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This is sort of old news but I am happy to see a Finnish girl rockin´ the cover of French Vogue.
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|2010-11-26, 18:11
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Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: Hiding... don't try to find me.
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All the major villains pretty much came from Konoha. The other nations are probably under the impression that everyone from there is badass and fit to lead.
The more experienced ones are probably back home protecting their respective countries. They can still get stabbed in the back even if the enemy of their enemy is their friend for now.
|2010-11-28, 15:54
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I'm not a tumor
Join Date: Jul 2009
Location: In the dreams of beautiful women
Age: 26
I wonder how madara was planning to win the war without kabuto's help? I mean he wouldve had a few cards up his sleeve besides the zetsu's. I think the akatsuki rezzing is just fan-service. Madara has something else instore and that is when rookie hunting season begins.
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|2010-11-28, 18:57
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^ He had 10 inba ninjas and a huge army of footsoldiers, plus the idea he would gather all the bijuu fast enough before the nations turn against him. I mean, I don't think he knew Minato would pop up to save Naruto. Or his mom. Or all those inba teachers training him to be even more inba.
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|2010-11-28, 21:40
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|2010-11-29, 04:38
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Yeah, bringing them all to life and having a showdown is the same as making a Tekken Tag game. An anthology of all the major characters at the same place, at the same time, irrelevant of being alive or dead.
One Piece did it too btw, only there nobody was dead and thus nobody was ressurected. It feels less forced.
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|2010-11-30, 12:35
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floating away...
Join Date: Oct 2007
Location: Beyond World's End
Experience is a factor who kids doesn't have.
If you want cannon fodder, well, yeah... kids are the most effective.
|2010-11-30, 18:55
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Get them while the're young,
The only cases so young people are sent to war is when there isn't enough manpower in the ranks. In this case we have 80.000 people vs 100.000 drones.
Heck, they need to enlist the kindergardens as well
And I sure hope there are no women in those 80.000 because as we all know they are completely useless in the Narutoverse. Other than being used as breeding machines for the next look-like-their-fathers generation that is.
Madara sure knew what he was doing by not having to tolerate 100.000 women for 20 years in order to create such an army
|2010-11-30, 20:30
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I'm not a tumor
Join Date: Jul 2009
Location: In the dreams of beautiful women
Age: 26
When he announced the 4th ninja war the akatsuki were all but dead and gone anyway. Kisame, Zetsu and Madara were pretty much all he had. If these 'wood' Zetsu's get owned imagine what the 'clum baby' Zetsu wouldve done. Which is why im hoping Madara has something secret, like the ghosts on lord of the rings.
|2010-12-01, 04:12
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And as another user once said "Damn, they defeated my most powerful fighters. Thank goodness I have these even more powerful guys I didn't use so far."
|2010-12-03, 23:49
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Join Date: May 2007
So the Alliance gets the first victory. And what an easy one it was. First Shin(did Kishi not care about this guy or what? He was in just three chapters) goes and now Sasori "dies" in a chapter that was more about Naruto's new rasengan and more training. yawn. Team Kankuro lost no fodder(the bug guy was from Anko's squad) and are ready to launch an ambush. You think sending a team of Sasori, Deidara, and two supposedly highly skilled ninja would have at least roughed the Alliance up. But nope. Kabuto... I am disappoint.
So will this be the war? Just total domination by the Alliance as the zombies just get talk-no jutsued and the kids get to look like gods?
Even Kishimoto can't think this is an acceptable war. So I predict the Ambush squad gets beaten badly next chapter. Kankuro, Sai, and Omoi had their fanservice. Now time to waste them before the more important characters get to fight. The Empire has to Strike Back or the last hope for epicness(sic) in this manga is gone.
|2010-12-04, 04:05
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Shougi Génération
Graphic Designer
Hm, there's too many variables left to consider. One is what Kabuto meant when he said he 'Had a good feel for it now'. I'm not one to look too much into these things, but it seems to me that he knew what was going on during the battle and this may only have been him testing out the technique in battle.
Also, there's still a Chuukichi, the Mist zombie sensor still on the loose. I think we haven't seen the last of Deidara just yet.
|2010-12-09, 10:09
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I'm not a tumor
Join Date: Jul 2009
Location: In the dreams of beautiful women
Age: 26
p.s if you say sasuke is his ace in the hole i'll scream
|2010-12-09, 12:25
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Let's hope then that this war is not just a diversion for Madara to sneak attack Naruto and Killer Bee with his instant teleportation thingy.
...which for some reason didn't use already.
And let's hope Kishi is not following Kubo's example of having 200 chapters of a battle that the main villain could end in 3 seconds.
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Starter Juan Nicasio and the Colorado Rockies (11-11) combined to beat the hottest team in baseball, the Los Angeles Dodgers (16-7) 6-2 last night in Denver. Nicasio got the win pitching six good inning, and the Rockies bullpen was strong. The two teams meet up again tonight at 6:40 at Coors Field (TV: Root Sports).
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I inherited an iPad 2 a few weeks ago and I thought I'd purchase a music app to play around with, mostly as a sketch pad or for inspiration outside.
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The Giro ends today on the streets of Rome. We rode there last year on the same streets, spotted a fixed or two. Those are some crazy, winding streets, and more churches than you've ever seen.
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Friday, June 18, 2010
Let's Help Dan
There's something in that, methinks.
I've got no problem with a cognitive scientist talking about the brain all he wants. I think there's a lot to learn about learning in the work of Willingham and other academics. I actually like Willingham and have chatted with him occasionally about issues in education. And I think we should be thankful to have someone in the cognitive sciences with an interest in what we do as educators.
But, I think that just as we need the help of cognitive scientists to help us better understand the brain, they also need us to help them understand the context and reality of the classroom. And this has to be a conversation, not a series of diatribes. Otherwise, we create something analogous to a music journalist telling a musician how to play better and the musician turning around and saying the journalist doesn't know how to write. And that's useless.
So with the intention of creating discussion, I do embark...
One of the first things Willingham says is that "new technologies do not represent a silver bullet", and on that front he's absolutely correct. And I don't think any proponent of ed tech would argue with him. And I don't think any teacher with any amount of experience whatsoever in dealing with kids would think that there's a silver bullet for anything.
Where Dan starts to lose me, however, is in completing that thought by saying that "Just using a new gadget does not guarantee student learning". It's not that I disagree with that statement in and of itself, but rather I disagree with what the statement assumes: that technology is about gadgets.
We have to be really careful to explain what we mean by "tech" and what we mean by "gadget". An iPad is a gadget, but it allows for the operation of technology. A laptop is a piece of hardware, it's a gadget; but it allows access to the greater operation signified as the technology of the Web.
I'd say there are passive devices and active devices. Passive devices give you content; they simulate in digital form what we've come to expect of the physical world. I'd put a Kindle in this category; the screen on a Kindle attempts to simulate the page of a paper book. Active devices, on the other hand, are open and promote sharing -- by design. Active devices allow you to get onto the Web and do stuff, make stuff, create stuff, share stuff, and -- most importantly -- learn by doing. Active devices have the capacity to allow the user to manipulate the content of the Web from the point of view of creator and editor, author and reviewer -- all while breaking down the traditional hierarchies and top-down corporate models of content production.
