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HTC Sense 4.0 features leaked: 50GB of DropBox storage, physical buttons to stay

PocketNow is saying it’s got the skinny on a “non-final build” of HTC Sense 4.0, which looks destined to debut on the rumoured HTC Edge quad-core smartphone.

Though there’s no images (sadly) of HTC Sense 4.0 in action, we’re able to get some idea of what it’s like and what changes it will bring. In a nutshell, it’s shaping up to be the most significant revamp of Sense to date. The key features are:

Improved lock screen and layout

The custom lockscreen, the standout feature of HTC Sense 3.0, has been revamped, adding favourite contacts and notifications to the table. So as well as giving you quick-draw access to the camera et al, you can also fire off a quick call to your best mate/partner/mum and respond to that text as well.

There’s reportedly an emphasis on “reduced visual clutter,” and typography improvements, something we saw with HTC Sense 3.5’s more minimal approach (pictured above).

Turning a phone to landscape will also see things like menu tabs and icons staying on the right hand side of the screen (if you rotated the phone counter clockwise from portrait), to maximise the amount of content available on the screen at any one time.

Perhaps most importantly, PocketNow’s source says that HTC Sense 4.0 devices will not have on-screen keys a la the Galaxy Nexus. This means that screen space of the Edge’s 4.3-incher won’t be taken up by a small black bar.

Beats Audio support for third-party apps, improved email

With Sense 4.0, the BeatsAudio sound enhancer seen on the Sensation XE and XL will be rolled out so that third-party music apps (hopefully including Spotify) will benefit.

The Email app has reportedly been given a respray and its looking like “the best-looking and most functional email client available for Android.” Threaded messages and emails come with a depth of field effect and read/unread messages are indicated by colours, instead of simply being greyed out a la Gmail for Android. For those using Exchange, there’s a Smart Sync feature that’ll learn your usage habits and make sure that mail syncs don’t happen during times of the day when your phone is normally inactive.

DropBox bumped up to 50GB, new features for the Browser, new ‘Guest Mode’

Best of all, DropBox integration is being beefed up to 50GB and the DropBox folder on the phone will be displayed as if it’s another physical drive on the phone.

When attaching files to emails from the DropBox, a DropBox link will be added to the email instead of file being attached, so it’s more friendly to your data allowance as well.

The browser, already a favourite of ours, looks set to come with a pair of bookmarking features – Read Later and Watch Later. These sound self-explanatory, and will give us the ability to mark articles or video for later watching. We’re not sure if this means that you’d be able to download video content for watching later (i.e. in an offline environment, like on the train) or not.

Let’s hope that HTC adds support for more than four windows at once to the browser as well.

Finally there’s also a Guest Mode, which locks out set features of your phone. So if you friend want to borrow your phone to make a call, you could potentially lock out all other features apart from the dialler, if you don’t want anyone nosing through your pictures after you’ve taken a call.

Official spokespeople for HTC here in the UK wouldn’t comment on this leak. But we’d imagine that a new version of Sense, whether it’s called 4.0, 3.75 or 3.14 would be announced alongside any new flagship device.

Better DropBox integration sounds pretty plausible to us; it’s a nice riposte to Apple’s iCloud and would bring HTC’s Android phones up to speed with what you get via SkyDrive on the HTC Titan and Radar.

An improved lock screen that looks to better the one that came with iOS 5 would be a nice development as well. After all, that whole camera-access-from-your-lockscreen thing? HTC did that before Apple did.

We’re expecting Mobile World Congress to be a big one for HTC – hopefully Sense 4.0 running on new machines will be among what it has to show us.

Source: PocketNow


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Leprechaun Drunkard: Silly Irish-themed tilting game for Android

Ok, so we’re late to this by a couple of weeks or so. Yes, we know St. Patrick’s Day was last month, whatever. When we stumbled across this game in the Android Market we knew we had to write it up.

Leprechaun Drunkard is an incredibly silly tilting game for Android devices (2.1+). The aim is to prop up a thoroughly wrecked leprechaun called Shamus for as long as possible.

You do this by tilting your phone left and right as Shamus swaggers about the place. Inevitably, he’ll collapse and instantly go to sleep on the beer soaked floor. You can post your best times to your Facebook wall if you wish, to brag to your mates.

Protip: use this and Angry Birds Seasons to wind up any Irish friends you have on Facebook.

There’s two editions of Leprechaun Drunkard, a freebie one with ads and a donate version, which currently works out at £0.62.

We always thought that the correct spelling was ‘Seamus’ and we going to barrack developer Ye Olde Cat until we Googled it and found that Shamus is an acceptable variant. So we learned something today. Thanks Ye Olde Cat and Google.

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AG asks Court To Halt Lukwago Impeachment Case Hearing

The High Court in Kampala has been asked halt the hearing of the case in which Kampala Lord Mayor Erias Lukwago is challenging the KCCA-Tribunal report that led to his controversial impeachment late last year.

Attorney General Peter Nyombi. He asked Justice Nyanzi to disqualify himself from hearing the application for fear that he would be biased.
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The request was made by attorney general Peter Nyombi in his application filed before the court on Friday last week.

In his application, Nyombi states that it would be improper for the High Court to go ahead and hear Lukwago’s case yet he has appealed against a decision by Justice Yasin Nyanzi not to disqualify himself from hearing the same matter.

The attorney general further states that if the court doesn’t halt the hearing of Lukwago’s case, it would negate his intended appeal against Justice Nyanzi’s decision.

“An order does issue to stay proceedings in Misc Cause 362 of 2013 following a ruling made on February, 4, 2014 pending the hearing and final determination of the intended appeal to the Court of Appeal,” Mr Nyombi states in his application.

He adds that there are substantial questions of law and fact that require determination on appeal which were not adequately addressed in the ruling appealed against.

Last week, Justice Nyanzi in his ruling refused to disqualify himself from hearing Lukwago’s case on grounds that the attorney general did not adduce any evidence to back up his wild claims.

Nyombi had asked the judge to disqualify himself from hearing Lukwago’s matter fearing that he would be biased and not get justice at the end of the hearing.

Justice Nyanzi went ahead in his ruling to blast the attorney general that he was groping in legal darkness and that his conduct was embarrassing and not expected of the head of the Bar.

By press time, court had not yet fixed a date to hear Nyombi’s application to determine whether or not to halt Lukwago’s hearing.

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  1. Nyombi has personal interests in the case and he fears that justice will prevail. Why can’t the president sack this man? He is a disgrace to the country.

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Observations on female patterns of behavior.

Chicks are herd animals in groups and general behavior (credit to Magnum).

No, I’m serious. He’s right. We should actually think of them this way.

And I want to be clear, I’m not saying women are dumb, or not individuals, but that they often react as a herd, basing their behavior off what other, seemingly successful women are doing. Think about fashion trends, drinking rose, IG, tik-tok, even patterns of speech and ideas about the world. How women interact in society is heavily influenced by what other people are doing–particularly other women.

A perfect example of this is the one where women with BFs and husbands made Tik-Toks of themselves coming into the guy’s room and dropping the towel, naked. I don’t know the actual number, but it’s a lot–and the reason 99.9% of them did it is because they saw another woman do it first.

