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US Department of Labor announces grant to assist Wisconsin workers impacted by layoffs at Chrysler Kenosha Engine Plant

WASHINGTON — The U.S. Department of Labor today announced a $2,601,207 grant to assist about 448 workers affected by the closure of the Chrysler Kenosha Engine Plant located in Kenosha, Wis.

"The Labor Department is committed to helping all workers who have lost jobs through no fault of their own — including those in the nation's auto communities," said Secretary of Labor Hilda L. Solis. "Helping these workers in Wisconsin get back on a career path is good for working families, local communities and the economy as a whole. It makes sense and it's the right thing to do."

Awarded to the Wisconsin Department of Workforce Development, this grant will be operated by the Southeast Wisconsin Workforce Development Board. The grant will provide these dislocated workers, all of whom are also certified as eligible for Trade Adjustment Assistance, with access to "wrap-around" and other supportive services not available through the TAA program.

In August, Chrysler issued a Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act notice announcing the permanent closure of its engine manufacturing facility in Kenosha. The plant closed in October, ending more than 100 years of auto industry employment in the city.

Of the $2,601,207 announced today, $1,207,576 will be released initially. Additional funding up to the amount approved will be made available as the state demonstrates a continued need for assistance.

National Emergency Grants are awarded at the discretion of the secretary of labor based on a state's ability to meet specific guidelines. For more information, visit


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Aperture3: "internal" import function broken

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Re: Aperture3: "internal" import function broken

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I happily used Aperture on Lion for a year (before upgrading to Mountain Lion). I'd suggest that Aperture itself isn't the root cause of your son's problems...

I do not doubt your experience.  However, Aperture ran perfectly on our son's iMac under Snow Lion, but slowed to a crawl -- worse than a crawl -- when he upgraded to Lion.  I myself tried to use his copy of Aperture on his iMac after Lion was installed, and it was painful.  No application other than Aperture on his iMac was affected.

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Re: I wish it is possible...

Kendall Helmstetter Gelner wrote:

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I don't see much difference between that and a newer SD1 with live view.

Sorry that I did not noticed newer SD1 with live view.

Since Sigma has said they are working on new cameras and not an ILC DP-M series you don't have to have an announcement to be pretty sure what is coming.

I'm not privy to insight info as you do, Kendall. So what is surely coming?

Wishing implies something is out of reach, not likely.

Quite contrary. At least when the bond between consumer and manufacturer is formed. I hope that you don't imply that Sigma's philosophy is limited to your view of the reality. I really do.

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Re: Depends on what?

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You ask for the difference with APS-C camera's. The difference is not that obvious. You can still get lovely shallow DoF images.

I think the difference between APS-C and smaller formats is noticeable for two reasons, 1) it is almost by a stop wider frame, and 2) it always had more available fast lenses than there were at smaller formats disposal. Recent mFT is seemingly catching up with fast primes, but most of them are still not f/1.4 lenses, and the format will not change.

2/3 of a stop is not THAT much. In my book.

f/1.8 lenses that are sharp wideopen are fast enough to get good DoF control. That was my point and still is.

If you compare with fullframe cameras the difference is more obvious. The more extreme shallow DoF images you can get with these (combined with fast glass) cannot be achieved with micro fourthirds.

Unless you use some exotics, like f/1 and below manual focus primes. Those are neither affordable for what they are, nor quality comparable at wide open at the same blur.

So first you state that APS-C has much more shallow DoF control than m43rds, now you say that FF does not have that much to offer. Sir, you are just here to pick a fight.

But personally I find that micro fourthirds gives enough possibilities to play with shallow DoF, you just have to be a bit more aware of the situation, aperture, and composition.

What if the situation does not present itself, like busy backgrounds, not enough space, the frame is too wide to capture, ..etc.? Sounds like most of the scenarios one would encounter on day to day shooting. Unless you are in a big studio of course.

Picking a fight again. Please stop. The second word in my above statement says it all.

I would advise you to add a faster prime to the kit mentioned, such as the 45mm f1.8 which is not overly expensive and really opens up the shallow DoF capability of the system.

90/3.6 would be neither here no there on a full frame camera.

Go play with your FF camera then.

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Penrax K3 weather sealing problem.

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I believe someone else here had a similar issue recently

Didn't they?  but his was just out of warranty, so not a K3, but Pentax in his country went ahead and replaced the body free of charge.

This will happen it seems as I think other brands have had bad seals around display panels letting moisture in behind the outer glass.  Doesn't even have to be a sealed camera as that part is supposed to be sealed anyway, that is the point of that glass layer, to protect the LCD panel itself.  So people usually get the companies to replace the body w/o issue.

