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Chapter 11 happened to focus on one of my favorite topics: sharing as an educator. I am always trying to get educators to see the power of online sharing and finding new ideas. I've already had the idea to try and get more educators using Twitter to seek ideas, even if they aren't comfortable sharing their own work yet. I want them to see that the possibility of find new ideas is out there, and easily accessible.
When I first began teaching in 2009, I had no idea of the world out there that awaited me as an educator in terms of connections online. I was tech-savvy, but I didn't know about the way that connections could have helped me as a first year teacher. It wasn't something that was prominent back then, and it certainly wasn't part of my course of study as an undergrad.
I joined Twitter in 2012. I can't remember exactly why I did. I knew that I used that year to share my class's stories on Twitter. I didn't really interact with anyone else. It was a place where I could showcase student learning to parents. It's been nearly 5 years since that time…and I didn't start really using Twitter until after I became part of the TIS program. Now I couldn't see myself doing without it.
Twitter only got better with Tweetdeck. My lists were so easy to read! What was this? I could follow hashtags and have lists of those! I made new connections and met those people at conferences and trainings. I found ideas and articles that changed my way of thinking and gave me new ideas.
If I had had all of this back when I first started teaching, I am sure I would have been an even better teacher. I wouldn't have felt so isolated in my district. I would have been able to see out others to collaborate and connect with much earlier to reach beyond the sphere of influence in my small town world.
Today's educators have access to all of this from the start, and yet they choose to ignore the benefits that they could find by connecting in the online world. It is a choice today to choose to stay disconnected. While that is up to each educator, they are making a clear choice to stay in a bubbled world. They are depriving themselves and their students of the ideas, connections, and collaboration that could be found online, if not through Twitter, then through some other means.
In the same sense, educators choose not to share their stories. They feel that they have nothing to share or contribute, or their work is not great. In this age of viral videos and news, it's hard to feel like a simple lesson would wow the rest of the education world. And it won't. Not everything that is shared will be the next best thing. However, each little story and idea contributes to a digital portfolio of the educator. Over time, over many years a story of growth and change emerges. We don't have to say that we have spent time learning and trying many new ideas because our online footprint easily showcases that.
Want to show students the power of a digital portfolio? Show them yours. Model how you have created your portfolio, and let it be the springboard for theirs. Explain how it has provided you opportunities and experiences that weren't possible before. Technically, I have two- my Twitter feed and this blog. If you go between both, you'll get a pretty good idea of who I am as an educator, much more than if you had read only my evaluation from this year.
My growth and change is ongoing and always a progress. Yours is too. You share and I'll share, and together, we only made the online world of educator a better place.


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From cracking CAT to FMS: Change your strategy
Faculty of Management Studies has historically conducted its entrance test on the second Sunday of January -- a week after the XAT. It has broken the tradition this year by conducting the test a month in advance -- on December 5, 2010.
The table (below) clearly shows that the 4 sections remain consistent across the years but the level of difficulty in each section keeps varying. Keeping this broad framework in mind, you are best positioned to crack the FMS by preparing well across all sections.
Must know data
- 50 percentile in each section is the minimum qualifying score to get a call for the next round
- Questions range from 175 to 200 in numbers
- Allotted test time is 2 hours
- Each question has 4 options
- 4 marks are awarded for each correct answer and 1 mark is deducted for each incorrect answer.
- No sectional time limit -- you can choose to allocate time to each section based on your strengths
Change in approach
As the number of questions is high and the available time is 120 minutes, FMS has, over the years, tested the preparedness of even the most confident CAT-XAT takers.
On one end, a serious MBA aspirant prepares for questions that check the decision-making capabilities in CAT while XAT questions are more application and inference based.
At the other, he is expected to be very good at finer nuances of actual knowledge of English, Math and Reasoning. A change in approach is what will help bridge this need-gap. Although there is not much time left, the best way to get FMS-ready is to take 3 to 4 FMS mock papers.
This will help you get a feel of how you will fare in the real test, and thereby enable you to tweak your test-taking accordingly.
Last three years' FMS exam at a glance:
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From cracking CAT to FMS: Change your strategy
Sectional strategy: Reading comprehension
Passages here are 750 words to 2,500 words long. The topics range from philosophy to finance to microbiology to intellectual property rights. They are manageable even if you are not very comfortable with the topic under consideration.
Although a few inferential questions do make an appearance, there are enough direct questions that will help you sail through the section. For example: In FMS 2010, there was a 7-page passage with 24 questions on business studies.
18 out of these 24 questions were direct -- you needed to simply locate the key word in the passage and get the answer.
Change in approach
If you were open to change from CAT-XAT (where a complete understanding of the entire passage is very important and hence reading the passage first makes sense), the best approach for FMS would be to read the questions first, and then go about locating the answer in the passage.
As your focus would be on attempting more direct (than implied) questions, the habit of reading the passage first may simply take away precious time in a 2 hour 200 question test.
Things to do right now
- Read on the topics mentioned in the 3-year analysis table in the first slide for RC. Try and read at a pace to become comfortable with speed-reading (which would have taken a back seat during CAT preparation).
- Quickly find (and make a mental note of/ underline) the keywords and gist of each of the paragraphs of the article you are reading.
- Solve 1 lengthy RC passage a day till your FMS.
- Time yourself: Not more than 60 to 90 seconds per question (including reading the passage).
From cracking CAT to FMS: Change your strategy
Verbal ability
A large chunk of Verbal Ability comprises synonyms & antonyms. FMS 2010 had 28 out of 50 questions in this section from Vocabulary.
Things to do right now
- Assuming you have practiced well for your grammar and verbal reasoning based questions during CAT, you will do well to browse through Barron's guide (only high frequency and high powered words) and TestFunda's daily word lists of 5 words a day.
- Play a lot of vocabulary building games online
- Even if you do not remember the exact meanings of the words, try to remember the sentences and contexts where they are used. Chances are you will be able to eliminate the incorrect options in the test.