And damned if those bitches aren’t making some bread…although, truth be told, I think it’s sexy as hell and I’m all for it. But you’re telling me tons of women all the sudden got the idea to bake bread–women who’d never made bread in their lives to this point…at the exact same time? Sure: coronavirus–but also, they could choose to do anything–why baking bread?

Because the herd decided that was the thing to do. I just had three women yesterday tell me they made sourdough pancakes. ON THE SAME DAMN DAY.

And of course men have group behavior patterns (they’re baking too–though if you look closely, it’s patterned around femininity–which, again, I think it’s sexy when chicks bake bread, but dudes should be grilling steak. I know. What a chauvinist dick.) and are influenced by society as well, but we’re simply not nearly as tethered to the actions of other males as females are to that of other females.

So anyway, what do herds do?

Well, as pointed out above, they cluster. They pattern their activity and behavior onto what the rest of the herd is doing, so that it becomes almost a hive mind–not one brain independently processing, but multiple consciousnesses combining to make a collective decision. Think of a school of fish or large flights of birds. A group of horses feeding in a meadow. They move in the safest direction for the herd as a whole, toward the best situation in terms of food, and expose themselves to as little risk as possible, when feeding, resting, or sleeping. And again I want to say, this is not a negative judgment. It’s smart for the herd to behave this way. Otherwise herd never would evolved.

But to get back to the point, we’ve seen an obvious example with the reaction to Coronavirus.

Now, without politicizing the issue, let’s just say what we know: COVID-19 is extremely contagious, easily spread, and in some cases quite deadly, although it appears to be far more deadly for people with pre-existing health conditions, especially the elderly. And even more strange is that in some places it appears extremely deadly; in others, not so much.

On the other hand, it’s not Ebola and most people who contract the disease are going to recover and be just fine. The grey area is that there’s just honestly a lot we don’t know. Is it a 1% mortality rate, or .1%? Big difference, but hard to know yet.

Did we overreact as a society?

Possibly so. As things move forward, that’s looking to be the case, but that’s exactly the point of social distancing and quarantine, so again, ultimately it’s too soon to know.

It’s also possible we’ll see that it’s worse than we thought or that it comes back in Fall/Winter 2020-21 as a more dangerous version, as did the Spanish Flu.

There are a lot of unknowns at this point, so I tend to be pretty skeptical of people who claim they have all the answers.

However, getting back to how people react, we’ve seen women go absolutely dormant. I’ve seen like maybe two or three +1s during this time from the PUAs on Twitter? Whereas ordinarily I’d have seen 20-30 a week based on who I follow. I also know that of the guys I’m in touch with personally, we can’t get chicks out. I managed a lovely night with Socks a few weeks ago, but otherwise the answer looks something like this:

They are most definitely following all the rules.

Now, in my last post, I noted that this is perfectly reasonable. Women are extremely risk averse and have a huge biological incentive to remain as such.

But this is where I want to talk about how herd behavior is often unreasonable and can indeed sometimes be dangerous and/or carry quite negative consequences.

For example, consider one method Native Americans used to kill buffalo: they’d dress up like wolves and get the herd to stampede toward a gully or cliff, and the herd, too caught up in fear to think about where they were going, would just run blindly toward the hazard and inevitably some would get killed, basically because they weren’t thinking for themselves.

They were reacting as a herd.

Let me give you an example we see in game–especially day game–all the time. And keep in mind, I’m speaking from our own collective mind here, as other players have made these same observations.

But it’s so classic: the chick rejects you almost as a matter of course. Like, of course she won’t give her number to a man in the street. Some can’t even be bothered to be stop, the classic blowout. It reminds me of what one of Mr. V’s girls, Indiana, said after he broke up with her because she wanted to be exclusive: “see you on the streets.” It’s almost as if she should have known better?

(What she doesn’t know is that it proves he’s got good game.)

Now why? Why does a woman reject a guy without even really considering who he is–possibly a guy with high status and value–and not care about it later? Because women are taught to be wary of men who make sexual advances, and day game is rare. Think about it: what spooks a deer or trout? It’s not always logical, it’s just that something feels…off. They see or sense something they’re supposed to be wary of; something happens that’s uncommon.

And whoosh, they vanish!

Going back to humans, females are taught that sexual advances are only allowed after a certain number of things have happened and/or in certain circumstances. And as a herd, if they all move in the same direction, it protects them from some of the bad things that can happen, like getting pregnant or the man being some sort of criminal.

So in general, that dictates their behavior. The problem is that this behavior isn’t uniform or logical. It based purely on emotion and environment.

The same girl who blows me out at the farmer’s market on a Saturday morning without a second look will fuck a guy with lower SMV she just met at the pool in her Vegas hotel that very same night.

This is one of the reasons I think Tinder was phenomenal when it first came out and why it doesn’t work for shit now.

The first is that Tinder’s trying to monetize their platform, and they can’t monetize it without manipulating men, so part of the reason it doesn’t work is on purpose.

But the second, and I think main reason we see such a disconnect between now and before is that chicks, over time, learned that meeting guys on Tinder didn’t work that well for them–sure they could, and still can, match with guys +2 of their SMV and go fuck them that same night…but turns out, none of those guys stick around, and most of them don’t even fuck very good.

Over time, the herd learned, and now recognizes Tinder as shady and potentially dangerous, with the tacit assumption that all guys on the platform are low value. So chicks will use it as a thirst trap, but they’re much less apt to meet up, which is where Tinder fucked up, because its underlying value was that some percentage of guys got pussy. Less pussy = less value, but that’s a story for another time.

I apologize if I’ve been fairly meandering. But I prefer a clear target and right now there are none. Plus, it’s been a lot longer than usual between getting laid. Boys are getting restless.

But that’s a story for another time.

Pandemic = worst time ever to be a player.

But, remember boys: this too shall end.

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  1. That sums it up nicely. Girls are herd animals and they also put a higher premium on safety than do men. We have to take risks to be successful that they don’t.

    Girls likely won’t come out again until the herd (media, government, friends they know) say it’s ok. We’ll see how long that takes…

  2. While we don’t know how long it lasts, most people recognize corona will have lasting implications for almost every aspect of our lives. Working, eating at restaurants, attending live sporting events.. Game will be no different. Here’s what I think what it means for Game, with all the usual disclaimers that it’s my just my opinion, though one I have spent some time thinking about. DayGame is not coming back anytime soon and when it does it will be even harder. I expect facemasks to become normalized in coastal cities and even become fashion accessories. I guarantee every luxury brand is designing them right now. NightGame will return and perhaps become easier at the margin, my guess is the number of young girls wanting to go out, cut loose and just have some fun will probably increase. Kind of a roaring 20’s vibe after WW1. Online game will expand and the market will segregate. I remember hearing about a dating app for celebrities / influencers.. This sort of thing will become more common. The 9’s and 10’s will all eventually come online, but only on selective platforms where the men have been harshly vetted for income, wealth, height and whatever other metric you can think of. Since online dating is driven by the female imperative, the apps/platforms will cater to them, with men having to clear the hurdle for membership. There will be apps for jocks, apps for older guys, more seeking arrangement type apps but with harsher vetting for the men.. Imagine dating apps where men had to prove their height, age, or their income, wealth. I think its coming.. DayGame was a fantastic equalizer for the shorter, older player. I fear those days are over, and I say this as a shorter, older player.