So in the same way that there is a difference between a gadget and technology itself, there are also differences among types of gadgets.
I'm not sure from this article, however, exactly what it is that Willingham is defining as a "gadget" and what he defines as "tech". He seems to equate Web 2.0 tools and computer hardware in some odd way. For example, in a list of possible downsides to several devices, he suggests that Twitter isn't very useful because it is "limited" to 140 characters (granted in an entire article on tech and learning, that's all the attention he gives to Twitter). But, as anyone who has spent any time with Twitter soon realizes, the technology is not "limited" to 140 characters. Nor is Twitter really a "device".
Allow me to conceptualize here.
Twitter is a searchable network format for sharing and searching info and links in real-time. I think Willingham may be thinking about Twitter as a "gadget", whereas it really represents a "form" of communication, not a "device" for communicating. In a way, "tweeting" as a communication technology has transcended the device of "Twitter" -- and it did that long ago (in relation to how long it has existed). That distinction -- between tech and device -- is understood only once one becomes fluid in the application of the technology to a variety of working problems: from direct communication to sharing links to following conversations via 3rd party apps to using Twitter specifically for pedagogical purposes like hashtagging classes or searching in real time to gauge mass response on a current issue.
Tweeting, therefore, does not represent the act of using a new gadget, but rather represents a mode of communication unique to the current cultural paradigm. By analogy, the telephone was a gadget; but the act of telephoning was a form of communication technology in action.
Willingham writes a very compelling section of this paper on interactive whiteboards; and he says that the mere presence of an interactive whiteboard does not mean that students will learn better. And he is 100% correct. But he and the other researchers could have asked any experienced teacher and they would have given you the same answer. Because the whiteboard is a tool/device/gadget. And no gadget will produce any significant result on its own accord. Rather, the whiteboard has to be used in an effective way by the teachers and students. If the whiteboard is used in a passive way, you'll get passive learning (if any). If the whiteboard is used in an active way, you are more likely to get active learning.
Willingham makes a strange case concerning overhead projectors in comparing them to chalkboards -- or more specifically, what is written on a chalkboard. Citing a study of Japanese math teachers who prefer chalkboards, he says that the reason why is because the notes written stay up on the board and can be referred to later. But the comparison of overhead projectors to chalkboards denies the reality of what a projector actually does. A projector projects. That's it. A chalkboard, on the other hand, captures handwriting. The more apt comparison would be between a chalkboard and whatever program or app one is using. So, if a teacher is concerned about 'saving info' on the board, just use a program or app where the info is saved, open multiple tabs, use a backchannel, and by all means in any 1:1 situation: let your students access the information and notes you are creating in real-time; the blackboard, by contrast -- I can't believe I'm actually blogging this -- can be erased. And that info is lost forever. And it is so much more difficult to share.
In a way it seems to me that any teacher who would prefer the blackboard -- for the reasons stated -- just hasn't taken the time to figure out how to use the technology. For the record, it's actually easier than programming the time on a VCR.
Now, those are examples where I think Willingham's arguments don't really jive with the reality of an experienced tech-savvy teacher/learner. There's a lot in Willingham's work that really does work. His criticisms of multi-tasking ring true for the most part, and his observations that brain research can and should apply to teaching are not things I'd argue with. But I think Dan needs a bit of an immersion lesson in ed tech.
And so, I suggest we thank Dan for the good stuff he's been doing and offer to help him understand where many of us are coming from. After all, Dan writes about Twitter (sparsely), but -- and I say this as a person who has spent his fair share of time sharing and learning through tweets -- I don't think Dan really gets it; because I never see him there. I never see Dan in #edchat. I never see Dan getting into Twitter conversations (and that's actually one of the great things about the format: you can watch other people's conversations develop in public). I never see Dan sharing links. And when I look at the bibliography of his article, I see lots of peer review journals cited, but I don't see any sign that Dan has done any of the dirty work -- I use that term endearingly -- of ripping into the real live 24/7 conversation that's happening in the Ed Tech community every single day.
He's not there.
So how could he possibly understand? He's busy referencing articles by a lot of other folks who aren't there. And don't get me wrong, I'm a big fan of academia and I think there is an enormous contribution to be made to intellectual life by the writing and reading of peer review journals. But Willingham's article makes recommendations to teachers about technology -- and Willingham himself isn't even adept at the technologies that he's writing about.
Some of my favorite twitterers are academics -- from Alec Couros to Jay Rosen to Ira Socol -- who've come to use the format as a perfect place to share ideas and engage in debate with the public.
But Dan's not there.
So let's help Dan. Let's get him into our PLN. Let's help him understand what this is about -- not by reading a book about it, but by actually doing it. And I'm serious about this. I may have disagreements with Willingham on many issues (his thoughts on learning styles come to mind), but I respect that he's taking part in a dialog about teaching. I just wish he'd take part in that discussion in a more open and perhaps less sheltered way.
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I too have conversed with and challenged Dan. And I think he's a very brilliant, and very interesting academic, but I've also come to realize that he functions in a quite closed world.ReplyDelete
Twitter, et al, would help him learn.
First, most of Dan's research is "meta research." He researches research. This is valuable from a validity point of view, but also quite removed from realities, and his sense of his own works' validity is entirely based in the belief that all experience can be quantified and averaged. He is so deeply entrenched in that position that two years ago he admitted by not even knowing what postmodernism was, much less having a sense of why his overall view might be challenged by so many.
This, as you point out, gets extremely problematic when Dan decides to speak outside of academic journals and circles, which he does continually. He is, and I think this is intellectually fatal, using social media as a one-way broadcast system (see Barack Obama for someone else suffering from this problem). So he broadcasts to teachers about learning styles, or gadgets, yet, he has observed no classrooms, spoken to no teachers or students, no engaged with the world he is studying in any way. And because his "listening" is confined to occasional debates via email or YouTube comment, he is missing the intellectual flow of his age.
A few years ago Terry Eagleton, the great scholar of Literature, wrote an obituary for Edward Said. Said, he said, was a "public intellectual," not an "academic." Said was engaged with the world, and involved with a wide swath of important interests. Academics tend to focus so narrowly they lose touch with the world in which they live, and thus miss the obvious indicators regarding whether their work has relevance or real validity.
Educational academics like Alec Couros and Jon Becker are those "public intellectuals" - active parts of the global conversation. This doesn't just make them leaders, it ensures the value of their work in this "social science."
If Dan wants to dabble in education and sociology, he needs to do the same.
- Ira Socol
great post. well said!ReplyDelete
Shelly, I'm at a conference so must be brief and can't respond to your thoughtful post until Tuesday. . .I am grateful that you've invited the impressive people who contribute here to pitch in ideas to help me learn. I'll look forward to their posts.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJune 21, 2010 at 10:59 AM
Hi Shelly! My name is Jasmine Parsons and I am an intern at Stevenson University and we are interested in having you come and speak about teaching paperless at our school. If you could email me at email@example.com that would be great! I look forward to hearing from you.ReplyDelete
Back from my conference, and hoping that more people in this community will weigh in.
You are dead-on in your observation that everything discussed in my article concerns using technology for one-way communication, not for collaborative learning. Initially I thought to discuss both topics, but I quickly discovered that there are virtually no research studies on the latter.
