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My week of making webcomics
This week, I made a very conscious effort not to review anything. It was vacation week. Time to take in the splendors of fall over a long weekend. So I've written not one word of my opinions on webcomics this week. No reading through a decades-long archive. No time using Wikipedia to check my sources. No agonizing whether or not I've already used an anecdote or not. Just time to let that go for a little bit of rest and relaxation.
So, of course, I spent the week making webcomics.
The blog that I originally hosted the Webcomic Overlook on, Rooktopia, is still active. After I moved all my webcomic reviews to this site, I've turned the blog into something of my personal blog. It keeps me on my toes. While webcomics are indeed awesome, I think a lot of commentators burn out when they write about nothing but webcomics. I've been publishing photos — some reposted from Instagram — musing about movies I watch, and writing terrible poetry.
To draw inspiration, though, I check up on the Daily Post blog. Keep things new. There's a thing called the Weekly Writing Challenge, where bloggers get new ideas to keep things fresh. This week's challenge:
So this week, we challenge you to step outside your blogging box and try something totally different:
If you normally write non-fiction, try fiction.
If you normally write fiction, try poetry.
If you normally post photos, try writing.
If you normally just write, try including photos.
This was somewhat difficult, since I've done just about a little bit of everything. But then it struck me.
"You know what I haven't done yet? I haven't actually written a webcomic."
So, after years of snarky commentary, it was time for the watcher to be the watched. El Santo was going to do webcomics!
My first attempt, incidentally, was laughably primitive. I thought I would try to toss off a quick sketch, like Kris Straub over at chainsawsuit. He makes it look so easy! (It's also the model I tried to follow. To keep things as fresh as possible, I didn't want to spend more than 2 hours working on each comic.)
I had a scanner. I had a Sharpie. And I had a piece of white paper. I put together the fantastic debut of Overlook Comix! Which really isn't a debut, since I made up a fake Overlook Comix for the banner of this site. But you can hardly see that thing. It's soooooo tiny!
For my inspiration, I drew upon the burgeoning field of Instagram humor. By Instagram humor, I mean jokes about not Instagram, not jokes posted over Instagram. I mean, crap, I've actually posted some 500 photos on Instagram already. It's sort of my latest obsession. (By the way, I don't suggest anyone using Instagram as a comic distribution site. The resolution is sorta horrible.)
In the end, though, my debut of Overlook Comix ended up looking like crap.
Thus, I decided that I wasn't quite through with the Weekly Writing Challenge just yet. There were a lot of things I wanted to improve. The horrible art, for one. But I still wanted to do this as fast as possible. I didn't want to have to pull out the set of professional-grade markers that have been sitting in storage since I took thoses classes at the Center For Creative Studies.
So what tools did I have at my disposal? I had the latest version of Photoshop, which, up to this point, I'd only been using for adding some text to the final product. But what to use to make the actual drawings? I guess I could go with simple shapes. It's not like I had a Wacom Tablet.
But wait! I did have an iPad. I also had a light pen. And on that iPad was an app that I had downloaded after my love of drawing was rekindled after a passionate bout of Draw Something: something called Art Studio. It worked on the same principles, but with more options to select the brush types, opacity, and layers. I began re-rendering most of the same panels, this time in color.
I also changed the ending a bit, since I don't think you'd actually go to jail for crashing into another car while Instagramming.
A little bit happier, I published the post over on Rooktopia. I put a link up on the Reddit for Instagram. Then I sat back and I waited for the readers to come in!
Five total likes.
Also four total views… which means, hey, it's at least showing up on people's RSS feeds and it's not registering on my stat counter.
I guess it would be disheartening. However, the webcomic bug had bit me and it would not let go until it had drained me of my vital life fluids. Believing Instagram webcomics to indeed be the true successor to video game comics, the golden palaces of Penny Arcade danced in my head. I decided to work on a second one. This time… I decided to see how lazy I could get.
This webcomic actually consists of only two images. There's the final image, of course. But then there's the hand clicking on the iPhone. The thumbs exist on two different layers. Hide one for one image. Hide the other for the second image. Effort! These are the sorts of tricks of the trade that made Garfield the pop culture powerhouse that it is by the way.
All in all, it was fun. Back when I was in engineering school, we were all asked what we wanted to do later in our lives. Maybe one day we were planning on becoming a CEO. Perhaps we were planning on buying a house or a yacht. I definitely remember my answer, "One day, I want to be cable to write a comic." And here it is.
I don't ever plan on making this a permanent thing, by the way. There a tens of thousands of webcomics out there, but not many people blogging about them. And while writing a webcomic was fun, these days I find writing to be a little more fulfilling.
And … heh … less time consuming.
Posted on October 11, 2012, in The Webcomic Overlook, webcomics and tagged DPChallenge, Overlook Comix. Bookmark the permalink. 8 Comments.
Where's all the people who said "since you criticize Better Days so much, why don't you make a comic yourself?" when you need 'em.
I should link your comic at Snafu.


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With the MRI coming back negative, this injury doesn't look like it will have a long-term impact on the season. Given the fact that they have Cousins to rely on, the Pelicans should take a cautious approach and only allow Davis to return once he's fully cleared to play.


