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Robert Knight, lead maintainer of Konsole has launched a Konsole Usage Survey. 28 questions are waiting for your answers. Use this chance to give useful feedback about a vital and often-used base application of KDE to enable Robert to make Konsole the best console application for KDE 4.
Thank you Robert for working on improving Konsole even more! I first heard of the survey while reading PlanetKDE and have already completed it :)
That was a boring survey but I'm sure it'll be worth it :D.
> That was a boring survey but I'm sure it'll be worth it :D.
Did I mention that everyone who completes it gets a FREE copy of KDE 4? ;)
BTW. Before anyone posts about the mistake in Question 8, I know. Unfortunately the software used does not have provisions for making changes after publishing the survey.
> Did I mention that everyone who completes it gets a FREE copy of KDE 4? ;)
Alright, I did, where is my copy? Come on, give me the damn link!
I didn't mean to quote the guy above me.
AFAIC, Konsole is already the best terminal app I've ever used, so congratulations on this one.
It is for me KDE's killer app (even more so than Konqueror & all the others).
I find it very nice though to have this survey to improve it even more, even though I don't understand how you can make a better-than-perfect app! ;-)
Thanks for your efforts on this!
we are in 2007, and still somme geeky people think that a console is a perfect tool for the desktop.
sheez - relax. he did not say so...
We are in 2007 and I still use, aside from firefox and gaim, almost only konsole, or term based applications to be more specific. Do you have any problem with that?
I don't feel geek, but I do feel that I'm using the right tool for what I need. If it's not your case... man who cares! This is about Konsole, not about "ohh god! still using vim instead of gvim or kate or blablabla"
Well, the truth is that if you don't like it, please use a gui instead. I use the shell primarily for all my tasks. Trust me, the power of the shell has to be learnt and experienced to understand.
All said, konsole is the best shell emulator - the others don't even come close to the tabs, tab shortcut, and bookmark features. I've seen a lot of people flame kde in general, but they all seem to agree that konsole doesn't have a competition :)
well, to be honest, I sometimes fire up kde simply because doing console work in konsole is so much more pleasant then using F1-F7
I would morn the day kde removed konsole from it's list of apps.
If you read carefully my post, I didn't say that, however sometimes you *need* a console. I use if mostly for work, but even on the desktop it can prove a useful shortcut in certain occasions.
Just from the top of my head, I had to do this today:
from a base directory, find all mp3 files, and write a text file containing the name of the file without the extension, colon, the full path to the file.
song1: artist/album/song1.mp3
song2: another_artist/different_album/song2.mp3
(the actual task was slightly more complicated, but I simplified it for clarity)
Now, the day some GUI application allows me to do this, in a simple, clean and intuitive way, maybe I'll stop using a terminal. Until then...
PS: remember that some people work with their computer, not only use it as a media center...
Well, if we were able to use directory trees as spreadsheet, I wouldn't mind.
You would be doing "basename" functions there on cells instead of `basename ...` calls, etc.
May be even more powerful, if you ask me.
But until then, I agree, the console allows automation with tremendous flexibility that is unmatched.
My digital photos e.g. are mailed to the studio that prints them with KMail and need to be attached. I can't do all in one mail. So it takes me only a little script to feed 10 images per mail automatically into Kmail, with To: and Subject: correctly filled. Would I do this manually, it would hurt me, with like 300 pictures. (Uploading them per HTML form in terms of one by one on a 10 element form would hurt even more, which is their alternative. I could do that with wput, but the email way has the nice advantage of being async and retry, and everything in the background with state of completion, and their email confirmation too).
How on earth would I otherwise e.g. find all ".tar.gz" and repack them into ".tar.bz2" in the background for space savings, without any manual intervention.
For mass renaming operations I used to create scripts, but I now prefer krename for that, as it's more flexible with greater ease (although not more flexible absolute). So that's no longer a point for console. I actually start krename from konsole often though as it's e.g. easier to find files that are not yet renamed with find.
I use computers for my daily work, no problem at this point, yesterday I was reading an IT blog and it seems adobe has released a cross platform runtime environment to deploy a new generation of application like ajax but they still work even offline, it is crazy man, just click a link and it is up and running.
Ok after that I come to the dot, and guess what, people are excited about how Konsole is so cool and sexy. I used console especially for linux, sometimes I have no choice or perhaps I dont know other ways to do it in a GUI mode.
So my post was rather subjective. And sorry if I hurt your beloved console.
No offense meant (nor taken), don't worry :-)
The thing is, as someone mentioned it before, this article is about Konsole, so yeah, you'll fine people praising a console application here, not that brand new Apollo thingy... I guess people weren't talking about Konsole in the Apollo article, either. It's just the context.
So yeah, among others posts, there's mine saying that for a console app, Konsole is pretty sexy. Of course, at the sexy level, it doesn't even compare to Amarok or other GUI apps, but hell, people never talk about it (Amarok, K3b and Konqueror steal all the fame), so I was quite thrilled that for once, someone was putting Konsole in the spotlight. Which may explain my over-enthusiasm!!
'I guess people weren't talking about Konsole in the Apollo article, either. It's just the context'
No they were speaking about the next generation desktop application paradigm, not about eh 40 years old (perhaps more) user interface
And one article the 'next generation desktop application paradigm' (yeah just like XUL was the next generation last generation) was on topic, and on the other the '40 year old user interface' was on topic.
Talking about Apollo here is pointless (unless you're references it as somehow that Konsole can be improved, which hasn't happened).
we're in 2007 and some people still don't understand that advanced users are users too.
You can go ahead and make the desktop as easy to learn, and as easy to use (two completely different, and often conflicting goals) as you like - as long as you don't cripple it for those of us who actually know what we're doing.
Even Apple ship a command line these days.
Perfectly agreed.
I use Amarok for listening to my music (and rediscovering it!), K3b to burn CDs, and more generally any GUI app that lets me do the stuff I want the way I want. However, sometimes I _need_ to to console-based stuff, and I am glad to have an equally good application for this, not just some old terminal that sucks...
People do not wonder why we still write programs in a text editor (or IDE), using (oh my god!) a keyboard, rather than connecting blocks with a mouse.
I think it all boils down to the same problem: GUI apps are tailored to a specific task, and allow you (arguably) to perform it in an easier and more intuitive way. However, sometimes you need the flexibility to describe exactly what you want to do, and more often than not, it is much faster to do this by writing it by hand, rather than clicking in a list of options pre-selected for you...
And to expand on the parent's comment, even Microsoft realized they needed a better shell in Vista.
Well, I'm a pretty non-advanced guy who prefers using GUI for nearly anything. And yet I couldn't miss a console, to do certain things.
Konsole is the best for me, although I usually use xterm if I'm in a hurry. Starts fast, no-frills, and it works. And nearly all distro's have it.
We have very powerful and precise machine tools today, but sometimes a hammer and a saw, ancient devices to be sure, are still quite useful. Use the right tool for the job and the one that fits your thinking patterns. For many of us, the terminal is appropriate for many jobs. For others it is not. Use what's best for you and leave everyone else alone.
We are in 2007 and there are system administrators who HAVE TO do console work with remote servers that have need to use a graphical desktop as well.
So, what's your point?
Fine, I must admit my post was inappropriate for the topic of this dot, I just hate terminal, it remind me of all those dumb terminal we used in university learning FORTRAN ( it was an altrix DEC system)
I don't know about you, but I type _much_ faster than I can use a mouse (i.e. my laptop's touchpad). Also, many tasks are far better suited for a terminal (e.g. system administration, running Vim/Emacs, remote system administration via SSH or telnet (!), tasks involving piping output to input like grep/awk/sed/perl/find, movie encoding (!), and many others).
And as many others have already pointed out, we power users are still users, and my guess is that the majority of KDE users are power users (the newbies all seem to flock to GNOME; I blame Ubuntu ;p), so I would hope that they work on programs for us! :)
in my case; I use only linux in my home mepis, but in work we use manage very complex projects using planning software and stuff like dynamically linked spreadsheet to database servers, and guess what my colleagues dont even know what is the meaning of this strange thing console-
Ok i I dont know whats your definition of those users, I suppose as they dont use console they are just newbie,
My point is stay humble, and the day when we dont need to open all those weird programs under console just to do a rudimentary operation, then Linux will be a serious choice for desktop users.
So where is this Konsole anyway? I can't find the icon anywhere on my desktop toolbar. :(
Well, your KDE is too new then. It used to be there.
Do you at least have an apt-unget in Debian to revert to the previous version of KDE? In Gentoo all I have to do is download the source code for the previous version, recompile it and install it... all in portage.
"In Gentoo all I have to do is download the source code for the previous version, recompile it and install it"
You consider this as an advantage?
Flame war alert!
apt-get does it. apt-get install package=versionnumber
It should be somewhere in the menu.
Man, can't you realize that your desktop is a Windows XP.???
You are at the wrong place.
taaadaaaa : type in multiple tabs simultaniously, perfect for updating multiple machines at once :-)
Wow - thanks for that - one I did not know - along with a few others that the Survey pointed out....
Konsole Just keeps getting better
Oh, wow. That's pretty cool.
oww, I have a nice feature!!