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Tony Bell – Picture Editor of the Observer

Rhiannon Reid – Client Engagement Manager of 24 Productions

Peter James – Head of Photographs of Birmingham Central Library

Dewi Lewis – of Dewi Lewis Publishing

Fiona Rogers – Cultural and Education Coordinator, Magnum Photos

Laurence Watts – Head of International Picture Desk of ActionAid

That’s right, not a single working photographer speaking at an event about working as a photographer. Surely somewhere in the back of their dusty cupboard they can pull out a photographer willing to talk about how they make a living from taking photos?

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I’m told that they didn’t look at any portfolios this year. Infact the only person they added to the agency is dead.

Just something else worth throwing into the pot.  Earlier this year Rhubarb Rhubarb also ran a professional seminar for photogs in Birmingham.  The cost was £10 if you were local or £20 if you were from out of town and brave enough to come to brum. That’s at the cheapest tickets were THIRTY times cheaper than Magnums events. The line-up was bloody good too …

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    In the London’s workshop, out of six speeches, only 2 were kind of worth it. If Robert Capa could check this out…

  • Another generation of photographers will enter the industry with false hopes as a result. While I don’t buy into all the doom and gloom churned out by professional photographers at times I do believe that students and aspiring photographers need to understand the problems faced when it comes to funding and commissioning.

    Granted this is second guessing a more positive outlook that will be pitched by the panel above, but I can’t imagine they have a real idea of how hard it can be to break into the profession.

    ‘Client Engagement Manager’ is a lovely title though.

  • I attended the Magnum Professional Practice seminar event last year, they gave away five free places through Ideastap.com. Although I cannot honestly say that I would pay the full price to go again, I do have to say the content was great and incredibly useful to me as young photographer from up north.

    Although I enjoyed David Hurn’s talk and musings IMMENSELY, I found I got much more use and ideas from David Birkitt, Michael Mack and Christian Payne who spoke for a good hour and a half each.

    I can’t comment on how Magnum run their business but I do have to say that these are worthwhile courses.

  • The big organisations will get it eventually. My bet is on “approximately 5 years after the world has progressed to doing something else”.

  • I’ve taken one seminar and one workshop with Magnum Photos.

    I attended the same seminar as Victoria and, like her, I found the talk by David Hurn to be interesting and very humourous, but the talks by professionals in other parts of the industry proved more useful to me. I can’t speak for the other professional photographers, but it seems to me that if you already are a professional photographer and are looking for more exposure, hearing a photographer talk may not be best.

    Workshops, on the other hand, should be (and are) tutored by photographers as you are either trying to learn a new facet of photography or to improve your existing skills. I took the Street Photography workshop in Derby and enjoyed it immensely.

    In any event, I found both types of events useful but aimed at different audiences.

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As schools around the world focus on how best to prepare students for success in the 21st century, there’s been much debate about what approach works best. Educational experts -- from classroom teachers to university professors, from parents to politicians -- have weighed in on what schools should look like and how they should run. Opinions about how to "reform" schools or introduce new innovations dominate the literature. Yet one perspective, perhaps the most critical, has been missing from much of the conversation -- the student.

What Students Want

Over the course of the last few years, I've had the pleasure of visiting many high-performing schools in diverse communities. Time and again, one major feature they all share is a focus on what is in the best interest of students, with formal mechanisms that allow students to engage in the overall governance and culture of the school. As educators, we hope to develop students' ability to take ownership and responsibility of their learning, yet many schools fail to provide authentic learning experiences and don't help students see the relevance in their learning. Schools that place a heavy emphasis on voice create opportunities for students to inform what they learn, how they learn it and in what ways they will demonstrate that learning. Students have a natural disposition to desire "taking action" and expressing their beliefs in constructive and meaningful ways. As such, we need to find ways to provide them a place at the table when discussing the ways they will be educated.

Many schools and local communities in the United States have embraced this notion of student voice. Students themselves, such as Zak Malamed (@zakmal on Twitter) and student colleagues from across the U.S., created the Student Voice movement to focus attention on the need to involve students in the decision-making process when it comes to education policy and practice. As I visit schools throughout Finland this week, I'm wondering if this notion of student voice transcends cultural boundaries and exists in high-performing countries such as Finland. Is student voice important to them? And how do they foster this type of student engagement? Over the course of this week, we'll have the opportunity to visit several schools, and I hope to explore this concept and how it manifests in their system, if at all.

Cultural Disconnect?

