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This is an excerpt from Measurement and Evaluation in Human Performance, Fourth Edition With Web Study Guide, by James R. Morrow, Jr., PhD, Allen W. Jackson, EdD, James G. Disch, PED, and Dale P. Mood, PhD.
As previously mentioned, there are many types of performance-based assessments. Each type of assessment brings with it different strengths and deficiencies relative to credible and dependable information. Because it is virtually impossible for a single assessment tool to adequately assess all aspects of student performance, the real challenge comes in selecting or developing performance-based assessments that complement both each other and more traditional assessments to equitably assess students in physical education and human performance.The goal for assessment is to accurately determine whether students have learned the materials or information taught and reveal whether they have complete mastery of the content with no misunderstandings. Just as researchers use multiple data sources to determine the truthfulness of the results, teachers can use multiple types of assessment to evaluate the level of student learning. Because assessments involve the gathering of data or information, some type of product, performance, or recording sheet must be generated. The following are some examples of various types of performance-based assessments used in physical education.Using Observation in the Assessment ProcessHuman performance provides many opportunities for students to exhibit behaviors that may be directly observed by others, a unique advantage of working in the psychomotor domain. Wiggins (1998) uses physical activity when providing examples to illustrate complex assessment concepts, as they are easier to visualize than would be the case with a cognitive example. The nature of performing a motor skill makes assessment through observational analysis a logical choice for many physical education teachers. In fact, investigations of measurement practices of physical educators have consistently shown a reliance on observation and related assessment methods (Hensley and East 1989; Matanin and Tannehill 1994; Mintah 2003).Observation is a skill used with several performance-based assessments. It is often used to provide students with feedback to improve performance. However, without some way to record results, observation alone is not an assessment. Going back to the definition of assessment provided earlier in the chapter, assessment is the gathering of information, analyzing the data, and then using the information to make an evaluation. Therefore, some type of written product must be produced if the task is considered an assessment.Teachers and peers can assess others using observation. They might use a checklist or some type of event recording scheme to tally the number of times a behavior occurred. Keeping game play statistics is an example of recording data using event recording techniques. Students can self-analyze their own performance and record their performances using criteria provided on a checklist or a game play rubric. Table 14.1 is an example of a recording form that could be used for peer assessment.When using peer assessment, it is best to have the assessor do only the assessment. When the person recording assessment results is also expected to take part in the assessment (e.g., tossing the ball to the person being assessed), he or she cannot both toss and do an accurate observation. In the case of large classes, teachers might even use groups of four, in which one person is being evaluated, a second person is feeding the ball, the third person is doing the observation, and a fourth person is recording the results.Individual or Group ProjectsProjects have long been used in education to assess a student's understanding of a subject or a particular topic. Projects typically require students to apply their knowledge and skills while completing the prescribed task, which often calls for creativity, critical thinking, analysis, and synthesis. Examples of student projects used in physical education and human performance include the following: demonstrating knowledge of invasion game strategies by designing a new game; demonstrating knowledge of how to become an active participant in the community by doing research on obesity and then developing a brochure for people in the community that presents ideas for developing a physically active lifestyle; demonstrating knowledge of fitness components and how to stay fit by designing one's own fitness program using personal fitness test results; demonstrating knowledge of how to create a dance by video recording a dance that members of the group choreographed; and doing research on childhood games and teaching children from a local elementary school how to play them. Criteria for evaluating the projects are developed and the results of the project are recorded.
Group projects involve a number of students working together on a complex problem that requires planning, research, internal discussion, and presentation. Group projects should include a component that each student completes individually to avoid having a student receive credit for work that he or she did not do. Another way to avoid this issue is to have members of the group award paychecks to the various members of the group (e.g., split a $10,000 check) and provide justifications about the amount given to each person. To encourage reflections on the contributions of others, students are not allowed to give an equal amount to everyone. These "checks" are confidential and submitted directly to the teacher in an envelope that others in the group are not allowed to see.The following example of a project designed for middle school or high school students involves a research component, analysis and synthesis of information, problem solving, and effective communication.PortfoliosPortfolios are systematic, purposeful, and meaningful collections of an individual's work designed to document learning over time. Since a portfolio provides documentation of student learning, the knowledge and skills that the teacher desires to have students document guides the structure of the portfolio. The type of portfolio, its format, and the general contents are usually prescribed by the teacher. Portfolio collections may also include input provided by teachers, parents, peers, administrators, or others.The guidelines used to format a portfolio will be based on the type of learning that the portfolio is used to document. The following are two basic types of portfolios:
It's a good idea to limit the portfolio to a certain number of pieces of work to prevent the portfolio from becoming a scrapbook that has little meaning to the student and to avoid giving teachers a monumental evaluation task. This also requires students to exercise some judgment about which artifacts best fulfill the requirements of the portfolio task and document their level of achievement. The portfolio itself is usually a file or folder that contains the student's collected work. The contents could include items such as a training log, student journal or diary, written reports, photographs or sketches, letters, charts or graphs, maps, copies of certificates, computer disks or computer-generated products, completed rating scales, fitness test results, game statistics, training plans, report of dietary analyses, and even video- or audio recordings. Collectively, the artifacts selected will document student growth and learning over time as well as current levels of achievement. The potential items that could become portfolio artifacts are almost limitless. Kirk (1997) suggests the following list of possible portfolio artifacts that may be useful for physical activity settings. A teacher would never require that a portfolio contain all of these items. The list is offered as a way to generate ideas for possible artifacts.A rubric (scoring tool) should be used to evaluate portfolios in much the same manner as any other product or performance. Providing a rubric to students in advance allows them to self-assess their work and thus be more likely to produce a portfolio of high quality. Portfolios, since they are designed to show growth and improvement in student learning, are evaluated holistically. The reflections that describe the artifact and why the artifact was selected for inclusion in the portfolio provide insights into levels of student learning and achievement. Teachers should remember that format is less important than content and that the rubric should be weighted to reflect this. Table 14.2 illustrates a qualitative analytic rubric for judging a portfolio along three dimensions.For additional information about portfolio assessments, Lund and Kirk (2010) have a chapter on developing portfolio assessments. An article published as part of a JOPERD feature presents a suggested scoring scale for a portfolio (Kirk 1997). Melograno's Assessment Series publication (2000) on portfolios also contains helpful information.PerformancesStudent performances can be used as culminating assessments at the completion of an instructional unit. Teachers might organize a gymnastics or track and field meet at the conclusion of one of those units to allow students to demonstrate the skills and knowledge that they gained during instruction. Game play during a tournament is also considered a student performance. Rubrics for game play can be written so that students are evaluated on all three learning domains (psychomotor, cognitive, and affective). Students might demonstrate their skills and learning in one of the following ways:
Although performances do not produce a written product, there are several ways to gather data to use for assessment purposes. A score sheet can be used to record student performance using the criteria from a game play rubric. Game play statistics are another example of a way to document performance. Performances can also be video recorded to provide evidence of learning.In some cases teachers might want to shorten the time used to gather evidence of learning from a performance. Event tasks are performances that are completed in a single class period. Students might demonstrate their knowledge of net or wall game strategies by playing a scripted game that is video recorded during a single class. The ability to create movement sequences or a dance that uses different levels, effort, or relationships could be demonstrated during a single class period with an event task. Many adventure education activities that demonstrate affective domain attributes can be assessed using event tasks.Student LogsDocumenting student participation in physical activity (NASPE Standard 3) is often difficult. Teachers can assess participation in an activity or skill practice trials completed outside of class using logs. Practice trials during class that demonstrate student effort can also be documented with logs. A log records behaviors over a period of time (see figure 14.1). Often the information recorded shows changes in behavior, trends in performance, results of participation, progress, or the regularity of physical activity. A student log is an excellent artifact for use in a portfolio. Because logs are usually a self-recorded document, they are not used for summative assessments unless as an artifact in a portfolio or for a project. If teachers wanted to increase the importance placed on a log, a method of verification by an adult or someone in authority should be added.JournalsJournals can be used to record student feelings, thoughts, perceptions, or reflections about actual events or results. The entries in journals often report social or psychological perspectives, both positive and negative, and may be used to document the personal meaning associated with one's participation (NASPE Standard 6). Journal entries would not be an appropriate summative assessment by themselves, but might be included as an artifact in a portfolio. Journal entries are excellent ways for teachers to "take the pulse" of a class and determine whether students are valuing the content of the class. Teachers must be careful not to assess affective domain journal entries for the actual content, because doing so may cause students to write what teachers want to hear (or give credit for) instead of true and genuine feelings. Teachers could hold students accountable for completing journal entries. Some teachers use journals as a way to log participation over time.
