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Making it Work is the heading I am giving to totally rearranging my home. As you may have read on "My Mission" page, I needed more space to accommodate my charge who is coming home from a long stay in the hospital. Feel free to peruse my Gallery showing how I accomplished this. Also, I have added a link to show how it looked prior to the change. Previous Decor
Category Archives: Home Decor by Faith
Home Decorating is one of my most favorite things to do. I love repurposing, or restoring items. I'll share some of my more interesting if not innovative ptojects.
One Dollar Spice Rack
My kitchen has very, very limited space and spices are taking over my cabinet, falling out everytime I open the door to reach for one. I've been looking for a "cheap" solution and I found it. At the dollar store, I came across a set of 3 mini-baskets for $1.00. I found a piece of acrylic I had at home, gorilla glued the baskets to it, and voila, a spice rack for all those small spice containers and seasoning packets. LOVE IT!
More is more when Crafting
I can't help myself. I have 2 new projects to share. These have been done before, but they're new to me. The first is a shelf extending the fireplace mantle. I have one of those off-centered, non-working fireplaces, so I put my desk in the empty corner, but it doesn't meet the wall. The gap and blank wall were bugging me. I took a shelf I had laying around and some corbels, and extended the mantle. It works for me.
Secondly, I could not bear to throw away this little CD case. So, I painted the back of the shelf a room-coordinated color and used it as a bookcase. I love repurposing.
Primative Chandolier
Okay, I believe that if you are a true crafter, you must craft. After the burlap project, I immediately looked around for another project to pursue. I have always wanted to do something with my boring, nondescript ceiling light fixture. Hmm, I do have some clam shells that have been sitting around forever (I got them at the second hand store, of course). My ceilings are about 8.5 x 9 feet high. Something to bring it down a bit would be nice. With my handy drill, I put holes in the shells, and in a coffee can lid, and strung them together.
After vicariously balancing myself on 3 chairs (I know, ridiculous, please do not try at home, get a ladder!), I was able to reach the fixture. With a little gold-ish paint on the fixture, here's the result. A chandolier! A bit primative, but it works.
New Completed Project-Burlap Flowers on Burlap
I found this wonderful burlap covered canvas to hang in a blank part of my wall. I am notorious for filling up my walls with artwork, mostly my own. I found the canvas in the clearance section at Michaels (I also love clearance sections). The canvas has a 12×12″ inset in the middle, in which you can put anything, i.e., pictures, shadowbox items, etc. Since I had some scraps of burlap lying around in my fabric stash, and some fabric paint. I thought, hmm, I could make some burlap flowers and put them in the middle. Here's how it came out.
On Growing Grass
Okay, I know what you're thinking, but its not that. I have this urn, which is very deep and the plant I put in it died. So what to do with this huge urn? First, I had a glass table topper that I put in a window. I put that on top of the urn and it became a side table.
When I saw that there was condensation accumulating under the glass, it seemed a good idea to plant something there, sort of like a terrarium. I have always wanted to plant some grass in the house, like you see on TV and in magazines, which is mostly artificial. Well, I am always willing to try new things. What do you think? Growing your own Grass in the House! I do have to mow, it grows quickly.
My Home Decor Style
Every time I look at Home Decor magazines or websites I get excited and start to evaluate my own style. As I look about my home, I review my choices and weigh them against those I see elsewhere.
I like muted earth tones. They work well for me because I have a dark house, so I embrace the moodiness of it. No glaring bright colors here. Plus I do not have the option of changing features (I would love to tear out a wall) and paint all the dark woodwork white.
On the positive side, I have kept within the same color scheme (blue and burgundy with variations) with a background of browns, black, and off-white. When I do this, I can move around any item from room to room and it fits in beautifully. Plus it narrows my search when shopping.
Feel free to take a stroll through my gallery of living room and bedroom decor.
Don't Toss that Calendar!
I always get a lot of calendars at the beginning of each year (some free, some I purchase), but whatever, before I throw them out I look through the pictures. These pictures are great for art projects. Here I have two projects from pictures I took out of calendars that match my decor.
One makes use of two old 8-1/2 x 11″ document frames and a piece of white card stock cut to create borders. The other, using an old computer monitor stand, a plastic picture holder, and a piece of cardboard, cut to size, I now have a small bed tray that I use on my daybed to hold coffee, remotes, etc. The feet of the monitor stand keeps the whole set up from falling through.
It just goes to show, you can make something out of almost anything.
Update on Display Storage Center
I finally found a spot in the house for this tall display/storage center. I put it in my living room in place of a large end table, holding a bunch of plants, that didn't look so hot. This looks better.
Finished – Display-Storage Center
I have finally finished my first project on this blog. I have in previous
posts shown the beginning of what I had to work with – three miscellaneous wood pieces – and my intention was to marry them into a new functional piece. I did need to add a fourth piece, an old footstool (seen at the bottom), to raise the unit off the floor. It ended up being about 5 ft. 4 in. tall.
I have always wanted to try chalk paint and here was a good opportunity. If I messed it up, it would not have cost me anything as everything I used, I already had. I looked around online and at other blogs and found a recipe I liked (1 part plaster of paris, 1 part water and 2 parts latex paint) This worked great and with this single recipe, I was able to paint all the corners and undersides of this piece. I love chalk paint.
I didn't want to work with the wax, and this is not fine furniture, so I
put a coat of polyurethane over it. I did a bit more detail by cutting black and white card stock to decoupage the base. I also sandwiched some cardboard topped with cork board in the small square at the top to make a small pin-up area. I left the one flat space in the middle blank and painted it in with chalk paint in black.
I think it came out very well. Now I only have to think about where to put it. Oh well, it was fun to do.
P.S. I had about a tablespoon of black chalk paint left, so I went
around my craft room painting any and everything I could with the left over paint.


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ER Wait Time in Portland HospitalsThese are the average wait times Portland hospital ER's from fastest to slowest. Actual wait times will depend on many factors.
Total Wait Times
|Legacy Emanuel Medical Center
|1h 56m
|Legacy Good Samaritan Medical Center
|2h 14m
|Adventist Medical Center
|2h 26m
|Ohsu Hospital And Clinics
|2h 46m
|Providence St Vincent Medical Center
|3h 6m
|Providence Portland Medical Center
|3h 13m
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These are the average time from entering the ER to being admitted to the hospital by a doctor. In a busy ER, patients will be seen by a triage nurse first. Then the wait time will vary by severity, and how busy the ER is at the time of day. Patients with less serious problems could have substantially longer waits.
There is a 77 minute wait difference between the fastest Portland emergency room and the slowest.
Dec 13, 2019, 11:05 PM
: "Took my son to Deconess Tuesday night, he was diagnosed with pneumonia and the gave him 1 breathing treatment and script for amoxicillin 3× a day. Now it's Friday night and he's in need of breathing treatment so we will probably be going to ER again in a lil bit if he continues to get tighter in his airways. You would think with people dying from pnuemonia, the would have kept him to continue breathing treatments until he got better.... Why is it that others have no cares if your child dies.....??? Where is the LOVE and compassion in folks at ??
What s joke of a world we live in.. " - Janna
Dec 07, 2019, 8:50 PM
: "Freeman Joplin Emergency Room is a joke. Chest pains and irregular EKG from an urgent care and yet we waited nearly 3 hours while in pain. Their team is not well trained and careless. I'm so over this place and they won't see another dime from me!!
