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Sunday, October 20, 2013
Civic Culture Down the Drain
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- Anonymous10/20/13, 2:16 AM
I see the bright light from the burning midnight oil...
Don't overdo it; (candle being lit on both ends).
Great thanks; LLTHB!
Hun, you've got great eyesight, foresight, hindsight, left-right-up and downsight. The smoke from the burning midnight oil leaves me with only middle sight. Holding a candle burning at both ends leaves a mess of wax.ReplyDelete
Thanks Hun.
- Anonymous10/23/13, 7:03 AM
It's me again - the one that was recommending Ozy & Millie as a Pogo descendent. Figured this time I'd share some thoughts about my growing up in the south and Kelly's work.ReplyDelete
I recall when I was younger being introduced to Kelly's work in some study I don't recall the specifics of when I lived on the coast of South Carolina (I now live in Atlanta, where presumably where the fictional residents of Fort Mudge might head for the cosmopolitan delights). I vaguely recalled reports of Walt Kelly's death as a boy and felt faintly sad that someone that drew funny animals had left us, but I was not really aware of how important it would become to me later.
What may be interesting was how much I initially disliked Pogo. You see, it was all too familiar to me the earthy twang of the southern dialect, which for Walt being a yankee was exotic and had a pleasant mystique, was actually rather off-putting since at my youth in the 70s and 80s I associated it with ignorance - and not the pleasant blissfully unaware of modernism ilk. That and the fact everyone seemed to be fairly dirty-soled (which really is more an artifact of 'tread shading' that Kelly liked to use) and had those unique four-toed-not-quite-human not-quite-classic-cartoon-three-toed feet (which grew on me as they are actually indispensable in the blend of expressiveness without losing too much cuteness).
It never occurred to me until much later how much time Pogo characters tend to laze about or indulge in play - more so than many other cartoon characters. When it comes down to it, there are strong hints that Pogo is essentially Kelly's own extended boyhood, full of fishing and baseball and shenanigans galore that perhaps his health may have disallowed the apportionment he truly desired. I tend to be of the mind that as much as I love all of Kelly's work, there's a special place in my heart for the Albert the Alligator era from Animal Comics, back when he could, when particularly grumpy, go back to four-footed mode and tailwomp the tar out of particularly ardent aggressors. That and I liked his eyes being somewhat wildly separated, his scutes pronounced, and his nostrils present. Admittedly he was a fairly surly sort, and Pogo himself certainly was fairly scraggly, but not as fearful as Kelly's revisionish view held. Later, he slowly devolved in details to where he got faintly salamanderesque and soft, which admittedly has its own charms. Kelly had refined the characters to the level that they were practically rendered in 3d mental space, and then expressively brush-worked in the resulting mental image with photographic accuracy - there's no arguing the backgrounds had become downright lavish towards the end.
As I started to enjoy the depth of the wordplay and poetry in it over the years, I was able to distance Kelly's much more liberal and comforting funny-animals version of the deep south from the painful and oppressive one from my childhood. It's possible some of the reason why Pogo is growing less easy to relate to is the growing and obvious rift between these two realities. I've been noticing awareness and gatherings for Kelly's work have been fading to alarming levels, with the official site in mothballs and frankly this site being about the most active I can find, though it wasn't this way in the early 2000s. I have to wonder if anything is going on behind the scenes, or if this is just the continuation of that slow painful slide into mainstream obscurity.
Wonderful comments here. This is the kind of dialogue gambitry that I've been encouraging since the beginning of this blog (though Hun and some others have lovingly fulfilled that encouragement). Rather than dialogue in the relative obscurity of this comment section, I'd like to happily respond out in the open with new posts in the next week or two.ReplyDelete
Thank you!Replies
- Anonymous10/25/13, 7:24 AM
Since I've become somewhat a regular lately (well, 3 comments are mine - I was the one suggesting reassembling the word balloons in the french version). I should probably at least identify myself by some tag so at least I'm not simply 'that verbose anonymous Albert the Alligator fan'. So let's go with (A) for now, short Alimentary - probably the latter since it's the name of one of Albert's forgotten nephews.Delete
Alimentary my dear fellow — I like it.ReplyDeleteReplies
- Anonymous10/25/13, 2:30 PM
The other option was Alexander, but Alimentary is infinitely funny, since it pertains to anything regarding sustenance. And Albert was always having things falling with comedic regularity into his maw. Including nearly deliberately Alexander at one point.Delete
- Anonymous10/27/13, 3:15 AM
...alimentary, Dr. Watson!ReplyDelete
- Anonymous10/27/13, 7:03 AM
are you still interested in in "crummies" containing the balloons for the "French publication"?
If so (and if Thom agrees) I could post a link for downloading.
I certainly agree to it!ReplyDelete
- Anonymous11/1/13, 11:43 AM
My offer still stands to do the paste ins from the original runs into the french comic-book style version. If anyone can translate the characters pages, I'll Photoshop in the English there as well.ReplyDelete
- Anonymous11/2/13, 2:21 PM
I just a moment ago uploaded 'crummies.zip' to MailBigFile.
Download Link is : http://mbf.me/rTC22B
Sorry to have to grumble; but the amount of volunteering response from the community you can expect in my experience in all probability is:minimal.
So I'm going to elbow myself into the limelight (even if it is kind of silly for a hun to translate from French to English). Plus it will take some time; so do not hold your breath...


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Hello and welcome. The idea for an online writing group (Morgen's Online Short Story Writing Group) came to me as I walked my dog around the park (as good ideas often do) on Sunday 6th January 2013. I'd already set up a Feedback section on my main (Morgen Bailey's Writing Blog) blog, but that was just a list of readers / writers willing / offering to provide feedback and they then go off and talk amongst themselves.
I then thought of posting stories and non-fiction articles and took a few submissions over the five Online Writing Groups* but then when I reminded everyone that by posting online, it was / they were deemed as published which restricted the posting elsewhere and the submissions tailed off.
So, it's become an information site with regular exercises for you to write to and submit via the lists on https://morgenbailey.wordpress.com/submission-information/submissions-non-fiction which is replicated on this blog's Submissions page.
*My other online writing group sites are:
- Morgen's Online Short Story Writing Group: http://shortstorywritinggroup.wordpress.com and http://www.facebook.com/groups/544072635605445
- Morgen's Online Poetry Writing Group: http://poetrywritinggroup.wordpress.com and http://www.facebook.com/groups/388850977875934
- Morgen's Online Novel Writing Group: http://novelwritinggroup.wordpress.com and http://www.facebook.com/groups/508696639153189
- Morgen's Online Script Writing Group: http://scriptwritinggroup.wordpress.com and http://www.facebook.com/groups/319941328108017
And this blog has a Facebook page: http://www.facebook.com/groups/335526669896374.
Happy writing and do let me know (email below) how you get on.
Morgen With An 'E'

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Posted by: Pulse Journal Club11 August 2015
The study
CBT for insomnia (CBT-I) is known to be an effective intervention. However, it is rarely used by GPs as it takes too long to deliver in GP consultations, and the training required is extensive.
