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Discussions about teaching as design
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9 December 2008
Discussion about current key issues in advancing the idea of teaching as design
09 December 2008 Participants: Maria Bannert, ChanMin Kim, Grainne Conole, Murray Saunders and Sue Bennett
1. What is important in the social context of design?
- understanding teachers and their practices
- knowledge sharing (what is valued, informal observations vs empirical evidence)
- influence of teacher expertise and epistemological beliefs
- what role does motivation and (self)regulation play in teachers' design (could be informed by learner research into supports for novices)
- factors in understanding/encouraging the take up of new ideas, changing rigid schemas, changing teachers' roles
- mental models of teaching as design: does it motivate? self monitoring and monitoring others
- reflection on practice: what form would it take? It would be an additional task, so would need to work out how it wouldn't be an extra thing (what we understand from student reflection)
- what role might systemic levers play?
- issues of openness and transparency = motivation, ethics (eg. involving student-teachers or early career academics), where are the boundaries, how private/public for individuals, what's appropriate practice in sharing
2. Effectiveness of r epresentations
- integration of genericism and uni-disciplinary perspective
- investigating why 'the devil's in the detail' who it worked, why it worked and what didn't work
- representations of knowledge – does it obscure or make clear; what is represented and what is not; dynamic/dialogic; informal vs formalised (what's OK)
3. How could we use ideas from participatory design methodology?
- means of bringing together teachers + designers + technical + learners
- also as a possible means to bring the research and development community together
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One expects a book by Philip Bobbitt to be over 900 pages ("The Shield of Achilles," 2002) or just under 700 pages ("Terror and Consent," 2008). Then how can he diet himself down to a mere 200 or so pages of text on Machiavelli? Bobbitt is a great systematizer in the Toynbee mold — "Shield" gave us six different state systems since 1500 (princely, kingly, territorial, imperial, national, market).
"Terror" focused on one condition (the market state), but that state is still in formation, so Bobbitt argued its case more (and more and more) extensively. Then how does he deal with Machiavelli so compactly in "The Garments of Court and Palace"? Very easily, as one can tell by the frequency of his self-citations in the new book. He just shows us how wonderfully Machiavelli agreed with Bobbitt's longer works — as if Niccolò had read them half a millennium ago. Machiavelli is often viewed as surprisingly modern, but does that have to mean he must be surprisingly Bobbitt?
Machiavelli fits into Bobbitt's scheme because he is the expounder of the first of the six state systems in "The Shield of Achilles," the princely one (Machiavelli even graced the form with its Bobbittian name). Bobbitt believes that legal systems are changed by military strategies, often by military technology. So, in 1494, when Charles VIII brought bronze cannon into Italy, threatening fortress walls and smashing the governments that relied on them, Machiavelli had to propose new walls, along with new states to defend them. This must mean that Machiavelli was interested in new technologies for war — though in fact he was not very interested in forts (he thought they were less vulnerable to siege than to inner rebellion). In the encyclopedic "Art of War," he suggests an improved design for forts, but he is still concerned with inner rebellion (he forbids an inner keep where the residents can hole up and tells us starvation is more effectual than siege). Nor did he invest his time or energy in the technological innovations of Leonardo (their one collaboration, diverting a river, was an ancient concept, and it failed).
What Machiavelli was interested in was old systems, and especially old military systems — Roman ones, in fact. These were powerful not because they relied on new weapons but because they were based on virtù, an expression of their manly religion. Unlike Christianity, which makes people humble and otherworldly, Rome's religion instilled a thirst for glory and freedom in this world. In Christianity "the ritual is more mincing (delicata) than grand, without fierce or manly (gagliarda) energy." Roman "ritual was as grandly ceremonious, but it added the energy of a sacrifice deep in blood and fierceness, slaughtering hordes of animals. By being terrifying in this way, it made men just as terrifying."
Bobbitt thinks that Machiavelli's prince could be ruthless, like the Romans, because he invented that new thing, "the princely state," which must be preserved for the benefit of all. Thus crimes done for the state are no crimes. They are, in fact, rather altruistic. The prince must "subordinate all other indicia of right behavior to the one parameter of serving the state." Those murdered are rightly murdered for being enemies of the state — a convenient rule for the prince, who is the state. He sacrifices himself to himself.
Machiavelli is even made to endorse Bobbitt's concept of the market state, on the rather broad ground that he was the "philosopher" of Bobbitt's first state, so he would buy into the sixth one as "our sublime predecessor." The new book is more vague than was "Terror and Consent" about the military obstetrics of the market state. Here Bobbitt just says it is "coming into being as a response to changes in the strategic context." There he told us terrorism is at least the partial cause of the market state, which mirrors it. If Al Qaeda can operate freely across national entities, relying on modern communications, computer funding and ideological inventiveness, then we must do so too, calling on creative minds "free of many of the legal and political restraints that bind government officials."
This means continual outsourcing of previously governmental acts, and omnidirectional deregulation. The right must stop regulating abortion and pornography, the left must stop regulating hate speech and, through affirmative action, hiring — such acts "promote national values in defiance of the market." Terrorists are "entrepreneurial," so our market state must be an entrepreneurial state. Terrorists use the media, so we must use them (the media, we are told, are nimbler than bureaucrats). If they use Visa to finance strikes, so should we. We can abandon our own state limits to engage in "state building" around the world to cope with the terrorist state.
Bobbitt says the market state has been in process of formation for a while. In "Shield" one of its prophets would seem to be Oliver North. The entrepreneurial Iran-contra (arms for hostages) transaction "anticipated the new market state," and was "a natural market response to the problem of overregulation" (by overregulation he means the Boland Amendment against funding the contras in Nicaragua). Old nation-state rules should not hamper new market-state solutions. That is what Bobbitt says happened in the Iraq war. The open nation-state strategy was a quick decapitation of the Iraqi government. But since the war was with the mobile "virtual state" of terrorism, what was needed was a market state mirroring its tactics. (Blackwater and all the other private contractors were too hampered by the nation state, not yet acting as the market state.)
But the best entrepreneur of the new counterterrorist terrorism was Dick Cheney, with his "enhanced interrogations" of captured terrorists. Bobbitt says torture may not be used just to score a political point or secure a judicial conviction. But the new state has to have new rules. In former wars, captives were forced to surrender their arms. In the new wars they must be forced to surrender their information. "There cannot be a ban on the collection of strategic information — information from terrorist leaders and senior managers — by whatever means are absolutely necessary short of inflicting severe pain when that information is likely to preclude attacks." That is just the legal guidance Cheney got from John Yoo, a deputy assistant attorney general in the Office of Legal Counsel. Neither Yoo nor Cheney thought waterboarding inflicted "severe pain." The new prince, like Machiavelli's old one, can commit crimes if they are in service to the state. The aim, after all, is to escape those "legal and political restraints that bind government officials."
It has often been noticed that war makes adversaries end up resembling each other; but Bobbitt would have us start out resembling our foe. Terrorists, he says, are not just criminals. They have created a "virtual state," and we have to create an entirely new kind of state to cope with it. This reminds me of the people who denounced democracy in the 1930s as too slow and stumbling to respond to the rise of dictators. Some would have had Roosevelt and Churchill create a new kind of state, baffling dictators with "good guy" dictatorships.
Not even Bobbitt thinks a new state was born of that crisis — his "nation state" runs unbroken from 1914 to 1990, and was able to survive World War II and the cold war. Only Al Qaeda and its ilk are enough to make us create an entirely new political order. Those who have seen the efficiency and lack of corruption in unregulated medicine and banks and Blackwater-type operations will have a little trouble hailing Machiavelli as a sponsor of the Higher Cheneyism.


