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For now, the CT6 is the only GM vehicle riding on the manufacturer's new Omega platform. It was engineered from the ground up to underpin Cadillac's long-wheelbase, rear-wheel drive range-toppers and it will soon also be found under the skin of the brand's new three-row crossover.
It all begins with an exterior that's at once elegant and assertive, sophisticated and sporty. Separate but aligned LED running lights in the swept-back headlights and lower front fascia provide a unique bit of flair, while a broad grille and elongated hood hint at the sedan's rear-wheel-drive architecture.
The cabin blends a modern design with high-quality furnishings, with trim choices including anodized aluminum, carbon fiber and numerous selections of wood. None need be qualified by an "imitation-" prefix - they're the real deal. Premium "Opus" leather is available, but it doesn't stop there. Cadillac offers other leather options, carbon fiber, exotic woods and other interior combinations in order to help each customer tailor his her ownership experience.
As with all modern Cadillacs, the CT6 is fitted with CUE—Cadillac's infotainment system—which is operated through a touchscreen interface in the center stack along with capacitive-touch controls. Similar to tablet devices, it lets users tap, flick and swipe to control Bluetooth connectivity, entertainment and navigation functions while also providing access to weather information, local fuel prices, Pandora internet radio and more.
However, the system has faced criticism for delayed responses to control inputs, confusing design elements and a lack of conventional buttons for frequently-accessed functions. At least a natural voice recognition system provides an intuitive alternate means of controlling CUE, allowing users to place hands-free calls, enter navigation destinations and select songs without clunky and cumbersome memorized phrases. CUE now also supports Apple CarPlay and Android Auto compatibility is coming later in the model year.
The CT6 aims to be a car that is just as pleasant to be driven in as it is to drive. As such, the rear seat received a great deal of attention. An articulating rear seat package allows 3.3 inches of adjustability, along with lumbar adjustment, tilting cushions, a massager and heating/ventilation.
The center console is adorned with inputs and controls for the expansive rear seat infotainment system. USB and HDMI inputs allow for device connectivity, while 10-inch retracting screens in the seatbacks provide the venue.
Other premium features available include a 34-speaker Bose Panaray audio system, "quadzone" climate control (front and rear dual-zone), concierge approach lighting, a hands-free power decklid and segment-leading interior storage.
Power and Performance
The CT6 can be optioned with one of three powertrain configurations. A turbocharged four-cylinder leads it off, followed by two V6s—one naturally aspirated and the other twin-turbocharged. All engines are paired exclusively to an eight-speed automatic transmission.
The four-cylinder is a two-liter, turbocharged unit producing 265 horsepower at 5,500 RPM and a very respectable 295lb-ft of torque between 3,000 and 4,500 RPM. This engine is rated for 21 mpg in the city and 31 mpg on the highway, making it very efficient for a large sedan with no hybrid option. It is only available in a rear-wheel-drive configuration.
The next step up is a 3.6L, naturally aspirated V6. It makes 335 horsepower at 6,800 RPM and 284lb-ft of torque at 5,300. It's good for 18 mpg in the city and 27 mpg on the highway. This engine is offered only with all-wheel-drive.
The range-topper is Cadillac's twin-turbocharged 3.0L V6. This excellent motor delivers 404 horsepower and 400lb-ft of torque, the former at 5,700 RPM and the latter from just 2,500. Like the 3.6L V6, this engine is offered only with all-wheel-drive. Fuel economy is rated at 18 mpg city and 26 mpg highway—both very respectable for a sedan of this size.
Trim Level Breakdown
The CT6 is offered in four trim levels: CT6 (base), Luxury, Premium Luxury and Platinum.
As befits a luxury car, the basic CT6 model comes very well-equipped. Standard features include an eight-speaker Bose audio system, OnStar with LTE, auto stop/start, 18" alloy wheels, body-colored door handles, a capless fueling system, laminated acoustic front glass, heated and power-adjustable outside mirrors, LED front and rear lighting, dual-zone climate control, driver's seat memory, front and rear dual USB charging ports, front and rear power outlets and rear auxiliary inputs and a leather-wrapped steering wheel.
The CT6 comes standard with the two-liter turbocharged four-cylinder engine with rear-wheel drive, but it can also be ordered with the 3.6L naturally aspirated six and all-wheel-drive. V6 models can be equipped with an available ground effects package and also come standard with dual exhaust outlets.
An available Driver Awareness and Convenience package adds a handful of comfort and safety features, including forward collision alert, low speed automatic braking, a following distance indicator, lane keep assist with lane departure warning, pedestrian detection (front), rear cross traffic alert, automatic safety belt tightening, blind spot monitoring, a panoramic power sunroof, IntelliBeam automatic headlamps, heated front seats, power-folding heated side mirrors and CUE with Navigation.
Stepping up to the 2.0T and 3.6L Luxury trim adds all of the features of the Driver Awareness and Convenience package, plus a power trunk lid, rain sensing wipers, a Bose 10-speaker audio system, a 110v power outlet, 16-way power adjustable front seats, surround vision camera and various interior sensors.
A new package is introduced with the Luxury trim: the Enhanced Vision and Comfort package. It adds a rear camera mirror with HD video, a panoramic power sunroof, ventilated front seats and heated outboard rear seats.
Certain Luxury models can also be equipped with the Rear Seat package. The Rear Seat package adds media controls to the center rear armrest, along with dual 10" rear seatback screens, a remote control, auxiliary inputs for the rear seat infotainment system, and wireless stereo headphones.
The Bose Panaray audio system is also available starting on the Luxury trim level. 3.0 TT Luxury models can also be optioned with the Comfort, Driver Assist and Active Chassis packages detailed below.
The next step up is the Premium Luxury trim. This is available only on 3.6L and 3.0L twin-turbo models. It includes all features of the Enhanced Vision and Comfort package, plus a configurable HUD.
Several packages are available on the Premium Luxury trim: the Comfort package, the Driver Assist Package and the Active Chassis Package.
The Comfort package adds ventilated front cushions and seatbacks and heated rear outboard seats. The Driver Assist package adds adaptive cruise control, enhanced night vision and front/rear automatic braking. The Active Chassis package adds magnetic ride control, active rear steering and 20" wheels with all-season tires.
The Platinum trim level essentially makes everything standard, with the exception of a ground effects package and a handful of a la carte accessories, including performance brake pads and an engine block heater.
