society becomes more individualistic, a successful life has come to be equated with having high self-esteem," Heine says. "Inflating one's sense of self creates positive emotions and feelings of self-efficacy, but the downside is that people don't really like self-enhancers very much."
Conversely, East Asians' self-improving or self-critical stance helps them maintain their "face," or reputation, and as a result, their interpersonal network. But the cost is they don't feel as good about themselves, he says. Because people in these cultures have different motivations, they make very different choices, Heine adds. If Americans perceive they're not doing well at something, they'll look for something else to do instead. "If you're bad at volleyball, well fine, you won't play volleyball," as Heine puts it. East Asians, though, view a poor performance as an invitation to try harder."[4]
The systematic tendency of East Asians to underestimate their own abilities and engage in self-criticism may indeed be part of a constellation of unique cultural traits. For instance, this kind of cultural grit also seems to align closely with observations made by others that observed East Asian IQ generally tends to have little correlation with SES, perhaps due to robustness against environmental deprivation arising from centuries of Malthusian selection.[5] This resilience against negative environmental influences also probably explains why by and large the parasitic memes of left-wing post-modernist insanity which have seemingly hijacked the minds of numerous black, white, and Hispanic Americans alike are absent amongst people of East Asian descent.
Given that non-East Asians are especially vulnerable to the dangers of bad influences, it might not be unreasonable to assume that whites suffer from the negative consequences of multiculturalism far more than East Asians might under similar circumstances. For instance, during the 2011 London Riots historian David Starkey infamously got himself into trouble for suggesting that part of the reason for the chaos in the UK was that "the whites had become black."[6] Somewhat amusingly, Thomas Sowell has long argued that the self-destructive attitudes of blacks in the antebellum South were largely the result of their absorbing the habits and values of white Southern crackers who had immigrated from the "northern borderlands of England- for centuries a no man's land between Scotland and England- as well as from the Scottish highlands and from Ulster County, Ireland" before the Anglicization of those places had advanced very far by the 19th century.[7] If one were to take Sowell's thesis seriously, the fact that contemporary lower-class whites around the world are increasingly absorbing the self-destructive values of blacks surely must be considered karmic justice!
East Asian Sufferance
In part because of their own cultural resilience, East Asians are often marginalized in American society and rendered invisible. For instance, it's long been known that Asian Americans are discriminated against in the context of elite college admissions, bearing the brunt of the sacrifice required to create affirmative action spots for blacks and Hispanics in this country. Yet discussions of affirmative action in the mainstream media oftentimes render Asian Americans entirely invisible, obliviously treating the matter as though it were white conservatives on the one hand versus blacks and Hispanics on the other, the issue of contention being the discrimination against whites in favor of minorities in this country.
If you don't believe me, just look at when the Department of Justice recently decided to reexamine a prior 2015 federal complaint levied against Harvard by 64 Asian American groups. Numerous mainstream organizations such as the New York Times initially referred to the investigation as one by the Trump administration into possible discrimination by colleges against white applicants.[8] Even when the correct reporting of the facts began to surface later on, we were still subjected to the typical blathering accusing the Trump administration of being disingenuous by feigning interest in the well-being of Asian Americans and proclaiming that Asians shouldn't allow themselves to be used as tools by white conservatives in advancing their right-wing agenda.[9] The fact that 64 different Asian American groups had filed a complaint against Harvard seemingly eluded everyone. One generally got the impression that Asian Americans were a group deprived of any real agency, instead being merely hapless pawns in the Game of Thrones pitting whites on the one hand against blacks and Hispanics on the other.
Another insidious example of the tendency to marginalize Asian Americans has been the rather curious phenomenon as of late of simply pretending that they aren't even Asian at all. For instance, we constantly hear the mainstream media bemoaning the fact that Silicon Valley lacks diversity and is too white and male.[10] Yet this conveniently ignores the fact that whites are actually underrepresented overall at many of the Bay Area's most elite firms relative to their percentage amongst the general population. On the other hand, Asian Americans generally tend to be overrepresented, a fact which I alluded to in my previous article.[11]
Since by any reasonable definition of the terms Asian, minority, or people of color, Asian Americans surely qualify as being all three, the fact that somehow in our current national lexicon they qualify as none of those categories truly boggles the mind. Indeed, despite suggestions by scholars such as Richard Nesbitt that compared to East Asians, Westerners have a tendency towards more logical as opposed to holistic thinking and are thus less willing to tolerate contradiction, the blatant disregard for the first Aristotelian law of thought, namely the principle of identity that Asian = Asian, seems to mirror more the dialectical principal of change attributed to the belief systems of East Asians, which asserts that "reality is a process that is not static but dynamic and changeable. A thing need not be identical with itself at all because of the fluid nature of reality."[12]
The Erosion of Meritocracy
The obsession with self-esteem and the fundamental lack of what might be described as a self-critical orientation is hardly the sole province of those on the left. Indeed, the well-established phenomenon of Asian bashing often seems to transcend many of the ideological fault lines otherwise dividing white Americans in this country.
One of the more disappointing revelations in my opinion has been the extraordinary ambivalence of many right-wing whites towards clear anti-Asian discrimination in this country. On various alt-right blogs where themes such as race realism and affirmative action are often discussed, when it comes to the issue of Asian Americans and meritocracy, many right-wing whites seemingly abandon their principles whole. Thus, while these individuals formerly denounced discrimination against whites in favor of blacks and Hispanics, we all of a sudden hear that Asian American academic success is merely the result of cheating and gaming the system. Some also suggest that colleges should take into consideration non-academic factors such as maintaining a certain campus culture or favoring those who might be more likely to donate to the school as alumni.
