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~Andy Warhol
Today my dining room was turned into an interview set and day one of filming is now in the bag!!!
My chiropractor hired a professional cinematographer to make a videotaped "testimonial" of the amazing changes in my life since I started getting treatment.
Dr. Leonette first asked me around Christmastime if I would do this. I readily agreed but no definitive date was set. The subject came up last week and suddenly we decided to get it done this week. I've been fretting over this ever since I found out we were doing it this week.
Today was the interview portion as well as some "B-roll" footage. The interview portion was obviously the hardest part and I'm glad that portion is over. I'm not comfortable having my voice recorded and, for obvious reasons, it is hard to talk about this very difficult time in my life. Tomorrow we are filming some more "B-roll" footage and then Jason will edit it into something that is, hopefully, worth watching!
In other words, I'm hoping Jason can turn this "sow's ear into a silk purse"! :)


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Paul Kersey leads with this story--Nutshell: Teachers in failing black school districts routinely change kids' test scores to comply with No Child Left Behind, fraud investigation ensues, hands are thrown in the air, shall anyone ever succeed in closing The Gap?
It may surprise us that one hundred years ago, as today, much ink was spilled over the question of educating American Blacks. Two generations had passed since Emancipation; what progress had been made on the great project of lifting up this 'race in its childhood'? W.H. Collins, in 1918:
But notwithstanding the fact that the illiteracy of the Negro race had been reduced by 1910 to about thirty-three per cent, there is a widespread feeling of disappointment in Negro education. Not that it has made the Negro more criminal as has sometimes been said, however, this is not yet well determined, but rather that it has failed to make him a greater producer, or to aid him to adjust himself to economic conditions. Instead of firing him with the desire to do more and better work, too often he quits it altogether. (1)
They [Southern men around 1904] unite further in the opinion that education such as they [Blacks] receive in the public schools, so far from appearing to uplift them, appears to be without any appreciable beneficial effect upon their morals or their standing as citizens. But more than this; universally, they report a general depravity and retrogression of the Negroes at large in sections in which they are left to themselves, closely resembling a reversion to barbarism. (2)
Aside from some unqualified successes like the Hampton and Tuskegee Institutes, Afro education had not yet produced the desired results. Blacks still had higher rates of illegitimacy, criminality, and disease and lower levels of wealth than white Americans.
A century on, what has changed? Much ink is still spilled over the question of educating American Blacks. Two generations have passed since the end of Segregation, and...
...and Blacks still have higher rates of illegitimacy, criminality, and disease and lower levels of wealth than white Americans. Now, via standardized testing, we also know that they lag far behind in the classroom.
I. Test scores and discipline: Persistent gaps
Discipline problems are also much higher in the Afro student population:
As is the flunking rate:
And the drop-out rate:
II. Causes of gaps: Diagnoses of yesterday
At the turn of the twentieth century, America's leading lights also sought to resolve their 'Negro education problem.' Frustrated but determined, they searched for causes. Their diagnoses may sound somewhat familiar.
1) Inadequate resources
Commentators deplored the inadequate resources devoted to black public education. W.D. Weatherford reports the example of North Carolina, one of the few states for which such figures could be had. In 1908, 'The expenditure per colored child was $1.58, that for each white child of school age, $3.82.' He quotes State Superintendent of Public Instruction James Joyner:
'When we are appropriating only $366,734.28 for the education of 231,801 negro children, we need not be entertaining many hopes of giving the negro much helpful industrial training yet, for everybody ought to know that this amount is not sufficient to give this number of children thorough instruction in the mere rudiments of reading, writing and arithmetic, so essential to civilized living and intelligent service in the humblest callings of life.' (3)
Superintendent Joyner would no doubt be happy to know that today parity has been not only achieved, but surpassed:
2) Unqualified teachers
Weatherford put it this way:
It is a well established policy of all missionary work to put the burden of responsibility on the natives just as rapidly as representative leaders can be trained for these tasks. The same policy has been followed in the South with regard to the negro. [...] This is just as it should be, but the questions of supreme importance both to the colored man and to the white man are : Are these leaders competent to do their work? Are they sufficiently educated to have broad sympathies and clear judgment ? Can they be trusted in times of crises to lead their people aright? These are questions of tremendous import.He insists:
In order that there may be a more thorough uplift of the negro child there must be a better training of the negro teacher. (3)It was widely believed that Afro teachers would best serve the needs of Afro children, but there were not yet enough trained:
From the Southern Educational Association meeting's 1907 declaration: 'We believe that for practical, economical and psychological reasons negro teachers should be provided for negro schools.' (1)
(To see how little has changed, we need only note the 2010 Washington, D.C. public schools debacle in which School Chancellor Michelle Rhee caused an uproar for firing a slew of 'unqualified' teachers, most of them black, or a recent similar kerfluffle in Chicago.)