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Wednesday, January 13, 2010
Cindarella Needs A Night Out
I'm feeling a lot like Cinderella lately. Except I don't have a Ball to go to and I definitely don't have money for a new pair of shoes! I know, I know…my plight isn't any different from every other American mom, but it's MY life and this is MY blog so I'm just gonna go ahead and vent! My life is work, work, work and not enough play! Laundry, vacuuming, dishes, cooking meals, running errands, scrubbing toilets, and the list goes on. And the last bit of decadence that I rewarded myself with is gone. Food! I know I did this to myself. It was my decision to have the surgery. I just miss eating! It's not that I'm feeling incredibly hungry because honestly the ½ cup of food that I can have 3 times a day does almost fill me up, it's just that I still want to eat. The signals from my belly to my brain are just getting mixed up. My belly is saying "I'm full" but my brain is saying "I don't care, I still want some chocolate!" I'm starting to feel like that proverbial baby whose just had their candy taken away and I just want to throw myself on the floor and throw a full blown tantrum complete with kicking and screaming! It's so hard to shop at the grocery store and prepare meals for my family. It's incredibly tempting walking through the snack food aisle and seeing those Gibbles cheese curls sitting on the shelf all lonely, just calling out to me to rescue them and take them home with me! Or the Smore's flavored Pop Tarts or the Texas Garlic Toast……I just miss eating like I used to. I love food and I feel like I've lost my best friend, my constant companion when my husband is at work and my boys are in bed at night. My only "friend" who was always there to comfort me when no one else was. I honestly feel like I'm going through stages of grief and only someone whose gone through this surgery could understand. It's not like someone who's just on a diet. You could be on a diet and still overeat and nothing happens. But if I overeat right now, I'll get sick. I'll vomit. I'll feel incredibly uncomfortable. Always before if I was feeling down or if I accomplished something, I rewarded myself with food. You know, going out to dinner, ice cream, whatever I craved at the moment. But now, I can't do that. I can't even celebrate that I've lost 25 lbs in my normal way. I mean I'm happy, incredibly happy. I just miss eating.
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3 comments:
- The Vintage Attic said...
I know I havn't gone through what you have but when I quite smoking 10 years ago, I went through some of the same things. I felt as if I lost my best friend it was hard to function on a day to day base's with out my bad habit. Just to let you know it will pass just as my habit did, I know you might not think that now but it WILL... What helped me was, I only took it one craving at a time, I tried not to think of it as forever, and it's been 10 years and going strong.
You can do it!!!
- January 13, 2010 at 8:27 PM
- Andrea said...
Thank you for your encouragement. I really appreciate it. I needed to hear that. Very good advice. Thanks!
- January 13, 2010 at 8:46 PM
- tamerakitten said...
I've often wondered if there is something in our brains-maybe a chemical or hormonal imbalance-that causes our brains to scream FEED ME when our belly say's it's STUFFED. Or is it habit/emotional? I wish I knew the answer.
Hang in there! You are looking great!
- January 14, 2010 at 9:17 AM


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16 Wednesday
The power of rhyme compels you: Attend FAB LAB from 3:30 to 5:30 today (or any Wednesday) at the Business of Art Center (513 Manitou Ave., Manitou Springs, 685-1589). Crafty local nonprofit Concrete Couch is your host in the wood or metal shop, or "OutBAC," as you create something artsy (from mosaic backsplashes to "weird welded things," in the words of Concrete Couch svengali Steve Wood) or fix a broken item (hand tools, chairs, etc.) that you're encouraged to bring. Think: creative community handymen. There'll be banging. Maybe some welding. Dust and sparks will fly! Things will be re-purposed for the good of all mankind, and occasionally people will high-five afterward. It'll be ... fabulous. — Matthew Schniper
17 Thursday
2013 marks the 80th anniversary of the repeal of Prohibition — at least in most states. Mississippi, for one, held out until 1966, and Kansas banned public bars until 1987. Regardless, around here Prohibition's so eight decades ago, and Coquette's Bistro & Bakery (915 Manitou Ave., Manitou Springs, coquettesbistroandbakery.com) wants to celebrate at 6:30 tonight, the first of its themed cocktail nights. Dress in costume and come ready to get busy with appetizers, pictures and era-specific cocktails. — Bryce Crawford
18 Friday
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19 Saturday
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20 Sunday
After years of local hip-hop, jazz and soul musicians informally sitting in on each other's sets, there's finally an ongoing event specifically dedicated to that sort of collaboration. Sunday Night Soul Sessions at Zodiac (230 Pueblo Ave., zodiacvenue.com) is a monthly series that debuted back in October. Hosted by Andrew Wilson, the showcase features a live house band — including Lyrick from Kopesetik Soul on drums, Maddix Jay on keyboards, and Charlie Milo on bass — backing up a variety of singers and emcees. Tonight's session will also feature a 40-minute set from A Black Day, the much-recommended collective featuring Milogic from the Sound Powered Engine crew, HoTT from Audible, Jayoin from Mad Trees, and Ahmad Mitchell from Fidel Redstar. Music starts at 8, cover is $5. — Bill Forman
21 Monday
Denver's Cleo Parker Robinson Dance Troupe is named for the woman who started it 42 years ago. At 7 tonight, 10 of her performers will take to the stage for free with the Gospel Music Workshop of America Choir at Colorado College's Armstrong Hall (14 E. Cache la Poudre St., coloradocollege.edu) to celebrate Martin Luther King Jr.'s legacy. Apropos, as Robinson believes the heart of dance is "quite spiritual, and very healing. Very transforming and liberating. And revealing. And uniting. When people can't talk about things, maybe they can begin to move together and connect on a different level." — Kirsten Akens
22 Tuesday
Egyptian artist Basim Magdy likes to promote the incongruities in life. In a 2007 article, the multimedia artist said: "Absurdity perplexes a lot of people. I think we tend to think more about the things we don't understand, because they challenge us ... This, for me is where confusion could become the means of subversion." Magdy also incorporates sarcasm and humor in his pieces, making for a strange mix. Take one work coming to Colorado College's Coburn Gallery (902 N. Cascade Ave., blog.coloradocollege.edu/ideaspace), in which a smile is drawn on a flower petal, underscored by a line of text: "No one will ever care." Perplexed? Then check out his solo show, opening today with a 4:30 reception and artist's talk. The show's free through March 8. — Edie Adelstein


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A Civil Partnership is a legally registered relationship which gives same sex couples legal rights similar to those of married couples. The rights relate to areas such as tax, pensions and the right to apply for parental responsibility for a partner's child.
