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The Hyper Island Way
5 Days in 5 Minutes – a video showing the inside story of the students' process
with real briefs from real clients in a 5-day project assignment. This is Hyper Island.
Digital Rube Goldberg Processor
The Digital Rube Goldberg Processor is the outcome of a workshop The Product collective gave at the HfG Karlsruhe (Design School). The team was invited to give a 4-day Processing workshop for the communication design students there. Since they understand it is impossible to teach programming to beginners just within 4 days, they decided to focus more on the essential topics behind generative and computational design, to provide a grounded starting point for the students.
Jens explains: We first gave a quick introduction to the processing environment, thematically centered around the actual matter of generative design, namely digital data. Given the fact that any stored data is binary code in the end, it is the encoding and decoding algorithms that make digital data meaningful for us. To create an awareness for that, we came up with the idea of the rube-goldberg-processor (wiki). It is an potentially endless line of sub-processors that transform the same dataset from one state into another. Each group of students had a translate-from-to assignment, e.g. from moving image to sound. To make the steps more comprehensible for observers, the transfer was made in an analog way (camera pointing to monitor, microphone in front of speaker…) In the end, this obvoiusly led to an indecipherable outcome, but on the way, the teams had to negotiate basic "protocols" and concerned themselves with several techniques that are used in computational design.
The Product team provided the first step (image to text) as well as the last step, the flickr uploader. The rest was done by the students.
For more teaching by The Product, see the-product.org/category/teaching
The Product a berlin-based spatial and media-related design practice. They conceive design concepts. They create installations. They animate surfaces. They design spaces. They develop objects. And they extensively think about the application and combination of technologies in meaningful ways.
Gaming to re-engage boys in learning – Ali Carr-Chellman
Ali Carr-Chellman spells out three reasons boys are tuning out of school in droves, and lays out her bold plan to re-engage them: bringing their culture into the classroom, with new rules that let boys be boys, and video games that teach as well as entertain.
And a new study found evidence that video gaming turns wicked 'sick' and gamers to be pathological players according to standards similar to those established by the American Psychiatric Association for diagnosing gambling addiction.
Interesting to follow these new developments if you think of "play" as one of the top key trends of the decade. And seeing the gaming industry being the fastest growing industry worldwide.
The Internet And How It Effects Our Brain
An experiment of UCLA professor Gary Small showed that web surfers brain activity is far more extensive. Particular in areas of the prefrontal cortex associated with problem solving and decision-making.
Small concluded, "the current explosion of digital technology not only is changing the way we live and communicate, but is rapidly and profoundly altering our brains."
When we go online we enter an environment that promotes cursory reading, distract thinking and superficial learning. The Internet is turning us into shallower thinkers and changing the structure of our brain.
In the 1980's people thought the introduction of hyperlinks would strenghten critical thinking, enable us to switch easily between different viewpoints – a technology of liberation.
But because it disrupts concentration it weakens comprehension. A study from 1989 showed that readers tended just to click around and could not remember what they had and had not read.
People, who read linear text comprehend more, remember more, and learn more than those who read hyperlinked text. It took the hypertext readers longer to read the document and found it confusing.
Whenever a link appears, your brain has at least make the choice not to click, which is itself distracting.
And more recent research suggests that links surrounded by images, videos, and advertisements could be even worse.
In a study text-only viewers answered significantly more questions correctly. They found the presentation more interesting, more educational, more understandable, and more enjoyable.
It's single-minded and we can transfer information into our long-term memory that is essential to the creation of knowledge and wisdom.
While reading the information is flowing into our working memory. When the load exceeds, we are unable to retain the information or to draw connections with other memories. We can't translate the new material into conceptual knowledge.
Numerous studies show that we read faster as we go online.
Problem is that many different kinds of media coming at us simultaneously.
Office workers often glance at their inbox 30 to 40 times an hour. And every time we shift our attention, the brain has to reorient itself. Increasing the likelihood that we'll overlook or misinterpret important information.
But we want to be interrupted. Each interruption brings us a valuable piece of information. The neverending stream of new information also plays to our natural tendency to overemphasize the immediate. we crave the new even when we know it's trivial.
We accept the loss of concentration, focus, and fragmentation of our attention. We rarely stop to think that it might actually make more sense just to tune it all out.
Web browsing strengthens brain functions related to fast-paced problem-solving, particular when it requires spotting patterns in a welter of data. But it would be a serious mistake to conclude the Web is making us smarter.
Patricia Greenfield explains "every medium develops some cognitive skills at the expense of others. The development of visual-spatial skills is weakening deep processing."
"By including the use of a new medium, we end up with a different brain. As we multitask online, we are training our brain to pay attention to the crap" (Michael Merzenich, pioneer of the field of neuroplasticity)
The problem is that skimming is becoming our dominant mode of thought.
In a metaphorical sense, we are evolving from cultivators of personal knowledge into hunters and gatherers in the electronic data forest. We seem fated to sacrifice much of what makes our minds so interesting.
First thoughts after reading:
1) That's what I like about the iPad. You are focused on one thing. There is no multitasking. That seems to me is a benefit and big advantage. It forces you to stick to one task.
2) Do not stop reading books!
3) Blogs and tweets repeat the same knowledge. Makes sense, so we have more chances to take the information in.
4) What is with people who will grow up just reading online sources and don't know text without hyperlinks at all?
5) I will continue reading both, offline/ linear and online/ hyperlinked
6) Everyone has the choice, that skimming is not your dominant mode of thought.
(adapted from The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains by Nicholas Carr, discussed in Wired 6/2010.)
Related Articles
- Is the Internet Making us Stupid? (voanews.com)
- How Internet habits can change the brain (nst.com.my)
- A Writer Who Questions the Wisdom of Teaching With Technology (chronicle.com)
- Book Review: The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains by Nicholas Carr (seattlepi.com)
Creativity Is The Most Important Leadership Competency For The Successful Enterprise Of The Future. (IBM-Institute for Business Value)
(image by Andreas Golder)
A recent BusinessWeek article reported that, "According to a new survey of 1,500 chief executives conducted by IBM's Institute for Business Value (IBM), CEOs identify 'creativity' as the most important leadership competency for the successful enterprise of the future." While the study's results will come as no surprise to hard-working creative professionals, they do raise an important question: How do we identify – and hire for – the qualities that add up to creativity? (via the99percent)
300 Million Tweets Reveal The Afternoon At Work Is The Unhappiest Time Of Day
A team of five researchers at the two schools (Northwestern and Harvard) studied 300 million U.S. tweets from September 2006 to August 2009 and performed sentiment analysis on them. (read more…)
The project is one of many ongoing studies into status updates and sentiment analysis. Facebook has its own in-house team led by a research scientist named Cameron Marlow. The social network tracks a metric called "Gross National Happiness," inspired by the idea originally coined by the Bhutanese government in the early 1970s. There are constantly updated graphs on Gross National Happiness here for the U.S. and a number of other Westernized countries where you can see similar troughs and peaks in sentiment around weekends and workdays. (via VentureBeat)


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Archived Reports
Concept Plan US13/113 in Dover:
In 1997, the Dover/Kent County Metropolitan Planning Organization (MPO) conducted a workshop to generate new ideas for improving the appearance as well as the operation of the US 13/113 corridor through Dover. The need to develop the US 13/113 Concept Plan was identified during concurrent long-range planning efforts being conducted by the MPO, the City of Dover, and the Delaware Department of Transportation.
