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After the drama of the debt ceiling talks that went down to the wire, investors are now refocusing on the sharp slowdown in the US economy, as downgrades of historical growth estimates show how weak the recovery has been.
Growth estimates going back to 2003 were revised using a new methodology, with the period between 2008 and 2010 seeing a significant downgrade. On Monday, the Institute for Supply Management's (ISM) benchmark manufacturing data added to the gloom, showing a slower-than expected expansion.
Flat consumer spending and lower government consumption is driving this weakness, according to Devina Mehra, chief strategist at First Global.
"The worst part about the revisions was that the US economy has still not been able to beat its pre-crisis GDP level" said Mehra in a research note.
In Mehra's view, the pace of the weakening in the United States raises questions about proposed cuts in government spending and supports the case for more quantitative easing (QE) from the Fed.
"Since the onset of QE2, we have believed that QE3 was a possibility. The disappointing job market numbers for the last two months and the current weak GDP growth data will force the US Federal Reserve to postpone any monetary tightening and instead focus on strengthening the recovery," said Mehra.
"Government spending cuts have already begun and have also started impacting economic growth. With further cuts in government spending, either the Federal Reserve will have to announce QE3 earlier than expected, which will partly offset the fiscal tightening, or the possibility of the US economy once again falling into a recession cannot be fully ignored," said Mehra.
The view that economic weakness will lead the Fed to pump more money into the system is gaining ground with others as well.
"The report adds to the picture of weak growth in the US as also evident from the GDP data on Friday. This poses serious questions on the strength of the US recovery and points to an increasing risk of QE3 from the Fed," said Allan von Mehren, the chief analyst at Danske Bank.
However, he is confident that the second half of the year will see a significant improvement in growth, despite others predicting a very difficult end to the year.
"We continue to look for a rebound in growth in the second half in response to lower oil prices and fading uncertainty about the debt ceiling.
"However, any rebound is likely to be in the 2.5-3.0 percent range, compared with the previous expectation of 3.5 percent. We also look for the ISM to bottom soon and increase gradually to around 55 during the autumn," said Mehren.
Corporate profits have been very strong amid the economic weakness, but one economist is warning this could be about to change.
"The growth in profits has to a large extent reflected labour-shedding and tight control over wages; the counterpart has been the softness in consumer spending," said Stephen Lewis, chief economist at Monument Securities in London in a research note.
This trend could be about to come to an end, according to Lewis, with significant consequences for profits and therefore stock valuations.
"Through 2010, the rising trend in the ratio of corporate profits on this measure to nominal GDP flattened off; suggesting that the shift in income shares from labour to corporates had gone as far as it could without undermining profits growth.
"The sequential performance of S&P 500 earnings has followed a similar trajectory to that of the official profits series. The chances are, then, that continued sluggishness in economic activity will, from now on, act as a brake on corporate earnings growth," said Lewis.

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Loud and clear return for Stereophonics
It's 16 years since Stereophonics burst out of their South Wales hometown, Cwmaman, with their debut album Word Gets Around.
Performance And Cocktails, their follow-up released two years later in 1999, kick-started a run of five UK chart-topping albums, while they moved from the small venues in which they'd cut their teeth to arenas and stadiums all over the world.
To date, they've sold more than 20 million albums and worked with the likes of The Who, Tom Jones and Paul Weller.
Being so busy came at a price, however. In Stereophonics' case, particularly that of frontman and songwriter Kelly Jones, it seemed to be the drying up of ideas.
Their seventh album, Keep Calm And Carry On, released in late 2009, was their poorest selling and lowest charting in the UK, peaking at No 11.
A year later, after almost 3½ years of constant touring, the 'Phonics, as they're colloquially known, decided to stop and regroup.
The result is Graffiti On The Train, their eighth album and easily the best since 2005's Language. Sex. Violence. Other?, which in itself was something of a revelation and yielded their only No.1 UK single, Dakota.
"We finished touring in November 2010, not out of fatigue or anything it was all very positive," says Jones. "We'd just never had our own studio before and that was something we wanted, and it seemed like a natural time to take a break."
Along with fellow founder member Richard Jones, the band's bassist and backing singer; the now departed drummer Javier Weyler, and guitarist Adam Zindani, who became an official member in 2008 having previously toured with the band, Jones opted to rethink the way they approached making albums and take a year off from touring. Something they hadn't done in 16 years.
"I really wanted to concentrate on songwriting again. The first two albums we had so much time to write, and it was all a collaborative effort between the three of us," says Jones - the three being himself, Richard Jones and drummer Stuart Cable, who died in 2010.
"After that the band got bigger and busier and I was writing whenever I could, on the bus, in a hotel or whatever."
While Jones wouldn't admit it himself, it wasn't good for his songwriting.
Word Gets Around, and to a degree the follow-up, was brilliant because of the beautifully observed, deftly written vignettes that celebrated extraordinary happenings in a very mundane small town.
Looks Like Chaplin, A Thousand Trees and More Life In A Tramp's Vest summed up that sentiment perfectly. Another song, Local Boy In The Photograph, meanwhile, was written after seeing the picture of a 23-year-old, who killed himself on the train tracks, on the front of the village newspaper. His face was familiar to Jones as he'd given the stranger the time of the fateful train.
In short, Jones' songwriting is at its best when he's writing stories. Given his background as a film and animation student, that's hardly surprising. In fact, he was offered a job as a scriptwriter by BBC Wales shortly before signing a deal with Richard Branson's fledgling V2 record label.
Thankfully, in a true return to form, Graffiti On The Train showcases Jones's brilliant way with a yarn. This time round, much of it is imagined, but it was largely inspired by a real-life event.
"It was summer 2010 and we were touring a lot and doing festivals, so I was at home a fair bit," he explains. "I kept hearing footsteps on my roof when I was in bed. I was worried someone was trying to break into the house, but this one night I shouted out to them, you know, 'What the hell are you doing on my roof?' kind of thing, and they said they were just trying to get to the railway line across the trees to spray graffiti on the trains.