From cracking CAT to FMS: Change your strategy
Logical and analytical reasoning
A large chunk of this section comprises caselets. Questions on data interpretation, blood relations, assumptions, input-output flow chart, arguments and syllogisms also make an appearance.
Change in approach
Data interpretation and data sufficiency are not as important here as in CAT & XAT. You may actually want to give a glance at these questions or skip them altogether with limited time at hand for your preparation. The assumption is that you would have prepared well for DI & DS questions for CAT and they will come naturally to you during the FMS mocks and actual test.
Things to do right now
- Practice as many and different varieties of caselets. This is your best bet to ace this section. TestFunda has FREE downloadable booklets on famous caselets: Mental agility quizzes and Puzzles.
- Quickly glance through a few solved examples on syllogisms, implicit statements and arguments under the Critical Reasoning topic. Please do not spend too much time as familiarising yourself with the question types is the goal here.
From cracking CAT to FMS: Change your strategy
Quantitative ability
The questions are spread across different lessons and you can choose to concentrate on your strengths. Although higher math does make an appearance, you can score more in less time by attempting other question types.
Things to do right now
- Browse through the lessons that you have practiced for CAT and go through a few solved examples.
- Revise important formulae as a couple of questions can be solved very quickly by direct application of formulae.
- Do spend enough time to consolidate your strengths and understand your weaknesses by analysing every mock FMS you take. Go through the detailed analysis report and identify the play of speed and accuracy in your attempts.
- It will play a crucial role in helping you attempt or skip questions during the real test.
- Never forget that FMS is predominantly a test of speed. It is counter-productive to waste too much time on a question (no matter how challenging or intellectually satisfying) -- if you don't get it, move on.
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Published at Friday, April 26th, 2019 - 21:43:21 PM. Worksheet. By Solange Dupuy.
Worksheets do not teach. They check what kids know. If someone handed me a basic calculus worksheet and said, "Here you go. This will help you learn calculus," I'd be at a complete loss. Now if I got on the phone and called my twin brother (for whom calculus is simple math), he could talk me through it and I might have a chance of understanding it. Please keep this in mind when handing your child a worksheet. If it's a new skill, sit right there and coach him through it. Worksheets can be a cop-out. Sound a little harsh? My opinion is that teachers and homeschoolers who rely on worksheets are choosing not to find ways to really challenge and interest their kids. It's the easy way out. Worksheets might not allow higher level thinking. Most worksheets have just one right answer, or one way to complete them. If we consistently keep our kids inside a box, they won't be able to stretch. Teachers who use worksheets may not be teaching what their students are ready to learn. It really, really makes me cringe when a teacher or homeschooling parent has an entire year's worth of worksheets printed and ready to go before the school year starts. (And yes, I'm including pre-printed workbooks here.) How do you know that's what your child will need to learn? Maybe your first grader struggles with addition in August. But she could have a firm grasp on it by December. Are you still going to give her all those pre-printed worksheets or have her complete every page in that workbook? Challenge her with something new.
At the top, click the File tab then click "Save As." It's not a bad idea to save your PowerPoint as a PowerPoint too just in case you need to go back and edit (I generally do this right at the beginning and save throughout in case my computer suddenly shuts down!) Name your document and click "Save as Type." Select "PDF." If you are just wanting to make worksheets for your own personal use, then you're done! You can print and go. If you want to sell your work, then after you have added a cover, you have a few more steps to make sure your work is secure. I will show you how to secure your PDF using Adobe Acrobat Pro. This is a paid program; if you aren't wanting to spend the money right away, I believe they do offer a free trial.
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14 Things Johnny Depp Would like Everyone to Forget About Him
Posted on Jul 08, 2016
With a weird and funny personality, Johnny Depp keeps intriguing worldwide media with trivia about his life. However, there are some things that he would like to hide. Take a look.
1. The Viper Room Club
In the 1990s, Johnny was a co-owner of this club where all the famous people liked to hang out. After leaving the co-ownership, he was sued by the other owner. The club is also known for the death of River Phoenix.


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A tool is something that helps us get a job done and in this series I am focusing on the job of raising our children, but it could equally be applied to succeeding in life as a whole. Parenting is just what some of us do as part of our lives.
It became apparent to me when I sat down to write a list of all the things that have helped me on my parenting journey, that they divided into two different types.
On one hand we need practical or organisational tools. And on the other emotional or communication tools. It's another chicken and egg situation. Neither of these two different types of tools are dominant; without one the other cannot succeed.
If the practical side of parenting is easier, we are less fraught and tired out by it and therefore have more emotional resources. Equally, if we are feeling on an even keel emotionally, we are better able to ensure the practical side of parenting is taken care of.
The first tool I want to highlight is community, a tool that for me falls into the practical bracket, but has so many impacts on the emotional side of parenting too. So important and seemingly so obvious, but it cannot be easily dismissed.
The three times in my life that I have been really down, have also been the three loneliest times of my life. The times that I felt that it was not worth me carrying on, the times that I looked for a way out. The times that I could not see a way forward within the realms of reality.
Each of these times I had a person who supported me, and prevented me crashing down. But I am convinced that the lack of a community around me at those times was a key influence in allowing me getting to the depths that I did.
My community was lacking in two distinct ways; quantity and quality. I had few deep relationships, and those I did have, were not of an adequately supporting or understanding nature. I did not have people around me who 'got' my position, with whom I could share.
On one hand you need to have presence of people in your life, but that is not enough. They also need to be open and willing to help you and you need to be open and willing to share. And between you there needs to be trust and no fear of judgement.
What does my community look like now?
I have a small but varied community, which is still evolving, made up of mostly unrelated people; a couple of school friend, an ex-colleague, an old neighbour, some other playgroup or school gate mums, someone I met through a children's activity club and a few bloggers who have welcomed me to the online world.
They are people who share similar perspectives on things that are part of my belief and value system, be it small or large.
How does my community support my mental health and my parenting?
They are people to whom I have bared inner secrets. That has been the biggest key for me to find; that opening up to others builds trust and therefore community.