Wherever we have gone this week, we have been told about the "Finnish personality." They have described themselves as a quiet, reserved and somewhat introverted people. And each morning as we ride the city buses or trams, people are indeed reserved, quiet and basically keep to themselves. This carries forward to the school hallways, where students travel relatively quietly, in small groups and only socialize when there is free time to do so. One student described this lack of "outgoing" personality by saying:

You do not put yourself out there too much because it would be a waste of energy. You could use that energy for something more useful, like completing your work.

This practical sentiment made me also wonder if the notion of “student voice” would even register with Finnish students. Is it possible that having a voice and advocating for one’s position in decision-making isn’t desirable in some cultures? For me, this notion was quickly put aside after speaking to the students. Just talking with them made it clear that not only do they have a say in how they learn and the way their school runs, but they want more of a say.

As one teacher explained:

I think this younger generation is going to change our culture and country. They are not as reserved and shy about interacting with others. They take more initiative and responsibility, so this is how they are different than my generation, perhaps.

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Our inquiry into the Finnish education system has involved visits to several schools in Helsinki, including the Helsinki Normal Lyceum and Helsingin Suomalainen Yhteiskoulu, or SYK for short. The Normal School teaches about 550 students between the ages of 14 and 19, while also serving as one of 11 teacher practice schools in Finland. SYK has approximately 1100 students in grades 3-12, and offers a high-performing International Baccalaureate program.

After meeting with officials from the University of Helsinki, we came to understand that a great deal of autonomy regarding curriculum, instruction and assessment resides at the local level. In essence, teachers are viewed as experts in the "art and science" of teaching, including an expectation that they will continue to engage themselves in scholarly work. With this autonomy also comes a high degree of responsibility to ensure that students are held to a rigorous standard and progress in their learning. This sense of autonomy was confirmed as we interviewed teacher after teacher. While teachers do have freedom to design their own curriculum and assessments, there are national curriculum frameworks they are expected to address. I decided to go directly to the "customers," though, and spent time speaking with students about their experience at the school and what role they play in shaping the learning.

In general, students reported that the school provided a relaxed, casual atmosphere, where students develop relationships with their teachers. For example, students often address teachers by their first name and view them as facilitators of learning, more so than an as an authority figure. Students described the most effective teachers as those that "get to know you as a person and show you who they are." Another student who previously attended an American school shared that she saw the Finnish school system as very different because:

. . . we have more freedoms in some ways, but greater responsibility for our learning. We make choices about our learning, and the teachers are there to help facilitate that learning. We see them as our partners.

A great emphasis was placed on creating a safe, nurturing learning environment, but one that expected students to take a significant role in their learning. When asked to give an example, students shared that their input was often sought out by teachers regarding course content and how they would be assessed. Since teachers are responsible for crafting their curriculum and creating their own assessments, having student input in the process helps personalize the learning and meet the needs of each cohort of students. By including students in the design of instruction and course expectations, they are more likely to have greater ownership and relevance for the learning. One teacher explained that this also helps her customize the learning to the skills and talents of her students.

She explained her decision by saying:

I know what the learning outcomes are for the lessons and what students need to be able to do, but I want their input if the learning is working for them. I will sometimes discuss with them the outcomes for the lessons before I teach a lesson so they know what to expect. They help me make decisions about how they like best to learn, and I make adjustments sometimes because of their feedback.

Trust and Transparency

Formal structures, such as a student council, allow students to make suggestions to the school leadership and teachers. Students shared several examples of school-wide events and practices that they have influenced through this mechanism. The key is not just involving groups of this nature in cursory or low-level decisions; students also engage in determining and perpetuating school-wide celebrations and traditions. One example shared was the use of weekly whole-school meetings. This time was originally reserved for the administration to address the student body, but has since evolved into student-led meetings, times for celebration and opportunities to express their views.

Another example shared by University of Helsinki professor and veteran school principal, Dr. Atso Taipale, is the inclusion of students on teacher teams. In his former school, teachers were organized into teacher teams that focused on various aspects of the school from culture to pedagogy, such as increasing technology integration. At least two student representatives sat on these faculty teams and offered their perspective on how the changes or decisions made would impact them and their peers. Student representatives sometimes participate in the hiring process for new teachers, as well.

In the early stages of our visit, two themes have emerged for our team -- trust and transparency. By trusting teachers to serve as the "experts" and providing them time to collaborate, there is a pervasive tone of professionalism, but also responsibility. When students are involved in the decision-making process and school governance, that tone raises transparency and trust to a new level. The strong relationships that appear to exist between teachers and students help open the door for students to express their ideas, hopes and needs -- all of which are important parts of fostering student voice. Finding more ways to involve students is one key to creating a truly innovative, relevant learning environment.

