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Author has written 26 stories for Legend of Zelda.
A Brief Note:
A note to everyone who has, graciously, given even a single minute of there time while reading the stories that I have written on this site. I have been writing fanfiction for, wow, 6 years now. I do not intend on quitting, especially on White Tower, but life has caught up with me (obviously, I don't even wanna think about when my last update was.)and it has been hard to focus on putting any effort into these side projects. I will try to update as soon as possible but I don't know what "soon" will mean in the foreseeable future.
I have been working on original material. But, writing has become... less enjoyable for me, recently. What's sad is that I still love it but, as I said before, my life has become taxing and I am having a hard time.
Things will get better. I am absolutely counting on it and I will find my love for writing, once more. As soon as that happens then I will return to FF and resume the writings that I have here.
All of my love.
-- Here I post pictures that I have taken on my trips down to Orlando and a few other fanfictions though a lot of them are here on FF. :) My favorites gallery have lots of fantastic Zelda fanart pieces and every single one of you should go show those artists some love! :P
-- Is my tumblr... I just got this... (Yeah, I'm one of THOSE. It takes me forever to get on any new sites. lol) I'll probably just post stupid pictures so if you need a good laugh then pop in on there... or if you happen to have any questions or want to request a quick one-shot then I opened an ask box for that kind of thing.
Ummmmmmm, I think that's about all I want to add. lol For now, I'll go hide away in my room and attempt to drive out another chapter for White Tower... :D
Much love,
I never know what to put on these things but I thought that since it has been so long since I've updated...well, anything on here, that I would try to write something new. :)
My name is Queaky *well, that's my nickname anyway* and I have been playing The Legend of Zelda since I was five *I would say three years old would be my first memory of it* lol
Zelda will always and forever be my favorite game *hence why I only have fanfics involving it* but I have been working on fics for other games that I enjoy nearly as much.
Resident Evil is another love of mine. :) I grew up on Horror Movies so I usually write original stories when it comes to Horror but, as I said, I am working on other fics so as soon as I can I will post one for this epic series. :) *Leon all the way* lol
Mario *another Nintedo game* is another game I grew up with but I have yet to acutally see a serious fanfiction containing the characters so I have written something along the lines as seroius for it...just have to remember to get it off my old comp. :-\ This will probably not happen unless someone reminds me at some point in time when I'm not busy.
-BTW I love Smash Bros (all of em) too! :)
Evil Dead is my absolute most favorite Horror Movie and if you have not watched it, you should!! XD Its campy, corny, and over the top with gore not to mention filled to the brim with demonic possession *do not let anyone under thirteen watch* :) The only reason I even got to watch before than is because I was already used to violent themes. *Thank you Leatherface*
Anything Disney however The Little Mermaid is probably my fave princess...wait, and Aurora (Sleeping Beauty)...well, idk which one. But I love, love, love Disney.
Tim Burton's Films. 'nuff said. :)
Symphony X!!! XD I am a rocker at the core of my soul!! :D
Dream Theater! \,/
Edgar Allen Poe :) He is amazing no matter how much of a drunk he was. Love this man, always will.
Anthony Hopkins because I love to act and because this man is a walking legend!
And really lots of others who have inspired me, those are just the two that popped up first. :)
Link and Zelda from LOZ
I do not hate others. This is just my fave. :) I actually have been thinking of writing other pairing stories just to show my support for other ships.
Leon and Claire from RE
Call me stupid, weird or whatever but I really enjoy this coupling. I do not like Ada...it may because of what my cousins and brother used to say about her but for some reason she gets on my nerves.
Batman and Wonderwoman from lots of stuff
Yeah, that's right. I like him with Selena (Catwoman) as well but I have loved this paring since I watched JL. :)
Superman and Lois * ditto to above*
Foreva! lol
Malon and OCs
Malon deserves a Prince or a Knight and its what I often pair her up with in my fics. I also like the childhood sweetheart relationship with Link. Its too cute to pass up! :)
Peach and Bowser...well really anyone
I should get a punch in the mouth for this one but I like it...even if there are certain things that would be conflicting in their relationship. This is the only pairing that I like that is...odd. lol
Link and Dark Link
Yes I understand that evil vs good makes for *and I quote* "lots of F*ing hotness* but NOT with himself. I does not make since therfore I dislike (meaning I do not search it up! *flames suck no one likes getting them*.)
Link and Epona, Ash and Pikachu (long story on both parts...friend got my comp, bad things happened)
WTF?! Seriously?!
Adult Zelda and Child Link
This is very offensive to me and it is wrong on many levels, not funny, not hot, WRONG.
And that's about all I can think of to add!
P.S If you ever want to message me about...anything, just do so! I love to talk! :)


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Digidesign Ships New ICON D-Control Surround PannerBrings powerful and convenient panning functionality to center section of D-Control console (August 02, 2005)
Digidesign's ICON D-Control Surround Panner
* Integrated 640x480 high-resolution color LCD touchscreen
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Developed for mixing in all surround formats, the Surround Panner provides post and music mixing professionals with multiple, ergonomic methods for moving sound throughout the surround field. ICON operators can use the high-resolution color LCD touchscreen to enter snap automation moves or place sounds with touchable on-screen speaker icons. Surround Panner also includes two touch-sensitive joysticks and two encoders, which feature 15-segment LED rings. Meanwhile, a cluster of hardware and software buttons make accessing parameters and assigning targets easy.
Pro Tools Integration
Surround Panner works with Digidesign Pro Tools software to deliver robust capabilities for automated panning. A new AutoGlide function pans sounds automatically from one position to the next, helping to move sound in time. Direct support for new glide automation functionality enables precise off-line automation as well.
Custom Assignments
Custom assignments of non-pan-related controls make Surround Panner a useful tool for post mixers, sound designers, and music mixing engineers alike. For example, the operator can assign gain and frequency of an EQ to X and Y axes on the Surround Panner to achieve dramatic filter sweeps with a finger tip.
The Surround Panner will work with Digidesign Pro Tools TDM 6.9.3 software and higher. Macintosh systems require Mac OS X 10.4.
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Apple's greatest inspiration, maybe even greater than the iPad, could be iTunes - the concept, the creation, and its ever-growing function. It is the Swiss Army knife of consumer digital content. It offers anywhere, any-time access to music, videos, TV, movies, academic lectures, from the world's greatest universities and books, both text and audio. There is also a host of free podcasts, from TED (Technology, Entertainment, Design) talks about what is on in the human race, to advice on how to get your kids to eat broccoli instead of sneaking it to the dog.
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Yeast that tracks the stock market index, a woman who simulates giving birth to a dolphin baby and homemade human cheese are just a few projects that have emerged from collaborations between scientists and artists – and the result is to produce better science and innovation, say researchers.
'Science is one way to understand the world but art is another way,' said Christopher Coenen from the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology in Germany. 'It would be ignorant and barbaric to think everything can be reduced to a rational understanding in a scientific way. Art is another way of understanding and representing and must be treated as such.'