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This morning, I am watching the news and they are talking about a new “epic” snowstorm that is bearing down on the Mid-Atlantic.  But first, they talked about what happened last night when a light dusting of snow and ice on roads that were not pretreated with sand and salt made for bumper-car rides on Highway 66 and the Interstate 95.  Four hour car trips home, numerous fender benders and some pretty pissed off people.

I lived and worked in Northern Virginia for 18 years, so I have lived the nightmare.  Working for the government, I have experienced the thrills of having the Office of Personnel Management decide that conditions are now bad enough for the entire government to be shut down all at once – creating a commuting flash mob – only to have them sit on the fence at 5 am the next morning over closing the government office or authorizing “unscheduled leave”.  The schools announce their closures early, leaving frantic parents scrambling to find all day child care. Sometime the Office of Personnel Management will decide to open the government, only to decide at say, 7 am, when most people have spent 2 hours shoveling driveways, deicing cars and well on their way on the interstate roller derby, that maybe, in fact, it will close.  One only need to look to the Office of Personnel Management on a snow day to understand the decisiveness with which the government manages it’s challenges.

Have you ever heard about black ice?  It’s the ice you cannot see, yet will cause your feet to slip out from under you and before you know it, you are on your back, wondering what the hell happened.  It loves black top driveways, where it glistens so that it appears merely wet, and then slams you to the ground while you are rushing to snatch the newspaper from the driveway. It often lays under the snow.   In my case, it loved to lull me into a false sense of security as I backed my Honda out of the garage and gunned it down the driveway, only to find myself off the driveway, into the snow and sliding sideways down the incline of our side yard.   And then it laughed as I had to be pulled by my disgruntled husband’s 4 wheel drive truck out of the snow.  It exists on the roadway too.  You may be driving along fine then hit a spot of black ice that will leave your car gliding over the road like an ice dancer, oblivious to the cars slamming on their brakes around you. “HA!”it says, to your white knuckled hands gripping the steering wheel for life.  “Fooled you!” it hisses.

One of the more charming aspects is that the D.C. area is home to people from all over the country, as well as all over the world. That is, until it snows, which means you are now on the road with those that know how to drive in snow, as well as those who feel omnipotent in their 4 wheel drives, and those for whom snow is something that they read about in books.    The 4 wheelers are whizzing along, ignoring the black ice layer under the snow.  There are those that are driving 10 mph, clinging to the side of the road, clearly terrified; and just like on a normal day, there are those who persist in changing lane continually,  convinced that 2 lanes over is moving much faster.  The ride to work will take you anywhere from an hour to three hours and when you get to work, assuming you haven’t engaged in bumper cars and that the pay lot at your building has been plowed, you engage in a very productive hour of talking about your experience with 3 other brave souls who have made the trip, and listening to the voice mails and reading the emails of all those who have decided to work from home today, anticipating the arguments that ensue because they aren’t authorized to work from home.

But this is all a memory for me now, almost 8 years removed from Northern Virginia and my working days.  In my part of Alabama, we rarely have snow, rarely have ice and it is rarely bitterly cold. No snow shovels, no snow blowers, no reports of the news of what is being done for the roads in anticipation of the weather.   Snow here is a magical thing, where everything closes down and children are outside trying to build pathetic little snowmen out of what is not more than a dusting.  People longingly say “I wish it would snow”.

Until next time – Elsie

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Benchmarking best practice in hotel front office: the Western European experience

T. Baum, P. Odgers

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During the past decade there have been significant changes in the hotel sector, the marketplace and its operations. This paper reports a research study across a number of western European countries into the changing functions within front office operations and the role of personnel in a range of hotels and locations. Issues addressed include the flattening of organisations; the increasing expectation of multi-tasking and multi-skilling; and creating a balance between technological solutions and the delivery of quality customer care. These issues are linked to wider findings on the growth in the need for the more generic skill types together with the importance of personal attributes as key selection criteria and the growing emphasis of the employers role in providing training for vocational skills. Work in these areas has seen a decline in routine activities and has become increasingly complex, involving the use of a wide range of software, maintaining in-house systems and the expectations of faster response to more complex methods of communications. Industry has realised the importance of customer care and the subsequent increase in focus by operators on its provision. These issues have led to the setting of procedures and benchmarks for the various functions and services of front office and the empowerment of employees in their implementation. The paper provides an insight into changes in front office and the manner in which technology is acting as an enabling force rather than replacing traditional roles. The paper addresses education and training implications for the hotel sector and education providers by examining current curricula and training provision and questions the relevance of some “sacred cows” that have traditionally been taught. The paper concludes with recommendations for future education and training provision.
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Embedding a physical health nurse consultant within mental health services: consumers' perspectives

Happell, Brenda, Ewart, Stephanie B., Platania-Phung, Chris, Bocking, Julia, Griffiths, Kathleen, Scholz, Brett, and Stanton, Robert (2016) Embedding a physical health nurse consultant within mental health services: consumers' perspectives. International Journal of Mental Health Nursing, 25 (4). pp. 377-384.

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The life expectancy of people living with mental illness is significantly shorter than that of the rest of the population. Despite the profound impact of physical health issues on both quality of life and life expectancy, the perspectives of mental health consumers have yet to be thoroughly explored. Furthermore, research has focused far more on describing barriers than on identifying solutions. This paper reports on findings from a qualitative exploratory research study, with the aim to examine the potential role of a specialist nurse with advanced physical health-care skills. Focus groups were conducted with 31 consumers. Data were analysed thematically. The concept of a role like this was supported; however, participants stressed: (i) the importance of integration between health professionals and various components of the health-care system; and (ii) the need for culture change for nurses to work from a less medically-dominated approach. Previous research literature suggests that a nursing position dedicated to physical health care and coordination might produce positive outcomes for mental health consumers. The findings from the current research project emphasize the need for consumers to be identified as key stakeholders in a solution-focused approach to improved physical health care for mental health consumers.

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What’s the difference between a Clinical Psychologist and a Counsellor?

What does a counsellor do?

Counselling is a talking therapy that involves a trained therapist listening to you and helping you find ways to deal with emotional issues.

What a Counsellor actually does and how they are trained varies from country to country. In Malaysia most Counsellors are taught Person-Centred Therapy. The Person-Centered approach trusts in others’ potential. It aims to give clients empathy and unconditional positive regard because this is shown to help them change. Counsellors avoid telling people what to do and instead allow the person to explore their issues so that they can discover solutions for themselves.

Counsellors usually work with particular life problems, such as difficulties at school or issues in a marriage. In Malaysia, some counsellors have received a few weeks training whilst others hold a Masters qualification.

Some counsellors in Malaysia and counsellors who have trained outside of Malaysia will have been taught a wider range of therapeutic skills and approaches that they can use to help their clients.

I should note that most of the information on Counsellors in Malaysia is written in Malay so the above information is based on the Counsellors I have met. The following website should give you more information: Lembaga Kaunselor Malaysia

What does a Clinical Psychologist do?

