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This year I have made 'feedback' an important aspect of my teaching. As I am now well into my second year as a full-time teacher I feel that many areas of my practice are 'solid' but I am no where near the standard of teacher I believe I can be or want to be. With this in mind I have read many blogs and tried a few ways of giving feedback. Some good, some not so good. As such, I am still searching for a formula that works for me and the learners in my care.
Too often I have watched and delivered lessons that severely lack in quality feedback and quality dialogue with pupils. This isn't because I am or I have watched bad teachers but because I believe we focus too much on skill development, content and delivery that we forget all about the learners. How often have you had an observed lesson and asked 'how was that?', 'what did you think about the conditioned game?' instead of asking 'do you think there was learning taking place?'. Too often also I have tried to consider what feedback I have given to learners and when observing lessons listening to the feedback that is being given. I have far too often found myself saying 'well done, thats good', 'thats really good', 'that was great' and 'well done' and this offers nothing to the learners. I mean by saying 'thats good' what are we implying to the learner, that they are already good and don't need to improve. We already know that from Dweck's research this will promote a fixed mindset and is not the path we want to go down as effective practitioners. To continue on just saying 'thats really good' the learner wouldn't know what exactly was good making the feedback very non-specific. It is important to consider that learners need to know how they are doing, where they are going and how they are going to get there.
I like to think of feedback as the 'language of learning' which I will discuss in detail later in the post. I believe that feedback, as mentioned previously, should form the dialogue that allows learners to know where they are, know where they are going and know how to get there. To put this simply I often as learners three simple questions;
What are your strengths
What are your next steps
How do you know
These questions puts the learner in control of their learning and places a huge emphasis on ensuring that I, as their teacher, provide them with simple, clear and precise feedback so that they can answer these questions.
This session I am responsible for an NQT and this has allowed me to focus on their development alongside my own. They are also a strong practitioner but there are clear areas to develop within their learning and teaching, namely feedback and providing clear and accurate points that relate to the tasks given. I call this the 'language of learning'. It is important that throughout each learning episode that the learning intentions, success criteria and feedback are all explicitly linked. For example, if I am teaching Badminton and the learning intention is 'I can send my opponent to the back of the court using an overhead shot' I am not going to provide pupils with feedback relating to their net shots (having said that I am not going to dismiss net shots I am going to encourage pupils to perform a variety of shots). I am looking for my NQT, and importantly myself, to provide pupils with meaningful feedback by using a distinct language of learning. Learners should leave each lesson with clear next steps (of course in the real world it is not often possible) and know why this is their next step. From this I am looking to develop good 'feedback dialogue' with my learners. What does this look like…
If I am teaching within the learning intention outlined above then my dialogue with pupils will be focussed on;
Selection of using overhead shots
Are the opponents being shifted to the back court as a result
What happens in the game as a result of this
By the end of the learning episode most, if not all, learners would have feedback relating to their technique when using an overhead shot, are they contacting it overhead, how hard they are hitting the shuttle and does it move their opponent to the back of the court. Importantly I would also ask learners how this would relate to the game by asking 'why', why should you move your opponent to the back of the court, why is this important within the game and what benefit would it bring to the learner. This would hopefully provide the learner with clear next steps and can form the basis of the next dialogue with the same learner.
The key elements of providing high quality feedback is in the dialogue with the learner. They need to know whats going well, what are their next steps and importantly how do they know. This will continue to be an aim of mine and I will look to evaluate the quality of my feedback through observations from colleagues. I believe that high quality feedback results in high quality learning.
I'll finish this post with a message from Dylan Wiliam (2011):
"If I had to reduce all of the research on feedback into one simple overarching idea, at least for academic subjects in school, it would be this: feedback should cause thinking"


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Jeff Tedford spent 11 seasons at Cal from 2002-12 and became the winningest coach in school history during his tenure before being relieved of his coaching duties on November 20, 2012.
Tedford offered the following statement after he was relived of his duties.
"I want to thank the University of California for the opportunity to be a part of this great university and community. I am so grateful to all of the coaches, players and support staff for playing such a vital role in making Cal Football relevant while enjoying winning seasons nine of 11 years. All involved can feel a great sense of pride with their sacrifice, contributions and commitment that have made it possible to have the winningest tenure in Cal Football history. We all can be very proud of helping to build a renovated Memorial Stadium that will have a positive impact on many athletes, fans and staff members for years to come. I will never forget the most gratifying part of these last 11 years, and that has been the relationships with the players I have had the special opportunity to watch grow academically, physically, socially and spiritually. To watch this process and be a part of their growth and development has been a blessing. The Tedford family is blessed to have built so many great relationships and create memories that will last a lifetime. I am most proud that through the sacrifices we have made over the last 11 years, my wife and two sons are the foundation and joy of my life. We wish the university much success - Go Bears!"
In his 11 seasons at the helm, Tedford established the Golden Bears as one of the elite football programs in the Pac-12 and lifted the team into the national discussion on a consistent basis. He led the Bears to tied for the third-most victories by a Pac-10 team over his first decade, final rankings among the nation's top 25 four times and spots among the top 10 at some point of five seasons.
Cal posted a school-record run of seven straight bowl appearances from 2003-09 and played in a bowl game eight times in his last 10 campaigns. The Bears were 5-3 in the postseason under Tedford, including a school-record string of four consecutive bowl wins from 2005-08, making him the only Cal mentor with more than two postseason victories. Cal also won enough games to be bowl eligible with a seven-victory season in his first campaign in 2002 but were ineligible for a bowl. In addition, the Bears put together a school-record-tying eight consecutive winning campaigns from 2002-09 and added a ninth in 10 seasons in 2011. Cal twice posted a school-record-tying 10 wins under Tedford, the sixth and seventh times in school history, in 2004 and 2006. Tedford posted a career record of 82-57 (.590) in a school-record 139 games at Cal, having set the school's win mark when he recorded the 75th victory of his career vs. Presbyterian at AT&T Park on Sept. 17, 2011. He is also the school's all-time leader for victories in road wins (26) and conference victories (50). To top it off, he was 7-4 in the Big Game, equaling Pappy Waldorf's school record of seven wins against Stanford.
In the 10 NFL Drafts that took place following Tedford's first game as Cal's head coach, the Bears had 40 players selected. Cal's 32 former players on NFL rosters as of Nov. 20, 2012, ranked second among Pac-12 schools. The 25 former players that Cal had on active 53-player NFL rosters (does not include players on the injured reserve and physically unable to perform lists) at the start of 2012 is ninth among all schools in the country.
All of this at the head of a program that won just one game in 2001, the year prior to his arrival, rates the Cal football renaissance during the Tedford era as one of the most impressive turnarounds in college football history.
Tedford also earned a reputation as a strong recruiter, with his last three classes in 2010, '11 and '12 being ranked as high as No. 11, No. 13 and No. 15 nationally. Prior to the 2011 campaign, Sporting News bestowed the honor of the Pac-12's best recruiter on him.
But Tedford's teams not only got it done on the field, they got it done in the classroom. His players were recognized as conference All-Academic honorees 103 times in his first 10 seasons (2012 still to be announced). Of the 202 seniors who played for Tedford in his first 10 campaigns, 178 (88%) earned their college degrees and/or went on to NFL careers.
Tedford's success with the Cal program resulted in local devotion and national attention. Cal averaged more than 57,000 fans per contest for seven consecutive seasons from 2004-10 before moving to the 45,000-seat AT&T Park in 2011 while Memorial Stadium underwent an extensive renovation and retrofit prior to reopening for the team's 2012 home contests. The seven-year stretch included a string of 43 consecutive games in front of at least 50,000 fans at Memorial Stadium (Sept. 11, 2004 - Nov. 20, 2010). In 2006, the Bears set school records for average fans per home game (64,318) and overall spectators (450,223). The following year in 2007 Cal established a school record with 41,366 season-ticket holders. The team's seven games in 2012 in the renovated Memorial Stadium drew 391,130 fans for an average of 55,876 per game, including a sellout crowd of 63,186 for the season opener against Nevada.