"That's quite a lot of trouble to go to just to paint a train, but at least they weren't breaking in, which is half a bonus I suppose. Anyway, I went back to bed and got thinking about what they were doing, and why.
"I understand kids are bored out of their minds. We all want to find a way to express ourselves and leave our mark on the world, and I was lucky enough to have music. I ended up thinking about someone who might be leaving notes for his girlfriend on the morning train."
As the album progresses there's a marriage proposal, a Romeo and Juliet-style romance and, ultimately, on Violence And Tambourines, the death of the protagonist.
"Lots of things started unfolding as I was writing the album," says Jones. "At the same time I started writing a screenplay about these two kids who leave a small Welsh town to go across Europe to watch bands. There's an element of autobiography in that because that's what me, Rich and Stuart did.
"The two things I was writing sort of bleed into each other. There's the thread of a story there, it's not a concept as such, and I was taking inspiration from one for the other and vice-versa. Plus I've got a ready-made soundtrack for the film if it gets made."
The final addition in that sentence is Jones to a tee. He often makes quips and jokey asides, normally self-deprecating and almost always when the conversation has taken a more serious turn. For a man so bright and at times deep, he likes to keep conversation light.
One thing not discussed at much length today is the death of Stuart Cable. Jones sacked his old friend and bandmate in 2003 when his drink and drug abuse became problematic. The pair patched things up in just over a year and at the time of Cable's death (he vomited in his sleep and choked) they were on good terms again.
Graffiti On The Train is the first album since then and an air of mourning runs throughout it, without ever dealing with the issue directly - although the final track No One's Perfect comes close.
"If he'd lived I think he'd have ended up back in the band," says Jones. "What happened between us was stupid and if we'd been more patient at the time I think we could've ironed things out then. After all, we're only a band."
They are only a band, admittedly, but one that thousands of people want to see. Their sell-out tour this month is testament to that, and will see Stereophonics performing in venues they grew out of long ago.
"They're all around 2000-capacity venues, so not tiny," says Jones, "but small for us I suppose.
"We know what it's like not living near a big venue, though. No one ever came to our town, so we were always going off somewhere to watch a band.
"As old-fashioned as it sounds, we're taking music to people. That's how we built the fanbase in the first place, going to small towns and universities, and I think that's why a lot of people have stuck with us because they respect us for that. We've got a lot to thank those people for."
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It's hard to keep up with all of the volunteer projects that go on in the California Genealogical Society Library. Maintaining our collection is an endless task and volunteers step up to keep things organized and ready for our patrons.
One of the library's gems is our Manuscript Collection. Volunteers Pat Bonderud and Linda Darby catalogued and organized ninety linear feet of loose papers, research, and family history material donated to the society over the past 114 years. The manuscript collection is now being maintained by volunteers Georgia Lupinsky and Virginia Turner. The thirty-page inventory in pdf format entitled CGS Manuscript Collection can be downloaded from the society website on the Searchable Databases page.
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Now Pat and Linda have turned their attention to another neglected collection in the library – the vertical files. The vertical files contain small items: clippings, reprints, and other miscellaneous materials. Over the years the two vertical file cabinets became a bit of a "catch all" for holdings that don't fit anywhere else in the library. Most are surname files.
Bonderud and Darby are examining the contents of each and every file. They are curating and creating brief descriptions of the files, including surnames, time frame, and location.
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Last Word: Why Brands Should Embrace Agencies
Being the chief executive of an eCommerce brand is a tough job. And so is being the CEO of an agency or consultancy that helps companies with their brand presence, public relations, or eCommerce-efficacy. Both brand-side and agency-side businesses should be respected by the other but that often isn't the case. Brands tend to believe that agencies' lack of sales accountability makes their job easier. And agencies tend to believe that brands should believe, blindly, in their efforts.
The truth is somewhere in the middle. Brands need agencies and agencies need brands. In 2PML's next live chat (hosted on Talkshow), I'd like to team two brand executives and two agency owners in a discussion on bridging the gap between value and deliverables between agencies and brands. If interested in joining, feel free to respond to this letter via email.
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Performing the Past is a collaborative network set up to develop innovative multi-disciplinary methods for investigating and disseminating the heritage of working-class and industrial communities in Yorkshire. Its historical remit is c.1800-1930, although the project team are actively researching and drawing inspiration from studies of earlier and later time periods too (e.g. Shakespearean theatre and social realism in late 20th- and 21st-century film).
Once regarded as being accessible only as the subjects of 'official' documents, 19th- and early 20th-century working-class communities have recently begun to be analysed in new ways, as the materials they produced and used – including autobiographies, diaries, poetry, photographs, paintings and material culture – have emerged as rich sources of information.
The Yorkshire region has a rich working-class heritage and excellent facilities for this project, and pioneering research has already commenced in the White Rose Universities of Leeds, Sheffield and York; researchers from the School of Performance and Cultural Industries at Leeds have collaborated with the National Coal Mining Museum, while researchers from the Departments of Archaeology at Sheffield and York have worked with Point Blank Theatre Company and York Archaeological Trust respectively.
Yet before now these projects have not been linked. This network co-ordinates these research strands, bringing together academics and doctoral students from Archaeology, Film Studies, History, Literature, Performance and Museum Studies in order to generate new models for telling stories about the past, drawing on the potential of practice-based methodologies. The network is not limited to academic collaborators, however; it benefits from the input of professionals in Yorkshire's cultural and heritage industries, including theatre companies, museums, community heritage groups and archaeological units.
