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Brussels, 19th July 2010
Europe's biggest ever package of research and innovation investment
Frequently asked questions
Please see annex for ten examples of existing EU funded projects.
How does this package contribute to sustainable growth and jobs?
In the Europe 2020 strategy, Research and Innovation are at the heart of the political agenda, with the aim of improving framework conditions and access to finance for research and innovation and hence ensuring that innovative ideas can be turned into products and services that create growth and jobs.
With the work programme announced today and the subsequent calls for proposals, nearly €6.4 billion from the Seventh Framework Programme is being invested in tackling today's societal and industrial challenges. This investment is expected to create more than 165.000 jobs in Europe.
These figures increase cumulatively over time if it is assumed that levels of EU research funding are sustained or increased.
This has been calculated using the econometric model NEMESIS developed by Prof. Paul Zagamé (Ecole Centrale Paris Erasme) as part of the European research project DEMETER – see:
http://ec.europa.eu/research/social-sciences/projects/365_en.html .
He estimates the creation of 110.000 skilled and 55.000 unskilled jobs.
When will the calls for proposals be formally published ?
Many of the calls referred to in the work programme announced on 19 July will be published formally the next day, 20 July. Others will follow later.
How will FP7 benefit universities and academic researchers?
Educational institutes, notably universities, are the biggest beneficiaries of FP7: they make up over one-third of applicants and successful requests for EC funding. So far under FP7, from more than 40.700 "participations" in projects, nearly 15.500 come from universities or other educational institutes, receiving altogether €5.3 billion.
Boosting individual careers for young scientists and supporting the brightest brains of Europe is also at the heart of the European Union's research policy. Through the European Commission's Marie Curie Actions, the EU supports researcher training, career development and transfer of knowledge.
In addition, more than 850 of Europe's best creative scientists will get grants from the European Research Council. In 2011 alone, the Marie Curie Actions programme will create 5,000 new positions for highly qualified researchers and another 2,000 for PhD candidates In 2011 alone it will create 7,000 new positions, out of a budget of 772 Million €.
Are Industry and SMEs major participants?
Private sector participants make up a quarter of all applicants.
Some parts of FP7 are explicitly intended to develop the innovation capacity of the private sector, in particular small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs).
Also, collaborative research projects are open to participation by private sector partners, whether private research institutes, industry or SMEs.
Nearly € 800 million of the budget available in these calls will go to SMEs. So far under previous FP7 calls, SMEs account for 6.500 participants with €1.6 billion of funding.
Commissioner Geoghegan-Quinn has reiterated the Commission's commitment to ensuring that SME's receive at least 15% of the total funding for the parts of FP7 in which they are participants, over the lifetime of the programme 2007-2013. The current rate is around 14%.
In health, a minimum percentage (between 15% and 30%) of the EU grant to each project must go to SMEs.
In environmental technologies and cultural heritage, SME participation is particularly high (above 20%), and the coming Eco-Innovation call is expected to increase this participation further - €50 million will be dedicated to a specific SME and industry-targeted call.
In the ICT-field there are major opportunities for SMEs in high potential growth areas such as photonics, embedded systems, and ICT for health and ageing.
Can organisations and researchers from outside the EU bid for funding ?
Yes. Involving partners from any part of the world continues to be a priority of EU funding. The environment theme is one of the most popular themes for 3rd country cooperation, due to the global nature of environmental challenges. In 2009, more than 50 per cent of the proposals selected for funding involved international cooperation countries.
What are the central topics to be supported in health research?
Improving the health of European citizens and increasing the innovative capacity and competiveness of the European health sector, are at the core of the 2011 calls, with a budget of €682 million. Special emphasis is on promoting the translation of research into clinical practice. The call will tackle lifestyle-related health issues such as diabetes/obesity, cardiovascular disease, brain-related diseases and social determinants of health.
What about energy research?
A total budget of €210 million will be devoted for energy research. The bulk of it is earmarked for renewable energy (€137 million), the intelligent electricity grid of tomorrow (Smartgrids: €50 million), carbon capture and storage (CCS: €36 million) and energy efficiency (€15 million).
Some 500 entities, comprising around 120 research centres, 120 universities and 220 companies (including 120 SMEs) are expected to benefit from these calls.
How is environmental research adapted to a changing world?
The 2011 calls in the Environment theme have a budget €240 million and a total of 3,500 beneficiaries can be expected. Climate-change related research remains one of the top priorities of the environment calls for the year to come. Research for adaptation to climate change and mitigation of it is funded with €70 million. The same amount is foreseen for new environmentally-friendly ways of production. Efficient management of natural resources is allocated approximately €100 million.
Does the call support innovation in production?
€436 million will be devoted to the generation of innovative industrial products, processes and services. Public-private partnerships launched in the automotive, construction and manufacturing sectors will be allocated €130 million. Material for environmental friendly production receives a budget of €210 million. Development of new materials for energy generation, storage and efficiency is allocated €145 million.
How does the call support research in Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs)?
Research into ICTs will receive up to €1.2 billion of EU funding in these calls. With a budget that supports more than 15,000 researchers every year, ICT research help industry conduct ambitious and groundbreaking research which stimulates innovation and economic growth.
In particular, major funding is allocated to Public Private Partnerships (PPPs): €90 million will be available in 2011 to the 'Future Internet' Partnership (IP/09/1596) take advantage of the increasing demand for innovative internet applications to make infrastructures like health systems, energy grids or traffic management systems 'smarter'. Other partnerships on research will make sure that digital technologies play their full part in delivering the smart and sustainable growth set out in the Europe 2020 strategy. In 2011, €20 million will go to the ICT part of the energy efficient buildings partnership, €30 million to the PPP on fully electric vehicles and €80 million to the partnership developing "factories of the future" (IP/09/1116).
EU ICT funding can also have a major impact on research into future and emerging technologies (FET) and other high-risk areas where fear of market failures may impede private-sector investment. The €84 million available in 2011 for FET projects could develop the scientific foundations of radically new technologies like carbon-free ICT and take ICT research into uncharted areas such as quantum information science (MEMO/10/140)
Is space research covered?
Yes. The 4th FP7 Space call (€99 million) will focus on ensuring the continuity of Global Monitoring for Environment and Security (GMES) operational services, and will support research on space exploration technologies and ways to protect the Earth from potentially devastating asteroid impacts.
Will there be projects to enhance public security?
Security projects will receive €220 million in the 2011 call Security research is expected to deliver practical solutions for increasing the security of the citizen, stressing the active participation of end-users, in topics ranging from airport security to crisis management.
What about the bio-economy?
The building up of a knowledge based bio-economy in Europe is supported with €240 million. Bio-economy is based on knowledge and innovation in the biosciences and convergence between technologies, such as engineering, chemistry, computer science and nanotechnologies. In the bio-economy, sustainable growth is achieved by using renewable biological resources from land and sea as inputs to sectors such as the food and feed industry, chemicals, detergents, paper pulp and timber, textiles, bio-fuels and biogas. The progress in the biosciences is aimed at "greening" of industrial processes and products, reducing waste and enhancing consumer protection and well being.
Is socio-economic research included?
