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The programme is divided into two unequal chapters. The first, and much shorter chapter, takes us through the grounds of the Museum lingering over dappled-sunlit streams and trees, the gate opening invitingly to summon us in; all to Chopin's Variations Brilliantes). It has suitably rippling arpeggios plus a theme from Halévy's opera, Ludovic. The much longer Chapter II is devoted to the exhibits inside the museum. The 24 Preludes plus that famous one in C sharp minor are chosen adroitly to fit the moods of the sculptures; melancholy for a death scene and lighter more sprightly material as appropriate.
All the piano music is played by creditably by Irina Zaritzkaya. It can be heard on Naxos 8.550225.
Not a majestic tourist tour of Switzerland but a commendable exploration of some remarkable art that deserves greater general recognition.
What do you think of when someone mentions Switzerland? Bankers? Scenic beauty? Roger Federer? Skiing? Maybe all of those. However, I guess you will not think of it as the most linguistically and culturally diverse western European nation. Switzerland's diversity derives from its history, having existed as the world's oldest democracy for some seven hundred years. After internal religious conflict, the Congress of Vienna guaranteed its independence and neutrality in 1815. A new federal state of Cantons was formed in 1848 with Bern as the capital. The Cantons reflect the country's cultural and linguistic diversity. Sharing borders with France, Germany and Italy these are the appropriate languages of the population who usually speak at least two along with English. The diversity of the geographical locations also influences the artistic and cultural milieu.
The contents of the DVD are concentrated in only two Chapters. These are focused wholly on the Museo Vela at Lignornetto in the Swiss-Italian canton of Ticino. The galleries have remarkable collections of the works of the Vela family, the sculptors Vincenzo (1820–1891), his elder brother Lorenzo (1812–1897), and his son Spartaco. The principal part of the collection includes the works in gesso, a soft material, of Vincenzo's figures later reworked in stone. The Museo Vela houses the largest such exhibition in the world with some spectacular carvings such as Christ's head in a crown of thorns and a funerary monument of an Angel and Child. Vincenzo's works show his political affiliations with a statue of Count Cavour, the father of Italian independence and its first Prime Minister alongside Garibaldi and Victor Emanuelle II. There is also his model of Napoleon as he lies near to death. There are many views of the various galleries and the exterior of the house. The film ends with the sun setting over the surrounding countryside. Vicenzo rebuilt the magnificent house between 1862 and 1865. In accordance with the family's wishes Spartaco bequeathed it and the contents to the nation.
Chopin composed most of the music. It dates from the start of his liaison with the French novelist George Sand. Of the Preludes Opp. 28 and 45 those included here are the most recognisable. Attempts are made to match the music to the tone of the sculptures and paintings. Irina Zaritzkaya plays with a nice balance of virtuosity and feel for the different moods. The recordings are well balanced and tonally full. The Variations brillantes accompany the opening Chapter, the music based on a melody from an opera by Hérold and Halévy.


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For development purposes it might come handy to enable logging and debug mode:
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By doing this
MikroORM will start using
console.log() function to dump all queries:
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It is also useful for debugging problems with entity discovery, as you will see information about every processed entity:
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Custom Logger
You can also provide your own logger via
logger option.
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Logger Namespaces
There are multiple Logger Namespaces that you can specifically request, while omitting the rest.
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After winning Paralympic silver in front of his family in Rio, Toby Gold tells Jessica Whittington how he can't wait to compete again on the global stage – this time on home soil
When it comes to convenience of location for family support, the host cities of the two biggest events of 2016 and 2017 have worked out rather well for Toby Gold.
Having a Brazilian father, the 22-year-old had family in the crowds when he made his Paralympic debut in Rio last summer. With the next global event taking place on home soil in July, the wheelchair racer is highly motivated for more success as he works his way toward the World Para Athletics Championships in London.
Gold, who claimed T33 100m silver in Rio three months after he won the European title in Italy, was born in London and studied sports science at St Mary's University in Twickenham, where he still spends time training.
Having switched coaches after his European success and before Rio, the Kingston & Poly athlete also joins his Jennifer Banks-coached training group – which includes athletes such as five-time Paralympic gold medallist Hannah Cockroft – in Loughborough and is reaping the rewards of his training regime.
"It's been going really well," Gold says of his winter, which included a warm-weather training camp in Australia. "I've been making loads of small improvements.
"After the Europeans I changed my coach so we have been focusing on the shorter events mainly because my classification only allows me to compete in the 100m at the world championships," adds Gold, who is the European record-holder in the T33 100m, 200m, 400m and 800m and was previously part of the Weir Archer Academy.
"I just felt like I needed something to push me to that next level," he adds of his coaching switch. "Jenny Archer and Dave (Weir) have been instrumental in terms of getting me to the level that I was at for the Europeans and I just felt like it was the best thing for me to do.
"The set-up at the moment is really good. I'm getting everything that I need and I've got a really close training group."
Gold, who has cerebral palsy which affects his movement and coordination, describes Cockroft as an "integral" part of his training when in Loughborough.
"She's the main person I train with over 100m because we're very similar on time," he says. "We push each other and it's really beneficial for both of us."
Gold started out playing wheelchair basketball but switched to athletics when he was 16. He quickly made his mark and won three medals at the 2014 IWAS World Junior Games at Stoke Mandeville when wearing the GB vest for the first time.
He made his senior international debut the following year, claiming 100m bronze at the World Championships in Doha, before living up to his name with his golden European performance last June and then securing silver in Rio.
"There's always a part of me that's thinking 'you can give more' but at the same time it's important to remember what you've previously achieved," Gold says, reflecting on 2016.
"I knew that I had a chance of producing but thinking about it and then doing it is a completely different kettle of fish. Particularly with the Europeans, I'd never been under that amount of pressure in terms of going in as the European record-holder for the 100m.
"I feel incredibly proud of what I have achieved and I've really tried not to take it for granted. I feel like it's important to keep myself grounded to be able to again move on and achieve more."
"There's always a part of me that's thinking 'you can give more' but at the same time it's important to remember what you've previously achieved"
On going for gold again in London, he adds: "Obviously it's an aim but for me it's important to focus on the process of everything that I do on a daily basis.
"Certainly, the Europeans was a lovely set-up in terms of using puns with my name! Every athlete dreams about replicating it at the World Championships and at the Paralympics but if I can do the best race that I can then I've got to be happy with that."
While Gold is excited by the prospect of having more family in the crowds to cheer him on in the London Stadium this summer, he also can't wait to see younger fans getting involved and hopefully being inspired by the performances at the World Para Athletics Championships.
"I had family out there watching me compete in Rio, some of which I'd never met, and to come home and have the next year being the London World Championships is incredible, knowing that I'm going to have all my family there supporting me," he says.
"Being part of the process of getting more kids into the stadium, that is also going to have massive implications for how they perceive disability, which is obviously really important because when I was growing up none of this was available," adds Gold, who was speaking with AW at an event to launch a ticket offer for Newham residents where he was joined by local schoolchildren.
"I only found wheelchair sport when I was 16, which is quite late, so to be able to be part of these kids' journeys from a younger age, whether they are going to be competing for fun or the next elite athlete, it's all amazing to be a part of.
"One of the big things that London 2017 will be able to do is again build on what London 2012 did and the Rio Paralympics did in terms of support to inspire the next generation."
