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That group of palace maids was comprised of four people. Each of them held a basket in their hands. They walked quickly and walked along the side of the main road. With their heads lowered, it was clear that they did not want to be noticed by others.
Unfortunately, despite their care, they were still seen by Feng Yu Heng.
The palace maid that was sending her out noticed Feng Yu Heng looking over, thus she also took a look. She then took the initiative to explain: "Those are the servants that take care of concubine An. Thinking about it, it must be his Highness Prince Xiang sending something to concubine An.
"Hm?" Feng Yu Heng was puzzled, "If I have not made a mistake, concubine An should be the fifth prince's birth mother. Why is Prince Xiang sending her things?"
The palace maid said: "County princess may not know, but ever since that matter happened with his Highness the fifth prince, his Majesty has never gone to see concubine An. Because of this, concubine An became a little deranged, as she began to hate his Highness the fifth prince. Normally, his Highness the fifth prince would send things into the palace, but as long as she heard that they came from him, she would immediately begin to break them. Instead, it has been his Highness the third prince that has been taking care of concubine An over these years. He will occasionally send things like food and clothes to her."
"Oh." Feng Yu Heng nodded. She knew about concubine An being a little crazy; however, she did not think that the third prince would do such an act. Xuan Tian Ye was a person that definitely would not do it out of the goodwill in his heart. Where there was no profit, he would not act. What was he taking care of concubine An for?
She turned her gaze over in the direction that the group of palace maids was walking toward. She could not mistake it. In that group of palace maids, there was one person that she recognized. The person that had taught Fen Dai the snow dance, Hong Yun, was among them.
"Concubine An's personal palace maids are quite beautiful." She pretended to say this inadvertently. When she looked once more, the group of palace maids had already walked off.
The palace maid at her side told her: "That's because concubine An, for the sake of regaining his Majesty's favor, has raised a number of beautiful women in her palace. Not only this, she has them learn that snow dance. Unfortunately, ever since that incident, his Majesty has never gone to the palace again."
"Did his Majesty not send an imperial physician to examine concubine An's lunacy?" She asked the palace maid, "How many years has it been, yet there still does not seem to be any improvement?"
The palace maid said: "Imperial physicians were naturally invited, but his Majesty is not interested in this matter, so how could the imperial physicians treat it seriously. They are merely going through the motions."
"So it's like that." Feng Yu Heng pondered for a while until they reached the palace's gates when she finally said: "Then when I come at a later date, I will go over and take a look at her!"
The palace maid smiled and said: "County princess really is compassionate."
Whether or not she was a Bodhisattva, Feng Yu Heng did not know. She just felt a desire to go and check on something that she had been skeptical of the entire time. It seemed that things were about to develop in a way for the truth to be revealed.
Xuan Tian Ming's carriage was waiting in front of the palace's gates, and Feng Yu Heng stepped toward it. Before she could climb in, she heard a voice from behind: "County princess, please wait!"
She was startled and turned around. There, she saw a group of palace servants carrying a number of large boxes out of the palace. At the lead was a granny that took care of the Empress, Chun Lan. Upon seeing that Feng Yu Heng had stopped, she quickly chased over and said with a smile: "Greetings county princess! This old servant has an order from her Highness the Empress to send a dowry to the Feng manor."
Only then did Feng Yu Heng remember that there was talk about the dowry being brought in with the Cheng shi sisters marrying into the Feng manor.
She nodded, "That's fine. Just come along with me."
The dowry of the Cheng shi sisters could not be considered a grand amount, but it definitely could not be considered little. There were a total of 16 red wooden boxes. All of them were completely filled. Following behind Feng Yu Heng's carriage, it looked quite magnificent.
Because someone had gone to the Feng manor ahead of them to report, when they arrived, Feng Jin Yuan and the Feng matriarch led everyone to wait in the front yard.
The Feng family now had a head wife, two new concubines and three lower concubines. Speaking of, even though the head wife was considered the formal and legal head wife, her dowry was still in Qian Zhou. It had not yet been brought over. An shi, Han shi and Jin Zhen had even less of a dignified air. Even the late Chen shi was promoted from concubine to head wife, so they did not even go through the motions.
That was why, the Feng family had only ever enjoyed the scene of a daughter-in-law bringing her dowry into the manor, aside from the time Feng Jin Yuan married Yao shi. Now that the Cheng shi sisters' dowries were carried from the palace to the Feng manor, the matriarch felt a bit emotional.
Granny Chun Lan had the 16 red boxes placed inside the Feng manor then said to the matriarch: "Her Highness the Empress said that her Highness' elder brother passed away early, leaving behind these two sisters. If it were not for hearing that the Feng family's new head wife was too lacking when it came to educating children, she truly would have been reluctant to send her own nieces. She hopes that Prime minister Feng will take good care of them as a sign of care for her Highness."
Feng Jin Yuan quickly said: "Would granny please tell her Highness that this official will definitely take good care of the Cheng family's sisters."
The matriarch also expressed herself: "The Feng family definitely will not mistreat them."
Granny Chun Lan nodded to them before expressing that she could rest easy and report to the Empress.
After she left, Cheng Jun Man walked forward and said to her personal servant: "Take out the supplements and medicine from the dowry and send them to mother Han in Yu Lan courtyard." She then turned around to say to Feng Jin Yuan: "Husband, sister Han is currently pregnant. Any supplements naturally must be sent to her. Of course, although supplements are good, when it comes to what she eats, it naturally should be left to the doctors to decide."
Feng Jin Yuan nodded then repeatedly praised, saying: "You having a generous heart is my Feng family's good fortune."
Jun Mei also took a couple steps forward, arriving before the matriarch. Bowing, she said: "The supplements have been given to sister Han. As for the other things… this concubine heard elder madam say that husband spent a great deal of money on the wedding and for furnishings for madam, basically depleting the communal funds. Since us sisters have entered the Feng manor, this place is also our home. If the family suffers any hardships, we must naturally help out. That's why the other things in these boxes will be given to elder madam to help refill the communal funds!"
Cheng Jun Mei's words caused Kang Yi's face to become flustered. She had already lost a great deal of face to Xuan Tian Ming and Feng Yu Heng over the past two days. Who knew that she would be humiliated by two concubines. She truly felt that she had no face left.
Feng Yu Heng, who had returned along with the dowries, added: "When a woman marries into her husband's family, without a dowry to follow, it is truly quite shameful. Her Highness the Empress sympathizes with the two concubine mothers and refilled the Feng family's communal funds, relieving us of an urgent problem."
Kang Yi endured the anger that she felt, saying: "The dowry being added to the communal funds is a result of younger sister being generous, but with the two younger sisters entering the manor, it would be best to look in the boxes to see if there is anything that can be used to save on buying more things."
She was looking for polite things to say, but who knew that the matriarch would become gloomier and snort then glare at Kang Yi.
Cheng Jun Man said: "Many thanks madam for your kind thoughts. Us sisters are just concubines and do not have many needs. The manor already provides enough in terms of food and clothes. There is no need for anything else to supplement us. The things that we have decided to give to the manor will be given to the manor."
"Since that is the case, it was me that said too much." Kang Yi lost even more face and decided to just shut her mouth.
The matriarch looked at Feng Jin Yuan then said: "With new people entering the manor, you should accompany them. You should stay at Jin Fu courtyard tonight." This was the first time that the matriarch so clearly made a statement on Feng Jin Yuan's private life, as she spoke very directly. Kang Yi's heart felt extremely dejected, as she felt that she nearly could not breathe.
She was the head wife, and she had been at the manor for three days and two nights, yet she had not even spent a night at her husband's side. Han shi finally did not need him at her side, yet two concubines had come. She glanced at Feng Jin Yuan, her eyes containing a trace of grief.