Standard features include front, front-side, front-knee and side-curtain airbags. DRLs are also standard, as are LATCH anchors, a basic rear-view camera and OnStar basic/emergency services. Forward collision alert, low speed automatic braking, a following distance indicator, lane keep assist with lane departure warning, pedestrian detection (front), rear cross traffic alert, automatic safety belt tightening, blind spot monitoring can all be added via packages, as can adaptive cruise control.
Key Competitors
The CT6 is aimed at the large executive sedan segment. Competitors include the Audi A8, BMW 7-Series, Mercedes-Benz S-Class, Jaguar XJ and Lexus LS. Infiniti also plays in this space with the "L" version of its Q70 sedan, though it hasn't fielded a dedicated entry in this segment in quite some time.


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I have already written about several phony lotteries before – you know, those ones where you receive an email saying you've won when you haven't even entered?
Such lottery scams are an attempt to con you by asking for advanced fees in order to release the so-called winnings.
My question today though is – are genuine lotteries as much a scam?
I would hope that most readers are aware of the fact that if something seems too good to be true, and offers you the opportunity to get rich quick, then it is probably a scam.
Why, therefore, do people insist on playing national and other lotteries?
Did you know that your chances of winning a lottery are far less than the likelihood of you being struck by lightning?
When purchasing a lottery ticket are you not hoping to become extremely wealthy, in a very short period of time, without doing any work?
Are you one of those people who hates the standard of living they have and so, by buying a lottery ticket, you are also in a way buying a dream?
Considering that there are reports suggesting that around 10% of the internet population has fallen for a scam online I can't help but wonder how many of the remaining 90% are guilty of buying into the hopes of the lottery?
Personally, I believe that pyramid schemes are rightly illegal, and MLMs dubious.
Am I right to think that way?
Well, that's a matter of opinion, but before you make assumptions about those engaged in multi level marketing and such like, perhaps you should consider that a large proportion of the world's population invests into the hope of a better future every week.

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Yesterday, I had the pleasure of delivering proofs of our first book to the author. I think she may have been in shock at how surreal it feels to see her idea take a solid form. She thanked me for believing in her, and I thanked her for believing in Evil Girlfriend Media and me. This author along with several other writers encouraged me to take this idea and bring it to reality. It's hard to believe that after all of the planning, coordinating, and multitudes of emails, Evil Girlfriend Media is still moving forward.
It's even more inconceivable that we've closed all of the "Three Little Word" anthologies. The editors had a wide and varied selection of stories to choose from. I proudly stand behind each choice made by the editors. With that being said, it sucks to be rejected. For example, I begged my sister to write a story for one of the anthologies, she worked hard, edited, and submitted. To be fair to all of the other writers and the editor, I did not mention she was my sister. When the list was sent to me of the accepted names, she was not on it. I felt like the world was spinning around me. I was going to have to tell my sister, she didn't make the cut. She accepted it gracefully and I'm so proud to call her my family. I'd also asked other writers and friends to submit to the different anthologies. Some of their names were not on the lists. I want to thank everyone who believed in us and submitted. Your faith in EGM overwhelms me. I hope that all those that submitted, including my sister, continue to submit stories to us.
Which leads me to the next topic, we are already receiving inquiries regarding our next anthology themes. We will be taking a break on accepting short stories until at least mid-September. Our first novel will be coming out as well as all three anthologies within a short span of time. We will give you some hints for spring themes, think androids and steampunk.
If you have not watched our short films on YouTube. I suggest you go take a peek. We worked with Rick Marson, the owner of ZOMs, to create these shorts with themes of vampires and witches. Stephanie Bissette-Roark, an author who will make her debut in Witches, Stitches, and Bitches played the role of witch with eery perfection. Our zombie short is still post-production.
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After his previous Group P match against Lee Walker, Deuel admitted it was fun to watch as the Welshman fired in two century breaks against him resulting in a 4-0 defeat, and he had to endure a similar fate in today's match against China's Zhao Xintong who compiled a top break of 80 to overcome Deuel by the same scoreline.
The reigning United States National Snooker Champion will now have to win his final group match tomorrow against Israel's David Vaitzman to have any hope of progressing to the knockout stage of the Men's Event.
Ahmed Aly Elsayed however has had his fate sealed in the Men's Event as he lost 4-0 in today's Group A match against David Hogan, with the Irishman hitting a highest break of 89 along the way. Aly will play his final group match against Bratislav Krastev of Bulgaria on December 3.
United States players' results:
Corey Deuel (Men's Event Group P)
Match 1 - lost to Batsukh Baldandorj (Mongolia) 4-1
Match 2 - defeated Iulian Boiko (Ukraine) 4-0
Match 3 - lost to Lee Walker (Wales) 4-0
Match 4 - lost to Zhao Xintong (China) 4-0
Ahmed Aly Elsayed (Men's Event Group A)
Match 1 - lost to Muhammad Asif (Pakistan) 4-1
Match 2 - defeated Peteris Ermansons (Latvia) 4-2
Match 3 - lost to Lukas Kleckers (Germany) 4-0
Match 4 - lost to Ismail Türker (Turkey) 4-1
Match 5 - lost to David Hogan (Ireland) 4-0
Jeff Szafransky (Men's Event Group B)
Match 1 - lost to Zhou Yuelong (China) 4-1
Match 2 - lost to Hans Blanckaert (Belgium) 4-3
Match 3 - lost to Hussain Alawadhi (Kuwait) 4-1
Match 4 - lost to Simonas Dragunas (Lithuania) 4-1
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Life's Work
North Adams, Massachusetts 01247
MASS MoCApresents the work of two artists -- Tom Phillips and Johnny Carrera-- who throughout their careers have focused enormous artisticenergies onto a single work of art, built around existing tomes.Spanning both decades and generations, the exhibition Life's Workre-interprets and re-invents books, offering insight into two artists working methods, but also inviting viewers to re-imagine their relationship to books, images, and the nature of time itself.
Tom Phillips: A Humument
In 1966, Tom Phillips set himself a task to find a second-hand book with which tocreate an entirely new series of works by meticulously altering every page through painting and collage. He settled uponan obscure 1892 Victorian novel titled A Human Document, purchasedfor 30 pence,in a South London junkshop. He titled his altered book A Humument (a title arrived at by removing letters from the original title). The first version -- all 367 treated pages -- was published in 1973. The original volume has been followed by four revised editions, each of which can be read as a new text birthed from the original. AHumumentis now one of the best known and highest regarded of all 20th-century artists books and is considered a seminal classic of postmodern art.
