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What Wall Street Can Learn From Actors
Wall Street workers are stressed these days wondering if they will still have jobs in the coming months. Their fears are valid. On October 23rd, The Associated Press reported, "More than 110,000 have lost their jobs so far this year, and some industry experts forecast it could come close to 200,000 before the year is over." Certainly, it's unsettling to lose a job. But for so many other New Yorkers this is a common reality.
New York City is known for being a financial capital as well as a cultural center. Contrasting the wealth seen on Wall Street over the years are the low-income artists living on the fringe. Performers are often faced with problems now felt by workers in the financial sector. Wall Street workers can actually learn a lot from artists during this time of economic instability. Here are a few things actors can teach the suits in lower Manhattan.
First, it's completely possible to live in New York City for under $30,000. This will come as a shock to those in finance, especially since MBA interns on Wall Street have been paid $20,000 for a summer of work. Meanwhile, the median annual income for an actor is $23,400, according to the 2008 National Endowment for the Arts report titled Artists in the Workforce. If actors with no financial training can get by in an expensive city like New York, then surely the financial experts can figure out a way to make their money go far too. Living on little will mean moving to a cheaper apartment, no longer shopping at Whole Foods, eating at home, and rarely taking cabs. It will mean living more like a struggling artist.
Second, it's necessary to develop psychological flexibility. Actors are often in between jobs, and they are pros at adjusting quickly to new circumstances. Actors' Equity Association reports that members of its union work professionally in theater on average 17 weeks per year. With job instability and fluctuating employment, actors regularly find themselves looking for work, and they can easily go with the flow once in a new environment. Actors, after all, are trained at improvisation. The basic rule taught in an improv class is for a performer to say, "Yes and…" to whatever scenario is thrown at them. This training transcends the classroom and leaves actors with the ability to accept situations and shift as needed. Performer and writer Erica Lies, who studied improvisation at the Magnet Theater in midtown Manhattan, says, "Improv gets you into a state of mind where you are much more comfortable figuring things out as you go, instead of having an established framework before you step into something."
Third, it's essential to acquire professional skills in many areas. Since actors are faced with unemployment more regularly than workers in other sectors, actors know they need to leverage a broad range of skills. They are savvy at marketing because they constantly have to promote themselves. They have remarkable customer service skills after years of restaurant and receptionist jobs. They are trained to take direction well, which benefits them both onstage and off. And the best actors have good listening skills—since acting is not just about memorizing lines, but listening and responding in each new moment. It's this wide range of experiences that makes them good employees in many professional environments, optimizing their work opportunities.
Wall Street workers will likely cringe at these suggestions. They'll say they can't possibly live differently because they are not accustomed to a meager salary or bouts of unemployment. They might even say they chose to study finance so that they could live a certain lifestyle. But the truth is they will not be protected from the challenges commonly faced by others. An over–inflated belief in the market alone will not pay their rent.
The folks on Wall Street are learning lessons about the job market that actors have always understood: expect fluctuations in employment, shift your strategy before the money runs out, and continually keep an eye out for new work. For Wall Street employees stressing over potential job losses, the answers might be closer than they think. It's likely the temp-by-day, actor-by-night working down the hall can offer the best advice on how to get by in these tough times.
ContributorTara Bracco
Tara Bracco is a performance artist and the founder of Poetic People Power.
Comment on Richard Shiff's argument on chance and realityBy Dario Gamboni
OCT 2019 | Critics Page
Richard Shiff takes up Roland Barthess argument that within the fictions of representation, chance elements such as alluding to an object of no apparent narratological function connote reality becausein Peirces wordsreality is chance and has no meaning.
Jobs, Bullshit, and the Bureaucratization of the WorldBy Jason E. Smith
JUL-AUG 2018 | Field Notes
You probably first heard of him when reading, on Bloomberg.com or in the pages of The New Yorker, about his role as one of the founders of the Occupy Wall Street movement. Some of you might have stumbled across him even earlier, when The New York Times published a short article on the openly anarchist anthropology professor whose politics, he lamented, thwarted his plans for tenure at Yale.
Simone Fattal: Works and DaysBy Valentina Di Liscia
JUL-AUG 2019 | ArtSeen
The sculptures in Simone Fattals exhibition Works and Days at MoMA PS1 appear freshly dusted off from an archaeological dig, artifacts or parts thereof wrested from history. The retrospective, curated by Ruba Katrib, is the artists first in the United States and presents more than 200 works including paintings, works on paper, and sculptures from the last five decades of Fattals production.
AARON FOWLER: Donkey Days, Donkey Nights, and Bigger Than MeBy Will Fenstermaker
JUL-AUG 2018 | ArtSeen
As an editor, I distrust superlatives, but here goes one that's deserved: Aaron Fowler's Donkey Days is the best solo gallery show I've seen in New York this year. Fowler's assemblages are meticulous, intricate, and complexly layered, steeped with references and allusions—narrative, formal, and material—to art history, popular culture, and the artist's own familial and personal experiences.


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[solved] Running OpenSesame on XP
I've been running OpenSesame on Windows 7 for a few weeks without any issues so far, and I believe I've used it in Vista as well. However, this afternoon I've had issues opening OpenSesame while on XP computers. I've tried it on two computers - on one first downloading the windows version and then attempting the portable version, and on another with just the portable version, and both give the same error. The same portable version worked fine on a Windows 7 computer, however. I've tried uninstalling/reinstalling and restarting the computers but still get the same error.
The download lists XP/Vista/7, and screenshots show 0.24 running in XP, does the current version still run in XP? Assuming that it does, any suggestions on getting it to work?
This is the error I receive:
C:\Program Files\OpenSesame\opensesame.exe
This application has failed to start because teh application configuration is incorrect. Reinstalling the application may fix this problem.
The computer is running Windows XP Professional with Service Pack 3. I believe it is a 32-bit version of Windows, if this is relevant.
Thanks in advance to anyone that can help.
Hi Jacob,
OpenSesame is tested primarily on Windows XP and Ubuntu Linux systems. So yes, it should certainly work.
The error that you report is quite puzzling. It appears that it's not really a crash of OpenSesame per se, but that for some reason it fails to start altogether. Do you see an opensesame.exe.log file with an error message in the OpenSesame folder? If so, could you please post it?
Are there some peculiarities of the system that you're aware of? Security settings, strange characters in path-names, software that might conflict?
Hi Sebastian,
Thank you for the quick response and I apologize for the slight delay in my reply.
You are correct that it doesn't seem to open at all. I do not see any sort of log file in the folder. What would the file be named?
The computers in question are computers in the labs at Florida State University. There are not any strange characters in the path names. I also can not think of any software that might conflict. However, it is possible that there are some sort of security settings set by our IT guys. I will look into this tomorrow.