Over the next few days, I’ll share out other examples that represent how Finnish schools incorporate student voice into their everyday practice on our group blog,, and through Twitter (@bwileyone and #pennfinn13).

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Brandon, thank you for meticulously elaborated notions on student voice. I would like to briefly comment on the issue through a Finnish lens. As stated during the interesting discussions this week steering plays a key role in our education system. And yes, we're masters in adapting ideas from other systems and reshaping them according to our needs. The most descriptive documents are our National core curricula for Pre-School, General Basic Education and General Upper Secondary Education They are all retrievable in English at You might be interested in examining especially the link and chapter 5.2.1 on home-school collaboration. These amendments are reinforcing the status quo at school level when local stakeholders i.e municipal authorities, principals and teachers have to alter the local curriculum accordingly. Another hint regarding your special points of interest might be listed in the chapter dealing with Integration and cross-curricular themes at

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This book, written by a well-known scientist with a background in biophysics and biology brings together evidence from a range of disciplines to provide an acceptable explanation for the energetic exchanges that take place in all therapies. It addresses a growing interest in the field of mind-body medicine and the role of natural "energy forces" within the body in maintaining normal health and wellbeing. This in turn has lead to interest in how these energies or forces may be channelled to assist in healing and the restoration of normal health.

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Foreword. Preface. Introduction. 1. Historical background. 2. Measuring the fields of life. 3. The 'circuitry' of the body. 4. The living matrix: five views. 5. Acupuncture and related therapies. 6. Polarity, therapeutic touch, magnet therapy and related methods. 7. Silent pulses. 8. Therapeutic entrainment. 9. Vibrational medicines. 10. Homeopathy and related vibrational medicines. 11. Gravity, structure, emotions. 12. Structural integration (Rolfing), osteopathic, chiropractic, Feldenkrais, Alexander, myofascial release and related methods. 13. The electromagnetic environment. 14. The electromagnetic environment: biological effects. 15. Conclusions: is energy medicine the medicine of the future? 16. Energy circles. Afterword. Appendices. Index

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Authors: Peter Wiggers Maritha de Boer-de Wit Henk Kok
Hardcover ISBN: 9780750659260
Imprint: Butterworth-Heinemann
Published Date: 24th October 2003
Page Count: 304

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Introduction and framework: Introduction; IT as a business within a business; The added value of IT; Reader's Guide; What is IT performance management about? Introduction; Some basic concepts; Performance management basics; The IT Performance Management Grid; The Terminology Used; Balancing the demand and supply of IT; Demand and supply in the IT value perception model; Summary; IT Service and IT Service Provisioning: Introduction; Structuring IT Services; Defining and describing services and service structures; The introduction of new IT services; Performance management of IT service provisioning; Summary; Managing the cost of IT: Introduction; Cost of IT; Understanding IT Cost; Controlling the cost of IT; Focus of IT optimization; Summary; Measuring the added value of IT: Introduction; Context of value; The business value of the organization; The business value of the IT department; The business value of IT investments; The investment proposal (the business case); Financing the investments; Summary; Managing the IT portfolio: Introduction; Strategy and strategy alignment; The role of architectures in IT performance management; Practical approaches to the alignment of business and IT; Managing the demand axis of the IT portfolio; Managing the supply axis of the IT portfolio; Managing IT performance; Summary; The Marketplace for IT Services: Introduction; Classification of marketplaces; The internal marketplace of IT Services; IT services in the context of the IT value chain; The maturity of IT service provisioning; Pricing and charging of IT services; IT vendor management; Summary; Sourcing and Managing a Mixed IT Portfolio: Introduction; Building an IT sourcing strategy; Crafting IT sourcing deals; Managing the integral IT services portfolio; Some lessons learned in outsourcing IT; Summary; Organizing the Demand and Supp

IT Performance Management addresses the way organizations should balance the demand and the supply of information technology, optimizing the cost and maximizing the business value of IT.

In this book several aspects of IT performance management are described. The way this management is executed and the techniques, which should be used, depend on the maturity of the relationship between the IT function and the lines of business of an organization. The foundation of the authors' approach is based on the flow of money and related management objectives. However, performance management is primarily based on perceptions. Therefore, this book introduces the IT value perception model. This model describes four separate levels of perception for the business value of IT. If the demand and the supply of IT do not share the same perception level, the balance is lost, which will lead to friction and inefficiency within an organization.

This book is not about what is good or what is bad, but rather is about the 'what', the 'why' and to a limited extent the 'how' of managing the performance of IT. Therefore, the book finishes with a 'back-to-business' section in which a self-assessment checklist, a potential growth path and ten next steps are provided. This enables the reader to start applying this book in his every day working environment immediately.