Coenen is coordinator of the EU-funded SYNENERGENE project, which is aiming to promote responsible innovation in the area of synthetic biology, the science of building or modifying biological organisms. Part of their work involves creating public conversations through artistic and cultural events.
'In the process of engagement all actors in the process learn something, including the scientists themselves.'
Christopher Coenen, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany
This is being done by creating works that appear in public spaces, including a film festival, art exhibitions, artistic residencies and theatre performances.
One piece of art produced for the project, called Hare's Blood + received an honorary mention in the 2015 Prix Ars Electronica competition for cyber arts. It involved creating a new organism by taking DNA from dried blood in an existing artwork, called How to Explain Pictures to a Dead Hare by German artist Joseph Beuys, and inserting it into yeast. The genes in the synthetic yeast were then programmed to follow livestock market trends and slowed down the yeast's growth if the price got too high.
Coenen says the aim of projects such as this is to create a conversation around synthetic biology that goes beyond the narrow view of science communication, whereby scientists teach the public about their work, to something broader.
He says that art provides an opportunity to openly discuss issues that may otherwise lead to polarised opinions, particularly in areas like synthetic biology which touch on fundamental questions such as the nature of life.
'An artistic approach, even if it's radical and very frightening, it's still not a truth claim, but an artistic representation,' he said. 'It allows people who otherwise would immediately take their position, their defensive position, to think in a new way.'
Coenen believes that using art, culture and science in this way can affect how beneficial innovation is to society.
'The innovation-orientedness, or application-orientedness in much of the European Commission funding, but also other national funding, is often in the sense of: "Ok, there's a new thing the expert has identified, these are possible applications, we briefly check with the population if they are concerned or not, then we come up with some safeguards, and in the end we come up with a product."
'I would say that is the wrong way of doing it. In the process of engagement (generated through science and art collaborations), all actors in the process learn something, including the scientists themselves, and this allows the scientist to do a better job with regard to societal benefits.'
Dr Jane Chadwick, learning and education manager at the Science Gallery in Dublin, Ireland, agrees that collaborations between science and art can help to improve research.
'What often ends up happening is that scientists get to look at their research from a different perspective,' she said. 'It changes their view of that research and which questions are important.'
Dr Chadwick coordinated the EU-funded STUDIOLAB project, which brought together researchers and experts in art and experimental design to produce more than 100 collaborative projects over three years.
These spanned three themes, including the future of social interaction and the future of water, but Dr Chadwick says the one that resonated the most was synthetic biology.
'The (synthetic biology) debate is being framed, so you get all sorts of different perspectives,' she said. 'You can fast-forward to a nightmarish or utopian future. It really seemed to strike a chord with everyone who worked on it. There's an uncertainty with the future, an opportunity to imagine different futures and there needs to be a conversation about how to progress.'
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Some of the projects which generated a lot of debate over the potential of synthetic biology included one that made 'human cheese' using bacteria taken from the human body, and another where an artist combined her love of dolphins and concerns about overpopulation into an installation in which she imagined herself gestating and delivering a dolphin baby.
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Artist Ai Hasegawa shows viewers what it would be like if she gave birth to a dolphin. Credit: DesignFiction MIT MEDIA LAB
'A lot of people reacted fairly viscerally to that,' said Dr Chadwick. 'Some people thought it was real so we had to set them straight.'
The SYNENERGENE project will run until 2017 and is holding a public event in Amsterdam on 25 June 2016, with public panel discussions, art-science exhibits and other forms of public involvement.
What makes a scientist? You might think of lab research, years of specialised training and technical jargon. But an exhibition now touring across Europe could change your mind.
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- 417-427 The impact of ADR activity on stock market liquidity: Evidence from Latin America
by Hales, Alma D. & Mollick, André V.
- 428-436 The effects of U.S. monetary policy on Colombia and Panama (2002–2007)
by Cachanosky, Nicolas
- 437-441 Determinants of the Confucius Institute establishment
by Lien, Donald & Oh, Chang Hoon
2014, Volume 54, Issue 2
- 147-157 Surplus distribution and characteristics of social enterprises: Evidence from microfinance
by Hudon, Marek & Périlleux, Anaïs
- 158-179 Financial stability indicators and public debt developments
by Tagkalakis, Athanasios O.
- 180-193 Estimating the output gap in real time: A factor model approach
by Aastveit, Knut Are & Trovik, Tørres
- 194-207 Financial crises and economic growth
by Jarrow, Robert A.
- 208-215 A measure of a nation's physical energy supply risk
by Frondel, Manuel & Schmidt, Christoph M.
- 216-229 Asymmetric information, foreign entry and multi-period credit competition in banking industry
by Li, Qiang & Zeng, Yong & Liu, Bin
- 230-241 Bank capital regulation, loan contracts, and corporate investment
by Dietrich, Diemo & Hauck, Achim
- 242-256 Bond market co-movements, expected inflation and the GBP-USD equilibrium real exchange rate
by Macchiarelli, Corrado
- 257-270 Variance swaps, non-normality and macroeconomic and financial risks
by Nieto, Belén & Novales, Alfonso & Rubio, Gonzalo
- 271-281 When was the U.S. housing downturn predictable? A comparison of univariate forecasting methods
by Zietz, Joachim & Traian, Anca
- 282-291 Asset pricing for inefficient markets: Evidence from China and India
by Majumder, Debasish
- 292-305 The international business cycle and gold-price fluctuations
by Pierdzioch, Christian & Risse, Marian & Rohloff, Sebastian
2014, Volume 54, Issue 1
- 2-16 Bubble-like housing boom–bust cycles: Evidence from the predictive power of households' expectations
by Huang, MeiChi
- 17-30 Estimation of variance of housing prices using spatial conditional heteroskedasticity (SARCH) model with an application to Boston housing price data
by Simlai, Prodosh
- 31-41 Autocorrelation in daily short-sale volume
by Blau, Benjamin M. & Smith, Jason M.
- 42-50 On the performance of the tick test
by Perlin, Marcelo & Brooks, Chris & Dufour, Alfonso
- 51-60 Spread determinants and the day-of-the-week effect
by Narayan, Paresh Kumar & Mishra, Sagarika & Narayan, Seema
- 61-69 Behavior of the firm under rate-of-return regulation with two capital inputs
by Ohler, Adrienne M.
- 70-81 Management entrenchment and the valuation discount of dual class firms
by Baulkaran, Vishaal
- 82-91 How entrenched managers beat earnings expectations before and after SOX
by Wang, Weishen & Graefe-Anderson, Rachel & Pyles, Mark K. & Kim, Dongnyoung
- 92-110 Do managerial behaviors trigger firm exit? The case of hyperactive bidders
by Rahaman, Mohammad M.
- 111-122 Product–market flexibility and capital structure
by Sarkar, Sudipto
- 123-132 Casinos, casino size, and crime: A panel data analysis of Michigan counties
by Falls, Gregory A. & Thompson, Philip B.
- 133-137 Inflation forecasts and core inflation measures: Where is the information on future inflation?
by Liu, Dandan & Smith, Julie K.