Phillips explains, "Like most projects that end up lasting a lifetime this had its germ in idle play at what then seemed to be the fringe of my activities. A liking for text plus the related influences of William Burroughs and John Cage with their use of chance had led me into casual experiments with partly obliterated texts…By the date of theencounter with Mallockl I had already begun to toy with the idea of working in this way on a book. Now the die was cast, the dice thrown: chance had become choice and a notion grown into an idea."
The Pictorial Webster's Dictionary
In 1996, thirty years after Phillips' experiment, Johnny Carrera discovered a copy of the 1898 edition of The International Dictionary, which included an illustrated section that was, in effect, a concise pictorial representation of the body of knowledge that its editors at The Merriam-Webster Company felt important to 19th-century Americans. The images intrigued Carrera, and he set about to find and re-categorize the engravings, which had been given to Yale University in 1977.Carrera'sresulting volume of over 400 pages is printed with the original wood engravings and copper electrotypes arranged alphabetically. In re-sorting the imagery, Carreraalso added his own, creating new relationships between images that can be turned into narratives.
Carrera explains, "I believe a person instinctively tries to find the connection between things when they are grouped together, and so when confronted by combinations of two or more images the mind looks for a link to give their grouping meaning. My hope is readers will 'read the text' by relaxing their minds in studying the pages to allow their subconscious-ness to supply the connective meaning between images. New ideas don't spontaneously generate themselves, but come from the new combinations of old ones."
The Exhibition
For the exhibition, both epic projects will be presented as never before. MASS MoCA will show over 1,100 individual prints from Phillips'The Humument,including the original untouched book alongside the first and fifth editions. In the same room,Carrera will print images from the Pictorial Webster'son massive boat sails. Adjacent rooms will feature smaller works by Carrera including a video, prints, a giant flip book, Carrera's HumumentiPad app, and a recent recording he completed of the text he created in the work. Both presentations will give viewers the sense of walking into and exploring these life's works in total.
About the Artists
Tom Phillips's first one-man exhibition in London was in 1965,though at the time he was possibly better known for his activities as a musician. In the course of his teaching career, he introduced his best student,Brian Eno, to the ideas that helped Eno develop ambient and generative music. Since the mid-1970s, Phillips has received many commissions for site-specific artworks and portraits, including Samuel Beckett and the Monty Python team. In 1989, he became only the second artist to have a retrospective of his portraits at the National Portrait Gallery. Now retired, Phillips remains an occasional broadcaster and public speaker of wit and vision.
Johnny Carrera is based in Maryland and works as a printer, bookbinder, artist, and maker of fine-press books. He is the founder and proprietor of Quercus Press letterpress and bindery and has taught and lectured extensively in the areas of book arts. His work is held in the special collections of the Art Institute of Chicago, Yale University, Boston Athenaeum, Dartmouth College, Harvard University, the Smithsonian Institution Library, Stanford University, and many others. He is a member of the Letterpress Guild of New England and the Society of Printers.


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With the iPhone as a glaring example, and stretching through Amazon and e-commerce and more recently blockchain and bitcoin, many innovations have initially been met with derision by big company CEOs. History often proved them wrong.
Small players have historically changed the business landscape when the older guys aren't aware enough or nimble enough to respond. Here are some examples of big CEOs and executives who minimized disruptive threats when they appeared. When asked about these smaller players at the time (and even now) some companies have remained woefully dismissive.
1. The iPhone and iPod
Perhaps the most glaring example of the tendency to dismiss innovative new players was when Apple's iPhone hit the market in 2007. It was the first example of a smart mobile phone.
Onlookers were unsure what this device would compete with: Would it hurt mobile phone makers like Nokia or developers of handheld planners like Palm, who were also trying to enter into the phone space?
At the time, both companies refused to admit the threat. Here's Palm's CEO:
"We've learned and struggled for a few years here figuring out how to make a decent phone … PC guys are not going to just figure this out," said then-Palm CEO Ed Colligan in 2006, after news that Apple was developing a phone. "They're not going to just walk in."
Here's the head of strategy at Nokia:
"The development of mobile phones will follow a similar path to that followed by PCs," said Nokia's Chief Strategy Officer Anssi Vanjoki, in a German interview (translated through Google Translate). "Even with the Mac, Apple attracted a lot of attention at first, but they have remained a niche manufacturer. That will be their role in mobile phones as well."
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer had this to say about the iPhone's lack of a physical keyboard:
"500 dollars? Fully subsidized? With a plan? I said that is the most expensive phone in the world. And it doesn't appeal to business customers because it doesn't have a keyboard. Which makes it not a very good email machine."
RIM's co-CEO, Jim Balsillie, wrote off the iPhone almost completely:
"It's kind of one more entrant into an already very busy space with lots of choice for consumers … But in terms of a sort of a sea-change for BlackBerry, I would think that's overstating it."
"Screw the Nano. What the hell does the Nano do? Who listens to 1,000 songs?" said Motorola CEO Ed Zander, speaking at a conference in 2006.
2. Amazon
Perhaps more than any other internet company, Amazon has embodied internet-based challenges to traditional business and commerce. From the moment it began shipping books and threatening brick-and-mortar book chains, CEO Jeff Bezos (pictured above) has set his sights on transforming industries with Amazon's customer focus and obsession with efficiency and logistics. But also from the beginning, Amazon has been underestimated by incumbents.
Here's IBM's chairman minimizing how Amazon might transform retail and internet sales all the way back in 1999.
"Amazon.com is a very interesting retail concept, but wait till you see what Wal-Mart is gearing up to do," he said [IBM Chairman, Louis V. Gerstner Jr.]. Mr. Gerstner noted that last year IBM's Internet sales were five times greater than Amazon's. Mr. Gerstner boasted that IBM "is already generating more revenue, and certainly more profit, than all of the top Internet companies combined."
More recently, on a March 2016 earnings call, FedEx Executive VP Mike Glenn minimized the impact of Amazon's decision to lease aircraft and buy its own trucks to get into the logistics and shipping business.
