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Discussion in 'The Lounge' started by Titanup1982, May 11, 2013.
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Phil Donahue
"...I realized during the commercials that these people in the audience were asking better questions than I was. So about the third or fourth show, I went out in the audience and it saved us. There would've been no Donahue show without that studio audience."
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In recent years, the talk show has become the most profitable, prolific, and contested format on daytime television. The sensationalist nature of many of these shows has spawned much public debate over the potential for invasion of personal privacy and the exploitation of sensitive social issues. In this environment, Phil Donahue, who is widely credited with inventing the talk show platform, appears quite tame. But in the late 1960s, when The Phil Donahue Show first aired on WLW-D in Dayton, Ohio, Donahue was considered a radical and scintillating addition to the daytime scene.
Working at the college station KYW as a production assistant, Donahue had his first opportunity to test his on-air abilities when the regular booth announcer failed to show up. He claims it was then that he became "hooked" on hearing the transmission of his own voice. The position he took after graduation, News Director for a Michigan radio station, allowed him to try his hand at broadcast reporting and eventually led to work as a stringer for CBS Evening News and an anchor position at WHIO-TV in Dayton in the late 1950s. There he first entered the talk show arena with his radio show Conversation Piece, on which he interviewed civil rights activists (including Martin Luther King, Malcolm X) and war dissenters.
After leaving WHIO and a subsequent three month stint as a salesman, the general manager of WLW-D convinced Donahue to host a call-in TV talk show. The show would combine the talk radio format with television interview show. However The Phil Donahue Show would start with two major disadvantages: a small budget and geographic isolation from the entertainment industries, preventing it from garnering star guests. In order to attract their audience, Donahue and his producers had to innovate--they focused on issues rather than fame.
The first guest on The Phil Donahue Show was Madalyn O'Hair, an atheist who felt that religion "breeds dependence" and who was ready to mount a campaign to ban prayer in public schools. During that same week in November 1967 the show featured footage of a woman giving birth, a phone-in vote on the morality of an anatomically correct male doll, and a funeral director extolling the workings of his craft. The bold nature of these topics was tempered by Donahue's appealing personality. He was one of the first male television personalities to exude characteristics of "the sensitive man" (traits and behaviors further popularized in the 1970s by actors such as Alan Alda), acquired through his interest in both humanism and feminism.
Donahue's affinity with the women's movement, his sincere style, and his focus on controversial topics attracted a large and predominately female audience. He told a Los Angeles Times Reporter in 1992, that his show "got lucky because we discovered early on that the usual idea of women's programming was a narrow, sexist view. We found that women were interested in a lot more than covered dishes and needlepoint. The determining factor [was], 'Will the woman in the fifth row be moved to stand up and say something?' And there's a lot that will get her to stand up." Donahue attempted to "move" his audience in a number of ways, but the most controversial approach involved educating women on matters of reproduction. Shows on abortion, birthing techniques, and a discussion with Masters and Johnson were all banned by certain local affiliates. According to Donahue's autobiography, WGN in Chicago refused to air a show on reverse vasectomy and tubal ligation because it was "too educational for women...and too bloody." Nevertheless, Donahue's proven success with such a lucrative target audience led to the accumulation of other major midwest markets as well as the show's eventual move to Chicago in 1974 and then to New York in 1985. By then the range of topics had broadened considerably, even to include live "space bridge" programs. Co-hosted with Soviet newscaster Vladimir Pozner, these events linked U.S. and Soviet citizens for live exchanges on issues common to both groups.
But by the 1980s, the increasing popularity of Donahue had led to a proliferation of local and nationally syndicated talk shows. As competition increased, the genre became racier, with less emphasis on issues and more on personal scandal. Donahue retained his niche in the market by dividing the show's focus, dabbling in both the political and the personal. He was able to provide interviews with political candidates, explorations of the AIDs epidemic, and revelations of the savings and loan crisis, alongside shows on safe-sex orgies, cross-dressing, and aging strippers.
In 1992, with 19 Emmy Awards under his belt, Donahue was celebrated by his fellow talk show hosts on his 25th anniversary special as a mentor and kindly patriarch of the genre. Fellow talk show host Maury Povich was quoted in Broadcasting as saying at the event "He's the granddaddy of us all and he birthed us all." Until 1996 Phil Donahue still broadcast out of New York where he lives with his second wife actress Marlo Thomas. Early in that year he announced it would be his last. Ratings for Donahue were declining and a number of major stations, including his New York affiliate, had chosen to drop the show from their schedules. In the spring of 1996 Donahue taped his final show, an event covered on major network news casts, complete with warm sentiment, spraying Champagne, and expected, yet undoubted, sincerity. The ending of this hugely successful run for a syndicated program no doubt presaged new career developments for Phil Donahue in television.
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PHIL (PHILLIP) JOHN DONAHUE. Born in Cleveland, Ohio, U.S.A., 21 December 1935. Educated at the University of Notre Dame, B.B.A., 1957. Married: 1) Marge Cooney, 1958 (divorced, 1975); children: Michael, Kevin, Daniel, Jim, Maryrose; 2) actress Marlo Thomas, 1980. Began career as announcer, KYW-TV and AM, Cleveland, 1957; bank check sorter, Albuquerque, New Mexico; news director, WABJ radio, Adrian, Michigan; morning newscaster, WHIO-TV, where interviews with Jimmy Hoffa and Billy Sol Estes were picked up nationally; hosted Conversation Piece, phone-in talk show, 1963-67; debuted The Phil Donahue Show, Dayton, Ohio, 1967, syndicated two years later; relocated to Chicago, 1974-85; host, Donahue, 1974-96; relocated to New York City, 1985. Recipient: numerous Emmy Awards; Best Talk Show Host, 1988; Margaret Sanger Award, Planned Parenthood, 1987; Peabody Award, 1980.
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- Phil Donahue on his favorite guests over the years
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- Phil Donahue on journalism
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- Phil Donahue on ending Donahue
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- Phil Donahue on making people laugh
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- Phil Donahue on not believing in censorship
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- Part 1
- On his early years and influences; on beginning his career in journalism at a South Bend, Indiana television station
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- On his first job as a radio news director and the state of electronic journalism in the 1950s and early 1960s
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- On his marriage and family life; on the Women's movement
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- Part 2
- On his recollections of World War II; on pondering racism, sexism and stereotypes; on the Vietnam War
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- On getting his first show and national exposure on CBS Evening News with Walter Cronkite
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- On interviewing Jimmy Hoffa
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- Part 3
- On his call in talk-radio show Conversation Piece and transitioning to television
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- On his television talk show, Donahue (aka The Phil Donahue Show)
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- Part 4
- On Donahue
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- On catering to a female audience for Donahue
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- On the staff of his show and the controversial topics covered
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- On how his talk show made him ponder religion
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- On his first marriage; on celebrity
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- Part 5
- On some of the controversial/confrontational guests - including Jerry Rubin of The Chicago Seven - and special telecasts of The Phil Donahue Show
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- On his professional influences
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- On guests on Donahue and recording the show from Attica State Prison
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- On Donahue with Vladimir Pozner and later taking the show to The Soviet Union
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- Part 6
- On the controversial topics covered on Donahue
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- On covering the Nazis marching on Skokie, Illinois on Donahue; on same sex couples raising children and PFLAG
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- On the Masters and Johnson episode of Donahue
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- On his first Emmy Award
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- On famous guests that appeared on his show: Bob Hope, Johnny Carson, Anita Bryant, and Muhammed Ali
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- Part 7
- On some of the controversial guests on his talk show: White Supremacist David Duke and Nazi leader Albert Speer
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- On interviewing future wife Marlo Thomas
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- On writing the book Donahue: My Own Story and on producing the book The Human Animal - the latter in conjunction with a television project for NBC
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- On the emergence of color television; on fellow talk show hosts Sally Jessy Raphael and Oprah Winfrey
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- Part 8
- On the talk show genre and how it changed over the years
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- On deciding to end Donahue and doing Pozner & Donahue on CNBC
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- Part 9
- On the last show of Donahu e and the state of daytime talk shows
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- On retirement and pushing for televising executions
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Discussion in 'Waffle' started by Grim-ERA, Dec 14, 2007.
i got new next door neighbors, wonder if theyve herd of dnb, they will soon
lets just hope they aint twats and complain about the noise! it does my head in...moaney neighbours..