Feng Jin Yuan also yearned for Kang Yi, but when he thought about it a little more, the Cheng shi sisters were sent by the Empress! He had already ignored them the previous night, and the dowry had already arrived at their manor. If he continued to ignore them, it would be improper. Thus he could only let Kang Yi down. Avoiding her gaze, he said to the matriarch: "Son will remember."
That night, Feng Jin Yuan stayed in Jin Fu courtyard, consummating his marriage with Cheng Jun Man.
However, he did not know that his daughter, Feng Chen Yu, sat in her room with a resentful expression.
Xing'er was at her side and carefully asked: "Is eldest young miss worried for eldest princess? Don't worry. A concubine, in the end, is a concubine. The eldest princess is master's formal and legal wife. Her position is safe. Moreover, those Cheng shi sisters are just daughters of a concubine. Even if they were raised in the palace from a young age, what of it? With their status as a daughter of a concubine, it is already quite good that they can be the concubine of a prime minister."
Who knew that this consolation was worse than if nothing was said. Feng Chen Yu's gloominess and anger became even more pronounced, causing Xing'er to not know where she had made a mistake.
"That's right! In the end, they are daughters of a concubine!" Feng Chen Yu finally spoke; however, she said: "This is the fate of a daughter of a concubine. They are unable to make their own decisions. Even if they are her Highness the Empress' own nieces, they are nothing more than chess pieces in her hand. They can simply be sent anywhere they are needed. In the past dynasties, even if one was an imperial princess, as long as they were not born in the main palace, they could not avoid the fate of being part of a political marriage. This is a daughter of a concubine! And I… am also the daughter of a concubine."
"Eldest young miss…"
"It's fine." Chen Yu hid the anger and gloominess that had appeared on her face; however, a coldness appeared in its place, "One's fate must be changed using one's own power. I definitely will not allow myself to be tied down by the status of a daughter of a concubine. Just wait and see! The position of Feng family's daughter of the first wife will sooner or later be returned to me."
Feng Chen Yu was gnashing her teeth and thinking about her own plans. Meanwhile, in Tong Sheng pavilion, Feng Yu Heng was in her pharmacy space conducting an experiment.
She brought some snow from the yard into her space and placed it in a glass bowl.
During the day, she had asked for ten Tianshan snow lotuses. She was thinking that she could raise them inside her space. Not only could the space automatically refill its supplies, it would also take care of things automatically. There was no need to worry about the shelf life of anything that was placed inside. It was as though time had stopped in her space.
She had a bold thought. If the snow that she brought in could remain in the same state, she could raise snow lotus in her space. Although she already had something like snow lotus in her space, those were dried. They could not even be mentioned in the same breath as freshly picked snow lotus.
The more Feng Yu Heng thought, the more joyful she became. If she did not know that the thousand-year frozen ice of Qian Zhou could preserve them, she really would have thought about going to Qian Zhou herself to get some snow.
Carefully placing the bowl of snow on the counter, she decided to wait for three days. If it had not melted after three days, it meant that it was possible.
When Feng Yu Heng came out of the space, she was a bit excited. She even began to think that the space's functions were not limited to just this. If someone that was on the verge of death was moved to the space, would it be like her food that did not go bad, and the injuries would not get worse?
She was a little excited from thinking about these things. She was even thinking about whether or not she should get some lab rats to test it. Suddenly, Ban Zou's voice came from somewhere, "Stay in the room and don't come out! There are assassins!"


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During the Pleistocene, much of what is now the center of North America was a savanna, populated by megafauna like the mammoths and bison shown in Karen's "North American Pleistocene Landscape."
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ARIES: There will be a greater emphasis on your earning capacity over the six weeks from February 14, making it a good time to search for a job. Be sure not to waste the abundant opportunities to expand your capital resources, which will be most active on February 25-28, March 1-3, 9-22. You'll also be looking at acquiring much desired possessions, having the resources to do so.
TAURUS: There are many areas of your life, which may have been neglected over the past couple of years. Between February 14 and March 31 you need to deal with these issues. This time period also heightens your interest in relationships such as marriage or business, so perhaps you are sprucing yourself up to improve the quality of a relationship or your prospects.
GEMINI: You should ease up a little over the six weeks from February 14, especially on superfluous social commitments, which are likely to be disappointing. The demands being placed upon your time are overpowering and you could be exposing yourself to potential health problems. February 25-28, March 1-3, 9-22 are helpful in resolving problems.
CANCER: There will be a greater emphasis on work related activities until March 31, with many Cancerians pushing for better achievements, with the best opportunities associated with February 25-28, March 1-3, 9-22. Valuable associations will be forged along your career path then, and you will also be blessed with quality friendships.
LEO: Whatever your particular goals may be, whether you seek success in legal matters, exam results or long-distance travel, the six weeks from February 14, will see you powering on towards those dreams. You are sure to obtain recognition for your intelligence and accomplishments. The best dates fall on February 25-28, March 1-3, 9-22, activating the positive potential of these trends.
VIRGO: You'll be more assertive in the presentation of personal ideas between February 14, and March 31, although you should remain flexible enough to discard any that prove to be inappropriate. Take a look at matters on February 25-28, March 1-3, 9-22. The pursuit of educational or travel interests stimulate your thoughts, but you need to be realistic about potential problems.
LIBRA: Both you and your partner will need to get your heads together over a financial matter between February 14, and March 31. This can be an excellent time for expanding your financial base, especially on February 25-28, March 1-3, 9-22. However, you may be concerned over the state of a partnership or your partner so take heed of any warning signs.
SCORPIO: Your partner's energy levels will experience a resurgence in the six weeks from February 14, keeping you on your toes. Demands upon you are likely to be high, but this is a two-way street. If your partner does not share a similar perspective, this could place extra burdens on you. Positive trends are most active on February 25-28, March 1-3, 9-22.
SAGITTARIUS: Personal health issues and those of younger family members will require your attention in the six weeks from February 14, which is also a time when there are more responsibilities for someone in your care. The organisation of fitness routines is also favoured, as is the attendance to health matters. Best results are achieved on February 25-28, March 1-3, 9-22.
CAPRICORN: Sporting activities will be a prominent feature of Capricorn's life in the six weeks from February 14, with February 25-28, March 1-3, 9-22 highlighting the most enjoyable moments. The sport of love can also produce a few exciting episodes, as can participation in active recreational interests. This is also an excellent period for sharing moments with family.
AQUARIUS: The rigors of daily domestic life need to be tackled with more enthusiasm until March 31, for anything that has a weakness will surely upset routines then. Anything neglected, no matter how minute, will certainly demand your attention. You can expect beneficial developments on February 25-28, March 1-3, 9-22 in the management of these affairs.
PISCES: If there have been any problems with the car, or you are seeking a new one, the six weeks from February 14, will promote opportunities to deal with the situation, especially on February 25-28, March 1-3, 9-22. Try not to be overly aggressive in your dealings with others during this time as aggression will be met in kind: tailor your words to suit the situation.
