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Note: I have reposted this from our old Siyavula blog from November 2012.
Siyavula is probably most well know for our openly-licensed Everything Science and Everything Maths titles. But, at Siyavula, we like to extend our boundaries, and what better way to extend ourselves than to reach into primary school!
There is much focus on the later grades in high school where learners are grappling with science and maths concepts. But, many of the misconceptions and problems that are evident at this level, often have their roots in the primary school phase. To attempt to improve the STEM subjects in South Africa, we actually need to start at the beginning and secure a strong foundation on which learners can build their future Science and Technology careers.
This is something that we at Siyavula and the Sasol Inzalo Foundation believe strongly in. Not only this, but both organizations recognize the power and potential of open educational resources to make a difference to education in South Africa. This set the stage for a strong partnership to produce resources for Natural Sciences and Technology for Grades 4-6 to be printed by the Department of Basic Education for every child in a government school in 2013.
In attempting to condense all that happened in the space of 9 months, I have sometimes skimmed over some things, but discussed others in more detail. At Siyavula, the idea of sharing underlies everything that we do is, which is why I would like to share our experience of this year and all that we achieved and learned in going through this project.
Designing and planning workshops
In December 2011 a group got together to unpack the project and what we wanted to achieve and how we were going to do it. The initial design team consisted of members from Siyavula (myself, Neels van der Westhuizen and Mark Horner), the Sasol Inzalo Foundation, the UCT Chemical Engineering Schools Project, the Ukuqonda Institute and the Primary Science Programme (PSP).
These workshops evolved into "think tanks" and we realised the scope of the project was growing and growing as we started to discuss what would make the most effective workbook. In summery, some of the goals that were identified during this initial stage are listed below.
- The workbooks will be available under an open copy right license
- The workbooks will be collaboratively authored
- The workbooks will go beyond the Curriculum and Policy Statement (CAPS), making science engaging and exciting for primary school learners
- The workbooks will be a quality stand-alone product
- The workbooks and teachers' guides will be available in English and Afrikaans
- The workbooks will provide a means to ensure strong foundational base for science learning in South Africa
Some topics were debated at length during the design workshops, and I feel it is worth mentioning some of these in more detail as they helped to set the tone for what we were going to do for the rest of the project.
A workbook or a textbook?
In many schools in South Africa, there is limited or no access at all to other resources and therefore if the book was merely a workbook with only activities, learners and teachers would not benefit from it as there would be no background content to support the activities and act as a foundation on which to conduct scientific investigations.
We therefore decided that we would aim to produce a hybrid between a workbook and a textbook with enough content to support the activities without the need to rely on an outside resource, which many schools would not have access to.
Development of Concept Maps
One of the main outcomes of this project is to produce concept maps which span the Gr 4 to 9 curriculum, showing the conceptual progression in a strand across grades, and also the links between strands within a grade. The Natural sciences and Technology curriculum is made up of four different strands (themes) spanning from Gr 4 to 9.
These concept maps will be very useful to identify any flaws in the conceptual progression in the curriculum and also inform the Table of Contents.
The Concept Maps will be useful to teachers and learners to give an overview of the curriculum in a visually engaging manner. This will enable a viewer to quickly and easily identify where in the curriculum a current topic sits, and what learners should have done previously and where they are heading in future grades. This information is not easily extracted from the CAPS document as it currently stands, thus these maps could become a valuable teaching resource in future.
Below is a detail of the concept map I made for the Life and Living strand to give an idea.
Technology integration
Technology integration comes in two forms:
- The use of technology in the form of rich media (website links, online videos, etc)
- Technology as a subject
The outcome of the workbooks is not increase the digital divide in South Africa. Rather, the workbook at the foundational layer, is a book on a desk which can be used in its entirety to teach and learn about Natural Sciences and Technology.
The use of technology will be encouraged in the workbooks by including links to interesting websites, online videos, simulations and presentations. This will help to make the workbooks more applicable to the modern world and make science exciting and up to date.
From 2013, Technology as a subject is to be integrated into the Natural Sciences curriculum. The aim of the workbooks is to make this integration as seamless as possible. Technology investigations will be built into the science content and not stand apart. This will hopefully encourage apprehensive teachers who have not taught technology before. However, the Technology Design Process will be made evident when designing a technology project, as the Scientific Method is followed when conducting a scientific investigation.
Teachers' Guides
The Teachers' Guide presents an opportunity to provide an innovative, engaging and informative book for the educators to supplement their teaching and use of the workbooks. An important outcome of this project is to ensure that the Teachers' Guides are actually used by educators and are useful to them. It will not merely provide answers to questions, but also tips to teachers about how to set up activities, teach a concept, introduce a topic and pointing out misconceptions which may arise. The Teachers Guide also contains all the links, as does the learners book, for interesting websites to visit or videos to watch and games to play, which support the content being discussed.
Collaborative authoring phase
As mentioned, we decided to author the books collaboratively with volunteers over a period of three weekend workshops. At Siyavula, we had only done this once before in October 2011 where we authored the first draft of a Gr 10 Life Sciences textbook. You can watch a video here. We learned a lot from this first workshop, which we wanted to implement in the next set.
In the lead up to the workshops, I did a lot of back ground preparation as the content coordinator for the project. This included planning the actual workshops and what we would do over the course of each weekend, finishing the Concept Maps for each strand and the Table of Contents, deciding on the basic layout for the books and how to set out activities and investigations, as well as coming up with basic style guidelines for authoring (I got some advice from the Primary Science Programme during this stage).
Bridget Nash, our community coordinator set about recruiting volunteers for the workshops and organising the logistics for the workshops.
The 24 volunteers that we recruited were teachers, mostly from Johannesburg, and predominantly primary school. However, there were also 2 high school teachers who participated, and we brought 3 teachers with from Cape Town. This ensured a diverse group of teachers from various backgrounds and experience of different educational systems within South Africa.