Themes for exploration include:
- The power of performance for articulating lived experiences of communities whose voices were often overpowered or suppressed by 'official' commentators;
- Narrative traditions of working-class communities, including oral history, poetry, autobiography, and theatre;
- The use of space and concepts of 'place' as cross-disciplinary strands of investigation;
- The potential of objects as media for storytelling (as personal belongings, mnemonic devices, heirlooms, symbols of identity, museum exhibits, and performance props);
- Long-term documentation of performance-based dissemination, especially digitally (here we will draw upon the Digitalis project at the University of Leeds http://www.digitalis.leeds.ac.uk/).
- The relationship between two complimentary themes; firstly, dissemination of research into the past through performance and, secondly, research into past performance practices.
These themes will be explored at three one-day workshops, through this website and through resources produced during the project.Performing the Past is funded by the White Rose Collaboration Fund, which provides funding for projects that support and encourage emerging collaborations across the Universities of Leeds, Sheffield and York.


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text: Pending Cutback In EU Spending For Development Cooperation 31/01/2013 by Intellectual Property Watch 1 Comment Share this:Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)Click to share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window)Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)Click to email this to a friend (Opens in new window)Click to print (Opens in new window) The views expressed in this article are solely those of the authors and are not associated with Intellectual Property Watch. IP-Watch expressly disclaims and refuses any responsibility or liability for the content, style or form of any posts made to this forum, which remain solely the responsibility of their authors. By Daniele Dionisio The European Commission (EC) released on 29 June 2011 a budget proposal for 2014-2020, where €70 billion is allocated to the heading "Global Europe," which covers the European Union (EU)'s operating plan in the world, including development and humanitarian aid. However, the latest draft proposal laid down by Council President Herman Van Rompuy sharply cuts back development aid and humanitarian assistance by almost €10 billion, to €60.6 billion. And word is spreading that foreign aid cuts could include a €3.3 billion cut to the European Development Fund (EDF), the largest part of the EU aid budget aimed at African countries. Moreover, although the EU just adopted a friendly 2013 budget for development cooperation, compared with 2012 spending levels, shortfalls are reportedly expected since the budget would fall short as to EC estimates for 2013. As such, the negotiations for the broader 2014-2020 EU budget continue to be mired in uncertainty by ongoing gridlocks and frictions within governments and institutions. Overall, while affluent EU countries push to either freeze spending or slash budget off the Commission's proposal, other countries, in unison with the Commission and European Parliament, want to increase spending. Meanwhile, development groups claim that proposed cuts to the Global Europe heading are "further disproportionate". They are asking "Why are EU leaders saying they support aid commitments, then not defending them in EU budget talks?" These circumstances add room for mistrust about coherence and reliability the EU seemingly laid down in a Joint Africa-EU Strategy as a long-term partnership between EU and the African Union (AU) Commission to finance a series of development goals, including the AU-administered Research Grant Programme to build science and technology development in Africa. Yet, despite EC commitment, a 2014-2020 renewal of funding for this programme is at risk owing to competing EU priorities. This landscape does not bode well as regards EU steadiness in collaborating with the newly launched AU's Roadmap on Shared Responsibility and Global Solidarity for AIDS, TB and Malaria Response in Africa, which aims at reducing the dependency of African countries on international financing for health, medicines and R&D, and promoted African-owned solutions. These concerns add to criticism that the EU is becoming more protectionist in agriculture, trade and aid areas, where a number of EU member states seemingly use foreign aid as a "bargaining chip" for or against priorities such as the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP). Relevantly, the cutback proposed by Van Rompuy has drawn criticism of disproportionally cracking down on issues including EDF, than for spending on CAP. And substantial reform of EU's agricultural subsidies is being called for. Criticism is significant now that non-governmental organizations in EU and ACP (Africa, the Caribbean and the Pacific) countries recently alerted to the risk that the EU development agenda could divert aid funds away from the poorest people and negatively affect the foundation of the Cotonou Agreement, the guiding framework of EU-ACP cooperation. This couples with fear that terms threatening access to medicines by the worst-off people could be approved in forthcoming negotiations for an EU-Thai agreement, and in an EU-India trade deal now on track to conclusion. This includes displeasure bound up with the controversial EU involvement in the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (or ACTA). And it comes as no surprise that all of this occurs at a time when the EU global plan for health, development cooperation seemingly falls short of adequate coherence, innovative financing and collaboration with interested parties, while commitment in R&D for poverty-related neglected diseases (NDs) is not spread evenly between member states and only totals 0.0024% of EU's combined GDP. Relevantly, the EU just succeeded in opposing any mention of the Consultative Expert Working Group on Research and Development: Financing and Coordination (CEWG) report and recommendations (including a medical R&D treaty, innovative financing sources and the de-linkage of R&D cost from the price of health products) in the lame resolution EB132/R7 [pdf] on NDs passed at WHO Executive Board meeting which took place 21-29 January 2013. The conflicting issues above raise doubts about EU's real will and ability to address today's overall challenges and push for inclusive and sustainable development. Bridging these gaps would be a matter of priority and a way for the EU to gain indisputable leadership. To this aim, the EU should better the coherence of its policies, strategies and practices. Daniele Dionisio is a member of the European Parliament Working Group on Innovation, Access to Medicines and Poverty-Related Diseases. He is reference advisor for "Medicines for the Developing Countries" for the Italian Society for Infectious and Tropical Diseases (SIMIT), and former director of the Infectious Disease Division at the Pistoia City Hospital (Italy). Starting February 2012, Dionisio is head of the research project Geopolitics, Public Health, and Access to Medicines (GESPAM). 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Turkey Opposition to challenge votes on expanding Erdogan's powers
Turkey's electoral board confirmed the "yes" victory in Sunday's referendum and said the final results would be declared in 11-12 days.
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ANKARA: Turkey's main opposition party on Monday prepared to contest the results of a landmark referendum that gave a narrow victory to President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's long-time plans to greatly expand the powers of his office.