Note that the column I write is called "Ask the Cognitive Scientist." The whole point is that I'm talking about research. (Obviously that doesn't mean that other points of view aren't valuable--American Educator mostly publishes articles that are not rooted in a scientific point of view. But that's what I do.) That's part of the reason that I didn't write a broader article outlining some of what technology can do for teachers. The second, equally important reason, is that I am not qualified to write such an article were I to want to undertake it. As you note, I'm not there. I know what's been studied empirically, but I don't know what's happening at the cutting edge. It's my opinion that a lot of exciting applications have been generated--that's why I encouraged teachers to seek out online communities for ideas, advice, and support.
I think that an article by someone who *is* on the cutting edge about what technology can do for teachers would be great in _American Educator_. For what it's worth, I'd be glad to talk to the editor to encourage her on this idea.
Ira, I'm sorry that you didn't take up Shelly's call for this interchange to be helpful and productive. I read your comment as dismissive. I'm also sad that you have fabricated beliefs for me, e.g., that "all experience can be quantified and averaged," as well as actions "he has observed no classrooms, spoken to no teachers or students, no engaged with the world he is studying in any way." Yes, I talk to teachers. My wife is one teacher I listen to. Yes, I observe classrooms.
Ira, I read your blog on occasion and think that you often have interesting observations. This type of comment--one in which you concoct beliefs and actions for others--is beneath you.
Hey Dan,ReplyDelete
Thanks for being game to get into the conversation in this way. I do think Am Ed would benefit from seeing where things are on the cutting edge and there are lots of great folks who'd be an excellent entre into that realm.
I would love to see you taking part in some of the more "on the ground" conversations happening in the twitterverse and the like as I think those conversations would help you understand both the nuances in what's going on with ed and tech from that perspective as well as hearing the direct voices of really engaged teacher in a forum where so many are talking so passionately and eloquently about reform -- far from the lights that generally shine on the decision makers and big talkers. I also think they'd benefit tremendously from having your body of knowledge and expertise in terms of research become even more a part of their conversation.
As we move forward in the cultural shift that's been occurring at least since those cultural canaries -- newspapers and the music industry -- were forced to change or perish, I think it's best that the day-to-day practitioners of the art of educating and the paper-to-paper practitioners of the art of research come together in a more open ongoing discussion relevant to both.
I may have come across harsher than I intended, but as I've said to you before, I think you are on shaky ground re; "the responsible writing of research." That is, while I completely respect your research, I do not think it suggests any of the causalities which you (consciously or unconsciously) suggest when you broadcast/publish for a wider audience.
This - in my global view - is a problem for you. Not an individual problem, but a theoretical problem constructed by your position, training, and philosophical viewpoint. Your research, and your statements, do indeed suggest a belief that, "all experience can be quantified and averaged." You need not say those words, your protocols, your writing, your discussions, all indicate this. I'm surprised that you argue this point, since this belief is the foundation of modern social science.
As for "observation" and "conversation" revolving around your wife who is a teacher, well, this would be like me assessing the world based on, say, my child's experience in school. I can't deny that any of us humans can avoid our lenses being somewhat ground by personal experience and friendships, nor will I deny any anecdotes right to be a point of data, and yet, those of us who study the phenomena of the world (or universe) owe it to those who read our our work to not just assemble more information and feedback than that, but to explain how we have obtained that information and feedback.
You (and correct me if I am wrong), usually work at researching research. As I said, this has tremendous value. It forces questions to the front in the way no single study can. It assembles data in ways important to other researchers. But it is fundamentally different from the field research I do, or the action research Shelly does. When I, or Shelly, present what we discover, we are talking about the realm of the school, the classroom, itself. We are functioning within that environment. You are, as an academic one step removed, doing something different.
The advantage to "this" environment, in my opinion, is that observations informally made and informally presented can be challenged immediately in an open way. Doubted, picked on, sometimes laughed at. That is the point. We tend to go from Twitter to Blog to (perhaps) more "academic" writing or presentation. We can fight one day, build ideas together the next. And we do this in a "place" filled with a wide range of educational stakeholders, meaning that our information is filtered through a dense web of knowledge - a process very different than traditional academic peer review.
The result, to this postmodernist, is not necessarily "better research," but it is, as we say, "grounded theory" - based in observed realities.
All those years ago in Galileo v The Church, you know, for all the science, the Jesuit accusers were quite right. Galileo was wrong: the planets did not obit the sun on circular paths. All Galileo's proof could not obscure the reality observed by the Jesuits, who knew that Galileo's claim was impossible. They may have been wrong about much, but they were quite right about the falsity of the "circular orbit" claim.
Old story for sure, but this is why we doubt, this is why we "fight," this is why we discuss.
- Ira Socol
Shelly, After reading your post and the article, I wondered if we read the same article. I was expecting a piece that was dismissive of technology. Instead what I saw was a piece which said that, if one uses technology, one should use it thoughtfully, in a way that is appropriate both to the technology and to the teaching goal. The implication (stated explicitly, really, at the end) is that different technologies are useful for different things. That seems to me to be obvious. It's also very broad, because it doesn't answer the more important question: given that X is my goal, what is the best tool to achieve it? But then, he's a cognitive scientist; I wouldn't expect him to answer that question. I would, instead, ask teachers.ReplyDelete
Perhaps, by the way, it's not at all obvious that technologies should be chosen and used in an appropriate fashion. Did Britain put whiteboard in all classrooms because they decided that they were the best tool? Or was it to show that they were "using technology"? Is California adopting e-textbooks because they allow multimedia, collaboration, or whatever else is built into them? Or is it to save money? You, clearly, use technology thoughtfully; sadly, I'm not sure that's true of everyone.
I suppose I too found the Willingham article dismissive, and dismissive based on a limited set of terms and definitions which the author never explores.
The problem - besides my issue with that averaging of human experience - "the students did..." "the students can..." - data based on quantitative averaging - is that Willingham fails to define either "technology" or even "attention" - he assumes that you will know and believe in these terms as he does.
My research, admittedly NOT quantitative but historical, indicates that technology changes profoundly impact our ways of learning, our forms of attention, our cognitive processes. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7UXh7Vb1XL8 The first humans creating cave painting invented a new form of asynchronous communication which changed learning and attention theory forever. So did those who created writing systems, then the alphabet. Socrates bemoaned literacy for what it would do to learning, attention, working memory, and human knowledge. Gutenberg's inventions created the notion of truly linear storytelling. It is likely that the novel would have never found its way past the poem or song in human knowledge transmission without the printing press and movable metal type.
None of this means that any "technology" is "good" or "bad." But as Heidegger said, technology is how we manipulate the world, and that includes our cognitive world. So, when newsreels of the Boer War reached Britain, or purported newsreels of the Spanish-American War reached the United States, a cognitive shift occurred, and the human brain - having met these technologies - now required new levels of proof to find something true. Radio brought synchronicity - the demand for "real time" information never conceived before, and was so engaging - according to researchers of youth in the late 1920s - that it was dangerous.
