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Video Budgeting Strategy Tips for 2015
If your marketing plans for 2015 include video, this post is for you. This is the season for planning and budgeting, so I'll consolidate the suggestions I've offered my clients in hopes that they help you.
Clients sometimes ask a question like "I want to produce X amount of Y video this year, how much should I be budgeting?"
To answer this question, the main driver of budget typically is determining the business use of "Y" - awareness, conversion, lead gen, etc. Just look at where the video fits into the sales process for your niche.
Generally, the less your audience knows about your product/service, the more 'stopping power', wow factor, and polish, your content needs to cut through and get attention. A good yet extreme example here is a Superbowl commercial for a brand new type of product that no one knows about. You'd need to boost awareness by engaging.
The more your audience knows about your product, they less polished it might need to be. A classic example is a tutorial video for an existing customer. If they just bought your product and now they just need to know how to use it, it doesn't need much 'sizzle', it just needs to be clear.
To help you narrow down the estimated budget scope some helpful questions to answer are:
- Think about this product or service offering this video will support. What does it do?
- Is this a new category, a challenger to an alternative, a new and improved version of what you already offer, or are you supporting an existing offering?
- What's new, interesting and exciting about it?
- For this product to win will it steal market share from a competitor or capture share of a fast growing category?
Marketing Objectives:
- Think about the overall marketing campaign that this video will support.
- What is the core marketing business objective? (Drive leads, downloads, retail sales, etc.)
- What are the key messages for the marketing campaign?
What is the single most important message?
Communications Challenge:
- Think about the challenges in communicating this offering.
- Is the product hard to understand? (complex, new category)
- Is it easy to understand, but so new that people havenât heard of its category before?
- Do people know the category, but they donât know youâre offering it?
- Do they know the category and know your offering, but donât know why yours is better than the alternatives?
- Can you quantify the size of the audience youâd like to know about this offering? (millions, hundreds of thousands, thousands, just a few select people)
- Where do you think this video fits into this marketing campaign? Is it more about deep understanding or broader awareness?
- What is the tone of your brand? (professorial, easy going, goofy)
Do you have some examples of other marketing materials from your company that hit the tone you want?
- Think about who needs to see this content.
- Describe the marketing campaignâs primary targets?
- Are there segments within that audience?
- Can you prioritize those segments? (if you could only reach one with this video who would it be)
- How will people see this video? (part of a media buy, social media, on your website)
This is a long list and you might not know all this stuff. That's okay, it's just a checklist. A tool to narrow things down.
Bottom Line:
If you're in a hurry and just need some rough ballpark figures I think these are a reasonable estimate, per video:
Basic videos: $1-5K (basic 'how to's', training, tutorials, software demos, social media/blog content)
Medium: $5-25K (Respectable content, have some sizzle, polished and impressive, nice interviews, success stories, client testimonials, sexy product shots, etc. )
Advanced: $25K-100K and up. (Product launches, ads, complex productions, brand anthem videos, animated sizzle reels, etc.)
*These estimate ranges might vary greatly depending on what your content is, the quality level it's created at and when, how and where it's produced.
One final note is that most marketers are now incorporating video into their strategies. It's going to be increasingly hard to stand out in an increasingly cluttered marketplace. By narrowing down the goals of your video and the target audience, you can better create a plan that is more effective, if you're able to allocate the budget required to reasonably expect to achieve your goals. Once you start cutting corners, it's hard to stop – and when you do, you can easily end up with an ineffective piece of content, and nobody wants that.
Good luck!


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Gimme Shelter (2)
Pursuant to yesterday's post, this piece by the estimable Heather Mac Donald in City Journal furthers my argument that while the verdict in the murder trial of the illegal Mexican alien who killed her may have been legally and technically correct, it's vital not to lose sight of the larger issues at play:
Advocates for illegal immigrants are unrepentant after yesterday's shocking acquittal on all homicide charges of an illegal-alien confessed killer. The advocates are defending the sanctuary policies that had set in motion the 2015 killing in San Francisco; they have also doubled down on their opposition to any deportation of illegal aliens, criminal or otherwise. If ever there were a clarifying moment regarding what is at stake in the battle for the immigration rule of law, this is it.
Jose Ines Garcia Zarate was a poster boy not just for the folly of sanctuary policies but also for the mass low-skilled Hispanic immigration that has transformed California. A barely literate drug dealer from Mexico with a second-grade education, no English, and a penchant for criminal aliases, Garcia Zarate had been deported five times by federal immigration authorities following convictions for various crimes.
Despite his record, Garcia Zarate was the sort of immigrant that the San Francisco authorities apparently believed that this country needs....
"Needs" is the operative word here. Immigration used to be -- and should be -- based upon the needs of the host country, not on the wants and desires of "immigrants" who freely choose to leave their dysfunctional countries in order to take advantage of America's debilitated sovereignty and generous social freebies. But the Left has chosen to make the fringe benefits of American citizenship -- but not the responsibilities -- freely (literally) available to the Third World as a matter of "human rights."
As I noted yesterday, they've accomplished this by garbing their political aims in the robes of Christian doctrine, specifically regarding charity. The image they choose -- especially this month -- is that of the Holy Family taking refuge in a manger because there is no roo at the inn. But the "immigrants" who will fully choose to break our laws to enter our country are more likely to be Jose Ines Garcia Zarate than Jesus Maria y Jose.


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Vasculitis and arteritis are terms used to describe blood vessel inflammation. Vasculitis describes the inflammation of blood vessels in general, while arteritis more specifically refers to the inflammation of arteries.
Some varieties of vasculitis cause systemic blood vessel inflammation where the inflammation affects multiple sites in the body. Other types of vasculitis and arteritis cause blood vessel inflammation only in specific organs.
Symptoms of Vasculitis and Arteritis
Blood vessel inflammation can have several effects on the vessels. Vasculitis and arteritis can cause blood vessels to narrow severely or collapse entirely, cutting off blood circulation. In other cases, it weakens blood vessels, allowing them to stretch to abnormal sizes.