Concept Plan for US13 in Smyrna:
In 2003, the Dover/Kent County Metropolitan Planning Organization (MPO) held steering committee meetings and public workshops for US 13 Corridor Enhancements in Smyrna. A concept plan was developed for the corridor that looked at several areas including landscaping, lighting, sidewalk, and crosswalk improvements. The public workshops were help to generate feedback on the concept plan and introduce new ideas for the corridor. After the public workshops were held a final outline for the enhancements plan was drafted.
Suburban/Community Street:
The Suburban & Community Street Design Standards Project was initiated by the Dover/Kent County Metropolitan Planning Organization for the purpose of developing a compendium of street layout and design standards and criteria for use and adoption by county and municipal planning agencies. The focus of this project is on the development of design criteria that will foster a more efficient and effective community street network that incorporates alternative modes of transportation resulting in expanded choices for citizens.
North St./State St. Intersection:
- North State Traffic Report Part 1
- North State Traffic Report Part 2
- North State Traffic Report Part 3
South State Street Study
The purpose of the study was to examine traffic using Alternate US Route 113 (US 113A), also known as South State Street, to: Determine its origin and destination, Determine causes for the existing travel patterns, Develop strategies for encouraging use of alternate parallel facilities. The study also assessed current and future access to downtown Dover and determine its impact on US 113A. Strategies will be developed for managing the area's future transportation needs, including safety, the provision of alternate modes of travel and the diversion of through traffic.

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Summerport becomes Winterport
by Thrugg (Marty) 23 Hs
TL;DR: Thrugg awakens 1,000 years in the future and finds the tropical island of Summerport is now frozen. He writes some new songs. Salazar's Recap | Theobold's Recap | Mindartis' Recap | Kegrove Chronicles
Well, recent events have forced me to continue documenting my adventures in this paltry medium. It appears that the great wave we sought refuge from sent us nearly 1,000 years into the future. On our arrival, it was quite clear that Summerport had been decimated. What was once a mighty tropical port is not longer mighty, tropical, nor even a port. In light of this, I have renamed this city to Winterport!
Seeing our surroundings, Dwain and I volunteered to take point and make sure the way to the Tankerd was safe. We left Onen and Salazar at the obelisk to manage the survivors with clear instructions that they should give us a head start and then follow. Not wanting to burden Onen and Salazar more, we let Bryn join us.
We made it to the Tankerd,made the necessary fixes to ensure that it was habitable and located enough rations for our party and the survivors for several days. After doing so, Onen and Salazar made it to the Tankerd with a handful of men. Salazar informed me that the rest were lost. Knowing Salazar all too well, I ran out to try to rescue as many of my fans as I could. While my efforts were great, we still lost nearly 100 of the survivors. I don't blame Salazar for this, after all, what did I expect? However, I am disappointed that Onen was not able to do more to protect these innocent survivors from Salazar's actions.
read part 2 / read part 3
The following is recovered from a journal found and translated from draconic into the common to the best of my ability; according to the old ledgers the owner of this journal passed through our town, and this very college, right around the time of the Great Cataclysm.
- Ordos, Archmage of the Mage's College of Kegrove
Everything seemed to be going well, I have meet new companions on my shore leave and we seem to form a bond in order to survive our predicament. But that was also the day that changed my life. For better or worse is yet to be known.
It has been one day since I have recovered my body from a strange series of events. At some point I need to get back to my ship and inform my captain what has been going on. But as of right now, I am honoring my promise to help the last of my new companions recover his body. After all they helped me recover mine. The other three decided to spend the night in the safety of the Mages College, whereas I opted to prepare for the next day. I have set up camp in the woods scouting the area and setting traps to both catch food and materials to make weapons out of. Learning how to make the most of a kill while growing up in the swamplands with my tribe has been a blessing. I don't know how I would have survived until now without that knowledge.
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One of the earliest writings from our lord, the Great Thur'a'ugh. The Great Thur'a'ugh seemed to have an impairment in handwriting, we have done our best to correct his understandable mistakes (though they are few!) For instance, the crude script "Thrugg" clearly indicates "Thur'a'ugh", and the even more foul "Thruggalo" is obviously "Thur'a'ugh Loh", the followers of Thur'a'ugh. It is not the Great Thur'a'ugh's fault, he did not have a formal education as the vast majority of us do in this day and age. He spoke through his music, not through his writing. Should you find yourself beginning to question the validity of our lord through his writings, I refer you to his great "album", bask in its glory should ever you experience doubt in his teachings. Praise Thur'a'ugh!
- Head Archiver, Library of Thur'a'ugh
[Continue reading for some fantastic bard songs!]
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The Great Cataclysm
A recited journal reading from a survivor of old Summerport. As usual, I was bored while sitting against one of the remaining pillars of what was once the Thieves' Tankard drinking hall and decided to record this mad-elf's rantings. It tells an interesting tale, but who knows what's true and what's not any more. Certainly, this Gaia he keeps referring to is driving him insane. Nevertheless, this record shall remain in my notes, a collection of stories of The Travelled, the lone survivors of a great wave that crushed the city of Summerport.
There is one detail shared among many of us from numerous discussions since our awakening: that the mage who materialized in the sky that fateful day was able to awaken the Lone Obelisk, enveloping us in a sphere of energy, propelling us countless centuries into the future. Or to the present, as it were. That's one interpretation at least.
There are still people living here in the shambles of Summerport. According to the people of this time we are the only known living witnesses of, what they call, The Great Cataclysm…
- Gertrand, Scribe of The Travelled
The journal entries here are provided by the active player characters participating in the Detroit Marches.
July 2018
All Abaza Amaranth Aredhel Lethe Astrid Gilrin Atuji Of Clan Greatscale Audra Ayten Gilrin Basil Benedict Greenfield Black River Swamp Blackscale Brea Daergle Brynn Bryn Naikaho Cavalier's Watch Chat Clan Shimmerscale Crimson Surgeon Cylowboborow Nonsoon Demogorgon Diamondshard Banwyze DILONDORG KAAL Doros Doross Dorros Dredge Dufdor Dwain Eilis Eilis Gilrin Eladrinne Escobar Fagan Far Reach Fort Providence Gator Rock Genji The Wererat Glin Ybendawien Droat Golden Apple Great Cataclysm Griffin's Roost Grildor Trueforge Haldor Kemleigh Ham Hamilton Hekili Nalani HEYKITD GETOFF MELAYN Icegate Jerimiah Jerwin Jinn Kanyu Il Senya Kathra Kegrove Kellen McCall Kenku Kiera Lyssandria Kohaku Ruim Koltalon Kresh Krolan Kunyata Kar Leatherhead Liam Buckham Liana Lindir Lizardfolk Longtail Lucretzia Borgia Makani Pahili Malmir Merelda Meznen Midden Heap Mindartis Morgrimm Naill Amakir Namfoodle Nehi Xum Nehi-Xum New Cadeni Njord Noric Synphase Noxochiyotl Obelisks Of The Bayou Omgar Onen Peter The Wolf Phoncledeh Player Character Journal Entry Polar Bear Polg Pollen Quinzli Rabbits Ralthor Rawq Elrid Rhogar Roscoe Greenfeld Rotten Morgan Bonecrusher Rube Lastname Ruins Salazar Sang Woo Ser Mathius Shaena Tosscobble Silent Mockingbird Som Sorrel Summerport Syndar Beratos Tabaxi Tainted Falls Teddy Bear Tharrus The Fist Theobold Peacekeeper Thur'a'ugh Tormund Firehammer Tortles Treewalker Truss Stacianodel Udoroth UDOROTH THAMMILIDAAR Umberlee Underdark Valaquaraptors Vandil Varron Greensleeves Vengir Duskhallow Verloren Yuan Ti Zorak Dreadmast


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Tamil Nadu Man Approaches Cops To Trace His Missing Chappals:- A Tamil Nadu man approached the cops requesting them to trace his missing chappals that are worth Rs 800. Rajesh Gupta, a native of Rajasthan runs a hardware store in Parry's Corner approached the cops and they are left surprised. He said that they are new and have been bought by his wife. Gupta informed the cops that he lost his footwear near a diagnostic laboratory on Sunday when he went for a blood test.