Lately researchers have focused on interventions that can be realistically delivered within brief GP consultations. This has focused on behavioural components of CBT-I, including sleep restriction and stimulus control. Sleep restriction affects fragmented sleep by decreasing the time spent in bed (aka 'the sleep opportunity') which causes mild sleep deprivation, which subsequently improves endogenous sleep drive.
An RCT of 97 patients with primary insomnia in Auckland, New Zealand analysed whether simplified sleep restriction designed to fit into two GP consultations (an even shorter intervention than those mentioned above) could improve sleep among patients with primary insomnia.
Researchers issued almost 30,000 letters to patients requesting participation, but due to rigorous exclusion criteria regards secondary insomnia (including passing a physical examination, checking for co-morbidities, mental health problems and hypnotic medications) the vast majority of these could not participate.
Both groups were given verbal sleep hygiene advice, but the SSR (simplified sleep restriction) group was also given advice on how to implement SSR.
The intervention was that patients had to halve the total time they spent awake in bed. A minimum total of five hours had to be spent in bed (total of time spent sleeping and awake). Patients were reviewed two weeks later, and if they were sleeping for less than 85% of the time they spent in bed, the time spent awake in bed was reduced to 30 minutes (or 60 minutes if they felt very sleepy). Total duration of this advice was 20 minutes.
Outcomes measured included various measures of sleep quality such as the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PSQI) and Insominia Severity Index (ISI), as well as the Epworth sleepiness scale and wakefulness after sleep. Total sleep time was also analysed.
Main findings
1 SSR intervention lead to statistically significant improved outcomes using the above parameters, with an NNT of four.
2 At the six-month follow-up, 10 patients in the control group were using hypnotic medications three times a week, compared to only two patients in the SSR group.
3 Some 67% of patients in the SSR group had remission of their insomnia compared to 41% in the control group- the adjusted odds of remission were 2.7 times higher in the SSR group compared to the control group
What this means for GPs
GPs should consider instituting basic simplified sleep restriction in patients with primary insomnia - particularly when one considers the significant physical morbidities associated with insomnia, as well as the risks of hypnotics medications including addiction.
Although this trial had a fairly small number of patients, this is a brief intervention that can be delivered quickly, and (as far as I can see) has no major risks of adverse effects or wastage of resources associated with it.
The paper
Dr Hamed Khan is a GP in the emergency department of St George's, London, and a clinical lecturer. He tweets as @drhamedkhan
Readers' comments (2)
Excellent hamed, well worth a try.
It's an interesting paper. My main concern about the study is about the recruitment. 28,978 screening letters were sent out and 2,740 people (9.5%) replied. 97 people (0.3% of those initially contacted) eventually completed the programme. This means there is considerable scope for selection bias in the recruitment strategy.


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This post is a bit of a divergence from my norm.
I'm going to editorialize a bit about mathematics, type classes and the tension between different ways of fitting ideas together, rather than about any one algorithm or data structure.
I apologize in advance for the fact that my examples are written from my perspective, and as I'm writing about them unilaterally my characterization is likely to be unfair. Something in here is likely to offend everyone.
Generalized Abstract Nonsense
The term "generalized abstract nonsense" was originally coined by Norman Steenrod as a term of endearment, rather than of denigration. e.g. Saying in passing "this is true by abstract nonsense" when referring to a long-winded proof that offers no insight into the domain at hand.
Now, some mathematicians like to refer to category theory as generalized abstract nonsense, not out of endearment, but because they do not find immediate value in its application. Among category theorists this view is seen as somewhat daft, as they view category theory as a sort of Rosetta Stone for mapping ideas from one area of mathematics to another -- a lingua franca that lets you express commonalities and cross-cutting concerns across domains.
To me category theory serves as a road map to new domains. I don't know much about rational tangles, but if I know that with 2 dimensions of freedom, they form a braided monoidal category letting me tie myself in er.. knots, but in 3 or more dimensions they form a symmetric monoidal category, letting me untie all knots.
With this, I can work with them and derive useful results without caring about irrelevant details and dealing with rope burn.
Centipede Mathematics
Just as some general mathematicians look down with various degrees of seriousness upon generalized abstract nonsense, even some category theorists look down upon what the analyst Antoni Zygmund famously referred to as centipede mathematics:
You take a centipede and pull off ninety-nine of its legs and see what it can do.
In this sense working with a
Semigroup is just working with a neutered
Monoid that has had its unit removed. The usual critique of "centipede mathematics" is that it lacks taste.
With such colorful metaphors, it'd be hard to argue otherwise!
The negative view of this practice seems to stem from the era of folks evaluating grant proposals to see whether or not it was likely to lead to interesting research that they could use. With fewer parts to use, it would seem that one would be unlikely to find new results that benefit those solely concerned with the larger mathematical object.
But in many ways, all of modern abstract algebra can be seen as an exercise in centipede mathematics.
Mathematicians started with the real numbers, which sit on a line, and, coincidentally, with suitable markers, look an awful lot like a centipede. Starting from there at the turn of the last century, mathematicians kept ripping off legs to get fields, rings, groups, monoids, etc.
Applied Mathematics and Computer Science
Of course, all of these folks are mathematicians, and many mathematicians famously look down their noses at applied mathematicians.
Consider the famous claim by G. H. Hardy:
I have never done anything 'useful'. No discovery of mine has made, or is likely to make, directly or indirectly, for good or ill, the least difference to the amenity of the world.
Mind you that didn't stop folks from later putting his ideas to work in thermodynamics and quantum physics, and the gap between pure mathematics and theoretical physics seems to be narrowing every year.
To me the difference between a mathematician and an applied mathematician is one of focus.
Often a mathematician will start with an abstraction and try to find things that fit, to help give intuition for folks for the more general concept.
Conversely, an applied mathematician will typically start with a thing, and try to find abstractions that capture its essence, giving rise to insight into its behavior. Mathematics is used to provide a bit of vaseline for the lens, blurring away the parts you don't want to focus on.
We aren't pulling legs off a centipede and seeing if it can go. We're trying to understand the behavior of a spider without gluing an extra 92 legs onto its thorax and then wondering why it lacks the strength to climb back into its web.
While not all centipede mathematicians are applied mathematicians, some really do just want to pull apart their abstractions in a Mengelean fashion and understand why they tick, but the art of applying mathematics is largely an exercise in centipede mathematics. At one extreme, roboticists often pull or blow the legs off their centipedes literally to see how they'll adjust their gait.
The View from the Bottom
Of course, all of these folks are mathematicians, so they can look down on the lowly computer scientist, the practitioner of an artform that is delightfully neither truly about computers nor, properly, a science.
Virtually everything we touch in computer science arose from a form of centipede mathematics.
Constructive logic is the natural vocabulary of computer science. You obtain it by ripping double-negation out of classical logic and watching the system hobble along. The idealized category of Haskell types
Hask is effectively used as a constructive analogue to
Theseus and Procrustes
We can, however, turn this perspective around.
In Greek mythology, Procrustes served as the final trial of Theseus during his travels to Athens. He would offer travelers along the road food and a night's lodging in a bed he promised would be a perfect fit.
