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Archive for May, 2009

I think I am going to blow away !

Posted in meet the geevor staff on May 26, 2009 by geevor

Claire SSo I can’t believe it has been a month and a bit since I started here! It has flown past in a blur of tours and taking in ALOT of information! It’s been a brilliant month I have learnt so much about the site and its history, everyone working here has been really helpful in answering my never-ending questions! I also now have my own desk due to the reshuffle. . . .very exciting in my world!

The best bit so far (other than the desk!)  has been having the school groups in where they have a tour around the site and a go at hand drilling. All children are convinced that the spare wheel in the winder house when dismantled and folded in half is a Jacuzzi!! Seeing the kids on the site has made me realise that learning in-situ really brings history to life. Looking forward to the next lot!!

Been developing ideas to get more people using the Biodiversity Trail and how this can link in with workshops we run on site and events. Realised that it is really weather dependant as I stood on a wildlife walk in sideways rain, thick fog and howling gales! Am working on it!!

Who’s Claire S?  find about more!

not to be confused with Claire R (its very easily done, same name, same office, same phoneline…)

E-learning: Engaging users? Users Engaging?

Posted in 1, meet the geevor staff on May 26, 2009 by geevor

claire rLast week I was up in London for an E-Learning Group event called Engaging Users: Users Engaging. I love being on trains you see, so any chance I get to be on a train for 5 and a half hours is a must….

It brought about some very interesting concepts and ideas ( I’ll write a little bit about the day itself in a bit).  For me the event bought home the fact that there are so many ideas about what e-learning is and what’s its supposed to do within the discipline itself, goodness only knows what ‘normal’ people think its all about!

So what is e-learning?

This question has a variety of different answers depending on who you ask.  Most revolve around the use of technology – e= electronic -, some say its about management of resources, or motivating students.  Others believe it is still heavily involved in the dreaded ‘EDUCATION’ system.  I however, have a different opinion.

I see e-learning as enhanced learning, and yes this is usually supported by/through the use of information and communication technology.  But I don’t necessarily see learning as didactic, that it must have a clear end goal which is measurable.  Flipping online quizzes to ‘see how much you’ve learnt’ make me a little crazy!  In my eyes learning is all about the experience of gaining something new, whether it be a feeling, an emotion or even a fact.

It is often perceived that e-learning is dull and boring.

To some extend that has been the case in the past (putting lecture notes on blackboard or moodle is not e-learning, its boring and unimaginative (shame on you people- you know who you are…).

The e-learning group for museums, libraries and archives and other e-learning designers are trying to tackle this assumption head on:

“There is no such thing as Dull Learning”. (Patrick Dunn 2009).

Therefore an event discussing the ability to engage users in learning is brilliant!

Basically, people need fun, interaction and a multi sensory environment in order to be actively engaged in a learning experience. Right?  Well that’s what I think.  I might not be right, but I am very stubborn and am likely to stomp my foot if you don’t like my version…

Ok, so… developing engaging e-learning is all about appropriate use of methods and media in order to inspire users, it is not about it is not about the transmission and receipt of facts.  So…if we’re aiming to produce engaging e-learning, we need design processes that are intended to…….produce engaging e-learning.   Frankie Roberto gave us 8 (and 3 ideas):

  1. Identify ‘design patterns’ for online social interactions and use appropriately (brilliantly simple example of traffic lights red =stop, green=go – don’t reinvent the wheel,  use something that users are already familiar with)
  2. Design something that meets a user ‘need’ (what are your users needs? How to approach it and what benefits are there)
  3. Design for ‘sharing’ appeal (design something that people will want to share! – this to me is quite a tricky one)
  4. Decided on quantity vs quality of contributions (do you want a small number of highly engaged users or lots of users not really engaging?)
  5. Pick platforms based upon the activities they encourage and social norms (many platforms have the same functionality- what activities do they encourage and how are they used (facebook-flickr etc).  Use what ever platform you are comfy with)
  6. Define your key verb ( be it share, edit, upload, update… Geevor’s is soon to be explore)
  7. Design for perceive visual ‘affordances’ (a picture paints a thousand words- seeing something is quicker to understand then reading. very handy on the web- buttons are a visual clue to show that they are meant to be clicked…)
  8. Align content licensing with user expectations (boring but important bit about copyright and what’s appropriate for your institution and your users)

Next up was a case study from the National Archives.  It’s always great to hear from the archives people, its often thought that its just museums getting involved in the whole idea of engaging users but that’s not the case at all!  Your Archives is the National Archives wiki, its pretty cool that you can search British History records and even update them yourself.