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This is the station that was used in the closing scene of the 1929 Laurel & Hardy film "Berth Marks". Interestingly enough, in the film they boarded their train at the Santa Fe station in downtown Los Angeles and eventually disembark at Palms station, a Southern Pacific destination. Today, the National Blvd. on ramp to the Santa Monica Freeway (Interstate 10) would be just out of frame on the left in this classic southern California scene.


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Serious Games for Cognitive Assessment with Older Adults: A Preliminary Study
One of the strategies proposed by the World Health Organization to promote a healthy aging, also known as "Active Aging", where the maintenance of health and Independence in old age is identified as a good quality of physical, mental and social life, are the relevant factors concerning the preservation of the potential of achievement and development in this stage of life. Due to the common occurrence of mental disorders in older people, which are caused by many factors, the neuropsychological assessments form a part of the psychological clinical studies, where new approaches and techniques are resulting in tests that have been significantly progressing, although the principles in which these tests are based remain unchanged. In order to make those tests less tiring, and more relaxing and engaging, the Serious Games appeared, aiming to adapt the current neuropsychological tests to the context of videogaming and Digital Games, in order to achieve a better performance of the participants during the assessment and to enable a better data collection to the medical evaluation Thus, the aim of this study was to evaluate whether a serious game can be a useful instrument to be used in cognitive assessment and stimulation, and which gameplay indicators could be potential proxies of cognitive measurement.
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Singer LaTavia Roberson is reportedly in serious condition after being rushed to the hospital due to pregnancy complications. The former Destiny's Child member, who's expecting her second child, was supposedly hospitalized over the Fourth of July weekend.
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Vivian and Francine
Vivian opened her eyes, realizing that she was on the ground, she pushed herself up into a sitting position.
"What the hell,"
She was sitting on damp leaves, surrounded by trees. The wind gusted sending a shiver through her. Vivian ran her hands along her bare arms and wondered where her sweater had gotten to.
She stood up and the world spun. Forcing her to take a few steps quickly, she regained her balance, and began to look around.
Something caught her eye, in the distance, as she stumbled towards it she recognized the objects on the ground.
Vivian picked up her phone and her sweater. She pulled her arms through her sweater and buttoned it up.
"Of course no service,"
She found what seemed to be a path and headed out of the wooded area. She emerged from the woods onto a dirt road.
"Thank God,"
She walked along the road as she kept checking her phone for a sign of life. Twilight had begun and the sun was slipping beneath the horizon.
All of a sudden her phone chimed. 15 missed calls from Francine.
"What the fuck,"
She scrolled through the contact list and pushed call.
"Where the hell are you?" Francine answered.
"I'm not quite sure, I think I am somewhere off of route 18,"
"I'll come find you,"
"What happened?" Vivian asked.
"I am not sure, we'll discuss it when I get you," Francine said.
Francine pulled up alongside Vivian, she opened the door and got in. Francine leaned across and gave her a hug.
"Are you ok?" Francine asked.
"I think so, but how did I end up out here?"
"You don't remember?"
"Last thing I remember, we were going to the carnival," Vivian answered.
Francine started to drive home towards Overland.
"We were at the carnival, we went to watch an act on the main stage, ring any bells?" Francine explained.
"Vaguely, it was a magician?"
"A hypnotist,"
"So what happened?"
"You went on stage, he whispered something in your ear and then you just…lost it. You picked up an arrow that had been left on stage from the last act, and you… you stabbed him in the neck with it," Francine took a deep breath and looked at Vivian.
Vivian stared out the window.
"Then what happened?"
"You ran off stage, and disappeared," Francine said.
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Hi guys, I'm back again with the 3 Days, 3 Quotes challenge and it's the second day!🌞🌞 If you haven't seen the first day of this challenge, just click here!
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"Meeting your soul mate is like walking into a house you've been in before – you will recognize the furniture, the pictures on the wall, the books on the shelves, the contents of drawers: You could find your way around in the dark if you had to."
― Jandy Nelson, I'll Give You the Sun
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Get ready, Louisiana and all of the United States of America. Our country will be entering a new phase of its history.
Within four days, we will inaugurate a new President who is different from any head of state we have had before. Donald Trump is not like Barack Obama or Bill Clinton or Franklin Roosevelt or evenAbraham Lincoln.
He states his mind in unusual ways and sometimes one wonders how he will end living up to his words.
Will he end up doing what he says he will do or wants to do?He started off his campaign usually with tough words that could not be retracted easily if he chose tochange them. Now that he is close to the end of his promises, one wonders how close he can come to carrying them out.
But there has been somewhat of a change in the way he has continued to maintain the same emphasis he used in the beginning of his campaign. Now, his statements contain some prepositions he did not include at the beginning of his campaign.
He is no longer as definite about how strictly he will carry out his campaign promises. There are a few ifs, ands and buts inserted here and there that could make us turn our heads in wonder if this is the same Donald Trump that started the campaign.
He is a little more lenient in the definitiveness with which he states how he will carry out his election as President as it was in the beginning. And we expect it could get a little more indefinite as he begins to carry out his election promises.
And that is the way presidencies usually go. They do not go exactly the way campaigners said they would go.
Trump has gotten more soft spoken than he was at first and that is as it should be. He gives and takes a little bit more now than he did and that should increase when he gets the presidential power in his hands and begins to understand what that power allows him to do.
So we look forward to our next president becoming more soft hearted to the public and especially to those he must deal with in fulfilling his office of presidency. He seems to have made good choices of people to help him carry out that objective in his presidency.
So we wish Donald Trump well in fulfilling what we hope is his desire to become one of the greatest presidents we ever had. And we look forward to that. Go to it, Mr. Trump.


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I had a lovely afternoon enjoying coffee with Betty. We had to have our Christmas coffee early as Betty has family coming to stay next week.
Before I go to the studio I want you to meet Sukie, one of Mopsy's puppies.
How grown up is she. Sukie is now living in Hong Kong but I haven't told Mopsy. I can imagine the request for a trip OS and then Darwin would think he should go as well. Another puppy has gone to Singapore. A most adventurous family.


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Producers, execs, presenters and directors of some of the most influential British docs of the 21st century reveal the inside story of their masterpieces and their key moments during production.
With the factual industry descending on the annual Sheffield Doc/Fest this week, the time feels right to shine a spotlight on some of the most influential documentaries of the 21st century.
The shows selected highlight the strength of the terrestrial broadcast sector, with projects hailing from the BBC, ITV and Channel 4.
We feature recollections of the people behind nine of the most extraordinary and groundbreaking UK documentary projects from the past 18 years.
Each programme has played a specific role in UK factual: leaving an indelible mark on British culture, establishing a new genre of documentary television or revealing hidden truths that remain significant to society today.
While by no means a comprehensive list, the following pages provide a snapshot of modern British television documentary at its finest.
Our War was BBC3's first ever history commission. It's hard to believe, given what the programme became, but originally it was supposed to be a 'tour' through 10 years of conflict in Afghanistan – more a history lesson than a series of narrative-driven films.
From day one, I was insecure about delivering the 'past' to a young audience, fussing about the wrong stuff: "Let's do 'info-bombs' for context", "score it with drum 'n' bass", "use a Greek chorus".
We went down some very deep rabbit holes and were doing everything apart from the one thing we needed to do: trust the soldiers to tell their own stories with their own footage.