Nationally, Cal had multiple Heisman Trophy candidates under Tedford's tutelage, with J.J. Arrington (2004), Marshawn Lynch (2006), DeSean Jackson (2007) and Jahvid Best (2009) among top candidates for the prestigious honor at some point in the season, and Arrington finishing eighth in the final voting. Keenan Allen was on several lists of preseason Heisman Trophy candidates prior to the 2012 campaign.
Other national recognition has come the Bears way in recent years. Alex Mack was the winner of the 2008 Draddy Award (often referred to as the Academic Heisman), while Mike Mohamed was one of 16 players across the country in the National Football Foundation's Scholar-Athlete Class of 2010 and a finalist for the prestigious honor won by Mack now known as the William V. Campbell Trophy. Giorgio Tavecchio was a semifinalist for the same honor in 2011. In 2006, the Bears had a pair of players collect national awards. Jackson was the recipient of the inaugural Randy Moss Award as the top returner in the country, while Daymeion Hughes earned The Lott IMPACT Trophy, given to the nation's top defensive player to equally recognize his athletic performance and personal character.
Tedford developed a relentless drive as a young football player at Warren High School in the Southern California city of Downey. After a solid prep career, the undersized quarterback went on to a standout two-year stint at Cerritos College (1979-80) before a record-setting two-year stay at Fresno State (1981-82). During his days as a Bulldog, he established several school passing records, including career marks for passing yardage (4,872) and touchdown passes (35), while earning honorable mention All-America notice in 1982 when he set single-season Fresno State standards for passing yardage (2,993) and TD passes (24).
After receiving a bachelor's degree in physical education from Fresno State in 1983, Tedford played professionally in the Canadian Football League for six seasons with Hamilton, Calgary, Saskatchewan and Winnipeg. He appeared in the league's championship game (Grey Cup) with Hamilton in 1984.
Tedford has used his own signal-calling experience to build a reputation as a quarterback guru. During more than 20 seasons of collegiate coaching career at Cal (2002-12), Oregon (1998-2001) and Fresno State (1992-97), Tedford has been integral in the development of six quarterbacks that became first-round picks in the NFL Draft - Kyle Boller, David Carr, Trent Dilfer, Joey Harrington, Aaron Rodgers and Akili Smith.
Rodgers, an under-the-radar junior college transfer like Tedford, ranked No. 8 nationally in pass efficiency in 2004 when he completed 66.1 percent of his passes for 2,566 yards and 24 touchdowns with only eight interceptions for the Bears. He put up similar numbers the previous season when he completed 61.6 percent of his passes for 2,903 yards and 19 touchdowns with only five interceptions. After being drafted by the Green Bay Packers in the first round of the 2005 NFL Draft, Rodgers has become one of the top quarterbacks in the NFL and followed his first Pro Bowl selection in 2009 by earning Super Bowl XLV MVP honors the following season after leading the Packers to a victory over the Pittsburgh Steelers. In 2011, he was named the NFL's MVP and earned his first All-Pro honor from the Associated Press.
"As far as a gameday coach, he was incredibly demanding in a way that pushes you to strive for perfection," Rodgers said of Tedford. "I think we're both perfectionists, we like things to look a certain way, we're both fierce competitors. I loved how he got our offense into a rhythm with his play-calling and I loved his energy. That second year there was a fun year ... he and I still have a special friendship and bond."
Dilfer was selected sixth overall by the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in the 1994 NFL Draft and played for five teams over 14 NFL seasons in a career that was highlighted by leading the Baltimore Ravens to a win in Super Bowl XXXV following the 2000 campaign.
"I believe Jeff's one of the finest minds in all of football," said Dilfer, who currently serves as a football analyst for ESPN after a 14-year NFL playing career from 1994-2007. "He's certainly the finest coach I've ever been around. He's a great leader and great teacher. He has very high expectations for himself and the people around him. And he will work tirelessly to meet those expectations. Jeff taught me more about toughness and the game of football than any coach I've ever played for, and I've had some awfully good coaches."
In addition to his success with quarterbacks, Tedford's teams at Cal featured balanced attacks and become notorious for their ferocity on the ground. In nine of his 11 seasons at Cal, Tedford had at least one running back post a 1,000-yard rushing season, including a string of seven consecutive years with a 1,000-yard rusher from 2002-08 and then again in 2010 and 2011. In 2004, Arrington broke Chuck Muncie's single-season school record with 2,018 yards, which led the country (168.2 ypg) as Arrington rushed for at least 100 yards in each of his 12 contests. In 2007, Justin Forsett's 1,546 rushing yards were briefly the second-best in Cal history, but Best's four-game flourish (814 yards) at the end of 2008 gave him 1,580 for the year to move past Forsett. Lynch had back-to-back 1,000-yard seasons in 2005 and 2006, while Adimchinobe Echemandu (1,195 yards in 2003), Isi Sofele (1,322 yards in 2011), Shane Vereen (1,167 yards in 2010), and Joe Igber (1,075 yards in 2002) also reached the mark under Tedford. In addition to the 1,000-yard rushers, Cal has also been known for having two strong running backs every year with with the top two backs combining for 1,500 or more yards each of Tedford's last 10 seasons.
While offense was Tedford's forte, Cal's defense toughened considerably during his reign as well, allowing an average of just 22.7 points per game during his first 10 seasons, second-best in the Pac-10/12 over that period. His 2004 team ranked eighth nationally in scoring defense, allowing just 16.0 points per game. In 2005, the Bears led the Pac-10 in scoring defense, giving up only 21.2 points per contest. In 2008, Cal led the Pac-10 in the two key categories of red zone defense (68.2%) and takeaways (34). The Bears were second in the conference in rush defense (112.0 ypg) in 2009. Cal then had a stellar season on defense in 2010 in their first year under former Super Bowl coordinator Clancy Pendergast, leading the league and ranking among the top 25 nationally in sacks (2.83 spg, No. 13 NCAA), total defense (319.08 ypg, No. 18 NCAA) and pass defense (187.0 ypg, No. 21 NCAA). In 2011, Cal again led the Pac-12 in total defense (332.92 ypg) and pass defense (204.23 ypg), ranking 25th and 37th nationally. Cal also continued to make big plays on defense in 2011 as the Pac-12's top team in tackles for loss (7.69 tflpg, No. 7 NCAA) while ranking third in the conference in sacks (2.62 spg, No. 19 NCAA). In addition, the Bears led the Pac-12 in opponents' first downs, allowing only 17.4 per game.
Prior to his arrival in Berkeley, Tedford was the offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach at Oregon, serving in that role for four seasons, including the 2001 campaign when the Ducks finished with a No. 2 national ranking.
Tedford played an integral role in the rise of the Oregon program during his tenure in Eugene - a period in which the Ducks posted the Pac-10's best record (38-10) while finishing progressively better each year (8-4 in 1998, 9-3 in 1999, 10-2 in 2000 and 11-1 in 2001). During his first season as offensive coordinator in 1998, Oregon set school records in passing yards, total offense and points scored. Tedford's passing acumen was clearly evident in the rapid development of Smith, who earned Pac-10 Offensive Player of the Year accolades as he finished second in the nation in pass efficiency and was later chosen third overall in the 1999 NFL Draft by Cincinnati.
Duck quarterbacks A.J. Feeley and Harrington combined to pass for 3,131 yards and 24 TDs on the Sun Bowl champion team that ranked 13th nationally in scoring in 1999, while the 2000 club tied for the Pac-10 crown and defeated Texas in the Holiday Bowl. Tedford's last Oregon squad in 2001 showcased one of the nation's premier quarterbacks in Harrington, who won Pac-10 Offensive Player of the Year honors and finished fourth in the Heisman Trophy balloting.
