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Former President John Dramani Mahama has presented a different narrative on the events that led to the declaration of President Akufo-Addo as winner of the 2016 presidential election.
Contrary to what Otumfuo Osei Tutu II, stated in his speech at the United Nations General Assembly, that the Palace had to intervene to persuade the losing candidate to accept defeat, Mr Mahama says he conceded defeat on his own accord.
Read the full statement signed by his then Chief of Staff, Mr Julius Deborah
Reference is made to a video recording of an address by His Majesty the Asantehene, Otumfuo Osei Tutu II, at the UN High Level Forum on the Culture of Peace, which seems to suggest that former Ghanaian President John Dramani Mahama had to be persuaded to concede defeat in the 2016 Presidential Election.
As former Chief of Staff to President Mahama, I was associated closely with all the pre, during and post 2016 poll events. I state without equivocation that the decision to concede and congratulate Nana Akufo-Addo even before the official results were declared was taken by President Mahama himself without any persuasion from any quarter.
The Asantehene has over the years been a very respected interlocutor in Ghana's multi-party political engagements. He has been generous in his wise counsel to present and former Presidents.
It is public knowledge that President Mahama willingly announced his decision to accept the outcome of the 2016 elections and congratulate Nana Akufo-Addo even before the official results were formally declared by the Chairperson of the Electoral Commission.
On the day President Mahama willingly conceded defeat, he met with then Vice President Kwesi Bekoe Amissah- Arthur, NDC Chairman Kofi Portuphy, General Secretary of the NDC Johnson Asiedu Nketia, together with some high ranking members of the party and informed them of his decision to call and congratulate Nana Akufo-Addo.
Following the meeting with the party, he called a number of personalities including President Jerry John Rawlings, President John Agyekum Kufuor, Asantehene Otumfuo Osei Tutu II, National Chief Imam Sheikh Nuhu Sharubutu, Rev. Ernest Agyei of the Ringway Assemblies of God Church and Archbishop Duncan Williams.
As Otumfuo himself has already stated publicly, under his auspices, there were three meetings held in Kumasi between President Mahama and then Candidate/President-Elect Nana Akufo-Addo during the period.
The first was prior to the December 07 election in which the two candidates promised to play fair and respect the will of the people. Indeed, President Mahama in a conversation with Nana Akufo-Addo said he hoped Nana was not going to tie down the nation in a court case again after the 2016 elections.
The other two meetings took place after the official declaration of the results of the elections, and to re-emphasise, after President Mahama had publicly conceded and congratulated Nana Akufo-Addo. Those two meetings focused on matters arising out of the transition process.
President Mahama made a commitment to the people of Ghana, never to be the one to subject them to the periods of unease, political instability and the doubts they experienced after the 2008 and 2012 elections. He remained true to that commitment and exemplified it after the 2016 elections.


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Oliver bundled the ball home with only 11 minutes left after team-mates Ross Forbes and Jamie McDonagh had hit Hibs cross bar in the space of a few seconds but Cummings, who had replaced defender Liam Fontaine only a few minutes earlier curled home a fantastic free-kick to win his side a hard-earned draw.
Kris Commons was pitched straight into action - his first appearance since the end of April - after signing a 28 day emergency loan for the Easter Road club, the Celtic midfielder handed the No 15 shirt as Jason Cummings dropped to the bench once again.
But it was Morton, unbeaten at home since March 28, who took the game to Hibs, Oliver passing up a glorious chance to put his side ahead as he swept McDoinagh's low cross over the bar when he should at least hit the target.
Neil Lennon's side were struggling to match Morton's energy which gave the Hibs players little time on the ball, the upshot being a lack of composure and inability to retain possession to any great extent.
Hibs goalkeeper Ross Laidlaw did well to get down to a powerfully struck low shot from Mark Tidser before a bit of confusion in the home defence saw goalkeeper Derek Gaston left stranded as the ball fell to Brian Graham. He had the chance to loft it back over Gaston and into the empty net but screwed his effort horribly wide.
Commons had enjoyed a somewhat quiet debut but he did send one glorious pass out left for Lewis Stevenson to take on his chest as he cut inside before, on his right foot, he snet his shot across goal and wide of the far post.
McDonagh almost enjoyed a huge stroke of luck when, having driven at the Hibs defence the ball broke off Liam Fontaine before crashing back off the Morton player before looping over Laidlaw's crossbar.
Hibs looked to get Commons on the ball more at the start of the second half, the former Scotland star spraying a couple of searching passes forward but it was Morton who enjoyed the game's best chance, Oliver nodding Ricki Lamie's cross down for McDonagh who's snapt shot brought out a smart save from Laidlaw as he got down at his left hand post.
Commons was certainly exerting a greater influence and an ambitious chip from the edge of the penalty area just cleared Gaston's crossbar and Hibs went closer when after Andrew Shinnie's initial effort had been blocked skipper David Gray latched onto the loose ball only to see Thomas O'Ware deflect his shot wide.
But at the other end it took a terrific last-ditch challenge from Darren McGregor to halt the run of McDonagh after he'd sped through the centre of Hibs defence. The game was swinging from end to end, though, and O'Ware was again on hand to get his body in the way as Grant Holt got on the end of Martin Boyle's low cross.
Morton. though, took a deserved lead 11 minutes from time in astonishing fashion, Forbes dipping effort came crashing back off the bar for McDonagh who saw his shot do exactly the same before Oliver managed to bundle it over the line.
The home side's lead lasted barely two minutes, Cummings stepping up to curl a fantastic free-kick from 25 yards into the bottom left hand corner of Gaston's net.It was the 21-year-old's ninth goal of the season but his first in exactly three months,
Morton: Gaston, McDonagh, O'Ware, Gunning, Lamie, Forbes, Tidser, Murdoch, Russell, Oyenuga (Kilday 16), Oliver.
Substitutes not used: McNeil, Doyle, Nesbitt, Scullion, Strapp.
Hibs: Laidlaw, McGregor, Hanlon, Fontaine (Cummings 76), Gray, Bartley, Shinnie, Stevenson, Commons, Boyle, Graham (Holt 65).
Substitutes not used: Virtanen, Keatings, Forster, Eardley, Crane.
Referee: Steven McLean.
Attendance: 2156


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1st January 2012, D was born and that was the Happiest New Year in our life. And after all the ups and down in our life, we wanted to give him a Surprise Birthday present. So we planned his 7th birthday in Prague, the magical city. This time our Bhaiya and Bhabhi joined us. Everything was done , we were just waiting for our visa. All three of us got the visa (my husband, my daughter and me), but D's visa was on hold. And all the excitement was going down. Just 15 days left, but no information from the visa office. 10 days prior also no clue.. As we were to travel in the peak winters, we had to catch up with the winter shopping and of course GF stuff. But we had no option to wait and keeping the hopes high. And finally after 5 more days we got a call from the agent that the D's passport has arrived!! In just 5 days we did all our winter shopping and boarded the flight to Prague.