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I read your TR over the weekend, but I was on my IPad and I type like a drunken soldier-or the keyboard really sucks. It tries to be user friendly and it types in words that you do not want.
Anyhow, I really enjoyed your Cruise Ship adventures. I didn't know RCCL had a private island in the Bahama's. I thought only in Haiti.
I never was adventurious enough to go on the FlowRider or climb the rock wall. Half the time the rock wall wasn't even open. I wonder if they had to keep it closed while we cruised.
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I like this idea. Not only can you offer both versions without having to do so continuously, but the Kickstarter watches could become classics, similar to the ND Longines Legend reissue.Graeme wrote: I'm thinking about doing a limited 100 piece no date for kickstarter and follow up with the date version.
Hard to know for sure from pics. The clasp looks big in the rendering, but it might be like, say, the Sinn U clasp IRL: that thing is thicker than many dress watches, but it balances out the brawny U divers well. I'm inclined to trust your judgement on that.Graeme wrote: Regarding the bracelet and clasp, I am meeting with the manufacturer in Switzerland next March so I'll be going through all the fine details. Same for the case etc.


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In December, lots of people do
There are people who believe that December brings magic into the world.
They want more than sparkle of terrestrial and celestial lights against the deep, dark velvet of the long night.
More than the decorations of yard, house, door and home. More than full-scale illuminations of parks and gardens.
More than Christmas trees and candy canes and gingerbread houses.
More than the round of parties that gives us places to go and people to see.
More than nog and cider, punch and wassail, cookies and plum puddings.
More than Christmas ties and dresses.
More than Nutcrackers and Christmas Carols.
Under these influences, even shopping is swell, as we write in this week's feature story.
All that's magical. But it's not magic.
The people I'm talking about expect magic better than that — better even than Harry Potter magic — because they're looking for the kind of magic that makes them better. Better than they've been in a long time — at least in the last 11 months, because magic may transform lives, but it's still got to be taken in regular doses.
Kids believe in magic. They believe in the magic of Santa Claus, whose speed-of-light sleigh ride takes him before sunrise to every home, especially their own. Inside their homes and under their trees, he'll deposit presents that will make them content — at least until the last one is unwrapped. But in anticipation, that orgy of giving and getting and unwrapping is the best moment of their lives, and they're going to ride high on that tide.
Old sinners believe in magic. They believe in the Scrooge sort of magic, a moment of truth that illuminates their whole life story with such brilliance that they change their ways. So powerful is December's magic that by New Year's Day, all the old sinners will be new saints.
Christians believe in magic. Just as the son of God was born as the little baby Jesus in a Bethlehem stable 2011 years ago December 25 (or thereabouts), they believe God will be reborn in their hearts and in the world again this December 25. Their anticipation, throughout Advent, is as bated as the anticipation of children, and their redemption more profound, because they believe in more than magic. They believe in miracles.
Pagans and Druids and all sorts of pre-Christians believe in magic. They believe in the magic of the sun god's triumph on December 21, reversing the inexorable slide into darkness that threatens, every year, to tip the world into a deadly ice age. On that day, at the solstice, the sun turns back our way, and minute by minute, dusk by dusk and dawn by dawn, we creep back into sunlight.
Even if you don't make a comfortable home in one of those categories, December might strike a spark against the flint of your heart.
Annapolitan Dana Clark found magic at the mall.
Seven years ago, mourning her mother, she was so moved by the sight of children and shoppers, the sounds of carols that she had an illumination that saturated her with the conviction that Christmas is about love. In that inspiration, she jotted — on a napkin — the lyrics to a song.
Christmas time has way of making smiles, touching lives, like yours and mine …
The lyrics found a librettist, Dana Robinson, formerly of the Naval Academy's Electric Brigade. They found a singer. Sharing that song has become Clark's mission. Play it forward, she writes on her website, www.carolforacause.com. Download this song. Send it to a friend. Do something nice for someone. Donate to a cause you believe in.
Carol for a Cause has become her way of adding magic to the world.
Do you, too, want to believe in magic?
I reckon that's one of the feelings that fits into the word hope, and that we can have it, regardless of our faith, regardless of the category we fit in — or we wouldn't know the word.
December is a good time for hope, when darkness retreats just as the cold sets in.
In Scrooge's experience, hope works best when combined with charity. Keep last week's feature story, Share the Blessings, in your heart as you follow through on this week's story, The Procrastinator's Guide to Good-Time Holiday Shopping, and let me know how that combination works for you.


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Be Kind Rewind
2008 film by Michel Gondry
Be Kind Rewind is a 2008 American comedy film from New Line Cinema, directed by Michel Gondry.
Your name it, we shoot it (taglines)
- I am Robocop. Anything you say can and will be held against you in a court of Robocop.
- I will shoot you, and I know robot karate.
- I'm not saying your uncle is illerate, maybe he just needs to go to nightschool.
- I was going to make you into the next Marylin Monroe! But no! Now you're just going to be.... Laundry girl!
- Hey, hey, don't put your shoes in the refrigerator... 'cause they'll get cold!
- What's happening to our 'hood!!
- [holding the Ghost Busters tape] I'll be Bill Murray and you'll be everyone else.
- Jerry: [sung, poorly, to the tune of the Ghostbusters theme song] When you're walkin' down the street...
- Jerry: [singing] ... and you see a little ghost...
- Jerry: [singing] ... whatcha gonna do about -
- Jerry: Ghostbusters?
- Mike: What? What is that?
- Jerry: That's the Ghostbusters theme song.
- Mike: No.
- Jerry: I'm pretty sure it is.
- Alma: Are you in love with me?
- Mike: Huh?
- Alma: Mm-hm.
- Mike: Well, how do I know that?
- Alma: You know you're in love with a person when you talk to them for a minimum of 20 minutes a day in your head.
- Mike: What if I talk to a guy in my head for 20 minutes? What would that mean?
- Alma: You're in love with Jerry.
- Jerry: I'll need you to say this line. "I'm gonna pee on the graves of your ancestors".
- Mike: No, don't say that! That's not in the movie!
- Alma: Rooarr! I'm going to pee on the graves of your ancestors!!!
- Your name it, we shoot it
- Sometimes the best movies are the ones we make up
- Jack Black - Jerry Mclean
- Mos Def - Mike Coolwell
- Danny Glover - Mr. Fletcher
- Mia Farrow - Miss Falewicz
- Melonie Diaz - Alma Sykes
- Arjay Smith - Manny
- Quinton Aaron - Q
- Chandler Parker - Craig
- P.J Byrne - Mr. Baker
- Matt Walsh - Officer Julian
- Paul Dinello - Mr. Rooney
- Sigourney Weaver - Ms. Lawson
- Marcus Carl Franklin - Kid #1
- Booker T. Jones - Fats Waller's fan in train (uncredited)
- Steve Cropper - Fats Waller's fan in train (uncredited)
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From Europe to Asia, father-son duo Will and Jaden Smith have been been racking up some serious air miles on their promotional tour for their sci-fi flick After Earth. Back in the States, mom and daughter Jada and Willow Smith have also been criss-crossing the country to promote their passions. What keeps the showbiz family tight while globetrotting and entertaining busy schedules? Love and support.
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LAHORE, Pakistan — Deposed Pakistani prime minister Nawaz Sharif called Saturday for "a change and revolution" in the country to ensure the sanctity of the vote as he addressed a large gathering of his supporters in his home town of Lahore.