- 138-145 Airline passenger traffic openness and the performance of Emirates Airline
by Squalli, Jay
2013, Volume 53, Issue 4
- 380-392 Growth, deficits and uncertainty: Theoretical aspects and empirical evidence from a panel of 27 countries
by Goulas, Eleftherios & Zervoyianni, Athina
- 393-401 Currency movements within and outside a currency union: The case of Germany and the euro area
by Bartzsch, Nikolaus & Rösl, Gerhard & Seitz, Franz
- 402-416 Trading patterns in the European carbon market: The role of trading intensity and OTC transactions
by Kalaitzoglou, Iordanis & Ibrahim, Boulis Maher
- 417-428 Environmental policy implications of extreme variations in pollutant stock levels and socioeconomic costs
by Makropoulou, Vasiliki & Dotsis, George & Markellos, Raphael N.
- 429-439 A spatial dominance approach to evaluate the performance of stocks and bonds: Does the investment horizon matter?
by Ibarra, Raul
- 440-449 Mutual fund flows and window-dressing
by Ling, Leng & Arias, J.J.
- 450-459 A sectoral analysis of the financial instability hypothesis
by Mulligan, Robert F.
- 460-475 Information asymmetry and monitoring in equity private placements
by Liang, Hsiao-Chen & Jang, Woan-Yuh
- 476-485 Do U.S. macroeconomic surprises influence equity returns? An exploratory analysis of developed economies
by Singh, Manohar & Nejadmalayeri, Ali & Lucey, Brian
- 486-496 Motives and consequences of IPOs in cold periods
by Premti, Arjan & Madura, Jeff
2013, Volume 53, Issue 3
- 221-237 Oil exports and the Iranian economy
by Esfahani, Hadi Salehi & Mohaddes, Kamiar & Pesaran, M. Hashem
- 238-256 Risk and return in the Tehran stock exchange
by Jahan-Parvar, Mohammad R. & Mohammadi, Hassan
- 257-267 Mobility and the dynamics of poverty in Iran: Evidence from the 1992–1995 panel survey
by Salehi-Isfahani, Djavad & Majbouri, Mehdi
- 268-276 Robust growth-equity decomposition of change in poverty: The case of Iran (2000–2009)
by Maasoumi, Esfandiar & Mahmoudi, Vahid
- 277-284 Demand estimation for the Iranian automobile industry
by Rahmati, Mohammad Hossein & Yousefi, Seyed Reza
- 285-293 Tax enforcement policies, tax evasion and time allocation
by Arbex, Marcelo
- 294-301 A note on forecasting the prices of gold and silver: Asymmetric loss and forecast rationality
by Pierdzioch, Christian & Rülke, Jan-Christoph & Stadtmann, Georg
- 302-313 The consequences of fiscal episodes in OECD DAC countries for aid supply
by Gnangnon, Sena Kimm
2013, Volume 53, Issue 2
- 87-111 Alternative econometric implementations of multi-factor models of the U.S. financial markets
by Guidolin, Massimo & Ravazzolo, Francesco & Tortora, Andrea Donato
- 112-124 Banks' risk taking, financial innovation and macroeconomic risk
by Kero, Afroditi
- 125-139 New tips from TIPS: Identifying inflation expectations and the risk premia of break-even inflation
by Zeng, Zheng
- 140-151 Capital structure, product market competition and firm performance: Evidence from South Africa
by Fosu, Samuel
- 152-164 Firms, shareholders, and financial markets
by Mirman, Leonard J. & Santugini, Marc
- 165-174 Bankruptcy and steel plant shutdowns
by Rogers, Robert P.
- 175-187 Orthogonalized factors and systematic risk decomposition
by Klein, Rudolf F. & Chow, Victor K.
- 188-201 Capacity constraints and the winner's curse in multi-unit common value auctions
by Schnitzlein, Charles R. & Shao, Minjie
- 202-218 Demographics and the long-horizon returns of dividend-yield strategies
by Lee, King Fuei
2013, Volume 53, Issue 1
- 1-11 The impact of consumer health information on the demand for health services
by Dwyer, Debra Sabatini & Liu, Hong
- 12-22 A quantitative model for structured microfinance
by Dorfleitner, G. & Priberny, C.
- 23-43 Wealth transfer effects between stockholders and bondholders
by Imbierowicz, Björn & Wahrenburg, Mark
- 44-52 Insider trading in a two-tier real market structure model
by Karam, Fida & Daher, Wassim
- 53-60 Simultaneous stochastic volatility transmission across American equity markets
by Weber, Enzo
- 61-72 Spanning with futures contracts
by Galvani, Valentina & Plourde, André
- 73-85 Commodity futures prices: More evidence on forecast power, risk premia and the theory of storage
by Brooks, Chris & Prokopczuk, Marcel & Wu, Yingying
2012, Volume 52, Issue 4
- 349-357 Efficient growth boundaries in the presence of population externalities and stochastic rents
by Jou, Jyh-Bang
- 358-368 The impact of China's stock market reforms on its international stock market linkages
by Li, Hong
- 369-384 On the globalization of stock markets: An application of Vector Error Correction Model, Mutual Information and Singular Spectrum Analysis to the G7 countries
by Menezes, Rui & Dionísio, Andreia & Hassani, Hossein
- 385-394 Co-movement of oil and stock prices in the GCC region: A wavelet analysis
by Akoum, Ibrahim & Graham, Michael & Kivihaho, Jarno & Nikkinen, Jussi & Omran, Mohammed
- 395-401 Preemptive bidding in takeover auctions with affiliated values
by Khoroshilov, Yuri
- 402-412 Combination schemes for turning point predictions
by Billio, Monica & Casarin, Roberto & Ravazzolo, Francesco & van Dijk, Herman K.
- 413-426 Risk aversion and business cycles: An empirical analysis
by Pardo, Cristian
- 427-437 Active risk management and loan contract terms: Evidence from rated microfinance institutions
by Tchakoute-Tchuigoua, Hubert
- 438-442 A note resolving the debate on "The weighted average cost of capital is not quite right"
by Keef, Stephen P. & Khaled, Mohammed S. & Roush, Melvin L.
2012, Volume 52, Issue 3
- 257-265 Financial crisis risk, ECB "non-standard" measures, and the external value of the euro
by Eichler, Stefan
- 266-271 Monetary policy credibility: A Phillips curve view
by Malikane, Christopher & Mokoka, Tshepo
- 272-285 Credit risk securitization and bank soundness in Europe
by Michalak, Tobias C. & Uhde, André
- 286-297 Multiple banking relationships, managerial ownership concentration and firm value: A simultaneous equations approach
by Yu, Hai-Chin & Sopranzetti, Ben J. & Lee, Cheng-Few
- 298-304 An empirical analysis of the relation between bank charter value and risk taking
by Niu, Jijun
- 305-321 Parametric Value-at-Risk analysis: Evidence from stock indices
by Mabrouk, Samir & Saadi, Samir
- 322-332 A real options approach to valuing and negotiating licensing agreements
by Hoe, SingRu & David Diltz, J.
- 333-347 Profit distribution management by Islamic banks: An empirical investigation
by Farook, Sayd & Hassan, M. Kabir & Clinch, Gregory
2012, Volume 52, Issue 2
- 104-113 The Glass–Steagall Act in historical perspective
by Neal, Larry & White, Eugene N.