3) Families not doing their part
The Afro home was long considered an obstacle to the proper education of its children. J.A. Tillinghast, speaking of the post-Civil War era:
Hence, in the great effort then inaugurated to educate the negroes, only literary training was supplied, in the belief that this of itself would work wonders for the race. Little thought was given to the fact that the negro child did not have the Caucasian home, and that behind the literary schooling of the white had always existed the nurture of the civilized home ; yet without the home no great development of ideals, morality, habits of industry, can be expected. It was forgotten or discredited that the negroes and whites had fundamentally different aptitudes and needs. (4)
W.H. Thomas, a northern mulatto lawyer who had gone to teach newly freed southern black children after the Civil War, gives this somber picture of his charges:
For example, the child of the ordinary freedman [freed slave] is from birth enveloped by a home life of credulous darkness; mental distortions are its inheritance, and weird superstitions its acquirements, both of which are ingrained in a nature that instinctively resists rational thought and sober action. Therefore, when a child of this sort appears in the schoolroom, the honest teacher faces a twofold problem: one is to uproot false notions obstinately inhering; the other, to awaken thought in the mind of a being to whom every mental step is a puzzle and every new notion a bewilderment. (5)
This profound ignorance, a true legacy of slavery--during which it was illegal to educate a slave--would surely, thought Thomas, pass within a few generations.
Booker T. Washington's wife led efforts to educate not only girls but women in the countryside around the Tuskegee Institute. She held weekend classes in the villages, and for those who could not attend she printed leaflets. Some excerpts from one of them give an idea of negro farmer home life at that time:
You need more race pride. Cultivate this as you would your crops. It means a step forward. You need a good home. Save all you can. Get your own home, and that will bring you nearer citizenship. You can supply all these needs. When will you begin? Every moment of delay is loss.
Keep no more than one dog. Stay away from court. Buy no snuff, whisky and tobacco. Raise your own pork. Raise your own vegetables. Put away thirty cents for every dollar you spend.
My Daily Work:
[...] Saturday I will bake bread, cake, and do other extra cooking for Sunday. I will spend one hour in talking with my children, that I may know them better. Sunday I will go to church and Sunday School. I will take my children with me. I will stay at home during the remainder of the day. I will try to read aloud a something helpful to all. (6)
W.E.B. DuBois, in his exhaustive 1899 study The Philadelphia Negro, had this to say about school attendance in that city:
The only difficulties in the matter of education are carelessness in school attendance, and poverty which keeps children out of school. The former is a matter for the colored people to settle themselves, and is one to which their attention needs to be called. While much has been done, yet it cannot be said that Negroes have fully grasped their great school advantages in the city by keeping their younger children regularly in school, and from this remissness much harm has sprung. (7)
4) Teaching the wrong subjects
One thing on which many turn-of-the-century observers (black and white) resoundingly agreed was that Afros were not being taught the right subjects. W.H. Thomas:
[...] negro students are known to spend their time in skimming their textbooks without acquiring any adequate conception of what their contents teach, but are fixed in the belief that mere attendance at the school confers distinction. Such cases are not rare. We have knowledge of scores of young men and women with diplomas from negro colleges, and of many undergraduates engaged in Latin and Greek studies, who cannot without great difficulty read plain English print, and whose current speech betrays their ignorance of, or indifference to, the simple grammatical construction of their mother tongue. (5)
Booker T. Washington's Tuskegee Institute (Alabama) and its inspiration, the Hampton Institute (Virginia) were exceptions, being schools that taught, to quote Washington,
'Agriculture, basketry, blacksmithing, bee-keeping, brick-masonry, plastering, brick-making, carpentry, carriage trimming, cooking, dairying, architectural, free-hand and mechanical drawing, plain sewing, dress-making, electrical and steam engineering, founding, harnessmaking, house-keeping, horticulture, canning, laundering, machinery, mattress making, millinery, nurses' training, painting, saw-milling, shoe-making, printing, stock-raising, tailoring, tinning, and wheelwrighting.' (6)
'Industrial education,' as it was then called, meaning every sort of practical trade for which there was then a need for workers in the South. The successes of Tuskegee and Hampton are lauded by nearly every contemporary author we have read on the subject. One example:
The wisdom of this [industrial training] method of instruction for the negroes has been abundantly proved by results. On this point Dr. Frissell says :
'Scores of letters from southern county and state superintendents bear witness to the industry and thrift of these young people, and their kindly relations with the southern whites. If one will go into the black belt of Virginia he will find scores of Hampton graduates and graduates of other institutions, engaged in the industrial and agricultural leadership of their people, and commanding the respect and confidence of the best men of the white race. He will find a wonderful increase in land holding among the blacks, and a corresponding decrease in crime.' (4)
Of his graduates, Washington says in 1904:
Not a single graduate of the Hampton Institute or of the Tuskegee Institute can be found today in any jail or State penitentiary. After making careful inquiry, I cannot find a half-dozen cases of a man or a woman who has completed a full course of education in any of our reputable institutions like Hampton, Tuskegee, Fisk or Atlanta who are in prisons. The records of the South show that 90 per cent, of the colored people in prisons are without knowledge of trades, and 61 per cent, are illiterate. (6)
'Industrial' (what we today call 'vocational') training was widely seen as the wisest path for the bulk of Afro citizens. Weatherford:
If we are to be fair to ourselves, fair to the section [region] in which we live, and fair to the negro race, we must see that a common school education is provided for all, that industrial training is given to the majority, and that a more thorough and complete training shall be given to the capable few who are to become the leaders of this race. (3)
Tillinghast went so far as to say that:
Hence, nothing short of a vast expenditure of money in multiplying Hamptons and Tuskeegees, coupled sooner or later with compulsory attendance, will avail to arrest the steady reversion to type, now exhibited by the American branch of the race. (4)
5) Using the wrong methods
Not only wrong subjects, declared critics of the time, but wrong methods of teaching were hurting efforts to educate the Afro-American.