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Tom BisschoffI; Annah MathyeII
ISenior Lecturer at the University of Birmingham and Emeritus Professor from the University of Johannesburg, is the co-author of seven books, of which the most recent is Mestry R & Bisschoff T 2008, Financial School Management Explained. Cape Town: Pearson. E-mail: email@example.com
IIAnnah Mathye is Senior Manager in the Limpopo Department of Education and holds a doctorate from the University of Johannesburg
Education systems all over the world, like all other organisations, have certain organisational goals that they set and wish to achieve. It is argued that for increased pupil performance, in the case of education systems, teachers must work harder and smarter. A performance system is regarded as part of the process to achieve this organisational goal. Some prominent researchers, however, forecast a movement away from performance management as we know it. In this paper we use insights from a specific school district in South Africa to highlight the need for effective advocacy of a performance system to ensure a measure of success. One of the major findings is that although advocacy in its narrow sense is a process to make stakeholders aware of a new policy, the data collected reveal two broad themes, namely, the process itself but also the issues about the content of that which should be advocated. Findings on the process itself focus on sufficient funding, effective training, reconsideration of the cascading mode of delivery, clarity on the roles of different structures, official sources of information, anticipated reaction of teachers and effective monitoring of the implementation process. Findings on the content of IQMS focus on the conceptual framework of IQMS, clarity of the content and contextual factors to be considered.
Keywords: human resource management in education; Integrated Quality Management System (IQMS); performance management in education
What led to this inquiry?
During the 2008 Commonwealth Council for Educational Administration and Management (CCEAM) held in Durban in South Africa two of the keynote speakers spoke about a post performance management era that schools and education systems are moving into. Andy Hargreaves coined it the "fourth way" and Tony Townsend called it the "fifth 'S'-curve". From questions and remarks from the delegates (predominantly practitioners from the schooling sector in South Africa) it was clear that the papers were seen as not applicable to South Africa. Some delegates insisted that we (South Africa) were still in the inspection phase and needed it to get rid of incompetent teachers or force them to work harder. "We are now in the accountability phase and need an inspection system to get the lazy teachers to work or out of the system" (CCEAM, 2008:1).
Some delegates insisted that their teachers need an inspection system from a developmental point of view. These remarks are interesting in the light of Foskett and Lumby's comment on the myth that appraisal systems improve teachers' performance (2003:74). In many countries the management of teachers' performance has negative connotations as is the case in South Africa (Makau & Coombe, 1994). Managing performance is associated with a punitive and often an inefficient inspection system. In considering how to support teachers to achieve a satisfactory or better performance, governments have striven to move forward by balancing the strong accountability element of previous inspection regimes with a more positive determination to provide support.
With the IQMS, the department seeks to provide a framework to ensure that each teacher's individual contribution contributes to the effectiveness of the system. The individual performance must lead to the achievement of the school system's goal as an organisation. Such a framework can only work if staff know what is required of them, receive feedback on how they are doing, and are supported to achieve expectations (Middlewood & Lumby, 1998; Middlewood & Cardno, 2001). The way the performance system is advocated is therefore paramount to its success.
This triggered us to look at the thesis, submitted by the second author under the first author's supervision in 2007, on the advocacy of the Integrated Quality Management System (IQMS) implemented in South Africa recently. The research questions of the thesis were: how did we advocate IQMS to the school-based teachers (SBTs) in the province and what were the perceptions of teachers on the advocacy process? These two questions also form the driving force for this article.
If it is so, that we in South Africa need to move beyond a teacher performance system as we know it, then it is logical that a new system is imminent. Therefore the study is relevant and timely to ensure the effective advocacy of such a new system.
The importance of effective advocacy of policy was accepted more than two decades ago in the economic and developmental public sectors but it appears that, in the case of education policy changes and implementation, we are somewhat behind in the light of the information collected from the teachers (Peattie & Aldrete-Haas, 1981). Teachers seem to resist what they perceive as attempts by government to further restrict their professional freedom. Regardless of teachers' perceptions, government carries on regardless with its reform agenda. Despite evidence of initiatives that fail governments remain stubbornly surprised when their plan remains unimplemented and move swiftly on to the next change (Coombe, 1997; Foskett & Lumby, 2003; Timperley & Robinson, 1997). Foskett and Lumby conclude with the words: "Nowhere is this scenario seen more acutely than in the area of managing teacher performance" (2003:75).
As far back as 20 years ago, Sabatier (1988:129) wrote about an advocacy coalition framework of policy change in the field of policies that would curb pollution. His advocacy framework focuses on the belief systems of advocacy coalitions within policy systems as the critical vehicle for understanding the role of policy analysis in policy-oriented learning and the effect, in turn, of such learning on changes in governmental programmes. The work done by Cohen and his colleagues also provides us with a better understanding of advocacy as an essential part of implementing policy (Cohen, De la Vega & Watson, 2001. See also Jansson, 2007). The line between policy implementation and policy advocacy is a thin line especially at the beginning of the implementation phase. For the purposes of this study, advocacy must be understood as an integral part of policy implementation.]]>
The context
The so-called teacher performance management trajectory in South Africa went through a number of phases after the 1994 elections in South Africa. After getting rid of any remnants of the inspection structures that remained from the previous regime, the department started with a Developmental Appraisal System (DAS), moved towards a Whole School Development System (WSD), then towards a Whole School Evaluation System (WSE), which was further developed into a Performance Measurement system (PM), which culminated in the Integrated Quality Management System (IQMS) and is practice in South African schools. DAS aims at appraising individual teachers in a transparent manner whereby a teacher evaluates him/herself and discusses the outcomes with the Development Support Group at every school. WSE evaluates the overall effectiveness of a school while PM evaluates individual teachers for salary progression, grade, appointment affirmation, rewards and incentives (ELRC Collective Agreement 8, 2003: Section A). All three of these policies (DAS, WSE and PM) were faced with implementation problems in the relevant province owing to the manner in which they were advocated to school-based teachers (Daniels, 2007:5. See also De Clerq, 2008, on the implementation readiness of the majority of schools). When IQMS was advocated, it was a way of stepping back and reflecting collectively on the enacted policies. The education department thought that for quality to exist in the system, different structures needed to be in place as a way of ensuring continuous improvement. For IQMS to be successfully implemented, there are structures that should be introduced in schools, like the School Development Teams (SDT) and Development Support Groups (DSG) (ELRC Collective Agreement 8, 2003: Section 3).
Our inquiry attempts to explore and describe the advocacy phase in the implementation of the IQMS in one of the districts in one of the provinces of South Africa. The research questions are: how did we advocate IQMS to the School Based Teachers (SBTs) and what are the perceptions of teachers on the advocacy process? The first research question could only be addressed by looking at the official documentation that was available within the head office and district office and only provided the so-called official perspective on the advocacy process. In answering the second research question a more in-depth and fuller picture of the process becomes evident.
Research design
The inquiry started off by identifying different types (rural, semi-rural, urban, and township) of secondary schools in the district in one of the provinces of South Africa and having focus group interviews with teachers of the schools. Each of the four schools represented the initial criterion for type of school but the final choice was more a matter of convenience and accessibility to the researchers. The emphasis on the different types of school was done to get "maximum variation" in the data collected. This is in accordance with the spirit of qualitative research and its quest for explanations which encompass complexity, subtlety and even contradictions (Denscombe, 2003: 26). A focus group interview has advantages (generates richer responses by allowing participants to challenge one another's' views) but in the context of this study it also created a problem in the sense that "quieter" people in the group did not express their views or only a somewhat moderated view that more reflected the "acceptable view" of the group (Denscombe, 2003:168).
Ethical clearance was obtained from the relevant education department as well as from the Faculty: Ethics Committee of the university. In total four schools were identified and the groups were made up of post level one teachers (to ensure that no power relations existed within the groups) who underwent training in the IQMS.
The interviews were audio-taped and transcribed. Those sections that were in one of the local languages (Xitsonga or TshiVenda) were translated. The interview protocol used was a simple question on the participants' perceptions of how the IQMS was advocated to them as school-based teachers with a series of follow-up questions (Arksey & Knight, 1999:97; Litosseliti, 2003: 55). The follow-up questions followed a "funnel approach" and were aimed at increasing the richness and depth of responses (Stewart & Shamdasani, 1990: 76; Patton, 2002:372). Trustworthiness was enhanced by recording an audit trail, analysing in collaboration and doing regular member checks (Maykut & Morehouse, 1994:146-147; 152).