Upon their repose, he would proceed to set to work on them with a hammer to stretch them to fit, or an axe to cut off any excess length, forcing them to fit the bed.
Worse, Procrustes kept two beds, so no traveler could ever measure up. While Theseus ultimately triumphed over the giant Procrustes, forcing him to fit his own bed by cutting off his head and feet, the concept lives on. In literary analysis, a Procrustean bed is an arbitrary standard to which exact conformity is enforced.
Procrustean Mathematics
Traditional mathematicians finds themselves often forced into the role of Procrustes with many such theoretical beds at their disposal, they can proceed by cutting off bits or adjoining pieces to satisfy the requirements of whatever mathematical construct in which they want to work.
Conversely, the applied mathematician or computer scientist often finds themself in a situation where they care more about their problem patient, but can't find a bed to fit. Being a bit less psychopathic, they must set aside mathematical taste and adjust the bed. This is an exercise in centipede mathematics, the bed itself doesn't fit, so they rip parts off of it until it does.
We don't do this because we hate the bed, but because we are concerned for the patient.
The mathematician is looking out for the needs of the abstraction. The applied mathematician or computer scientist is looking out to maximize the fit for a given domain.
The Operation Was a Success
In a recent thread on Reddit it was suggested that every
Semigroup should be extended to a
Monoid and then we could be done with the need for the more refined concept.
We can actually often accomplish this. Consider this
newtype First a = First { getFirst :: a }
instance Semigroup (First a) where
m <> _ = m
If you really want a
Monoid you can lay about with Procrustes' hammer and adjoin a unit.
newtype First a = First { getFirst :: Maybe a }
instance Semigroup (First a) where
First Nothing <> m = m
m <> _ = m
instance Monoid (First a) where
mempty = First Nothing
First Nothing `mappend` m = m
m `mappend` _ = m
Now our object has grown a bit more complicated, but we can use it with all the usual
Foldable machinery.
Sometimes the patient may be better off for his extra parts, but you may kill other properties you want along the way, or have to consider impossible cases.
Semigroup as a more fine-grained constraint does enable us to handle the empty case once and for all, and lets us fold over a
NonEmpty container with more things and capture the non-empty nature of something via
Foldable1 and it simplifies
First's implementation considerably, but requires you to use something like
Option to lift it into a
Monoid you can use for a general purpose list.
Here this is simply a matter of taste, but that isn't always the case.
... But the Patient Died
If you try to stretch any particular
Comonad to fit
Alternative, you have to deal with the fact that
extract empty :: a
This strongly implies no such beast can exist, and so the
Comonad must die to make room for the
Alternative instance.
We have to give up either
empty or
The type system has taken on the role of the serial killer Saw, sadistically forcing us to choose which of our friends will lose a limb.
Even if you want to disavow centipede mathematics, you're going to be forced to occasionally put your abstractions on the chopping block, or abandon rigor.
You may be able to upgrade an
Applicative parser to one that is a
Monad, perhaps at the cost of parallelism.
Haskell's type system is very good at expressing a few well chosen abstractions.
Monad used to be the golden hammer of the Haskell community, until we found out that
Applicative functors exist and are useful for capturing context-free code, where the control flow doesn't vary based on previous results.
Arrow was introduced along the way, but later had a smaller
Category class carved out of it.
Typeclasses in Haskell tend to force us into a small set of bed sizes, because it is relatively bad at code reuse across fine-grained class hierarchies.
Each attempt at refining the class hierarchy carries with it a price that library implementors and users who instantiate the classes must now write more methods. Worse, they must often do so without access to the full gamut of extra laws obtained further down in the class hierarchy, because they don't have a tenable way of offering defaults for superclass methods when they write a subclass.
Even with one of the superclass default proposals, you get no real code reuse for any form of transformer, and the existing default signature mechanism runs "the wrong way" in such a way that it even forces you to put everything in the same module.
The initial arguments against a fine-grained class hierarchy in Haskell arose from the same place as the denigration of centipede mathematics, but they are butressed by the pragmatic concern that there is real pain in an accurate class hierarchy caused by the design of the language.
These are valid concerns!
Arguments in favor of a finer-grained hierarchy arise from a desire to avoid flooding the namespace with redundant operations, and to capture the relationship between things. It arises from caring about the needs of the things you want to be able to reason about, rather than capturing just the examples that happen to measure up to an arbitrary standard.
These are also valid concerns!
semigroupoids package was originally written because I couldn't work with product categories in Haskell, but needed them in code.
I still can't, due to the presence of
Any as a distinguished member of every kind in Haskell.
Along the way, I dug up the -oid-ification of a
Semigroup, also known as a semicategory to capture the portions of the product category that we can write nicely in Haskell today.
When we look at the Kleisli category of things that are not quite a
Monad, or the static arrow category of things that are not quite
Applicative, we wind up with mere a
Semigroupoid rather than a
But where do we find such examples?
Consider the lowly
IntMap. It cannot be made an instance of
Applicative or
Monad directly.
We have three options to proceed if we want to work with something like
(<*>) or
(>>=) on it.
We can clutter the namespace with a completely ad hoc combinator that we can't abstract over.
We can try to adjoin a universal default. This means that you have to kill the
Traversableinstances for it, or deal with the fact that they basically return nonsense. It also means that you either have to give up the ability to delete from the map, or accept the fact that you aren't really modeling
(Int -> Maybe b)any more.
We can engage in a bit of centipede mathematics, ripping off the
Monadrespectively to get a semi-
Applicativeand a semi-
Monad, which I unartfully called
Bind, in
semigroupoids. Now we've respected the needs of the domain object, at the expense of a finer grained class hierarchy.
In a perfect world, from the perspective of the centipede mathematician,
Apply and
Bind would occupy a place of privilege in the class hierarchy.
However, to the Procrustean mathematicians who are only really concerned with
Applicative and
Monad, and who can't be bothered to deal with the finer grained hierarchy, such a refinement of the hierarchy merely adds cognitive overhead. They are happy to discard these examples in favor of a simpler, more teachable, meta-theory.
Both of these perspectives are valid.
Extensible Effects
To unfairly cast Oleg Kiselyov in the role of Procrustes with Edwin Brady as his understudy, we can look at the modeling of extensible effects in this same light.
Lawvere theories offer us too small a bed to fit many of the effects we care to model, such as continuation passing. This is why that effect is ignored by Edwin Brady's handling of effects for Idris. They just don't fit.
On the other hand, Oleg offers us a second bed that is much bigger, his
Eff monad is the result of applying
Codensity to a Lawvere Theory. Now it's the job of the handler to deal with the impossible cases.
We're forced to set about with Procrustes' hammer to embed many monads, like
Reader into a domain that is too large.
Codensity ((->) s) a ~
forall r. (a -> s -> r) -> s -> r
is strong enough to implement all of CPS'd
State. If you pass it
(,) for its first argument you get
s -> (a, s)! It is only by convention and hiding that we can restrict such a reader down to size.
This means that the compiler has really no chance of ever optimizing the code properly as it must always live in fear that you could change the environment, even though the handler never will. This forces a single thread of execution through otherwise parallelizable code.
