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Monday, November 29, 2010
Not Done with the Large Format - Yet!
15 comments:
- Deb said...
It reads like a hill to me, so I don't have a problem with being unsure of what it is. However, the edited version seems to be a stronger statement visually.... the distant
mesa really lights up, even though you have not changed it. So I suppose my vote would be to edit it out.
- 14:53
- MarilynW said...
Only took a moment to know my vote is to remove the triangle shaped hill in the foregound. It is more inviting and easier on the eye. Just too much with it. Without it you want to stay a while and look around, with it just too much trouble to get in. Beautiful painting. Marilyn Witt
- 14:58
- Jeannette Kogeler said...
Hi Michael, I think you ought to keep the view as is, being true to the real time and place in which you are making art. However, choosing a different time of day can greatly alter the lights and shadows. My suggestion is: find a different light source either the time of day or weather, more clouds, snow even, earlier or much later in the day.
- 15:50
- mlucena said...
Hi, Michael! I met you once when I was painting in front of Selby Fleetwood's gallery on Canyon Road, and you walked by with your wife, (I am really bad at names, I don't recall hers.) You two were on your way east from Arizona. Hope all is going well with you!
I think (regarding the 9x24 painting) the composition will work without the foreground hill, and looks especially nice with the shadowy slope in the left front of your painting. It tells the story of the height and distance, the grandness of the landscape.
That's my story and I'm stickin' to it!
Have fun!
Margi Lucena
- 16:22
- Michael Chesley Johnson said...
Wow, a hailstorm of comments in just a few hours! Thanks for your comments, everyone. Anyone else?
- 16:48
The composition definitely works much better without the hill, and probably people who look at the far view are not conscious of the hill in the (relative) foreground and its absence is tolerated whereas its being changed would not be tolerated, as you said, any more than changing Blomidon's surroundings would be tolerated here.
- 16:49
You're right. The little hill had to go. We discussed same and it looked like a distraction to the wonderful vista that now prevails.
- 16:49
- Margo said...
Well, as I said on WetCanvas, I like it, and I really like the long format, so cropping it would affect that. I agree it's a hailstorm both here and at WC!
- 17:29
- Sri Debi said...
Michael, I have to say my problem was never with a hill, the thing that I saw and continue to see in this painting is the elephant trunk. Does anyone else see it? I know that I'be spent a lot of time in India, but I just see an elephant trunk when I first view this painting.
- 17:42
- Bruce Newman said...
Initially, I thought the little hill was a road and I think your revision is a definite improvement as it removes the ambiguity. As for staying true to the subject, Albert Handell always reminds us that we are making a picture (art). (exact quote escapes me at the moment) Oh, and nice painting, Michael!
- 17:49
- Jan Poynter said...
Hi Michael- always enjoy your blog entries. and this one really was a challenge. I say keep the hill. but with the dramatic shadows and midtones on the distant hills is is lost. (the top just blends away onto the distant slope) Bring up the highlight/contrast on the right side...and deepen the shadow on the left...and I think it will stand up and give more depth to the full scene. I always like the callenge of that really long format.
- 18:10
- Lee McVey said...
Hello Michael,
I like the painting better without the hill. With the hill, I think it is distracting and confusing as to what the focal point is.
Thanks for allowing us to give you input.
Lee McVey
- 18:39
Without the hill I can concentrate on your beautiful handling of the light as it dances off the rock. That hill was trying to say "hey, look at me! No, I choose not to do so. Thank you, Michael,for a wonderful blog!!
- 20:48
- Michael Chesley Johnson said...
To Anon. who asked me how to unsubscribe: You need to send me your e-mail address, and I can do it.
- 06:01
I say it is good as stands. You're edit job did the trick the mountain is lit perfectly.
- 09:45
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Paul Emerich France, a National Board Certified Educator, reading specialist, and classroom teacher in Chicago, wrote the article "Personalized Learning is a Problem of Privilege" for EdSurge. I'll use this post to share my thoughts (in indented green).
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Personalized Learning Is a Problem of Privilege
By Paul France | Jan 21, 2018
Education is a dynamic space, with new trends constantly ebbing and flowing, the pendulum swinging back and forth between truly new innovations and recycled ideas. Experienced educators will recognize these patterns. But for younger teachers like me, whose careers are still in their infancy, it's not so easy to see through the blinders.
When I moved to the Silicon Valley in 2014, I, like many, joined the gold rush to pursue this idea called "personalized learning." I thought it was a panacea. I truly believed that tech-powered personalized learning could be the answer education was waiting for.
Call that what you want—a misguided, naive, idealist, arrogant optimism. Perhaps the idea of personalized learning as a panacea is all of those things—or none of them. But I've come to learn that the label "personalized learning," or whatever the next big thing is called, doesn't matter. What matters more is challenging the underlying assumptions and social structures that breed inequitable ideas that do not serve what teachers and students actually need.
I don't regret my time in the Valley, though. It taught me some important lessons that I will take with me for the rest of my career. After three years there, here's what I've learned.
I've learned that personalized learning doesn't necessitate technology use.