Turkey's electoral board confirmed the "yes" victory in Sunday's referendum and said the final results would be declared in 11-12 days. The state-run Anadolu Agency said the "yes" vote stood at 51.41 percent, while the "no" vote was 48.59 percent.
The margin fell short of the sweeping victory Erdogan had sought in the referendum. Nevertheless, it could cement his hold on power in Turkey and is expected to have a huge effect on the country's long-term political future and its international relations.
"I suspect the result was narrower than what Erdogan expected," said Howard Eissenstat, associate professor of Middle East History at St. Lawrence University in the United States. "Erdogan has ruled with a narrow victory before. He does not see a narrow victory as anything less than a mandate. His tendency has been to not to co-opt the opposition but to crush it."
The 18 constitutional amendments that will come into effect after the next election, scheduled for 2019, will abolish the office of the prime minister and hand sweeping executive powers to the president.
Opponents had argued the constitutional changes would give too much power to a man who they say has shown increasingly autocratic tendencies.
The referendum campaign was highly divisive and heavily one-sided, with the "yes" side dominating the airwaves and billboards. Supporters of the "no" vote have complained of intimidation, including beatings, detentions and threats.
Opposition parties complained of a number of irregularities in the voting, including an electoral board decision to accept as valid ballots that did not bear the official stamp.
Legislator Utku Cakirozer told The Associated Press that his Republican People's Party would on Monday file objections to results at local electoral board branches, before taking their case to the Supreme Electoral Board.
Cakirozer said: "At the moment this is a dubious vote."
The country's pro-Kurdish party said it may take the case to the European Court of Human Rights if the electoral board does not reverse his decision and nullify the ballots lacking the official stamps.
The Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, whose monitors observed the vote, were to announce their findings later Monday.
Electoral board head Sadi Guven rejected opposition claims of foul play, saying none of the ballot papers that were declared valid was "fake" or fraudulently cast. Guven said the decision was taken so that voters who were by mistake given unstamped ballot papers would not be "victimized."
"The ballot papers are not fake, there is no (reason) for doubt," Guven said.
In Istanbul, hundreds of demonstrators opposed to the amendments marched in a central neighborhood late Sunday, clanging pots and pans.
Ismail Calisan, an Ankara resident, accepted the result with grace.
"Even though I choose "no" and the results came out "yes" I wish the best to our country," he said.
In Istanbul, accountant Mete Cetinkaya said he was worried about his country's future.
"I don't see the country is going down a good path," he said, sitting by the Bosporus. "Tayyip Erdogan may have done more good than the other big players (of Turkish politics) ... but I think of Tayyip Erdogan as just the best of the worst."
Many pro-government newspapers praised the results and Sabah newspaper's headline read: "A popular revolution."
Sozcu newspaper, one of a few newspapers critical of the government, referred to the alleged irregularities and asked in its headline: "Is your conscience at ease?"


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ONE OF the biggest private railroad carriers in central Europe, RegioJet, has transported more than 1.5 million passengers on the Bratislava – Dunajská Streda – Komárno route since launching operations in March 2012. In addition to offering new services for passengers, the company has also reduced traffic on the roads by hundreds of cars per day, spokesperson for the firm Aleš Ondrůj wrote in a press release.
The company has completely replaced the state-run passenger carrier Železničná Spoločnosť Slovensko (ZSSK) on the route between Bratislava, Dunajská Streda and Komárno, and now offers 50 connections a day.
"The launch of the new operation of RegioJet regional trains was a big milestone and breakthrough for railroads in the central and eastern European region," said Marek Bičan, manager of RegioJet for Slovakia, as quoted in the press release.
During a press conference held on March 6 representatives of the company said that they would also like to operate more routes in Slovakia, either regional or national. If the state were to announce a tender for operators of the routes, RegioJet would be prepared to join it, the TASR newswire reported.
Spokesperson for the Transport Ministry Martin Kóňa said that the ministry will support any efforts to continue in the liberalisation of the passenger railway transport, and will not "prevent the private carriers from entering those routes where trains do not run today", the SITA newswire reported.
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The New York State Department of Environmental (DEC) has announced that a low-altitude helicopter flight will take place over the recreational corridor between Lake Placid and Tupper Lake on Tuesday, October 25, in preparation for design and construction of a multi-use recreational trail.
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Martin Luther King Jr knew about using body language to dominate a crowd
The students I teach do not want to be my friend, they want someone who will keep the noisy kids in order and will tell them what they need to know to pass assessments.
Everywhere I read all the advice I see is about treating children with respect, about being a 'nice' teacher. Respect yes. Nice - Forget it.
What you need is a set of classroom discipline strategies to help you survive. You can get the other stuff elsewhere. Classroom discipline is something I learned by teaching, in the classroom, six classes every day, not from courses and definitely not from college.
I sat down one weekend and brain stormed on why I was a better teacher than I was when I started out. I worked out why some teachers are better than others - It all comes down to their use of body language. I had never seen or heard of anyone before ever verbalizing how they deliberately used body language to dominate a classroom.
It seemed a waste that everything I had learned the hard way had to be learnt by every young teacher by unpleasant experience, so I wrote down my conclusions on the only classroom discipline techniques that work.
The body language strategies below WORK and you will not find them anywhere else. Be cautious about discussing them with others. Experienced teachers do not like to give away 'trade secrets'. They may use these same classroom discipline techniques without ever thinking about them.
When you are young and new to teaching you will be of a similar age to your students' older siblings. You need to stand apart from them, to show you are different.
Here is the set of classroom discipline strategies that I used for 27 years in a 1700 student 11-18 school in St Helens, England
Strategy 1 – Believe in Yourself
If you do not believe in yourself nobody else is ever going to. Your self-belief comes across in your sub-conscious body language. Every student understands non verbal body language communication. The exact signals will vary from one culture to another, but all individuals from the same cultural background instinctively understand all of that culture's non-verbal body language
Strategy 2 – Expect Good Classroom Discipline
Believe that your strategies are going to work. That belief will show in your facial expression, and the rest of your non-verbal signals you sub-consciously give out. If you do not expect good discipline you will not get it. The students sub-consciously read your confidence in your classroom discipline strategies as well founded, whether it is or not.