From the Southern Educational Association meeting's 1907 declaration:
'On account of economics and psychological difference in the two races, we believe that there should be a difference in courses of study and methods of teaching, and that there should be such an adjustment of school curricula as shall meet the evident needs of negro youth.' (3)
Washington's Tuskegee Institute methods are worth reading in detail. We won't elaborate them here, but point the interested reader to his narrative, Working With the Hands, and content ourselves with this sum-up: Most study is physical--farming, metal-working, plumbing--and all study which comes from books relates to the physical--the chemistry of pesticides, the mathematics of house-building, the proper English of work contracts. Washington was criticized by some black leaders for eschewing the literary in favor of the vocational. Has the ensuing century of Afro education proved him wrong? Thomas:
The negro is the adult infant of our composite society, who, wanting in wholesome thought and prudent conduct, has been surfeited with sentiment, bewildered by precepts, and crazed by flattery, until he believes himself to have passed at one bound from the depths of ignorance to the summits of knowledge. We may concede the good intentions of his educators but we deplore their mistakes. Their persistent blundering emphasizes our conviction that from the cradle to the grave the freedman sadly needs the strong hand and firm guidance of educated, God-fearing men and women, who, for conscience' sake, teach him truth and righteousness. (5)
He also recommends that
...both boys and girls should be daily exercised in military drills, the need and usefulness of which have long been obvious to us. Military drill, apart from its many excellent physically developing features, teaches prompt and unquestioning obedience, and instils a respect for rightful authority. It inculcates courage, confidence, patience, and self-control, and enables pupils to perform with greater exactness their other duties, great and small. (5)
Amusing? A description of KIPP charter schools, founded in 1994, who have some of the best records in the country for educating inner-city black children:
Even during school breaks, KIPP kids get homework. [...] The intensity of KIPP schools has caused some kids to withdraw. Others have been dismissed for failing to live up to expectations. [...] KIPP provides a structured environment — students walk down halls in straight lines, looking forward. Its brand of discipline has become a bone of contention for critics [...] Selah Hampton, who went to KIPP South Fulton Academy, said one time her entire class was punished when a student talked as they lined up for lunch. But Hampton, now a junior at Exeter, liked that approach. "They teach you the discipline and focus you need to take elsewhere."
6) The luxury of selecting one's students
The fact that in theory every black child in the country was to be publicly educated weighed heavily on the minds of 1900-era thinkers.
After admitting the frank success of strict vocational training for Blacks, Tillinghast points out that
Opening a catalogue of that institution [Hampton] and examining the terms of admission, we discover that it works only with stringently sifted material. Following are extracts from the catalogue, printed as in the original:Tillinghast points out that these are criteria 'which thousands can never meet.' He concludes:
"SOUND HEALTH, testimonials of GOOD CHARACTER, and intention to remain through the course, are required of all applicants. Candidates for admission coming from common schools or from other institutions, must present letters of honorable dismissal and of recommendation. . . .
Able-bodied, capable, young men and women of good character are encouraged to apply for admission on the following terms :
1. To work steadily all day for at least an entire year from the time of entering (usually October ist), and attend night school for two hours five nights a week.
Note. No one need apply who is not well and strong and capable of doing a man's or woman's work. None under seventeen years need apply. . . .
3. The first three months are probationary ....
The utmost economy is expected from the students, in order that they may accumulate money for their expenses in the day school." '
If the youth of the race generally were qualified to enter Hampton on its own terms, the problem would be already half solved. The results attained at Hampton therefore fail to prove that like results could be secured amongst the negroes at large. (4)
Being forbidden from choosing its students has of course been the bane of the modern public school, doubly so with today's dysfunctional, dysgenically-bred black urban population.
7) Blacks naturally less intelligent?
Entwined with the above points is one which our 1900-era commentators took for granted but which today constitutes thoughtcrime: Blacks are in all likelihood less endowed with 'g', or 'general intelligence', than Whites. Ever-finer gauges tell us this today; our forebears had little but their two eyes on which to rely. Post-Emancipation, opinions varied: The most optimistic, including many Mulattoes, thought the ignorance and degradation forced upon this enslaved race for so long would sooner or later subside under the light of education. Even if he'll never be the equal of the Euro, they said, the schooled Afro can certainly live a satisfying and civilized life.