We improve the adjustability of this bed by switching from the
Codensity construction to an arbitrary right Kan extension, like my old
monad-ran package did. This lets the bed conform to the shape of
Ran Identity ((->) s) a ~
Yoneda ((->) s) a ~
forall r. (a -> r) -> s -> r
This is just a CPS'd function, when passed
id we recover
(s -> a). It is no longer large enough to model all of
State and properly captures the features we want.
Yet even this bed is still too small for some patients. The infinite usecases of lazy writer and lazy state monads still cannot be made to fit at all. This destroys many interesting use cases of the Tardis. Admittedly they are the kinds of things that tie users in knots. Perhaps like an appendix removal, your patients will not miss those parts.
However, many monads for syntax trees like the transformer used by
bound cannot be adapted without an asymptotic performance hit, causing you to redo whole calculations every time you want to pattern match on the result.
From the standpoint of the Procrustean mathematician, the extensible effects approach is fairly elegant, it provides a single bed into which many common effects can fit.
The elegance of this approach makes it very appealing!
However, it isn't roomy enough to hold all of the current effects we can capture with monad transformers. Without upgrading to
Ran, many effects are forced into a model that is too big, where you have to handle many impossible conditions that are merely ruled out by convention. On the other side, the inability to handle a number of cases that we do use in practice is also somewhat of a bad sign.
This is why I can bring myself to view extensible effects as a usful way to think about effects, but I can't view it as a full replacement for the monad transformer approach.
Monad transformers do pay an
O(n^2) complexity tax, describing how everything commutes over everything else, but
n is typically not that big of a number.
The abilty to handle the extra cases that don't fit the extensible effects approach means I can't bring myself to just relegate them to the waste bin of history. As an applied mathematician / computer scientist, I still need to handle those effects!
Concerns about the need to write
lift . lift . lift, seem to arise from a particularly awkward style of use that I frankly never see in real code. There are ways to handle this and the multiple-state issues using tools we have, such as lenses. I'll relegate both of these concerns to another post.
lens package is very much an exercise in building a very fine grained set of distinctions and trying to make it so you can say very precisely what constraints you want to impose on each operator.
Alternative designs like
fclabels capture a different trade-off between factors.
I, personally, find that the ability to express a
Fold or
Getter is worth the added complexity of the representation. Your mileage may vary.
fclabels forces you to stretch each such thing into a form where you cannot express any laws, and then lays about with Procrustes' axe cutting of a number of abstractions we've found useful at the top end of the lens ecosystem, for Indexed traversals and the like.
It is a pretty clean exercise in Procrustean mathematics, though. If you fit into the abstraction it models comfortably, you'll never feel the bite of the axe.
lens, with its deep hierarchy, occasionally cuts you with Procrustes' axe. There are some constructions that just don't fit the domain. For instance
lens offers no tool for validating input -- a
Lens' s a must accept any such
There is a tension between these design criteria as with
Comonad and
Alternative. Something had to give.
Lens chooses a different point on the design curve than
fclabels. The choice we made was to gain a great deal of expressive power and ability to reason about the code with laws in exchange for validation.
The View from the Middle
It is important to realize that modifying the abstraction/bed or modifying the problem/patient are both options.
Sometimes you can easily adapt the problem to the mathematical construct, and sometimes the mathematical construct can be easily adapted to the problem.
When we add laws and operatons to an abstraction, we wind up with fewer examples.
If we work parametrically over an abstraction, the weaker the requirements we put on our inputs, the more scenarios we can cover.
Other times one or the other is up against a hard constraint. It is very important to distinguish between the normative concerns of taste and the very real concerns that some times one or the other of these things cannot give, as in the
Comonad/Alternative case above.
To argue against a straw man, giving up either one of these degrees of freedom unilaterally strikes me as absurd.
A hundred years ago, nobody cared about the foundations of mathematics, then came Russell and Whitehead, but their encoding was in many ways too dense and full of incredibly fine-grained distinctions.
Competing tensions like this gave us the mathematical world we inhabit today.
The choice of how to balance these factors, to abstract over enough problem domans to be useful without needlessly quibbling over impossibly fine-grained distinctions is really the true role of taste in library design and in mathematics, and tastes vary over time.
October 25th, 2013


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I wanted to show you a pictuer with you and some writing that I love about Rainbow wolf if they were real .Well I hope you like it.
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Friday, 20 June 2014
The key Competencies.
The key Competencies.
Hi my name is Heather. Would you like to know what are the key competencies? You ask me. Well there is 5 skills that we need, to always use at school in order to succeed and become the life long learners. Now I am going to move on to what the the key competencies I am really successful at and the one that, I really need to work on. Soon when I tell you what I am successful at I want to say that being at school can, really turn your brain on most of all I can make you think as well and don't, get me wrong because it happened to me once I came to this lovely school Pt England I was new to that school then, I was just five years old I growed up to be nine then I came into class 10 it was a, very nice great class where we can learn all kind of new things in this class like the key competencies it is a very good lesson.
Managing self
The key competencies that I am really great at is Managing my self and a whole bunch of things but, most of all Managing my self. How I am really good at managing my self like I always think about my actions, controlling my body and make sure I am trying, my best to managing my own self with no distraction. Now that I have finish with my managing my self I am going to tell you about what I am not really good at sometimes. Before we all move on I want to tell you all about managing your self for the people out, there that do not know how to manage yourself then all you have to do is well here is some few tips how, to manage yourself. Step number1 all you have to do is sit on the mat and if you want to tell the teacher something is by, putting your hand up and most of all if someone is talking to you then move away.Once you have you can be managing your self with lots of behaviour.
Participating and Contributing
The thing that I am bad at for the key competence is participating and contributing sometimes because whenever I am on the ground, for our reading groups and when I was on the mat I didn't really listen, then the teacher asked me then she said to me to listen whenever, she is talking so I stopped playing with my hand and then I got a little good at my participating and contributing. Once I got a little bit better I was finally got the hang of it.
Well it was nice sharing this with you and most of I had lots of fun sharing all this KC with you, it was lot of fun well I think you should go it is getting late, well I hope to share more with you next time.See you.
Hey do you want to ask some questions? Well I hope you do because I have some cool ones it is about KC.
Ok what are you good at in KC.
A(Managing self)
B(Participating and contributing)
D(Relating to others)
E(Using language and symbols and text)
Name one thing that you are bad at in five of this words?
Please leave a comment underneath please.
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Optimist Sailing Dinghy Research
Optimist Sailing Dinghy Research
WALT: Use extended text from the internet to find new information about our topic.
1. What materials are the optimist made of today? Wood
2. Who is the optimist designed specifically for?Fiberglass
3. Why was the optimist made? For kids to learn how to sail a Optimist Dinghy.
4. How many kilograms is the hull of an optimist? 35Kg
5. How does the Optimist dinghy help future olympians? When they grow up the will know the parts of the Optimist Dinghy.
6. Who would you recommend the Optimist Sailing Dinghy to? The Children or their older brothers and sisters.
Blogger: Find an image of an Optimist Sailing Dinghy and write a few sentences explaining what it is (3++ sentences).