"konsole lists"
description: allows you to insert a list horizontally over all tabs.
step one: create a list with a name:
name: domainlist
with content like:
1: ssh kde.org
2: ssh bugs.kde.org
3: ssh blah.org
4: ssh etc.org
now when you right click on a tab there would be an option "insert list" which inserts content 1 in the tab you are currently in, content 2 in the next tab, etc.
other usefull features would then be:
"auto spawn tabs" when needed, which spawns tabs if there are more list items then tabs. (so you don't have to open 15 consoles before setting the insert in all tabs option)
"switch to insert in all tabs on insert list", allowing you to be extra lazy.
Pretty good idea. You could set up a 'default environment'. But it would have to save your passwords too, I guess... might be hard to keep it secure.
Sweet. How is it going to handle viewing all the sessions? I use clusterssh for that sort of thing and it opens an xterm for each ssh connection and tiles all the windows. With as many machines I admin, I require dual screen to use it, but I don't see any other way. My point is, I need to see all the sessions I'm typing into. Kick ass feature none the less!
Maybe the split-screen function in Konsole in KDE 4 will make it possible???
In the survey, I asked about "Show Terminal Emulator" in Konqueror. I'm worried that KDE 4 will lose this feature, which I use more often than Konsole. Kate has "Show Terminal" hidden in its menus, and I use this very often as well. I also suggested that "Show Terminal Emulator" be added as a button on all KDE windows.
Agreed. This is a very convenient feature! I am dreaming of the same feature with fish:// in Konqueror. The terminal would launch ssh and would move to the right directory.
yes, supporting KIOslaves as good as possible would be great...
also a very dangerus feature, ever started to write something and then decided to change directory using the gui and it will run that command and change dir. If there is something with rm there you could if your unlucky wipeout your home directory or something
unlucky and stupid, that is...
for real yes, that is a design flaw... rather it should save the typed command in a buffer, remove from the terminal, cd into the new folder and reinsert from the buffer. anyone filed a report yet? X:=P
WONDERFULL idea...
> I'm worried that KDE 4 will lose this feature
based on what, exactly?
Sorry, just a feeling based on no real evidence. The KDE 4 stuff I have seen so far talks about Dolphin as being the new default file manager. See http://dot.kde.org/1172721427/
The survey is all about Konsole and does not mention "Show Terminal Emulator" in Konqueror. So I jumped to the conclusion that nobody doing KDE 4 cares about this feature any more.
Hello Paul, please don't worry, it is planned to include "Show Terminal Emulator" also in Dolphin and for sure nobody aims to remove this functionality from Konqueror.
Best regards,
For one, it is removed from Kubuntu.
I think having YaKuake built into KDE 4 would be a better solution. Then you could just have a tab that automatically syncs to the directory open in dolphin/konqueror/text editor/whatever.
OTOH, I think this is the advantage of Dolphin. since this isnt an often used feature, it can be removed from dolphin but remain in konqueror for the people that want it(and if they use this, chances are, they will also want many of the other features in konqueror that arent found in dolphin).


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Josep R. Casas
Josep R. Casas has been principal investigator of projects MuViPro and PROVEC (Plan Nacional de I+D+i, 2007-2014), and led or contributed to several European Framework Program projects (EUROfusion, FascinatE, ACTIBIO, CHIL, SCHEMA, ADViSOR) and industry-sponsored projects (VISION, HESPERIA, D'Ocon) since 1995. He was a visiting researcher at CSIRO in Canberra, Australia in 2001, and served as chair for the IEEE conferences ICASSP 2020 (Special Sessions) and ICIP 2003 (Finances Chair).
Josep's current research interests focus on multi-view analysis and representation from multiple sensor data: 3D reconstruction and analysis, model-based human motion analysis and gesture recognition. Applications are in the fields of human interaction and audio-visual communication.
Highlighted MsTh/Degree Project offer.
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|FUTUR (UPC): scientific production website
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|"Experimental confirmation of efficient island divertor operation and successful neoclassical transport optimization in Wendelstein 7-X", Nuclear Fusion, vol. 62, no. 4, 2022.,
|"Real-time detection of overloads on the plasma-facing components of Wendelstein 7-X", Applied sciences (Basel), vol. 11, no. 24, 2021.,
|"Geometric Model and Calibration Method for a Solid-State LiDAR", Sensors, vol. 20, no. 10, p. 2898, 2020.,
|"Correspondence matching in unorganized 3D point clouds using Convolutional Neural Networks", Image and Vision Computing, vol. 83-84, 2019. (3.95 MB),
|"Depth Estimation and Semantic Segmentation from a Single RGB Image Using a Hybrid Convolutional Neural Network", Sensors, vol. 19, no. 8, 2019. (4.75 MB),
Book Chapters and Bookstop
|"Multi-view Body Tracking with a Detector-Driven Hierarchical Particle Filter", in Lecture Notes in Computer Science: Articulated Motion and Deformable Objects, vol. 7378, Berlin / Heidelberg: Springer , 2012, pp. 82-91.,
|"INTAIRACT: Joint Hand Gesture and Fingertip Classification for Touchless Interaction", in Computer Vision – ECCV 2012, vol. 7585, Heidelberg: Springer, 2012, pp. 602-606. (214.4 KB),
|"Skeleton and shape adjustment and tracking in multicamera environments", in Lecture notes in computer science, vol. 6169/2010, Berlin / Heidelberg: Springer, 2010, pp. 88–97.,
|"Computers in the Human Interaction Loop", in Handbook on Ambient Intelligence and Smart Environments (AISE), Boston, MA: Springer, 2010, pp. 1071–1116.,
|"The Memory Jog Service", in Computers in the Human Interaction Loop, London: Springer, 2009, pp. 207–234.,
Conference Papers top
|"Spatio-temporal Detection and Tracking of Thermal Events on the Plasma Facing Components of Wendelstein 7-X", in 4th IAEA Technical Meeting on Fusion Data Processing, Validation and Analysis, Shanghai (online), 2021.,
|"Multimodal solid-state LiDAR for advanced perception applications", in OPTOEL, 2021.,
|"Strategy for the real-time detection of thermal events on the plasma facing components of Wendelstein 7-X", in 31st Symposium on Fusion Technology (SOFT2020), Dubrovnik, Croatia, 2020.,
|"One Shot Learning for Generic Instance Segmentation in RGBD Videos", in International Conference on Computer Vision, Theory and Applications, Prague, 2019. (1.64 MB),
|"Self-registered lidar and polarimetric images in real-time: application to detection of small objects at sea", in 7th Workshop on Active Imaging, Saint-Louis, France, 2019.,
Theses top
|"Learning to extract features for 2D-3D multimodal registration", Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC), 2020. (14.22 MB),
|"Semantic and Generic Object Segmentation for Scene Analysis Using RGB-D Data", Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC), download link, 2018.,
|"Stochastic optimization and interactive machine learning for human motion analysis", UPC, Barcelona, 2014. (17.16 MB),
|"Human body analysis using depth data", Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC), 2013. (10.67 MB),
|"Articulated Models for Human Motion Analysis", Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC), 2012. (2.47 MB),
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|DeeLight: Efficient Deep Learning for Video Sequences and Point Clouds
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|Intelligent Perception for Connected and Autonomous Vehicles
|Apr 2022
|Mar 2024
|Image processing for Plasma Facing Components protection
|Jan 2019
|Dec 2022
|SGR17 - Image and Video Processing Group
|Jan 2017
|Sep 2021
|MALEGRA - Multimodal Signal Processing and Machine Learning on Graphs
|Jan 2017
|Jun 2021
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Demos and Resources top
|Correspondence matching in unorganized 3D point clouds using Convolutional Neural Networks
|Oct 2018
|Temporally Coherent 3D Point Cloud Video Segmentation in Generic Scenes
|Aug 2017
|3D Point Cloud Segmentation using a Fully Connected Conditional Random Field
|Mar 2017
|Registration of images to unorganized 3D point clouds using contour cues
|Sep 2016
|Interactive registration for 3D data fusion
|Jul 2016
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|Analog and Digital Television Systems
|Telecommunications Engineering, 5 years degree
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|Audiovisual Production Technology
|Bachelor's degree in Telecommunications Technologies and Services Engineering (Major: Audiovisual Systems)
|TelecomBCN, ETSETB
|K3D: 3D with Kinect
|Degree in Engineering of Audiovisual Systems
|TelecomBCN, ETSETB
|Video Analysis
|Master in Computer Vision (MCV)

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CLEVELAND – A man accused of holding three women captive in his Cleveland home for about a decade pleaded not guilty Wednesday to hundreds of charges, including rape and kidnapping.
Ariel Castro is charged with kidnapping the three women and keeping them – sometimes restrained in chains – along with a 6-year-old girl he fathered with one of them.
Castro, 52, didn't speak during the arraignment, which lasted less than a minute. He stood motionless, dressed in an orange prison outfit, and looked toward the floor as the plea was entered.
His attorneys planned to make a statement later Wednesday morning.
The grand jury charged Castro with two counts of aggravated murder related to one act, saying he purposely caused the unlawful termination of one of the women's pregnancies. He also was indicted on 139 counts of rape, 177 counts of kidnapping, seven counts of gross sexual imposition, three counts of felonious assault and one count of possession of criminal tools.
