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Study: Despite Wide-Ranging Payment Alternatives, Cash Is Still King
ROCKVILLE, Md. — Even in the digital age of virtual wallets, ecommerce, mobile payments and online banking, cash is still king, a new report from market research firm Packaged Facts found.
According to U.S. Consumer Payments Outlook Through 2020, 79 percent of consumers made monthly cash payments despite the wide range of plastic and virtual alternatives in 2016.
The report found that a wide variety of Americans prefer cash, and even those who prefer another payment option still use cash frequently. Interestingly, tech-trendy millennials comprised the largest share of consumers who prefer cash at 36 percent. Nearly a quarter of every other age group selected cash as their primary preference.
Among the primary motivations for using cash include: debt management, privacy and security, as well as avoiding payment/card fees. Conversely, less than 10 percent of Americans use cash because they cannot qualify for credit.
Cash is often favored for its versatility and convenience, especially for specific uses like person-to-person monetary transfers and small-venue transactions. The average value of cash holdings, or the amount of cash a person is carrying with them, has also grown, Packaged Facts found.
According to Packaged Facts' latest report, cash is among the most used payment for:
- Gifts and transfers to people;
- Government and non-profit purchases;
- Food and personal care supplies; and
- Auto- and vehicle-related purchases.
"Even more so than checks, cash is confined to the physical world. Consumers do not use cash for online or automatic bill payments or online non-bill payments," stated David Sprinkle, research director for Packaged Facts. "It may be faster to swipe or tap a card. It's arguably easier to press a button on your cellphone or keyboard. But cold hard cash still has its place, and it's an important one that consumers not only use but also trust."
Despite these figures, cash is facing two notable challenges. The first is that consumers are making fewer small dollar payments with cash. The market research firm estimates that cash is used for more than 50 percent of transactions that are under $25 and for more than 60 of purchases that are less than $10. The second is credit cards. When asked what payment instrument they preferred if their primary option was unavailable, 55 percent of people who prefer checks, debit cards or credit cards chose cash.
Packaged Facts' U.S. Consumer Payments Outlook Through 2020 emphasizes a 2007-2016 survey trending of consumer payment usage and behavior, segmented by payment instrument, method and demographics. More information on the report is available here.


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Hey I tried it. Also what happens when you try tail -f /var/log/kernel ?
Thanks, if I do "tail -f /var/log/kernel.log" I get a the hit list along with the other kernel info, so I guess this provides the information. Hopefully this will work the other way soon.
I tried using both the kernel and the iptables logs as well with no luck. Anyone have any experience with this.]]>
The key was to edit the firestarter script in /root/.gnome2/firestarter
by adding these two lines to the end of it... fixed the GUI functionality right up....
Thanks a bunch for all your help!
I would still like to be able to monitor my firewall without digging through log files but I appreciate the help anyways!
I use normal iptables logging (the LOG chain) [from gShield (PKGBUILD available on the forums)] and I redirect all my kernel output to vc12 from within syslog-ng. I could create a filter for those messages in syslog-ng to show, for example, the firewall messages on vc11, but haven't looked in the configs yet.
Or, now I've thought of something else. You can create a FIFO with mkfifo and pipe all the firewall messages to that (also using a filter in syslog-ng). Let's assume you've created it with
mkfifo /var/log/iptables_pipe
Config your syslog-ng (I don't know if syslog is so flexible) to redirect iptables messages to /var/log/iptables_pipe (I can't tell you how to do this, because I haven't tried it yet).
Do (in a console)
while read line; do echo $line; done < /var/log/iptables_pipe
and you'll have live report from iptables.
^ I think this should work, but haven't tested it yet (as I've said).
Good luck.
P.S.1. There are some more advanced programs (as far as I remember) for detecting intrusions on Linux. I don't remember these advanced programs having a GUI, probably because they're enough complicated on the inside to create an interface for them. They just put the output in a log, you follow it whatever you want. You won't see much interactivity from the Linux firewalls, mostly because they were supposed to just sit on a machine and do their work.
P.S.2. I haven't seen on linux a GUI firewall on linux doing popups and so on. This is probably because the components are well defined, the firewall runs as root and you probably log in as a normal user. Allowing a normal user to modify live the firewall rules creates a security hole.
I would still like to be able to monitor my firewall without digging through log files but I appreciate the help anyways!]]>
But I don't quite understand what the tail -f /var/log/kernel command does....
I'll check out the kernel log once i get home from school....]]>
So I pacman'd firestarted, found it in /opt/gnome/bin and ran the gui app
I set up everything according to how I wanted it to act and then dropped it down into KDE's tray.
I hopped over to one of my other local computers and scanned it with nmap and Xscan and both turned up blanks. Thats great... but Firestarter's hitlist is staying blank. Not a single notification has popped up as it should, the home LAN has numerous M$ and *nix boxes.... and our public IP is scanned quite regularly by kiddies out there....
Is there some configuration I need to carry out? I've read the manual at Firestarter's homepage and drew a blank.
Anyone seen this behavior with firestarter? It will stay running on the comp as its keeping my desktop slightly less vulnerable but I'd really like to gain full functionality from the program.
If ya'll need any more information please don't hesitate to ask... Or a URL to go read at... I've drawn a blank on google and linuxquestions.org....
Appreciate any replies,