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At just shy of 80-years-old, Giorgio Armani himself is to be the face of the Giorgio Armani Made to Measure line, a collection synonymous with absolute precision and perfection
Bespoke services by major Italian fashion houses are on the rise due to recent demand. Though the Made to Measure project Armani started was launched back in 2006, the latest marketing campaign features the founder himself and will debut worldwide on Sept. 11, 2013.
This month the legendary Italian label is launching a dedicated Made to Measure website, allowing customers to book their appointments online and at the same time explore variety of available styles and alteration options.
The Italian designer spoke about his bespoke line and justified his decision to model the same, "Sartorial attention is part of the DNA of my brand, and the Made to Measure line represents its highest expression. I like the idea of being its testimonial, wearing a jacket and a tie and presenting myself with a different image from the one people normally associate me with. My message is that sartorial today is no longer only connected to formalwear. A Made to Measure suit works well also for the most dynamic lifestyle because it is created with individual changes that make it comfortable and practical, depending on each customer's special requests."
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Building on a social platform
Design with purpose: Understanding and using views
Jive APIs, JavaScript and REST
User Mapping
Understanding the enterprise social graph
What Matters, not Whatever.... Using the Activity Stream
Eat Food. Not too much. Mostly Plants.
- Overview
- Building on a social platform
- Design with purpose: Understanding and using views
- Jive APIs, JavaScript and REST
- User Mapping
- Understanding the enterprise social graph
- What Matters, not Whatever.... Using the Activity Stream
- Eat Food. Not too much. Mostly Plants.
Over the last several months, we've been working with a number of our partners to build Jive Apps for the market. For some of our partners, this was their first time really working with and understanding Jive and building an application, let alone, one designed to run within a social platform. This document is not intended to be a technical "how to"--there will be links to supporting documents that will provide more in depth details that are targeted for developers. Rather, this is written for project managers and developers in order to familiarize you with the high level architecture of Jive and the Apps Market and present the concepts of building an application that is integrated with the Jive social platform.
First Class Apps
Rather than "bolt" apps on as an after thought, Jive has integrated them as a core part of the platform. This integration manifests itself in two primary ways. First, apps are available directly from the primary navigation bar. When this menu option is selected, the user will be taken to their "apps quick launcher" (or the "apps dashboard" in Jive 5.x) where they can use the apps they've chosen to install. Second, the application APIs make available virtually all of the content inside of the Jive instance. For all intent and purposes, this allows application developers to take advantage of everything inside of the Jive instance. From the enterprise social graph, to content such as documents and discussions, and the What Matters stream, it's all available to use within your application.
Installing applications
A key differentiator for Jive Apps is the ease in which users can add applications to their experience. Because Jive has taken on much of the complexity of managing an enterprise market, e.g. simplifying the billing process by being the merchant of record, the first 10 seconds of getting an application is the same for all applications--even those developed by IT departments that build specialized line of business apps. From the perspective of a third party app developer, an application is added to the user's environment only after the user has gone through the market's purchase flow. This means that your app should be able to automatically provision users based on a signed fetch from Jive (signed fetch is what provides the unique userID@jiveInstanceID identifier).
It's worth noting that the Apps Market is a cloud-based service that is available to version 5.x (and later) of Jive. This means that there is only one Jive Apps Market that serves all the instances of Jive. However, each Jive instance will have its own "view" into the market. For example, when a company develops Jive Apps for use within their enterprise, only people with their Jive instance will see the listing for that app. In addition, because Jive recognizes the importance of IT control, administrators have the ability to prevent applications from being installed should their business needs or IT policies require it.
Regardless of whether you are developing a third-party application for sale in the Jive Apps market, or a specialized line-of-business app, a recommended best practice is to use "Application Life Cycle Events" to capture when your application is added or removed from a user's dashboard. Life cycle events are defined by the OpenSocial specification and represented by "Link" elements in the application definition file, the app.xml. When one of these events occurs, Jive will make an HTTP call to the URL specified in the Link element. To uniquely identify the user & Jive instance, these should be signed using 2-legged OAuth. Given that apps are first class citizens in the Jive social business platform, and that it's extremely easy for a user to find and install an app, what do you need to know about actually building an app?
Building on a social platform
The first thing to understand when you start building your app is that Jive is a social business platform. Jive contains a rich set of information about the user, including their profile, "friends" (who they are following and who follows them), org chart, which groups they participate in, the content they've created, and their activities. The amount of information available to the developer through the APIs has broad implications for the design of the app. Leveraging Jive's social capabilities enables a completely new dimension that can be added to your app. It's this deep integration with the underlying Jive social business platform that unlocks significant new value.
One of the most common shortfalls that application developers will intitially make is trying to force fit an existing service that is made available via a collection of Web pages into a Jive app. This is done by using a Jive App, which is rendered as an iFrame within the browser, to simply "wrap" a set of existing Web pages. While this might get something out quick and dirty, the main problem with this approach is that it lacks Jive's social context. This pattern, known as the "iFrame black hole". Consider the following example. Many Web based systems will attempt to connect employees of the same company, and will display a form like the one below.
However, when you are building a Jive app, it's important to realize that the user is already inside of a company, and already has access to the enterprise social graph. Rather than complementing the platform, "iFrame black hole" integration often results in a duplication of information, redundant capability, and, most importantly, a poor user experience. With only a very few exceptions, this level of integration is not recommended and should be avoided.
Avoiding the "Jump of Faith": Staying inside of your Jive App
We strongly recommended avoiding the 'iFraming" of an existing web page. The primary reason for this is because of the lack of integration with the base platform and a less than optimal user experience. However, there are scnearios where existing, stand alone business logic that should be surfaced to the user. A typical pattern is to "launch" the user to a new browser window. The downside of this is that it causes a "jumpy" and confusing user experience. OpenSocial makes it very easy to encapsulate an existing URL in an app. This can be done either by creating a "URL style view", that is, a view with a type of "URL", or by simply including an iFrame with a src attribute in an existing view. This is preferable to launching a new browser window because you can remain inside the app rather than "jump out" to a new browser window. However, if, after careful consideration, you choose to open a new browser window, this should be done in a manner where the user is already logged in to whatever application context is appropriate on your backend server.
Design with purpose: Understanding and using views
When you build your Jive App, you will have the ability to create different views for your application. A view is an area of real estate in the browser where the application will manifest itself. Typically, for security reasons, views are rendered as iFrames. The content of the view comes from the application definition, the app.xml file. This file is compliant with the OpenSocial specification, and because it defines an OpenSocial gadget, is sometimes referred to as the "gadget.xml". The concept of views is defined in the OpenSocial specification. There are two primary views that you will use when you build your app, "Home" and "Canvas", however there are specialized use cases where you may choose to define additional "sub-views", e.g. to display availability information if your app is in maitenance mode.
Canvas View
A key motivation for Jive Apps is to provide the ability for app to complement and extend Jive's core platform with innovative new capability that builds on top of the enterprise social graph. Apps are often very interactive and may require a large area to present the user the full utility of an App experience. Because of this, Jive provides a "Canvas" view for all applications. Like its name implies, an app's Canvas view will be take up the maximum area in the dashboard. An app is in Canvas view is the only visible application on the page. Here are a few examples of applications that take full advantage of the canvas view. Each application has two navigation icons located in the right of it's title bar. Click on the righter-most button in the application's chrome will navigate the user to "Canvas" view. Here are two examples of applications in "Canvas" view, SurveyGizmo and LucidChart.