As vasculitis and arteritis can affect almost any part of the body, symptoms of blood vessel inflammation are broad, and vary widely from one type of vasculitis to another. General symptoms include fever, low energy, unexplained weight loss and a loss of appetite. More specific symptoms depend on the location of the vasculitis or arteritis:
- blood : anemia, high white blood cell count
- brain: stroke, headaches, coordination problems
- eyes: conjunctivitis, retinal disorders, blindness
- gastrointestinal tract: abdominal pain, bloody diarrhea, intestinal perforations
- heart: heart attack
- joints: swelling, arthritis, achiness
- kidneys: renal failure, blood in urine, protein in urine
- lungs: cough (often with blood), difficulty breathing, lung cavities
- nerves: loss of sensation, numbness, shooting pains, weakness
- sinuses, ears, and nose: congestion, hearing loss, collapsed bridge of nose
- skin: rashes, purple-red spots.
Causes of Vasculitis and Arteritis
Often the cause of blood vessel inflammation is unknown. Infections account for some cases of vasculitis and arteritis. Allergies to medication may sometimes trigger blood vessel inflammation.
Some evidence exists that vasculitis and arteritis are related to immune system disorders, which are a common cause of inflammation. Possible links have been suggested between blood vessel inflammation and immune disorders such as rheumatoid arthritis, systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) and Sjörgen's syndrome.
Treating Blood Vessel Inflammation
Whether vasculitis or arteritis, systemic or localized, almost all cases of blood vessel inflammation are treated with the same strategies. Corticosteroids, particularly prednisone, are used in varying doses to control inflammation. Low doses of chemotherapy medications are also employed to suppress the immune system.
Both chemotherapy and corticosteroids carry the risk of severe side effects, including a weakened immune system, blurred vision, and, in rare cases, blindness. When vasculitis requires long-term treatment (sometimes up to a year), medication side effects may hinder treatment.
Specific Vasculitis and Arteritis Conditions
Several specific types of vasculitis and arteritis have been identified.
Bechet's Disease: Rare in the West, but a major cause of blindness in Japan, Bechet's disease causes blood vessel inflammation in the eyes, lungs, mouth, skin, joints, genitals, brain and gastrointestinal tract.
Buerger's Disease: Buerger's disease affects heavy smokers, causing blood vessel inflammation in the hands and feet. Usual vasculitis or arteritis treatments are ineffective: Quitting smoking is the only cure.
Central Nervous System Vasculitis: This condition can causes seizure, memory disorders and confusion. It affects only the brain and the cure requires a year-long regimen of corticosteroids and chemotherapy.
Churg-Strauss Syndrome: A systemic arteritis, Chrug-Strauss syndrome affects the lungs, nasal cavities, heart and many other areas. Without treatment, this type of blood vessel inflammation causes serious nerve damage, heart attacks and lung bleeding.
Cryoglobulinemia: A type of systemic vasculitis associated with hepatitis C infections, cryoglobulinemia causes antibodies to coagulate under cold conditions. Treating hepatitis C sometimes provides relief of this condition.
Giant Cell Arteritis: The most common form of arteritis in adults, this variety of blood vessel inflammation has an average onset age of 72. People of Scandinavian descent are most at risk of giant cell arteritis.
Kawasaki Disease: An early childhood vasculitis of unknown origin, Kawasaki disease most frequently affects children under five. It generally resolves within a few weeks, but without treatment can result in heart disease.
Microscopic Polyangitis: A systemic variety of vasculitis, microscopic polyangitis can cause kidney infections, weight loss, skin lesions and nerve damage, especially in the hands and feet.
Polyarteritis Nodosa: More likely to affect men than women, this systemic blood vessel inflammation causes organ failure and is fatal unless treated.
Polymyalgia Rheumatica: This is a systemic blood vessel inflammation that tends to affect women of Northern European descent. Polymyalgia rheumatica is often found in combination with giant cell arteritis.
Rheumatoid Vasculitis: This is a systemic disease with a possible autoimmune origin. Rheumatoid vasculitis is often associated with rheumatoid arthritis.
Takayasu's Arteritis: This is a chronic blood vessel inflammation of the aorta, the main artery in the body. Takayasu's arteritis affects mostly Asian women, and is one of the rarest varieties of arteritis.
Wegener's Granulomatosis: This is a systemic blood vessel inflammation in the lungs and kidneys. Relapses after treatment are common.
Cleveland Clinic Health Information Center. (2005). What you need to know about vasculitis.
John Hopkins Vasculitis Center. (nd). Types of vasculitis.
John Hopkins Vasculitis Center. (nd). What are the symptoms of vasculitis?
Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research. (2004). Polymyalgia rheumatica.
Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research. (nd). Treatment of cryoglobulinemia at mayo clinic.
National Library of Medicine. (updated 2003). Cryoglobulinemia. MedlinePlus Medical Encyclopedia.
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Illinois residents may not have heard that a number of wiretaps used since 2013 to arrest more than 300 people and seize drugs and cash may have been illegal. As many as 738 wiretaps were approved by lower-level attorneys between mid-2013 and late 2015 when according to federal law, wiretaps must be approved by a top prosecutor.
Many wiretaps may have been approved illegally
Regional drug unit targets illegal drug activity
Narcotic drug activity is being targeted in Boone County, Illinois, through a new task force developed in October 2015. The narcotics unit is in its initial weeks of operation and has detained its first alleged offenders. Officials indicate that they believe drugs are a serious cause of problems, noting that a lack of drug activity would likely eliminate much of the crime in the region. Leaders believe that this special unit, which is comprised of officers from the city of Belvidere and from the county sheriff's department, will help with crime prevention by targeting drugs such as crack cocaine and heroin.


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How to Use this Page
Welcome to the resource page for review! Whether you are a student or parents, there are a few things you should know before you start reviewing.