Socio-economic and humanities research is a key tool for addressing societal challenges and advancing social inclusion. In 2011 the European Commission will increase by over 10%, to €86 million, its budget for socio-economic research. The priorities will be the exit from the crisis, economy and innovation and the fight against poverty. This is expected to involve more that 300 universities and research institutions and 2,000 individual researchers from the EU and around 100 countries from outside the Union.
What is more, the 2011 Science in Society calls will provide over €43 million of support for promoting closer interaction between science, research and wider society. Topics of special interest are the Low Carbon Society, Food & Health, and Marine Resources. There will also be projects to promote women's careers in research and to promote new ways of teaching science in schools - with large scale projects each involving at least 10 different countries.
What are the central transport topics?
With the objective of strengthening innovation in Europe and boosting public and private investment, transport research is focusing its €415 million budget for the 2011 transport calls on a limited number of strategic priorities. Surface transport research will address efficient railway services, eco-innovation in shipbuilding and in waterborne transportation, as well as the 'European Green Car Initiative'.
Aeronautics and Air Transport research will focus on integration and validation of technologies in aero-engines, the airframe, on-board equipment and airports. It is expected that around 1000 entities, of which 50% are companies, will benefit from these calls.
How do the calls contribute to the European Research Area?
The whole of FP7 contributes to the European Research Area (ERA) in one way or another. But €65 million are specifically reserved for strengthening the ERA by supporting the effective integration of the best research and development institutions on the continent. Some 150 entities, comprising around 25 research organisations of significant size established in the EU's convergence and outermost regions, 115 highly qualified research organisations and universities elsewhere in Europe and 10 SMEs are expected to benefit.
Support to Research Infrastructures including e-infrastructures
State-of-the-art research infrastructures are essential for Europe to stay at the forefront of science. The budget for the 2011 calls amounts to €259 million. These calls support existing research infrastructures as well as the development of new European infrastructures and pay special attention to the development of associated e-infrastructures.
Are the various Joint Undertakings set up by the Commission included in these calls?
No, they are acting independently. The Fuel Cells and Hydrogen Joint Undertaking for example has a budget worth of nearly €180 million for 2011 calls, which will be invested in research projects by the Fuel Cells and Hydrogen Joint Undertaking. 25 different project topics aim to foster the market breakthrough of these technologies for example for the next generation of cars, urban public transport or power plants.
The Innovative Medicines Initiative (IMI) Joint Undertaking's third call for next year is funded by the European Union with a maximum of € 98.6 million plus matching non-monetary in-kind contributions by the research-based companies that are members of EFPIA (European Federation of Pharmaceutical Industries and Associations). Among the scientific priorities for this call are drug safety, inflammatory diseases, tuberculosis, neurological diseases and personalised medicine.
The Clean Sky Joint Undertaking intends to dedicate €170 million for its operational activities in 2011, including €46.2 million for the 4 calls for proposals to be issued in 2011. Clean Sky will contribute to developing cleaner and quieter aircraft. It is one of the largest European research initiatives ever, with a budget estimated at €1.6 billion over seven years, of which half is contributed by the European Commission and half by the European aeronautics industry. It aims at reducing significantly aviation emissions and noise. It addresses the implementation of innovative, environmentally-friendly technologies in all segments of civil air transport, including large commercial aircraft, regional aircraft and rotorcraft, and in all supporting technologies such as engines, systems and products life cycle.
How long will it take for the first money to be paid out ?
Following the closures of the calls (deadlines vary) evaluations will be carried out over the next two to three months and first evaluation results will become available three to four months after the deadline. The average time needed to complete the signature of approximately 8000 contracts since the beginning of FP7 has been 350 days after the closure of the call. However this should decrease following the Commission's commitment to improve and simplify the whole procedure. For example, new electronic tools will facilitate the negotiation of contracts and enable the close monitoring of all the stages of the process. For more information, see the following press materials on simplification of research funding: IP/10/472 and MEMO/10/156
How can potential applicants get advice and assistance?
The NCP (National Contact Points) network is the main provider of advice and individual assistance in all Member States and Associated States.
Those seeking support should contact the NCP relevant to their area of interest.
The most important services provided by NCPs' include:
To find National Contact Points, click on: http://cordis.europa.eu/fp7/ncp_en.html
More information:
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The Commission's website on Research:
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Annex – Ten existing EU funded research projects
More than 7,000 others are already being funded under the Seventh Framework Programme.
An innovative treatment for cancer by EU-supported SMEs and research institutes (Project ANGIOSTOP)
The small research-based pharmaceutical companies BioInvent and Thrombogenics have, together with their partners in the EU-funded FP6 project ANGIOSTOP, developed an innovative form of treatment that stops the growth of cancerous tumours through inhibition of angiogenesis, the process by which new blood vessels are formed in the body. In 2009, the companies have announced promising results and secured a EUR 50 million investment from global pharmaceutical giant Roche.
LifeValve (Living heart valves for minimally invasive implantation procedures)
LifeValve aims to develop a tissue-engineered, living heart valve that can be implanted in children without the need for an operation. This valve will then grow with the children and therefore minimise the need for future surgical intervention.
Cardiovascular disease still represents the Killer No.1 in the EU accounting for substantial morbidity/mortality and health care cost. Heart valve replacement represents the most common surgical therapy for valvular heart disease with almost 200.000 annual implantations worldwide. Currently, heart valve prosthesis-associated problems occur in 30-35% of patients within 10 years, frequently necessitating risky re-operations. A particularly severe problem relates to children with congenital heart defects (1% of all newborns) who cannot be treated efficiently due to the lack of growths of the clinically available artificial valve prostheses.
LUPA (Dog genetics to understand human diseases)
This project puts together 20 veterinary schools from 12 European countries that have been working since January 2008 to collect DNA samples from purebred dogs that are healthy or affected by similar diseases as humans. Studying dogs will help improve our understanding of the genetic origin of diseases such as cancer, epilepsy, cardiovascular troubles and diabetes. This project is particularly interesting in the context of personalised medicine.
Hi-CEPS (Highly Integrated Combustion Electric Propulsion System)
The Hi-CEPS project aims to develop hybrid vehicles that can be mass produced and that are affordable, adaptable and fun to drive. These will be available on the European market in the next few years. Among other things, the hybrid systems being developed employ innovative ways to solve common problems in hybrid technology, such as preventing air conditioning from shutting down once the engine stops. The vehicles will be low-cost, standardised and adjustable to various (alternative) fuels.
ARRIVAL - new railway scheduling tool reduces waiting times and train delays
Thanks to a research project that has received €2.6 million of EU funding, Europeans face less disruption when travelling by train this summer. The ARRIVAL project has developed advanced software that schedules trains more efficiently and handles disruptions, as they happen in real time, more effectively while maintaining the same level of safety. The results of this research are already being applied by railway operators across Europe to ensure more efficient use of rail networks, in terms of both timetabling and dealing with unforeseen disruptions. The algorithms developed have potential applications in other areas such as road traffic navigation systems, industrial work-flow systems, e-commerce, peer to peer networks, grid computing networks and healthcare.