= headphones.
You'll appreciate not having noisy neighbours in five years, tops.
aint the same though is it...my bf mixes but his nbeighbours constantly moan about the noise....it aint like he does it 24/7 but he needs time to practice n do what he loves....as long as your considerate then a bit of noise shouldnt be a problem
you have got to work out a time when the neighbors aren't home etc... usually when you approach they neighbor and make an agreement its more excepted.
Or you got have raver neighbors.
door swings both ways
ask them if they know what a robbery is. then show them a knife. and set fire to it thatll show them whos boss of the jobs.
if ur a good dj u dont need practice STANDARD!!!
BUt you do need soundproofin..
dont need soundproofing just respective neighbors, hope they know wat ganj is 2 ha
always works
consideration for others is a form of respect, I hope your new neighbours have a soundsystem and turn your bedroom into a roller disco!!
i find just dont play music 2 loud after 10 on weekdays, 12 or 1 on weekends an there aint 2 much trouble.
Yep teh cock swings both ways and it will slap against you leg
So when they wake you up at 7.02am on a Sunday with teh Lawnmower or prayer or summat just remeber your Drum and Bass 3 am fuck the neighbors pressure...oh and don't assume everyone is a pussy, I know of people getting their door and head kickin in by someones loonbanger son for as much. oh yea...but mostly ENJOY
Reminds me of Father Ted when they get the new father jack. When they hear drum and bass playing upstairs Ted says "it sounds like he's drillin holes in the wall." They go upstairs and he is!!! genious...
My neighbours love playing "Umbrella" and assorted Eurodance bollocks, super loud, at random intervals throughout the day. Dont really bother me as I can always respond with some D&B which shakes their ceiling lights ehehe
= hearing aids in five years
yea well theyv been here like a week and havnt even said hello so i got no idea wat they gona b like and no i dont feel like robbing them at knifepoint
Cup of tea mate, offer them a cup of tea, and within 5 minutes you will find out if they're planks or not
Headphones are so anti social as well, fuck sitting in my own house listening to dnb through headphones!
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This candid moment came courtesy of Hanks, who pranked Roberts on the set of the rom-com Larry Crowne (out July 1). "Julia would knit on the set–scarves, hats" recalls producer Gary Goetzman. "One morning, Tom thought it would be hilarious if everyone was doing it. So she walked on set and saw 50 people knitting." Hanks directed, co-wrote, and stars in the movie as a downsized corporate stiff who enrolls in community college and falls for a teacher (Roberts). For the old pals, Larry Crowne offered the first chance to work together since 2007's Charlie Wilson's War. "They're platonic lovers," laughs Goetzman. "That's really the only way I can put it. They get along so well."


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The 450mm transition: Many unanswered questions
The move to a larger wafer size -- from 300mm to 450mm ??? has been the focus of an interesting debate for the last five years. The largest semiconductor manufacturing companies in the world ??? Intel, TSMC and Samsung ??? have been strongly advocating the move, urging equipment suppliers to start development (which has started) and SEMI to create the necessary standards (which is done). Equipment suppliers have been understandably slow to embrace the change, given the long time for them to see the return on their investment during the last wafer size transition (200mm to 300mm).
The move to 450mm took on some new urgency at this year's Semicon West. Applied Materials announced that it would spend $100 million on developing 450mm tools (which some say is just the cost of doing feasibility studies), companies such as EVG and KLA-Tencor introduced new 450mm products, and several panel sessions were devoted to the topic.
Many questions remain unanswered. Although most people seem to agree that it's no longer a question of "if" but only "when," there's still a long way to go.
Speaking on one of the panels was Gartner's Bob Johnson, research vice president, semiconductor manufacturing, who noted that the move is purely a cost play, with a target goal of a 30% reduction in production costs. The problem, said Johnson, is that there is a fundamental conflict of interest between semiconductor and equipment manufacturers. "The way it looks right now is we've got the opportunity to spend billions of dollars on R&D that could go for other projects, and end up cutting the market (for equipment) by about 30% going forward. This is not a heck of a lot of incentive to put a lot of the R&D money out there."
Johnson also questioned the real cost savings that have been gained by previous wafer size transitions. "If you look at the 30 year period from 1980 to 2010, we had 14 major technology node changes, each one generating, over roughly a two-year period, about a 50% reduction in cost. That's 30% per year," he said. During that time, there were three major wafer size transitions. "Each wafer transition was about the equivalent of one year's worth of scaling. Wafer size changes really didn't have a lot with reduction of costs. What happened instead was shrinks, scaling, cleverness in making smaller cell sizes and a lot of the other things that process engineers do to keep driving things forward," he said.
Presently, although some tools have already been introduced, 450mm is still at the feasibility stage. "We don't really know if we can do it or not," Johnson said. "Once we start putting pilot tools in, the costs start going through the roof. This is fairly standard. Feasibility is relatively cheap. Hopefully, we can decide one way or the other whether this will be worth it before we start spending cubic gigabucks on R&D."
Another unanswered question is how many technology nodes will be left by the time 450mm wafers are in production. Intel is starting 22nm in production at the end of this year or early 2012. That means that they'll be at 7nm right after the first 450mm production fab is slated to be in operation. "We hear people talking, ???We can do 32nm, we can do 22nm with some of these tools.' So what? When 450mm comes into production, we're going to be at 14nm or 10nm or below technologies. That means we need EUV, immersion for mix-and-match, and probably dry litho all to be economically viable," Johnson said. "The next question we have is how many nodes do we have? How long is conventional silicon going to keep going after we pass 10nm level, and I don't think anybody knows the answer to that."
Johnson provided an interesting look at ROI considerations, comparing the market and thinking during the transition to 300mm in 1997, to the way it is today. "In 1997, we were convinced, looking in our rearview mirror, that the industry growth that was going on at 17% per year was going to continue forever. We didn't realize that we already passed the inflection point two years earlier, and we weren't going to realize that for another for our five years. Now we know that the long term growth trend in the industry is mid single digits, somewhere around 6%/year. If you look at the ability of the industry to generate funding for fabs and everything else, it's much less than it was back in 300mm days." We could reasonably look at about ten nodes over the product life of 300 mm tools. Now if we look forward, maybe 3? Maybe one? I submit if 450mm is really going to end up being a single node product, it ain't worth it." Truer words have never been spoken.
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The timing, quantity and duration of environmental flows can mean the difference between a healthy wetland ecosystem pulsing with life and one in decline.
Ensuring every release achieves maximum affect requires thorough understanding of a wetland's characteristics and the way its geomorphology, water and ecology interact.
Without such knowledge, effectively applied, the health of our wetlands is threatened, and precious water intended to improve the environment is wasted.
That's why a well-conceived and executed ecosystem response model for river flows can be such a powerful weapon in the armoury of natural resource managers, letting them test a range of scenarios as they juggle competing needs for water.