1. These resources are not created by me. They are only things I have found online that may be helpful for review or re-teaching. If they do not work on a certain device or there is some other problem, it is unfortunately, not something I will be able to help you with.
2. You/your student received a slip of paper in their report card envelope that shows which standards they need to review. Please read the sheet of paper that is attached to it for more clarification.
3. You/your student are welcome to review more than the standards listed on your sheet; however, Mrs. Mosteller specifically picked those standards for you because it is what your grades show you need to practice before EOG's.
4. What is written on your sheet is very minimal. Look for a title or standard number that is written on your sheet and then match it with a resource on this page. If you want to learn more about what standard you/your student needs to work on, visit the parents page of my website and go to the Common Core Standards link to read the entire standard(s).
5. Every student had on their sheet to "Work on Stamina". This just means to practice reading in increasing amounts of time. When they have the EOG they will be reading informational as well as literature texts for a loooong period of time. :(
As much as that seems like torture, we want to prepare them for it so it isn't so torturous.
5. You/your student should not be reviewing or working on this all day. This is your track out and you should be playing and relaxing. You should review for about 20-30 minutes a day when you can. And of course....read!
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Read Works
- Read Works is a great resource. You can search for passages which also come with comprehension questions. You can login with my information. (Username: firstname.lastname@example.com and Password: harriscreek)
Simply login --> across the top there are 5 blue tabs to pick from. Put your mouse over "Passages" and 3 more choices will appear. Click "Get Reading Passages". It will take you to a page where you can search for passages in many different ways. I suggest going to the far right and clicking "Skill/Strategy". Pick what skill you/your student should practice. You can also click the first option which combines several skills in one passage.
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Learn Zillion
- This is a resource that is great for re-teaching. So if a student was absent, or just completely forgot something then they can go here for a lesson as well as practice. As a student or parent you will need to make your own login, but it is free! I highly suggest having a Learn Zillion account as it can be extremely helpful. When you login on the top left there will be three choices on a blue bar. Click Language Arts. In a box you can browse through some ELA topics. Click the link that says "All English Language Arts". You will be take to a page where lessons are shown and the standards are listed. However, on the far left you can enter the standard you want to work on (ex: RL.4.1 for key details) and it will pull up anything that involves that standard.
Learn Zillion
- This resource is wonderful as well. As far as I know, you do not need a login. When you get into the website look on the far left side. Scroll all the way down the page and see what you can choose from. You can pick something that way or you can look at the blue box across the top that says "Browse Worksheets". Underneath it there are options. You can try any of them but I recommend clicking CCSS (common core state standards). Scroll down to the 4th grade sections and click it. Then it breaks it down by different types of reading. You will either want Informational or Text or Literature, or both! Click the worksheet you choose based on the standards listed in the preview!
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Learn Zillion
- This is the BEST resource for math because it re-teaches lessons. Again, just like in reading, you will need to create a login but it is free. Up at the top blue box click "Math". You can browse the topics or click "All math". Once you have chosen "All math" on the far left, scroll down and enter the standard you/your student needs to practice. Then find the lesson that teaches that standard. Have your student watch it as many times as needed.
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Study Jams
- The downside of this is that you cannot search by standard. However, it is free, you don't need a login, and it is pretty easy to find what you are looking for. When you login in you will see a menu bar with 3 options: Home, Math, Science. Click Math. Then click the "All Topics" drop-down box. Pick the category you or your student needs to focus on. Then scroll down and you can see the more specific categories within the option you clicked. For example, if in the "All Topics" box I click "Numbers" and scroll down, it takes me to a place where I can pick from 6 more specific categories. Click a category and then there is an option for a step-by-step lesson as well as a quiz when you/your student has finished the lesson.
Common Core Sheets
- This website has A TON of worksheets for any standard in math. Like, seriously. A TON of worksheets. I recommend this resource for students who just need to practice a certain skill instead of re-learning it. Go to studyjams or learnzillion for re-learning. This resource is fabulous for practice. When you get to the website look on the left-hand side. You can choose from any of those categories. Then you would scroll down the page it takes you to until you see sheets that are for 4th grade. THEN there are several different versions of each type of sheet for lots of practice! Select a version and it creates a PDF (which comes with an answer key) that you can print out or just have your student look at. Printing it out and having your student write their answer on the corresponding line makes checking it very easy for parents.
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There's a huge tree right outside my window. I don't even know what kind of tree it is. I watch it change, as the seasons change; I watch it sway in the wind when the going's rough. I listen to the rustle of the leaves and absorb their vibrant color.
Whenever I'm stuck on a problem I sit and watch that tree. It is beautiful on so many levels. You can look at it mathematically, biologically or aesthetically. Not long ago I heard a quite famous mathematician say, that one finds perfection in every structure in nature when looking at it through the eyes of fractal geometry.
But what strikes me the most is the peace of that plant. It doesn't manufacture a life. Life just happens to it. Naturally. No strife, no hardship. No longing for success or attention. There seems to be an inherent trust in the process of life within all of nature and on a level beyond the description of words that very much consoles me.


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On the way back to Greyhound, I dropped by the BeeHive and tried a Lunch Jambalaya this time. But it was not as good as the Lunch Ling I ate previously because the hot source killed the precious taste and flavour with plenty of seafood; nevertheless far better than other ordinary Canadian Western style restaurants.
Apart from Campbell River on the bus became sparsely populated, and I felt I came to north at last. Other than some port towns where rough boys were smoking each other without words, a mass of cedar trees continued until Port Hardy. Getting off at the ferry port, Port Hardy had nothing to be seen. Only huge number of Indian children were spreading in the parking lot out of a waiting room building.
No restaurants or foods shops were around there, which seemed not commercialised yet. The ferry was named "Queen of the North," which was supposed to take the inside passage with mid-coast stops for 17 hours. The cars were full and passengers seemed also almost full with a lot of Indian children; taken its procedure delayed the 6:00 pm departure time. With full compartments the passenger seats were almost occupied by the children for their sleeping spaces when I got on board.