The fluidity with which white Americans commit to the principle of meritocracy certainly transcends mere personal anecdote. For instance, University of Miami assistant professor of sociology Frank L. Samson discovered that "in a survey of white California adults, they generally favor admissions policies that place a high priority on high school grade-point averages and standardized test scores. But when these white people are focused on the success of Asian-American students, their views change." He describes the methodology where "the white adults in the survey were also divided into two groups. Half were simply asked to assign the importance they thought various criteria should have in the admissions system of the University of California. The other half received a different prompt, one that noted that Asian Americans make up more than twice as many undergraduates proportionally in the UC system as they do in the population of the state. When informed of that fact, the white adults favor a reduced role for grade and test scores in admissions — apparently based on high achievement levels by Asian-American applicants. When asked about leadership as an admissions criterion, white ranking of the measure went up in importance when respondents were informed of the Asian success in University of California admissions. Professor Samson concludes that "the results here suggest that the importance of meritocratic criteria for whites varies depending upon certain circumstances. To wit, white Californians do not hold a principled commitment to a fixed standard of merit."[13]
These sorts of results are indeed rather troubling, but in light of other empirical realities such as Dunning-Kruger, perhaps shouldn't be entirely surprising. Alas, one of the more curious observations has been the eerie extent to which many of the memes and complaints voiced by right-wing whites against those of East Asian descent mirror the numerous ways in which blacks and Hispanics have historically complained about whites.
For instance, a recent Atlantic article referenced a study done on black, Hispanic and white parents in NYC public schools in determining their attitudes towards gifted and talented programs. The article pointed out that black and Hispanic parents were more interested in making sure their child had access to a diverse school than they were in gaming the system in order to gain admissions into gifted and talented programs. Furthermore, the article noted that, "while the black and Hispanic parents Roda interviewed had their children tested for gifted, none reported paying for tutors or otherwise preparing children for the test. For them, having to practice for the test meant your child wasn't really gifted."[14] If this sounds almost identical to what numerous right-wing whites have been arguing ad-nauseum about East Asians, you're almost certainly not alone in feeling this way. Personally, I did a double take just to make sure I wasn't reading the comments section of a white nationalist blog.
The Efficacy of Test Prep and Shifting Asian American Demographics
I wanted to briefly touch upon the issue of test prep, specifically focusing on the SAT. Although the SAT has undergone various sorts of changes over the past couple of decades, most recently in 2016, historically the test has been considered to be fairly g-loaded and relatively non-amenable to extensive prep, thus contradicting many of the assertions we otherwise hear. Back in 2003, Frey and Detterman observed a correlation of about 0.82 between SAT scores and g based on analysis of historical data.[15] Furthermore, studies have generally tended to cast doubt on the efficacy of commercial test prep in terms of significantly boosting SAT scores on average.
For instance, after accounting for potential self-selection biases by randomly assigning students to control and treatment groups, "the effect of commercial test preparation has appeared relatively small. A comprehensive 1999 study by Don Powers and Don Rock published in the Journal of Educational Measurement estimated a coaching effect on the math section somewhere between 13 and 18 points, and an effect on the verbal section between 6 and 12 points. Powers and Rock concluded that the combined effect of coaching on the SAT I is between 21 and 34 points. Similarly, extensive metanalyses conducted by Betsy Jane Becker in 1990 and by Nan Laird in 1983 found that the typical effect of commercial preparatory courses on the SAT was in the range of 9-25 points on the verbal section, and 15-25 points on the math section."[16] The Bell Curve also cited earlier data in showing that there were rapidly diminishing returns to extensive prep for both the SAT-M and SAT-V, although similar to the later studies the math section did appear to be more amenable to improvement than the verbal.[17]
One point of contention raised in certain circles has been the rapid rise of Asian American SAT scores in the past 10-15 years. Some took this to be suggestive of the fact that Asian Americans, bolstered by the rise of Tiger Mothers, had somehow found a way to crack the system and thus had ruined everything for everyone else.
Data[18] shows that Asian Americans have made rapid gains over the past 10 years on the SAT relative to other ethnic groups. Nonetheless, Asian American scores reflect a clear math/verbal split.
Although on the one hand Asian American SAT scores in 2015 reflected the same underlying math/verbal split as has been indicated by the psychometric literature for decades, on the other hand Asian American scores had increased by 54 points total between 2006 to 2015, while scores for every other ethnic group had dropped slightly. In particular, the delta between whites and Asians on average had increased by 60 points over this time period.[18]
Is this necessarily prima facie evidence that something is amiss with Asian American scores? I'm not convinced. Although my purpose here is hardly to get to the bottom of the matter, allow me to suggest that the increase in Asian American SAT scores over the past decade could simply have been a reflection of the shifting demographics of recent Asian American high school cohorts. As Pew numbers show, the Asian American population has grown rapidly from around 11.8 million in 2000 to around 20.5 million in 2015, an increase of almost 73%.[19] Surely much of this increase has been due to self-selected immigration. By contrast, the non-Hispanic white population grew from around 194 million to 198 million over the same time period, an increase of only about 2%.
It's also well known that the aggregate Asian American category lumps together various groups such as East Asians, South Asians, Southeast Asians, and Pacific Islanders. Presumably the former two groups generally tend to outperform the latter two academically. One piece of evidence for this, apart from adhering to the assumptions underlying HBD, lies in the results of the California Achievement Test. Data from the blog humanvarieties.org shows that Chinese and Korean Americans outperformed Cambodian and Laotian Americans by about 1 SD over the years 2003-2008 on the CAT.[20]
These differences likely carry over to the SAT as well. In fact, one of the most consistent features of Asian American SAT scores over recent years has been the higher SD across all sections compared to that of other ethnic groups. While the SD for white Americans has typically been around 100-105 on each section, the corresponding SD for Asian Americans has usually been around 120-125. This seems to suggest that Asian American scores are more bimodal and reflect perhaps the differential performances of the disparate underlying ethnic groups.[21]
My hypothesis is that the Asian American SAT pool has gotten more elite over the past 10-15 years, in addition to shifting a higher composition of Chinese and Indians percentage wise. These two groups accounted for almost 48% of the 73% increase in the Asian American population from 2000 to 2015. Indian Americans went from being about 16% of all Asian Americans in 2000 to about 19.4% in 2015, while Chinese Americans were about 24% in both time periods. Assuming differential age distributions among the various Asian ethnicities, it's certainly possible that the relevant Asian American high school cohort and by extension the Asian American SAT test taking pool has become even more Chinese and Indian today compared to what it was at the start of the century.