Workshop 1
On the Friday afternoon of the first workshop, we welcomed our volunteers to St John's College in Johannesburg, which is where all 3 workshops took place. I think most of the volunteers did not really know what the weekend would hold and some were nervous about what was expected of them. Despite this, they had taken a leap of faith to come and find out, learn something new and see how they could have a bigger impact on education in south Africa outside of their own classrooms. Helene smit, our facilitator, helped to put everyone at ease before we got to work.
The goal for the first workshop was to unpack CAPS and brainstorm and discuss about what makes an ideal workbook and how it should be laid out and written. Although the initial design preceding the workshops had already delved into this, it was very useful to get the input of educators. Furthermore, it was a very worthy professional development exercise for the educators as this was the first time they were delving into the CAPS document. We constructed various activities to stimulate discussion and allow for the creative input from a diverse group of educators.
We discussed and established guidelines for writing the workbook. This was led by Rose Thomas from the Primary Science Programme, and although we at Siyavula had already discussed the general guidelines prior to the workshop, it was very encouraging to see such agreement amongst a diverse group of people as to how the workbooks should be styled and written to have the maximum effect.
Throughout the authoring of the workbooks and the workshops, the educators worked in groups according to the four strands. This was to ensure that each author always had an awareness of the concepts being dealt with in a particular strand in the other grades. The educators found the Concept Maps to be a very valuable resource.
It was a very enriching experience to see the sharing of knowledge and ideas amongst the educators, and I think this was one of the most influential outcomes of the workshops.
The authoring platform that we decided to use was Googledocs, accessible through Gmail. This allowed more than one author to access and edit a document at a time. Furthermore, the Commenting tool proved to be very useful, especially in the later stages of the process, to communicate between authors, editors and myself.
At Siyavula, our mandate is to encourage teachers to share their resources, and the exposure to one platform to allow for this, was enlightening to the participating educators, who even wanted to adopt this strategy within their schools and cluster groups to share resources and collaboratively author online.
We also discussed open copy right licenses and what the Open Educational Resource movement was about and how it could potentially have a huge impact on South African education and the access to resources. We have found that this is a very worthwhile exercise at workshops as educators often do not know what their rights are and what they can and cannot use in their classrooms.
Workshops 2 and 3
The first objective was to look at what authors had managed to do in the interim between the first and second workshop. There was a "Checklist" to go through and assess the quality of one's work and then report back to the group about where each author was at and highlight any troubles they may have been having.
We have realised after running several workshops, that peer review is crucial in a collaborative authoring process, and the sooner and more often it happens, the better.
At the second workshop, we also introduced the "Thunderbolt Kids" were introduced. These four characters had been developed in a previous Shuttleworth Foundation project, called Kusasa. Kusasa aims to develop analytical and creative thinking in learners, and more effective teaching practices in educators. These characters will be the guides in the workbooks (more about the kids later).
We also looked at assessment and how the volunteers could go back over the content they had written and put in revision activities which could be used as assessment items. We discussed Bloom's Taxonomy as well as the different forms of communication for assessment (whether it is written, verbal, doing practical work, building a model or acting out), all of which are very important to build into a curriculum for primary school learners.
The aim of the final workshop was to focus on brining the excitement back into science, through the inclusion of interesting facts, exciting website links, online videos and simulations, with the help of St John's College pupils. Over and above this, authors were still busy refining and editing content. This was a very iterative process.
Feedback from volunteers
Siyavula believes very strongly in building a community around a project which will continue to grow. By the end, the volunteers really came to see the value in what collaboratively authoring to create and share educational resources could do for themselves, their schools, and South Africa.
Some comments from the volunteers on the whole process:
- The concept maps were extremely helpful and well received
- Educators were able to engage with CAPS on a deeper level, which they had never done before
- Comments and collaborative authoring was very useful and enlightening
- Educators enjoyed meeting people with different backgrounds and ideas and sharing with them
- They came away with a huge sense of accomplishment and were encouraged at what a group can achieve
- Highest level impact that some of them can have
- Many educators wanted to take what they had learned forward and use the process for their own events
- They found it an intense enriching experience and with an emphasis on personal development
- They thoroughly enjoyed and benefited from learning about different teachers and teaching environments
- The educators found it energizing and morally boosting
Back in the office
There were many pieces of the project running simultaneously back at the office.
Colours, images and design
Concurrently to running the workshops, we started to work with Brandt Botes, a graphic designer, to work out the ideal layout and colours for the books. We settled on a use of colour which is warm and simple so that it is constructive rather than distracting. Each strand was assigned a different colour and one of the Thunderbolt Kids to be the predominant guide through that theme.
The kids introduce interesting facts, websites and videos to watch online and new words for a section. These are placed in the margins of the pages. They also ask questions throughout the content, which often leads on to the next section, encouraging learners to appreciate the exploratory nature of Science and question the world around us. During the editing phase, I worked this into the content.
I also commissioned an illustrator to draw images and diagrams for the workbooks. We wanted to use photographs of real objects to show that science is about the real world around us. However, this was not always possible, or else an illustration was needed to describe a process or set up for an investigation.
Editing and reworking the content
After the collaborative authoring phase, I then started to edit the content. It must be pointed out at this stage that the volunteers who came to the workshops were not trained authors. They had never written a book before. And we knew this from the onset with the purpose of rather drawing on their experience as teachers and how they might engage with the content in the classroom. We edited the content to ensure a consistency in style and layout, and also rewrote sections to ensure a high standard. I worked with an external editor in this process and the process was going well. Then…
Huge interruption!
The Department of Basic Education changed the curriculum statement for Natural Sciences and Technology Gr 4-6. The project came to a stand still for a few weeks as we awaited to see the new curriculum and how much it had changed. At this time we were unsure as to whether we would continue or not.
On receiving the new curriculum I did a detailed comparison with the old CAPS to see how much it had changed. The conclusion was bitter sweet. I feel the curriculum had significantly improved and was much more clear and logically presented in the progression of concepts and what was covered in each grade. However, the content had changed significantly. Not only was there reordering of content between and within grades, but there was a big percentage which was completely new. You can view a brief summary here.