- 114-122 Universal banking and financial architecture
by Walter, Ingo
- 123-134 Are universal banks bad for financial stability? Germany during the world financial crisis
by Dietrich, Diemo & Vollmer, Uwe
- 135-153 Bye, bye financial repression, hello financial deepening: The anatomy of a financial boom
by De Mello, João Manoel P. & Garcia, Márcio G.P.
- 154-157 UNIVERSAL BANKING: The view from Brazil
by Tombini, Alexandre
- 158-161 The Paraguayan financial system and Paraguay's experience in universal banking
by Corvalan, Jorge
- 162-172 Learning by doing: Active employer sponsored retirement savings plan participation and household wealth accumulation
by Seligman, Jason S. & Bose, Rana
- 173-182 Quoted spreads and trade imbalance dynamics in the European Treasury bond market
by Caporale, Guglielmo Maria & Girardi, Alessandro & Paesani, Paolo
- 183-197 Large changes in stock prices: Market, liquidity, and momentum effect
by Shieh, Shwu-Jane & Lin, Chih-Yung & Ho, Po-Hsin
- 198-206 Do short selling restrictions destabilize stock markets? Lessons from Taiwan
by Bohl, Martin T. & Essid, Badye & Siklos, Pierre L.
- 207-218 Long memory and structural breaks in modeling the return and volatility dynamics of precious metals
by Arouri, Mohamed El Hedi & Hammoudeh, Shawkat & Lahiani, Amine & Nguyen, Duc Khuong
- 219-226 Financial crisis, REIT short-sell restrictions and event induced volatility
by Devaney, Michael
- 227-242 Creditor rights and the outcome model of dividends
by Byrne, Julie & O'Connor, Thomas
- 243-255 Value relevance and the dot-com bubble of the 1990s
by Morris, John J. & Alam, Pervaiz
2012, Volume 52, Issue 1
- 1-14 Individual risk attitudes and the composition of financial portfolios: Evidence from German household portfolios
by Barasinska, Nataliya & Schäfer, Dorothea & Stephan, Andreas
- 15-37 Exchange rates and oil prices: A multivariate stochastic volatility analysis
by Ding, Liang & Vo, Minh
- 38-48 Short sales, stealth trading, and the suspension of the uptick rule
by Blau, Benjamin M. & Brough, Tyler J.
- 49-62 Why do merger premiums vary across industries and over time?
by Madura, Jeff & Ngo, Thanh & Viale, Ariel M.
- 63-71 Does the use of stock incentives influence the payout policy of financial institutions?
by Akhigbe, Aigbe & Whyte, Ann Marie
- 72-83 Shock-dependent conditional skewness in international aggregate stock markets
by Lai, Jing-yi
- 84-92 A wavelet-based assessment of market risk: The emerging markets case
by Rua, António & Nunes, Luis C.
- 93-102 The causal structure of bond yields
by Wang, Zijun
2011, Volume 51, Issue 4
- 305-318 Growth, development and natural resources: New evidence using a heterogeneous panel analysis
by Cavalcanti, Tiago V. de V. & Mohaddes, Kamiar & Raissi, Mehdi
- 319-338 An assessment of another decade of capital controls in Colombia: 1998–2008
by Concha, Alvaro & Galindo, Arturo José & Vasquez, Diego
- 339-349 Nonlinear effects of monetary policy on stock returns in a smooth transition autoregressive model
by Hsu, Kuang-Chung & Chiang, Hui-Chu
- 350-359 Should the government directly intervene in stock market during a crisis?
by Khan, Salman & Batteau, Pierre
- 360-367 Enforcement of nineteenth century banking contracts using a marriage rule
by Nair, Malavika
- 368-375 Demographics, dividend clienteles and the dividend premium
by Lee, King Fuei
- 376-388 Private debt, unused credit lines, and seasoned equity offerings
by Liu, Yang & Yang, J. Jimmy
- 389-398 The impact of US news on the German stock market—An event study analysis
by Dimpfl, Thomas
- 399-407 Carbon Financial Instruments, thin trading, and volatility: Evidence from the Chicago Climate Exchange
by Sabbaghi, Omid & Sabbaghi, Navid
- 408-418 Asymmetric convergence in US financial credit default swap sector index markets
by Chen, Li-Hsueh & Hammoudeh, Shawkat & Yuan, Yuan
- 419-434 Trade credit versus bank credit: Evidence from corporate inventory financing
by Yang, Xiaolou
- 435-441 Risk management of precious metals
by Hammoudeh, Shawkat & Malik, Farooq & McAleer, Michael
June 2011, Volume 51, Issue 3
- 225-235 Inflation expectations from index-linked bonds: Correcting for liquidity and inflation risk premia
by Kajuth, Florian & Watzka, Sebastian
- 236-247 Modelling oil price expectations: Evidence from survey data
by Prat, Georges & Uctum, Remzi
- 248-268 Regulatory risk, market uncertainties, and firm financing choices: Evidence from U.S. Electricity Market Restructuring
by Sanyal, Paroma & Bulan, Laarni T.
- 269-282 Corporate financial determinants of foreign direct investment
by Forssbæck, Jens & Oxelheim, Lars
- 283-291 Housing price dynamics and convergence in high-tech metropolitan economies
by Kang, Wensheng
- 292-302 Independent component analysis for realized volatility: Analysis of the stock market crash of 2008
by Kumiega, Andrew & Neururer, Thaddeus & Van Vliet, Ben
May 2011, Volume 51, Issue 2
- 113-123 Short-term market overreaction on the Frankfurt stock exchange
by Lobe, Sebastian & Rieks, Johannes
- 124-132 The role of stock markets vs. the term spread in forecasting macrovariables in Finland
by Kuosmanen, Petri & Vataja, Juuso
- 133-140 Return behaviour in Africa's emerging equity markets
by Alagidede, Paul
- 141-151 Corporate debt maturity choice in emerging financial markets
by Stephan, Andreas & Talavera, Oleksandr & Tsapin, Andriy
- 152-161 Managerial horizons in stock financed mergers
by Sharma, Vaibhav & Hsieh, Chialing
- 162-172 The efficiency of internal capital markets: Evidence from the Annual Capital Expenditure Survey
by Agarwal, Sumit & Chiu, I-Ming & Souphom, Victor & Yamashiro, Guy M.
- 173-188 Are Copula-GoF-tests of any practical use? Empirical evidence for stocks, commodities and FX futures
by Weiß, Gregor N.F.