In 1992 as the quarterbacks coach at Fresno State, Tedford began honing the skills of Dilfer. Under Tedford's guidance, the Bulldogs' quarterback earned first-team All-WAC honors for an offense that led the nation in scoring (44.2 ppg), ranked second in total offense (541.9 ypg) and beat USC in the Freedom Bowl. A season later, Tedford became the Bulldogs' offensive coordinator, and Fresno State ranked third nationally in scoring and total offense while earning an Aloha Bowl invitation. Dilfer ranked first nationally in passing efficiency (173.1 rating) and won the WAC Offensive Player of the Year award. He was later chosen by Tampa Bay with the sixth overall selection of the 1994 NFL Draft.
Tedford's coaching career began with two seasons as volunteer assistant at Fresno State (1987-88) before he joined Calgary of the CFL for three seasons (1989-91), including the 1991 team that advanced to the Grey Cup title game.
Despite his success as a coach and mentor, Tedford still followed a basic philosophy.
"We tried to focus on one game at a time and reach our full potential," he said emphatically.
And he still valued each and every member of his football team.
"Whether it is the guys who are suited up, the guys who are going to play 50-60 plays or the guys who aren't going to play at all, I want them all to understand that they are very important to the success of the program," he said. "Their contributions are invaluable."
Tedford's hard work and dedication not only inspired his players, it has also made him a role model to the young men in the Cal program.
"Coach Tedford wasn't just a coach, I think of him as more like a father figure," said Desmond Bishop, an All-Pac-10 linebacker and key member of the Green Bay Packers' Super Bowl XLV winning squad. "He taught us lessons about life. He taught us to have integrity, to have character. He prepared us to be men."
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Led the Golden Bears to a school-record seven consecutive bowl games (2003-09) and another in 2011, with the Bears posting enough victories to be bowl eligible in nine of his 11 years.
Led Cal to a school-record-tying eight straight winning seasons (2002-09) and again in 2011.
Was 5-3 in bowl games and the only Cal coach with more than two bowl victories.
Was 7-4 in the Big Game after inheriting a seven-game losing streak in the series, equaling Pappy Waldorf's school record for victories over Stanford.
Had 14 wins over ranked teams in his first 10 seasons, compared to Cal's seven in the 10 campaigns prior to his arrival.
Had Cal among the nation's final top 25 four times, in the top 25 at some point on seven occasions and reaching the top 10 five times.
Had his players honored 103 times on the Pac-10/12 All-Academic football teams in his first 10 seasons (2012 yet to be announced).
88 percent of his seniors (178 of 202 student-athletes) in his first 10 seasons earned their college degrees and/or went on to NFL careers.
Twice named Pac-10 Coach of the Year in 2002 and '04.
Set single-season school marks in 1982 for passing yards (2,993) and TD passes (24).
Accumulated a 54 percent completion rate in six seasons in the CFL.
Enjoyed a six-win increase from the previous season, tying for the biggest one-year turnaround in the nation and the second-largest about-face in school history (the 1947 club went 9-1 after a 2-7 season in 1946).
Led the Bears to victories over three nationally ranked teams (Michigan State, Washington and Arizona State) in the same season for the first time in 52 years.
Scored three road wins over nationally ranked opponents in the same season for the first time in school history.
Halted a 12-year victory drought in Sun Devil Stadium, mowing down Arizona State, 55-38.
Set a modern-day school record by scoring 427 points (broken in 2003) with a 35.6 points per game scoring average that tied for 10th-best in the nation.
Defeated Washington to snap a 19-game losing streak to the Huskies.
Capped the season by registering Cal's first Big Game win over Stanford in eight years, a 30-7 throttling of the Cardinal.
Set single-season school marks for total offense (6,061) and first downs (321), as well as a modern-era record for scoring (457).
Led the Pac-10 in rushing for the first time in 45 seasons with 2,356 yards and a 168.3 yard per game average.
Posted first bowl win at Cal in 10 years, defeating Virginia Tech by a score of 52-49 in the Insight Bowl.
Set single-game school bowl records for most points (52), total yards (530), passing yards (394), completion percentage (77.1, later broken), TDs (7) and rushing TDs (5, later tied).
Beat a team ranked as high as No. 3 nationally for the first time in 52 years with a 34-31 victory in three overtimes over No. 3 USC at Memorial Stadium.
Defeated Washington in Berkeley for the first time in 28 years, with the 54-7 win the widest margin of victory by a Cal team in a conference game in 81 years, setting Cal's single-game record for total offense with 729 yards in the contest.
Reached Cal's highest national ranking (No. 4) in 52 years.
Posted school's best regular-season record (10-1) since 1950 club was 9-0-1 in the regular season.
First perfect home record (5-0) in 55 years since the 1949 team was 6-0 at Memorial Stadium.
Most road wins (5) in school history.
Earned first back-to-back bowl trips since 1990 and '91 seasons.
Set single-season school record for total offense (492.4 ypg), ranking No. 1 in the Pac-10.
Broke single-season school mark for yards per play (7.0), almost one yard better than old standard of 6.1 in 2003.
Led Pac-10 in rushing (256.8 ypg) for second straight year, which were the first two times since 1958.
Allowed fewest points per game by a Cal defense since 1968, ranking eighth nationally at 16.0 ppg.
Recorded first back-to-back defensive shutouts in 36 years (38-0 at Arizona, 27-0 vs. Arizona State).
Finished the season ranked ninth nationally with 235.3 rushing yards per game to mark the Bears' second straight season as one of the nation's top-10 rushing teams (sixth in 2004).
Won fourth straight Big Game for the first time since the 1936-39 campaigns and again at Stanford, marking Cal's first two straight road victories in the series since winning six straight on The Farm from 1937-51.
Recorded a fourth straight season with at least eight victories.
Named a finalist for the Liberty Mutual Coach of the Year Award, which honors the coach who best exemplifies responsibility and excellence on and off the field of play.
Led Cal to its fifth straight Big Game win for the first time since the club won five in a row from 1919-23.
Led Bears to a perfect home record (7-0) for the second time in three years.
Beat Washington for the fifth straight time after having previously dropped 19 straight in the series.
Six players selected in the 2008 NFL Draft - a school-record for the seven-round version of the draft.
Tailback Justin Forsett rushed for 1,546 yards - the third-most in school history.
Opened the year with a thrilling 45-31 victory over No. 15 Tennessee on national television.
Also defeated No. 11 Oregon on the road with the ESPN Gameday crew in attendance.
Directed Bears to a No. 2 national ranking - their highest since 1951.
All 13 of Cal's games were televised - the first time in program history that every contest was telecast.
Posted a winning record for the seventh straight campaign.
Posted a 7-0 home record to mark the third time in five seasons Cal had been unbeaten at home.
Finished No. 25 in coaches' poll to mark fourth top-25 finish in five years.
Tailback Jahvid Best rushed for 1,580 yards - the second most in school history - to extend the school record of consecutive years with a 1,000-yard rusher to seven.
Produced Draddy Trophy (now known as the William V. Campbell Trophy) winner Alex Mack.
Equaled Cal's modern-era record for victories (67) and the school's record for Big Game wins (7) with a victory at Stanford on Nov. 21 in his 100th game as head coach.
Became one of only three Cal football coaches to reach the 100-game mark.
Led Bears to back-to-back wins in consecutive weeks over nationally-ranked teams for the first time since 1950, beating Arizona at home and winning at Stanford.
Featured a defense that led the Pac-10 and ranked in the top 25 nationally in sacks (2.83 spg, No. 13), total defense (319.08 ypg, No. 18) and pass defense (187.00 ypg, No. 21), recorded five first-half shutouts, held its opponents to 10 or more total points on four occasions - highest total since the "Bear Minimum" defense limited seven opponents to 10 or fewer points in 1968 - and held opponents below 200 yards of offense three times.
Scored 50 or more points on three occasions (UC Davis, Colorado, Arizona State).