They act as a sounding board for when things aren't going quite to plan, to help me work out a solution. I know that I am not alone. My community validates my feelings and imbues me with a sense of confidence in what I am doing as a person and as a parent.
How does my community improve the outcomes for my children?
I have a greater level of inner strength to guide my parenting resulting in much less negative behaviour from me. I am modelling for my children being supported and supporting others; they can see that this is a successful way to live their own lives, even if they never become parents themselves, they can apply it generally.
And what now?
It has not been an easy journey. Yes having children has given me a chance to meet a variety of new people but more than anything I grew more willing to open my heart, take a risk and expose my vulnerabilities, and invest in strengthening relationships.
In my mission to empower parenting and work towards happier parents and children, I have decided to take another risk. To create and establish my own hashtag, #empa, to allow others to talk about their emotional state, the influences of this on their parenting, and to provide support to others.
Please use the #empa hashtag if you want to open a discussion on empowered parenting, and tweet me at @FillingGlass. I'd love to hear your views.


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Chinese Author Jisheng's TOMBSTONE a Grim Reminder of Dangers of Authoritarian Leadership
Yang Jisheng's Tombstone, the Great Chinese Famine 1958-1962, is not the kind of book I could rate based on nothing more than how much I did or did not like it. The subject matter is much too deep for that and the dangers the author endured to write this phenomenal work far too real.
Jisheng's account as presented to us in the English-language edition of Tombstone is a single-volume 629-page condensed version of the original Chinese-language 1,200-page 2-volume set first published in Hong Kong a decade ago. There's no need to question what may or may not have been lost in translation because Jisheng provided so much fact-based data with which to work in the original publication.
Moreover, Tombstone is much more than just a triumph of historical writing. It represents in many ways the triumph of a movement to shed light on "the worst famine in human history." As an integral part of that movement: "Yang got people who experienced the famine to describe it in their own words. He found local journalists who'd witnessed and reported on murders and starvation and got them to write their memoirs. He located and interviewed local implementers of the fatal policies. He got surviving resisters to recount their experiences" (pp. X-XI).
Magnitude of the Horror
It took a while for me to adjust my brain to magnitude of the fact that the horror described actually occurred less than 70 years ago. In that hellish avoidable atrocity an estimated 30 to 45 million people died within a four-year period basically because of authoritarian arrogance and a total disregard for the freedom of individuals. Yet my shocked incredulity as a reader is nothing compared to the painful awakening Jisheng experienced as a member of the Communist Youth League proudly committed to promoting the policies of Mao Zedong's "Great Leap Forward" initiative only to discover those very policies in 1959 caused his father's death.
Ironically, it was while working in the late 1960s as an official journalist that he learned "how 'news' was manufactured, and how news organs served as the mouthpiece of political power." (Very different dynamics from what U.S. President Donald Trump's so often proclaims as "fake news.") However, it was not until the late 1970s that the awful deadly scope of the great famine became apparent:
"Now we knew that it was a man-made disaster that had caused tens of millions of people to starve to death... In my effort to shake off deception, I came to understand the social background of my father's death and to reflect more profoundly on his life..." (pp. 11-12).
That "deception" has remained hard for a lot of Chinese to shake off in part because of many official's refusal to acknowledge the famine for what it was and insist on referring to it in such euphemistic terms as "the three years of natural disaster," or "the years of difficulties." Another seems to be to avoid the appearance of discrediting the legacy of People's Republic of China founder Zedong.
Double Objectives
Tombstone is not easy reading by any means. Where Jisheng narrates the actions leading up to the abuses of power, and fear of the same, which led up to the famine, he is straightforward and factually dense. That is a quality hardcore historians relish but average readers might find less entertaining. And in a way that is the point.
Jisheng's objective as a journalist is to share awareness of an event which it would seem impossible for the entire world not to know about already, but which it appears relatively few actually do. As a human being and the son of foster-parents who gave all they had to raise him and support his education goals, he is determined to honor those parents and the dozens of millions who lost their lives to the famine. Therefore, the title selected for the book: "A tombstone is a memory made concrete." (p. 3)
The result his investigative labors is indispensible documentation of officials' motives for allowing the tragedy to occur; and, how many hypocritically gorged themselves on the good life while entire villages literally starved to death. Yet such documentation is balanced with reports difficult to read for a very different reason. In short, Jisheng does not censor the stories of people describing acts of cannibalism which they either witnessed or committed themselves.
We learn about: people in villages who wait for strangers to come along so they can kill and eat them, an adolescent sister who kills and eats her younger brother after their parents have died, people who wait a few hours after funerals so they can dig up corpses and consume them. These and other actions seem too extreme to believe they really occurred in a civilized nation. But we are aware now that they did. Some people even describe which parts of the human body they found most delectable.
If you're a fan of the movie Bone Tomahawk, starring Kurt Russell, Lili Simmons, and Patrick Wilson, and you did not flinch watching the scene where "Troglodytes" split a man in half to eat him, then the above accounts of cannibalism might not bother you too much. Anyone who did flinch, throw up, scream, or faint, can empathize to some meaningful degree with those who survived the horror of the Great Famine and with Jisheng's determination to tell their collective story.
The Record of This Particular Memory
The importance of the history provided in Tombstone is evident enough in its own right, or at least it should be. "Human memory," the author tells us, "is the ladder on which a country and a people advance. We must remember not only the good things, but also the bad; the bright spots, but also the darkness" (p. 3).
The record of this particular memory is a significant indicator of the dangers that can befall populations which opt for authoritarian rule by a single individual, or small group of individuals, versus government by a robust engaged citizenry exercising some form of democracy. Even more than pitting one political ideology against another, it is about accepting some share of communal responsibility that automatically comes with living in any society hoping to make great strides forward, or just to maintain for its citizens peace, security, and decently-stocked refrigerators.
author of Dreams of the Immortal City Savannah
co-author of Encyclopedia of the Harlem Renaissance
To fully appreciate reading former Savannah mayor Otis S. Johnson's From 'N Word' to Mr. Mayor, Experiencing the American Dream, you might want to note some important clues he shares at the book's beginning. The first is his identification of himself as a "scholar activist." Take that for exactly what it sounds like: he has long been devoted to the cultivation of knowledge within himself and others, as well as to the reversal of heinous social and political injustices.