Civil Partnerships were first introduced in the UK in 2005 and are sometimes referred to as 'Gay marriage', however this is not strictly accurate as there are some legal differences between a Civil Partnership and a marriage.
A number of legal services are available in relationship to Civil Partnerships, both before entering into a partnership and in the event of a breakdown in the partnership.
Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Act 2013
Parts of this act came into force on 29th March 2014. From that date same sex couple can marry rather than enter same same sex civil partnerships. When it is all implemented the Act, which applies to England and Wales, will:
- allow same sex couples to marry in civil ceremonies
- allow same sex couples to marry in religious ceremonies, where the religious organisation has 'opted in' to conduct such ceremonies and the minister of religion agrees
- protect those religious organisations and their representatives who don't wish to conduct marriages of same sex couples from successful legal challenge
- enable civil partners to convert their partnership to a marriage, if they wish
- enable married individuals to change their legal gender without having to end their marriage
Pre-Partnership Agreements for Civil Partners
Pre-partnership agreements are broadly similar to pre-nuptial agreements for marrying couples.
Before entering into a civil partnership a pre-partnership agreement enables you and your partner to set out what will happen if the relationship should break down. It can include things such as how jointly owned property and possessions will be divided if the partnership ends.
Although pre-partnership agreements are not currently legally binding in England, in the same way that pre-nuptial agreements are not, they are usually taken into account by the courts if they have been prepared in the correct manner and within the appropriate safeguards. Contact us for more information on this.
Dissolution of a Civil Partnership
If a Civil Partnership breaks down irretrievably you have to get permission from the court to dissolve the partnership. The court can then grant you either a separation order or a dissolution order.
Dissolution orders for Civil Partnerships
Dissolution of a civil partnership is similar to a divorce for a married couple. You have to wait 12 months from the date of the civil partnership to be able to get dissolution.
To obtain a dissolution it has to be proven that the relationship has broken down irretrievably. This has to be done using one of the following grounds which are similar to the grounds for divorce:
- Your partner has behaved unreasonably
- You have been separated for two years and both agree to the dissolution
- One partner has deserted the other for at least two years
- You have been separated for at least five years (consent is not required)
The main difference between the grounds for dissolution of a civil partnership and the grounds for a divorce is that adultery cannot be stated as the basis for dissolution of a civil partnership. (For a divorce Adultery is the fifth ground for divorce in addition to those listed above.) This is because in England the term adultery is a specific legal term relating to heterosexual sex. However, if infidelity is the reason then this can be stated as a reason for dissolution of a civil partnership under the heading of 'unreasonable behaviour'.
As part of ending a civil partnership, we can also help you to deal with associated areas which need to be resolved such as children, finances and property.
Separation orders for Civil Partnerships
Separation orders are often used where the partnership has not yet lasted for 12 months, so a dissolution order is not yet available.
The granting of a separation order means that you are unable to enter into another civil partnership until you get a dissolution order.
Contact us for more information about legal services relating to civil partnerships.
Two members of our Family law team are members of Resolution.
Members of Resolution are required to follow the Resolution code of practice which commits family lawyers to resolving disputes in a non-confrontational way, preserving people's dignity and encouraging agreements.


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Are big banks just licensed thieves? A ticket clippers update
Earlier this week it was just the National Australia Bank fessing up that its UK arm had cheated customers. Today the NAB is among the financial institutions that the Australian Securities and Investment Commission is investigating for charging clients for financial advice that was never given.
Not that the update by ASIC named those helping it with its enquiries. The corporate cop still seems strangely diffident about naming and shaming. You have to look elsewhere to discover that it is the wealth arms of the Commonwealth Bank, National Australia Bank, ANZ Bank, Macquarie Group and AMP that is being investigated.
Still, I suppose a semi-silent investigation is better than no investigation.
The ASIC statement:
ASIC today provided an update on its Wealth Management Project which is focusing on the conduct of the largest financial advice firms.
ASIC is investigating multiple instances of licensees charging clients for financial advice, including annual advice reviews, where the advice was not provided. Most of the fees have been charged as part of a client's service agreement with their financial adviser.
Deputy Chairman, Peter Kell said: 'ASIC will consider all regulatory options, including enforcement action, where we find evidence of breaches of the law relating to fees being charged where no advice service has been provided. We will look to ensure that advice licensees follow a proper process of customer remediation and reimbursement of fees where such breaches have occurred.'
The ASIC Wealth Management Project was established in October last year with the objective of lifting standards in major financial advice providers. Under this project ASIC is carrying a number of investigations and is conducting a range of proactive risk-based surveillances with particular focus on compliance in large financial institutions.