Strategy 3 – Smile
Smiling is a very simple classroom discipline strategy. It demonstrates your confidence. Students also instinctively smile back. It is very difficult for anyone to smile and to dislike you at the same time. Classroom discipline is much easier if most of the students do like you.
Strategy 4 – Dress Smartly
Dressing smartly helps to set you apart and gives you a breathing space to earn the respect that your suit automatically gives you for a short time.
Strategy 5 – Stand Up
Never talk to a group of students while you are sitting down. If you stand while they sit you are above them, you dominate the group and the room. You can also see much better what the students at the back are doing. A very simple strategy that older teachers can get away with ignoring, but while you are inexperienced Do It
Strategy 6 – Learn Your Students' Names
If you know their names they cannot make you look stupid by giving you a false name if they are in trouble
Strategy 7 – Always Stand in the Open
Avoid the possible perception that you are hiding behind the teacher's desk. Stand away from it or preferably in front of it. You demonstrate self-confidence by 'exposing yourself' like this. Some older teachers may mock you if you tell them about this technique, but that is because they do not use it, perhaps because they have already established a rapport with a class over several years.
Strategy 8 – Talk Slowly
Talking slightly slowler than usual shows that you are confident in what you are saying, that you do not need to rush through it. It also helps overcome any poor acoustics in the room. Classrooms are larger than the rooms in a house and generally have appalling acoustics and echoes from all those hard surfaces.
Strategy 9 – Keep Your Hands Visible
Watch politicians on television. They always have their hands visible and held away from their bodies. This makes you appear larger and more dominant in the sub-conscious body language signals that everybody understands and, more importantly take notice of. They have to dominate their audience. You have to be dominant in your classroom.
Strategy 10 – Keep Your Thumbs Up
This one sounds really stupid, but, again, look closely at those politicians' hands. The thumb up hand gesture is a very primitive and extremely powerful dominance gesture. Only powerful people use it, therefore, subconsciously, anyone using this gesture is perceived as very powerful. Tell nobody about this gesture, or you will be the laughing stock of the school staff room. Just use it once or twice when you feel the situation beginning to slip out of control. You will be astounded at the effect it has on a group of tall 16 year old, testosterone charged male students.
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Do You Need to Be Dominant?
You may not want to dominate your classroom. Think again - you do, because if you don't dominate it one or more of your students will, and they will make your life a misery. So put aside all the 'be nice to the children' stuff you have been taught. You do not have to be nasty anyway, that is not what classroom discipline strategy is about.
If you are the dominant person in your classroom you can then be as nice as you want to be, but AFTER you have established your dominance.


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Late last month, Playfish announced on its forums that due to poor performance in Pirates Ahoy, Poker Rivals and Gangster City, the developer would be taking the titles offline on Tuesday, June 7, 2011. A study of these three games' life cycles characterizes the challenges of killing off a social game built into a larger developer ecosystem.
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Poker Rivals was Playfish's answer to Zynga's Texas HoldEm Poker, only with avatar customization as a variation to the formula. The game hit its stride very early with all-time highs of 1.5 million MAU and 130,000 DAU in December and January and then declined gradually with post-peak DAU to MAU ratio hovering around 13%. Interestingly, Poker Rivals seemed to attract a female audience why Texas HoldEm Poker's audience remains largely male.
Gangster City, January 2010 – June 2011
MAU Today: 88,000
DAU Today: 7,000
Gangster City also seems to be Playfish's answer to Zynga game Mafia Wars, but the quality of animation, voice over work, and polish created a completely different player experience. By the numbers, Gangster City hit its high of 2.6 million MAU and 322,000 DAU in the first three months and declined a little bit faster than Poker Rivals over the rest of its life. The post-peak DAU to MAU ratio hovers between 8% and 10%.
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Second, we can draw the conclusion that consistent currency across all games in a network makes transitions from closing games to thriving games smoother. All Playfish games use Playfish Cash, so it's easy for customers in these three dying games to take their existing balances to other Playfish games. We expect that with the launch of Facebook Credits, these game-to-game transitions will only get smoother — so smooth, in fact, that developers may find themselves adding item incentives within their own thriving games to keep customers from taking their Facebook Credits to a different developer's game. This seems to be what Playfish is trying to do by inserting a pop-up into the closing games that invites users to join Monopoly Millionaires with a free gift item as a reward for switching over.
This is where our third conclusion comes in: developers should be aware of the similarities and difference in their games enough to suggest and appropriate "replacement" games for users grieving the loss of their favorite game. It's probably impossible to find a perfect replacement with the same gameplay mechanics, genre, and style; but within a developer's network, there ought to be at least one game with enough similarities to appeal to an existing user about to lose their game. Developers should go the extra mile to match these users to replacement games and perhaps let them choose which game they want to migrate to for a bonus item.
For example, right now a Pirates Ahoy user could take their Playfish Cash to My Empire because the games feature similar art styles both in-game and in the cross-promotion bar for Playfish games. This player may adjust well to the game because both feature city-building mechanics. However, the Monopoly Millionaires prompt is trying to direct them to a completely different gameplay experience than what they're used to with the promise of a free item. It's jarring and it compromises the user's ability to choose their "replacement" game from among the rest of Playfish's titles.
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During my last post I realized that I needed to update my view on this theory. Constructivism is a sound theory on human learning except for one thing, it really didn't change practice all that much. Its central insight (especially in the Vygotskian version) is that learning and knowledge are social, but that insight changed very little in educational practice where it should have turned practice on its head. I have come to believe that this is because there was no adequate model of social learning. Even Vygotskian ideas like the ZPD (zone of proximal development) limits the social model to teacher to student or peer to peer interactions. Connectivism provides an adequate social model as a wide network. This is a true social model that shows how learning is expanded by expanding one's network.