We often conflate individualization with personalization. To sustainably individualize every child's education, it helps to have the assistance of a complex technological algorithm to assign activities to children. But this happens at a cost. Using an algorithm to determine what children see is impersonal and dehumanizing. This approach focuses on consumption of educational material instead of interaction with meaningful provocations.
Without definitions, it's impossible to gauge Mr. France's use of "individualization" and "personalization" and how they differ from one another. That said, "assistance of a complex technological algorithm" is not necessarily the same thing as "using an algorithm to determine what children see." First, the best definitions of personalizing learning are founded on educators being supported by technology, not replaced by it. Second, there may be areas where technology does an equal or better job (self-driving cars are a good analogy here), freeing up the educator to focus his or her time and energy in other ways. There's nothing in any reasonable interpretation or implementation of personalized learning that "focuses on consumption of educational material instead of interaction with meaningful provocations."
For context, let's again turn to the Center for Collaborative Education's definition of personalized learning.
Personalized Learning tailors the educational experience for every student by embracing individual strengths, needs, interests, and culture, and elevating student voice and choice to raise engagement and achievement. Personalized learning takes place within the context of educational equity, providing culturally responsive learning environments and equitable educational opportunities for all students.
I see why this way of thinking prevails, though, as I used to subscribe to it. The scope of skills taught in schools is relatively narrow, and at first, it's reasonable to assume that the right arrangement of activities on a playlist, or the correct sequence of Khan Academy videos, could meet the needs of all children.
I've come to learn that this way of thinking is reductive, at best. It's simply a more sophisticated version of an industrialized model for education, moving kids through a customizable assembly line, adding quizzes, games, and videos at different rates and in different orders.
It's important to recognize that not all technology is bad. Tools that minimize complexity, make educators more powerful, connect individuals, or redefine learning tasks can contribute to a more personal learning environment. Tools like Seesaw help children create multidimensional digital portfolios and let their parents partake in their learning journeys; apps like iCardSort and Popplet allow children to explore abstract thinking; programs like Google Earth and Skype can connect faraway people and places, redefining what sorts of experiences can take place within the four walls of the classroom.
It's just important to remember to ask ourselves why we're using technology, and to make sure that it is making learning personal by amplifying our humanity, not limiting it.
Second, I've learned that personalized learning is a problem of privilege, and that education's problems are mainly systemic.
Technologists and their wealthy funders often hypothesize that the problems afflicting education can be amended through digital tools. But many sometimes fail to acknowledge the role that privilege and inequity play in perpetuating injustice, and instead presume that tech tools that individualize will "close the achievement gap." Schools in affluent communities can access these technology tools easily, while schools in low-income areas—and which, generally speaking, disproportionately serve communities of color—do not have access to these tools. But even if they did, I think they'd find that personalized learning is not a need at all, and that there are more pressing matters to address.
France's argument here better supports the case for making effective personalized learning available to all than it does for suppressing the benefits of effective personalized learning for the privileged.
Many "personalized learning" tools don't fulfill real needs. Rather, they serve perceived needs that have been fueled by privilege. Parents don't need immediate, real-time updates on their child's progress, and they don't need their child's education to be individualized. Modern society's desire for instant gratification and boundless transparency has convinced us that these are real problems, when in reality, they're simply socially constructed preferences.
I agree that parents don't need "immediate, real-time updates on their child's progress," but I can't see why they (and their children) wouldn't benefit from effective individualized education (which is not remotely the same thing as "boundless transparency").
What children need more are well-trained, well-compensated teachers who work in emotionally-safe environments where sustainability and humanity are valued above all else. But most schools are hardly able to pay teachers equitably, nonetheless train them to hone their practice, develop engaging curriculum or even use existing technologies effectively.
What if all the billions in private capital that support the edtech industry were matched by an equal commitment to supporting our educational infrastructure? I'd like to see that kind of money invested to create a sustainable system for teaching and learning, one that actualizes a democratic vision for education by combating privilege and promoting equity within and between schools.
Schools spend something on the order of 5% of their budget on curricular materials (including edtech and infrastructure). Even in a tech-intensive environment, that number won't top 10%. Shifting a portion of that spend to support "our educational infrastructure" doesn't provide enough funding to appreciably move that needle. And, technology offers the promise of helping to reduce the bigger piece of the pie—educator cost. With good edtech, I argue, a smaller number of better supported teachers will be able to get better outcomes at a lower cost. Are we there yet? No. Should we try to get there? Yes.
By neglecting to do so—and by choosing to invest in technology instead of people—we only deepen the divide between school districts, perpetuating compounding cycles of privilege and oppression that will only continue to widen the gap between high- and low-income schools.
Most importantly, I've learned that we need to work together.
There is no panacea or silver bullet that will solve the great problem of education. Relying on venture capitalism to solve perceived problems through tech-powered personalized learning only perpetuates systems of inequality, especially if only schools in high-income, predominantly white areas can access them.
No one is proposing that we rely on venture capitalism to improve our schools. Schools will improve our schools, in part through the traditional and digital education materials that they purchase. The funding model behind the organizations that offer these materials is immaterial.