ASIC's investigations are continuing.


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Pairs Competitons Report
Last years Oxford Pairs winners Kevin Baker & Philip Adams from The Cricketers 'B' just scrapped through to this years Semi-finals after a tough couple of rounds. They beat Dave Leoplold and Simon Somerscales from The Black Prince in the first round 2-0. After winning the first leg they had to rely on a three stick shoot out in the next leg after it was tied 7-7. In the Quarter Finals they were pushed all the way by The Red Lion Eynsham pairing of Mick Berry and Eddie Lacey. The opening leg went to the holders 6-5, however in the next leg they set seven which Berry and Lacey matched which they then went on to win the leg on three sticks 4-3. The final and deciding leg Baker with five and Adams with four set nine. Berry responded with a five but Lacey just fell short with a hit of three which left them with a reply of eight.
In the 2nd round Berry followed up his maximum six in the first round as he clanged off another as they overcame Ken Maunder and Trevor Greenaway from Garsington Sports Club 2-1, for whom Maunder also hit a six in the scores of 8-7, 6-7, 6-5.
Last years runners up Kevin Giles and Paul Townsend (Three Pigeons) almost crashed out in the first round as they just got the better over Kevin Stuart and Brian Mossop from Rose Hill Club. The Rose Hill pair chasing a set of seven won the opening leg by the odd doll with eight. Stuart and Mossop then set nine in the next leg and must have thought that would be enough, however Townsend started of the reply with a maximum six and Giles whipped off four dolls to win the leg and keep the tie alive. The Rose Hill Pair set six but Giles hit the winning dolls again as he whipped off the three dolls needed to win the leg 7-6.
In the Quarter finals they had an easier ride beating the Team Monarch pair of Tony & Keith Bull 4-3, 9-4.
Alan Goodgame and Alan Surman made it though to their first Semi-final appearance without dropping a leg. They beat Liam & Luke Purcell from Rose Hill Club in the first round 8-5, 6-5 and then brushed aside Ian & Darren Grant from The Black Prince 9-5, 8-6 with Goodgame bagging himself a six in the process.
In the Quarter Final the Garsington Sports pairing of Garry Smith and Tommy Recht also could not win a leg against them as the went down 9-4, 7-6.
The final semi-finalists are brothers Barry and Geoff Townsend from The Cricketers 'B'. They overcame team mates Pip Goulding and Den Sellar in the second round 7-6, 7-6 and then came up against Graham Hambridge and Gary Coulthard from The Bullnose Morris, who shocked the Cricketers pair by winning the opening leg 7-6. The Townsend's them composed themselves as they won the next two legs and tie 5-4, 8-2.
In The Lower Section Pairs Phil Wilkins and Chris Webb from The Six Bells 'B' Quarry battled their way through to the Semi-Finals after some tough games. In the first round Wilkins and Webb were drawn against Alan Prince and Tony Comley from The New Club 'B' and with two sets of 3 & 2 Webb didn't need to throw as Wilkins hit the winning dolls on his own with 4 & 3. In the next round against Steve Ward and Phil Shrimpton also from The New Club, Wilkins and Webb won the opening leg 4-3, but the next leg it was tied 9-9. Three sticks and one stick shoot outs could not separate them and so back to six sticks which they won by the odd doll 7-6.
In the Quarter finals they beat team mates Andy Webb and Terry Cox 2-0. They won the first leg 6-3 but the next leg was tied 8-8. In the three sticks they set a maximum six which was just enough as Webb and Cox replied with five.
Clive Walsh and Nick Edmonds from Kidlington Sports Club are also into the Semi's as they beat Paul Sims and James Mayhew from The Bullnose 'B' 2-0 in the first round. They then beat Andy George and Dale Macer also from The Bullnose 2-0 before beating Elliott and Craig Greenough in the Quarter-final in a close contest. The first two legs were shared 5-4, 5-4. The deciding leg was tied 5-5 with the Club men winning it on three sticks 4-3.
Ben Green & Paul Alder beat Kevin Richardson and Kevin Smith from North Oxford Con Club 2-1 in a tense Quarter Final to give them their first Semi-final appearance and Barry & John Gilding from The New Club 'B' make up the quartet in the Semi-finals
Teams in Section Six please not that The Priory has now closed and they will play all their remaining home games at The Jolly Postboys, Florence Park.
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A roundup of actual items, excerpted from the police blotters of the Lake Oswego and West Linn, Ore., newspapers:
After hearing the click of a gun, a woman is more fearful than ever that an unknown female is out to kill her.
A caller thought a man wearing fatigue pants and no shirt riding a motorcycle in the 22700 block of Salamo Road "looked unusual."
A man was seen digging up ferns on a private lot on Skye Parkway.
A thief took advantage of an open house on Rogers Road to steal a container holding 100 prescription drugs.
A man slumped in his vehicle in the 5600 block of Hood Street was just parked and using the Starbucks Wi-Fi.
A dog defecated in a woman's yard on Wax Wing Circle.
A woman was suspected of DUII after her unsteady driving on Stafford Road. It turned out she had just gotten new glasses and was having trouble getting used to them.
A suspicious man walking near Robinwood Village was just a new resident.
A drunken woman screamed for help as a man sat on her; apparently, he was actually trying to help her.
After robbing an unlocked shed, a thief threw some tuna on a car parked on Wood Thrush Circle. Loss was set at $5.