Furthermore, recent Asian American high school cohorts themselves may have become more elite due to immigration trends, a speculation which certainly has ground-level anecdotal support. For instance, a now infamous 2005 Wall Street article detailing the phenomenon of white flight from Monta Vista High in Cupertino and nearby Lynbrook High in San Jose attributed part of the demographic and cultural changes sweeping the two schools to the arrival of recent Asian immigrants.[22] Similarly, a New York Times article described how a recent influx of Chinese, Indian, and Korean immigrants to the elite West Windsor-Plainsboro Regional School District in New Jersey had caused tensions to surface between Asian and white parents there over the competitive focus of these schools. In particular, Asian Americans went from being around 44% of the school district in 2007 to over 65% by 2015.[23] Numerous other examples abound.
That Asian American SAT scores have been rising along with the increasing Asian presence at many of America's elite STEM oriented high schools suggests that the latter may in part explain the former, although admittedly it's hardly conclusive causal evidence. At any rate, those who suggest that Asian American SAT scores have somehow become compromised should surely at a minimum offer up more than mere repeated assertion.
The fact that America is currently mired in the midst of a modern day Cultural Revolution is surely undeniable, its effects far reaching and pernicious. Many people attribute the problem to the increasing mental fragility of our political left, and the issue is often framed along the lines of the white and non-white divide. I argued that this a fatally flawed conception. Right-wing whites, ostensibly stalwarts against such burgeoning insanity, often exhibit the same fragility as do Social Justice Jihadis and trot out at least some of the same memes. This is a cultural deficit that transcends political and ideological boundaries.
Self-esteem divorced from actual achievement is hardly a virtue. When it corrupts the capacity to seek fault with oneself first rather than reflexively find it in others, it becomes an absolute vice. Societies are at their most productive when their modus operandi is both fair and transparent. If the desire for feel-good self-esteem erodes our fundamental sense of fair play, what results in a highly multi-ethnic society such as America is the decline of meritocracy and a reversion to the most atavistic forms of tribal conflict. The increasingly toxic nature of American politics surely serves as a clear testament to this fact. Black, Hispanic, and white Americans are increasingly tearing each other apart in the public domain and by extension are eroding the very fabric of American society.
Take for the instance the tech industry, where I've worked for the past few years, albeit as a non-engineer. I've had to attend mandatory diversity training sessions, where I was taught about how to interrupt my unconscious biases and check my privilege. I also learned about how teams inevitably function better if they're not composed entirely of white males. I suppose given the huge degree of overrepresentation of Chinese and Indian males among many of Silicon Valley's leading tech companies, that statement seemed to me to be rather obvious. Most likely though, this wasn't what the person leading the diversity training had in mind. Contrast all of that to the recent observations of Michael Moritz of Sequoia Capital, who pointed out the following differences between American and Chinese tech culture.
"In California, the blogosphere has been full of chatter about the inequity of life. Some of this, especially for women, is true and for certain individuals their day of reckoning has been long overdue. But many of the soul-sapping discussions seem like unwarranted distractions. In recent months, there have been complaints about the political sensibilities of speakers invited to address a corporate audience; debates over the appropriate length of paternity leave or work-life balances; and grumbling about the need for a space for musical jam sessions. These seem like the concerns of a society that is becoming unhinged.
These topics are absent in China's technology companies, where the pace of work is furious. Here, top managers show up for work at about 8am and frequently don't leave until 10pm. Most of them will do this six days a week — and there are plenty of examples of people who do this for seven. Engineers have slightly different habits: they will appear about 10am and leave at midnight. Beyond the week-long breaks for Chinese New Year and the October national holiday, most will just steal an additional handful of vacation days. Some technology companies also provide a rental subsidy to employees who choose to live close to corporate HQ."[24]
Since Americans have become increasingly preoccupied with the rise of China and the competitive threat that it poses, it might behoove us to heed the words of someone like Mr. Moritz. Alas, the initial flurry of reactions to the Financial Times piece was almost entirely negative. I hold out hope though that attitudes can perhaps change over time in this country. Although many people generally tend to focus on the economic or scientific aspects of China's rise, one of the more under-appreciated aspects in my opinion is the ability for China to project its Confucian ethos and to serve as a paragon for others around the globe. One interesting example of this has been the trend in the UK recently of adopting the so-called mastery approach of mathematics teaching typically utilized in China and other East Asian countries[25]. In light of the superior performance of East Asian nations on international assessments of mathematics such as PISA and TIMSS, the UK has both sent teachers to and had teachers come from China in the hopes of learning pedagogical techniques for boosting the math scores of British students as well. These are the kinds of productive cultural exchanges that I hope can continue in the future.
The Talk
America has simultaneously been blessed and cursed by its high degree of racial diversity. As toxic self-esteem has increasingly eroded race relations in this country, along with our belief in meritocracy, we all need to take a moment to reflect on our increasingly destructive cultural mores. One group in particular, in my opinion, stands out as a clear exception to the madness we currently find ourselves in. The cultural grit epitomized by those of East Asian descent seems to me to be the only way forward for us as Americans. The alternative is to resign ourselves to the unprincipled free-for-all that this country seems to be devolving more and more into with each passing day, with all of its attendant mean-spirited hostilities and unbridled out-group bashing. Alas, I hold out hope that this isn't to be our inevitable fate.