Concluding his four-day journey, which began in Islamabad and culminated in a rally in Lahore, the capital of Punjab province, Sharif was clearly delighted to address the tens of thousands who gathered near the famous shrine of Data Darbar.
After a Supreme Court decision disqualified him last month for concealing assets, Sharif travelled with a long cavalcade from Islamabad Wednesday. He stayed overnight in three different cities. Authorities stopped vehicles, except for Sharif's and ministers, at the entrance to the city because of the massive crowds.
Sharif said that across his journey he saw that citizens had not accepted his disqualification and asked his supporters to await his next move, without elaborating.
Citing his accomplishments, Sharif asked why a prime minister was disqualified when he was moving the country toward progress.
"Does a prime minister making the country developed and prosperous deserve such a treatment," he asked
Sharif said that over the past 70 years no prime minister in Pakistan has been permitted to complete their term, making the country and its people suffer.
He told the crowd that he was ready to give his life to change the destiny of the country and its people.
Sharif has a rocky history with the country's military establishment.
He served three separate stints as premier but never completed a full term in office. In 1993, then-President Ghulam Ishaq Khan removed him on corruption allegations. And in 1999, Gen. Pervez Musharraf seized power in a coup.


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Victor Hugo
French poet, novelist, and dramatist
Victor Marie Hugo (26 February 1802 – 22 May 1885) was a French poet, novelist, and dramatist of the Romantic movement, widely esteemed as one of the greatest of French writers and poets.
- I will be Chateaubriand or nothing.
- Written at the age of 15 in one of his notebooks (c. 1817), as quoted in The Literary Movement in France During the Nineteenth Century (1897) by Georges Pellissier
- Behold, then, a new religion, a new society; upon this twofold foundation there must inevitably spring up a new poetry. Previously following therein the course pursued by the ancient polytheism and philosophy, the purely epic muse of the ancients had studied nature in only a single aspect, casting aside without pity almost everything in art which, in the world subjected to its imitation, had not relation to a certain type of beauty. A type which was magnificent at first, but, as always happens with everything systematic, became in later times false, trivial and conventional. Christianity leads poetry to the truth. Like it, the modern muse will see things in a higher and broader light. It will realize that everything in creation is not humanly beautiful, that the ugly exists beside the beautiful, the unshapely beside the graceful, the grotesque on the reverse of the sublime, evil with good, darkness with light. It will ask itself if the narrow and relative sense of the artist should prevail over the infinite, absolute sense of the Creator; if it is for man to correct God; if a mutilated nature will be the more beautiful for the mutilation; if art has the right to duplicate, so to speak, man, life, creation; if things will progress better when their muscles and their vigour have been taken from them; if, in short, to be incomplete is the best way to be harmonious. Then it is that, with its eyes fixed upon events that are both laughable and redoubtable, and under the influence of that spirit of Christian melancholy and philosophical criticism which we described a moment ago, poetry will take a great step, a decisive step, a step which, like the upheaval of an earthquake, will change the whole face of the intellectual world. It will set about doing as nature does, mingling in its creations — but without confounding them — darkness and light, the grotesque and the sublime; in other words, the body and the soul, the beast and the intellect; for the starting-point of religion is always the starting-point of poetry. All things are connected.
Thus, then, we see a principle unknown to the ancients, a new type, introduced in poetry; and as an additional element in anything modifies the whole of the thing, a new form of the art is developed. This type is the grotesque; its new form is comedy.
- Ces deux moitiés de Dieu, le pape et l'empereur!
- These two halves of God, the Pope and the emperor.
- Hernani (1830), Act IV, Scene II
- These two halves of God, the Pope and the emperor.
- Dieu s'est fait homme; soit. Le diable s'est fait femme!
- God became a man, granted. The devil became a woman.
- Ruy Blas (1838), Act II, Scene V
- God became a man, granted. The devil became a woman.
- À quelle heure, s'il vous plaît?
- At what hour, please? retort to Victor Cousin, after he claimed he could pinpoint the start of the (perceived) decay of the French language: 1978.
- Choses vues 1830-1846, Séance du 23 Novembre 1843
- At what hour, please? retort to Victor Cousin, after he claimed he could pinpoint the start of the (perceived) decay of the French language: 1978.
- La raison, c'est l'intelligence en exercice; l'imagination c'est l'intelligence en érection
- Reason is intelligence taking exercise; imagination is intelligence with an erection.
- Unpublished notebook from 1845-50. Published in Seebacher (ed.), Oeuvres Complètes, vol. 10, p. 158 (Laffont, 1989). English translation from Robb, Victor Hugo p. 249 (Norton, 1997).
- Reason is intelligence taking exercise; imagination is intelligence with an erection.
- Vous avez des ennemis? Mais c'est l'histoire de tout homme qui a fait une action grande ou crée une idée neuve. C'est la nuée qui bruit autour de tout ce qui brille. Il faut que la renommé ait des ennemis comme il faut que la lumière ait des moucherons. Ne vous en inquiétez pas, dédaignez! Ayez la sérénité dans votre esprit comme vous avez la limpidité dans votre vie.
- You have enemies? Why, it is the story of every man who has done a great deed or created a new idea. It is the cloud which thunders around everything that shines. Fame must have enemies, as light must have gnats. Do not bother yourself about it; disdain. Keep your mind serene as you keep your life clear.
- Villemain (1845)
- You have enemies? Why, it is the story of every man who has done a great deed or created a new idea. It is the cloud which thunders around everything that shines. Fame must have enemies, as light must have gnats. Do not bother yourself about it; disdain. Keep your mind serene as you keep your life clear.
- Socialism, or the Red Republic, is all one; for it would tear down the tricolour and set up the red flag. It would make penny pieces out of the Column Vendome. It would knock down the statue of Napoleon and raise up that of Marat in its stead. It would suppress the Académie, the Ecole Polytechnique, and the Legion of Honour. To the grand device Liberty, Equality, and Fraternity, it would add "Ou la mort. It would bring about a general bankruptcy. It would ruin the rich without enriching the poor. It would destroy labour, which gives to each one his bread. It would abolish property and family. It would march about with the heads of the proscribed on pikes, fill the prisons with the suspected, and empty them by massacres. It would convert France into the country of gloom. It would strangle liberty, stifle the arts, silence thought, and deny God. It would bring into action these two fatal machines, one of which never works without the other—the assignat press and the guillotine. In a word, it would do in cold blood what the men of 1793 did in fever, and after the grand horrors which our fathers saw, we should have the horrible in all that was low and small.
- Statement of May 1848, as quoted in Paris Under the Commune : Or, Seventy-Three Days of the Second Siege (1871) by John Leighton
- Vous tenez à l'exemple [de la peine de mort]. Pourquoi? Pour ce qu'il enseigne. Que voulez-vous enseigner avec votre exemple? Qu'il ne faut pas tuer. Et comment enseignez-vous qu'il ne faut pas tuer? En tuant.
- You insist on the example [of the death penalty]. Why? For what it teaches. What do you want to teach with your example? That thou shalt not kill. And how do you teach thou shalt not kill? By killing.
- "Plaidoyer contre la peine de mort" [An argument against the death penalty], Assemblée Constituante, Paris (15 September 1848)
- You insist on the example [of the death penalty]. Why? For what it teaches. What do you want to teach with your example? That thou shalt not kill. And how do you teach thou shalt not kill? By killing.
- Un jour viendra où il n'y aura plus d'autres champs de bataille que les marchés s'ouvrant au commerce et les esprits s'ouvrant aux idées. Un jour viendra où les boulets et les bombes seront remplacés par les votes, par le suffrage universel des peuples, par le vénérable arbitrage d'un grand sénat souverain qui sera à l'Europe ce que le parlement est à l'Angleterre, ce que la diète est à l'Allemagne, ce que l'assemblée législative est à la France! Un jour viendra où l'on montrera un canon dans les musées comme on y montre aujourd'hui un instrument de torture, en s'étonnant que cela ait pu être! Un jour viendra où l'on verra ces deux groupes immenses, les États-Unis d'Amérique, les États-Unis d'Europe, placés en face l'un de l'autre, se tendant la main par-dessus les mers, échangeant leurs produits, leur commerce, leur industrie, leurs arts, leurs génies, défrichant le globe, colonisant les déserts, améliorant la création sous le regard du créateur, et combinant ensemble, pour en tirer le bien-être de tous, ces deux forces infinies, la fraternité des hommes et la puissance de Dieu!