"While recent stories and reports of a new entity competing with the three major carriers in the United States grabs headlines, the reality is it would be a daunting task requiring tens of billions of dollars in capital and years to build sufficient scale and density to replicate existing networks like FedEx," [Mike] Glenn said.
In August 2017, as news built around the wave of retail bankruptcies and the "retailapocalypse," Footlocker's CEO and chairman Richard Johnson claimed on an earnings call he wasn't worried about vendors going directly to Amazon to sell expensive sneakers.
"We do not believe our vendors selling product directly on Amazon is an imminent threat. There is no indication that any of our vendors intend to sell premium athletic product, $100-plus sneakers that we offer, directly via that sort of distribution channel."
3. Salesforce/cloud software
Way back before most enterprise software solutions were cloud-based, Salesforce was offering a new and different kind of CRM product. While it made waves early on, legacy software companies didn't think too highly of the product.
"Microsoft will roll [Salesforce] over," Thomas Siebel of Siebel Systems flatly told Bloomberg in 2003. "They get Zambonied."
4. Netflix/video streaming
Video streaming service Netflix launched as a potential threat to Blockbuster with its DVD mailing service. Not only did it kill the video renting industry, it now has its eyes set on broadcast television. And leaders in both industries were reluctant to admit that Netflix was a real threat.
"Neither RedBox nor Netflix are even on the radar screen in terms of competition," said Blockbuster CEO Jim Keyes, speaking to the Motley Fool in 2008. "It's more Wal-Mart and Apple."
Here's Time Warner's CEO:
"It's a little bit like, is the Albanian army going to take over the world? I don't think so," said Time Warner CEO Jeffrey L Bewkes, when asked in 2010 what he thought about the company's push toward licensed content.
Even more recently, traditional TV executives have tried to minimize the risk.
"The notion that [companies like Netflix] are replacing broadcast TV may not be quite accurate," said Alan Wurtzel, NBCU president of research and media development, as he presented ratings of popular shows from streaming companies earlier this month. "I think we need a little bit of perspective when we talk about the impact of Netflix and
Movie theater chain execs have also tried to sound brave in the face of the Netflix threat. Here's Cinemark's CEO on a February 2016 earnings call.
"We don't have any concern there," said Mark Zoradi, Cinemark CEO. "Netflix is a great service, it's a great in-home service. They've had other movies. Netflix is very much a television network and not unlike what HBO and Showtime have done for years, they have some original product that goes out there. So it's not playing in theaters, it's playing on Netflix and we hope they have great success with it but I don't see it as an issue relative to the theatrical business. It's not one really that we talk about."
5. Mobile gaming
Mobile gaming is another industry legacy execs didn't see coming. While app hits like Angry Birds have become huge, for a long time companies like Nintendo — though aware of the app's monumental rise — didn't see any lasting value there and hesitated to get involved.
These mobile games are "candidly disposable from a consumer standpoint," said Nintendo president Reggie Fils-Aime, speaking in 2011.
6. Airbnb
In the next few years, Airbnb could overtake major hotel chains in total guest bookings, according to a Barclays report noted in Quartz, but hotels are still reluctant to speak openly about the Airbnb threat.
"Our guests don't want the Airbnb feel and scent," said Christopher Norton, EVP of global product and operations at the Four Seasons, speaking to Fast Company a couple of years ago. He went on to explain that his customers expect a "level of service that is different, more sophisticated, detailed, and skillful."
"We have not seen a direct effect [from Airbnb] in any of our hotels … We don't feel it's having any impact on our results or that it has hit our radar as of yet," said Richard Jones, senior VP and COO of Hospitality Ventures Management Group, in 2014.
7. Robo-advisors
Companies like Wealthfront and Betterment believe their computer algorithms will be better at investing customers' money than personal financial advisers. But some finance professionals are not believers.
"[Wealth management] services require educated, credentialed, experienced advisors acting as fiduciaries on behalf of clients and actively engaged in a relationship with them," said Jim Maurer, director of personal finance at Buckingham and The BAM Alliance, writing in an op-ed in CNBC, and he concludes, "I don't see their services as competing with comprehensive wealth management."
In a March 2016 note, Citigroup's fintech analysts said robo-advisors may be all well and good, but that they won't work for the wealthy clients that are the bread-and-butter of the big bank-wealth management industry.
"We see the advent of robo-advice as an example of automation improving the productivity of traditional investment advisers, and not a situation where there is significant risk of job substitution," Citi analysts led by Ronit Ghose wrote in their report. "Higher net worth or more sophisticated investors will, in our view, always demand face-to-face advice."
8. Wearables/smartwatches
The Apple Watch was released last year, and it's still unclear whether or not it will become mainstream. All the same, wearables are more and more looking like they will have an impact on the traditional watch industry.
The Apple watch is an interesting toy, but not a revolution," said Swatch executive Nick Hayek Jr., speaking to a Swiss newspaper.
Hayek was also quoted as saying in The Guardian that he doesn't believe in a watch company handling healthcare data.
"I personally don't want my blood pressure and blood sugar values stored in the cloud, or on servers in Silicon Valley … I cannot accept the responsibility of whether my device warns a customer in time before a heart attack."
9. The Connected Car/Tesla
Google and Apple are exploring driverless car technologies. Carmakers, however, haven't been so sure tech companies taking the automotive reigns is the future.
"If there were a rumour that Mercedes or Daimler planned to start building smartphones then they (Apple) would not be sleepless at night, said Daimler head Dieter Zetsche, speaking to Motoring.com.au last year. "And the same applies to me."
Porsche's CEO was more blunt:
"An iPhone belongs in your pocket, not on the road," said Porsche CEO Oliver Blume said.
Jaguar Land Rover:
"We don't consider customers cargo," said Jaguar's head of R&D, Wolfgang Epple, in 2015. "We don't want to build a robot that delivers the cargo from A to B."
General Motors:
"I think somebody is kind of trying to cough up a hairball here," said former General Motors CEO Dan Akerson, when asked about the possibility that Apple was developing its own car. "A lot of people who don't ever operate in [the car manufacturing industry] don't understand and have a tendency to underestimate."
General Motors, of course, later hopped on the autonomous vehicle bandwagon in a big way. And even when they talk about autonomous vehicles, big auto is keen to dismiss the work of newer competitors such as Tesla, which was founded as a software-driven, electrical vehicle company from the start.