Led Cal to victories in each of its first four home games at Memorial Stadium and played the final game at the venue until 2012 when the stadium reopens following an extensive renovation and retrofit.
Opened the season with three consecutive victories, including a hard-fought 36-33 overtime win at Colorado.
Featured Pac-12 Defensive Player of the Year Mychal Kendricks and fellow first-team all-conference selections Keenan Allen, Bryan Anger and Mitchell Schwartz.
Led the Pac-12 in total defense (332.92 ypg), pass defense (204.23), tackles for loss (7.69 tflpg) and opponents' first downs (17.4 fdpg).
Finished the regular season with a 4-1 record in their temporary home venue of AT&T Park.
Defeated Utah and Colorado (non-conference game) in their first season as members of the Pac-12.


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Australia is ruled by the SIF. The Special Investigation Force controls everything. Water, food, fuel . . . women's bodies.
18-year-old Ora's decision to move in with her aunt is a bad one. She's landed herself in the middle of nowhere with a deluded activist who wants to change the world, one illegal birth at a time. Sooner or later someone is going to die and Ora doesn't know where to turn.
The beach is her only sanctuary and it's here that she meets Jake, thoughtful and experienced, who encourages her to live a little. So why is it that as soon as she starts to have a some fun, everything goes dangerously wrong?
A gripping coming-of-age adventure that will leave you on the edge on the edge of your seat.
*I was kindly sent a copy of 'Ora's Gold' by Charlotte Young in exchange for an honest review*
This debut novel caught my eye the minute another Melbourne book lover mentioned it. Not only is the cover absolutely stunning, Ora's Gold is also set in a place close to home. Taking place in a gorgeous small town in Adelaide, South Australia, we follow Ora – an eighteen year-old dealing with problems just like you and I.
Ora lives in a world so similar to ours. Set a few generations into the future, her world has limitations on petrol, water, and food. The SIF, who have over time found more and more ways to gain power, control everything, down to the very last drop.
Imagine not being able to have a good 5-minute shower? Or not having enough water to use a dishwasher?
Not only do the SIF control water and food, they control women. Every month women are require to donate their menstrual blood. If they fail to do so, they are questioned.
Birth and pregnancy in a world run by the SIF are out of this world . . . and not in the good sense.
Not only was this book a fast read, it held serious depth. I've been one to watch midwifery shows and medical emergencies, and this beautiful novel definitely appealed to that little part of me. This book was so much more than a dystopian novel with no hint of light, Ora's Gold was/is a story of love and family and forgiveness.
I gave this novel 4.5 stars out of 5
i. Romance
ii. Rural settings
iii. Well thought out plot
iv. Brillant, relatable themes
v. THIS BOOK HAD SEX! REAL SEX. And there wasn't any 'everything went so beautiful and their legs intertwined and fireworks burst out of the unicorn in the sunset'
It was REAL sex (not that real sex doesn't have unicorns) it had nerves and second guesses and small laughs and condoms.
i. The ending felt rushed! I wanted to know what happened after it all (no spoilers) I can definitely see/understand why it ended but
This novel was beautifully written and tackled real-life subjects brilliantly. And I would definitely read it again,
maybe so after the 276 pages i can magically find a epilogue or a 'year later' chapter.
Thank you for pulling me out of my reading slump ❤
~Find Ora's Gold here~
~Mark it as 'to read' here~


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As women age, many lose interest in making love and feel insecure, even though their blood levels of the male hormones testosterone and DHEAS are normal or low. A study from Australia in the medical journal Menopause shows that Androgel, a gel containing the male hormone, testosterone, improves well-being, mood, and sexual function in premenopausal women with low libido and low testosterone.
The bodies of all heathy women produce more of the male hormone, testosterone, than the female hormone, estrogen. Just like men, with aging women have a significant lowering of their blood testosterone levels, and this lowering of testosterone can cause depression and loss of muscle strength and sexual desire. Healthy women in their 40's have approximately half the testosterone level as women in their 20's.
A group of reproductive endocrinologists classified the symptoms of depression and loss of libido and muscle strength into one syndrome which they called Female Androgen Insufficiency Syndrome. This syndrome is most common at the menopause and in women who have had their ovaries removed, but it can occur any time in a woman's life. The commonly-prescribed treatment of estrogen replacement to postmenopausal women and those who have had their ovaries removed often causes and worsens this syndrome.
The brain produces a hormone called FSH that causes the ovaries to produce the female hormone, estrogen. Estrogen circulates in the blood and goes to the brain, where it stops the brain from producing FSH. Without FSH, the ovaries stop making the male hormone, testosterone. Many studies show that giving estrogen to menopausal women may reduce their sex drive by lowering blood levels of testosterone. A woman's sexual desire is driven by her body's production of testosterone, not estrogen. Women who have had their ovaries removed suffer from the same symptoms because the ovaries produce most of the male hormones in a woman's body. So women who suffer from Androgen Deficiency Syndrome caused by taking estrogen at menopause or by having had their ovaries removed surgically can feel much better when they take a combination of the two hormones produced by normal ovaries: estrogen and testosterone.
The adrenal glands, located near the kidneys, also produce a male hormones, called DHEAS. Women who have underactive adrenal glands have low blood levels of that hormone, and also suffer from Female Androgen Deficiency Syndrome. Their symptoms can be controlled by taking DHEA supplements.
If you are a woman who has even one of the following symptoms, ask your doctor to test you for lack of male hormones: depression, lack of motivation, loss of energy, lack of interest in making love, lack of joy in making love, muscle weakness, osteoporosis or weak bones, or vaginal pain during intercourse. Ask your doctor to draw blood tests for testosterone, the male hormone produced by the ovaries, and DHEAS, the male hormone produced by the adrenal glands. Even if your blood levels of the male hormones are normal, you could still try the testosterone cream, Androgel. Too much of the cream can cause masculinizing symptoms, but as long as you do not exceed 2.5 grams of Androgel each week, you are at low risk for growing hair on your face and body.
CAUTION: The long-term effects on women of taking male hormones (androgens) has not been adequately studied. If your doctor prescribes male hormones, you should not take them longer than a few months and your doctor should discuss all the potential side effects with you.
1) Transdermal testosterone therapy improves well-being, mood, and sexual function in premenopausal women. Menopause - the Journal of the North American Menopause Society, 2003, Vol 10, Iss 5, pp 390-398. R Goldstat, E Briganti, J Tran, R Wolfe, SR Davis. Davis SR, Jean Hailes Fdn, Res Unit, 173 Carinish Rd, Clayton, Vic 3168, AUSTRALIA.
1a) Androgen production in women. Fertility and Sterility, 2002, Vol 77, Iss 4, Suppl. 4, pp S3-S5. HG Burger.
2)Aromatization of androgens in women: current concepts and findings. Fertility and Sterility, 2002, Vol 77, Iss 4, Suppl. 4, pp S6-S10. ER Simpson.
3)Role of androgens in female genital sexual arousal: receptor expression, structure, and function. Fertility and Sterility, 2002, Vol 77, Iss 4, Suppl. 4, pp S11-S18. AM Traish, N Kim, K Min, R Munarriz, I Goldstein.
4) Dehydroepiandrosterone: a springboard hormone for female sexuality. Fertility and Sterility, 2002, Vol 77, Iss 4, Suppl. 4, pp S19-S25. RF Spark.
5) Hormones, mood, sexuality, and the menopausal transition. Fertility and Sterility, 2002, Vol 77, Iss 4, Suppl. 4, pp S42-S48. L Dennerstein, J Randolph, J Taffe, E Dudley, H Burger.