Clinical Psychologists are also taught to listen to others in a supportive, non-judgemental manner. However, we also teach people new skills that will help them resolve the emotional difficulty they are facing.

Clinical Psychologists will decide which skills to teach using the ‘scientist-practitioner’ approach. This approach involves applying our knowledge of psychological research and theory and using a scientific approach to working with people. First we ‘assess’ what difficulties a person has, then we hypothesise how their problems may have started and what’s keeping them going (‘formulation’) and then we use this information to decide on the best ‘intervention’.

The intervention may involve teaching the person new skills or helping them see things in a different way so those problems trouble them less. Following the intervention we ‘evaluate’ the effectiveness of the intervention. If we haven’t made a positive change then we go back to the assessment phase so we can develop a new formulation (hypothesis) that leads to a better intervention. This new intervention will be evaluated and the process begins again unless the person is satisfied with the changes that they’ve made. This is the same approach that scientists use to gain new knowledge.

Clinical Psychologists can work with problems ranging from every-day life problems to severe psychological problems.

In Malaysia Clinical Psychologists must have at least a Master’s Degree in Clinical Psychology in order to practice.

You can find more information on becoming a Clinical Psychologist on this site.

You can also read more about the way I work.

If you have any comments or questions please leave them below.

  1. I am not an science stream student when I was in Form 5 (SPM) and I am currently studying in form 6 (STPM) now. Can I be a clinical psycologist?

    • Hi, yes you can still be a clinical psychologist. To get onto a clinical psychology masters or doctoral course you usually need to have a Psychology undergraduate degree. Psychology degree courses prefer candidates that have done sciences but it’s still possible for other students to attend. I was the admissions tutor at the University of Nottingham Malaysia’s Psychology degree course and I often accepted arts students onto the course. Other courses may have different requirements. If you’re interested you can go to the university’s psychology pages and check their minimum academic requirements. For example, Nottingham’s minimum requirements can be found here : https://www.nottingham.edu.my/Study/Undergraduate-courses/Psychology/Psychology-BSc-(Hons).aspx (you may have to click on Entry Requirements).

  2. Hi Dr. May I know what are the career prospects upon completion of MSc in Clinical Psychology? I believe that not all Clinical Psychologist are working in the field that they would like to. On the other hand, do you happen to know how many clinical psychologist are working in a hospital?

    • Presently, there are very few jobs available in Clinical Psychology. The government only has a few positions available for clinical psychologists so there aren’t many clinical psychologists working in government hospitals (I estimate less than 15). Some clinical psychologists work with universities because those jobs are often better paid. The majority of clinical psychologists work for themselves or partner with other clinical psychologists. You have to be more entrepreneurial to do this but it does seem to be a viable option.

  3. Hi Dr. Dan, you mentioned that in Malaysia, Clinical Psychologists must have at least a Master’s Degree in Clinical Psychology in order to practice.

    My question would be, if I have a Master’s Degree in Counselling Psychology (MSc in Professional Counselling in Monash University), would it possible to practice therapy in local mental health clinics?

    • Hi Jag, the MSc in Professional Counselling at Monash University seems to be a good course (based on my interactions with the trainees I have met). It’s a counselling course so it would be regulated by the rules concerning counselling rather than those concerning clinical psychology. I think the Monash course is accredited by Australian Counselling bodies and it has been submitted for accreditation by the Malaysian Board of Counsellors. I don’t know whether that would allow you to work in the local mental health clinics. It is possible that an individual can apply for accreditation by the Malaysian Board of Counsellors once they’ve completed the Monash course even if the course itself is not yet accredited. It’s also possible that the Mental Health Clinics might accept the Australian accreditation. I think the best option would be to contact the Monash course directly and ask them how their graduates have been faring in finding work.

  4. Hi Dr. Dan,
    I am a medical doctor with MBBS, and I am interested in being a clinical psychologist. I see Psychological issues as ‘in demand’ nowadays in Malaysia, I would like to contribute more in this field (than being a psychiatrist). My question is, I don’t have any basic in the subject, will it be possible to straightaway do Master? Second question, what is your opinion on the career pathway after completion of Master in Clinical Psychology?

    • Hi Amirah, it’s really good to hear that you’re interested in psychological issues as a medical doctor. Unfortunately, it’s not that easy to transfer from medicine to clinical psychology because most of the clinical psychology courses require you to have a psychology undergraduate degree (or at least have done a conversion masters in psychology). The career path for clinical psychologists is a bit more challenging – at the moment you need to be quite entrepreneurial as there aren’t many jobs available. Malaysia would really benefit from having psychiatrists that were also trained in talking therapies. If you chose to specialise in psychiatry and then do extra training in talking therapies I think you would be in demand (and there are jobs available in the public system for psychiatrists).

    • Clinical Psychology courses usually require that you have a psychology undergraduate degree. However, you can check with each course just in case they accept a counselling degree. If you are already a registered counsellor you could try to get some post graduate qualifications or training in different counselling techniques. Or you could do a post-gradaute counselling qualification (such as the Masters in Professional Counseling at Monash University)

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Homesick: My Longing for Things to Be as They Should

My first case of homesickness struck in the Missouri foothills. I was a ten-year-old at Camp Soaring Hawk and one of the few campers staying for both multi-week summer sessions. Although I had never been away from home before, things were okay while camp activities were taking place all day with new friends.

Then they left.

And I felt alone.

The camp was quiet and still. Too quiet and too still. Not the way it was supposed to be.

I began to feel sick. Not virus sick with a fever but heart sick with a hard to pinpoint longing. It was an empty feeling. Akin to loneliness. It strangely felt like grieving.

Camp was quiet and still. Too quiet and too still. Not the way it was supposed to be.

That's it. I was grieving that camp wasn't like it was supposed to be--filled with friends, activities, songs, and s'mores. I was grieving the temporary loss of my mother's presence. Her food. Her hugs. Her voice. Her food. But most of all, just her being there.

This is not the way it is supposed to be. I wasn't supposed to be away from home at ten, feeling alone and disconnected and isolated.

It has been forty years since my summer in those foothills at Camp Soaring Hawk. I've long left home and have raised my own family.

But sometimes I still feel homesick. But it is not a longing for the safety and security of childhood. It is a low-grade fever in the soul. An ache for a home I've never seen but for which I long nonetheless.

Because things are not the way they are supposed to be.

My son, Schaeffer, was supposed to have a little brother. But as I held Thomas's tiny, lifeless body in my hands in January of 2002, I knew that dream had died with our second son. While the Lord gave us a fourth child, another precious daughter, at the time, I wept so hard and for so long that my eyes ran out of tears. I never thought I'd laugh again or enjoy any good thing in this life.

  • Children are not supposed to die. No one is supposed to die for that matter.
  • Humans are not supposed to get cancer.
  • Parents are not supposed to get divorced.
  • We are not supposed to go to bed at night setting an alarm system, fearing that an intruder could break in to steal or harm.
  • The weather isn't supposed to rage against us in the form of tornadoes, hurricanes, floods, blizzards, and drought.
  • Girls are not supposed to be kidnapped and enslaved.
  • Mosquitoes are not supposed to ruin summer evenings on the porch.
  • Nations are not supposed to war.
  • Cars are not supposed to break down.
  • Families are not supposed to be homeless.
  • We are not supposed to feel alone, afraid, and isolated.
  • Extracting wisdom teeth isn't supposed to cost as much as buying a used car.