We had booked our Apartment and the host was very helpful. She guided us the places and the malss for shopping. And the gluten free bakery that was near the apartment. There was an Indian supermarket near the apartment. There we got Haldiram's ready to eat food that mentioned Gluten Free. As the pack mentioned certified Gluten Free and had the food safety mark, we found it safe to use. Prague is famous for its Cathedrals, shopping malls, local markets, old town square, Charles Bridge, and the Dancing Buildings and not to be missed are the new year Dinner Cruise. So we booked our new year and D's Birthday Dinner on the Cruise. The new year cruise was pretty much expensive but that was the plan The best was that the GF food was also available on then cruise. So we paid the full amount and were in full mood to enjoy the cruise at night.
All dressed up to the best we arrived at the cruise, beautifully decorated as the queen of river it was all set to sail. And there was a long queue waiting to be on the prettiest night angel. And when it was our turn, as we entered with all our excitement, the manager said that they had no booking in our names. We all were shocked. We showed him the receipt, but he said the names are not in the list. We ran to the office and the person sitting there said "I'm SORRY". There must be a technical issue. He said that he only made the booking but now its not showing, the company will return the money and we cannot board the cruise. discussing, talking, calling the mangers, nothing worked.. Disheartened, we all left.
Again we started looking for options, every place was a place to celebrate but we wanted GF ones as we wanted D to enjoy the most of it. And as it was New Year's Eve, so all the places were already occupied. After much efforts we got a table in InterContinental Prague. There was best of live music with a swing band. The theme was black and silver and it looked amazing, the kids were enjoying with balloons everywhere and they gave us the party props including that glittery hat. We enjoyed the delicious dinner with amazing taste. The chef understood the allergy and D enjoyed his meal too. Gf cake was not available but he enjoyed a GF pastry for his birthday!!! At 12, there were fireworks all around. We wished him his birthday under the blanket of colorful fireworks lighting up the night sky. The whole of Prague sounded like a war zone. The fireworks were launched everywhere. The whole city was lit up with spectacular fireworks all round. After grabbing our dinner we headed up near the Charles Bridge to witness some more of the fireworks exploding above us.
Thus not as expected but more of fun and family D enjoyed his 7th Year birthday in Prague, the magical city!!!
This is my alphabet Y for "Happy New Year", in #BlogchatterA2Z #AprilA2Z in Parenting Tales with A Celiac Child. Do share your experiences as it's always incredibly beneficial to connect with others who share similar experiences.


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First and foremost, thank you for attending our recent HOA Law Seminar. It was great to see so many familiar faces and meet new Board members.
Many Board members do not know the extent of the authority they have for "rule making." There are a few rules that govern drafting rules, but for our purposes, I want you to be aware that a Board adopted rule cannot conflict with your Bylaws, CCRs, or State Statutes. Surprisingly, every Board still enjoys broad rule making authority. (Recent statutory additions even further strengthen what you can do by Rule.)
A RESOLUTION is merely the formal name of the legal document that contains the RULE.
I wanted to list a few of the "must have" Resolutions and briefly explain the purpose of each.
It is key to remember that whatever rules or policies your HOA adopts, they must be evenly and uniformly implemented against ALL members; precisely as adopted. No favoritism.
- Collection Resolution – Bottom line: You must have a policy that explains what the Board does when someone is delinquent, what the manager does and at what point in time a file is turned over to your attorney for collections. We recommend that an account be turned over between 60 and 90 days delinquency. A lien should be filed ASAP. We collect our fees from the debtor with the goal being the HOA collections 100% of what it is owed and the attorney is paid as well. You should never pay a percentage of the outstanding balance for HOA collections.
- Document Retention Resolution -Did you know that some HOA records must be kept forever others can be discarded when you choose? Why pass box after box from Board to Board when you don't have to? Here is the problem, many Boards keep far too many records. Therefore, if an owner requests to review records, which is their right (and they will if they are unhappy about something) and you've kept them, you have to provide them. Why keep more documents than necessary? A document retention policy is based on statute and common sense. For example, you must keep minutes indefinitely per state law. However, you can keep enforcement letters for as long as you like. You want to keep enforcement/demand letters, however, for a time so you can prove that you are enforcing generally in the community – but why keep them beyond 1 or 2 years? This policy gives you a chart, which you largely can control the outcome of, to guide your document retention policy.
- Electronic Notice and Voting Resolution – You can now send out notices of meeting via your website, email and even text messages. Wouldn't it be great to conduct voting on amendments and other matters electronically (email) as well? An electronic Notice and Voting Resolution solves this problem and provides a step-by-step process to implement electronic communication into your community.
- Enforcement Resolution – Believe it or not, the Board does not have to get involved in every single dispute (warning: this is a general statement and each situation should be evaluated by counsel). What if an upstairs neighbor in a condominium is making noise that only 1 other member can hear? How do you, as a Board, know whether this is a serious issue or whether it is just a personality dispute? Each HOA should have a policy that requires owners to take certain steps amongst themselves before the Board gets involved. That way, a significant number of issues may get resolved without having to involve the Board. Exceptions would be life, health and safety complaints but there is a way to "push back the point in time" the Board must get involved. This can be a welcomed relief for many Boards.
- Absentee Owner Resolution – Are you concerned about owners who are away from their home for periods of time? Are you concerned that, because no one is home, that the furnace may not be set at the right temperature leading to possible pipes breaking in the winter? An absentee owner resolution implements certain base-line controls to protect the home (usual a condominium or townhome unit connected to another unit) from issues that arise when no one is home to take care of areas (pipes, namely) that could have an impact on others without oversight.
- Fining Procedure Resolution – Utah's laws regarding fines have changed. There are different rules for REPEAT violations and CONTINUING violations. The point to know for now is that is in either scenario you are now allowed to give notice just once and thereafter go directly to fines (some details and rules apply) should the behavior continue. Because these new rules won't be in your CCRs, you need a resolution that allows you to send notice just once and then get right to fining should the situation come to it.
As mentioned, rule making is broad and quite "powerful." Use this authority carefully. When exercised properly, however, your Association will function more smoothly, your burdens as a Board will be lightened and you will better discharge your duties to your membership.
I look forwarding to speaking with you all soon. Again, be looking forward to HOA University ("HOA UNI") shortly.
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- India has begun constructing a large scale detention center in the northeastern state of Assam.
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- News of the construction of the detention facilities follows a crackdown on residents in Assam that the government now considers to be stateless.
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India has begun construction on a mass detention center for illegal immigrants in the Goalpara district of the northeastern state of Assam, one month after the country stripped almost two million people of citizenship.
According to Reuters, which interviewed workers and contractors at the site, an area the size of seven soccer fields has been cleared to make space for the expansive project said to include a school, hospital, and recreation area. Layout plans reviewed by Reuters also show quarters for guards, a high boundary wall, and watchtower, it said.