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Support for Connectivism, with a Hope and a Small Critique
1. Why I differ from Kerr and support a distinctive theory of connectivism.
I will start by expressing another perspective on my comment that artifacts (like technologically enabled networks) reflect back on and change the practitioners who use them. Vygotsky's daughter, Gina, made the following statement regarding the dialectic her father perceived between theory and practice.
"He made science with his hands. Vygotsky's theory was fruitful because it arose from the demands of practice, and practice was fruitful because it was grounded in deeply considered theory" (Remedial and Special Ed Vol 20, p.330-332)
Discussions surrounding the googlization or the dumbing down of people, information overload and the depth of thought in blog entries; all these issues indicate that networks are changing people practices and are asking us to adapt and change as humans. This reality expresses the demands of practice from which learning theories must lead and to which constructivism must adapt. I see the possibility of connectivism making this adaption.
My hope for the continued development of connectivism
I believe that connectivism will reflect the demands of practice discussed above, although I have not seen evidence that it is doing this yet, and I think there is room for growth. My hope is that a sense of mind, a core constructivist principle, will be maintained as history shows this is an important perspective. Let me start with a historical account of learning theory adapted from Bruner's Acts of Meaning (1990). He, like William James, considers psychology to be a science of the mind. Both William James and Wilhelm Wundt (referring here to Wundts book Volkerpsychologie, not his work in physiological psychology) advocated for a non-reductionist study of mind, but progress in this direction was averted by the behaviorists with their grounding in positivist objectivism. Jerome Burner participated in the cognitive revolution with the goal of reintroducing mind to psychology. He recounts how a focus on computation again moved mind to the background, bringing back many of the same limitations that caused behaviorism to wain. If was this caused a shift to constructivism.
In believe that connectivism can best continue by extending constructivist principles into new challenges, new practices, and new theoretical understandings. But, there is ample opportunity to focus to much on nodes and information to the neglect of mind once again. If that happens, history will repeat itself again with a turn from connectivism, back to some form of constructivism. Some day neurology or philosophical associationism may progress to the point that a science of the mind will no longer be needed. Some people in Wundt's day believed that, but I believe that even today, that day is still very far in the future.
A small critique of some graphics
The use of some matrix type graphics is not always meaningful to me. In many cases a dichotomy is drawn that over simplifies and covers nuanced differences. In the case of learning theories a concept map may be more informative to show historical development as well as concept breaks and similarities. This is a small matter with primarily a pedagogical goal for addressing people who are not well grounded in the history of learning theory.
Response to S Downes 09-10 Post
Further thoughts on the Connectivism course:
I like inclusion of the negotiation of meaning and the nature of network nodes instead of hierarchy. A favorite author of mine has been John Shotter who also speak in this way. In a rewrite of a 1994 book (Conversational Realities Revisited; (2008; http://www.taosinstitute.net/) he says that life as an academic leaves us with something missing, something to do with creativity, novelty and the uniqueness of everyday life. He says that an excessive focus on linguistic representation (note the similarities to Stephen's rejection of the centrality of representation) has left us (as academics) unable to be receptive to our "spontaneous bodily reactions to events occuring around us" . . .. This is a highly philosophized notion of learning and practicing (based primarily on Bakhtin and Wittgenstein) that may be supportive of a connectivism theory and may refute my previous assertion that the theory is not mature.
Also; this is a comment I made to Stephen's post this morning (9/10/08).
This post reminded me of many of the problem associated with higher ed today. *Tuition cost are too high! *The current structure is not conducive to supporting a life course that may include 4 or 5 different career paths, in knowledge intensive environments, where lifelong intellectual growth is expected! *If innovation is important to the economy, we must ramp up our intellectual infrastructure through community development and make it more accessible to all. Can current pedagogy address these issues? I think experimental pedagogy is needed, just like this course is offering.
I also indebted to Geof Cain's comment that led me to think in pedagogical terms. These critiques and Stephen's responses have a lot to do with pedagogy. Any learning theory will imply a pedagogy, but I think connectivism's implies pedagogy even more than most because of the importance of the network aspects and because I think the theory and the course are really directed right at practice and an experimental pedagogy.
An update to a previous post. I mentioned Vygotsky's idea of tools and concepts reflecting back on and changing the learner. I should have referred to these tools and concepts as artifacts. This word reflects Vygotsky's approach better and is also consistent with Karl Poppers work on the 3 worlds, physical, mental and artifactual.
On Connectivism – The Course
I have signed up to be part of the mass participation in the learning theory course being offered by Stephen Downes and George Seimans on Connectivism. The following are my thoughts on an initial reading post.
Is there a need for a new theory? Although I've voice this question before myself, after lots of thought, I will answer yes, for at least 2 reasons.
Learning theory continues to evolve rapidly. It was only 50 years ago that behaviorism completely dominated the field. It eventually gave way to cognitivism and constructivism and, although constructivism generally dominates today, there are many different forms, not to mention that there are areas where behaviorism and cognitivism are still very important. It cannot be considered a stable theory or discipline where there is a strong consensus.
I generally follow an idea attributed to Vygotsky that tools and ideas reflect back on and change the person who uses them. So the "web 2.0" network does not just enable us to learn as a neutral tool for learning. It changes not only how we learning, it changes what learning means and it changes who we are as learner and as human beings. Vygotsky was looking at how our use of language changed what it meant to be human, but technology has the potential to do the same. In a sense we are already becoming cyborgs. The use of technology will defiantly require substantial change in learning theory.
Concerning the listed criticism of:
Pløn Verhagen (2006); I would agree that connectivism is not yet a mature theory, but that does not mean that it is without merit or unable to be developed further.