We could go on and on and on. From the weather to sickness and crime and all kinds of other stressors, this world is not the way it is supposed to be.

The brokenness of our world is attributed to what we call "the fall," that moment in history when the first humans defied the creator, opening the proverbial Pandora's Box, where evil escaped, corrupting and infecting and ruining what the Lord has just declared to be good.

What if the human experience of grief is a form of homesickness?

Adam and Eve would have to leave the garden, lest they eat of the tree of life and live forever in their "not supposed to be like this" condition.

I wonder how powerfully homesickness affected them? Can you imagine their grief? Losing paradise?

To possess something and then lose it must be even more crushing to the spirit than living in the midst of the loss, never having known what it is to be home. Truly home.

What if the human experience of grief is a form of homesickness? Just as grief is the emotional response to a shattered dream, homesickness is the parallel longing for things to be made right. For the dream to live. For paradise to be restored.

Maybe grief is a longing to be home.

It is to this longing that the Bible speaks in such a practical way, with a promise that is custom fit for our spiritual homesickness.

Maybe grief is a longing to be home.

The Bible doesn't sugarcoat the reality of human depravity and global corruption. Indeed, this world is not the way it was created to be. It also is not the way that it will be.

The apostle Paul speaks to this in Romans 8:18-25

18 I consider that our present sufferings are not worth comparing with the glory that will be revealed in us. 19 For the creation waits in eager expectation for the children of God to be revealed. 20 For the creation was subjected to frustration, not by its own choice, but by the will of the one who subjected it, in hope 21 that[h the creation itself will be liberated from its bondage to decay and brought into the freedom and glory of the children of God.

22 We know that the whole creation has been groaning as in the pains of childbirth right up to the present time. 23 Not only so, but we ourselves, who have the first-fruits of the Spirit, groan inwardly as we wait eagerly for our adoption to sonship, the redemption of our bodies. 24 For in this hope we were saved. But hope that is seen is no hope at all. Who hopes for what they already have? 25 But if we hope for what we do not yet have, we wait for it patiently.

If we were to divide history into four sections, we would begin with creation, the earliest epoch. This lasted until the rebellion (i.e., the fall) in the garden (see Genesis 2-3), which led to the corruption of creation, and is the context in which we find ourselves today. The third phase of history runs concurrently with corruption. This phase is redemption, where through the ministry of Jesus culminating in his crucifixion and resurrection, God rescues us from the eternal consequences of our rebellion and promises to make all things new in what is called the consummation, or fourth epoch of history, which actually is not part of human history, but transcends it as eternity future.

In this final epoch, God establishes what is called the "new heavens and the new earth." Paradise is restored and we are home forever. Finally.

This glorious restoration and reunion is described in Revelation 21:1-5,

Then I saw “a new heaven and a new earth,”[a] for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away, and there was no longer any sea. I saw the Holy City, the new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride beautifully dressed for her husband. And I heard a loud voice from the throne saying, “Look! God’s dwelling place is now among the people, and he will dwell with them. They will be his people, and God himself will be with them and be their God. ‘He will wipe every tear from their eyes. There will be no more death’[b or mourning or crying or pain, for the old order of things has passed away.” He who was seated on the throne said, “I am making everything new!” Then he said, “Write this down, for these words are trustworthy and true.”

The part of the story that is the most challenging is living in view of redemption while continuing to experience the thorns and thistles of corruption. Stress. Death. Taxes.

This is the root of our homesickness--a longing in the soul for the way things are meant to be.

Theologians call this in-between state "the already but not yet." The promises of God have already been made and fulfilled in the person of Jesus. The kingdom of God is here. But the fullest manifestation of that kingdom, where the consummation of blessing is complete and permanent is still to come.

What are the implications for us as we live between the two worlds of the now and then? What cab we do in the waiting?

Cultivate a holy discontent with the way things are.

It is not "all good," as some are known to say. Malcom Muggeridge once quipped, "The only ultimate disaster that can befall us, I have come to realize, is to feel ourselves to be at home here on earth." C.S. Lewis compared being satisfied with the world the way it is to a child who plays in the slums making mudpies, not aware that a vacation at the beach is offered to any who will get on the bus.

Do not minimize your grief.

Like a physical nerve ending alerts us to danger by signaling pain, our emotional nerve endings alert us by signaling a deep desire to be home, where there are no more tears, crying, or pain. The more deeply we feel the pain, the greater our longing. The greater our longing, the stronger our faith and the potential for not only the full realization of joy, but also the temporal tastes we get to experience in this life.

Resist the urge to numb the pain.

I know. This is hard. When I had stitches to re-attach the end of my finger when nearly severing it with an electric hedge trimmer, I demanded a numbing injection. And yes, there are times to take a sedative. But chronic numbing with alcohol, prescription meds, shopping, pornography, YouTube clips, and whatever is your addiction of choice will prevent you from feeling your hearts deepest longing and receiving the forward-looking hope that is able to sustain you in the present.

Here is hope. While grief feels like death, it can be the birth canal of new life. Passing through is filled with a suffocating pressure, but the glory is worth the grief.

The glory is worth the grief.

That is Paul's point in Romans 8. The glory is worth the grief. We could say that the grief we suffer now intensifies the glory we will experience then. Things are not as they are supposed to be. But how they are is not how they will be for those who find their hope in Jesus, the one who entered into his creation to take on our corruption, secure redemption and reign from heaven until the restoration of paradise.

Of all the ills of the world that were contained in Pandora's mythical box, one item wasn't able to escape by the time the lid was replaced. Do you know what was trapped?

Even their mythology, the ancient Greeks revealed the same understanding of this world in its "not the way it is supposed to be-ness" and the same longing that every human feels for things to be made right. We have been created in God's image. Our original zip code was paradise, after all.

You don't have to be a Christian to feel homesick in your soul. We long for the hope of home.

We long for the hope of home.

It is the hope revealed in the gospel, where, through the cross of Jesus, God releases hope into the world--a hope that touches every person and place affected by the brokenness of the fall. The familiar Christmas hymn puts it like this:

No more let sins and sorrows grow
Nor thorns infest the ground.
He comes to make His blessings flow
Far as the curse is found.

As far as the curse if found. There is no square inch on earth that is exempt from the blessing of hope that has been secured for grieving, homesick sinners.

When our ears hear this news, we are being called home. Sometimes the road home is filled with singing and celebration. Sometimes the road is wet with tears.

But one way or another, for those in Christ, we finally will be home.