Example: SurveyGizmo
SurveyGizmo has a rich canvas interface. They carry over the same metaphor from their Home view and use that over to be a navigation control in Canvas. Notice that the social information about the user is displayed across the top, as well as in the side bar.
Example: LucidChart
LucidChart is a tool that lets you quickly designed flow charts, Venn diagrams, SWOT analysis charts, and pretty much anything else you can think of. In this case, the editor and the rest of the application code are hosted on the insfrastructure provided by Jive as part of the SDK. This is commonly referred to as "apphosting", in part because that's the root of the URL. When you open the canvas view, their App is loaded from the hosted environment into the Canvas view, and voila!, you can create and share amazing diagrams right inside of Jive!
"Embedded" View ! (supported only after Jive 5.X)
In Jive cloud and in our latest non-cloud version, we bring the ability to embed App content directly into your work experience without having to leave context. With a simple bang ! you can bring up a list of Apps that offer embedded actions, select the app you want, and take an action from the Embedded view.
The result is embedded content that is linked back to the detail contained in the app, but that can now be accessed by others from directly within the document.
"Home" View (supported only in Jive 5.X; deprecated in later versions)
In Jive 5.X, you can access applications on the Apps Dashboard. When the user first opens the dashboard, their applications will be rendered together in "home" view. "Home" is a smaller view of your application, typically around 400 pixels. In this mode, your application will be among several that are on the user's dashboard. Below is an example dashboard that has three apps on it, Rypple, SurveyGizmo, and Lucidchart, each in Home view.
There are a number of important design considerations when you design the Home view of your app.
Design with a purpose
Each of the applications shown above provides an extremely informative and feature rich user interface in home view. Since your application will be competing for space on the dashboard, it's important that you provide a clean and purposeful interface. Your home view is the first impression that your app makes to a user.
- Rypple: The user can quickly recognize someone in their Jive community.
- SurveyGizmo: Get information about their survey's immediately. Each of the icons in the list will display more detailed information, e.g. pie chart.
- Lucidchart: Quickly navigate to the latest document the user created or create a new one.
Avoid "Chicklets"
A "Chicklet" is a simple button or icon whose sole purpose is to launch the app into canvas view. While this works fine on your mobile phone, this kind of launcher view is highly discouraged and will fail the app approval process. The home view should be used to allow the user to quickly accomplish the most common task that your app provides.
Other View Considerations
While Jive provides built in navigation to canvas view, it's also possible to navigate among views programmatically, In fact, you are not limited to just home and canvas. You can define as many "sub-views", e.g. "home.specialize", as you need for your application. You can easily pass parameters between these views as well to maintain context. For example, one use of views can be to display a friendly message to users when your app is undergoing maintenance.
Maintenance View
As much as it's recommended that your application always be available, there may be times where the app will have to undergo maintenance cycle. It's imperative that you communicate this back to your users. One way to do this is by using a custom sub-view for a "maintenance" mode. For example, you could define "home.maintenance" as the view to display information to your users when your app will be available again. When the app is rendered, you could perform a status check to your home server (this could be preloaded as well to avoid a round trip to the server or stored as a hidden user preference). Based on the result of this status check, the application can programmatically navigate itself to "home.maintenance".
Custom User Preferences
Each application may have settings that need to be configured by the user. In OpenSocial, these are called user preferences, or user prefs for short. These are defined in the application XML file, and when present, Jive will automatically create a view and a new menu option called "Your Settings" on the application's drop down menu. The Jive Application Framework allows you to override the default and provide your own view definition. This is a helpful and convenient way to quickly customize your application.
Jive APIs, JavaScript and REST
Jive is committed to providing, as much as possible, an API to information that is based upon open, community driven standards. OpenSocial is one of the key standards, and Apache Shindig, an open source reference framework is a fundamental underlying technology. However, the breadth and depth of the Jive platform goes beyond what's defined in OpenSocial. For this reason, and because part of the Jive programming interface existed prior to OpenSocial, there are two aspects of the Jive API. These are often referred to as "Jive Core" and "OpenSocial." For example, OpenSocial does not currently have the concept of "content", e.g blogs, documents. To get a user's blog posts, you need to use the "Jive Core" part of the API. Jive is committed to open technologies and is actively working within the OpenSocial and Apache communities to broaden the API, increase adoption, and strengthen the open ecosystem. In fact, several of the features that are in recently released OpenSocial 2.0 specification were led by Jive.
It is also worth noting that Jive exposes information via a complementary set of REST APIs as well. This allows for server to server integration between systems. However, these types of integration typically happen behind the firewall. Therefore, if you are a third party application provider that is targeting your app for use within the confines of corporate community, you should design your application in such a way that it does not rely on access to the REST APIs. IT developers creating services for use within their company should verify ahead of time that the REST APIs will be available as part of the application programming model.
User Mapping
However, one thing that will be necessary is to "map" a user from your system with one that comes from Jive. The strategy for user mapping should be thought about and implemented early in the process of building your app because it has implications on account provisioning and billing. One thing to realize is that the unique identifier for a Jive user is more than just the user ID. It's the user ID plus the Jive instance ID. The e-mail address of the user is NOT a good identifier because it's possible for a user to use the same e-mail in multiple Jive instances. While it's not the most prevalent use case, it is not uncommon either. In fact, as Jive apps become used in more places, namely in external public communities, this scenario is more likely to occur.
The best way to get this information is using a signed fetch, common known as two legged OAuth. In a nut shell, the way signed fetch works is that an AJAX request is made to an endpoint on your home server. Jive will sign this request using the OAuth credentials unique to this app. Your responsibility is to verify the signature. Part of the information that is sent to you is the person that made the request, in OpenSocial terms, the @viewer. The @viewer identifier is jiveUserId@jiveInstanceId. There's more details on this pattern in the doc Methods for authenticating Jive users against home servers.
Application Lifecycle Events
There are several points in time when this user mapping can be done. This first is when the user adds the application to their dashboard. This can be triggered by an event within the dashboard. If you configure your app properly, you can setup an endpoint that listens for when your app is installed (or removed). This kind of event is called a "web hook", and in order for to receive the user ID & Jive instance ID, it will need to be signed by Jive.
Using the life cycle events as the initialization to provisioning has a few considerations. First, web hooks are not guaranteed delivery. It's possible that an event could leave Jive and get lost in the ether. Granted, this is not a common occurrence, but it's possible. Second, the only identifying information you get is the instance Id and the Jive Id. A more complete profile will need to be built up outside of the life cycle event. When the Jive apps dashboard loads the application, it should have a way to determine if the app has been configured. If not, then the user should be walked through any setup & configuration necessary to provision the account on your back end and setup the app.
Auto-provisioning User Accounts
Jive apps are intended to be "self service". We would like any user at any time to be able to buy and install any app. In reality, dogs and cats don't often live nicely together and the "self serve" model isn't always practical because it doesn't fit with the way some existing applications are billed and sold. For example, some existing infrastructures often have the idea of a company or an account that must be setup prior to the application being used. In the case of Jive, it's possible that a user from a company that you've never worked with before will find your app in the market and install it. Therefore, you should be prepared to provision not only the user, but potentially, a new company account as well. Jive's billing platform and app framework are flexible enough to accommodate most existing models. It just might mean a few conversations with the Jive Apps team and maybe some extra hands on integration work. If you are in a situation where the self service model isn't an exact fit, drop us a note and we'll work with you to figure out the proper integration points.