IT Performance Management:

  • Provides an overview of best practices and available thinking on the subject of IT cost and value
  • Describes the subject of IT cost and value related to management issues on IT strategy, portfolio management, service management, architecture and sourcing
  • Addresses differing degrees of maturity between IT and the business, illustrated by case studies

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  • Practical and easy to integrate into day to day decision making immediately

  • Deals with multiple perceptions on the role of the IT organisation in the business

  • Discusses the topics currently on the CIO's agenda

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    "Improving IT performance management is currently more important than ever before. This book provides an enormous amount of well-structured information to do so. The reader is left without an excuse not to start today!" Egon Berghout, Professor of Business and ICT, University of Gronigen, The Netherlands

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    Peter Wiggers Author

    Peter Wiggers is a senior consultant with IBM Business Consulting Services in the Netherlands and focuses on IT Strategy issues. He is a member of IBM’s international IT Cost and Value community core team. He has 15 years of IT experience of IT Cost and Value, IT strategy and the effectiveness of application development. Before joining IBM, he worked for a market leading software house. Peter has a master degree in Business Economics with a specialization in Information Technology.

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    Maritha de Boer-de Wit Author

    Maritha de Boer-de Wit is a senior consultant with IBM Global Services, she focuses on IT Cost and Value. She has performed several studies in the area of IT optimization and performed project management roles in executing the optimisation activities. Before joining IBM five years ago, she worked for two years in several IT-management roles. Mrs. De Boer has studied Computer Science at the University of Twente with a focus on Business Administration and Ergonomics. She has in depth knowledge of CMM and Information Economics

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    Consultant, IBM Global Services

    Henk Kok Author

    Henk Kok recently joined the Essent Corporate CIO organization as an IT Strategist. Essent is the largest Utility and Energy Company in the Netherlands. He has over 35 years of IT experience within the areas of Strategy, IT Architecture and IT Economics and include operational, consultancy and managerial responsibilities. Before joining Essent he worked as a senior IT strategy consultant with IBM Global Services.

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Tips to become a published EMS author

Updated April 13, 2015

There are more opportunities than ever to become a published writer. Most authors, both within and outside of EMS, will tell you the key to becoming published is to write, and write often. Then write some more.

Kick-off your writing career by:

1. Starting a blog.

Use a free blogging tool like Blogger or WordPress. For your blog:

  • Write a regular post of 150 to 500 words a few days a week.
  • Write about things that interest you. It does not have to be EMS. Maybe you are interested in hunting, fishing, racing, or scrapbooking. Write about what you know and what you care about.
  • Share ideas, resources, and experiences in your blog posts.
  • Visit the blogs of other writers that share your interests.
  • Comment on the blog posts of other EMS authors.

2. Regularly microblogging.

Create your own Twitter account and become a microblogger. Tweets are limited to 140 characters which forces concise writing, question asking, and resource sharing.

3. Contribute articles to local, regional, state, or state organization newsletters.

Contact the editor for article ideas. Or submit articles that are timely. For example, May is National Stroke Awareness month. Submit a short article on recognizing stroke symptoms to the newsletter of your local senior activity center — a timely and helpful contribution.

4. Meet magazine and website content editors at conferences.

Ask for their article ideas for future issues. Suggest new or different angles on commonly featured topics like medical, cardiac, trauma, or environmental emergencies.

5. Contribute to EMS1.

Submit a news story or article idea to EMS1. EMS1 welcomes fellow paramedics who can clearly and concisely communicate concepts and ideas through the written word. We also promote healthy and respectful discussion about topics within the industry. Generally, EMS1 reviews a potential submission and provides feedback about its content and style to the author. If after revision we feel it’s strong we post the article and promote it on our social channels and newsletters.

Share your EMS blog or Twitter account address with EMS1 readers in the comments area to increase your readership.

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Jan. 28, 2014 - Suniva, Inc. announces the completion of an 804kW solar system at Davidson Auto Group in Watertown, N.Y. The high-powered solar system, installed by High Peaks Solar of Troy, N.Y., compliments the auto group's existing eco-friendly auto fleet, further propelling its recognition as a green dealership.

The solar array at the Davidson dealership featuring Suniva's modules will produce approximately 750,000kW per year, which is enough energy to provide power for five separate facilities on the dealer's campus. The Suniva solar system also features SMA Sunny Boy inverters and uses Schletter's FS ground mounting system.

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Why don't informal methods of social control work well in societies like our own?

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Informal methods of social control do not work in our society because our society is too big and too heterogeneous.  These methods of social control tended to work better when we lived in smaller towns that were more homogeneous.