- 189-200 Was there a U.S. house price bubble? An econometric analysis using national and regional panel data
by Clark, Steven P. & Coggin, T. Daniel
- 201-211 Monetary policy regimes in macroeconomic data: An application of fractal analysis
by Mulligan, Robert F. & Koppl, Roger
- 212-224 A model for pricing Italian Contemporary Art paintings at auction
by Marinelli, Nicoletta & Palomba, Giulio
February 2011, Volume 51, Issue 1
- 1-18 The impact of parental income on the intra-household distribution of school attainment: A measurement strategy and evidence
by Horowitz, Andrew W. & Souza, André Portela
- 19-27 The impact of land policy on the relation between housing and land prices: Evidence from China
by Du, Hongyan & Ma, Yongkai & An, Yunbi
- 28-35 Geographic deregulation and commercial bank performance in U.S. state banking markets
by Zou, YongDong & Miller, Stephen M. & Malamud, Bernard
- 36-48 Cross-border venture capital flows and local ties: Evidence from developed countries
by Tykvová, Tereza & Schertler, Andrea
- 49-55 A test of the expectations hypothesis in very short-term international rates in the presence of preferred habitat for liquidity
by Kotomin, Vladimir
- 56-68 Banks and managerial discipline: Does regulatory monitoring play a role?
by Palvia, Ajay A.
- 69-81 Why are proposed spinoffs withdrawn?
by Harris, Oneil & Madura, Jeff
- 82-87 Fundamental indicators, bubbles in stock returns and investor sentiment
by Chiang, Ming-Chu & Tsai, I-Chun & Lee, Cheng-Feng
- 88-104 Financial development and economic growth: New evidence from panel data
by Hassan, M. Kabir & Sanchez, Benito & Yu, Jung-Suk
- 105-112 Anatomy of a ratings change
by Marble III, Hugh
November 2010, Volume 50, Issue 4
- 395-407 Barriers to skill acquisition in Brazil: Public and private school students performance in a public university entrance exam
by Cavalcanti, Tiago & Guimaraes, Juliana & Sampaio, Breno
- 408-414 Wavelet domain correlation between the futures prices of natural gas and oil
by Tonn, Victor Lux & Li, H.C. & McCarthy, Joseph
- 415-423 The behavior of MENA oil and non-oil producing countries in international portfolio optimization
by Mansourfar, Gholamreza & Mohamad, Shamsher & Hassan, Taufiq
- 424-435 Estimating banking cost efficiency with the consideration of cost management
by Shen, Chung-Hua & Chen, Ting-Hsuan
- 436-442 Is there a difference in performance by the legal status of microfinance institutions?
by Tchakoute-Tchuigoua, Hubert
- 443-455 Underwriter reputation and IPO issuer alignment 1981-2005
by Carter, Richard B. & Dark, Frederick H. & Sapp, Travis R.A.
- 456-470 Stock market bubble effects on mergers and acquisitions
by Aharon, David Y. & Gavious, Ilanit & Yosef, Rami
- 471-484 Determinants of the method of payment in mergers and acquisitions
by Ismail, Ahmad & Krause, Andreas
- 485-491 Costs of short-term credit for small and large firms
by Walker, David A.
- 492-500 Are "bounced check loans" really loans? Theory, evidence and policy
by Fusaro, Marc Anthony
- 501-508 Predictability of future index returns based on the 52-week high strategy
by Malin, Mirela & Bornholt, Graham
- 509-514 Can mutual funds time risk factors?
by Benos, Evangelos & Jochec, Marek & Nyekel, Victor
- 515-526 Value at risk models for volatile emerging markets equity portfolios
by Dimitrakopoulos, Dimitris N. & Kavussanos, Manolis G. & Spyrou, Spyros I.
- 527-537 Value investing anomalies in the European stock market: Multiple Value, Consistent Earner, and Recognized Value
by Elze, Gregor
- 538-547 Autocorrelation of the trade process: Evidence from the Helsinki Stock Exchange
by Ben Sita, Bernard
- 548-558 Adverse selection and reputation in a world of cheap talk
by Depken II, Craig A. & Zhang, Ying
August 2010, Volume 50, Issue 3
- 245-253 Economic integration in Africa
by Adom, Assandé Désiré & Sharma, Subhash C. & Morshed, A.K.M. Mahbub
- 254-263 Import demand behavior in Africa: Some new evidence
by Arize, Augustine C. & Nippani, Srinivas
- 264-272 Time-varying higher-order conditional moments and forecasting intraday VaR and Expected Shortfall
by Ergün, A. Tolga & Jun, Jongbyung
- 273-290 The properties of realized correlation: Evidence from the French, German and Greek equity markets
by Vortelinos, Dimitrios I.
- 291-297 Rank-ordering of risk preferences with conventional and discrete measures
by Eisenhauer, Joseph G.
- 298-309 The effects of external and internal shocks on total factor productivity
by Ferreira, Pedro Cavalcanti & Galvao Jr., Antonio F. & Gomes, Fabio Augusto Reis & Pessoa, Samuel de Abreu
- 310-322 How do stock prices respond to fundamental shocks in the case of the United States? Evidence from NASDAQ and DJIA
by Jean Louis, Rosmy & Eldomiaty, Tarek
- 323-331 Long-run stock performance following stock repurchases
by Yook, Ken C.
- 332-340 Robust performance measures for high yield bond funds
by Lipton, Amy F. & Kish, Richard J.
- 341-351 What do bank acquirers value in non-public bank mergers and acquisitions?
by Cyree, Ken B.
- 352-360 Transaction costs and market efficiency: Evidence from commission deregulation
by Liu, Shinhua
- 361-366 The influence of academic interactions on stock selection and performance: Evidence from Japan
by Takahashi, Hidetomo
- 367-376 The Sarbanes-Oxley Act and CEO tenure, turnover, and risk aversion
by Wang, Hongxia & Davidson III, Wallace N. & Wang, Xiaoxin
- 377-385 The effects of economic news on commodity prices
by Roache, Shaun K. & Rossi, Marco
- 386-394 Some empirical evidence on the effects of U.S. monetary policy shocks on cross exchange rates
by Kalyvitis, Sarantis & Skotida, Ifigeneia
May 2010, Volume 50, Issue 2
- 121-131 The role of health insurance in labor supply decisions of divorced females
by Zimmer, David M.
- 132-140 Profit efficiency in U.S. BHCs: Effects of increasing non-traditional revenue sources
by Akhigbe, Aigbe & Stevenson, Bradley A.
- 141-145 Modeling and forecasting trading volume index: GARCH versus TGARCH approach
by Sabiruzzaman, Md. & Monimul Huq, Md. & Beg, Rabiul Alam & Anwar, Sajid
- 146-156 Asset values and the sustainability of peace prospects
by Coyne, Christopher J. & Dempster, Gregory M. & Isaacs, Justin P.
- 157-166 Stock market linkages and financial contagion: A cobreaking analysis
by Ahlgren, Niklas & Antell, Jan
- 167-179 Behavior patterns of investment strategies under Roy's safety-first principle
by Li, Zhongfei & Yao, Jing & Li, Duan
- 180-190 Do managers make takeover financing decisions that circumvent more effective outside blockholders?
by Harris, Oneil & Madura, Jeff & Glegg, Charmaine
- 191-201 Analysis of the probability of deletion of S&P 500 companies: Survival analysis and neural networks approach
by Geppert, John M. & Ivanov, Stoyu I. & Karels, Gordon V.