A 3 month trip, from Italy to China, without a driver! (No driver cars with Open Intelligent Systems) (OFAV – A project supported by the European Research Council)
The OFAV project aims at exploring the use of "intelligent cars" which move without a driver and with a sophisticated system of sensors. The first intercontinental experiment with these autonomous cars is taking place this year by means of a trip of 13 000 km from Italy to Shanghai (arrival on 10-10-2010) through different environments, including extreme ones. This experiment will show that it is possible, in a prototype version, to move goods between two continents with non-polluting vehicles powered by green energy and with virtually no human intervention. The aim is to demonstrate that the current technology is mature enough for the deployment of non-polluting and no-oil based autonomous vehicles in real conditions.
This research is also aimed at providing vehicles with perception capabilities in order to reduce the number of road accidents and – as an ultimate goal- even for completely autonomous driving. Besides providing clear advantages on safety for road users, the availability of an open architecture will encourage and make possible the sharing of knowledge between public and private research communities (academic and automotive industry) and thus speed up the design of a standard platform for future autonomous vehicles. Moreover these technologies tested from Italy to China may be transferred to other vehicles and applied to other fields such as agriculture, earth moving, constructions, in extreme environments, where the employment of a vehicle able to move without any driver will bring remarkable economical as well as social advantages.
Technology for heroes
The primary motivation of the EU-funded project 'Second generation locator for urban search and rescue operations' (SGL for USaR) is to provide technological support to ensure the most effective use is made of the time available to rescue teams.
Time is the critical parameter for the rescue of victims buried under collapsed buildings. There is normally a 24-hour window when people who are injured and trapped can be saved, followed by a three-day period when trapped but uninjured victims can be successfully rescued.
The prime objective of the project is to deliver a prototype portable "FIRSTt" responder device that integrates sensors, images, sound and chemical analysis for the early location of entrapped people and dead bodies.
The European Robot Initiative for Strengthening the Competitiveness of SMEs in Manufacturing (Project SMERobotTM)
The SMERobot project aims to develop a new generation of affordable, versatile and human-friendly robots, which will be suitable for deployment in smaller enterprises handling shorter runs with frequent changeovers.
An entirely new, modular and interactive generation of robots which, in addition to being quick to install and easy to operate, will also help to make European SMEs more competitive thanks to their cost-effective design.
Virtual reality you can reach out and touch (IMMERSENCE Project)
A team of European researchers supported by the European Union has "virtually" teleported real objects through cyberspace, touched things in virtual reality and even felt the movements of a virtual dance partner. Advances in haptic technology and a new approach to generating virtual reality (VR) content are helping to create virtual experiences that are far more realistic and immersive than anything achieved before. Not only do users see and hear their virtual surroundings, objects and avatars, but they can touch them as well, paving the way for new applications in tele-presence, tele-medicine, industrial design, gaming and entertainment.
Doctors, for example, could use it to treat patients remotely, physiotherapists could use it for training and rehabilitation and industrial designers could collaborate remotely by virtually "teleporting" touchable digital mock-ups of designs over the internet. The research will also help in the development of cognitive robots that are better able to interact with humans.
ISAFRUIT (Increasing fruit consumption, reducing pesticide use and delivering high quality products) – FP6 project
The results of the ISAFRUIT FP6 project will help reduce the use of pesticides, increase the competitiveness of Europe's fruit industry - which should ultimately feed into higher quality and lower prices for consumers - and allow families to be happier about what they are putting into their children's mouths. 65 partners, including 40 University and research centres and 20 SMEs have participated.
One of the major findings of ISAFRUIT is initial nutritional studies – the first comprehensive and quantitative studies using humans rather than rats - which show that two apples (300gr) a day can help reduce cholesterol by 10% and that a regular consumption of fruits decreases the risk of cardiovascular diseases by 4-11% per 100 gram.
Other results include:
The purely economic benefits - let alone the health and societal benefits - will over time far outweigh the €13.8 million EU investment in the project
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By Paul Feinberg
Would you rather embark on what some might consider a "traditional career," working your way up the corporate ladder - or roll the dice on a board game, and live the entrepreneur's life with all the ups and downs that come with it?
For Randy Horn ('97), the choice was first debated over drinks.
As a UCLA Anderson student, Horn enrolled in Prof. Alan Carsrud's business plan writing course. However, the catch was that without a business idea he couldn't take the course. While trying to come up with an idea, he and some of his business school friends were hanging out when they started to debate the age old question: "Would you rather bite the curb and get kicked in the back of the head or get a paper cut on your eyeball?"
"We had a great time debating it," Horn recalled recently. "We were having a few beers and we actually started to take the question seriously. I thought, 'That's my business idea, to build a business around a game based on 'would you rather' questions."
So, he and then-partner Mike Lloyd ('97) started to write a business plan for Carsrud's course. It was still an exercise at that point. Horn remembers that their projects and presentations would be filled with "would you rather" questions, while the rest of the course was presenting serious plans filled with spread sheets. Due to the lighthearted nature of their presentations, Horn says that his classmates began to look forward to their presentations. "Professor Carsrud told me I had too much time on my hands," Horn said.
Eventually, Horn and Lloyd began to take the idea more seriously, although the two would ultimately go their separate ways. (Lloyd is now vice president and general manager at Consolidated Fire Protection in Irvine, California. He runs their national service business, in which they provide fire protection and life safety service for multi-location regional and national customers across the United States. He's been there since 2004.)
What began as an excuse to take a business plan writing course, ultimately became an entry in Anderson's Knapp Venture Competition. Horn says that his ambition was buoyed by the fact that the investors to whom they showed the idea were always enthusiastic. He became to believe there was more to the idea than a way to pass a class.
The idea became Zobmondo!!, a "replacement epithet" coined by Lloyd. The rules of the game were simple. Players drew cards with a series of "would you rather" questions on them and then tried to determine how the rest of the group would respond. The fun was rooted not just in making a correct prediction, but also in the discussions. Players become almost surprisingly passionate when arguing whether they'd rather be stuck in an elevator with wet dogs or three fat, smelly men with bad breath.
After Zobmondo!!'s first year on the market, gaming giant Hasbro licensed the product. Horn says he thought he'd just sit back and cash royalty checks, but Hasbro's approach to marketing and selling the game was uninspiring. After two years, he terminated the deal and started all over, taking the product out to trade shows, trying to get retailers to put it on the shelves. It was during this period that he began to learn the critical importance of operations, realizing that retailers expected deliveries on time and in the quantities they required. He found a third-party manufacturer in China, a warehouse in Carson and eventually put a publicist on retainer.
He also began to manage the brand. "Zobmondo!!," he says, "became like Nike" - an overarching brand for all the companies products. "Would You Rather" became Air Jordan, the company's signature line of products. That line became multi-faceted. The original edgy R-rated game was aimed at adult players. They've added a more family mass version for players 12 and up, a compact travel version and a game aimed at kids, who debate questions like "would you rather eat a bowl of apple stems or 20 banana peels?"
The appeal Horn reiterates is not just in winning the game. The appeal is the social interaction. Corporations have started using the games as ice breakers; Horn gets letters from the parents of children with learning disabilities telling him their children were too shy to speak until they started playing the game.