Understanding the enterprise social graph
One of the things that makes Jive essential to changing the way business is done is the fact that the platform surfaces, and makes available to developers, the enterprise social graph (ESG). It's important not to confuse the enterprise social graph with a simple API layer on top of LDAP or Active Directory. While Jive does expose "traditional" information like the organization chart, the real power is the information that is built up over time as the user interacts wtih the Jive. How you leverage this within your app is the key to making your app truly social and will have a direct result on user adoption.
Who are you?
Most applications have some concept of a user profile. This is typically setup by the user when they come into their account for the first time and involves filling out their name, e-mail, uploading a picture (avatar), etc. When you build a Jive App, you already have profile information available. There is no need to ask the user for this information when you can simply ask Jive for the profile information when you need it. The one exception to this is a user's e-mail address. In Jive, e-mail is known as a "privacy field" and may not be available via the API. Your application logic should never assume that just because you ask for the e-mail address via the API that it's actually returned. Likewise, you should not use the e-mail address as the unique way to identify a Jive App user. In addition to the typical profile fields, you can retrieve other information about the user as well, such as their status level inside of Jive, when the user profile was created, and when it was last updated.
In general, you should not need to store profile information on your home servers because it lives in Jive. The one case where duplicating profile information makes sense is if you allow access to your service from outside the Jive App, e.g. via a web page or mobile device. In this case, you might want to duplicate some of the information from Jive and provide a mechanism in the app for the user to "update" or "sync" with your home server. You should also perform an automatic check periodically to see if anything has changed.
We're all connected to Kevin Bacon...
A big part of the power of Jive is that it understands how people are connected to each other. These relationships manifest themselves in direct ways, e.g. I choose to follow you, and in indirect ways, e.g. we are both part of the same social group.
Jive helps connect people in the organization and break down some of the barriers between groups and people within large companies. A big part of Jive's power is that it understands how people are connected to each other. These relationships manifest themselves in direct ways, e.g. I choose to follow you, and in indirect ways, e.g. we are both part of the same social group. Let's look at the direct relationships.
When Jive is used to improve corporate productivity and collaboration, part of the corporate structure, specifically, the organization chart, is typically made available. Jive surfaces the org chart through the core API. Your application can find the user's manager, everyone that reports to the same manager (colleagues), and their direct reports. While OpenSocial defines a "network distance" parameter, so you can traverse to a specific level of depth on one query, Jive does not support this option.
In addition to the org chart, Jive maintains a distinction between who is following a person and who that person follows (connections). It is also possible to determine bi-directional relationships, i.e. I follow you and you follow me back, through the concept of OpenSocial "friends".
Through these relationships, Jive helps connect people in the organization and break down some of the barriers between groups and people within large companies. How you use these relationships is completely up to your business logic. It's important that you don't make any assumptions about who a person might want to share information or collaborate with. In many cases, collaboration happens outside of the bounds of an explicit relationship. It's for this reason that Jive offers an API and a "People Picker" that allows you to select anyone in the company. A typical pattern is to retrieve who the user is following, or their "friends" and then give them the option, via the people picker, to select anyone.
OSAPI Jive Core V3 Picker Reference
People are also connected implicitly. A great example of this is belonging to the same social group. Social groups, typically just referred to as "groups", can be set up as part of a formal structure, e.g. "West Coast Sales", or ad-hoc, "Around the Water Cooler". The implied relationship in Jive occurs because two users may not be following each other, but they could both be part of the same group, e.g. "West Coast Sales".
Typically, groups can be setup by any user of the system. They can be open for everyone to participate, members only, private, or secret. The visibility rules also apply to the content in the group, as well as any activity that flows onto the What Matters stream. You can use the OpenSocial API to find all the members of a particular group. Regardless of the kind of relationship, incorporating how people are connected is a key part of making your app more social.
What Matters, not Whatever.... Using the Activity Stream
The metaphor of an activity stream is now well engrained in how people interact with each other. Popularized by the Facebook "wall", it seems that every software package has some stream like interface. Many of these offerings indiscriminately post everything onto the stream. This approach effectively renders the stream useless. Jive recognized the importance of making the stream an important collaboration tool, rather than a register of anything and everything that happened in the system. When designing your application, understanding the actions within Jive that will result in information being placed on the stream will help you determine when to post an activity from your app, send a notification to an individual, or create an action for the user to take.
As a user interacts with Jive, many of the actions they perform will result in an activity being placed onto the activity stream. For example, suppose I create a document in the "Sales Leads" group. The result will be an entry in the activity stream that is visible to everyone in the group, everyone that is following me, and depending on visibility rules, the general activity stream. (Note, this assumes the group is public. If the group has restricted visibility, for example it's a secret group, then my followers who are not part of the group will not see the entry in their stream.)
In Jive, there are three "kinds" of entries that get posted to a user's What Matters stream, Activities, Actions, and Notifications.
The first is the "Activities", represented by the icon on the left. Activities can be thought of as "awareness"--things that are going on in Jive that you are interested in. Notice that there are a number of advanced capabilities that Jive offers to a user, including sophisticated filtering based on "learning" what should be important to the user ("Matters Most"), the ability to "hide" or tune out posts that may not be of immediate interest, and views of only status updates.
Understanding how Jive's What Matters Activities work has a direct impact on the design of your app. Many of the common actions that a user performs will be reflected in the activity stream. Since your application can do these same actions via the API, e.g. create a document, careful consideration needs to be taken when you post an activity. For example, if your app creates a document, an activity will be automatically placed on the stream. Your app should not duplicate this information with a post that, essentially, directs redundant information at the user.
Example: Content Creation, Apps, and What Matters Activities
Gliffy is a great example of creating a document with in Jive. In this end-to-end example, notice that only one activity stream entry is placed on the stream.
Step 1: Create a Gliffy Diagram.
From Gliffy's "Canvas" view, the user creates a new diagram.
Step 2: The What Matters Activity notification
Because Gliffy has chosen to save their diagrams as a documents, Jive automatically posts and activity onto the user's What Matters stream.
Step 3: Opening the document
From the What Matters stream entry, the user can then click on the link and be taken directly to the document. Notice that Gliffy has also included a link back to the application directly in the document content (Edit this diagram in Gliffy). This will allow all users who have visibility to the document to quickly navigate back to the application. It's also one other way in which applications will spread virally throughout an enterprise.
Using Activities: Giving your app a social life
What Matters Activities provide a great way to give "traditional" systems a "social life". In the case of integrating with different, non-social systems, e.g. Jira, the set of users working in them is significantly smaller than the number working in Jive. Placing an activity in the What Matters stream increases the visibility of the user's work and increasing the opportunities for collaboration. Also, Jive will add a link to the application in the activity. When someone clicks on the link, Jive will navigate them to the application in the dashboard or to the app's market listing if they don't have the app installed. Let's look at the Jira for Jive application from AppFusions. This app provides integration with Jira right in the Jive dashboard. Using this app, you can search for issues and create new ones.
When you create an issue using the app, an activity will be placed on the What Matters stream. Notice that when an application creates an activity Jive automatically creates a "deep link" that will take the user back to the application (see "via JIRA in Jive").
Actions & Notifications
While What Matters Activities can be used to bring awareness of things going on in Jive, it is sometimes necessary to target a user directly and ask them to perform a specific action or bring something important to their attention. Jive has extended activity streams to include the concepts of "actions" and "notifications".