Bill Kerr (2007); I mentioned reason above for why existing theory might be considered insufficient, although there is much that might be borrowed.
Curtis Bonk; Most current iterations of learning theory depend on anthropological and sociological thinking. This is in order to avoid an excessively individualistic account that does not reflect the collective aspects of our lives. The framework of study in connectivism I would consider educational and psychological, not sociological or anthropological.
Otherwise, I will list one concern and one development idea:
Concern – there is a reference to neuro-science, but I don't think we know a lot about learning from a neurological perspective in order to use the knowledge or to use it metaphorically. There has recently been some talk on the net about the misuse of neuro-science. It can be used as a rhetorical device rather than reflect a substantive linkage between disciplinary knowledges.
Idea: I like to use the metaphor of propagation as a way to think of (constructivist) learning. We are given a root stem whether it is some existing knowledge, the results of an experiment, or an innovative thought. To make it usable or actionable knowledge, however, it must be planted in a garden of practice. Only then can it grow and fill the garden. I guess I like organic metaphors.
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Money Types Defined
The Innocent
The Innocent takes the ostrich approach to money matters. Innocents often live in denial, burying their heads in the sand so they won't have to see what is going on around them. The Innocent is easily overwhelmed by financial information and relies heavily on the advice and opinions of others. Innocents are perhaps the most trusting of all the money archetypes because they do not see people or situations for what they are.
They are not unlike small children in the sense that they have not yet learned to judge or discern other's motives or behavior. While this trait can be very endearing, it is also precarious for an adult trying to cope in the real world.
We all start out our journey in life as innocents. However, as we grow and develop, the veil of innocence is lifted and replaced by our experience with the outer world.
The Victim
Victims are prone to living in the past and blaming their financial woes on external factors. Passive-aggressive (prone to acting out their feelings in passive ways rather than through direct action) in nature, Victims often appear disguised as Innocents, because they seem so powerless and appear to want others to take care of them. However, this appearance is often either a conscious or subconscious ploy to get others to do for them what they refuse to do for themselves. Victims generally have a litany of excuses for why they are not more successful, and they are all based on their historical mythology. That is not to say that bad things haven't actually happened to the Victim.
More often than not, Victims have been abused, betrayed, or have suffered some great loss. The problem is that they have never processed faced their pain, and so it has turned on them. Victims are always looking for someone to rescue them, because they believe they have suffered enough. They carry a sense of entitlement: "I paid my dues, look at my battle scars, where's my due"?


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McMahon try gives lucky Rockwell a narrow win
Avonmore Munster Schools Senior Cup
Rockwell College 5
Glenstal Abbey 3
Holders Rockwell College were a shade fortunate to advance to the Quarter Finals of the Avonmore Munster Schools Senior cup in a low scoring encounter with Glenstal Abbey from County Limerick at Clanwilliam FC on Wednesday afternoon last. Leading 5-3 with just four minutes left, Rockwell conceded a penalty ten metres in from the touch line outside their own 22 after centre Killian Kiely was caught offside. Glenstal out half Luke Bradley narrowly failed to land the kick, which would have given his side an unlikely first round victory over the Tipperary men.
The game started on a nostalgic note with a minute's silence for the late Glenstal manager Fr Matthew Corkery who passed away suddenly last week. Glenstal settled quicker and after Bradley's missed penalty attempt just outside the Rockwell 22 after five minutes, Rockwell finally got going with outhalf Aidan Moynihan unlucky with a similar penalty attempt at the clubhouse end.
Rockwell's dominance and territorial advantage was beginning to pay dividends and after centre Rob Jermyn made a great run forward and handoff on his opposite number, outhalf Aidan Moynihan executed a superb cross field kick into the corner which winger Stephen McMahon brilliantly gathered ahead of his opposite number Eoin Hurley to score the game's only try.
Moynihan failed to add the extra and Glenstal put Rockwell under pressure straight from the kick off when the rearguard spilled the ball and were caught offside. Bradley exacted full retribution from the resultant penalty to leave the score at 5-3 at the interval.
Both sides played an instantly forgettable second half with Rockwell superior in the lineouts mainly due to the jumping of second row and captain Sean McCarthy and last year's final hero backrow Sonny O'Dwyer with senior cup newcomer James Feehan putting in a huge workrate at the breakdown.
However time and time again, with possibly the very wet conditions a factor, possession was turned over by Rockwell. Indeed with just 15 minutes to go they felt they had scored with second row Darragh Foley appearing to ground the ball after Rockwell worked through the phases but referee Shay Kerrins penalised backrow Aidan Butler for being off his feet.
However Rockwell were unable to build on this momentum and even with Glenstal backrow Rossa Dooley sent to the bin, Rockwell failed to capitalise on their numerical advantage. This was almost to cost dearly in the final minutes when Kiely was penalised for offside. However with the heavy wind having died down for the second half Bradley's kick dropped just inches under the bar and into the hands of the grateful Kiely for the restart. Rockwell played out the remaining minutes but know that they will have to improve on this performance if they are to retain their Munster crown. Victory however means Rockwell remain at home for their quarter final tie with Castletroy, again at Clanwilliam on February 22 next while Glenstal must travel to Cork city to take on last year's beaten finalists Presentation Brothers College.
Rockwell: D Johnston (Clonmel), A Lynch (Dublin), R Jermyn (Cloyne), C Kiely (Dungravan), S McMahon (Dungarvan), A Moynihan (Coachford), D McGagh (Waterford City), J McCormack (Camross), R Lyons (Castlelyons) 60mins), D Mulcahy (Hospital) (S McNulty (Clonmel) 40mins), J Maxwell (New Inn), S McCarthy (Castleisland)(Capt), D Foley (Clonmel), J Feehan (Laffansbridge) (C Ryan (Clonoulty 60 mins) S O'Dwyer (Thurles), A Butler (Cashel).