Now the NSW Office of Environment and Heritage (OEH) believes it has just that, after engaging SKM and eWater CRC to develop an ecological response model within a decision support system (DSS) for the Lowbidgee wetlands.
Currently undergoing thorough testing, the DSS is letting OEH investigate the response of ecological communities to different watering regimes. The agency hopes the DSS will help it to determine how best to use available environmental entitlements and underpin future revisions to the Murrumbidgee Regulated River Water Sharing Plan.
Planned water
Environmental water in NSW is currently managed through the relevant water sharing plans (WSPs), which control 'planned water', and the Annual Environmental Management Watering Plans prepared by OEH and approved by the Office of Water. Implementation of environmental flows through the WSPs has been an important first step in arresting the decline of wetlands. With more water now being made available for environmental use, ecological modelling tools like eWater's Eco Modeller can play a part in decisions on how to optimise the effect of this environmental water on rehabilitating the wetlands.
This is the case in the Lowbidgee, a nationally important wetland spanning 217 000 ha which is both a drought refuge and significant breeding habitat for at least 41 species of waterbirds. Significant amounts of water are vital to those birds well being: the Nimmie-Caira area alone needs fully 58,000 ML of water in the bird breeding season to provide stable water in rookeries, and must be flooded for at least five months of the year.
The wetlands provide important habitat for fish, frogs and macroinvertebrates.
It is also the home of the second largest river red gum forest in Australia and contains significant black box, lignum and reed-bed communities, as well as 15,000 ha of important reeds and grasses.
Before human settlement the Lowbidgee wetlands were regularly inundated by floodwaters from the Murrumbidgee River, driven by reliable winter and spring rainfall and snow melt. The entire system was ephemeral, with the channel, riparian zone and floodplain each linked in a wetting and drying regime that supported a diverse 'boom and bust' ecology typical of inland river systems in Australia. That is just the way the area's wildlife and vegetation liked it – the science has shown that inland wetlands are most productive when flooding follows a period of complete drying.
These days the wetlands are in serious trouble. The extended drought of recent years, the effects of river regulation, the impact of land use practices such as land clearing, burning, and cropping; declining water quality, and the impact of exotic flora and fauna (especially common carp) have all taken a toll, placing severe environmental stress on water dependent ecosystems.
Sedimentation and erosion patterns have suffered, water dependent ecosystems have received less floodwater, distribution of aquatic and riparian plants has changed, and populations of native birds and fish have all declined precipitously. River red gum communities in particular are showing significant signs of stress.
OEH hopes manipulating delivery of water to these wetlands might re-introduce a more natural flow and water level variability, resulting in the regeneration of riparian vegetation.
It also hopes it will reconnect the river channel with the adjacent floodplain and wetland habitats and allow for a drying phase between flows which will consolidate sediment and enhance nutrient cycles.
Scenario comparisons
The key purpose of the DSS is to compare scenarios relating to water delivery (volume, timing and duration) to ecological outcomes in order to provide a transparent and rigorous decision-making process to optimise the use of environmental water.
It will help OEH plan and manage environmental flows at the valley and wetland level over different time scales, while allowing water managers to compare scenarios relating the volume and timing of water delivery to ecological outcomes.
Based on Eco Modeller, and providing links to hydrological (IQQM) and hydraulic models, the DSS will allow natural resources managers to accurately calculate how the Lowbidgee will respond to management practices. Eco Modeller is a tool for building and storing quantitative models of ecological responses to physical and biological factors (such as river flow) to explore various solutions to problems. Eco Modeller will be a major component of the future alternative hydrological modelling platform to IQQM: eWater Source, making it reasonably "future-proof".
The resulting models can simulate the response of ecological systems to both changes in factors that define habitat, such as water flow, water quality and temperature, and physical attributes like substrate or presence or absence of woody debris. 'Plug-in' functionality lets users build unique models incorporating complex relationships.
Underpinning the DSS is a conceptual model of the Lowbidgee wetlands describing system drivers and ecological interactions. This provides a foundation and framework for specific responses by ecological assets in the Ecosystem Response Models in the DSS. Those assets were selected according to their rarity and status, distribution, degree of reliance on water and floodplain habitats and other qualities. Ecological response models were developed for the endangered southern bell frog Litoria raniformis, common carp Cyprinus carpio, Murray cod Maccullochella peelii peelii, un-specked hardyhead Craterocephalus stercusmuscarum, colonial breeding waterbirds (ibis, cormorants, herons and egrets), yabby Cherax destructor, river red gum Eucalyptus camaldulensis, black box Eucalyptus largiflorens, lignum Muehlenbeckia florulenta and tall spike-rush Eleocharis sphacelata.
The DSS is easy to use and readily adaptable.
"It is a useful tool allowing the Department to examine the benefits of different watering regimes, providing a level of sophistication that has never been available before," says SKM Senior Water Resource Engineer Ian Varley.
"We know that in the future there will be more water available for environmental purposes than what there has been in the past, so it's a tool to allow them to explore how best to use that water. The tool will be thoroughly tested over the next year or so."
It allows OEH to examine ecological behaviour over a long time period using approximately 100 years of historical climate and flow data in order to understand long-term behaviour and trends under different management settings.
It will also be used over shorter time frames to assist in managing specific watering events. In this mode the DSS will provide information such as the likelihood of a flood event being sufficient to induce and sustain a bird breeding event, or whether additional water (and what volume) would be required to sustain the event. eWater Ecological Response Product Developer Nick Marsh says the DSS is unique in its ability to address both planning and operational timescales.
"In this particular case the problem that we're trying to solve is what happens to these big wetland areas under the different water delivery scenarios. The State's water planning authority, the NSW Office of Water, runs 100 year simulations to compare different release rules and possible configurations to understand water supply and environmental requirements under changing climate conditions.
"On the other hand the managers of these major wetlands want to make decisions on a year by year basis about how they should deliver water. The DSS can deal with both short and long-range temporal scales."
Marsh says the DSS is also extremely flexible on the spatial scale, allowing the system to be used on the scale of the wetland and in sub-wetlands.


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Bucks vs Celtics
Lead Changes: 6
Times Tied: 3
Attendance: 15,171
Duration: 2 hours and 4 minutes
GOING STREAKING – In addition to the Bucks' six-game winning streak, Milwaukee is also in the midst of a fourgame
run of 30-assist outings. The Bucks have averaged 34.5 dimes per game over the last four while registering
assists on a whopping 75.8% of their made field goals (138-of-182). To put that in perspective, the NBA average
for assist percentage this season 57.5%. The NBA hasn't seen a four-game run of 30+ assist outings since PHX did
so from Dec. 2-7, 2007, and the last five-game run in the league belongs to the Magic from Apr. 8-17, 1995.
THE SECRET – Milwaukee has gone 7-1 in its last eight games, establishing a season-long winning streak of six games in the process (currently the longest active winning streak in the NBA). Over that span, the Bucks are averaging 110.1 ppg, 30.9 apg and 8.6 3FGM/game. The Bucks may have figured out the secret trends to winning through their recent success. Here are the key figures:
100: Milwaukee is posting a tidy 17-4 record when cracking the century mark. The Bucks have tallied 100+ points in each of the last seven games, going 6-1 in that span, after doing so just once in the previous 12 games (3-9 over that stretch). The current streak is Milwaukee's longest since the 2007-08 season.
30: The Bucks have now handed out 30 assists in each of the last four games. More about the significance of that streak can be found in the note above, but for the season, the Bucks are 8-0 when topping 30 assists in a game. Five of the seven wins during the Bucks' current 7-1 stretch have included 30+ assists.