That changed when director Bruce Goodison showed me a sequence of a young platoon's desperate struggles to evacuate a fallen comrade in 2007. It had been filmed on a helmet camera by the platoon's sergeant.
The footage was chaotic and often incomprehensible, but his POV left me feeling like I was seeing combat for the first time: he looked left, I looked left; he ran into gunfire, I could almost feel the 'birdsong' of bullets whizz past my ear.
After watching this, I was shattered and confused. What did it mean? Why didn't I feel anything? The answer lay in character and old-fashioned documentary producing.
It needed the solid framework of the soldiers themselves; their unmediated voices. That's what I remember about Our War – not the footage but the interviews.
Like Brigadier Mike Griffiths, Colonel of the Duke of Lancaster regiment, trying to make sense of the death of his son, who died fighting for the unit.
"The most difficult thing is coming to terms with whether it was in a good cause," he says. "To not believe that would be to say to all those who've given their lives that it was not the right thing to do. But as long as there are young men and women brave enough to step forward, then we're a nation to be proud of."
And in that moment, he breaks down: a soldier and a father, torn apart by the brutal reality of war.
Channel 4
It was the first so-called 'rig show': 21 cameras fixed to the walls of the Hughes family home in Canterbury for 100 days, producing nine peak-time Channel 4 docs.
The Family's origins were in a show from 2006, Going Cold Turkey, also made by Firefly (now Dragonfly) for C4, in which three addicts tried to free themselves from the ravages of heroin. We weren't allowed into the hospital we'd built for them, so we hired the Big Brother cameras and filmed remotely.
The footage was unmediated, moving and intimate – and would have been impossible to get with camera operators and producers in the room. Magnus Temple, my Firefly co-founder, and I were mesmerised.
We decided this remotely operated fixed rig of cameras and microphones was a powerful documentary tool, and the rig show was born.
Burning with excitement, we showed C4 commissioner Simon Dickson our idea and told him we wanted to make a proper documentary series using this technique. Simon suggested we film a family, and a commission quickly followed.
Finding the right cast proved much more problematic. Eighteen months later, we'd rigged a home, but the family pulled out the day we were due to start filming.
We'd spent £1m without a frame to show for it. The big cheeses in Horseferry Road were not amused, but they stuck with it and six weeks later, we found the Hughes family.
Production lurched between bliss and disaster throughout, but the overnights were 3 million and two more series followed, along with multiple series of One Born Every Minute, 24 Hours In A&E and a plethora of other rig shows, controversially hoovering up doc slots and creating a debate about whether this peculiarly tender voyeurism counts as true documentary-making.
Love it or loathe it, though, the rig has ended up being a sort of replacement for – and perhaps a fitting tribute to – the granddaddy of rig shows: Big Brother.
Channel 4
Sri Lanka boasts an eerie beauty that belies the inter-communal killings and violence that devastated the northern part of the island for so long.
For many months, we had tried desperately to extract permission to visit the epicentre of the fi ghting on the Jaffna Peninsula. We were endlessly rejected. But that did not prevent our teams from filming the war elsewhere in the country; civilian populations of Tamils cut down before their very eyes.
Rape, torture and killing was an endemic part of Sri Lanka's way of life, and had been for decades. Then one day, the British Commonwealth determined to hold its conference in the capital, Colombo.
And so it was that Prime Minister David Cameron persuaded the authorities to allow him to go north to Jaffna to see things for himself. Crucially, we were allowed to accompany him.
As we neared Jaffna itself, we could see the shell craters, the abandoned clothing and the remnants of war every where. Waves of people surged up to us as we arrived, thrusting pleading letters into our hands. They had suffered very gravely.
Our film was a painful and difficult one to make, but I do believe that it represented a real contribution to bringing about peace.
Channel 4
It was about 9.30pm on a Sunday when Richard Kerbaj, the producer I'd been working with on the film for eight months, called to say Sally Evans had been on the phone in hysterics. She believed her son Thomas was dead. He had left the UK four years earlier to join the Islamist terror group Al-Shabaab.
Sally had received a phone call from a journalist asking if she had a comment to make on the photos of a white, dead Al-Shabaab fighter circulating on Twitter. This was the call she had been dreading for years, but now it had come, she didn't know what to do.
By this point, Richard and I were more than just film-makers to Sally, and she was more than a just a contributor. We had formed a genuine friendship with her and her other son, Micheal, so when I got the call, I felt a mixture of adrenaline and sickness.
It was nearly midnight by the time we arrived at their house in High Wycombe. We found Micheal sitting on the pavement, crying quietly, and Sally in tears at the door. I'd brought my camera.
I'd always known the film we were making was heading to this point but, in the midst of this sorrow, it felt wrong to press record – both for Sally and Micheal and for the film. Instead, we sat talking and just being with them.
When we left at 2am, I asked Sally if I could come back in the morning, which was now just a few hours away – this time to film everything that unfolded. Sally agreed.
The film we'd all set out to make was one that showed the reality of what they were going through and filming this most intimate moment might do that best, even if it felt really difficult for both of us.
The next day was probably the most extraordinary filming day of my life and I will always feel deeply privileged that Sally welcomed us into that moment.
It's now seven years since I started to investigate Jimmy Savile and it's fair to say that what has become known as 'the Savile effect' has changed attitudes and policies in the police and the Crown Prosecution Service, and led to many other offenders being convicted, including the likes of Rolf Harris, Max Clifford and Stuart Hall.
But it could have been so different – it was the hardest programme I have ever made and there were many times it seemed it wouldn't make it to air. We were taking on a national treasure, who only months previously had received high accolades at his funeral.
We had the starting information that Newsnight had, but we knew we had to go much further to find new evidence that Savile had abused children, not just at a care home but in other parts of his celebrity life.
As we started to find victims, one question I asked the lawyers was: how many victims would be enough to get it across the line? Nobody knew – we just had to have enough to make a compelling case to viewers.
On several occasions before TX, I had conversations with producer Lesley Gardiner in which we said we had to let the truth be known and if the channel felt we did not have enough to broadcast, we would continue anyway and ensure we released it on some platform.
Thankfully, it never came to that, although the channel, even up to broadcast, was very nervous. Luckily, we had the full support of then-ITV director of television Peter Fincham and Alex Gardiner from ITV Studios' Shiver.
I never believed that a television programme could have such an impact, but I know now its broadcast has changed people's lives – and for that, I and the small team involved are incredible proud to have made it.
Channel 4
I was making a film in the House of Lords as Parliament pondered the fox-hunting bill. They'd spent 700 hours debating and still hadn't finished when I stopped filming.
As it happened, I'd also been shooting Countryside Alliance marches in London – just to have some footage 'in the bank'.
Together these two elements made me want to make a film, but foxhunting had a similar problem to the House of Lords: both were subject to huge prejudice from the public and media based on historical stereotypes.
I had started researching with the fieldmaster of the Beaufort hunt, Captain Ian Farquar – a hugely knowledgeable and charismatic character. But I realised we could not make a film with him as he would confirm the public's stereotype of the hunting community.
Then I became aware of an amateur farmers' hunt in Cornwall operated on a shoestring by a local electrician and a beef farmer, with a quiet fieldmaster called Ian who ran a fairground ride with his brother. As a hunting community, they were perfect for the film.
Early one morning, we went out on a 'flesh run' – the collection of sick and dead animals from local farms. I followed Ian into a small shed. Suddenly, he was wrestling a perfectly healthy-looking calf to the ground before shooting it in the head. It was shocking because it was so quietly violent and unexpected.
This happened at every farm we visited. Ian said it was a sad necessity of British farming at the time, but I needed a much more technical explanation.