Today I attempted running it on a handful of other computers running XP in the department. It worked on 2 of them but I got the same error above on 5 of them. I am trying to find any differences between the ones that it is working on and the ones that it isn't working on, but have yet to find any. The computer model apparently is not the issue, so it seems it is something software based. It is not the version of XP either (XP 2002 Professional Service Pack 3 works on some but not others). Whether it is connected to the internet or not also does not seem to matter.
It is indeed quite puzzling. I'll talk to the IT people here tomorrow to see if they have any ideas. In the mean time, any other things you can think to look at?
BTW, I've still been working on a few things from home and on Windows 7 computers here and have had very few problems so far despite me not knowing anything about Python. Thanks for such a great program and responding to all the questions people post so quickly!
Hi Jacob,
It's probably useful to know a bit about how OpenSesame works, also potentially for the IT guys. OpenSesame is basically a large script that requires a Python interpreter to run. This is not obvious in the Windows packages, because the script and the interpreter are compiled into a single .exe file. But the idea is still the same.
If OpenSesame crashes, the interpreter generates an error, which is stored in opensesame.exe.log. This error is generally fairly informative and useful for debugging. But if the Python interpreter itself crashes, you get almost nothing. Just these horrible generic Windows error messages. I suspect that the latter is happening here.
To be honest, I don't have any idea about what could cause the crash. I suspect that it has nothing to do with any 'configuration', as the error implies, but something with conflicting dlls or the like. What you could do is try a different package that has been created by Edwin, from University Utrecht. He used a different method of packaging the Python interpreter. Perhaps it works on your computers. If not, using his package, you could try running the interpreter (python.exe) by itself to see if it also crashes.
Keep me posted! I haven't seen this error myself, but a few days back I heard the same thing from someone using OpenSesame for a class. So I'm keen to resolve it.
Hy there,
i'm using openSesame for my diploma thesis at University of Konstanz, so btw Thanks for developing openSesame, great stuff! :-)
I am working with openSesame for est 1.5 years running win7 32/64bit on several computers at home, by now never had problems, even on an netbook.
Currently our department changed computers, so at the office i am using a xp 32bit/dual core system, and now i can't get my experiment running. openSesame stocks after the "subject-number"-dialog. unfortunately i have no idea why. i can run my experiment even in an virtualbox, xp 32bit, but on that real machine...no way
cheers & thanx,
Hi Bjorn,
That's really weird. Could you describe a bit more specifically what happens? Does the program crash completely (i.e. the window vanishes), or do you get some kind of error message in the debug window or the opensesame.exe.log file? Does it happen with all back-ends and all experiments?
Btw, good to hear that you've been using OpenSesame for so long already! You've been there pretty much from the start then.
Hi Sebastiaan,
thx for your reply!
I can only use the legacy backend, since i'm using an modified version of the mediaplayer plugin to present short videos.
What happened is:
- i clicked run to start the experiment (fullscreen / window doesn't matter),
- then type in an subject number,
- click ok,
- the subject number dialog closes
and ... nothing happens. ?
Nothing seems to be logged about that error, except for some Unicode/Decode exceptions, but i can't track if that is associated. I guess
Meanwhile i have found a solution. I am partly using long pathnames and many subfolders, XP doesn't seem to cope with that in the end. I have renamed and shortened my folder structure, e.g. without spaces, changed german umlaut marks like 'ö' to 'oe', now it works fine.
btw, i am using the portable version in an dropbox account, so i am the most flexible, since i use several computers. win7 doesn't care about the pathnames or special characters like 'ö'.
Hi Bjorn,
Ah right, I see. There is a bug in 0.25 were special characters in filenames cause trouble (Issue 74). It should be resolved in 0.26. If you decide to check out the 0.26 pre-release, please let me know if this issue has indeed been fully resolved.
Hi Sebastiaan,
thx a lot!
I will love to test the new release after I will have finished my current experiment ;-)
Any idea why 0.25 is producing this bug in XP, but not in Win 7 ?
Cheers, Bjorn
Any idea why 0.25 is producing this bug in XP, but not in Win 7 ?
It undoubtedly has something to do with the character set that is used, but beyond that I don't know. Special characters in filenames are notoriously tricky, and require all kinds of operating system specific hacks. Good to hear that it works on Win 7 though.
Hi there,
I just wanted to reply to the very first post from Jacob. Last week I had the same problem on a windows XP PC in our lab. The PC was not connected to the internet and kept giving me the same error message
"C:\Program Files\OpenSesame\opensesame.exe This application has failed to start because the application configuration is incorrect. Reinstalling the application may fix this problem."
After connecting the PC to internet and updating XP and the .net framework, OpenSesame worked as expected.
Hi Michel,
Thanks for your info. This "configuration error" is something that users occasionally report (just yesterday, for example), and I don't have a clue what causes it, beside the obvious statement that there must be some incompatibility somewhere.
So it's good to know that updating windows and the .NET framework solved it, at least in your case!
Just last week, I have encountered this problem too. The problem lies with PyGame. On some systems, a different setup is used (where or how: I haven't the foggiest, but I'm guessing MichelQ has found a promising direction). If you run from source: install PyGame on the PC where you want to install OpenSesame. Then it should work.
If you work with the portable version: install Python 2.6 and Pygame on the PC of your choice, then go to the site-packages folder of Python Portable included with OpenSesame Portable (opensesameportable-0.26-4-win32\PortablePython_1.1_py2.6.1\App\Lib\site-packages), delete the pygame folder and the file 'pygame-1.9.1-py2.6.egg-info' (and all the other pygame .egg-files). Then go to the site packages folder of the installed version of Python 2.6. Copy the pygame folder and the file 'pygame-1.9.1-py2.6.egg-info' and place these in the site packages folder of OpenSesame Portable (again, see here: (opensesameportable-0.26-4-win32\PortablePython_1.1_py2.6.1\App\Lib\site-packages)).
I can imagine that for the standalone version, the solution is more difficult, since the version of PyGame that comes with it isn't easily adaptable.
just wanted to add that today I had the same error on another xp PC. This time I only downloaded and updated the .net framework (On the other case I also updated windows to the latest service pack etc) which removed the error.
So this makes 2 cases on different PC's where updating the .net framework removed the error.
edit: Keep in mind that for xp and older pc's you probably need the older version of .net framework (3.5) instead of the latest (4.5).


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"Sensitive people are the most genuine and honest people you will ever meet. There is nothing they won't tell you about themselves if they trust your kindness. However, the moment you betray them, reject them or devalue them, they will end the friendship. They live with guilt and constant pain over unresolved situations and misunderstandings. They are tortured souls that are not able to live with hatred or being hated. This type of person needs the most love anyone can give them because their soul has been constantly bruised by others. However, despite the tragedy of what they have to go through in life, they remain the most compassionate people worth knowing and the ones that often become activists for the broken-hearted, forgotten and the misunderstood. They are angels with broken wings that only fly when loved." ― Shannon L. Alder
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Shannon,must be a real Sensitive soul.