▲ by tetsu95jp | 2007-11-22 08:56 | 5.Till Port Hardy
▲ by tetsu95jp | 2007-11-21 08:02 | 5.Till Port Hardy
Linda welcomed me at the ferry port of Quadra Island driving me to her kilt shop she also run than the guest house. She was literally a helpful person; not only offering me a gorgeous room with her kitchen for hostels' price, but introducing me to an Indian band office when appeared I wanted to take pictures of real Indians' life.
Her house including the hostel cottages stood just aside of a clear cove and deserved to be described as an ultimate hideaway. Just down was a rubble shore scattered big Oysters around; piece by piece was quite huge nourishing. I picked one up and with difficulty to open ate in raw with nothing added. Wow, it was so nice, so sweet with flavour! The transparent feeling of the taste was far beyond fresh ones bought in Japan. I might say it was the best Oyster I had ever had.
Her husband was away on the sea for his profession, fishing, and supposed to be back in a few days. As for Linda, she departed regardless of his absence for travel leaving her daughter and me. Since no one related with aboriginal activities was available at the Indian band, We Wai Kai Nation, to and from where Linda gave me a ride, I began to walk as far as possible to examine the island. Although she recommended me to use a sea kayak, I wanted to walk with the equipments of photo-shooting.
Quadra Island was quite a huge island rather than expected from a map. Actually, only going and coming the tip of the sandbank seen from my window made me completely exhausted. Only seemingly retired people's houses were seen along the road with few people.
Meanwhile, Linda's husband was back and offered me frozen prawns he caught in the outer sea. Having mentioned the shrimp I ate at the BeeHive, he said they used to be caught in this sea but not now. That was why he voyaged as far as the ferry route to Prince Rupert to catch his preys. He also said there were no good fishing points around the cove, which was the other side from Campbell River. I couldn't understand such a clear sea didn't produce any commercially valuable fish, but he didn't give me that explanation. Ecosystem might be just changing.
Surprisingly, soon he left for voyage again and the daughter and I were left again. She was in puberty and avoided me at first, however, when realised I shouldn't be a dangerous man she began to behave naturally without minding me. The second evening, I baked prawns on a frying pan and she said adding garlic be better. Offered just for trying her sitting in front of a computer in darkness, she muttered, "This one is good," behind me. Surely, the huge prawns were another good ones in spite of frozen status. The next morning, I found a finished dish with many shells on, which she served herself in the same way I cooked.
The weather was unstable like in the mountains and I began to realise such was the characteristics of climate in Canada. Although it was raining lightly in the morning, I decided to rent a bike at a nearby shop. However, it was closed and they were not available on the phone they provided. While waiting for someone appearing, I guessed they should do business only in summer when a lot of tourists come.
Finally, when I called on an inter-phone in another facility down the slope to the waterfront, a White guy appeared bringing a big coffee mug with him. Asking for renting a bike, since the one I chose had little air he pumped the tyres up at a further waterfront building. When he finished, he signed me with gesture to come to his place. I thought he was rude. Without approaching him made him to come back upward to me. And then, I started pedaling the bicycle with difficulty for the steep slope to the road.
Someone had said there was a canning factory run by Japanese northwards, and I wanted to observe but so far that I turned my direction to southwards to visit the Cape Mudge Indian Band again. Pedaling up several slopes with a lot of sweat, and although I passed easily a horse riding lady at a down-slope she passed me at an up-slope and never to be seen. On the way at a dock, a wild-looked man was trying to sell a used yacht to seemingly a retired couple. Someone also said at a different time that the northern limit of settling in for retired people came from Saltspring Island to this Quadra Island.
I expected the Indian fishermen to return from their voyage, because Brian, an administrator of the band office, suggested me so. However, they didn't yet. Dear me, again it ended as a wasted effort. When I felt like the return trip was endless for my fatigue, suddenly a decrepit American coupe slowed down beside me and a couple of guys called to me, "Hey, are you the Japanese taking pictures of the Indian band?" "Sure, but why?" "We heard that from the band office, and can help you with. We can show you our culture and good things." Unbelievable as it was, they ran after me to do me a favour voluntarily.
"Come get on this car, and I'll bring you to our place," a guy smiled. Seeing their faces, seemingly I could trust them, "But I have this bike, I can't leave it here on the road!" "No problem, I can load on my car," saying opened the trunk the driver forcefully packed my bicycle; I was afraid it for it was rental one. The elder guy self-introduced that he was an artist and preserving their culture. That was Dwayne Limeon.
Entering his studio, there were a lot of half made and completed wood sculptures. The backward was another room where another craft tools were arranged; watching around there were pinups of busty blond girls on the wall beside. "What's the tools for?" "These are for engraving and making rings," he showed me the examples that were completed. Those ones reminded me of the stall sales by hippies in Japan.
His sculptures were far better than I was shown on the Flores Island. I strongly felt something Indian with his works. Against my will of taking pictures of him working, he insisted on being taken his works, particularly odd-looked ones. I couldn't think it was good pictures, but after developing films I found he was right in that his works are firmly asserting their existence among pictures I took. His soul won mine.
"When do you do your work?" "Anytime, every time. I am still single, so don't have any fixed times; I sometimes work in daytime and sometimes at night." "What kind of route for selling your works do you have? I can contribute for to sell more greatly because I'm in proficient in that area." He didn't make it clear, though he said with confidence, "I have my customer all over the world. I don't have to open up a new market."
Stepping backward, I found his nostalgic American coupe, more gorgeous than his company's, in a garage along with an audio set with JBL speakers. Next to his studio was a gathering space arranged for party but very wild pub. "In summer," he said, "we get together without reason and have sprees with drug." That natural kind of pub (but maybe he doesn't earn money for it) seemed also his or their proud. I merely envied them. On his business card that he gave me were merely the name, Dwayne Limeon Studios, an Indian print mark, and tel number, to which he added another number by hand somewhat.