So, yes, Gutenberg spread asynchronous knowledge transmission. He introduced the notion of Fixed Text, without which, much of the Reformation would not have worked. He gave rise to the novel, and thus the demand for steam-driven presses and machine-made paper, which allowed contemporary journalism to appear. Yet he also dehumanized communication, gave immense power to governments, churches, and capitalists, and, yeah, wiped out about half the languages of Europe. Good and bad, but that technological breakthrough altered cognitive processes.
So it is not really a question of what technology seems "better on average at a statistically significant difference for this task or that." It makes no real difference. The question is, how does education shift to adapt to new forms of attention and cognition which already dominate everywhere but in the classroom.
- Ira Socol
Dr. Willingham,ReplyDelete
In your article you posed the question, "should technology change the way you teach?" And then, you failed to adequately explore all of the possibilities of the question you posed. You offered a couple of scenarios that conveniently fit with your mulit-tasking opinion/research, but as you admit, you didn't delve into the interactive tools. And what's worse, you brought up Twitter and then proved that you didn't understand the range of its possibilities without being clear about your supposed self awareness of that lacking.
As I said in the post that prompted Shelly's post(linked to above) we need a higher standard from those who write about teaching and learning in our flagship teacher journals. My criticism may be more appropriately directed at the American Educator editors, but I suspect that they've given you a pretty free rein.
Kelly Tenkely said in the comments to my blog, "The problem is, because he has failed to do his homework here, I am also tempted to discredit anything legitimate he has done because he is not showing me that he understands the research process."
Kelly and my colleagues who are the primary readers of American Educator need you pushing farther out into what's possible. We don't need safe, warmed over theories that have resided comfortably in your files and are then slightly turned and trotted out for another round of articles.
@Shelly: regarding AmEd. . .let me know if you're interested and I'll do what I can on my end to move the idea forward. . . that's an offer that goes for others here as well. .I should have a conversation offline with anyone who is interested. As to spending more time in the world of ed tech.. . in principle, of course! In practice, I'm not going to lie to you, time is a problem. (As I'm sure you know, there are communities paralleling this one devoted to other points of view, and those communities invite me to explore their world further, whether it be charter schools, the no-excuses approach or whatever. Often these invitations are issued in all capital letters.) That said, I'd rather direct my time to this problem than others and increasingly I am.ReplyDelete
@David (and others) I'm sure that most of the conclusions seemed pretty obvious. . . they seemed kinda obvious to me as well. . .apparently not so obvious to those who plop smartboards into classrooms w/o a plan.
@Dan_McGuire: I can see why you're frustrated. . .I should have made it clear that I was writing only about a narrow segment of technology. Honestly, I thought that the article was anything but dismissive. Bear in mind that the point of my articles is usually "there are pretty good data on this. . .you should pay attention to this." Suggesting that a teacher consider changing his or her practice is, to me, something for which the bar should be set fairly high. And again, the bar for the column I write is based on empirical studies. Most of the applications around tech simply haven't been evaluated, and where they have, the data indicate "little effect." My conclusion, however, was not "no effect" but was "probably wasn't implemented in an effective way." The reason that I saw my article as taking a positive tone was that I thought I was basically upbeat about the possibilities despite the paucity of data. My column is typically *not* about pushing farther not into what's possible. Other writers do that, but again, I'm really not qualified to do so. My column is about what's known from a scientific point of view. As I've said, I think a boundary-pushing article on ed tech has real possibilities.


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Cannes jewellery heist 'worth about $136 million'
An armed man who staged a brazen heist in a French Riviera luxury hotel took off with jewels worth $136 million (€103 million), prosecutors said on Monday, in one of the world's biggest jewellery thefts.world Updated: Jul 30, 2013 03:50 IST
An armed man who staged a brazen heist in a French Riviera luxury hotel took off with jewels worth $136 million (€103 million), prosecutors said on Monday, in one of the world's biggest jewellery thefts.
The man on Sunday walked into the Carlton in the posh resort of Cannes - a hotel popular with film stars, that was once the location of Alfred Hitchcock's thriller To Catch A Thief.
Armed with a semi-automatic pistol, his head covered with a cloth, he proceeded to steal jewels that were part of an exhibition by a group owned by Israeli billionaire Lev Leviev.
Authorities had initially estimated the heist was worth $53 million (€40 million), but after an inventory of the exhibition, prosecutors in Grasse near Cannes have concluded that it is valued at a much higher $136 million.
They said the robber escaped with "all kinds of different" jewellery, including "rings, pendants, and earrings incrusted with diamonds."
The heist comes head-to-head with what is considered the world's largest ever haul of jewellery - valued at around €100 million - which took place in Belgium in 2003.
Robbers at the time emptied more than 120 out of 160 safety deposit boxes inside the heavily fortified Diamond Centre in the heart of Antwerp's diamond district.
It is also France's biggest jewellery heist, eclipsing a 2008 incident when three men stole almost every piece on display at an exhibition in Paris, a theft valued at €85 million.
"It all happened very quickly and without any violence", the prosecutor's office said Sunday about the robbery in Cannes, famous for its annual star-studded film festival.
The theft has caused anger among employees and unions, who denounced lax security at the Carlton.
The exhibition was held in a wing of the hotel with direct access to the street and police said they had not been alerted that it was taking place.
While not a legal requirement, alerting the police would ordinarily be standard procedure for luxury hotels such as the Carlton.
Prosecutors said the robber entered the exhibition room through a French window that opened onto a terrace, which itself looks onto the popular Croisette avenue in Cannes.
The CGT union said on Monday that the Carlton had already been the victim of a jewellery heist in 1994, when a security guard was seriously wounded by a bullet.
According to a source close to the case, the jewellery house Leviev was using its own security guards for the ill-fated Extraordinary Diamonds exhibition, which opened on July 20.
Cannes has fallen prey to thieves several times recently, notably during this year's film festival, which attracts a glittering array of celebrities from the movie world.
In a pre-dawn heist at a hotel during the festival in May, thieves stole jewellery worth $1.4 million due to be loaned to movie stars.
That robbery took place in the hotel room of an American employee of Swiss jeweller Chopard while she was out for the evening, police said.
In a scene straight from a Hollywood film, a strongbox containing jewels was ripped out of the wardrobe and carried off, they said.
In a second theft during the festival, robbers made off with a diamond necklace with an estimated value of $1.9 million.
At least two apartments rented by film executives were also burgled during the 2013 festival, with thieves taking cash, jewellery and other personal items.
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Mr. Speaker, mabuhay.
This upcoming Tuesday, June 12, marks the 114th anniversary of the Philippines' independence. In celebration of this great occasion, this weekend Canadians of Filipino decent will be gathering across the country. One such celebration will be taking place in my riding of North Vancouver.
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Wall Street is flying high after March 2009 lows; worker productivity and economic growth are up; and there are some indications of a housing market that could be recovering from its tailspin. But a new report from Catholic Charities USA suggests it is far too soon to begin humming "Happy Days Are Here Again." Its first quarter 2010 snapshot survey of the state of the nation's social services raises the question: Where is the recovery?
Emergency federal support allowed many states to delay a fiscal reckoning, but now cash-strapped states are building 2011 budgets that promise a brutal impact on the nation's most at-risk communities, particularly children, whose health, educational and other social services are likely to be profoundly diminished if not eliminated altogether. The jobless recovery has left previously reliable breadwinners and charitable donors seeking help themselves.