- A day will come when there will be no battlefields, but markets opening to commerce and minds opening to ideas. A day will come when the bullets and bombs are replaced by votes, by universal suffrage, by the venerable arbitration of a great supreme senate which will be to Europe what Parliament is to England, the Diet to Germany, and the Legislative Assembly to France.
A day will come when a cannon will be a museum-piece, as instruments of torture are today. And we will be amazed to think that these things once existed!
A day will come when we shall see those two immense groups, the United States of America and the United States of Europe, facing one another, stretching out their hands across the sea, exchanging their products, their arts, their works of genius, clearing up the globe, making deserts fruitful, ameliorating creation under the eyes of the Creator, and joining together, to reap the well-being of all, these two infinite forces, the fraternity of men and the power of God.
- Discours d'ouverture, congrès de la paix, [Opening address, Peace Congress], Paris (21 August 1849); published in Actes et paroles - Avant l'exil (1875)
- A day will come when there will be no battlefields, but markets opening to commerce and minds opening to ideas. A day will come when the bullets and bombs are replaced by votes, by universal suffrage, by the venerable arbitration of a great supreme senate which will be to Europe what Parliament is to England, the Diet to Germany, and the Legislative Assembly to France.
- Il y a maintenant en France dans chaque village un flambeau allumé, le maître d'école, et une bouche qui souffle dessus, le curé.
- Histoire d'un crime. Déposition d'un témoin (1877), Deuxième Journée. La lutte, ch. III: La barricade Saint-Antoine
- Translation: There is now, in France, in each village, a lighted torch—the schoolmaster—and a mouth which blows upon it—the curé.
- T. H. Joyce and Arthur Locker (tr.), The History of a Crime: The Testimony of an Eye-Witness (1877), The Second Day, Chapter III, p. 120
- Translation: In every French village there is now a lighted torch, the schoolmaster; and a mouth trying to blow it out, the priest.
- Huntington Smith (tr.), History of a Crime (1888), The Second Day, Chapter III, p. 187
- Variants: There is in every village a torch: The schoolteacher/teacher. And an extinguisher: The priest/clergyman.
- Je n'entre qu'à moitié dans la guerre civile. Je veux bien y mourir, je ne veux pas y tuer.
- I only take a half share in the civil war; I am willing to die, I am not willing to kill.
- Histoire d'un crime (The History of a Crime) [written 1852, published 1877], Quatrième journée. La victoire, ch. II: Les Faits de la nuit. Quartier des Halles. Trans. T.H. Joyce and Arthur Locker
- I only take a half share in the civil war; I am willing to die, I am not willing to kill.
- On résiste à l'invasion des armées; on ne résiste pas à l'invasion des idées.
- Literal translations:
- One resists the invasion of armies; one does not resist the invasion of ideas.
- One withstands the invasion of armies; one does not withstand the invasion of ideas.
- Histoire d'un Crime (The History of a Crime) [written 1852, published 1877], Conclusion, ch. X. Trans. T.H. Joyce and Arthur Locker [1]
- Alternative translations and paraphrased variants:
- One cannot resist an idea whose time has come.
- No one can resist an idea whose time has come.
- Nothing is stronger than an idea whose time has come.
- Armies cannot stop an idea whose time has come.
- No army can stop an idea whose time has come.
- Nothing is as powerful as an idea whose time has come.
- There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and that is an idea whose time has come.
- Many of these paraphrases have a closer match in a passage from Gustave Aimard's earlier-published novel Les Francs-Tireurs (1861):
- Waterloo! Waterloo! Waterloo! Morne plaine!
- Waterloo! Waterloo! Waterloo! Dismal plain!
- L'Expiation, from Les Châtiments (1853), Book V
- Waterloo! Waterloo! Waterloo! Dismal plain!
- L'œil était dans la tombe et regardait Caïn.
- The eye was in the tomb and stared at Cain.
- La Conscience, from La Légende des siècles (1859), First Series, Part I
- The eye was in the tomb and stared at Cain.
- Vous créez un frisson nouveau.
- You have created a new thrill.
- Letter to Charles Baudelaire (6 October 1859)
- You have created a new thrill.
- Jésus a pleuré, Voltaire a souri; c'est de cette larme divine et de ce sourire humain qu'est faite la douceur de la civilisation actuelle.
- Jesus wept; Voltaire smiled. Of that divine tear and that human smile is composed the sweetness of the present civilization.
- Speech, "Le centenaire de Voltaire", on the 100th anniversary of the death of Voltaire, Théâtre de la Gaîté, Paris (30 May 1878); published in Actes et paroles - Depuis l'exil (1878)
- Jesus wept; Voltaire smiled. Of that divine tear and that human smile is composed the sweetness of the present civilization.
- For four hundred years the human race has not made a step but what has left its plain vestige behind. We enter now upon great centuries. The sixteenth century will be known as the age of painters, the seventeenth will be termed the age of writers, the eighteenth the age of philosophers, the nineteenth the age of apostles and prophets. To satisfy the nineteenth century, it is necessary to be the painter of the sixteenth, the writer of the seventeenth, the philosopher of the eighteenth; and it is also necessary, like Louis Blane, to have the innate and holy love of humanity which constitutes an apostolate, and opens up a prophetic vista into the future. In the twentieth century war will be dead, the scaffold will be dead, animosity will be dead, royalty will be dead, and dogmas will be dead; but Man will live. For all there will be but one country—that country the whole earth; for all there will be but one hope—that hope the whole heaven.
- Was it possible that Napoleon should win the battle of Waterloo? We answer, No! Why? Because of Wellington? Because of Blücher? No! Because of God! For Bonaparte to conquer at Waterloo was not the law of the nineteenth century. It was time that this vast man should fall. He had been impeached before the Infinite! He had vexed God! Waterloo was not a battle. It was the change of front of the Universe!
- "The Battle of Waterloo", reported in Oliver Ernesto Branch, ed., The Hamilton Speaker (1878), p. 53
- Change your opinions, keep to your principles; change your leaves, keep intact your roots.
- "Thoughts," Postscriptum de ma vie, in Victor Hugo's Intellectual Autobiography, Funk and Wagnalls (1907) as translated by Lorenzo O'Rourke
- C'est ici le combat du jour et de la nuit... Je vois de la lumière noire.
- This is the battle between day and night... I see black light.
- Last words (1885-05-22); quoted in Olympio, ou la vie de Victor Hugo by André Maurois (1954)
- This is the battle between day and night... I see black light.
- There shall be no slavery of the mind.
- Quoted by Courtlandt Palmer, president of the Nineteenth Century Club of New York, while introducing Robert G. Ingersoll as a speaker in a debate, "The Limitations of Toleration," at the Metropolitan Opera House, New York City (1888-05-08); from The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll (Dresden Publishing Company, 1902), vol. VII, p. 217
- Lever à six, coucher à dix,
Dîner à dix, souper à six,
Font vivre l'homme dix fois dix.
- To rise at six, to sleep at ten,
To sup at ten, to dine at six,
Make a man live for ten times ten.
- Inscription in Hugo's dining room, quoted in Gustave Larroumet, La maison de Victor Hugo: Impressions de Guernesey (1895), Chapter III
- To rise at six, to sleep at ten,
- Ce besoin de l'immatériel est le plus vivace de tous. Il faut du pain; mais avant le pain, il faut l'idéal.
- The need of the immaterial is the most deeply rooted of all needs. One must have bread; but before bread, one must have the ideal.