A naked man was seen on a log masturbating in the 5400 block of West A Street.
A light bulb at the back of a house on Westview Court was unscrewed over the weekend.
A big purple overstuffed chair was dumped at the end of G Avenue.
A woman wants to get rid of the three guys standing outside her house.
Suspicious people running through a park in the 1400 block of Lewis Street were just playing tag.
A resident in the 5500 block of First Court believes a neighbor has been listening in on her for several years.


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Rush Limbaugh was quick to reassure listeners that he wouldn't be going anywhere - in light of the news that Microsoft founder Bill Gates will be winding down at the company to spend more time on his philanthropic activities with his wife.
Will Limbaugh , who never served in the military, go to Iraq to visit the troops - like talk show host Laura Ingraham? It seems hypocritical to carry on about Hollywood and the MSM - many of whom are embeds in Iraq and sit back in the US and not visit the troops that allegedly support him - and a person that President Bush described as a "great American" - an appellation that would seem far more appropriate for those who have put their lives on the line for the country. Limbaugh did make a trip to Afghanistan - in which he mostly focused on himself rather than the trips in his recountings of the journey that he also said he paid for himself - just as many of the troops pay for their equipment to fight.
Will this be the year that Limbaugh goes somewhere - like Iraq?


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I absolutely fell in love with Sarah and Pat when I met them at their Ripe Belly session (which they ROCKED out; Fast forward two months....and I met the newest addition to their family, Patrick Samuel Jr. Love Love Love LOVEEEEEEEEEE him!! :) Take a look for yourself, how could you NOT!? :) Here is the front of his birth announcement...and the back....
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The 'Never Say Never' singer got into an altercation with British DJ Michael Woods and his manager, but a source has told website Gossip Cop the teen star never threw a punch.
An insider added there is "no truth" to claims of an attack and "Everyone had a lot of fun at the party".
The argument was reportedly sparked when Justin, 19, "muscled" into the DJ booth and requested Michael play hip hop tracks.
In a twitter rant on Saturday (12.10.13) he wrote: "Next time u wanna take a cheap shot at my Tour Manager @justinbieber stick around to follow it thru instead of runnin off like a lil p***y.
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Justin was celebrating at the club after performing in the country as part of his 'Believe' tour.
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So our baby is offically walking. He took three steps yesterday, and one the day before. He is standing all the time. Someone offered to give us one of those walker pusher things... and I promptly said NO. lol... he is going to walk plenty soon. When Cyan got one of those things (she still wasn't fully walking at a year) she was walking within four days. I don't need my just turned 9 mos old baby walking in four days. I am happy with where he is... no faster please... but man... it is exciting. :D
In other news, Alex has been making comics. Some are really great! He is getting better and drawing while he is doing this too, although he mainly sticks to stick figures... but the expressions that he gives them remind me of Happy Noodle Boy. They make me laugh... none have though, more than this one:
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The Game of Thrones edition
Student data privacy, Jeb Bush's education record, questions about curriculum, and the positive effects of working mothers.
Amber's Research Minute
Robert: Hello, this is your host Robert Pondiscio of the Thomas B. Ford Institute here at the Education Gadfly Show, and online at EdExcellence.net. Now please join me in welcoming my co-host, the Jon Snow of ed reform, Brandon Wright.
Brandon: Yeah, so that's from Game of Thrones ...
Robert: It is.
Brandon: ... Which I don't watch.
Robert: You know, I don't watch it either. But there's one thing I know about Game of Thrones.
Brandon: Tons of people die on it?
Robert: Everyone, it's like Shakespeare.
Brandon: Very, very violent.
Robert: Right. There's two types of characters, those who have been killed and those who will be killed. At least I gather that. My daughter made me watch this one scene of this guy, God, literally ripping a guy's head apart with his bare hands. That was all I needed to see of Game of Thrones.
Brandon: Yeah, I've heard about that scene and my wife doesn't really like violence that's that graphic. So we haven't watched it and it would just be a big lift to start watching it by myself in the small amount of free time I have without my wife or without being at work.
Robert: Maybe you and me, will, after the podcast, maybe we'll start binge watching it on Netflix, what do you say?
Brandon: Is it like, seven seasons in?
Robert: I don't know but it's like seven seasons I'm not going to watch.
Brandon: So like, three hundred hours of shows?
Robert: We got time, let's do this. Okay, that's all the time we have for the podcast. Here we go, time to play Pardon the Gadfly. Take it away, Dominique.
Dominique: Question one: The New York Times published an article on Saturday that argued against legislation that would effectively prevent research from using student data. Thoughts?
Robert: Thoughts ... The Luddites have taken over. That was the same era ... No, that was after Games of Thrones, the Luddites, they're the ones that destroyed all the machinery. They shouldn't make fun, but there's legitimate reasons, but you first, Brandon, what do you think of this?
Brandon: Like anything, I think there are pros and cons, so we have to see what the benefits are of keeping this information and providing it to people who actually want to use it in a legitimate way to improve education.
Robert: To use their powers for good, not evil.
Brandon: Right. I think that there are great benefits to using this information in a legitimate and safe way ...
Robert: Sure.
Brandon: And let me underline the word safe, because the other part of it to kind of minimize the cons, that is, the kind of infringement on privacy, you have to provide certain protections for this information. The article in New York Times talks about this researcher, everything that she's done, the data is on a secure server and there is no identifying information at all. If a researcher were to break these rules there are both potential civil and criminal consequences.