An unfair criticism often leveled at these men, that they believed the Afro to be stupid when he was in fact forced into illiteracy by white slaveowners, does not hold up. From their writings, it seems clear they base their judgment of Blacks' cognitive power less on slaves in America than on the free men who never left Africa. An example from Collins:
Can History prove that the Negro, during his thousands of years of contact with superior races, has ever yet risen to the dignity of stable and progressive self-government? Even Liberia, with all the help that has been given her, is gradually sinking to the level of the surrounding barbarism. And what of San Domingo [Haiti, then 100 years independent]? Indeed, everywhere the tendency of the pure Negro is to fall when the white man's props are removed. (1)
Our mulatto observer W.H. Thomas is by far the harshest judge of the southern Black that we have found. Nevertheless we dare quote him on this point, for what he is worth:
The negro has all the physical endowments of intellect, but he has a mind that never thinks in complex terms, ... He is largely devoid of imagination in all that relates to purely intellectual exercises, though he has fairly vivid conceptions of such physical objects as appeal to the passions or appetite.
...he appears incapable of understanding the difference between evidence and assertion, proof and surmise. To those who know the freedman the fact is obvious that the highest aspiration of negro ambition is, not to acquire the essential spirit of knowledge, but to imitate mechanically what he only succeeds in caricaturing. ...We are also thoroughly convinced that the negro mind is rarely awakened to responsive intelligence by meditative reasoning.
[...] The educated class of the race--the result of such teachings--rarely seeks for truth in statement, but rather for rhetorical flourish, skill in contradiction, and word juggling, in order to confuse, bewilder, and impose upon their hearers, and to make those among the less informed believe them to be wise and all-knowing. So long as this shameless mendacity or pretence of learning continues, it will prove a fundamental hindrance to race awakening. (5)
The next time someone expounds to you about The Gap, and what we must do to close it, it may be worth reminding him that his struggle is not new. Learned men have been puzzling over it for generations. If we are still asking ourselves the same questions, facing the same incongruities, and proffering the same vague optimisms as our forebears of a hundred years ago, perhaps we'd be wise to bend to some of their harsher judgments and stronger prescriptions. Such as:
That the alphabet and Arabic numerals do not furnish a magic key to civilization has been only too well shown by experience. [...] Wisely directed education may largely control character in spite of heredity, but it is well to remember that while efforts toward education often miss their mark, heredity is persistent and unerring. (4)
That said, it would also behoove us to recall the South Carolina Superintendent of Schools' 1915 warning, which has lost none of its punch:
The Negro is here and is here to stay. He cannot remain ignorant without injury to himself, his white neighbors and to the Commonwealth. His training should fit him for the work that is open to him. . . . While industrial [vocational] education is needed for both races it is especially desirable for the Negro.
The money now expended for Negro education is largely wasted. Can we afford longer to allow this large element in our population to follow their present practices and remain in their present condition? (1)
(1) Collins, W.H., The Truth About Lynching and the Negro in the South, New York: Neale Publ. Co., 1918.
(2) Page, T.N. The Negro: The Southerner's Problem. New York: C. Scribner's Sons, 1904.
(3) Weatherford, W.D., Negro life in the South: Present Conditions and Needs, YMCA Press, 1911.
(4) Tillinghast, J.A. The Negro in Africa and America. New York: Negro Universities Press, 1902.
(5) Thomas, W.H. The American Negro: A Study in Racial Crossing. New York: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., 1901.
(6) Washington, Booker T., Working With the Hands. New York: Doubleday, 1904.
(7) DuBois, W. E.B. The Philadelphia Negro: A Social Study. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1899.


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Logical Fallacies and the Black Plaque
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Logical Fallacies and the Black Plaque
This exercise requires you to look at a historical event, the Black Plague, and evaluate the claims made about its cause by those living at the time. Here is some background:
In October 1347, Italian ships on the Black Sea en route to and from China dock in Messina, Sicily -- their crews are dead or dying. Whatever is killing them quickly spreads ashore. Within a month, it passes through Sicily and moves back out over water. By January 1348, it has penetrated France via Marseille and North Africa via Tunis, and by July 1348, it spreads through France, Spain, Italy, Switzerland, Eastern Hungary, and Southern England. This is all the more amazing given that at this time it took a person one to three months to travel from London to Rome. The plague died out in the winters and was resurrected in the springs. At the end of 1349, it had spread throughout the British Isles and Scandinavia and continued to move east.