"It gives you the impression that it's doing more than it is," said Trent Victor, senior technical leader of crash avoidance at Volvo, in an interview with The Verge. "[Tesla's Autopilot] is more of an unsupervised wannabe." In other words, Tesla is creating a semi-autonomous car that appears to be autonomous."
10. Bitcoin/blockchain
Bitcoin has had its share of troubles — including the Mt. Gox scandal, price volatility, and an increasing concentration of mining activity in China — but even with these challenges it's still the leading decentralized currency and has spawned financial industry interest in applications of its underlying blockchain ledger tech.
JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon opined plainly in late 2015 that bitcoin would not survive:
"This is my personal opinion, there will be no real, non-controlled currency in the world," said Dimon. "There is no government that's going to put up with it for long … there will be no currency that gets around government controls."
Dimon was at it again two years later on September 12, 2017, criticizing bitcoin and calling it a fraud.
"It's worse than tulip bulbs," Dimon said of bitcoin. "It won't end well. Someone is going to get killed. Currencies have legal support. It will blow up."
Later in September 2017 Dimon also lashed out at the trend toward Initial Coin Offerings, whereby companies issue tokens, many of them based on the Ethereum blockchain, in order to fund blockchain-based products and applications. A few — such as Tezos, which raised $230M — have raised upwards of $200M.
We recently mapped over 100 companies that raised funds through ICOs. But Dimon wasn't having any of it.
"It's creating something out of nothing that to me is worth nothing," he said. "It will end badly."
Also in late September 2017, Ray Dalio, founder of hedge fund Bridgewater Associates, echoed Dimon's comments.
"Bitcoin today — you can't make much transactions in it. You can't spend it very easily," Dalio said on CNBC's Squawk Box. "It's not an effective storehold of wealth because it has volatility to it, unlike gold. Bitcoin is a highly speculative market. Bitcoin is a bubble."
The executives made the comments at around a time when bitcoin dropped to sudden lows with bitcoin dropping close to a price of $3,000 per bitcoin. However, just a little over a week later, bitcoin was again over the $4,000-mark. Dimon's comments also caused some head-scratching since it was reported some JPMorgan traders were buying bitcoin on behalf of clients as the price dipped.
11. The personal computer
In what is perhaps the most famous failed CEO prediction, executives who built their careers on the mainframe and enterprise computers of the pre-PC era were dismissive of the central idea that they would become the bedrock for the success of Microsoft, Intel, and other PC tech giants: that every desk in an office would have a computer, and that every home would have one as well.
"There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home," said Ken Olsen, founder of Digital Equipment Corporation, 1977.
"I think there is a world market for maybe five computers," said Thomas Watson, president of IBM, in 1943.
12. Google
Steve Ballmer is one of tech's most outspoken CEOs. Early on in Google's ascendancy, he made his disdain for the search giant known, up to and including discounting its very status as a company.
"Google's not a real company. It's a house of cards."
13. Apple
Stan Shih of Acer claimed that Apple's foray into computers was an aberration and that the company would fail to make a niche for itself.
"Apple is like a mutant virus, escaping from the traditional structure of the PC industry, but the industry will still eventually build up immunity, thus further blocking this trend, and we believe the size of the non-Apple camp will exceed Apple's, because this is how the industry normally evolves."
14. Kindle
The Kindle was a bold bet for Amazon: from a start selling books, Bezos and the company apparently recognized the potential that ebooks had to offer. Making the ereaders in house was one of the best ways to assure that the burgeoning market could take off. Almost no one saw it coming, though. Not even the often-prescient Steve Jobs, who decried the venture.
"It doesn't matter how good or bad the product is, the fact is that people don't read anymore."
15. The Television
Daryl Zanuck, co-founder of 20th Century Fox thought that the TV itself wouldn't catch on.
"Television won't be able to hold onto any market it captures after the first six months. People will soon get tired of staring at a plywood box every night."
16. The Telephone
This one is a real throwback, but in 1876, Western Union Telegraph company was offered the chance to purchase the patent on Alexander Graham Bell's telephone. William Orton, President of Western Union, failed to see the value of the newly invented device.
"What use could this company make of an electrical toy?"
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It felt great.
I don't know if I mentioned this last fall, but after running a 5k race (3.1 miles) with a friend of mine in early November, we decided to start training for a half marathon.
We ran a 15k race (9.3 miles) in the middle of December, and we both qualified for the NYC Half Marathon on March 18 (20k, or 13.1 miles).
I've never been an athlete. I did crew for most of high school and I was the coxswain. I essentially spent three years exercising my voice rather than my body.
God knows how much money I wasted on my little-used gym membership in college, and how many times I've floundered when trying to integrate running into my daily schedule.
Then this summer I was in Mali. It was so hot. And humid. I would drag myself to and from work every day and by 1pm I was exhausted. I was hardly moving and I started to notice it. Not physically--it was so hot I could barely eat so I actually lost weight--but mentally.
I was going stir crazy.
Unfortunately, it was far too hot for me to run outside. I suffer from low blood pressure and heat exhaustion so if I exert myself too much in hot weather I'll just pass out.
Luckily my very nice Canadian Diplomat neighbor had an airconditioned house and a treadmill, which he offered to let me use whenever I wanted. So I started running every day, working up to 8-10k runs within just a few days. I had so much pent-up unusable energy and I just pounded it all onto that treadmill.
By the time I got back to NY I'd gotten over the hump--the feeling you get, like you want to die, when you start building up your endurance past two or three miles--and running wasn't a chore or even an obligation; it was a pleasure.
I almost don't recognize myself now. I've spent a lot of money on races and running gear--money I could be spending on sparkly girly things and wine--and I'm actually considering signing up for the New York City Marathon this November. 26.2 miles, when just a couple of years ago I would have been winded after running 3.
I really enjoyed my arctic run today.
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Author explains how faith can help eliminate prejudice
By Myron Kukla | The Grand Rapids Press
HOLLAND -- Racism can hurt all aspects of life -- including basketball, an educator and author told participants in a summit Thursday.
Speaking at Thursday's Lakeshore Region Summit on Racism at Hope College, Tony Campolo said that only about one in three NBA players are white and 90 percent of those players were not born in the United States.
"We are duped by our own prejudice (because U.S.) whites believe that blacks are physically superior in athletics, as professed by that famous phrase 'white men can't jump,' " said Campolo, addressing about 600 at the conference.