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Against All Authority (often abbreviated -AAA-) was an American punk band, formed in Florida in 1992. Playing in the ska punk style, their business practice follows a stringent DIY ethic.
Against All Authority was founded in Cutler Ridge, Florida in 1992, driven by willingness to promote their message—"questioning our economic differences and promoting our human similarities", as stated by their now defunct official website. A strong engagement in political and social issues is clearly evident in their lyrics. The band maintain a fierce DIY stance influenced by the approach of the Dead Kennedys and Subhumans. Early in their career the band decided to book concerts, make recordings and even produce band T-shirts on their own. Their first release "Above The Law" was released on Far Out Records. Later they signed on independent label Hopeless Records, becoming one of their major bands. In addition to touring and recording, the band is frequently involved in demonstrations and social projects. They have also influenced a number of other bands. Guitar player Joe Koontz has formed a new band called Nobody's Hero, with members of The Vandals and Guajiro. Trombonist Fin Leavell is now fronting the band Nightswim. Drummer Macbeth Proenza also formed a new band called Hit, Play!, with former members of Polly Esther.
The American Automobile Association (AAA - pronounced "Triple A") is a federation of motor clubs throughout North America. AAA is a non-profit member service organization; with 54 million members in the United States and Canada. AAA provides services to its members, including roadside assistance and others. Its national headquarters are in Heathrow, Florida.
The American Automobile Association (the "AAA" or "Triple-A") was founded on March 4, 1902, in Chicago, Illinois, when in response to a lack of roads and highways suitable for automobiles, nine motor clubs with a total of 1,500 members banded together to form the Triple-A. Those individual motor clubs included the Chicago Automobile Club, Automobile Club of America, Automobile Club of New Jersey, and others. The Automobile Club of Buffalo joined in 1903.
In 1904, the AAA merged with the very first American automobile organization, the American Motor League.
The first AAA road maps were published in 1905. AAA began printing hotel guides in 1917. Triple-A began its School Safety Patrol Program in 1920, the first of the association's driver safety programs, which provided local schools with materials, including badges and ID cards to train and organize students into a patrol force. The AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety, which conducts studies on motorist safety, was established as a separate entity in 1947.
AAA, or Triple-A is a three-letter initialism or abbreviation, and may refer to:
Sâles is a municipality in the district of Gruyère in the canton of Fribourg in Switzerland. In 2001 the municipality was created when Maules, Romanens, Rueyres-Treyfayes and Sâles (Gruyère) merged.
Sâles has an area, as of 2009, of 18.8 square kilometers (7.3 sq mi). Of this area, 13.66 km2 (5.27 sq mi) or 72.7% is used for agricultural purposes, while 3.79 km2 (1.46 sq mi) or 20.2% is forested. Of the rest of the land, 1.14 km2 (0.44 sq mi) or 6.1% is settled (buildings or roads) and 0.19 km2 (0.073 sq mi) or 1.0% is unproductive land.
Of the built up area, housing and buildings made up 2.7% and transportation infrastructure made up 2.8%. Out of the forested land, 18.6% of the total land area is heavily forested and 1.6% is covered with orchards or small clusters of trees. Of the agricultural land, 14.6% is used for growing crops and 56.6% is pastures.
The municipality is located in the Gruyère district. It consists of the villages of Maules, Romanens, Rueyres-Treyfayes and Sâles (Gruyère) which merged in 2001.
Customer relationship management (CRM) is an approach to managing a company's interaction with current and future customers. The CRM approach tries to analyze data about customers' history with a company, in order to better improve business relationships with customers, specifically focusing on retaining customers, in order to drive sales growth. One important aspect of the CRM approach is the systems of CRM that compile information from a range of different channels, including a company's website, telephone, email, live chat, marketing materials, social media, and more. Through the CRM approach and the systems used to facilitate CRM, businesses learn more about their target audiences and how to best cater to their needs. However, the adoption of the CRM approach may also occasionally lead to favoritism within an audience of consumers, leading to dissatisfaction among customers and defeating the purpose of CRM.
The primary goal of CRM systems is to integrate and automate sales, marketing, and customer support. Therefore, these systems typically have a dashboard that gives an overall view of the three functions on a single page for each customer that a company may have. The dashboard may provide client information, past sales, previous marketing efforts, and more, summarizing all of the relationships between the customer and the firm. Operational CRM is made up of 3 main components: sales force automation, marketing automation, and service automation.
SALES is an American guitar-based pop band from Orlando, Florida. The band's members are musicians Lauren Morgan and Jordan Shih.
In July 2014, the band was named "Ones to Watch" for the second half of 2014 by The Hype Machine for being one the most blogged artists yet to release a long play album.
The band is independent and self-released their first 7" Single renee/tonka time on December 1, 2013 through the music platform Bandcamp.
Artwork for all of the band's releases is done by collage artist and designer Alana Questell.
Morgan (guitar, vocals) and Shih (guitar, programming) formed the band in Orlando, Florida after the longtime friends had been recording music together on and off for several years. Their latest musical project, SALES, is based on vocal and instrumental improvisation as well as sampling.
On January 31, 2014, the first day of the Chinese New Year, the band released their second single titled "chinese new year." The band subsequently received positive acclaim from music blogs, including CMJ, Stereogum, and Pigeons and Planes. CMJ described the track as a "...sandy, sashaying tune with singer Lauren Morgan's slightly cooing vocals skipping over upbeat guitars and a little synthy buzz. At least the Year Of The Horse is sounding pretty good so far."