- "Les fleurs," (ca. 1860 - 1865), from Oeuvres complètes (1909); published in English as The Memoirs of Victor Hugo, trans. John W. Harding (1899), Chapter VI: Love in Prison, part II
- The need of the immaterial is the most deeply rooted of all needs. One must have bread; but before bread, one must have the ideal.
- Je représente un parti qui n'existe pas encore, le parti Révolution-Civilisation. Ce parti fera le vingtième siècle. Il en sortira d'abord les États-Unis d'Europe, puis les États-Unis du Monde.
- I represent a party which does not yet exist: the party Revolution-Civilization. This party will make the twentieth century. There will issue from it first the United States of Europe, then the United States of the World.
- Océan - Tas de pierres (1942)
- I represent a party which does not yet exist: the party Revolution-Civilization. This party will make the twentieth century. There will issue from it first the United States of Europe, then the United States of the World.
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- Telegram to his publisher regarding the sales of Les Misérables. The publisher's reply was an encouraging "!"; as quoted in "No invention more clearly showed the benefits of brevity than the telegram" by Ben Macintyre in The Times (4 March 2006)
- To divinise is human, to humanise is divine.
- Les feuilles d'automne (1831)
- Philosophy is the microscope of thought. Everything desires to flee from it, but nothing escapes it.
- Les Misérables
- Aimer, c'est agir
- To love is to act
- Last words of his diary, written two weeks before his death, published in Victor Hugo : Complete Writings (1970), edited by Jean-Jacques Pauvert
- To love is to act
Letter To M. Daelli on Les Misérables (1862)Edit
- Publisher of the Italian translation of Les Misérables (18 October 1862)
- Vous avez raison, monsieur, quand vous me dites que le livre les Misérables est écrit pour tous les peuples. Je ne sais s'il sera lu par tous, mais je l'ai écrit pour tous. Il s'adresse à l'Angleterre autant qu'à l'Espagne, à l'Italie autant qu'à la France, à l'Allemagne autant qu'à l'Irlande, aux républiques qui ont des esclaves aussi bien qu'aux empires qui ont des serfs. Les problèmes sociaux dépassent les frontières. Les plaies du genre humain, ces larges plaies qui couvrent le globe, ne s'arrêtent point aux lignes bleues ou rouges tracées sur la mappemonde. Partout où l'homme ignore et désespère, partout où la femme se vend pour du pain, partout où l'enfant souffre faute d'un livre qui l'enseigne et d'un foyer qui le réchauffe, le livre les Misérables frappe à la porte et dit: Ouvrez-moi, je viens pour vous.
- You are right, sir, when you tell me that Les Misérables is written for all nations. I do not know whether it will be read by all, but I wrote it for all. It is addressed to England as well as to Spain, to Italy as well as to France, to Germany as well as to Ireland, to Republics which have slaves as well as to Empires which have serfs. Social problems surpass frontiers. The sores of the human race, those great sores which cover the globe, do not halt at the red or blue lines traced upon the map. In every place where man is ignorant and despairing, in every place where woman is sold for bread, wherever the child suffers for lack of the book which should instruct him and of the hearth which should warm him, the book of Les Misérables knocks at the door and says: "Open to me, I come for you."
- À l'heure, si sombre encore, de la civilisation où nous sommes, le misérable s'appelle L'HOMME; il agonise sous tous les climats, et il gémit dans toutes les langues.
- At the hour of civilization through which we are now passing, and which is still so sombre, the miserable's name is Man; he is agonizing in all climes, and he is groaning in all languages.
- Du fond de l'ombre où nous sommes et où vous êtes, vous ne voyez pas beaucoup plus distinctement que nous les radieuses et lointaines portes de l'éden. Seulement les prêtres se trompent. Ces portes saintes ne sont pas derrière nous, mais devant nous.
- From the depths of the gloom wherein you dwell, you do not see much more distinctly than we the radiant and distant portals of Eden. Only, the priests are mistaken. These holy portals are before and not behind us.
- Ce livre, les Misérables, n'est pas moins que votre miroir que le nôtre. Certains hommes, certaines castes, se révoltent contre ce livre, je le comprends. Les miroirs, ces diseurs de vérité, sont haïs; cela ne les empêche pas d'être utiles.
Quant à moi, j'ai écrit pour tous, avec un profond amour pour mon pays, mais sans me préoccuper de la France plus que d'un autre peuple. A mesure que j'avance dans la vie je me simplifie, et je deviens de plus en plus patriote de l'humanité.
- This book, Les Misérables, is no less your mirror than ours. Certain men, certain castes, rise in revolt against this book, — I understand that. Mirrors, those revealers of the truth, are hated; that does not prevent them from being of use. As for myself, I have written for all, with a profound love for my own country, but without being engrossed by France more than by any other nation. In proportion as I advance in life, I grow more simple, and I become more and more patriotic for humanity.
- En somme, je fais ce que je peux, je souffre de la souffrance universelle, et je tâche de la soulager, je n'ai que les chétives forces d'un homme, et je crie à tous: aidez-moi.
- In short, I am doing what I can, I suffer with the same universal suffering, and I try to assuage it, I possess only the puny forces of a man, and I cry to all: "Help me!"
- Italiens ou français, la misère nous regarde tous. Depuis que l'histoire écrit et que la philosophie médite, la misère est le vêtement du genre humain; le moment serait enfin venu d'arracher cette guenille, et de remplacer, sur les membres nus de l'Homme-Peuple, la loque sinistre du passé par la grande robe pourpre de l'aurore.
- Whether we be Italians or Frenchmen, misery concerns us all. Ever since history has been written, ever since philosophy has meditated, misery has been the garment of the human race; the moment has at length arrived for tearing off that rag, and for replacing, upon the naked limbs of the Man-People, the sinister fragment of the past with the grand purple robe of the dawn.
William Shakespeare (1864)Edit
- Dieu se manifeste à nous au premier degré à travers la vie de l'univers, et au deuxième degré à travers la pensée de l'homme. La deuxième manifestation n'est pas moins sacrée que la première. La première s'appelle la Nature, la deuxième s'appelle l'Art.
- God manifests himself to us in the first degree through the life of the universe, and in the second degree through the thought of man. The second manifestation is not less holy than the first. The first is named Nature, the second is named Art.
- Homère est un des génies qui résolvent ce beau problème de l'art, le plus beau de tous peut-être, la peinture vraie de l'humanité obtenue par le grandissement de l'homme, c'est-à-dire la génération du réel dans l'idéal.
- Homer is one of the men of genius who solve that fine problem of art — the finest of all, perhaps — truly to depict humanity by the enlargement of man: that is, to generate the real in the ideal.
- Que l'avenir soit un orient au lieu d'être un couchant, c'est la consolation de l'homme.
- It is man's consolation that the future is to be a sunrise instead of a sunset.
- La musique...est la vapeur de l'art. Elle est à la poésie ce que la rêverie est à la pensée, ce que le fluide est au liquide, ce que l'océan des nuées est à l'océan des ondes.
- Music...is the vapour of art. It is to poetry what revery is to thought, what the fluid is to the liquid, what the ocean of clouds is to the ocean of waves.
- Ce qu'on ne peut dire et ce qu'on ne peut taire, la musique l'exprime.
- Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.
The Man Who Laughs (1869)Edit
- They had done him the honor to take him for a madman, but had set him free on discovering that he was only a poet.
- It is very fortunate that kings cannot err. Hence their contradictions never perplex us.
Ninety-Three (1874)Edit
- Mettre tout en équilibre, c'est bien; mettre tout en harmonie, c'est mieux.
- To put everything in balance is good, to put everything in harmony is better.
- Quatre-vingt-treize (Ninety-Three) (1874), Book VII, Chapter V
- To put everything in balance is good, to put everything in harmony is better.
- Cimourdain was a pure-minded but gloomy man. He had "the absolute" within him. He had been a priest, which is a solemn thing. Man may have, like the sky, a dark and impenetrable serenity; that something should have caused night to fall in his soul is all that is required. Priesthood had been the cause of night within Cimourdain. Once a priest, always a priest.
Whatever causes night in our souls may leave stars. Cimourdain was full of virtues and truth, but they shine out of a dark background.