The detention center visited by Reuters is the first of at least 10 others planned in Assam. It is meant to hold at least 3,000 detainees.
Government guidelines released this year indicate that detention centers should have a boundary wall at least 10-feet high lined with barbed wire, Reuters said, citing local media.
The Goalpara camp has a red boundary wall and two large watchtowers. Men and women will have separate living areas, workers and contractors told Reuters.
One contractor told Reuters that the rooms in the center would be around 350 square-feet each, with each unit housing 24 rooms.
India made 1.9 million people effectively stateless last month
News of the detention facilities in Assam follows a crackdown on 1.9 million residents that the government now considers to be stateless.
Last month, the government put out a final list of all the residents in Assam considered to be Indian citizens called the National Register of Citizens (NRC). Around 33 million people submitted documents for consideration by the state, though the final list only contains 31.1 million names.
According to India Today, the NRC is used to verify citizenship in India and is used by the government to identify anyone who immigrated from neighboring Bangladesh after March 25, 1971.
Residents need to prove their citizenship by showing that either they or their ancestors were born in Assam before the cutoff date - which corresponds to the beginning of the Bangladesh War of Independence that saw hundreds of thousands of people flee the country as it split from Pakistan.
Those excluded from the NRC have 120 days to prove their citizenship. The Assam government has previously said those not included in the register will not be detained until they are declared foreigners by a special tribunal, according to India Today.
According to Reuters, state officials have not outlined what fate lies ahead for those deemed foreigners, and neighboring Bangladesh has not agreed to accept the potential influx of stateless people.
Critics say the move is bringing the region to the brink of a crisis
The move has faced backlash from critics who accuse Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his allies of stoking racial tensions in one of India's poorest regions, which is also home to a large Muslim population.
Amit Shah, the country's home affairs minister, said on Sunday that the government "will not allow a single illegal immigrant to stay." He also previously encouraged the country to take action against "infiltrators who were eating the country like termites," according to the Guardian.
"Our intention is to expel illegal immigrants from the entire country and not just Assam," he said.
Read more: India is controlling people in Kashmir with an elaborate maze of razor wire that changes configuration several times a day
Amnesty International has criticized the NRC and says it leaves the futures of millions of people in the region uncertain.
"Many Indians, especially those belonging to poor and marginalized communities, do not have certified copies of identity documents or are unable to produce it on time to prove their citizenship," said Aakar Patel, Head of Amnesty International India.
"Assam is on the brink of a crisis which would not only lead to a loss of nationality and liberty of a large group of people but also erosion of their basic rights - severely affecting the lives of generations to come."
Earlier this month, India also revoked part of its constitution which gave the disputed region of Jammu and Kashmir a special status and quasi-independence. The state, which is home to a significant Muslim population, was cut off from communication and is now directly under the control of India's federal government in New Delhi.


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Project 365 ~ December 2013
Just like the snow, December came with little warning and disappeared just as quickly. In fact, this entire year has seemed to fly by. It seems only a few days ago that we were spending New Year's Eve fixing a broken couch and watching bad films as we waited to welcome 2013… And here we are, once again, on New Year's Eve, waiting to usher in yet another new year… And so goes the cycle.
Project 365 ~ November 2013
November's iPhone Photo per Day Post
Project 365 ~ October 2013
Project 365 Post – October ushered in cooler weather, family travel, and a generally good time!
Project 365 ~September 2013
September's #Project365 offerings.
Project 365 ~ August 2013
August was a month of getting things back to normal. School started for the kids. Planning was done. Things were said. Driveways were cut in. Parties were had. Stuff, just kinda happened! We visited the Balloon Festival in early August and we also scoped out the scary, abandoned Metro North Mall. The Scouts had a […]
Project 365 ~ July 2013
I've labelled this last month "The Lost Month". Staring on June 22, I have been on so many different immune suppressing medications that by July 14, I ended up with an emergency stay in the hospital due to a very nasty infection and a subsequent semi-quarantined, work-from-home existence for the entire rest of the month. In fact, I spent so much of my time hidden away from anyone who might be a carrier of disease that I actually started relishing the life of a hermit!
Project 365 – June 2013
June was marked by a major MS exacerbation and the subsequent treatment thereof. Not a lot of travel, but a lot of family time was to be had by all. Here are a few highlights ~H Zona Rosa's Entrance Tower The Blanket Monster DOES Exist! The newest Will Smith action Flick… No […]
Project 365 – May 2013
#Project365 – May 2013
May showers bring June flowers with CwCM (ˆ⌣ˆ)
Project365 – April 2013
April means Pinewood Derby racing, family time, and FUN!!
Project365 – March 2013
March's Project365 round up!
Project 365 February 2013
February 2013
Recap of my daily iPhone practice for The month of February.
Project 365 – January 2013
January 2013
Recap of my daily iPhone practice for January 2013
My Daughter, The Dead Fish
My daughter being a "Dead Fish" last night at dinner. Isn't she precious? ;D Miranda Fish Series – Fish 1 – Variant 1 Miranda Fish Series – Fish 1 – Variant 2 Miranda Fish Series – Fish 1 – Variant 3
Keep Your Game Up!
Follow these suggestions and reminders to help revive your craft during creative lulls.
World of Wheels: What a Blast!
We survived World of Wheels unscathed (beside my sore ears from all the whining I was forced to listen to!) and had a great time!
Sins & Vices – All those Bad Things We Do
What an exhausting pace I've been keeping this term. My photography course kept me hopping and with all that tumbling after me, here we are at the end. My final project is officially finished, turned in and has been graded (although grades have not been posted as of yet.) Three weeks, over 1,700 photos and […]
Two More Weeks…
Again, a busy two weeks shooting and another two weeks of busy holiday events! Take a look!
Pretty as a Picture
This weekend finds me busy. Family, friends and lot's and lot's of work requests (scholarly and otherwise!) So, in lieu of a long, detailed post, here's a few samples of what's been going on! Miranda, casting a spell on the flowers at our table. A few apples and pomegranates I had laying around made for […]
Location Scouting… Again!
Last weekend was a combination of location scouting and generalized shooting. Now I'm armed with a slew of new places to photograph and a lot of new ideas for pieces I didn't have before. Of course, nothing else got done last weekend, so it's time to buckle down and get to work! No more playing… […]


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Jessie M. Peterson, formerly of North Hornell
NORTH HORNELL-Jessie M. Peterson,100, formerly of Cleveland Ave., passed away Sunday morning (June 22, 2014) at McAuley Manor in North Hornell.
Born in Elmira on Feb. 25, 1914, she was a daughter of the late Charles and Eva Mills Mansfield. On July 6, 1934 she was married in Elmira to Herbert W. Peterson, who predeceased her on May 1, 1989 after 55 years of marriage. Besides her parents and husband she was also predeceased by her only sister, Isabelle Osgood in 2008.