A second shared hint is his struggle over whether to spell out the word "nigger" in this book's title or employ the more politically-accepted abbreviation. Following his publisher's suggestion, he chose the latter but felt the original more "symbolic of my struggle as a black male in American society." With that in mind, the book in general, he states, "documents my struggle to achieve the American Dream while having to confront the vicissitudes of being black in a racist society" (p. 11)
A Timeline of Powerful History
The above words may sound, to some, like little more than sensationalistic jargon employed to grab attention. It would be more accurate to describe them as precise when considering Johnson was born in 1942 and, from the beginning until the present era, his experience of the American dream has unfolded along a timeline of powerful history-shaping events on personal, national, and international levels.
For its precisely-balanced combination of social history and personal memoir, Johnson's book under any title is one of the most valuable written in recent years by an African-American man, and one of the most important for any time by a native of Savannah, Georgia. Being the former dean of Savannah State University's College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences, and current Scholar in Residence and Professor Emeritus that he is, Dr. Johnson's text often reflects the language of his intellectual leanings. That allows him to place his life and his times within an analytical context similar to important works by some of his scholarly heroes, like Harlem Renaissance strategist W.E.B. Du Bois and political scientist Hanes Walton Jr.
Yet, at the same time, he is a very down-to-earth writer who engages readers with stories of his family's Gullah culture heritage, what it meant to lose his father at an early age, learning about racism for the first time, falling in love and getting his heart broken, discovering the world as a young sailor, and confronting the challenges of leadership within a demographically-evolving community.
Anti-racism Activism
The city of Savannah and the state of Georgia as Johnson experienced them while growing into maturity during the 1960s were much like America at that time as a whole. African Americans with many White Americans alongside them were calling for an end to Jim Crow apartheid and battling against the system by staging public sit-ins, conducting protest marches, and targeting racial barriers ripe for breaking.
Of his position in this history, Johnson writes, "My life has been full of being in places where I shocked non-blacks with my presence" (p. 88). One such place was on the campus of Armstrong State College (now Atlantic University) where in 1963 he famously became the first African American to enroll in the school. Another was the campus of the University of Georgia, Athens, where he was the first Black from Savannah to attend that institution. At UGA, he walked out of one class after a white professor discussing the U.S. Supreme Court's landmark Brown vs. Board of Education decision proclaimed the only reason African-Americans wanted to integrate schools in Georgia was to marry white women.
Most of the kind of anti-racism activism Johnson chronicles is to be expected given the time-frame. In his chronicling, however, he provides important snapshots of black leaders in Savannah, like Wesley Wallace "W.W." Law and Hosea Williams, in political action. But his reportage goes beyond the dynamics of blackness clashing with whiteness.
Through his account of how segregation laws prevented Whites from attending the historically black Savannah State College, founded some 45 years prior to the establishment of Armstrong (as a junior college) in 1935, he demonstrates how racism has caused grievous injury on both sides of the color line. It has also been extremely absurd when considering that in order for him to become the first African-American to integrate Armstrong in 1963 for sake of racial progress in the name of democracy, he had to switch from Savannah State's senior college program curriculum to Armstrong's junior college curriculum.
Navigating Major Changes
Early in From 'N Word' to Mr. Mayor (2016, Donning Company Publishers) Johnson discusses three types of black leadership attributed to sociologist Daniel C. Thompson (author of Sociology of the Black Experience) and with which many readers of African-American literature are familiar: "...the Uncle Tom...racial diplomat...and race advocate" (p. 48). He places himself closer to the third category but more as a "human rights advocate" who believes the following: "'We are all God's children,' but I live in an institutional and structural racist society. 'Self-preservation is the first law of nature'" (p. 49).
By the time Dr. Johnson took office in 2004 as the sixty-fourth mayor of Savannah, and its second consecutive black mayor (after the late Floyd Adams), the city was well on its way to navigating major changes in its multicultural and economic make-up. His determination to meet that challenge at every level resulted in 2006 in a major heart attack experienced while attending the National Conference of Black Mayors in Memphis, Tennessee. Consequently, he writes, "How I approached the job of being mayor during the period before and the period after my heart attack were two very different periods" (p. 291).
As it pertained to his labors as mayor, Johnson's professed sense of racial "self-preservation" took a back seat to his role as a servant leader committed to advocating "for improving conditions that impact people of all races and classes" (p. 261). In the wake of the Great Recession that would create chaos in American cities during his second term, he worked with city council members to help Savannah avoid the kind of disastrous lay-offs and cancellation of services which occurred in cities like Atlanta and Camden. As he points out:
"In 2011, we were still in the greatest economic downturn since the Great Depression. We had to find a way to continue providing all of the services to citizens with about $8 million less than we had in 2010...while the 2011 budget was extremely difficult, it was balanced with minimal impact to our citizens and without an increase in property taxes. That was due to strong leadership, clear priorities, and tough resolve by this council, which chose not to spend wildly when times were good" (p. 325).
Candidates lining up for the 2020 presidential race in America could take a few helpful lessons from this former mayor's playbook. One might be committing to running a campaign based on proven abilities and a strategic comprehensive vision rather than one based on negative personal attacks. In fact, though he won his first election to mayor before former U.S. President Barack H. Obama won his first election to the White House, their campaign styles bore striking similarities. (The president and mayor met when Mr. Obama visited Savannah in 2010.)
At times, From 'N Word' to Mr. Mayor reads a bit too much like a college paper, or lecture, as Johnson parenthetically informs readers where he will continue the thread of a particular subject or on which page he has already discussed it. This is easy enough to overlook, and even smile about, when remembering these pages are coming to us from a master scholar at whose literary feet we are fortunate indeed to sit and learn as much as possible.