- Part 2, Book 1, Ch. 2
- Variant translation: What makes night within us may leave stars.
Meaning:The absence of light does not extinguish the human spirit within, and even though their will be times that you will be tested of your ability you may come out even brighter than you were before. Even though you may have been left in the dark you willbe able to thrive through and become a shining star.
- Cimourdain was one of those men who have a voice within them, and who listen to it. Such men seem absent-minded; they are not; they are all attention.
Cimourdain knew everything and nothing. He knew everything about science, and nothing at all about life. Hence his inflexibility. His eyes were bandaged like Homer's Themis. He had the blind certainty of the arrow, which sees only the mark and flies to it. In a revolution, nothing is more terrible than a straight line. Cimourdain went straight ahead, as sure as fate.
Cimourdain believed that, in social geneses, the extreme point is the solid earth; an error peculiar to minds which replace reason with logic.
- Part 2, Book 1, Ch. 2
- He who is a legend in his own time is ruled by that legend. It may begin in absolute innocence, but, to cover up flaws and maintain the myth of Divine Power, one must employ desperate measures.
- Attributed to Hugo in Old Gods Almost Dead : The 40-year Odyssey of the Rolling Stones (2001), by Stephen Davis, p. 557; but sourced to Illuminations by Arthur Rimbaud in Jaco : The Extraordinary and Tragic Life of Jaco Pastorius (2006) by Bill Milkowski, p. iii
- I don't mind what Congress does, as long as they don't do it in the streets and frighten the horses.
- Though research done for Wikiquote indicates that the attribution of this remark to Hugo seems extensive on the internet, no source has been identified. It seems to be a statement a modern satirist might make, derived from one made circa 1910 by Mrs Patrick Campbell regarding homosexuals: "Does it really matter what these affectionate people do — so long as they don't do it in the streets and frighten the horses?"
- Et la marine va, papa, venir à Malte.
- And the navy, Papa, will come to Malta.
- Palindrome attributed to Hugo on the internet, but in no published sources yet found.
- And the navy, Papa, will come to Malta.
- He who opens a school, closes a prison
- Also cited as Opening a school is closing a prison
- This quotation has been attributed to Victor Hugo since the nineteenth century, but the earliest citations attribute the saying instead to French education minister Victor Duruy:
- Déjà M. Duruy avait posé en fait, qu'ouvrir une école, c'est fermer une prison (1865)[3]
- English translation: M. Duruy had already suggested that opening a school is closing a prison
- This quotation has been attributed to Victor Hugo since the nineteenth century, but the earliest citations attribute the saying instead to French education minister Victor Duruy:
- Also cited as Opening a school is closing a prison
- There is nothing more powerful than an idea whose time has come.
- Often attributed to Hugo as a paraphrase of a similar idea in his Histore d'un Crime (1877): "One resists the invasion of armies; one does not resist the invasion of ideas", the wording of this famous statement actually more closely resembles a passage from the relatively obscure Les Francs-Tireurs (1861) by Gustave Aimard, p. 68:
- Il y a quelque chose de plus puissant que la force brutale des baïonnettes: c'est l'idée dont le temps est venu et l'heure est sonnée.
- There is something more powerful than the brute force of bayonets: it is the idea whose time has come and hour struck.
- Translated into English as The Freebooters : A Story of the Texan War (1861), p. 57, Ward & Lock edition
- There is something more powerful than the brute force of bayonets: it is the idea whose time has come and hour struck.
- Il y a quelque chose de plus puissant que la force brutale des baïonnettes: c'est l'idée dont le temps est venu et l'heure est sonnée.
- Often attributed to Hugo as a paraphrase of a similar idea in his Histore d'un Crime (1877): "One resists the invasion of armies; one does not resist the invasion of ideas", the wording of this famous statement actually more closely resembles a passage from the relatively obscure Les Francs-Tireurs (1861) by Gustave Aimard, p. 68:
Quotes about Victor HugoEdit
- Victor Hugo was a madman who thought he was Victor Hugo.
- Jean Cocteau, Opium: The Diary of a Cure (1932)
- A glittering humbug.
- Thomas Carlyle, in Henry Brewster Stanton, Random Recollections (1887)
- ("Who is the greatest French poet?")
Victor Hugo, alas!
- André Gide, as quoted in Victor Hugo's Night-Fallen Line by Aleksis Rannit in New Directions, Issue 44 (1982)
- Hugo, like a priest, always has his head bowed -- bowed so low that he can see nothing except his own navel.
- Charles Baudelaire, Intimate Journals, 1887, ed. and trans. C. Isherwood (1930)
- The first romantics were seers without even really realizing it: their soul's education began by accident: abandoned trains still smoking, occasionally taking to the tracks. Lamartine was a seer now and again, but strangling on old forms. Hugo, too pigheaded, certainly saw in his most recent works: Les Misérables is really a poem. I've got Les Chatiments with me; Stella gives some sense of Hugo's vision. Too much Belmontet and Lamennais with their Jehovahs and colonnades, massive crumbling edifices.
- Arthur Rimbaud : LETTER TO PAUL DEMENY, 1871. Charleville, 15 mai 1871.
- ↑ Aimard, Gustave; (tr. unknown) (1861). The Freebooters. London: Ward and Lock. pp. 57.
- ↑ Aimard, Gustave (1861). Les Francs Tireurs. Paris: Amyot. pp. 68.
- ↑ Journal des Economistes, March 1865, p. 489
External linksEdit
- Victor Hugo at Project Gutenberg
- Victor Hugo at French Wikisource
- Victor Hugo Central
- Les Misérables online
- The Hunchback of Notre Dame online
- E-texts of some of Hugo's works from various sources
- Political speeches by Victor Hugo: Victor Hugo, My Revenge is Fraternity!
- Biography and speech from 1851
- Select Quotes of Victor Hugo


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In Disconnect, Jason Bateman was given the opportunity to do something he normally never gets asked to do: play a dramatic character. In this exclusive clip from Lionsgate Home Entertainment's Blu-ray release of the film, Bateman explains why he was grateful for the role, while director Henry-Alex Rubin spends a little time explaining why he feels Bateman was the perfect choice for taking on a more dramatic character.
In Disconnect, Bateman plays the father of a teen boy named Ben who has recently been cyberbullied after meeting a girl named Jessica online. Jessica convinces Ben to send a bawdy photo of himself and it is later circulated to all of the members in Ben's class, leading Ben to harm himself. It is up to Batemen's character, Rich, to get to the bottom of the cyberbullying mystery and to try to reconnect with his family.
Rubin says that Bateman was the perfect choice for the role, thanks to the "subtle emotion" the actor was able to bring to the screen. If you do get a chance to watch the clip, you'll see Bateman playing a somber but collected character, a man who cares so much about his child and just wants to get to the bottom of the mystery surrounding his son.
Bateman's dramatic role is a good fit for him, but he's not the only actor making waves for popping up in a drama. The film follows three separate stories, which all manage to intertwine and connect in some way. In one of the narratives, Marc Jacobs also makes his acting debut playing Harvey, a man who runs a video chat room. Rubin took some chances with casting in the film, and with a cast that also features Alexander Skarsgard, Paula Patton, Max Theriot, Frank Grillo, Hope Davis, and Andrea Riseborough, the performances really pay off.
All of the stories in Disconnect are narratives of how modern life can be isolating and destructive, thanks to communication technology like video and text chatting. You can kind of get the feel and tone of the film from the trailer, below.
Disconnect hit Blu-ray and DVD on September 17, and is currently available in those formats and VOD over at Amazon.


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The Finger Lakes Environmental Film Festival from the interns' point of view
Monday, April 1, 2013
Blog posting written by Shawn Steiner, Film, Photography, and Visual Arts '13, FLEFF Blogger, Elkridge, MD
Welcome to FLEFF's opening day and the first of many live blogs of the week.
We have concluded our discussion, but at 10:00AM-10:50AM in Park 220 Ulises Mejias will lead a discussion about Augmented Reality Games
"Networks increase participation, but also increase inequality."