Today, Horn's office is in an unassuming suite above some retail stores in Brentwood. He has one employee and shares the office with another entrepreneur. He says that every aspect of building the Zobmondo!! empire has been a learning experience. "I once changed the box the game came in because of how it looked in a print ad," he said. Along the way he's added a few other games to the company's line, including one invented by a young girl for a science project.
In 2009, the company was named one of Inc. Magazine's fastest growing companies for the third year in a row and he's received notices in diverse publications from the Wall Street Journal to the Los Angeles Business Journal. Sales approached seven million dollars last year and with the games going into Wal-Mart, he expects to top 11 million in sales.
"We're legit now," Horn says of the one million games he expects to sell this year. "We're on everybody's radar."

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Former Texas Supreme Court Justice Scott Brister, who cast the only dissenting vote in a decision that threw out the school funding system seven years ago, is fairly sure the state will lose a brand new round of litigation.
A majority of the state's 1,029 school districts have already joined one of the four school funding lawsuits that will go to trial later this year.
The suits largely claim the state is not meeting its constitutional responsibility to adequately fund public education and to do it efficiently, which courts have defined as developing a system that produces roughly the same amount of revenue at the same taxing effort.
Up for debate is "how much" is enough when it comes to public school funding.
Neither Brister nor other school funding experts could say.
"Nobody in the Legislature or the court can tell you that," Brister said. "That's why we have markets. Markets find the price."
The state of Texas has made education standards considerably tougher with new testing and achievement requirements that even legislators could not pass without remediation, school finance lawyer David Thompson said during a panel discussion sponsored by the Texas Public Policy Foundation, which supports smaller government and school choice
How much does it cost to achieve those new accountability standards?
"The honest answer is, we don't know the cost," Thompson said. "There is not a single study out there that even attempts to answer the question – what does it take to accomplish what we are requiring of every student – not just the top 8 or 9 percent that can get into UT."
School funding cases have gone to the Texas Supreme Court six times, including the landmark Edgewood case decided in 1989.
Because the high court has only three new justices since he retired, Brister says he expects the 9-member court will again find the state's school funding system unconstitutional – at least in parts. He doubts the court will find the funding inadequate.
"Most kids are passing the (TAKS) test, so it must be adequate," he said.
Brister dissented from the otherwise unanimous court ruling in 2005.
Among other objections, Brister contends the constitutional requirement for an "efficient" system doesn't mean equal funding for equal tax rates.
He favors free market approaches to education.
"Efficiency is a harsh principle. That's how you get more for less," he said. "Competition is the only way you get more for less."
Efficiency should result in school district consolidation, he argued, noting the I 410 loop around San Antonio touches 12 school districts.
School consolidation scares people, although "it won't be the end of the world," he said.
House Public Education Chairman Rob Eissler, R-The Woodlands, acknowledges that it's very difficult to fix school financing. School consolidation remains unpopular because school districts are the largest employer for some communities, he noted.
Eissler doesn't believe that more money is the answer for school districts.
Over the past 13 years, Texas school funding has increased $61 billion above inflation and enrollment growth, Eissler said.
"Putting more money into schools doesn't make them better," he said. "There's been no shortage of money, no shortage of effort, no shortage of lawsuits."
School funding remains complicated and difficult to understand – except for the experts who speak in language that is foreign to the public.
"There's a reason why people want to keep it complicated and hidden. It's easier to ratchet it up," Eissler said. "That's why we are where we are. We have to simplify it."
The former school board member doesn't believe that higher academic standards will cost more because educators need to adapt to new technology.
"Access to information that kids have today is unbelievable," Eissler said.
When he attended grade school in the 1950s, "knowledge would double every seven years. Now, I think, it's doubling every 20 minutes."
But Texans must understand the pressures facing schools, Thompson said. The school finance lawyer noted that 85,000 additional students fill the classrooms every year. About 60 percent come from low income families. Those children, typically, are more expensive to educate.
And the new academic standards are the toughest in history. Today's 9th grade class must pass all end-of-course exams and meet career-readiness standards to graduate from high school.
"We are raising the standards for a growing and needy population," Thompson said.
He also noted the average high school teacher in large school districts teaches about 170 students per day. One assignment taking about 10 minutes per student to grade means "25 hours outside, or in addition to the regular teaching load" for that teacher to complete.


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Frontier and Hamburg schools have been intense rivals on the courts and on the fields for decades. But the unexpected return of the long-missing international Challenge Trophy from Germany has reinvigorated the rivalry.
The cross-town rivals used to thrive on a rich tradition of exchanging a silver trophy given by the city of Hamburg, Germany, to mark the Town of Hamburg's sesquicentennial; the trophy was traded back and forth between the districts based on their sports performances at the end of each school year at annual athletic awards banquets.
But all that came to a halt in the late 1980s, when Frontier was classified in a AA league division as the district grew, while Hamburg remained in the A division – and they didn't play against each other in all sports. Both districts agreed to end the trophy exchange.
But interest in it didn't disappear. About five years ago, Hamburg town historian Jim Baker, a retired Frontier history teacher and coach who remembered the trophy well, began asking about the whereabouts of the 55-year-old relic. It couldn't be found in Frontier's basement, and it had more or less been forgotten when Hamburg's athletic director, Greg Witman, stumbled upon it recently in the basement of Hamburg High School, tucked in a box with other trophies from past years.
"It was in rough shape, was black and beat-up looking," Witman said. "It just looked like a piece of junk."
Baker was ecstatic when he got a call from Rich Gray, Frontier's athletic director, who told him the trophy had been found.
"It's terrific news," Baker said. "I remember it when it was presented the last time in the late '80s. It's something that the kids from both Frontier and Hamburg can hang their hats on."
Little did Witman know where it would lead; after 24 years of absence, the trophy is making a comeback between Frontier and Hamburg. Still tucked inside the trophy was a piece of parchment on which the yearly winner was to be listed.
Once Witman got in touch with Gray, the two were on a mission, and they talked with local experts about cleaning the trophy up. Witman and Gray also began talking about how to jump-start the rivalry and the accompanying trophy exchange.
One thing led to another, and within the last month, Gray and his secretary spent a few hours cleaning the trophy with silver polish and uncovering its beauty.
"It's like the Stanley Cup. You can't touch it. You need white gloves," a proud Gray said in his office. "We're really excited about it."
"I wanted to see this get some kind of rivalry started again," said Witman, a Hamburg graduate. "We're trying to promote a friendly rivalry. I think it's a neat trophy, and I'm glad it shined up the way it did."
Earlier this month, Gray showed it off to the Frontier School Board at the beginning of the school year and announced that both districts had decided the friendly competition would start again.
The competition will be structured by a point system for varsity team victories throughout the school year between both districts. Each varsity win earns a district two points, but a bonus point will be added if the team has scholar-athlete status. The districts are aiming to play each other more in non-league games so they can renew the competition and restart the tradition.
"Our kids like playing one another. There's a lot of bragging rights, and it's a nice rivalry, but it doesn't get nasty," Gray said.
Witman, who is keeping the trophy at Hamburg for this school year, since it was found in a Hamburg basement and Hamburg won it the last time it was used, quipped: "We're friends and neighbors 364 days out of the year, but that one day when we play them in sports, it changes that day."