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Asus' mammoth GX700 — a gaming laptop with a separate water-cooling station that allows for some ridiculous overclocking shenanigans — blew our minds when it was unveiled last fall, and now it's getting a younger sibling. The GX800 was unveiled alongside a handful of other products at Asus' Republic of Gamers (ROG) Computex press event today, and the company is calling it "the most powerful gaming laptop in the world."
Asus is keeping the GX800's specifics close to the vest for now, the same strategy it employed when the GX700 was unveiled. We know it's rocking "the latest NVIDIA SLI GPU and Intel K-series CPUs," and that's about it. The GX700 ended up containing the then-unannounced mobile GTX 980; cross your fingers the GX800 is playing host to something similarly exciting. It's also coming with two separate 330W power supplies, and a mechanical keyboard that's backlit with multi-color LEDs, because there's no point pushing your system to the limit without a little style. If you're not going to crank every part of the GX800 to the most powerful point possible, it's probably overkill, and that's just fine — the ZenBook 3 is looking mighty sleek for those of you feeling a little more sensible. This one's all about excess.
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Heidi from Lily Field Furniture used her furniture painting skills to bring back the beauty in this sentimentally valued radio cabinet with Vanilla Frosting!
One of my friends is getting married soon and her fiance had a few pieces that needed to be updated. One of them is this gorgeous radio cabinet!
I absolutely love redoing furniture pieces that are sentimental to my clients. It's so fun knowing the history behind pieces that I work on!
I knew right off the bat that this piece was going to be a challenge. You can almost bet that on furniture this age and style you WILL have bleed through issues. Especially if you are painting with a light color. The color we used is Vanilla Frosting and so I did some prep work up front to hopefully eliminate bleed through.
After cleaning the entire piece I sprayed several (4) layers of shellac all over the cabinet. I had high hopes that this would be enough to eliminate issues but sure enough, still major bleed through after the first coat of paint.
A painter's worst nightmare- I despise bleed through! There is something about these old pieces and the products they used back in the day that really makes the tannin come through. After walking away in frustration for a day I got out my Zinsser BIN Primer and did a layer of that. Guess what- bleed through still! It was definitely much better but you could still see several spots.
As a last resort I did a few layers of Zinsser oil based cover stain. Finally we had success!
All of this should give you encouragement. There are pieces that we ALL struggle on. Not every project is easy! Stick with it and you will be so happy you did!
After the bleed through was finally under control I did another coat of Vanilla Frosting and distressed to show off the gorgeous details.
For protection, I added a layer of top coat to the finish. I just love the clean, updated look a paint job can give a piece of furniture!
Heidi {Lily Field Furniture}
Hello! My name is Heidi and I am the face behind Lily Field Furniture. I spend my days being a wife and mom and my late nights in the garage painting away! I absolutely love the job that I have and have so much fun with the process of thrifting and then refinishing furniture in a creative way. It's so rewarding to see the amazing transformation that just a little paint can make!
Make sure to follow Heidi on her blog Lily Field Furniture, as well as on Facebook, Pinterest, and Instagram!
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I know a lot of people hate the idea of painting wood, but isn't it stunning how much detail you see of the carving when this is painted in a light colour? Kudos on your patience with the bleed through. It really is such a nuisance! But you persevered and the results were worth it. Beautiful!


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|It looks like in your pictures that D-45 face plate in the front of the headstock is a Satin finish? The rest of the guitar looks to have a nice gloss finish.
|2018-12-30 12:57:42
|hi i have question about your guitar
is guitar made of solid wood all around guitar as you described?
thank you.
|2018-11-04 04:48:48
I need your offer for a Martin D45 acoustic guitar with your standard specs but with additional electronics from L.L. Baggs without case and shipping to Germany.
Please advise price and delivery time and additional cost for shipping.
Best regards
Dietmar Thielen
|Dididealer 2017-11-03 14:26:16
|I am looking for a martin D45 replica in a lefty (left handed). I want solid rosewood back and sides with solid spruce top, NOT veneer rosewood PLYWOOD.
L.L Baggs electronics and SUNBURST top if possible. If electronics not available please quote without. Please quote prices deliverd to canada. Please quote prices with and without electronics.
Pleae quote price with standard colour top and sunburst.
Thank you, Wayne
|2017-10-25 16:36:01
|Hi, is possible make a left-handed version? thanks.
|2017-09-27 04:09:26


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Rare candies cannot be bought in any of the Pokémon games, but Generation III introduced a way to gather as many as you need using the Pickup ability. This method relies on probability, so it can take hours of grinding.
Pick up a Pickup
The first thing you need is to have a Pokémon with the Pickup ability in your party. In Pokémon Ruby, only six Pokémon can have Pickup: Meowth, Aipom, Teddiursa, Phanpy, Zigzagoon and Linoone.
Pick a fight
Make sure that your Pokémon with Pickup is not holding any items, then go around battling other Pokémon. After every fight, there is a 10 percent chance that your Pokémon will pick up an item and another 10 percent chance that the item will be a Rare Candy. The Pokémon with Pickup doesn't need to fight to use its ability after a battle.
Every time your Pokémon picks up an item, put it away and keep looking for battles. Continue this process until you gather 99 Rare Candies.


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1: One Life
2: Beneath My Skin
3: Love Is So Amazing (L.I.S.A)
4: Let It Go
5: In Me
6: Join Together
7: Bright Red Hearts
8: Rays Of Sunlight
9: Bang (You're In Love)
10: Knots
11: Rescued
12: Push Comes To Shove
13: You've Got To Earn It
14: I Won't Conform
15: Hopeful
16: I Don't Think It's Me
17: What If
18: Rock The Boat
19: God Believes In Me
20: Everything Comes To An End
Music is a wonderful thing. It affects so many people in so many ways. It can be subjective to a point where you either love my music or you dont :). Regardless of that, it touches people in ways like nothing else can.
The key thing for when it comes to creating a new song is the melody. It has to have that hook to give it a chance of being remembered time and time again when it hits the radio! Even the roughest demo of an idea can still switch that light on in your heart and soul if it is good! You just know when it feels right...right?
CD ALBUM - Available now. £6.00 + FREE Postage for UK.
A 20 track CD featuring an array of tracks written and composed by
Nathan Bennett over the past 20 years.
"Nice tunes you've got there" Dean Friedman, Performer and Songwriter
"Elements of John Lennon which is great to hear" BBC Radio
"Really nice vocal tone and great songs" Hue and Cry


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The Education Students' Society is a University of Regina faculty representative society. The belief of the society is to be the voice of the education students to the faculty, Students Union, Saskatchewan Teachers' Federation and associated campuses. The ESS represents approximately 1500 students, and is intended to organized professional development events, STF events, social gatherings, maintain the lounge, organized project connect, and continue to organize a mentorship program.
I spent three years on the Education Students' Society (ESS), and while each year taught me something, and at the end of the three years I am extremely pleased with how it turned out and the experiences that I gained from my years on the ESS. I started the ESS as a Professional Development rep, after a year I moved on to being Vice President of Finance, and my final year had me being President.