▲ by tetsu95jp | 2007-11-20 13:54 | 5.Till Port Hardy
▲ by tetsu95jp | 2007-11-19 14:17 | 5.Till Port Hardy
Anyway, visiting the First Nations drove me to want to further observe another ones. I was remembering then an old aboriginal lady's saying, "Hey! you look like us, Indian," as she rolled into a poor quarters' pub in the east side of Downtown. I don't know if she was drunk or drugged but she was dancing as if forgetting herself. Before Port Hardy, where the ferry to Prince Rupert departs, there is an island called Alert Bay and I wanted stay there next, because it had a hostel with abundant aboriginal culture.
However, the place was too far for one day ride and finally got to Campbell River where was famous for Salmon fishing on the sea. To be trouble, a cheap accommodation I found in the yellow page was yet closed when visited, but kindly enough a man keeping there gave me a ride to a motel he recommended. The office lady told me that a Greek restaurant along the main street was fairly good saying afterwards she also come. Across a bridge to the main road, with falling darkness behind a tiny tiny light of a house over whispering river with woods felt as if appealed they were surly alive; I wanted to hold that scene strongly pressing my shutter.
I was not necessarily satisfied with the dishes at the Greek restaurant, and began to wonder whether the tasty restaurants in Western style never exist in this country. The next day, however, I came to come across a splendid one.
Unfortunately, the hostel on Alert Bay was also not opened yet at that time of March, but she gave me another kindness over the phone in this town; she told Linda who lived on the island across from Campbell River and ran a guest house would help me with my accommodations. Calling her, I got her promise to offer a bed, even though she had not opened either and was supposed to go away.
Until the next ferry to the Quadra Island, I strolled around the town to look for a good restaurant believing this famous fishing town should have such one. Then, curiously maybe for my Japanese appearance and heavy baggage, an old Caucasian policeman accosted me, "Hi, where are you from?" He said he settled here recently from somewhere East of Canada after retired; such life changes should never happen in Japan, I thought, and he looked very happy with his not accustomed occupation. He might know, the idea struck me, "Do you know good restaurant near here?" "Well, what kinds of dishes do you want? There are several places I prefer." "I want a good, I mean tasty and possibly cheap, seafood restaurant. I want to eat Campbell River's fish."
This way I became to know "BeeHive Seafood Grill & Cafe." It was located at a corner of the wharf and had a good view of the sea. I ordered a Caucasian waiter's recommendation, a Lunch Seafood Ling (a pasta) with a cup of coffee. At a first glance, it was an ordinary seafood pasta because of its not great looks. But that was actually the common misunderstanding in epicurian dishes.
Pushing fork into the pasta covered with decent herb vegis, then mussels, shrimps, next to next got appeared, and I was fascinated with its taste at a first bite. What a thing! What a harmony of the variety of seafood and herbs with the pasta which was just adjusted hardness. My tongue danced in mouth and I couldn't help appreciating devouring without looking upon scenic spot over windows. Especially, the sweetness of the small shrimps was out of description! That was happy itself; I could never ever remember such a shrimps so far.
"Was the shrimp caught around here?" "Sure," a young cute waitress replied. Thinking this is Italian taste from my experience in Japan, I asked, "Do you call the dish I had a Canadian or an Italian?" She said bashfully, "A Canadian, I guess." Well, I wanted to confirm the face of this cook then; when checking out, over the counter of the kitchen I saw a White extra over-weighted chef moving busily. That figure made me somewhat relived.
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This evening I went out to the barn, not to ride, but to spend a little time with my horse.
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Panama didn't even get through the gate before he stopped and started grazing. I had to push him the rest of the way through so that I could close the gate. I decided he needed to be harassed a little, so I started twirling the lead rope and chasing him around the pasture.
The last barn I was at had an oval arena, and I used to chase him around it regularly, but I haven't done it much since I moved him to this barn back in December. It used to be quite a tradition, though, and Panama seemed to enjoy it as much as I did — he would buck and dance as he ran from me, just like he used to when he played with his donkey friend.
Tonight Panama seemed to be especially excited about our little game of chase. He flagged his tail as he ran, something I haven't seen him do in a long time (primarily because he doesn't do it during lunging or training — he holds his tail up, but not all the way up). Flagging the tail is a characteristic of Arabian horses, and since I like that Panama is part Arabian, I was thrilled to see him acting like one!
Here is a photograph of an Arabian horse flagging his tail:
Photo by Aline Sagrabelny
Panama also threw a couple of nice bucks while I was chasing him (though he was cautious about it, and always made sure he was far enough away from me when he bucked, as he got into a lot of trouble about a month ago for bucking too close to me).
I'd forgotten how much fun it is to play chase with my horse. I'll have to do it more often now that we have both rediscovered our little game!
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the problem I think does not fixed yet
NEM Supernode Rewards Program
Yeah, I observed exactly the same problem - it failed for balance in round #4679 and #4680, even if balance is - of course - right (over 3mio XEM). If this happened (happens) only for a part of supernodes, I hope it will be recalculated for the right reward after solving this issue.
And anyway, about the rewards - I'm still waiting for the payout for rounds #4673-#4676. It should came yesterday (2019-03-14) around 14:00-15:00 GMT, but nothing arrived. Did anybody has the same experience ?
Reason for the failures were that i needed to restart the local NIS on the node rewards master. I will check on weekend which nodes suffered from that problem and issue the missing payouts.
why some nodes had paid at 4677-4680 for 838?
seems stuck at number 167
Are there any recommendations on providers for hosting a node? Preferably ones with pre-configured nodes if possible, I think I vaguely remember ctl.io have a pre-installed supernode server which just requires configuration with your settings. I've also seen recommendations of people recommending vultr.