White European athletes don't have the same prejudice, so they do well in both basketball and track, he said.
Campolo, an ordained Baptist minister and author of "Is Jesus a Democrat or Republican?" and other books on religion, took a theological look at racism and the part faith can play in eliminating prejudice.
"The spirit of God has to change you to look at someone of a different race and have the awareness that Jesus is staring back at you," he said.
Organized by the Lakeshore Ethnic Diversity Alliance, the summit focused on the effects of racism in many areas, including business, government, community and education.
"I came because I want to get more involved with diversity and cultural awareness, and I thought this would be a good place to start," said Jason Siersma, a math teacher with the Holland school district.
"I'm also interested in understanding how race and racism affects education and learning and what things I can do to make change in and out of the classroom."
Gail Harrison, the alliance's executive director, said the summit is intended to help dismantle the social, economic and institutional barriers of racism so that every ethnic group can participate fully in the community.
"If everyone got involved in creating an inclusive community, we could eliminate the racism that divides our community and limits our enjoyment of life," she said.
Keynote speaker Beverly Daniel Tatum, president of Spelman College in Atlanta and author of the book "Can We Talk About Race?" said Barack Obama's election as the first African American president begins a new era.
"Forty years after Martin Luther King Jr. spoke his dream of having his children judged by their character, not by the color of their skin, a majority of Americans came together to make that happen," Tatum said.
She said something good is happening in race relations in our nation and "we have to nurture and support it."
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Tallulah Willis leaves rehab after a six-week stay
Tallulah Willis, daughter of Bruce Willis and Demi Moore, has left rehab after a six week stay for drug and alcohol abuse.
The fashion blogger checked herself into The Meadows clinic in Arizona in July after her parents reportedly gave her an "ultimatum". A source close to Tallulah said at the time, "Her parents were about to take away everything from her."
Tallulah was picked up from the facility yesterday morning by her mother.
She made a quick return to social media, posting images on Instagram from an interview with fashion site Stylelikeu, in which she talked very candidly about her struggles with an eating disorder and with body dysmorphia.
"It was like I was trapped in this body," she said in the interview, speaking about how her weight dropped to just 95lbs, just under 7 stone, at one point. "I viewed super-skinny me as smart, intelligent. I was able to have the physical transformation so everyone could see me differently," she said.
Last month, a source close to the 20-year-old said that she had been "adversely affected" by her parents' divorce in 2000, when she was just six.
However Tallulah admitted that she now has a more positive outlook on life and on her body. "For the first time, I like myself on the inside," she said.
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text: Debt in Divorce By Michelle O'Neil on October 10, 2011 Posted in Debts in Divorce A debt incurred by a spouse during the marriage is presumed to be a community property debt. A debt incurred before the marriage is presumed to be separate property debt. If a debt is incurred during the marriage, but the creditor agreed to look solely to the separate property of the spouse for satisfaction of the debt, then the debt may be a separate property debt. Characterization of the debt as in the nature of community property does not determine the question of liability.… Continue Reading


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Dodgers started a 17-year-old pitcher Saturday
Taking the mound for the Dodgers against the Padres on Saturday was Julio Urias, age 17.
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The Dodgers on Saturday trotted out a rather youthful starting pitcher to face the Padres in Cactus League action. The details ...
17-year-old LHP Julio Urias will start today's ballgame against the Padres. #Dodgers
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Julio Urias did not disappoint, either, as he retired all three batters he faced, getting a groundout and two strikeouts.
Last season Julio Urias, whom the Dodgers signed out of Mexico, pitched to a 2.48 ERA and a 4.19 K/BB ratio in 54 1/3 innings in the Midwest League ... as a 16-year-old.
To state the obvious, Urias was the youngest player in the circuit by a large margin, and that gives some hint as to his potential. Seriously: 16-year-olds aren't supposed to even dip a toe into the Midwest League, let alone put up those kind of numbers. Sixteen! By the end of his time there, the lefty was working his fastball in the mid 90s. For those and other reasons, Baseball Prospectus ranked Urias as the top prospect in the Dodgers system.
Mets, deGrom find no match for extension
deGrom is set to become a free agent after the 2020 season
Perkins retires, could join Twins' staff
Perkins missed most of the last two seasons due to injury
Astros' Singleton suspended 100 games
Jonathan Singleton was suspended after a third positive test for a drug of abuse
A-Rod replaces Boone in SNB booth
Rodriguez will join Jessica Mendoza and Matt Vasgersian on the "Sunday Night Baseball" boo...
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Re: Programming is the Engineering Discipline of the Science that is Mathematics
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Cimode wrote:
> But all math is not set theory and set
> theory does not answer all questions expressed as a consequence of
> application of set theory in RM.
I think the predicate logic is more important. Predicates link the database to the real world, while normalization keeps the predicates manageable. This is what I like best about relational: to me, it hits a sweet spot between assertions about the business, and those about solutions and technology, all the while pinning them solidly to logic to solve problems.
> I believe that in unknown area that remain to be explored,
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Every Thursday morning you can buy beautiful plants and flowers at really good prices in Florence. This may not seem like something speciel to you, but in Italy flowers are generally really expensive, so when you have the chance to buy them at a good price you should really make use of it. The weekly flower market takes place near Piazza della Repubblica in Via Pellicceria under the "portici" (The arcades). The selection is very extensive and you can find everything from herbs to plants for your terrace or balcony, flowers for your home and even Christmas trees when it's that time of the year.
The market starts early in the morning and continues until lunch time. Go as early as possible in order to get the real atmosphere.
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Jon Jay was playing at the University of Miami when the St. Louis Cardinals drafted him in the second round of the 2006 draft. A few years later, he became the starting center fielder. However, he will take a backseat in 2014 to newly-acquired Peter Bourjos and will most likely be the fourth outfielder on a World Series-contending team.
In his first year in the minors, Jay hit .342 in 60 games. Two seasons later, Jay was promoted to triple-A. In 2009, he had 142 hits with a .281 average and .338 OBP and played in 136 games. Jay would then make his MLB debut in 2010. He played in 105 games and finished with a .300 average.