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Tuesday, 17 June 2014
My Special family member
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Friday, 13 June 2014
Making mini Raft
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Monday, 9 June 2014
2014 July
Sailing 2.4.03
WALT: Analyze surface features and the language used. Look beyond the text - Inferencing
1. UNFURL - Find out the meaning of this word and then write a sentence of your own to show the meaning. What unfurl means is unfolding the sail.
2. How do you tell which way the wind is coming from? How you can tell another way to find out which way the wind is blowing is by looking at the tree branches.
3. Can you think of a another way of finding out? Ask a classmate to test out your theory.
4. What makes the Optimist so sturdy, safe and unsinkable? Explain your answer: How it is not sinkable is because it has something underneath it called the: Centerboard.
5. Make as many smaller words as you can from the words 'Optimist Sailing Dinghies':
6. Find the meaning of each of these sailing related words:
the system of ropes or chains employed to support a ship's masts ( standing rigging ) and to control or set the yards and sails ( running rigging ).
a piece of material extended on a mast to catch the wind and propel a boat or ship or other vessel.
a flat piece hinged vertically near the stern of a boat or ship for steering.
a flat piece hinged vertically near the stern of a boat or ship for steering.
Blogger - create a movenote or google presentation animation showing how to tie a figure eight knot (ask the teacher for string).
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Books and such …
I'm reading a collection of five short novels (they used to be called novella or novelettes depending on length those days but now there are only long novels and really long series :p) by Lester Del Rey and I keep on having this weird feeling that I have read them before 🙂 Be that as it may, I know that the latest story that I'm reading is going to end up making me think a lot. It's called "For I am a Jealous People!" and starts off by introducing and earth which is being invaded by aliens and the main character is a preacher who is trying to hang on to his faith in God in these trying times. Earth seems to be at the losing end as the story starts and most of Earth's setbacks in the war seem to be due to strange accidents such as a meteorite striking the stockpile of all of Earth's missiles on the moon and burying it under a pile of debris, a tornado taking out the defence garrison in a city when the aliens land etc.
I have a strange feeling that the story is going to turn out to be about how God actually intends the aliens to take over the world (hence the "freak accidents" that help the aliens) but then again, maybe I *have* read the story before … I don't know. I just know that it is going to bring up an interesting philosophical debate within myself as to whether we can ever really know God's purpose and also as to whether we can understand what happens to us in the context of God's great plan for all of us. Yes, I know that treads dangerously close to religious evangelism – and I don't want to do that :p – I believe in God and there are certain things in life and in what I read which makes me think about it but that doesn't mean that I should go around telling others to believe in God – to me religion is a personal thing between myself and God. But I do like to talk about the dilemmas and conundrums my faith brings up 🙂
I'd like to discuss how I see religion (not *my* religion or *your* religion but simply religion) and God one of these days but I just don't feel like putting forth the effort just now. I'm still not feeling totally fit and this illness (if it runs true to course) will probably last for a week or two yet. The good thing is that this week is going to be full of holidays here in Sri Lanka. Today is a holiday because it is a Tamil festival and then Friday is going to be a holiday since it's the full moon and we have every full moon off since it's a Buddhist holy day. So I'll have to work only one more day and that's tomorrow and that's fine by me 🙂
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I've never been good at being a girly girl. Hair, makeup, nails, handbags, matching outfits; all of these things are hopelessly confounding to me. For a long time I knew it was bad to use dirty makeup brushes but didn't know what to do about it. I would buy fairly expensive bare minerals brushes, use them until they got gross and then throw them in a drawer and buy new ones. For the record, you should wash a brush long before it gets visibly gross. Once a week is a good frequency. Every time you use a makeup brush, oil and bacteria from your skin coat the bristles which in turn become coated with makeup, gradually forming a wonderfully disgusting petri dish crawling with the seeds of disaster.
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Needing a win to clinch the Big Ten East Division and face Iowa with a likely spot in the College Football Playoff on the line next week in Indianapolis, Michigan State quarterback Connor Cook is giving all he can to give the Spartans a chance to celebrate a division title in East Lansing today against Penn State. So far, so good enough. Michigan State leads the Nittany Lions 20-10 at halftime.
Penn State has managed to move the ball on the Spartans and even have more offensive yards than Michigan State, but Penn State also has two turnovers that have led to 14 points for the men in green, including one defensive touchdown. Penn State did, however, manage to put together a late half touchdown drive, capped with a touchdown reception by Chris Godwin. Michigan State's Cook has attempted just 15 pass attempts so far, and he has completed 10 of them for 110 yards and a touchdown.
Any time Penn State has presented any sense of a threat against the Spartans, disaster seems to strike. Penn State opted to kick a field goal from the Michigan State one-yard line in the second quarter. The game's opening drive ended with Christian Hackenberg throwing deep into the end zone from the 31-yard line, only to be intercepted by Arjen Colquhoun. Late in the first quarter, Penn State once again had a promising drive working, thanks in large part to freshman running back Saquon Barkley saving Penn State on a 22-yard run on 3rd and 23 followed by a short gain on fourth down around midfield. The drive again imploded when Hackenberg completed a pass to tight end Kyle Carter, but Carter lost the football immediately and Demetrious Cox picked up the loose ball and found blockers to allow him to return the fumble 77 yards for a touchdown and a 20-3 lead.
It might as well be game, set and match for Michigan State the way this one is going, which surely is a bit deflating for Ohio State fans. After roughing up Michigan in Ann Arbor, Ohio State needs Penn State to win this game in order to represent the Big Ten East in Indianapolis as the Big Ten East champion. A Michigan State win clinches the division for the Spartans.


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Applicable to: '90 - '97 '99 + 1.6 liter 1.8 liter
convertible top cleaner and protectant
It's summer monsoon season in Minneapolis again, and tonight's hot, steamy downpour reminded me to write this review of Wolfstein Raggtopp Cleaner and Protectant. I have a 99 red Miata with a black convertible top. I tried so many products to keep the top looking nice and black that I got sick of trying and would have settled for a blond top. Zaino, Meguiar's, Turtle, others. Anything that even seemed like it might work. Zip. Every one smeared all over the paint and windows at the mere hint of rain - then I got to these products. One application of both Raggtopps two months ago has left the top very black with never a hint of smear through some torrential rains.
Now that I think of how well it resists rain, I should try it for tire black (previous best was Zaino's tire product - not greasy like Meguiar's and longer lasting than anything else). By the way, Zaino's Z5 is the best swirl remover I have ever used, and the Z2/Z5 products are the easiest to remove waxes - meaning less scratches from rubbing - that I have used. I tried all the products from Meguiar's, Griot, and Turtle for wax and swirl removal. Getting back to the black top, just follow Raggtopp's directions. I got mine through Auto Fanatics. They were very good to deal with. I don't work for them, but that's not a bad idea either. I am amazed with these two products. They actually do exactly as advertised at a reasonable price.