The Catholic Charities USA survey paints a vivid picture of the new realities of an increasingly distressed American middle class. Of the agencies responding to the survey, 61 percent report an increase in middle-class families seeking assistance; 72 percent report an increase in the working poor coming for assistance. More than half reported that more homeless people need their help. In Yakima, Wash., it is not uncommon to hear the words: "We've never had to ask for help like this before."
"For millions of hard-working Americans, the crisis is only beginning," said the Rev. Larry Snyder, president of Catholic Charities USA. "We live in the richest and smartest country on earth, but our children are hungry. We must take responsibility for this gross injustice and advocate for real sustainable change to ensure the common good of every American."
Keeping a roof over their heads appears to be the biggest issue for U.S. families as 75 percent of agencies report an increase in requests for rent and mortgage assistance since the fourth quarter of 2009. In Reno, Nev., there has been a dramatic increase in the need for food. Corpus Christi, Tex., is seeing a large number of moderate-income families and individuals accessing financial assistance programs.
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Beast Mode wrote:migya wrote:Beast Mode wrote:Kevin Love is literally better than David Lee in every aspect of basketball.
**** like this is why this forum has like 6 posters.
That's an out of place statement
Nah, that trade proposal was. Lee is already overpaid. He's coming off a major injury. Draymond Green is solid but not really that much better than any other bench player in the league. Fans tend to overrate their own players like you just did. We could offer Minnesota David Lee and 3 future first round picks for Love and they'd still rightfully decline.
You're on point again, Beast.
It would take a lot more than David Lee to sway Minnesota into giving up Kevin Love. Klay Thompson or Harrison Barnes is a must... And if you don't send both, you'll need to send either Ezeli/Nedovic AND a future 1st rounder along with cash. A Lee-Green package is a nice dream, but I'd say the Wolves have a bigger chance of winning the NBA title next year than accepting that trade.


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Kuala Lumpur, 2 November 2008 - Dato' Seri Bashir Ahmad, Managing Director of Malaysia Airports added to Malaysian's international success list when he was
awarded Centre of Asia Pacific Aviation (CAPA) Legend's Award in the CAPA's annual Awards for Excellence, joining previous recipients Ray Webster (former
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"This award honours a lifetime of strategic leadership, innovation and influence in the aviation industry. Over several decades, he has had a quiet but massive influence in all sectors of Malaysia's aviation development, in what has been a remarkable period of aviation development and reform. Under Dato' Bashir's leadership and vision, KLIA has had an outstanding recent history. It is a regional leader in the low cost sector, which is driving millions in investment and tourism expenditure into the country. Malaysia's ascendant influence on Asian aviation will change the structure of the industry in years to come", said Peter Harbison, Executive Chairman of the Centre for Asia Pacific Aviation.
Dato' Seri Bashir has been in the aviation industry for 36 years. He started as a trainee in 1972 and was among the first 250 staff to join Malaysia Airlines when it first started operations. He worked his way up serving in various departments before becoming Executive Vice-President. He was subsequently appointed Aviation Advisor to the Government for a short while before assuming his present position as Managing Director of Malaysia Airports in 2003.
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The day is all about realizing the differences and the similarities in the earth's cultures and celebrating the people who make the world go round.
The day is all about realizing the differences and the similarities in the earth's cultures and celebrating the people who make the world go round.
Davidson County Community College held an event called Living Local, Thinking Global, featuring an international fair, entertainment and meal Thursday in Brinkley Gym.
"We want to bring the world to our students, many of whom don't get the chance to travel outside of the country," said Carolyn Davis, coordinator of International Student Activities for the community college.
Students, faculty and staff created a European market-style atmosphere with information about countries from around the world, including photos, artifacts, baked goods and more. Students and teachers were dressed in traditional clothing from countries throughout the world.
"Our slogan is living local, thinking global. This is a way to show how the world is connected," Davis said.
Davie County Early College student Joey Davis said he thought the event allowed him to learn about other countries.
"It's important to grow culturally and have an open mind. It's important to think not just about America but about the other people out there," Davis said.
Davis was one of the representatives at the booth about Brazil. He, along with eight other students, will travel to Brazil with Cross-Cultural Solutions, serving the Brazilian community and working with small children in schools and orphanages
Community Colleges for International Development student Enyonam Maglo represented her home country of Ghana.
"This day is great. It's the best opportunity to learn about other countries. It is something I would like to take back home to the schools," Maglo said. "Some people thought people from my country were living in trees and riding elephants. That perception is not true, and I can show them today that Americans have stuff like us."
The six international students complete a service learning project while at the community college. The women have chosen to address the water problem in Ghana, raising funds to help the village of Adaklu install a well.
Amy Stone, a student studying human resources management, chose China to learn about and represent due to the fact the globalization and development interested her.
"I think this day is a good opportunity to learn about different cultures and meet different students," Stone said.
In addition to the international information market, the day also afforded students the chance to learn about international dances and songs. Aaron Adkins and Ashley Ashley danced the "Sway." Adkins, a graphic design student and DCCC's Student Government Association treasurer, said he mainly joined the college's International Club to learn about international dances.
"I feel this day is important because people need to know about the countries' differences but also that they are very similar to us," Adkins said.
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Difference between revisions of "Talk:List of phrasebooks"
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I'm tempted to add a "usable" category between "complete" and "outline". There are a lot of phrasebooks here that have no content, just an outline, and then there are a bunch that have full pronunciation guides & most of the template translated, but with a few gaps. I think it would be useful to separate them. --Peter Talk 13:37, 25 March 2008 (EDT)
Category & List
I noticed there is this page, then there is also "Category:Phrasebooks". I'm not sure - do we need both? Could both prove useful? Army of me 16:44, 28 March 2009 (EDT)
phrasebook status
There seems to be an inconsistency in statuses between List of phrasebooks and Wikitravel:Phrasebook status: there's Complete/Outline/Stub in ListOf and a standard set of statuses in PhrbkStatus. Which of them should we stick to? --DenisYurkin 05:07, 20 September 2009 (EDT)
Telegu and Telugu
...seems to be the same language. One is under "usable", the other under "stubs". The main entry in ethnologue is Telugu (http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=tel). Jummai 04:30, 3 March 2010 (EST)
Reorganize page structure
I found about 27 phrasebooks which were missing from this page and added them. Also moved existing books up if they had been improved from stub to outline or better, if they were now in the wrong group. This means we now have about 180. Ah, we've got about all, you may say. Well, the ISO standard 639-2 which lists the "major languages" has 484. And ISO 639-3, which tries to be more comprehensive, includes 7,918. No, we'll never have eight thousand phrasebooks, but the list will continue growing.
The current listing is arranged by status: complete, usable, outline, and stub. This makes sense for internal use, to see what is complete or what needs work. But for a traveler, it just means they have four lists to look through which might contain their desired language. Also, many of the languages are just plain obscure. Since many languages also have multiple names, locating a desired obscure phrasebook in a long list is made even harder, since you have to go to the phrasebook itself to see if maybe it is right.