Since the struggles of life have long prompted soul-searching and led parents of all sorts to have candid heart to heart talks with their children, I'm also led to recall the various bits of wisdom that my own mother imparted to me when I young. Similar to the talk that many black mothers today have with their sons or the talk that John Derbyshire has had with his own children as well[26], there is also an East Asian version of the talk as embodied by what my mother often told me growing up. I think this could serve as sound advice for all Americans irrespective of gender, race, or creed.
Source: America's Cultural Revolution- The Obsession with Self Esteem, by Yan Shen – The Unz Review


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Professor Zvi Kelman
Zvi Kelman is a Professor in the Department of Cell Biology and Molecular Genetics and the Institute for Bioscience and Biotechnology Research (IBBR) at the University of Maryland, College Park. He is also affiliated with the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Maryland School of Medicine and is a Guest Researcher in the Chemical Science and Technology Laboratory (CSTL), National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). In addition, he is also a member of the Marine Estuarine Environmental Sciences (MEES) Faculty, University of Maryland and the Program in Oncology, University of Maryland School of Medicine.
Dr. Kelman earned a B.Sc. in Agriculture from the Hebrew University in Jerusalem and a M.Sc. in Cell Biology from the Weizmann Institute of Science. After receiving a Ph.D. in Molecular Biology from the Cornell University Graduate School of Medical Sciences, he was a Helen Hay Whitney Foundation Post-Doctoral Fellow in the laboratories of Thomas Kelly (Johns Hopkins University) and Jerard Hurwitz (Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center). Upon completion of his postgraduate training, he became a Life Technologies Professor at the Center for Advanced Research in Biotechnology (CARB), University of Maryland Biotechnology Institute (UMBI). Dr. Kelman moved to the University of Maryland, College Park in 2010.
Professor Kelman has organized a number of domestic and international conferences and is the recipient of multiple research awards. In addition to his responsibilities as Editor-in-Chief of Research and Reports in Biology, he is also a member of the editorial boards of more than 10 other journals. His major research interests are the elucidation of the mechanism of DNA replication in archaea and other microorganisms, and the genetic basis of vitamin B12 deficiency in humans. He has authored over 90 articles and book chapters.

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My Adventures in Hungary
A personal reflection on the 3rd European Integral Consciousness Conference, Allies in Evolution
I just returned from the Third Integral European Conference, Allies of Evolution, held in the Azur Hotel, Siofok, Hungary. The Conference lasted ten days including an optional three-day 'magical mystery tour' of Hungary.
Bringing the global integral community together
These European Conferences are the main gatherings that bring the global integral community together. Their shared reference point is Ken Wilbur's Integral Theory. The conferences combines theory, application, research, academic papers and experiential content and all the sessions are recorded.
As the meet-up place for members of the global integral community, a high proportion of delegates already knew each other, creating an atmosphere of collegial community where conversations with trusted colleagues based on a mutual understanding of the basic concepts of Integral Consciousness could be resumed and continued.
What took me to Siofok
As a first-time participant, the question I was most often asked was, Why are you here? Followed by, How long have you been a member of the integral community?
I found myself explaining that although I was not officially part of the integral community, I had, for most of my life, been following parallel processes that presupposed the evolution of human consciousness and was curious as to what direction evolution was taking and what input, if any, we as human beings could have into the process.
A diverse range of new experiences
One of the aspects of the conference that I particularly appreciated was the focus on giving delegates new experiences.
These included:
Hungary is now more than a name on the map with an association to gypsy music and revolutions: and I have put names and faces to many delightful members of the integral community.
My take away from the conference
What's my biggest take-away from this adventure?
For me it was a combination of ingredients:
The icing on the cake, as it were, was an unexpected family visit to Hungary and the opportunity to reconnect with my brother and his wife from Scotland.
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PS. What's the photo? It's the view of sunset over Lake Balaton from the balcony of my hotel in Siofok, Hungary.
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Can you remember being a child, sitting in a school assembly?
As the gym or auditorium slowly filled up with every person in the school, you would scan the crowd for a friend or two, and when you found them, you'd joke around or make plans. As everyone settled down, the Principal would walk up to the microphone, and the program would begin.
Inevitably, at some point during the show, it got too noisy somewhere in the crowd. The Principal would walk back up to the mic and stop everything. "People," his voice would boom. "Time to quiet down back there. I'm waiting. Thank you." Right in the middle of the show! As though it were part of the show. In fact, it was part of the show – and that is the point of this blog post. It was the regularly scheduled program.
Every school has a regularly scheduled program.
The other day I was at City Neighbors High School for the annual Talent Show. As you may know, City Neighbors High School is in its 2nd year as a school, and shares its campus with City Neighbors Hamilton (K-5). Imagine 180 students, freshman and sophomores slowly filling up the auditorium. Kids, parents, teachers, and the young students of City Neighbors Hamilton came to see the Talent Show.
As everyone settled down, the Principal of CNHS, Mr. Danique Dolly, walked up to the microphone, and the program began. There were dancers, singers, bands, hip hop, rap, spoken word, guest performers and teacher-performers. It was wonderful.
At one point during the show, things got a little noisy in the back of the room. It so happened that Principal Dolly was at the microphone, talking, when he noticed the noise. He turned off his microphone and said, in an quiet, private, off-the-air tone, "People, time to quiet down back there. I'm waiting. Thank you."
Exact same words as our old principals used to use. But here's the part that I noticed. Principal Dolly turned back on the mic, and with his winning smile, said, "OK, folks, now back to our regularly scheduled program."