Author of Dreams of the Immortal City Savannah
Literary style and form play important supporting roles almost as captivatingly heroic as those of the title characters in Mark Morneweg's highly-innovative novel: Penthe & Alphonse. A reader casually thumbing through the book's pages might do a double-take over the word "novel" on the front cover and wonder if it should be poems instead. Yet a second quick run through the book's 99 pages would reveal it is in fact comprised of 135 brief chapters anywhere from two single lines to three or four pages long.
Having explored fusions of poetry and prose in works of my own with varying levels of success, I wondered how well Morneweg had met this challenge he issued to himself. Once I began reading in earnest, the chapters seemed to alternate like sequences in a film. They moved back and forth between flickering flashes of moments and extended scenes from the characters' private lives and America's public tragedy, also known as the Civil War. It soon became apparent the author has struck a masterful balance of historical detail, lyrical rhythm, and finely-nuanced emotional intensity.
The book begins with Alphonse's older sisters looking from a window down on him and Penthe, two former childhood playmates now entering adulthood, in a New Orleans courtyard reading poetry by Francois Villon. The delicate intimacy between them is apparent and alluring. But because he is categorized racially as white and she, in the language of 1800s American south, as a biracial "octoroon" (meaning "three quarters French and one black") their intense intimacy is also dangerous. In addition, despite racial categorizations, they are second cousins.
The kind of relationship Penthe and Alphonse had during childhood was not uncommon for the time, but most children were expected to "grow out of it" as they matured and retreat to their respective black and white demographic niches. Alphonse's and Pense's relationship, however, continues to develop through a series of circumstances along a more sensuous, humane, and uncompromising trajectory.
Distance Making Hearts Grow Fonder
When Penthe is sent off to a girl's school in Paris, we witness through an exchange of letters how their attachment to each other intensifies rather than diminishes. Most are from Penthe to Alphonse and a couple give us some of the longer passages in the entire book. This is an excerpt from one of Penthe's:
One letter comes from Alphonse after Penthe writes him to confess she may allow herself to be seduced by a "knucklehead...strapling youth" with a reputation for introducing willing young women to sex. It is not the response either Pense or the reader might have expected:
Exchanging letters becomes a practice on which they depend during several trials of separation. It is to the author's credit that he fashions this technique as deftly as he does into an already impressive collage of linguistic versatility.
Complications of Love, War, and Race
If Morneweg had relied on nothing more than Penthe & Alphonse's ever-increasing passion for each other to give shape and substance to his story he likely would have ended up with just a cleverly-styled romance novel (a noble enough genre in its own right). But like certain masters of epic works before him--consider Gabriel Garcia Marquez's Love in The Time of Cholera, Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, or Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God--he establishes a series of contexts which threaten love's chances of survival.
Racism directed against Penthe is something Alphonse makes clear he will not tolerate. When another man calls her "a part-nigger whore," he challenges him to a dual and manages to shoot him without killing him. At the same time, he suffers through moral ambivalence when it comes to fighting in the Civil War, demonstrating how complex the issues behind it truly were: "If the Yankees invade, I will fight them. I will fight, but I am not too thrilled. I will not be morbid in front of Penthe Anne." Such reasoning brings to mind the song by Sade: Love Is Stronger Than Pride.
From one minimalist chapter to the next, they love their way through war, two epidemics of Yellow Fever, race riots, the demands of grandchildren, and old age. Looking at a printed copy of Penthe & Alphonse, or even just the cover on a screen after reading the book, gives the feeling of staring at an optical illusion because Morneweg has managed, somehow, to deliver much more than what appearance promises. The range of time covered, scope and depth of emotions engaged, and intricacy of styles employed seem too much for the pages containing them.
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Morneweg, who died almost three years ago, was apparently of the class of authors whose relationship with literature was so unabashedly personal and organic that whether he dressed his text in hard blocks of layered prose or shimmering veils of poetry, it revealed meanings both hauntingly familiar and astonishingly new. What came burning through more clearly than anything else was an authentic original vision of literary possibilities and human values.
In the course of reading Penthe & Alphonse, I began to do what geek bookaholics often do when sensing that within their hands is not just a good book but a rare and beautiful kind of priceless mind. I began attempting to discern who the author's strongest literary influences had been. I could hear William Faulkner's spirit wandering between lines while meditating on the nature and traumas comprising the identity (or should we now say identities?) of the American south. But who were the others?
The answer came one day when I was discussing the title with a friend and she loaned me a copy of a booklet about one Mark Louis Morneweg published by El Portal Press. In it, he noted his passion for "Miss Emily [Dickinson]"along with deep appreciation for others who had also helped stir to action my own pen. Among them: Federico Garcia Lorca, Pablo Neruda, James Joyce, Shakespeare, Franz Kafka, Marcel Proust, and Albert Camus.
He shared these words in regard to his approach to writing fiction: "Unplanned adventures in literature. An idea pops into your head and you go from there. Nothing structured or laid out beforehand. Just one word comes and you have an entire chapter to write and that is great..." (The only time I had ever allowed myself that kind of compositional freedom was while writing Christmas When Music Saved the World, later titled Songs from the Black Skylark zPed Music Player.)
Maybe even more importantly for the purposes of this essay, he told us this: "...I am a prose stylist with some amazingly short chapters. Some chapters that are poems. Prose poems." And added: "Penthe is about taking risks. Artistic risks. Passion..." The risk was one that paid off extremely well because ultimately Penthe & Alphonse succeeds as both an epic poem and an amazing novel.
Moreover, in addition to taking risks, it is also about what Lady Gaga refers to as the right to curate one's life as one sees fit. Along those same lines, Morneweg chose not to douse the flames of his startling creative literary inventiveness. He chose instead to feed the fire with boldness sufficient enough to increase its light and heat so others could gather around and savor the prize of unexpected beauty.
by Aberjhani
November 2019


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(11-05) 11:34 PST SACRAMENTO -- Americans for Job Security, a conservative, pro-business national group, is the true source of the $11 million last-minute infusion of campaign cash into a California political committee that supports an antiunion ballot measure and opposes Gov. Jerry Brown's tax proposition, state campaign finance regulators announced early Monday.