A former resident of Elmira, Jessie graduated from Elmira Free Academy and attended Elmira College and has resided in the Hornell area since 1951.
She was employed as an executive secretary for the Health Association of Steuben County and Steuben County Heart Assoc. Chapter.
Jessie has been a member of the United Presbyterian Church in Hornell since 1986 and served on the Board of Deacons. She was also a past District Deputy and Grand Matron of the Eastern Star in Elmira.
She was an avid reader of widely varying subjects ranging from art, religion, language, history and the U.S. Supreme Court. Jessie also enjoyed spending the winter months in Florida and RVing throughout the United States in retirement. But her greatest joy was her devotion and generosity to her family.
Her family includes her three sons, Herbert (Faith) Peterson of Cape Cod, Mass, Charles (Barbara) Peterson of Clayton, N.Y. and William (Phyllis) Peterson of Hornell; her nine grandchildren, Sean, Kyle, Kara, Joel, Michelle, Heather, Kimberly, Julie and Darin; her 16 great-grandchildren and one great-great-grandchild; also her nephew and three nieces.
The Bishop & Johnson Funeral Home, Inc. in Hornell is honored to serve the family of Jessie M. Peterson.
To honor her wishes there will be no calling hours. A funeral service will be held in her memory at 11 a.m. Saturday in the sanctuary of the United Presbyterian Church, 150 Main St., Hornell, with the Rev. Virginia Murray officiating.
In lieu of flowers, those wishing may contribute in her memory to either the United Presbyterian Church, 150 Main St., Hornell or to the Hornell Family YMCA, 12 Center St., Hornell, N.Y. 14843. Envelopes will be available at the church.
Online condolences or remembrances of Jessie are welcomed at www.bishopandjohnsonfuneralhome.com.


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CHICAGO (AP) — Aher Uguak scored a career-high 19 points and Loyola-Chicago held Indiana State to 12 first-half points to win Wednesday night's Missouri Valley Conference opener 79-44.
Cameron Krutwig had 16 points, 10 rebounds and five assists, and Marques Townes added 13 points, seven rebounds and five assists for the Ramblers (8-6). Clayton Custer scored 12 points with four 3-pointers and Loyola-Chicago shot 56 percent and outscored the Sycamores 42-22 in the paint.
Indiana State didn't score in the final 7:47 of the first half and Loyola-Chicago scored 20 unanswered points for a 46-12 lead after holding the Sycamores to 24-percent shooting. The Ramblers also went on a 15-0 run in the opening 20 minutes.
The Ramblers made 9 of 21 3-pointers (43 percent) while the Sycamores made 1 of 12.
Tyreke Key scored 21 points and Cooper Neese added 10 for Indiana State (8-5).


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Each night on television, black women are saving the day. When lives are at stake, characters look at each other desperately — but everyone knows that when She walks through the door everything will be solved. Olivia Pope, or Michonne, or Lt. Abbie Mills throws open the door, and, at the very least, gives an air of confidence that makes everyone believe that the crisis will be averted.
But what would happen if one of these women didn't show up. What if her alarm didn't go off and she has to throw on whatever is cleanest in that pile of clothes on the floor, running out of the house realizing that she doesn't have her car keys. What if she spends 20 minutes looking for them before realizing that they're on a little hook by the back door and misses saving humanity? What if she is a complete mess? What happened to all the black female underdogs on television?
The Heyday of the Black Female Loser
During the 90s and the early 2000s, the lives of black women were diverse and hilarious. "Living Single" was like a younger, blacker "Golden Girls" — three women (played by Queen Latifah, Kim Coles and Kim Fields) lived together while their friend Maxine (Erika Alexander) dropped by their Brooklyn apartment to eat their food and give legal advice. Each woman worked hard at their chosen profession except for Synclaire James (Coles), a dork whose aspiration was to be an actor, though she failed over and over again.
"Girlfriends" was also a show about career-driven women whose complicated love lives usually ended in uncomfortable situations. Joan Clayton, Maya Wilkes, Lynn Searcy and Toni Childs lived in Los Angeles and dealt with the politics of being black women, traversing class issues all while trying to get laid. Lynn, the sexy, free spirit, was the resident weirdo who had no idea what job she wanted until she became a trip hop singer (trip hop).
And then there was "A Different World," the "Cosby Show" spin-off set on the campus of the fictional Hillman College. Even after Denise Huxtable dropped out, we were left with a number of confused college co-eds: Whitley Gilbert, Jaleesa Taylor, Kimberly Reese and Freddie Brooks, the flaky, silly hero.
But these women have all disappeared. They have vanished just as wearing head wraps and Afro-centric clothing on television has vanished, replaced by power suits, badges and swords. There are no more dorky anti-heroines — instead, we have been gifted with strong role- models like Michone the warrior or Abbie Mills the investigator or Olivia Pope the problem solver. We get to watch the always flawless Danai Gurira, Nicole Beharie and Kerry Washington, and appreciate these women for their strength. The fact that we aren't just prostitutes, drug addicts or footnotes in the narrative anymore is an advancement.
The problem is that there is no place for any other kind of black female experience. Having black women only portrayed as capable and strong means somehow that we can't also be soft and vulnerable. Each one of the characters mentioned do have their weaknesses, but they stuff them deep inside themselves in order to get the job done. That is seen as a black woman's job — to rise above, to swallow hurt and be better than the rest or risk not being respected. In order to be a nerd or a loser you have to be willing to let go and not be afraid to look silly, and that is a risk that a black woman cannot afford.
Our Next Loser-Hero?
"Orange Is the New Black" has given space to black female loser-dom: In Poussay's back story, we see a girl who tries very hard to fit in as she is dragged around the world by her father's military career. She fumbles when having sex with her lover — it isn't all rumpled sheets and soft lighting; it is awkward and dorm-light bright. Crazy Eyes is just as clumsy with her affections, not to mention her inability to fit in with her white family on the outside or her black family inside Litchfield. But these women are in jail, and the messiness doesn't need to go quite so far.
But Jessica Williams might be the next true loser-hero. As a correspondent on "The Daily Show," she is asked to discuss the tough topics (like sexual violence on college campuses) and the absurd (like the military's new rules on the way black women should wear their hair). She is an extension of the viewer, sharing our outrage and confusion when tackling these subjects — but you can tell that she has no idea what to do about them.
Williams does this all with passion and intellect, but she is also goofy, unpolished and not trying to solve everything — unlike Olivia Pope, who always has a speech prepared, is always wearing heels and always saves the day. Who has the exhausting task of always being "twice as good" and who is never allowed to throw off her shoes at the end of the night and drink a glass of Pinot without someone showing up at her door, begging her for forgiveness or trying to kill her.
Meanwhile, Jessica Williams is actually a reflection of what it's like to be human: She feels outrage and fear, but when she throws off her shoes at night she actually has some fun. Black female heroes are never allowed to have fun. (Let's give Jessica Williams her own show, damn it!)