The analysis was done in a more formal way and not the 'other way' so clearly put by Denscombe:]]>
One way of doing this (qualitative data analysis) is to become immersed in the data, looking at them many times and then making an intuitive attempt to identify the key categories and connections on the basis of knowing the data so well that insights simply come to the researcher almost as a matter of inspiration (2003:270).
Meticulous attention was paid to the so called cut-and-paste method (Barry, 1998), which ensured a more systematic procedure in the analysis process. We regard this section as very important because the process of analysing the data is often overlooked in reports of qualitative data. Whereas an explanation of statistical techniques and data manipulation always accompanies the use of quantitative data in research this is not the case with qualitative reports (Denscombe, 2003:277).
The four transcribed interviews went firstly through an analytic coding phase. The raw data were scanned for particular ideas that could form a unit of analysis. Units of data — bits of information — are literally sorted into groupings that have something in common. A unit of data is any meaningful (or potentially meaningful) segment of data. Lincoln and Guba (1985; cf. Merriam, 1998:179) say a unit must meet two criteria. First, it should be heuristic — i.e. the unit should reveal information relevant to the study (research questions) and stimulate the reader to think beyond the particular bit of information. Second, the unit should be "the smallest piece of information about something that can stand by itself — i.e. it must be interpretable in the absence of any additional information other than a broad understanding of the context in which the inquiry is carried out (Lincoln & Guba, 1985:345). In the spirit of open coding, time was not wasted on why certain ideas were chosen but more on the discovering, naming and categorising the components of the concept of advocacy (cf. Strauss & Corbin, 1990:181).
In the second phase early categories and sub-categories were reflected on and compared so as to refine them to better explain the concept of advocacy. The researchers were constantly aware of the guidelines Merriam state for the efficacy of categories, namely, they must reflect the purpose of the research; they must be exhaustive; mutually exclusive; sensitising and conceptually congruent (1998:183-184). Tables 1 and 2 are attempts to do just that. These categories were reflected on by both authors and discussed in depth. Although the aim was not to develop grounded theory the analysis was done according to what Glaser and Strauss (1967) call the constant comparative method of data analysis. The basic strategy of the method is to do just what its name implies, namely, to constantly compare. The initial categories and constant comparing led to the refinement of the categories (Merriam, 1998:159).
Findings and discussion
The two broad themes that came to the fore were issues with regard to the process itself and issues with regard to the content of IQMS. First the process will be discussed and then the content.
The broad categories and sub-categories in Table 1 were identified from the four focus interviews. All of these relate to the IQMS process of advocacy.
The table will be discussed in detail to understand the shortcomings in the advocacy process but also to suggest some guidelines that may support the advocacy process in the future.]]> Sufficient funds needed for the advocacy process
From the data collected from the four interviews it is evident that there were not sufficient funds allocated for the process. Participants' complaints on this matter were clear in the following statements:
That is why it (training workshops TCB & AM) was switched from three days to one day.
Because of financial constraints we ended up holding a half day workshop.
We received notices that due to financial constraints the workshop has been cancelled.
More effective training of SBT to be provided
From the data collected it appeared that there was a problem with the duration and quality of the workshops.
It was done haphazardly in a very short space of time ]]> All these things were done in one day.
those who had to help us were trained for a day
Reconsideration of the use of the cascading mode of information dissemination
The IQMS advocacy process included the school principal, one other member of the school management team, and one teacher representing the staff. These invited members were expected to cascade down the information they obtained from the workshops to all staff members. The other member of the school management team and the teacher representing the staff were waiting for the principal to disseminate the information to the staff but that was delayed due to a lack of confidence (by the principals) and uncertainty on when they were suppose to advocate the IQMS to all staff members. When eventually the dissemination took place it was based on a weak understanding of the system and loss of memory due to the time lapse between the workshop and actual cascading of the information. In the dissemination the negativity of the principal about the system came out very clearly and influenced the perceptions of staff at that specific school.
Weeks after the workshop my principal started off the staff meeting with — " guys I cannot remember everything they told us at the workshop but here is the gist "
Our principal was negative about the whole thing — he said they just want to change for the sake of change.
More clarity on the roles of different structures in the advocacy process
The whole process of the advocacy of the IQMS is set out in the ELRC Collective Agreement (2003: Section A). The composition of the two key groups, namely, the School Developmental Team (SDT) with the principal and democratically elected member of staff including a beginner teacher and the Development Support Group (DSG), made up of the teacher who is undergoing appraisal, an immediate senior and a peer (who must be a teacher). A peer is selected on the basis of appropriate phase/Learning Area expertise (ELRC Collective Agreement 8, 2003: 13 — Section A). The size of the SDT is decided by the school as well as the duration of the term of office. According to the ELRC Collective Agreement the following are the functions of an SDT, namely, that they should:
The functions of the DSGs are to:
The participants were adamant that the unions should play a more prominent role.]]>
and also from unions
But at least we got more information from unions than from the department
I attended a union work session where I got something about IQMS
Need for more official and secure sources of information for SBT
From the remarks made by the participants there was total confusion on the sources of information with regard to IQMS. Some teachers received a circular (official letter that is written and distributed to various schools by the department and can be via the circuit office, district office or direct from the provincial head office) which invited them to a former College of Education building; some were however only verbally informed.
]]> More thorough investigation into what reactions of SBT on the IQMS process could be expected
they wrote us a letter which invited us to a common venue
Some government officials told us verbally that we are going to start with IQMS.
it was verbal and then followed up by written information
It was clear that the department did not anticipate many negative reactions from the SBT because from the interviews it was clear that their concerns were not addressed in the workshops. Some teachers were surprised by the new policy since DAS, WSE, and PM in their eyes have failed.
this is a new monster of a thing that is going to fail
A more positive reaction was that they felt that they would receive more money after the appraisal process.
my reaction is that inspection is coming back in another form
actually, I am surprised of what was going to come I am suspicious of the success of the whole thing
the news I exciting because it was just about money
More effective monitoring of the implementation process of IQMS]]> Part of the process was also to monitor the implementation of the advocacy process. Schools were notified that departmental facilitators will do school visits to help schools if they experience challenges during the implementation of IQMS. The following statement is self evident:
I only received a circular indicating that from such a date up to such a date they will be moving around, but none of them ever came to our school.
These facilitators lack knowledge on IQMS.
Some schools were sampled, others were left out and this did not give the department a true reflection of what was happening in schools.
On the issue of the content Table 2 will be discussed.
Table 2 will now be discussed in detail to understand the shortcomings in the content of IQMS as it relates to the advocacy of the system but also to suggest some guidelines that may support the advocacy in future.
Conceptual framework of IQMS
From the interviews it is clear that there was a lot of confusion on the protocol of the IQMS as set out in the conceptual framework. The protocol sets out step-by-step the process that must be followed during the observation of a teacher in his/her practice. The framework stresses that for any teacher to be evaluated, the policy should have been advocated to him/her prior to the observation. The DSG (Development Support Group) should have been formed and it should include the teacher's immediate senior and a peer who is selected on the basis of Phase or Learning Area expertise. The DSG is there to mentor and support the candidate. The practice as described by the participants point towards the signing of IQMS process forms by the DSG without any consultation with the candidate on his/her submitted Personal Growth Plan. Due to the violation of the conceptual framework and the associated protocol participants were sceptical about the content of IQMS.
]]> The papers must go somewhere the next thing we are supposed to get money.