But the hard-fought disclosure, which comes just one day before the election, creates more questions than it answers, because under federal law, Americans for Job Security does not have to reveal its donors. The group, created in 1997, has mostly focused on promoting conservative congressional candidates in the past, but also funded ads opposing President Obama's reelection in swing states this year.
Ann Ravel, chair of the Fair Political Practices Commission, said the money was funneled first through the Center to Protect Patients Rights but ultimately came from Americans for Job Security. She called it "the largest contribution ever disclosed as campaign money laundering in California history."
Ravel hailed the disclosure as "a significant and lasting victory for transparency in the political process," but said it also demonstrates the need for "reform to make sure true donors are disclosed and can't hide behind innocent committee names."
The state has been fighting for an intermediary group, the Arizona-based Americans for Responsible Leadership, to reveal the source of its funding since it made a donation Oct. 15 to a California committee that opposes Proposition 30, Brown's tax measure, and supports Proposition 32, which would severely curb union's political power. After the group refused to name its founders, the FPPC took them to court.
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There is some evidence that butterflies are under stress because of the quantity of systemic insecticides being used to eradicte other pests like the white fly. It's easy to add the plants to your garden that support butterflies. You'll be surprised at how quickly you get results.
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Zebras fly slowly and don't startle easily, making them easy to follow and observe. A zebra resting at dusk can be gently coaxed to climb on your finger and to return, unflustered, to its perch. Zebras roost in groups, returning to the same location each night.
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Zebras are especially fond of the nectar of plants of the Verbena family, which is a winter annual in South Florida. During the spring and early summer, the zebras also concentrate on the red pentas and occasionally visit blue porterweed.
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Uneasy calm as embattled NPC boss resumes
Uneasy calm has enveloped the headquarters of the National Population Commission (NPC).
This followed the resumption of the Director General, Dr. Ghanji Ismail Bello, whose tenure was recently renewed by the Federal Government.
The National Civil Service Union (NCSU) had declared an industrial dispute in protest against his re-appointment on January 7, 2018.
The workers had vowed not to allow the DG's tenure to be renewed, alleging corruption and other offences against him.
The Guardian learnt that Bello resumed last week, as early as 6:00a.m and was accompanied by operatives of the Department of State Services (DSS).
The members of the NCSU were however, not present at the commission's headquarters when the DG resumed.
They were said to have travelled outside Abuja to write their promotional examination across the country.
Some members of the union, who witnessed the DG's return, were alleged to have complained to the NPC Chairman, Eze Duruiheoma, who promised to address the situation.
The Guardian learnt that Duruiheoma called a management and workers meeting last week, where the issue of Bello's return was discussed.
But, the DG was absent at the meeting, as he was said to be indisposed.
It was further learnt that officials of NCSU, as well as the management of the NPC, had held a congress meeting on the issue.
Those who attended the congress were members of the Amalgamated Union of Public Corporation, Civil Service Technical and Recreational Services (AUPCTRE).
Others are the Association of Senior Civil Servant of Nigeria (ASCSN), the Nigeria Union of Public Service Reportorial and the Secretarial Data Processing and Allied Workers (NUPSRAW).
The unions jointly maintained that the DG would not be allowed to serve the second term, after his first term had expired on January 7, 2018.
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MACRA: How We Got Here
Learn the ins-and-outs of value-based care.
Take home points:
1. Even agreed-upon legislative reforms take time and political pressure to bring about.
2. The SGR created incentives to "patch" the ill-conceived legislation rather than pay for its repeal.
3. MACRA represents a shift from an old mechanism of payment adjustments to a new value-based paradigm.
In the coming days, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) will release the first in a series of regulations to implement the key provisions of the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act (MACRA). Passage of MACRA enabled Congress to achieve two elusive goals, specifically the elimination of the flawed Sustainable Growth Rate (SGR) formula and the enactment of policies which move physicians away from the traditional fee-for-service system and into risk-based reimbursement models which pay physicians for the value of the care they provide to patients.
As a result, physicians and national medical specialty societies, including the ACR, are eagerly awaiting the details of how CMS plans to implement the key aspects of this legislation, specifically the Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) and Alternative Payment Models (APMs).
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Although paying physicians based on value rather than the volume of services delivered to an individual has been debated for decades, what prompted Congress to finally implement such a radically different system of reimbursement? What negative aspects of the SGR encouraged lawmakers to use MACRA to create the MIPS and APMs?
At its core, the SGR was a policy designed to ensure that Medicare expenditures did not drastically exceed the nation's Gross Domestic Product (GDP). Under the SGR, if Medicare spending outpaced GDP, payments made under the Medicare Physician Fee Schedule (MPFS) would be cut. And if the reverse were true, physicians would see positive reimbursement updates. The SGR, however, lacked any mechanism for adjusting payments based on the value of care. As a result, there was no risk for poorer performers and no reward for those providing the highest quality care to patients. The SGR simply lumped all physicians together into a single provider population.
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For the first five years of the SGR, the GDP rose and with it went Medicare payments. Then in 2002, the GDP began to fall while health care expenditures started to grow at a precipitous rate. After the imposition of the first statutorily mandated cut, the ACR (along with practically all of organized medicine) became heavily involved in efforts to repeal the SGR. Legislators quickly fell into agreement that the SGR was severely flawed and Congress began its yearly ritual of developing different policies to repeal this policy.
Because agreement on a system to permanently replace the SGR always proved elusive, Congress routinely defaulted to annual legislative "patches." The corresponding deficits stemming for the yearly "doc fixes" were continually lumped into an ever increasing cumulative cut. By 2015, this financial cliff had grown dramatically and, absent legislative intervention, physicians faced a 21 percent decrease in Medicare reimbursements.
While these temporary "doc fixes" each cost tens of billions of dollars, permanent repeal represented a politically impossible $300¬–500 billion price tag. Yet, thanks in part to the Great Recession and payment reforms enacted through the Affordable Care Act, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) lowered its estimate of permanent repeal in 2013 to only $150 billion over ten years. The House Energy and Commerce Committee seized this new opportunity and in July 2013 passed a three-pronged plan (H.R. 2810) that fully repealed the SGR, created the Quality Update Incentive Program (QUIP) which was a modified fee-for-service program with payment bumps for providers meeting a series of quality measures, and outlined a new non-fee-for-service payment option (called alternate payment models, or APMs).