After some time and discussions with the Sasol Inzalo Foundation, we decided to take tackle the project again and attempt to still finish it, with a slightly extended deadline.
We also realised that there was insufficient time to hold more authoring workshops with volunteers and we therefore commissioned some external authors to help me rewrite and re-purpose the existing content to align to the newly changed curriculum.
We worked to very tight deadlines and something which I found helped to aid the process of working as a small group under pressure to still collaboratively author was to continue using Googledocs. I found the commenting tool very useful to be in constant communication with the other authors. It meant that I also had access to the documents from the beginning and so I could start going through and editing and giving feedback as I was going to the authors.
After finishing one section, we once again drew on the help of some volunteers to help proof read. Finally, we had several specialists review the content and make comments which I implemented, depending on time constraints.
Final layout and translation
Once we had finished the content for the workbooks we then set them on their journey through our automated pipeline. This is an area that I was not hugely involved in. In summary, the googledocs were imported into Connexions using the OER Pub Googledocs importer, developed by Kathi Fletcher as part of her Shuttleworth Foundation fellowship. These files was then transformed to LaTeX using custom in-house software. LaTeX is a typesetting programme which is largely used in academia and many of our team members at Siyavula have experience with it. Ewald Zietsman used the mock ups from the graphic designer to then design the styles that LaTeX would use when compiling the PDFs for the books.
Simultaneously, we had to translate the content into Afrikaans. We used a web-based translation platform called Transifex. This allowed us to upload the content and volunteers could then log in to the site and translate sections at a time from home. We used many volunteers for the translation of all of our books and with the help of Transifex, it really helped to speed up the process compared to our process from the previous year for translation. However, we learned that when using volunteers for translation, it is best if the volunteer has a science background in order to avoid terms being translated incorrectly. We also realised that we needed an editor and proof reader to go through the translated content. Overall, I think this was the stage that we underestimated the most in terms of the work required to also produce the Afrikaans versions of the books ensuring that they were of comparable quality to the English versions.
The way forward from here
This year has been a huge learning curve for Siyavula, and for myself. This project that we undertook proved to be much bigger than we initially anticipated. When we first started planning these workbooks at the end of last year, I did not realise what we would accomplish in one year. I knew that we would produce workbooks for Natural Sciences and Technology. But, I never realised there would be teachers willing to give up their precious spare time to come to a workshop over the weekend, that they knew nothing about; I never realised they would be so willing and eager to learn and collaborate with their peers; I never realised there would be such a huge change in the curriculum well into the project and that everyone would take on the new challenge, determined to still finish; I never realised there would be other contributors afterwards willing to work long hours under tight deadlines; I never realised there would be qualified authors who wanted to be a part of something bigger than merely a commissioned textbook; I never realised what a supportive, dedicated and passionate team we have at Siyavula; I never realised we would start to build a community around a set of books; I never realised we would all do something that no one else in the world has done before.
We really hope that next year these books will go out into the schools and inspire learners to take an interest in the natural science world around them, as well as develop analytical thinking skills and crucial skills for designing and solving problems.
Next year, there will be a revision of these books, where we sincerely hope that educators that have used the books will provide feedback, not only pointing out errata, but giving suggestions on activities to include, tips they have discovered from their own class and sharing their experiences of using these resources so that we can improve them further for the following year. This will not only be a highly useful exercise for educators, by sharing their ideas and experiences, but it will also help us to provide a resource which is improving in each revision and adapting to the needs of South African learners and educators.
Lastly, I truly hope that teachers and schools take advantage of all the freedoms that these openly licensed books grant them to share and adapt them to suit their individual learner's needs in their own context.
You can download all the PDFs of the books at the website: www.thunderboltkids.co.za


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Lab Primer: Cellular Respiration
Living systems require free energy and matter to maintain order, to grow, and to reproduce. Energy deficiencies are not only detrimental to individual organisms, but they cause disruptions at the population and ecosystem levels as well. Organisms employ various strategies that have been conserved through evolution to capture, use, and store free energy. Autotrophic organisms capture free energy from the environment through
photosynthesis and chemosynthesis, whereas heterotrophic organisms harvest free energy from carbon compounds produced by other organisms.
In cellular respiration, free energy becomes available to drive metabolic pathways vital to cellular processes primarily by the conversion of ADP → ATP. In eukaryotes, respiration occurs in the mitochondria within cells.
If sufficient oxygen is available, glucose may be oxidized completely in a series of enzyme-mediated steps.
In this lab, we'll observe and measure the rate of cellular respiration in peas. To do this, we'll build our own respirometers which work by trapping the the carbon dioxide produced during respiration to cause a pressure change in the reaction vessel allowing for rate to be calculated.
This video explains the concepts behind the lab, and this one shows us how to set the whole thing up.
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A day after Apple released an ad on YouTube highlighting Face ID on the iPhone X, it has released a series of ads showcasing the new 9.7-inch iPad as a great travel companion, taking notes, and more.
All the ads are 15-seconds long and showcase how the iPad can be used to do many of the day-to-day tasks in the life of a student quickly and efficiently. All the ads also showcase how the Apple Pencil is a great tool for the new iPad as it helps in quickly jotting down notes, doodling over images and documents.
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A Professional Liability policy with a $1 million limit is a standard requirement for most consulting contracts. The cost or "premium" for this coverage is based on the following:
The scope of the projects you take on and the exact nature of the services you provide is the first place insurance companies will start to determine the rate and premium for your policy. Generally the more involved you are the final outcome of a project the greater the exposure for loss and therefore the higher the premium. Example would be a marketing consulting that is making recommendations for a social media campaign versus an engineering consultant who is designing a critical component of a bridge.
While there is some loss exposure if the social media campaign fails, this can be mitigated or limited in the contract. The engineering consultant on the other hand has a huge exposure if the bridge collapses due to their miscalculation and mitigating this exposure in the contract is often not an option. The underwriter will require great detail on the other contractors involved in the project and the extent of their involvement to determine potential exposure of the applicant.