The practicality and cost-effectiveness of the IQMS content will now be discussed. The IQMS content includes the completion of several forms, which request personal details, self-evaluation forms, the PGP and the School Improvement Plan (SIP). Reference to the Performance Standards when a teacher is observed in his/her practice is also required. All this leads to a paper- driven system that does not appear practical (schools with few resources) or cost-effective, considering that all this will lead to a 1% progression in the salary of the successful candidates.
we are only going to get 1%
Part of the problem related to the conceptual framework was the lack of understanding of the content and the lack of constructive and professional engagement by teachers. Because of the unsuccessful advocacy of the IQMS instrument it was not understood and that resulted in teachers not being empowered to manage the flow chart (as set out in the conceptual framework) to complete the PGP and SIP. The teachers who attended the IQMS advocacy sessions did not understand its content. The following comments were made:
is a clear indication that they do not understand this
Most of the questions he (facilitator during the workshop) did not answer.
The participant did not experience the IQMS design as being constructive in its design. It did not, according to the participants, improve the competence level of the teaching fraternity. On the contrary, it led to teachers cheating and threatening the DSG. The following comments stress the above conclusion:
]]> .. It is very difficult to prove whether somebody has cheated or what
That is why we are going to cheat because we want those points (to get more money)
I think you should always be there for a friend. How can you down grade a friend?
obviously, my friend is not going to reveal that information
The above comments and conclusion challenge the instrument on two levels namely, is it constructive and is it professional? Simply, cheating and threatening fellow colleagues results in tension and hinders constructive and professional engagement in the IQMS. The success of any performance system is based on a sense of ownership by those affected, coupled with a degree of honesty and integrity from all involved.
Clarity of the IQMS content
For the successful advocacy of an appraisal system clarity of the content is paramount. From the participants it seems that the IQMS facilitators were unsure of the IQMS content. They did not demonstrate an understanding of the content. The participants make the following damning comments on this aspect:
even those people who conducted the advocacy-training to our principals and those educators who went to workshops were not 100% sure of certain issues related to IQMS
He (facilitator) was not clear because we went out of that workshop like the way we went in ]]> the people who were training us were not knowledgeable
Contextual factors
The participants were adamant that the IQMS is flawed in its content because it does not consider the contextual factors that impact on the performance of a teacher. The one recurring factor was the one on pupil-teacher ratios. On the one hand the department views the benchmark of 1:35 (for secondary schools) and 1:40(for primary schools) as the reality at the chalk-face level but it is clearly not the case:
you get 50 learners in one classroom
having up to 94 learners in a class is more difficult for an educator than having 35
Can you imagine being evaluated in a class of 80 learners?
In the same vein participants referred to the general lack of resources in most township and rural schools that affect the appraisal of teachers in that school.
if you put Mr X (an award winning teacher) in my school he will not be as successful
In conclusion we can only concur with Foskett and Lumby (2003:85) that any notion that improving teachers' salaries and conditions or managing their performance more tightly will improve the experience and outcomes for learners is far too simplistic. First, motivation and development are intensely personal and individual; and no formal process will succeed in improving performance if the individuality of each member of staff is not recognised as an essential element. The multi-lingual and multi-cultural context only serves to exacerbate this point in the South African context. Second, appraisal and review give an account of performance as a starting point for development. The latter involves that teachers learn in its broadest sense, increase knowledge, skills and attitudes. The comments on policy changes made by Sabatier are also very relevant here:
understanding the role of policy-oriented learning requires a time perspective of a decade or more (and) public policies (or programmes) can be conceptualised in the same manner as belief systems, namely, as sets of value priorities and causal assumptions about how to realise them (Sabatier, 1988:131). See also Middlewood & Cardno (2001).
Managing performance is, therefore, a holistic process that should be advocated effectively and implemented as a part of managing teachers to enhance learning in the school. If leaders in education have the courage to do this (see the findings and discussion in this paper) and customise best practices in the world for local conditions they could well be providing a model of lifelong learning for teachers and in that way sustain improvement in the delivery of the organisational goal of education systems.
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The Reckless Moment
What do a famous film director with a deep appreciation for Korean food and a handful of fellow middle aged customers who shop at Amoeba every single day have in common? They love the import DVD section. The import section is reserved for DVDs from different parts of the world that have different region coding from U.S. DVDs. If you have a region free DVD player you can watch them. What is surprising is how many film titles are only available as imports. 1984, Barfly, and The Magnificent Ambersons are just a few of the titles that either went out of print or were never released on DVD in the U.S. and can only be bought relatively cheaply as imports. Cinephilia can be a lonely and expensive calling made more frustrating by limiting what one watches to what the studios dictate as permissible for one to purchase. I begin this review extolling the virtues of Amoeba's import DVD section simply because without it I would never have been able to see The Reckless Moment on DVD, which would have been a real shame because it's one of the best thrillers released during the heyday of American film noir and perhaps one of the strongest feminist films I've ever seen. The Reckless Moment stars Joan Bennett as Lucy Harper, an upper middle class Californian housewife who looks after her teenage daughter and pre-teen son while her husband is perpetually away on business. Between her kids and her father-in-law she doesn't seem to have any time to herself. Although her station in life is a privileged one, with all the perks such a position affords—hired help and a huge house to name but two—she is completely trapped by her situation without seemingly a moment to devote to herself. Her entire identity seems to be subsumed by motherhood. She is perpetually photographed in the film with the silhouette of her home's staircase and other furnishings casting prison bar-like shadows across her. This isn't a Douglas Sirk tearjerker about the spiritual emptiness of white American privilege (well, not completely), but rather a classic noir thriller, so let me get to the part of the story where someone gets murdered.
Bennett's rebellious daughter Bea, played by Geraldine Brooks, is stepping out with a sleazy older guy whom Lucy knows is all wrong for her daughter. Bea is in art school which is shorthand in the film for being surrounded by all the wrong people. Mother and daughter fight but Bea refuses to budge. Lucy takes matters into her own hands by traveling to a seamy part of L.A. from her idyllic lakefront property to confront Bea's boyfriend, Ted. She is determined to protect her family at all costs, and Ted turns out to be just as much of a lowlife as she thought he was. Later though, when Ted winds up dead just steps away from their beautiful home, Lucy, without knowing what exactly happened, must figure out how to dispose of the corpse and keep her daughter's name out of the murder investigation. To complicate matters further, a couple of blackmailers turn up demanding $5,000 for Bea's love letters to Ted which were used as collateral by Ted for a debt he never repaid. When asked by one of the blackmailers why she is doing so much on behalf of her daughter, Lucy looks him in the eye and offers up being a mother as the only reason necessary.Continue Reading


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Beat the Streak Report: Tuesday, May 5
Today's recommended picks
Victor Martinez, C, Indians
.422 AVG during 12-G hit streak
Ichiro Suzuki, OF, Mariners
20-for-37 (.541 AVG) lifetime vs. Rangers starter Vicente Padilla
Adrian Gonzalez, 1B, Padres
Reached base safely in 14 of 15 games; 10-for-26 (.385 AVG) lifetime vs. Rockies starter Aaron Cook
BTS all-time leader: Michael Karatzia, 49
MLB all-time leader: Joe DiMaggio, 56
Yesterday's results
It's still early in the season, but we've already reached a milestone of sorts: With the selection of Ichiro Suzuki (1-for-5), baltimore20 extended his hit streak to a BTS-high 28 games, the halfway point to Joltin' Joe's hallowed record. Immediately behind baltimore20, the leaderboard held steady. nico27945 pushed his second-place streak up to 26 games, and bj_hotfox_22 and rbcaliguy009 remained tied for third at 25 games.