How beautiful analysis.This could be achieved by experience only.
And I am one of that broken wings….
You have described the complete me .. Without knowing me.. Thanks that you understood me at least ..
I am mostly that person Shannon wrote about.
""Sensitive people are the most genuine and honest people you will ever meet. There is nothing they won't tell you about themselves if they trust your kindness. However, the moment you betray them, reject them or devalue them, they will end the friendship."
You really believe this nonsense?? Some sensitive people are genuine and honest and some aren't. Some can deal with conflict and some can't very well. Just like the rest of the population.
That is the most apt description of sensitive people . Have experienced it right throughout my life what Shannon has described . " Angels with broken wings that only fly when loved ……"
Lovely,…. can completely relate to most of this,… oh to be so well understood.
All of this, so true!
Tha's exactly me, but then again I was born on the 8th February, when this was written, may be it was I written for me!
These are people with good omen,beautifully made for what they are….., and rare to find. When genuine people make their way, they are remembered always because of their impact on the existed relationship.
This made me think of myself.once someone gives me a reason to no longer trust them or betray me in someway I write them off,only to feel guilt for having to let go.
Amazingly accurate…I am beyond thankful to have seen this written. Warmly~ Carla
This cannot be any closer to the truth. My whole life has been this way. This is beautifully written and to the point.
yess very true really it touched my heart
Tue indeed.. .. i can so well relate myself ..
Oh My Goodness, truer words have never been penned, Thank you!
It's like you read into the very depth of my soul! Felt each statement just leap off the page. And at the end, I'm glad that you saw the beauty that sensitive people have hidden deep inside them.


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There's been a lot going on in the technology industry over the last month. Apple has had a rocky month, Panda 4.1 launches, Wales gets their own domain extension, a worrying internet security bug is spotted and the SEO ranking factors for 2014 are released.
Apple has a bad month
This month Apple have dealt with a bug within iOS 8 software, plus the free U2 album which was automatically added to all iTunes accounts...which nobody seemed to want. In addition to this was an issue dubbed as 'bendgate' - shortly after the launch of the iPhone 6, customers reported that their new device had become bent in their pockets. However, the Huffington Post has posted a video which gives Apple a bit of a break. By showcasing a video created by Consumer Reports, the Huffington Post suggests that the iPhone 6's bendiness may have been blown out of proportion.
Watch Huffington Post's iPhone 6 video
Want more info on the iPhone 6? We mentioned its launch in the August tech round-up.
Panda update 4.1
Google quietly announced their latest update - Panda 4.1, which is the 26th change to the algorithm so far. During their announcement, Google said that they had discovered new signals which made the detection of low-quality or spammy content even easier. The update affects between 3-5% of queries and will offer the greatest benefit to small and medium sized businesses who consistently publish high-quality content.
Find out more about the recent update - Panda 4.1
Read Mercurytide's more in-depth introduction to Google Panda 4.0.
Wales gets its own domain
Following in Scotland's footsteps, Wales launches its own internet domains .wales and .cymru. The domain will be available for businesses to purchase in November and for the wider public in March. This comes as part of several new domains being launched by ICANN, in order to meet the growing demand for domains.
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Find out more about Scotland's new domain and if you have any questions, please get in touch.
Shellshock Internet security bug detected
Last week, a malicious bug was discovered which was said to affect a huge proportion of devices, home computers and servers. Said to be more severe than Heartbleed, our technical team got to work immediately to patch servers so that Mercurytide's clients would not be at risk from the bug. The Telegraph published a helpful video which discusses the threat posed by Shellshock.
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Sikh wedding
According to the Rahit Maryada, which is the Sikh Code of Conduct, "A Sikh is any woman or man whose faith consists of belief in one God, the ten Gurus, the teachings of the Guru Granth Sahib and of the ten Gurus, who has faith in the amrit of the tenth Guru, and who adheres to no other religion."
Nowadays there are about 23 millions Sikhs (word Sikh means "a strong and able disciple") living all over the world. Most of them, meaning 19 million people, live in the Indian state of Punjab (from Persian "panj ab" or "five waters") located in the northwest of the country. There is also a Punjab region in Pakistan, but with predominantly Muslim population.
Traditional Sikh wedding is also called "Anand Karaj" or "Blissful Union". As in most of world cultures Sikhs have traditions held before the wedding ceremony, at the ceremony and those held after the wedding ceremony.
"Kurmai" or Engagement is not organized at every Sikh wedding. When it is held, then it is done a week before the wedding in the "Gurudwara" or in the groom's home. A Gurudwara or "the doorway to the guru" is a Sikh place of worship (temple). The most important gurudwara is the Harmandir Sahib or Golden Temple in city of Amritsar located in the Indian state of Punjab.
Kurmai in the Gurudwara includes "Ardaas" (the common Sikh prayer), "Kirtan" (hymns from Sri Guru Granth Sahib) and "langer" (community meal).
If Kurmai is performed in the groom's home, the bride arrives there with "kara" (metal bracelet), "kirpan" (ceremonial sword) or traditional sweets. She also brings objects that are believed to be good omen. These are coconut, "chhuhare" (dry dates), sugar and money. Bride's family gets a a traditional suit and some sweets for the bride.
"Maiya" is a traditional belief stating that the bride and groom are not allowed to leave their homes or change clothes few days before the wedding.
"Gana" is a red thread tied to the groom's right wrist and the bride's left wrist. The gana worn by bride often has objects like cowrie shells, an iron key chain, pearls and a small silken bundle (with some sugar) attached to it.
Few days before the wedding "vatna" or scented powder which is applied on the bride's and groom's body. The powder is made of barley flour, turmeric and mustard oil. After that there is a ritual bath. On the evening of the wedding or as Sikhs would say "mehndi ki raat" the henna tattoo is made on bride's hands and feet.
"Gharoli" ceremony is held in morning of the wedding day in the groom's house. During the ceremony the groom's sister-in-law with some female relatives go to a well or Gurudwara to fill a "gharoli" or a special decorated jug with water. The water is later used to bath the groom.
"Kahare Charna" is yet another of pre-wedding ceremonies. The groom is sitting on a stool doing his bath and four girls are holding a cloth over his head.
Bride's maternal uncle or "mama" takes the bride for the "chooda" ceremony. She wears a "chooda" or set of red and white ivory (nowadays many used bone or plastic) bangles. These bangles have been dipped in "kachchi lassi" or buttermilk.
The tradition is to wear 21 bangles, but today most brides wear 7 or 9 bangles. Today the bride wears the chooda for month and a quarter. Traditionally it would be for at least a year. Bride's close female relatives tie "kaleeren" or golden metal danglers to the bride's wrist. The maternal uncles put the "nath" which is a traditional nose ring for the bride. In the past big Shikarpuri rings were popular. They covered large part of the face.