The obvious problem is that there just aren't enough black women creating content for television. We can't put it all on Shonda Rhimes's shoulders — writer's rooms are so overwhelming white and male that it's hard to get a nuanced portrayal of any woman, let alone a woman of color. Imagine what a writer's room, with its current lack of diversity, would come up with when asked to create a black woman who doesn't make strong speeches or give sage advice.
Black women should have equal opportunity to be inappropriate and irresponsible. Where are all of the black female nerds, stoners, slackers and weirdos? We can't all make wise choices and know the answers to the important questions. Our onscreen characters should be able to be as dippy and bumbling as their white counterparts. Watching "Broad City" is a great time: The irreverence, the moments of truly sad desperation and the bright spots of smoking weed and being exactly who they wanted to be endears the audience to Ilana and Abbi. And the ladies on "Girls" are allowed to be as out of control emotionally, financially and sexually as they want — now allow women of color to be the same way on television.
Come the fall season, with Thursday nights on ABC devoted to the strong black female trifecta that Shonda Rhimes has gifted to us all, let's all hope that Olivia Pope's loser cousin shows up, and just can't seem to become a gladiator.
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The MSR MapCruncher for Virtual Earth is a MS Windows desktop application that let's quickly build map tiles to use in a Virtual Earth mashup.By map tiles, we mean image slices of your map at various scales that overly precisely with Virtual Earth tiles at those scales. This is different than adding vector features through the API or drawing images from a WMS server on the fly. These images are pre-generated, making them extremely fast, and they require no map server software, like GeoServer or ArcIMS. Just generate your map tiles, toss them on your web server, Bob's your uncle.
How easy is it?
- Make a map you like in your tool of choice, and save it as pdf, jpg, gif, png, wmf, emf, tif, or bmp. As we're going to be drawing the map at a number of scales, a vector format, like pdf or wmf, works much better, unless you enjoy counting pixels.
- Pull up MSR MapCruchner, go to File->Add Source Map, and select your map.
- Now you need to register your map to VE's map. You'll see your map on the left and VE's map on the right. Move both so the cross hair in each is on a corresponding point, and hit Add in the Correspondences tab. You'll want at least three points in common.
- Hit render, tell it where to put the map tiles, and wait. Be ye forewarned - it's going to dump a lot of tiles. Something the size of a county will be about 6000 tiles and 500MB or storage space.
- Pull up the created samplepage.html in a browser, and check out your stuff.
This is a pretty cool tool to quickly make some tiles and toss them on the tubes. It is particularly handy if you are a map shop and you want to take some of your print projects and put them on the web.
There are a couple of drawbacks:
- As someone who used to regularly get a RMS error of < 0.1 when registering a plot on a digitizer, this kind of registration process makes my eyebrows arch. If ground accuracy is critical, this probably isn't your thing.
- The layer isn't "smart" - it isn't going to be changing rendering or turning on and off layers at different scales. What you see zoomed in is more or less what you see zoomed out.


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At Right Angles Issue 13
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The Lens of Computational Thinking teaches us to look at the same things with fresh eyes, the July 2022 issue invites you to do just that!
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Perch on the branches of the Tremendous Tree of mathematics and enjoy your read. At Right Angles July 2021 is packed with a variety of articles and the online version has several absorbing additional articles.
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As the world goes through lock down and social distancing, it is easy to feel less and less a part of the whole and more and more a small, isolated part. But that does not make us or anybody else, any less a part of the whole and we need to realise that every part of the whole matters.
But are all the parts of the whole equal? If not, what can we do to redress the balance?
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Chapel Farms located in Jemison, Alabama
A little white Silkie chick...
I suppose it was around 1980 that I begged my Daddy for a trio of mutt chickens from a man who lived in the back woods of Alabama named Woodroe Wilson. I brought them home and there was never a fancy waterer, feeder, nest boxes, or a coop. Not even a book to learn with. The birds roosted in the pines behind our house and layed their eggs in a broken down bus. Momma hated them and Daddy did keep me some cracked corn for me to throw at them every day before and after school. (I was the type of girl that had to wipe her shoes off in the grass before running to catch the bus for school.) Those chickens taught me alot. Maybe I couldn't talk genetics, or incubators, or anything about the breeds in the U.K. but I spent every afternoon and whole summers learning from those mutt chickens.
Almost 30 years later, I am still crazy about poultry. I now have a real hen house , real purchased chicken feeders and waterers, and the wide world web that gives me the opportunity to connect with people just like you. I have expanded my love of poultry to the hobby of exhibiting at ABA sanctioned Shows. Ol' chickens.....I still think the best part of owning them is sitting down every afternoon and watching them...now, I share this love with my own children.
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Biosecurity Rule #1: Sorry, quarantine for 30 days and handwashing is not enough. There are those chickens that are carriers that never show a symptom. To begin with you must never, ever bring in a chicken from the outside unless you have a quarantine pen very far away from your flock. Wash hands, change shoes to avoid contamination. Quarantine for 30 days, the shock of the move will stress the birds enough to show any hidden disease lurking under cover, then put a sacrificial bird in with them after 30 days...wait two more weeks and see if the bird gets sick, if not then you can use the new birds.
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FMC Policy Summit: Kristin's Four Reasons to Attend
As we begin the final countdown to this year's Future of Music Policy Summit, as one of maybe four people who have been at each and every event, I wanted to highlight some of the reasons why you should join us next Monday and Tuesday at Georgetown University in Washington, DC. Register here!
This will be my fourteenth Policy Summit. Peter Jenner––a longtime friend and attendee of many a Summit––reminded me the other day of seeing my son at Policy Summit #2 when he was just 4 months old. Now he's in 6th grade. It's amazing to think of all of the changes that have occured in the music industry landscape in that time span. Sheesh, the iTunes Music Store wasn't even off the ground when we began! FMC has witnessed the ascencion (and decline) of many a bright idea or a business plan. We've also organized dozens of panels over the years that have led to meaningful debates about the policies that affect musicians' ability to create, communicate, and be compensated for their work.
Despite the never-ending changes in the landscape itself, FMC's Summits remain committed to four ideals:
Musicians must be stakeholders. For many decades, musicians were spoken about in policy circles. Very rarely did they directly participate in the policymaking process. FMC was founded at a moment when we realized that musicians and their advocates needed to be present in these conversations to provide some real-world feedback about the impact of technogical changes on their ability to operate as creators. That's why we continue to invite working musicians of all types—rockers, jazz bandleaders, session players, classical freelancers, composers—and their advocates to be part of the conversations, often sharing the stage with policymakers, industry officials, technologists and attorneys. This Policy Summit's list of speakers and programming stays true to the notion that musicians' voices matter.