I would suggest changing to a geographic breakdown of the list, by continent. This is the wikitravel way. Put the phrasebook in the continent with which it is most identified. Of course, if we put French is France, Spanish in Spain, and English in England, that leaves North America with just Inuktitut, Greenlandic, and Haitian Creole. I would also suggest a "world" category for the nine most prevalent languages: English, German, Spanish, French, Russian, Italian, Chinese, Japanese, Portuguese. This would appear at the top of the list and would serve the needs of most users without looking any further. Because many languages cross borders, I'd suggest stopping at the continent level instead of trying to arrange by country within continent.
We may also want to add an asterisk by the books which are complete, and a note asking people to work on any of the others. We may also want to follow the phrasebook name with a list of other names for the language therein. For example, "Akeanon phrasebook (also Aklanon)" or "Fulfulde (also Adamawa, Fula, Pulaar)". Meanwhile, we can add appropriate redirect pages to the specific phrasebooks from their alternate names to improve direct access. Bill in STL 18:33, 10 August 2010 (EDT)
". Sometimes it is before the introductory paragraph, sometimes immediately after, sometimes down in the "Phrase list" section of the template. If we start adding it to template and stub level books, which place is preferred?
World Languages
I think the "World Languages" designation is problematic (as demonstrated by the above discussion), and would be better replaced by "Most spoken languages" or alternatively "Regional languages," which would mirror the list at Talk#Regional languages. --Peter Talk 16:17, 19 June 2011 (EDT)
The International Phonetic Alphabet
Hey guys,
I was curious if the IPA will be useable in the phrasebooks. In any case, make some research and make soundclips, if necessary.
In terms of chaos,
Esther Brown
Saraiki phrasebook and Seraiki phrasebook
Does anyone know if Saraiki phrasebook and Seraiki phrasebook are the same language? In wikipedia, they have a redirect page to Saraiki from Seraiki. Our Seraiki prasebook is much more developed than the other. The Pakistan article links to Saraiki while regions of Pakistan link to Seraiki. Only Seraiki is listed on this page. If they are the same, they need a merge tag. Merge which to which? If they really are different then the second needs to be added here. --Bill in STL 18:23, 30 August 2010 (EDT)
Phrasebook category
At present we have a Category:Phrasebooks that is nominated for deletion, but current consensus seems to be to keep it. If we are going to keep it around then it would make sense to include it on phrasebooks, but since categories on Wikitravel are typically included via templates it would make the most sense to either create a Template:Phrasebookguide or else to add the category to the existing phrasebook status templates such as Template:Guidephrasebook. Any thoughts, preferences, objections, inspirational quotations? -- Ryan • (talk) • 19:59, 23 September 2010 (EDT)
Constructed language phrasebooks
I wonder if there's a section of phrasebooks to add for constructed languages. Esperanto isn't the only one; besides, there are others such as Novial, Volapük, Interlingua, Interlingue-Occidental, Ido, Interglossa, Lojban, and Folkspraak. Anyone can turn to Omniglot, if they wish to. It's fascinating. p.s. Sorry about the IPA suggestion. Accept my apology. CurvyEthyl 20:10, 24 September 2010 (EDT)
I think we may be getting bogged down with something not terribly important. I sort of figured keeping the existing Esperanto phrasebook (especially in light of the fact that there is an Esperanto Wikitravel!), but otherwise ruling out the more silly or obscure constructed languages would be an OK compromise for us to move forward with a new consensus. --Peter Talk 20:36, 10 October 2010 (EDT)


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BATON ROUGE, LA (WAFB) - Two Sumatran tigers at the Baton Rouge Zoo will make predictions for Sunday's Super Bowl game.
The tigers, who are brothers, are named Denver and Seattle.
Zoo officials say they will place two boxes within the Sumatran tiger exhibit; one labeled with "Super bowl Champion" and the other labeled with "Better Luck Next Time." The tigers will be released back into their exhibit and each tiger will choose a box.
It will happen at 10 a.m. Saturday, February 1, 2014. Saturday the zoo is also offering their buy one get one free admission for Baton Rouge residents.
The offer to buy one regular price admission, get one of equal or lesser value free will be offered for all visitors presenting an official Louisiana driver's license with a recognized Baton Rouge zip code. Valid on February 1, 2014 only. Not valid in combination with any other offer.
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CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – Mark Lawrence, MIT's head water polo coach, has announced that he will be stepping down as the Head Coach of the Engineers' program. He will be moving on from MIT to become an assistant with the Brown University men's water polo program.
"In a very short period of time Mark Lawrence has raised the level of excellence of MIT Water Polo to new heights," said John Benedick, MIT Associate Athletic Director and President of the Collegiate Water Polo Association (CWPA). "He has been able to attract some of the best water polo talent in the United States in building one of the finest teams in the history of MIT Water Polo. We wish Mark success and are confident that Brown University will benefit greatly from his skill and leadership."
In his first season at MIT, Lawrence led the Engineers to a 10-15 record and a fifth-place finish at the CWPA Northern Division Championship. In addition his squad produced a pair of CWPA All-North players and was honored as the team with the highest GPA in the NCAA by the Association of Water Polo Coaches. This past season Lawrence guided MIT to an 11-14 record, a third-place finish at the Northern Division Championships and a berth in the CWPA Eastern Division Championship. The 2012 squad had three players honored as CWPA All-North players, including the Rookie of the Year, Kale Rogers (Newberg, Ore.).


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Verizon Charging You More, As Bandwidth Costs Them Less
from the caps-and-pap dept
Now Verizon's 4G LTE money-making machine is giving us a glimpse into exactly how profitable providing bandwidth is becoming as the cost for delivering service drops and prices to consumers go up.
Verizon (VZ) posted a pretty impressive holiday quarter (one-time charges aside) with a good outlook on Tuesday, and the company's share price rose as a result. There were also plenty of interesting takeaways from the carrier's earnings call, but The New York Times' Brian X. Chen zeroed in on one item of particular interest. Verizon launched new "Share Everything" plans last summer that make smartphone data more expensive for many users. The best thing about these plans for investors — and, not coincidentally, the worst thing about the plans for subscribers — is that Verizon is now making more money off of smartphone data as costs associated with transmitted that data are falling.It really doesn't get much simpler than that. The 4G LTE network is efficient to the point that delivering the service costs less than the 3G network, yet the price to consumers is going up. To be clear, the problem here isn't that Verizon is making money. Rather, the problem is that this comes from the same company that built a business model around low caps and high overage costs while also claiming that caps were the sign of a "competitive market." For those of you playing along at home, it's precisely because of a lack of competition that Verizon can at once have its costs drop while raising prices on its services. Were there more competition, someone new would compete on price or value of service. As it stands, Verizon can use their faster service and low caps to further the aforementioned business model.
As an added bonus, Chen noted that Verizon's faster data networks also cause users to eat through their data allowances more quickly. This eventually prompts them to buy more expensive plans with higher data caps, which of course net Verizon even more cash.As a Verizon customer myself, these kinds of signs that there isn't enough competition for my dollar are quite frustrating. On top of that, the model is specifically designed to provide a great service and then drop a bunch of obstacles in its path... it's maddening.