The 142-page indictment covers only the period from August 2002, when the first victim disappeared, to February 2007. Prosecutors say the investigation will continue and they are leaving the door open to pursuing a death penalty case against Castro.
News that the women had been found alive electrified the Cleveland area, where two of the victims were household names after years of searches, publicity and vigils. But elation soon turned to shock as allegations about their treatment began to emerge.
The indictment against Castro alleges he repeatedly restrained the women, sometimes chaining them to a pole in a basement, to a bedroom heater or inside a van. It says one of the women tried to escape and he assaulted her with a vacuum cord around her neck.
Later, he moved them to upstairs rooms where they were kept as virtual prisoners, according to investigators.
All the while, Castro continued driving a school bus and playing bass in local bands, with fellow musicians saying they never suspected a thing. He was fired as a bus driver last fall after leaving his bus unattended for several hours.
Castro has been held on $8 million bail, which was continued. Last week he was taken off suicide prevention watch in jail. Cuyahoga County jail logs show him spending most of his time sleeping, lying on his bunk, watching TV and occasionally drawing.
Castro was arrested May 6, shortly after one of the women broke through a door and yelled to neighbors for help.
She told a police dispatcher in a dramatic 911 call: "Help me. I'm Amanda Berry. I've been kidnapped, and I've been missing for 10 years, and I'm, I'm here, I'm free now."
The women – Berry, Gina DeJesus and Michelle Knight – disappeared separately between 2002 and 2004, when they were 14, 16 and 20 years old. Each said they had accepted a ride from Castro, who remained friends with DeJesus' family and even attended vigils over the years marking her disappearance.
The women haven't spoken publicly since their rescue.
Berry, 27, told officers that she was forced to give birth in a plastic pool in the house so it would be easier to clean up. Berry said she, her baby and the two other women rescued with her had never been to a doctor during their captivity.
Knight, 32, said her five pregnancies ended after Castro starved her for at least two weeks and "repeatedly punched her in the stomach until she miscarried," authorities said.
She also said Castro forced her to deliver Berry's baby under threat of death if the baby died. She said that when the newborn stopped breathing, she revived her through mouth-to-mouth resuscitation.
The picture of Castro as a friendly musician began to erode soon after the women were freed, as family members told of a man who terrorized his common-law wife, beating her and locking her in an apartment and the same house where the women were later kept.
Castro's two brothers were arrested the same day but were released at a hearing a few days later after it was determined they weren't aware of the activities their brother is accused of. They denounced him in later interviews.
The Associated Press does not usually identify people who may be victims of sexual assault, but the names of the three women were widely circulated by their families, friends and law enforcement authorities for years during their disappearances and after they were found.


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Front Runners List: Click to see list completion progress by climbers that log their climbs using Peakbagger.com.
Compare Climbers: Click to compare ascents of up to 5 climbers working on this list.
Quebec is currently divided into 104 "municipalités régionales de comté géographiques" or "geographic regional county municipalities", and they are they are the closest equivalent to U.S. Counties in the province. They cover the entire area of Quebec and do not overlap, and are of roughly the same size and population as U.S. counties.
These 104 "counties" are of two types: 86 MRCs (regional county municipalities) and 18 TEs (equivalent territories). The TEs include large city areas like Montreal and Quebec City, plus large northern territories like Kativik. See the Wikipedia link below for more explanation of this topic.
Statistics Canada, the agency that runs the Canadian Census, generally uses the MRCGs as Census Divisions (CDs) in their tabulations, so they are statistically equivalent to the counties in the Maritime Provinces and Ontario, and the Regional Districts in British Columbia. However, the Statistics Canada numbering scheme for CDs only allows for codes from 00 to 99 within a single province, so they are forced to combine several groups of the MRCGs into bogus CDs. Therefore, this list is not a Quebec CD high point list—it shows all 104 MRCGs, the real administrative authorities.
Enough bureaucratic talk—this is quite a large and varied list of peaks. It includes a high and rugged summit in the Torngat Mountains in the far north, above-timberline expanses of the Chic-Chocs in the south, gentle hills in the area east of Montreal, huge flat expanses in the St. Lawrence valley, and many remote knobs in the vast watery maze of the Laurentians and the Canadian Shield. By area, Quebec is the largest state or province in North America (bigger than Alaska) and there is a lot of terrain here to cover.
Thanks must be offered to Don Desrosiers, who kindly shared a well-researched Quebec MGRC list he had been working on; to Michel Waechter and Serge Massad, who provided several corrections; to Gabriel Couët, who provided a wealth of information about various summits; and to Ben Lostracco, who has contributed lots of data about Quebec mountains to this site.
Primary sources for this list were the CanVec web mapping service data, the NTS 1:50,000 maps from MyTopo.com, and old SoftMap CD-ROM set for the southeastern areas of the province, and the generous help of the individuals noted above. I tried to synthesize all these sources and cross-check across them all, in many cases trying to track down high points in the mind-numbing lake-studded terrain of the Canadian Shield. I am sure that there are still some errors on this list, and any corrections are welcome.
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Delivering a pumpkin spice gluten free cupcake (to share) and forgetting to grab the forks for the eaters.
Gluten Free Torture
Yummy photos
A visual tour of our latest meals
Okay – so sitting down to type up a post just has not happened. I have been sick lately – not just with a cold, but beyond normal. I thought I had mono (nope) and am just ready to be able to take a full breath again. I'm so tired, but life just does not stop when Mom is tired….or grades are due…or … well, you already know.
So rather than a recipe, here's a visual tour of all the things I *thought* I was going to be able to write up, but just haven't had a moment to catch my breath (or the physical ability to catch my breath – LOL) lately.
Which one interests you? What are you making now that Fall is here?
Currently, I have a fresh, whole pumpkin sitting on our counter. It came with our CSA pick up. I have delicata squash, carrots, beets, rainbow chard, purple cabbage, celeriac, etc. Missing is the time to explore/experiment. Most of what we eat is stir-fry as it is so easy to chop up the veggies we have on hand and munch.
But last night I made some yummy tortilla soup – another family favorite way to use a ton of veggies.
Winter is really just starting around here now. The dark, cold mornings are upon me. Seems like just last week the sun was shining on my way in to work and on my way home. I think I need to learn how to make some tasty gumbo this winter. Anyone have a recipe they recommend? 😀
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About Derek (Fedya)
I am Derek John Power, currently in the process of completing my undergraduate studies at the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, VA. The main project that I am presently working and refining on is a thesis analyzing Arvo Pärt's rendition of the "Canon of Repentance to our Lord Jesus Christ" entitled Kanon Pokajanen. In addition to using music analysis, I also use Orthodox spirituality and theology to conclude that the music that Pärt composed does reflect repentance as the Orthodox Church understands it. I will graduate - God willing - on May 15 2005.
I was born on September 6 1982 in Great Falls, MT, USA and was raised in the United Methodist Church. Right before attending William and Mary, I had an interest in learning more about the Orthodox Church. On November 9 2002, I was received into the Orthodox Church - specifically at Ss. Constantine and Helen Greek Orthodox Church in Newport News, VA (hence the numbers in my username). My chrism name is Theodoros after St. Theodore the Studite and within the Church, I much prefer to be called Fedya (the Russian diminutive). I attend services primarily at Ss. Constantine and Helen, Newport News whilst in school and the Protection of the Holy Mother of God Orthodox Church in Falls Church, VA whilst at home.
Aside from theology, I am very interested in music and film. My favorite academic subjects also include history and philosophy and I have also shown interest in art, economics, government, international affairs, literature, neurology, physics, poetry, politics and psychology.
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Sarkin Makes a Sales Pitch
Cullyn Indroduces Himself
Sarkin and Cullyn make a Deal
These are the Other Guys
Hacklore Killjoy
Cullyn Finds a Friend
Napoleon and Darkwyn Discuss Hacklore
Darkwyn Strange
Time to get a Cleric
Trenton Thandenning
Introducing Trenton Thandenning
Trenton Joins the Party
Introducing Illerya
Illerya joins the party
Chapter 1
Sarkin Explains the Deal
That's what Could Happen!
The Attack of the Lizard Men
Fighting Lizardmen!
The Party is Defeated.
So there was this Giant Rock Lizard...
The Elf Missed
Lizard vs. Illeria
One Tough Lizard
Giant Lizard Aftermath
Roll for Wandering Encounter
Gnome Attack
Arrival at Penhaligon
Hot Cakes
Sarkin Looses the Money
Blueblade putting the moves on Illerya
The Party is for Sale
On the Trail Again
The party arrives at Stallinford
A Deal is Made
Illerya Wants to Kill the Orcs
Illerya Still Wants to Kill the Orcs
The Arrival at the Cave
Sleep is for the Weak
We're going in!
A Lizard and a Ferret...
... walk into a bar.
The Fight Continues
Cullyn Finally Rolls Well
The Fight is Finally Over
A Deheading
The Sword Got Stuck
Taking Care of Things
It's a Rumble!
Sarkin Throws a dagger
Sarkin Gives Back
Sarkin Kills an Orc
The Party is Broken
Everybody is screwed.
Chapter 2
Hacklore gets Whipped
One Successful Strength Check Later...
Napoleon does what he does Best.