Deficits Arise
One of the issues that plagued the House Energy and Commerce proposal, as well as numerous other preceding SGR repeal bills, was the absence of a plan to pay for the ballooning deficits brought about by the flawed policy. The Senate Finance and Ways and Means Committee released its own framework to repeal the SGR in the winter of 2013. While these measures had much in common with the plan from the House Energy and Commerce Committee (all advocated the repeal of the SGR, modified fee-for-service payments tied to quality, and the introduction of APMs), neither plan included a way to cover the cost of eliminating the cumulative SGR deficit.
Early 2014 saw weeks of negotiation between the Senate Finance Committee, as well as the House Ways and Means and Energy and Commerce Committees. The result was a final SGR bill that melded the previously separate bills into one proposal. This unified bill (H.R. 4015 in the House and S. 2000 in the Senate) contained a Medicare payment increase of 0.5 percent per year between 2014 and 2018. It also introduced the concept of the Merit-based Incentive Payment System which would begin adjusting physician payments based on the reporting of individual quality measures beginning in 2018.
Partisan Issues Come About
The political goodwill of the winter soon ended when House Republicans chose to pay for the joint bills with a five-year delay of the Affordable Care Act's individual mandate, which was viewed by Senate Democrats as a backhanded effort at repealing President Obama's signature domestic legislative achievement. When Democrats responded with a new bill (S.2110) containing identical language to its predecessor but lacking any financial offsets, Republicans were incensed.
After Senate Republicans introduced their own bill that paid for the SGR repeal through the elimination of the Affordable Care Act, it became clear that no common ground would be found and both parties stepped away from negotiations. The mid-term elections of 2014 eliminated the prospect of reaching a bi-partisan compromise on paying for the repeal of the SGR and Congress ultimately decided to pass another 12-month fix (HR 2043, the Protecting Access to Medicare Act of 2014).
Congress Cooperates
After the mid-term elections, bipartisan cooperation was once again possible and both parties finally agreed to a bill that permanently repealed the SGR and offset some of its accumulated costs. In the spring of 2015, Congress passed H.R. 2, the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act (MACRA). MACRA not only permanently repeals the SGR but sets up a two-track payment system to encourage physicians to enter risk-based payment models.
From early on in the process, there was a general consensus regarding the need to repeal the SGR and to shift some of the financial risk and potential reward associated with the imposition of a value-based care system towards the physician population. Going forward, all upward and downward payment adjustments will be tied not to the broad brush of the GDP but to the ability of individual physicians and practices to quantify and provide quality care to their patients. Although it created havoc for physicians for more than 20 years, the notorious SGR laid the ground work for the many value-based payment concepts Congress ultimately included in MACRA.
To gain a more in-depth understanding of how the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act came into existence after 20 years of Sustainable Growth Rate patches, view this webinar by Chris Sherin, Director, Congressional Affairs at ACR. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sIz78zwuqqM
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Kids can get restless over their holiday break, so it is important to plan activities ahead of time to keep them engaged and entertained. Agar aap apna sara kaam chod ke bat man aur hulk ke beech main nahin phasna to its better you do what I have done…plan for a better tomorrow. Here are 4 simple pocket friendly holiday activities that will engage these little superheroes and keep them entertained. My guarantee.
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- Activity No 2. I have chosen a sensory based activity. It is a taste test …a clever way to get your kid taste some new food without even realizing it! I made small portions of 5 types o f fruit smoothies and lined it up with numbers on it and asked him to write it in a piece of paper what he tastes. The fruits I chose were – banana, orange, grapes, apple., pomegranate. He can be a little stubborn but the fun colors made him try out the smoothies. This was a win!
- Activity No 3. Take coloring to new levels – Coloring is an activity that kids can get bored with quickly, so make the experience more interesting. I recently found this new brand in the market called Inkmeo that has taken coloring on the walls in a creative way. Now you can allow your kids to scribble and color on these interesting theme based detachable color wall rolls that not only give wings to your childs creativity but also helps in developing their fine motor skills.Laksh chose the circuss, jurasic and find the path themes for himself which he instantly got engrossed in. Another interesting feature of this product is the Augmented Reality App that you can download on your phones, swipe it across the roll that helps you visualize the Inkmeo colouring images as if it were part of the real environment. This totally is a boon to Indian parents. This holiday activity is a hit with all my fellow blogger moms but I would strongly recommend this to be included for kids during their holidays, play time or any free time engagement. definitely pocket friendly and simple way to engage.
- Activity No 4.Sticky Spider Web activity – This sticky spider web activity is perfect for indoor play, and can be done in any doorway, hallway or other somewhat narrow place that you have. I used painter's tape and made a spider web to span the width of the door. Then you take some newspapers scrunge it into balls and throw it onto the sticky spider web.
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The 42-year-old "struck a deal" with the schoolboys aged 13 and 14 after she was dumped by her boyfriend for another woman, it was alleged.
She is said to have asked them to damage the car of his new girlfriend Stacey Allright in return for sex.
The teenagers went and found Miss Allright's Peugeot 306 which they smashed up and brought Travi the number plate to prove they kept their end of the deal, it was said.
Travi was "as good as her word" and allegedly had full sex with the older boy in the bedroom of her home while her children weren't there before summoning the second one upstairs.
The mother-of-five had sexual intercourse with the younger boy before they both left, the court heard.
She allegedly continued to keep in contact with the teenagers by sending them sexual text messages while they were at school.
The court heard evidence she had been in touch with one of the boys, either by phone call or text, 548 times in the space of several months.
It was said she formulated a secret code with both boys and would text them it if she wanted to have sex. She ended up bedding the younger boy at least one more time, it was claimed.
It was only when the girlfriend of one of the teenagers discovered what had happened that they were encouraged to tell a school social worker five months later.