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How to Deal With Telemarketers and Ruin Their Day
We all have our day interrupted by obnoxious telemarketers who call our home number or cell phone. Adding yourself to the "Do Not Call" list doesn't seem to help much.
I'll tell you how you can fight back when telemarketers disturb you with a few counter-attacks that will humiliate them and maybe even put a damper on their day. Plus, you'll have fun with it in the process.
When a telemarketer calls, take charge of the conversation yourself. Never give them the opportunity to follow their script. That will confuse them at the least, but will also cause them to waste time. Time is precious for a telemarketer because they need to quickly move on from one call to the next to meet their quota.
Here are a few tricks that will give you some satisfaction that you overpowered these unfortunate individuals who have no concern for your privacy, your time, or your freedom.
As soon as you realize you picked up the phone to a telemarketer, interrupt them with any of the following fun tricks:
Tell Telemarketers They Have to Pay for Calling You
After they finish their spiel, say this:
"Before I speak with you, I need you to agree to a charge of $10 for my time that will be billed automatically to your phone account."
Most of them will be frightened, not knowing if this is possible, and will just hang up. However, for the few who continue, you can repeat the request for the requirement to accept the charge before continuing.
Just keep repeating the request like a robot. Telemarketers won't be able to handle that. I assure you.
Force a Telemarketer to Answer Your Questions
Once a telemarketer starts in with their script, instead of responding to whatever question they ask you, turn the situation around immediately by asking them questions.
- Ask, "Do you enjoy your job?"
- Ask, "Do you always meet your quota for the day?"
- Ask, "Does your boss give you breaks between calls?"
- Ask, "Do you get to make personal calls to your friends while working the phones?"
You get the idea. You can come up with questions of your own. Have fun with it.
These telemarking calls are usually recorded so that management can assess the success of each agent, so they won't want to stay on the line with you once you begin this attack of questions.
Remember never to respond to any of their questions. Reply only with your own questions, ignoring whatever they are saying to you. Be robotic about your approach.
In most cases, you won't get very far since they will give up quickly. Nevertheless, you'll still get some satisfaction out of it.
Give Telemarketers a Taste of Their Own Treatment
Wait for them to start, but don't give them the satisfaction of a reply specific to anything they are saying. After they wasted their time with their initial spiel, do your own version of telemarketing with something similar to this:
"I'm so glad you called! Do I have an opportunity for you! Let me tell you about it. I have a plan that will help you get out of your present demanding job and start enjoying life. Let me tell you about it."
Keep going on with this. I gave you a start. Improvise the rest yourself. You can do this.
The important thing is to keep going. Do not ask questions and stop. That will only give the telemarketer a chance to say something. That's not what you want. You don't ever want to give up control.
In most cases, you won't need to keep going very long. They will quickly hang up. But again, you will feel satisfied.
5 Ways to Annoy Telemarketers
Always Maintain Control of the Conversation With a Telemarketer
Never answer their questions. You will have given up control.
Never say the word "yes" or "okay." Avoid any affirmative statements. They record these calls and splice your affirmative answers from the conversation to use as proof that you agreed to something, ordered something, or accepted a contractual offer.
Always maintain control of the conversation yourself. Never give a telemarketer a chance to get anything of value from the conversation. That will destroy their confidence in their ability to do their job.
You may find these types of calls stop happening after a while. Some telemarketers sell hot phone numbers to other telemarketing firms—numbers that had successful results or at least a person who responds well to their script. When they have an experience like the examples I've described above, they will just want to get rid of your number. It's not worth anything to them. Not even to sell to another telemarketer.
Of course, you could always hang up or not answer when you see an unrecognized Caller ID. But that wouldn't be any fun, would it?
© 2019 Glenn Stok
I surely came upon this article in a very timely manner, Glenn! Just recently, a friend and I had a discussion about how frustrated we've become with telemarketers, arbitrary sales calls, robo-messages....
Hate them!
Your suggestions are terrific! Next call? I'M READY!!! Thanks, Glenn!
Ask for the location where they are calling from so you can discuss this in person.
Glenn, this is great information, turn it into fun! How much time do we waste watching youtube spoofs, or watching AFV? Get in on your own spoof!
Like you say, wasting their time is the best revenge. I just say "oh, hi, can you hold on a second" and I leave them hanging if I'm busy or when they prompt me to come back on I say "coming just one more minute" or "I'm almost there" and string them along as long as I can. They don't want to hang up on a living breathing human being.
Marketing scams are the most annoying practice imaginable on a cell phone,. I have blocked a thousand numbers and have three applications on my phone that are supposed to stop it but I still get an average if 3-5 calls a week!
I was thinking that it was someone we knew who has a history of bothering people by phone and online. I don't think it was malware because my son has an old flip phone without internet, There are easy to find sites online that will annoy people for you, for a small charge.
Hi Glenn - love this stuff and how you can actually have fun with these obnoxious callers. However, it got so bad here that I just don't answer the phone anymore unless I know who it is. We have also been getting spoof calls (over holidays) where the caller ID number looked like it was from a relative but wound up being a "prank" call, One came from my son's phone supposedly while he was standing right in front of me but not using his phone.Now my phone's ID says "spam" in front of other words. I'm just sick of being pestered.
Helpful and entertaining. I do like these tactics. I'm ready to try one. Thanks.
You mention useful points. I do get calls from telemarketers. I am always pleasant.
Does your tactic decrease the number of these calls you get? If not, it seems to me it would be more beneficial to you to just hang up. That'll save some of your precious time and, though striking back feels good in the moment, I'm not sure that really benefits you in the long run.
I really enjoyed reading this article. You give some great tips. My best experience was many years ago when we lived in a first floor apartment. I let a telemarketer go through their whole script about a conservatory. In answer to their closing question: "Would you like a quote for a conservatory?" I responded: "Yes. I would be very interested if you could explain how you can build a conservatory onto a first floor apartment!" I seem to remember the call ending abruptly.