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- 1 Draft Quick Start Guide for Arch Install
- 1.1 System requirements
- 1.1.1 Download the Arch Linux ISO
- 1.1.2 Create the Arch Linux installation medium
- 1.1.3 Boot the installation medium
- 1.1.4 Select keyboard layout
- 1.1.5 Select the install language
- 1.1.6 Establish an internet connection
- 1.1.7 Prepare the storage drive
- 1.1.8 Format the partitions
- 1.1.9 Mount the partitions
- 1.1.10 Connect to the internet
- 1.1.11 Install the base system
- 1.1.12 Configure the system
- 1.1.13 Install and configure a bootloader
- 1.1.14 Unmount and reboot
- 1.2 Post-installation
- 1.1 System requirements
Draft Quick Start Guide for Arch Install
New users can quickly install and configure Arch Linux with these simple instructions. For more advanced install instructions, see the official Installation Guide.
System requirements
The target system for the Arch Linux install requires the following items:
- A bootable USB, CD, or DVD drive.
- An i686 or x86_64 CPU architecture.
- A minimum of 64 MB of system RAM.
- A hard drive with at least 1GB of disk space.
Download the Arch Linux ISO
Download the new Arch Linux ISO from the Arch Linux download page. The single ISO image supports both 32-bit and 64-bit architectures.
Create the Arch Linux installation medium
Burn the ISO image on a CD or DVD with your preferred software, or write the ISO image to bootable USB media.
Boot the installation medium
Insert the CD, DVD, or USB into the system that you plan to use for your Arch install, and reboot that system.
If your system does not boot into the Arch menu, you might have to change the boot order in your system's BIOS.
To do this, press a key (usually
F11 or
F12) during the POST phase. This will take you into the BIOS settings screen where you can set the order in which the system searches for devices to boot from. Select "Save & Exit" (or your BIOS's equivalent) and the system should then complete its normal boot process.
When the Arch menu appears, select "Boot Arch Linux (x86_64)" for a 64-bit system install or "Boot Arch Linux (i686)" for a 32-bit system install. Press
Enter to start the live environment. If the system boots into the live environment successfully , you are automatically logged in as root with
root@archiso ~ # as the prompt.
(Draft Comments): At this point the Beginner's guide goes on to talk about troubleshooting booting. That can be an entire topic to itself, and should be contained in its own article. It is important to reference the user to that information with a link since it is very important.
Select keyboard layout
By default, the keyboard layout is set to
us. If you have a non-US keyboard layout, run:
# loadkeys layout
where layout can be
be-latin1, etc. See the list of officially assigned code elements to look up your 2-letter country code.
If you change the keyboard layout, you can also change the font name to accommodate glyphs that are not included in the 26 letter English alphabet. The font name is case-sensitive, so please type it exactly as you see it. For example:
# setfont Lat2-Terminus16
(Draft Comments): Do we have a way for users to lookup which fonts are appropriate for their keyboard layouts and languages? The Beginner's guide doesn't cover this, and I can't find it in the Wiki.
Select the install language
Use the Nano editor to select the install language in the
/etc/locale.gen file.
# nano /etc/locale.gen
Remove the
# character in front of the locale that you want to use, and also remove the
# character from the
en_us.UTF-8 UTF-8 entry. For example, to enable the German language, remove the
# from the following lines:
nano /etc/locale.gen
en_US.UTF-8 UTF-8 de_DE.UTF-8 UTF-8
(Draft Comments): The Beginner's guide seems to say that no matter which language you pick, you must also enable the
en_us.UTF-8 entry. Is that true?
After you complete your changes to the
/etc/locale.gen file, press
Ctrl+X to exit. When you are prompted to save changes, press
Y and
Enter to save the file with the same filename.
Establish an internet connection
dhcpcd network daemon starts automatically during boot and establishes a wired network connection if it is available. If you must connect to a wireless network, use the
wifi-menu command to view a list of available wireless networks.
# wifi-menu
Select a wireless network from the list, and enter the security key for that network to establish a wireless connection.
After you have established a wired or wireless network connection, ping a server to verify that the connection works correctly. For example, ping Google's webservers:
# ping -c 3 www.google.com
If you receive an
ping: unknown host error, verify that your network connection is reliable or that your wireless signal strength is stable. If you continue to receive
ping: unknown host errors when you run the the
ping command, you must set up the network manually with the advanced wired networking or wireless networking instructions.
Prepare the storage drive
(Draft Comments): Is it too much to ask users to disconnect their extra storage drives? Do we see any problems with this? Some users might not be hardware savvy and could cause more problems for themselves if they tamper with the connections on their systems. I always disconnect my backup and storage drives before partitioning or formatting for an Arch install, but that doesn't necessarily mean our users should do the same.
This guide uses a GUID Partition Table (GPT) for all examples. If you prefer to replace the partition table with a Master Boot Record (MBR) or a B-tree File System (Btrfs), use the advanced partitioning instructions or the Btrfs partitioning instructions. If you must dual boot Arch Linux and a Windows operating system use the Windows and Arch Dual Boot instructions.
(Draft Comments): Is Btrfs even worth mentioning in the Beginner's guide? I used Btrfs for some of my first Arch installs just because I was curious. I suppose it's worth leaving the Btrfs reference in for users who might need that information, but I'm still on the fence about it.
Format the partitions
See File Systems for details.
If you are using (U)EFI you will most probably need another partition to host the UEFI System partition. Read Create an UEFI System Partition in Linux.
Mount the partitions
We now must mount the root partition on
/mnt. You should also create directories for and mount any other partitions (
/mnt/home, ...) and mount your swap partition if you want them to be detected by
Connect to the internet
A DHCP service is already enabled for all available devices. If you need to setup a static IP or use management tools such as Netctl, you should stop this service first:
systemctl stop dhcpcd.service. For more information read configuring network.
wifi-menu to set up your wireless network. For details, see Wireless Setup and Netctl.
Install the base system
Before installing, you may want to edit
/etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist such that your preferred mirror is first. This copy of the mirrorlist will be installed on your new system by
pacstrap as well, so it's worth getting it right.
Using the pacstrap script we install the base system.
# pacstrap /mnt base
Other packages can be installed by appending their names to the above command (space seperated), including the bootloader if you want.
Configure the system
- Generate an fstab with the following command (if you prefer to use UUIDs or labels, add the
-Loption, respectively):
# genfstab -p /mnt >> /mnt/etc/fstab
- chroot into our newly installed system:
# arch-chroot /mnt
- Write your hostname to
- Symlink
/usr/share/zoneinfo/Zone/SubZone. Replace
Subzoneto your liking. For example:
# ln -s /usr/share/zoneinfo/Europe/Athens /etc/localtime
- Uncomment the selected locale in
/etc/locale.genand generate it with
- Set locale preferences in
- Add console keymap and font preferences in
- Configure
/etc/mkinitcpio.confas needed (see mkinitcpio) and create an initial RAM disk with:
# mkinitcpio -p linux
- Set a root password with
- Configure the network again for newly installed environment. See Network configuration and Wireless Setup.
Install and configure a bootloader
You can choose between GRUB or Syslinux.
Unmount and reboot
If you are still in the chroot environment type
exit or press
Ctrl+D in order to exit.
Earlier we mounted the partitions under
/mnt. In this step we will unmount them:
# umount /mnt/{boot,home,}
Now reboot and then login into the new system with the root account.