Travi, from Bournemouth, Dorset, was arrested and charged with sexual assault on the teenagers who are now aged 15 and 16.
Stephen Dent, prosecuting, told Bournemouth Crown Court the boys were part of a group of school pupils who used to visit her house and drink alcohol and smoke cigarettes.
In April 2010 Travi arranged for them to vandalise Miss Allright's car after ex-partner Daniel Burgiss dumped the defendant for her, the prosecuter claimed.
Mr Dent said: "Davina Travi treated children like adults. She was allowing them to drink and smoke in her house.
"That irresponsible attitude came to a peak when she decided to use them to get back at her former boyfriend by bribing them to damage his girlfriend's car for the reward of having sex with her; a reward that she gave them.
"She had a boyfriend, a man named Daniel Burgiss. He had just left her after a three month relationship.
"Davina tried to strike a deal with the boys, saying 'if you go round and smash up Daniel's girlfriend's car I will have sex with you'.
"The (younger) boy said they agreed to it.
"Evidence was to come to light that this car had been smashed up.
"They had taken the registration plate back to Davina to prove they had done it and get sex.
"Davina was as good as her word and had sex with one boy then the other.
"Suffice to say initially Davina led one boy into the bedroom, had sex with him, kicked him out, brought the second boy in and had sex with him.
"As soon as they both finished having sex, both boys got up, left and went home."
The prosecuter said the school later became aware Travi was hosting parties for pupils and warned other parents not to let their children go there.
Mr Dent added: "She had already slept with two of them."
Mr Dent said the younger boy claimed a few days later he went round to Travi's house and had sex with her a second time.
He said: "They agreed that if Davina wanted sex she would text three question marks to them.
"He says that Davina regularly sent that to them both."
Mr Dent said the boys had been willing participants, but were not legally capable of giving their consent.
He said: "At the age of 13 a lot of boys have hormones coursing through their veins and are perfectly capable and willing to have sex but they are mentally immature.
"They are not able to properly decide whether they should have sex and they are unable to deal with the potential consequences."
Miss Allright suspected Travi was responsible for the damage to her car as she had allegedy received a threatening text from her in the past.
Travi denies three counts of sexual activity with a child. She is said to have told police that a medical condition made it difficult for her to have sex.
The trial continues.


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COLUMBIA, Mo., Nov. 5 (UPI) -- Politics are getting nastier due to digital media, which are segmenting people into polarized interest groups, U.S. researchers suggest.
Ben Warner of the University of Missouri and Ryan Neville-Shepard of Indiana University-Purdue University Columbus examined political arguments in the digital age and found the rhetoric in Howard Dean's 2004 presidential primary blogs indicated a dramatic fight between heroes and villains.
As bloggers for the site would post comments about their activities, a common theme of "fighting to take back our country" emerged, Warner said.
"While this isn't new language to campaigns, it implies that political authority must be taken rather than earned, indicating that the ruling party is an illegitimate power," Warner said in a statement. "When this type of language is adopted by the base, a channel is created for that viciousness to grow.
"One side is going to lose in every political discussion," Warner said. "The danger with this open hostility found in digital media toward the other side in politics is that it undermines the legitimacy of the people that we disagree with politically. It's important to recognize that people who disagree with you aren't 'evil' or 'trying to destroy America;' they just have different perspectives."
Warner also reviewed President Barack Obama's 2008 campaign blogs, in which bloggers often dismissed overly negative comments and asked users to remain respectful.
"The conversation on the Obama Blogs matched the respectful tone modeled by the campaign itself," Warner said. "Sen. John McCain wasn't an 'evil villain' but a 'misguided politician who should be respected for his service to the country."
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Wikipedia, according to Henry Jenkins, is a tangible representation of the New Media principle, Collective Intelligence. I found an article on Wikipedia.org about the Manchester City Football Club. (M.C.F.C.) From the article's creation in January of 2003, to its most recent edit, the 12th of February 2014, it has accumulated 6,895 total revisions. 71.23 percent of these revisions were users, and 28.77% were just IPs.
This article is a fantastic example of collective intelligence in Wikipedia as well as our culture. One Editor by the pseudonym 'Oldelpaso' made 582 edits on this article alone. This user seems to have credibility as he only edits football articles as well as witnessed Manchester City F.C. take the premier league Championship in 2012. This user is also been a wiki editor since February of 2005. Other large editors of this page share a similar story. The article's credibility is also justified by the fact that its editing is now semi restricted. I find the article to be well laid out when it chronologically displays the history of the club. Manchester City F.C. historically has only been a successful club the last few years. They won the 2012 Barclay's Premier League title as the article chronicles. My knowledge of the club does not exceed what is presented in this document, however, everything I do know about M.C.F.C. is correctly depicted in this article.
Jenkins suggests that participatory culture becomes collective intelligence in his blog post, What Wikipedia Can Teach Us About the New Media Literacies. In Wikipedia articles like this one, the term "scholarly article" doesn't exactly fit as how FMS 110 and Jenkins define it. However, M.C.F.C. has a huge fan base and this articles credibility to being collective intelligence comes from the fan base's collective knowledge. Fans tend to be crazy about their teams, especially in the premier league in England.
I find that the article provides extensive knowledge and towards the club and its history. It has been edited by two thousand three hundred seven users. fifty-four and a half percent of these edits come from the top ten percent of active users. Jenkins would find that this article qualifies as relevant to new media studies. Increasing reliance on Wikipedia can be dangerous but only if the articles used are scholarly as it has been defined. Here is a better example of how communities of people can use Wikipedia to put their passion into the palms of anyone interested or curious about the subject matter.
Jenkins, Henry. "WHAT WIKIPEDIA CAN TEACH US ABOUT THE NEW MEDIA LITERACIES (PART TWO)." Web log post. Confessions of an AcaFan. N.p., 27 June 2007. Web. 13 Feb. 2014.
"Manchester City F.C." Wikipedia. Wikimedia Foundation, 12 February 2014. Web. 13 February 2014.
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