Sticking with Ian would mean I could not convey 'why' to the audience. Bound by my filmic style, the content needs to come from characters and not voiceover or experts, and I had not cast the film as issue-driven.
The footage was profoundly disturbing and it needed economic and political context. In my career as a film-maker, I've often focused on character – as we can learn so much from humanity's shades of grey – but this story now needed a journalistic line.
Also, for a sentimental British audience that rarely sees the realities of food production, the killings would completely obliterate the rest of the film. The doc had to change structure.
Next door to Ian was a much larger hunt whose huntsman was very politically involved, so I changed horses mid-ride, so to speak, and began filming him.
Paul did the same flesh runs as Ian but could angrily and bitterly explain the economics and politics behind them, which gave the context the film needed: the same people who had brought about the ban on hunting would let this happen to keep down the price of milk.
I then found a farmer who hunted near London, who was so confident and articulate on camera, he'd become a spokesman for the Countryside Alliance. The film had evolved into a three-hander – all because of what happened in a shed with Ian.
Channel 4
One of my strongest emotions when we began making Feltham Sings was fear. This was the first ever documentary musical and there were so many ways it could go wrong.
I wasn't worried about finding good characters or interesting stories – there's always an abundance of both in prison.
My fear came from stepping into the unknown, from the fact that we were challenging existing norms about documentary making by asking people to sing about their lives. What if it turned out to be something completely lame – an ambitious failure?
What I discovered very quickly, and what I continue to believe, is that fear is a great stimulus to creativity. It keeps you on edge and makes you examine what you're doing from every angle.
When we began to rehearse with the young men, I realised something else: the people in the fi lm had become so much more than documentary characters; they were creative collaborators in the process – they threw in ideas about the songs and about how they might perform them.
The next realisation was that telling a story in this highly stylised and unusual way affects audience perception.
In a more traditional documentary about men in prison, you might see, say, an armed robber as being just an armed robber. But if you see that armed robber stand up and sing, making himself vulnerable, you understand that there's something else to him, something you might not have thought about.
I've done a few films like this now and I've come to believe that everyone has a creative impulse that can be tapped and is beneficial. I was still anxious about the film until about four weeks into the edit.
Then one day, I suddenly started to see how it would work, how the songs would gel with the actuality and the interviews, and how the humour and sometimes the pathos of individual characters could be highlighted by the very act of singing.
If you asked me now what film I'd like to make next, I'd like to revisit those people from Feltham Sings.
From The Sea To The Land Beyond is well loved and keeps turning up on lists like this. It is kind of annoying because, unlike almost every other film I have made in the past 30 years, I sweated no blood over it.
I had just finished One Mile Away, a stressful feature documentary about an inner-city gang truce in Birmingham, when Heather Croall, then director of Sheffield Doc/Fest, rang me.
"You will think this is crazy, but I was wondering if you'd be interested in a making a silent archive film about the British coastline with music by British Sea Power," she said.
I leaped at the chance of making a film in which nobody would want to kill me – or anybody else. My editor Alexander Fry and I spent an intensely enjoyable five weeks in the cutting room, watching and shuffling together beautiful archive footage.
It was raining outside, and we were able to play. Our only brief was to not to stray too far from the coast. I remember the key light-bulb moment was realising that a beach can switch from a site of recreation to a war zone and from this moment, stories started telling themselves without words. We had so much fun doing it and maybe that's what shines through.
We had a pile of British Sea Power albums so we chose tracks that had the right feel and chopped them in. We watched cuts with the band in the screening cinema with our temporary score, so they could see how the music was working.
When we locked, they spent a week or two in a castle in Kent remaking some of the tracks, writing new ones and building musical bridges to make a seamless final score.
The first time the film was shown at Doc/Fest with the band playing, I was very nervous and the woman next to me kept squirming and snuffling. I worried that she was bored but gradually realised that she was crying all the way through.
The creative process is a mysterious thing and on this film, it was magical.
Channel 4
The first question anyone asks about Educating Yorkshire is always about schoolboy Musharaf: "How did the headphones scene come about? Was it set up?"
It definitely wasn't. English teacher Mr Burton came up with the idea of Musharaf reading words out loud after watching The King's Speech.
That moment, however, was the culmination of three years of complex access negotiations with tricky school boards, suspicious local authorities, wary families and embarrassed teens.
When we started looking for a school in Yorkshire, Thornhill felt like an exciting proposition: funny, charismatic teachers and clever and gobby kids, all brimming with Yorkshire charm.
More than 40% of students had free school meals (the national average was 16%) and 19% didn't have English as a first language. Almost half the 750 students were white and half were Asian.
Head teacher Jonny Mitchell said outside school the two communities lived side by side, not together, but once inside, integration was something they worked hard on.
Most governors and teachers were supportive, but Jonny warned us that winning over the local authority and the parents of the 370 Muslim students would be hard.
The production team did more than 100 home visits and met community leaders, including elders from the nearby mosque and local Asian councillors. It took more than six months to gain the consents we needed.
The local authority was worried the series would ignite a powder keg, exacerbating racial tensions. But hopefully, when they watched Mushy and Mr Burton, they were moved like the rest of us.
Rather than incite tensions, it did the opposite, uniting everyone. The story of a boy overcoming his own challenges was so powerful we could all relate to it, no matter what our race or religion.


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Thank you for such a touching tale of your experience.
Migraine has driven me to suicideation at times also.
Yet, like you I've chosen to "cope". I tend to use the word "accept".
I accept that I have Migraine. I cope and continue as best as I can.
This debate between cope and fight exists in many health communities.
For me, I found that choosing accepting and coping was a relief.
For one it was a choice I could make when Migraine limits my other choices.
It also released a lot of energy. I spent a lot of energy on denial and fighting. With precious little energy after and between migraines, Iblike spending it on time with my loved ones, hobbies, heck even housework or errands.
I can lament that my life is reduced to little more than the basics, or I can see the positives. The basics is a dream for many living complicated and stressful lives.
Migraine has further simplified a life I'd already simplified to accommodate other conditions.
Yes, I still do wail in grief and self-pity at times. Having Migraine sucks, and I permit myself those moments (and reach out to others if they get too dark).
And yes, I mostly just cope. Happily.
Being a full-time patient/fighter was just wearing me down faster.
Maybe it's acquiscence. Maybe this is my preparation for the ultimate loss.
Who knows?
Acceptance and coping work for me. I overcome by adapting, rather than fighting.
Thank you again for sharing.
Very well stated. We all suffer to varying degrees and sometimes very debilitating! I am also disabled my my migraines and two other diagnoses. We sure as hell didn't choose this life but I too focus on the joys, my kids, family, husband, and pets! I don't dwell on what I missed I live in the present and enjoy the good days to the fullest knowing the bad days will come! I don't worrying about them I just deal with them when the come.
Such an incredibly meaningful post!! While my life isn't spent in daily pain, I do deal with double and triple vision on a daily basis, not to mention Vestibular Migraine which significantly messes with my balance every day. My neuro didn't react to my balance issues (hello – I just started using a can to help with vertical orientation!) until I likened my daily life to walking on a moving train.
Looking back recently I realized that I've likely had migraines since childhood. One of those places our brains won't go while we have to push through life every day, so one of the good things about being disabled. Yup, I've always been nicknamed Little Miss Tra-la-la in the family, and I've also been called a Terminal Optimist. I've almost always looked on the positive side of things, so after selling my car because I could no longer justify the expense of owning it, my friends know I'm almost always up for getting out of the house, even if I'm just accompanying them on errands.