Your app can use Jive What Matters to direct the user to take a specific action. Actions entries are listed in a separate tab in Jive. Each action can have up to three "links" that manifest themselves as buttons in the entry. "Action Links" can be used in several ways. First, they can be used to create a "deep link" back to your application. The typical pattern is that when the user clicks on the button, then app will open in canvas view, with the context of the action loaded. In the example below, Andi is using the RoundPegg application to map out her working style. She wants to compare her style with mine, so she has "invited" me to use the app and fill out the profile assessment. RoundPegg has created a simple workflow, based on What Matters Actions to implement invitations to use their app.
Actions are not limited to navigating a user back to the application. Your application can call out to an HTTP endpoint on your home server to invoke an action. These should be signed using 2-legged OAuth (signed fetch) so that you know the user and the Jive instance that originated the request. Jive What Matters Actions are a simple and effective way to add light weight workflow to your application.
Notifications are used to bring a specific user's attention to an important event that has occurred in Jive. Let's look at Rypple as an example of how notifications can be used effectively. Rypple allows users in Jive to "Thank" each other by awarding a "badge". Rypple is creating the new way to perform employee reviews because the recognition provided in the Jive community be used as feedback in the employee review process. In this example, Andi has recognized Mark (me!!) for doing an awesome job with Jive Apps. This shows up in the What Matters Activity Stream.
However, Rypple also will send the recipient of the badge a notification. This is information that only the targeted user will see. Here is what the entry looks like in the What Matters Notifications stream.
The Jive What Matters activity stream is a powerful tool that your app can use to interact with the user. It's advanced capabilities provide a multitude of options that can bring awareness to your application, target the a user to perform specific actions, and bring attention to important events that have occurred in your app. Even if those events occur outside of Jive, you can post information back to the stream. Using What Matters effectively is a key adoption point for you application. However, there are several overall design considerations that you should be aware of, especially if you are adapting an existing service to work as a social application.
What Matters Notifications & E-Mail
Many existing services use e-mail as the primary means of communicating with users. This is typically because there is no "social container" in which the service runs inside. The user makes a conscious decision to open a browser and navigate to the service. E-mail is really the only way to provide out of band communications with a user. When compared to e-mail, Jive What Matters Notifications offer a more consistent and expected path of communication from the application. This does not imply that you should never use e-mail in conjunction with an app. There are still plenty of valid scenarios where this makes sense. However, you now have there are multiple avenues of communicating with a user, and your app should take holistic approach to ensure the right information is sent at the right time, via the right channel. More often than not, when working with an app, the user will expect communication to flow through the What Matters stream.
Don't "spam" with e-mail
In order to get the app onto their dashboard, the user has gone through the market to install the application. For third party consumer apps, this means there has already been a purchase decision made. The last thing the user wants is unexpected emails appearing in their inbox. Design your app so the user explicitly "opts-in" to receive any e-mail from the application. This is especially true with "freemium" applications. This decision can be recorded with a simple flag in user preferences or an initial configuration flow when the app is installed.
Eat Food. Not too much. Mostly Plants.
Michael Pollan, author of the Omnivore's Dilema once summed up eating healthy as "Eat Food. Not too much. Mostly Plants." [link] Building a truly social app is much more than just simple iFraming of existing Web pages. Understanding the Jive platform, especially What Matters, is fundamental to making thoughtful decisions about how to effectively integrate your application into the platform in a seamless and complimentary manner. Your application, when thoughtfully integrated with Jive, will create a delightful user experience that will truly change the way work gets done in the enterprise. Drawing on inspiration from Mr. Pollan, "Build Apps. Integrate with the Platform. Leverage What Matters."


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In honor of PrideFest 2018, the largest LGBTQ event in Wisconsin history, the Milwaukee Pride Board of Directors has disbursed over $23,000 in financial donations, scholarships and gifts to local causes, including:
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On Wednesday, Sept. 26, I attended a lecture by Jane Elliott at Monmouth College. Jane Elliott is a former elementary school educator who is famous for her blue-eyed vs. brown-eyed experiment in teaching racial oppression and tolerance to her students. Jane Elliott is a white woman who is greatly celebrated for her radical, anti-racist progressivism. Her positive public image made me even more excited to meet her and listen to her. However, almost as soon as her lecture started, I knew that Jane Elliott needed to do better.
Elliott started her lecture by expressing her disappointment of the current news cycle around Kavanaugh. She called abusive men (including the President) "boys," completely negating the fact that toxic masculinity rewards men for being abusive. There is nothing more manly than playing right into the patriarchy. Calling abusive men boys, lets boys be boys. It also wrongfully states that "mature" adult men are somehow incapable of abuse. She continued by calling for the women in the audience to "stop playing defense and start playing offense." Elliott went as far as to say that women needed to stop letting men abuse them. Using classic sexism, Elliott indirectly singled out every single survivor in the audience and placed the blame and burden of their assault on them. She moved on with an attempt to empower the women in the audience. She said that women were special and could do things men could never do. "Have you ever seen a man give birth?" she asked. A student said, "Yes, a trans man." Elliott looked at the responder and sighed, "I said man, not a female," she continued, "That man was a female first." In under 30 minutes, Jane Elliott had managed to victim-blame and be transphobic. Later on she kept making ableist "jokes" and calling the president "handicapped." For someone who sure loves to talk about empathy, learning and acceptance, Elliott did not have any for queer folk, disabled people or survivors of abuse/assault.
Besides all of the problematic behaviors for which she refused to stand accountable, once Elliott dove into the conversation of race, it became obvious that her ignorance was much deeper than the use of questionable exclamations. A big part of Elliott's advocacy for racial equality rested on her thoughts about the origins of humans. There is no doubt that human life originated from Africa and specifically Black people. However, to want to go back to this concept as the defining unifier of human beings today, ignored the atrocities that white people have committed against everyone else. It ignores the current struggles of people of color, specifically Black folk, by implying that if we are all from Africa, then white people can somehow understand the struggles of Black people. Elliott said we are all a part of the only race, the human race. Following that, she told us the story of the African origins of human life and added that we are all a part of one race, the black race. We are all African. We are all Black. Or at least that is what Jane Elliott told an audience without clarifying how these claims enable white entitlement and privilege while erasing the struggles of people of color.
On the socialization of race, Elliott said that no child is born a racist and that white children are socialized to become racists in their early teenhood. This is inaccurate at best. White people are born and raised in a society that favors whiteness. Whether they like or know it, white people have subconscious biases on race. They are not socialized in their teens; they are socialized their whole lives.
Elliott also perpetuated some very common forms of anti-Blackness. At one point, she called on the white people in the audience to "get over it." With the thinning of the ozone layer, Jane mentioned that "whites should marry blacks" if they want to have strong offspring with lower risk of skin cancer. White people have historically objectified bodies of color, especially Black bodies, for their "superior physique." On top of that, mixed-race children are highly sexualized in today's world and Elliott fell right into that gear.
I want to be fair. Perhaps 50 years ago, Jane Elliott's ideas were groundbreaking for her small white town. And for 50 years, Elliott has been playing and replaying the same exact script. And we have loved her for it. Elliott stayed in the safety of her privilege, while getting immense recognition for doing way less than many leaders and educators of color did way before her. Jane Elliott is the embodiment of white people getting praised for doing the bare minimum rather terribly. Elliott has not grown through and within her work and her age is not an excuse. There are plenty of older thinkers who learn and adapt every single day. The public praise of Elliott has done her a disservice by telling her that what she is doing worked 50 years ago so it must work now. In her lecture, Elliott mocked white people who claim to not be racist because they "have Black friends" yet she failed to recognize how ironic it is that she gets a pass — or gives herself one — for her transphobia, victim-blaming, ableism and outdated racial "progressivism" just because she would not have minded having Black friends 50 years ago.