I am thrilled to have some technique to fight back as we get those calls all the time. I love your way os handling them.
If the caller isn't in my Caller ID, I don't answer the call. Later I Google the phone number. If it has been reported to be a robo-caller, scammer, telemarketer, or other sort of phone pest caller, I add the number and that information to my Contacts so that I know next time not to bother to check for a voicemail. I don't like trying to express myself on a telephone and avoid receiving and making calls as much as possible. I tell friends and family that I prefer texting. If I did bother to talk to a phone pest, I'd strive to think of convincing reasons to put zir on hold. How about: "Would you like to speak with someone who lives here? Hold on a second."
Years ago when I went through period of compounded debt, I learned to never talk on the phone with a debt collector. Doing so is pointless.
A telemarketer should always leave a voicemail, in case the call is offering a product, a service, or a chance to support a cause in which I'm interested. I'm unlikely to call back, but I might look for information online. An example might be a call asking for support for a political candidate or initiative.
Glenn....I'll give you the benefit of the doubt about whether telemarketing qualifies as a "real" job. However, unlike the majority of "other" sales positions (retail, etc) one's income does not rely on cold-calling, annoying & pressuring potential consumers with unsolicited, unwelcome calls & scripted spiels, no one wants to hear.
The reality simply is, 90% (or higher) of the public has a complete aversion to this method of selling (harassment)
My attitude is so simple and genuine.....I recall a very old adage: "Don't call me, I'll call you." LOL Peace, Paula
Glen, I see that you do have inside knowledge, having owned a business. Appreciate the clarification.
LOL...Very good, Glenn. Rest assured, I have used my own personally-created routine with those annoying telemarketers! If I don't simply end the call abruptly by disconnecting, I'll go on with my questions and comments, non-stop, giving them little if any chance to speak. They do get frustrated. At that point I'll ask them to excuse me while I put them on hold (there's someone at my door) Then, I just never go back to the phone.
Oh, I'm a meanie...but they SO deserve it. These people need to GET A REAL JOB!! I love your suggestions!! Paula
It's a job, and I don't humiliate people who are working. I have more meaningful ways of having fun. All you have to do is say, "Not interested "and hang up. The end. Luckily for you, you've never had to be a telemarketer. But you might be good at it, since you like out-talking people. Just saying....
I had an interesting experience. I kept getting telemarketing calls. So, when they called, I started speaking Ukrainian to them. It was funny. They got frustrated. Wouldn't you know it, I did it to one telemarketer, he said wait a minute, and they had someone get on the phone who spoke perfect Ukrainian This guy tried to sell me on a bank loan in Ukrainian. I never thought I would hear such a thing. When he was done, the Ukrainian speaker told me he knows I speak English. I told him I know he should get a job at the embassy. So, good advice Ralph. Enjoyed reading this.
I do enjoy messing with them. :) But even that got dull, so I just unplugged my landline and use my mobile exclusively. Life's a lot more peaceful now.
I love this advice, Glenn. I will certainly try this approach. Normally my way of getting them to hang up or not want to pursue the call is if I say I just had a death in the family and am not up to talking. But your ideas are more fun.
Be aggressive and ruthless - nice advice Glenn !


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|Our tour guide, son Micah, and his ship
|A hanger bay
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|A pretty starfish. Micah says they call the flight deck 'The Steel Beach', but this is in the hanger bay.
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|Still talking ...
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As has often been remarked, the United States is undergoing a demographic transformation, and a large dimension of that evolution is the significant increase in the number of people who identify with Hispanic heritage and/or ethnicity. A new book by Robert Rodriguez and Andrés Tomás Tapia, Auténtico: The Definitive Guide to Latino Career Success, provides a sound analysis of how Latino executives see themselves in the workplace and how their cultural context impacts their professional lives. Though not without flaws, the book is a very good introduction to the professional Latino mindset and experience.
Auténtico is divided into two parts: the first focuses on the experience of being a Latino executive and the second on "successful strategies of Latino executives." The first section is by far the strongest and most interesting. Across four chapters, the authors provide a solid analysis illustrated through a series of personal vignettes that compellingly describe the many varied experiences of being a Latino in the corporate world. Rightly, the authors make clear distinctions between the experiences of U.S.-born Latinos and those who come from Latin America and end up working in the U.S. There are great differences in these two broad classes of Latino managers, and the book examines both currents with insight and sympathy.
Within this first part, several themes emerge that are worth noting. The first of these is the struggle to define and embrace the right level of "Latino-ness" which results in what the authors see as four broad categories of Latino professional:
Unapologetic Latinos
Have fully embraced their Latino identity and chosen not to hide it, even in the most non-Latino of environments.
Equivocal Latinos
Have some boundaries about their Latino identity because of European-American values they were heavily exposed to in their formative years and during their educational and career pursuits.
Retro Latinos
May have grown up as an equivocal Latino but, who, for a variety of reasons in adulthood, have gone back to their Latino roots to discover or rediscover those elements of a distant or submerged heritage and culture.
Invisible Latinos
Have fully denied and disowned any connection to Latino culture deliberately, whether they grew up in a Latino environment or not.
From personal experience, I think these categories are spot on (though not necessarily exclusive to Latinos), and it's important to know that many Latinos move through them in stages as they evolve their own understanding of family history and identity. To their credit, the authors explore these categories through the words and lives of prominent Latino executives whose stories are quoted at length and who provide the book with a sense of intimacy and humanity.
In addition to the solid categorical analysis, the first half of Auténtico does a good job of describing the small and large ways in which Latinos have struggled to adjust their own cultural traditions to the norms of U.S. corporate life. Relocation, for example, is a common aspect of life as an American executive, but moving away from family is genuine hardship for many Latino managers, who define their life around proximity to extended family structures. The book carefully analyses the impact that an unwillingness to move can have on a Latino executive and the compromises that have to be made to fit into the standard American career model.