"Sehrabandi" is held in the groom's home. Groom's sister tie a "sehera" or ceremonial floral veil to the groom's forehead. It is believed that the sehra brings the status of "Vishnu" (the creator) on the groom. Traditionally Sikh groom must wear a turban, sehra and carry a sword. He also has to sport a beard. Then some of groom's close relatives put garlands made of paper money on groom's neck.
The groom mounts a decorated mare. He is accompanied by "sarvala". The sarvala is a single younger brother or friend who "protects" the groom. The groom's wedding party or "baraat" then goes to the bride's home. There is lot of fireworks and dancing of the "bhangra".
Both families gather at the "milini" ceremony held in the bride's house. Elders of both families are embracing each other. Special breakfast is served. While the procession is entering the Gurudwara shabads (devotional songs) are sung. Shabad called "hum ghar saajan aaye" is especially popular at such an occassion. Shabads are performed by a professional "raagi" who is kind of local bard.
The Jaimala is what follows. The groom goes to a decorated platform. The bride enters the room accompanied by her sisters, friends and "bhabhis" (sisters-in-law). She joins the groom standing at the platform. The bride and groom exchange flower garlands. This is done with some humour. Both sides try to avoid the bowing of the groom when getting the garland. Why? Well, it is believed that if bowing at this ceremony he would also continue to bow to her for the rest of their lives.
The wedding ceremony or Anand Karaj held in the morning of the wedding day. The ceremony can be held in the Gurudwara or at some other place. If the ceremony is organized out of the Gurudwara the "Guru Granth Sahib" (the Sikh holy book) must be there too. The ceremony starts with the singing of "kirtan" (first hymns) by the bride and groom sitting in front of the Guru Granth Sahib. In these hymns God is asked to keep this ceremony pure.
Then the bride and groom chant a prayer. What follows is the ceremony of Anand Karaj performed by the "granthi" (Sikh priest). The ceremony includes readings from the writings of the fifth Sikh guru, Guru Arjun Dev. The ceremony is performed in four parts.
The main "topics" of this parts are matters of karma, dharma or faith and blessing. After each part the bride and groom bow to the Guru Granth Sahib and then circle around it. This act is called "lavan". Then there is a performance of the "Ardaas" and "Shukrana" prayers. The wedding ceremony ends with "Hukunama" or proof statement of the marriage showing that everything was done in a proper manner.
"Juti Chupai" is a funny tradition held during the wedding ceremony. Girls from the bride's family try to steal groom's shoes and hide them. But there is also the other side. Boys from the groom's family try to prevent it. The girls usually succeed when the groom takes off his shoes before sitting down in front of the Guru Granth Sahib. To get his shoes back the groom gives the girls rings called "kaleechris" and some money.
"Doli Muklava" is what follows next. After the lunch held at bride's home the baraat is getting ready to leave with the bride. Everything is full of emotions with performance of "bidai" songs. The bride is going to a new home. This departure is called "muklava".
In the past she used to leave in in a "doli" or decorated palanquin. Nowadays the bride and groom leave in a decorated car. To show love and support to the couple bride's brothers push the car as long as they can.
The groom's mother welcomes the bride in groom's home. She does it by waving of a special bowl held in a bed of jamun leaves or grass over the heads of bride and groom. She sips from it until the groom asks her to stop.
As an act of welcoming a mustard oil is poured at the entrance door. The next tradition is performed by the bride. She kicks the bowl containing wheat, grains into the house showing symbolically that from now on her food, whole life is in this house and that her arrival is going to bring prosperity.
She enters the house. She is welcomed by relatives, friends and neighbours. Each of them feeds her with some "laddoo" (laddu) sweets. They also give her some money or "Mukh Dekhai". As part of Mukh Dekhai she gets some jewellery by the groom and his mother.
All the dowry and presents bride brought to her new home are put into a "sandook" (big trunk make of tin). The groom's sister is the first who is given a chance to choose some dresses in the trunk. This tradition is called "Sandook Khulwai".
As part of the welcoming in the new family the bride and groom are asked to play some games. Here is one of these games. It's called "go fish". The bride and groom take off their rings and put them in a pot of milk. The couple then tries to find them. Person who find them first will be the boss in new household.
The wedding reception is organized by the groom's family. After the reception there is the "Suhaag Raat" or the night when the marriage is consumed.
On the next day the couple goes to the bride's parents. This tradition is called "Phera". Special meal is prepared. Both the bride and groom get some presents.


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|The Myth of the Eastern Front
|by Dilandu » Wed Jul 10, 2019 12:59 am
Posts: 2460
A really good English-language book about the (unfortunately, popular) myth of "clean, honorable Wehrmacht":
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/217 ... tern_Front
This myth - on which, unfortunately, "The Gordian Protocol" relied upon quite a bit - is basically a post-war construct, created with the one simple goal: to make re-militarization of West Germany less appalling to Europeans. So, the myth was created that "it was those bad SS who done all crimes and massacres, and Wehrmacht was not involved on any significant level". Being Russian (whom ancestors happens to be under German occupation on Ukraine) I knew rather perfectly, that it is a lie.
So, I rather recommend this book to Western readers. It shows rather perfectly, that it is not enough to "just remove Nazi party from power" to create "good, noble German Army against those evil Russians"; to do that, you basically need to filter the whole Wehrmacht, completely removing all Nazi sympathizers (i.e. more that a half of total number of officers, especially on the top).
Oh well, if shortening the front is what the Germans crave,
Let's shorten it to very end - the length of Fuhrer's grave.
(Red Army lyrics from 1945)
|Re: The Myth of the Eastern Front
|by isaac_newton » Fri Jul 12, 2019 4:27 am
Posts: 1052
I've recently read 'Bloodlands: Europe between Hitler and Stalin' by Timothy Snyder.
An outstanding book, well written, thoroughly researched - if deeply depressing.
He concurs with that view of the Wehrmacht in Russia.
I should clearly say that he is no apologist for Stalin either!
|Re: The Myth of the Eastern Front
|by Dilandu » Fri Jul 12, 2019 7:07 am
Posts: 2460
Yep. And that's why I was so deeply disappointed (and, frankly, even distressed) when I found this myth basically proclaimed by RFC and Jacob Holo in the "Goridan Protocol".
Oh well, if shortening the front is what the Germans crave,
Let's shorten it to very end - the length of Fuhrer's grave.
(Red Army lyrics from 1945)
|Re: The Myth of the Eastern Front
|by TFLYTSNBN » Sun Jul 21, 2019 9:16 am
Posts: 2307
I will have to get a copy of the book.
The SS can be thought of as as the worst of the worst, but there was still plenty of the worst in the German army. The Treaty of Versailles which imposed such ruinous reparations on Germany had provoked profound anger and hatred.