The death toll was massive -- the "official" figure is one-third of Europe dead between 1348 and 1351, when it temporarily abated, but keep in mind that in some towns the death toll was 90 percent -- in others 10 percent. Further, the poor and anyone else living in close quarters (monks, for instance) died at a higher rate. Many monasteries were completely wiped out, but the death rates among the nobility and the nobility of the church were very low. Understandably, people wanted to know why this was happening to them. Here are the four prominent hypotheses of the day:
Group Claim Evidence Used to Support Claims Problems People Had With Evidence
Academics and Physicians The plague was the result of a triple conjunction of Saturn, Jupiter, and Mars on March 20, 1345. Medicine at the time was based on astrology and astronomy. Most physical sickness was attributed to poor alignment of the stars. The conjunction had happened, and it was a rare celestial event. Other events had been tied to celestial causes. Many were waiting to see what the triple conjunction would cause, and when the Black Plague occurred, they felt that they had found out. Nobody but the academics and physicians believed their explanation!
The Church God's wrath -- it was a punishment for the people's sins. The Church said, "look around." Everywhere there was plunder, looting, rape, prostitution, war, and drinking. God's wrath had shown itself in very destructive ways before -- the people of Noah's time were hit with a flood, and the people of Sodom and Gomorrah were destroyed. If God's wrath has already descended, there's no reason to change one's behavior. The attitude was roughly, "If we're already doomed, why alter our behavior?"
Mayors and Town-Controlling Nobles Poor sanitation. Dumping waste in the streets leads to sickness (a revolutionary claim at the time -- no one actually knew this to be true). The sanitation workers were among the first to die, and other diseases were suspected to be related to poor sanitation. Later sanitation workers appeared to be immune (unknown to the people, they'd been exposed and had developed a resistance). If it really was poor sanitation, why weren't they still dying? In fact, this immunity among sanitation workers caused many people to think they had magical powers. People followed them on their street cleaning routes trying to absorb some of the immunity. Others, more desperate, actually applied waste to themselves feeling that it would keep the disease away.
The Masses (i.e. everyone else) The Jews are poisoning the wells. Confessions were tortured out. The Jews were believed to be "jealous" of the Christians (because, it was thought, the Jews knew "in their hearts" that they were damned). The lepers had been blamed for poisoning the wells and causing the Typhus outbreak in 1320 (after the Black Plague, it was believed that the Jews set them up to it). So many Jews died too (why would any community poison themselves?). The other problem is that the Plague was present in areas were no Jews lived.
Discussion Question
Select one of the claims given above (e.g., the Church's, or the academics', etc.). Consider the evidence given and the problems with the evidence. Answer the following question:
Each of these claims required an underlying assumption on the part of those who believed it. For a modern example, consider the claim that hip-hop music contributes to gun violence. A person supporting this claim is operating on the assumption that music has the power to shape behavior. That person may offer evidence to support the claim and draw the conclusion from the evidence that the claim is true. You, as the reader, may reject the entire argument (claim, evidence, and conclusion) because you do not agree with the underlying assumption -- that music has the power to shape behavior. Turning back to the Black Plague claims, on what underlying assumption does the claim of your choice rely? What are your personal reactions to that assumption? In addition, using the Lesson 2 Lecture, identify at least two logical fallacies in your chosen claim. It is not enough to state, for example, "Relying on Anecdotal Evidence." You need to identify the logical fallacy and explain how it applies specifically to your chosen claim. Finally, one claim "won" as the official explanation at the time. Which do you think it was and why?
Your post must include: the underlying assumption of your chosen claim; your personal reactions to that assumption; two logical fallacies of your chosen claim; and which claim you believe won out (was accepted as the cause of the plague) according to those in the fourteenth century and why.
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Referring to the causes of the Black Plaque, this solution assists in identifying the underlying assumption of the chosen claim; personal reactions to that assumption; two logical fallacies of the claim; and which claim won out (was accepted as the cause of the plague) according to those in the fourteenth century and why.


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Thursday August 27th 2009
Have you seen the trailer for Christopher Nolan's Inception?
Have you seen the pretty cool new Inception Warner Brother logo that's not quite as good as the Batman one?
Have you seen the bit with the close-up of the spinning top that's a bit like The Prestige?
Have you seen the ariel shot?
Have you seen the gravity-defying water glass on the nice wooden table?
Have you seen the bit with Leo DiCap looking like Batman?
Have you seen the man who accidentally got in the bath with all of his clothes on and then realised very suddenly and then tried to get out immediately without getting too wet but left it too long and was already very wet?
Have you seen this bit?
Have you seen the bloody cast?
That is quite literally four of my favourite people.
If the answer to any of the above questions is 'no' then please direct yourself towards the incredible new Inception trailer. It's only a minute long.


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- Sharing is inherited (passed on) from the top down. If a Task, Folder, or Project is shared with a user, then all items added to or created in that Task, Folder, or Project are automatically shared with that user as well.
- If a parent (top level) item is shared, you cannot unshare its children (lower level) items. If a user has access to a parent Task, Folder, or Project then you cannot unshare Subtasks, Subfolders, or Subprojects from them.
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- Regular and External Users are able to view and edit that item. Collaborators can view, but have limited editing rights.