Not an installed item
Applicable to '90 - '97 '99 + 1.6 liter 1.8 liter
The product was 100% guaranteed and is available from:
Auto Fanatics
9 Dune Lane
Gloucester, MA 01930
WARNING product is NOT intended for vinyl or leather surfaces and although it cleaned my vinyl top very well, it was very harsh and I do NOT recommend it for that purpose. It did an exceptional job on two cloth tops and cloth seats.
Both products, contain no silicone, freon, or CFCs. Cleaner is sprayed on, allowed to sit 5-15 seconds, brushed lightly and wiped away with a cotton rag. One top was quite dirty and was thoroughly clean after two applications. The other was clean in one application. It was amazing to see how much grease and dirt was removed.
The Protectant is sprayed on and allowed to dry in the sun between coats (two coats are recommended for first time and as required thereafter). The product works as advertised and after a week of sitting outside, both car tops rinsed clean with a hose. The product is advertised to provide UV protection.
Although not advertised as a seat cleaner/protector, I tried it and was very happy with the results. If you choose to use the product on seats, be absolutely sure the Protectant is 100% dry before using the seat. The product contains paraffinic and nahpthenic solvent and will come off on clothes as an oily stain if not fully dry. In hindsight, I would use the Cleaner but not the Protectant on seats.
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Askews Me Poncho
Product Description
Short Description: This two-color brioche poncho begins with a long turtleneck. An increase and decrease form a biased section that folds down for a stylish asymmetrical detail. Three increase locations flare the yoke outward until the poncho reaches your desired size.
Gauge: 16 sts & 26 rounds = 4" / 10cm in two-color brioche stitch (measured unstretched)
Finished Measurements: 20" / 51cm neck circumference, 8" / 20cm neck length, 17" / 43cm yoke length (customizable), 66" / cm bottom edge circumference (customizable). Measurements taken unblocked.
Materials Used: DK weight
- Yardage:
- Color A (foreground color) - 630yds / 576m
- Color B (background color) - 600yds / 549m
Shown in: Woolfolk FÅR; Color A - 05 (black) / Color B - 01 (white)
Needle Size: 40" US 7 / 4.5mm circular Magic loop method is used for knitting the neck in the round.
Pattern Includes: Detailed written instructions
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the Carolinas. In addition, we will engage key stakeholders at each health system to develop an implementation strategy. This
proposal builds on our prior work and will provide pilot data essential for a larger grant application that will support rigorous
testing and implementation of the HEART Pathway across Carolinas Collaborative health systems.


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An event every week that begins at 2:00 am on Thursday, repeating until December 5, 2019
DRAW & PRINT – 10 week course each term
In essence, drawing is making marks in response to the world around us. What we see and experience can be noted using a wide range of materials and methods. During this course you will learn to see and respond, developing observational, technical and expressive drawing skills. Printmaking is a perfect partner to drawing and you'll have the chance to create prints from some of your drawings. This course is aimed at people who haven't had much experience of drawing or printmaking. It is structured with plenty of individual support. Small group of 6.
Thursdays, 2 – 4.30, 26 Sept – 5 Dec (no class 31 Oct)
Mindfully Creative Studio, Paddock Art Studios, Paddock Lane, Lewes
10 week term £180 includes most materials with some extra costs for printmaking supplies
Participants need to be members of the Paddock Studios which costs £18 pa in September and can be arranged through me at the first class.


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15 Alley Pond Park Eric Miller
Great Horned Owl, White-eyed & Yellow-throated Vireos, Scarlet Tanager
13 Little Neck Bay Eric Miller
Boat-tailed Grackle
13 Alley Pond Park Eric Miller
American Redstart (on nest)
13 Crocheron Park Eric Miller
Orchard Oriole (on nest)
7 Alley Pond Park Eric Miller
Scarlet Tanager (on nest)
4 Alley Pond Park Eric Miller
American Redstart, Mourning Warbler
2 Forest Park Karlo Mirth
Acadian Flycatcher
1 Garvie's Point Ralph Cioffi
Common Raven
18 Lattingtown Ralph Cioffi
White-eyed Vireo
18 Kissena Park Eric Miller
Great Horned Owl, Bobolink
18 Little Neck Bay
Boat-tailed Grackle
18 Glen Cove Ralph Cioffi
Orchard & Baltimore Orioles (both on nest)
17 Alley Pond Park Eric Miller
Great Horned Owl, White-eyed Vireo, Blue-winged Warbler
17 Fort Tilden Andrew Baksh
Surf & Black Scoters, Co. Eider, N.Gannet
15 Lattingtown Ralph Cioffi
Willow Flycatcher
15 Alley Pond Park Eric Miller
Yellow-throated Vireo, Cape May Warbler, Swamp Sparrow
13 Jamaica Bay Karlo & Alison Mirth
Kentucky Warbler
11 Idlewild Preserve George Dadone
N. Rough-legged Swallow
8 Caumsett Park Corey Finger
Greater White-fronted Goose
7 Garvie's Point Ralph Cioffi
Eastern Kingbird (nest building)
3 Jones Beach Brendan Fogarty
Co. Loon, Merlin, Black-bellied Plover, Red Knot, Short-billed Dowitcher, Gull-billed Tern,
Field, Savannah, Lincoln's,White-throated & White-crowned Sparrows
2 Little Neck Bay Eric Miller
Boat-tailed Grackle (nesting)
20 Jamaica Bay Andrew Baksh
Great & Snowy Egrets, Little Blue & Tricolored Herons, Pectoral Sandpiper, Blue-headed Vireo,
Cliff Swallow, both Kinglets, Blue-gray Gnatcatcher,
20 Prospect Park Andrew Baksh
Blue-headed Vireo, Blue-gray Gnatcatcher,Prairie Warbler, Field & Swamp Sparrows
20 Forest Park Corey Finger
Hermit Thrush, Pine & Black-and-white Warblers, Swamp Sparrow, Rusty Blackbird
17 Jamaica Bay Corey Finger
N.Gannet, Pectoral Sandpiper
17 Hempstead Lake Jeff Ritter
N.Rough-winged Swallow, Orange-crowned & Black-throated Green Warblers
17 Forest Park Jeff Ritter
Louisiana Waterthrush, Rusty Blackbird
16 Bronx Botanical Gardens Jeff Ritter
Prothonotary Warbler
10 Oakland Lake Ian Resnick
N.Shoveler, Pied-billed Grebe, Double-crested Cormorant, Am.Coot, Tree & Rough-winged Swallows
10 APEC Ian Resnick
10 Alley Pond Park Eric Miller
Eastern Bluebird, Black-throated Green Warbler
9 Floyd Bennett Field Jack & Anita King
N.Shoveler, Green-winged Teal, Black-crowned Night-Herons, Am.Kestrel, Peregrine Falcon,
Killdeer, Fish Crow, Brown-headed Cowbirds
7 Hempstead Lake Gary Straus
Tree, N. Rough-winged, Cliff & Barn Swallows
3 Far Rockaway Jack & Anita King
Piping Plover, Am.Oystercatcher
3 Thurston Basin (JFK airport) George Dadone
Redhead, Greater Scaup
3 Sage Pond, Lawrence George Dadone
Am. Wigeon, Green-winged Teal, Ruddy Duck, Black-bellied Plover, Dunlin
1 Glen Cove Ralph Cioffi
60+ Fish Crows
30 Little Neck Bay Eric Miller
Boat-tailed Grackle
27 Flushing Airport George Dadone
Fish Crow
23 Glen Cove Ralph Cioffi
~50 Fish Crows
18 Valley Stream George Dadone
Turkey Vulture
13 Jamaica Bay Karlo Mirth
12 Connetquoit Park Jeff Ritter & Karlo Mirth
Peregrine Falcon, Long-eared Owl, Red-headed Woodpecker
12 Jamaica Bay Jeff Ritter & Corey Finger
Greater Scaup, Co. Goldeneye, Red-breasted Merganser, Am.Woodcock
7 Throgs Neck Bridge Stu & Ronnie Lipkin
Peregrine Falcon
1 Jamaica Bay Corey Finger