Rajesh Gupta informed the cops that they went missing after he returned back in ten minutes. Rajesh Gupta then approached Tondiarpet Police Station and lodged a complaint. The cops accepted his complaint and a FIR is yet to be filed. The cops revealed that they would an inquiry on this and the cops are yet to get the CCTV footage.


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"F" is the title track of Flower's third album, in stores now.
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As Physical Education (PE) teachers, we do at times face the pressure of trying to define the way we practice via articulation of approaches and models, especially when we start opening up to the rich discussion that take place in pedagogy development. How does this relate to us experienced teachers dealing with new learners? As educators, we have been traditionally been very linear and believe in the importance of our direct involvement in the learning for students. This importance is an intimate, close association to the learning process of learners. It is almost a case of as-good-as-we-are as teachers (mainly our own abilities in movement skills), our students will be so likewise. Of course, as selfless teachers, we also hope for our students to go beyond us eventually. To a large extent, this points to our own learning journey and how we translate that for our students. We take our movement experience, our teacher training and our teaching experience to build up incredibly powerful learning opportunities and experiences that allow similar growth in interest and abilities for our students.
A popular theoretical understanding for movement education is Non Linear Pedagogy (NLP). Seems that the non-linear path to skill acquisition is an incredibly rich and well looked into perspective on how learners might acquire vital movement solutions (skill outcomes). Constraint led approaches to teaching new skills leverage on the ideas of non-linearity for skill learning. In a nutshell, the human learner complex system is artificially put into a state of instability that forces/encourages movement solutions when approaching a state of internal organisational criticality. The reactions from this are about the body's evolutionary ability to react using important information sources from Task, Environment and Self. The challenge is to manipulate these responses through constraints (Task, Environment and Self) to a set of actions, with the desired degrees of freedom, that answers the movement problem. So while outcome is always as needed or expected, the journey to the outcome is built up by leveraging of the body's ability to react towards that outcome by the almost infinite paths that takes into account minute variation in conditions that exist in a real context. Or at least this is what this simple teacher gathers from a rather yet-to-be-fully-explored experience and attempts at looking further into research in this area. I find the ideas expressed here very complementing to what is happening for those of us who are trying to create learning more deeply, guided by principles of teaching that seeks objective understanding rather than replication. My ideas on these are well represented in my previous articles.
The difference in nuances between the two preceding paragraphs is that the latter is very much about a good teacher understanding the primary working mechanism of perception-action (sometimes it is cognitive-psychomotor-affective) coupling behavior of the learner and creating that learning environment. The former paragraph seems to suggest the importance of the abilities of the teacher him/herself as the primary creator of learning. Without doubt, the role of the teacher is always vital as the understanding of learning mechanisms relies on that teacher ability very prominently. I have heard of inspiring stories of teachers/coaches moving through teaching perspectives (from relying on pure role modelling to leveraging on learner responses for teaching) without losing their perspectives on depth of teaching/learning involvement. In my mind, I see a gradual shift in amount of teacher dominance that aligns to a typical teaching spectrum that flows from reproduction to production.
When I described my understanding of a teaching model, it is usually using influence from the literature and not something that comes easily without a deliberate attempt to explore. The research language (my attempt at least) and its representation does put a small spanner in the works at times when it comes to wanting to know more for a teacher like me. It is not just the use of unfamiliar words for different context but also the realization that a process that might have been neglected in attention may need so much more focus when planning a learning experience. Is this a typical conundrum when teachers consider models and approaches?
Do teachers feel comfortable taking all these, and more, in? Anecdotal encounters with fellow teachers all over tells me that shifting teaching and learning perspectives can be a challenge, especially when using explicit terms and conditions as expressed by the respective theories behind each model. Added to this complexity, the word model is usually used interchangeably on the ground with approach, pedagogy, strategy, etc. In a survey of PE colleagues in my cluster of fellow schools, I noticed the varied understanding of what different descriptors for teaching processes mean to different people. On social media, I often come across discussions on the existence of models on its own and in combinations and notice the struggle to make sense of what is the best. A usual conclusion to such debates is to use what is necessary to meet objectives and context conditions. Does this really close the chapter on how we come to terms with the rich information that is available out there and how to incorporate it in our praxis?
Questions that most prominently comes to my mind when considering the above is;
- Why do we need to struggle with ascertaining choice of model/s (approach/es)?
- Do we have confusion with the processes behind words like Approaches, Models, Pedagogy, Strategies, e.g. which leads us to the struggles mentioned in the first question?
- How much of these is related to misunderstanding, model loyalty, dominant model influence from literature, etc. ?
I have written quite a bit for my reflections of the possible full spectrum thought process involve when it comes to developing an effective teaching plan and the need to be clear about it. Basically my thoughts are about going back to personal core beliefs that influences own teaching philosophy and vice versa. I am coming back to it because of recent encounters with very good discussions on teaching model fidelity and options. A popular understanding that reflects well the differentiated needs of learners and context is multi-model options, e.g. a Models Based Approach. In a lot of these discussions, the learner's needs, learner centered, and the teaching context, maybe a reflection of game centeredness, are considered very prominently when deciding what model to use. And within a teaching situation, much discussion also takes place on how you adapt it to also sort of create, possibly with elements of different models, a hybrid or modified approach solution.
Most, if not all, contemporary ideas on student learning put a lot of the focus on how learners react to different stimulus first and foremost, within the context of a learning environment designed to work towards learning objectives. It is learner centric and a clear distinction exist with the more traditional teacher centric methods. How and under what conditions students need to react to differ in these models depending on which aspect of the very broad learning system definition a model is focusing on, e.g. ecological dynamic, cognitive, physiological, etc. Is it fair to say that the anatomical structure and their focus areas are similar for most approaches? If indeed this is a common broad alignment that most models/approaches take and is all about developing the child in a way that involves deep and long lasting learning, then the main difference will be the strategies they employ that are customized for their learning/skill acquisition focus.