- Regular Users with Full Access are able to share the item with other users.
Sharing information gives you access to Tasks, Folders, and Projects; Following allows you to receive notifications related to those items.
You will autofollow items when:
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- You are assigned to an item
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- Click on your profile image in the Workspace's upper right-hand corner.
- Select "View profile".
- Click the "Email addresses" tab.
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Quick Tip! You can also use the Inbox tab in the Workspace to track @mentions, task assignments, and newly shared items.
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Tasks live in Folders and Projects, but you can use other views to keep track of and organize your information.
Dashboards allow you to see tasks in a board view. Add widgets to a Dashboard to: see what to work on next or to see how things are progressing. Learn how to create widgets here.
Dashboards are one of the most customizable ways to keep track of your work. Not sure what to do? Check out this Community post for inspiration, or ask for tips on what might work for your use case.
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- Personal action items: create tasks for items you need to finish that day or week. Check with your manager or Wrike champion about where tasks should be created. Or, if there are tasks that only you will need to work on try creating a private Folder and creating tasks within that Folder.
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Question: what is workshop?
Answer: men work, women shop.
The husband says to his wife? "If I don't work, you will have no money to shop".
The wife replies: "If women don't shop, the shops will be closed, the factories will be closed, you will be out of work and millions of people lose their jobs. All economic activities come to a complete stop. The country – and the world – moves form mild recession to great depression.
This scenario actually happened om USA in early 1930's. Hoover, the republican candidate. Advocated low interest loans to Ford to re-open the factory (production creates consumption). Roosevelt , the democratic candidate, did the contrary. His "New Deal" was based on keynesian theory that consumption creates production.
Roosevelt and his keynesian economists undertook the following measures to stimulate consumption:
Mininum wages – increase workers capacity to spend and consume. If every worker buys a shirt, the shirt factory will re-open and employ more workers – a virtuous circle of consumption creating production.
Installments – banks finance purchase of automobils om 24 months with low interest rate, purchase or construction of houses with mortgage of 20 to 30 years for payment. "A house on every piece of land, two cars in every garage".
Low rate of interest – stimulus for automobil sales and house constructions. Also banks return to profit and employ more people, again a virtuous circle.
There was even suggestions from Roosevelt's keynesian economists that the american bank note should have a date of validity (data de vencimento) to accelerate spending and consumption. However, this crazy suggestion from crazy economists was not adopted.
In conclusion, we shall be thankful to our wifes, for their role in the society. If they don't shop, we will be all be without work.
I have a joint account with my wife in a local bank. "Joint" means I deposit and she withdraws. I work, she shops. I am glad that she contributes more than I do to the well being of our society.


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WATCH: Wishes And Thieves "Let You In" On New Video (FILTER Premiere)
By Staff on July 31, 2012
New York's Wishes and Thieves is a combination of heavy drumming, seductive and sultry vocals and soaring guitar riffs that keep you sucked in from song start to finish and below, we have their new video for "Let You In."
The group's R&B soul really shines through in the new clip which features frontwoman, Jolanda Porter, stressfully singing into the camera while various other band members appear in the background. The start and stop beat brings the stress and desperation of the track to the forefront while the images give you a sense that emotion is the main driver in this video.
"Let You In" is off Wishes and Thieves' Forest Fire EP which is out now which you can grab right here.
You can also catch the band at the tour dates below.
Tour Dates:
3 - Brooklyn, NY - The Rock Shop
23 - Brooklyn, NY - The Paper Box
31 - Brooklyn, NY - The Knitting Factory
3 - Charlottesville, VA - University of VA @ Para Coffee


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This week's episode contains a rather large news review. There wasn't a major connecting thread to the news this week outside the shutdown-that-was-not. Since that fizzled we look at the scattered news bits that deserve consideration. Related links: Last minute tax filing tips (MP3) Groklaw on shutting down Ann Althouse on a tax base challenge Ars Technica on the first step being taken towards passing House Joint Resolution 37 to kill net neutrality regulations The Register on that procedural step HJR 37 underwent Reuters reporting HJR 37 passing the House, moving on for Senate action Michael Geist on the Conservative Party of Canada's digital economy platform The Librarian in Black against DRM The folks at Defective By Design proposing a Librarians Against DRM group The Free Software Foundation, the parent organization of Defective by Design Gawker: Twitter regresses to infancy Dave Winer's screenshot of Twitter backsliding Reuters on the failure at Twitter PCMag Digital Network on the failure at Twitter The Register on MMS being the new killer app in the mobile space DIY server software for interacting with patrons via SMS #1 DIY server software for interacting with patrons via SMS #2 DIY server software for interacting with patrons via SMS #3 Library of Congress Public Affairs on Deanna Marcum being selected for the Melvil Dewey medal Ars Technica on bandwidth caps around the world Deutsche Welle on publishing translations of German works in the US Library of Congress Public Affairs on new entries to the National Recording Registry Radio Netherlands Worldwide's Media Network blog on Google's attempt to reorganize YouTube to compete with broadcast television Russian internal security agency comes out against Skype Russian internal security agency comes out against Hotmail Reuters on the Russian Federal Security Service complaining about web-based off-shore e-mail providers Deutsche Welle on the Berlin prostitute engaging in the trade of negotiable affections to pay for her PhD studies Amy Buckland referencing the new McMaster University librarian's view that PhDs with non-LIS skill sets may be the future of libraries
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Hey All,
Last Thursday was an exiting day for all the DPM fans out there. Jason Buffington was presenting a webcast about the new features and improvements in DPM 2010, that will go RC in a couple of weeks. Jason mentioned it will probably the first full week of February.