Robert: What you're saying, and the writer in the piece from the Times, by the way, was from your Alma mater, Susan Dynarski of the University of Michigan.
Brandon: Go Blue!
Robert: There you go. Now, you're making the argument that she's making that there should be strong protections to keep sensitive data private.
Brandon: Sure.
Robert: But here's my question: Do we already have that and if not, where is all this angst about student data coming from?
Brandon: I think there are protections there but I think online security is an ever-evolving battle.
Robert: It is, and look, every time people are nervous about this they come by it honestly. If you think about it every time we hear about data privacy in the news it's bad news. It's WikiLeaks, it's the NSA it's hackers, it's credit card fraud so while I'm deeply concerned that these kinds of measures could cost researchers the access that they need to valuable data to move the field forward, I can't sit here and pretend I'm surprised at the level of parental anxiety about this. Every time you hear about data being stored, like Game of Thrones, this ends badly.
Brandon: Sure, but what we're talking about now are people who are breaking laws and what the author is arguing against is laws that will make it more difficult for a researcher to use this information to better education. So they are following laws. What we're concerned about are people breaking laws so more laws don't really seem to solve that problem. So you essentially have two options. You have one, which is where you don't store information at all, and I think that's unrealistic and I'm not sure it's wise, or you do your best to protect it and create rules so that the people who do use it, use it in a smart and productive way.
And I think that's essentially where we're at and we should continue those who secure it as that technology becomes available and advancements in security occur.
Robert: Agreed, but I don't think you can not be concerned about this. Data and testing the data from testing is to education research what rocks are to geologists, what tissue samples are to biologists. If we don't have that we do not move forward.
Brandon: Sure.
Robert: But that said, I would hope that we would ... I think those of us who are in the reform game as it were, owe it to parents to be more explicit and clear about how uses of these data benefit all kids, including theirs. It just won't do to say, "Get over it."
Brandon: Agreed.
Robert: Dominique, question two.
Dominique: Jeff Bush announced yesterday that he's running for President. How does he measure up to other candidates on education?
Robert: I thought we already knew he was running, right? This is not big news.
Brandon: It's his formal announcement.
Robert: There you go, it's his formal announcement. Well Brandon, you have been doing incredible due diligence, pouring over the published statements of every candidate as they announce, Jeff Bush being the least. I'm guessing, correctly if I'm wrong, of all the candidates you've examined his track record has to be the deepest and widest on education.
Brandon: Yeah. When he was at the helm of Florida he instituted a bunch of ed reforms, things like school choice and standards, tax scholarships, and then when he left, he founded one of the most influential ed reform non-profits out there, the Foundation for Excellence in Education. He's been doing this stuff for a very long time.
Robert: So if you're an education reform voter, he's your guy.
Brandon: I guess it depends on if you agree with his ideas, right? If you like the common core ...
Robert: Oh, there's that.
Brandon: And you're a Republican, then he's essentially the only choice if that's a deciding issue for you. If you don't, then it seems like one of the other, I think there are now twelve with Trump having announced.
Robert: Only twelve?
Brandon: Twelve Republicans in the race so it seems like if you were very, very against common core then you would go with one of the other eleven.
Robert: Hmm. It's Jeb against the field and if common core is your issue then you're going with the field. But I guess my question is to what degree common core will be an issue, and 2016 is still a very long way away.
Brandon: I would be surprised if common core were the deciding issue in the Presidential race.
Robert: Look, education is never the deciding issue in the race, is it? It's our issue, but come on.
Brandon: I'm not that old so I haven't been through that many elections so you might be a better judge of that.
Robert: I saw what you did there, Brandon.
Brandon: But I'll trust you. Obviously, the race itself will end up deciding what the biggest issue is, and I guess it's possible that it's the common core but probably not.
Robert: I'm kind of with you. I would love if we would have this great, deep national debate and education was the defining issue and the deciding issue in 2016. I think it will be a lot more discussed in the primaries than the general, but I would be very surprised if common core at the end of the end of the day either helped him or hurt him.
Brandon: Sure.
Robert: I think there's a lot of other things that voters are concerned about, it would be great if our issues were theirs but there's a lot of stuff going on.
Brandon: I think you're right.
Robert: There you go. Question three, Dominique.
Dominique: This one's for you, Robert. You wrote an editorial last week on which you called on districts to publicly release their information about their curricula. Why should districts comply?
Robert: Boy, this is a piece with the data story we were talking about earlier, right? This to me is just an enduring mystery. If you think about it, in our test driven, accountability mad, data focused age, we measure everything about schools. We can tell you where teachers went to ed school, we can tell you their SAT scores before they got in, we can tell you the value added scores of twenty-five fourth graders in any school. Here's my question: How come it's impossible, and I mean almost literally impossible to find out what curricula a school is using to teach say, math or English language arts. This strikes me as being not a difficult thing to find out, a deeply important thing to know.
I always like to point out the report by Russ Whitehurst and Matt Chingos over at Brookings a few years ago that discovered that effect sizes of curriculum were even bigger than some of the things we obsess over in ed reform. Things like class size and teacher quality and chartering and whatnot, so if we know curriculum is so important and could be potentially so important in moving the needle, why are we not mandating that districts report what curricula they're using? This is my challenge to parents all the time. Do you know what math curriculum your school is using? I'll bet you don't. The difference that the parent has over a researcher benefit is that if the parent wants to know they can just look in their kid's backpack. If you're a researcher, good luck trying to find out what the curriculum is in the school.