Nope, I never asked for this. But I also choose to accept and work with what is instead of fighting it, because fighting it will only make me feel worse.
Hi Macbeck, we're glad the article spoke to you. Thanks for being here and for sharing your thoughts and your enthusiasm! – All Best, Donna (Migraine.com team)
This describes me so perfectly! And I do have a walker (well a rollator) to help me get around! And like you it made me feel more disabled, until like you, I decided I needed it to cope with daily life… I even gave her a name (Proud Mary!) I attend a group Counceling session every week with others suffering from daily pain. Someone (I think it was the facilitator) recommended that every day think of one thing that does not hurt, a finger, ear lobe, hair etc then focus on that one thing that doesn't hurt rather than what does hurt. Sometimes it helps, but most times it does not… But I keep trying! Instead of the normal New Years Resolutions I focus on the things I'm grateful for! I increase the number yearly! This year I'm going to write them down and put them in a jar to reflect upon at the end of the year ( I saw this idea on Facebook)
Happy New Year to all! Praying 2017 is good to all of us, less pain, better coping skills, more love and gratitude then last year.
Think of one thing that doesn't hurt.
Good advice!
I had an accupuncturist tell me once "If you can feel it when it hurts, you can feel it when it doesn't."
I forget sometimes to focus on the bits that feel good or at least neutral.
Thanks for the reminder!
Your words have inspired me to believe if I write about my own experiences, maybe the pain could have some meaning by touching others. Thank u so very much. I felt as tho perhaps u had been living my life while i read it.
Me too!
What a compliment, stephdw! Thank you for sharing how much the article helped you.
Take care,
This is also my life! And after 2 years of a non stop headache I am learning to cope also. Most days my migraine is a 7 out of 10… Although I want to stay in my dark bed, I make myself get up and do at least 1 productive activity! An additional activity that makes me fearful is driving… One of my auras is everything looks foggy… And I never know when it will hit… Once it hit while driving… I could not see I tried to pull off the side of the road and ended up hitting a fence…because my depth perception also stinks!
I'm so thankful for you and your candid words, Kerrie. I'm living one day at a time or else I'll get super depressed and in despair. Keto diet helping and mega avoidance of triggers (and other things too long to mention here). So, even if I can get to less than 15 a month, the pre and post dromes are markedly apparent and I'm in full time alert avoiding triggers which is a full time job. I spend extra time thinking and double checking myself with math (checkbook!) and optimizing timing to do certain tasks when my brain is working better. Filling my med planner in the morning? Forget it, I'll later be wondering how things got in the wrong places. Add two young children and a divorce, oh my. I do relish the quiet moments though and learning not to feel guilty about maximum self-care and all the money spent on health. Grateful for disability pay but still daydream of my former fun and more 'normal' life. God never wastes a hurt, though, and I'm beginning to be a good testimony and support to others. BTW, thank you for Theraspecs! Wish there were an option for a darker coating. I'm using my outdoor pair with another larger over-the-glasses pair.
Hi Andrea, your mention of a keto diet jumped out at me. Are you doing a basic weight loss ketogenic diet? If so, you might want to consider doing a medical keto diet. There are varying levels of diet, but the all contain more fat that the weight loss diets. Having more fat puts you deeper into ketosis… since the one you're on is helping a little bit, maybe diving a little deeper would help even more.
Finding information on medical ketogenic diets can be tricky. I did mine with a dietitian's guidance and don't think I could have done it without her. To find a dietitian who knows about medical keto diets, check for those who work with epilepsy patients. There are also a couple people who will work with you via webcam.
I don't mean to foist unwanted advice on you. I hope this information might be helpful. If not, feel free to ignore it!
Take care,
Hi there Andrea G.
Thank you for sharing with us. You mention some of the most challenging aspects to living with this debilitating condition. I am so sorry to hear how much you are enduring. I am very happy to read however that you are realize the importance of letting go of guilt and that self care certainly needs to be a priority! That can be a big obstacle to overcome. Simply by taking the time to share your personal story migraine story with us you are definitely serving as an amazing support to others…keep up the great job of maintaining this positive attitude!
Also, in case you are interested, here is an article we have on Theraspecs. Many within the community have commented on finding much relief with use of these glasses. If you'd like, I'd recommend contacting their customer service to let them know you'd be interested in an option for a darker coating. I see their contact info is listed on their main page.
Thank you again for being so open and honest with our community. We love hearing from you and please always feel free to reach out!
Wishing you a pain free night.
-Joanna (Migraine.com Team)
I pray for your continued strength. You are a beacon of light for all of us. Thank you for sharing this.
I definitely relate to what you have experienced and written about with such clarity. When menopause hit, I not only had my first ever headache, but it was also a migraine. It became a 7/24/365 nightmare. It never, ever leaves. After a few years and many attempts at various remedies, the very last med suggested was Lyrica, with which I now have a love-hate relationship. It masks my pain for the most part so I can function. The hate part is that the side effects are really terrible, especially my mangled memory….so I now use half the dose recommended, have some migraine relief, and my memory, while still affected, is much closer to normal.
The thing is, I love life. Even if it hurts unbearably, I still want to see my granddaughter's play, my grandson's regatta, and relish the smiles upon all the faces I love. Never give up or in….
This is beautiful and so true! I can definitely relate.
Kerrie, we're so fortunate to have articulate writers such as you among our advocates and mentors: you give voice to our fears and daily reality as well as demonstrating courage and persistence that many of us need but often feel we can no longer find in our reserves.
I'm lucky, I'm in a gentler season now apparently, with less struggle and disruption to contend with daily. But when it hits, it still knocks me around! I learn grace, good humour, patience, and some useful strategies from mentors such as you. Please know that yours may be a quiet life, but it's not 'wasted!!
Once again, Kerrie, you speak to me. I am so visual and I find the "fighting against" what is (24/7 migraine with aura for years, and now with my 4th type diagnosed this week) to be stunningly exhausting in itself. "Fighting" drains off my tiny bit of energy, and "against" just keeps me in a state of opposing. So when I find myself going there, I picture myself stepping outside of that mode – a stepping away as it were, taking some deep breaths, and telling myself that although my body is certainly not OK, that the deep-down me is OK. I hope that makes sense. It might seem trite, but it puts me back into a more peaceful place time and again.
Where, oh where, is my magic wand? I would wave it over you and everyone who visits and shares their stories on migraine.com. You're absolutely right that "no-one in their right mind" would want this life, that ironically can leave us feeling as though we've lost our mind. But when I get angry at this life that has been forced on me, I find I only get more miserable. Really, migraine on its own is enough misery. So, I'm trying to accept what is. (emphasis on "trying") When I just breathe and stop fighting then the pain lessens as my muscles, my face and forehead and temples relax and I become a little more comfortable. Acceptance will never cure me, but it can help me come to terms with my "new normal" and I can translate the energy it takes to stay mad into being happy and finding solutions. But …. I'd still like a magic wand.
Thank you for your candid words. I found a lot of myself hiding between the lines. {{hugs}}
Beautifully written, Kerrie. You give voice to those of us facing the challenge of incorporating pain into our lives.
I can identify with much of what you've written. What I hate about migraines is not knowing when they're going to strike and how long the effects will last; sometimes I feel fatigued for up to 5 days after the pain has gone. I'm using Feverfew at the moment and think (fingers crossed)it might be helping. I wish there was a magical cure out there for every migraineur!