Napoleon gets the keys
Napoleon talks about his family
Napoleon kicks a Hobgoblin's Head Right Off
Say Please!
The Orc is freed.
The Party is Getting Picked Off.
Glory and Riches
A Discussion.
An Intervention
Time for Dinner
The First Death of Trenton Thandenning
Illerya Fights a Bugbear
The Bugbear Keeps Fighting
Illerya Finishes the Fight
Illerya Gathers her Spoils
Kobold Sneak Attack
Illerya gets bit
The Kobold Strikes!
It's a Rumble!
It Looks Like the Party is Winning!
The Club of Justice
Aftermath of the Fight.
There is Something Amiss
The Orc is Surprised
Run Away!!
The Dungeon Master Bailout Begins
The Wrong Impression
Illerya is a Dirty Girl
Napoleon; Level 2
The Fight in front of the Cave Part I
The Fight in Front of the Cave, Part 2
The Fight in Front of the Cave, Part 3
The Fight in Front of the Cave, Part 4
The Fight in Front of the Cave, Part 5
The Fight in Front of the Cave, Part 6
The Fight in Front of the Cave, Part 7
The Fight in Front of the Cave, Part 8
The Fight in Front of the Cave, Part 9
The Fight in Front of the Cave, Part 10
The Fight in Front of the Cave, Part 11
The Fight in Front of the Cave, Part 12
The Fight in Front of the Cave, Part 13
The Fight in Front of the Cave, Final Page
The Aftermath
The Next Threat
The Spider
The Halfling vs. The Spider
...and Sarkin rolls lucky
Sarkin releases the Captives
Gain your bearings
Prayers for the Dead
Back at the Caves of Chaos
Darkwin gets What he Wants
Orcs and Hobgoblins don't Like Each Other
Napoleon's Wisdom
A Solemn Question
New Day, New Gear.
Everyone Joins Up Again
A Reason Why
Chapter 3
Alaric Approaches
The Case is Made
Back to the Cave
The Zombie named Eric
And now, Dungeon Level 2
Alaric Lights the Way
Worm Fight!
Bonus Art - Sorry for the Delay
The Worms Fight Continued!
The Worms Defeated.
It's a Ghoul!
Ghoul Aftermath
Illerya Successfully Turns Undead
Illerya Successfully Turns Undead p.2
Illerya Charges in Again
More Skeletons
The Skeletons are Defeated
The Party is Carted Out
A Plan is Hatched
The Plan is Revealed
The Two Arrive at the Estate
What are Humans like anyway?
Meeting the Wizard
Blueblade has a Plan
Rock to MUD!!
The Dungeon Collapses
Time for a Bath
At the Pub that Night
They Arrive at the Keep
The Merchant is Saved!
At the Merchant's House
Hacklore tries Talking Reason
Clothes are Purchased
Blueblade is the Elf Lord
Chapter 3 Epilouge
Chapter 4
On the Road Again
And it's a Giant!
The Parley p.1
The Parley p.2
The Parley p.3
The Parley p.4
The Next Random Encounter
Rock Baboons
Rock Baboons p.2
The baboons are running away.
Back at the Keep
The Mercs are sent away
Hacklore Gets Bailed Out
Arrival at Duke's Road Keep
Hawkeye and Reginald arrive at Duke's Road Keep
Party Aftermath
Cullyn Remembers
The Mercs meet Cullyn
Say what?
Cullyn Makes an Introduction
Everyone Agrees
Another Wandering Encounter
Another Wandering Encounter p.2
The Next Random Encounter
Confrontation with the Dwarf Brothers p.1
Confrontation with the Dwarf Brothers p.2
Confrontation with the Dwarf Brothers p.3
Confrontation with the Dwarf Brothers p.4
Arrived at the Keep
Goblinoid Discrimination
Hacklore, meet Sarkin
Negotiations Continue
Visiting Napoleon
Getting Ready
The Plan Unfolds
Up he goes!
Sarkin up High!
The Sleep Spell Strikes Again
On the Edge
Chapter 5
Introducing the Castellan
Napoleon Awaits his Fate
Frya failed her Engineering Roll
Bonus Page - Art Trade with Alexi
Not Quite Working as Intended
Collect the elf, make a run for it!
The Flames of Frya
Sylvanius is Captured
The Party Flees, the Law Encroaches
Now for the people not rescuing Napoleon
Illerya fails her Charisma Check
Bandit Attack, Pg 1
Bandit Attack, Pg 2
Bandit Attack, Pg 3
Bandit Attack, Pg 4
Bandit Aftermath, and In the Dungeon Again
Discussion in the Dungeon
Illerya Pays the Bail Money
The Folks still in the Keep discuss plans
The Return of the Hermit
Napoleon has Another Idea
Hawkeye and Illerya Seek their Companions
The Hermit gets fed up.
The Attack of Mr. Biscuts
The Defeat of Mr. Biscuts
The Hermit has Seen Things you Wouldn't Believe.
Corran Keep, Part 1
Corran Keep, part 2
Corran Keep, Part 3
Corran Keep, Part 4
Corran Keep, Part 5
Corran Keep, Part 6
Corran Keep, part 7
Bonus Art - Illerya in Color
Corran Keep, part 8
Corran Keep, part 9
Corran Keep, part 10
The Gift was Given
Chapter 6
Illerya Meets The Elven Advisor
Illerya fails her Saving Throw
Sarkin is Waiting at the Keep
Sarkin chats with the Monk
The Return of the Dwarf Brothers
A decision is made
Illerya and the Elven Advisor have a conversation.
Lizard Man Ambush!
Another Lizard Man Fight
Reginald joins the fight
Cullyn is the Last Man Standing
Cullyn Representing Fighters Everywhere
The Party is Hiding for their Lives
Illerya Returns to the Merchant's Mansion
Sarkin makes a deal with the Dwarf Brothers.
And now the Cleric shows up...
Sarkin is almost ready to go
Sarkin and Illerya part ways
This conversation is in Elvish
This Elvish Conversation is not going very well.
Sarkin has a new Party
Bonus Page - Gift from Artbrosean
Another visit to the Hermit
The Status of Things.
Alleandros sleeps with Illerya
Hawkeye gets arrested too.
Illerya comes to visit Blueblade
Illerya says she's here to help
What the people who are not Blueblade and Illerya are doing.
Sarkin's Party arrives at the Caves of Chaos
Sarkin Scouts the Caves of Chaos
Cullyn and friends make a break for it.
Alleandros finds the Bandits.
Alleandros deals with the Bandits
Alleandros makes some new friends.
They got away from the lizardmen
Cullyn gets a makeover.
Cullyn meets up with Illerya inside the Keep.
Illerya says she will help, but Cullyn isn't sure.
Aleandros meets up with the Priest and the Dwarf brothers.
Alleandros and the Dwarf Brothers Disagree
Alleandros and his Charmed Bandits Attack
The Priest's Minions are Quite the little Warboys
Curse your sudden, yet inevitable betrayal!
The fight between the NPCs continues.
Hit points are in the Negative!
And the Elven Advisor Bites it!
The Charm Spell is Dispelled
Nobody likes a tattle-tale, Sarkin.
The Clerics get cleaned up
Illerya has shaken off the yoke of the Charm spell.
Illerya returns to the rest of the party.
The Party confronts the Bandits.
A dodgy deal is made.
The Dwarves start kicking Lizard Man Ass.
The Lizardmen are Indomitable
Halflings can hide in the Forest
Sarkin gets down to business
The Guard Makes his Saving Throw.
The Massacre Outside the Caves of Chaos
Illerya says Goodbye to Alleandros
The Bugbear Lair
Chapter 7
Looks like Bugbears are Hiring.
Stan and a Flipped Table
The First Fight Againts the Bugbears
The Bugbears strike the Alarm Gong
Silencing the Alarm
Bugbear Reinforcements Arrive!
Hacklore casts Trenton's Sleep Spell
Fighting the Bugbears
The Bugbears gain an advantage!
Cullyn gets stabbed in the back.
The First Death of Cullyn Blaine of Fenhold
Frya Catches one in the Face.
The Party Defeats the Bugbears.
That's not Poo he's Flinging
The Strength of Frya
A Bugbear Makes a Break For It
The Bugbear's Slaves
The Fight to Free the Bigbear's Slaves
Bugbear Slave Rollcall!
The Great Escape Begins.
Where the Other Half Lives.
The Great Speech!
Interracial Tensions
Hacklore doesn't Charge.
Hacklore is lost
Hacklore makes a friend
The Kobold makes a Joke.
The Kobold talks about his family.
Hacklore Finds the Rest of the Party
The Party Finds a Place to Hole Up
The Party is Trapped!
Yet another plan by Frya unfolds
All of Frya's Plans Involve Flame.
Bugbear Sex
The Bugbear Chieftan
The Party exits the Bugbear lair
Chapter 8
In the Labyrinth
Illerya sees something.
Attack of the Fire Beetles
Illerya Casts Cure Light Wounds
When Fire Beetles attack
Brawl with the Fire Beetles
Illerya can only cast that spell once.
Poor Tulla
And now: Stirges.
Fighting off the Stirges
Those Damn Stirges
And the Last Stirge is Killed.
The Party finally gets out of the Minotaur's Cave.