This issue became an issue last week when Charles Sahm of the Manhattan Institute released a report. He had a very simple research question. He wanted to find out what curricula New York City schools were using to implement common core. There had been two different recommendations on the ELA curricula. This is going back to the Bloomberg era, and the only way he could find out was not by looking up on the State or city web site, he had to send a questionnaire electronic to every single school in New York City. That's lunacy.
Brandon: Yeah, it seems totally absurd. To better define this for people who aren't in education all the time, what exactly do you mean by curriculum?
Robert: I should not take for granted that people understand the difference. We talk about standards all the time and I'm always the guy who says, well look, standards are important but standards are important insofar as they influence curriculum choices.
Brandon: People confuse the two often.
Robert: Absolutely, they completely conflate the two. For example, when I was a teacher in the South Bronx, our math curriculum was every day math, our literacy curriculum was teacher's college reading and writing project.
Brandon: These are actually brands, essentially?
Robert: Yeah, call them brands I guess, or call them products, call them programs. Another reason this is important is from an accountability standpoint. I, full disclosure, I've never made a secret about this, I couldn't stand either of those programs, the math or the literacy programs, but this was what I was compelled to teach. Now, if you look at the results that I posted with my students, is it me as the teacher or is it the curriculum? The thing that frustrates me and has frustrated me for years, is we just see, those of us in education reform, absolutely incurious about this. All the matters is the teacher, it doesn't matter what program. Let me tell you, having taught these programs for a couple years, I would not want my performance evaluated on the strength of those curriculum. Give me a choice, I'm going to choose something different.
Brandon: So why do you think schools haven't made this information more public or public period?
Robert: I simply think I could be just wrong and naive about this, I think it's just simply a blind spot. I think just mainstream ed reform thinking is that it's the teacher, it's the governance model, curriculum is an afterthought. I just don't think that we in education, the field, we're just not that savvy consumers about these things.
Brandon: And final point, how do you think we can change this?
Robert: Morgan Polikoff of the University of Southern California, has been filing freedom and information act requests in four States trying to get the curriculum.
Brandon: Over three thousand, right?
Robert: Three thousand of them in four States. He raises the point, and I completely agree with, we already have any number of data capturing mechanisms, why not just mandate at a State level that schools have to report this in existing mechanism that they're almost certainly already performing.
Brandon: Okay.
Robert: So that's that. And that's all the time we have for Pardon the Gadfly.
Next, here's Amber with the research minute.
Hey Amber, how are you?
Amber: I'm great, how are you?
Robert: Good! Let me ask you a question: Does the name John Snow mean anything to you?
Amber: Jon Snow ... Oh no, I feel like I'm failing a quiz.
Robert: You kind of are.
Amber: No, it does not.
Robert: I referred to Brandon as the Jon Snow of ed reform, not even sure what I meant by that.
Amber: Okay.
Brandon: I'm not sure what he does on the actual show, Game of Thrones.
Robert: He does what all the characters do: He dies.
Brandon: He died. Like every other character on that show.
Amber: Oh, wow. How do you guys know this if you don't watch it?
Brandon: It's all over the news.
Amber: Twitter and stuff?
Brandon: It's the most talked about show in the world.
Robert: I describe this as the cultural equivalent of second hand smoke. You pick it up. You don't have to be ...
Amber: And you don't really want to sometimes and it's dangerous for you. We could keep carrying this metaphor, I guess.
Robert: Having seen the way people die on Game of Thrones, no, I would not wish that upon.
Amber: Is that good for kids? Is that one of these video games that's like, damaging ...
Brandon: I'm not sure it's a kid's show.
Amber: Oh, it's not a kids show. Okay, I got you.
Brandon: It is a very, very adult show.
Amber: It has one of those stickers on the front when you buy it.
Brandon: Perhaps the most adult show that's on popular television.
Amber: Oh, all right.
Brandon: It's on HBO.
Robert: Brandon and I are going to binge watch right after the podcast. Please join us.
Amber: I will not be doing that.
Brandon: For three hundred hours.
Robert: Amber, what you got for us this week?
Amber: We've got a new NBER study called "Mother's Employment and Children's Education Gender Gap." I know it sounds thrilling but it's actually interesting. It examines the impact of women's participation in the workforce on their child's college attainment. And let's use data from the Norway registry, so it's not here, which includes information on all children born in Norway between 1967 and 1993. That's about roughly seven hundred and twenty-five thousand males and six hundred and ninety thousand females, s that's a lot of kids. Then they match the child's data with data from their parents which describes among other things their parents' earnings history when their children were birthed and up to age seventeen. Zero to seventeen. Descriptive data show that the employment of mothers with young children, this is interesting, has increased form ten percent in 1967 to what do you think in 1993? Now you get a quiz.
Robert: What a great question. I'm going to guess forty percent.
Amber: Brandon, you got an answer? Don't be looking! Sixty-five percent in 1993.
Robert: Basically, a generation.
Amber: That's pretty big deal, isn't it?
Robert: That really is.
Amber: Father's employment has remained fairly constant, about ninety-three percent which seemed kind of high to me.
Robert: Hard working country, Norway.
Amber: Controlling for various family and child demographics, they find that the mother's employment has a positive impact on their daughter's college attainment relative to the affect on the son's. Specifically, daughters are more likely than sons to have a college or higher degree by the age of twenty-five. Mother's with more female children are also more likely to be in the workplace after controlling for the total number of children.