Jay became the starting center fielder in 2011 when the Cardinals traded Colby Rasmus to the Toronto Blue Jays. Jay led the team with 159 games played. That season, Jay had a .297 BA and a .344 OBP. From August 24, 2011 to July 30, 2013, Jay had 245 consecutive errorless games, which was a new NL record among outfielders.
Jay's time as a starter will come an end as the Cardinals traded for Bourjos in November. Bourjos is a great defensive player and will be the starting center fielder this season. With Allen Craig and Matt Holliday occupying the corner spots, it will be hard to find a spot for Jay unless one of them misses significant time.
Jay is not known for his power, but he hits the ball well and easily gets on base. Bourjos is not the best hitter out there and has been known to have some durability issues, which could lead to Jay getting his starting spot back. Jay will start the 2014 season as the team's fourth outfielder, but will be the first player to come off the bench.
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Ok so i know i've posted another query recently and i hate to clutter up the board but hopefully it'll help others (and me )
So i am not a fan of disc numbers at all and i dont want these in my renaming string. For my existing library i have used tag&rename to continue the numbering of multi disc albums from one disc to the next (e.g. D1 21, 22, 23 continuing to D2 24, 25, 26 etc)
Now i have read the documentation on %_albumtracknumber% but i cant get it to work and i dont think this field is being written at all when i perform a lookup
Tried %albumtracknumber% and %_albumtracknumber% in renaming strings and both give a blank outcome after rename
So what am i doing wrong?
Anyone got any ideas?
Looks like our documentation is wrong and it should actually be %_absolutetracknumber%. Can you try this?
UPDATE; Submitted a request to update the docs, see https://github.com/metabrainz/picard-website/pull/47
Yep that fixed it, %_absolutetracknumber% works like a dream.
You the MAN!
The documentation has been fixed, see:
Sorry to dig this back up again but i had a followup question if you dont mind?
So the above tag variable works very well for file naming conventions but is there a way to reformat the TAGS so that they use the absolutetracknumber rather than conventional number and disc?
I ask because although my collection now looks nice and neat by filenames ive realised KODI doesnt care too much about file names and takes the track number form the tag… result for a 3 CD album is the likes of:
For wife acceptance she needs a straightforward list of numbers encompassing all tracks
I realise that you may want to find a solution to this ASAP, but I think this should also be reported as a bug/feature request upstream at Kodi. Kodi really should be able to read disc numbers (Picard embeds the disc number in the files) and put disc 1 track 10 before disc 7 track 2.
Try setting this in Options > Advanced >Scripting
Yes that works nicely thankyou @outsidecontext
Before i run my collection through with this can you forsee any issues i may have down the line such as periodically re-validating my collection with picard (to get any updated info) and/or KODI failing to match lookups therefore not able to grab data? Or would this purely effect "cosmetics"
BTW @Freso you can customise KODI to display disk numbers in track titles but that wasnt what i was after. Thanks anyway for your response
No, this should be fine. Once tagged proper matching of the files depends on the MusicBrainz IDs being stored in the tags.


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I have a disagreement with ds' school. It's quite big.
I don't really want to put much of the details on here because they are a good and nice school and don't deserve to be picked apart.
But how can I be nice, and not upset anyone whilst making it clear I am not happy about something.
You'd think I'd know. But in the past it was always about being reasonable and polite, realising that any implied friendship was just about them using as much of their tool as guilt as they possibly could.
With this school it is more genuinely about being friends - I hope.
So what? Take party bags? booze perhaps?
Well how fantastic! Well done, Star, it must have been really tough not to see the new school in the light of everything that has gone before.
Glad it went well!
How wonderful.
It is so......peace inducing when people can just all get on and make allowances (on both sides) for the sake of the child in question.
Do you feel all nice and calm inside?
Well I'm anxious that the trial is done properly as seems to be the intention, but I am mindful of some things Mareeya said on another thread that actually, regardless, they have actually been prepared to do quite a bit so far.
But you know, being on the premises for a while (as I am not very often due to ds being taking in a taxi) and just chatting to passing staff/looking at their display cabinets and seeing staff interact with children, - well, it IS a good school - not a perfect one, but a good one.
I actually met with 3 very senior staff members and tbh I think they were as relieved as I was that we could reach and agreement. It was just so 'dfferent' from the last time I asked a school to keep a record/pass information.
Last school - without even looking at my template everyone in the room refused. This time, they did talk about the predictable 'time filling in forms takes away support from the child' thing but looked at mock-up, sighed a big sigh of relief at how little it demanded, specified a preference to report a couple of things differently and to redesign the template slightly and that was that.
I wonder just how long it will take for me to calm down about it all properly. Maybe never now.
It is hard and you have done well.
This has been a really useful thread - when you've been in the trenches of a full on war a few years you kinda forget all the "normal reasonable people skills" afterwards.
In RL I'm quite socially isolated, so interpersonal skills from my previous life/career have gotten rusty to say the least. This thread pullled me up on a few things I used to do as a matter of course.
I needed a reminder before a school meeting today, so just wanted to thank all those who contributed!
The reminder was helpful here too. Having let school do their own thing unaided this year, went in thus week about a specific problem. Suggested a specific solution and
knock me over with a goose feather of course it was implemented (with their spontaneous added improvements!) within 6 hours. And it solved ds's problem. Amazing
When you can show staff that you can
1. improve communication between the home and school
2. make their lives easier
3. allow them to collect data (in a manner of minutes) that ultimately makes their lives a lot easier and reflects well on them and allows them to ensure that the dreaded IEPs are SMART then......
they usually come up trumps!!
When I have something to suggest to school staff I always emphasise hugely that one of the principal purposes is to capture all the (often unseen) hard work they do and that if they do it, they look great.
There's usually happy co-operation then.
Ooh, thank you for reminding me to thank ds's teachers for their hardwork and willingness to work with suggestions from outside.
The school has been working hard on things I asked them to and lately the relationship seems to be me asking them to do more and more and it is time I thank them for their co-orperation and hardwork and ds's progress - before I ask them to help me implement some new tactics I learnt from Moondog's workshop .
Yes. Need to remember to thank them too. In fact I might put 'thanking days' on my calendar.
One thing we discussed was interesting. I asked them to take data on a strategy they were implementing and they asked me right back what benefit it would have TO ME. And you know what, I hadn't an answer.
I understood then that I didn't actually need to see the data myself, I just needed to know it was being taken so it didn't run out of control and that given they'd agree to take it, them not wanting to report to me wrt the detail and just update me at parents evenings was actually fair enough.