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Lindsay Lee, junior in Spanish and mathematics, was walking along a sidewalk. The man in front of her turned around and said, "That must be fun."
He was referencing her electric wheelchair.
Lee has muscular dystrophy, a genetic condition that weakens her muscles and constrains her mode of transportation.
Oftentimes, strangers exhibit confusion and ignorance when interacting with her.
"At the end of last semester I was trying to figure out something that would be good for UT," she said. "I've noticed that people sometimes have a bad attitude around campus towards disability."
That observation led to the establishment of Campus Disability Advocates, a new UT student group that is attempting to start more conversations about disabilities and the people that have them.
"The thing that makes disability advocacy difficult is that nobody is really going on TV and saying 'God hates disabled people.' It's not something that people have a strong antagonistic feeling towards, but that also means nobody's talking about it," Lee explained. "It can be hard when it's not on anyone's mind."
In order to put disability on people's minds, Lee and the other members of CDA are hosting "Disability Awareness Week."
Starting today, black and white portraits of disabled people will be available all week for viewing in the UC.
"The point of those is just to make people start thinking about how disability is real and not foreign, just to put a face to something that normally doesn't get a personality," Lee said.
The portraits were done by Marigrace Angelo, senior in studio art. She was eager to help the cause.
"Lindsay and I are already friends, and she knows that I am an art major. So she approached me and asked if I would be assistive ... of course I said yes. I knew she was really passionate about this," Angelo said.
Using natural lighting, Angelo aimed at showcasing the relatability of her subjects.
"Lindsay told me she wanted the portraits to look happy and uplifting and I definitely agreed with her on that," she said.
"We wanted to project the idea that individuals with disabilities are just normal students you see walking around on campus."
On Tuesday, the Howard H. Baker Center for Public Policy will host a public forum in the Toyota Auditorium.
Campus Disability Advocates will also sponsor a viewing of "My Left Foot" on Wednesday night at 7 p.m. in the Baker Center. The 1989 film featuring Daniel Day-Lewis tells the true story of Christy Brown, a man with cerebral palsy who learns to communicate using only his left foot.
The week concludes with the "Disability Issues and Advocacy Conference" on Thursday and Friday, featuring speakers from around the nation.
In 30-45 minute segments, the speakers will discuss a wide range of issues, from employment to ethics. One talk even ventures into the bathroom, entitled "Potty Politics: What Our Restroom Signs Tell Us About Our Attitudes Toward Inclusion."
"You just see the look on people's faces and they feel uncomfortable," Lee said. "The reason why is because they don't know any better, they don't know that (disability) is not a death sentence and that people aren't helpless. So the whole point is to get people to start talking about it, to make people think when they're interacting with people in the line at Starbucks."
Series shines light on disability awareness
Lindsay Lee, junior in Spanish and mathematics, was walking along a sidewalk. The man in front of her turned around and said, "That must be fun."


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A senior source in South Africa's African National Congress party says its executive committee decided to "recall," or remove, President Jacob Zuma as head of state. Ryan Brooks reports. Continue reading
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Tusk says EU to start transition talks with Britain
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Scary Stories About Email List Cleaning
By James Carner, 14th May 2018 | Follow this author
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Email list cleaning can be good or bad. It all depends on the company that is aggregating your data. Over the years, we have heard dozens of frightening stories about bad experiences with email validation services therefore I think it would be good to write about them to give help warn you before you make the same mistakes.
Switched Lists
A few years ago, I had a client have me sign a huge non-disclosure and data safety agreement. Since we don't keep data, it's all good with me. He continued to tell me this awful story. One of our competitors scrubbed his list and sent it to someone else and vice versa. Get this – both companies were in a similar industry. One had an optin list of 120,000 subscribers to an online poker game (Texas Hold'em smartphone game to be exact) while the other client had a list of 80,000 gamblers. Both lists were sent to the wrong client(s). It wouldn't be that big of a deal if the lists were not named! But they were named by company name and list numbers. I don't need to fill you in on the rest of that story.
Suppression Switch
A client of mine said, one time a competitor (email verification services) accidently scrubbed against the wrong suppression list. When they sent the email, they hit all kinds of traps, complainers, bounces and litigators. Nearly shut them down. Manually scrubbing (sending a file without FTP and/or UI automation) is a major risk. When we first started scrubbing files back in the early 2000's, we did things manually on a desktop. It was easy to hit the wrong button when choosing suppressions. Always ask the email list cleaning company "where" and "how" they manipulate the data.
Stolen Data
You'd better be seeding your data! An easy way to do so is create a free email account and have it fwd to your regular email. 90% of all email list hygiene companies will keep your data. If they say they don't, just assume they are lying. They might not use it "right then" but you can bet your life they will later. Many have API's where they upload all of the data into an appending platform have offer access to the data to their clients. Your data just goes into the "pot" for all to gain access to. Bottom line is, you have to be able to trust your email validation services Company, so find out what they do with your data after you upload it.
This is the syndicated copy of an original article posted at verify550.com