10: Milwaukee is 9-0 this season when tallying 10+ treys, including Tuesday's win at Portland in which the Bucks went 11-of-21 from long distance. The Bucks have recorded 10+ 3FGM in four of the last eight games.
GOOD (EN) VIBRATIONS – Prior to the All-Star break, Drew Gooden missed four games with a right wrist sprain. During that time, the Bucks went 1-3 and scored just 89.5 points per game. In the 12 games since Gooden has returned to the lineup, the Bucks have averaged 107.3 points and topped 100 eight times. Individually, Gooden has averaged 19.1 points and 8.2 rebounds per game over those 12. In that span he's posted five double-doubles, one tripledouble, and recorded three of his highest point totals this season (season-high 27 vs. Chicago on 3/7, 26 at Atlanta on 3/2 and 25 vs. Philadelphia on 3/5). On Monday, the NBA named Gooden the Eastern Conference Player of the Week.
ERSANITY! – While Linsanity was taking the Big Apple by storm, Ersan Ilyasova produced a historic night of his own just across the Hudson. Ilyasova erupted for career highs of 29 points and 25 rebounds in Milwaukee's win at New Jersey on 2/19, becoming the first Bucks player in over 30 years to tally 25+ points and rebounds in a single game. Ilyasova becomes just the third member of the 25/25 club in Bucks history, joining Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Swen Nater.
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I love all the bloggentators who become sympathetic towards depression, or suicidal thoughts. Or people experiencing a hard time, or going through a "mundane" period.
Like you fucking care. After saying the worst possible thing you can say to someone's rant, you come back with something heartfelt. Like I want to listen to someone who just called someone else a "douchebag" then said to someone else, "hey, take care of you first."
Give me a fucking break, you jerkoff jackoffs. What the fuck is a douchebag anyway. You fucking douchebags.


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A lot of people, and sometimes me in the dark hours of the morning with nothing but a beer jacket between me and locked-out hypothermia, wish that Hendrix had lived. Joplin didn't have to leave us, Lennon had faster reactions (or Chapman had worse aim) and that Cobain had been able to see it through to the end. I frequently wish HST hadn't typed 'counsellor'. As if, by remaining alive instead of departing this world in a firework flash all these geniuses would have been able to nail the beauty. We have always been scratching at the door of perfection and there was a feeling that with just a little more time one of these cats could have nailed it. Personally I've enjoyed the ride too much to see the 'greatest rock song of all time' be written and end the whole farce. Death is every bit as much a part of rock and roll as the cars in the swimming pools and the drugs and the music. A lot of people wish rock stars back to life, I wish Iggy had died right after Raw Power got nailed in the studio.
Don't get me wrong, I have nothing against him, it's just when any idiot drearily dreamily brings up wishing Hendrix or Cobain was still alive, I quickly find that insurance advert with fucking Iggy in it and say to them "just you fucking imagine Hendrix or Cobain in that car talking about fucking 60 second quotes? Yeah motherfucker, that's the horrifying sentence for rock stars who live" (by this point I am usually drunk). Nah man for rock stars it ought to be like Logan's Run, 27 and pop. It'll inspire them to work hard before they get taken behind the shed and put out of their misery. Just pity Iggy, this is the man who pretty much singlehandedly helms the Stooges utterly mesmeric Raw Power and now look at him, there's nothing left alive but a pair of glassy eyes, raise my feelings one more time. Naw man, give me danger any time.
(Well this article is just reference-tastic, innit?)
Raw Power is, in my eyes, one of the perfect albums. I don't use that word often or lightly and let me clarify. It is perfect. There isn't a side, there isn't a song, there isn't a chord, there isn't a drum hit or an exhale that is wrong. The entire thing, from top to tail and from start to finish has no flaws. Also attending this prestigious club is Wire's Pink Flag and Sleep's Dopesmoker. Which is particularly odd because when I first heard it was underwhelmed. I'd read oodles about it and got really excited that when I first set my copy a'spinnin' I was left with a certain worry and upset that comes with any lo-fi recording, but it remained throughout. There were sparks, but I just couldn't shake the vocals and the roughness of the experience. His wails and equipment-straining screeches were just a little too much to bear. I listened to it once through and resigned it to the bin of the rock and roll hall of fame also-spun. Records that have been indoctrinated either into the actual hall of fame or receive rapturous praise from someone-or-other who supposedly knows his arse from his elbow and when you actually get your hands on them you're cursing the creep because you've been savagely burned. It's happened to me countless times and I'm starting to savour it because getting viciously burned on a hard-to-locate record by some snotty prick who's forgotten that not everyone has pro rock writer money is just part of being a rock and roll devotee.
But then at the behest of yet more Raw Power praise I listened again, and again, and again and again until suddenly it hit me like a diamond bullet. This is genius. No vocalist has done what Iggy does on this record, before or since. This is a one-time deal and luckily was recorded for posterity so that we all could fall in step behind the swaggering, jeering masterpiece. In fact the only real record in the same vein that approaches Raw Power is Holy McGrail's Raw Power Suite, a re-recorded tribute to Raw Power in the most vicious and reconstructed mode.
The Suite, the real trip.
For the most part it plays like the classic Raw Power, except melted under the furious light of thirty years' scrutiny. Songs are horribly warped and barely audible above the distortion and noise. Search and Destroy is half as long as it should be, while Your Pretty Face is Going to Hell (or Hard to Beat Your Pretty Face is Going to Hell as it's referred to on here) is twice as long as it ought to be. I Need Somebody makes the album feel like the director's cut of the Wicker Man, the once-ripped out scenes tossed back in like old rotting organs into a living body and the juxtaposition is intriguingly jarring. Replaced with the beautiful iron lunged female tones the song takes on a perplexing place amongst the outright ruined sound of the previous side. There's a shockingly out of place angelic backing to the chorus made up of backing vocals and maybe some organ shit too, I don't know for sure, I'm too scared to listen again. It isn't that it's bad, it is so stunningly different from the Raw Power I thought I knew, perverted and ripped quite literally apart. It's like Raw Power might sound if Iggy dropped into his own dream in some movie...
Shake Appeal is of course the contact point. That first moment where you start to like Raw Power inevitably comes from acknowledging that Shake Appeal has the best riff in the Stooges repertoire. Shake Appeal on Raw Power Suite isn't without its violences, there are twists and turns and strange electronic noises that drop in at intervals. This motherfucker keeps the Shake Appeal riff running, as the centre of attention, without interruption of vocals or pauses for nearly fifteen fucking minutes! It's almost a third of the total runtime of the record spent mercilessly flogging this poor dilapidated riff until it is just gasping for any kind of oxygen left in the airless room. After that the reimagining of Death Trip into two separate acts is really just an exhausted flop onto the exercise mat, because make no mistake, this is a solid workout for you as much as it is for Holy McGrail.
It's a holy mess of an album, Raw Power Suite. Really all it does is piss all over one of the perfect albums. But you know why I love it anyway? Why I continue to cling to enjoyment of all of its melted vinyl wails and empty echoes of what were once such full and rich grooves? It's the kind of thing that would get made if Iggy had died. It is the sort of record that fell through a time-hole from an alternate universe where releasing a record means one only lives to 27. He'd just have had time to finish Raw Power.