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Dead of Winter (1987)
Directed by Marc Shmuger, John Bloomgarden, Arthur Penn
Written by Anthony Gilbert, Marc Shmuger, Mark Malone
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Starring Mary Steenburgen, Jan Rubes, Roddy McDowall, William Russ, Mark Malone, Ken Pogue, Wayne Robson
Shmuger’s and Malone’s admittedly clever reworking of My Name is Julia Ross was sufficiently dissimilar to Joseph H. Lewis’s mediocre noir melodrama and the novel from which it was adapted (Gilbert’s The Woman in Red) for them to circumvent both copyrights and any associative legal action, but the goofy, glossy result is only technically superior to its source. Later a failed executive of Universal Pictures and Luc Besson’s tiresome EuropaCorp, Shmuger was reportedly unprepared for his first week’s directorial difficulties, and hired Penn to helm this picture while his co-producer Bloomgarden did so intervallically. Nina Foch’s working girl lured though an employment office by a mother and her twisted son to their seaside estate, where’s she’s confined and publicly paraded as his missing wife, is recharacterized as an unemployed actress (Steenburgen) hired at a casting call by the vivacious valet (McDowall) of a crippled psychiatrist (Rubes) to perform a screen test at the shrink’s mansion during a snowstorm in upstate New York on behalf of a Canadian filmmaker who’s allegedly lost to squabbles his leading lady, to whom she’s identical. It’s certainly nice to behold: Jan Weincke’s sharp, brilliant photography is commendable for its distinct yet balanced contrast, exhibiting Bill Brodie’s splendid production design and sets appointed by Mark S. Freeborn and Paul Harding that emphasize the luxuriance of the wealthy mythomaniac’s manse and cozy modesty of Steenburgen’s apartment. Especially in dramatic worm’s-eye and lingering still shots, Penn’s usual craftsmanship is executed as adroitly as ever, and snappily cut by Rick Shaine. However, this particular journeyman’s inclination to grant his casts carte blanche has always determined the varied quality of his best (Bonnie and Clyde, Night Moves, The Missouri Breaks) and worst (Alice’s Restaurant, Penn & Teller Get Killed) movies. Perennial ham Rubes looks and sounds like elderly Werner Herzog channeling one of Adam Sandler’s zanier characters; he hasn’t a line too brief or gesture too small to overplay. Once infallible even whenever over the top (see The Legend of Hell House), McDowall’s instincts were diminished either by years of roles in B-features or Rubes’ influence, for he seems to be vying with the elder Czech for the blue ribbon with laughably mincing mannerisms. Steenburgen tackles three parts with gusto, but falters in two when attempting to maintain tonal accordance with Rubes. Consequently, the third act descends into a silliness that should’ve been suspense. For all this tale’s riveting twists, its production’s polish and a couple of appellative winks to Julia Ross, it’s largely ruined by Rubes’ gaping japery, and his co-stars’ attempts to meet it.

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Orthodontic Facts and Myths

Orthodontic Braces – what’s real and what is a myth?

Here at Rock House Dental Practice in Wolverhampton lots of patients come to see us for orthodontic braces and we are often surprised to hear some of the things they have been told. As a result, we have collated information to help you separate the orthodontic facts from the myths.

Orthodontic Facts and Myths 1

Braces are just for kids!

Not at all; generally speaking, Adult orthodontics is one of the most common procedures we now perform. Everyone is entitled to straight white teeth. Even those of us with “slightly” grey hair! The approach to providing orthodontic braces is slightly different to when treating a child, but it’s still a very successful procedure. We can now provide adult orthodontics or braces for grown-ups to straighten the teeth. Most of the time, when I mention this option to patients they instantly say “No chance, I had train tracks as a child, and I’m not having them again!!!”. However, upon explaining that now braces are different, soon, our patient begin to listen.

Orthodontic Facts and Myths 2

Braces make your teeth straight forever.

I’m afraid not. Almost all orthodontic treatments require some form of retention. Subsequently, at the end of treatment, either a fixed or removable retainer is provided. Therefore, you must remember, if you don’t use your retainer, your teeth will relapse.

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Braces take at least 2 years

No, not at all. Orthodontic treatments can be completed in as little as 6-months. By and large, the time of treatment is case specific. However, if you need lots of tooth movement, it takes longer.

Orthodontic Facts and Myths 4

Only braces straighten teeth

Yes and no. Orthodontic braces will move the teeth, but other techniques are available such as veneers or bonding to camouflage the misalignment of your teeth and to make them look more attractive. We offer all treatments at the practice, and as a result, can offer multiple solutions. However, we will only provide the treatment that is right for you.

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    • John Plescia, Star Roofing, Inc., Phoenix
    • Jeff Starkweather, Starkweather Roofing Inc., Cave Creek, Ariz.
  • Kenton Summers, Specialty Roofing Inc., Phoenix
  • Brian Torry, Veritas Marketing, Phoenix

$100,000—Fred Good Scholarship

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  • NRCA, Rosemont, Ill.

  • Beacon Roofing Supply Inc., Herndon, Va.—Beacon Roofing Supply Scholarship
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  • William A. Good, Seabrook Island, S.C. — William A. Good Scholarship
  • Gail Kruger Krapf, Macon, Ga. — Melvin Kruger Scholarship
  • John Miller, Ross, Calif.
  • Jim and Suzanne MacKimm, Peabody, Mass. – Jim and Suzanne MacKimm Scholarship
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  • United Materials, Beth Gloss, Denver

  • Academy Roofing Inc., Suzie Boyd, Aurora, Colo.
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  • Beldon Roofing Co., Brad Beldon, San Antonio
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  • Crane Renovation Group, Gary Kerley, Columbus, Ohio
  • Gooding Group Foundation, John Gooding, Ephrata, Pa.
  • Robert (Country) Harrison, Greenville, S.C.
  • Latham Roofing Contractor, LLC, Dallas
  • Mary Mai, Washington, D.C.
  • Tom and Fran Manson, Leawood, Kan.
  • Rob and Kate McNamara, Tecta America Corp., Rosemont, Ill.
  • P.J. McTavish & Co. Inc., Burtonsville, Md.
  • Midland Engineering Co. Inc., Mike Frahn, South Bend, Ind.
  • Dan Murphy, Longmeadow, Mass.
  • North/East Roofing Contractors Association, Braintree, Mass.
  • J.A. Piper Roofing Co., Rodney Piper Jr., Greenville, S.C.
  • Roofing Supply Group, Tim Perryman, Kennesaw, Ga.
  • Roofs Inc., Joseph McDevitt, Lyons, Ill.
  • Tech Roofing Service Inc., Joe Narkowicz, Springfield, Mo.
  • Timothy Root Scholarship Fund, Jurin Roofing Services Inc., Quakertown, Pa.
  • United Union of Roofers, Waterproofers and Allied Workers, Washington, D.C.
  • Winona Heating and Ventilating Co., Michael Gostomski, Winona, Minn.
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Pictures from around here

I haven’t been very good about taking pictures lately so here are a few things that caught my eye on recent rides around home.

I was crossing the 14th Street Bridge into DC when I spotted a velomobile headed in my direction. I couldn’t get my camera out in time for a shot of the front but here’s the driver as he passed me.

After he went by I noticed that the roof of the “car” was covered with solar cells. And to he was pulling a trailer with additional solar cells. As you can see it’s a bit wide for the bridge trail but we managed not to collide.

You can also see the small American flags that have been duct taped to the side barrier at intervals. A volunteer has been doing this every year as a tribute to those who lost their lives on September 11, 2001. If you squint and look to the left of center just above the railing on the barrier you can make out the Pentagon and the three curved spires of the Air Force Memorial. The Memorial was constructed after 9/11. It is more or less in the flight path of the hijacked plane.