Yesterday's Top 5 most selected players
1. Manny Ramirez (LAD): 7.5%, 2-for-3
2. Albert Pujols (STL): 7.5%, 0-for-3
3. Evan Longoria (TB): 7.2%, 1-for-4
4. Ichiro Suzuki (SEA): 6.7%, 1-for-5
5. Chipper Jones (ATL): 3.4%, 1-for-3
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the leader lost its streak at 28 with ichiro going 0-2
The majority of the leaderboard picked Ichiro. I'm glad I changed to Adrian Gonzalez in my early streak.


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When she walks into a suite at the Four Seasons hotel, a black sweater studded with gold sequins wilting off her milky shoulder and skin tight black pants revealing the body of a 20-year-old, the entire press corps collectively gasps, then sighs lovingly, "Cher."
Ladies and gentlemen; we are in the presence of greatness.Lest we not forget, this is the woman who played God on "Will & Grace."
Taking a break from her blockbuster Las Vegas show, Cher is promoting "Burlesque," her return to the big screen after a six-year absence, a film her co-star Stanley Tucci calls, "Gay Fantasia." Directed by Steven Antin, brother of Pussycat Dolls founder Robin Antin, Cher and Christina Aguilera star in this story of a small-town girl (Aguilera, in her big screen debut) who moves to Hollywood for her shot at stardom and finds it while working in a burlesque club run by a former dancer (Cher). Tucci, who we would happily watch read the phone book, works his usual magic as the club's stage manager while Cam Gigandet and "Grey's Anatomy" star Eric Dane supply the man meat.
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It's a lush, beautifully photographed musical filled with show-stopping song-and-dance numbers, that calls to mind movies like "Gypsy," "Chicago," and "La Cage aux Folles" with just a hint of "Showgirls" (in the funny, campy way minus the sleaze).
Asked why she stepped away from an acting career that earned her wide critical acclaim for iconic roles in films like "The Witches of Eastwick," "Mask," and her Oscar-winning turn in "Moonstruck," Cher takes a pull from a Big Glup-sized iced coffee, shrugs and says simply, "I forgot. Nothing came to me that I liked, except a part in 'Mamma Mia,' which I was on the road and couldn't do. I've been busy, it's not like I've been a shut-in, but I forgot that I like acting so much. "
In July 2011 she'll be heard supplying the voice of a giraffe in Happy Madison's feature, "The Zookeeper," but if Cher has her druthers, her next role will have her going toe-to-toe with a Jackass.
"There's the movie with Johnny Knoxville that I'm really interested to do, called 'The Dropout.' It's very dumb, very 14-year-old boy. But I love it. I love him too."
"Burlesque," featuring Cher's effortlessly charming performance, a reminder of just how talented she is, opens November 24.


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Enzyme prevents fatal heart condition associated with athletes
Scientists have discovered an important enzyme molecule that may prevent fatal cardiac disorders associated with cardiac hypertrophy – the leading cause of sudden cardiac death in young athletes. Cardiac hypertrophy is a disease of the heart muscle where a portion of the tissue is thickened without any obvious cause. It is commonly linked to high blood pressure (hypertension) and excessive exercises and results in a shrinking of the heart chamber and a reduction of its blood-pumping volume.
The condition is also associated with fatal cardiac disorders related to irregular heart beats (arrhythmias), leading to millions of deaths worldwide each year, and is perhaps the most well-known cause of sudden cardiac arrest in young sports people.
The researchers used laboratory experiments and computer simulations to show that the enzyme MKK4 is involved in preventing arrhythmias. They believe it does this by modifying another protein, connexion, which forms an electrical bridge between adjacent heart cells to ensure the conduction of electrical activity across the heart as an excitation wave, triggering synchronised mechanical contraction of the heart with a regular heartbeat rhythm.
The multidisciplinary team, writing in The Journal of Biological Chemistry, found that loss of the MKK4 protein disrupts the spatial distribution of connexin, resulting in reduced and non-uniform electrical coupling between heart cells.
This causes a fragmented excitation wave in the heart, leading to uncoordinated heart muscle contraction and irregular heart rhythm. As a result, the heart loses its power to pump blood efficiently, causing disability or sudden cardiac death.
"Using experimental measurements together with detailed computer models, we were able to simulate the electrical activity in cardiac tissue with disrupted electrical coupling between adjacent cardiac cells," said Dr Xin Wang, in Manchester's Faculty of Life Science.
"The information generated from this study will help us to identify whether the MKK4 enzyme could become a therapeutic target for the treatment of cardiac arrhythmias in association with cardiac hypertrophy."
Co-author Professor Henggui Zhang, a biophysicist in Manchester's School of Physics and Astronomy, added: "This research means it would be possible to identify the most important factor behind the sudden cardiac death associated with cardiac hypertrophy, which can affect people of any age with hypertension and also healthy well-trained athletes."
Source: University of Manchester
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Once upon a time Jackie Earle Haley used to give his "Watchmen" co-star and buddy Jeffrey Dean Morgan a good ribbing about Morgan's long bouts in the make-up chair for the part.
That was before Haley took on uber made-up roles in both "Shutter Island" and then as Freddy in "Nightmare on Elm Street."
As "Shutter Island" is released on Blu-Ray DVD, Haley tells PopcornBiz his movie makeup woes and about Morgan's dastardly revenge.
Haley plays a badly-maimed prisoner in Martin Scorsese's "Shutter Island." It's a part so secretive that the director refused to release photos of the character. But take our word for it, if you haven't seen the movie, there's a ton of make-up and Haley is almost unrecognizable.
Says Haley:
"It was sheer joy on the set working with Martin and getting to act six inches away from Leo DiCaprio. But the make-up was tough. I think we started it off at an hour-and-a-half in the chair. We had to get the welts just right. It had to look real."
"I remember I sent Jeffrey Dean Morgan an conciliatory email from the set saying 'Dude, I'm sorry I busted your chops about spending all that time getting your old guy make-up (in 'The Watchmen'). I can finally understand since i just spent an hour-and-a-half in this chair getting a bunch of welts.' "
"But I still used that opportunity to bust his chops. He would be there for three hours to get ready. He'd have to show up at 3 a.m. and at the time I'd show up at 9, throw on my sock and just go."
"Boy, I still had no idea. Freddie made my 'Shutter Island' welts seemed next to nothing. On 'Nightmare' it was six hours in the chair and it worked its way down to 3 1/2 hours. It was an hour just to get the makeup off."
"Jeffrey used to hang out on the 'Nightmare' set, just hang out near my chair and laugh at me while I was getting my makeup on. He would really bust my chops. Yes, he's my buddy."
The lesson: revenge is a dish best served while one is make-up free.


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And so a self-assured, kick-ass student we'll call Jena followed me up to my office after the first day of class last week. We made some idle chit-chat for a minute or two and then she got down to it: She wasn't sure she was going to stick it out. Why? For the first time ever, she confessed, a class had scared her shitless – as in, a knot in her stomach that kicked her clear out of her comfort zone.
To which my only response was this: "That's terrific."
Fear can be the best signal that you're about to grow, to learn something new, to take a taste of something you thought was beyond you. Harness it, and it's often a source of power. It's all about stretching the muscles, as Salon's Cary Tennis wrote to a teary grad student who was ready to flick it all in:
It hurts. You feel weak at first. Then you keep doing it and you get the muscles. Then you can do things you couldn't do before.
It will always hurt a little. If it doesn't hurt a little you're not doing it right.
Love that. All of which got me thinking about the danger of the comfort zone, that safe little territory that keeps us from taking risks.