"It's not if we shape our tools or if our tools shape us, but how."
Mejias' agenda includes "thinking the network" and then how we are to then "unthinking the network" to get us to move beyond network logic through many strategies, like intensification.
First, what is a network?
1. Nodes (each one of us)
2. Links (similar interests)
The problem with this type of "nodocentrism" is that a node cannot connect to anything except other nodes. Take your friend who refuses to make a Facebook page, you may realize the trouble they have getting party and event invitations since people only invite people currently on Facebook. This is an issue with social networking.
And, while those with few connections still grow (the poor), those with large networks (the rich) will rapidly gain more connections. This is a preferential system where Mejias says "the rich get richer."
"[Networks] are shaping the way we think about friends."
A network in Facebook or media terms is something very specific. It is a template created that is altering the way we think about things like friends and likes. It is software and programming that is reprogramming our mind based on algorithms.
It has moved from a network as a metaphor to a network as a template.
Mejias also explains the change from old media as a "one-to-many" monopoly to a new media "many-to-many" perfect competition.
However, monopsony is the economics of new media, it is a "many-to-one" approach.
DISCUSSION QUESTION: Can these metrics help us catch terrorists? How?
"The sacrifices in privacy may not be worth the gains."
Inequality through participation takes many forms. This includes surveillance, filtering, blocking, psyops, spambots, and the loss of freedom of speech.
This is done by organizations and companies that run social media networks. Using fake accounts to spread propaganda, deleting so-called "problematic" accounts, and simply shutting off the network are all possibilities that can limit the people utilizing the network.
QUESTION: What are the power dynamics between activists, hackers, and the media?
SHORT SCREENING: Virtual Revolution, a BBC documentary.
"Dissent will only become possible in the spaces outside of the social networks."
We need to look into the spaces between the nodes. We must see the paranodes are the resisters, the rejecters, the expelled, and the excluded.
Paranodality: the outside of the network is not empty but inhabited by multitudes that do not conform to the organizing logic of the network.
And once we reach these paranodes and maintain a MOBILITY between being in a network to being outside of it we can find power (intensification).
QUESTION: Is it easier to express dissent inside or outside the network?


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Depression myths and facts
By Barbara Floria, Pure Matters
Like other mental health conditions, depression is widely misunderstood, leading many people to believe myths about the condition, the people who have it, and its treatment.
Here's a look at some of those myths and the facts to counter them.
Myth: Depression isn't a real medical problem.
Fact: Depression is a serious medical condition that affects people's mental and physical health, says the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH). It has a variety of causes, and genetic and biological factors can influence its development.
Myth: Anyone with enough willpower can get over depression.
Fact: It isn't possible to will it away anymore than one can will away heart disease. Depression isn't a sign of weakness. It's an illness caused by changes in brain chemicals or function because of environmental and/or biological factors.
Myth: Only women get depressed.
Fact: According to the NIMH, more than 6 million American men become depressed each year, but the number is likely to be much greater because many men are undiagnosed.
Women who are depressed often feel sad, guilty, hopeless, and worthless. Men with the condition are likely to have different symptoms that may include drinking alcohol to excess or becoming frustrated, discouraged, irritable, and sometimes abusive or violent. Men also are more likely to commit suicide because they're less likely to seek help.
Myth: Because depression is genetic, only people who have a family history of it can get it.
Fact: In the same way you can be genetically predisposed to high blood pressure or diabetes, you can be genetically predisposed to depression. This doesn't mean, however, that if a family member has a history of depression, you're fated to suffer from it, as well. Just be aware that your chance of having depression is higher than if you had no family history of the illness, and seek treatment if you start to develop symptoms.
Myth: Getting help for depression doesn't make it go away any faster.
Fact: Depression is highly treatable, and 80 percent of people who obtain treatment from a mental health professional find relief. Effective treatment usually consists of talking with a therapist about your life and the circumstances that may have caused your depression. Many people also are prescribed an antidepressant medication that treats chemical imbalances in the brain.
People with depression who aren't treated often have the condition for years -- and untreated depression is a major risk factor for suicide, especially among men.
Source: http://resources.purematters.com/healthy-mind/depression/depression-myths-and-facts


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Finnish rally star Mikko Hivronen takes a surprisingly casual quick lap down the Nordschleife in the 350 HP Focus RS500, proving both the Focus and Mikko can keep all four wheels on the ground.
Having sipped from the cup of Focus RS we'd love to have a shot at a big swig of the more powerful RS500. Our good friend Conor McNicholas — editor of Top Gear magazine just drove it and told us "It's *well* torquesteery, but lovely growly note and popping on the over run," followed by "It's just eaten my cat."
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By Nick Hamilton, KF13, Dominican Republic and Haiti
Having spent a lot of time speaking with borrowers during the week, I decided to spend Friday in the office. Kiva Fellows are required to complete an extensive list of 'deliverables' and I was aware that I still had a lot to deliver. I had just begun editing a short film when I was approached by Noberto, Esperanza International's Kiva Coordinator.
"Fancy observing one of Esperanza's health workers in the field? It's one of the services we provide and you haven't seen it yet. I thought you might want to go."
"Err, yes please. That would be great," I answered reluctantly, knowing I'd be losing another day of office work to the field. Saturday had just taken Friday's place.
I jumped into the truck and we set off for a small community about 30km east of Santo Domingo. There I observed the health worker's opening address but didn't actually witness any check-ups. Naturally, these were conducted behind closed doors. While I was waiting I got chatting to Luisa, one of the members of the Solidarity Bank.
Luisa had been elected President of the Bank and it wasn't hard to see why. She came across as smart, driven, proud and ebullient; passionate about her own progress but attentive to the welfare of others. As I quizzed her about life before microloans Luisa answered my questions with a sparkle in her eye, evidently grateful for the benefits that the loans have afforded her community.
"The loans have helped a lot. Before, many people had nothing to do. Now they run their own businesses."
"The loans have given women a practical way of earning money. We can now run businesses out of our homes."
Luisa was anxious to talk about what makes her tick – business. She has taken out 3 loans and invested each into a different venture. One run by her, one by her husband and a third by her daughter. I found this pretty impressive, especially considering that she received her first loan less than 18 months earlier.
While the ladies at the Bank were receiving their check-ups, Luisa led me to her house to show me her businesses. When I arrived I was greeted at the door by her husband, Martín, a jovial man who led me in, sat me down and handed me a cup of coffee with a beaming grin. We were then joined by their daughter, Luisa María, a pretty girl of 19 who appeared quiet at first but soon opened up with a radiant smile when we began discussing her business. I knew I was going to like this family.
The photo above portrays Luisa, Martín and Luisa María standing next to their respective businesses.
Luisa's first loan was used to purchase a computer, modem, printer and photocopier. She noticed that this was something that didn't exist in her community and that people – especially youngsters – were having to travel a long way to use the internet or print something off. Luisa asked her son to teach her the basics of using a computer and connecting to the internet, and off she went. I enjoyed listening to Luisa talk about how this has helped the community:
"True, people can now chat to their friends over the internet, but it also really helps the children to complete their schoolwork."
What's not shown in this photograph is the extent to which this enterprise has grown. Luisa now has two PC's connected to the internet and four television monitors hooked up to games consoles. An enormous painting of Super Mario on the wall outside beckons children in to play on the Nintendo GameCube. The business has grown significantly over a short period of time but Luisa admits that the profits of the other two businesses have played their part.
The second loan was used to invest in Martín's business, the resale of Amway (health and beauty) products. A few of these are positioned on the chair in front of Martín in the photo. As Martín described the relative benefits of his product suite in fine detail, I was impressed by how much he had learnt. He really knew his stuff. I was quite surprised that people would pay the hefty asking price but, as he showed me his ample client list, I understood either that Martín was a very good salesman or that his customers saw great benefit in the products on offer. After speaking to a couple of Martín's customers, I actually think it was a bit of both.