After a strong start, the book weakens in part two; however, the flaw of this section is not one unique to this effort. In Chapters 5-7, the authors fall into a trap all too common to books of this type, wherein it mistakenly attempts to make the work experiences and advice of minorities executives unique to their category. For example, the authors provide an extended quote from IHOP's president, Darren Rebelez:
Even today, in my job as president of IHOP, I get out and visit restaurants and visit our franchisees. It never ceases to amaze me that people are so impressed that I, as president of the company, actually show up and sit down to have conversations with the people who work there. It's such a simple thing, but it means so much to people and builds confidence in them and trust between them and their leaders. They should expect more out of a leader than just showing up, but that's the way it is.
As someone who listens to executives for a living, I can assure the authors that there is nothing particularly Latino about Mr. Rebelez's experience or advice. Or take this quote from Univision's Monica Lozano, in which she discusses her approach to being an inclusive manager:
You can only win if you can create a culture that empowers a company and all of the people who work there to want to win with you. I'm very hands on, very much about managing by walking around and getting to know the people on the team. I would try to meet every new employee, "Come in and let me tell you why we want you here, what I'm expecting of you. If you ever need me, I'm here." I don't know if that's a Latino style or just my style. I learned it from my dad. He was very accessible. You don't want to lose the essence of the spirit of the business.
She may not know if this is "Latino style," but I do: it's not. "Managing by Walking Around" was supposedly invented at HP back in the 80's. It was a good idea then for that particular "Anglo" management team, and it's a good idea anywhere. There is nothing Latino about the idea at all, yet the second half of Autentico is filled, ironically, with too many unauthentic examples of Latino management wisdom.
As weak as this section is, it is greatly redeemed by what I think is the most interesting chapter in the book: the one focused on Latinos' "deep-seated ambivalence toward the concept, practice, and pursuit of power." As the authors describe it:
Our Latino executives' relationship with power seemed to be ancillary. For example, several commented that power resulted only after the pursuit of something more positive. For Jorge Figueredo, the executive vice president for HR at McKesson, gaining power takes an indirect route. He describes it this way, "I don't make having more power the goal. I focus on other issues and power will come." Similarly, when asked about power, Korn Ferry's Victor Arias shared, "I have a negative connotation of power only because power suggests that rather than trying to influence others to do the right thing, you are trying to force them to do the right thing."
The authors note that this phenomenon was a challenge to explore fully:
This sub-optimization of power also plays out among Latinos in their careers. Though we interviewed twenty of perhaps the most powerful Latinos in corporate America, we had difficulty finding a compelling or well-defined approach on how Latinos can individually and collectively increase their power in their work environments. We detected a consistent desire to pivot to another subject when the topic was broached, and an ambivalence in their remarks when it came to the topic of power.
The authors contrast what they see as an ambivalence to power with the attitudes of Black executives, who acknowledge and seek power both for its own sake and to right social wrongs. The authors speculate that the socio-religious experiences of Blacks in the U.S. and Latinos in Latin America led the latter group to be much less driven to seek power to gain a social voice and to tackle social ills:
Latinos often enter corporate America with conflicting thoughts and feelings about obtaining, maintaining, or using power. Non-Latinos often observe that Hispanics are not as successful chasing power because deep down they think power is objectionable, or even illicit. Thus, they develop a proclivity to stand back and respond passively. This lack of aggressiveness in the pursuit of power may partly explain the dearth of Latino executives in the C-suites.
I agree with their analysis and reading it made me wonder about the root causes of their observations. A complex explanation might be the often negative connotation that power has in Latin America, where it is frequently associated with corruption and the abuse of privilege. Perhaps Latinos in the U.S. are reticent to take on a level of influence that, in their ancestral lands, is more often than not a feature of dictatorships and oligarchies. On the other hand, perhaps the reticence is explained by a point the authors address in part one of their book, namely, the fact that many Latinos in the U.S. are fair skinned and often focus more on integrating into existing power structures than changing them. Not all Latinos stand out at first glance, and a great many of them can easily blend into the traditional "White" executive community without causing much concern. Perhaps this strategy, quiet assimilation, which was never an option for African-Americans, is more tempting and easier to many Latinos. This is a critical and not-often discussed issue in the general business (and Diversity & Inclusion) literature, and I hope it will be a subject of further study and analysis for the authors.
The book closes with a chapter covering selected Millennial "Latinx" perspectives, as well as one with a set of recommendations for social, academic and corporate leaders. The chapter on Latino Millennials is a solid, though cursory, review of this emerging demographic, and is well worth republication on its own. The book's closing recommendations are also well thought out and worthy of debate, especially those related to Hispanic Serving Institutions ("HSIs," which are the Latino equivalent, more or less, or HBCUs).
Overall, Auténtico is a fine addition to the literature about the Latino executive experience. There are topics left uncovered by the authors, e.g., the role that the Spanish language plays in this phenomenon or the influence of Latin American politics on U.S. Latino executives, but Auténtico educated and illuminated me in many ways, despite its shortcomings. I would recommend it to anyone seeking to understand what it's like to be a Latino in corporate America, and its authors deserve praise for taking an often mis-appropriated and poorly-managed discourse and elevating it to a high level of thoughtful research, careful empathy and genuine insight.
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Farmer's Home Raided, Guns Confiscated After Trying to Comply With CA Gun Control
Kirschermann was trying to comply with the June 30, 2018, deadline to register all "assault weapons" in the state and became snared by the flurry of laws instituted by CA Democrats over the past few years.
KGET reports that Kischermann tried to register a firearm online and that firearm allegedly turned out to be "illegally modified" in light of recent laws. As a result, his home in Northwest Bakersfield was raided and "a dozen guns, 230 rounds of ammunition and two silencers [were] seized."
Kischermann was arraigned on 12 charges at the state level and released on $150,000 bond.
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Proves anti-gun laws are confiscation laws.
- June 13, 2018 at 9:41 AM
It begins!
- June 13, 2018 at 10:12 AM
This is the beginning. Democrats are bold faced liars and are 100% committed to taking law abiding citizens guns away. They absolutely need to disarm you so they can stuff more of your tax payer cash into their silk pillow cases.