That said, I was unable to attend the webcast. Had an appointment and couldn't get out of it so I had to wait last weekend until it got available offline. And it is, so here are the highlights.
First, and certainly not last, Jason was rocking again ;-), he knows how to get you enthusiastic about a "backup" solution. Great work Jason.
Second, and probably more important, what was in the webcast…
It all started with an overview picture of the differences between DPM 2007 and 2010. And although there are a few differences in the workloads that can be protected, such as Exchange 2010, Sharepoint 2010, Dynamics natively, Hyper-V R2 on CSV etc…, that really aren't the most exiting things about the new release. In fact, that is what everybody expected in the first place when the new version arrived. No, as the webcast continued, many great features and enhancements came in sight, causing this to become a truly, full-blown, protection application. Yes, you have read it correctly, not a backup system, but a protection system because in my opinion, it is more then just a backup solution. With features of backup up to other protection servers, in other geographical locations, end-user recovery for files AND for SQL administrators, with more and more applications from Microsoft where you can have single-item restore, this will be an application that every windows administrator need to have a look at.
Jason continued the session with a statement:
System Center Data Protection Manager 2010 delivers unified data protection for Windows servers and clients as a best-of-breed backup & recovery solution from Microsoft, for Windows environments. DPM 2010 provides the best protection and most supportable restore scenarios from disk, tape and cloud – in a scalable, reliable, manageable and cost-effective way.
Now here is a hard statement :-). But in fact, if you will read further on, you will notice that the team behind DPM 2010 really has pushed the limit for making this version an enterprise-ready solution, that can back-up everything you want, including desktops and laptops, servers, server loads and so on, with one agent. DPM 2007 was already a great solution, but the problem was that there were some issues that needed to be resolved. And not only that, some functionality was missing too. But here we are, 2010 almost live and it seems that they have listened to the customers. Just keep reading
All right, what are the exact workloads on Windows Platforms?
DPM 2010 will support:
- Windows Server 2008 R2
- Windows Server 2008
- Windows Storage Server 2008
- Windows Storage Server 2003 R2
- Windows Storage Server 2003 SP1
- Windows Storage Server 2003 R2
- Windows Unified Data Storage Server
- Windows 7
- Windows Vista (business or higher)
- Windows XP Pro SP2
And here is the list of workloads:
- SQL Server 2008
- SQL Server 2005
- SQL Server 2000 SP4
- SAP running on SQL Server (Although this is not a "known" workload in the GUI, you still can protect it, search for the white paper on how to do that)
- Exchange 2010, including DAG
- Exchange 2007, including LCR, CCR and SCR
- Exchange 2003 SP2
- Sharepoint Server 2010
- Sharepoint Server 2007
- Sharepoint portal server 2003
- Sharepoint Foundation 2010
- Sharepoint Services version 3.0
- Sharepoint Services version 2.0
- Dynamics AX 2009
- Essentials Business Server 2008
- Small Business Server 2008
After that, they gave us some more information about the features of these products:
- File Services
Not much has changed here, from Windows Server 2003 till 2008 R2 with the possibility for End-Users to restore directly from Windows Explorer or Microsoft Office
Here are already some nice new things, such as the possibility to protect entire SQL instances, with the protection of new databases. Also the amount of databases that you can protect is much higher as before. It will be now possible to protect a 1000 databases per protection server. Last but not least, and something a lot of SQL administrators will like a lot, is the possibility to have a self-service restore tool.
Oh, maybe one more, DPM will have the possibility to recover 2005 databases to 2008 servers.
- Sharepoint
Here we have the protection of sharepoint 2010, 2007 and 2003, with the possibility of auto-protection for new content databases within the farm. For sharepoint 2010, it will be possible to do an item-level restore without the need of a recovery farm. Yep, I already hear the sharepoint admins doing a little dance
- Exchange
While DPM 2010 will support Exchange 2010, 2007 and 2003, it will have now optimizations for SCC, CCR, SCR and DAG. And what's also important, it will do the ESE workload away from your exchange server and pull it to the DPM server. This will save you some resources for the actual mail servers.
Bare Metal Recovery, which will be centrally managed, and locally executed.