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After a disastrous fourth quarter of 2018, Nvidia Corporation (NASDAQ: NVDA) was forced to close the year in the negative territory, well below the 2018 opening price at 194.35. In December, the stock managed to find good support near the 124.30-dollar price tag, from which it made a slight rebound. On the positive side, since that rebound, NVDA started trading sideways, which led to a break of a medium-term downside resistance line taken from the peak of the 2nd of October. This way, investors might get a chance to jump in and take advantage of the lower price and lift the stock a bit higher.
Last week, Nvidia's share price managed to close above an important area of resistance, at 134.65, marked by the low of the 20th of November. In our view, this increases the chances for the stock to drift a bit higher. If more investors start seeing value in the company around the current price, NVDA could rise to its next potential area of resistance at 150.30, marked by the high of the 18th of December. If the buying activity doesn't end there, the stock could go higher and test the 163.80 obstacle, which was the high of the 30th of November.
Looking at our oscillators, the RSI and the MACD, both are supporting the above-discussed idea. The RSI, even though still below 50, is now shifting away from its oversold territory and keeps on pointing higher. The MACD is still in the negative zone but has now shifted above its trigger line and points to the upside as well.
Alternatively, if the stock reverses back down and drops below the December low, which is at 124.30, this is when we will start examining the possibility for the stock to move lower. A good area of support could be seen near the 114.00 hurdle, which is the low of the 10th of May 2017. If that area fails to withhold the price from moving lower, the 102.30 support zone may come into play. This level acted as a good bouncing ground for the stock on the 9th of May 2017.
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Why deals with the various drivers and/or constraints (internal and/or external) imposed upon a solution.
These are examples of the kinds of questions that you should be asking with respect to the "Why" of the intended solution:
Why is the solution needed (e.g., change in business conditions, new initiatives, legacy system replacement, technology upgrade, etc.)
Why now?
Which statutory or organizational rules is this solution intended to satisfy (i.e., rules that are drivers for the solution)?
Which statutory or organizational rules does this solution need to satisfy (i.e., rules that are constraints on the solution)?


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Apparently, Head & Shoulders and Old Spice have teamed up to create a deodorizing shampoo. And Proctor & Gamble has apparently apparently picked C.J. Wilson and Josh Hamilton to pitch it. They co-star in the commercial above, with a cameo from Hamilton's wife.
Troy Polamalu and Old Spice Guy they are not though, as a YouTube commenter points out, there's something ironic in their endorsement of a product that fight's flakes.
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The Influence of Fuel Properties on Diesel-Soot Suppression with Soluble Fuel Additives
Diesel soot suppression effects of catalytic fuel additives for a range of fuels with different properties were investigated with calcium naphthenate. A single cylinder DI diesel engine and a thermobalance were used to determine the soot reduction and its mechanism for seven kinds of fuels. Experimental results showed that the catalytic effect of the fuel additive was different for the different fuels, and could be described by a parameter considering cetane number and kinematic viscosity. The fuel additives reduced soot more effectively for fuels with higher cetane number and lower kinematic viscosity. This result was explained by soot oxidation characteristics for the different fuels. Oxidation of soot with the metallic additive proceeds in two stages: stage I, a very rapid oxidation stage; and stage II, a following slow or ordinary oxidation stage.


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Two Of 2014's Best Songs So Far: Girls Day's "Something" & AOA's "Miniskirt"
I realize it's only one month in, but it's always good to get a grasp on which songs will likely end up on your year end list! Here are two strong contenders. Girl Day's new single "Something" is basically … Continue reading
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Austin Mahone & Pitbull Officially Save Pop Music With "MMM YEAH"
Award winning and talented game changing artist Austin Mahone has teamed up with Pitbull for new Timber knock-off single "Mmm Yeah." The track is amazing and washes away all memories the tiny king's previous garbage single "Banga Banga" (don't worry … Continue reading
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Kylie Minogue Releases New Single "Into The Blue," Remains the Pop Music Equivalent of Benadryl
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The Trump administration is thinking of requiring pharma companies to include price information in their ads. Here is a quick thoughtful article exploring a few reasons that information might not work as intended. It includes a summary of some of the things I've written about copay assistance programs, that essentially make patients insensitive to the (often extremely) high price of their medications.
A proposal by the Trump administration to address the high prices of drugs by making drugmakers include list price information in direct-to-consumer advertising received renewed attention in Congress this week. But while a recent study indicates that high list prices can indeed diminish interest in a drug, it also indicated that drugmakers can get around that by promising copay assistance and coupons.
On Tuesday, Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, advocated inclusion of list prices in the television commercials for drugs. "I am confident in the ability of Americans to use this information to make the best decision for themselves," he said in remarks in a hearing on drug pricing.
Some experts have already called the wisdom of that proposal into question, saying that it is more likely to cause confusion, misinformation and oversimplification of how drug pricing actually works than to create consumers well-informed and equipped to make smart decisions about their therapy.
But the new study adds an additional wrinkle, indicating that information about financial assistance may undercut the sticker shock from high prices. The study, published as a research letter last week in the Journal of the American Medical Association, was conducted by researchers at Johns Hopkins University, Clemson University and Brigham Young University.
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***IMPORTANT Road Closure Information: Tower Bridge Gateway connecting downtown Sacramento to Raley Field will close at 7:15am on race morning. Please use alternate routes, Interstate 80 or the I Street bridge to access Raley Field parking lots after 7:15am.
Directions to Raley Field
Business 80 Westbound/US 50 Westbound
(from Placerville, Folsom, Fair Oaks, Rancho Cordova, etc.)
Business 80 West to Jefferson Blvd/Fifth St. Exit
Keep Right to exit at Fifth St.
Business 80 West to Jefferson Blvd/Fifth St. Exit.
Keep Left to exit Jefferson Blvd.
Turn Right at the stoplight at the end of the off ramp.
Turn Right on West Capital Ave.
Turn Right on Fifth St.
Interstate 80 Eastbound
(from San Francisco, Davis, etc.)
Interstate 80 Eastbound to Capital City Freeway (Bus. 80/US – 50) to South Lake Tahoe.
Exit Jefferson Blvd./Downtown Sacramento.
Keep to the Left and take the Downtown Sacramento exit.
Turn Right on Fifth St.
Interstate 5 Northbound
(from Stockton, Elk Grove, etc.)
Interstate 5 Northbound to Business 80/US – 50 Westbound toward San Francisco
Exit at Jefferson Blvd./Fifth St.
Keep Right to exit Fifth St.
Interstate 5 Southbound
(from Redding, Marysville, North Natomas, etc.)
Interstate 5 Southbound to Hwy 50/I-80 Westbound
Exit at Jefferson Blvd./Fifth St.
Keep Right to exit Fifth.
A full vehicular closure of Tower Bridge will start promptly at 7:15am until 11:30am on race morning.
All of these directions take you on part of the race course and some of these roads will close by 7:15am for final course set-up. All entrants should plan to arrive at Raley Field by at least 7:15am.


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After a successful three-month intensive digital training and certification programme based on SAP S/4HANA Financial Accounting and SAP Activate Project Management, SAP Skills for Africa today hosted its first set of 22 graduates in Nigeria at a ceremony held in Lagos. SAP Skills for Africa is designed to train and certify young graduate students with the aim of providing public and private sector organizations with critical digital skills to drive digital transformation and growth in key economic hubs across the continent. The program is part of SAP's ongoing commitment to closing the skills gap and runs beyond Africa, in a total of 22 countries across the globe, as SAP's Young Professional Program. Globally, the programme has trained more than 2130 graduates since its inception in 2012.