That is it! When Mr. Dolly turned off the mic to scold a bit and remind, he made sure the students knew that the regularly scheduled program is not the negative one. The regularly scheduled program at our new high school is the one filled with creativity, joy, self expression, and courage.
What is your regularly scheduled program?


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Townsend, Wisconsin facts for kids
|Townsend, Wisconsin
Location of Townsend, Wisconsin
|United States
|• Total
|42.5 sq mi (110.0 km2)
|• Land
|39.0 sq mi (101.0 km2)
|• Water
|3.5 sq mi (9.0 km2)
|1,388 ft (423 m)
|Population (2000)
|• Total
|• Density
|24.7/sq mi (9.5/km2)
|Time zone
|Central (CST) (UTC-6)
|• Summer (DST)
|Area code(s)
|715 & 534
|FIPS code
|GNIS feature ID
Townsend is a town in Oconto County, Wisconsin, United States. The population was 963 at the 2000 census. The census-designated place of Townsend is located in the town.
According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 42.5 square miles (109.9 km²), of which, 39.0 square miles (101.0 km²) of it is land and 3.5 square miles (9.0 km²) of it (8.15%) is surface water.
As of the census of 2000, there were 963 people, 436 households, and 313 families residing in the town. The population density was 24.7 people per square mile (9.5/km²). There were 1,450 housing units at an average density of 37.2 per square mile (14.4/km²). The racial makeup of the town was 97.51% White, 0.10% African American, 0.62% Native American, 0.10% Pacific Islander, 0.31% from other races, and 1.35% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 0.73% of the population.
There were 436 households out of which 17.2% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 63.5% were married couples living together, 5.0% had a female householder with no husband present, and 28.0% were non-families. 24.1% of all households were made up of individuals and 11.9% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.21 and the average family size was 2.55.
In the town, the population was spread out with 16.9% under the age of 18, 4.0% from 18 to 24, 17.9% from 25 to 44, 34.8% from 45 to 64, and 26.4% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 53 years. For every 100 females there were 104.0 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 100.0 males.
The median income for a household in the town was $28,456, and the median income for a family was $36,875. Males had a median income of $32,000 versus $19,250 for females. The per capita income for the town was $16,680. About 3.9% of families and 6.8% of the population were below the poverty line, including 11.2% of those under age 18 and 2.0% of those age 65 or over.
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An episode from The X-Files titled "Fallen Angel" is set in Townsend, Wisconsin. However, it was not filmed there or influenced by anything in Townsend, Wisconsin, and placed the towns location somewhere near West Bend, Wisconsin.
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(Alternate Title: The Bighorns versus The Food)
Between my Masters work, the wedding, and Life, I began thinking about menu options. At the four-month mark of the wedding, I decided it'll be good to knock a few things out of the way. One of those was something Mr Big and I excitedly discussed EVERY time we thought about our venue: the food.
Now Tamburlaine provides catering and drinks in a package, so that the bridegroom couple don't have to worry about finding their own catering company. Plus side – we don't have to do the additional searching. Not-so-much-a-plus-side, that meant we HAD to use their company. But after mulling over the menu, we concluded that they sounded delicious, and so, we settled with Tamburlaine, comfortable with the menu and the catering company they use, Wine Country Catering.
Unfortunately, we then found out (after putting a deposit down) that the catering company no longer does tastings (BALLS!!!) which completely bummed us out (we wanted to taste some food dammit!). The catering company, however, is known as one of the most prestigious catering companies for corporate, weddings, and other events, so we concluded that we weren't worried about the quality of the food.
The most difficult for us in this foodie journey, being lovers of food ourselves, is choosing the food.
Let me just post a few pictures of the foods from Wine Country Catering to demonstrate what I mean:
Uhm, can people say, yes please!
So, from those pictures above, you can see that Mr Big and I had a pretty tough choice on our hands. Luckily, there were a few things that helped us choose:
Chinese weddings often serve seafood only as that is believed to bring good fortune and prosperity to the bridegroom couple
Not all of our guests can have seafood only, for example, the mother-of-the-groom and the groom himself dislike eating lots of seafood, and some of our guests have a severe allergy to certain types of seafood
Some of our guests are picky regarding certain meats, for example, BM Cupcakes doesn't eat beef and lamb, Groom's Homie Oddball doesn't eat lamb, we have three vegetarians, and one of our photographers is vegan.
- Some of our guests are lactose intolerant and another is allergic to chocolate, so dessert needed to be carefully considered.
- We'll have children there! So they need to be kept happy and fed.
Now, in order to ensure that point 1 could be met, to an extent, we needed some seafood options. However, we had to cater for point 2. Point 3 meant that we also had to have a meat that everyone could eat. Point 4 meant that dessert needed to be carefully considered. And so, with all of that, we decided on the following:
- V – vegetarian
- SF – seafood
Canapés: (choice of 4)
- Potato rosti with roasted beef and caramelised onion
- Spinach and pinenut filo pastry parcels (V)
- Satay chicken skewers
- Roma tomato and fresh basil on garlic bruschetta (V)
Entrée: (choice of 3)
- Smoked salmon, potato and rocket salad served with horseradish cream and capers (SF)
- Slow cooked pork belly salad with braised cabbage, sautéed bok choy and an orange soy dressing
- Tempura battered king prawns with Asian greens and honey/chilli sauce (SF)
Mains: (choice of 3)
- Herb-crusted perch fillet, baked with lemon and parsley beurre blanc served on creamy mashed potato (SF)
- Corn-fed chicken supreme filled with pinenuts, spinach and feta on linguine pasta with basil pesto cream sauce
- Roast of soy and thyme beef rib eye served with roasted chateaux potatoes, dutch carrots and seasonal vegetables
Dessert: (choice of 2)
- Fromage blanc tart with peanut brittle and Persian fairy floss
- White and Dark chocolate terrine with raspberry coulis and fresh seasonal berries
Tea and coffee at a station which where the cake will be plated up for our guests.