Of course one could make the same points about the Soviet Army and the Russian people in regards to the teror famine against the Ukrainians.
|Re: The Myth of the Eastern Front
|by Dilandu » Sun Jul 21, 2019 12:20 pm
Posts: 2460
Being half-Ukrainian (my father is from Berdychiv, small town near Zhytomyr), I knew about Holodomor rather good. While it was obviously a disaster, it was worse than a deliberate crime - it was a series of really dumb mistakes, that Soviet leadership made to "demonstrate the advantage of collectivization". They wanted to weaken the Ukrainian peasantry, yes. But they never intended it to become a disaster (hell, the USSR at this time just made ten years without any famine, the first time in Russian history!)
They thought that they would "just force" those "greedy kulak's" to join collective farms by taking away their main means of income, and "everything would be fine". They terribly underestimated both the natural unpredictability of climate (the previous years were fine; the 1932-1933 were rather bad), and the dumb eagerness of local "righteous communists" to took away ALL just to fulfill the quotas.
P.S. And, while it is not as commonly known - Stalin shot every one responsible for disaster)
Oh well, if shortening the front is what the Germans crave,
Let's shorten it to very end - the length of Fuhrer's grave.
(Red Army lyrics from 1945)
|Re: The Myth of the Eastern Front
|by TFLYTSNBN » Sun Jul 21, 2019 9:18 pm
Posts: 2307
Those "righteous communists" were just like America's Democrats who are true believers in Global Warming Theology.
|Re: The Myth of the Eastern Front
|by runsforcelery » Mon Jul 22, 2019 6:59 am
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Dilandu, I never once said that the Whermacht didn't commit atrocities on the Eastern Front or ever even implied that those atrocities were solely the work of card-carrying Nazis and the SS. We never proclaimed a frigging thing about the real world Eastern Front, and I would appreciate your not implying that we did anything of the sort.
For what it's worth, I haven't believed in that view of WWII since I stopped believing in tooth fairies.
I said that there were Ukranian nationalists who despised Stalin, and there were. I said that the successful FICTIONAL assassination of Hitler touched off a FICTIONAL bloody internal civil war in Germany which the Nazis lost. I said the bloodletting IN GERMANY was severe enough that the Nazi Party (which had not yet committed any atrocities in Russia --- you could certainly argue that the "radio station attack" before the invasion of Poland was an atrocity there, of course) was thoroughly discredited AMONG Germans and that an alternative, Nazi-purged regime was instated and the Nazi party was outlawed. I didn't say there hadn't been a whole big bunch of Nazis in Germany in 1940-41 BEFORE said civil war, nor did I say that a lot of ex-Nazis didn't regret having to turn in their swastikas. I never said that there weren't plenty of atrocities on the Eastern Front in my alternate timeline, either; all I said was that IN UKRAINE the Germans were seen (by local nationalists) as liberators, which was admittedly (by implication) due to the absence of the explicit doctrine of the Untermenschen, and that the post war scene in Europe was very different from where it would have been had Hitler survived and won.
The one legitimate critique you've raised about my intentions and machinations is that the timescale is too telescoped (which I realized full well while I was doing it), and I will cheerfully admit that I DID telescope it because, for storytelling purposes, I wanted the war in the Pacific to be fought and won in a time frame that could lead to Operation Yellow Brick.
The Eastern Front was as brutal, savage, and barbaric a war as has ever been fought. It was a war between two totalitarian states and two dictators who were both about as loathsome as could be imagined. There were partisans, irregulars, massacres, "reprisals,' and genocide and I never once said that there weren't all of those things, both in Real Life and in my alternate history.
You continue to impute to me views and beliefs I do not hold. I had family that disappeared in Central Europe as well, and I hold no brief for the historical Nazis or all the people who suddenly discovered on VE Day that "We had no idea what was happening!" I didn't cover the alternate war in the East in detail because it was largely irrelevant to the main plot of the novel. I would appreciate your not implying that if I had, all would have been sweetness and light from the German side. Hell, WWII wasn't all "sweetness and light" from the AMERICAN perspective, and it doesn't take any revisionist historians to know that. You can see it in the damned newspaper accounts of the war, if you want to go back and read them! And if I ever do a novel in which I actually re-fight the war instead of using its conclusion as a backdrop, I'll be just as nuanced as you want.
But please don't accuse me of supporting the Myth of the Eastern Front or the postwar German efforts to paint themselves as the heroic defenders of Western Civilization against the onslaught of the Bolshevik Slavic hordes.
I thought long and hard about just letting this entire thread pass, but, frankly, I've discovered I'm too pissed off to go on doing that.
"Oh, bother!" said Pooh, as Piglet came back from the dead.
|Re: The Myth of the Eastern Front
|by Dilandu » Mon Jul 22, 2019 9:11 am
Posts: 2460
RFC, I do not imply that YOU believe in that. But the book - the "Goridan Protocol" - basically supported that myth.
Please look at it with the view of simple reader, not very proficient in history and eager to believe in "dirty SS, clean Wehrmacht myths". What would he find in this book? Basically a direct confirmation from author who is well-known to be an expert in military history. He would found exactly the basic formula "mad Hitler was killed, then good German military threw away all those Nazi, and became our good friends the Germany with which the USA allied". He would found that "now-good Germans, supported by US bombing campaign liberated the good Ukrainians from nasty Russian communists", and he would became completely sure that it is exactly what you wanted to say. Because it would support the whole system of belief the reader have in mind - the myths of "good Wehrmacht", the still-lingering fear of "communism", the current Russian-Ukrainean unpleasantness (which, as you perfectly knew, labeled by Western media as entirely one-sided aggression of bad Russia against good Ukraine).
Would he find anything about, say, Klaus-Wilhelm losing sleep by thinking of all that cruelty and destruction his armies inflicted against civilians, and trying to persuade himself that it was justified by end results? No.
Would he find anything about hundreds of thousands civilians killed in US bombing campaign against Soviet Union which you depicted simply as "what the Anglo-American heavy bombers could do to his (Stalin's) wartime industry"? No. Of course you could argue that it is implied by definition, but you must admit that it wasn't actually said anywhere, so the reader is left under impression that such bombing campaign may be something like modern precise strikes against, say, Iraq - infrastructure shattered, but not much casualties. Wartime industry. Not towns.
And the whole situation of "everybody went to fight the Soviet Union" - was it presented like a merciless, coldly calculative move of politicians, who thought only about profits and advantages? No. We have absolutely no idea, why, for Pete's sake, USA decided to enter the war against USSR, or why French did not stab Germans in their back as soon as they gave the opportunity. All you gave is "Stalin miscalculated here, Stalin miscalculated there". So basically you presented one side as scheming plotters, and gave no ideas about what the other side was thinking. What would the reader assume? Of course, that the other side is generally noble and have only best intentions (because, let's be fair: in your books there always the all-good and mostly-bad sides).