6) Randomized clinical trials of combined estrogen-androgen preparations: effects on sexual functioning. Fertility and Sterility, 2002, Vol 77, Iss 4, Suppl. 4, pp S49-S54. BB Sherwin. 7) Sexual effects of androgens in women: some theoretical considerations. Fertility and Sterility, 2002, Vol 77, Iss 4, Suppl. 4, pp S55-S59. J Bancroft. 8) Androgen deficiency in the oophorectomized woman. Fertility and Sterility, 2002, Vol 77, Iss 4, Suppl. 4, pp S60-S62. JL Shifren. 9) Androgen deficiency: menopause and estrogen-related factors. Fertility and Sterility, 2002, Vol 77, Iss 4, Suppl. 4, pp S63-S67. PM Sarrel.
10) When to suspect androgen deficiency other than at menopause. Fertility and Sterility, 2002, Vol 77, Iss 4, Suppl. 4, pp S68-S71. SR Davis.
11) The hypoandrogenic woman: pathophysiologic overview. Fertility and Sterility, 2002, Vol 77, Iss 4, Suppl. 4, pp S72-S76. GA Bachmann.
12) Estrogen replacement therapy: effects on the endogenous androgen milieu. Fertility and Sterility, 2002, Vol 77, Iss 4, Suppl. 4, pp. S77-S82. JA Simon.
13) Female androgen insufficiency: the Princeton consensus statement on definition, classification, and assessment. Fertility and Sterility, 2002, Vol 77, Iss 4, pp 660-665. G Bachmann, J Bancroft, G Braunstein, H Burger, S Davis, L Dennerstein, I Goldstein, A Guay, S Leiblum, R Lobo, M Notelovitz, R Rosen, P Sarrel, B Sherwin, J Simon, E Simpson, J Shifren, R Spark, A Traish.
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Despite Haiti's best efforts to keep me there, including the suprise arrival of former dictator "Baby Doc" Duvalier, I arrived back home Wednesday night. This morning Louis and I are driving back to Ottawa with a bunch of my stuff, to start the slow process of "settling in" to my new old life.
Every time I come home from an adventure, people ask "How was it?" Depedning on who's asking and how much they actually care about my experience, I'll usually have a few stock answers ready and a maybe a couple of entertaining anecdotes (of varying degrees of PG-ratings) to give an idea of what I got up to while I was away. But with Haiti it's a different kind of answer. How was it? Well…
Spending time volunteering in Haiti didn't exactly lend itself to the tidy adventure stories or cute cultural mixups that everyone likes hearing about from other people's travels. When people ask me how Haiti was, I feel like there are several scenarios that play out:
1. "It was crazy, I really enjoyed my time there, I met some amazing people and got to see and do some interesting things." Done in under 30 seconds. Not exactly representative of how it really was, but perfect for casual acquaintances or people just asking to be polite.
2. We talk at length about what I did, who I met, and how I felt about things. This is usually reserved for people who know me well and are genuinely interested in my experience. The downside to this conversation is that it can take up to 3 days and often ends in Creole hip-hop on YouTube and tears.
3. We have the "Solution For Haiti" converstaion. I completely understand why people want to talk about this, and it's probably the conversation I would want to have if it hadn't been me that had gone there. This usually happens with people who are somewhat knowledgeable about development issues and the situation in Haiti, or who are just genuinely interested in learning more. It's also the conversation I most dread having. I feel like since I spent half a year in the thick of the "development issues" facing Haiti, I should be in the know and have well-formed opinions about how things are going and how we can help things go better. The truth is, I feel like I know much less now than I did before I went. I could tell you lots about Leogane, my friends there, some of the ways that "The Issues" affect their daily lives, and some of the ways that various actors are trying to "fix" these things. I could tell you a bit about NGO stuff, but mostly just what was going on around me. I could tell you a bit about the local government situation, but again, only what directly affected what we were doing in Leogane. As far as the grand scheme of things, you probably know just as much as I do. We got a lot of our Haiti information from international news sources like the BBC just like everyone back at home. And as far as "The Solution For Haiti", your guess is as good as mine. I figure if there was A Solution and I knew what it was, I'd be down there implementing it. Wouldn't I?
I always feel like a jerk having these talks, but I figure the more time I have to process my experience the better I'll get at it. I don't want to make people feel like they shouldn't ask me about Haiti, because I do want to talk about it and I do want to answer everyone's questions if I can. I'm glad that people are interested in what's going on in Haiti and want to know what can be done to improve things. I apologize in advance if you're not happy with how I respond, but give me time and hopefully I'll come up with something that will satisfy both of us and make me feel like I'm doing justice to an experience that I really can't describe. In the meantime, I'm going to get reacquainted with my friends, family, my matress and my old friend cheddar cheese.


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I got my PhD in 1989 from Brown. My dissertation was on the semantics of inheritance. I was lucky. I have always been a programmer. I build systems. I have also learned about theory. I seem to have good intuition about what kinds of proofs are possible, but I struggle with the technical details. On the other hand, I read Church's Theory of Lambda Conversion when I was 14 years old, in high school, so that may have distorted my view point a little. But I also programmed at lot. So I combined denotational semantics with object-oriented programming, and this lead to some good insights, including formalizations of inheritance, mixins and F-bounded polymorphism, and data abstraction. More on this later.
I did a lot of this work at HP Labs. For all you struggling grad students, let me say here that my first paper was rejected 5 times before it was published. I had to learn how to write. I did some very productive work and wrote 8 academic papers. Industrial research labs are one of the best places to do research when your research is aligned with the goals of the organization. But I also found that research labs are not completely free. They like to focus their research in specific areas. Sometimes the focus changes. Its as if there is one of those invisible electric fences that keeps the researchers in bounds. Sometimes they move the electric fence and the researchers change focus, or they leave. That's just my personal experience, but perhaps you might find it a useful data point. In my case, I left and spent ten years doing commercial software development. I didn't publish any academic papers for most of that time. I didn't do research. I tried to make great products and a lot of money.
I wanted to learn more about the practice of software development, so I left HP Labs to join Apple. I had a vision that there might be a lot of value in automating graphical applications in a way analogous to the scripting and automation of unix commands. I led the team that created AppleScript. The main thing I learned was how to build high-quality software. I learned about specifications, end-user documentation, test-plans and testing, user interface design, code reviews, customer focus groups. It was a great experience, working in and then managing a team of 20 people. But Apple has a culture of "home runs". They like products that are absolutely mind-blowing amazing from the very start. That's what they live on. AppleScript was not like that. It was useful but not amazing. It needed to be incrementally improved. I think that is the way Microsoft makes products: relentless improvement. It works for them, just like home runs work for Apple. But we were the wrong kind of product at Apple at that time, so it made the team unhappy. We all left, and AppleScript ran unchanged for about 8 years. It turns out they couldn't even compile it when they wanted to make it native on PowerPC. Our build process was a little complex. But the software ran for many years with no bug fixes. I learned how to make high quality software.
My next startup was a flop. We made the product (its still on the market, in fact), but we didn't make any money. The product helped kids learn to write, by showing them how to edit. Its a topic that some of you will know is still near and dear to my heart. The lesson I learned from it was not to just jump into anything that sounds good over a beer with an old friend. Its important to talk to people, do research on what might work. I did better on my next company.
I got together with two of my tech friends, Martin Gannholm and James Redfern. Martin is the best programmer I've ever worked with. You probably know the type. He not only can write code and read code better than anybody I know, he can also accurately predict when a complex project involving 50 engineers will be done. Marketing always wanted it done sooner, but Martin's prediction was always right.
Martin had a friend named Dennis Ryan who joined as CEO. We had a good idea: to help businesses manage indirect sales channels, that is, resellers, agents, etc. For example, HP sells lots of printers through small shops all over the world. They kept the list of stores in an Excel spreadsheet. So we visited Benchmark Capital, one of the top venture capitalists on Sand Hill in Menlo Park. We gave a powerpoint presentation and a demo and they gave us $20 million.