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Dewey: The Progressive Era's Misunderstood Giant
John Dewey has been called the "most influential writer on education" and the "greatest philosopher" this country has produced. He's also one of the most misunderstood, oft-quoted, and least-read educational commentators of the progressive era.
"Dewey, in fact, is an icon who was picked up for better or for worse on all sides of most debates," says Ellen Condliffe Lagemann, a professor of history and education at New York University. One reason for Dewey's complicated reputation is simply that he lived so long--from 1859 to 1952--and wrote so copiously during a period of enormous change.
"That's part of the problem of Dewey," argues Diane Ravitch, a senior research scholar at NYU. "He wrote so much over so many years. Forty years later, the schools didn't look the same. So people always had a choice: Do you pay attention to the Dewey of 1902 or the Dewey of 1938?"
Starting With the Concrete
Born in Burlington, Vt., to a modest, middle-class family--his father ran a grocery business--Dewey graduated from the University of Vermont and then taught high school in Pennsylvania for three years before earning a graduate degree in philosophy from Johns Hopkins University.
He moved from there to the University of Michigan and then to the University of Minnesota before settling in Chicago in 1894 to chair both the philosophy and pedagogy departments at the University of Chicago. There, he founded the Laboratory School of the University of Chicago in 1896 to study his educational theories in practice.
Dewey believed that people learn by putting thought into action: primarily, by confronting problems that arise while engaging in activities that interest them. He advocated that education start with a child's interest in concrete, everyday experiences and build on that understanding to connect with more-formal subject matter. At the Lab School, children participated in experiences drawn from community life and occupations.
The curriculum was built around themes, such as "progress through exploration and discovery," which were supplemented by specific work in languages, mathematics, the fine and industrial arts, science, music, history, and geography.
Dewey also saw schools as engines of democracy in which children would learn citizenship through practice. In them, children would form the habits of mind that would enable them not only to live in society but also to improve it.
In 1899, his first major book on education, The School and Society, attempted to spell out the relationship between the education of the young and the development of an intelligent citizenry.
Dense and Difficult
Dewey's writings touched on the arts, politics, and nature, as well as education. But while he was prolific, his writing was dense and often difficult. In The Transformation of the School, Lawrence A. Cremin wrote of the "frequently discussed problem of Dewey's style, described by Irwin Edman as 'lumbering and bumbling,' by Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes as 'inarticulate,' and by Williams James as 'damnable; you might even say God-damnable.' "
Dewey, people often said, lived in the present. The slim, mustachioed scholar was supportive of young people and eager to listen to their concerns, but reluctant to indulge in his own reminiscences. His lectures at Columbia University were delivered in a slow--some said meditative--cadence. "His classes were well attended," said one observer, "but the lectures were not well listened to."
Still, William Heard Kilpatrick, one of the most popular lecturers at Teachers College from the 1910s to the 1930s, would describe Dewey as his "master." In his biography of Kilpatrick, who also lived to the ripe age of 93, John A. Beineke quotes from Kilpatrick's diaries: " 'I feel in some measure that I am best qualified of those about here to interpret Dewey. His own lectures are frequently impenetrable to even intelligent students.' "
Scholars continue to argue about which of the two men had more influence on progressive educational practice, and whether Kilpatrick faithfully interpreted Dewey's ideas or misconstrued them. In his biography of Dewey, Robert B. Westbrook argues that "much of what critics (then and now) attacked as aimless, contentless 'Deweyism' was in fact aimless, contentless 'Kilpatrickism.' " But in And Then There Were Giants in the Land, Beineke asserts: "That Dewey ever disavowed Kilpatrick, even indirectly, would be difficult to prove."
Some scholars blame Kilpatrick more than anyone else for what they view as the denigration of subject matter. But Ravitch places the onus on Dewey. "If you look at all of the things that are happening in American education that are anti-intellectual," she says, "there is a line that takes you back to John Dewey, and there is no escaping it."
'Thorndike Trumps Dewey'
Dewey's most direct attempts to influence practice were when he ran the Lab School, which he left in 1904. During his eight years at the elementary school, "Dewey began to develop a very promising approach to scholarship in education," Lagemann says. "Unlike most people, he wasn't sitting in a university office studying education, he was doing it with kids and teachers and trying to work out problems of practice."
In her forthcoming book, John Dewey's Defeat, Lagemann argues that in leaving the University of Chicago for Columbia in 1905, Dewey essentially ceded the field of education research to Edward L. Thorndike and other "administrative progressives." Those scholars thought research should be conducted in the university, that researchers should not be a part of schools, other than to test students, and that they could generate laws of learning for a primarily female teaching force to carry out. In Lagemann's view, "Thorndike trumped Dewey."
"I think it is fair to say that Dewey did not speak out as strongly as we might wish he had about some of the excesses of progressivism," Lagemann continues. Nonetheless, "I don't think you can blame the excesses of progressivism on Dewey."
Dewey's interest in the present moment was both a strength and a weakness. It gave his ideas tremendous vitality, but also made them hard to interpret in a later age.
"There were many John Deweys," says Patricia Albjerg Graham, the president of the Spencer Foundation. "The needs of American education from the time he started writing in the 1880s until the 1950s changed dramatically."
Today, she argues, much of what Dewey said that retains its value has been forgotten.
"What's been lost in the current discussions about education," Graham says, "is Dewey's powerful idea ... that if you're going to have a democratic society, you have to have an educated populace. And that an educated populace not only needs to know how to read, write, add, and subtract, but they have to know how to live together and to recognize that as a value."
Vol. 18, Issue 32, Page 29Published in Print: April 21, 1999, as Dewey: The Progressive Era's Misunderstood Giant
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Temporary Restraining Order against Teamsters Local 727 Granted
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GLENDALE HEIGHTS, Ill., July 25, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- The Appellate Court of Illinois, First Judicial District, granted a temporary restraining order against the Teamsters Local 727 and its leadership on Wednesday. The order calls for picketers to "refrain from conveying any actual or veiled threats against any person, also, refrain from obstructing, hindering, impeding or blocking any person's entry to or exit from any funeral site or any facility containing a funeral site."
The ruling comes after a complaint filed by SCI Illinois Services, Inc. asked for a temporary restraining order as well as preliminary and permanent injunctions after repeated incidents of gross insensitivity and harassment directed at grieving families by Teamsters' picketers outside of funeral homes affected by the union's current strike against the company.
"We are grateful that the court agreed to issue this temporary restraining order, and we are hopeful that it will help protect grieving families who are experiencing the most difficult times of their lives," said Larry Michael, managing director for SCI Illinois Services, Inc. "While we recognize and respect the Teamsters' right to lawfully picket, we have been shocked and saddened by their attempts to make grieving families the target of the cruel and outrageous attacks."
Some incidents cited in the complaint include:
- During the service of a young child who had passed away from cancer, picketers laughed, smiled and joked as they created a disturbance within the immediate vicinity of the only public entrance to the funeral home. They were asked to move by a police officer who had been called – then moved back immediately in front of the building and its entrance after the officer left.
- While escorting a woman and her father who were attempting to plan her recently deceased mother's funeral, an employee escorting them was taunted and called names, the three of them were taunted with a bullhorn and siren sound, and intimidated by an unleashed German Shepherd.
- Picketers used a bullhorn to shout profane and sexually explicit taunts while a woman and her four- and five-year-old sons attempted to make arrangements for her grandmother's funeral causing the family to become visibly upset.
- A group of picketers temporarily blocked a grieving widow's vehicle as she tried to exit the parking lot.
- Picketers repeatedly used the siren function on a bull horn, compressed air horns, car horns and car alarms to create loud disturbances during arrangements and services.
- Picketers threatened to blow up the house of a retired sheriff's officer hired to work private security at the funeral home.
"Although we regretted the necessity of asking the court to intervene in this matter, we felt it was imperative due to the repeated incidents of gross insensitivity, harassment and profane comments directed toward grieving families, as well as threats of violence by Teamsters representatives participating in these picketing efforts," said Michael.
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Fuzzcraft with his experiments building fiber optic ring lights, so I decided to make one myself. It's made completly from parts and materials that I had laying around:
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* epoxy to hold the fibers in place.
My sister's eye -- hand held, daytime, indoors
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Once the fibers were in place, I poured on epoxy to hold it all together. This worked fine, but was a bit messy. Once the epoxy was all cured, I ran both ends of the fibers on a belt sander to flatten them out. They still need polishing for best results. Even so, it's functional, at least for macro photography. It's not currently bright enough for more than a few inches away, so it's not great for portraits yet. And, the fibers definitely do not all transmit the same amount of light. Some are too small, while others are either bent too tightly or were damaged in construction. Nonetheless, it's working, and I'm happy to be able to take hand held macro shots in low light:
Garden spider -- hand held at night
D300, f/10, 1/60s, ISO-200, AF Micro Nikkor 60mm 1:2.8
Crested gecko -- low light, indoors
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Other than needing polishing that I mentioned above, I'd like to paint it -- maybe silver underneath with a flat-black top coat. Currently, I use a piece of aluminum foil over the top to help get light into the fibers and keep it from going straight through and washing out the top half of the shot.
Next time, I'd use higher quality fibers, position the holes better, and try to get more even light.
Next time, I'd use higher quality fibers, position the holes better, and try to get more even light.