And in keeping with point 5, we chose the "party platter" for the kiddies, so they get a selection of things to eat.
Children's Options
- Party platter – nuggets, party pies, frankfurts, etc.
Dessert: Vanilla ice cream with chocolate toppings (other flavours available upon request)
As for the vegetarians, we got a general consensus from our vegetarian guests and settled on this:
Vegetarian Options
- Steamed asparagus with Persian feta tartlet served with honey roasted tomato and chilli jam
- Sweet potato and fresh herb gnocchi with a saffron cream sauce, fresh shaved grana padano
Hopefully our guests like the food! We're certainly excited!
In the next post, I'll talk about every adult's favourite things at weddings: BOOZE (and non-alcoholic drinks).
So what do you guys think of the menu?


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You've heard it before--from me and other Inc.com writers. Take the time to create a well-thought-out strategy and mission statement. Set long-term goals and objectives. Stick to your vision so you always know where you're headed.
Wrong, wrong, wrong, says Ryan Urban, CEO of Bounce Exchange, a start-up that predicts online shopping behavior, allowing e-commerce sites to customize user experiences and make more sales. Founded with three people in 2012, Bounce Exchange now has 75 employees and may grow to 140 by the end of 2015, Urban says. Its clients include Ann Taylor, USA Today, Forbes, and Comcast.
Urban says he got the company where it is by setting aside most long-term goals and focusing on micro-goals--very short-term goals many of which can be accomplished in one day or less. Though it goes against most expert opinion, here are his arguments for why lots of very small objectives are effective--and why you should give up five-year plans, grand visions, and big hairy audacious goals:
1. Tactics are more powerful than strategy.
One problem with big, long-term goals? Business doesn't happen in big, long-term activities. "It all boils down to tactics and no one talks about them because tactics aren't sexy," Urban says. "Your mission statement may not mean much to the people working at your company. We try to break everything down into baby steps."
2. You will adapt to changes and take advantage of opportunities more quickly.
It's easy to make instant adjustments when you don't plan ahead very far. "We execute hourly," Urban says, adding that on Friday he often doesn't know what's on Monday's agenda.
3. You will show up.
Urban say that showing up--being at the office every day--trumps having a grand vision every time. "I learned this from the CEO at a different company who was never there," he explains. "Yes, they had a mission statement, goals, and core value, but the CEO was out being the brand evangelist."
Going out and representing the brand has opportunity costs many company leaders don't consider, he says. "If I'm at a conference for four days, how much could I have helped people by being here? If you want to be an evangelist for your company--be in your office every day. If you're there, your employees will do better, you'll retain your clients, and they'll talk about you." (Here's more on why businesses lose customers and how to keep them.)
4. You will create a bottom-up culture.
"Having a long-term vision is a top-down approach, and I rarely see top-down approaches be really effective," Urban declares. "We take a bottom-up approach and we try to be the best at whatever we're doing at that moment."
That approach means Bounce Exchange is able to focus more on its employees, and Urban believes that's where your focus belongs. "No investor has ever asked us about our employee retention, and that's the most important metric," Urban says. Bounce Exchange was named as one of Internet Week's Best Places to Work in Silicon Alley. Urban takes pride in the fact that no employee has ever left to work at a different company. (Here's more on how to keep employees engaged and happy.)
5. You will hire better managers.
"With top-down, you wind up bringing in the wrong people," Urban says. "You have people who are very strategic. They have their head in the clouds and they're looking five years down the line. The number one reason people leave companies is that they have a boss who is either a jerk or has their head in the clouds and isn't being productive."
6. You will waste less time.
One benefit of micro-goals is that they can apply to everything. Like many companies, Bounce Exchange has reset the default meeting length to 30 minutes instead of an hour. But there's more. "Before you go on a call or to a meeting, you have to decide what the objective is for that meeting," Urban says. "And the meeting ends when you have met that."
7. All employees will take ownership of goals.
With a large number of micro-goals, all Bounce Exchange employees can take ownership of individual items, and they do. "We really believe in ownership," Urban says. "A lot of people who are younger or newer at most companies aren't given ownership of things. Every single person in our company, no matter what role they're in, gets ownership of different things. You own a client, or you own a task. Nothing slips through the cracks that way."
And if someone's not living up to these ownership responsibilities? "In a short period of time we move it to a different owner," Urban says. "Then we find the first person something that fits their skill set more."
8. Employees will feel more fulfilled.
With everyone owning one or more micro-goals, Bounce Exchange regularly experience the satisfaction of meeting a goal and celebrating an accomplishment. "It's kind of like living in the moment," Urban says. "You always want to feel a sense of accomplishment. People are generally happy to go to work and they're doing fulfilling things."
9. You will reach your long-term goals--even if you don't focus on them.
Though Urban avoids most large goals, there are some he still has to set, such as revenue numbers. "We do have numbers you want to hit by the end of the year, but once we write them up I don't think about them," he says.
It turns out setting micro-goals is a surprisingly effective way to sell a product to the Fortune 1000 companies Bounce Exchange targets. "On our first call, the micro-goal isn't to sign the company, it's to understand the customer's needs," Urban says. "The next goal is, how do we get a meeting with the decision-maker? And at the first meeting with the decision-maker, our goal isn't to close the deal either. By doing things in these small steps, our sales cycle is one to three months instead of a more typical four to six months."
That has led to beating the company's revenue goals, even while Urban wasn't thinking about them. "We've blown away every number we've wanted to hit," he says.