Chapter 9
Blueblade is being charming.
Day Two of the Incarceration of Sylvanius
Day Two – Sarkin is shifty.
The Second Night of The Imprisonment of Sylvanius
Blueblade is Making Plans.
Save My Place
Load My Place
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If you're in the market for a pre-owned vehicle, you've come to the right place! Charlie's Jeep of Augusta, ME maintains a quality selection of used cars, trucks, minivans and SUVs at competitive prices.
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Lost amid the all-star headlines yesterday was the news that the Washington Nationals' beleaguered left fielder Wily Mo Peña was likely headed to the disabled list.
The 26-year-old would-be slugger might very well be the biggest disappointment for the Nationals in a season choc full of disappointments. Touted as an everyday middle-of-the order power hitter when GM Jim Bowden acquired him from Boston, Peña has instead hit an embarrassing .205 this season with just two home runs and 10 RBI.
Now an MRI has revealed that Peña has been playing with a small tear in his left rotator cuff and a frayed labrum in his left shoulder, something the Nationals should have diagnosed much earlier. Bowden pointed to this discovery as "certainly the main reason" that Peña has not performed, but just to be safe, may I suggest that the Nationals made another mistake that could be affecting Wily Mo's play.
When the Nationals brought Peña here from the Red Sox, they changed his uniform number from 22 to 26, the number previously worn by pitcher Ramon Ortiz.
Surely Wily Mo asked for the number he'd worn while with the Cincinnati Reds, but if he'd been paying attention, he might have noted that the #26 is already owned by the most cursed member of the Nationals for the last 3 seasons: Teddy Roosevelt.
In an organization that has had more than it's share of bad luck, Teddy has easily been the most snakebitten of all. Until Teddy's run of bad luck clears up, the organization might think about keeping #26 set aside just for him.
My advice to Wily Mo: Rest that shoulder, and when you come back, ask for a new number.
Photo of Wily Mo Peña courtesy of Nationals blogger Miss Chatter.


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Becoming a Dermatologist
Accreditation & Training Positions
ACD accredits training positions in dermatology and in Mohs surgery.
Training positions are accredited in order to:
- Ensure that all trainees/ candidates are provided with a learning environment which will educate and train competent dermatologists, as defined by the ACD curriculum, and/or competent Mohs specialists as defined by the Mohs surgery curriculum.
- Maintain a consistent level of education and training in every accredited post.
- Gather feedback from key stakeholders to continually improve all aspects of the training programs
The National Accreditation Committee is responsible for accrediting all training positions and consists of a Fellow from each State, including a Mohs Surgery Committee representative, and a member from the Trainee Representative committee.
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All Training Positions are accredited in accordance with defined Standards and College regards these as important for the quality education and training of Trainees/Candidates.
All documentation in relation to the Standards, accreditation outcomes, applying and the application process can be found here:
|Dermatology Training Positions
|MOHs Training Positions
|Accreditation Process
|Updated standard
|APPLY Online
|APPLY Online
|Accreditation Timetable
|Timetable Template
|Candidate Feedback Form
|Sample Accreditation Report
The Accreditation Committee accredit College Training Positions according to a State-based five-yearly cycle.
The current timetable for the College's State Training Structure Accreditation is as follows:
|South Australian State Training Structure (includes Northern Territory)
|Queensland State Training Structure
|New South Wales State Training Structure (includes Australian Capital Territory)
|Victorian State Training Structure (includes Tasmania)
|Western Australia State Training Structure
Unscheduled state training structure accreditation
Unscheduled state training structure accreditations may also be carried out for the following reasons:
- If the College is advised that there have been significant changes to the structure or function of any particular training position, an accreditation site visit or review may be conducted in advance of the usual cycle.
- If a complaint from a Fellow or trainee/candidate is received, this will generate a review, and/or a visit to that training position/s.
The Australasian College of Dermatologists has a number of accredited dermatology training positions and MOHs surgery training positions. The training positions are located both in Australia and overseas in the following Public Hospitals, Private Hospitals, Skin Health Institute and Private Practices, which all contribute to creating high standard Training Facility Networks:
|Royal Brisbane and Women's Hospital
Princess Alexandra Hospital
The Mater Hospital
Queensland Children's Hospital
Townsville University Hospital
Cairns Hospital
Sunshine Coast University Hospital
|North West Private Hospital Everton Park
|New South Wales
|Concord Repatriation General Hospital
The Skin Hospital Darlinghurst
The Skin Hospital Westmead
Westmead Hospital
St Vincent's Hospital
Liverpool Hospital
Orange Dermatology
Prince of Wales Hospital
Sydney Children's Hospital
Royal Newcastle Centre/John Hunter Hospital
Royal North Shore Hospital
Royal Prince Alfred Hospital
Lotus Dermatology
Campbelltown Hospital
Kingsway Dermatology
Pinnacle Dermatology
Coastal Dermatology
|The Skin Hospital Darlinghurst & Westmead
|Royal Canberra Hospital
|The Alfred Hospital
Austin Health
Box Hill Hospital
Monash Medical Centre
Peter MacCallum Institute
Royal Children's Hospital
Royal Melbourne Hospital
Skin Health Institute
St Vincent's Hospital
Western Hospital
Sinclair Dermatology
Healesville Hospital
|Skin Health Institute
|Northern Territory
|Royal Darwin Hospital
|South Australia
|Flinders Medical Centre
Royal Adelaide Hospital
Queen Elizabeth Hospital/Women and Children's Hospital
|Western Australia
|Fiona Stanley Hospital
Royal Perth Hospital
Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital
Perth Children's Hospital
|Oxford Day Surgery & Dermatology, Mount Hawthorn
South Perth Specialist Skin Cancer Centre, South Perth
|Overseas Positions
|National Skin Centre, SINGAPORE
St George's Hospital, London UK
The Churchill Hospital, Oxford UK
St Johns Institute, London UK
University College, London
The Specialist Training Program (STP) is a Federal Government initiative to increase the number of training posts available for specialists-in-training outside traditional public teaching hospitals, providing an annual salary of $107,000 per post. An additional $25,000 per annum pro rata of rural loading is also available for posts with rotations to training sites located in areas classified under the Australian Standard Geographical Classification-Remoteness Area (ASGC-RA) as RA2-5.
The college administers 29 STP positions in New South Wales, Victoria, Queensland and South Australia. All positions are accredited as per the college's National Accreditation Standards.
STP funding is determined via application rounds by the Department of Health with assessment by the Department, the relevant specialist colleges and state/territory health jurisdictions. Only training facilities are eligible to apply for funding. There are no further application rounds scheduled at this time.
The training positions are to be in health care settings beyond traditional public teaching hospitals that include:
- Private hospitals
- Specialists' rooms
- Clinics and day surgeries
- Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Service (ACCHS)
- Publicly funded health care facilities such as regional, rural and community health settings classified RA2-5
- Non-clinical settings (such as simulated learning environments)
The aims of the project are to:
- Increase the capacity within the health workforce to train Dermatologists
- Better train specialists in dermatology, with education that matches the nature of demand and reflect the way health services are delivered
- Increase the College's capacity to make strategic decisions that increase trainees and specialist International Medical Graduates' access to appropriate training and maximising their workforce contribution
- Develop networked specialist training arrangements
The Australasian College of Dermatologists has been contracted by the Commonwealth to manage STP funding and all successful training facilities must enter into a contract with the College.
Additional funding is available for successful post if rotations include private setting via the Private Infrastructure and Clinical Supervision (PICS) funds. These funds are managed by the Royal Australasian College of Medical Administrators (RACMA). Up to $30,000 per annum is available for clinical supervision and private infrastructure.
For more information on the background of STP, view the STP Operational Framework on the Department's website.


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Front Porch Quilt Shoppe
Warm Welcome
Located in Ozark, Alabama, Front Porch Quilt Shoppe fills a charming 19th-century home, complete with a wraparound porch perfect for sipping sweet iced tea with mother-daughter owners Melanie and Charley Simpson.
All Hands In
Staff and family members pitch in to make samples for Front Porch Quilt Shoppe. Owner Charley Simpson made the hanging banner out of pages from an old book and bright scraps of fabric.
Meet the Staff
Front row, from left: John Simpson, Melanie Simpson (owner), Carol Lattimore, and Charley Simpson (owner); middle row: Janan Doster, Isobel Tierney, Lynn Price, and Marilyn Dean; back row: Aimee Burr, Alisa Danner, Cynthia Farley, and Jackie McKinstry.
Cheery and Bold
An array of bright contemporary fabrics is on display in the former parlor at Front Porch Quilt Shoppe. A string of appliquéd onesies embellishes the fireplace mantel.
First Stop
Quilts and baskets of cotton plants grace the shop's front porch, creating an inviting atmosphere for customers.
Fun with Ficklesticks
Owner Charley Simpson creates colorful ornaments using Ficklesticks, flexible fabric wire designed by Diana Taylor.
Child's Play
Bright bolts of fabric and samples pack the children's section at The Front Porch Shoppe.
Sew Charming
Shop owner Charley Simpson designed a sweet Four-Patch quilt, Sew Charming, for Quilt Sampler® Spring/Summer 2013 magazine.