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Talavera Vaso Black/White
Product ID# TAL016
This Vaso garden planter is a standard flowerpot shape but painted with the traditional Talavera pattern and design. You will not find white and black anywhere else and our Mexican factory commissioned it just for Arizona Pottery. Available in many sizes from small table top pots to extra large garden planters. Group them together with different sizes to create a large beautiful landscape display. Hand painted Talavera pottery has been well know for years in the pottery industry. Imported from Mexico where artisans create original designs and hand paint each item painstakingly. Each pottery piece will be unique and original. No two pieces will ever be identical. Bold bright colors, floral designs, traditional patterns as well as original designs all come together to create what we believe to be the most desired home and garden pottery we sell. Due to the nature of Talavera, colors and designs will vary. Tip: We recommend if using outdoors you cover this piece with furniture wax to help retain the color and reduce crazing.
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Situated in Historic Rapid City, this hotel is within a 5-minute walk of Art Alley and Main Street Square. Museum of the American Bison and Berlin Wall Exhibit are also within 10 minutes.
Hotel Features
A restaurant, a fitness center, and a bar/lounge are available at this smoke-free hotel. Free WiFi in public areas and free self parking are also provided. Additionally, coffee/tea in a common area, a business center, and conference space are onsite.
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The hotel offers a restaurant. A bar/lounge is on site where guests can unwind with a drink. This 3-star property offers access to a business center.
A computer station is located on site and wireless Internet access is complimentary. Event facilities measuring 2340 square feet (217 square meters) include conference space. This business-friendly hotel also offers a fitness center, coffee/tea in a common area, and concierge services. For a surcharge, a roundtrip airport shuttle (available 24 hours) is offered to guests. Complimentary self parking is available on site.
The Rushmore Hotel and Suites is a smoke-free property.
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- Elevator/lift
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- 24-hour front desk
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- RV, bus, truck parking
- Safe-deposit box at front desk
- Conference space size (meters) - 217
- Number of meeting rooms - 6
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- Conference space size (feet) - 2340
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- Total number of rooms - 177
- Television in common areas
- Number of floors - 9
- Number of buildings/towers - 1
- Airport transportation (surcharge)
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- Premium TV channels
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- Free bottled water
- Designer toiletries
- Hair dryer
- Iron/ironing board
- Daily housekeeping
- Cable TV service
- Free WiFi
- Free newspaper
- In-room climate control (air conditioning)
- Room service (limited hours)
- Pillowtop mattress
- Rollaway/extra beds (surcharge)
- In-room climate control (heating)
Where to Eat
Enigma Restaurant - This restaurant specializes in American cuisine and serves breakfast, lunch, and dinner. Guests can enjoy drinks at the bar.
Room service (during limited hours) is available.
Nearby Things to Do
Recreational amenities at the hotel include a fitness center.
The recreational activities listed below are available either on site or nearby; fees may apply.
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- Golf lessons available nearby
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- Pet fee: USD 15 per pet
- Rollaway bed fee: USD 10.00 per day
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I just read an interesting article about how Oprah is redecorating her Montecito California home. In the article (you can read it here) Oprah shares how even though she has decorated many beautiful homes over the years not one of them ever really felt like her home nor did she ever feel completely comfortable in them. Oprah says rather than decorating around who she really is, she fell victim to decorating with what was trendy, in style, or what she "thought a famous person's home should look like". Case in point; if I had to guess who lived in the room below, Oprah would most likely not come to mind.
This time around, Oprah says she is finally focusing on creating a home that feels like her home. She wants to put her feet up (with her shoes on) and not worry about scratching an antique coffee table. She wants her dogs to cuddle on the sofa with her and not worry about drool on the fabric. She wants to create a home that reflects her life style and functions for how she lives…she wants to have a house with a Soul.
If I could talk to Oprah I would share these 7 tips for creating a Soulful Home.
1. Make note of how you REALLY live and be totally honest. If you eat in the family room in front of the TV every night then maybe you want a table in the family room or a coffee table that lifts up and doubles as a tray table. If you rarely use your formal dining room but desperately need a home office or a play area for your children then go ahead and turn the dining room into an office or play space.
2. Don't buy all your furniture from the same store. Even though you might love the look of a particular trendy store think about what you like about that store's particular look and create it with a mix of different furniture from different sources. Nothing has less Soul than a room that looks like a page out of a catalog.
3. Add in something handmade, vintage or unexpected. A great way to bring Soul to a room is to add in something that is hand made or something with a little history. This could be original art work (even your children's artwork), a custom made piece of furniture, a vintage basket … something that doesn't say "made in China" on the back.
In the room above, the contemporary sofa and fabrics get some added Soul with the addition of the painted vintage dresser and vintage lamps and chair.
4. Family Portraits. A great way to add a Soul to your home is to show visitors who lives there. Tip: Rather than scatter family photos around the house, display them all together for greater impact.
5. Books. Books that reflect your interests and books that you actually read tell visitors who lives in the home, what they are interested in and gives the home personality and Soul.
6. Collections. display what you love, collect and treasure and your home will be filled with Soul. Don't worry if your collection isn't trendy or if it is unusual, all that maters is that it speaks to you.
7. Choose color based on what you like and not the trend color of the moment. I can't stress this one enough. Just because shades of gray are currently trending doesn't mean you should paint your walls gray…unless you love gray! I painted my sitting room walls blue/green because it is a color I love and makes me happy…not because of any color trend.
So how about you? How do you like to add Soul to your home? Can you think of anything I missed?


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A Review of 2011
2012 promises to be a special year. Albert Pujols in Los Angeles, the possible Major League debut of Bryce Harper and the first full season of Stephen Strasburg will make for an interesting baseball season. Away from the diamond, we will have a Presidential election, an Olympic Games and lower cable TV bills (or maybe not). Before we say goodbye to 2011, let's look at some baseball happenings that flew slightly under the radar.
-The emergence of Kyle Farsnworth as a big-time closer. For years, scouts and analysts have raved about his close to 100 MPH fastball and sharp curve. It always seemed to be mental hurdles that prevented Farnsworth from reaching his potential. The big righty finally put together a wire-to-wire season worthy of his considerable talent. His 25 saves and 2.18 ERA were big reasons why the Rays won 91 games and made the playoffs. He will be expected to close again for Tampa, providing a little stability to both a position and a career that seems to be constantly in flux. If Farnsworth can duplicate his 2011 season, expect Tampa to be knocking on the playoff door once again.
-The revitalization of Lance Berkman. OK, so a guy who made the All-Star team and finished 7th in the MVP voting maybe didn't fly that far under the radar. However, there was less focus on Berkman in the 2nd half when the Cards were declared dead and other stories emerged on the scene. As we look back, we can now examine how much of a turnaround it was for "The Big Puma". Berkman had subpar 2009 and 2010 seasons and many people wondered if it was a career that had seen its better days. He fit in splendidly hitting fourth and fifth and helped keep St. Louis afloat when Pujols spent time on the DL. With Pujols in California, he will be asked to at least replicate his 31 HR, 94 RBI .301 average from 2011.
The maturing Kansas City Royals. When looking at their final 2011 record, one can assume it was just another typical 91-loss season for the Royals. When looking more closely, it was a foundation season for the future. Alex Gordon finally put together a season worth of his #2 overall draft selection. Fellow #2 overall pick Mike Moustakas got his first taste of the Big Leagues, finishing nicely after a very slow start. And of course, there was the big splash in the form of Eric Hosmer, who homered in Yankee Stadium five days after his May 6th call-up from Triple A Omaha. KC finished the season 15-10 in September exciting their fans so much that their attendance rose by 5,000 more per game during the month. With highly touted Lorenzo Cain ready to take over in Center Field, the trade for Jonathan Sanchez and the signing of Jonathan Broxton, it is easy to see why 2012 can't get here fast enough for the Royals and their fans.