Hi, I do not know if you know the page. Here you have an overview of all used ISP´s (NEM Blockchain).
Thanks, looks like vultr is most popular.
not sure about OS though, seems like there's a lot of options in vultr, like debian, ubuntu, fedora, centos etc. Thinking of going for the 8GB to future proof it. VC2 $40 per month. Is there still a tutorial available, I used Pauls one last time, not sure if it's still valid though.
That's the good thing about Linux, but it also has a few disadvantages.
Everyone has a slightly different configuration.
I think most used ubuntu / debian. . … centos… . . Fedora…etc.
Actually only the main settings(Ports, etc.) are the same, the rest is a question of opinion and comfort…
Here is the list of additional payouts for the nodes that suffered from the NIS restart on the node rewards server in round 4679:
payouts.pdf (89.5 KB)
I can confirm that this payout has been received. Many thanks, BR, for all your work around SuperNodes and rewards program!
There were some balance tests failing in round 4702 due to the local node-rewards NIS doing a full garbage collection. Here are the additional payouts for those nodes:
payouts.pdf (52.3 KB)
The same happened in round 4703
If that happens too often then i guess it will level out in the long run.
This time I am doing the additional payout though:
payouts.pdf (53.8 KB)
Hi, BR,
short technical question ->
When Supernode is (e.g. after restart/update of server platform) in LOADING CHAIN status, and the measuring will come, will Supernode pass the tests in this while or not ?
When Supernode is in LOADING CHAIN status, is it possible to start servant (./startservant.sh), or is better idea to wait for finish of loading chain and start servant immediately after that ?
Why I'm asking for - now, with ~ 2100000 blocks height of blockchain, is loading chain very slow process - it takes 1.5-2hours, even on strong servers. But on the other hand - sometimes is of course necessary to update and restart server platform under Supernode (kernel vulnerabilities, newer java, etc.). As measuring is happened each ~ 6hours, it should be very easy to "interfere" with updating (and reloading chain) process thru some round of measuring process. And thus is possible to miss the reward due this issue, which is sad at all, of course ;).
Thanks for clarification…
Depends on the test. NIS tests will fail while servant tests (if servant is already started) will most likely pass.
Yes, no problem.
Yes that is very possible and does happen. But since everyone needs to restart once in a while, it levels out.
change ip 126.96.36.199 to 184.108.40.206
Web server is down?
Yes, working on it to get it up again.
Something wrong with measurement again? Round #4778 failed in my case (just) under "Balance" section - but balance is ok, of course…


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Presentation/discussion, March 6th, noon, SCC 208
Category Archives: Discussion
Reviewing Student Learning: Implications for General Education
Thesis Management Discussion Notes
1. Mary Coffey (Romance Languages and Literatures)
- The number of disciplines and departments at Pomona is important.
- Fundamental Attention to scheduling
- What Mary tends to do is to let her students create a schedule
- She meets with the students to discuss the process, schedule, and expectations
- By the end of the fall, half of the thesis should be done, but this is usually not the case, since it takes time to complete a thesis
- What Mary tends to do is to let her students create a schedule
- Viewing Senior Exercises
- A senior exercise is similar to a course
- It is an independent project and should be the best work that a student does in their senior year
- Therefore you need to have clear communication, and communicate your expectations
- A senior exercise is like an independent study
- Let the student address what they want and how they want to approach their thesis
- Mary says that she allows the student to approach it they way they want to and she is just there to guide the students. Especially if the student is doing a topic on information that she does not have an expertise on.
- Since it is like an independent study, each student is different, and therefore needs different support
- Same may need to meet weekly, monthly, via email, or only meet once. There is no set approach with the students,
- Struggles
- What degree does a senior exercise need to be original? Is it insightful to the student? Does the material seem to approach a Master's thesis? Is it meaningful?
- A senior thesis rarely becomes identified as Masters quality
- One must remember that these students are undergraduates and they are still learning.
- Most often, faculty think students should know everything and can go further in their thesis, but they may not be able to
- Rather answering whether or not they can go further, focus on how much has the student learned themselves? How is the language and sophistication of the thesis?
- Lessons learned
- Don't carry all the burden on your own shoulders
- Students have to do the work largely by themselves
- Do what you can with guidance, but it is all on them
2. Art Horowitz (Theatre and Dance)
- Opening: in relation to the thesis, Art feels like Oscar Levant when he said that Leonar Bernstein is "revealing secrets of music that has already been known in the past 3000 years."
- Students are all different, and therefore so are the senior thesis.
- Examples:
- One student did a project in which she spent time in the House of Detention, teaching delinquent students the play, "Othello." Once the students learned the story, they created their own version of the story.
- Art met with the student who conducted the thesis, sometimes accompanied her to the House of Detention, and the rest was supporting and watching.
- Another student wrote a play in English and Spanish, performed, managed, and produced the play
- Another student played a role in another theatre production and did her thesis on that.
- Some are research driven, in which one student went home to Guiana and did her thesis on theatre education and did her work at a school.
- There are different kinds of mentoring for different kinds of projects
- One student did a project in which she spent time in the House of Detention, teaching delinquent students the play, "Othello." Once the students learned the story, they created their own version of the story.
- Remind students
- For good, scholarly writing, and rigorous work on a senior thesis, the student must be proud of their work
- Close mentoring
- Art checks with them, and makes sure that each student checks in with him
- Meet as often as the student likes
- Helps when the student runs into problems, and listens when the student needs to discuss things with them, and lecture the student when it is needed.
- But in order to closely mentor the students Art must see the work. "Show me the pages, show me the work."
3. Cris Cheney (Biology)
- Thesis Structure: there are two kinds of senior thesis:
- Experimental: yearlong lab and field work
- Molecular Biology only does the experimental thesis
- Research grant: Semester basis, a student comes up with a question and writes and does research on it
- Experimental: yearlong lab and field work
- Experimental thesis timeline:
- Have students think about what they want to do for their experimental thesis and which faculty member they want as an advisor by junior year.