Luisa's third loan was used to set up her daughter's fingernail design business. This comprised of manicure, faux fingernails and nail polish design. Luisa María brimmed with pride and passion as she spoke about her art, and art it was. I could not believe the elaborate intricacy of the designs on offer. I was so impressed that I asked (as a joke!) whether she'd add me to her waiting list. "Ha ha, can you imagine! That would just be embarrassing!" was her laconic reply. Luisa María had to complete a 4-month course to become qualified in fingernail design, and her certificates can be seen behind the nail varnishes in the photograph.
So what of the future? Well, the family were enthusiastic about continuing to expand their businesses and Luisa said she would be taking out a fourth loan to pay for repairs on their roof. I asked Luisa about her long-term aspirations. Her reply was one that I hadn't yet heard from any of the borrowers I'd met previously:
"I want to buy a vehicle so that we can travel around the country. There's so much I want to see."
"And do you think that you'll achieve this dream?" I asked.
"Of course!" she responded confidently. I don't doubt it one bit.
So far, my experience in the DR has shown me that microfinance has its limitations. It's not always a perfect solution and I often see cases where microloans simply help people to sustain, as opposed to grow, their businesses (which is much better than having no business at all!). But Luisa's story is one of unbridled success. The loans have allowed her family to found and grow not one but three businesses at a startling rate. And what's more, Luisa, Luisa María and Martín all love what they do. They talk about their businesses with an infectious pride. I too left their house feeling very proud, proud to be working for an organisation that can effect such positive change.
After a couple of hours we headed back to the office in San Pedro. As we motored along through the dusty sun I sat gazing out of the window, brimming with a smile that remained painted on my face throughout the weekend.
By Nick Hamilton, KF13. Nick is serving as a Kiva Fellow with Esperanza International in the Dominican Republic and Haiti
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I also made a tutorial on another chibi Pokemon character and almost all of the reason why I make these Pokemon in chibi form, is because they are requested. So up next, we will be tackling the feat of learning "how to draw chibi Arceus", step by step. This white majestic looking creature is probably one of the more interesting species in the legendary Pokemon genre. Even though they may look like they are horse like, they are closer to centaurs, because of the robust mythical looking stature. This chibi version that you are about to tackle is going to be much easier to replicate than making the real thing. If you're a fan of Arceus, you will absolutely love this submission on "how to draw chibi Arceus" too. I don't remember if I made a lesson on the regular version, but I check for you right now….it's official, I do have a regular version of Arceus if you want to check that one out. It's located in the anime section under the 'Pokemon characters' category. Well, that's about it. Have fun folks and try to stick around for more drawing fun.
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text: Victor Farinelli: Dave Lum Artist Profile By Victor Farinelli I was 18 years old when I got my first tattoo. That was in 1988. The first tattoo shop I walked into was Dave Lum's shop in Austin, Texas. I was on the fence up until that time on whether or not I wanted to get a tattoo. I had always wanted a tattoo because my dad had them, but I was used to seeing tattoos that were poorly done and faded. As I looked through Dave's photo album, however, I saw a whole new side of tattooing. Each page was filled with vibrant colors, surreal images and clean lines. Two weeks later, I got my first tattoo. Dave did his version of the cartoon character Bill the Cat on my upper arm... About this same time some of the young guns of the tattoo world started emerging: Marcus Pacheco, Aaron Cain, Freddy Corbin, Daniel Higgs, Guy Aitchison, Filip Leu and others. Everyone was pushing the envelope to the extreme. But no one was pushing it as far as Dave. I remember him saying one time, "I don't mind doing a black panther, but I'd rather do a black panther with a big pink dick." That is the mind of Dave Lum. He doesn't care what people think. In turn, he attracts like-minded people who allow him to push the boundaries so far that even the most open-minded artist and collectors were aghast. Dave was an equal opportunity offender. He told me once that he wanted to do tattoo of a Hasidic Jew riding an oven. I had a co-worker, who was Jewish, who wanted that badly but never got around to getting it. By the beginning of the '90s, Dave had appointments booked 6 months in advance. Saturdays were first-come, first served. Those of us who could not get an appointment during the week would camp out in front of the shop. Seriously: camp out. People would start showing up around midnight. The shop did not open until 1:00 pm the following day. Even so-called rock stars had to camp out. The late Jani Lane of Warrant was in Austin on tour with Mötley Crüe and came into the shop on a Friday to try to get tattooed. This was when Warrant were all over MTV, and they had money out the yin-yang. Lane tried to talk his way into getting an appointment that day, and Dave said he was all booked up. Lane even offered to pay more money. Dave didn't care who this guy was. He told Jani that if he wanted a tattoo he would have to camp out with the rest of the folks and try to get an appointment on Saturday. I was the first one in line and camped out for Saturday when this huge limo pulls up and out comes Jani. The limo left, and he parked his ass on the grass with the rest of us. Dave also had a tradition of giving away free tattoos on April Fool's Day. The only stipulation was that he tattooed what he wanted, where he wanted. If April 1st fell on a regular work day, he would open at the regular time. If it was not, say on a Sunday or Monday, he would open up when he felt like it. He opened up at 4:30 in the morning one year. He was a good judge of character so each tattoo he did seemed to fit the person who got it. He would draw the design on your skin (he rarely used stencils) and if you wanted it, he would tattoo you. If you did not want it, he would erase it and say, "next." I got three April Fool's tattoos from him. I never planned on getting the super-weird tattoos that Dave graced me with. They just happened. If you speak to others who have tattoos by Mr. Lum, I am sure they will say the same thing. He would be tattooing someone and just throw out an idea: "You want a Lady Luck? How about a fat lady luck?" I thought that was an awesome idea, so I got that on my thigh. When we started talking about doing my arms he said, "You should have Bill the Cat drowning a baby in a baby pool of blood... in a rubber room." Nothing is sacred to him. That is what makes his work so awe-inspiring. We would sit in his shop for hours throwing around ideas for tattoos. Dave kept saying he wanted to do the Last Supper with Frogs. Eventually another customer of his said yes. Dave was set to do it when the customer backed out. I said I would do it. I thought it was a funny idea. I never thought it would become such an iconic tattoo. Same with the "Blue Plate Special" (eggs, bacon, and hash-browns on a blue plate) on my head. I just wanted a plate of food on my head because it was funny. In 1992 Dave and his wife, Tera, decided it was time to move. They packed up the kids and their stuff, sold the shop to Chris Trevino, and headed to Salem, Oregon. My wife and I didn't have any plans for the future except getting tattooed, so we packed up our things and moved up to Salem shortly after that. Back in the early '90s, in a small town, tattooed folk were not well thought of. We were all accused of being drug dealers and criminals. It was a big deal to have your neck and hands tattooed back then. Nowadays, getting your hands or neck tattooed is an old hat. Dave got a reputation for being "the mean guy who tattoos down the road." I think people take his straight-forward, tell-it-like-it-is attitude as ornery. If you don't like it, you don't have to get tattooed by him. There were many times that he said "I think you are in the wrong shop" and they were. Dave has had a long, eventful life before getting into tattooing, so he is not about to compromise and do something he really doesn't want to do. From what I have observed, most good tattooers are the same way. You get to a point when you're doing something long enough that you get tired of saying "sure" when you really mean, "I am not about to tattoo another Tasmanian devil with a basketball." Now if the Tasmanian devil had a big pink dick... I always said that I wouldn't get tattooed by anyone else. But we grow up and things change. After five years in Salem, the Mrs. and I missed Austin, so we moved back to Texas. We have both been tattooed by numerous artists since we moved, but it always gives me a warm feeling in my heart when artists and collectors talk about getting tattooed by Dave or seeing his work. Many of the artist have told me that Dave is the reason they got into tattooing. Tera and I still keep in touch. People often ask me if Dave is still working. He still tattoos, but Tera mentioned that he may retire at the end of 2012. If you want a tattoo by one of the pioneers of tattoo debauchery, I suggest you make a trip to Oregon soon. Dave Lum can be found here: Address: 110 Stoneway Dr NW, Salem, OR 97304-4517 Phone: 1 (503) 585-6902


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