" - Angry
Nov 27, 2019, 8:55 PM
: "What is the problem with the emergency rooms in Dallas area. My husband has been in emergency at Baylor McKinney since 2 pm with a broken arm - it is 7:30 Is this considered acceptable? Or is my definition of emergency wrong? Surely nobody goes to one without a good reason. It is not a doctor's appt - it is an emergency." - Sharon
Nov 22, 2019, 12:14 PM
: "Ive been to MMH ER twice and the wsit time was both timed less than a few minutes. I was having chest pains which is a no wait emergency. Everyone was very professional and curteous to me. I was admitted for a day and everyone spoke to me and asked if I was ok and if I needed anything. Im a 50 year medical professionals and I must say that I was very impressed more so than other hospitals in Florida." - Adolfo
Nov 19, 2019, 3:14 AM
: "Bought my son to St Joseph Hospital. We arrived at 11:30 PM at 3:12 AM we are still in the waiting room. They drew his blood in the hallway with a pulled curtain. Entire waiting room is nasty floors are terrible!" - Shay
Oct 21, 2019, 10:51 PM
: "Brought my cousin in with breathing problems. Waited five hours and left after one woman was brought in by ambulance and dumped in the waiting room. She started having difficulty breathing. No nurses or doctors around. It looked like she wasn't breathing. This ER needs to be investigated for patient neglect. " - Anthony
Oct 21, 2019, 10:51 PM
: "Brought my cousin in with breathing problems. Waited five hours and left after one woman was brought in by ambulance and dumped in the waiting room. She started having difficulty breathing. No nurses or doctors around. It looked like she wasn't breathing. This ER needs to be investigated for patient neglect. " - Anthony
Oct 20, 2019, 2:41 PM
: "Brought my mom in for leg pain, needed ultrasound to r/o blood clot following shoulder replacement 5 days ago. We waited 2.5 hrs for ultra sound, now have been here almost 4 hours...no word yet. " - Christie
Oct 02, 2019, 9:53 PM
: "My son presented to the ER at UTSW Clements hospital Dallas with severe chest pain and back pain. No one seemed care about the urgency of his issue everyone kind of gave him a side eye. He was crying with excrutiating pain. There seemed to be no protocol for his chronic illness. This is so not acceptable. So disappointed. " - Tonia
Sep 10, 2019, 11:21 PM
: "My mother has been waiting to see a doctor in the ER since 1:30pm and it is now 8:20. This is so unacceptable. I understand emergency but we have been her for an entire work shift and unless has been a mass catastrophe Summit in Oakland is the worst place never to go" - Lorenzo

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A Quebec patriarch fights to keep his wayward son from leading his grandson astray.
In the early 1920s in French Canada, the Bonnard family prepares to celebrate the birthday of the family's youngest son Robert, known as Bibi. Aging dandy Grandpere Bonnard meets Bibi walking home and presents him with a canary. Bibi's neighbor, American Peggy O'Hare, who is infatuated with Bibi, then gives him a baseball catcher's mask, to the annoyance of classmate Jimmy Bishop. At the Bonnard dinner table, Bibi's mother Susan frets about the present from Bibi's uncle Desmonde, a traveling salesman--a photograph of Desmonde with two striking showgirls. Bibi's father Jacques, however, dismisses Susan's concerns. Uncle Louis, who lives across the street, is unable to visit because his dressmaker wife Felice nags him to stop drinking wine out of a water bottle and pay more attention to their single daughter Yvonne. After dinner, Jacques takes Bibi with him to his job as violinist and conductor for a small local theater that runs vaudeville acts and silent films. Bibi is mesmerized by the magician The Great Gaspari and his pretty assistant, Mignonette Chappuis. When Gaspari gets too familiar with Mignonette on stage, she exposes his most famous trick and storms offstage. Jacques and Bibi bring Mignonette home, where Jacques convinces Susan to employ her as their maid. That night, Desmonde makes an unexpected visit, to Bibi's delight. Desmonde is equally pleased to meet Mignonette, with whom he begins an immediate flirtation. The next day at school, Bibi gets into a squabble with Jimmy, who snatches the mildly provocative magazine that Bibi has gotten from Desmonde. Bibi is sent to the stern school principal, Mr. Frye, who scolds him for carrying a dirty magazine. After school, Bibi meets Mignonette to catch a matinee of The Sheik and is deeply impressed with the film and its effect on Mignonette. Upon arriving home, Bibi, Jacques and Mignonette discover Grandpere collapsed against the fence. Dr. Marchaud is summoned and warns Grandpere that if he does not stop carousing, he is doomed. Grandpere rejects the doctor's diagnosis and wishes Desmonde luck on his date with Mignonette. That evening Desmonde takes Mignonette dancing, but when he continues to flirt, she asserts that their backgrounds are too disperate for them to be happy together. Desmonde then shows her a photograph of a house he says Grandpere plans to give him and confesses he is lonely and longing to settle down. Returning home, Desmonde becomes frustrated when Mignonette refuses to kiss him goodnight. Meanwhile, downstairs, Bibi marvels with Louis about the power of Rudolph Valentino's onscreen kisses, and Louis confides that a kiss can indeed be magic. Later that night, Bibi creeps into Mignonette's room and kisses her fleetingly before returning hastily to his room. Mignonette awakens startled and, believing Desmonde is the kissing culprit, goes into his room and dumps a pitcher of water on him. At school the next day, Peggy makes a curt comment about Mignonette, which angers Bibi, while Jimmy plants a crude drawing on Bibi's desk. When the sketch is discovered, Mr. Frye is summoned. He asks Peggy if she witnessed Bibi make the drawing, and Peggy, hurt over Bibi's earlier rebuff, says she did. Mr. Frye takes Bibi into his office and strikes his open hand with a leather strap when he refuses to admit he drew the picture. Mr. Frye says he will strap Bibi daily until he confesses. That evening Louis entertains a possible suitor for Yvonne, powerful banker Alfred Grattin, but is appalled when Felice informs him that Alfred does not drink. Alfred arrives and unknowingly begins drinking the wine from Louis' water bottle. When Louis discovers Alfred is only a clerk, he throws the now-drunken young man out. A few days later, when Mignonette mentions Desmonde's promised house, Susan and Jacques accidentally reveal that the house is a fabrication. Mignonette slaps Desmonde and storms to her room. Bibi then breaks down and reveals the situation at school with Mr. Frye. Jacques, Desmonde and Louis call on Mr. Frye, who insists he is justified in punishing Bibi, until Desmonde suddenly recalls having seen Mr. Frye at a casino in Montreal and promises to spread this information through town. The Bonnards return home and toast Bibi, until Susan informs them Mignonette has departed. Susan says she agreed to let her go when Mignonette mentioned the stolen kiss. Desmonde is outraged at the insinuation until Bibi sheepishly admits he was the culprit. Desmonde rushes out to find Mignonette and, inspired, Louis goes out to make amends with Alfred. Desmonde returns with Mignonette as Grandpere is on his way out for another evening. Bibi then makes his first appearance in long pants, and Peggy, who has sneaked in, is agog with admiration. Bibi is still angry about Peggy's lie at school and she apologizes. When Bibi realizes Peggy is no longer wearing braces, he kisses her, and Susan and Jacques realize another Bonnard male is making his way into the world.
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Day Trading Strategies
I created the video below entitled: "Day Trading Strategies – Invisible Support/Resistance" in which I discuss Floor Trader Pivots, and especially the levels that most people don't use, which is the "mid pivots." This is used by people who use day trading strategies for a living, but not by amateurs.
Your day trading software may or may not be able to calculate them automatically, but later in this post I'll share with you several websites that provide free floor trader pivot calculators.
In the video I mention that I would share the formula for floor trader pivots before the video was finished … and then I promptly forgot!
Well, needless to say, I received many emails and video comments asking for the formula (along with any other day trading rules or techniques I had), so I've replied to those people but also thought it only fair to post the formula here along with the original video.
First, here's the video, and then below the video you'll find the formula (promise I won't forget to include it this time!).
Okay, and here's the floor trader pivot formula I use …
First, let me be clear that there are several formulas that various traders use. The one I use is very standard and probably used by more traders than any of the newer formulas (which is why I use it and why it works).