European Green-winged Teal, Ring-necked Duck, Co.Merganser, Am.Woodcock,
Short-eared Owl, Tree Swallow, Am.Pipit
1 Ft Tilden -Riis Park Corey Finger
Black-headed & Bonaparte's Gulls
25 Montauk Pt. Gary Straus
Western Tanager
19 Point Lookout Jeff Ritter
Co. Eider, 5 Harlequin Ducks, Iceland Gull,
Bayside (May) Summer Tanager Eric Miller
Glen Cove (May) Ruby-throated Hummingbird Mary Normandia
Bayside (Feb-Mar) Mallard, Mourning Dove, Red-bellied & Downy Woodpeckers, Blue Jay,
B-c Chickadee, Tufted Titmouse, White-breasted Nuthatch, Am.Robin,
E.Starling, White-throated Sparrow, Dark-eyed Junco, Red-winged
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Color Formulation Workshop
This four-day workshop explores all aspects of color, quality assurance, formulation, and workflows.Find an Event
There are currently no session available for this training course.Please check back later or contact us for more information
This comprehensive four-day class begins with the "Fundamentals of Color and Appearance" and "ColorMaster™ Quality Assurance" training, plus two additional days focused on ColorMaster Formulation software. Learn from an X-Rite Color Expert how to enter calibration databases, view and edit calibration curves, and evaluate all data necessary for precision formulation. In addition, you will gain an understanding of how to create standards, formulate, and perform corrections.
When completed, you will fully master your new formulation software and be ready to implement it within your business. Before attending this four-day workshop, you will be contacted by an X-Rite Applications Specialist to discuss your specific application to ensure you have a practical hands-on experience. You will be instructed in the steps to prepare sample materials for use in the workshop.
Who Should Attend?
Any owner or operator of the X-RiteColor Master Formulation I, II or III.
In addition, with each purchase of a new, X-RiteColor Master Formulation package, the buyer is entitled to attend training at our Grand Rapids, Michigan facilities for two people.
Why Attend?
This class is an in depth course exploring all aspects of color, quality assurance, formulation and workflows.
Day one covers color theory - "Fundamentals of Color and Appearance"
Day two continues with – "X-RiteColor Master-QA I & II"
Days three and four dig deeply into "X-RiteColor Master Formulation I, II and III"
When completed, you will fully master your new formulation software and be ready to implement it within your business. Before attending this four-day workshop, you will be contacted by an X-Rite Applications Specialist to discuss your specific application to ensure you have a practical hands-on experience. You will be instructed in the steps to prepare sample materials for use in the workshop.
Day One: Fundamentals of Color and Appearance (FOCA)
Introduction to Color and Appearance:
- The science of color and appearance
- The color models – additive, subtractive, and mixed
- How the eye works; including testing color vision and deficiencies
- Communicating color information
Quantifying Color:
- Understanding the CIE system of color
- Interpreting spectral reflectance
- Quantifying light sources, color temperatures, and illuminants
- The difference between colorimeters and spectrophotometers
- Light sources and UV in instruments
- Viewing angles, sphere, and diffraction grating
- Instrument repeatability and reproducibility
Visual Quality Control:
- Visual and instrumental color assessment
- Getting the right viewing conditions and light source
- Understanding metamerism
Instrumental Quality Control:
- Deploying enterprise-wide color management and color policies
- Physical and numerical standards
- Pass/fail analysis
- Limitations of color measurement systems
Day Two: ColorMaster™ QA
- Setting up your equipment and configuring your software
- The differences between instrument geometries
- Calibrating and maintaining your instrument
- Basic software functionality, including how to select a database and formulation mode vs. QA mode
- Creating and maintaining standards and samples
- Establishing achievable tolerances
- Using special features such as projects, jobs, and reports
- Downloading standards to portable instrument and make data portable
Day Three: Working with a Calibration Set
Creating a Calibration Set:
- Understanding how my software can mix color
- Types of calibration sets
Hands-On Database Entry:
- Database entry walkthrough
- Measuring in cross-mixes (knowns) as standards
- Combinatorial formulation exercise
- Make adjustments to cal set/colorants
Advanced Database Tools:
- Adjusting k1 or k2
- Duplicating calibration set and secondary calibration set
- Enabling dispenser report
Day Four: Formulation
Perform a Combinatorial Match:
- Defining the match parameters
- Performing a match
- Formulating results, viewing various formulas from the list
Evaluation of Matches:
- Choosing the right match using the sort criteria
- Selecting a match
- Adjusting a formula and saving the modified formula
Perform Formula Corrections:
- Selecting the trial and run a correction
- Selecting options and saving the formula
Use Your Existing Standards & Trials:
- Formulating from trial
- Waste from trial
- Learn how to use the formulation queue
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Applications due 03/23/19
Job Description:
Location: 1 University Plaza, Youngstown, OH 44555, USA
Bachelor's degree; minimum of 4 years of successful swimming collegiate coaching and recruiting experience with a minimum of 2 years at the NCAA Division I or II level; demonstrated skill in training and instructing collegiate student-athletes; advanced knowledge and experience in managing intercollegiate sport team that includes exercising independent discretion and judgment; knowledge of and proficiency in NCAA rules and regulations; ability to analyze situations and develop solutions; travel and non-traditional hours; valid driver's license.
Supervises and manages personnel; interviews applicants and makes hiring recommendations; trains and orients new employees; monitors and evaluates job performance; monitors and approves employee leave requests; ensures compliance with university policies and procedures; receives employee complaints and attempts to resolve the issue; assigns and issues lower level corrective action in accordance with university policies and procedures; receives and adjusts/responds to grievances; investigates and effectively recommends more severe discipline action (e.g. major suspensions, terminations, etc.) as warranted.
Provides leadership for team; establishes coaching strategies and teaching methods to develop student athletes' skills and teamwork; analyzes performance of team and adjusts strategies as needed; develops policies and procedures for student athletes and coaches.
Oversees the administration of the team budget; establishes and allocates budgeted expenditures for various aspects of team operations (i.e. travel, equipment, recruiting, aid, marketing, etc.); authorizes the expenditure of funds for team operations; monitors expenditures to ensure that they adhere to proscribed limitations; ensures that all expenditures are properly documented and in compliance with university and NCAA guidelines; prepares expenditure reports as requested.