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Definitely saying thank you has a huge impact for us.
Star - so pleased it went well.
After years of betrayed trust and fighting it is hard to do anything other than adopt battle mode. After all, most of us started off trusting the system and lived to bitterly regret it.
I have also been thinging of how things will be with the school when we win tribunal and I have to go back to trusting. I think you 'know' from the amount of shared understanding that informs any discussion or potential disagreement and whether or not the other side is defensive. In these instances it is possible to compromise and is like a breath of fresh air. It is hard to stop assuming that data will not be collected unless you insist that it is
and relinquish control.
Trust is a relational concept. You are 'learning' that your trust can be reciprocated (and is not misplaced) and will then be able to teach (model) trust to your child.
Agh, it's all gone tits up. Oh well.......
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Well I got the outcome of what had been agreed, and it was the most half-hearted water-down version, to the extent it adds no value or benefit, just extra admin for the TA.
I sent an email hoping that the message had fallen apart internally but the response was a defence with 'well teachers are busy people'.
Like these things do, it took over half a term of frustration and anxiety on a daily basis to even get a meeting about it. Now I know that what was agreed has been met with a 'whatever!' and not taken seriously at all.
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Oh bugger.
Is this to do with home/school communication?
Can I help?
Email me if you want-I'm home all day clearing out my garage.
I know A LOT of people fighting SSs for better communication in the home/school book, rather than just "Billy joined in well at circle time and enjoyed painting". Sadly, I don't know anyone who's cracked it, though the teachers may actually be DOING what Star wanted, just not reporting it. Most people find writing stuff down hard, particularly when kids are milling around. I find regular quick verbal updates better, but easier for me cos I am there every day (didnt get tranport). There is no perfect school, just ones that are way better than others, IMHO.
dd1's last school had brilliant home/school communication. 2 A4 pages each day, broken down into areas (curriculum, food, self help, targets, etc) - got loads of info daily, and in fact sometimes struggled ot provide enough info in return.
her current school is variable. we have brilliant IEP/progress meetings still, but home/school book is a bit hit and miss. but then dd1 doesn't have that many issues at school (other than her ASD, of course ), and when she does, they do report on those, so maybe for us it's more that she is on an even keel at the moment.
Yes. Home-school interaction, but also behaviour and also support.
Basically, I raised a few issues of deterioration before Christmas, which a SALT at the school confirmed was mirrored there. In particular, I was concerned about increasing disengagement of DS both from being involved in family activities and in sharing experiences (which he finds very difficult anyway).
The SALT came up with the idea of a behaviour book that they use for other albiet older children. She said that the teacher would write in one or two positive behaviours and one area for improvement to remember for next time, that we could reinforce at home.
I agreed to this, but what came home was a book with a morning, lunchtime and hometime comment, written by the TA at the end of the day.
I was asked how I was finding it and I mentioned that there had been some success in getting ds to comment ocassionally, but that I was disappointed because this was not how I was expecting it to work as this system does not reinforce ds with social praise at the time of the positive behaviour, and the praise isn't given by the person he needs to be encouraged to want to please, and that there are no comments about things we can practice at home.
The response was that ds is not capable enough to access a system like this.
My response was that ds is capable as having heard about this from the school I had introduced it in his swimming and tennis lessons with huge impact.
There was some back and forth about how they weren't an ABA school and couldn't offer that level of individualisation (although they implement the system with other older children) and then there was the stuff about doing things like this takes away the support from ds, and that writing in a book doesn't take 10 seconds, they have to find the book and the right page, and it could be missing and the child could have wandered off........
I gave them a simple template that incorporated the HS book and disbanded with the questions (which he was finding adversive at school and I could regenerate at home from the positive comments) - so, overall a reduced workload. I gave an example of 'Hey ds, what shall we tell mum?' followed by 'ds sat very quietly during story time' and they agreed that it wasn't much and to try it for 4 weeks.
That's where I thought we were.
Anyway, what we have got back is one thing from each lesson filled in by the TA that says things like 'ds did good listening in art'.
So it's the same as before but with 3 more comments. There is nothing to grip with ds, and we can't encourage and reinforce the positive relationship with the teacher delivering the lesson - which is his main area of need, listening, engaging with the teacher and learning in a group.
His SALT has identified his need to build a relationship with the person delivering the lesson as she has decided in her sessions that she needs to do a bit of 1:1 with him to build that relationship before trying to get him to do it in her group sessions.
When I questioned why the teachers hadn't filled it in, the response was 'well the TA just fills in what the teacher has commented to ds as they are too busy and have other lessons to go to'
But the TA's words and phrases are what is in the book so it isn't written the same way. i.e. 1. really good listening in art, 2. really good listening in numeracy It isn't done in the timely way required for social reinforcement for pleasing that particular member of staff to increase the chances of ds trying to get that praise again, - and the comments too unspecific to reinforce at home.
What I am upset about, is that they DO this for other children, but only because afaics, the behaviour is disruptive, rather than disengaging, so the teachers are rewarded by developing a good rapport with the child to be reinforced at home. As usual, if the behaviour is only detrimental for the child, it's not an issue.
Make it easier for them.
Draw up a weekly timetable.
By each lesson put three faces like I showed you Sad/Neutral/Happy
Get him to take the book (his responsibility) to the teacher at the end of each lesson and get her to circle a face to equate with whatever it is you are trying to measure-engagement yes?
At home, go throguh them with him.
'Wow, Mrs Smith was so pleased with you in Art. Look!'
'Uh oh. What happened in PE. Mr Jones has given a sad face. Weren't you listening?'
All the teacher has to do is circle a face.
You can tot them up each week and have a criteria.
More than 20 faces say, and he gets to have a mammoth session with his tape measures or whatever floats his boat.
I'm sorry Moondog I tried that. I even told them that I would photocopy the paper and keep it up to day. I did a nice template with the timetable for eac day of the week.
They said they wanted to make the 'book' themselves, and they didn't want to 'rate' anything because that information should be shared in a general way at parents evening rather than daily but they would be prepared to count things to inform themselves (just not me)/.
But the thing is, I do need some 'hook' of information because ds would just completely make it up if I asked him such an open question.
by making the book, they just got an A4 book of lined paper and got the TA to draw a wonky grid for each day.
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