Here it is:
R3 = PP + 2 * (current High – current Low)
R2 = PP + (current High – current Low)
R1 = 2 * PP – current Low
PP = (current High + current Low + current Close) / 3
S1 = 2 * PP – current High
S2 = PP – (current High – current Low)
S3 = PP – 2 * (current High – current Low)
There are also web sites that will save you doing the math by providing you with a pivot point calculator. You just have to enter the previous day's high, low and close for the market you are trading. Here are a few of them:
- http://www.mypivots.com/investment-calculators/pivot-point-calculator
- http://www.pivotpointcalculator.com/
- https://www.easycalculation.com/finance/pivot-points-trading.php
As a bit of a side note, I personally like to use the "settlement" price instead of the "close," but it doesn't normally make a huge amount of difference. It's just that the settlement is the official number for the "close" which is determined after hours and all trades are accounted for. You can get the settlement number from the exchange's website.
Enjoy using these day trading strategies that work. Not everything people teach you does, but this will definitely help you.
Oh, and LEAVE A COMMENT BELOW letting me know how you liked this video and what you'd like me to cover in the future.
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From ad-hoc research to real-time insight: the changes we need to see, now.
A planning perspective on Future Foundation's 'The Future of Insight' conference: implications for planning, in client businesses and in agencies.
I presented this article at the above conference as a prezi, which really doesn't work without the voice-over! So here's the full contents.
For those who were there, you saw me bitch about the lack of innovation in the recently re-branded marketing and innovation 'insight' industry.
With the notable exception of the constantly experimenting Brainjuicer and its irrepressible John Kearon (whose thoughts about corporate innovation practices in his 'Marketing Has Been the Death of Innovation' paper I've gratefully borrowed) there has been little in terms of exciting new ways to probe the human mind in a way that delivers marketers insights on the fly. Indeed, the whole industry is struggling to work with those more digitally minded (clients, consumers or agencies), nor to create research solutions for niche but inmersive experiences that provide insights in ways Marketing Directors appreciate.
Online communities and their dashboard tools have been a liberation. Likewise, the kind of qual/quant surveying Brainjuicer started out with provide rich but quantifiable data. But beyond their efforts in testing innovation and exploring the web for insight, I'd argue the research industry has been slow to service the needs of modern marketers. Discuss.
The very anatomy of insight is changing
We're moving from adhoc research to responsive insight, slowly.
But like all change it's painful and scattered.
Insight is everywhere, it's just not peddled well by research agencies or by any agency for that matter.
Brilliant insight is as likely to be tiny, tactical and changeable as earth-moving and revolutionary.
I thought I'd share a problem with have…after all, a problem shared…
Insight is only valuable if proven through action, mostly sales-driving marketing.
So it's the application of insight through what we do that we need to focus on, especially to prove the discipline's value within the organization.
The problem is that in a connected world, marketing should mean always-on collaboration with audiences, working with consumer reactions and making ourselves more and more relevant to them.
However, few clients are structured to deal with continuous, iterative, responsive communication and few agencies have structured themselves to deliver this either (because the clients aren't structured that way yet).
We rely on pricey and protracted up-front planning.
But planning, even keeping best practices in mind, is just guessing.
The only military analogies and lore worth keeping from previous eras of marketing strategy is the wisdom that all plans go out of the window at first contact with the enemy.
Most of the time we don't know how the plan is going, not in time to do anything about it anyway.
So we need real-time insight to tell us.
Once we have an idea of what to improve, we need the latest insight to guide us, continuously, across bought, owned and earned touchpoints.
But this rarely happens.
So testing the quality of insight through marketing is mostly too slow, confusing and inconclusive.
In delivering clients useful, timely insight to improve marketing on the fly, we are failing.
What about proving the value of insight through the resulting innovations in services and products?
Well, I propose that most of our market research bypasses real 'innovation' (new approaches that create disproportionate value by combining ways of working or technologies) and concentrates instead on 'optimisation' (small improvements to what we're already doing).
True category-beating innovation doesn't tend to fit well with research. Trend research is useful, but testing ideas in consumer research can often kill them or strip the originality from them (in marketing as in innovation) because people don't tend to respond well to uncomfortably new ideas. Even skilled qual researchers can't probe the subtle responses to truly eye-opening innovation well.
Real innovation, it appears, is the domain of visionary start-ups, not risk-averse big business.
8 of the Interbrand top 10 brands in the world (and almost half of the top 50) originated the category in which they operate.
Yet the centralised, risk averse marketing-sciences practiced by large businesses since the 1960s has served to merely 'tend the garden' these innovations created.
With the exception of a handful of brands, true innovation in FMCG, technology, banking, apparel and other industries has been left to start-ups and fringe players with the corporates buying those that succeed.
Bacardi bought the biggest new thing in vodka of the 90s Grey Goose, then the noughties hero 42 Below, Google has bought every other hyped start-up in Silicon Valley, Unilever the iconic Ben and Jerry's, Cisco bought the category busting Flip video camera, Coca-Cola bought trailblazing Innocent and Glaceau. The list of big corporates paying top price for innovations they could easily have developed themselves goes on and on.
The corporate exceptions tend to be businesses led by a strong vision, who support their own ideas with gut instinct over consumer research and cultivate a healthy acceptance of failure.
Ibuka, the Chairman of Sony, one of the few big corporations to have created new categories said, "The consumer doesn't know what they want, it is for us to invent it for them".
Others that behave in this way are the Virgin group, Apple, Google, Facebook and 3M. Google has bought many of their successes but are committed to experimenting ferociously.
Criminally, the marketing services industry itself fails to innovate. With the exception of groundbreaking research ideas like DigiViduals from Brainjuicer, few new approaches to gathering insight appear to have been created.
So when it comes to big business successes through innovation, we in the insight industry have struggled to provide much demonstrable value.
So from a planning perspective (as a buyer as well as collator of insight), I'd beg the following of our industry:
Support 'Flexible guessing'
If plans are there to be broken, let's use scenarios.
Let's propose what might happen, then adopt agile methodology to change what we do on the fly.
If social networks can respond to user behaviour to roll out new versions and whole new services every few weeks, why can't the rest of the brands online do the same?
Let's devise short, medium and long-term activity.
Let's work out how to react on launch, what to anticipate and what to commit to across all touchpoints.
Thinking long term is critical. Successful approaches need to be learned. Starbucks has its most senior and talented people dedicated 24/7 building long term relationships through it's most important marketing activity, its platform on Facebook.
While embracing the future, let's keep a link to the past – history is bound to repeat itself if we don't plunder the archives for lessons and ensure the inspiring young Turks know them.
Support 'Responsive doing'
So in a connected world, we should be testing, learning and changing in real time collaboration with our communities
Let's light lots of fires as we will never know what will take-off and what won't.
Let's respect our own hunches. Faster horses would never have spawned a multi-billion dollar industry. Serendipity is more useful than tight processes when it comes to making new ideas from new connections.
Let's do it in small ways, and amplify what works, and let's do it in small groups. Autonomy fosters passion and vision and that's where great ideas come from so maverick thinkers within organisations must be supported with time and cash.
Let's love failure. Dyson prototype number 1527 was the one that worked, Virgin has more failed businesses than successes.
And let's re-organise ourselves to deliver this. In client businesses and agencies alike, insight and marketing functions need to be nimble and always-on. This takes bold internal change.
To conclude
Insight into the state of our own profession, like that shared today by the Future Foundation, is a great place to start.
The insight and marketing services industry appears caught like a rabbit in the headlights. Basking in new found relevance, but creaking with processes, tools and systems hopelessly out of date.
We need insight's innovation and help.
If we are to help clients embrace a rapid, real-time, collaborative marketing environment we'd better get on and innovate pretty swiftly. Else the Googles and Facebooks of this world will eat our lunch.
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Tags: insight, research
8 Responses to "From ad-hoc research to real-time insight: the changes we need to see, now."
Hi Martin,
I love how you criticize traditional market research, but I cringe a bit with a couple of things.
First, "real time" insight is important, sure, but what happens when there is no DEEP insight to begin with? Imagine that you have somehow optimized your agency (not to mention your CLIENTS!) to collect and act upon real-time insight. Ok, then you have a bunch of junior planners who have no real background in the topic? Where do you get the deep understanding and cultural sensitivity that is required? You may be too busy running after the latest whiff of customer discontent spreading through Facebook.