No one idea, product or organization will be able fix it alone. This is the danger of the capitalist, winner-takes-all hero mindset. It hardwires self-interest within us, a self-interest that made me want to work in Silicon Valley. I wanted to be a 21st-century knowledge worker, and I wanted to hit it big by doing something cool in technology. Blinded by my own privilege, self-interest got the best of me. I focused too much on success in the education technology world and, as a result, began to lose fulfillment in the day-to-day of teaching. I felt disconnected and disempowered, and it was because I lost perspective on what really mattered.
We need to let go of the self-interest that capitalism has instilled in us. We need to work together and support each other, not perpetuate a theory laden with privilege for the purpose of capital gain.
In actuality, it's the system that's broken—not necessarily the people in it. I met incredible, intelligent people in Silicon Valley: teachers who were passionate, creative, and knowledgeable; technologists who thought radically differently than I did and pushed my thinking about what was possible in the classroom. But privilege and a capitalist mindset clouded our understanding of which problems really need to be solved in education.
It's a well known adage in Silicon Valley to "fail fast." As I tell my students, there's nothing wrong with failing and being wrong, as long as you make a change and avoid making the same mistakes repeatedly. Education technology needs to learn from its mistakes, and I believe that getting back in touch with the principles of human-centered design will help education enthusiasts get back in touch with what really matters in schools. After all, people who know better, do better.
The central purpose of personalized learning–as implemented by educators, not providers of educational materials–is to get in touch with human-centered principles.
To be fair, educators also need to learn from their failures. One example is elementary reading. There's clear research that shows how intervention can work best to help struggling readers. But too many reading teachers instead choose a "whole language" model that's proven to be less effective.
It's a flawed approach to criticize the new thing without taking a hard look at how well the old thing is working (or not).
To France's original question, is personalized learning a problem of privilege? In my view no. Implemented well, personalizing learning offers the promise of helping to level the playing field, not tilt it.


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This column was printed in the Cambridge Times in response to a Letter to the Editor published originally on August 17th, and appearing in print on August 21st. You can view the original letter here.
I want to clearly state, at the beginning of this letter, that there's not enough room to debunk every falsehood and misrepresentation in the August 21st letter about refugees. The original letter is inaccurate, and only serves to mislead and inflame. The letter was written and printed without facts. I wanted to take a moment to provide some facts to readers, and clear up some of the confusion caused by the original letter's fabrications.
First off, there's no such thing as an "illegal refugee." A refugee is someone fleeing their home because of war, persecution, or violence who cannot return home because of those dangers. When someone arrives in Canada, no matter what method or border they used to arrive, they can apply for refugee status. If it is determined that there's a legitimate threat, they are typically accepted as refugees and allowed to remain. If they are not found to meet the definition of a refugee, they are deported. It is not illegal to arrive in Canada, through any means, and ask for asylum, nor is it a guaranteed ticket into the country. Many of these claims are rejected.
In Canada, when someone claims refugee status they go before the Immigration and Refugee Board (IRB) where their claim is heard and decided upon. It is important to note that to date, the majority of people who claim refugee status after irregularly crossing the Canada-U.S. border have been denied.
The RCMP have intercepted 10,744 asylum claimants in the first 6 months of 2018. Let's assume that these numbers continue and we have 22,000 asylum claimants this year.
Canada has handled similar numbers of border crossers in the past. Our border agency prepares for this. We've had busier periods of irregular migration, which our system was able to handle. In 2001 we had 37,000 irregular entries. In 2008, Canada saw 40,000 irregular entries. Canada hasn't seen the 30,000 mark in the past two years, and our border professionals are highly trained and effective in handling this.
Our government is actively addressing these issues. In fact, we are reinvesting in the Canada Border Services agency after the Harper Conservatives cut nearly $400 million — we're providing $173 million more in funding this year to strengthen border security and speed up the processing of claims.
I want to be clear that Canada has a robust, transparent, and effective refugee system, but many people arriving simply do not meet the requirements of a refugee and will not be allowed to stay. Claiming refugee status in Canada isn't a free ticket, and it's not easy to prove that someone meets the criteria. Our MPs have taken a proactive approach, traveled over the border, and communicated that fact to those who may consider crossing the border to try their luck with the refugee system.
Keep in mind that refugees make up a small fraction of overall immigration. Canada will likely welcome 300,000 immigrants this year.
When refugees are accepted, resettlement organizations help them find homes, go on to get jobs, live lives, and raise children, just as you or I would. Contrary to the beliefs of the original letter writer, these people do pay taxes, work hard, and become positive parts of the community.
The idea that tens of thousands of border crossers are living in Canadian cities, as stated in the original letter, is utter nonsense.
Sanctuary cities is a concept from the United States that doesn't have the same legal meaning in Canada. In Canada, no matter what a city does, the CBSA still has the legal power to arrest people not in accordance with the law. Implying that people can break the law without fear of deportation is a complete fabrication, and spreads a lie about refugees in Canada.
This letter also makes gratuitously inaccurate claims about the public benefits that migrants receive upon crossing the border. Migrants that enter Canada and claim refugee status must be treated with dignity until their case is heard and decided upon, according to international law. Claimants that are granted refugee status do not receive "gold plated healthcare" and "automatic welfare payments." Refugees and their children receive basic healthcare protections and assistance for a short amount of time.
What refugees actually receive from the federal government is through the Resettlement Assistance Program:
- Help finding permanent housing, and temporary housing if necessary.