So to summarize:
* I completely believe that it wasn't your intention (dunno about Holo; I just did not know him as well as you)
* But the unintended consequences is that "Gordian Protocol" - unintentionally - support the aforementioned myth.
Sorry if I'm not entirely coherent here. Last month was... not kind to me at all.
Oh well, if shortening the front is what the Germans crave,
Let's shorten it to very end - the length of Fuhrer's grave.
(Red Army lyrics from 1945)
|Re: The Myth of the Eastern Front
|by Dilandu » Mon Jul 22, 2019 9:19 am
Posts: 2460
P.S. About how bad the Western knowledge of East European history is...
https://metalshockfinland.com/2019/07/1 ... -war-2019/
"'The Attack of the Dead Men' moves towards the eastern front, where the Soviet and German armies clashed."
Attack of the Dead Men's was in 1915:
You see the picture? The average reader of Gordian Protocol, I'm afraid, is hardly better. The average reader have a highly messed up assumptions of history, in which Red Russians are increasingly commonly labeled as "bad all along" and WW2 Germans are labeled as "generally bad, but it was all Nazi fault".
Oh well, if shortening the front is what the Germans crave,
Let's shorten it to very end - the length of Fuhrer's grave.
(Red Army lyrics from 1945)
|Re: The Myth of the Eastern Front
|by justdave » Mon Jul 22, 2019 2:27 pm
Posts: 96
IMHO what has been missed was that preventing Hitler's assassination was the most severe, gut-wrenching moral choice the 'hero' could be faced with, typical for the Mad Wizard. Once that was established, the rest of the alternate back story follows logically.


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Also, the Rays played in Montgomery on Saturday against the Biscuits, which produced this amazing photo of Ben Zobrist wearing a Biscuit Head (via the Tampa Bay Rays).
- The Rays sold Jayson Nix to the Phillies. Coincidentally, Nix appears to have been acquired to replace Reid Brignac. [MLBTR]
- Josh Sale has been reinstated from his suspension and is on the opening day roster for single-A Charlotte.
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- 5 ESPN writers pick David Price to win the Cy Young, 1 picked Matt Moore and 1 picked Alex Cobb. 2 writers picked Evan Longoria to win the MVP.
- Here's a Q&A with Stuart Sternberg. He got to level 23 in Flappy Bird. [TampaBay.com]
- Rays start the season 4th in this Power Ranking. [BI Sports]
- Joe Maddon did a Q&A with Montgomery Biscuit fans and VIPs. Among his comments was how he got started with his trademark glasses. [Montgomery Advertiser]
- Here's a good read on Chris Archer and his journey to the big leagues. [SportsOnEarth]
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And while some of the models who walked in that show will be very familiar, such as the stunning Rain Dove (SEE: Rain Dove Crushing It at NY Fashion Week), others less so.
This week, London Fashion Week, known for the diversity of its designers and styles isn't especially known for the diversity of the people represented on catwalks and making the clothes. So we thought that we ought to remedy this by showcasing the people who kill it in the style game in all their varied dapper ways.
First, have you met DapperQ? The dapper-focused site features non-binary clothing and style on the regular, and put together that fashion show along with BkynBoihood – featured in this pic, and themselves a set of highly stylish queers:Queer model who walks in menswear, and regular dapper fashion-wearer, Marcia Alvarado, is always on the style game, even when floating on air.Meet model Elliot Sailors, whose many years on women's runways with longer hair and softer style have her prepped for taking on a new short-haired and male model runway as she's successfully transitioned into her own through the gender binaries of the fashion world. (This pic includes model / musician on the rise, Harmony Boucher for good measure).Stylist and dapper-on-the-daily, SheDoesHim, has been crushing every fashion combo she takes on. If you're a fan of bold patterns and color, you'll want to keep your eye on her posts. We think those purple shoes are swoon-worthy, and take an unafraid eye to pair so well with a complimentary check.Or else meet Ariam Sara Geffrard, better known as ADapperChick, pulling off this fall's color – dusty pink – to impressive effect, in delightfully masculine style.If the dapper you love is androgynous, you're probably thinking of Ruby Rose (pictured here with close friend and suit-wearing fellow dapper androgyne lesbian Ellen Page).Or you're conjuring up Erika Linder, here pictured in a suit by Sharpe Suiting, that she wore for the Harold & Maude-inspired video for the song Empire, by band Of Monsters and Men.Meet the leader of a creative agency, who works with Instagram models herself, but has her own take on dapper aesthetics, Brittenelle.Or perhaps you like your dapper with a femme twist. Try Tomboy Femme, and bless your eyes with a huge variety of the dapper, casual and pretty that tomboy femme has to offer.It's probably a perfect note to end on a little sparkle, featuring the glittery besuited fashion choices of Jacob Tobia, whose stylishly femme nails make news, and impressive array of lipstick shades make every photograph dapper.


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Re: A 'dormant' GPS and telephone device in every car
The system only ever activates in the case of a crash with airbags going off - on my own car it sends out an SMS to a call center (location, direction travelling etc.), and then tries to phone them if the signal is strong enough. If I am unresponsive then emergency services are called. The system is not even powered up for external signals except in a crash or if I press the emergency button. The one in my car also has a 'breakdown' button which will connect me to a breakdown service even if I don't have a mobile phone with me - all pretty useful. Reducing the human error in horrendous accidents is definitely going to save lives, the system does not seem open to abuse, and europe has a pretty big thing about privacy, so I'm not terrified that the data will be released to a 3rd party without a good legal reason for doing so (for instance lying about the speed you were going in a crash to avoid liability)


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Spicy Squash
1 tablespoon oil
1/2 teaspoon turmeric
1 teaspoon ground coriander
1/4 teaspoon asafoetida*
salt, to taste
1 small squash or zucchini, cubed
1/4 a small cabbage, chopped
1 carrot, cubed
1/2 onion, sliced or chopped
1 tablespoon dill, chopped
1. Heat oil in a skillet. Add the spices and fry for 10 seconds.
2. Add the veggies and fry until done. I like the steam my veggies in microwave for 4 minutes on high before frying so that they do not loose color and are done faster.
3. You can add some water and saute them with a lid on for about 5 minutes. Sprinkle chopped dill when done.
*Asafoetida is an Indian spice in bright yellow colour and very off-putting smell. But when you fry it in oil for a while, it develops a nice oinion/garlic smell and taste.
This is very different, and good! I used 1 yellow squash, some cabbage, no carrot, green onions, and 1 clove garlic. I didn't have the a-spice. I also added a couple tbs coconut milk b/c I wanted some liquid, and used dried dill for the top. ;)b


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FC Dallas: Judging the Offseason Moves
Aside from preseason scrimmages, it has been quiet on the news front for fans of FC Dallas. While the team has made some moves and picked up some new players, the off-season has arguably been dominated by the George John transfer saga and to a lesser extent concerns about 2010 MLS MVP David Ferreira's recovery following a broken ankle suffered early on last season against the Vancouver Whitecaps.