Venture capitalists talk about pain killers versus vitamins. A vitamin is a product that might make you healthier over the long run, but its hard to tell. Pain-killers are products where the customer screams "give it to me now" and asks what it costs later. Venture capitalists only want to fund pain-killers. Most software development tools, including programming language technologies, are vitamins. Google is great because everybody had "search pain". But nobody has "ownership type pain", or even "equality-constrained type-class pain"... or at least nobody with a lot of money in their pockets. That's another big problem: sometimes a company has a lot of pain, but the people who feel the pain are not the people who write the checks. This doesn't work either. It is sometimes possible to make customers have a need that they didn't have before. This is called "making the customers feel a pain that they didn't previously know they have". It's the job of the marketing department to do that.
When it came to naming the company, we hired a naming consultant. They interviewed everybody. The consultant gave a presentation and said the name of the company should be "Dennis Ryan and the people holding him back". We all sat there in stunned silence. It would have been funny if it wasn't about us. Anyway, we named the company Allegis.
At one point we spent some time thinking about the purpose of our company. Thinking about a "mission statement" is one of the classic ways that big companies waste time. Some people think its odd that a startup would have time to think about it. But I learned something in the process. First of all, I learned that there is a difference between a purpose and a mission. A mission is something that you do in a bounded amount of time with bounded resources. A purpose is something that you never achieve. The important point is that a purpose must be both guiding and inspiring. Its easy to find inspiring goals, like eliminating world hunger or allowing large enterprise applications to be written and proven correct by 5 people over the weekend. It also easy to find statements that guide your next action, but aren't very inspiring. For example, combining a toaster and a laptop, or fixing the way spaces are parsed in FORTRAN. I good purpose is both inspiring and guiding. Consider Kodak company. What is its purpose? A good purpose for Kodak is not about making cameras or film. It is saving memories. Our purpose was to facilitate collaboration between individuals working together in different companies. This idea of inspiring and guiding is also useful in academia. It is a good way to think about papers, or selecting research topics.
Technically, Allegis was also exciting. We read all the standard references on OO for business applications. It didn't make sense to us. We started investigating model-driven development styles. We created modeling languages for data, user interfaces, security and workflow. These four aspects are the core of any enterprise application. We created interpreters to run the languages, and our interpreters did many powerful optimizations by weaving together the different aspects. I like to call these langauges aspect-specific rather than domain-specific. I don't think of user interfaces as a domain; to me a domain is banking, transportation, etc.
We made products. We evolved them rapidly. We built tools to manage and upgrade our aspect-specific languages. Having the code in a specialized language made analysis possible. If we had embedded the language, it would have been too hard.
We got more money, until we had a total of $60 million. The employees still owned just over 50% of the company at that time. Our company valuation was about $160 million, which meant that I was worth about $8 million on paper. If we had managed to complete our IPO before the stock market crash, it might have been a lot more.
We got customers. Viewsonic, HP, Microsoft, Charles Schwab, Dow Chemical. We made good money, about $4M a quarter. We started to prepare for a public offering. I bought this suit. I never got to wear it for an IPO. The market crashed. We had money and customers, so we were in pretty good shape. But it wasn't enough. We had stiff competition and we felt we needed to keep innovating to grow. Around the same time our company was trying to weather the economic storm that followed the stock market crash.
The venture capitalists weren't very helpful in the end. Their idea of fixing a problem is to throw jet fuel it. I mean, they want to grow your way out of any problem. They don't want nice little businesses. They want maga-blockbuster hits. Its all about percentages. The invest in 10 companies and expect 9 of them to fail, but hope one of them makes a lot of money. Benchmark was in early investor in eBay. Unfortunately, these kinds of odds don't apply to employees, because we can only work on one company at a time.
In the end we ran out of money and we sold the company for nothing, but the employees kept their jobs. This was the management's fault, including me. I was VP of engineering at the time. We were always focused on people, taking care of our people. We should have layed off more people and saved the company. The company that bought us laid off 30 more people and was profitable the next day. We should have done that. But we were trying to grow our way of our problems, and that was not possible.
My friend James said "Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want."
For a long time I had been thinking about what we were doing technically. It seemed interesting from a research viewpoint. Aspect-specific languages with interpreters and optimizations across aspects. Integrating programming languages and databases. Workflow and concurrency. Security. But we were working in a startup and had to move quickly to satisfy customer needs. There wasn't much time to reflect on what we were doing and dig more deeply into its foundations. I decided to return to research.
Interviewing for academic jobs, in 2003. was great. I think the old days, when the children of wealthy people in america came of age, they would take a tour of europe to be introduced to society. This is how I felt on my interview tour. I wish I had done it when I first got my PhD. I found out that many of the papers I wrote had been read widely and were influential. So many people knew about me, even though I didn't know them. I did wear this suit on the tour, but have not worn it since then. One small interesting point: I supplied references to the universities where I interviewed. These references included academics, some of whom I had not seen in 10 years, and also Dennis Ryan, the CEO who had been my boss for the last 10 years. Not a single university contacted Dennis for input whether I would be a good candidate. They weren't interested in what I had been doing for 10 years. One wonders if they would have cared whether I was a commercial software developer or a dishwasher.
One thing I learned is that programming languages is a very small research area. As a grad student I thought we were big, because everyone in knew did it. But I found out that we are small, smaller perhaps than database research. We are also very fragmented, into functional, OO, typed and untyped, etc. This tends to lead dilute our influence on the community, I think.
When I came back academia welcomed me. Thank you! I was surprised to learn that many people still don't know what inheritance is. The relationship between abstract data types and objects is still undefined. I wrote papers on these topics 15 years ago, but I wasn't in academia promoting my results. If you want old but fundamental answers to these questions, talk to me afterwards, or tomorrow.
However, my first year in academia was miserable. I had to start an entire research program from scratch. I was lonely and unsuccessful in my attempts to publish or get funding. I had spent the last 10 years working with teams of 20 to 50 really smart people, each of whom had 10 to 20 years of serious software development experience. But the key thing is that we were all working together to solve a common problem. This is a very powerful experience. As a professor I lost all that. I was working alone, and then with a few new students who really didn't know very much at all. I got a call from Microsoft. Thinking I had made a terrible mistake, I went for an interview. They offered me a job. But at the same time I started to adjust to academia. I started to work with other faculty members, including Jayadev Misra and Don Batory. My mentor was Kathryn McKinley. I started to have some success with papers and grants. At the last minute I turned down the Microsoft job. I stayed at the University of Texas and now know that it was the right choice. I have an opportunity to work on important problems, and try to bring my commercial experience into an academic setting.
So what is the relationship between academia and industry?
One interesting example is the World Wide Web. The web did not result from an Academic research project by the computer science community. There were many research projects that worked on similar things. There was the Intermedia project at Brown. My understanding is that they tried to implement a bi-directional link model, because this was considered more safe than on-way links. But its important to realize that the web is now an application delivery platform. In some ways it is terrible for this purpose, because HTML was not designed for this purpose. The interesting thing is that many people have tried to create distributed application platforms, but failed. Instead what we have is a messy system that incrementally evolved into what we need. Perhaps this was the only way to get here. Or perhaps there is something more fundamental about what happens when we set out to design something great. We make it too complicated. HTML is the ultimate ``worse is better''. If you look at the technologies that we use every day, Email, LaTex, Web... the most important thing is that they exist and are good enough. But by almost any objective measure of quality, they are terribly designed.
I did ask one person why there wasn't more academic attention on building the web, and the answer was "The World Wide Web wasn't publishable". This points out how the academic and commercial value systems are different. Academia is like page-rank: your value is defined by what everybody else thinks of you. And what you think of everybody else contributes to (or subtracts from!) their net academic worth. It is a closed hermetic self-referential system. The commercial value system is obviously different: it's all about money. In a way this is similar to page-rank as well. The difference is that the money comes from outside the community, from customers.
Object-oriented programming is another interesting example.