I live near Fort Hunt Park. There is a 1 1/4 mile paved circuit road in the park that I often use when I want to let my brain wander having to worry about fast moving big metal things. The other day I noticed people stopping to read this sign. It explains that in 1939, just before all hell broke loose in Europe, King George VI came to check out the Civilian Conservation Corps operation in the park. They planted a tree in his honor.

Here’s a close up of the sign.

This evening I went to the park to ride around in mindless circles. It was a beautiful evening. Park of the reason the temperature was so agreeable is the fact that a haze is blocking some of the sunlight. The haze is caused by wildfires out west, over 3,000 miles away.


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Maxine always had a weak spot for the colour pink and definitely wanted to implement this into the name of her boutique. After colouring the walls of her boutique pastel pink the name Rosine was chosen. By adding the gold dot above the letter “I” inside the logo it was not only a reference to her favourite colour but also an ode to her mom, the person who started it all.

Maxine is the owner of Rosine. Her friends describe her as a lovely, happy person that spreads positive vibes everywhere she goes. With years of experience and a big smile on her face, she helps woman of all ages find their piece of joy.

Jewellery has always been a big passion of hers so choosing items to go into her collection is something that comes natural. Every piece inside Rosine is carefully curated and has an origin of its own. Thanks to her love for traveling, you’ll often see references to countries she visited like Bali, Spain and Sydney or countries she still wants to go to. Maxine loves to inspire her customers and will always give them the best advice possible.

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Best time to travel to El Paso, TX

Franklin Mountains State Park

Discover unbelievable high-desert mountains, just a half-hour drive from downtown El Paso

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Are you looking for an excellent hiking place in El Paso, Texas? Franklin Mountains State Park has it all: dozens of hiking trails, mountain biking trails, and trail running tracks. Visitors can enjoy various activities such as picnicking, rock climbing, biking, hiking, and bird or nature watching. You can opt for a day trip or camp overnight.

Franklin Mountains State Park is open year-round. The park conducts ranger-led tours limited to ten persons. These tours usually run on the first and third weekends of the month with preferred reservations. For all tours or general hiking in the Franklin Mountains, a good idea will be to travel in pairs, to wear hiking boots and weather-fitting clothing. Always bring a sufficient amount of snacks and water with you.

The altitudes of the area promise some truly spectacular views. The park's headquarters are situated at an elevation of 5,426 ft (1,654 m), and North Franklin Mountain, the highest peak of the park, rises at 7,192 ft (2,192 m). Franklin Mountains State Park is one of the nation's most significant urban parks lying within city limits and covering 24,247 ac (9,813 ha).

Franklin Mountains State Park has a rich history. Mortar pits and pictograms confirm the presence of humans in the mountainous area dating back more than 12,000 years. If you are more into nature than history, the fauna and flora abundance might surprise you. Mexican and California poppies, Barrel cactus, and yucca are common plants across this desert landscape. Along the springs on the mountain slopes, you will find trees like hackberry, cottonwood, juniper, and oak. On a lucky day, you might encounter wild animals like mountain lions, ring-tailed cats, mule deer, and some rodents. Birding at Franklin Mountains State Park gives a chance to spot hawks, golden eagles, and smaller birds.

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Visual Rhetoric-rowanstudent

0:01 The ad starts with an Asian man maybe 20-25 years old. He is on his phone sitting on a couch. The phone is an iPhone 6 which means the ad is recent, maybe made a few years back. This can be his parents’ house considering there is an old-looking picture of a couple on the wall. Right behind him there is a picture on the wall of some type of building. There are little American flags in a vase full of flowers so it may be Independence Day or some sort of holiday. Even though he’s an Asian man, this indicates he lives in America. By the expression on his face, he looks upset at his phone. Maybe he received news that upset him. He is dressed in sweats probably because he’s chilling at home and doesn’t have anywhere to be.

0:02 He is still on his phone, but the background has changed. He is what looks like a library because there are books on shelves with labels on the binding of each book. His expression on his face remains the same. His thumbs are both on the screen of his phone so he may be texting someone. He is probably in school because he is dressed in a more casual outfit than the first scene. He has books on the side of him, but fails to pay attention to them.

0:03 Background change. He is once again still on his phone. I am starting to think that something really important is on his phone because the scene has switched to him working out at the gym. He may be at a public gym or his school gym. The equipment behind him are colored red and yellow which leads me to think this can be a school gym that is represented with those colors. He still has the same face as all the other seconds.

0:04 Background change. Now he is in what seems like a food court. He is sitting next to someone that looks around the same age as him even though we can’t see the face. It may be his friend. There are other people in the scene except they seem unimportant in the background. I guess what the director is trying to say that even in social situations this man doesn’t interact besides being on his phone. Again, he still has the same face expression.

0:05 Background change. There is a cupcake with a candle on it signifying that it is his birthday, but he still on his phone (no surprise here). His face is the same as in all the other scenes. Now there are other people in the scene. To the left of him, there are two girls. Maybe his friends or one of them can be his girlfriend. To the right of him, it looks like they can be his parents just because they are right next to him while they sing “Happy Birthday.” He can be taking a picture of the cupcake, but it seems like he is still texting. This just shows that even though he has friends and family looking at him, he remains on his phone.

0:06 Background change. This scene is kind of random and out of place. He is on a carousel, still on his phone and still with the same expression. Now I’m starting to wonder if maybe whatever is on his phone is just the same thing because his face hasn’t changed at all since the beginning.

0:07 Background change. Now he is sitting on a couch, but a different one from the first second. The girl that was in the birthday scene is next to him with her arm on his shoulder. You can see her glancing at his phone. This is probably his girlfriend considering she is wondering what is on his phone. I now think he may be a little younger than 20 since she looks pretty young. It looks like she is saying something, but he is just ignoring her while he still looks at his phone. The director probably chose to make the girl speak to show that he doesn’t even notice or acknowledge that she is there. So whatever is on his phone must be more important than what she is saying.

0:08 Background change. he camera seems to be in a fridge. The man looks like he is either closing or opening it. But you can see him still on his phone.

0:09 Background change. The scene is kind of dark. It looks like he is in bed. I think the director did this on purpose to show that he is still on his phone because you can see the light reflecting off his face. So far, the point of view looking at the man is the same in each second. Although he is laying on his side, his body is still in the same position and alignment as the other scenes.

0:10 Background change. He is on an elevator going up, and is now wearing a jacket. So maybe this indicates the season change. He is still on his phone after all this time has passed. His thumbs are still on the screen so he is still texting someone.

0:11 Background change. He is at a party it looks like because of the lights and people around him. He is in fact still on his phone. This shows that even in the most social place to talk to people, he still has his face in his phone. There is a guy to the right of him and it looks like he is having a good time with a smile on his face.

0:12 Background change. He is back at the same gym he was earlier. He is still on his phone, but now he is not the one doing the workout. It seems that he is supposed to be the spotter for the person lifting weights on the bench in from of him. He isn’t paying attention at all because his attention is somewhere else, his phone.

0:13 Background change. He is back in the same mall he was at earlier. This looks like the same exact scene because he is wearing the same exact outfit and the people in the background are the same. Also, his friend next to him is wearing the same thing. He is still on his phone

0:14-0:15 It is a fast compilation of all the previous seconds of the man on his phone and in different settings.