- 202-213 Why do firms cross-list? International evidence from the US market
by Abdallah, Abed Al-Nasser & Ioannidis, Christos
- 214-221 Toeholds, rejected offers, and bidder gains: Do rebuffed bidders put targets in play to profit from their toeholds?
by Carroll, Carolyn & Griffith, John M.
- 222-233 Co-determination of capital structure and stock returns--A LISREL approach: An empirical test of Taiwan stock markets
by Yang, Chau-Chen & Lee, Cheng-few & Gu, Yan-Xiang & Lee, Yen-Wen
- 234-239 A resolution to the NPV-IRR debate?
by Osborne, Michael J.
- 240-243 WACC and free cash flows: A simple adjustment for capitalized interest costs
by Pierru, Axel & Babusiaux, Denis
- 244-244 Corrigendum to "Donors and Domestic Politics: Political Influences on Foreign Aid Effort" [Q. Rev. Econ. Finance 50 (2010) 40-49]
by Tingley, Dustin
February 2010, Volume 50, Issue 1
- 1-2 Special focus: Foreign aid
by Kilby, Christopher
- 3-16 Cultural values and public policy: The case of international development aid
by Ball, Richard
- 17-26 IMF and economic reform in developing countries
by Abbott, Philip & Andersen, Thomas Barnebeck & Tarp, Finn
- 27-39 Development aid and economic growth: A positive long-run relation
by Minoiu, Camelia & Reddy, Sanjay G.
- 40-49 Donors and domestic politics: Political influences on foreign aid effort
by Tingley, Dustin
- 50-60 The bank lending channel of monetary transmission in Brazil: A VECM approach
by de Mello, Luiz & Pisu, Mauro
- 61-66 Inventory management effects, isolated: Evidence from the federal funds market
by Erzurumlu, Yaman Omer & Kotomin, Vladimir


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|Bai Ling
|Bai Ling
|Chengdu, China
|Date of Birth
|October 10, 1966
|Role on LOST
|Bai Ling at IMDB
Bai Ling portrayed the role of "Achara" in Stranger in a Strange Land.
Bai Ling was born in Chengdu, China. Her father was a music teacher, and her mother was a dancer and stage actress. Her parents were persecuted during the Cultural Revolution because of their jobs, and soon after her birth, Bai moved to her grandmother's residence elsewhere in Sichuan. She has described herself as a very shy child who found that she best expressed herself through acting and performing. She has since said that acting allows one to ignore how society tells one to behave and allows other parts within oneself to be expressed. She began a three-year stint as a "soldier" in the People's Liberation Army in Tibet at the age of 14. Her main activity there was to entertain with musical theater.
As she matured, she appeared in several movies. However, her rebelliousness caused friction with the army. She was accused of insubordination for using tobacco and alcohol, was briefly hospitalized for depression by the end of her army service, and partook in the Tiananmen Square protests in 1989. She temporarily moved to New York in 1991 to attend New York University's film department as a visiting scholar, but later obtained a special visa that allowed her to remain in the United States until she became a citizen in 1999.
It must be noted that events in Ling's past have only been asserted by Ling herself. Ling's political past in China is in doubt. No independent source besides Ling has verified her claims of her time spent in the Chinese army, her time in New York as a visiting scholar (when her age would have made her a suspiciously young candidate for such a status, especially given the paucity of her academic achievements), or especially her participation in the Tiananmen Square protests, given the fact that she attended Moscow Movie Festival in 1989 as a member of an official Chinese movie group.
There is evidence to suggest Ling lies about her history and personal life, and works hard to garner attention for her largely unknown acting career. Ling has claimed publicly and vocally in the past to being engaged to Nick Carter, but Carter immediately denied it and the two have never married. Ling has further claimed that she was "cut out" of Star Wars due to her appearance in Playboy while also insinuating a large role for her character; immediately, George Lucas denied this, citing the facts that the edit had been done months before the Playboy appearance was known and stating that Ling's role was only a few lines of unimportant dialogue. Additionally, Go Fug Yourself has documented Ling numerous times appearing publicly in revealing outfits that happen to "slip" and show her nipples in pictures, despite the fact that the events at which she is photographed neither have any overt sexual content nor is Ling involved in the events in any capacity other than as a guest.
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Surfboards, California girls, sunny beaches, go-fast cars, huarache sandals - and the catchy songs of a generation can all be traced to one of America's most popular bands: The Beach Boys. Next month, Anderson's Bookshop in Naperville is proud to welcome Mike Love, a founding member of that truly iconic band. Love will present his memoir Good Vibrations. What a story, what a life!
This Anderson's event will be a signing line-only program on Monday, October 10 at 7:00 p.m. at Anderson's Bookshop. Tickets are available with the purchase of the author's featured book at Anderson's Bookshop, 123 W. Jefferson Ave. in the heart of Naperville (630) 355-2665 or visit www.andersonsbookshop.com.
About the Book: Mike Love tells the story of his legendary, raucous, and ultimately triumphant five-decade career as the front man of The Beach Boys, the most popular American band in history - timed to coincide with the 50th anniversary of Good Vibrations.
As a founding member of The Beach Boys, Love has spent an extraordinary 55 years, and counting, as the group's lead singer and one of its principal lyricists. The Beach Boys, from their California roots to their international fame, are a unique American story - one of overnight success and age-defying longevity; of musical genius and reckless self-destruction; of spirituality, betrayal, and forgiveness - and Love is the only band member to be part of it each and every step. His own story has never been fully told, of how a sheet-metal apprentice became the quintessential front man for America's most successful rock band, singing in more than 5,600 concerts in 26 countries.
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About the Author: Mike Love is a founding member of The Beach Boys, considered to be the most popular American band in history, with 13 Gold Albums, 55 top-100 singles, and four #1 hits. Love has been the lead singer of the group one of its principal lyricists since its inception in 1961. His credits include such pop classics as "Good Vibrations," "California Girls," "I Get Around," "Fun Fun Fun," and "Kokomo." Love has received an Ella Award for his song writing, and, as part of The Beach Boys, he is a member of Rock and Roll Hall of Fame; the Vocal Group Hall of Fame; and has received a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award.
Co-writer James S. Hirsch is a journalist and New York Times bestselling author whose books include biographies of Willie Mays and Rubin "Hurricane" Carter and examinations of military issues, the health care system, and global philanthropy. Hirsch won the Christopher Award for Walk in Their Shoes: Can One Person Change the World. Hirsh will not be joining Love at the October Anderson's event.
About Anderson's Bookshops: Sponsoring this upcoming program is Anderson's Bookshops, specializing in book sales, author events, booksignings, and building a sense of community, learning and fun. The store has been helping Naperville readers for six generations. Based in downtown Naperville, the store has grown with the community ever since. Additional locations include downtown Downers Grove, at 5112 Main Street (630)-963-2665, and in La Grange at 26 S. La Grange Rd. (708) 582-6353. 2009. Anderson's also just opened a new toy store, Anderson's Toyshop, 111 W. Jefferson Ave., Naperville. Key to Anderson's success has been special author events, like the October 10 program with Mike Love. To keep updated about other Anderson's events, please visit www.andersonsbookshop.com.
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Wanda Grubwort was a witch from the 1800s.