- Lab base
- Have student develop skills and work in the lab before their senior year so that the project can go into a thesis
- Encourage students to work full time during the summer to learn techniques, establish a data set, etc.
- By the time the student becomes a senior, the students can hit the ground running
- During the senior year, Cris meets with the students early in the year and offer to meet twice a week, discussing techniques and thesis.
- In the middle of the senior year, Cris "backs off" and lets the student do the work and make their own mistakes. But she stays close so that she can help if they run into trouble.
- Deadlines
- There are set deadlines in which they need:
- Progress report midway through the semester
- A draft by the end of the semester
- Another draft by the middle of the second semester
- Last Friday of April, Cris checks up on the student and has a discussion with the student
- Lab discussion twice a year
- Etc.
- There are set deadlines in which they need:
- Mentoring
- Close mentoring is very important
- Allows you to trouble shoot, revamp, revise (similar to graduate work)
- Each student is different, some cope with different things (lack of structure in lab, some can, etc.)
- Mentor and help with the student as you can
- Close mentoring is very important
4. Vin de Silva (Math)
- Student must:
- Learn and stude a topic that they do now know much about, but wants to learn, and produce it in a form of research, and projects for several months
- Must write a sustained exposition, telling a good story
- How to tell a mathematical story, stating theorems, identifying and defining theorems, etc.
- Turn in the lab report if available, like little homework questions.
- Spoken Oral presentation to peers
- Addressing themselves in the beginning of the year and by the end know mores o that they can pitch it
- They discuss it with their peers, and need to understand what is going on
- Management:
- Vin meets with students once a week
- Each meeting he will have the student tell him a story. He will have the student dig deeper by challenging them and discussing different directions, or tell the student to continue with their work
- Sometimes he will give them his own exposition, speak in "lecture mode" so that the student can go further
- Vin will carry on these meetings throughout the year
- Sometimes a student wants to cancel the meeting because they did not do work, but Vin keeps the meeting because you can still generate ideas and help students continue forward.
- Skills
- Students need to attach their own importance to learn the information.
- It may take awhile for them to do this on their own
- Time management:
- Department sets deadlines
- It is helpful to have these deadlines since it relieves the burden to police the student
- The thesis topics, bibliography, chapters, applying thesis, etc. are all broken down in stages, and these are all due throughout the year
- In practice, it is done well, others are "half baked."
- Students get penalized if they do not meet the deadlines, so it is effective to keep on track.
- Students are penalized by their final grade. Example: one student did excellent work, but was always a month late on all the deadlines, which ultimately effected her final grade.
- Department sets deadlines
- Students need to attach their own importance to learn the information.
5. Questions
i. How many theses do you mentor per year, and how do you manage the time?
- Mary:
- Manages first and second readers
- Right now: 2 as a second reader, and 4 others
- Second reader is not as intense, but it depends on the student and how they work to manage the time
- Sometimes works all day yesterday, today, and tomorrow, bringing thesis home
- Sometimes it is intense, sometimes it is not. It has it's up and down moments, but that is "part of the gig."
- Art:
- Average 4 first readers per year
- It's like keeping 4 balls in the air
- Manages time by applying pressure here, and sometimes there, depending on the student.
- One can "get used to it."
- Cris:
- 3-6 theses, 1 library, and maybe a second reader on 1
- Management: time commitment with the students at the beginning of the year, and new students
- Meeting on a continual bases
- More time spent advising on lab, and being a constant contact, but reading the thesis is not that big of a time factor. Most of the management is being there for the student and being close by at the lab.
- Vin:
- 3 students per year on average, but this year working on 4.
- Difficulty fitting the students close to their research, and the pace slows down when they are trying to mimic something you know so well.
- What helps manage the thesis is to distribute theses into topics away from your own expertise (with the student's consent)
- This technique keeps it fresh and rewarding
- Otherwise if the topic is too close to what you are doing, it can "suck your energy".
ii. How do you improve oral presentation? How much credit do you give for the oral presentation on a student's thesis? Example: if a student fails during the oral presentation, but has a great written thesis, what grade do you give them?
- Cris:
- Normally the students do well on both
- There is no formal rubric, but the effort counts for part of the thesis
- They do formal practices and practice with the students
- Mary:
- Last decade so far: she has offered to arrange, informally, to meet a couple nights before the oral presentation, practicing with students and each other. They help and critique on the speaking, presentation, time frame, etc.
- Communicate and practice:
- Faculty is training their students to do what they hope they will do, but ultimately, it is the student's responsibility.
- Art:
- Students are great in the oral presentation.
- Vin
- Practice
- If a student isn't doing well on a presentation, an advisor will take the student aside to work on the presentation again.
iii. Process of choosing a senior topic: By junior year, the student comes up with a topic, but sometimes they go abroad and find that their original topic is not feasible. How do you deal with this?
- Mary:
- This can be problematic for foreign languages
- At this time, one must say, "This topic is not appropriate for the discipline."
- Some departments play with it or allow anything for the topic
- This is just part of the negotiation and part of the communication
- Oral presentations: College wide oral presentation day
- Suggestion from the audience: have a presentation day before the string of senior talks, so that the students can learn to present to multiple audiences, even those that are not familiar with the topic.
iv. Advice for students coming from Scripps, CMC, etc? Not much experience with a student from another school, how do you work with this, especially with an inorganic relationship?
- Mary:
- Prefers to not advise students without prior contact
- The institution should be the first to step up and the first to support the student.
- The problem: different schools, different stuff, different outlines, etc.
- Suggest contacting the Associate Dean's office if this arises.
- Vin
- Works with students in other schools already in the math department
v. Library and Research Specifics:
- Bring outside guests and highlight research disciplines for the students
- Integrating library work with students since student's don't visit the library until later when it is often too late.