Diverse opinions generate the most productive solutions. The overlaps of copyright and technology, and similarly of commerce and art, often create very divergent opinions, each with their passionate representatives and business interests. We have always recognized that the solutions to thorny problems are not going to come from the extremes; they are going to come from the middle. And how we get to the middle is by inviting voices from all across the spectrum to participate in panels and keynotes. We've seen our fair share of shouting matches or dagger-eyed staredowns on panels over the years, but these moments are the precursor to both more accountability and transparency, as well as a more nuanced understanding of the issues at hand. Echo chamber conversations are not productive. We need diversity to find common ground.
This event is not just for the Beltway elite. We know that organizing a quality event takes a lot of time, and it costs a lot of money. But we have also offered sliding scale musician scholarships and student pricing every year to ensure that cost is not a barrier to musicians' participation. We have a handful of musician scholarships left for 2014.
This event is not just about wonky policy stuff. As much as we enjoy writing footnote-filled filings, or hashing over the idiosynracies of copyright policy, Summit discussions are not just for policy wonks. We want the Summit to be illuminating, practical, and instructive for musicians. This year's programming is full of these opportunities, whether it's the panel discussions about activism and art, demos about emerging technologies, or our lunchtime workshops about musicians and metadata. We want attendees to walk away with tangible ideas that they can use in their everyday life. Check out the schedule to learn more. And register today.
I'll see you at the Pho dinner!
2002 Future of Music Policy Summit. Photo by Maria Tessa Sciarrino.


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Tuesday, December 05, 2006
Meme Me Up (Poetically)
The first poem I remember reading/hearing/reacting to was… an old Victorian nursery rhyme by William Brighty Rands my father recited, aimed at improving a child's self discipline. Also in about grade 7, we were given the Wordsworth poem, The Daffodils.
I remember feeling physically ill when I read this poem. It was so saccharine and sickly sweet. I thought then and there that if this is poetry, it isn't something that interests me. It wasn't until university when I read Les Fleurs du mal by Baudelaire and poems by Rimbaud that poetry caught fire for me.
I was forced to memorize numerous poems in school and…
Actually I was never forced to memorise poems in English per se. I remember having to learn a few soliloquies from Shakespeare's plays and that always reduced me to tears. I ended up learning a lot of old chestnuts from my father, but most of that has been eliminated from my memory, thank the heavens.
In high school French, I had to learn Le Corbeau et Le Renard, one of La Fontaine's fables, and I loved that. I've always been able to memorise French better than English.
I read poetry because…I like the originality and freshness of a good poem. I'm really really bored with all the nature poems and most of the love poems out there that seem to chew up, swallow and then regurgitate old stuff. Thank heavens for folks like Fred Wah.
A poem I'm likely to think about when asked about a favorite poem is… Gwendolyn MacEwen's The Red Bird You Wait For. She had such a command of language and her ability to create mesmerizing symbols was incredible.
I write poetry, but… I'm not sure what I write is poetry or that I want it to be called that at all these days. I'm going thru a what is that word…watershed? experience where I've realized the word "poem" messes me up. If I try to write something called a poem, I end up creating hamhanded syntax and precious words and it's all so unnatural and forced.
This is the kind of stuff I've been doing lately and I can't call it poetry. People like Nathalie Stephens impress me because they blend poetry and prose and don't worry about what they call it. I'm also enamoured of visual poetry and perhaps will explore that more. There are just so many colours in our palates, why can't we use more than just words on a page, left justified and capitalized?
My experience with reading poetry differs from my experience with reading other types of literature because… when I read poetry I can become overwhelmed by the strength of the language and imagery at times, so that I have to stop. Sometimes I have to write the poem out to really enjoy it. Sometimes I have to read it out loud over and over again. I guess poetry makes me stop.
I find poetry… to be a word that causes odd reactions. People get defensive when you use the word. They say poetry was better in previous eras and trot out some poem they were made to memorise in the 1800s. Then they say…now that was poetry. So just saying I write it brings out a lot of sneers and derision from the universe. Kind of like the attitude about my writing erotica.
The last time I heard poetry was… last night in rob's workshop (which you should take in the new year, by the way). Marcus' "Carbon Dating v3" was spectacular.
I think poetry is like …a gift for those with open minds.
5 comments:
- Michael J. Farrand said...
Thanks for posting your answers. I should take the quiz myself. You might find some fresh love poetry here.
I love the conversational tone you did this with. Poetry can be intense in a way other literature isn't. I agree with so much of that.
- Marcus McCann said...
Hey, thanks for the shout out. The double shout out, I guess. I had a bit of a poetry hangover this morning--I must have looked like 10 kinds of death at the Press Club this morning. Eesh.
Sick of Wordsworth at age seven? Wow. Your sensibilities sure developed young. Thanks for sharing.
- Amanda Earl said...
well, it wasn't age 7, but grade 7, which would have made me about 12 or 13 years old. That's the age for questioning the status quo, so I don't think it's all that surprising. If I were a teen today, I'd likely be a bit of a goth/punk/emo kid, but not belong to any group per se. Thanks for commenting!


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Saturday, July 18, 2015
PA: Monster Equity Plan Study Report Thingy (Part I)
I'm going to break this into two posts. In Part One, we'll look at what PA thinks its equity problems are. In Part Two, we'll take a look at what it thinks the solutions are.
Theory of Action
Pennsylvania's Theory of Action to Ensure Equitable Access to Excellent Educators for All Children. Pennsylvania's theory of action is built around strategically improving the management of Pennsylvania's human capital in our schools-- especially in the poorest and highest minority schools-- to enable them to recruit, hire, retain, and support a pool of highly effective, qualified, fully certified teachers, principals, and other school staff. Pennsylvania's activities are organized around four strategies: human capital management; ongoing professional learning; teacher and principal preparation; and fiscal equity...
Oh, yeah. This is going to be some choice bureaucratic word salad. There's a chart next which shows the four strategies as little bubbles circling the main idea, connected by two-headed arrows. Very evocative.
The Gaps
PA lists eight gaps. Or they say they're listing eight, but they want to include a ninth. And then there's a chart that shows six. My trolling theory is gathering strength.
The listed gaps are: students in poor schools are not growing scores on state tests, lack of quality professional development stuff, new teachers and principals aren't prepared for poor/minority schools, fiscal equity, and missing data. There's another list which adds these items to the first list: Philly schools are loaded with unqualified teachers, as are many poor/minority schools, there's high turnover, and all sorts of people in all sorts of jobs in poor/minority schools don't have proper certifications.
Background and context
PA's kind of a mess, data wise. Our VAM system (we call it PVAAS) requires three years of data to work, which we don't have yet. Also, any kind of plan would require financial stuff, but it's only June and our state leaders are locked in their annual competition with all past legislatures to see which group of bold PA leaders can bring in the latest budget. It's only July. That's not going to get fixed any time soon.