Then came Do you live here? From the Birmingham Museums and Art Gallery who used postcards from their collections and created a website which linked the postcard to the real location and the community surrounding it.

Next was Caboodle from Culture 24. It hopes to give young children the role of a collector of their favourite things in a safe and moderated environment… I don’t quite understand it yet, but it has a cool name, which makes me want to know how to caboodle, and when it goes live I’m definitely going to have a play!

Then it was the turn of Creative Spaces. From the presentation I have learnt several things about creative spaces.  9 of the national museums collectively have a lot of stuff.  A lot of stuff that people are interested in.  A lot of stuff that people want to use in different ways.  Therefore creative spaces was created to engage new and old users with the ‘lots of stuff’ in the collections. Tick. And to ‘increase traffic to partner museums’. Odd. No tick for you. Anyway, it does ask a very very cool question to its users: “what are you inspired by today?” and for that all the debates about whether Creative Spaces is a good thing or a bad thing should be forgotten.

Finally was my favourite.  My Brighton and Hove. This is a community website which has a mammoth uptake and the majority of the content is public generated and everyone, and I mean everyone seems to be engaged in it.  Its been up and running for 9 years and it is growing organically! This is something that I can only dream of at the moment! Its awesome!  Jack Latimer from the company who helped set up the site had some very useful pointers when setting up community sites:

  1. Formal material (like catalogue entries and oral histories) generated far less response than informal peer to peer material
  2. Give the site a human face, not an institutional one
  3. Volunteer projects have a larger shelf life then ones with paid staff
  4. Moderating contributions is less problematic then you think
  5. A steady flow of uploaded content is better than all then nothing.
  6. There is no relation between the beauty of graphics and rate of contribution.

After all of that does geevor’s e-learning approach have what it takes to be an engaging experience for its users? I jolly well hope so.  Other museums and archives have done it! will I be able to achieve it!? only time will tell… fingers crossed. Rant off.

What’s Jo W been up to?

Posted in 1, meet the geevor staff on May 13, 2009 by geevor

jo wNevermind April in Paris, how about April at Geevor?….

another very busy month. The highlight was step 2 in our collections management storage strategy – clearing out the boiler room. The aim of this was to create a central store for objects that are currently scattered on desks and in cupboards around the site. The reality was disgustingly dirty and resulted in a good telling off by Pat our cleaner (and rightly so). I have learnt a clever cleaning trick from Nick T since starting at Geevor – don’t sweep, hoover! We (Bill, Nick and I) spent at least 6 hours Bill boiler roomhoovering dust, cobwebs and rust at least 2cm thick (no joke!).  We were covered in it – in our hair and up our noses. Bill also very kindly repaired some of the gaps at the bottom of the door to stop the rain blowing in. Unbenknownst to me, out of sheer exhaustion, Nick T returned the hoover still full of the dust cobwebs etc to Pat’s cupboard…mistake….Pat couldn’t even lift the hoover the next day…luckily she saw the funny side and we helped empty it.

In amongst the dirt were some nice bits of mining history, including several horsehoe-shaped irons off of the bottom of clogs – some very small and probably belonging to children. Hope to put some of these discoveries on display in the new museum. Also lots of tools and four candles. Endless amounts of laughter about the fork handle/four Nick T shelvescandles joke. A good day’s work, but only about 30% complete.

The oral history volunteers have moved office and are now equipped with a new printer….hurrah! Their old abode was over crowded and noisy so I suggested a termporary relocation. They now have the best office on site…!!! We have some really interesting stories to follow up on and have set the project up with its own email address…

Also we had the first glimpses of our new geevor website – Hurrah! It’s great, and will be super. Has all the right info in the right order, and looks super with brand colours, logo and stunning images. However, a heap more work coming my way methinks….

Bish Bash Bosh

Posted in Events on May 13, 2009 by geevor

surfing tommies A4 no text-1 copySurfing Tommies at Geevor

Described as Cornish National Theatre at its very best, local theatre company, Bish Bash Bosh, is set to perform its latest production, ‘Surfing Tommies’, on the tin floors of Geevor Tin Mine’s old processing mill.

The one-off performance of Alan M Kent’s rousing new play is due to take place on Tuesday, June 9th at  Geevor, beginning at 7.30pm.

Set around the First World War, the drama follows the lives of three members of the Duke of Cornwall’s Light Infantry on an incredible journey from the mines of Cornwall to the ﬁelds of Flanders and home again. Along the way they meet mazed beauties, mad male-voice choirs and the ﬁrst surfers neatly taking to the waves on coffin lids.