"It's still a bit beat up," Witman said of the trophy, "but neither Hamburg nor Frontier is perfect, so it's perfect for us."
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Ok i have another quick question there are not really bubbles coming out but it looks like there is something coming to the top. And i actually only have alittel coolant in the reserve tank. Would a blown head gasket cause the ater not to circulate threw the engine? I am just getting really frustrated with this car as i have never had so many problems with a car. It seems as it is one thing after another.0
No bubbles is a good sign...and while a few isolate cases were reported, this engine type really does not have a bad history of blown gasket .
I understand you have changed the thermostat....
ANd yes, exhaust invasion will impair coolant circulation but I'm still not committed to that explanation without further signs. WHen you use the heater DO you have a steady heat flow coming from the heater or are there times at which no heat comes??
Apart from hte needle that goes up, are there other signs of overheating? Steaming?
One test I used to test gasket leak is applying compressed air to spark plug hole, after rotating the engine so the valves to that cylinder are closed. COMpressed air will try to push piston so it must be really at the top . IF there is a leak on one cylinder, the air will go to cooling circuit and bubbleup at the radiator cap.0
Hi yes i actually have steady heat i have never noticed a time when it gets cold at all. And it has never steamed or overheated just the guage goes up. But there is no circulation of the fluids. that is what confuses me.
Now by compressed air do you mean canned air or the air i would use to blo up a tirer on the car?0
Ok i also had another question about the lights in my car i noticed tonight that half of my dash lights (the side where the fuel gauge and temp guage are) and the radio buttons will go off and come back on once in a blue moon. Would this be caused by a bad ground? and if so do you have a wiring diagram for the vehicle? cause i would really like to get that fixed as well.. i also encountered the check engine light today while driving when i got the code checked it wwas 90442 something about the fuel cap i made sure it was all the way on and the light is still on any suggestions there?0
Your problem with dash lights might be linked with the high temp indicator. IN fact try one thing: run the car, then run the heater blower at different speeds. Does the temp needle change position instantaneously when you switch the blower on? THis problem was reported several times and seems to be linked with ground problems. SO several have run new ground wires from the battery negative to engine block, firewall, and any visible ground wire. HOwever no one had the clever idea to come back and declare unambiguously if that solved their problem partly or completely or what else they might have done.
FOr diagrams, I can post some but better register yourself to www.kiatechinfo.com and grab everything you want first hand, diagrams, repair manuals, codes....
ANd I talked of compressed air as you use for tires but the more you say, the less I think you might have a gasket problem....and since you say heater works well, I have no doubts you do have water circulation which is rather difficult to observe from the radiator cap.
HOw does the fan behave, specially just after engine is started: normally it runs with a whooshing noise for a few seconds then slowly clutches down...
It might turn out all you have is a false temperature indication....and I wish this is the case....I'd try to use your kitchen candy thermometer in the radiator to have a 2nd temperature opinion....0
Haha so i decided to just drive the car with the heat off until the temp guage went to the top (i also filled up the reseviour) and when i pulled in the drive way it was spewing out the over fill hose and what sounded like it was boiling.. I also added one wire from the negative battery terminal to the frame. and i noticed that both the pos and neg connectors where cracked. I also think whoever put the new battery in put in the wrong size as it was actually pretty tough getting the cables off of it.0
Well that sounds more severe indeed.....you cannot fake boiling...ha!
I'd find an air compressor and test as I said. It is just so annoying the plugs are out of easy reach...but it is not such a tedious job anyway. You will have to remove the valve cover.
THose complaining of fan clutch failure were mostly living in very warm environment and used A/C ; in cool temperatures, highway speed is sufficient even without a fan...
Was the water pump changed at same time as timing belt (I think you said the belt had been changed...right). BUt Water pumps fail for bearings generally and that makes noise and leaks, not boiling.....0
Yeah actually the only thing i have replaced was the thermostat. And i took another listen once i sent last post and there was a hissing noise and the water was just rushing back into the overfill tank.. Could the water pump be causing this problem possibly?
And do i have to take all that off just to give it a tune up?? :surprise:0
I was questioning the pump , just trying to find a thread where I remember someone said the blades from the water pump had all broken out..but I don't thnk that was in a KIA forum...probably a GM 3.1 or 3.4....so I'd rather dowplay this option.
WHen you say "take all that off to give it a tune"...I suppose y0u mean the valve cover...hey?...well just to change the spark plugs, no. You would need to remove the intake tube and the plastic cover...and then you have the coils and the holes to the spark plugs..the plugs are hidden under down there and you grab them with a plug socket and an extension to your ratchet...
..and possibly, you could apply air to the plug holes .. it is a long reach....but possible...but you would have some problem seeing which piston is at top dead center without seeing the cam position....
THe first time I had to do the spark plugs, I thought it was hell to have to do all of that just to reach the plug...and I still think the same...but in fact, a plug change can be done in just a little more than an hour...and with 8 or 9 extra 10mm bolts, the valve cover is out..and then back in. ANnoying, but easy and straight forward.0
...but you did not tell me about the fan....you are sure it has a belt driving it? My son had a similar problem with his NIVA..overheating and alternator failure........just to discover the fan belt was simply gone.....and with all those things around there, it needed to peek intentionally to notice something was missing....0
do you just mean the white fan behind the radiator? if so it starts when i turn the car on. so that would mean it would continue to run once the car was on correct?0
..yes, the fan between radiator and engine. Is it electrical or belt driven? factory is belt, but some owners replaced it with an electric fan. ANyway Ohio is not that warm at this time of the year, I suppose...0
It is belt driven. now i guess i have another question, is there anything else i would notice if the head gasket was blown. and i also noticed that when i tirned the blower motor on the guage did move up a little bit with thuring it on then dropped down a little once i shut it off.0
i noticed that when i turned the blower motor on the guage did move up a little bit with thuring it on then dropped down a little once i shut it off
That is almost "normal" as the return grounds for dash and blower are common and slight variation is expected. WHen the ground connection goes awry, the variation worsens.
is there anything else i would notice if the head gasket was blown.
in SOME cases, coolant spills in a cylinder when the car is stopped and is ejected in the exhaust manifold at start-up and this produces a short duration heavy white cloud at startup ....THis is somewhat confusing in cold weather because it is difficult to make the difference with what we already experience. HOwever when it shows in warm weather, the difference is more conspicuous. But absence of such cloud is not a sign that the problem does not exist.
If the coolant spill invades the oil pan, the inside of oil cap will be covered with a disgusting white-brownish foamy sludge. But many times , specially when the leak is not severe, it happens only when the engine runs and exhaust goes from the cylinder to the cooling system.. However, when a car is run only for short treks in very cold temperatures, stray water vapour as a combustion product is not readily evaporated by high heat and accumulates and can generate some foamy goo...and that would stop showing in the summer.
draining the oil pan might show traces of coolant
The car will require topping the coolant tank almost daily
Irregular heat flow from heater and erratic temp needle are telltale signs....