Physical appearanceIn life, Wanda was a short woman with stringy hair and warts covering her face and hands, her spirit resembled her except for that it was slightly translucent with a white tinge, was smaller than a regular human, and was only her torso and head.
Wanda was a dark witch. When her land was taken she became forsaken and wretched in creating the Lake Monster of Erie Point.
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- In life (and while possessing Velma) Wanda could change frogs into Lake Monsters
- She could also control her spirits through the moonstones, and posses other's bodies
- She could pull objects towards her even without her staff (at least in spirit form)
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When some settlers landed on her territory she told them to leave, but they ignored her, so she put a spell on some frogs turning them to monsters. They attacked the villagers strangling one man to death. She was tried and was burned for her witchcraft, where her spirit lay in the moonstones of her staff, waiting for revenge.
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Wanda Grubwort returned when her moonstones were discovered by the gang. She possessed Velma when she touched her first moonstone and had her search for the others. Along the way, Grubwort used Velma to sabotage the gang's attempts to discover the secret of the Lake Monster, her own monster of a frog which she created years ago, who has come back to wreak havoc on Daphne's uncle's country club. Fred and Daphene find out Wanda had children. They believed that her descendants wanted revenge, Her descendant has one of the moonstones and the other was hidden in a sand trap. She took the moonstone Shaggy found and raided her descendant's house looking for the last moonstone. There, the gang learn that Grubwort is possessing Velma and her descendant helps the gang stop Grubwort for re-obtaining her power. The gang use scuba gear to get into Grubwort's underwater cave, where they see Grubwort turning three more frogs into monsters like her other monster. Fred and Daphne are chased by the monsters while Shaggy and Scooby try to help Velma fight Grubwort's spirit. It finally works when Shaggy expresses his love for Velma and they free her with the moon song. However, Grubwort was still alive as a ghost, and tries to summon her moonstone staff to her, but Scooby fetches it and destroys it, turning the frog monsters back to regular frogs and Grubwort's ghost exploded, before saying she would have gotten away with it if it wasn't for the meddling kids and their rotten dog.[1]


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The housewares category is a good example of a product mix geared to this specialized and lucrative market.
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Adjacent to the wooden tableware is the greeting card section, supplied by upscale card manufacturer Papyrus. The set includes a range of individual cards, boxed sets, wrapping paper, scrapbooking materials, and handmade gift baskets. "Gifts are big business from Thanksgiving to New Year's," says Feliciano. "The gift baskets that we make range from $49 to more than $200."
A standalone wire display features a variety of silverware that would make any butler proud, including bowls, serving trays, mixing and serving spoons.
But housewares at Bristol Farms aren't limited to the general merchandise section. Indeed, products are cross-merchandised throughout the store. But it's in the wine and spirits department where the complementary nonfood merchandising is most prominent.
In the department, which is designed as a store within a store and sits right in the center of the market, Bristol Farms sells more than 3,000 varieties of wine, much of it from California's vineyards, but also imported from France, Chile, Australia, and other countries. It additionally specializes in hard-to-find spirits, some which sell at upwards of $1,600. So it's no surprise that the retailer offers a large assortment of related GM products to accent the section's extensive offerings.
Lining the shelves on the outside perimeter of the wine section are accessories to make the most of the vintage varietals and spirits offered within. Lined up are several sizes of picnic backpacks with insulated storage spaces for a wine bottle, as well as room for a corkscrew and two plastic wine glasses, which are included. There are also elegant flasks, ice buckets, glasses, candle holders, along with books to help the novice learn the basics or the connoisseur match the best wine to a planned meal.
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The plastic drinkware is offered in several shapes and sizes, from beverage tumblers to stemmed wine glasses. But don't let the $2 price tag fool you -- the products look so much like glass, shoppers still flinch when they knock the occasional piece off the shelf.
With Easter just around the corner at the time of a recent store visit, the seasonal displays at the front of the store were filled with traditional chocolates and candies, and the GM side featured baskets handmade in the floral department, plush Easter bunnies, and Easter-themed knickknacks.
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Guest blog: teachers' unions have a 'leftist' academic agenda - what do you think?(129 Posts)
In today's guest blog Munira Mirza, London's Deputy Mayor for Education and Culture, defends the government's planned changes to the national curriculum - and says that teaching unions who oppose the plans are still in thrall to a 'leftist' academic agenda.
Do tell us what you think - and if you're interested in this subject, you might want to have a look at yesterday's guest blog from the NUT, on why they're calling for reduced teaching-hours.
"Last week at City Hall, we held an event to launch a £24m London Schools Excellence Fund which aims to drive up standards in state schools and support better practice amongst teachers.
Amongst those present, there was particular excitement about the idea of teaching a more rigorous, knowledge-based curriculum. Unfortunately, this enthusiasm is not shared by some activists in the teaching unions who have reacted with hostility to the new national curriculum proposed by the Government. At the National Union of Teachers' Easter conference last week some delegates attacked what they described as a 'pub-quiz style curriculum', claiming that children didn't need to be taught facts anymore as they could simply Google them. Additionally, a hundred left-leaning education academics wrote a letter criticising what they claim is an "endless lists of spelling, facts and rules" that demands "too much too young".
Reports in the media can give the impression that teachers are unanimously hostile to the new curriculum. Perhaps that's because some journalists conflate the highly politicised and often unrepresentative teaching unions with ordinary teachers.
In fact, I believe many teachers on the ground have a more positive attitude.
They know that state schools in Britain need to improve. Even in London, where schools have made big strides over the last decade (thanks to the efforts of many great school leaders), one in five children still leaves primary school unable to read and write properly and four in ten students leave secondary school without five good GCSEs. Many more could be stretched further, getting As and A*s rather than Cs and Bs.
The problem is not the quality of our teachers but the way they have been instructed to teach. Britain's schools remain very much under the influence of ideas of certain leftist academics from the 1960s and 1970s (though certainly not ideas shared by all left-wing people). These so-called experts had a view of education which emphasises vaguely-defined 'skills' over concrete knowledge, play over rigour, and child-centred approaches instead of teacher authority. They claimed that the emphasis on subject knowledge throttles young people's creativity and disadvantages poorer children. This thinking has spread through state schools since and unintentionally damaged the life chances of generations of children. Not, of course, the offspring of the wealthy whose private schools give their pupils a huge advantage by teaching hard facts and avoiding the dumbing down of the all-must-have-prizes approach.
The education establishment today can't bring itself to acknowledge these problems. Instead of engaging in a constructive debate about the right balance between knowledge and skills, rigour and creativity, it has a knee jerk reaction to anything that sounds vaguely traditional. It peddles assorted myths about the new curriculum: it's too "prescriptive" (it's actually slimmer than before); it promotes only facts and "rote learning" (no, it lays out broad areas of core knowledge that all children are expected to know, but doesn't prescribe teaching methods); it ignores the views of "teaching experts" (it was, in fact, drawn up in consultation with an expert advisory panel chaired by Professor Tim Oates, plus wide consultation with subject specialists), and that there is no evidence that an emphasis on "core knowledge" works (there is plenty of international evidence, from the US, Singapore, Finland and Sweden among other places).