Despite the seeming lack of energy surrounding the Hoops things picked up a bit in early January, starting with the club picking up Panamanian striker Blas Pérez and Colombian defender Hernán Pertúz on the same day, followed by George John's loan to West Ham soon after. Soon after that Maicon Santos had the 2012 option on his contract declined, Marvin Chavéz was traded to San Jose for allocation money, finishing up with Jackson going on loan to Brazilian side Cruzeiro. Other than their picks from the supplemental draft, the acquisition of Carlos Rodríguez from Tauro FC has thus far signalled the end of Dallas' off-season action.
With no apparent moves on the horizon (at least that I see) now seems an appropriate time to judge just what kind of impact the offseason had on the Hoops. To do so, I will be utilizing the Castrol Index, the official Performance Index of the MLS. It is by no means a perfect system of analysis but, seeing as it is meant mostly for rating individual performances, for my purposes it will provide a better method of analysis for rating what the loss of individual players might mean to the team.
To begin with, it should be noted that the league average Castrol Index rating is 7.207, with a standard deviation of .355. I take those numbers from a fantastic article over at Soccer By the Numbers, a site which you should definitely check out if you are interested in using stats to analyze soccer.
For those of you who aren't too mathematically inclined, the following things are what you need to know: a standard deviation basically tells us how how much variation from the average there is in a set of data. For a normally distributed population, one standard deviation in either direction of the average will cover about 68% of the population. For example in our set of numbers that means that 68% of MLS players had an average Castrol Index rating of anywhere from 6.852 to 7.562. Furthermore, going two standard deviations from the average in either direction will represent about 95.4% of the population: in other words, around 95% of the 455 players in the Castrol Index had a rating in the area of 6.497 to 7.917. An average rating that's more than 2 standard deviations from the average in either direction in our example is either quite commendable or deplorable, depending on the direction.
Looking at FC Dallas alone, we get the following numbers: the average rating amongst players is roughly 6.546, with a standard deviation of 1.714. The top five player ratings, with where they ranked amongst the MLS, were:
- George John-9.02 (8th in MLS)
- Ugo Ihemelu-8.86 (13th in MLS)
- Marvin Chavéz-8.65 (22nd in MLS)
- Maicon Santos-8.63 (23rd in MLS)
- Brek Shea-8.59 (29th in MLS)
The five worst:
- Victor Ulloa-3.89 (448th in MLS)
- Chris Seitz–3.96 (439th in MLS)
- Andrew Wiedeman-4.23 (425th in MLS)
- Jack Stewart-4.25 (424th in MLS)
- Maykel Galindo-4.41 (414th in MLS)
Along with Jackson (8.06, 57th in MLS), the Hoops had a total of 6 players with a rating average that was more than 2 deviations above the league average. These players could be considered as having performed outstandingly this last year, as evidenced by Brek Shea's Young Male Athlete of the Year award and All Star nomination, as well as George John's eventual transfer to the Hammers.
On the other end of the spectrum, there were eleven players that performed more than 2 deviations below average, notably Daniel Cruz (5.66, 302nd in MLS), Ricardo Villar (6.24, 238th in MLS), Bobby Warshaw (5.38, 331st in MLS) and Bruno Guarda (5.32, 338th in MLS). Notable in this realm of performance is that the five lowest rated players all had less than 150 total minutes played for the season, so their ratings should be taken with a grain of salt. For example, Wiedeman's rating was rather low, but his performance thus far this preseason suggests that last year's rating was not as accurate as one might think.
Moving on to Dallas' off-season transfers, I don't have a rather good feeling about how this off-season went. Of the 6 players who showed the best performance last year, Dallas has loaned two, traded one, and declined the 2012 option on another. They also shipped off Jeremy Hall, who at a 6.79 average was a consistent performer.
The bottom 11 performers though? Of the six who had considerable minutes last season, none were moved during this offseason. The only player of the bottom 11 who was shipped off was Maykel Galindo, but his total minutes were so low that his departure is not of great importance.
The obvious questions heading into this season lie mostly with who will pick up the slack to make up for the lost performances of those four top level players. Dallas is hoping that Blas Pérez will live up to his reputation as a goal scoring, experienced striker, and that the combination of Hernán Pertúz, Carlos Rodriguez and Ugo Ihemelu will make up for some of the lost defensive performances of George John, just in case he decides he enjoys banging around with the Hammers in the Championship.
As for the departure of Marvin Chávez–the hardworking "el hijo del viento"–there would appear to be no viable replacement, unless Schellas plans on playing Fabian Castillo in his place. And Jackson? I don't know if another great utility man exists on the roster. For my money, Jackson's loan could be the most harmful to the team's performance this season merely because of his energy and ability to play in almost any position that Schellas lined him up in. His will be the biggest shoes to fill.
Despite my concerns, my excitement for the season is as high as ever. I can't wait to see what Pérez brings to our offense, and I feel like Pertúz, Rodriquez and Ihemelu have it in them to make up for John's absence, should he eventually transfer to West Ham for good.
March can't get here fast enough.


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Posts Tagged wisdom
TEDxAAS – My first one…
Posted by admin in Evolution, Leadership, Teaching/Learning on January 23, 2013
The students in charge of this did a fabulous job!!
Leadership and Learning
Posted by admin in Evolution, Leadership, Teaching/Learning on February 15, 2011
Jay McTighe, one of the gurus behind Understanding by Design, has posted this video on his recent encounter with failure. It speaks to the issue of leaders who are often marked by age that is associated with their experience. Even Jay is showing his age despite the fact that he is only 7 years my senior. (This fact caused me to go peak in my mirror. Yikes!)
At the AAIE conference, this was apparent as I looked across a "wise" crowd of international school leaders. The focus of the weekend was technology and the overall content of the conference fell short of accessing the robust technology available today. That doesn't mean it was a bad conference – just bereft of the tools we were discussing. I would suggest that it drove home the point of the separation between digital natives, digital immigrants, and digital dinosaurs. While Jay is talking mostly about learning (and learners), I'm suggesting that his insights also provide a unique focus on leaders who are desperate to remain open to innovation, but are challenged by their own fear of failure when addressing a complex and constantly changing context.
Marc Prensky helped us to understand through his keynote that our issue is about the difference between nouns and verbs. We need to be less focused on the nouns which constitute the latest fads of technology tools (e.g. – Facebook, Twitter, Email, etc.) and focus instead on the skills (verbs) of the 21st century. While we need to embrace the nouns as they emerge and are adopted, the process skills of problem solving, collaboration, and communication remain static and highly adaptive to the new context. A powerful connection when considering Jay's insight into how we address our fear of failure. As Jay notes:
- Don't give in to negative self-talk
- Don't let an initial failure keep you from trying again
- Be strategic – practice, details, visualize success
Surfing at 60 is possible for even our most experienced leaders. And I'm not talking about the ocean kind of surfing.