These are just three of my favorite highlights from last season. What are yours? Feel free to leave comments in the section listed below this post.
Before putting a bow on 2011, I would like to acknowledge http://www.baseball-reference.com/ which has been an invaluable asset in to this blog. I would not be able to reasearch and write nearly as effectively without that website.
Happy New Year everybody!


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The Six Games A Year Of Spencer Hawes
|Making His Marc
So you know what happens next, right? Sure. The exact opposite of sense. Philly won by 10 to get back to a game below .500, giving the Grizz one of their worst losses of the year. And the headlines will belong to Dorell Wright for going off on an 8 for 11 night, including 5 of 8 from the three point line, to give the team 28 highly efficient points. But more importantly, look at this line from bench player Spencer Hawes -- 20 points on 9 of 14 shooting, 8 boards, 1 assist, 3 steals (!) and 5 blocks (!). All in just over 31 minutes, against the likes of All-Star Marc Gasol and matchup nightmare Zach Randolph.
Now, if Hawes were ever able to be the guy in his uniform tonight -- not all of the time, but maybe every other game or so -- for any regular period of time, he wouldn't be a bench guy. He also wouldn't be on his second team, on another one-year contract, for a below .500 team that has spent the first 29 games of the season waiting around for an injury-prone enigma center. Because, well, they would have never traded for that guy in the first place. They'd just start Hawes and accept a top 5 center performance from a 7'-1" 245 pound guy, who is still just 24. They'd also be selling his jersey and likeness all over the damned place.
Now, I have no idea why Hawes is, well, one of the most maddeningly erratic players in the NBA. If you told me he was a spectacular pothead, that he didn't really like basketball, that he had a chronic back injury that hit him with crippling pain, that his conditioning was sub-par, or that he simply detested head coach Doug Collins and has to really struggle for minutes and motivation... well, all of that seems plausible. Some of it even gives you hope, since they'd fixable and suddenly give you the keys to a pretty great talent.
Instead, we get this: one of the six games a year or so where Hawes is the best player on the floor, for no good reason at all. And that kind of thing happens all the time for a bunch of bench players (JR Smith, Jamal Crawford, Jason Terry, Ryan Anderson, Lou Williams, to name a quick five) across the Association... but none of those guys are 7-foot centers.
I don't know what's wrong -- or right -- with Hawes. I just know that in games like this, when he is, in the words of Sixer color analyst Malik Rose, "Hawesome", the Sixers are a top tier team in the East. And if Collins could ever get those six games a year to turn into 25 or 30, or if he could ever group a bunch of them into a playoff series...
Well, we'd have something a hell of a lot more interesting than a random December road win against the Grizz.
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(Critical Survey of Literature for Students)
Geraldine Barclay, an attractive young woman in search of her first job, appears at Dr. Prentice's clinic one day to be interviewed for a secretarial position. Under interrogation from Prentice, she tells him that her father deserted her mother many years ago when the latter was a chambermaid at the Station Hotel. She herself did not see her mother for a long time, and her stepmother, Mrs. Barclay, died recently from being penetrated with a certain part of a statue of Sir Winston Churchill that was destroyed in a gas-main explosion. Geraldine's legacy from her stepmother is that part of the Churchillian statue, which she carries with her in a box to the interview.
Prentice orders Geraldine to undress for a physical examination and asks her to cooperate in the testing of a new contraceptive device. She agrees. His plan is foiled suddenly by the entrance of a disheveled Mrs. Prentice, who spent the night at the Station Hotel with the hotel page after attending a lesbian meeting. With Geraldine naked behind a screen, Prentice makes frantic attempts to hide Geraldine's clothes. His wife sees Geraldine's dress, however, and, arriving wearing only a fur coat with a slip underneath, puts on the dress.
Nicholas Beckett, the young hotel page, arrives to check Mrs. Prentice's bag for missing articles and to bribe her to let him sell pictures taken during their tryst at the hotel. Like Geraldine, Nick comes from a broken family. He asks for the job in Prentice's office and leaves only when Prentice hurriedly gives him some money.
A third intrusion into Prentice's plans occurs in the person of Dr. Rance, an inspector of psychiatric clinics. Discovering the naked Geraldine, he immediately proclaims her insane, the first of many similar proclamations. His habit is to question patients only after he issues insanity verdicts. He then interrogates Prentice about his background and follows with questions to Mrs. Prentice about her husband. He notes Prentice's apparent obsession with women's clothes. A fourth intruder, Inspector Match, arrives on a matter of national importance having to do with Sir Winston Churchill's...
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Newcastle rolls out new bins
Newcastle City Council has revealed it will cost ratepayers an extra $152 a year to hang onto their larger sized rubbish bins when a new collection system starts.
From July 4, council will introduce its new three-bin system aimed at cutting the amount of rubbish going to landfill.
After Easter, the council will start delivering new 140-litre red-lid general waste bins to all households, to replace the existing 240-litre bins.
The old bins will be modified with a new green lid, and a grate installed in the base, to be used for fortnightly green waste collections.
City Presentation manager, Lisa Scully says people will also have the option of getting a larger recycling bin.
"A survey that we did in 2008 identified that 47 per cent of what was in the general waste bin could be recycled or was green waste, so by offering the larger recycling bin and introducing the kerbside greenwaste we think we can cut a significant amount of waste to landfill," she said.
Ms Scully says households will have the option to pay to retain a 240-litre general waste bin, but she is urging people to try the new system first.
"We'd like for people to actually give this system a chance before they decide they need to upgrade or not, but there will be an associated fee with that."
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I was having a problem today, trying my laptop & IMAP from my debian desktop. I looked in the rules file, & figured out why my web server wasn't working. It only showed port 80, but I had changed apache to port 81, forgetting about shorewall! When I saw the port 80 in there, I changed it to 81 & apached started working again.But I am still having a problem getting IMAP mail from the desktop via IMAP to my laptop. When I turn off shorewall I get the mail.Here is what I added to rules: # grep IMAP rules # IMAP server IMAP/ACCEPT net $FW IMAPS/ACCEPT net $FW what else do I need for shorewall to let me get IMAP email ?
Running the firewall on your desktop? Then you need IMAP/ACCEPT $FW net IMAPS/ACCEPT $FW netYou can try if it works by telnetting from your laptop to your desktop on port 143 (plain) or 993 (ssl). Check in the main time your /var/log/messages on the desktop to see if any blocked traffic has been logged.
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Thorlakur Gudnason
Austurbćjarskóli (East side primary school of Reykjavík)
Reykjavík, Iceland.
In this paper I will explore the issue of discipline. The
paper is written from the perspective of a preschool worker in Iceland, but I
hope that people outside that field will be able to apply the perspective to
their own situation. Central themes in the paper are discipline as interaction,
as well as the essential role of respect in the relationship between child and
adult. As adults we are responsible for children's happiness and well-being. In
shaping a constructive environment for ourselves and the children we use
authority and leverage. Ideally, the authority that we exercise as adults is
based on a relationship of friendship and acknowledgement of our
experience of the inexperienced
This paper is based on my experience as a novice in terms
of working with children and some of the problems I faced due to being a 'non-professional'.[1]
When starting to work in a new environment there is much to be learned. One of
the major challenges I was confronted with, and probably common to most who
have worked with children, was that of discipline. In my experience discipline
is the most fundamental aspect of working with children.[2]
More experienced workers are expected to have mastered the maintenance of
discipline but often they lack the ability to pass on that knowledge to those
who are less experienced. They have become so accustomed to using the required skills
in their work that they no longer recognize them as such and hence do not equip
those who are inexperienced with the tools needed to achieve what is expected
of them. Both formal teaching and raising a child may be compared to building a
house: when building a house, a carpenter is given blueprints of what the house
should look like and a set of tools with which to accomplish the task. However,
when a newcomer starts working with children they are not given a 'discipline
toolbox' or a 'set of blueprints' for what a child should be like. I believe we
often regard the ability to deal with children as common sense. Of course, over
time, as with any skill, the ability to maintain discipline becomes common
sense, yet to those who have not yet mastered these skills, they are not
obvious and hence have to be developed. The tools of discipline are enmeshed in
the relationship between the teacher and child and are therefore not as easy to
detect as, for example, a hammer. Later in the paper I will suggest some
guidelines that I have accumulated in my 'toolbox'. However, first it is
necessary to give an idea of what kind of discipline teachers aim for, what our
role is and what we want to avoid.
the stage
Discipline is necessary in order for people to be able
to work constructively and, in turn, discipline needs to be constructive.