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Actress Judy Greer - known for her parts in shows like Archer and Arrested Development, as well as movies like The Descendants and Dawn of the Planet of the Apes - has a role in Tomorrowland… but if you blink you'll miss her. In the movie, she plays the mother of Britt Robertson's character, Casey Newton, but only briefly appears on screen in a home movie that's played early in the film. It might strike some as odd that a known actress would have such a small part – but as it turns out she originally had a more significant role that ultimately had to be axed because of first act pacing issues.
While recently sitting down to talk with Tomorrowland director Brad Bird, I took the opportunity to ask about Judy Greer's tiny role, and he confirmed that her role in the movie was larger during the production process. In fact, she was actually one of a number of family members who wound up being cut out of the film completely. As Bird explained,
Casey had a whole family and uncle who also had kids, living in that house… We filmed it, but it bogged up the opening, and it's fun in and of itself.
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The filmmaker explained that the scenes will be included on Tomorrowland's Blu-ray release, but noted that the moments were a problem because they "tended to divert energy away from where [they] needed it to go." That being said, Bird regrets that Judy Greer isn't in the movie. He said,
Judy Greer is a fantastic actress and I feel kind of like I was cheated by not getting to use her performance in the film. But maybe I'll get another chance to work with her.
While it may sound like Tomorrowland was forced to cut out a significant portion of Casey's home life, the cuts actually aren't actually noticeable in the final film, and you simply get that she is being raised by a single father (it's possible if not very likely that this was partially fixed through reshoots). The only reason it might bug you is if you recognize Judy Greer's presence and wonder why she doesn't have a bigger role, but that's exactly why I asked Brad Bird about it!
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Okay, I have an admission to make. I had no idea the game show Catch 21 existed. Apparently it's been on TV for 3 years, but I had never heard of it until today. The truth is, while I love blackjack and enjoy playing it at online casinos and in Vegas, I don't watch a whole lot of TV. When I do watch TV, it's not game shows.
It turns out that Catch 21 is a game show that will soon be taping its 4th season on the Game Show Network, which commonly goes by the name GSN, probably because they think it sounds cooler (it does). Again, in all honesty, I didn't know that channel existed, but I checked my cable guide and sure enough, there it is.
Anyway, GSN is holding auditions for the upcoming season of their show. They have released a casting call asking for talent. Here is what it says:
The hit game show "Catch 21" is back for it's 4th season. We are looking for HIGHLY COMPETITIVE, VERY outgoing, FUN contestants with a GREAT personality, and who know how to play "blackjack." We need 20s to 40s, all genders and races in the greater Los Angeles area. You can win "BIG" and have fun!!!
Yes, it is written exactly like that, with all of the all-caps words, grammatical errors and everything, at least in the casting call that I found online. Anyway, if you are in Los Angeles or want to work there for this reality show and you love blackjack, game shows and all of that stuff, this could be a great idea.
I still didn't know what the show was, though, so I visited GSN's website, where I learned that the show will be hosted by Carlton from The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air (whose real name seems to be Alfonso Ribeiro). That makes the deal sound even better, because I have fond memories of that show – my kids couldn't get enough of it.
But aside from hanging out with Carlton, what else would you do? GSN's website didn't offer much more information than the casting call, which basically just said that the show requires "a combination of trivia talent and card-counting cleverness."
To learn more, I found the Wikipedia page for Catch 21. Since it's Wikipedia, it might not be true, but here's what I learned. The show is a standard trivia type of game show except that the goal, instead of earning points, is to get a blackjack hand of up to 21 without going over. Players start out with one card and can only draw other cards when they answer a question correctly. By buzzing in before the other contestants and getting the question right, they can take another card. Instead of competing against the dealer, the players compete against each other. So basically it's a trivia game that uses the gameplay of blackjack to determine a winner instead of simply who has the most points. Sounds pretty cool to me and I don't even like game shows.
So if you like trivia games and blackjack, you should respond to the casting call for a chance to hang out with Carlton on the GSN. Maybe he'll even do the dance for you (probably not).
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Romance readers are known for being particularly voracious, and while fans of historicals certainly have plenty to choose from, those looking for LGBTQ romances don't have the same quantity of options. Cat Sebastian is one of the authors hoping to change that. The Ruin of a Rake is her third queer historical romance, featuring a bisexual rogue and tightly-laced gay gentleman. To celebrate the book's release, Sebastian recommended five must-read LGBTQ historical romances. We'd advise immediately adding these to your TBR pile, and then indulging in all three of Sebastian's sizzling novels.
Historical fiction at its best can populate the past with stories that wouldn't or couldn't otherwise be told, giving us a glimpse into lives that are too often erased and outright denied. Especially for marginalized groups, historical fiction can be a chance to remind ourselves that we've always been here, that we belong, and that our stories are worth telling. LGBTQ historical romance not only tells these stories but guarantees happy endings for characters who, on the rare occasions they make their way into mainstream fiction, too often die or are cast as villains. Here are some of my favorite LGBTQ historical romances, in no particular order.
Brothers Of The Wild North Sea
Harper Fox's Brothers of the Wild North Sea is the story of an injured Viking who falls in love with the monk who rescues him. The characters are complex and finely drawn, and the setting (a stark and wind-swept Northumbrian monastery that's not quite Lindisfarne) is evocative. There's a touch of mysticism as a prophet and a witch weave in and out of the story. The narrative never flags, but it moves slowly enough to explore how the characters' world views change through meeting and eventually loving one another.
Pembroke Park
Pembroke Park is a rare lesbian Regency romance; it was written in the 80s, isn't available in digital, and even used paperbacks aren't cheap (but it's worth every penny). In the dedication, the author acknowledges that her intention is to write in the same vein as Jane Austen and Georgette Heyer, but with lesbians (not to mention several other LGBTQ characters present in the background). The prose is always witty and occasionally hilarious.
The Secret Casebook of Simon Feximal
This book tells the story of Victorian era ghost hunter Simon Feximal, as recounted by his John Watson-esque companion and biographer, Robert, who publishes Simon's adventures while concealing the true nature of their relationship. Robert laments that "in writing Simon's stories, I have written myself out of my own life." This sense of being written out of history feels like a reflection on the toll secrecy took on queer people, and contributes to the poignancy of this novel.
Sarah Waters' Fingersmith might not properly be a romance novel, but it does have a happy ending, so I'm including it. A pickpocket falls in love with a lady she's trying to defraud—except that isn't what happens at all. It takes place in a dark and twisted Victorian England that feels both recognizably Dickensian and a plausible backdrop for two women to find love despite layers of deceit.
The protagonists of Anna Cowan's gorgeously written Untamed aren't a same sex couple, but the hero is quite comfortable in his bisexuality and also seems to be what we'd today recognize as genderqueer. His gender presentation is at times overtly feminine while the heroine presents as slightly masculine; it is lovely and refreshing to see characters with atypical gender presentations find love and happiness.
Cat Sebastian lives in a swampy part of the South with her husband, three kids, and two dogs. Before her kids were born, she practiced law and taught high school and college writing. When she isn't reading or writing, she's doing crossword puzzles, bird-watching, and wondering where she put her coffee cup.