Don't think for a minute this can't happen here. Maryland is inches away from doing this and if nobody protests what just happened in Kommifornia, then the democrats have a green light to go nationwide.
This poor farmer trusted the government. When has that ever gone well for a law abiding citizen when it comes to the second amendment?
All throughout history, the most important first step a tyrannical government undertakes is to remove the serfs means of defense. That way they can control them.
Since most educators are liberal maroons, they don't teach this part of history.
Now I believe is when things start to get interesting. People with nothing to lose that have fought, bled, and suffered immeasurably defending our constitution are faced with a direct assault on what our founding fathers created.
The second amendment guarantees our right to keep and bear arms and the constitution provides a legitimate lawful action to throw off the chains of an unlawful government.
It's almost time to refresh the tree of liberty.
- June 13, 2018 at 10:21 AM
See even when you try to follow the law you break the law or the cops will try to get you for something, and you call these people hero's, who by the way get paid by the tax dollars stolen from you in the form of taxes and fees...
- June 13, 2018 at 11:42 AM
Well, there you go. They have done it. Democrat Liberal progressives have assaulted and attacked an American in his home for trying to comply with their rediculous perversion of a Government.
- June 13, 2018 at 11:44 AM
A firearm in California is 'illegally' modified and the owner is arrested on 12 felony counts.
But California ignores people who are in California 'illegally'.
- June 13, 2018 at 1:43 PM
Time to start responding like the democrats do - WITH VIOLENCE!! We need to get ready to fight back people, because it is coming to a town near you.
- June 13, 2018 at 2:49 PM
hopefully,the NRA represent him or Judicial Watch
Make sure you get plenty of ammo to use if Democrats come to take your guns
- June 13, 2018 at 7:31 PM


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GRAND RAPIDS, Minn. — As the Minnesota Legislature culminates with a flurry of activity on its last weekend this session, John Latimer wasn't hopeful.
Modest funding intended to turn kindergarten through high school students into broadcast nature reporters likely won't be included as he once expected.
"We're resubmitting the whole application again for next year," Latimer said, resigned.
For approaching 40 years, Latimer has been the host of "The Phenology Show" on KAXE-FM 91.7 in Grand Rapids, offering weekly reports on what he's observing in nature.
As part of his work, he produces a supplemental radio show, "Phenology Talkback," that issues student reports over the airwaves. Latimer partners with teachers from mostly the Arrowhead region who train their students in making phenology observations.
Even at 71, the retired rural mail carrier had been poised to expand the program.
The station applied for $200,000 in funding from the Legislative-Citizen Commission on Minnesota Resources (LCCMR). It would be used to train 80 teachers in areas throughout the state, and result in the creation of hundreds of radio segments for the station's roughly 18,000 weekly listeners from Ely on down. It would have also meant the creation of a statewide digital map chronicling student observations.
"Students near Northfield could have put in, 'Our red maple flowered today,' and, boink, there's a pin on the map," Latimer said. "You could look at that map for two weeks and watch those points just kind of climb the state."
The LCCMR had been expected to issue approximately $70 million from what are lottery-generated funds aimed at special environment and natural resource projects. But a GOP plan to draw money for water treatment plants from the Environmental and Natural Resources Trust Fund that's overseen by LCCMR has stalled the approval of disbursements.
Latimer wasn't too disheartened by the political fallout.
When the News Tribune met him on his 40 acres of pristine Northern Mesic Hardwood Forest last week, Latimer was upbeat and dedicated to moving ahead. Though statewide expansion of the program wasn't yet in the offing, he still planned to volunteer to keep his current list of 17 contributing schools engaged.
"I've been doing this over 20 years, just volunteering on my own," he said. "I've had schools doing phenology since 1997-98."
Latimer developed his own phenology skills while driving the same rural roads during his mail delivery career.
"It was the perfect thing — 100 miles and it was the same every day," he said. "I got real familiar with it, and knew every stump that looked like a grouse along that whole route."
These days, as COVID-19 keeps him from taking his daily endurance swims at the Itasca County Family YMCA, Latimer is watching spring unfold on his own land.
"We're into the peak time of year right now," Latimer said. "This is when it gets cracking; you have to be out there every day."
A walk in the woods revealed no fewer than six of his daily notes. In his career, he's recorded almost 48,000 such phenology notes.
"The state of advancement on the aspens — this pale green wash of leaves that's come over them now — we are probably a week behind," he said.
As he walked, Latimer whistled an eagle cry as one flew overhead, noted the serenading loons on the 70-acre Crooked Lake behind his house, and told stories about the nesting swans visible in the reeds off the lake.
Latimer clocked the yellow flowers of the marsh marigolds he's keeping track of, and noted how the ostrich fern is the one you want to find to eat.
"It's going to be as good as asparagus," he said. "I wait for them every year; they're just wonderful."
The day started foggy and damp, and brought out mosquitoes.
"I had my first mosquitoes somewhere around April 18," he said. "Interestingly, the first mosquitoes are big and slow and I always look at it like it's spring training. By summertime, they get faster and smarter and they're a lot harder to hit."
He pointed out the small bushes of Canadian fly honeysuckle with their oval leaf. It's an easy spy for him and the sort of observation that sticks with phenology newcomers.
"If you look around us, nothing else is leafed out," he said. "They're really early, way ahead of anything else and that's their habit."
Taking in the surroundings with him, it was clear why Latimer had been able to inspire reports from hundreds of students through the years.
"We've got so many things going on here in Minnesota," he said. "We live in an amazing place."


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|Surf Nastys is a CR Steyck, Paul Sargeant and Shorty spew-rama of HB crew charging the edges as surfers of the universe. Starting in Tahiti, HB's core crew surf Morrea, then onto West Java and the gnarliest reef known to take bark of any man. Then up the west coast of Sumba for a slash session before returning to the roots at Narrabeen to see the '93 Pro-Junior and Coke Classic contest sessions followed by locals only.