In short, you may not have the depth of understanding you need to really really understand a social phenomenon. Think "verstehen."
Second, I believe the market research industry is indeed guilty of simply "asking customers what they want." But that does not mean that research itself should be thrown out of the innovation process. Indeed, design-based research approaches are specifically targeted in "inventing" what consumers implicitly want but do not know what it is. That is the real skill of a good qualitative researcher — bringing out something the consumer doesn't even know herself.
We do this all the time with ethnographic methods, which are not "new" or "sexy" but are certainly useful!
But anyway, I applaud your call to action. The Fordist Market Research Company should be put to rest, forthwith.
Agreed. Planners must innovate insight, especially by collaborating in real-time, loving failure and thinking like start-ups. Well said.


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With an overall population of 2,399 and a student population of 6,661, approximately 6,661 of Pembroke students attend one of Pembroke's schools that offer psychology programs.
University of North Carolina at Pembroke is the largest psychology school in Pembroke, based on student population. In 2010, University of North Carolina at Pembroke graduated approximately 53 students from its psychology program.
A reported 53 students graduated with credentials in psychology in Pembroke in 2010. If you decide to join their ranks, you can expect to pay an average of $15,199 per year in tuition if you are eligible for instate tuition. Out of state tuition for all Pembroke psychology schools was an average of $24,406 per year in 2009.
In addition to tuition costs, plan on spending an average of $1,400 for psychology related books and supplies each year. And if you live on campus, you will face an additional expense of $6,450 per year, on average, for room and board. If you live at home, you can cut this cost down to approximately $9,294.
If you decide to work as a psychology professional in Pembroke, your job prospects are average. In 2010, there were 3,800 psychology professionals in North Carolina. Of these psychology professionals, 190 were working in the greater Pembroke area. The number of psychology professionals in Pembroke is expected to increase by 9% by the year 2018. This anticipated change is slower than the projected nationwide trend for psychology professionals.
The average salary you can expect to earn as a psychology professional in Pembroke is $52,360 per year. This is lower than the state-wide average salary for psychology professionals.
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Porthcressa Regeneration Contract Awarded To Kier Western
The Council has awarded the £4 million Porthcressa regeneration construction contract to new school builders, Kier Western.
Just ten Councillors discussed the project in a closed session, out of the public eye, on Thursday night.
We understand three building companies expressed an interest in the scheme, one of which was local.
The building project is expected to take around 40 weeks and will transform the former lifeboat station and bulb store into a library and registry office.
Councillor Christine Savill commented that the library was needed, as there was only a small collection of books at the new school.
The green and seafront gardens will be landscaped and the walkway surface improved. The current Schiller shelter will be demolished and rebuilt but controversial plans to provide cafe facilities have been dropped following community and business opposition.
Plans for two local-needs homes, above business units on the current library site, have also been dropped for now.
The Homes and Communities agency won't fund social housing in Scilly because they don't see it as good value for money, due to the cost of building here. The business units will be built in such a way that homes can be added on top when there's funds available.
However, concerns have been voiced over whether the Council can afford this scheme.
European cash has been committed and Chief Executive of the Council, Philip Hygate told members that proceeding with this scheme could also help the quay development plans.
Work could start in 6 weeks.
6 Responses to Porthcressa Regeneration Contract Awarded To Kier Western
At the end of the day the problems that came about this summer were handled quickly and sorted out. There was no "major increase in crime" as some have claimed but merely groups of overworked guys going out, having a few drinks, and sometimes getting wound up by a negative public attitude to the builders being here. They have increased trade in a summer that could have been a lot worse if they weren't here. We have had a distinct lack of holiday makers out and about spending money this year and the builders have helped to keep the Islands economy afloat, whether it be in bars, shops, restaurants or renting out beds. I think Porthcressa does need some work doing to it and I believe that Kier will do an excellent job as they already have with the School. Lets hope the extra trade the builders have brought and the improvements that will be made to the best beach in town attract more people and keep more businesses open.
I live at Porthcressa and it does look tatty. It needs a facelift and hopefully this will be done tatsefully. I would have preferred local builders to get the contract but agree that the work needs to be done as quickly as possible. Both Porthcressa and Little Porth are used a lot by visitors to Scilly so it's important that we keep them both a desirable place to go.
Plus – books will never go out of date. I prefer reading an actual book to any digital formats and I'm certainly not alone. I'd love a bigger library here, the current one is too small.
I've just read Keith's comments with interest regarding Kier Western being awarded the Porthcressa regeneration project.
Keith seems to be of the opinion that we contractors are trouble makers, and are not welcome on the island. While I agree that there has been a very small proportion that did cause problems, (about 18) they were swiftly dealt with, and removed from the island. In total, over 500 contractors have been working on the school project at one time or another, the vast majority getting on well with the islanders, and boosting the local economy by a considerable amount over the previous winter, spring, and summer.
They have also been working away from their homes and loved ones, doing 10 or 12 hour days over a 10 day shift, and on occasion, not being able to get home due to inclement weather.
As a sub-contractor, I have been involved in the school project since last November, and in doing so, have made many friends on the island! The feedback I've received from the locals is that they are very pleased with their new school, with only one or two minor complaints (ie, no shelters over the bike stands!) During construction, the disruption and noise has been kept to a minimum, and the roadways cleaned on a regular basis.
Regarding the Porthcressa project.
Without, I hope, being at all disrespectful to the local builders who do a great job on the island, a multi-million pound project is a whole different ball game, where time penalties can run into hundreds of thousands of pounds, and teams of groundworkers, masons, bricklayers, carpenters, plumbers, pipe fitters, electricians, roofers, scaffolders, plasterers, etc, all have to work in co-ordination with each other. Not to mention the logistics of getting materials and heavy plant onto the island. Kiers already has this in place on the island at the school site, in addition, Kiers target is to complete the project in 46 weeks or so. That has to be better than doing it over 3 winters as originally intended.
Over 90% of the island economy is dependant on tourism, so any improvement to the islands attractions, without spoiling the environment has to be worthwhile to maintain your economy for the future.
The island will end up with great new facilities, both sports and otherwise, that many parts of the UK will be envious of – and not only the pupils at the new school will benefit from, but also the islanders and tourists too.
By next year, we contractors will have left your island, and you can return to normal way of lives. I hope the majority of the islanders will appreciate what has been achieved by us 'troublemakers'!
On a final note regarding Ebooks – what's wrong with sitting down reading a good book in the traditional way? Libraries have been around for thousands of years. Sometimes we depend too much on our electronic age! £4m is not a big spend in this day and age. It's not so much a case of 'modernisation' but of improvement to the amenities, and to the environment.
Well said Keith, totally agree, no more to add
Ah great, more builders for the winter to cause trouble, love it… Nice of the council to have a private meeting to discuss who was going to take on the project, obviously getting local builders in was too easy and cheaper, what after accommodation, travel etc…
£4m! That's a lot to transform an area that, in my eyes, doesn't need a lot to improve the look of. And if the plans are anything like I saw a few years ago, the image of Tresco springs to mind, modernising for the sake of modernising, making us look like something we aren't! What's wrong with a bit of upkeeping and maintanence on some of the buildings in that area? Do we have a lot of complaints from tourists saying how shoddy Porth Cressa looks or something???
As for the new library, how many people actually go in and rent out a book nowadays to warrant building a bigger one? Ebooks are the way forward if you really want to modernise!
Ah great, more builders for the winter to keep local businesses going over a quiet time, love it…


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The "Tree of Life" design, often composed of several prints, mimicked exotic painted cotton bedspreads and wall hangings imported from India. Seen throughout the East Coast, the design was especially popular from Maryland through the Carolinas.
Catherine Custis, widowed in 1809, is recorded in the 1810 census living with her teenage son and five unmarried daughters, ages twelve through twenty-nine. In addition to her daughters, some of the eight enslaved servants (the census gives no gender or age details) were surely women who could help with sewing. "Caty" was in her late fifties or early sixties when she made this quilt.