Lots to think about. I'm almost done.
Interestingly, the father's employment also has a negative effect on boy's college attainment and a positive effect for the girls.
Robert: Hold on a second, this makes on one hand sense, on the other hand am I wrong about this, if moms have gone ... their workforce participation has gone from 10 percent to 65 percent, you're just seeing a society in general that is transitioning from a defined ... The man works, the woman stays at home to a two paycheck family which implies, does it not, a greater need for education. So this has nothing to do with the moms, this has to do with the cultural shift where women are entering the workforce in huge numbers, right?
Amber: Well, I think that one could propose that but this is an NBER study that was fairly rigorous and controlled for about a gazillion different things. But let me tell you about one thing that they hypothesize which is similar to what you hypothesize. Increased time with the son already resulted in higher marginal gains for him, so he already benefits from more time with the mom. It makes sense that if you decrease that time it's going to have a higher consequence for him as well, all right? And then for the daughter, the analysts reason that working mother provides a working role model which may have increased her expected return from schooling. So she's kind of seeing this, "Man, I can do this too, this is the direction I'd like to head." Anyway, that's the theory.
Then they ended up with this long discussion of how all of these patterns help to explain the narrowing and the reversal of the education gender gap since the 1950's which is basically the difference in a college attainment between the males and the females. I think this is both encouraging and troubling at the same time because obviously we don't really know exactly what's happening here, even though they try to control for these many, many things. I think that it's a head-scratcher, we all have theories, right? Why would the impact on the daughters be more than the sons ... I think they draw a reasonable assumption that the boys automatically benefit from the increased time so they're going to lose out more but why is that? I don't know. I don't have kids so I can't even begin.
Brandon: It does definitely seem like a son has a different relationship with his father than with his mom and a daughter has a different one between her two parents, too and same with a parent, right? A mother has a different relationship with her daughter than her son and obviously this is anecdotal, I don't know that many parents but it seems to be the case. I don't know exactly why that is?
Robert: I still smell the cultural shift as much as an educational one but that's just one man's opinion.
Amber: What they say is let's bear this theory out, so now it's pretty much stabilized, the women's participation rates in the workplace, so I think what we're going to see in the next twenty-five years, if this is the right theory then we're not going to see the changes that we witnessed so far because that's stabilized and the other change is stabilized so I think we're ... This is a favorite topic, we've got a lot of studies that are really intrigued by the impact of the change of women's participation in the workforce since the 50's.
Robert: Stay tuned, we'll see you back here in twenty years and we'll have answers to those questions.
Amber, before we let you go, and I'm going to completely put you on the spot, did you see Susan Dynarski's op-ed in the New York Times about education data and as a research person how concerned are you?
Amber: I have not read it but obviously I have been immersed in the question and think that we could easily go over board and I'm scared that if we aren't careful we're going to go over board ...
Brandon: Over board in what direction?
Amber: And I think there's some fear mongering about how these data are used that are probably untrue and they may be espoused by folks that have ulterior motives.
Brandon: Over board on the protection of the data?
Amber: Right! Because I think ...
Robert: Protecting it so much that you can't gather it anymore.
Amber: Right, and what people don't realize is that we already have some pretty tight protocols in place for making sure these data are secure, it's not like, I think the average parent might understand, might not understand that you don't get information on Sally Joe's fourth grade, you get student ID number 1188652.
Brandon: That is exactly what the article says.
Robert: Exactly. You're echoing my point which is that I don't think it will do for those of us who need this data to complain about it, we just need to do a better job at explaining it.
Amber: Yes, agreed.
Robert: And that is all the time we have for this week's Gadfly show. 'Till next week ...
Brandon: I'm Brandon Wright.
Robert: And I'm Robert Pondiscio for the Thomas B. Fordham Institute, signing off.


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Psychiatry Journal
Volume 2015, Article ID 968596, 6 pages
Acceptance and Avoidance Processes at Different Levels of Psychological Recovery from Enduring Mental Illness
1School of Psychology, Illawarra Institute for Mental Health, University of Wollongong, Wollongong, NSW, Australia
2Anhanguera, Cascavel, PR, Brazil
Received 21 May 2015; Revised 23 July 2015; Accepted 30 July 2015
Academic Editor: Andrzej Pilc
Copyright © 2015 Vinicius R. Siqueira and Lindsay G. Oades. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Objective. This study examined the use of psychological acceptance and experiential avoidance, two key concepts of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), in the psychological recovery process of people with enduring mental illness. Method. Sixty-seven participants were recruited from the metropolitan, regional, and rural areas of New South Wales, Australia. They all presented some form of chronic mental illness (at least 12 months) as reflected in DSM-IV Axis I diagnostic criteria. The Acceptance and Action Questionnaire (AAQ-19) was used to measure the presence of psychological acceptance and experiential avoidance; the Recovery Assessment Scale (RAS) was used to examine the levels of psychological recovery; and the Scales of Psychological Well-Being was used to observe if there are benefits in utilizing psychological acceptance and experiential avoidance in the recovery process. Results. An analysis of objectively quantifiable measures found no clear correlation between the use of psychological acceptance and recovery in mental illness as measured by the RAS. The data, however, showed a relationship between psychological acceptance and some components of recovery, thereby demonstrating its possible value in the recovery process. Conclusion. The major contribution of this research was the emerging correlation that was observed between psychological acceptance and positive levels of psychological well-being among individuals with mental illness.