- Virtualization
Host-level backup of hyper-V R2, CSV support, Seamless protection of Live Migrating VMs (Yes, you have read this correct!), Alternate Host Recovery and Item Level Recovery. Writing up a DR plan with this kind of tools will become a pleasure 😉
Next on Topic… Client Protection.
Now here's something exiting. While backup people such as myself always shout to end-users that they need to place their files on fileservers, take backups of their locally data and so on, to prevent data loss, this has come to an end. DPM 2010 really enhances the backup experience for clients. Some may wonder why it is necessary. Users should place all of their files on the fileserver. Well, that's true, but be honest, with that many laptops and road warriors out there (such as myself) it has become almost impossible for end-users to do this.
With DPM 2010, you will be able to backup a 1000 clients per server, and you will be only backing up user data. You will have the possibility, based on templates (or rules, call it whatever you want :-)) to choose which folders you want to backup. At first sight, there are quite a lot of rules to choose from, and of course, the wanted "don't backup any MP3's" exist. Also, and this is getting very interessting, you will have the possibility to let the user choose some folders himself.
And it's getting better. DPM 2007, who already could backup clients would start to nag if a client doesn't report within the requested timeframe, causing your DPM GUI to have a lot of red crosses. And that's something that you don't want. With 2010, you will be able to say that everything is ok, as long as the last succeeded backup is within a specified timeframe, 2 weeks for example. At the same time, travelers will still have offline local copies with them so that they can restore whenever they want. And the moment they connect to the network through VPN, a new backup is taken online. One minor though, DirectAccess is not yet supported, so here's something we will need to wait until SP1 (at least I hope)
Another great new feature, and one which is requested a lot during the lifecycle of DPM 2007 is workgroup protection. I already mentioned it on one of my previous posts, but now it is official. In the RC and RTM version of DPM 2010, you will have the possibility to protect workgroup based computers or for that matter, servers from non-trusted domains. How will it work? First you install manually the agent (or use SCCM or SCE to do it for you). Use the SETDPMServer command with a new parameter called IsNONDomainServer. This will generate a local user on your server (don't worry, not an administrator :-))
Back on the DPM server, you can use the GUI to attach this server, together with the account to the DPM. That's it. Just make sure that the firewall(s) allow DCOM (135) and WinSock (5718/5719)
You want more… Here goes.
During the demo's, Justin showed some great additional enhancements to the core product. If you are already using DPM 2007, you will recognize these, and yes, you will love the new enhancements…
The product team has invested a lot of time in resolving the false positives. They learned from their big brothers from the Operations Team and reduced the alert noise a lot. But not only that, there is now also the option for collocation of data. Now you won't need a volume for each protected part in your environment. This will speed up things nicely. They have also built-in the possibility to allow your volume to grow automatically. This means no more changing the size of the volume each time you're without. Now you just need to read your reports more often
And last but not least, there is now a function that will automatically do a consistency check, if DPM thinks that there's an issue. This will lower the workload on many DPM admins out there.
Disaster Recovery
Many DPM users will tell you that they really like the Secondary Protection DPM server. If it is geographically on another location, you can do your tape-based backups on that one, leaving the tapes in the tapeloader as it is on another location. In 2010, they go further.
Now it will be possible to protect some workloads with Server A and do the secondary protection with Server B. At the same time, you can protect some workloads with Server B and do the secondary protection with Server A. Not enough? No problem, you will be able to add Server C in this scenario. I'm thinking Disaster Recovery Plan and I'm thinking this is a no-brainer
Final Topic, some Figures
DPM 2010 is called enterprise ready, and here's why.
- DPM 2010 will be able to protect 100 servers, 1000 Laptops and up to 2000 databases per server.
- It is tested with sharepoint farms of 25 TB and over 1 million items
- There is a significantly increased fan-in of data sources per DPM server
- It can handle 80 TB per DPM server
- Automatic rerunning of jobs and improved self-healing is implemented
- Automatic protection of new data sources for SQL and MOSS
- Decreased Inconsistent Replicas errors
- Reduced Alert Noise
- Optimized tape logic for tape reservations and usage
- Library Sharing more resilient
- Better resilience to physical errors in drives and changers
- Task controller for tape jobs for higher throughput
- More flexibility in scheduling short- and long-term tape
Is this a product to look out for? Yes, certainly. DPM 2007 already changed a lot in the backup world, and 2010 is an improvement over 2007. I'm glad to see that (Although there are a few) Microsoft has taken the time to listen and that they have done some major improvements in the engine and not only presented new features. Are the new features worth the upgrade? Yep, certainly if you will need to protect the additional workloads, but also for your tape support, less daily work as a backup admin…
Do we need to wait until SP1? A good question, and for the moment I would say no, as it will be possible to upgrade from Beta to RC to RTM. The Beta, which I'm currently running is already a great product, but since some additional changes have been made to the RC, I will need to check that out if its as stable as the Beta.
That's it for today, a (short :-)) overview of the new features and enhancements, all taken from the webcast by Jason Buffington. Make sure to view that webcast if I got your attention through this post 😉
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