Eden Sarkisian
I simply want to address your needless critique. If you remained open minded and without an agenda you would have, 1st listened and 2nd understood.
Ms Elliott never blamed the victims for their assaults. The point simply was no matter what it may have entailed if they didn't address it legally, they simply empowered their abusers. If you don't see, hear and understand the 45th is handicapped , then YOU are as delusional as his supporters and him. Ms Elliots common theme is if you know something is WRONG and YOU encourage it or do nothing about it , you are empowering it.
Any and all un-admitted racists are still racists . as far phobias go , i think your real point was to attempt to tear down what points Ms Elliott wanted to make , simply because she is an older white woman… If you really cared about people of color you would be thankful or her addressing the issue in the absence of the so called CHRISTIAN AMERICANS OF THIS COUNTRY WHO DO NOTHING.. WHO ARE REALLY NOTHING MORE THAN CLOSET RACISTS
On the subject of physiques , historically slave owners bred the strongest males and females. It is no accident that athletically PEOPLE OF COLOR traditionally are better. I COMPLETELY disagree with your hyper sexualization of mixed race people. In FACT , the fallacy of hyper sexualization of black men has been perpetuated by whites since forever.
You just made most of her points for her.
glad she's not science denying! only females give birth! die mad aboutit
Thanks for this insightful perspective. I'm rereading.
This irony is delicious. You always eat your own. To think that this sadistic grwmlin will eventually be taken down and repudiated by her own fills me with Glee.
Nothing is ever good enough and allowances are never made for any consideration. It must be a horrible feeling knowing that the ground you stand on can open up into a chasm and swallow you whole when the next change in social justice fads occurs. You all deserve it. Step carefully.
What you call the left eating itself is what is known as accountability. People on the right should try it some time, rather than rallying around lies and deceit.
Why are the words "femme" and the possessive plural "their" used in describing this one woman named Eden?
(And, please, no inflammatory words or response. Thank you.)
Hey Rick!
You might have already found the answers to this question, but in case you haven't this wiki page might be helpful as a start of point in your understanding of gender-neutral language use:
Rick: don't play into this pronoun game…there is no such thing as being gender neutral.
I recently watched an exercise performed by Jane Elliot in which she separated blue eyed people from brown eyed people in an attempt to have the "blue-eyed people" understand racism. Right off the bat, the main principle and the basis of her experiment falls into the same type of marginalization of people that she is attempting to teach. Because she figures that there will almost be no chance that a black person will be in the blue-eyed group that she plans to discriminate against and teach a lesson. She is immediately playing into the stereotypes and marginalization that she claims to be against. This discredits the entire experiment from that point forward. However, to be fair, I continued to watch with an open mind. As the original post mentions, Jane Elliot continues to perpetuate and marginalize white people with the idea that they are never discriminated against and that racism only exists when white people are the only people who can exhibit racism. I don't only disagree with this whole heartedly but it is absolutely untrue. She has been doing this experiment for over 50 years and it is obviously wildly outdated. She marginalizes white men in power but not black men. Jane Elliot herself even says that if you are white you must be racist. This is a very contradictory experiment that must have seemed progressive for the 1960's when she was a teacher. However, the experiment does not work anymore because society has moved way past her out-dated conventional racist ways of thinking. Jane Elliot herself recognizes this and has since stopped conducting the experiment between blue eyes and brown eyed people. The people who praise her for this way of thinking and teaching are perpetuating this racism and the experiment has the opposite of the intended effect without these people noticing it. Whether their skin color is black white or green.
We are f*cked. 50 years ago, we were f*cked because of the racists that Jane Elliot rallied against, but now we're f*cked because of the very same racists AND we are doubly f*cked because of the self-eating machine that has become their opposition. We need to start giving one another, at least on OUR side, to start… the benefit of the doubt. If a new Martin Luther King Jr. emerged now, and gained a platform, and had everyone's ear, and began a speech that was so inspirational that it could change the outcome of history for a nation, with "Ladies and gentlemen…." there would be people who run to their blogs, and twitters etc.. to be the first to tell everyone that the speech excluded xims, and xers, and non-binarys and this and that, and while they were typing away and ignoring the CONTENT of the CHARACTER, for surface issues (sound familiar?) never once considering that maybe, just maybe, language did not quite perfectly capture every nuance of every person's agenda, while not actually excluding anyone. The very title of this," Jane Elliot needs to…" can be stopped right there. Jane Elliot doesn't need to do a damn thing but relax and enjoy her old age. You wouldn't have this platform if it wasn't for people like her. But she is still out there fighting, and inspiring, and defying the strong resurgence of what she probably thought her generation would never possibly have to deal with again. And now she has people on her own side tearing her down for being outdated? Uninclusive? Do you have any idea of the risks she took for her stance 50 years ago? It is unreal.
While you, and many others are reading this and scanning for where I messed up, maybe said the wrong thing so they can have their "gotcha" moment, I'll be as transparent as humanly possible. I'm a white, middle-ish class, privileged enough to make a living as an artist, he/him/his, cis, father of two children under three years old who are more than welcome to identify as they see fit when they come into their own. My wife is a teacher in a rough city neighborhood. I SOB when I watch the blue/eyes brown eyes experiment unfold, simply at Jane's ability to connect to these small town white kids, when my own wife can't for the life of her convince hispanic middle school children to stop calling each other the N word, much less take pride in themselves and celebrate their differences as well as their shared humanity. I spend time every single day in my own head, breaking prejudices, fighting against ingrained stereotypes to become a better person.
You know who gives me the least grief? The people I grew up with, who are still mired in these outdated beliefs. People who get drunk and tell me that Trump is going to save us from a race war. People who think Muslims are here under a grand conspiracy to enforce Sharia law on all of us. From them, I get the occasional joke about how I'm a libtard, or a snowflake, and me and Bernie can go make out on a Pride float. Not too hard to deal with. Sticks and stones…
The most, by far, grief I've ever gotten is from people like you, and some of these commenters. People who probably vote exactly the same way I do on election Tuesday (if they even bother to actually peel themselves away from the internet to vote) Not because of a difference of opinion, but because of a not exactly perfect expression of the SAME OPINION that they hold. And it's not a joke thrown my way, it's a full-on attack. I've been called sexist for griping about Bernie Sanders being obviously railroaded out of the Democratic nomination by the clearly more powerful and privileged Hillary Clinton. I've been told angrily by 30 year old white women that my preference for Lauryn Hill to Beyonce is proof that I'm both sexist and racist for even having the inclination that I had a right (as a professional musician) to express an opinion on something that "isn't for me", while at the same time being able to smoke a joint with black friends and discuss, without issue, the drum sounds on each of their records. People who just want to make sure they're clearly seen as the keepers of the high road, no matter whether reality supports their claims. Virtue signalers. I'm literally afraid to say what I feel in certain contexts, because of my whiteness, cis-ness, and fully acknowledged privilege, not because of some oppressive opposing force, but because of the intolerance of my own people, those who would and should rally behind the Jane Elliots of the world instead of tearing them down for not batting a perfect 1.000% despite their best efforts and monumental acheivements. We have to do better. We have to stop fighting each other. The stakes are too high for anything else.