Look for the inscription "CP Custis" in cross-stitch just beneath the tree.
Block-printed cotton and linen; Cotton and wool blend block print; Silk embroidery thread; cotton filling, backing, and binding
The bird prints here and in the anonymous Tree of Life quilt are identical in design, but this is a wool blend, while the other is all linen. The flowering tree is nearly, but not exactly, the same as in that quilt and in the bolster cover, testifying to widespread copying among chintz manufacturers.


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When BDSM Company (皮繩愉虐邦) staged its first public bondage/domination and sadomasochism (BDSM) show in June, two Next Magazine (壹週刊) journalists wrote a report on it using sensational language and unauthorized photographs, questioning whether the performance was "a crime against public decency" (妨害風化).
As part of the Taipei Fringe Festival (台北藝穗節), the same troupe will debut a new theatrical performance titled You Can Be the Kinky Star! (你就是SM片最佳男女主角!) about a group of BDSM enthusiasts auditioning for a BDSM movie. After the NT$500 show, audience members can pay an additional NT$500 to gain hands-on experience with the troupe. Experts will assist participants in arranging and engaging in BDSM performances, and a professional photographer will be on-hand to record it all. The activity is limited to those who have seen the performance.
Members of the company stress that while their performances are theatrical, they are not only about entertainment.
"We share similarities with theater people in the sense that we are more aware of the limitations our society and culture impose on our bodies," said Song Jia-lun (宋佳倫), one of the group's founders. "Theater is a medium, making BDSM more accessible to the general public ... Perhaps through performances, audiences will be more conscious of what limits and represses their bodies and try to break free. We would be happy if audiences stopped seeing [BDSM practitioners] as perverts and pick up an easy trick or two, like tying hands or blindfolding, and tried them at home."
Founded in 2004 by a group of like-minded people who met on Huakuei Sex (花魁藝色館), a bulletin board which supports the rights of sexual minorities and hosts related discussions, BDSM Company was launched as an activist group for Taiwan's BDSM community. The group is an active participant in the annual Taiwan Pride Parade. Members have given lectures and held discussions at colleges across the country, building a Chinese-language archive of BDSM-related educational materials on the company's Web site (www.bdsm.com.tw). Some members, including Song, take a more political approach and work at the Green Party Taiwan (綠黨), which supports sexual diversity.
However, the group's liberal stand on gender roles in erotic practices sometimes conflicts with BDSM enthusiasts who hold more conservative views, Song says.
"What we do now is focus on changing the negative views outsiders hold on BDSM rather than serving insiders ... Our imagination and understanding of BDSM can be vastly different from many other practitioners,'" she said.
The group holds a talk every month with the aim of raising awareness of BDSM. Anyone is welcome to share their ideas or simply chat and meet people.
"There is no topic or theme," said Song, who is better known as Shihyeh Queen (十夜女王) in BDSM circles. "What happens, happens. Maybe people will show up with ropes and start giving a bondage lesson. Who knows?"
The monthly gathering takes place every second Saturday of the month at G Straight Cafe (直走咖啡) at 18, Ln 27, Dingzhou Rd, Sec 3, Taipei City (台北市汀州路三段27巷18號). Visit the group's Web site for updates.
BDSM Company's productions on Sunday at Nanhai Gallery (南海藝廊) and on Sept. 9 and Sept. 10 at the Comedy Club sold out two weeks ago. If you don't have tickets, but still want to learn about BDSM, bondage artist Shima Malphas from Japan will perform late tonight and tomorrow ("definitely after 11:30pm," organizers say) at Show House (秀屋) at 161 Daguan Rd, Greater Taichung (台中市大觀路161號). For more information, call (04) 2251-5888 or visit www.show-house.com.tw.


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Youth Organizer Spotlights offer a chance to learn more about the youth who participate in our Youth Cultural Organizing Training (YCOT) — and be inspired by the energy, power, and wisdom they bring to our racial justice organizing community.
Name: Jocelyn Hernandez
Age: 18
How do you self identify?
I'm Mexican, indigenous too, and a cis-gendered woman
How is your story or the story of your community connected to why you organize?
I come from a community that has survived on being united. My community has been exploited and oppressed for 500 years and I carry those ancestors on my shoulders. I think they are the ones who give me the passion to organize for justice. I also feel like I owe it to my community to fight for them because I have enough class privilege to be able to do so. I'm lucky enough to not have to work two jobs. I have more energy to spare and I use that to organize, many don't have that privilege. Seeing and experiencing the trauma that my people have faced and continue to face, compels me to seek justice and the regaining of humanity for my people. Our survival is based on fighting injustice.
What does building power mean to you?
I think building power means building relationships and building community because I think if you don't have community how are you going to have more power? Definitely teaching people, educating them, and empowering them to educate themselves and others, and giving them the ability to take out what's already inside of them—the leadership skills that they already have and their ability to lead. It's sort of bringing out what people already have I think, it's about building intersectional liberation.
What were some of your expectations coming into the training?
I expected to be in a good space, in a safe space, where I could challenge if I needed to, I could step back if I needed to, and I knew that that would be respected. I wouldn't have to give up pieces of myself that I didn't want to or that I wouldn't have to stress myself to the point that I didn't feel like I could. You know, I just knew that it would be safe and that because of that it would be a really good learning experience. When we started talking about having different mentors, I knew that that would be really awesome, like building solidarity and seeing things through a different intersectional lens. I was really excited.
What are some things that surprised you?
The amount of youth I think. Because for me, not being in high school any more, and the high school I went to I didn't see a lot of youth leaders or any leaders interested in the movement, wanting to build power, wanting to you know, fight for liberation, so that was really surprising. Seeing young Muslim people, that are always seen as on the margins, they're made invisible in the movement, I think a lot of times. But now, a lot more young Muslim people out there fighting anti-blackness, fighting Islamophobia and I think it's really awesome. When I saw that going down I thought, this is great and these are really awesome people. And they truly are really amazing.
What was your biggest take-away?
I think my biggest take away was how beneficial this kind of training is, because I realized in comparison to others I've been a part of, I felt safer. I think I use this training as a foundation for the space that I build anytime I'm talking about social justice issues or going into the community, or teaching, I always look back to this training, the guidelines that were set. The exercises that we did to just open the space…were really beneficial and to close the space-I use them on a daily basis at my job or when I'm talking to people about sensitive subjects.
What do you think is the role of art in organizing and movement building?
I think it's vital, like I always think back to the 1960s and the early 70s and how everything kind of changed so suddenly. And it was because of music, it was because of art that it changed so suddenly. You know, when we're talking about chants during protests and everyone knows the black panther chants that were going on at that time, and the songs that were going out with the Chicano movement, with the Farmworker's movement, with the Young Lords–You know, every single movement had their own like, signature style of music, their own band that everyone knew was part of that. Like the American Indian Movement–a lot of American Indian artists started coming out and they would sing about Wounded Knee. Even if you think of cinema as being art, Marlon Brando came out and said "well I support the American Indian Movement, I'm going to deny this award until you guys are treating our American Indian folks at Wounded Knee with respect and dignity." I just feel like art is what's central to movement building, and it's also healing, but that's what makes real impactful change that everyone can relate to.
What do you think makes art healing?
Well I mean if you're an artist, making art is healing. And if you're not an artist, seeing that love that people have for art, and kind of like seeing it from their perspective and seeing the beautiful things that can come out, or the sad things that can come out from being in the movement or seeing these things you know? I also think it breaks the fake things that are put in place to separate us, because art is universal, you don't have to know a different language to feel art.
How are you able to reach people in a different way through art?
I mean art can be put anywhere, with graffiti or with posters. For example, Ricardo Levins Morales, his art is so straight forward but at the same time there are so many aspects that go into it. There are all these posters of his that are just a big picture, but if you look at the background it says even more. I think you get to touch at people's experiences, everyone's experiences without excluding anyone.