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Author: Renee Ho
The World Bank is a bank– at its core it lends money to developing countries for capital programs. It has tried–to its credit–to be much more than this.
In 1998/1999, it published its flagship World Development Report Knowledge for Development. The report "acknowledges that knowledge, not capital, is the key to sustained economic growth and improvements in human well-being." It conflates knowledge with technology and information, suggesting that knowledge is like a commodity that can be easily packaged and consumed.
Reports aren't knowledge. This is what Peter Senge, author of The Fifth Discipline, explained at the World Bank today, sixteen years later.
The room filled with nervous chuckles. There was tacit knowledge that Senge was on to something.
Soon after joining the World Bank, I was socialized to casually use the phrase "knowledge product" as though it meant something. And it did– tacitly, it meant I was working on a glossy-papered publication that likely no one would read.
In 2014, in a strangely transparent meta-analytical exercise, the World Bank issued a report called, Which World Bank Reports are Widely Read? It found that 517 reports were not downloaded at all (between 2008 to 2012).
If reports aren't knowledge, what is?
According to Senge, knowledge is the capacity for effective action.
Reports, on the other hand, might capture information or insight. You know, best practices and lessons-learned. These things, in themselves, do not constitute capacity for effective action.
People who have the capacity for effective action can get stuff done. They understand that this requires learning through rapid failure and adaptation.
Senge gives the example of learning to walk or ride a bike. We learn through multiple attempts and bodily feedback: each time our bodies, our muscles, our sense of balance adjust to get us to success.
There is no manual that we can read to learn these things, no class we can take. Sure, there might be some best practices or lessons-learned we can read in a report but we will not fundamentally succeed in this way.
Similarly, schooling for a child is often less about learning and more about socialization. Attending a training seminar for a bank employee is the same thing: what you learn is not effective action but social norms and incentives. What makes your boss happy?
So if knowledge requires learning, and learning requires failure, the question for the World Bank (among others) might be:
How do we promote a culture that encourages learning through failure?
According to a recent survey, the World Bank's Independent Evaluation Group (IEG) found that only 1/3 of World Bank staff feel that they can openly talk about problems they face regarding their lending practices.
Last year, in a much more extensive survey, a significant percentage of employees feel that senior management does not create a culture of openness and trust.
Senge emphasizes the need to create a safe environment for failure. We need to be able to get feedback and tumble a little before properly standing on our feet.
Project restructuring should be perceived as a positive social norm, not a failure. IEG should not downgrade its evaluation of a project because it has to be modified. Renaming it wouldn't hurt: restructuring suggests that the project designer didn't structure it correctly the first time around (and people at the bank like structure). On the other hand, adaptive management sounds like the project is resilient, responsive, and under control– there is no failure, just learning.
In any organization, knowledge– the capacity for effective action– should be the measure of one's worth. This should be rewarded, prized, and held high by the President of the World Bank.
I left the Senge talk and opened my email. A letter from Jim Kim.
- Dear colleagues,
Today, as fiscal year 2015 comes to an end, let me share with you some of our accomplishments over the last year. There is no doubt that across the entire World Bank Group our excellent teams have performed exceptionally well.
During the last fiscal year, the World Bank Group's financing for fiscal year 2015 will be about $65 billion, compared to $53.4 billion in fiscal year 2013 – roughly a 22 percent increase in two years. In particular, I'd like to single out two achievements: IBRD's lending will be about $23.5 billion – a record for a non-crisis year; and IDA funding for the first of a three-year period will be about $19 billion – again, a record for a first year of IDA funding….
In his benevolence, Kim gives all staff July 6th as a holiday "in appreciation of [their] work."
This memo sends a clear signal of what senior management expects for staff across the globe: the World Bank measures its worth by how much money it pushes through the door; staff, in turn, will be rewarded accordingly.
And so, with a self-congratulatory flourish, the World Bank pats itself on the back and closes fiscal year 2015. Not with a bang, but a whimper.
About the Author:
Renee Ho is Insight Curator at Feedback Labs. She has worked at the World Bank, ideas42, and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. She has a BA in Political Science from UC Berkeley and an MPA from the Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton University.