Machine-Quilting Details
Shop owner Melanie Simpson machine-quilted an allover feather design across the quilt top.
Get the Magazine!
Contact Front Porch Quilt Shoppe to purchase a copy of Quilt Sampler® Spring/Summer 2013 magazine, pick up the issue at your local quilt shop or newsstand, or get the digital issue online.
Peek inside The Noble Quilter, another quilt shop featured in the Spring/Summer 2013 issue.


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What's going on with Honest Abe?
Barely one quarter into the 2008 season, racing president Abraham Lincoln is running away from the pack in the standings, having won 7 of the last 8 and more than half of all presidents races so far.
In fact, since the end of April, our 16th president has been running out of the gate like Mercury, taking huge commanding leads over the other presidents in almost every race. The Great Emancipator's only loss in that time was on Saturday night, May 10, when his lead over the other presidents was so big that he stopped and waited for the others to catch up, then lost to George in a photo finish.
In that time, #16 has become a bit of a showboater, taunting and bumping the other presidents as he outruns them. This all begs the question. What's Honest Abe been putting in his breakfast cereal?
What do you think? As the team returns to Nationals Park to begin a homestand against Philadelphia, I say we should all keep an eye on Abraham Lincoln. If #16 continues this improbable run, an investigation might be in order.
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Home » 60's, 70's, 80's landmarks » BRYARS, GAVIN: The Marvellous Aphorisms of Gavin Bryars: The Early Years
BRYARS, GAVIN: The Marvellous Aphorisms of Gavin Bryars: The Early Years
Composed between 1969 and1971, when Bryars was working with ideas from Cage, Fluxus, free improvisation and experimentalism. There are 4 compositions here: Pre-Mediaeval Metrics for guitar and saxophone, a graphic score, Made in Hong Kong, for mechanical toys, 1, 2, 1-2-3-4, for ensemble: the musicians all listen to the same cassette (a new technology then), and ignore one another, improvising along with what they hear (Beatles songs). The cassettes slowly get out of synch, The Squirrel and The Ricketty Racketty Bridge, written for Derek Bailey. The performer has to play two guitars simultaneously, placed flat on their backs, hammering on and off. These are all new recordings with sleeve notes by Bryars.
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Yet another study on Internet piracy appeared last week, and it's a biggie. Commissioned by the International Chamber of Commerce's Business Action to Stop Counterfeiting and Piracy group (BASCAP), it concludes that the entertainment sectors of European Union countries could lose €240 billion ($324.6 billion) in revenue and 1.2 million jobs by 2015.
That is, "assuming no significant policy changes," the analysis adds (hint hint).
"Digital piracy is sweeping through global markets," warned an ICC BASCAP guy in the accompanying press release. "In its wake, these creative industries suffer devastating economic losses and an assault on their ability to compensate artists and furnish legitimate employment opportunities. These dire consequences call for an urgent response by policymakers, consumers and the creative industry itself."
The analysis is loudly endorsed by EU entertainment industry trade associations and unions. And, speaking of policy changes, the report comes as Britain ponders its Digital Economy Bill, which even made the Queen's Speech of last November. The proposed law would let British ISPs crack down on deemed illegal file sharers by suspending accounts, limiting broadband speeds, blocking or curtailing access to certain sites, or limiting service to subscribers "in another way" (suggest your hypothetical punishment here).
But some of the assumptions here left us scratching our heads.
Le Vice P2P
"Building a Digital Economy: The Importance of Saving Jobs in the EU's Creative Industries" presents itself as a breakthrough in anti-piracy research in that it tries to be more rigorous about what kind of jobs are really at risk (we've been complaining for a while about how vague most studies are about this). It divides the fields that create these jobs into two broad categories: "core" and "non-core" digital creative industries.
The core industries include music, video, software, press, literature, and "database"—that is, "computer and related activities (software consultancy and supply, data processing, and database activities and on-line distribution of electronic content)."
But it's the non-core industries that really up the ante in this study. They include (take a deep breath) video and audio device makers, computer makers, office machinery suppliers, musical instrument makers, "wholesale of other household goods," "Other retail trade of new goods in specialized stores," "Retail trade not in stores," "Other retail," "Transport via railways equipment, "Cargo handling," "Storage and warehousing," "Air transport," "Water transport," and, of course, "other transport."
"Water transport"? We searched the report for some more precise definition of this "non-core" industry, and found none. So here's the thinking, as best we can guess. As more and more EU consumers buy pirated DVDs or download their audio/video content for free via P2P,they will eventually hurt the folks who transport DVDs, CDs, computers, audio/video receivers, musical instruments, and "other household goods" across land, air, and sea through snow, rain, heat, and gloom of night.
In the case of H2O, this would presumably include container ships and the tugboats that guide them to shore—soon to be scuttled by young Jacques and his BitTorrent habit.
Orders of magnitude
The analysis claims that the "whole creative ecosystem in Europe" produced about €860 billion of "value added," representing 6.5 percent of the European workforce. The big challenge, of course, is how to extrapolate the loss of 1.2 million jobs half a decade from now.
"Building a Digital Economy" acknowledges this is a toughie, especially because of the "technical difficulty in determining the weight of the non-core industries on a country level [for a job loss formula] because of gaps in the Eurostat data, which form the basis of the calculation." The results should be treated with "caution."
Here's the methodology:
First, take the number of illegally downloaded or streamed files plus the number of physical counterfeit media products sold each year. Create a substitution rate, representing the number of items that probably would have been sold if the Queen and her agenda setting equivalents for France, Germany, Italy and Spain had already gotten their way. To its credit the report applies conservative substitution rates of 10 percent for music and similar percentages for video; none of this "every download is a lost sale" stuff is in evidence.
Next, punch in retail prices for these items in those countries, which represent nearly 75 percent of Europe's GDP, and crunch retail losses for all of them.
From this formula, the study calculated €10 billion in revenue losses and more than 185,000 jobs lost due to piracy in 2008, mostly of the digital kind.
Second, add growth estimates of broadband and wireless use for the next five years, which the report tracks at a Compound Annual Rate of Growth of 130 percent from 2008 through 2013. Finally, plug in various projections for P2P and IP video expansion, most notably Cisco's Visual Networking Index: Forecast and Methodology, 2008-2013.
From these repositories of data, the report extrapolates two possibilities. One is that "piracy behavior" will continue to center on P2P, resulting in a cumulative EU revenue loss of €32 billion and job losses of 610,000 by 2015. The other assumes that "digital piracy techniques will be further diversified" way beyond P2P, et voila—€240 billion and 1.2 million jobs down the river by that year.
Percentage decline
Hopefully this is not the last word in illegal file sharing research. Don't get us wrong. We think that P2P file sharing, counterfeit DVD sales, and illegal IP video streaming costs jobs. People download this stuff for free or buy/stream it on the cheap, the content providers lose sales, and to the extent that these companies channel their revenue back into production, less folks get hired to make, distribute, and sell their stuff.
But several key assumptions in this study are so full of holes they could retire Captain Nemo's sub, especially when it comes to "non-core" industries. Where's the link between device manufacturing and P2P use here? In fact, it could be argued that illegal file sharing to some degree drives the consumption of computers, media players, and software, as consumers gorge themselves on free digital fare. This has long been a complaint against companies like Apple, in fact; how dare they make so much cash on hardware when people just buy iPods to load them up with illegal content!
Why doesn't this study grapple with surveys indicating that file sharers also buy lots of content? How much IP video will actually be illegal (think Hulu, YouTube, BBC iPlayer, etc.)? And why doesn't "Building a Digital Economy" take into account this paragraph from the very Cisco report that it cites?
Peer-to-peer (P2P) is growing in volume, but declining as a percentage of overall IP traffic. P2P file-sharing networks are now carrying 3.3 exabytes per month and will continue to grow at a moderate pace with a CAGR of 18 percent from 2008 to 2013. Other means of file sharing, such as one-click file hosting, will grow rapidly at a CAGR of 58 percent and will reach 3.2 exabytes per month in 2013. Despite this growth, P2P as a percentage of consumer Internet traffic will drop to 20 percent of consumer Internet traffic by 2013, down from 50 percent at the end of 2008.
Given its willingness to use reasonable substitution rates, the report makes for some decent reading if you're trying to understand what's currently happening to the creative sector, but it's only a place to start. The "non-core" assumptions suggest plenty of dubious job losses, and a complete picture of industry health would need to look at the big revenues raked in by movie theaters and live concert promoters.


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Illinois Senate could consider same-sex marriage next week
A same-sex marriage bill could be considered by the Illinois Senate as soon as Valentine's Day next week.
The Senate Executive committee approved the bill 9-5 along party lines Tuesday.
The measure is a revised version of a measure the same panel approved during the lame-duck session in January. The new bill further clarifies that places of worship would not be forced to perform same-sex marriage ceremonies, said Rep. Heather Steans, one of the bill's chief sponsors.
But opponents such as Joe LaRue, legal counsel for Alliance Defending Freedom, and Sen. Matt Murphy, R-Palatine, the committee's ranking Republican, argued the bill does not go far enough to protect religious freedom.
"We're going to end up in a situation here where, on a case-by-case basis, churches are going to have to be dragged to court to highlight ... where their First Amendment right begins and ends," Murphy said.