0:16 He’s in his car now, but it looks like he’s about to do something with his phone. His face isn’t shown just the neck down. He is in front of a house. It can be his house or someone else’s. But he is definitely in a neighborhood because there’s a house right next to the other one, and what appears to be the house number. It may be the holiday season because there is a wreath hanging on the door, but that may just be a decoration.

0:17-0:18 This scene is of a closeup of his phone. The phone is on a seat, which means it’s not in his hands. He may have thrown it there to show that he doesn’t text and drive. It shows a conversation in his text messages. He sends “Hey what’s up?” Then the person responds “About to shoot a video…It’s for a pretty good cause (*with a traffic light emoji*)…Wanna help?” He replies “Yeah sure.” The other person goes “Alright come over.” He end the conversation with “Ok. Driving now so I’ll ttyl.” The video that the other person is probably talking about is this video considering they included a traffic light emoji with their text, which means it has something to do with driving. Instead of the man saying “I’ll ttyl”, he also includes “driving now” to shift the focus of the meaning of this video. The message is most likely not to text and drive.

0:19-0:20 It is kind of blurry meaning that the car is in motion. It it probably his car because the last scene was him in the car. The words “NOT HERE” appears in white.

0:21 The words “Never here” appear in a text message format right underneath the “NOT HERE.”

0:22-0:23 Then the message is finally revealed “Don’t text and drive” with the word text in blue to show the importance of that word.

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  1. davidbdale says:

    RowanStudent, yours is the most thorough response to the assignment I’ve seen so far. In the case of the other posts I’ve Replied to, I felt compelled to offer an example of thorough evaluation for the first second of video. In your case, I don’t have to do that because your response is so much closer to a completed first draft. So, instead, I’ll respond to your work throughout.

    0:01 Everything you say is appropriate so far, RS. I don’t know how you can judge the expression on the Asian man’s face, but if it looks to you that he’s upset, I won’t dispute it. I don’t see it myself, but that’s irrelevant. Two things of note. You made a really good catch on the American flags in the corner, but what do you suppose it might mean? Is it a clue that although we’re presented with a young Asian, we’re not in Asia? Something else. You say he’s sitting on a couch, which is only partly true. By the end of the first second, he is, but we discover him in motion. He’s been walking through the room to the couch texting and doesn’t stop texting while positioning himself at the couch and then taking his seat. Brilliant to identify the specific phone he’s using, but is it significant that he has a current iPhone? What does this say about how much time he spends texting?

    0:02 Your comment that he ignores the books on the table is brilliant. You’re very smart to pay as much attention to what doesn’t happen as what does happen. Is it significant visually or rhetorically that the man’s face and head are in the same position onscreen for both scenes? You didn’t say so. Are we starting a series in which he’ll be the center of attention? If he’s at school, would you call it high school or college? Is his age significant to reach a target audience?

    0:03 Your observations are quite good. You haven’t mentioned any other people. Has the man been alone in all three scenes? If he’s mesmerized by his phone in three different locations, and there are no other people in the scenes, does that begin to signal his isolation? Would the point be made better if he were alone in the scenes or if he were surrounded by people but oblivious to them? I can’t believe you didn’t mention that he’s doing situps while texting. Remember, your reader doesn’t have the benefit of seeing what you’re seeing. She doesn’t know he’s in “workout” wear or in a headband color-coordinated to the yellow equipment. (The title of the campaign is Yellow Light. That information is not on screen, but it might be significant.)

    0:04 Yeah. He’s also not eating. At the library not reading. In the food court not eating. Good catch on the isolation from other humans. We both got there. You might be able to fill it in backwards a second or two. Interesting that we don’t see the “friend’s” face. Is that significant?

    0:05 Is he still positioned at the middle of the screen? Does the lighting change along with the changes of what you call “background”? You didn’t mention faces this time. Are you surmising the girl might be his girlfriend with or without seeing her face?

    0:06 Describe why this scene seems out of place. Good for you to begin to wonder whether he’s looking at something different in every scene or the same thing each time. We don’t have any way to know, but as viewers of millions of video communications by the time we’re in college, we have a lot of experience with visual storytelling, and we start to notice directorial techniques. We wonder about what we’re NOT being told and try to pick up clues about the director’s intentions. Your job in this assignment is precisely what your question gets at: what’s he looking at? why is the phone so important to him? am I being manipulated? I want to be smart and “get it,” so I have something at stake here: I want to solve this puzzle before the director reveals the “truth.” Is there any significance to the visual fact that the world is spinning around him in the background while he stays as always stationary at the middle of the screen? Granted this is a long shot, but was he deliberately put on a horse that is always in motion but never gets anywhere?

    0:07 I was surprised when you thought he was in his 20s and called him a man. He always looked like a high school kid to me (but then, everybody does). Your observations are strong here, but one thing disturbs me. Since everything on screen has a purpose, what the heck is up with the 24 Bars? Are those Chinese relaxation balls behind her? Whose house are they in? You said it’s a different sofa, but you didn’t say it’s a different house.

    0:08 Definitely closing it.

    0:09 I don’t think you need me chiming in on every second from here forward. You’re perfectly alert to the possibilities of what is shown and what’s not shown. You can revise from here without my interference.

    0:16 I think it’s important not to skip ahead to whatever made you think “it looks like he’s about to do something with his phone.” When we first see him behind the wheel, he is doing exactly what he’s done in every scene so far. THEN he does something different with his phone, indicating there was a moment at which he had to decide NOT to drive while texting or watching his screen.

    0:17-0:18 Very clever. Very thoughtful. And quite inventive to surmise that the video being discussed could be the one we’re watching now. Just one thing. There’s no way to read that whole conversation in the time the screen is on screen in the “ad.” So, it demands to be said, if the video is on broadcast TV, as it’s originally intended to be consumed, what part of it would viewers likely see and respond to? This may require some analysis of how these 30-second spots are consumed in our current age. Does the director have to consider what material will be available as the scene proceeds in real time AND what additional material would be available to see when the screen is paused?

    One more thing, RowanStudent. In an Afterword (if you don’t manage to blend the commentary into your time-stamped commentary) evaluate the overall effectiveness of the visual part of this audio-visual bit of media communication. Was that technique of putting the kid at the center of every screen a good idea? Did it confuse viewers or help them draw a conclusion in keeping with the director’s message? Etc. How could the ad have been improved? When you eventually viewed this PSA spot WITH the audio track, were you surprised? Did the audio contribute anything essential that changed your interpretation of the spot or your appreciation for it?

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Internet of Things Smart Space Research Team (IoT-s2o)

The labsystem is an Open Source project I started in 2004. It is an eLearning platform containing a content management system and a course administration system.

The labsystem...

Inside the labsystem environment you can provide HTML content like text, pictures, videos and sounds. As it is entirely based on HTML you can ambed everything you can find in the web. As learning elements you find multiple choice questions, free text inputs and file uploading possibilities that can be combined freely in so-called collections.

The system was especially developed for realizing my didactical concept of the practical exercise iLab. So it supports it :)

You can find more information about the system here. You can also test the system on the page from a user, corrector and author perspective...

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