Now, you'll never catch one of us (okay, me) jumping out of a perfectly good airplane. Or white-water rafting. Or even climbing to the top of a ladder. But the two of us do share a healthy love of the kind of risk-taking that pushes women to throw themselves out there, to make those leaps of faith that get us past our initial fears. In fact, what we believe is that the minute we realize we're afraid to do something new, afraid to ask for what we want, maybe that's precisely when we should jump out of the proverbial plane. Men do that. Why shouldn't we?
Take the case of Abby, a smart twenty-something we interviewed for our book. She started out in journalism, left that gig for a job doing PR for a nonprofit, and then traded that one for a job doing PR for another nonprofit. She loved the job at first, but soon outgrew it, and interviewed for two new jobs – one that was merely good, and the other that was great. She felt good about both interviews, and put in her two-weeks notice. Risky business, right? That same day, she was offered the merely good job – but heard nothing from the great one. So she played some guts ball. She turned down the offer from the merely good job – and waited for an offer for the job she really wanted. A few days later, it came.
Clearly, it could have gone either way. But she made a choice, took a risk, and look how it turned out.
The conventional wisdom is that risk-taking is linked to testosterone, that women aren't all that good at it. But what we wonder is this: is risk-taking defined solely in terms of skateboarding without a helmet or driving too fast on curvy roads? And is it nature or nurture, in that we girls have been conditioned to believe that our role is to play it safe? Have we been too protected by doting parents who decided their role was to save us from ourselves?
Boys will be boys, but girls should be safe?
A recent study out of Columbia University suggests that gender disparities when it comes to risk taking may be different than what we assume. It's all pretty complex, writes Rick Nauert PhD, Senior News Editor of Psych Central:
Men are willing to take more risks in finances. But women take more social risks—a category that includes things like starting a new career in your mid-30s or speaking your mind about an unpopular issue in a meeting at work.
The researchers say that experience greatly influences the type of risk-taker a person may become and this explains why women and men perceive risks differently.
"If you have more experience with a risky situation, you may perceive it as less risky," [said Bernd Figner, Ph.D., who cowrote the paper with Elke Weber, Ph.D]
Differences in how boys and girls encounter the world as they're growing up may make them more comfortable with different kinds of risks.
Stuff to think about, right? Meanwhile, back to Jena. Day two, there she was. Sitting front and center, flashing me a smile. Giving it a shot. And looking confident, indeed.


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California hunters will no longer be able to use dogs to hunt bobcats and bears. Here, Josh Brones, president of the California Houndsmen for Conservation, walks his hunting dogs, Dollar, left, Sequoia, center and Tanner right, near his home in Wilton.
With every new year comes a hodgepodge of fresh local laws — many serious, some silly, and others so obvious it makes you wonder what took legislators so long.
The National Conference of State Legislatures has compiled a year-end list of some of the laws that go on the books Jan. 1.
Among the winners: California bobcats and Illinois residents who overshare on Facebook. Losers include randy police officers and sex offenders with Santa suits.
In Maryland, same-sex couples will get the right to marry. In California, clergy who oppose gay unions don't have to perform them.
California also outlawed hound-hunting of bobcats and bears after deciding it isn't a fair fight.
"There is nothing sporting in shooting an exhausted bear clinging to a tree limb or a cornered bobcat," state Sen. Ted Lieu said when the bill he authored was passed.
Also now prohibited in California: law enforcement officers having sex with anyone in custody, including prisoners who have been arrested but not yet booked.
California and Illinois have both gone to bat for social networkers who want to keep snarky status updates and bikini photos under wraps, barring employers from forcing job applicants or workers to hand over passwords for Facebook and Twitter.
New Year kicks off on Christmas Island, begins rolling west
Beer now considered alcohol, not food, in Russia
Illinois is also looking out for military re-enactors, expanding an exemption from gun laws to include weapons with barrels less than 16 inches long.
Other new Illinois laws: a ban on shark fins and a law prohibiting sex offenders from handing out Halloween candy or dressing up like Santa or the Easter bunny.
Florida is putting the brakes on swamp buggy drivers who want to tool around on state roadways; they can't, unless local law explicitly allows it.
But the Sunshine State has some good news for drivers who flash their headlights to let oncoming motorists know that police have set a speed trap up ahead. They can no longer be ticketed for it, come the first of the year.
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Alice Neel (American, Merion Square, Penn. 1900 - 1984 New York)
Portrait of Ellen Johnson, 1976
Signed and dated lower right in blue: Neel 76
Oil on canvas
44 x 38 in. (111.8 x 81.3 cm)
R. T. Miller, Jr. Fund and gift of the artist in honor of Ellen Johnson on the occasion of her retirement, 1977
Neel's portait of Ellen Johnson captures the subject's mobility of mind and frank presentation of self. As in many of Neel's portraits, the work combines physiognomic precision with a sense of the body's unease, imperfection, and vulnerability.
The Oberlin portrait was created during the peak of Neel's reputation as a painter of art-world celebrities as well as people in her immediate environment.1 Ellen Johnson (1910-1992, professor of art, Oberlin College, and honorary curator of modern art, AMAM) posed for this portrait over the course of several weeks during the spring of 1976 at Neel's apartment in Spanish Harlem. Johnson's account of those grueling sessions is similar to those of other sitters, such as Cindy Nemser and Henry Hope.2 She found the pose uncomfortable and difficult to hold, and it was only after she rose, against Neel's orders, and promptly fell, due to the numbness in her leg, that Neel allowed her more frequent breaks.
Neel worked directly on the canvas without preparatory drawings. She quickly outlined the composition in a thin solution of blue (and occasionally ochre), then built up the work slowly, "but still with positive strokes, no fumbling."3 Johnson's slides of the various stages of the painting record Neel's initial focus on the head and facial expression, and her increasing stress on the awkward frontality of the subject's right shoulder and arm.4 "You won't like this portrait," Neel told Johnson during one session, "because I'm making you look a little askew. But you are a little akew. You certainly aren't square."5 The pale blue shadow behind the figure (yet just beside the turned right arms of both sitter and chair) underscores the disjuncture in position and axis.
Typical of Neel's portraiture, the Oberlin painting is attentive to facial characteristics--lines, shadows, wrinkles, asymmetries--that portray both literal appearance and a characteristic movement of mind. By contrast, the limbs are loosely, sometimes vaguely rendered, and foreshortening is abbreviated and deliberately awkward, as in the rendering of Johnson's lap. The proportions of the hands are often distorted, the shape and knots of the fingers frequently exaggerated. According to Johnson, the hands are the work's finest passage. "But then [Neel's] hands are always individual and expressive....It would be hard to find any Neel hands...that are not communicative."6 Neel often emphasized specific details of clothing--here, it is Johnson's dotted blouse of early 1970s vintage, replete with zipper and broad, pointed collar--that give her portraits a strong sense of time and place.7
A. Kurlander
Work reproduced with permission of Robert Miller, New York
Born in Merion Square, Pennsylvania in 1900, Neel was the daughter of a railroad clerk, and grew up in the small Pennsylvania town of Colwyn. She attended the Philadelphia School of Design (now Moore College of Art). During a summer session at the Chester Springs Art School, she met Carlos Enriguez, a wealthy Cuban, whom she married after graduation in 1925. The two had a daughter and moved to Cuba, and then returned to New York, where their daughter died of diptheria. Neel and Carlos had a second daughter in 1928. Shortly after, Carlos took the child, abandoning Neel and triggering her nervous breakdown. Following treatment in Pennsylvania, Neel returned to New York, where she lived with Kenneth Doolittle, a former sailor, in Greenwich Village.