- Orientation to the community, a service that includes
- providing contacts for safety and emergency services,
- introducing refugees to the city where they have settled,
- explaining
- public transportation,
- Canada's education and health care systems,
- Canadian laws and customs, and
- the local climate,
- Personal finance advice, such as assistance with budgeting or setting up a bank account.
- Temporary financial assistance based on what is available in the province of resettlement.
Baseless comments were also made about our veterans. The idea that we have veterans who are unable to get any help is untrue. There are several programs specifically in place for veterans through Veterans Affairs Canada. Many veterans receive government pensions. There are some, unfortunately, who are homeless and struggling. However, there are many different programs, services and benefits for veterans, including the Veterans Emergency Fund. The Legion, Naval Benevolent Fund and the Canadian Forces Personnel Assistance Fund are also available to help veterans who are struggling. There are also specialized mental health services that are available to veterans. Veterans are able to access several types of assistance during times of difficulty.
There's even specialized work in place to track, monitor, and provide assistance to veterans who are homeless.
Before we could move forward on these issues, we had to address the problems created by the previous government, on this file. Since 2015, our government has:
- Restored pensions to life for our veterans, which the previous government axed in 2006.
- Re-opened nine veterans' support centres.
- Introduced a new tax-free benefit of up to $2,500 per month, on top of existing compensation for injuries.
- Developed a new Suicide Prevention Strategy to support Canadian Armed Forces members and veterans in times of need.
Again, all of this information is accessible and easy-to-find at veterans.gc.ca.
Fear can be seductive, but only to those who don't have the facts. There are professional men and women that guard our borders and run our immigration system every day, and we should trust them to do their jobs.
There has been a lot of misinformation on this issue, but I want to encourage readers, and our whole community, to get informed about how our system actually works. Without the facts, it's easy to believe the nonsense that was printed.
Bryan May, MP
Bryan May is the Member of Parliament for Cambridge and Chair of the Standing Committee on Human Resources, Skills and Social Development, and Status of Persons with Disabilities.


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Cassava Republic signs historic novel set in Ghana
Bibi Bakare-Yusuf has acquired World English language rights to the forthcoming novel by Ghanaian author, Ayesha Harruna Attah, in a deal with Marina Penalva at Pontas Agency, who represents Attah worldwide. The novel, which is titled One Hundred Wells, tells the story of two strong female characters, whose lives intersect in a surprising way during the height of the slave trade at the end of the 19th century in West Africa. Cassava Republic will present the novel in 2017 across its imprints in Nigeria, the U.K. and North America.
Attah is the author of two novels, Harmattan Rain (published in 2009) and Saturday's Shadows (published in 2010).
According to Founder and Director of Cassava Republic Press, Bakare-Yusuf, "There is a huge lack of historical fiction from across the African continent, and imaginative reconstructions of events such as One Hundred Wells are sorely needed.
The novel allows us to see the disruptive events of colonialism and the Trans Atlantic Slave Trade from a personal, inside-out perspective. It helps to understand the turmoil in people's lives, to have insights into the relations between different ethnic groups in pre-colonial/colonial Ghana, and from a more personal perspective, understand social relations, desire and intimacy in a 19th century West African context. It brings a different time and place alive like the best historical fiction does."
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Youthful Status a Risk Factor for False Guilty Pleas
With respect to age-related differences in true and false guilty pleas, youthful status may be a risk factor for false guilty pleas. This is the bottom line of a recently published article in Law and Human Behavior. Below is a summary of the research and findings as well as a translation of this research into practice.
Featured Article | Law and Human Behavior | 2016, Vol. 40, No. 6, 611-615
To Plead or Not to Plead: A comparison of Juvenile and Adult True and False Plea Decisions
Allison D. Redlich, George Mason University
Reveka V. Shteynberg, University at Albany, State University of New York
In a criminal justice system in which almost every adjudicated defendant, regardless of age, pleads guilty, it becomes important to understand the decision-making process underlying this choice. In the present research, we examined how age (juvenile vs. young adult), guilt versus innocence, and plea comprehension influenced the decision to plead guilty and the underlying plea rationale. We found that whereas age did not affect willingness to plead guilty when participants were asked to assume guilt in a hypothetical scenario, juveniles were more than twice as likely as young adults to plead guilty when asked to assume innocence. In addition, consistent with past research and developmental theory, juveniles were significantly less likely than adults to consider the short- and long-term consequences of the decision, and to understand and appreciate plea-related information. We also found that legal knowledge, after controlling for age, was positively (albeit weakly) related to plea decisions, but only for guilty participants. Implications for juveniles and adults involved in the criminal justice system, as well as wrongful convictions, are discussed.