What about overall education system learning direction (the approach to learning that the education system you exist in advocate)? Does this need to be considered when deciding what to use on the ground? I think that we can rest assured that such a direction will also take into consideration the overall needs of the young vis–a-vis the needs of the nation and take on also the influence of global educational expectations. If this is accurate, what it means is that our decision making on the ground could possibly only be at strategy level as broad teaching and learning approaches have already been decided for us. If this is again accurate, we can also rest assured that most modern interpretation of learning and teaching theories, whether grounded in physiological, environmental, social, etc. sciences, will have the same natural alignment (hopefully!).
So how much is our rhetoric on the models and approaches we need to use on the ground reflect the situation of what it should really be, a very natural need to meet the needs of students via effective implementation strategies that is well understood and already set in many ways? This is where I have always tried my best to remember that such strategies should be grounded in good overall expectation of how learners should learn and represented by good established theories. In a very convoluted way, I am supporting the use of what needs to be done as a result of an internal overarching understanding of how various theories support learning, without the worry of which model or approach 'my' way exist in. A big caveat I put forward here is that the need to understand such theories individually is still absolutely vital (even though I seem to suggest the possibility that the education ecosystem has set in place the overall directions for us), without inadvertently boxing ourselves in. Implementation strategies shouldn't be used without any thought on its theoretical existence, which is also a comfortable situation many might resort to. I am probably repeating it quite often but I believe it is the role of teacher to be a good curator and user of collective knowledge out there.
So what can potentially happen when we get cautious and assume approaches and models are mutually exclusive? I am suggesting that this may lead to unnecessary distraction on trying to figure out merits or otherwise of different comprehensive and established learning theories. In the literature, it is expected, I will say, for experts and authors to provide very comprehensive representation on each school of idea they are working on. Less popular are definitive actual on-the-ground, outside experimental conditions, formal reports of practices. There are plenty of informal ones though coming from practitioners all over. Such a reporting scene might contribute towards this one-model-over the-other or versus situation. I can see only progress if we continue pushing our expertise to ensure the best fit theory knowledge and experience design for student learning that is not stifled by teacher's need to defend a theoretical position but rather share and explore it.
There is nothing peculiar about pedagogy!
(The above is probably the mash-up song equivalent of a reflection. A delayed apology, if you have reached this far, on the rather more suffering than genius for this very passionate teacher…and thanks to Miss Peregrine for title inspiration)


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In mid-2000s, India 's taking IT Company HCL Enterprise ( HCL ) all of a sudden was gaining that in malice of standing established as a prominent and of import house in the sector of IT, it was non marketing itself astutely as a consequence of which its equals were hogging the spotlight even being at the same degree of supplying services as it was. The rivals were bringing trades which it could hold, had it been marketing every bit conspicuously as they were.
The house that had started fabricating processors in-house when IBM was coming into image in analogue in planetary market, has more than three decennary heritage, and felt that switching the branding paradigm from 'volume ' to 'value ' and from 'process ' to 'people ' would assist recover its constitution as a company that in some manner or the other could touch the lives of people. The company felt the demand to unify its assorted concern sections and connect with all its stakeholders. In parallel to this idea, EFCS[ 2 ]manner of working and selling came to the bow of all its schemes and had started being the talk of the town.
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Through out India and overseas, HCL has been regarded as India 's original IT start-up. Back in 1976, Shiv Nadar, Ajai Choudhary and a few enthusiastic enterprisers came together to develop micro computing machines 3 old ages in front of IBM and in the parallel times of Apple! It had already started interrupting the computing machine market in India and it maintained its gait of laterality for rather a few old ages until it reached a tipping point where it felt the demand to spread out its range and of class, concern. The concern was traveling to be dead otherwise – some twenty-four hours or the other – in future. Get downing FY '05, HCL kicked off many enterprises to reinvent HCL as a valuable planetary Technology and IT trade name in the ever-changing & A ; dynamic IT landscape. The generation of this rebranding was a simple one – to inform and arouse HCL 's cardinal stakeholders ( clients, employees, stockholders ) to acknowledge HCL as one of the iconic Indian trade names that symbolized the spirit of an germinating India.
In this instance survey, we 'll discourse how HCL underwent rebranding from a place Personal computer shaper into a taking IT company in India.
Rebranding at HCL
In order to retain the religion of clients under such hard fortunes, Mr Vineet Nayar[ 3 ], who had merely joined as the President in 2005, had to chalk out schemes. Vineet, along with his squad of senior direction had started brainstorming through thoughts and proposals and eventually had zeroed in on switching the branding paradigm from 'volume ' to 'value ' and from 'process ' to 'people '. In fact, 'volume ' to 'value ' paradigm displacement was possible through branding the administration as 'people ' centric which was realised true subsequently by Vineet. He had understood that the critical points of value coevals were people i.e. the 'Employees ' . How and why he came down on this theoretical account when the full industry was concentrating on procedure and Customer as its precedence? How would concentrate on 'people ' aid HCL trade name its name when 'Customers ' are the 1s through whom we were gaining our staff of life and butter? However, at that point of clip, 'Focus on Customers ' was taging the journey of transmutation at HCL.
The CEO in Vineet and perchance his competent squad of directors had to plan a theoretical account of a trade name that had to be strong and lasting. They had to outrun their peers/counterparts in the market. There was one pharmaceutical company HCL drew their inspiration from. That company had established itself through assorted unit of ammunitions of reappraisal and feedback that it took from its clients and by bit by bit working upon them. Consequently the house was successful in turning most of its clients into items of selling for itself. It had achieved this strong suit siting on the moving ridges of strict client interactions as already explained above.
HCL 's Verticalisation scheme
At around 2005, HCL had become a dominant participant in banking and insurance sectors. However its concern was turning with a important rate with many other service sectors perched comfortably on its already-strong shoulders. With this gross assurance under its belt, it started geting legion small/medium sized companies across different approaching verticals. Gradually, HCL 's sphere was turning out to be a mix of varied civilizations which was so advancing this as a reasonably good diversified administration. Ironically, or should we state, as genuinely a consequence of this, the state of affairs was turning critical as it started losing its focal point and needed clasp over one of its premier verticals – Banking and Insurance.
Some serious program needed to be chalked out to win back the stableness and the balance. Vineet was already cumulatively collating his ideas and experiences but was yet to set something solid in practise. The clock stroke right one all right twenty-four hours and Vineet wanted to believe in EFCS and implement it. Details in the following session, and what served as the gunpowder to trip the fire.
Vineet 's program on HCL Enterprise – EFCS
In the earlier yearss of his calling at HCL, Vineet was taking the in-house Infrastructure start-up called HCL-Comnet. Although this start up went on to going the best substructure services company subsequently, it had seen disruptive yearss in its younger yearss. At one point of clip, many of its clients were already upset.
Once, while Vineet was poising one purportedly unhappy client of his company, he was cheerily surprised that the client was truly happy in many aspects of the service it had been touched upon which was non seeable to the top direction at a superficial degree. More surprising to Vineet was the fact that after acquiring the salutation from Vineet, the client executives had about wholly neglected him as the head-man and were directing most of their remarks and regards towards the nucleus undertaking squad. The squad was being praised where the supposedly-leader of the herd, Vineet, received minimum mentions. This meeting proved to be turning point in Vineet 's doctrine of direction. He realised that the true value-zone for the client ballad at the employees ' perimeter and the locality. And 'Employees ' , non a 1000 in-place procedures are the true value Godheads.