Informal methods of social control are things that are done by one person or group to show that they approve or disapprove of the actions or behaviors of another person or group.  These can be very subtle things, such as simply not smiling at a person who says something to you that you think is inappropriate.  It can also be more direct.  For example, an adult might tell a child that the child’s behavior is not appropriate for the situation.   In either case, there is no official action being taken to sanction the offending person.

Such methods do not work well in our society because we have so few connections to other people.  If high school students are walking down the street using bad language, they are not very likely to worry about people the approval or disapproval of people they meet.  They do not know the people they meet and they can be reasonably sure that the people will not know them and their parents.  Therefore, they do not really need to worry about getting in trouble.  In addition, because our society is so heterogeneous, we do not all hold the same values anymore.  Therefore, we will not all give the same signals to people.  We might not all care if the high school students use bad language.  Therefore, the students will not always receive the same message and their behavior is not very likely to be affected.

Informal methods of social control were much more effective (and still are) in small towns where everyone knew each other and most people held the same values.  We are no longer such a society so those sorts of social control are not so useful anymore.

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Why is lago considered so villainous in Shakespeare's Othello?

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Iago is indeed a villainous character. He destroys a happily married couple. Through his own greed, he is offended when he does not receive the position of lieutenant. Hatred fills Iago's heart. He becomes evil in his actions.

Othello is set up by Iago's claims that Desdemona is indeed having an affair with Cassio. Although this insinuation is far fetched, Iago's plan works. He convinces the great Othello that his wife has been unfaithful.

To prove how evil Iago is, he uses Cassio and Roderigo as a part of his plan. Then in the end, Roderigo is killed, set up by Iago. Iago is so evil until he will use anyone in his path to get revenge for not being assigned the position of lieutenant.

Ultimately, Iago's plan of jealousy works. With Othello convinced of Desdemona's unfaithfulness, he murders Desdemona. With Desdemona's death and Emilia's confession about the handkerchief, Othello regrets his action and kills himself.

Due to Iago's evil nature, Othello is dead. Desdemona is dead. Emilia is dead. Roderigo is dead, and Cassio is injured. Sadly enough, all these innocent deaths are the result of Iago's evil nature to get what he wanted at any cost.

In the end, Iago would not speak, not even to pray:

Demand me nothing; what you know: you know.
From this time forth I never will speak word.

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I consider Iago to be the most villainous character in literature, and critics certainly assert that he is the most vile of all of Shakespeare's creations.

Iago is a misanthropist - he hates all humanity: probably including himself. He uses everyone around him as puppets in his cruel game of destruction - a game which seems to be merely for sport, without real purpose.

Iago tells the audience that his destruction of Othello is a revenge for Othello having-

done my office.

That is, slept with Emilia, Iago's wife. There is little foundation for this. If Iago truly loved his wife aand was greatly offended by his master's actions towards his beloved, he surely would not have stabbed her so cruelly, or used her to procure Desdemona's handkerchief.

Iago wishes to destroy Desdemona too, and-

turn her virtue into pitch.

Again, this may be revenge for being cuckolded, but his engineering that Desdemona is strangled in the marriage-bed she was true to is a viciously ironic gesture.

Iago torments and destroys his 'friend' Roderigo - taking his money, his dignity, and his life. He kills Roderigo without remorse when he has served his purpose and poses a threat.

His torture of Othello is most compelling in its cruelty. Iago clearly enjoys his games with Othello, and revels in the torment of the man who deems him 'honest'. He even watches his master suffer the indignity of an epileptic fit, brought on by Iago's insinuations and poisonous words-

IAGO: Work on,
My medicine, work! Thus credulous fools are caught:
And many worthy and chaste dames even thus,
All guiltless, meet reproach.

Critics have long deliberated Iago's motives for his dark actions, with Samuel Taylor Coleridge categorising iago's actions as 'motiveless malignity'. Part of the fascination with Iago is that we cannot understand him, as his actions are neither explained nor reasoned.

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The Ceremony and Other Stories Analysis

Weldon Kees

The Ceremony and Other Stories

(Literary Masterpieces, Volume 11)

Weldon Kees, author of these fourteen stories published between 1936 and 1945, resembles Ezra Pound’s poet in the famous “E. P. Ode pour l’election de son sepulchre” (part of Hugh Selwyn Mauberley: Life and Contacts, 1920). Kees, like Pound’s poet, “strove to resuscitate the dead art/ Of poetry,” and judging from his poetry and fiction, Kees believed that “he had been born/ In a half savage country, out of date.” Pound obviously wrote from the post-World War I disillusionment, while Kees reflects the Great Depression. Nevertheless, Pound’s Mauberley and Kees’s Robinson (his typical man in his poems) and much of Kees’s fiction provide the sense of a tortured sensibility in an unfeeling age—one that Pound wrote “demanded an image/ Of its accelerated grimace/ chiefly a mould in plaster,/ Made with no loss of time.”