From then on, Neel continued to develop themes she had already addressed in the 1920s--portraits of famous, odd, and often poor people, as well as still lifes and cityscapes--laid down in thick, dark layers of paint, in a style that drew from 1930s North American realism and Latin American social realism and expressionism. Neel's personal life continued to be unconventional and difficult (she had several children, fathered by several different men). Her painting, which differed sharply from the art fashionable in New York during the 1940s and '50s, did not achieve recognition until the early '60s, when Neel was over sixty.
While the breadth of her work was represented in various exhibitions and retrospectives, it was chiefly her portraits of the 1960s and '70s, with their brighter palette, thin surface of paint, and fluid lines, that secured her reputation as a painter who "catches humanity's moment of greatest doubt and suspends the thought forever on a flat and fragile mirror-like plane."8 In the 1970s she gave frequent slide lectures of her work.
Alice Neel died in New York in 1984.
General References
Nemser, Cindy, et al. Alice Neel: The Woman and her Work. Exh. cat., Georgia Museum of Art, The University of Georgia, Athens, 1975, n. p.
Hope, Henry R. "Alice Neel: Portraits of an Era." Art Journal 38, no. 4 (Summer 1979), pp. 273-81.
Hills, Patricia. Alice Neel, New York, 1983.
Purchased from the artist in 1977
Akron Art Institute, 1979. Alice Neel. 9 December - 28 January. No cat.
Johnson, Ellen H. Fragments Recalled at Eighty: The Art Memoirs of Ellen H. Johnson. Edited by Athena Tacha. North Vancouver, 1993, pp. 146-50.
Technical Data
The painting is in good condition; the colors appear fresh and the surface stable. The texture of the canvas weave is visible through the moderate layer of white ground, which extends to all edges of the tacking margins. The paint is thinly applied throughout; the surface has not been varnished. At present, the canvas is somewhat slack on its stretcher.
1. In 1974, Alice Neel was given a solo exhibition, accompanied by a modest catalogue, at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. In 1975, a Neel retrospective with eighty-three works was held at the Georgia Museum of Art, The University of Georgia, Athens, along with a copiously illustrated catalogue that included an essay by Cindy Nemser, texts by Raphael Soyer and Dorothy Pearlstein, and a transcript of Neel's doctoral address at the Moore College of Art, Philadelphia, in 1971.
2. Ellen H. Johnson, Fragments Recalled at Eighty: The Art Memoirs of Ellen H. Johnson, ed. Athena Tacha (North Vancouver, 1993), pp. 146-50; Cindy Nemser, "Alice Neel--Teller of Truth," in Alice Neel: The Woman and her Work(exh. cat., Georgia Museum of Art, The University of Georgia, Athens, 1975), n. p.; and Henry R. Hope, "Alice Neel: Portraits of an Era," Art Journal38, no. 4 (Summer 1979), pp. 277-78.
3. Ellen H. Johnson, Fragments Recalled at Eighty: The Art Memoirs of Ellen H. Johnson, ed. Athena Tacha (North Vancouver, 1993), p. 149.
4. The slides are reproduced in Ellen H. Johnson, Fragments Recalled at Eighty: The Art Memoirs of Ellen H. Johnson, ed. Athena Tacha (North Vancouver, 1993), pp. 147-48.
5. Quoted in Ellen H. Johnson, Fragments Recalled at Eighty: The Art Memoirs of Ellen H. Johnson , ed. Athena Tacha (North Vancouver, 1993), p. 150.
6. See Ellen H. Johnson, "Alice Neel's Fifty Years of Portrait Painting," Studio International 193 (March 1977), pp. 174-79.
7. The blouse and sweater worn by Ellen Johnson in this portrait are in the permanent collection of the AMAM (inv. 92.10.1-2).
8. William, D. Paul, Jr. Introduction to Alice Neel: The Woman and Her Work (exh. cat., Georgia Museum of Art, The University of Georgia, Athens, 1975), n. p.


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Globe #CyberPinoy Campaign to Showcase Cyberwellness, Internet Safety and Social Media Responsibility
#CyberPinoy is a campaign by Globe Telecom that aims to showcase cyberwellness, or the ability to use the internet safely and responsibly. As more people like Globe's customers embrace the digital lifestyle, the Globe #CyberPinoy campaign also wants to safeguard Globe customers against the dangers of the digital world, which includes identity theft, cyberbullying, cyberstalking, voyeurism, online harassment, sharing of fake news, among many others.
The Globe #CyberPinoy campaign is the first of three short films, which premiered on Globe Telecom's Facebook and Twitter accounts last week. It presents the story about Millennial Hannah who is about to go on an adventure in Hong Kong. In the video, Millennial Hannah shows how important it is to 'think before you share', allowing her to be more careful in revealing her personal details on social media.
I think my friends and relatives who are parents of millennials will appreciate sharing the Globe #CyperPinoy campaign video with their kids, teens and yuppies because we are all for cyberwellness, internet safety and social media responsibility. Much more, guarding ourselves against today's dangers of identity theft, cyberbullying, cyberstalking, voyeurism, online harassment, and sharing of fake news, to mention a few of the negative consequences of using the internet.
Watch it here!
Source: Press release from the Corporate Communications Group, Globe Telecom
Video source: GlobePH Facebook | GlobePH Twitter
Globe launches #CyberPinoy cyberwellness campaign to promote online health and safety
PRESS RELEASE UPDATE (January 20, 2016) By Corporate Communications Group, Globe Telecom
Nearly half of Philippine internet users are at risk of falling prey to cybercriminals due to online habits that make them highly-vulnerable to attacks, prompting leading telecommunications company Globe Telecom to launch the #CyberPinoy cyberwellness campaign which promotes safe and inspiring digital nation.
"Being in the forefront of digital innovations — from providing reliable mobile and broadband connections to world-class content offerings, global partners and more, Globe continuously seeks solutions that will support its sustainability philosophy to allow it to operate in a socially responsible way. Thus, we believe that being a purveyor of digital lifestyle, it is also our responsibility to promote online health, safety, and positive digital citizenship for all," said Yoly Crisanto, Globe Senior Vice President for Corporate Communications.
As an advocate of safe and responsible use of the Internet, Globe came up with #CyberPinoy to unify all its efforts to embrace a digital nation such as Protech101, Stop Spam, and more recently, the Digital Thumbprint Program.
ProTech101 is an online information drive that seeks to inform netizens of the dangers of online crimes by reminding them to keep their accounts and valuable information safe while Stop Spam is an initiative to address the proliferation of spam and scam messages through a Globe channel (http://www.globe.com.ph/stopspam ) where customers can reports such incidents.
With the youth being greatly represented in the online community, Globe has also decided to adopt the Digital Thumbprint Program (DTP) of Optus and Singtel in Australia. DTP is an award-winning program that teaches high school students to understand the impact of their online behavior and how to be safe and responsible for their online activities. Through three workshops, the students learn how to discern proper online behavior, be aware of technology's impact on their social activities, and develop skills on how to use technology to help them achieve life goals.
While the internet provides wonderful experiences, it is also home to unscrupulous persons such as scammers, fraudsters, bullies, and sexual predators who are out to harm or take advantage of other people.
Online scam topped the list of complaints received by the Philippine National Police – Anti-Cybercrime Group (PNP-ACG) from 2013 to 2015 with a total of 366 incidents, followed by online libel with 240 cases, online threats with 129, identify theft with 127 and anti-photo and video voyeurism with 89.
Likewise, the 2014-2015 Cybercrime Report of the Department of Justice's Office of Cybercrime showed that cyberespionage attacks or intellectual property theft is on the rise with 31 percent of the 614 recorded attacks directed against small businesses while 33 percent involved internet/ATM fraud and identity theft.
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