The Management realised that authorising employees made sense towards adding value to its service and which farther could besides be considered as a stigmatization subject to court clients to the true value-zone.
Therefore was born the 'EFCS ' doctrine. This doctrine was marketed inside the office and exterior every bit good – at all those possible client and potential-customer exhibitions – the prominent of them being the 'Global Meet ' that is organised by HCL every twelvemonth pulling concern intellectuals and legion concern moguls from around the universe. As a portion of the EFCS thrust, legion subjects and executions started happening inside the company that catered to assorted demands and comfort of employees. It was in belief that one time the employees were happy, value creative activity would ever be merely a byproduct.
But was it traveling to truly work? Were there any constrictions to get the better of? What were the challenges that now appeared apparently tall to be scaled?
Vineet and his squad wanted to advance their doctrine through the voice of their ain employees ' .Yet they knew really good at the beginning that employees would non take anything for granted which even had a odor or feel of pretension or opacity. As awaited, many of them had a intuition that this EFCS material was merely a promotional catch from the council chambers of the corporate. Nevertheless, many embraced the thought of being an " HCLite. "[ 4 ]The corporate moralss and values have to vibrate in resonance with the employees ' ain value system and it was really improbable a possibility that such a immense employee base would be swayed and influenced by a pitch that rang doubting. Influencing the mentality of 55,000 employees spread over 17 states in a 32-year-old organisation was non traveling to be expected as an easy undertaking.
Stakeholders ' Opinion on EFCS ( Employees, Customer, Shareholders )
Although the EFCS motto seemed highly glamourous and had the potency of striking the right chord with the employees and the customers/potential clients with equal appeal, much was left to be seen on how the construct went down with all the stakeholders. HCL 's selling squad started interacting with their cardinal stakeholders to cognize how rebranding with EFCS doctrine is working to the melody of their demands. The outlooks were high, but execution and the preceding perceptual experiences were the challenges in front. Surely, it was interesting Waterss in front.
In the first stage, HCL 's selling executives made a study to cognize employees feedback on EFCS. Entry degree junior employees were non yet in complete perceptual experience of EFCS doctrine and they were someway anticipating this to be making something with their wage hikings.
HCL carried over a study on its EFCS stigmatization enterprise and circulated a questionnaire to over 100 chaps across all the degrees in the administration. Merely 50 % of them responded which indicated towards a fact that EFCS policy was non traveling down good down the pharynx of the employees and they were doubting about believing and about execution of a construct so off-beat and unusual as this when about the full industry was keening about the 'Customer is GOD ' take on service.
In a measure towards understanding client sentiment, HCL direction squad examined client satisfaction tonss[ 5 ]. It covered geographically spread clients across its line of operations to collate positions.
The sentiments that were collated from assorted clients were of assorted sort. A few of them sought to be in a manner of partnership with HCL. Thus the expected focal point was more on value than volume. The important difference they observed with HCL after 2005 was majorly in footings of answerability, capableness, invention & A ; entrepreneurship. They did non experience being obscured to the executing of their contracts and felt HCL was rather crystalline to them in arousing the costs and nest eggs.
Another client felt that the productiveness was lower with HCL employees even though their enthusiasm degrees were high and at par with other Service biggies. HCL-account caput was turn outing to be truly proactive but at that place seemed to be no such system or procedure in topographic point to do certain that proactiveness was scalable to the grade. Customer believed that, at that present, company 's relationship with HCL was between a seller and a spouse. HCL was seeking to offer multiservice attacks, but the civilization of the undertakings that manner was killing the integrated attack. Multiservice offerings used to hold liabilities of their ain. They perceived HCL employees as enthusiastic but " sensible self-seekers " -resulting in accomplishment mismatches. In kernel, they were seeking to get down bytes that they could n't masticate which really meant that they were urgently assuring to follow with the undertakings they were non wholly ready with.
Analysts had a negative sentiment on HCL 's rating of portion options and administering inducement to employees, within the net income and loss reported for peculiar verticals.
In add-on, direction statements such as " hiring was slow as we could make the same work with fewer people " surprised institutional equities. Furthermore they were discerning about how the EFCS stigmatization policy was traveling to hit the clients. Vineet was openly marketing this scheme in all possible planetary forums and was ask foring treatments for the same. Investors felt that a important shackle to the image and concern could be inflicted if EFCS mantra is repeatedly elicited before the customers/potential clients who may experience offended by it. And yes, that turned to be true. There were assorted response to this policy, many were positive, but still many were glowering bad and were walking out. In the class of enlargement and selling of this policy, HCL had lost a few trades as the concerned clients were non convinced plenty. Possibly, it was to be seen that HCL had something else in destiny – if some sour, some were likely to be sweet excessively.
In a important disclosure, some analysts had noted that prior to 2005 there were many enterprisers within HCL who prevented HCL 's working without any variegation and free mobilization of ideas and thoughts from the value zone " EMPLOYEES " .
Gross growing v/s border betterment for the major Indian IT services was looked upon by stockholders. Share of grosss from new concern for HCL and rivals was analyzed by investors. Quarter-on-Quarter growing rates for HCL compared with the mean quarter-on-quarter growing rates for the top four Indian IT services participants in 2008 was analysed.
The Road Ahead
In a 'fight or perish ' concern infinite of that period, there was agnosticism drifting about about how such apparently a soft attack of 'EFCS ' was traveling to cut through the stigmatization fiercenesss of legion houses prophesying similar constructs.
Anyhow, to implement EFCS, HCL had come up with assorted Employee friendly motions such as SSD ( Smart Service Desk ) , 360 grade feedback ( feedback for directors ) , Genie ( Employees ' personal service desk ) , U & A ; I ( treatment forum with the CEO ) and many more. However all major houses across the Earth were by this clip, already implementing some or the other such theoretical accounts and there was a feeling at the beginning that the constructs were non really new to the industry. Nevertheless, the execution of the mentioned theoretical account was a existent challenge. Many companies had taken the spring to implementing them, but there were perchance many loopholes to be plugged here and at that place. They were non in executing in the fullest of their signifiers. HCL had to stand tall and stout in implementing all of its EFCS enterprises to the upper limit of extent. Merely so could it walk the talk and derive the existent trust of its stakeholders and possible clients.
The route was in front. The way was set. It had to walk past all the obstaclesaˆ¦ And more significantly, it had to walk its talk.
Table A
Customer Satisfaction Scores
Based on HCL Internal Portal
Table Bacillus
QoQ Growth of HCL in 07-08
Based on Internet beginnings.
Table C
Gross across different Verticals at HCL
Based on HCL Annual Report 2005 & A ; 2009.
Questions for Discussion
Why after so many old ages, HCL did experience the demand to rebrand its communicating run? Discuss.
Inspite of being in the IT industry for 33 old ages, HCL still is non the lead in the market portion. Comment your positions?
How HCL verticalisation scheme worked with EFCS transmutation? Discuss.
How existent was the EFCS transmutation? Was HCL walking the talk, or was it all smoke and mirrors?


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Herbies makes good tube dampers. They can be effective in quieting microphonic tubes.