Stakeholders and Meetings
A list of groups that, apparently, were part of this adventure. It includes several school districts, poor and not, rural and urban (in PA, while we are famous for Philly-style poverty, the state has some hugely rural areas that are also pretty poor). One poor charter school and one rich one. Some teacher prep programs, including Grove City College which is interesting to me because GCC regularly sends us student teachers; GCC turns out students who know their content, but in many cases have never set foot in a public school ever. There are some professional organizations (including PSEA and PFT) and a state charter group as well. One more sign that the government is committed to continuing the failed charter experiment as if there's no reason to reconsider. Add on the Human Rights Commission, the YMCA, and the PTA, among others, and you have your stakeholders group.
These guys started meeting in-- April!!?? They cranked this report out in less than two months??!! Well, that's almost.... unbelievable.
Some Data and Interesting Point #1
The group started breaking down schools, dividing them by poverty level and by minority population (separately for public and charter achools). In search of staffing issues, they went in search of Emergency 01 certs, certifications that the state gives you when you swear up and down you can't hire a real chemistry teacher, so can we please just stick this nice lady certified to teach Home Ec in there? I am surprised to see that the number of such certificates issued has been dropping steadily for fifteen years. Oh, wait-- no I'm not. The Highly Qualified Teacher requirement of NCLB really strangled the emergency cert.
But here's our first interesting data point. The groups leading in using the most emergency certs? The highest number of emergency certs were found in the poorest public schools and the wealthiest charter schools.
Spanish, high school English, high school math, and special ed were the most common areas for emergency certs. Suggesting that the subjects getting hardest hit by high-stakes testing are also the first to feel the coming teacher shortage. Well, not Spanish. It's just hard to find people who want to teach Spanish. The champ? School nurses.
There's a more detailed charter, and PK-4 is also up there, though in all cases we're talking about numbers lower than 50 for the entire state. 21 principals had emergency certs.
When we break down teachers using the old high quality teacher standard, we find that rich schools have more HQT's than poor schools.
Interesting Point #2
When it comes to years of experience, wealthy schools have a greater percentage of newby (one year) teachers than poor schools. You can find the chart on page 30. Good luck.
I'm not sure what to make of some of these numbers. Our breakdown on schools by wealth left 697 in the top quartile and 701 buildings in the bottom. But this teacher chart says that the wealthy quartile has 33,544 teachers and the poorest quartile has 26,391. Which seems like its own kind of equity gap. Going to keep an eye peeled to see if this beast addresses that.
Hmm, said the committee, or staff, or someone. I wonder if there's a big pay differential between rich and poor districts. The short answer appears to be, no, not much difference if you look at wealthiness of the district, but when it comes to minority schools, we are making a modest attempt to entice teachers to work there. Starting salaries are pretty easy to suss out here, but the other data is fuddling because we're using averages of all more-than-one-year teachers' salaries which would be heavily effected by how old and experienced the staff is. This next charter may be a bit more helpful.
You can see that wealthy districts are recruiting hard with starting money. We should note that nothing here tells us how quickly teachers arrive at the top of the scale, which has a huge effect on career earnings. This data also doesn't include benefits and health insurance, which can have huge financial impact as well. But now look what happens if we break it down by minority population.
So there's that.
How is PA doing with turnover. Again, let's go to the handy chart:
So poor, minority charters are churning like crazy.
Strategic Management of Human Capital
So here's the thing. They didn't have any hard data for things like school climate, and schools don't have to give human capital management data to the Department of Ed. So PDE rounded up a bunch of volunteer human resource people and administrators, and they just made a bunch of crap up. With charts and graphs. Color coded. In less than two months-- specifically the last two months of the school year. I'm going to skip this part. If you'd like more data, you can read the report, or you can read some tarot cards. I'm sure that would be equally helpful.
Educator Effectiveness
Does poverty affect value-added measures for teachers. Again, I'm going to assume that the time frame of this report means that they are just pulling things out of their butts here. Fortunately, somebody else has done this research, and we know the answer, which is that the state could skip the expense of the test and just generate test scores based on socio-economic factors and do as well.
This is worth paying attention to, because it's why the whole federal Let's Put a Great Teacher in Every Classroom program is high grade baloney-- as long as you determine a teacher's effectiveness by student test scores, every teacher you put in poor classroom in a poor school with poor students will turn out to be ineffective.
Expenditures per Pupil and Interesting Point #3
Pennsylvania has one of the highest spending gaps in the country because we have on of the worst school funding laws in the country. If you slice things up on a per pupil basis, we still look bad. Well, bad and racist-- the lowest funding in the state on a per pupil basis occurs in schools with more than 50% black student population. The writers of the report try to massage the data so that our spending gap doesn't look so bad, but they can't hide the worst data point-- while all other categories come in above national average per pupil average when adjusted for poverty blah blah blah, per pupil spending in mostly black schools is almost $800 below the national average. Might want to work on that.
Root Causes
The report will now devote a giant cartload of space to explaining why the various gaps exist in PA. I'm going to summarize, and this will still be lengthy. Are you still here? God bless you.
Philly has lousy unqualified teachers because...
Schools don't cultivate a talent pool. Schools don't have time to really think and focus and search for exactly what they want. Insufficient positive marketing and PR. Lack of effective screening, or training for management. Folks might think the schools are dangerous. And then there's this awesome gem:
Individual bias may preclude teachers from applying for vacancies in Pennsylvania's poorest and highest minority schools, especially since the school's workforce may look different than the local community.
I'm not sure, but I think they just said that middle class white kids don't want to be working in those poor black schools.
Poor minority schools have lousy unqualified teachers because...
Same as above, actually. Man, this report could have been a page shorter.
We don't have enough teachers in certain certificate areas or principals or school nurses because...
Several repeaters from above, actually. But also teacher schools just aren't producing the teachers. Nothing here about continued assault on teaching profession in ways that would make it unappealing to future might-have-been-teachers.
There is too much turnover because...
Because some administrators are lousy managers. Also, teachers don't get enough awesome professional development. And some of those same other things.
Teacher grad programs not producing enough super duper teachers in right fields because...
Human resource departments can't adequately predict future needs. Yeah, sure, that's it. Also, there aren't enough subs??!! Seriously? Once again, we will completely side step the ways in which state and federal education policy has made teaching increasingly less attractive, as well as the way that constant badgering of teachers by politicians and policymakers has reduced respect for the porofession.
We have school financial inequity because...
And here's the winner of the Opaque Criticism of Somebody Award. "Poor funding decisions have severe consequences, especially when fiscal resources are limited." You mean, like when the state reneges on its teacher pension payments and then announces a crisis a decade later? Or when the state insists on a crazy-pants blood-sucking funding system for charters? Also, some districts are poor, and can't make up the difference when the state short changes them.
We have data gaps because...
Because the state's data systems are slow and stupid and unusable. Did they really say that? It might just have been me.
But now we've diagnosed the problems. Well, we've sort of diagnosed them. If you are still with me, you can head on over to Part Two and we'll look at the super-awesome solutions that PDE proposed to the feds and the surprise ending that comes with them.