-"intestinal" noises (borborygmi) in the heater system
GOing for a head gasket replacement is something one wants not to think of and this is why when I suspect such, I want a sure proof and the compressed air test is really a go-nogo clue. IF compressed air into a cylinder generates bubbles at the radiator cap, you have no choice. ...just starting the engine with the fuel pump relay disconnected might be able to pump air through a leak and bring bubbles at radiator because of the compression cycle in cylinders...but I do not like the noise and strain on starter and battery and the result is less conspicuous...so I prefer to use externally compressed air. My late Dodge Omni was a regular user of that test....but the spark plugs were an easy reach...
Several would prefer to try everything else and many go to large expenses to avoid this operation and a few in the forums changed radiators, water pump, thermostat of course, installed a larger electric fan.....sometimes this procures some extra cooling margin but if the head gasket was failed, all of this ended up as waisted expenses added to the replacement cost...so I would go no farther than low cost "tests" like checking the radiator hoses for internal peeling ...rare but just to be sure .. even try a radiator flushing agent... and as I said, running the car WITHOUT a thermostat because a totally free flow might make coolant circulation to radiator easier to be seen.
My first choice would be the unambiguous compressed air testing: if it proves positive...you will have some of the work already done. Somewhere I had written a "procedure" for spark plugs replacement...will look for....
in previous post I wrote:
If the coolant spill invades the oil pan, the inside of oil cap
I'm talking of the oil filler cap....0
Ok i went and looked at the oil cap and there was a little bit of a milky whit substance there so i wiped it clean and i will look again after i drive the car to see of more appears.0
We did the test it is not the fuel pump, running out of ideas. Does any one have suggestions0
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We did the test it is not the fuel pump, running out of ideas. Does any one have suggestions
OK then for fuel supply. What about the other tests I suggested in my first reply:
WHen voltage runs low (for alternator problem) engine starts being erratic : injectors do not fire, spark is poor, ..and battery runs down. Use a voltmeter and test battery voltage with engine running (14.2-14.7)
There have been cases of blocked catalyser...disconnect exhaust and run a test with a lot of noise..(That's fun)...
ALso, I cannot dismiss the possibility of the timing belt having jumped a cog or 2, so I'd certainly verify that. You said it had been changed...when?
Is the Check ENgine Light ON? And if so, retreive codes and post them.
YOU said it lacks power...can you describe that with more details? DOes the engine start well?
IS it a manual or automatic? If an auto, do you start from standstill with the HOLD light ON? (this starts in 2nd gear., quite mushy.).0
Ok sorry for the delay in letting you know what i found out. I have yet to get a meter to test the amps. However, I ended up taking the car in and and apparently my clutch was gone in the fan i thought because it was moving it waws ok. But i am guessing it wasn't. But then i still had the over-heating problem so they kept the car for a few days then they finally had to have someone from kian come look at it. And they said that it was overheating due to the system needing burped. This was somethign i had never heard of but i guess once you change the thermostat you need to do this. And since the "burp" it has not over-heated. thansk for all your help. I hope i do not have to come back and bother you with anymore problems.
agregory Posts: 1i got a diagnostic test done that read . p1123 tra air lcfk age can anyone tell me what the fault is please0
We just changed the timing belt a couple of weeks ago at the same time we replaced everything else I mentioned. It did fix the problem of it having no power to go over 50 or 60 km per hour. It starts fine and idles fine, the issue is when you put it in gear it is really sluggish like it has no power until you get up to over 60km per hour. It is an automatic0
Ok so now i have anotgher problem :confuse: I drove to cleveland today which is aboutu 3 hours away and at about 90 miles into the trip the temp guage started to go up. So i turned on the heat it dropped back below half. then when i got off at my exit the guage shot all the way down below cold then started dancing around as i would accelerate and when i would come to a stop it would just drop again.. any ideas0
the trip the temp guage started to go up.
turned on the heat it dropped back below half.
then ..the guage shot all the way down below cold then started dancing around
when i would come to a stop it would just drop again.. any ideas
That was one of symptoms I already described as associated with exhaust invasion of cooling system due to a blown head gasket. THis is what "burps" the system.
I told you many ways to check specifically for this...I think this relieves you from more testing. Most obviously, you have a blown head gasket.0
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THis indicates computer tries to correct for mixture past its available range. THere is a problem with the fuel delivery system. DO you have other symptoms?0
"it is really sluggish like it has no power until you get up to over 60km per hour. It is an automatic "
Did you have this car for a long time? DO you compare the performance to this same car as you knew it before, or to other cars you are used to drive? Objectively, this engine has no torque at low rpm ...so what you say is not very different from its "normal" behaviour....that is why I want to know your base for comparison....
I had asked you to confirm you do not start with the HOLD light on...0
nellyhogan Posts: 1Our radiator had been leaking a little bit and We just found out yesterday from the dealership that it is a blown gasket and they want $1000 to $2000 for fixing it!! Can we use one of those stop leak products instead? My husband found some thing called Steel Seal on the internet which is supposed to be garanteed but it almost seems too good to be true.0
onejule Posts: 4Hello:
I think the catalytic converter in the front needs to be replaced. A mechanic in my church will do the work for free, only $200 for the part. Does anyone know, the repair shop told me theres a front catalytic converter and a rear one? Is that true? Six months ago the check engine light on and the codes showed a leak in the EVAP system. Thanks.0
ran3030 Posts: 1I've replaced the spark plugs, the wires, the coil packs, and we've sealed the top half of the engine again (oil was hitting the back spark plug) and I'm still having issues.
I don't know what the name of it is, but there's a wire in the back of the engine, a little left of the center, that when moved simulated the shaking and stalling I was going through. When we moved it, the shaking stopped. We zip tied it, and replaced it. Car ran fine for two days, and now it's doing the same thing again. I'm absolutely furious about this. My job is very strict about coming in on time, and me being without a car is going to cause me to lose my job. I need some help with this, and a friend of mine works on cars all the time cannot figure this out at all.
I'm stuck. Help if you can.0
re: radiator
I do not believe in miracles...and I always wonder how these "stopleak" agents know what to plug, and what not. ILve never used them and would not, but I know some did...and checked their problem for a while, while others ended up with a clogged radiator or heater core that they had to change on top of the head gasket.....if the instant return on probability of success is worth it, calculate your odds..but in the end, the head gasket will have to be done. I understand proper (or improper) timing can be a factor.
THIs car gasket change is not such a tedious job as access is not that bad and I think some trusted mechanic can do it for much less. $1500 is what it takes to do both heads on a GM 3.4 when half of the car has to be taken out or the engine subframe lowered down and out.....so same amount is out of proportion for a Sporty.0
re: I've replaced the spark plugs, the wires, the coil packs, and we've sealed the top half of the engine again
Details on year , model, engine type , color of wire . ANy code available?0


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Mother and Infant: On the Threshold of a Dream, taken near farm in Duluth, Minnesota, c.1907. Photograph in Helen Julia (Hogue) Judson's Family Album, 1903-1907. Privately held by Herstoryan, Houston, Texas. 2009 [inherited from Lois Jacqueline (Judson) Wells, through her father William Levis Judson son of Helen Julia (Hogue) Judson of Dayton, Ohio]
Unidentified mother and child from an old Judson family album. Using the captions from the surrounding photos this was taken near the M. E. Richards Cabins near Kinney, MN.