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Summary of the Research
"An examination of the wrongful conviction cases involving false (police-induced) confessions reveals that juveniles are at special risk (Kassin et al., 2010). For example, 33% of Drizin and Leo's (2004) sample of 125 proven false confessors were juveniles. A relatively unexplored question is whether youthful status is also a risk factor for false guilty pleas—that is, pleading guilty to crimes when factually innocent. Indeed, the question of whether juveniles are more likely than adults to plead guilty when factually guilty has not been sufficiently addressed. In the present study, we examine, first, whether juveniles are more or less likely to plead guilty when asked to assume they are guilty and innocent, and second, the rationales underlying plea decision making for juveniles and adults. We also assess comprehension of plea-relevant materials to determine whether this influences willingness to plead guilty." (p. 611)
"There is also evidence demonstrating that defendants are not rational plea decision-makers (see Redlich, Bibas, Edkins, & Ma-don, in press). Indeed, Bordens (1984) found that defendants were more likely to make satisficing (a hybrid term of satisfactory and sufficient) decisions, rather than optimizing ones. Simply seeking the most benefit is unlikely to explain variations in plea decision making. Additional factors that may influence plea decision making and decision justifications are defendant's age, understanding, and whether one is guilty or innocent; these factors and the relations between them are our focus here." (p. 612)
"Participants included 189 individuals, split into two age groups: 89 juveniles (aged 13–17 years), and 100 young adults (aged 18 –24 years)…Juveniles and young adults were similar in most respects, including gender, percent ever arrested, average grades in school, level of mother's education, and self-reported impulsivity. However, a higher proportion of the juveniles were minorities than the young adults." (p. 614)
"First, participants were asked demographic questions. Second, the interviewer read the hypothetical case aloud to the participant while they read along. Third, participants read the written tender-of-plea form, were asked if they had any questions after reading the form, and were then asked to enter a written plea of Guilty or Not Guilty. Then, a judge (a female confederate wearing a black robe and holding a gavel) entered the room and conducted the oral plea colloquy. Participants were asked to rise and answer the judge's questions, including the final question about whether they wanted to waive their rights and plead guilty or invoke their rights and plead not guilty. At three separate times, judges asked participants if they had any questions about their rights or consequences of pleading guilty (in addition to specific points of understanding; e.g., "Do you understand that you will only be allowed to withdraw your plea if you show that it was not knowingly and voluntarily made?"). Next, participants were interviewed. They were asked about the rationales underlying their plea decision and about their perceived voluntariness of, and confidence in, their plea decision. Participants were also asked the manipulation check questions, interviewed about their plea understanding via the plea knowledge measures described above, and assessed on their adjudicative competence using the MacCAT-CA." (p. 616)
"Specifically, when participants were asked to assume guilt, the difference in decisions to plead guilty remained nonsignificant between juveniles and young adults. When asked to assume innocence, however, juveniles were 2.47 times more likely to plead guilty than adults. Results remained the same when rerun with the entire sample." (p. 616)
"Three of the four univariate effects of age group were significant. With the exception of MacCAT-CA Reasoning scores, juveniles scored significantly lower on plea and legal knowledge than adults. When the same MANOVA was rerun with the entire sample, again only the multivariate effect of age group was significant." (p. 617)
Translating Research into Practice
"Almost all adjudicated adult and juvenile defendants plead guilty. Over the past 15 years, the National Juvenile Defender Center (NJDC) has conducted more than 20 assessments of state juvenile. In doing so, they examined the plea process, noting common problems across sites, such as high rates of pleas, pleas occurring early in the process (leaving no time for investigation, trust-building, or education), unknowledgeable pleas, developmentally inappropriate, incomplete, and even inaccurate plea colloquies, and systemic setting problems around culture and judge- attorney interactions."
"Both youth and probation officers commonly reported intense pressure to plead, which they attributed to insufficient time attorneys spent with youth, attorneys' failure to explore and/or understand the youths' wishes, and lack of investigation into the case. These trends noted by the NJDC assessments, in combination with results from the present research, suggest that innocent juvenile defendants processed in juvenile court, may be especially likely to falsely plead guilty." (p. 622)
"Findings from the present research indicate that youthful status may also be a risk factor for false admissions in the form of false guilty pleas. Given the extremely high rate of convictions via pleas in our criminal justice system, and the increasing identification of wrongful convictions, it is important for researchers and practitioners to better understand the complexities of the guilty plea decision among juvenile and adult defendants." (p. 623)
Other Interesting Tidbits for Researchers and Clinicians
"In addition to replicating the findings that juveniles have a depreciated understanding and appreciation of legal concepts (both general and specific to pleas), our findings also demonstrate that such a decreased understanding may influence decision making over and above chronological age. Further, the present research did not only examine whether juveniles are at increased risk for true and false guilty pleas, but also examined why. Our plea rationale findings, on the one hand, indicate that juveniles are less likely than adults to consider the short- and long-term consequences in their decisions to plead guilty and not guilty. On the other hand, we did not find age to influence endorsement of other plea rationales, including ones relating to morality and risk-taking." (623)
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A new bus service has been launched in North Derbyshire to provide Clay Cross residents with a direct link into Chesterfield.
The new mint green spira buses also stop in Sutton and replace the 241 service between Clay Cross and Mansfield.
At an event in Chesterfield market place, the new service was launched by Heather Ward, a local woman who has raised tens of thousands of pounds for a leading breast cancer charity.
Pictured here is (L-R) Glenn Pearson, Brand Manager for spira, Heather Ward of the Namesake Charity and Alex Hornby, Commercial Director
Explained Commercial Director, Alex Hornby: "Heather is a real local star and we asked her to be guest of honour at the launch celebrations in recognition of her work for our Namesake Appeal, which supports the Derby Breast Cancer Unit.