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Derived from the French word mélange, meaning a mixture – we are a collective consciousness that values transparency, individuality, social and environmental responsibility. We were founded in the heart of Toronto with a global mindset. With fashion being one of the most polluting industries in the world, we see an opportunity for us to do better.
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Employees who just don't quit.
Who take less vacation time than you allot.
Who are loyal to the company and compete to see who can work the longest hours, and deliver the most service.
Sounds like a good thing, right?
A dream for employers—except that it's not.
A recent Wall Street Journal article highlighted the decision by the South Korean government to mandate that all state employees must take at least 16 days vaction this year. "The hitch," says the Journal, is thatKorea has a "hierarchical society where superiors set the tone in business and politics." That's a problem because "some of the very bosses behind the vacation push can't be bothered to take them."
Having lived and worked in South Korea, I can attest to the fact that the average employee there puts in more hours—and on more days—than anywhere else I've been before or since. While that sounds like an admirable trait—especially to a manager—the reality of how that played out on a day-to-day basis was very different.


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I know, I know it's really unfair that I am reviewing an ink that's already discontinued but I can't bring myself to say no when a fellow fountain pen lover offered me a bottle. My thanks to him for his kind donation.
Sailor Jentle Grenade used to be part of Sailor's regular ink line up. It is a beautiful red ink that shades really well. It's also a wet ink and it shades really well. The ink shades from a dark maroon to a bright almost pink hue. I must say that it is really similar to the Sailor Jentle Oku Yama except Grenade is a brighter and better shading ink. I found it takes many rounds of flushing to clean the ink out of my nibs though. It's status as a well loved and sought after ink is well deserved. I found Wonder Pens still have stocks of this ink. Grab it while stocks lasts.
I am giving away 3 5ml samples of the Sailor Jentle Grenade. This is open only readers residing in Singapore. All you have to do is to tell me what's your favourite ink as a comment below before 19th May midnight. I would appreciate it if you would follow me on my new Twitter account @_althaven. The winner will be announced on 19th May and he or she will have 1 week to contact me to claim their prize!
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* Sailor Jentle Oku Yama
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Nearly a month after the debut of Apple Music's "Discovery" promotion, narrated by Trent Reznor and featuring the likes of Flying Lotus, Leon Bridges, Shamir, and more, the streaming service debuted two new solo commercials featuring the aforementioned Flying Lotus and Shamir.
Reznor isn't featured in the promotional campaign's two newest incarnations, which simply feature the artists shot in black-and-white performing their own original music (Shamir performs a portion of his song 'Demon' from his new album Ratchet). Watch both cuts below and check out the company's previous promotion with The Weeknd.


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Five teenagers drew heavy criticism from social media users for their antics atop a 26-story building in Mong Kok, Apple Daily reported Friday.
At about 2:15 p.m. Thursday, a customer surnamed Lam who was shopping on the 20th floor of Bank Centre was shocked to see a boy and four girls wandering on the rooftop of Tak Fat Building across the street.
The teens were taking selfies and sitting on the edge of the roof with their feet stretched out in the air.
Lam said it was a scary scene and feared there might be an accident.
He hit out at the young people for not appreciating the importance of life, calling them a "crazy gang".
Tak Fat Building, on Tung Choi Street, is used for both commercial and residential purposes.
The rooftop is freely accessible, and the security guard never asks people who enter the building any questions, the report said.
The newspaper got in touch with one of the five teens later.
He said he and his friends stayed up there for only about 10 minutes, not 45 minutes as netizens had claimed.
As a fan of rooftopping, the boy said he has no fear of heights but did worry someone would see what they were doing.
Rooftopping — in which thrill-seekers climb to the tops of buildings and take selfies and other photos — has become increasingly popular in recent years, but the activity has also raised concerns about safety and trespassing.
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