What about technology transfer? Academics tend to assume that the way it is supposed to work is for the academics to do fundamental research that creates amazing new ideas, which are then transferred to industry for implementation. Sometimes things work out this way, but I believe that often it does not work this way. As an academic, if you think this is how it should work, my guess is that you will be frustrated a lot of the time. What I'm going to do now is try to generalize about the relationship between academia and industry. What you'll see in a minute is that this kind of generalization is standard practice for academics, but I want to assure you that I am aware of the potential dangers. Still, here is a framework for thinking about technology transfer.
The way I see it is that industry generally has more problems than they do solutions, but academia often has more solutions than problems. As an academic, I think everyone here will realize the value of a good problem. So if nothing else, we should revise the technology transfer story to include flows in both directions. Industry could transfer problems to academia, and academia could provide solutions to industry. I want to emphasize that both these flows are of high value.
But it is still not so simple. Industrial problems are often messy and tied to specific technical situations or domains. It is not easy to translate these complex problems into something that can be worked on in academia. This translation involves abstraction and selection. The result is a problem that a single student can solve in a year. It's not surprising that industry might not even recognize their problem after it is translated, because their problem is probably one that, even if they knew how to solve, might take a team of 20 to 200 experienced developers can solve in several years. Ideally the student will have a new idea that leads to a completely new way to solve the problem.
The same thing happens when trying to translate the solution back to industry. What usually happens is that industry rejects the proposed solution. The academics go back and complain to their friends about how conservative and unenlightened industry is.
What has really happened is that industry rejected the solution because it is incomplete, not because the industrial people are stupid or timid. You don't build successful companies by being stupid or timid. But you do win by being smart, bold, and by solving the entire problem. I think that most academic solutions don't transfer because they don't solve the whole problem or didn't solve the right problem. It doesn't matter if you have the most amazing solution for part of the problem. If you don't have a complete solution it is useless. Also, if you have abstracted away some important constraints, then you haven't solved the right problem.
We have lots of evidence that industry is not as conservative as people assume they are. Sure, we will be using Cobol and Java for a long time. But look at the amount of experimentation that is going on at the same time. Dynamic languages, application frameworks, web services, browser delivery, on and on and on.
In my experience people in industry are quite smart and are often developing novel solutions to fundamental problems. They just don't have time to abstract away the details and develop there solutions in a universal style. Instead they solve the problem as best they can and move on the rest of the problem. I would encourage you to go out and work with industry. They have important problems. Ole Madsen told me about a project he's involved in that brings researchers and industry together for exchange of problems and solutions. This kind of detailed dialog is much more likely to be successful than the ide of throwing thing over the wall.
I want to end with a discussion of two topics that I've been involved with. One is the integration of programming languages and databases. The other is language support for distributed computing. Industry and academia have been working on these problems for the last 30 years. Two important solutions proposed were object-oriented databases and distributed objects, like CORBA or RMI. I think that OODBs failed mostly because they were partial solutions. Early versions did not have query optimization or transactions, so its not surprising they were rejected. More recently there has been work to develop OODBs that do solve the entire problem, and so we may see more adoption of OODBs now. And Microsoft LINQ uses ideas from embedding DSLs in Haskell to make a better way to call databases from an OO language. This is a case where a new idea made a big difference. Distributed objects haven't been as successful as you might expect, based on the amount of effort to create them. Again, I think they had a fundamental assumption that made the solutions not work. In this case, the assumption was that distribution could be added to an existing language. I've been working on these problems for 15 years and just recently had a new idea on how to attack the problem. It simplifies things enormously. I kick myself every day and wonder "Why didn't I think of that before?" But then I remember something that I tell me students: "Simplicity is the result of hard work." Simplicity is not where things start. Question your assumptions! Its where they end.
But the summary is that working on real problems is important. Go and talk to industry and ask them what their problems are. Get involved with their problems. Focus on important problems and set aside your favorite solutions, avoid "When you have a hammer, everything looks like a nail." and "A solution in search of a problem". It is better to start with problems and then figure out the best way to solve that problem. The solution might be functional, object-oriented, or model-driven. Remember that as an academic, you aren't judged on the quality of your solutions as you are on the taste you demonstrate in selecting problems.


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180 Coxwell Avenue, Toronto.
Finished with the gigs here in Toronto for this trip, as has my throat finished with me temporarily. But before leaving there was time to take a walk to see the house where my grandad lived at 180 Coxwell Avenue as a child. His mother was a housekeeper for the Eaton family who have their name on just about everything in the downtown area. That was before the family moved to Belfast and started the chain of events which lead to me.


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It's finally here! Last week CMS published the draft 335 page OASIS-D guidance manual and the changes are as big as expected. Agencies will need to train their staff now to be prepared for January 1, 2019. We're pleased to announce that registration is now open for our three-part OASIS-D Readiness Webinar Series, "Out With the Old; In With the New", covering everything you need to know to become OASIS-D ready. The three-part webinar series includes:
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October 17 from 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM. EDT
In this first session, we begin to build a foundation for OASIS-D with these topics; items removed or revised and their implications, risk adjustment and the calculation of outcomes in OASIS-D, comparison of data between home health care and other post-acute care settings: long-term care hospitals, skilled nursing facilities, and inpatient rehabilitation facilities, implications of new OASIS-D items, OASIS Q&As and OASIS-D, GG0100 Prior Functioning: every day activities, GG0110 Prior Device Use.
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October 31 from 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM EDT
In Part 2, we explain and discuss the new OASIS-D Items, including; GG0130 Self: eating, oral hygiene, toileting hygiene, shower/bathe self, upper body dressing, lower body dressing, putting on/taking off footwear, J1800 Any Falls Since SOC/ROC, J1900 Number of Falls Since SOC/ROC.
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Buff Butler Cocktail Parties
Sometimes we all need cocktail parties with a little extra sparkle. So next time you are planning a cocktail party and have downloaded all the recipes for your favourite cocktails, why not order a cheeky buff butler to mix and serve them too?
One topless cocktail waiter will be able to cater for up to 12 -15 ladies who need cocktails mixing. Groups bigger than that we would recommend you book another buff butler too, because cocktail making is time consuming and you wouldn't want guests waiting around too long for their drinks would you?
Cocktail Party Tips
1.If you have an idea what particular cocktails you want your naked butler to mix at your party, print the recipes up, then use these as your shopping list of ingredients when you go out to the supermarket. Remember they each need decorating and lots of ice.
2.Buy a bag of frozen ice from the supermarket freezer section – it's only a pound for a huge bag and it will last all evening and save your buff butler lots of time.
3.Either print each of the handful of cocktails you want and leave the recipe in the bar area, or download the "Pocket Cocktails" app to your phone.


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Monday 18 February - Friday 22 February 2008
Join us for myths, tales and riddles in drop-in storytelling sessions exploring the Treasures of the British Library gallery.
Suitable for families with children aged 4-11 years.
Storytelling sessions
Daily from 11.30-12.15
Journey through the exhibition with storyteller Kevin Graal and discover more about the magical books, letters, maps and music on display in the Treasures gallery.
Storytelling workshops
Daily from 13.30-15.30
Join storyteller Kevin Graal as he uses stories to unlock hidden secrets behind some of the most exciting items in our collection. You can then create your own imaginative story!
FREE. No booking is required. Places will be allocated on a first come, first served basis.
Meet at the Information Desk in the Entrance Hall of the British Library.
The Learning team is offering two new workshops to accompany this
'Break the Rules' will explore the great changes
that took place within the first four decades of the 20th century
both historically and politically, paying special attention to the
explosive avant garde art movements of the time. This workshop is
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'Play on Words' gives an opportunity for participants
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Teachers and lecturers are invited to attend a private view of
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Jarvis Jay Masters
Danny's Story
Jarvis Jay Masters
is a Buddhist writer living on Death Row in San Quentin prison. His stories and essays have been published widely. He is the author of the book, "Finding Freedom: Writings from Death Row." More information about Jarvis Masters' life and work can be found at


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Having finished my walk through the first row of the Paddock at the Barber Vintage Festival, I turned down the hill and into the middle of the three streets inside the pit area.