Kees’s life, no less than his work, supports the comparison. After early success in fiction and poetry, followed by less regional success as critic and journalist, filmmaker and painter, jazz pianist and composer, Kees published a farewell article in The New Republic (July 18, 1955), in which he wrote of “our present atmosphere of distrust, violence, and irrationality, with so many human beings murdering themselves—either literally or symbolically” That same day, Kees disappeared.

In the preface to The Collected Poems of Weldon Kees, revised edition (1975), Donald Justice writes, “If the whole of Kees’s poetry can be read as a denial of the values of the present civilization, as I believe it can, then the disappearance of Kees becomes as symbolic an act as Rimbaud’s flight or Crane’s suicide.” Kees doubtless intended the irony of abandoning his car on the approach to the Golden Gate Bridge.

Kees was born February 24, 1914, in Beatrice, Nebraska, and by the time he was graduated from the University of Nebraska was already publishing stories, the earliest of which appeared in the influential Nebraska journal, Prairie Schooner. That story, “Saturday Rain,” has not been collected here, but other stories from the 1930’s have. With Barbara C. Webber, the editor of the present collection has compiled a chronological checklist of Weldon Kees’s published short stories, an important service to American literature. The critical question remains whether the quality of these stories justifies their survival.

If mindless optimism and sentimental blather may condemn many writers of the 1930’s and 1940’s to obscurity, may not persistent, unmitigated bitterness—unredeemed by freshness or innovation—justify one’s forgetting the stories of a man exacerbated by his times and reduced to posturing and hectoring? Kees, says Justice, “is one of the bitterest poets in history,” and that same bitterness pervades his fiction. Is it enough merely to despair at what Pound had already called “a botched civilization”?

Between 1934 and 1945, Kees published forty-one short stories, several nominated for inclusion in Best Short Stories, the annual anthology edited by Edward J. O’Brien and later by Martha Foley. In 1941, O’Brien reprinted Kees’s “The Life of the Mind” and dedicated that year’s anthology to him. That same year, at age twenty-seven, Kees published his first book of poems, The Last Man, and by age thirty-one he had abandoned fiction. In 1943, he moved from his job as a research librarian in Denver to increasingly glamorous positions as a writer for Time and Paramount newsreel and as art editor of The Nation. Three of the stories in The Celebration and Other Stories reflect Kees’s unsympathetic view of librarians: “Public Library,” “The Library: Four Sketches,” and “The Sign.” Meantime, his poems were appearing in important magazines, and in 1947 he published a second volume of verse, The Fall of the Magicians. His Poems: 1947-1954 appeared the year before his disappearance.

In the introduction to The Ceremony and Other Stories, Dana Gioia suggests that Kees suffered “the indifference or condescension of critics who believed no one could do serious work in more than one form.” Gioia urges that one read all of Kees’s work, poetry and prose, in order to judge him. Gioia demands too much, for it is just possible that Kees did dissipate his innate gifts and failed to leave a body of work rewarding close scrutiny. Not all the stories collected bear close scrutiny, and many are simply undistinguished. Many of the poems hold up better, but they too seem mannered to reflect the fashions of their time or the editorial tastes of magazines such as The New Yorker.

Gioia’s claim that “The Ceremony” and “I Should Worry” show Kees’s fiction “at its finest” casts doubt upon the whole critical enterprise. The magnitude of difference in quality of these two stories makes one marvel that the same person could have written them within a year’s time. Gioia does not specify his criteria for selection, and one...

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The 3 Most Important Online Marketing Metrics to Monitor

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While some people get too wrapped up in monitoring web analytics data such as toolbar PageRank, top 30 rankings and number of daily visitors, there are some crucial metrics to follow and act on in order to improve your website and your search engine rankings.

To get a real sense for how your website is performing, spend your time monitoring things that illustrate successes and failure, such as conversion rates, how many backlinks you've collected and how engaged you visitors are. Here's a look at the three online marketing metrics you'll want to pay close attention to:

1. Conversion rate and goal completion
If you're investing time and money in building a site and expanding your web presence, be sure you're getting something of value in return. Whether your goal is increasing online sales or simply educating website readers about a certain topic, have a method for tracking conversion rates -- the ratio of website visitors who convert from visits into desired actions, such as signing up for a newsletter or making a purchase.