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Expert's around the world predict that about 80 to 90 percent of the data which is there as part of any organization is unstructured (This could be in any format, documents, emails, web pages, digital archives etc.). The important thing is that the amount of unstructured data in enterprises is growing significantly day by day -- often many times faster than structured databases are growing.
Here's what leading analysts say about unstructured data growth:
Source: Reference 1
Many organizations do believe that their unstructured data stores include untapped information that could help them make better business decisions. The Unfortunate thing is that it is often very difficult to analyse unstructured data as it comes in high volume and high variance.
High priority problem statements that majority of the companies expect to be addressed on the unstructured data includes Knowledge Extraction, Information Retrieval, Custom Entity Extraction, Domain Specific Language Modelling etc. The companies had to either involve their high quality human resource to manually go through the documents/contents and collate relevant information or write rule based engine to extract it for them. The drawbacks with such an approach includes wastage of expert resource hours, time to complete the task always on the higher side, head count required on the higher side.
Thanks to Machine Learning, Deep learning (Particularly Recurrent Neural Networks (RNNs)), Natural Language Processing (NLP), Natural Language Understanding (NLU) and other cognitive tools which includes Genism, Apache Lucene, we now have higher end trained systems which does such high volume, high precision jobs better than humans. This would help companies to glean actionable information that could help a business succeed in a competitive environment. The benefits includes Cost and time saving, Quality and accurate results, Better utilization of resources.
In 2016, a report estimated the global deep learning market to reach $272 million. From 2014, the deep learning market showed a continuous growth with the latest report stating that this market will reach $10.2 billion by the end of 2025.
We foresee similar pace of applicability of the latest Deep learning technologies & techniques ( RNN precisely LSTM ) for custom entity extraction & Language Modelling, Natural language processing for knowledge extraction, Genism & Lucene for Information Retrieval to real world, which could be in any vertical or domain. One of such implementations of deep learning by Tech Mahindra for engineering customer is discussed below:
Implementation # 1: Aerospace Supplier Shortlisting system using Deep Knowledge Discovery & Information Retrieval
Problem Statement: The current supplier short listing procedure involves an expert or a team of experts manually reading the suppler assessment documents captured in an un-structured format by analyst (The structured of assessment documents varies across different analyst & suppliers) against each supplier and scrutinizes the document line by line. This process would help in identifying targeted meta details like Strengths, Recommendations, Weakness, Observations, Engineering Functional, Capabilities etc. which would help the company in decision-making (Shortlisting Top Suppliers). The expert or team of experts who are assigned to do the job should be strong with deep domain knowledge to collate the data manually with maximum precession. The other approach, which is being used currently, is a rule-based detection using micro automation jobs, but this only works if the structure/pattern is consistent across the document corpus. The problem the company faced was that the volume of data that needs to be processed was on the higher side and the variance in the document structure was high. The company had to invest a lot on resources and the time required to get the desired outcome was on the higher side. As Manual effort required for collating data was huge, the output was prone to errors.
Solution: Implement a cognitive system, which had multiple modules, which solves the different areas of problem statement. The modules includes Knowledge discovery/Extraction module for identifying, annotating & building domain specific models using deep learning techniques precisely Recurrent Neural Network (Long Short Term Memory)) and extracting targeted entities which could be used for short listing the suppliers based on the training done. Information Retrieval from the collated data using user defined natural language queries using Genism & Apache Lucene, Data Pre Processing & Extraction using NLTK. Opinion mining using Machine learning. Using built in deep learning capabilities and custom orchestrator build using python the system was able to process huge volume of data with high variance with reduced time and zero manual intervention.
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Hareesh is a technocrat and a Desiring Innovation evangelist in Tech Mahindra with over 15 years of diverse experience in the IT Industry. In his career he has conceptualized and built many, ahead of the curve, business value driven solutions using emerging technologies .Hareesh is a core Principal Solution Architect in Tech Mahindra's AI competency and supports multiple verticals and clients across all regions. Experienced and specialized in conceptualizing, architecting & delivering solutions across diverse streams which include Artificial intelligence (Deep Learning), Machine Learning, Automation, Big Data Analytics, Data Mining, Data Aggregation and Enterprise Applications.
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Survivors of childhood cancer are at increased risk of suffering prematurely from cardiovascular disease in adulthood, says a new study.
The researchers say it is the first study to investigate the long-term health of childhood cancer survivors by systematic and comprehensive clinical evaluation of their health in comparison to the general population.
The researchers in Germany found that as adults these people were at increased risk of having high blood pressure and dyslipidaemia.
These conditions occurred six and eight years earlier, respectively, when compared with the general population.
In addition, childhood cancer survivors had a nearly two-fold increased risk of cardiovascular diseases, such as congestive heart failure and venous thromboembolism.