Being a Vintage Motorcycle Festival, I guess the appearance of a nearly completely vintage motorcycle race team should have been completely unsurprising.
I mean, I guess if you're going to campaign two vintage mid 1960s Honda racebikes, I guess you're pretty much required to have the matching vintage lawnchair and mid 1960s Econoline transporter van.
The only thing missing is a vintage motorcyclist.
I'm available, if these guys are looking to complete their set.
Right across the way was a team that seemed to have a thing for Laverdas. They had this lovely Formula 500 Cup race bike.
And if orange is your thing, why stop at one?
Just down the row, was a team campaigning two of the most beautiful Norton racers I've ever seen.
They had this beautiful postwar Norton International.
Not being a Norton expert all I have to go on is the Telescopic Fork — the 30's vintage bikes still had girder front ends. The International, with its shaft driven single overhead cam motor, became the basis for the Manx, a machine purpose-built to dominate the TT at the Isle of Man.
With its uprated double overhead cam 500 cc single, and it twin loop Featherbed frame replacing the International's single downtube unit, the Manx became one of the more successful racing motorcycles of all time. The Featherbed frame was light, short, and rigid, at least by the standards of its day, and its performance in the 1950 TT, where Maxes swept the first six positions, confirmed the correctness of its design execution. The Manx would remain largely unchanged until the end of production in 1963.
This example is breathtaking. It is classic racebike porn — impossible to stop staring at. It has everything a racebike needs and nothing that it does not.
My rambles through the pits were interrupted by events taking place on the racecourse. At around lunchtime, The Lap of The Century was scheduled to occur, which features bikes that must be at least 100 years old. I headed towards the race control tower, which has balconies which offer a commanding view of the track.
As I headed for the stairway, these early Harley Davidsons — looks like one 1909 and one 1911 — were picking up some fuel in preparation for their lap.
I must tell the truth. The Lap of the Century is somewhat less than thrilling.
For motorcycles that, in their prime, were good for a downhill tailwind enabled 65 miles per hour, a complete lap at an average of 45 per is running them at a pretty good clip.
But after watching racing laps that maxed out at around a buck fifty, the old fellers putting around can find you looking at your watch as you're waiting for the pack to come back into view out of the treeline at the other end of the track. And maybe making a phonecall. And playing a hand of bridge.
Kidding aside, the thrill here is that these motorcycles are alive and running at all.
And the sweet syncopated thumps of all of these VTwins echoing off the forest at the edge of the park, combined with the sight of their muted paintjobs — browns and greys and bungundies — coming through the mist that still hadn't completely cleared off — made it almost possible to believe you were somehow inexplicably peering back in time.
Reinforcing the illusion was the battle — or lack of it — out on the racecourse. I've seen this combustion fueled drama before. Just as at was in 1912, by the end of the run down the main straight, there were Hendersons and Indians battling up front, and Harley Davidsons following them doggedly home.
I also have to come clean, that while I wanted to see those century bikes run, it wasn't the most important reason I'd found my way to the baconies of the Race Control Tower.
After the old ones were flagged in — one old Indian oil smoking impressively from every engine surface — the next scheduled event was 'The Britten Reunion'.
As the bikes were started, warmed and made ready, my buddies from breakfast appeared against the pit wall.
Then seven of the ten Britten V1000s even made took to the circuit to put on a little show.
The one thing that sticks out in my head is the sound. The sound of the Britten Vtwin is a flat, fast revving metallic Braaaaap — sounding vaguely like God's Own Chainsaw.
I wish I understood the engineering enough to know why newer tech engines sound this way — Sweet Doris' beloved and now gone Nissan 350Z partook of the same metallic sonic palette — but no motorcycle I've ever ridden or VTwin I've been near ever sounded like these Britten motorcycles sounded that day.
The various racers that piloted them took about 7 laps of fun — doing some good hearted dicing — snapping in and out of corners — and some bikey showing off. Although not being run in anger, the sight of one of them pulling a long, effortless fourth gear power wheelie coming down the main straight is one that's likely to stick with me for quite some time.
The magic was too soon over as the Brittens were flagged off the track.
The track announcer did us all the favor of directing us to the Team Britten New Zealand tent, where all the motorcycles and the team would be gathered to meet with their fans.
He didn't have to tell me twice.
The Britten pit was right to the left of the Control Tower, so I actually got there as the last several bikes rolled up and were placed on their stands.
I'll spare people the endless spiel on the engineering on display on the bike — the Hossack front end, the underseat radiator, the carbon fiber, well, everything. The intent was so max out chassis rigidity, reduce mass to an absolute minimum, and centralize everything that was left. The radiator placement and narrowness of the machine minimized frontal area and drag.
Watching them ridden one could directly observe the effortless, crisp handling that results — The Britten is the kind of motorcycle where if one can visualize your line, you've already ridden it.
I'll admit I spent a lot of time just drinking the appearance of theses machines in. The more one looks the more one sees. I did what I could to make sure my mouth stayed mostly closed.
If you owned one of these, people would have to have your meals brought to the garage.
Swag is just not my thing.
One of the joys of motorcycle travel is that in its most extreme form, you don't have any room for swag, so temptation is futile.
I will admit that I have some simple grey jersey T-shirts with just the Barber's logo on the chest, but nothing they sell is that elegant any more. The museum shop's selection is awash in old iron and wind and complex graphics and is altogether too visually busy for my tastes.
No matter, I figured that Team Britten might have something worthy, so I ventured inside their pretty substantial tent.
Andrew Stroud — who had ridden Brittens for years — had been provided with a place of honor for his bike inside the tent. You can make of Andrew's carbon fiber cane what you will. That's racing.
With Andrew's bike was, well, Andrew. Along with this enthusiast fan, who, being at the racetrack was involved in the great fun of telling lies, which, judging from the gestures, were subject to getting continually larger the longer they were told.
As I worked my way around to the front of the tent, the swag was on full display. Most of it was of minimal interest, but they did have some polo shirts which struck me as perfect. While appearing to be black, on closer inspection the weave was meant to resemble carbon fiber, and the shirt had a "Team Britten New Zealand" logo on the chest, and the Barber Museum's Checkered Flag logo on the right sleeve.
So I got into line and readied my wallet for action.
When I got to the front of the line I my order was taken by a nice lady with an obvious New Zealand accent who, upon very brief reflection, turned out to be John Britten's wife, Kirsteen, who then passed me off to another nice young lady to fill my order, who turned out to be Jess Britten, their youngest daughter.
I thought it was pretty cool to obtain my swag right from the source, in this way.
It's also a pretty cool shirt.
The previous section of The Barber Tales can be read here. The story continues here.


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This week is a Card Sketch at Let's Scrap.. This is the fun sketch Debby designed:
when I saw it, I immediately thought of a layout.
My best friends name is Angel, so I created a layout using "A FRIEND IS AN ANGEL WITHOUT WINGS" as my title. It was so perfect for this photo.
This photo was taken days before I left to come to Australia.
I used my Cuttlebug Diecut/Embossing plate for the wings and used Perfect Pearls to glitz them up.Flowers also created using the Sizzix Diecut template.
Thanks for looking..
Hugs, Mich.


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While CCTV is the standard acceptable method of visually inspecting pipelines above the waterline, it cannot provide visual information on internal pipe conditions below the waterline. Sonar profiling provides and quantifies accurate dimensional data on silt level, grease accumulation, pipe deformation, offsets, blockages, etc. below the waterline in partially and fully surcharged lines. Much like a medical MRI, it provides a two-dimensional profile of the interior pipe wall and can be used:
- In submerged and semi-submerged pipelines ranging from 18 inches to 18 feet
- With CCTV to provide simultaneous image of pipe both above and below the waterline
- To provide "real-time" cross-sectional views of the pipe, utilizing high resolution/short range sonar