Discipline has value because it enables us to carry out a variety of activities
which we could not do otherwise, such as participate in field trips, complete
projects and tasks, and have an enjoyable working environment. A lack of
discipline inhibits us from reaching such goals. However, discipline also has
value in itself. We not only use discipline to reach other goals but we seek to
instil discipline because of the goals it embodies. Discipline embodies
self-discipline and self-control, and enables freedom and responsibility. A
child that has been taught discipline and that has self-control can be trusted
with more freedom and more responsibility. Discipline should be beneficial to a
child and a tool to be used by responsible adults to enable a child to become
an independent, responsible and free individual.
Our role as
teachers is to provide a stimulating learning environment, and the knowledge
and methods to facilitate it. As a teacher it is also important to realize not
only what we are providing but also what we expect of a child, i.e. the child's
role. It is not for the child to make him- or herself easy for us to handle so
that our day at work is undemanding; rather the role of the child is to be a
child. To be a child is to play, discover, try new things, experiment, and have
fun. Hence, children are challenging, and that is the way we want them to be.
The role of the teacher is not to ruin the joy that comes with being a child
but to utilize childhood curiosity and industriousness to stimulate further
growth and development.[3]
Teachers instinctively tend to regard unexpected behaviour as a threat. However,
unexpected and even undesirable behaviour should be regarded as an opportunity.
When a child confronts a teacher or steps over the line, it is an opportunity
to address an issue that otherwise would not have been raised and the child can
learn something that it would not have learned otherwise.
We ourselves
learn from other teachers. We learn from our colleagues by observing what
appears to work well, yet we may also observe methods that we decide not adopt
ourselves. In my opinion, there are three common mistakes made by teachers and
these, including the fallacies upon which I believe they are based, are as
To oppress or pacify – the illusion of discipline
In an attempt to gain
control over a group of children, or possibly an especially difficult child,
teachers may make the mistake of using oppressive discipline, teachers bully
children into obeying. While such teachers may be satisfied with the results
this kind of unsympathetic obedience does not encourage a child's independence,
responsibility or freedom, and therefore should be avoided.
To neglect – the illusion of freedom
A teacher that renounces
(rightly so, in my opinion) authoritarian control over a child as described
above, and who instead adopts permissive techniques, risks losing sight of his
or her responsibility as an adult. A child lacking the influence of adult authority
becomes responsible for its own behaviour. This kind of neglect and
inappropriate responsibility placed on a child deprives that child of adult support.
However, children need the support of adult judgement and guidance.
To indoctrinate – the illusion of ambition
When education and upbringing
no longer revolve around children's abilities and wishes but instead centre on
teachers' or parents' ambitions, they becomes ego centred. The fallacy is to mould
a child in the way that we as adults want it to be, imposing our own values and
beliefs upon the child rather than helping it to form its own. Examples include
cases when parents push their child to excel at sports in order to satisfy
their own pride or when a teacher puts a lot of effort into improving the
average grade of his or her class in order to impress others. In such cases, adults
need to set their own vanity aside and remember that children are not there for
us; we are there for them. Children do not have to find the same things to be important
as we do, nor should we attempt to force them into a mould, but rather we
should allow them to grow.
I have probably made all the mistakes that I just said
should be avoided. I would not say that what I did was wrong because I do not
believe that making mistakes is wrong. However, we cannot have ambition and do our
best without making mistakes. Even learning from our mistakes does not mean
that we stop making them, only that we make new ones. In this fallible
condition it is valuable and encouraging to have an understanding and
supportive tutor. Children also make mistakes, even when they are doing their
best. Accordingly, adults should bear in mind that when a child does something that
is considered to be wrong it is natural for them to make such mistakes. Hence,
we should value the opportunity to reach out to them with the same
understanding and encouraging support that we would wish for ourselves.
Respect is at the heart of discipline. Without respect
there can be no discipline. Most people probably remember teachers who they and
their classmates respected and also teachers who they had less respect for. From
my own experience, the teachers that did not enjoy respect were those that
bullied children or let themselves be bullied by children. The ones that let
the children control them were pitied or even laughed at, while those that were
too harsh were resented. Neither type enjoyed respect, the former because they
failed to earn our respect and the latter because they failed to show respect.
The following sections will focus on these two themes of earning and showing
Earning respect
We have to know what we want if we are to acquire it. Take,
for example, an ideal day at work. As a preschool teacher, I would want
children to be polite during their time at school, I would want them to listen
when I speak to them and to sit at the dinner table when we eat. How do I
achieve this? How do I construct an economy where I get what I want, and the
children enjoy themselves?
Setting boundaries
Step one in earning respect is to set standards and
rules. We set the framework for what kind of behaviour we want to see, what
behaviour we will tolerate or ignore, and when and how we will interfere when children
cross boundaries.
If we grade the behaviour of a group of children on a
scale from better to worse, we should come up with something resembling the
linear scale above, where better behaviour is represented on the right-hand
side and worse behaviour on the left-hand side. Scaling children's behaviour in
this manner makes it apparent that half of the time the group is showing 'better'
behaviour than in the other half. Hence, we reward them for showing better
behaviour, even if it is not completely to our satisfaction, because we want
them to move away from negative behaviour towards better behaviour. Their
development is facilitated by us being more accepting and giving more rewards
when they show better behaviour. However, if we always maintain the same
monotonous tone of criticism, we give the signal that their efforts are not
good enough and thereby run the risk that they will just stop trying.
When we identify
an action as being 'off-limits', we also need to define what is wrong with it.
We either have to place an inappropriate action in an appropriate environment
or replace it with an appropriate action. Being loud is not wrong in itself. Indeed,
very few actions are implicitly wrong in my opinion. However, we have to
identify the time when and place where it is appropriate to exercise one's
voice. It is not wrong for someone to be angry when hit by someone else, but an
unacceptable reaction has to be replaced by a more appropriate action. If
acceptable responses can be recognized then it is possible to steer behaviour
that is off-limits towards better behaviour in a constructive way.
Enforcing rules
Step two in earning respect is to enforce rules and
deal with non-compliance. For this we need to know our leverage. If the standard
is set too high then in the absence of sufficient leverage we will not be able
to maintain it. When we claim respect we have to afford it. This implies some
form of economy.[5]
We have to know what kind of behaviour we find
acceptable and draw a line between this and the kind of behaviour we regard as
unacceptable. We also have to realize what a child's wants and what it wants to
avoid. If we are conscious of this matrix of 'wants' and 'don't wants' we can
more easily construct an economy where both we and the child find what is
desirable and avoid that which is not. We should inform children of the
repercussions of behaviour that is 'off-limits', and while this might be
perceived by some children as 'threatening' we should aim to inform them in a
way that seems reasonable. We should also inform children of the rewards of
living up to our standards. This is a form of 'bribe', which admittedly is not
a very acceptable word, but essentially describes what we do. Besides 'threatening'
and 'bribing' children, ignoring them is a powerful and underestimated tool.