What's the most challenging part of organizing?
I would say two things, the first one being taking care of yourself which I'm struggling with right now. It's so hard, especially because the past movements that came before me, before anyone right now, all those movements have been…people were not taking care of themselves, they were short lived. They did many incredible things, but by the end, people were like, I can't do this anymore, I can't do this, I'm dying, I gave up everything. There were people that were giving up their families, people who were giving up their children, like they didn't see their children anymore, because they were so dedicated to the movement. And also dealing with the people in your own community that don't believe in what you're doing, but I'm doing this for you. I could leave, and could go somewhere, but I'm doing this for you, for your children, for my brothers, for my sisters, for everyone in the future. How can you not respect me, how can you not respect me and love me in the way that I love you even though I don't know you? I'm spending all this time, I'm hurting myself almost, I'm going through all this trauma so you can get free, but you're telling me I'm stupid for doing this. Or that I'm too serious, that I'm doing too much.
How do you engage that? What are your boundaries?
I try my best to constantly engage people, but it's something I should be figuring out right now, I can keep pushing and trying to engage, but some people just don't want to move. Which is understandable, because doing this work is not easy, it's not happy go lucky all the time, let's have fun, wow this is great. It's really hard and I can understand why people want to close their eyes to it and I think when I stop engaging is when they start insulting me as a person, saying that I'm this or I'm that. I don't know yet though, I'm not sure what my boundaries are just yet.
What's your favorite part of organizing
I think it's seeing that light that comes out in people's eyes when they see things, and when they get it, when it clicks in their brains and they know there's something that we can do about it. Especially with youth organizing. Organizing on my college campus, empowering students to demonstrate or have meetings with the president, and know they have just as much power as the president and there is power in people, and there is power in being a student-you have a lot more power than you think you do, and seeing all that click. When we start talking about the Black Panther party and talking about their ancestors how amazing all the things that you carry inside of you are. They get it and that passion comes out, and the love for their people comes out. That's probably my favorite part of organizing.
What does power mean to you? When do you feel most powerful?
I guess I'll start off with when I feel most powerful that will help me get my own definition. I feel powerful when people put trust in me, when my community puts trust in me and says I want you to be the spokesperson for this, I want you, give me your advice–I feel powerful in that sense because I'm trusted. Powerful is such an ugly word sometimes the way the society has made it, so it's kind of hard to say that, but yes I feel powerful when my community trusts me with the things that I know are going to really affect them? I guess power means ..that's so hard because I'm stuck on the ugly part of power.
What makes power ugly?
Power, when we're talking about people who can move people in really bad ways. See power is kind of shared, because you can't have power without having people.
So lets think power with, versus power over. Talk to me about power with…
Power with, that's when you have power with community, you have Black Panther, all power to the people kind of power. It's not just yours, you have to feed off of other people and other people have to feed off of you. You have to share that good energy, that love, to have that power, in order to have that trust between people. And then power over is fear–people are scared of you and so that's why they listen to you.
How do you practice self-care?
I'm actually an introvert, so I like being alone. There are moments in time when I just need to be alone and usually it's with my dog. I guess reading, watching films, listening to Marvin Gaye, and also sometimes if I'm not drained with social interaction, self-care to me looks like talking to people. And even just listening to people tell me what they're going through to me makes me feel good. Sometimes we need to take a step back and realize that we're not the only ones, that there are other people that feel this way and we can talk to them. It depends. Sometimes it looks like being alone, laughing, grounding myself and loving myself. Other times it manifests itself in building friendships with people.
What is our responsibility to the movement, to our community, to include healing spaces in organizing?
I think it's a huge responsibility, I think it's central to organizing, because if you don't open those spaces and if you don't have that time to process, you can literally be killing people. You could literally hurt someone, you could hurt their family, you hurt people by doing that. You're doing them a disservice and you're sort of exploiting them if you're using them to do demonstrations, if you're using them to do actions, and then you're not with them in that time of healing, in that time of processing, you're kind of disposing of them. You're seeing them as disposable, because you're using them and if you're not processing you're letting them alone to go through the trauma they've been inflicted with. So that's a huge responsibility that kind of goes hand-in-hand. You can't organize without helping your people process, you're not helping your people, you're using your people.
What does solidarity look like in organizing?
I think it looks like knowing your own privileges and using those privileges in ways that are going to help the movement, but also always remembering whose voices are being centered and whose struggles are being centered in the movement. You know, you have to acknowledge the ways that your struggles play into their movement, but you can't let that override it. It's being in the movement, but also being outside of it. You can't put yourself in the middle of it, you can't go to a Black Lives Matter meeting as a brown person and say "I think that you guys should move the direction towards this. I don't think you guys should focus on police brutality." My community is affected by it in a different way. It's difficult, it's almost like being within and without. Helping when needed, you're providing your resources, your putting your body on the line with another community but you can't center yourself. You can't make it about your people if it's not supposed to be about your people. At the same time you have to always be conscious about how your struggle intersects with theirs.
What do you need from other people trying to build solidarity with you?
Not trying to tell me how to do it, and not telling me, oh this person is bad don't talk to them. You know, letting me, trusting me that I'm smart enough, that I know what to do, that I know what I'm doing. Also standing up for me when I'm not there especially. Always thinking of me in the space. You're thinking of me and doing something to protect me even when I'm not there, so it's not for show, it's because you truly believe it. You truly know that, you truly see how your own trauma and your own pain is similar to mine.
How are you implementing pieces of what you learned this summer during the training into your own organizing work?
I think with what my college, North Hennepin Community College, has been doing on campus with the Diversity and Equity office with the students there, and the work we've been doing with the president, we presented a list of demands at the start of the school year and when I was organizing students to do those kinds of things I always made sure to open spaces and close spaces. When everything around Black Lives Matter and the 4th precinct started happening, we would have conversations about that in the office, because we have a lot of young black students. A lot of them from North Minneapolis, and that healing space we had in this training (YCOT) I modeled in there. Setting guidelines, really talking about things, structural racism and how that works–different parts of it. Showing people really what's going on. Showing them the reality of what's going on and also having them talk about that, giving them a voice, giving them a space to show their voice. But especially an emphasis on healing is something I've been trying to do, and this training was definitely a foundation for that as well as allowing people to really take leadership of their own abilities. Sometimes we're like this is what you should do, but having them learn these things, and having them make the decision of what they want to do, not pushing them too far, but agitating them enough so that they're moving. I use things every day from this training, and the people that I met through it I carry with me. Having the youth in this cohort be my peers, but also learn from them, and still be learning from them is so cool.


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Control Freak Series: Part Five
Pastor Adam Jones October 29th, 2017
THINK ABOUT IT: Is it possible to live without FAITH?
Genesis 15:5-6 He took him outside and said, "Look up at the sky and count the stars—if indeed you can count them." Then he said to him, "So shall your offspring be." 6 Abram believed the Lord, and he credited it to him as righteousness.
Genesis 16:1-2 Now Sarai, Abram's wife, had borne him no children. But she had an Egyptian slave named Hagar; 2 so she said to Abram, "The Lord has kept me from having children. Go, sleep with my slave; perhaps I can build a family through her." Abram agreed to what Sarai said.
Sin is being fully persuaded that I have the power to do what GOD has promised.
Faith is being fully persuaded that GOD has the power to do what GOD has promised.
Romans 4:18-25 Against all hope, Abraham in hope believed and so became the father of many nations, just as it had been said to him, "So shall your offspring be." 19 Without weakening in his faith, he faced the fact that his body was as good as dead—since he was about a hundred years old—and that Sarah's womb was also dead. 20 Yet he did not waver through unbelief regarding the promise of God, but was strengthened in his faith and gave glory to God, 21 being fully persuaded that God had power to do what he had promised. This is why "it was credited to him as righteousness." The words "it was credited to him" were written not for him alone, 24 but also for us, to whom God will credit righteousness—for us who believe in him who raised Jesus our Lord from the dead. 25 He was delivered over to death for our sins and was raised to life for our justification.