Though set in the early twentieth century, this darkly mischievous play makes comment on current conﬂicts around the world, and what it is like to be away from where you were brought up.

Tickets for the play cost £7, £6 concessions and £5 for children under 16 and are available from the mine’s reception. For more details contact 01736 788662.

I spy, mines, flash Interactives and live interpretation

Posted in meet the geevor staff on May 11, 2009 by geevor

claire r

apologies for the long blog post!

I’ve been off adventuring over the past couple of weeks; most of it not work related but anyway.  I had some fabulous meetings with my e-learning guys Ian, Mike, and the newly titled ‘web innovator’ Rich (I’m not sure that’s the correct title but how cool is a job to be innovative with the web!).  Their approach to web development and e-learning is a breath of fresh air compared to some of the other parts of my project and its really nice to go up to Exeter and throw around ideas and to see what they come back with.  I’ve even managed to learn a little bit of code because of them, and I owe them an awful lot, so thank you!

CIMG1562As well as talking about flash Interactives and web design over the last 2 weeks, I went up to Nottingham to visit my boyfriend Matt.  He works for the coal authority, yes we both work in mines, yes we’re a big geeky couple, and yes we have endless debates about what is better tin mining or coal mining.  Whilst I was there, we did plenty of I-spying…. Quite a few people have been sent Michelin I Spy books, with the quest to complete the whole book.  My book quite aptly is ‘I spy below your feet’.  Because I’m very competitive and once a quest is set I go for it wholeheartedly, Matt and I ended up galavanting all over Nottinghamshire and the peak district in order to spy as many things as possible! It was great fun! Why am I telling you this? Well the process of I spy has lead to several interesting things:

Firstly:I Spy is awesome! Especially when you have obscure things to spy like drain covers and stink pipes! There are so many different types, shapes and sizes.  It really makes you pay more attention to your surroundings when you’re looking for something specific.  This is something that I think would work really well at Geevor.  Geevor is a massive site with so many interesting things to look at.  However some of it tends to get passed by on the way to the underground or to the new museum (both very good, I’m not trying to discourage people from going to either of these things- but I want people to be aware of the other gems that Geevor holds too).  Would an “I spy at Geevor” work? Would visitors take to it with the same va va voom as I have? Or am I just weird?   I think it would work, Geevor has done trails and hunts in the past but they have been orientated towards younger children.  From my I spy experiences it is something much more then a children’s activity it has potential for all ages.  Everyone loves a challenge.   it is also something that has potential web links, like what the London Transport Museum did with their scavenger hunt on flickr.  One of the major parts of my e-learning project is to link back to the actual real I am Geevor site as much as possible, and potentially with ‘I spy Geevor ‘the site could link back to the e-learning and flickr group I’ve created…. The idea has been suggested we shall wait and see if anything comes of it! I hope so!

Secondly: Matt and I went to the City of Caves in Nottingham.  There is a whole seires of man made sandstone caves underneath present day Nottingham.  The ones we visited were underneath the Broadmarsh shoppingcentre.  The caves were used for housing as early as the 11th century, and troglodytes were recorded in the 17th century.  These caves have a long a varied history.  This cool history is not the only thing that is good about these caves.  What I really enjoyed with the interpretation! More and more museums are now turning to active communication over passive communication, as well as realising the importance of inspiring and engaging their visitors as well as helping them to learn about the past/science/something etc.  I think the City of Caves did this brilliantly! Why?  They had live interpretation/living history/historical interpretation/ what ever you want to call it, and it was fantastic! I am a firm believer in good interpretation leading to a better visitor experiences not just enhanced visitor learning.

photo1113We entered the caves, full of trepidation (their was eerie music and I have a very over active imagination) wandered around in the caves following the instructions given to us by the man upstairs “turn left, do not turn right.  If you turn right we will lose you and you will never escape the maze of caves.  Remember DO NOT TURN RIGHT”.  This made both matt and I really want to turn right, but we behaved and went left and ended up in a 13th Century tannery.  We were told to wait.  We waited. And waited.  And eventually an old lady appeared behind a Hessian curtain, dressed in rags and a leather apron and looking generally haggard and filthy.  She then treated us like hopeful apprentices for the job of a tanner, and went through the roles of the job and what would be produced at the end.  It was fantastic! However the majority of the group being terribly English there wasn’t much interaction apart from me answering all of her questions, unfortunately she didn’t think I would get the job because I needed to “put a bit of fat on” otherwise I wouldn’t be able lift the barrels of wee to tan the animal skins.  Needless to say I was very disappointed to not be offered the job.  But the fact that I, as a visitor, was given a role play in a historical narrative was a really interesting experience.  All the previous live interpretation I have seen or interacted with has been almost like a window into the past, I was still an outsider looking in.  With this I was there I was a part of the process and it was brilliant! Without this live ‘tanner’ telling us things, we would of simply have been standing on a walkway above all be it very well preserved remains of a 13th century tannery in a cave, to a non archaeologist they are just a series of pits in a sandstone cave.  Would an interpretation panel be able to portray what working in a tannery would have been like or how the tannery would have worked?