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Blogging milestones are good excuses to write a 'greatest hits' compilation. This blog reached two this month: its two-year anniversary and 25,000 page views. In case you missed any of these posts, here's a chance to go back and read the best and worst of Staying for Tea…and the winners are:
- Most Popular: Poverty Tourism: A Debate in Need of Typological Nuance
(also won Most Absurdly Long)
- Most Sought After: Corporate Social Responsibility in Four Easy Steps
(also won Most Enduringly Popular)
- Most Effective: Profits & Perverse Incentives: The New Face of Microfinance
(also an Author's Favorite Three)
- Most Underrated: A Moderate Elitist (also an Author's Favorite Three)
- Most Awesome Image: The Myth of the Plan (also an Author's Favorite Three)
- Most Fun to Read: The Culturally-Sensitive Butt: on language, food, humility, and humor. (also won Most Fun to Write)
- Most Hostile: Evaluating with Purpose – Part 1: The Evaluation Charade
(also won Least Followed Up)
- Most Academic: Participation Ladders 101
- Most Sucky (i.e. Biggest Bomb): A Civil Dissection of David Korten's Principles for a New Economy
- If You Read Just One Post: The First Principle of Community-Based International Development
Image: Page views from around the world
And now, the longer version:
Two years and 25,000 page views lager, I write this post both in both celebration and trepidation. I'm really quite happy to have managed to keep this thing alive for two years, despite having abandoned it not once, but twice, for six-month periods when work overwhelmed my desire to nurture it. It's been an exercise in learning, connecting, and brain dumping. I'm also genuinely honored that in this time people have navigated to one of these pages 25,000 times. Why the trepidation? Well, I run two risks in writing this 'best of' post.
First, I am a bit sheepish about my numbers. For bloggers, there are few metrics to gauge the value you add to the world by hunkering over your desk after working hours to bang out a post you think someone else might enjoy reading. (Yes, I realize some geniuses have figured out how to get paid to this full-time – I'm not one of these.) WordPress, however, does count and continually remind you of your page views and subscribers. If we're not careful, a blogger's perceived worth can track with these numbers the way a Wall Street trader's ego tracks to his end-of-year bonus. And much like traders compare the size of their bonus for bragging rights, bloggers like to know where they stand vis-a-vis their peers in terms of these numbers. So, despite an effort to not care, it with some apprehension that I announce in celebration that I've only just now surpassed 25,000 page views. This, after two years of blogging. (Raised eyebrows, muffled chuckles) On the other hand, I may be the least prolific blogger in my field, posting on average a little more than once a month. To have anyone still paying attention at all is gratifying enough for me.
Secondly, I risk ending up like the rock group Journey, with more Greatest Hits compilations than actual albums. This is only my 35 post, and five of those hardly even count as real posts, and yet I'm going to write my first 'best of' compilation. Hmm. But, I want to commemorate these milestones and thank my readers for engaging with these topics together with me. And so, after much ado, the winners are:
Poverty Tourism: A Debate in Need of Typological Nuance
Bloggers and journalists like to write about poverty tourism using a huge range of terms, tones, and intended meaning. Having a coherent debate is hard when you aren't really talking about the same thing. To keep us all from talking past each other, I created a taxonomy of terms used across various posts and articles – some openly disparaging like "poverty porn", others more benign like "community tours." The hope was to resource more linguistic clarity around the fault lines and confluence in the ever ongoing discussion of poverty tourism.
Awards: Most Popular, Most Absurdly Long
Most Popular: I liked this post because I learned a lot writing it. Honestly, I hadn't previously given too much thought to the topic and this was a great excuse to dig in and figure out what it was all about. I shared what I learned on my blog and it took off. The post has garnered about 1/10th of all page views since launching my blog. It also got nine 5-star ratings and generated 28 comments. Interestingly enough, the third and fourth most popular posts are also about voluntourism. Poverty Tourism Taxonomy 2.0 – the one with the awesome graphic (shown above) that went semi-viral – is #4 with just under 1000 views. It was also the most commented on post, with nearly 50 comments. The Future of Voluntourism (#3 with 1,100 views) was actually the first blog post I wrote after introducing myself and the new blog. Why in the world I chose to write about voluntourism first, given the stated purpose and theme of my blog, is beyond me. You know, the thing with my brother just sparked my thinking and I went with it and began exploring a topic I really knew nothing about. Next thing you know three of the four most read posts on my blog are about voluntourism and I'm getting known as a voluntourism blogger and winning awards for it and stuff. Crazy. Perhaps instructive for new bloggers out there – stay on topic…or not.
Most Absurdly Long: Breaking all blogging assumptions, my most popular post is also my longest. Supposedly, blog posts should be 500-700 words of punchy reading. This one topped 3,300 words, had six pictures, a graphic, and 30 hyperlinks! WTH?! Again, instructive for new bloggers out there – keep in short and punchy…or not.
Most Instructive?
Corporate Social Responsibility in Four Easy Steps
In 2009 I did some consulting work for Barrick Gold Corporation and World Vision Canada and wrote a case study that I presented at the Devonshire Initiative in Toronto. The study was published in two languages and helped the company win some CSR awards. This post outlined the simple framework for assessing CSR strategy that I used. Successful CSR strategies produce benefits to both society and to business and they do so in such a way that the relationship between society and business is improved.
Awards: Most Sought After, Most Enduringly Popular
Of the 45 most popular search terms that bring people from search engines to my site, more than a third of them (16) are some variant of 'four steps of CSR'! This may indicate that people search to come back to this one like some kind of resource. Crikey! I imagine some poor newly appointed CSR Director somewhere reading this hoping that CSR can really be done in four easy steps. As of right now, this post has been viewed 2,267 times – just seven views shy of winning Most Popular Post. It was the most popular post in the last month, the last quarter, and the last year (Home page notwithstanding). Even in the last 7 days, only my most recent post outperforms it! Next week it will overtake Poverty Tourism as all time most popular, which is really weird since, thematically speaking, it may also be the least likely post to have been written on this blog.
Profits & Perverse Incentives: The New Face of Microfinance
Microfinance has lost its first love and lost its way. A focus on investor incentives over borrower incentives led to six fundamental shifts in the practice of microfinance that changed its face and left it operating more like a for-profit bank and less like an innovative pro-poor movement. I posted a punchier version of this at the Huffington Post titled How Microfinance Lost its Soul. It did fairly well.
Awards: Most Effective, Author's Favorite (1 of 3)
I really had something to say. I wanted it to be read and to be effective. I think this post succeeded for several reasons. First, I'm actually a bit a subject expert from both an academic and experiential standpoint. Second, I'm passionate about what I see as a sad hijacking of an innovative pro-poor movement toward financial inclusion. Third, I kept it relatively short. The result was an effective piece that was reposted and shared widely. I'm proud of it.
A Moderate Elitist
I think a case for competence can and should be made, but I don't see the value in embracing elitism. Every aid professional started somewhere and I bet most of us made mistakes that would make us cringe today. But, what if, instead of being mentored into professionals and allowed to learn from our mistakes, some aid elitist had bashed us upside the head and told us we should take our good intentions elsewhere and leave development and aid to the pros? What we should be doing is encouraging competence with a healthy measure of grace and humility.