Plans and develops team promotional strategies for fundraising, recruitment, public relations, and other marketing activities; attends promotional events, community activities, and fundraisers; prepares promotional material for distribution (e.g. team background, participant bios, letters of interest, etc.); prepares and delivers speeches and presentations at local and community groups, fundraisers, athletic events, etc.
Develops and oversees the administration of policies and procedures with respect to academic expectations for team members; communicates with academic advising staff regarding athlete academic performance; meets with athletes to review course load issues, degree requirements, course selections, etc.; counsels athletes on performance issues, study skills, and techniques for academic success.
Meets all job safety requirements and all applicable OSHA safety standards that pertain to essential functions.
Videotapes practices, games, and strength training sessions as directed.
Manages equipment inventory and related duties as directed.
Develops and manages strength training program as directed.
Drives passenger vans as required.
Develops, coordinates, and implements marketing of aquatics center.
Demonstrates regular and predictable attendance.
Performs any and all other related duties as assigned or directed in order to promote, further, and ensure the effective and efficient operation of YSU.
Supervision is exercised over staff and student staff.
REPORTS TO: Assistant Director of Athletics
In accordance with Department of Labor (DOL) strength ratings, this position performs light work.
CPR/AED/First Aid; annual proficiency in NCAA Certification to Recruit.
How to Apply
Applications will ONLY be accepted on-line at: https://jobs.ysu.edu/postings/5268
Do NOT email any applications to athletic staff at Youngstown State.
Contact Information
phone: 330-941-2283
fax: 330-941-3191


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Within 10 minutes of fighting the windy waves, it began raining. Then pouring. Seeking refuge on Higgs Island, we pulled the kayak up onto the beach, and searched for a tree-canopy to protect us (mostly my phone) from the rain.
Who is Lillian Lightbourn? PART I
"So I'm going to just push you down this ramp… When you hit the water, there'll be a splash – some water will come in but I've left the plug out so it'll drain."
"What's to prevent us from going straight across and hitting the other side of the dock?"
"Well yes, there is that…. You have to dig your oar in the second you hit the water. Most people panic, and start paddling. Don't do that, you'll just go into the dock. just put your oar in and the kayak will swing around. Ready?"
And so began my adventure with Lillian Lightbourn, former Miss Bermuda, and current international model. Born and raised right here on this dot in the Atlantic, Lillian now lives in New York City, walks runways for Fashion Week, and was recently featured in a Maybelline commercial.
I'd decided that, rather than a straightforward and dry (literally) chat, we should go paddle-boarding around the St. George's harbour, but the wind that day put us in a 2-man kayak instead. A monstrous grey cloud formed, but Lillian's sunny optimism declared, 'It'll just pass over. Let's go!"
Within 10 minutes of fighting the windy waves, it began raining. Then pouring. Seeking refuge on Higgs Island, we pulled the kayak up onto the beach, and searched for a tree-canopy to protect us (mostly my phone) from the rain. Perched closely together on a log under a few giant palms, with rain dripping through the leaves onto our heads, we talked about Lillian's childhood, her career, life in New York, her unwavering faith in Jesus, and what she sees for her future.
With just the few inches between us, I was able to study her famous freckled face up close and was mesmerized by her wide-set, light eyes. They are indeed very special, and she spoke about how, even when she was being teased in middle school for being skinny and tall with a flat butt and chest, her tormentors would still admire her eyes saying with the strange compliment/insult that they are "the only pretty thing about you."
And although she fondly reminisces about hanging out with lots of different friends throughout school, in addition to the bullying, she faced other challenges. Early on at Purvis Primary she struggled academically. She remembers always being the last to leave class and having to repeat a year.
"I'm a twin so staying back affected me a little bit. When I got older I realized nothing's wrong with it, because you have to do what's best for you. You don't want to put yourself in a situation where you're not going to do well. My parents saw that, and I appreciate that. Instead of them thinking of my pride, they thought about my education. They put a lot of thought into it. My sister found old letters where my mom had written down her thoughts about how she felt about me being held back. She was really concerned."
She says that her mother's anxiety was because the twins were often compared to each other. As fraternal twins, they don't resemble each other at all, and Lillian recalls that from the gaps in their teeth, to their different sizes and skin colours, to how they performed in school, people have always commented on their differences.
'You start to hear things from people… I really hate when people compare me and my sister. I don't think anyone should be compared to anyone else, because I can see how it affected me as a kid. I always thought for a while that she was the smart one. And I was just the silly one."
In the middle of dealing with these comparisons and being held back, her mother suffered a sudden heart attack when she was 8. "Me and my sister found her. It was so scary. We'd been taught to call 911 in school, but then in the moment…." Lillian mimes calling and then hanging up. Eventually, they did call, and emergency services came and confirmed that their mother had died.
At first, she discusses the death in a quite matter-of-fact and somewhat detached way, guessing that she maybe her mom had heart disease but didn't know it, and wondering aloud whether she was stressed out. "She seemed pretty healthy to me. I'm not sure… You mourn, but then I think I got tough. I never told anyone but I was trying to be strong for my twin sister. I didn't allow myself to mourn in the best way. Things just moved too fast."
Her face saddens. "My mom's death made me think about life more, because you don't expect people to die when you're a kid. It made me start wondering, 'what else is there?' I want to know more about her. It was so long ago, I don't remember much about her… I don't remember her voice. I have dreams about her sometimes though. The entire situation made me appreciate life more, I appreciate family more."
Lillian acknowledges that everyone did their best with helping the girls to navigate an impossibly difficult situation. Their older sisters, aged 18 and 20, stepped into a maternal role, and Lillian began living between her dad and stepmom's house and her home with her sisters. "One of my sisters was about to go to college. Their whole life had to change. They had little sisters and had to help take care of us. It's so amazing that God did that, made it so that we had sisters that were so much older than us. We were always close, but we became even closer."
After being held back and dealing with her mom's death, Lillian says she 'started to realize she was good at stuff', began doing really well in school, playing sports, and was eventually Head Girl at Purvis.
She began Sandy's Secondary Middle School and this was where the bullying began. "Some people just have to go through things because it makes you a better person when you're older. It humbles you. I never said anything to my parents about the bullying but they may have noticed that I was very self-conscious, always checking in the mirror."
Then out of the blue things changed. "I remember one day I came to school, and I guess I looked cute, and the guys were like, 'hey'… I was like what the heck is going on here? By the time I finished M3, it was a lot better. When I got to high school it was completely different. High school was a great time."
She was on Berkeley's undefeated basketball team and credits her coach and the sport for helping her cope with issues she faced and making her high school days so memorable. "My older sisters also had a good influence on me. I still look up to them a lot to this day. They taught me not to conform. So I started to know who I was… and in high school I was always myself."
After leaving high school, she studied Liberal Arts at Bermuda College for a short time and was a bit confused about her career path. She enjoyed writing, and still does, but had no clarity about what else to do. But Lillian knew what she loved, and began to think strongly about pursuing her goal of becoming a model.
Look out for PART II of Kristin's interview with Lillian Lightbourn on Friday, July 24th