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Like Dopogue, I use silicone O-rings, but I purchased them online where I could be sure I got a formulation that would take the heat. They're available very cheaply and in my experience work as well as the Herbie's, the only others I've tried.
What effect they have is, like most things audio, dependent on the situation. I find they make more difference on octal tubes than 9-pin miniatures, and that they make more difference in units that have top mounted tubes rather than the tubes enclosed within the chassis. In some instances, they've made no discernible difference at all, but I still use them because it makes me feel better.
Okay, no kidding. The black o-rings at the hardware store (take a tube along to get the right size) have never melted on me. Ever. But I use them only on small tubes such as 12AX7s and 6922s and should have said not to try them on power output tubes like El34s, 6550s, KT88s or anything else that runs really hot. My mistake.
'black' may be OK for low power tubes. Black may be Viton, Buna 'n' and many others, including just plain rubber.(neoprene?)
Silicon (red?) has silicon oil in it which can migrate out and make a real mess, on higher powered tubes. If i had tubes and thought damping would help, and it may in certain feedback situations, I'd use EP, which will take more heat, is inert to many (certainly around the house) chemicals and is not too soft. EP stands for Ethylene Propolene.
If all you care about is maximum hi-temp use, try Kalrez. Good luck finding this at the local emporium, but I think that 500f should be good enough for most power tubes, too.
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I just bought some EAT tube dampers, and still making an assessment of their effect. I do notice a difference. They make the presentation more firm and solid in the lower registers. It is probably dependent upon the type of tube you have, and how microphonic it is. I was skeptical because the 6H30 does not seem to be microphonic, but the dampers are still doing something. I was worried it would make the sound dead or soften the treble, but this is not the case. EATs won't work on wide tubes, but it is definitely worth a try.
As to claims of prolonging tube life, well who can say?
I have no idea how hot a well-driven power tube can get. That's why I suggested the Kalrez. That'll take anything, short of a meltdown. For preamps, most anything should do.
The reason I specifically do NOT like Silicon is that they are made with a liquid binder which under some (admittedly VERY unusual) conditions can 'weep' out.
This binder is silicon OIL which will really mess something up. Without getting real toxic, I don't know how I'd remove it. I don't think soap and water will touch it.
TVAD, Do you mean f or c temp scale? Silicon is generally considered good to about 450f = 230c. That is about as hot as your home oven can get and not really all that hot. We used silicon on equipment flanges which were water cooled. This means temp no higher than in the 90s c. The equipment itself ran at 600c = 1110f and was used in semiconductor processing.
I think you tube guys are right. I don't see how a tube could run THAT hot!
If I ran tubes and was seriously interesting in damping microphonics, I'd use 2 different rings per tube.
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I don't know specifically which compounding we used at work.
Here, however is a link to a site which shows 2 different silicon compounds with way different max temps listed.
I would say the higher temp one is to be preferred. At least for output tubes.
My experience with o-rings tells me I would tend to avoid the silicon. While I doubt in home use you'd ever get one to weep, there is a binder oil as part of the compound. We used to put them in an oven at over 100c+ at very low pressure. They would weep out oil. We couldn't use them as sold to us for reasons completely unrelated to tube guys use as a damper. Later, we found a source for pre-baked rings and began using them.
I stipulated that it would be Very unusual for this to actually happen. Fact is, Silicon O-rings have a silicon oil binder in them. Period. If you saw evidence of this on a preamp, it would probably be WAY too hot. Output tubes? I don't know how hot they get. You are more likely to see such oils on output tubes, but still and all, since I've never seen it noted, I'll have to call it a real long shot.
If I owned a tube amp......and felt the need for tube damping, I'd make sure I bought either Kalrez or Vacuum baked Silicon. Your gonna have to trust me on this one. We chased a contamination problem for months in a 'wafer fab'. A place making 'chips'. We knew everything but the cause. One engineer suggested the silicon O-rings as the cause. We baked some ourselves and collected a couple teaspoons of oil from the catch cup we fabricated. In all fairness, we baked maybe enough silicon rings for 100 tube dampers. But, when we used 'em, the problem went away like we flipped a switch.
In short, the oil is real, You will only see it if something is seriously wrong and WAY over heats. I may have OCD!
Hi Rtn1,
fantastic system!!! how did the EAT tube dampers work out? i use one on the 7308 tube i put in my Zanden DAC...stunningly good results. The Zanden normally takes a JAN phillips which is surprisingly musical given its cost relative to more expensive tubes. But it is super-microphonic. you can snap your fingers 5 feet away and hear it come thru the speakers. but not with the EAT in place. And yes, the music improved as well...tighter bass, more solid voices, soundstage, et al.
eventually, i upgraded to the 7308 which still benefited in much the same way.
Because my CJ ACT 2 pre has 6h30p tubes (but cannot fit the EAT tube dampers due to the way they laid out the tubes), i have just ordered o-rings. curious if you have had any further observations on your 6h30p tubes...which i have heard are not too susceptible to microphonics.
thanks for any advice.


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It's been 5 months since I've posted a development log for my little indie game Balls (formerly known as The Ball) and I've done so much during that time, the difference between how the game looks right now and how it looked 5 months ago is astounding.
But rather than completely boring you with every single detail of what I've done during the past 5 months (and risk splitting this development log into several parts again), I'm going to try and keep this as short and concise as possible by breaking it down month by month and only talking about major changes/additions to my game (i.e. stuff such as updating SDKs to their latest versions or small bugfixes won't be mentioned here).
October 2015
- Added a splash screen
- Tweaked fixed timestep and ball power values.
November 2015
- Made and implemented a procedural texture generator (which was orignally done for ProcJam but never finished so I took the code from there and ported it here instead) to create infinitely scrolling backgrounds for the game that are different every time you play.
December 2015
- Started work on converting my existing obstacle generator code to one that creates them dynamically depending on where you made the ball go (i.e. if you make it go to the right more then the game is likely to spawn spikes on the right side and vice versa).
- Made a few performance optimisations based on ARM's excellent Unity guide (which is generally geared towards 3D games but some parts can apply to 2D as well)
- Made a small (read: pretty terrible) trailer for my game which I plan to redo pretty soon.
January 2016
- Made some adjustments to the game's aspect ratio for 4:3 devices such as the Samsung Galaxy Tab S2 (which I actually got as a sort of Christmas present from my mum last month and is pretty much my primary device for deploying and testing things on Android).
- Made some adjustments to my dynamic obstacle generator so it doesn't constantly spawn a wall of spikes on one side (especially at harder difficulties).
- Changed my coin generator code to be more dynamic based on the current number of spikes on each side of the wall (i.e. coins are now more likely to spawn near spikes to increase the risk/reward factor).
- Converted my sound assets to more suitable formats that are optimised for mobile devices and also remade most of my texture assets to be POT in order to take advantage of Unity's compression features.
- Adjusted my background bubble generation code to give it a fading in and out effect. I also made changes to the ball trail.
- Made adjustments to my procedural background generation code so that the colours used are not too similar to each other. I also made a few changes to the lighting as well.
- Finally fixed Facebook login functionality after months of trying to get it to work properly.
February 2016
- Redesigned the game's logo (In fact, I actually made 7 different variations as I plan to randomly cycle through them via code).
- Redesigned the style of the player's ball.