User management
Add any user accounts you require besides root, as described in User management. It is not good practice to use the root account for regular use, or expose it via SSH on a server. The root account should only be used for administrative tasks.
Package management
See pacman and FAQ#Package Management for answers regarding installing, updating, and managing packages.
Service management
Arch Linux uses systemd as init, which is a system and service manager for Linux. For maintaining your Arch Linux installation, it is a good idea to learn the basics about it. Interaction with systemd is done through the
systemctl command. Read systemd#Basic systemctl usage for more information.
ALSA usually works out-of-the-box. It just needs to be unmuted. Install alsa-utils (which contains
alsamixer) and follow these instructions.
ALSA is included with the kernel and it is recommended. If it does not work, OSS is a viable alternative. If you have advanced audio requirements, take a look at Sound system for an overview of various articles.
Video driver
The Linux kernel includes open-source video drivers and support for hardware accelerated framebuffers. However, userland support is required for OpenGL and 2D acceleration in X11.
If you don't know which video chipset is available on your machine, run:
$ lspci | grep VGA
For a complete list of open-source video drivers, search the package database:
$ pacman -Ss xf86-video | less
vesa driver is a generic mode-setting driver that will work with almost every GPU, but will not provide any 2D or 3D acceleration. If a better driver cannot be found or fails to load, Xorg will fall back to vesa. To install it:
# pacman -S xf86-video-vesa
In order for video acceleration to work, and often to expose all the modes that the GPU can set, a proper video driver is required:
|Multilib Package
(for 32-bit applications on Arch x86_64)
|Open source
|AMD Catalyst
|Open source
|Intel Graphics
|Open source
|(legacy driver)
Display server
The X Window System (commonly X11, or X) is a networking and display protocol which provides windowing on bitmap displays. It is the de-facto standard for implementating graphical user interfaces. See the Xorg article for details.
Wayland is a new display server protocol and the Weston reference implementation is available. There is very little support for it from applications at this early stage of development.
You may wish to install a set of TrueType fonts, as only unscalable bitmap fonts are included by default. DejaVu is a set of high quality, general-purpose fonts with good Unicode coverage:
# pacman -S ttf-dejavu
Refer to Font Configuration for how to configure font rendering and Fonts for font suggestions and installation instructions.


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Taco Bell Would Like an Apology for Beef Lawsuit
Although the lawsuit that claimed Taco Bell only used 36% beef has now been dropped, the fast food chain isn't about to let the damage to their public image slide so easily. They use 88% beef, and how dare someone suggest otherwise!
So the company has launched an ad campaign demanding an apology from Beasley Allen, the law firm behind it.
Full page ads ran today in the Wall Street Journal, LA Times, and the New York Times asking "Would it kill you to say you're sorry?" Yo quiero apology? Taco Bell is planning on running the ads in local papers in both English and Spanish. So which is it? First they're happy to be sued, now they want an apology?
Here's the full ad, which is very similar to the one they ran back in January thanking Beasley Allen for suing them. A video from the CEO saying that the lawsuit being dropped "comes as no surprise" is on your left.
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Former Cal forward Richard Solomon signed to play for the Houston Rockets in the NBA Orlando (Florida) Pro Summer League, the team announced Wednesday.
Solomon, who went undrafted, led the Pac-12 in rebounding last season at 10.2 a game while also contributing 11.0 points a game for the Bears. He was just one of three players from the six power conferences to average a double-double.
The Rockets open their summer league schedule Saturday against Detroit.
Also, Orlando signed San Jose native Aaron Gordon, the fourth overall pick in the NBA draft. The team also signed 10th overall pick Elfrid Payton, a point guard from Louisiana-Lafayette. Terms weren't disclosed.
Both first-round picks will participate in the Orlando summer league. The Magic hopes Gordon, the Pac-12 freshman of the year last season at Arizona, can fortify a front court that is thinner after the trade of Arron Afflalo.
Staff writers Jeff Faraudo and Stephanie Hammon contributed to this report.


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NEW YORK (MarketWatch) — Using each candidate's focus industries, we can glean clues as to whom the market thinks is going to win
Political posturing
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• Why the election doesn't matter
• Picking stocks right before an election
• Post-election pair trades hold promise
• Are coal stocks predicting a Romney win?
While trading sites such as Intrade allow traders to place actual money bets on which candidate will win the presidency for the next four years, public opinion is also manifested in the stock market. There are probably as many ways to analyze what the stock market thinks as there are analysts, but my favorite is looking at each candidate's favorite initiatives.
To be clear, I am not going to predict a winner. Take the following analysis as one piece of a very complex prognostication puzzle.
With Governor Romney, we know what he favors. From the Keystone pipeline to his debate quote, "I like coal," it is clear that one of his focuses will be on energy and coal in particular. Let's start there.
Many analysts look at the Market Vectors Coal exchange-traded fund KOL, +1.71% as the representative for the industry, but 60% of its value comes from foreign stocks. For the purposes of determining what the U.S. stock market thinks about possible energy policy after the election, I prefer the Dow Jones US Coal Index, which unfortunately cannot be bought or sold directly.
To be sure, the correlation between the two is very high. But since the summer, the Market Vectors ETF has been stuck in a trading range while the DJ index has already broken out to the upside (see chart 1).
The technicals are positive although not gangbusters. Prices have indeed made higher highs and higher lows. Volume also expanded during the October rally to suggest investors are taking note. What gives me pause it its relative performance vs. the broader market, as it only outperformed by a small amount.
Within the index, such stocks as Peabody Energy BTU, +4.76% and James River Coal US:JRCC have moved above both their respective 50- and 200-day moving averages. And Consol Energy CNX, +1.14% formed a "golden cross" when its 50-day average moved above its 200-day.
The tide has turned in the coal sector and that bodes well for the challenger.
The president, on the other hand, is associated with health care and green energy in a positive way and possibly banking and oil companies in a negative way. It is a bit harder to isolate just one sector to represent the President's agenda so let's just take a brief look at the most visible — green energy.
Unfortunately, most of the publicly traded solar-energy companies are based in China. Most of the publicly traded wind stocks are traded in Europe. But the Powershares Wilderhill Clean Energy ETF PBW, +1.12% covers a wider selection of green-related stocks and is nearly 80% U.S.-based.
While component stocks within the ETF are well-capitalized and active, the ETF itself is too thinly traded for direct investment. However, we can still use it to get a feel for the market's opinion on the green-energy sector.
As of late October, that opinion is not good (see Chart 2). The ETF recently fell to an all-time low and is approximately 30% below its bottom at the end of the last bear market. Momentum remains to the downside, too.
I do not want to put too much emphasis on green-energy stocks as most of them are quite low priced and many are not actively traded. But the charts are indeed weak and that does not bode well for the White House incumbent.
Again, this is not a prediction and is only one part of the puzzle. There are far too many variables to watch even when restricting analysis to the stock market. How investors view the regulatory climate, Fed policy, social issues and many other factors also play big roles. But for those who are assembling a portfolio of election prognostications, coal vs. green energy analysis leans towards the challenger.
Michael Kahn writes the Getting Technical column for Barron's Online , which analyzes sectors and markets. Sign up for a free technical analysis chart of the day at Quick Takes Pro.