- Research practice:
- Include a librarian to work with each student
- The skills can range from great research to none at all
- Each courses are different, with different isuees, talking to someone (a librarian) about the process would be helpful
- There are many librarians who would be delighted to help work on the research aspect with the students
- Even top level students benefit from library help
- Include a librarian to work with each student
- All students have the option to turn their thesis in to the Library depository
- This helps since it makes their thesis available for others to see, and the student will think about the quality of their work.
- Faculty members who are interested in library and research specifics should contact their librarians or Gale Burrow and Char Booth.
Some Interesting Research on Young Minds
By Thomas Moore (posted 5/10/11)
In the March issue of Discover magazine, biology writer Carl Zimmer discusses several studies about adolescent behavior that I think might have some interesting implications for college teaching, particularly for our youngest students. Fundamentally, Zimmer argues that a mismatch in the development rate of certain cognitive abilities makes teenagers' brains unusually sensitive to rewards but insensitive to risks when compared to adults. If true, this opens an interesting question: might we as adult teachers miss opportunities for effectively engaging our students because we unconsciously design feedback and grading systems for adult minds (like ours) instead of theirs? Continue reading
The Meaning of a Liberal Arts Education
by Fernando Lozano (posted 4/19/11)
This is my sixth year at Pomona College. Now tenured, I am happy to think that I am likely to spend the rest of my career being a professor at a liberal arts college. My understanding of the "liberal arts" is similar to my understanding of religion: it is something I deeply believe in and that I witness everyday in my students and colleagues. Yet, just as in the case of religion, describing what a "liberal arts education" is is not an easy task. A liberal arts education must include a multidimensional array of experiences, and a liberal arts professor must foster these experiences. I cannot here detail all the dimensions in which a liberally educated student learns (indeed I doubt I am aware of them all), yet I will highlight three that to me are essential: (1) the ability to cross disciplinary boundaries in inquiry, yet still remain competitively trained in an ever-specializing world; (2) the need for a diverse and respectful community of learning, composed of professors and students; and (3) the importance of good writing and active engagement not only as a tool for communication, but as a tool of inquiry used to gather and synthesize students' learning.
A First Exercise in Assessment
by Fernando Lozano (posted 3/29/11)
Last year I did an assessment exercise in my ID1 Poverty in America course. The very first day of class, I assigned my students a response to an economics paper that explored whether we had lost the war on poverty or not. This paper was written in 1998, a very different economic time than 2009.
My students' responses were all very interesting. The reflected my students' political biases and concern for the increase in poverty in the United States due to the recession that started in 2007. Yet they made no use of publicly available data, nor did they support their beliefs using the published literature. I saved these responses during the rest of the semester.
At the end of the semester, I assigned the same exercise: same question, same paper. My goal was to compare both responses and see whether the second submission was better written, whether it used sources more efficiently, and whether their claims were based on data and on the literature we discussed in class. This exercise was not part of the students' final grade, but I wanted to see whether after a semester-long course, the added value from my class was evident in my students' written work.
I like to think that my students' writing and knowledge improved during the semester, and the evidence lies in these two papers. They did sustain their opinions, or some of them, with data or with the literature. The difference between submissions also reflected a better handle on the material. Next time, I am thinking of having the students evaluate their own work: I will give them their two submitted responses, and make them grade themselves. This time the grade will be part of their course grade.
What Does Being a "Liberal Arts College" Mean?
by David Menefee-Libey (posted 2/1/11)
I'm grateful that Teaching and Learning Committee has re-started a valuable conversation at Pomona, asking people what they think it means for us to be a "liberal arts college." I personally have different answers, depending on the context.
For the individual student or teacher, it's about habits of mind. I try to encourage students to develop liberal arts habits of mind, simultaneously pursuing what I'll call "small," "big" and "middle-sized" knowledge and understanding.
Are We Doing Right by Our Students?
by David Menefee-Libey (posted 1/20/11)
I start from the premise that the core mission of Pomona College – and my work here – is to educate undergraduates. Most days, I think we and I stay relatively focused on that mission, and that we do reasonably good work.
But I have to say that I'm rattled by Richard Arum's and Josipa Roska's just-published Academically Adrift: Limited Learning on College Campuses (University of Chicago Press).
Better than Clickers?
Thomas Moore, 1/17/11
During 2010, members of our department experimented with a novel classroom response system: small whiteboards. We had been using "clickers" in a number of classes for a while, but a visit by educational innovators Corinne Manogue and Tevian Dray (Oregon State University) prompted us to think in a new direction. Here's why.
Plans for Econ 52
Fernando Lozano, 07.29.2010
This is one of my favorite times of the summer. I feel well rested as the Spring semester is long gone, and the Fall semester is so far away that I do not yet have nightmares about showing up to my first class without a syllabus. I start thinking about my new classes and my new students. This Fall I am scheduled to teach two sections of Econ 52: Principles of Microeconomics. I have taught this course before, and to explain some economic principles I use classroom experiments that simulate real markets. In the past, the majority of my students enjoy this approach, yet each class is completely different: will my students like the course, will they enjoy and participate in the experiments?
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The closest observers of suffering
- Andrea Crawford on the overlap between doctors and writers in Poets & Writers.
As the list of physicians writing fiction today grows longer, one can't help but wonder if it's just a coincidence or if there is a strong connection between the two professions. Canin, who stopped practicing as a doctor after his third book was published and is now on the faculty of the Iowa Writers' Workshop, says everyone has an expressive urge, but it's particularly pronounced in those who pursue medicine. "It's like being a soldier. You've seen great and terrible things."
Of the ten new students in his workshop last fall, Canin notes, two have medical backgrounds (and he adds that more and more physicians are contacting him for advice about pursuing writing). To Ratner, one of Canin's students, who graduated from med school ten years ago but never practiced, the two professions have always seemed connected. For as long as he can remember, he wanted to do both. "They're both what are sometimes described as callings," he says. "They were both ways of meaningfully addressing myself to human experience and suffering."


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