Commending SAP Africa on this laudable objective, Mr. Hakeem Fahm, the Commissioner for Science and Technology in Lagos State, said:
"Technology is a key driver of efficiency in any successful organizationand SAP Africa's resolve to be at the forefront of bridging the digital divide in Nigeria is commendable. SAP Skills for Africa offers great synergies with our broader government-led efforts to drive digital transformation and establish globally-competitive research facilities for the promotion of innovation, research and development in science and ICT, as well as the promotion of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) skills development."
The scope of government efforts necessitates the establishment of effective public-private partnerships to ensure effective resource management, expertise utilization, and the provision of high-quality and timely services.
"We call on our private sector partners to drive sustainable digital skills development in the communities in which they operate to ensure we jointly build a bright future for all Nigeria's citizens in the digital age. Building a great digital workforce is beneficial not only to the private sector but to the entire nation, especially as our country and the continent as a whole makes strides toward becoming active players in the future economy – an economy that is likely to be dominated by digital skills and technologies."
Nigeria's digital divide is well-documented: according to the International Telecommunications Union, the country had only seven PCs per 1 000 residents (for a 0.7% PC penetration rate) in 2004. By 2016, this had grown to 11%, but it remains prohibitively low, severely limiting opportunities for digital skills development for most of its more than 190 million citizens. According to SAP Africa's Managing Director for West Africa, Pedro Guerreiro, these challenges are insurmountable without all stakeholders working together to address the country's digital skills divide
. "SAP Africa's partnership approach prioritizes the facilitation of digital transformation to empower local communities with the skills and tools they need to build bright futures in this exponential era. The terrific response from local graduates points to a growing need and appetite for greater exposure to some of the world's most pervasive business applications, as well as the employment opportunities that are unlocked with the acquisition of skills and certification in such applications."
The first-ever SAP Skills for Africa programme in Nigeria was supported by Shell Nigeria, Rufus Alexander Consulting Limited (A WYZE Group Company), Thamani Consulting and Serve Consulting. All 22 graduates are now Certified SAP Associate Consultants, ready to embark on their professional career journey with these organizations and beyond. According to Bolarinwa Onaolapo, Nigeria Content Industry Collaboration and Advocacy Manager at Shell Nigeria, the entry of high-skilled local graduates will provide a powerful boost to the organization's local skills capacity.
"Access to deep, relevant digital skills will be one of the defining features of tomorrow's successful companies. As one of Nigeria's most active private sector players, Shell Nigeria welcomes the newly-skilled graduates and anticipate their entry to the 21st-century workforce with excitement."


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- PDF reprints available upon request
- *Graduate Student, **Undergraduate Student
Ragland, G.J., Armbruster, P.A. and Meuti, M.E. 2019. Evolutionary and functional genetics of insect diapause: a call for greater integration. Current Opinion in Insect Science, in press.
Mogi, M., Armbruster, P.A., and Tuno, N. 2019. Differences in responses to urbanization between invasive mosquitoes, Aedes japonicus japonicus and Aedes albopictus (Diptera: Culicidae), in their native range, Japan. Journal of Medical Entomology, in press.
Armbruster, P.A. 2019. A trial to tackle tiger mosquitoes. Nature, 572:39-40.
Teramoto, T., Huang, X., Armbruster, P.A., and Padmanabhan, R. 2019. Infection of Aedes albopictus C6/36 cell with the wMelPop strain of Wolbachia modulates dengue virus-induced host cellular transcripts and induces critical sequence alterations in the dengue viral genome. Journal of Virology, 93:e00581-19.
Batz, Z.A.*, and P.A. Armbruster. 2018. Diapause-associated changes in the lipid and metabolite profile of the Asian tiger mosquito, Aedes albopictus. Journal of Experimental Biology, 221.
Armbruster, P.A. 2018. Molecular pathways to nonbiting mosquitoes. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA, 115:836-838.
Batz, Z.A.*, A.C. Goff, and P.A. Armbruster. 2017. MicroRNAs are differentially abundant during Aedes albopictus diapause maintenance but not diapause induction. Insect Molecular Biology, 26:721-733.
Mogi, M., P. A. Armbruster, N. Tuno, C. Aranda, and H. S. Yong. 2017. The climate range expansion of Aedes albopictus (Diptera: Culicidae) in Asia inferred from the distribution of albopictus subgroup species of Aedes (Stegomyia). Journal of Medical Entomology, 54:1615-1625.
Kotsakiozi, P., J.B. Richardson, G. Favia, A.J. Martins, S. Urbanelli, P.A. Armbruster, and A. Caccone. 2017. Population genomics of the Asian tiger mosquito, Aedes albopictus: insights into the recent worldwide invasion. Ecology and Evolution, 7:10143-10157.
Huestis, D.L., M.L. Artis, P.A. Armbruster, and T. Lehmann. 2017. Effects of photoperiod on longevity of two Sahelian Anophelines. Parasites and Vectors, 10:621.
Huang, X., Chen X.G. and Armbruster, P.A. 2016. Comparative performance of transcriptome assembly methods for non-model organisms. BMC Genomics, 17:523
Armbruster, P.A. 2016. Photoperiodic diapause and the establishment of Aedes albopictus (Diptera: Culicidae) in North America. Journal of Medical Entomology, 53:1013-1023.
Denlinger, D.L. and Armbruster, P.A. 2016. Physiology of mosquito diapause. In: A. Raikhel, editor, Advances in Insect Physiology, v.51, pp. 329-361. Oxford: Academic Press.
Chen, X.G., X.T. Jian, J.B. Gu, M. Xu, Y. Wu, Y.H. Deng, C. Zhang, M. Bonizzoni, W. Dermauw, J. Vontas, P.A. Armbruster, X. Huang*, Y.L. Land, H. Zhang, W.M. He, H.J. Peng, Y.F. Liu, K. Wu, J.H. Chen, L. Lirakis, P. Topalis, T. Van Leeuewen, A.B. Hall, X.F. Jiang, C. Thorpe, R.L. Mueller, C. Sun, R.M. Waterhouse, G.Y. Yan, Z. Tu, X.D. Fang, and A.A. James. 2015. Genome sequence of the Asian tiger mosquito, Aedes albopictus, reveals insights into its biology, genetics and evolution. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA, 112:E5907-E5915.
Huang, X. *, Poelchau, M.F., Armbruster, P.A. 2015. Global transcriptional dynamics of diapause induction in non-blood-fed and blood-fed Aedes albopictus. PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases. 9:e0003724
Mogi, M., Armbruster, P.A., Tuno, N., Campos, R., Eritja, R. 2015. Simple indices provide insight to climate attributes delineating the geographic range of Aedes albopictus (Diptera: Culicidae) prior to worldwide invasion. Journal of Medical Entomology, 52:647-657.
Poelchau, M.F., Goff, A.*, Huang, X.*, Reynolds, J.A., and Armbruster, P.A. 2014. An experimental and bioinformatic protocol for RNA-Seq analysis of photoperiodic diapause in the Asian tiger mosquito, Aedes albopictus. Journal of Visualized Experiments, Nov 30;(93):e51961 .
Denlinger, D.L. and Armbruster, P.A. 2014. Mosquito diapause. Annual Review of Entomology, 59:73-93.
Poelchau M.F., Reynolds J.A., Elsik C.G., Denlinger D.L., Armbruster P.A. 2013. RNA-Seq reveals early distinctions and late convergence of gene expression between diapause and quiescence in the Asian tiger mosquito, Aedes albopictus. Journal of Experimental Biology, 216:4082-4090.