- Added wind zones that push the player's ball to the side (and possibly into some spikes) as an extra obstacle.
- Added an option to disable the fading background bubbles in game.
- Released a WebGL demo version of the game (with restricted features) which you can play right now by clicking here.
- Implemented an adaptive difficulty system where instead of being able to choose from three different levels of difficulty, there is now only one level of difficulty that constantly scales up and down depending on the player's skill level where the harder the difficulty the better the score bonus (i.e. if the player is doing very well then the difficulty at the start will increase to make things harder but if the player is failing a lot then the difficulty will drop down a bit to make things slightly easier).
- Redesigned the game's main menu buttons and made them fully animated. Eventually I also replaced the text with simple representable icons.
There's still a couple of features I need to add but at the moment the game is looking close to completion. I have no idea when I'll be posting the next development blog (it could be a few more weeks or even months) but for more regular updates on the game, you can either follow me on Twitter or check out my Facebook page.


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The final lesson: "Salvation and Perfection in Hebrews" (File uploaded by Larry Harnisch)
My observations:
- There is strong language in Hebrews that appears to say that believers are in danger of losing their salvation. This caused theological problems even in the early church, let alone for those of us in Reformed traditions today. These early discussions also led to concerns about whether or not Hebrews should be considered part of the Biblical canon. Probably erroneous assumptions that the book was written by Paul may well have given Hebrews enough "status" to make the cut (see points on authorship in Week 2).
- The idea that a person once saved, would remain saved, was articulated by John Calvin as arising out of God's omnipotence and omniscience. If God saves a person, it must be permanent. Reformed believers often refer to this concept of salvation as "the perseverance of the saints" or "eternal security." Arminians, by contrast, emphasize personal security, and thus allow for the possibility of losing salvation through disobedience or turning one's back on God. The debate between these camps has raged for a long time, and Hebrews has often been a battleground for these arguments.
- Scholer recounts the various "warnings" in Hebrews that imply the ability to lose salvation. These must be taken seriously, and not too quickly dismissed as mere rhetorical devices. They're not just "mild cautions." Scholer cites Hebrews 6:4-12 and 10:26-39 as perhaps the two most central to this discussion. The language in these verses cannot be dismissed as merely "trying" salvation, but refer to real participation (note, for example the language in chapter 6 of having "tasted the heavenly gift," and consider alongside Hebrews 2:9, which uses "taste death," to indicate that Jesus actually died). Likewise it seems clear that the author of Hebrews is actually talking about salvation, and not something else. However, these passages also end with words of reassurance, where the author indicates his confidence that the readers will indeed persevere. So, to what degree are these warnings rhetorical, given the intensity of the concern that the audience not fall away, yet followed by such conviction of perseverance?
- In Hebrews, salvation is actually described as a future reality. Hebrews 9:28, for example, references salvation in the context of the Second Coming, and specifically speaks of "saving" as distinct from dealing with sin. This contrasts with the tradition of a lot of our theological training, where we are taught to think of salvation as something that has happened in the past. "Remember the day you were saved." (I think that this is less true for mainline Presbyterians, but it's certainly a reality for many evangelicals.) In the New Testament in general, salvation is described in past, present, and future terms, so there's plenty of precedent for the evangelical concept, but it's important to note that Hebrews focuses almost entirely on salvation as future. This perhaps explains some of Hebrews' apparent emphasis on the possibility of losing salvation. If Jesus only had to die once, and the salvation secured through that death was for forever, then anyone who "drops out" could not be part of that. If you are to "complete" the journey, you have to go the whole way. If you don't "complete" the journey, you weren't really on it in the first place.
- Scholer also shares some thoughts on the doctrine of "divine election" and how this might be reconciled with human choice. I'm not sure that some of my Presbyterian professors would agree with Scholer's formulation ("Only God knows who will make it" sounds a bit too much like God is basing the election on human choice, which most Calvinist scholars I know would be quick to refute, but I hasten to add that Scholer doesn't quite claim that God chooses on the basis of human choice. He seems content to leave this as a "paradox."), but it's worth reflecting on. Whatever else is true, God remains sovereign, and human responsibility remains important, too.


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A California newspaper called the Mercury News posted a story on Thursday about a toy gun exchange in a local elementary school.
The article reports:
At Saturday's event, called Strobridge Elementary Safety Day, a Hayward police officer will demonstrate bicycle and gun safety, and the Alameda County Fire Department is sending a rig and crew to talk about fire safety.
Fingerprinting and photographing of children will be offered, with the information put on CDs for parents to use, if needed, in a missing child case. All youngsters attending will be given a ticket to exchange for a book, Hill said.
Every child who brings a toy gun will get a raffle ticket to win one of four bicycles, Hill said.
Hill said he got the idea for the toy gun exchange from a photographer, Horace Gibson, who takes students' school pictures and who expressed concern about the spate of shootings of young people by police in Oakland.
Hill said police are rightfully fearful of being shot when they encounter so many armed suspects, and there have been cases nationwide where police mistook a toy gun for a real one.
Sometimes it's hard just to know where to start. Why are you demonstrating gun safety while you are taking toy guns away from children?
Elementary Principal Charles Hill stated, "If we want older kids to not think guns are cool, we need to start early." Sir, I realize you are much better educated than I and have had a lot of experience with children, but you have missed some very obvious points. If younger children are taught respect for themselves and for other people (generally speaking, respect for life), and if they are taught morals and values, they are quite likely to conclude that guns used for immoral purposes are not cool without your having to brainwash them. The problem is not the guns–it is the values we are teaching our children. We have taken the Ten Commandments off of the walls of our schools. Regardless of how you feel about the Bible or about religion, those Ten Commandments were a visual reminder to all students that at some point in their lives they were going to have to answer to an authority higher than themselves. You would get better results from having the children recite the Ten Commandments every morning than you would from confiscating a million toy guns.


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Follow Me
Every week, TV news reports a death of a notable person, citing his/her accomplishments. A most recent report mentioned that this deceased man had written 80 books and 8,000 newspaper columns. A week later, we heart nothing further of him. Forgotten and gone.
Jesus of Nazareth died a criminal's death 2,000 years ago. Still, today, a billion of His followers mention His Name with reverence and love. Every time I would go to the library, I would choose a book on his life from the hundreds available. I wanted to know as much as I could about this remarkable person. After reading about His exploits for all these years, I have only scratched the surface of His Life.
Some years ago, a friend of mine, Jeanne, in her middle 30's told me how, suddenly, as never before, she saw the attractiveness of Jesus of Nazareth. She began to give time to the people in her Parish with a hope that she could set afire a love in their hearts for This Christ.
Young women of her age began to group around her. They saw how this new found love of Christ had changed her life, bringing Jeanne a joy and happiness they were not experiencing. Several years afterward, a terminal illness struck Jeanne. She died in peace, only after making her life a thrilling example of what happiness can come from being a follower of Christ. People wept deeply at her Funeral Mass.
Have we ever turned on the radio, only to hear the last bars of a favorite piece of music, maybe, Beethoven's 5th Symphony? We cry out, "Oh, if I had only turned the radio on sooner, I could have heard my special music in its entirety." Too Late.