Glenstal : S Glesson (C), E Hurley ( C McDonagh 38mins), A Bolan, I Kenny, R Shanahan, L Bradley, A Devereux, D Higgins, C McCarthy, K Grennan, K Lynch, M O'Riordan, I MCCarthy, R Dooley , T Ryan.


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Four people in their 70s and 80s were killed and two other elderly people were critically injured in a fire at a group home for people suffering from senile dementia in Nagasaki City on the night of Feb. 8.
Unfortunately this is not the first time such a tragedy has taken place. Seven people were killed in a 2006 fire at a group home in Omura, Nagasaki Prefecture. A 2009 fire at a facility for elderly people in Shibukawa, Gunma Prefecture, killed 10 people and a 2010 fire at a group home in Sapporo killed seven others.
Fire prevention measures and staffing levels at these facilities are clearly inadequate. Both the central and local governments must take steps to quickly remedy this situation.
In group homes, small numbers of people live together and receive nursing care. Those with serious medical conditions have their own rooms. This kind of living environment is thought to improve the well-being of residents.
In the case of the latest fire, the Nagasaki City government in 2010 had told the operator of the group home to install a fire shutter on the second floor, where the Feb. 8 fire started, but the operator did not comply because it was not obligatory. The city government should have taken steps to force the home to comply. The group home, occupying the first and second floors of a four-story building, was not equipped with sprinklers either because they also were not mandated by law. If sprinklers had been installed, the fire's tragic outcome might have been prevented.
In the wake of the Omura fire, the Fire Defense Law was revised in April 2009 to require facilities with floor spaces of 275 sq. meters or more to install sprinklers. But many group homes have smaller floor spaces. The floor space of the Sapporo group home was about 250 sq. meters and that of the Nagasaki group home about 270 sq. meters. Clearly the central government should make the installment of sprinklers obligatory irrespective of floor space size.
Group home residents are eligible for nursing insurance benefits. According to the health and welfare ministry, there were some 2,200 group homes in Japan in 2002, each containing five to nine residens with senile dementia. By May 2011, the number topped 10,000. It costs about ¥3 million to install sprinklers and fire alarms in a group home with a floor space of 300 sq. meters. The central and local governments should consider beefing up subsidies to group homes to faciliate the installation of such equipment.
In addition, steps should be taken to improve the staffing of group homes. A 2009 survey of some 800 group homes show that the average annual income of group home workers was only about ¥2.16 million and that 80 percent of them had work experience of less than five years. Many homes are suffering from a shortage of staff. A certain minimum number of workers is necessary to ensure the safety of a group home. To attract workers to this industry, the government should offer subsidies to increase wages.


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Schematic Route
- Starting point in Riva del Garda.
- Turn right into the SS45bis, pass Arco, and continue towards Dro along a local route.
- Turn left into the SS45 bis towards Pietramurata.
- Turn left into the SP214 and after about 5 km turn right into the SP84 and continue towards Cavalese.
- Continue along the SP84 towards Lasino. Before getting to the village, turn left into the SP85 in direction Passo Bondone.
- Continue along the SP85, drive past Lagolo, Padergnone and get to the Rifugio alle Viotte.
- After a few metres turn right and continue in direction Aldeno.
- Cross a square and continue along the SP90, after about 5 km turn right into the SP59, then turn left into the SS12, and again right into the SS350 as far as Folgaria.
- Continue along the SS350 for about 7 km and then enter the SS349 as far as Lavarone.
- After about 6 km turn left into the SP133, then enter the SS47 in direction Levico Terme.
- Drive towards Vetriolo Terme along the SP11.
- Turn right into the SP12 and continue for about 10 km, then enter the SP228 on the right and later the SP8 in direction Pergine Valsugana.
- Turn left into the SP66, continue on the right along the SP83 as far as Baselga di Pinè.
- Enter the SP83 and drive along it for about 11 km, turn right into the SP71 for about 15 km. Enter the SS612 and then the SS48 as far as Cavalese.
- Continue along the SS48 as far as Canazei.
- Tip: you can choose a different 64-km-long itinerary from Canazei, passing through Lavazè, Obereggen, Passo Costalunga.
Detailed Itinerary
From Riva del Garda, drive northwards along the western Gardesana road number SS45bis and pass the villages of Arco, and Dro and then continue as far as Cavedine, along the SP84.
As you get to Cavedine, continue to Lasino, where you will enter the SP85 to the Passo Bondone that you descend from Vason slope, and then, from here, continue southwards as far as Aldeno and Folgaria.
From this town, well-known for winter tourism, continue along the SS350 as far as Lavarone and Levico Terme, where you can decide to have a break at the lakeside. Again on the road, continue towards Vetriolo Terme and Pergine Valsugana, along the SP48.
As you get to Pergine enter the SP83 and continue along the Cembra Valley as far as Baselga di Pinè, Bedollo, Molina di Fiemme and Cavalese in Val di Fiemme.
From Cavalese drive southwards and enter the SS48 which leads directly to Canazei through the valleys of Fiemme and Fassa, and the villages of Predazzo, Moena, Pozza di Fassa and Campitello di Fassa.
An interesting 64-km-long alternative route leads from Cavalese to Canazei, and offers breathtaking views on the Catinaccio and Latemar ranges, as well as on the nice Carezza Lake. This crystal-clear expanse of water, surrounded by forests, reflects the Latemar range. From Cavalese, climb to Passo Lavazè (main road ss 620); at Novale turn right (take the provincial road sp 76) and get to Obereggen, a well- known ski resort at the foot of the majestic Latemar range. Continue and get to the picturesque village of Ega/Eggen, then take the road that descends from Lavazè. After 1 km you meet the Costalunga road (ss 241), turn right again. Following this way you reach the Carezza Lake then Passo Costalunga. Descend and enter the Dolomites main road ss 48 that leads to Canazei, passing by Pozza di Fassa and Campitello di Fassa.


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