Forgiveness says, "you may GO."
Justification says, "you may COME."
GOSPEL TRUTH: Righteousness is something God puts in your ACCOUNT, not something you pay out of your account.
Romans 3:21-24 But now apart from the law the righteousness of God has been made known, to which the Law and the Prophets testify. 22 This righteousness is given through faith in Jesus Christ to all who believe. There is no difference between Jew and Gentile, 23 for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, 24 and all are justified freely by his grace through the redemption that came by Christ Jesus.
It is not the strength of your faith but the object of your faith that actually saves you. Strong faith in a weak branch is fatally inferior to weak faith in a strong branch. -Tim Keller
"God, you know me, and I know me. There is nothing in me that makes me right before you. I can't point to anything I've done so I point to everything Jesus Christ has done for me. I can't achieve righteousness so today I choose to receive it. Apply His righteousness to my account. Justify me, God, as you've promised, because of Jesus. Today, I choose to trust that you are who you say you are and you did what you said you would do. I step across the line from once trusting myself to now trusting you."
Small Group Questions:
- We kicked off this message with this question: Is it possible to live without faith? What's your answer? Why?
- What promises have been made to you over the course of your life? What promises are you trusting in right now?
- Go back and read Genesis 15:1-6. What was the promise that God made to Abraham? Why do you think the story of Abraham's faith is so important to the New Testament writers?
- How would you explain the difference between forgiveness and justification to a friend?
- Read the quote from Tim Keller above. What is your immediate response?
- If I know God's declares me righteous in Christ, how will it change the way I live?


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- 739 comments on the Reddit Programming link ("How many developers over 40 do you know?" - Thoughts on Developer Longevity)
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How many developers over 40 do you know? For quite a few of you, the answer will be 0. For those of you who do know of one or more developers over 40: how many of them are good? If you know any good developers over 40, then do yourself a favor: start picking their brain and figure out how they keep their skills sharp. Once you've done that, do us all a favor and publish it somewhere because there really aren't that many older developers that are any good in this industry.
The post has some points which I completely agree with. For example, many organizations do "reward" or "expect" that the best developers will be managers when they "grow up." As the post states, others do move into management essentially because they find the repetition of software development less interesting or less challenging than they used to and think there are more interesting (or more effective) tactics employed in management. Bruce Eckel provides an excellent example of the latter: one would be hard-pressed to say the the author of Thinking in C++ and Thinking in Java is not "any good in this industry," but Eckel has started changing interests. Note that Eckel is still heavily involved in the industry, but his interests are obviously broadening. Some might argue this is a natural maturation and evolution of the best overall software engineers who understand there is more to software development than coding.
I also agree with Brion's two pieces of advice for developers who want to maintain heavily involved in coding even after they turn forty. Brion recommends "keep feeling stupid" and "question what you know and think, all the time.". I have written about similar concepts in my post Are You the Best Developer You Know? and a commenter left a similar comment on his post.
Although many of the post author's observations are similar to my own, there are also some aspects of this post that I believe are misguided or perhaps a little naive, perhaps because of the perceived youth of the author. I believe many of these are due to coming to sweeping conclusions based on limited exposure to a limited piece of the software development industry. For example, it may be true that "there really aren't that many older developers that are any good in this industry" in some of the tinker toy application development projects or in some of the many projects that dominate the blogosphere. However, in more complex domains where mathematical algorithms and deep scientific knowledge are involved, I've found that the older developers generally outshine their younger, less experienced counterparts. Even the most talented young developer has a difficult time competing with the breadth and depth of knowledge acquired over years or even decades of working in such domains.
Brion's post is an example of how a post with appropriate title and subject can lead to interesting and useful community discussion. His post is worth reading in and of itself, but the comments on his post are at least equally insightful. In the remainder of this post, I look at how some of these comments reflect some of my own observations.
Our World is Not The World
In the movies Men in Black and Men in Black II, there is a recurring theme that even the Men in Black themselves don't realize their relationship to the outer world(s). The first movie ends with a scene showing huge extraterrestrial beings placing with the planet Earth as if it is a marble. The second movie shows Agent Jay's and Agent Kay's residence (again, the Earth) simply being one of many lockers in another world's locker area. The point is that there is a much bigger world out there than the one which they live in and know. They don't know it's out there and so think the whole world is what they do know. In a sense, it's easy in any aspect in life (including development) to make sweeping judgments about the world in general or software development in particular based on our own little piece of that space. We cannot help it because we simply don't know better and often don't realize what we don't know or are missing.
It's likely that there are some projects or areas or organizations where there are few to no strong developers over forty. Having stated that, I'm aware of colleagues working on some projects and products who don't have anyone under 35 on their team because they require breadth and depth that simply aren't generally available in developers with less than 10 years experience. In either situation, it would be all too easy to make erroneous conclusions and stereotypes about developers of different age groups.
Ryan Cromwell left a short but insightful comment along these lines on that post: "I know plenty of very good 40+ developers. Be careful not to assume your world is the norm."
Achilleas Margaritis's comment on this post is also insightful in this regard:
I am 38. The developer that sits at the right position of me is 44. The developer that sits at the left position of me is 43. The guy behind him is 55. The group of developers in the end of the office space is from 35 to 60.
Please don't consider people over 40 as old. They are not. While they are not as active as those in their 20s, they have lots of experience, they know algorithms, and they can easily learn new platforms due to their experience.
In the comments section, TedT writes, "You probably don't know any because your hyper cool little startup discriminates by age so they won't hire anyone that doesn't look exactly themselves" and Nunya Biznes writes, "I don't know where you work or have worked that there are no developers over 40."
What, There's More to Life?
Ian Smith left another insightful comment on this post:
You're missing one key reason why many leave the industry before 40. After 20+ years the whole "be happy with no life" approach to keeping up-to-date (always in your own time because firms don't bother with training any more) becomes kind of lame.
I've definitely observed this. It does seem that many developers change their interests (some might say develop a better perspective) as they approach the age of forty. For many developers in this age group, new family and/or personal considerations take on a new level of importance. Time for "playing" with the latest technology can become more limited as demands for their time increase. Some developers simply want to try something new. This is not all that unusual because I think there is some satisfaction to learning more about an area in which one knows very little.
The Software Craftsman
I'm a believer in the concept of software craftsmanship. It's difficult to believe that someone can become a "craftsman" in anything in one or two years. It's far more believable that someone can become a true craftsman after many more years (seven years is often used in other industries) of experience.
The Value of History
In The Life of Reason, George Santayana stated, "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it." Many of us have heard or even quoted a slightly altered form of this: "Those who don't know history are destined to repeat it." I have found that more experienced developers often have experience in certain areas that allows them to be better judges of whether the latest language, framework, or library is simply another passing fad or something really worth future investment and consideration. Software development is a cyclic industry in which a certain approach can be in fashion for a few years, fall out of fashion for a few years, and come back into fashion again for a few years. The more experienced software developers are less likely to be easily swayed by the Lemming Effect.
Mike has an interesting comment related to this:
There is another possibility the author overlooks: younger coders' idea of what makes someone "good" is wrong. Refusing to jump on a fad until it's proven to be valuable does not make you a bad coder. Refusing to use the latest alpha release of some open source framework that was posted on freshmeat for the first time yesterday does not mean you're "behind the times". Refusing to take part in the alpha-geeking process of proving who is the techiest of all does not mean that you have no skills.
I have envied some of the instinctive skills I have witnessed some developers older than me illustrate and I have been on the other end as well when I have had younger developers ask "How did you know how to do that?" and I was able to trace it back to an experience on an earlier project.
I like baeocystin's comment on the "Thought on Developer Longevity" post: "You ask some good questions, but you should add one more- what do these intelligent, experienced ex-developers know that you don't?"