When I think benefit of the doubt, I think of grace. That and some solidarity is what is needed.
Thank you, Scott. Much grace is needed for meaningful change to take place.
This is really well put Matt. Good on you, it's good to hear a rational voice brave enough to speak truthfully from their perspective.
From a fellow musician in London x
Right on Matt!
And this is from a black woman in the Gen X category. This is the problem with Millenials and Gen Z, if anything isn't EXACTLY to their liking to the t, then just throw the whole damn thing away. In the real world, you don't get everything exactly how you want it. You learn to make choices and exceptions to you can accept.
Matt, Thank you so much for your comments. I see this time and time again. It breaks my heart. If feels like there is this one-up-man-ship especially with younger activists. Yes, virtue signalers. Heavy sigh. I am not saying that there are some problematic things, we ALL have problematic constructs and views that we work through, but I would hope that does not diminish the good work that is done, the sacrifices made even in our ignorance and privilege, and feeble efforts. There is a place to call one another to our blind spots and I hope that we can do that with one another in a spirit of reconciliation, empathy, and collaboration, instead of marking the righteousness of how we are more woke than the previous generation. It can never be about perfect, nothing in the human experience relates to the concept of perfection, but we can fail and get up and learn and enter again into the breach of injustice and to bring social justice.
Just finished reading your post,
Thank you for taking time and be so connected, compassionate in your words!!!
Have a lovely day
This has to be the most Ironic comment I have ever read. Literally everything you are saying about people criticizing Jane Elliot apply to her. She made a career off of what your calling "virtue signaling"
Jane Elliott is not on my side. No one owes her anything.
I think you're being a bit ignorant and demanding for multiple reasons. This woman is 86 years old from the mid-west and has been an activist her entire life. She has advocated for equality for a race she is not a part of and has steadfastly done so for the vast majority of her life. At 86 years old, what exactly are you asking her to "do better" in? Concepts like toxic masculinity and concepts of what you think is socially acceptable are frankly not her torch to bear. You are asking her to be a jack of all trades; being aware of 100 different angles of privilege, across multiple spans of demographics simply because "some people" were able to consistently adapt and update their thinking? Nevermind that that argument doesn't work because that is not the norm, but what is more irritating, is that you refuse to appreciate the fact that she laid an amazing foundation for generations to come and has been a steadfast advocate for people of color for essentially her entire life. You downplayed every achievement this woman ever achieved, opting instead to demonize and cluck about every faux pas you perceived her to have made.
Let's look at the allegation of being transphobic. Transphobic? A Phobia is an unreasonable, intense fear of a person, object or concept. Her statements were not transphobic. Transgenderisim refers to one's gender, not their sex. She asked have you ever seen a man give birth, Trans men are biological women. Nothing can change that. So she was right to say what she said, you are being hypersensitive and honestly intolerant to an opposing viewpoint. This again is part of the problem, you frequently acknowledge that she was trying to be empowering, yet every attempt chaffed you. What did she say that you liked? What did you take away that was good?
Jane Elliot is a human being, she is not perfect, complaints like yours are counterproductive to the cause. Why harp on the perspective of an old woman when you can take to task far younger, more damaging narratives from more "visible" people. This is basically just a long-winded complaint that does little to acknowledge the good this woman did. As a woman of color, I am disgusted with you. You use the privilege of your more "enlightened" education and contemporary viewpoints to berate and complain about everything this woman said. This article does not explore what she had to offer as an academic or provide an academic perspective of where her viewpoints provide merit, be it in a historical or contemporary context. If you truly felt she had none to offer, then you should have just said nothing at all. It is you who needs to do better, not Jane Elliot.
I don't care if this doesn't make it past the censorship, you need you to know what you said was mean spirited, counterproductive, and hypersensitive, lacking every drop of academic merit and I hate that I read a single word.
Do better, Be better.
It's transphobia, pure and simple, and no amount of arguing and dancing around what Elliot said is going to change that. Trans men are men. Men can give birth. Men menstruate. Men use pads. Get over yourself and don't repeat the same mistakes that previous generations did with their bigotry and hatred towards diversity. None of this erases Elliot's previous good work on raising awareness of racism, but her comments on trans people and other minorities does show she's dropped the ball and is stuck in a previous era. Elliot is indeed human and fallible, but how you turn that around and make her mistake the mistake of the minority groups she dismisses is beyond me. Talk about blaming the victim. Grow up.
So if I prefer soy ice cream to dairy ice cream does that mean I dairy phobic? No I just have a choice. No matter what you may think soy ice cream ain't dairy. It might look like ice cream, it might taste like ice cream but it is still soy! Because the definition of ice cream is a "soft frozen food made with sweetened and flavored milk fat".
Trans men can change their license, give a masculine appearance, etc but biologically they are women.
And this is someone who lived with gay men, have trans men and women friends and they will even say I'm a Man or Woman but biologically I'm male or female. But honestly we don't sit around and have these conversations because it ain't that deep with the
I just want to say that reading through this entire column twice, I am humbled by the mostly intellectual thought processes articulated. I am over 60 and I tuned into Ms. Elliott's teachings after Big Mike recommended her. My first impression was how dated her material sounded. Additionally, it seemed she anticipated impressed responses like those she may have received decades ago. I wonder if she has updated her offering to exclude her own prejudices and assumptions in order to impact a difference in 2020.
I agree with your entire post 100%.
I just saw Jane Elliott appear with Jada Pinkett Smith. I am old enough to recall the blue-eyes experiment. What I want to say is I appreciated reading this opinion about Elliott. I wanted an honest opinion, not an academic paper.
Elliott struck me as a loud, threatening, tone-deaf bully, and she admits she terrorises her audiences, so they can feel what the Black Community feels every day. But she also seemed like a nutjob. That's my opinion. 🙂
I'm a proud mixed old man, whose mom was Jewish and whose dad was Black. I'm whiter than my mom, so I guess I really should just shut the hell up.
But I thank you for your opinions about this woman.
" I'm whiter than my mom, so I guess I really should just shut the hell up."
No Geo, In spite of what racists believe, there is no relation between brain activity and skin-color. Thank you for sharing your opinion.
Thank you Matt. This entire critique was nauseating and made my eyes roll into the back of my head.
You're not helping Eden .
Correction ..
You're not helping ,Eden .
YES! 100% agree with this entire post. Thank you for this refreshing take. I'm in the field of Ed psyc and everyone sings her praises. A.) her "experiment" would be unethical today, and B.) she's still riding the coat tails of her glory 50 years ago. More than anything though, her "empowerment" of women means bullying them, and LGBTQ issues? Well, your post says it all.
I would have loved to have seen her teach in an inner-city environment. She. would have to teach the curriculum that was provided, and be responsible for the growth or lack of growth in her students. When you look at other clips of her, she made a career out of berating captive audiences.
I grew up outside of Boston, went to the public schools in a school system that then and now is on everybody's list of the best schools in the country and recall in 3rd grade being part of her blue eyes/brown eyes experiment one year after Martin Luther King, Jr.'s assassination.