Because children want attention we ignore as much negative behaviour as
possible and divert our attention towards positive behaviour. The underlying
logic is that actively ignoring a child that is showing negative behaviour
consistently teaches it what behaviour it benefits from.[6]
Being coherent
Step three in earning respect is to be coherent when
enforcing rules. The predictability of repercussions weighs more heavily than
the severity of the punishment.
The approach shown in the upper part of the following
Figure is much more efficient than that shown in the lower part.
By using the first approach described above, we are
relating to a child's sound judgement and self-preservation in a world where negative
behaviour has repercussions. By using the second method we are relating to a
fear of punishment. However, while it is not desirable for children to live their
lives in fear, we want them to exercise sound judgement and self-preservation,
and to contemplate the repercussions of their actions. Because of the
importance of coherency we have to be strict with ourselves in what rules we lay
down. Being strict means having fundamental guidelines that we adhere to. It
does not mean pointing out everything we do not like. If we are to follow
through every rule we declare we cannot afford any excess. If a child is unable
to obey a verbal command, we should step in and help. Children are good at what
they practice. We should not allow them to disobey us, but instead help them to
practise the form of behaviour we find acceptable. Further, we should not
address all the behaviour that we do not like in a hypercritical way, but start
with the rules that we consider most fundamental. In the course of time, once
these rules have been established we can shift our focus to others.
Showing respect
If we want children to learn respect we have to show them
respect. A child that is treated with respect has more self-respect and, in
turn more respect for others. We show children respect by how we talk to them,
by embracing every child as different and by encouraging their self-esteem.
Respecting our responsibility as role models
Children learn from what they observe. They learn from
what they see us do and what they hear us say. It is our responsibility to
model the behaviour we want them to show. We have to be careful of what we do
and what we say. If we are not, then we are failing them as role models. When
talking to children, one golden rule is that we judge the behaviour not the
child. When we interfere because their behaviour is off-limits we should not
attack the person but instead guide their behaviour towards constructive
alternatives. To describe a child as 'naughty' is to make an attack on its
person. If effective, criticism of the child's person is likely to arouse a
sense of shame and feelings of guilt. If ineffective, it is likely to alienate
the child from the teacher. Either way, it is unproductive and pacifying. In
order to be an effective role model we need to set boundaries to our own
behaviour. What we expect of a child we should also expect of ourselves. Hence,
for example, if we consider it would be rude for a child to tell someone to
stop wining, then we should not use these words ourselves. We cannot expect children
to show us more respect than we show them.
Respecting a child's personality
Given that every child is different, we have to
respect that difference and adjust our approach to individual children
accordingly. Some children are more emotional than others and some find it more
difficult than others to focus on a lengthy discussion on what they did wrong
and what they should do instead. In a lecture given to teachers on the subject
of discipline, Margrét Pála Ólafsdóttir pointed out three personality types
which she categorized as physical, emotional and intellectual, according to the
way people express themselves:[7]
The physical types are
those who use physical messages rather than vocal or emotional ones to express themselves.
They use physical force to control their environment and enjoy physically
challenging activities such as sports. The negative side of this is a tendency
to express negative feelings with physical violence such as pushing or hitting.
The appropriate way to approach this personality type is to accompany messages
with physical contact such as a hand on the shoulder when we speak to a child,
or holding them until they calm down.
The emotional types are
those who use emotions to express themselves. A negative tendency of this type of
personality is to assume the role of a 'crying victim' in order to control one's
environment. A good way to approach children with this personality type is to
use empathy. We can reach out to them by offering our participation in their
problems. When we talk to them we should express our feelings and try to
address their emotional sensitivities. However, just as we would not reward the
physical type for using violence, we should not reward the emotional type for turning
into a helpless victim, unless that is what we want the child to become.
Instead, we should involve ourselves in their troubles to give them the
strength to turn a challenge into an opportunity.
Children with intellectual
personalities enjoy cognitive challenges and problem solving. The negative side
is that if they are under-stimulated they may have a tendency to create
trouble. Intellectual types use manipulation to control their environment. They
tend to enjoy outsmarting others, tricking their peers into giving them what
they want, or making a teacher lose his or her temper. It can be challenging to
beat such children at their own game, so to speak, but it is helpful to use
cognitive messages that involve cause and effect and to strike bargains or
deals that both parties can benefit from.
Giving complements
Teachers have a tendency to become hypercritical of
children's behaviour. It is a part of a teacher's job description to correct children,
and this is regarded as part of making an effort. We have to find a way to
compensate children for our criticism in order to prevent them constantly
feeling they are not good enough. We should inspire self-confidence in them by frequently complementing them for what they do and who they are, using
both behaviour-oriented compliments and person-oriented compliments. By doing
this we will not only reinforce positive behaviour by giving them signals as to
what we expect of them, but perhaps more importantly we will make them feel
good about themselves, thereby making them more independent and resilient
individuals. Compliments make children feel that they are valued individuals
and that their efforts are acknowledged. A child that feels appreciated and has
good self-esteem can tolerate criticism and failure better than a child that
feels weak and ignored. A popular rule in Icelandic pedagogy is that for every
negative criticism we give to a child, we owe it four compliments. This is a
safeguard against our tendency to put children down and an effective reminder
of the impact of our criticism on a child. On one occasion I had a hyperactive
boy in my group. As I was walking home from work one day, I was struck by a
sudden realization regarding that boy's situation. He had to endure adult
interference in his behaviour every two minutes. For the young boy, changing his
situation was not an option. So, while it remains necessary to interfere when
negative behaviour goes 'off-limits', we should try to keep our criticisms to a
minimum and compensate for them by giving all the compliments we can think of.
hope that readers of this article will find some aspects worth considering and some
methods worth putting into practice. At the very least, I hope I have succeeded
in provoking thoughts about how we treat children. Especially, we should not be
afraid of placing demands on them and challenging them in order to stimulate
their growth and development, and also it is important to take care in the
creation of rules, and then to follow through on any rules we set.
We need to contemplate why we
want discipline and what we want to achieve by it. Do we just want obedience or
do we want to nurture self-confident, free and responsible individuals, brave
enough to meet life's challenges? Childhood is a one-off opportunity, and
whereas adults can change their job if they do not like children are not in a
position to change their childhood. Children are not responsible for their own
childhood. Rather, adults are responsible for the most influential years in a child's
development. It is our responsibility to do our utmost to ensure that these
years are happy and enjoyable. This is the best education we can give them.
[1] During and after my studies I have
worked at four different preschools, one primary school and two after school
activity centres.
[2] This paper draws upon a lecture I delivered
for new employees at Klambrar preschool in 2006.
[3] The curriculum of Klambrar preschool is
greatly influenced by John Dewey (Klambrar curriculum 2007).
[4] The fallacies identified here are not
based on research, and are open to critisism.
[5] The four phases of the economy are left
blank for the user of the model to fill in according to their situation.
[6] Lecture for support teachers working
with children with ADHD and autism. Reykjavík. 2005.
[7] Margrét Pála runs the Hjalli preschool.
She is an influential figure in Icelandic pedagogy for her feministic
viewpoint. The distintive policies of Hjalli have been adopted by a number of
preschools and primary schools in Iceland. http://www.hjalli.is/information/
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