Steans said laws already in place, such as the Religious Freedom Restoration Act and the Human Rights Act, do enough to protect religious freedom.
Steans said momentum remains on the side of allowing same-sex marriage.
"Every time you poll (the issue), (support) just goes up," she said.
Danielle Cook of Bloomington-Normal testified in support of the bill Tuesday. Cook has been in a same-sex relationship with her partner, Suzie Hutton, since 2002 and joined in a civil union in 2011. Cook said they want the same level of respect that's given to any devoted, married couple.
"People offer, or intentionally offer, less respect and dignity to our relationship because marriage is the standard in our society," Cook said. "I want to be married to Suzie. I want our relationship to begin with the same respect that marriage provides."
Following the Senate panel's vote, Gov. Pat Quinn called the issue a "matter of fairness" in a news release.
"I thank the members of the Senate Executive Committee for advancing this measure today, and look forward to working to pass this bill through both houses in the days to come," he said in the release.


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With a rare late afternoon start and temperatures in the mid-90s for the final game of this week's homestand, the last thing anybody at Nationals Park probably wanted to do was exert themselves by running a sprint around the full length of the warning track.
So when Teddy Roosevelt saw nothing but green between himself and the presidents race finish line on Wednesday, he chose the easy route, jogging straight across the outfield.
Roosevelt's hopes for an easy victory were dashed when the speedy Abe Lincoln caught up to him anyway. That's when Teddy simply threw in the towel — a mistake that cost him when The Great Emancipator tripped and fell, giving George the unlikely victory.
Teddy's only consolation: He didn't break a sweat, and had he broken the tape instead of George, he would surely have been disqualified for cheating.
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The Buck Stops: Treasury Suspends Production Of Presidential Dollars
Saying it can save taxpayers $50 million a year, the Treasury Department announced today that it is suspending almost all production of presidential dollar coins.
There are nearly 1.4 billion of the coins sitting around in surplus because of lack of demand, Treasury says. Their production was mandated by the 2005 Presidential $1 Coin Act. Going forward, Treasury plans to produce only enough to satisfy the relatively small demand from collectors. It says "the next coin in the series, the President Chester A. Arthur $1 Coin, will be released in the Spring of 2012."
Update at 4 p.m. ET: And we shouldn't neglect to mention that it was "a joint inquiry by NPR's Planet Money and Investigations teams" that cast a bright light on the wasteful coin surplus.
Update at 3:20 p.m. ET: Our friends at Planet Money have more here.
Copyright 2021 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org.


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The F22 Raptor is the USA air superiority plane. Its stealth costs too much and proved too fragile. In USA style stealth, sharp angles are used because only reflections in discrete directions come back. So US stealth plane act like diamonds: a bright return radar flash is followed by nothing, as the plane has moved slightly in the next sweep, and the sharp reflection went into some other direction, far away.
In 2009, in the United Arab Emirates, F22s Raptors met French Rafales in mock combat. The French weekly Air & Cosmos released an instructive picture. Here is a F22, in the gun sight of a Rafale:
[All the targeting data was removed.]
The word "blasphemy" comes to mind. To put things in their proper context, the Rafale is a superlative bomber and ground attack plane. Contrarily to the F22 Raptor, it was not built just for air supremacy.
In the above picture, the Raptor is obviously maneuvering hard in the vertical plane: its nose is up, and one can see the bright flares of its two engines in post combustion, as they vector as hard as they can (see the supersonic shockwaves in the white jet exhausts). The F22 is trying to escape an inverted Rafale pulling with a lot of acceleration ("gs") toward the ground. The F-22 is clearly not in a position for a gun or an infrared missile shoot ("fox2"). The thrust vectoring the F22 is engaging into is killing its speed. if the Rafale does not shoot it right away, it's going to be the biggest slow moving turkey the sky has ever seen, within a few seconds.
Also remember that the Rafale carries its missiles externally, and normally the F22 does not (because, if it did, it would lose stealth). So the Rafale is capable of an instantaneous InfraRed missile shot on the F22, should the latter somehow escape the Rafale's 30 mm gun…
Radars use intermittency to detect a moving object, so, if a reflection is followed by no reflection as the target has moved slightly, the electronic connected to the radar sees nothing.
One of the many disadvantages of USA style stealth is that sharp angles are not very aerodynamic, resulting in all sorts of problems, including fatigue of the exposed parts of the plane. Thus some of the plastic of the F-22 wore off, and had to be replaced by titanium (which is highly reflective).
The F22 Raptor plane is made of toxic polymers and epoxy glue, and technicians have to wear mask and gloves when approaching it. Cough and actually asphyxia have been reported in or around the plane. Making it the only neurotoxic plane in the world.
The F22 also cost 400 million dollar apiece. (And the F-22 lacks more recent features such as High Off Bore Sight and Helmet Mounted Display, let alone a very long range missile such as the Meteor.)
The F-22 was thus replaced by the smaller, cheaper, much slower F-35. With just one single engine. Four hundred (400) billion dollars has been spent on the F-35, and still, more than ten years later, it has not dropped a bomb, fired one missile, or a single canon shell…
[Latest News, January 2015: The F35 will not fire its gun before 2019, at the earliest!]
The F35 program is actually the most expensive defense program, ever. By a very long shot.
By comparison, the Manhattan project cost 20 billion dollars, by the time it had dropped two nuclear fisson bombs on Japan and forced its surrender (and the hurried suicides of a few of the military plutocrats who terrorized Japan).
The F35 cannot cruise at supersonic speeds (the Rafale can cruise supersonically, and stealthily, with ten tons of weapons hanging outside). One may wonder if the F-35 could have caught up with the 9/11 terrorists… (After all, F15s, which fly much faster, could not, but at the time nobody expected that the USA would be attacked the way France had been in 1996, by suicidal highjackers!)
Now for a somewhat peaceful sight:
Rafale (on the left) and Typhoon Eurofighter (built respectively by French Dassault and part-French
EADS, the company that owns Airbus). Both planes were successfully engaged in Libya, although:
1) The Eurofighter needed assistance from Tornado bombers to… bomb. (The Tornadoes detected and painted targets for the Eurofighters' laser guided bombs. Eurofighters can't bomb on their own!)
2) The Rafales were fully autonomous, and proved capable, using their active stealth, to search and destroy enemy missile batteries and radars of a fully functional air defense system.
3) Somehow American business men and their friends in Washington were able to persuade some of the nations which (helped) built (and purchase) the Typhoon Eurofighter to pitch into the F-35 Lightning II program. That's very remarkable.
The United Kingdom, which is in a depression (its GDP numbers are worse than in the 1930s) and bankrupt Italy are now funding a useless, immensely expensive plane… made in the USA. As if money grew on trees, or, at least, so it does in Washington. How much money has been passing under that table?
Rafales recently visited Great Britain. Instructions were issued to British pilots, with their "Typhoon" Eurofighters, to NOT engage in war games with French Rafales.
Is it all bad with the Typhoon Eurofighters? Well, not at all, as long as they stay away from Rafales, and go shoot F22s!
Lockheed Martin haughtily claims: "the F-22 is the only aircraft that blends supercruise speed, super-agility, stealth and sensor fusion into a single air dominance platform."
In mid-June 2012, 150 German airmen and eight twin-engine, non-stealthy Typhoons arrived at Eielson Air Force Base in Alaska for an American-led Red Flag exercise involving more than 100 aircrafts from Germany, the U.S. Air Force and Army, NATO, Japan, Australia and Poland.
Eight times during the two-week war game, single German Typhoons flew against single F-22s , simulating close-range dogfights.
Conclusion? In a close-range tangle — which pilots call a "merge" — the bigger and heavier F-22 is at a disadvantage. German Typhoon pilots said that, when flying without their external fuel tanks, in the WVR (Within Visual Range) arena, the Eurofighter proved to be better than the F22 Raptor.
The F-22 tends to lose too much energy when using thrust vectoring (TV): TV can be useful to enable a rapid direction change without losing sight of the adversary but, unless the Raptor can manage to immediately get a kill, the energy it loses makes the then slow moving plane quite vulnerable!
(Also the F-22 burns fuel like crazy during TV, and it has a short range to start with, due to its poor aerodynamics, and enormous engines to push its brutal shape.)
The Raptor fights well from beyond visual range with its high speed and altitude, sophisticated radar and long-range AIM-120 AMRAAM missiles. Yet the AMRAAM maximum range is around 100 kms, less than the Meteor missile used by the Typhoon (and the Rafale!).
At this point, the partisans of the F22 will start their usual USA superiority sing-song. They will say, the Raptor is so stealthy, outside of visual range, it will sneak onto non stealthy Typhoons. And yet, this is another lie.
At a distance of about 50 km, the Typhoon IRST (Infra-Red Search and Track) system can find even a stealthy plane "especially if it is large and hot, like the F-22″ a Eurofighter pilot said. (Another reason for compact beauty, as in the Rafale!)
In any case, the Typhoons killed several Raptors during the Red Flag Alaska. On one day a German pilot quipped: "yesterday, we have had a Raptor salad for lunch."
Other problems with the Raptor: it chokes its pilots, and its long range missiles do not work when it's… cold (like it tends to get, up there in the sky). Both problems have been with the plane in the last two years, and it's supposed to stay close to a base all the time!