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So new teachers are choosing wealthier districts; the wealthiest charter schools can't find qualified teachers; somewhat higher salaries in poorer districts are not convincing teachers to work there; and even the wealthiest charters have higher turnover than poor, high-minority district schools. Then a poorly-imagined exercise in pure speculation based on nothing to figure out why problems exist.ReplyDelete
This is some of the most witty, entertaining writing on education policy I have read. But could you please offer your positive solutions? Would you abolish current pay scales, certification laws, schools of education, tenure laws? Would you recommend funds to follow students, weighted for their learning challenges? Are you against school choice? Or not? Let's hear what you would do instead.ReplyDeleteReplies
There are close to 1300 posts on this blog. Many of them address your questions, though mostly they oppose your implied suggestions. But feel free to browse around the place.Delete
This is some of the most witty, entertaining writing on education policy I have read. But could you please offer your positive solutions? Would you abolish current pay scales, certification laws, schools of education, tenure laws? Would you recommend funds to follow students, weighted for their learning challenges? Are you against school choice? Or not? Let's hear what you would do instead.ReplyDeleteReplies
I would also suggest you read Dienne's comment to the next post down called Bottom 5%.Delete
This is some of the most witty, entertaining writing on education policy I have read. But could you please offer your positive solutions? Would you abolish current pay scales, certification laws, schools of education, tenure laws? Would you recommend funds to follow students, weighted for their learning challenges? Are you against school choice? Or not? Let's hear what you would do instead.ReplyDelete
Livfinne, this isn't the only post the Curmudge has ever written. His suggestions are available.ReplyDelete


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Goal.com: The Real Madrid star admits he regrets some of the comments he made earlier in his career and talked about some of the difficulties caused by his fame and profile.
I never saw him as a bad guy, hell if I was at his level I'd probably have my few mistakes as well, we're all human.
It's what I love about him as a player, the desire to be the best and give 200% effort to win.


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Property advertising agency, TEN OVER MEDIA, recently won two creative advertising awards with their Lumion videos. Creative Director Mathieu Anfosso sat down with the Lumion team to discuss how he and his twin brother implement a people-first design philosophy and bring out the emotion in property animations.
It was their first animation together, and when twin brothers Remi and Mathieu Anfosso were discussing strategies for how to best show a building, they came across an interesting insight.
"Dude, they all look the same," said Remi Anfosso, a young film director with a successful background in making videos for the film and TV industry.
"They're completely different! What are you talking about?" responded Mathieu, Creative Director of TEN OVER MEDIA.
Remi shook his head. "To everyone involved in the project, and especially the architects and clients, it may look different. But to the general public, it looks the same."
This brief conversation between Mathieu and Remi would go on to form their ideas about communicating architecture and why so many 3D animations seem to fall flat.
"Emotion is really missing from 3D marketing videos," Remi stated on the TEN OVER MEDIA website, "and it is the one thing the audience is interested in."
From specific shots meant to incite memories to overall themes designed to immerse viewers into a story-driven, emotional world, the entire team at TEN OVER MEDIA have made it a point to put people and personal experience at the heart of architectural animations. The goal is to help audiences connect with property on a close, personal level. When the property is finally built, they hope a person will already feel at home; they hope people will already know what it feels like to enter the space.
River Run and Carolina Pines: two award-winning videos by TEN OVER MEDIA
With Mathieu as Creative Director and Remi as the Film Director, along with the rest of their team, TEN OVER MEDIA has recently won two 2019 Muse Creative Awards for their recent videos. You can watch the videos below.
Carolina Pines, which won the silver recognition:
You can learn more about the Carolina Pines project and see more images and animations here.
River Run, which won the platinum recognition:
You can learn more about the River Run project and see more images and animations here.
"Design like you give a damn"
When approaching projects like Carolina Pines and River Run, Mathieu said that the entire process was built off of one company core value — "design like you give a damn."
According to Mathieu, this is an overriding theme guiding each project from the first client meeting to the moment the videos are rendered in Lumion. "To us, average is unacceptable. Questioning the status quo, pushing boundaries and making a positive impact are part of our standard process." This includes not only the way the team works but the impact they hope a video will have.
"You can produce something and be really proud of it, but it might not have the impact you were hoping for. It can raise eyebrows, it can be any kind of thing, but what's important to us at TEN OVER MEDIA is really understanding our audience and who we're talking to. What's important is to put our egos aside."
In the Carolina Pines video, for example, the team started off with a lot of material and some general concepts. Right from the start, Mathieu and Remi were discussing how they could integrate some of the concepts.
"One of the main concepts was our goal to create memories that don't exist yet. We wanted something for everyone that's both nostalgic and fresh. We wanted the property to feel contemporary, upscale, active, charming and a getaway from the sounds of the city."
All in all, Mathieu said, they wanted something fun to watch. One clear example of these ideas — the philosophy of "design like you give a damn" — was evident during the pool scene of the Carolina Pines video.
"Keeping it real" — Translating client needs into beautiful animations
In addition to implementing emotional concepts into their Lumion animations, the team at TEN OVER MEDIA also values the idea of "keeping it real." For Mathieu, this means being authentic to one's self and with colleagues, clients, contractors and all of the other individuals that must come together when designing and communicating a property.
"Leave the world better than we found it"
According to Mathieu, every piece of architecture has two lives: one life in the imagination (before it's built) and a second life in reality (after it's built). With a philosophy of "leaving the world better than we found it," the TEN OVER MEDIA team strives to use staging, props, setup, lighting and more to make the imagined building as real as it can be.
"And this wouldn't be possible without Lumion," Mathieu said. "Having my brother on board as a film director, Lumion helps build an entire world in 3D. You've seen Carolina Pines — we were able to build a scene with tens of thousands of trees, and the overview shots only show half of the project. I'll be sitting with a big screen next to my brother and we're walking the property in Lumion just like we're walking the real property, and that's when he'll get his ideas so that we can start shooting."
"When we start shooting, you never know how a video clip feels until we put it into the editing draft to see if it's really working. At low resolution, exporting that shot takes one minute. We're able to try a shot, export it in a minute, put it into the editing software and check if it's working for the whole video, all in 5 minutes. That's unheard of. It's allowing us to go so much faster."
"With Lumion, everything is possible," he continued. "If you can do it in real life, you can do it in Lumion. And that's something we do every day. When we are shooting something with my brother as the film director, we really try to mimic the movements you would do on a movie set. So, if we're doing a crane shot, for example, we can make those crane movements and vibrations in Lumion. We're able to recreate it using all of the tools that Lumion provides. We did some green screening for Carolina Pines, and while Lumion doesn't provide green screening, there are tips and tricks within Lumion that allows you to do that."
"If you can do it in real life, you can most likely do it Lumion, and if you can't do it in real life, you can most likely do it in Lumion."
Thanks to Mathieu Anfosso and the entire TEN OVER MEDIA team for the interview!


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