New Horizons 2010
Posted by admin in Teaching/Learning, Technology on May 2, 2010
Under a grant from HP, the New Media Consortium and the Consortium for School Networking (CoSN) has released the latest New Horizon Report for K-12 education. Not surprisingly, the two critical trends to take center stage are Cloud Computing and Collaborative Environments.
The critical issues surrounding the trends that this collaboration brings to the forefront is the degree to which we have failed to link student achievement to the technology that we are adopting and, further, the degree to which schools have been forced to miss the boat on one initiative after another due to lack of financial resources or insufficient political resolve. The Horizon Report lists five critical trends that are not disappearing any time soon:
- Technology is increasingly a means for empowering students, a method for communication and socializing, and a ubiquitous, transparent part of their lives.
- Technology continues to profoundly affect the way we work, collaborate, communicate, and succeed.
- The perceived value of innovation and creativity is increasing.
- There is increasing interest in just-in-time, alternate, or non-formal avenues of education, such as online learning, mentoring, and independent study.
- The way we think of learning environments is changing.
With new devices (e.g. iPad), and new technologies descending upon us on a daily basis, we need to consider how to best approach the challenges that we now face since our prior efforts have been so stilted and restrained. While we see pockets of excellence throughout the world, the systemic and sustainable changes to educational systems still evade us.
I understand why. While we all recognize the import of technology on daily life, we continue to be circumspect because the research proving its efficacy lacks so far behind the intervention that new technologies have already replaced those originally reviewed. Our system of reflection and review is insufficient in its capacity to truly address the actual effects of these trends.
A recent presentation by adjunct professors at Pacific Lutheran University is a perfect example. Their research on purported unintended consequences of technology heaped upon young unsuspecting children was, in most cases, 10 years old. Can anyone remember what kind of computers we were using 10 years ago? Can you remember which devices didn't exist a decade ago?
In Visible Learning: A Synthesis of Over 800 Meta-Analyses Relating to Achievement by John Hattie (2009), computer assisted instruction was considered using 81 meta-analyses that included 4,875 studies involving 3.9 million subjects. The effect size was approximately d=0.37, something just more than developmental effects – in other words an effect that was about equivalent to just normal growth and development. Despite my argument above, there was little change in effect size when broken down by year of study which Hattie believes counters the belief in increasing effect with increased sophistication. Like many, the only correlation was between the use of computers and increased student engagement. Hattie concludes that there is no necessary relation between having computers, using computers, and learning outcomes.
But, hold the phone – Hattie throws us a bone when he does further analysis of the data and proposes that the following conditions must be met.
Computers are used effectively…
- when there is a diversity of teaching strategies
- when there is a pre-training in the use of computers as a teaching and learning tool (min. of 10 hours)
- when there are multiple opportunities for learning (e.g. deliberative practice, increasing time on task, etc.)
- when the student, not teacher, is in "control" of learning
- when peer learning is optimized
- when feedback is optimized
These two pieces of literature coupled with our own sound judgment form a new approach to prudent thinking on deployment of technology resources. A formula based approach of developing infrastructure, providing training, and prudently purchasing equipment may lead to a best practices scenario for technology's next horizon.
Anatomy of trust…
Posted by admin in Leadership on November 5, 2009
This has been a busy week in University Place. Two events have shaken this community in recent days and both times I found myself on television as a bystander while events unfolded. The first was a city council meeting where parents and students showed up in large numbers after being convinced that the youth sports program of the city was about to be decimated by revenue shortfalls and looming budget cuts. While it was accurate that the shortfalls will likely mean 25% budget cuts across the board, the cutting of youth sports was not yet in the proposal loop. The political nature of the method used to bring this issue up on the eve of the election was called into question and the final result: two long time council members ousted from their positions and lots of angry residents that no longer trust the council or the city staff. I feel bad for Debbie Klosowski who takes over as Mayor in December. She has a significant amount of repair work to do.
In the following video, look for me on the right side in the first wide angle shot of the audience. My brother Jim behind me and to my right. I'm sitting next to school board member and long time friend, Mary Lu Dickinson.
The second was an incident at my son's middle school that involved an impostor who pretended to be a military veteran and spent three hours on campus before it was discovered that he actually posed a threat to student safety.
At the board meeting the following night, concerned parents expressed their frustration over the incident. The news crew from KING TV were there again with camera at the ready. Nobody wanted to relive the issue again, but that seems unavoidable for the near future as new information continues to come to light. Since this person was on campus for over three hours, it's likely they will never have all the details of what was said and to whom.
What this incident does remind us of is the daily challenges we face in maintaining trust after we've earned it. In both cases, the people most affected — city council and school administration — had earned trust and respect from years of dedicated accomplishment. Events like this can bring all of that crashing down around you in a few short minutes of either best intentions gone awry or inadvertent complacency. Nobody deserves the lost trust that emerged from both these incidents, but that is the price being paid – at least for the moment.
One conversation I had with a teacher today reminded me of how difficult change is for all of us. Unfettered by accountability or rigorous reinforcement, we typically return to old habits rather than sustaining institutional change. In many ways, both incidents are the result of this aspect of both leadership and followership. For the council, 15 years of spending growth to keep pace with city development kept them from seeing the financial downturn on the horizon. As a result, 4 million in reserve disappeared literally overnight with little planning in place to address this shortfall. For the school district, leading edge procedures and policies were decayed by a close knit community built on an open door policy that is decades old. In a community like this, visitor badges and staff ID seemed unnecessary and even cumbersome. How to change minds and sensibilities?
Kotter and Cohen (2002) bring us the best framework for institutionalizing change. 8 steps that seek not only change, but sustainability — and that's really what's at stake here.
Kotter, J. P., & Cohen, D. S. (2002). The heart of change: Real-life stories of how people change their organizations. Boston: Harvard Business School Press.
Update to Microsoft Surface…
Posted by admin in Teaching/Learning, Technology on October 28, 2009
I stand corrected. It looks like Smart Tech (www.smarttech.com) has got one in the works. Would love to know how implementation is going. Anyone?
Click here – The SMART Table
Early Learning – Fighting Fade Out
Posted by admin in Leadership, Teaching/Learning on October 2, 2009
One of the things on every educational leaders "to-do" list should be addressing early learning. Similar to what Jeffrey Canada has taught us in the Harlem projects (see previous post), this project in South Shore School District is addressing this challenge. Consistent with this is a need to look at Birth to 3 programs that address the community and daycare component in addressing the key to the future of education – a comprehensive plan for kids from womb to 3rd Grade. This is all fully researched and connected to the latest work on brain research. Leaders must address this challenge as critical to sustainable change that has not yet been achieved.
The Real Crisis
Posted by admin in Farside, Leadership on February 16, 2009