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Social media part 3: leveraging social media data analytics to improve M&A – Lexology.
There is no question that social media has a role to play in M&A activity. In a recent survey by Toronto based international law firm Fasken Martineau; respondents reported that they were not only using social media to communicate deals but also for research and due diligence .
- 36% for research.
- 48% for investigation.
- 72% like LinkedIn to research personalities. Only 50% said the same of Facebook.
- 78% disclose transactions through Facebook and 44% use LinkedIn.
More importantly
- 77% said they have no social media strategy, and
- 65% said they have no intention of developing one.
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There are 2 benefits of social media: (i) expert opinion, and (ii) trending sentiment. Much of the hype behind the trends in Big Data are about connecting these 2 powerful elements with the hard numbers around corporate valuations. For instance, an acquirer may wish balance valuations with the trending market sentiment and the opinions of experts. An extreme example of this is the Facebook IPO where market hype vastly outweighed traditional valuations. So much so that Warren Buffet said that he had no idea how the valuation was so high and that he just couldn't value companies like this. Social media is often seen as an echo chamber; a small community talking to itself. Posts range from self-aggrandisement to advertising puffery with very few hard facts and figures in between. What few figures are there may be real, may be fictional or may be somewhere in between. The value is in aggregating these figures but the algorithms needed to ensure that the right weighting is placed against the right number based on author, time etc (let alone how they account for hearsay). the maths behind this is hard enough let alone the semantic interpretation by computers. Needless to say, when this sort of calculating can be done it will be worthwhile for many and will be, initially, a very, very expensive service.
The moral of the story is – BEWARE!
Social media remains useful for advertising and developing an extended network of sector contacts in order to deepen one's contextual market knowledge. However, as an analytical tool, to my mind, it is still out there with witchcraft.


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Good morning, everyone, and welcome officially to the 2017-2018 academic year. I loved hearing about each one of you students last night and would like to take a moment to thank, especially, the senior class for getting us off to such a happy start! You, seniors, have set the tone for a spectacular year. Thank you.
(...) Though it's hard to believe, this is my tenth SBS Convocation, and never has this ceremony felt more important than it does this year. With varying levels of uncertainty around the world, we have a duty to all of you students to provide a safe and nurturing environment so that you can focus on the hard task of growing into your adult selves. And yet, through social media, newspapers and other news media, you all are privy to the external forces driving our world today, and I imagine it feels a bit overwhelming. I am here to tell you that while Stoneleigh-Burnham is a microcosm of the world by virtue of our broad cultural makeup, it does not need to be a reflection of the discord we are all reading about and experiencing. In fact, it has the potential to be quite the opposite. We can be better than what we're reading about and witnessing right now – if we all decide that that's what we want.
Most of you know that I am a graduate of Stoneleigh-Burnham. I was a four-year girl, here for the latter half of the 1960's decade – a time in American history when there was also a lot of turmoil and turbulence. My junior year, 1967-1968, was particularly stressful. The Vietnam War was in full swing, and images from halfway around the world were projected on TV in ways that weren't possible during earlier wars. World War II veterans hated the "peaceniks" who were protesting against the Vietnam War, and special interest groups were popping up to represent their political viewpoints. In April of 1968, Martin Luther King, Jr., leader of the Civil Rights Movement and promoter of nonviolence and civil disobedience, was fatally shot. That June, Bobby Kennedy, at that time a state senator working hard for racial equality and the leading Democratic candidate in the upcoming presidential election, was assassinated. It was a very hard year in this country, and the summer after my junior year six of us Stoneleigh friends went to Rockwood, Maine, where my roommate's family had a cabin on a lake. One afternoon while we were there, we took a walk in the woods and stumbled upon a beautiful little chapel made of hand-hewn wood. We went in and found it empty; the simplicity of its design and the peace and quiet it offered us after such a difficult year inspired us to take a seat and just sit with ourselves for quite awhile. Eventually, one of us got up, stood at the pulpit and started talking about her feelings. And then, each of us did the same; we processed together how the year had felt to us. It was one of those experiences that I will always remember; actually, we all remember it and talk about it to this day, even though it was almost 50 years ago.
The reason I'm telling you this story is that I would like to create for you here that same sense of peace and contemplation. I want us all to be able to reflect on what is happening around us while still feeling safe to do the work we are here to do. I hope we will all work hard to make this a safe space for each other, understanding how difficult it is to stay open and accepting and welcoming. And that is why this ceremony is so very important.
We have come together today to form a covenant – a promise – to live by the ideals expressed in our Honor Code. Each one of us is here this morning to commit to our community by committing to our Honor Code – the most important values by which we agree to live. Right here, right now, is the most important hour of the year. It sets the tone and clearly establishes what we honor in each other and in ourselves.
I am fully aware that some of you in this school have felt marginalized by various factions of our larger society, and I want to state very clearly that you are all equally valued here. We are committed to give you what we promise – a chance to explore who you are and what your values are - and emerge as your best selves. But we need the help of everyone in our community to make it possible for our students to feel safe enough to take the risks required for self-discovery. We ALL have to commit to the ideas expressed in our Honor Code; we ALL have to make room for the broad spectrum of perspective and opinion that lives in our walls; we ALL have to appreciate difference and honor each other by acknowledging what those of you in IB classes know so well. That is, that my opinion is not the only "right" opinion.
I'm talking about what happens when we actually do live up to all of these ideals. But what happens when we don't? What if someone tells an inappropriate joke, makes fun behind someone else's back, sends a snarky text message? Please name it. Politely call each other out on it. Ask that person not to do things that harm someone else in any way.
This is a steep challenge, but I believe we are all up for it. I will give you my pledge that I will do my very best to protect this community so that you may all rise to the occasion. Best of luck to you all this year; I look forward to our soaring beyond what we even imagine is possible.