Ah, and what of the Rafale already?
Well in an exercise, Rafales and Typhoons met, 9 Typhoons got "killed" while a single Rafale was disqualified… for flying too low. "Super agility", anyone?
So, taxpayers, to your purses! The stealthy Military-Industrial Complex wants more from you. Much more. Some will say: wait a minute, why all these useless planes? Well, because after charging two billion dollars apiece for the completely useless subsonic B2 bomber, the plane makers of the USA realized they had found a story taxpayers bought with relish: the STEALTH plane. It was a nationalistic story: only the USA had stealth planes. The American public loves nationalistic, only-in-the-USA stories.
One difference between the USA and France is that one needs more nationalistic fervor to keep the USA together (the same applies to other countries, and the less they hold together naturally, the more strident the nationalistic fervor!). The French are more blasé: they are stuck together, anyway (although they feel it would be more elevated not to be).
OK, most publics are nationalistic, but can the most advanced civilization be the most nationalistic? Well, no. Nationalism is a form of hubris, and there is no stealthier poison. Athens tasted of that delicious poison, the poison of hubris, the poison so many in Germany, helas, even while torturting Hellas, tasted with relish.
All and any argument resting on nationalism is logically suspect, it's a contaminant.
After building and operating for more than a trillion dollar of these useless planes, the F-22, the F-35, more money will be needed… For weapons that really work. Thus a double subsidy for the Military-Industrial Complex. One for useless weapons, and then one, absolutely necessary, for weapons that actually work!
Patrice Ayme
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United CEO says no one will be fired for dragging incident
United Airlines executives said Tuesday that it's too soon to know if last week's dragging of a man off a plane is hurting ticket sales. The chief executive said no one will be fired over the incident.
CEO Oscar Munoz and other executives apologized again on Tuesday before discussing the airline's latest financial results with analysts and reporters.
Munoz said he takes full responsibility "for making this right" after the April 9 incident aboard a United Express plane at Chicago's O'Hare airport. He said the airline will have more to say later this month after it finishes a review of its policies on overbooked flights.
Munoz started the call with an apology to David Dao, the 69-year-old Kentucky physician who was dragged off the plane by Chicago airport officers who had been summoned by United, and to all other customers.
"You can and should expect more from us, and as CEO I take full responsibility for making this right," Munoz said. He and other executives vowed to treat customers with dignity, and said that what happened to Dao will never happen again.
Munoz's early statements on the incident were widely criticized. He initially supported employees and blamed Dao, calling him "disruptive and belligerent." On Tuesday, he was asked if the company ever considered firing anyone.
"I'm sure there was lots of conjecture about me personally," said Munoz. Then he noted that the board of United Continental Holdings Inc. has supported him.
"It was a system failure across various areas," Munoz continued. "There was never a consideration for firing an employee."
Dao's lawyers have taken steps that foreshadow a lawsuit against the airline and the city of Chicago, which operates O'Hare Airport.
United announced two rule changes last week, including saying that it will no longer call police to remove passengers from overbooked planes. It is not clear whether United oversold Flight 3411, but the flight became overbooked when four Republic Airline employees showed up after passengers had boarded and demanded seats so they could commute to their next assignment, a United Express flight the next morning.
Some politicians and consumer advocates have called for a ban on overselling flights. Munoz declined to address that or other possible changes until the airline finishes a review by April 30.
Even in normal times, airlines closely — even daily — scrutinize numbers such as advance sales and occupancy levels on planes. Yet United officials said they couldn't measure whether the dragging has affected their business.
"It's really too early for us to tell anything about bookings and in particular last week because it was the week before Easter, that's normally a very low booking period," said United President Scott Kirby. He said that United's forecast for the April-through-June quarter has not changed.
Munoz said he has received "a lot of support" from United's high-end customers, although "obviously a lot of people have ideas and thoughts about how we can make things better."


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On a beautiful Mothers Day afternoon, the Washington Nationals pulled off another nail biter at Nationals Park, completing another winning homestand and taking the series from the Florida Marlins, three games to two.
Moms were honored both before and throughout the game, and the 4th-inning presidents race was no exception.
Nats mascot and presidents race judge Screech wore a pink cap and brought his mom onto the field to help out.
Momma Screech wore a pink dress and lots of lipstick. It was reported to be her first visit to Nationals Park, but to long-time Nationals fans, she looked suspiciously familiar.
The presidents ran a tight race in which George Washington held off Abe to end the homestand with a 1-race lead over Lincoln. After the race, the presidents all held up signs for the scoreboard camera operators, reading "Happy Mothers Day Moms."
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Keto Trim is a supplement that claims to help you lose weight in a few weeks. It claims to have a unique combination to help you lose weight and keep it off. Is it safe to use? What are the ingredients? Are there side effects? This Keto Trim review will help determine if this diet pill is right to you.
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Please share this pledge with others. If it speaks to you and your role as an educator, please also sign the pledge by commenting below and sharing a bit of what you do to actualize this pledge in your life and work.
"As a caring adult, I am committed to facilitating a positive and rich learning environment, where the negative and unnecessary wounds traditionally inflicted by schools, will not have a place. I will build a culture that honors, listens to, nurtures, and empowers all learners. I will not tolerate events, actions or words that cause any student to think or feel that they are stupid or worthless. I will create a haven where students feel free to explore new areas and thoughts, take risks, and stay connected to the inherent joy of learning. I will not employ methods which replace this intrinsic motivation with external gauges such as praise, gold stars, or grades. And while I sign this pledge with all good intentions, I will utilize the tools, awareness, and network of peers that I have to ensure that I stay true."
Our very best regards,
The Cooperative Catalyst Team
Moving from this day forward, I pledge myself to upholding the duties, values, and responsibilities of the above statement. In no way, will I, as a future educator, educational theorists, and educational revolutionist allow myself to be constrained or structured in any traditional, student-harming, conventional way that compromises the way I teach, study, and learn or that debilitates my students to do the same.
Let it be known, no matter the hour, day, month, or year, that I will give my energy, time, and effort into reversing damaging trends in traditional education. Whether this is accomplished through innovative lesson plans, creative teaching methods, the stroke of a pin, or the speech of a lecture, siminar, or discussion, I will not rest. This commitment may take place in the United States, a 'first' world nation, or along the pherifery, but whever it goes, I will be sure to follow.
Let it be known, that it is only through true, democratic, studnet-centered education, that learning becomes truly free and fair. So, let us begin the work anew, fight for the principles and values which transform the world, and let us always remember to be true unto ourselves in the face of adversity.
In Educational Solidarity,
Casey K. Caronna
Posted by | April 12, 2010, 1:32 pm
I pledge this and so much more! I am working on a longer more detailed creed and pledge of my own. I am working on creating a future narrative that will help guide and remind me of all the values and ideals I have as a educator.
Ideals are not weapons, but we most stand up for them. We should not put down other efforts to change the world, if they don't match ours, but instead seek to share a space for thinking and caring and ultimately a education that helps to move the human race closer and closer to truth and well being.
I pledge as a educator, a learner, an advocate of children, as a dreamer and lover of life.
I pledge that I will look to the past for ideas, but will seek to create new answers for old problems. I pledge that learning does not happen just in schools or is merely a preparation for life but is the act and art of living.
I pledge to thank all the teachers in my life from the mentors of my youth to the new buds that grow on the trees every spring. I will seek stories and wisdom from creative imaginative people young and old.
I pledge to do and be.
David Loitz
Posted by | April 20, 2010, 3:34 am
There are three things I promise, there are three questions posted in the room and there are some additional remarks I make.
I promise
– that my students will be physically safe. I am a Quaker, but I prepared to use any violence necessary to protect my students
– that my students will be emotionally safe: there will be no bullying or taunting
– that my students will be intellectually safe: we will challenge ideas, but not to belittle either the students or the ideas, but to clarify our thinking and understanding.
As a Quaker, I prefer to use Queries – questions – rather than rules. The following three are posted in my room, and I inform student that they apply to me and to anyone else in the room.
1. Do I show respect – for myself and others, in my words and actions?
2. Am I prepared, with my work and my materials?
3. Am I paying attention, to the teacher and my fellow students?
I add additional remarks, which their parents also here. I am going to challenge the thinking of my students, whether it might be. I want them at the end of the year better able to express their ideas in writing and in speaking. to be able to understand and if appropriate take apart the ideas of others, spoken or written. I want them to learn how to disagree without being disagreeable. In the process I may create my own worst nightmare – an articulate, persuasive advocate of a position I abhor. In which case, as a teacher, I have done my job.
I also inform them I expect them to make mistakes. It is human to make mistakes. We will not learn as much as we can if we do not take intellectual risks, and in the process we will sometimes be wrong. Our responsibility to ourselves and others is to admit our mistakes, accept responsibility, and attempt to learn from them. I model this for them – each class hears at the beginning of the year that I have never taught a class which has not heard me apologize multiple times, for things I failed to do, for mistakes I have made, for unkindnesses even if unintentional because they were unthinking.
Hope this serves some purpose here?
Posted by | August 20, 2010, 10:48 am
As an educator of educators – I also pledge to promote this within my own networks!
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