Awards: Most Underrated, Author's Favorite (1 of 3)
And by underrated, I mean under-read. I think it is one my best posts and yet it's only been viewed 370 times. WTH? If you haven't read it yet, now's your chance to right this wrong.
The Myth of the Plan
98% of the relevant information we need to write a good plan is unknown at the time we write it. We more or less know where we want to go, but the map we draw to get there is based on heroic assumptions about the terrain ahead well beyond our vision. We fall into the myth of the plan twice, once when we write the myth, and again when we try to manage to the myth. When we plan, we omit a reasonable cushion, making it unrealistic. When we manage, we apply an unreasonable rigidity, making it mythological.
Awards: Most Awesome Image, Author's Favorite (1 of 3)
My goodness that is an awesome illustration! I don't remember exactly how I made it now, but it captures the essence of the post so well. I also like that I peppered words like 'heroic' and 'mythological' throughout the post. I'm also still pretty pumped about the content of this post – I still stand by it. In fact, hardly a month goes by where my views aren't reconfirmed and deepened on this one. The only thing I'd change is the ending – I think I'd like to rewrite the 'How Then Shall We Plan' part and be a bit more detailed and prescriptive about how to fix the sad state of development planning. Still, I'm proud of this post and happy that it was well received and well read. (#6 most popular post)
The Culturally-Sensitive Butt: on language, food, humility, and humor.
It's important to make an effort to embrace that which is local, be it food or language, if only to remind ourselves that we are the guest, that our language and food and culture are just ones among thousands of similar inherent value. Of course, doing this takes a healthy dose of humility, self-depricating humor, and an iron stomach. But such efforts are generally well received and appreciated – they may even help pave the way for more effective community work.
Awards: Most Fun to Read, Most Fun to Write
This post was an instant hit, not least because it contained a couple of jokes and funny anecdotes. A student in Oregon actually wrote a blog post called 'Why's this so good?' about this blog post on their journalism program's site. She writes 'Why this blog post is great…is because it's self-deprecating. The best person to make fun of is yourself. While humbling himself, he makes genuine statements about the world and appreciates those around him. He writes for humor, but he writes to be real.' That was sweet.
Evaluating with Purpose – Part 1: The Evaluation Charade
For someone whose job description is built around doing evaluation work, I can be remarkably hostile toward project evaluations. They tend to be expensive, distracting, and mostly useless. They can be surprisingly costly, often requiring projects to set aside 5-10% of the project funds that could otherwise have been budgeted to activities that further project objectives. They eat up a lot of staff time, not so much during the evaluation itself, but in the set up for it – designing indicators, measuring baselines, managing monitoring activities, etc. But most critically, very few ever accomplish the stated purpose of the evaluation – to provide rigorous evidence about whether the project was any good or not.
Awards: Most Hostile, Least Follow-up
I really really like this post. There's truth in it, but it is a bit hostile. For example: "The truth is that most project evaluations fail to provide either learning or accountability." "There may be some perfunctory discussion and finger wagging around negative findings, but this is largely just a charade – everyone pretends the evaluation mattered a great deal when in fact it mattered not at all." And then it just gets nasty. Nevertheless, I still stand by this post and wish I could force every manager in my organization to read it. Unfortunately, I never followed up on writing the rest of the series that this was supposed to be a part of. So, it ends up being a long gripe session without any hint at what to do besides the last sentence: 'Stop the charade'.
I've had a few posts like this that didn't get followed up on. I didn't come back and show some of the Badly Presented Data examples I got following said post. I didn't continue publishing the best posts in Spanish as promised here. (I can partially blame my wife on that one who had promised to help with the translation and took up tennis instead.) Maybe this will be a year three resolution, to follow up on these, especially the evaluation series. I think its important to talk about what makes a good impact evaluation and what makes a good evaluation strategy, not just gripe about what a charade the current state of much development program evaluation seems to be.
Participation Ladders 101
There are a number of single dimension participation ladders that development facilitators should be aware of, if only for academic purposes. If you're already familiar with participation ladders, you might want to skip this post – I'm not going to provide much commentary or opinion here – this is more of an academic introduction to these conceptual tools for those that might be newer to the field of international development.
Award: Most Academic
Yeah, more like most boring. Man what a sleeper! I even get bored reading this one. Nevertheless, I intended it to be a good resource for those who haven't been exposed to the conceptual tool of a participation ladder before. As I mention in the post, I actually prefer the multidimensional table of Robert Chambers. But I guess its good to have a historical perspective on the development of the ladders before you dive into the table. I guess. At any rate, it's the seventh most popular post I've written, so it seems to be a useful summation and that's why I wrote it.
A Civil Dissection of David Korten's Principles for a New Economy
Award: Most Sucky
So, David Korten releases a new book, 'Agenda for a New Economy' and writes a blog post about it laying out ten 'common sense principles to frame the New Economy'. And for some reason, I decide I'm going to trash on them like an arrogant thesis advisor. I don't know what got into me. I just harangue on the guy in an overly academic and pedantic tone. I say things like 'I mostly agree with this, but I think the efficiency framework is inaccurate.' and 'Disagree. Rather than increasing the money supply (adopting an expansionary monetary policy), a more appropriate tool would be an expansionary fiscal policy.' and 'You unfortunately contradict yourself here.' What a prig! Naturally, and luckily, nobody read it. (At 120 page views, it is the least viewed 'real' blog post.) No need to start now.
The First Principle of Community-Based International Development
Award: If you Read Just One Post
Read this one. This is the first of a six-part series of posts that republished the article Staying for Tea that is the conceptual foundation of this blog. In the past two years the blog has wandered around an unlikely set of topics ranging from microfinance to voluntourism, evaluation, and cultural sensitivity. I don't know if I'll get any more focused in the year to come – I'm planning on writing about global citizenship in the coming months – but I do know where the heart of what I wanted to write about is, and it began with this post.
"Value people over projects, and effectiveness over good intentions. Hold in tension a humanitarian ethic of service and a professional ethic of competence. Good international development is competent service guided by good principles and done through good practice."
Some other interesting blog stats:
Most clicked hyperlinks: The Krista Foundation, Good Intentions Are Not Enough, Amazon, the late Aid Watchers, New York Times, the late Tales From The Hood, and How Matters.
Biggest Referrers: Search Engines, LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter, Huffington Post, goodintents.org, talesfromethehood.com, aviewfromthecave.com, Google, and how-matters.org
Busiest Day: August 18, 2010, right after posting Poverty Tourism: A Debate in Need of Typological Nuance. 242 page views
UPDATE July 2, 2012: Three days after posting this, I published Deflating the SOCCKET Ball. The next day I got 533 page views. Four days after that I published Aid Blogging: A Cautionary Tale in Charts. The next day I got 670 page views. A few days later, 1,256. How quickly things can change.


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Amount of donation or nature and value if donation in kind: Two tickets and associated hospitality for Glyndebourne at an approximate value of £1,533.32
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