Dowling Z., Ladeau, S.L. Armbruster, P.A., Biehler, D., Leisnham, P.T. 2013. Socioeconomic status affects mosquito (Diptera:Culicidae) larval habitat type availability and infestation level. Journal of Medical Entomology, 50:764-772.
Poelchau M.F., Reynolds J.A., Elsik C.G., Denlinger D.L., Armbruster P.A. 2013. Deep sequencing reveals complex mechanisms of diapuase preparation in the invasive mosquito, Aedes albopictus. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B, 280:1759.
Poelchau M.F., Reynolds J.A., Elsik C.G., Denlinger D.L., Armbruster P.A. 2013. Transcriptome sequencing as a platform to elucidate molecular components of the diapause response in Aedes albopictus. Physioogical Entomology, 38:173-181.
Dowling Z., Armbruster P.A, LaDeau S.L., DeCotiis M.*, Mottley J.*, Leisnham P.T. 2013. Linking mosquito infestation to resident socioeconomic status, knowledge and source reduction practices in suburban Washington, DC. EcoHealth 10:36-47.
Mogi, M., P.A. Armbruster and D.M. Fonseca. 2012. Analyses of the northern distributional limit of Aedes albopictus (Diptera: Culicidae) with a simple thermal index. Journal of Medical Entomology, 49:1233-1243.
Reynolds, J.A., M.F. Poelchau, Z. Rahman**, P.A. Armbruster and D. Denlinger. 2012. Transcript profiling reveals mechanisms for lipid conservation during diapause in the mosquito, Aedes albopictus. Journal of Insect Physiology, 58:966-973.
Summa, K.**, J.M. Urbanski*, X. Zhao, M.F. Poelchau and P.A. Armbruster. 2012. Cloning and sequence analysis of the circadian clock genes period and timeless in the Asian tiger mosquito, Aedes albopictus (Diptera: Culicidae). Journal of Medical Entomology, 49:777-782.
Urbanski*, J., M. Mogi, D. O'Donnell, M. DeCotiis**, T. Toma and P.A. Armbruster. 2012. Rapid adaptive evolution of photoperiodic response during invasion and range expansion across a climatic gradient. American Naturalist, 179:490-500.
Poelchau, M., J. Reynolds, D. Denlinger, C. Elsik and P.A. Armbruster. 2011. A de novo transcriptome of the Asian tiger mosquito, Aedes albopictus, to identify candidate transcripts for diapause preparation. BMC Genomics 12(1):619.
Urbanski*, J. M., J. B. Benoit, M. R. Michaud, D. L. Denlinger and P.A. Armbruster. 2010. The molecular basis of increased desiccation resistance during diapause in the Asian tiger mosquito, Aedes albopictus. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, 277:2683-2692.
Urbanski*, J.M., A. Aruda** and P. Armbruster. 2010. A transcriptional element of the diapause program in the Asian tiger mosquito, Aedes albopictus, identified by suppressive subtractive hybridization. Journal of Insect Physiology, 56:1147-1154.
O'Donnell*, D.L. and P. Armbruster. 2010. Inbreeding depression affects life-history traits but not susceptibility to infection by Plasmodium gallinaceum in the Asian tiger mosquito, Aedes albopictus. Infection, Genetics and Evolution,10:669-677.
Hueffer, K., P. Armbruster, C. Daehler, M. Ferzli, J. Godwin, C. Mulder and A. Sherwood. 2010. Species interactions along a continuum: the Fig Wasp mutualism. EcoEdNet (http://esa.org/ecoed/index.php?P=FullRecord&ID=318).
O'Donnell*, D.L. and P. Armbruster. 2009. Evolutionary differentiation of fitness traits across local and regional geographic scales in the Asian tiger mosquito, Aedes albopictus. Annals of the Entomological Society of America, 102:1135-1144.
Armbruster, P., M. Patel, E. Johnson and M. Weiss. 2009. Active learning and student-centered pedagogy improve student attitudes and performance in introductory biology. CBE Life Sciences Education, 8:203-213.
Armbruster, P., S. White, J. Dzundza**, J. Crawford and X. Zhao. 2009. Identification of genes encoding atypical odorant-binding proteins in Aedes albopictus (Diptera: Culicidae). Journal of Medical Entomology, 46:271-280.
Armbruster, P. 2008. The sun rises (slowly) on Darwinian medicine. Trends in Ecology and Evolution. 23:422-423. (book review)
O'Donnell*, D.L. and P. Armbruster. 2007. Comparison of larval foraging behavior of Aedes albopictus and Aedes japonicus (Diptera: Culicidae). Journal of Medical Entomology 44:984-989.
Armbruster, P. and J.E. Conn. 2006. Geographic variation of larval growth in North American Aedes albopictus (Diptera: Culicidae). Annals of the Entomological Society of America 99:1234-1243.
Armbruster, P., and D.H. Reed. 2005. Inbreeding depression in benign and stressful environments. Heredity 95:235-242.
McCleery, R.H., R.A. Pettifor, P. Armbruster, K. Meyer, B. Sheldon, and C.M. Perrins. 2004. Components of variance underlying fitness in a natural population of the great tit, Parus major. American Naturalist 164: E62-E72.
Armbruster, P., W. E. J. Damsky**, R. Giordano, J. Birungi, L. E. Munstermann, and J. E. Conn. 2003. Infection of New- and Old-World Aedes albopictus (Diptera: Culicidae) by the intracellular parasite Wolbachia: implications for host mitochondrial DNA evolution. Journal of Medical Entomology 40:356-360.
Armbruster, P., and R.A. Hutchinson. 2002. Pupal mass and wing length as indicators of fecundity in Aedes albopictus (Skuse) and Aedes geniculatus (Oliver) (Diptera: Culicidae). Journal of Medical Entomology, 39: 699-704.
Armbruster, P. R.A. Hutchinson, and P. Cotgreave. 2002. Factors influencing community structure in a South American tank bromeliad fauna. Oikos 96: 225-234.
Armbruster, P., W.E. Bradshaw, K. Ruegg**, and C.M. Holzpapfel. 2001. Geographic variation and the evolution of reproductive allocation in the pitcher-plant mosquito, Wyeomyia smithii. Evolution 55: 439-404.
Armbruster, P., R.A. Hutchinson, and T. Linvell*. 2000. Equivalent inbreeding depression under laboratory and field conditions in a tree-hole breeding mosquito. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B 267:1939-1945.
Armbruster, P., W.E. Bradshaw, A.L. Steiner**, and C.M. Holzapfel. 1999. Evolutionary responses to environmental stress by the pitcher-plant mosquito, Wyeomyia smithii. Heredity 83:509-519.
Armbruster, P., P. Fernando, and R. Lande. 1999. Time frames for population viability analysis of species with long generations: An example with Asian elephants. Animal Conservation 2:69-73.
Armbruster, P., W.E. Bradshaw, and C.M. Holzapfel. 1998. Effects of postglacial range expansion on allozyme and quantitative genetic variation of the pitcher-plant mosquito, Wyeomyia smithii. Evolution 52:1697-1704.
Bradshaw, W. E., P. Armbruster, and C. M. Holzapfel. 1998. Fitness consequences of hibernal diapause in the pitcher-plant mosquito, Wyeomyia smithii. Ecology 79:1458-1462.
Armbruster, P., W.E. Bradshaw, and C. M. Holzapfel. 1997. Evolution of the genetic architecture underlying fitness in the pitcher-plant mosquito, Wyeomyia smithii. Evolution 51:451-458.
Armbruster, P., and R. Lande. 1993. A population viability analysis for African elephant (Loxodonta africana): How big should reserves be? Conservation Biology 7:602-610.