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Growing Web portals online has encouraged all the small business owners in the market to come and promote their businesses over internet. Small businesses like small manufacturing unit, exporters, and suppliers from any field of business. Web Portals are similar to Websites or Web Pages which are informative in nature. Again an informative website is a collection of web pages online which offers vivid variety of information related or concern to the business it offers or the idea what the designer or the owner has in his mind. These business portals nothing different from the hard bound business directories we people generally have at home just that web portals are the electronic version of the same. Web portals acts as online B2B directory where B2B stands for business to business which means that it specifically facilitate or comes in handy to the business owners of any area but if seen other wise they are equally helpful to the general public like us as we about equally require business listing around us. Also with the growing exposure to internet we who working professionals or students or business owner do roughly 10 percent of our daily shopping from internet, if not we at least look for the required products online once before going to the shop.
In India the business related web portals or Indian b2b portal are really growing these days, with the increased reach of the consumers and business owner in India the scope of business owners to list their businesses online has also grown. India nurture a uncountable numbers of small cottage size businesses on its chest, spread over the India from north to south and east to west. India B2B portal are has high scope of business listing on them together with business variety provided that the consumers and business owners are well aware of these websites.
Listing businesses with online B2B directory not only help support your business by promotion it online to be visible to numerous visitors and potential customers. It also builds BUSINESS LEADS, BUSINESS CONTACTS, and POTENTIAL CUSTOMERS for any business listed online.
India B2B portal offers its visitors and customers to list their business for free as well as paid, under various business listing categories. It offers highly interactive interface for the visitors and easy index-able business categories to help both the list-ers and the visitors to find their required elements on the business portal.
With various membership schemes available for paid business listing keeping different business sizes in mind and numerous visitors recorded daily, it is believed that the growth of business is confirmed with business listing.
Business portals stand more efficient than the individual websites if seen through ROI criteria. If compared return is not much as per the investment is concern for private websites. Whereas it is just contrary for web portals, business owners get much more benefits than they may get from private website of their business, for example business lead from all over the region. Indian b2b portal is the best way to go for any business owner, small, large, manufacturer, exporters, or any kind of trader, situated in India. Not only that it benefits business situated over India, but also others by providing contact details of the traders who are based in India. This facility helps majority of the business owners who are not based in India but still wants to get into business with Indian marketers.
Online B2B directory offers wide variety business categories for businesses from agriculture, transport, hardware, medical and many others to choose from. Directory being available online is visible to masses worldwide also and is update every day. Indian b2b portal offers genuine business listings which saves time of the visitors or potential customers. All these facilities makes Indian b2b portal one of the major and best BUSINESS 2 BUSINNESS Portal in India.


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There is a famous National Football League story/myth/legend involving fans from the famous "Dawg Pound" section of the Cleveland Browns. Back in the 1980s when the Browns had arguably the best home-field advantage in the league, a group of male fans were allowed to carry a doghouse into the stadium. What was odd was that it would take up to six guys to carry the doghouse into Municipal Stadium, but only two or three were required to remove the house from the venue after games.
It was eventually learned that the men were (allegedly) sneaking a full keg of beer into the stadium on game days so that they could drink and save money while watching the Browns in person.
Football and beer go together like...well, like football and beer. It's no coincidence that multiple brewing companies advertise during NFL games each and every Sunday. While the average price for a beer at NFL regular season games has risen from a year ago, half of the teams in the league offer cheap beers that fall under that $7.53 average price point.
These are the 10 cheapest beer prices at NFL games for 2014.
10 Tennessee Titans: $7.00 for 16-Ounce Beer
The Titans are an NFL franchise that is somewhat in limbo, and that is reflected in the team's lowest beer price. Tennessee has a decent defense capable of keeping the team in games. Those running the club are not sure if they have a true franchise quarterback in Jake Locker.
Then Titans are not bad enough that they should offer the lowest beer price in the league, nor do they produce a product worthy of above-average beer prices.
It's not all doom and gloom for the Titans. Rookie Zach Mettenberger may be the answer at quarterback for Tennessee. His being a success could lead to beer prices at Titans games rising.
9 Jacksonville Jaguars: $7.00 for 16-Ounce Beer
One positive you can say about the Jags: They like to save fans money. Along with having inexpensive beers on tap, Jacksonville also offers discounts on ticket prices. The team has the second-lowest average ticket price in the NFL for 2014.
Jacksonville fans could use the financial break. The team has been an NFL laughingstock for years.
Like the Titans, the Jaguars are hoping they have a savior in a rookie quarterback. Blake Bortles out of UCF was taken by Jacksonville in the first round of the 2014 NFL Draft. Some experts believe Bortles to be the best quarterback of the '14 draft class.
8 Indianapolis Colts: $7.00 for 16-Ounce Beer
Indianapolis fans don't have a lot to complain about. Their favorite team plays in a beautiful stadium – Lucas Oil Stadium – one that is an indoor venue. Andrew Luck is perhaps the best young quarterback in the league who is on the cusp of becoming a superstar. The Colts are playoff mainstays just about every January.
$7.00 for a beer at a Colts game isn't too shabby.
Indianapolis is one of several contenders to offer below-average beer prices. Two of the other teams on this list have made Super Bowl trips in the past few years, and one of them hoisted the Vince Lombardi Trophy. Next is a franchise that features a starting quarterback who is rather familiar with the Colts.
7 Denver Broncos: $6.75 for 16-Ounce Beer
The Broncos are routinely considered to have one of the top home-field advantages in the NFL. Perhaps their beer prices are part of the magic. The truth of the matter is that it can get awful cold up in the Denver altitude during the second half of seasons.