The Sumbawa session is one of the first trips into the now famed Lakey Peak area, Noodles Webster, Craig Holley, Kye and Joel Fitzgerald light up Periscopes Point in more ways than one.
A collage of Phil Sheppard's Sultans of Speed Trilogy puts the 90's in perspective. And the whole lot lets loose Taman Shud, Sean Kelly and Mooseheads with a pumping, thumping soundtrack.
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Athens News Agency: News in English, 06-10-11
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[01] Interior ministry readies for local gov't electionsThe public administration and interior ministry continued to gear up this week for Sunday's first-round municipal and prefectural elections throughout the country, with relevant Minister Prokopis Pavlopoulos on Wednesday briefing reporters presenting, among others, the IT system to be used during the poll.
Additionally, several four-digit phone numbers were announced to provide information to voters, as the number for the Athens municipality, for instance, is 1564.
The Internet site for information is the "YPESDA" site. The IT system was purchased from the firm Singular Logistic.
[02] Greek-Turkish trade ties booming, reportTurkey has emerged as a major trading partner for Greece, with prospects of further increasing bilateral trade relations still robust, a report by the national exporters' association announced on Wednesday.
The report said Turkey was the fifth largest export market in 2005, with Greek exports totalling 937 million US dollars, accounting for 5.4 pct of total Greek exports. Imports from Turkey totalled 1.189 billion US dollars, or 2.3 pct of Greek imports, making Turkey the 14th largest supplier of Greek markets.
Greek exports to Turkey grew an average annual rate of 30.2 pct in the 2001-2005 period, while imports (including vessels) grew 27.4 pct over the same period. Greek exports in total grew 11.9 pct while imports rose 15 pct over the same period.
Greek exports covered mainly cotton (61 pct of total exports in 2005) and fuel, covering more than half the value of total exports to the neighbour country. The report said Greek exporters faced various obstacles in accessing Turkish markets.
On the other hand, imports from Turkey covered a wide range of products. Bilateral trade relations expanded in the last few years with more than 80 Greek enterprises operating in the neighbouring country. Greek investments in Turkey are expected to cover more than one-fifth - closer to 25 percent - of foreign direct investments in the country.
[03] Landslides temporarily block main N-S highwayHeavy rainfall that fell on most parts of the country over the past few days created serious traffic problems on Greeceâs national motorways on Wednesday, with the main Athens-Lamia north-south axis closed for the better part of the morning for motorists travelling south to Athens at the Thermopylae intersection and just north of the Aghios Konstantinos coastal community.
Traffic on the motorway was partially restored between 7 a.m. and 9 a.m. after being closed for motorists during the night when the Agios Konstantinos section was blocked by debris carried by a landslide.
Caption: Flooding in the central city of Volos destroyed dozens of homes on Tuesday, Oct. 10, 2006. ANA-MPA photo / V. Paschali.
[04] Gov't adamant as striking teachers rallyThe government will not take one step backward regarding demands by the teachers' union, Education Minister Marietta Yiannakou stressed to reporters on Wednesday.
"Let them understand this. [The government] is under political attack. There are specific political groups that want social upheaval. They are supporting an affair that is on the wane," she said after a Cabinet meeting.
She also asserted that the number of high schools taken over by pupils did not exceed 5 percent, though this was also a problem.
"In every school, the take over is being carried out by one or two teachers, four or five construction workers and five or six students," she added.
In central Athens, a protest rally announced by striking primary and kindergarten teachers got underway at noon, with the participation of teachers from high schools and universities and students.
Also represented were workers in the private sector and broader public sector, after the civil servants union ADEDY called a 24-hour strike in solidarity with teachers and the General Confederation of Employees of Greece (GSEE) voted for a four-hour work stoppage in Athens and Thessaloniki to allow workers to attend.
The rally, held in support of primary teachers' demands for substantial pay rises (of up to 47 percent for newly appointed teachers) and an increase in funding for education to 5 percent of GDP, began at Syntagma Square.
Responding to the minister's statements, the head of the primary teachers' union (DOE) Dimitris Bratis said they were adding "fuel to the flame" and disagreed that teachers were waning in their resolve, calling all teachers and students to attend the next rally programme for the coming week.
Caption: Education Minister Yiannakou is shown after a Cabinet meeting on Wednesday, Oct. 11, 2006. ANA-MPA photo / P. Saitas.
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YMCA nationwide shortens name to 'The Y' | MLive.com: "GRAND RAPIDS -- The YMCA of the USA officials today unveiled a new brand strategy to raise awareness of the impact it makes in communities such as Grand Rapids.
The nonprofit will now be known simply as 'the Y,' coinciding with how people most commonly refer to the organization"
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- Anonymous said...
And what has the YWCA said about this change?
It's like when the University of Michigan quietly put "The" in caps until Michigan State reminded it that it wasn't the only university in Michigan.
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Question: Hopefully, you can help me out with this. There was a short-lived show on Fox in the early '90s that was a comedy. It had different "serials" that it would show, I think two 15-minute episodes of different shows each week. I remember the guy who played Oswald on The Drew Carey Show, Deidrich Bader, was on it, and I also remember Adam West was on the show as well in some sort of action spoof. For the life of me, I can't remember the name of the show. Matt, Colorado Springs, Colo.
Televisionary: Short-lived it was, Matt. You're thinking of Fox's Danger Theatre, which was hosted by Robert Vaughn and ran for only a month after debuting in July 1993.
As you say, the show consisted of two 15-minute segments, each a spoof of a popular current or past TV show. The two main segments were the Knight Rider-Renegade takeoff, The Searcher, which did indeed star Bader as a motorcycle-riding buffoon who wandered nationwide trying his damndest to be heroic and Tropical Punch, a Hawaii Five-O parody featuring West as an inept Honolulu cop and Billy Morrissette and Peter Navy Tuiasosopo as his partners in fighting crime.
You may also have caught detective comedy 357 Marina del Rey, which starred Ricky Harris and Todd Field, and bumped Punch, in Theater's final airing.


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