At the time, even though I wasn't aware of the terms SJW and virtue signaling (in part because they didn't exist), it was clear that this had some limited value but had lots of issues. Now that she's been deified, I'm reminded of those issues although until reading your posting, I've been unable to articulate them (other than to have a powerful desire to have a complete loss of hearing whenever her voice is in my audio feed), but agree 100% with your critique. It's nice to not feel completely like a lone voice in the wilderness on this topic.
Liberal Democrat here, non-observant Jewish gay white male here, a passionate supporter of BLM and definitely not a Jane Elliott fan.
Well done!
I stumbled across your column whilst researching the venerable "anti-racist" racist Jane Elliot, whom, in your wretched banality, you've cannibalized here. Something occurred to me while reading your last sentence; that the isms relied upon for by progressives in the past are no longer viable. Such as it is, newer obscenities and ever emptier terms are needed to address the boundlessly absurd. It is risible that you've succeeded ridiculing Elliot's antiquated brand of madness that you may virtue signal from a from a faintly taller dung heap. Eden you, my dear GIRL, are insane.
Also, "femme of color", "they"? Are you serious?
Correcting people isn't eating your own. Unless you're born perfect every person makes mistakes and will have to learn and grow. Empathy is key. Ms. Elliot is lacking it, and pointing it out is helpful. Hopefully she'll do better in the future, if not we can recognize her previous contribution in getting the conversation started but realize that to keep the ball of change going we have to surpass her and do better. Thank you Eden for this piece.
I read this post completely about the comparison of most recent and preceding technologies, it's amazing article.
It's transphobia, pure and simple, and no amount of arguing and dancing around what Elliot said is going to change that. Trans men are men. Men can give birth. Men menstruate. Men use pads. Get over yourself and don't repeat the same mistakes that previous generations did with their bigotry and hatred towards diversity….
Sarah: you should look up the meaning of phobia again. As much as I dislike Elliot, she is correct. Biological women give birth, not biological men.You can deny that if you wish but just realize the statements you made about men apply only to women. This has nothing to do with diversity and I doubt any parent wants to see their child as transgender. If anything being Trans is a hormonal and emotional disorder.


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- Many ask the question, "Lord, am I heading in the right direction?" How are you making time to slow down and quiet your heart to truly hear God's voice as He answers that question for you?
- How often do you allow yourself to live by default rather than by design? The challenge is when we get caught in the "doing" rather than the "being". Ask yourself if you are being INTENTIONAL about living the story He planned for you or if you're just going through the motions, allowing a generic version of your story to play out.
- Think about the divine design God has planned for you and reflect on the moments in your life when God was truly writing the script. Are there moments in your story when you felt God must have left you only to discover later He was with you all along? How can that part of your story inspire others? How can you use the darkness to give light?
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Trump names his next target at the Justice Department
When the White House announced on Wednesday that Donald Trump had revoked former CIA Director John Brennan's security clearance, it became clear that he was the first target of the president's political vendetta, but not necessarily the last.
"As part of this review," Trump's statement added, "I am evaluating action with respect to the following individuals: James Clapper, James Comey, Michael Hayden, Sally Yates, Susan Rice, Andrew McCabe, Peter Strzok, Lisa Page, and Bruce Ohr."
For much of the country, the least familiar name on Trump's enemies list was that last one. Nevertheless, the president has been tweeting about Bruce Ohr quite a bit – four times just since this past weekend – and Trump got pretty worked up about him during a brief Q&A with reporters on the White House South Lawn this morning.
"That whole situation is a rigged witch hunt. It's a totally rigged deal. They should be looking at the other side. They should be looking at all the people that got fired by them. All of the people that got fired. They should be looking at Bruce Ohr and his wife Nellie for dealing with, by the way, indirectly, Russians. […]
"I think Bruce Ohr is a disgrace. I suspect I'll be taking [his security clearance] away very quickly. I think that Bruce Ohr is a disgrace, with his wife, Nellie. For him to be in the Justice Department, and to be doing what he did, that is a disgrace."
In light of a rant like that, it's tempting to think Ohr is a figure of enormous significance – and yet, most Americans would probably respond to Trump's little trade by asking, "Who?"
So let's flesh this out a bit. A private research firm called Fusion GPS worked with Christopher Steele during the 2016 campaign to assemble a dossier on Trump's Russian connections. The result was a report popularly known as the Steele "dossier."
As much of the country now knows, the document includes a wide variety of provocative details, but to date, nothing from the dossier has been disproven. The White House and its allies frequently assert that the report has been "discredited," but in reality, it has not.
Bruce Ohr, a current Justice Department official, is married to Nellie Ohr, a consultant who reportedly worked for Fusion GPS on Trump-related research.
At this point, the story gets a little complicated because some of the relevant players are interconnected. Bruce Ohr and Steele apparently knew each other years ago, and Bruce Ohr also knew Glenn Simpson, who helped create Fusion GPS. The connections make for entertaining fodder for conspiracy theorists.
But when Trump said "what he did … is a disgrace," it's not at all clear what, if anything, Ohr did wrong. A Washington Post analysis added this week, "As yet, there is little evidence to support Trump's contention that Ohr helped Steele find dirt on Trump."
But the president isn't exactly an evidence kind of guy, and Ohr – the only current official on Trump's enemies list – appears likely to lose his security clearance very soon, for reasons that only make sense to the guy who's eager to punish him.


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Irish Olympian Natalya Coyle recently spent time with pupils and staff at Ashbourne Community School.
Natalya is involved in the Olympic Council of Ireland schools initiative.
The programme features outstanding Irish Olympians sharing experiences about the positive impact sport has had on their lives within their local community.
Olympians inspire the students to follow their sporting dreams and spend significant time with students chatting, being photographed and signing autographs
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Astros 10 Winning streak
The stars have aligned for the Houston Astros in the almost surreal 10 game winning streak. The team can simply do no wrong!
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The stars have aligned for the Houston Astros in the almost surreal 10 game winning streak. The team can simply do no wrong!
Last night, the TB Rays sealed their 5-game-winning streak against the Toronto Blue Jays in a game that kept their fans on the edge of their sit. This is actually the second time this season that Tampa Bay wins five straight games.
In 2018, the 30-year-old righty Jacob deGrom posted an MLB best 1.70 ERA and became the fourth Mets pitcher to win the Cy Young award. With 2 games played so far in 2019, he is still yet to let up a run.
The young 23-year-old outfielder Cody Bellinger has accumulated 7 home runs, 18 RBI and 17 runs overall by April 8th, 2019
Look out for Mike Clevinger, the right-handed pitcher has shown improvement year after year, and the trend seems to continue.
The Mets have a winning record of 4-1 in their last 5 vs. National League East opponents and, another interesting statistic is that apparently Steven Matz, knows how to keep them Marlins in check, as the Mets are 5-0 in Matz's last 5 starts vs. Marlins.
The Rockies will visit the Marlins for the 2nd game of the series. The Rockies are favored again, after winning their season-opening day 6-3
For the 2nd game in the Houston/Tampa Bay series, Houston is favored on the road over the Tampa Bay Rays. Houston took their first WIN of the season last night when Verlander held Tampa Bay to 1 run only. The Astros won with a final score of 5-1 BEFORE GAME …
BEFORE GAME INFORMATION Toronto is the Favorite team over Detroit in this matchup. Game betting line: Detroit Tigers +125Toronto Blue Jays -145 Starting Pitchers Tigers J. Zimmermann (R) Blue Jays M. Stroman (R) 67% of the public bet the game winner of this game will be the Toronto Blue Jays. …


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