So, too, we may be on our death bed and suddenly, we have a vision of the Greatness and the Beauty of the Life of the young Rabbi from Nazareth as never before. We see, with heartbreak, what we have been missing in life. We sob, "Oh, if I had only experienced this earlier in life."
Accept Christ's loving invitation, "Follow Me." Try to realize that in taking this offer to heart, a peace and happiness will come, beyond all our belief. Refuse to say . . . "I am not worthy." Isaiah, Paul and Peter said that.
Fr. George Mc Kenna
A Real Treasure, The Rosary Beads
Father Robert Greene, a Maryknoll missionary in China, in the 1950's, one of the heroes of my early Priesthood, found himself in a desperate situation. Imprisoned by the Chinese Communists, he sat on the bare ground of his cell with none of his religious possessions. The Communists had stripped him of everything. With foresight, the priest had put a small part of a Consecrated Host in a match box. With no Rosary beads, he broke five match sticks in halves to form a decade.
With these sticks on the table before him, Father Greene would offer his Rosary to his Heavenly Mother. After a Hail Mary, he would move a stick to the other side of the table. At times, when I find saying my Rosary difficult because of repetition and distractions, I adopt his method.
With the ten sticks before me, I pretend I am in a Chinese prison, desperate for consolation and courage. My prayers take on a new intensity and meaning. Maybe, all of us might try this way of prayer in times of dryness. Father Greene came home, safe and sound.
Perhaps, we are overlooking the value of the Rosary, our prayer beads, sometimes called the "Apron Strings of our Mother Mary." For myself, I need to break up the Rosary by saying one decade in the morning and the others through the day at different times. In this way, I pray the beads with more meaning and fewer distractions. Learn the Mysteries.
Another use of the Rosary beads has helped my prayer life immensely. When I'm sitting in Church or waiting in a doctor's office, I finger my beads and put a short prayer on each one. Impossible to be distracted! Some examples of such prayers are, "Lord, help me to live today", "My Jesus, mercy", "Mary, be my mother." This method of making up my own prayers deepens my union with God.
So, treasure our Rosary beads. As we lie in death in our coffin, a Rosary will be entwined in our fingers. Carry it with us at all times. Tell the children the power of this prayer of the Church. If we can only say one decade a day, do this. In five days, we will have said the Rosary.
Try making up your own prayers on the beads. Your children would enjoy such a creative way to talk to God.
Fr. George Mc Kenna


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The Memorial Day weekend is just that at the box office this weekend, as Marvel's The Avengers – the much-hyped, well loved, box office super-hit, is forced to make way for Men In Black 3, a film that most of our movie collective could really give a rat's ass about. The day had to happen for The Avengers, and it came on its 22nd day of release after taking in more than $485 million in North America alone – it fell to number two. That leaves us with the shrug that is MIB3 – so we wait until Prometheus opens in two weeks, or we might have something if Snow White and the Huntsman is as good as Charlize Theron looks in the trailer.Our number one film of the weekend is Men In Black 3, which failed to rise to the heights it needed to, but didn't out-and-out collapse the way Battleship did last weekend (and did again this weekend). Over the three-day portion of the Memorial Day Weekend frame (Friday-to-Sunday, and including midnights) Men in Black 3 could only muster $55 million, not all that far away from what the first two films opened to over July 4th weekends in 1997 and 2002, respectively. The first Men in Black took in $51.1 million from 3,020 venues in 1997 (and $84 million over five days); MIB2 took in $52.1 million from 3,557 venues in 2002 (and $87 million over five days).


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In 1810, Zareh Colburn took Vermont – and the world – by storm with his uncanny mathematical ability. Born in 1804 in Cabot, Vermont, Zareh's parents were simple farmers. His family was poor and he was the youngest of six children.
One day while working in a wood shop, Zareh's father Abia overheard the boy muttering to himself while playing on the floor of the shop. The child was reciting multiplication tables: "seven times five is 35; eight times five is 40 . . . "
Abia was puzzled over how the boy of only five had mastered multiplication and it struck him that perhaps he was simply repeating something he had heard. So he asked him: "How much is 13 times 97?"
The boy answered: "1261," without missing beat.
The discovery of Zareh's talent would be the start of a remarkable journey for the youngster. His father carted him to the state legislature, where he left the representatives from around the state astounded. From there, he travelled to Hanover, NH where the president of Dartmouth College offered to house Zareh and see to his education, but Abia thought better offers lay ahead.
Abia and Zareh travelled to Boston and to Harvard College and a group of men put together a plan to raise and educate Zareh. Money would be generated for the boy by occasional exhibitions of his skills. Abia rejected the offer.
The two continued on their way south, to New York and Washington, D.C. and Richmond, VA. Word of Zareh's gift spread. Some concluded his abilities were a miracle direct from God. Others assumed there was a scientific explanation, and that perhaps his abilities could be repeated in others.
Still others misunderstood his gifts altogether. At one stop, a woman told the child that she had been robbed of silver spoons and she wanted him to use his powers to identify the thief – a mystical ability he neither claimed nor possessed.
After raising funds on his southern exhibition, Abia bought passage to Europe and Zareh began touring again in 1812. In Dublin, he put on a contest with Ireland's William Rowan Hamilton – an Irish boy with similar gifts. Zareh prevailed.
From Ireland, to England, to France, and finally back to England, Zareh would spend the next seven years bouncing among different schools and raising money off his exhibitions, astounding audiences by instantly answering randomly raised questions such as, what is the square root of 888,888 and how many seconds are there in 11 years.
Abia's father died when he was 24, and the young man – whose schooling had been erratic with a focus on mathematics and foreign languages, returned home. Zareh's peculiar gifts faded at about the time he reached adulthood. Back in Vermont, Zerah worked as a traveling Methodist minister until he finally settled in as a professor of languages at Norwich University.
Zareh Colburn died at 34 from tuberculosis. His mathematical abilities, he concluded, were partly a natural gift and partly a miracle of God. In his 1833 memoir he wrote about his travels and tried to explain some of the ways he was able to solve mathematical problems so quickly.
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And then remembered I had to get something that can only be bought at the grocery store. That's not so bad, but I was already weighted down with parcels and a giant bag of laundry on my back and now had to navigate the aisles of a city grocery store (there's a reason they give us skinny carts. And yet somehow I came out with more than the one item I needed (whole wheat English muffins for mini-pizzas), and also got sink cleaner, plastic baggies, cookie mix, and a new bowl. A truly random collection if ever there was one, but I kept remembering things I needed.
Two things of note from the last day. First, a cool article from the NY Times:
Basically, it looks at the changing definition of Europe. Closet geography geeks will find it interesting, as will policy wonks or people who just like learning new things.
Second, for much of the last two days I've been setting up a website for my class and more generally for my professional life:
I'm playing around with the idea of providing an index to my fanfic stories there as well, not on a page that shows up on the main page but something where if you knew the link (something like http://www.mlayton.net/fanfic/) it would pull up a list of all the stories I had written over the years. But I'm not sure how wise that is, to have it all on the same site. I don't hide the fact that I write fanfic, but I'm not sure I want that to be the first thing people see when poking around considering whether to give me a job interview in a year or two. Thoughts?
Finally: any Tolkien froods know who's running Stories of Arda these days? I've been trying to get in touch with them, but without success.


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