Very few people want a full-blooded return to the 1950s classroom, but some aspects of it - a grasp of core subject knowledge, a commitment to rigour and discipline, and yes, even some memorisation - do have their place in the twenty-first classroom. Tellingly, many people in the elite of society - politicians and lawyers, artists and journalists, businesspeople and academics - who choose not to educate their children privately nevertheless go to great lengths to get their kids into the kinds of state schools which insist on 'old-fashioned' standards.
Many state school teachers also disagree with the educational establishment. The head of Ofsted, Sir Michael Wilshaw, who ran one of the best comprehensive schools in Britain - Mossbourne Academy - has praised the new curriculum for bringing much needed rigour back. Many of the new generation of free schools are now demonstrating how a knowledge-based curriculum is perfectly suitable for poorer children. In one I visited recently, two experienced teachers - both Oxbridge graduates - told me of their determination to teach a more rigorous curriculum and challenge the low expectations they'd seen whilst working in other state schools.
Rather than reacting defensively, shouldn't teaching unions and academics welcome a proper debate about the value of knowledge and how schools can impart it? There are plenty of teachers and parents who have looked at the evidence and come to a more favourable conclusion about the new curriculum; they deserve to be heard too."
Munira Mirza is London's Deputy Mayor for Education and Culture - more info here.
How utterly irresponsible to pretend that teachers don't teach 'facts' in schools at the moment. By shamelessly misrepresenting the current situation in state schools, you're inflicting irreparable harm on teachers, but more importantly the pupils who are currently going through the system, which is in tatters thanks to the misguided efforts of people who seem to know very little about it, but have their own agendas and appear to be using state education as a little more than a career stepping stone.
You can't separate skills and knowledge - and it's ridiculous to pretend anyone can or does. Teachers are completely demoralised - every week seems to bring more changes, while pay and conditions are eroded, demands on our time outside the classroom are higher and higher, goalposts are changed constantly, nothing can be embedded, developed or improved. And yet teachers repeatedly rise to the challenge and DO deliver a decent standard of education in the most ridiculous circumstances - IN SPITE OF, not BECAUSE of the government's ham-fisted interference.
And please stop saying "rigour" as if it's an actual thing. It's a meaningless soundbite.
Simply dismissing everyone that disagrees with the government as "leftist" is so insulting and patronising. People disagree with Gove from across the political spectrum.
We don't care about politics here. Politics gets in the way of teaching. We just care about our pupils.
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Brilliant post, CrikeeThree.
The teaching unions particularly NUT have always been defensive about change regardless of which government is in power.
This has nothing to do with political leanings and rightly so.
In fact Mirza is being defensive in assuming it is.
The NUT represent a voice for children and if government won't hear them they are ignoring the welfare of children and students.
'The NUT represent a voice for children and if government won't hear them they are ignoring the welfare of children and students.'
Rarely, even on Mumsnet have I heard a more hysterical statement. Pass the smelling salts.
starlight - same here. 80s education. "Experimented on". Definitely missed some crucial bits as a result.
Grammar was a particular lacuna. We were apparently supposed to pick it up by some form of osmosis rather than learning it. Language teachers in later years used to despair at the lack of basic grammar teaching in English before pupils started learning another language. I remember someone in my French A-level class being unsure what a verb was. History was all about exploring the processes by which history was "proved" rather than learning about what actually happened.
I was at one of the better state grammar schools. I now work in a professional environment and am sometimes embarrassed by my lack of knowledge, particularly of historical events (thank for google!).
We need to stop experimenting on children and teach them the skills and information they need in later life.
Interesting. So, when talking about pupils, teachers complain that Learning facts has its place, but learning how to acquire knowledge, evaluate, transfer knowledge from one sphere to another, and understand how facts fit into a system or continuum is more important. But, all of a sudden when talking about themselves, they say How are teachers supposed to inspire if they are constantly having the rug pulled from under them so that they have to struggle just to keep up with the pace of change?
You can't ask for stability for yourself but deny it to the children. You can't insist that they learn transferable skills but refuse to be flexible yourself.
Can I win the pedant's prize for snurking at the teacher who puts "enormous emphasis on the importance of learning number skills and spelling rules" who thinks that the changes are "rediculous".
"Grammar was a particular lacuna. We were apparently supposed to pick it up by some form of osmosis rather than learning it."
This is exactly my experience.
I teach - and have always taught - grammar, spelling and punctuation. Let's not pretend schools are the same as they were in the 80s, please.
I have always taught them too - and tables - and all have always been on the curriculum in the last twenty or so years.
No idea why education in the 80s is relevant to this thread.
It's not. However, some people who were educated in the 80s (and possibly 70s?) know they weren't taught formal grammar, and therefore appear to assume that this is still the case now. It's not, but it's the kind of casual assumption which means Gove's claims about a woolly "skills based curriculum" gain credibility, despite being a misrepresentation of the truth.
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Yes Fact. 80's education IS relevant now because those who were educated in the 80s make up a large proportion of parents of school age kids who think teachers are rubbish and who vote.
I was teaching in the 70's and I taught grammar and tables. The great difference was that back then you had greater freedom -now you have to teach the way you are told to teach, even in some cases down to what you actually say!! It wouldn't be so bad if wasn't then all changed-the 'old' was all wrong and it is in with the 'new'.
* large proportion of parents of school age kids who think teachers are rubbish and who vote*
With views like that you really will get the teachers you deserve! If they are continually told they are 'rubbish' they leave and you get left with the ones who can't get jobs elsewhere. Is that really what you want-overworked, undervalued teachers?
But the curriculum now bears no resemblance to the 80s, and has changed around a million times - that's the point.
I know that Feenie, being one of the few in my family that didn't go into teaching but probably should have. But I don't think the voting population do. And even if they know it has changed, why would they think it was 'better'?
Actually exotic teachers HAVE been rubbish at teaching my ds. Nothing to do with capability, everything to do with attitude.
suffolk I have said - in my case, ironically, one of the best state grammars in the country!
The 80s are relevant because the theme is the leftist agenda from teaching unions (see the title). I was posting about the impact that leftist agenda had on my own education, in the 80s.
But regardless of what did or didn't happen in the 80s, the government and associated bodies (yes Ofsted, I mean you) and currently misrepresenting the truth of the situation to push their own agendas. And that's not acceptable. So teaching unions oppose it, and can only be seen as left-wing, because they're opposing the policies of the right. Is it possible to take the politics out of it? Probably not - but the very thing they are claiming to be getting rid of (this "content-lite" curriculum) doesn't exist.
It doesn't exist for a number of reasons:
a) the national curriculum is not national, whatever percentage of schools are currently free/academies/private are exempt from it.
b) facts are being taught (of course!) It would be near impossible to teach 'skills' in isolation - it's just that there isn't currently a centralised list of Facts that someone deems it crucial for all pupils to know, and in what order/at what age etc.
So what are they doing? Nothing more than undermining support for schools and teachers. If there is a 'grand plan' behind this, then I can only imagine it's a very bleak one for state education as a whole, regardless of politics.
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