The beer may be chilled, but a few of them can warm a person up in a hurry.
Having Peyton Manning at quarterback would, in theory, justify the Broncos selling beer at high prices. Manning is the best regular season quarterback of his generation, he and the Denver offense put up historic numbers in 2013, and he helped the team reach the Super Bowl last year.
6 New York Jets: $5.00 for 12-Ounce Beer
Insert your own versions of "Jets fans need to drink to watch the team play!" jokes here.
Give it to New York for making something that isn't actually a great deal appear to be one. $5.00 for a beer at a NFL game seems like a fantastic price at first glance; and then you realize that you're paying for a 12-ounce beer and not a 16-ounce beverage.
Members of Gang Green who make treks to East Rutherford on NFL Sundays can take public transportation to and from the stadium. MetLife Stadium is one of the newer and more-modern sporting venues in the United States. Patrons can grab a beer for $5.00 at games.
Now, if only the Jets can relocate their winning ways.
5 New York Giants: $5.00 for 12-Ounce Beer
It makes sense that the Giants and Jets would offer identical beer prices. They do, after all, share MetLife Stadium. Changing concession prices on a weekly basis would be an awful pain for those who work for the team and the stadium.
Then again, the Giants and Jets are not equal franchises.
The Jets haven't won a title since Broadway Joe Namath famously raised his index finger in celebration as he jogged off the field on that fateful day. Big Blue, on the other hand, has been good for a Super Bowl championship per decade since the mid-80s. The Giants have twice won it all in the past seven years.
4 Houston Texans: $5.00 for 12-Ounce Beer
It has been a rough 12 months for Houston football fans. The Texans began the 2013 campaign hot before spiraling out of control and finishing the campaign as the worst team in the NFL. Star rookie Jadeveon Clowney, taken with the first overall pick of last May's draft, injured his knee in the 2014 regular season opener. He is set to miss over a month of action.
$5.00 for even a 12-ounce beer at any NFL stadium is a fair price. Fans who attend Houston home games don't have to worry about the elements. The Texans, like the Colts, play indoors.
Just think of the next fan base featured in this piece, Houston supporters, and remember that things could be worse.
3 Cleveland Browns: $5.00 for 12-Ounce Beer
Cheap beer alone doesn't erase the fact that going to Browns games has been a largely miserable experience over the years. Cleveland has been lousy since the team went 10-6 in 2007. It's cold and windy on the Lake Erie shoreline just about every day from late October through the end of NFL regular seasons.
The team has taken steps to reward fans who watch games at FirstEnergy Stadium. It has spent $120 million on stadium renovations that include improved concessions and larger scoreboards. The Browns drafted phenom college football quarterback Johnny Manziel last May.
Still, the Browns could have made the $5.00 beers 16-ouncers. It's the least those fans deserve.
2 Cincinnati Bengals: $5.00 for 14-Ounce Beer
The Bengals: "We're better than the Browns in every way!"
Outside of total NFL championships, that saying is accurate. The Bengals give you two additional ounces per $5.00 beer. Cincinnati has a proven quarterback in Andy Dalton and one of the best wide receivers in the NFL – one who doesn't get popped for failed drug tests – in A.J. Green. Some believe the Bengals to have the best defense in the AFC.
You were born in the wrong place, northeast Ohio football fans.
1 St. Louis Rams: $4.50 for 12-Ounce Beer
It's incredible that St. Louis can offer the cheapest beer – albeit a 12-ounce drink – in the NFL. The team gave quarterback Sam Bradford $50 million guaranteed in 2010. Bradford has since twice torn his ACL, and it is believed that the Rams have already started searching for a new starting quarterback even though Bradford is signed through the end of the 2015 season.
Enjoy those $4.50 beers while you can, St. Louis fans. It is being heavily rumored that the Rams could announce as soon as next year that they are leaving the city. The Rams are being linked with a return to Los Angeles.


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Warren Buffett Quotes About TradeQuotes about: Trade
That would be nice if [people] stuck [treasury bills] all under a mattress, but they got to buy something with them. Sometimes they buy a treasury note, sometimes they set up sovereign wealth funds. They can do all kinds of things. They can buy our companies here. As long as we consume more than we produce, and we trade away little pieces of the country daily, they're going to own something. Now, they can't run from American assets. I mean every day the rest of the world is going to have about two billion more of American assets than we have, as long as they sell us these goods.
We have to live with the rest of the world. And it's a mistake, in my view. Trade has generally developed in this country. We actually export 12 or 13 percent of our GDP. It was only 5 percent in 1970. But it benefits us. It benefits the rest of the world. It doesn't benefit the steelworker maybe in Ohio. And that's the problem that has to be addressed, because when you have something that's good for society, but terribly harmful for given individuals, we have got to make sure those individuals are taken care of.
If you own a wonderful business...the best thing to do is keep it. All you're going to do is trade your wonderful business for a whole bunch of cash, which isn't as good as the business, and you got the problem of investing in other businesses, and you probably paid a tax in between. So my advice to anybody who owns a wonderful business is keep it.
Warren Buffett
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