Written by Sally Mixsell
As an alumna (Class of 1969), Sally brings an intimate knowledge of the Stoneleigh-Burnham community to the position of Head of School. She is dedicated to the academic, social and physical growth of each girl, and believes that such development is accomplished by students' engagement in a close community where meaningful participation is key. Sally's contributions to this blog allow parents, fellow alumnae, prospective families, and friends a close view into the life of the school from her perspective.


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Do you like watching videos on YouTube and wish there was some way you could save the videos you like most so you can watch them offline? It may surprise you but that isn't actually as difficult as you might think, and there are actually several ways to do so.
The most flexible way to save YouTube videos is to record them on your screen using Movavi Screen Recorder. Despite the fact that it may initially seem complicated, the truth is that it is easy and straightforward to set up the recording and will only take you a minute or two at most.
If you'd like to try it for yourself, go ahead and open up a YouTube video that you'd like to save but don't play it just yet. Instead, launch Movavi Screen Recorder and as soon as you do draw a frame over the video using your mouse cursor to define it as the capture area.
Immediately afterward the Movavi Screen Recorder interface will appear. At this point, you can adjust the frame that you drew, use the presets in the list under 'Capture Area', or adjust the other recording parameters such as the audio source, frame rate, or sound levels.
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Best friends, big fans, a mysterious webcomic, and a long-lost girl collide in this riveting novel, perfect for fans of both Cory Doctorow and Sarah Dessen; illustrated throughout with comics.
Once upon a time, two best friends created a princess together. Libby drew the pictures, May wrote the tales, and their heroine, Princess X, slayed all the dragons and scaled all the mountains their imaginations could conjure.
Once upon a few years later, Libby was in the car with her mom, driving across the Ballard Bridge on a rainy night. When the car went over the side, Libby passed away, and Princess X died with her.
Once upon a now: May is sixteen and lonely, wandering the streets of Seattle, when she sees a sticker slapped in a corner window.
Princess X?
When May looks around, she sees the Princess everywhere: Stickers. Patches. Graffiti. There's an entire underground culture, focused around a webcomic at IAmPrincessX.com. The more May explores the webcomic, the more she sees disturbing similarities between Libby's story and Princess X online. And that means that only one person could have started this phenomenon---her best friend, Libby, who lives.
Bookworm Review: This came across my lap because it was one of the Texas Lonestar List. This is a huge deal here in Texas. Librarians in public schools like to promote these books and offer rewards for students who read from this list. Just this year I had students who read books from last year's list and now they get to have a party in the library after school. Yes, 7th graders still get excited about parties.
Anyways, I read the book so that I could let other students know if I liked it or not. I have to say that I really liked the premise behind the book. There were parts where I skipped ahead because I lost interest. I had the plot line figured out after about halfway through. I did enjoy the little bits and pieces of comic strips throughout. They helped add to the storyline and gave some interest to the story.
I would recommend this book to upper elementary students and younger middle school students. It's not my usual Realistic Fiction type of book, but it was a nice, quick read.


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O'Neal and Pacers hand Celtics 12th straight lossJan 31, 2007 - 3:53 AM INDIANAPOLIS (Ticker) -- The most storied franchise in the NBA is one step closer to a most sorry record.
The Boston Celtics scored just 26 points in the middle two periods and allowed the Indiana Pacers to shoot nearly 60 percent over the first three quarters en route to their 12th straight loss, 103-96.
Jamaal Tinsley scored a season-high 28 points and Jermaine O'Neal added 25 for the Pacers, who have won four of five.
"We started off slow, we finally got some opportunities in the second quarter to play better defense," O'Neal said. "We came out strong in the third on both ends. ... I think the second and third quarters may be the best we played all year."
Boston has an NBA-high 16 championships, including eight straight from 1959-66, but last won the crown in 1986. The franchise last lost 13 straight during the 1993-94 and 1996-97 seasons.
"We are playing hard, just not good enough," Boston coach Doc Rivers said. "When you haven't won in 11 or 12 games now, your shots just get heavy. The guys are still playing hard. My job is to keep getting on these guys. We are all in this together. We just have to keep fighting."
Playing without injured star Paul Pierce (left foot) for a 20th straight game, Boston jumped to a 30-24 first-quarter lead before imploding. It made just 6-of-19 shots and committed seven turnovers in the second quarter as Indiana took a 52-43 lead at the half.
O'Neal sparked an early 13-2 run with five points and scored four more during an 11-3 burst that ended the half. Indiana shot 11-of-15 from the floor during the period.
The Celtics closed within five points in the third before getting outscored, 15-2, over the final 7:20 of the period. Troy Murphy scored six during the spurt for the Pacers, who made 9-of-16 shots.
"It's a heck of a win," Indiana coach Rick Carlisle said. "The key to the game was we closed the first quarter poorly but closed the second and third strong and built a 20-point lead."
After the game was out of reach, Boston scored 40 points in the fourth quarter to get as close as four with 30 seconds left.
"We aren't going to give up," Celtics swingman Gerald Green said. "We just have to keep fighting. We just let it go tonight and turned it on at the wrong time. It was too late. We just need to turn it on and leave it on. We just need to play basketball and play smarter."
Tinsley shot 9-of-14 from the floor and added six rebounds and seven assists. O'Neal added eight rebounds, four assists and three blocks.
"Jamaal was great particularly at the offensive end," Carlisle said. "He was the difference in the game."
Danny Granger, who scored seven points in the second quarter, added 13 points and five rebounds for Indiana, which converted 29-of-46 shots from the line.
Al Jefferson had 15 points and 17 rebounds and Green added 14 for Boston, which has lost 19 of 21 since a five-game winning streak.
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