In general, your best tool will be the free Google Analytics, which can track everything from website sales to whitepaper downloads. Another option is an analytics service such as KISSmetrics, which can track metrics across e-commerce, mobile apps, social games and more. Prices start at $29 per month.

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2. Backlink profile
Following Google's recent Penguin algorithm update, it's clearer than ever that the quality of the links pointing at your website matters in terms of search engine optimization (SEO). If you don't know what types of links are in your backlink profile, you risk being penalized by the search engines without ever trying to remedy the situation.

To gain a better understanding of the composition of your backlink profile, consider using a service such as Majestic SEO (plans start at $49. 99/month) or the Open Site Explorer ($99/month, following a free trial). Although you can get some information from Google's and Bing's Webmaster Tools programs, you won't get the full picture unless you pay for a third-party SEO tool.

Once you've accessed your backlink profile, here are a few things you'll want to look for:

  • Are there any "bad neighborhood" links pointing at your website? Bad neighborhood links include pornography, gambling and other questionable sites.
  • Do your backlinks use varied, natural sounding anchor text? If you've carried out optimized link-building campaigns in the past, your profile may include too high a percentage of keyword-based anchor texts. For example, using SEO keywords such as "Mexico best hotel deals" instead of "click here" for your link text. These patterns may indicate over-optimization to the search engines, which may result in future penalties.
  • Do your links come from sites that were built solely for SEO purposes? As the search engine algorithms become more complex, they're increasingly able to detect these websites, which often contain scraped or spun content, basic site designs and no detectable human presence. That can lead to penalties based on perceived manipulation.

If you detect any of these low-quality backlinks pointing at your website, do your best to remove them. Be sure to keep track of your efforts. Webmasters may refuse to respond to your requests to remove their links, but at least you'll have the supporting documentation needed to file a reconsideration request should a search engine penalize you. You can detect such penalties through a loss of traffic or a decrease in your site's natural search results rankings.

In addition, make tracking your backlink profile an ongoing effort. Check in at least once a month to try to prevent penalties before they occur.

Related: 3 Secrets to Using Google Analytics for Measuring Your Website's ROI

3. Visitor engagement
This refers to how much time visitors spend on your site and how much value they see in your content. It can be tracked in a number of ways, including:

  • Average time on site, which should be as high as possible.
  • Bounce rate, which measures the number of visitors who don't navigate beyond the first page of your website that they land on. It should be lower than 50 percent.
  • Average pages per visit, which should also be as high as possible.
  • Number of social media shares, which should be high in order to demonstrate that visitors find enough value in your content to share it with friends.

Visitor engagement is important because of the potential business gains from providing customers with an engaging on-site experience. But many of the metrics described above also increasingly figure into search engine rankings, giving your site an SEO boost.

If your visitor engagement metrics aren't as strong as they should be, isolate and improve your site's weaker areas. It may seem like extra work, but the payoff in increased conversions and higher search engine rankings can be well worth it.

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While many salespeople have fought hard to get rid of the "sleazy salesman" stereotype, sadly, sales sleaze still exists.

Exhibit "A".

A “sales expert” on this very site recently posted an article suggesting “12 Shameless Tactics” to get more sales. Of the twelve suggestions, six of them involved lying directly to a prospective customer, including this nugget: “OK, this may be shameless lying. But on the scale of lying it’s pretty far down the list.”

Really, we’re on a “lying scale” now? I would love to see a blog post that explains just where the line is drawn on that scale. I’ve somehow missed that. Perhaps the worst part of the article is the title: “No Successful Salesperson is Too Proud to Use Any of These 12 Shameless Tactics.”

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Oh, sorry to disappoint. But I am one of thousands of sales professionals who utilize ethical practices and are still successful. I sold more than 500 homes in my real estate career, and I later led a nationwide sales team that amassed over a billion dollars a year in revenue. Lying was never EVER a part of our curriculum.

Exhibit “B”.

Today I watched a blogcast of a “sales expert” in Dallas. The title of the piece: “There’s an A** for Every Seat.” I’d quote some of the content, but the profound vulgarity would be wildly out-of-place on this site. Suffice it to say that it is language I would expect in a prison yard and not on an educational sales site.

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Exhibit “C”.

The awesome confrontation between Grant Cardone and Gary Vaynerhcuk that Will Barron expertly breaks down here.

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The Showdown.

Who are you? Who do you want to be? How do you define integrity? If we want to succeed in sales on our terms, we must answer these questions.

There are two very different schools of thought on what makes for an appropriate sales message. You can live in only one of those worlds.

Which one do you choose?