Not All Experience is Created Equal
It is my opinion that twenty years working with multiple domains, multiple problems, and multiple customer needs is far more significant and useful than twenty years doing the same thing. This has been described as the difference between doing the same thing twenty times or doing twenty different things. I extend this to learning new languages, frameworks, and tools. Although I think there's tremendous value in learning new languages and tools, my feeling is that I'd rather have a developer who knows a small number of languages well and has applied them in diverse situations over the developer who knows numerous languages but has used them all for solving the same basic or simple problem. Knowing how to write "Hello, World" in 35 different languages is not a very useful skill in and of itself. The developer who can solve complex problems in a particular language is more likely to be able to pick up a new language for solving another complex problem than the person knowing a bunch of languages only used in simple applications.
Disadvantages for More Experienced Developers
There's no question that experienced developers do face some disadvantages. While their experience can help them avoid the Lemming Effect, they can go too far the other way and not be willing to consider anything new or doing something a different way. This is covered in Brion's post. Other posts on disadvantages of experienced developers include How Experienced Developers Can Handicap a Lean Startup and Older Developers: Bad Habits Are Killing Your Career. While there may be some gross stereotyping in some of these, I do think it's worth every developer's time to always consider whether he or she is letting established habits and comfort misguide decisions.
Early in my software development career, I observed several older software developers who had been effective in days of procedural programming, but really struggled with object-oriented languages. It was not that there people were unintelligent or slow-witted. On the contrary, they had implemented some sophisticated applications despite having significantly less tools to work with than we do today. Unfortunately, they had trouble making the mental shift from procedural style to what many of us do today (object-oriented with some procedural skeletons in the closet).
What is 'Good'?
A problem with any of these types of discussions surrounds the use of subjective terms like "good." This is pointed out well by the Foredecker comment that points out problems of perception of what makes a good developer. As the comment points out, perceived outward excitement is not necessarily an indicator of a better developer.
Examples of Software Developers Over 40 Who Are At Least 'Any Good'
There are numerous examples of good software developers over the age of forty. Tim O'Brien's comment on the "Thoughts on Developer Longevity" post is: "Most of the developers I know are over 40, and they are all so good at what they do they put everyone else to shame."
I previously mentioned Bruce Eckel, who is 53 years old according to Wikipedia. The first edition of Thinking in C++ was published when he was 42 years old and he was over 40 when the first edition of Thinking in Java was published.
According to Wikipedia, Bjarne Stroustrup was born in 1950, Tim Bray, James Gosling, Grady Booch, and Tim Berners-Lee were born in 1955 (what was in the water that year?), Martin Odersky was born in 1958, Josh Bloch and Kent Beck were born in 1961, Martin Fowler was born in 1963, and Yukihiro Matsumoto was born in 1965. I think we could find room on our team for any of these individuals.
The post Thoughts on Developer Longevity and its associated comments are well worth the read. I agree with Brion's assertions as often, but not always, true. My major disagreement is with the percentage or ratio of good/bad developers over age forty and I think this may be due to different experiences in our careers. In the end, Brion's reasoning for the post (to determine what drives developers to remain effective after age forty) is a good way to start potentially valuable community discussion. A user going by the name "Public" perhaps answered the question most succinctly: "I'm a 42 year old developer and my secret is this: love learning new things and spend the time to do so. There you go."
My experience has been that the most successful software development projects often are made up of a mixture of young developers who are already skilled and have even more potential with master craftsman who can guide the team through political and technological challenges they have seen many times before.


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MrPieChee wrote:Making them rapid fire 2 and keeping their 6+ hit rule would make them really expensive.
Rapid fire 2 means 4 hits at 12" all the time, so you don't care about needing to roll a 6+. Imo it's more robust. With no AP, going to rapid fire 3 could be an option, but it's probably OTT.
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IHateNids wrote:You remove the "Tesla" rule and we no longer have any answer to hordes
Yes we would, it would just be at 12" instead, and wouldn't be screwed by -1 to hit.
IHateNids wrote:You remove the "Tesla" rule and we no longer have any answer to hordes
Pancakey wrote:Necrons need soup
MrPieChee wrote:Oh, I see. They have extra AP, so I don't think making them rapid fire 2 is better than assult 2 when you consider the cost increase that will be needed.
Currently no one uses Gauss blasters, so a buff of assult 2 would blance them. But having them rapid fire 2, str 5 and AP -2 would probably add 2-4 pts.
Tesla is strong already, making it rapid fire 2 with no special rule means it's a little worse at 24", but better at 12", and generally more reliable.
When you consider immortals are normally used with MWBD, then then it looks like more of a Nerf to Tesla, but it feels more fluffy to me.
Cynista wrote:Destroyer Lord should be 90 points before weapon/wargear and his buff should affect all -Dynasty- units.
Flayed ones rules should stay as they are but come down to 12-13 ppm. Alternatively, 15 ppm (same as Immortals) and gain back the attack they lost. They still wouldn't see much action with these changes but at least they wouldn't be worthless
Spyders need a complete rework. Make them 50 points, 6 wounds and grant re-rolls for RP to -Dynasty Infantry- units.
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Spyders need a complete rework. Make them 50 points, 6 wounds and grant re-rolls for RP to -Dynasty Infantry- units.
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jy2 wrote:BTW, I can't wait to run Double-D-thirsters! Man, just thinking about it gets me Khorney.
vipoid wrote:Indeed - what sort of bastard would want to use their codex?
MarsNZ wrote:ITT: SoB players upset that they're receiving the same condescending treatment that they've doled out in every CSM thread ever.
IHateNids wrote:Remains 1-use
Affects all units in 6"?
Avor wrote:The Necrons need to scare their foes; give them the old rules. 3+ armour saves, destroyers with jet bikes movement of old. When my gaurd only had one way to fight SM and Crons (with the battle cannon) warriors were a serous threat. Those hight speed,, peek a boo, shooring is exactly what was needed to put down Tau crisis suits and riptides.
GW just sit one day and want to change how all the armies play out. Tau was mobility, Eldar was speed, Necron were about raw toughtness and staying power.I was into necronds knew them for. They can be used, but now the way I want or the way to make them fun.
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Anti-tank is the bigger problem IMO. Maybe something like doubling the Damage on Gauss weapons if the target is over T5?
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Dandelion wrote:I had a similar idea:
- Gauss blaster: gets 2 damage
- gauss flayer: gets ap-2
1. tesla already covers the anti-infantry role, so give blasters an anti-vehicle role.
2. a S4 ap -2 flayer would be highly versatile, which is great for a unit with only 1 weapon option.
ictaris wrote:How about improving the Gauss Flayer by doubling their stats when hitting with a natural 6? So Rapid Fire 1 S4 AP-1 D1 evolves to Rapid Fire 1 S8 AP-2 D2. Would have a much bigger impact on vehicles.
vs. Primaris (T4, 3+)
from 1* 4/6* 3/6* 3/6* 1 = 0,167 damage per shot aka 12 shots to kill a Primaris
to 1* 3/6* 3/6* 3/6* 1 + 1* 1/6* 5/6* 4/6* 2 = 0,31 damage per shot (186%)(7 shots)
vs. Venerable Dreadnaught (T7, 3+)
from 1* 4/6* 2/6* 3/6* 1 = 0,111
to 1* 3/6* 2/6* 3/6* 1 + 1* 1/6* 4/6* 4/6* 2 = 0,231 (208%)
vs. Land Raider (T8, 2+)
from 1* 4/6* 1/6* 2/6* 1 = 0,037
to 1* 3/6* 1/6* 2/6* 1 + 1* 1/6* 4/6* 4/6* 2 = 0,111 (300%)
vs. Knight (T8, 3+, 4++ with CP)
from 1* 4/6* 1/6* 3/6* 1 = 0,056
to 1* 3/6* 1/6* 3/6* 1 + 1* 1/6* 3/6* 3/6* 2 = 0,181 (323%)
At long range a 20-warriors-blob can put a dent in Dreads and Tanks, at short Range starting to cripple knights. Maybe limit the ability to "against vehicles", cause 2-3 20-warriors-blobs might become a thing.
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