Basically Live interpretation has much to offer and can not simply be dismissed as a gimmick.  It works, I learnt a lot, I was engaged and I was inspired.  In fact I was giddy for a good while afterwards going on and on about how cool it was to be talked to be a person from the past!

What’s coming up in May…

Posted in Events on May 7, 2009 by geevor

danger-400Geevor  will be warming up for the summer season with an exciting programme of special events this month

Behind the Scenes!

For the first time ever, mine staff will be allowing visitors into a number of buildings not normally open to the public in a Behind the Scenes Tour that will allow visitors to see first hand the backstage curatorial and conservation work of a landmark heritage site.

The strong room houses maps and plans and the archive holds the paper archive from the mine, including valuable engineering instructions and the staff time books in which miners detailed working hours, productivity and pay.  Downstairs in the winderhouse, not normally accessible, there is a unique view of the huge winders from underneath.  The old stores are packed with equipment, tools and mining paraphernalia and visitors will also be able to see parts of the old mill that are usually closed because they are tricky to negotiate unaided, and Jim Vincent’s Store, the oldest building on site, which was originally built as stables for the mine’s working horses.

The tours are part of Community History Month and will take place on Wednesday 13th of May 2-4pm and Sunday 17th of May 11.30am-1.30pm. Site managers are hoping that as well as being enjoyable the experience might also inspire visitors to join the team of Geevor volunteers. The tours themselves are free and all participants will be entitled to half price site entry that day.

Mining History Trail

On Sunday 24th May, Geevor will also be reintroducing an attraction designed for mining and heritage enthusiasts. Interested visitors will be able to be buy a guide for the Mining History Trail from reception for £1.50. The pamphlet directs them beyond the mine buildings into the wider site, surrounding countryside and towards Levant Mine – home of Cornwall’s only remaining working Beam Engine – giving details and directions that will illustrate the fascinating industrial heritage of the area.

Want to know more? then contact us 01736788662  or at

Posted in 1, meet the geevor staff on May 6, 2009 by geevor

mineral-gallery-listThe learning team is up against a tight deadline at the moment to get all the information ready to re-launch our learning activities in a new style alongside the E-Learning website launch in August. It has been a brilliant opportunity to really think about what we really want to do and what our aspirations are. I am really excited about this launch. The E-Learning website is going to be such a brilliant resource for the schools that use us. It is going to really help extend and expand upon the learning that takes place on the site. The only downside of its completion is that we will lose Claire Ross, who has not only been responsible for the whole project, but whose skills, enthusiasm and friendship will be missed by the rest of the learning team. I am hoping that her electronic knowhow will mean she can set up a virtual office where ever she goes next, so she will still be available for me to hassle with questions and queries.


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Symbol, substance, and tabooing your words, part 2: answers (More Trans, module 1-2)

Previously: Gender reasoning exercises: Symbol, substance, and tabooing your words (module 1-1)

moretrans-logoIn the previous episode, we reviewed some simple Less Wrong techniques for forcing yourself to look beyond an individual term for a concept, and consciously think about the actual substance of what it’s referring to. For instance, instead of asking “If a tree falls and nobody hears it, does it make a sound?”, this can be rephrased as “If a tree falls and nobody hears it, does it make pressure waves that propagate through the air?” By removing the word itself from a statement, and replacing it with a longer and more detailed description of what the word aims to represent, you can clarify both your own thoughts as well as those of others.

Contemporary debates over transgender issues can often become mired in trivial arguments about definitions, obscuring the more important substance of these controversies. Transphobic groups’ exploitation of this confusion in order to spread damaging misinformation about trans people has further muddled these discussions. Conversely, clarifying these relationships between symbol and substance by mapping out the details of the specific concepts involved can be of substantial benefit to the public’s understanding of trans people and gender issues. This approach removes a great deal of repetitive, unproductive noise from the conversation, such as ongoing arguments over whether trans women are “really women”.

Last time, I asked viewers how they would apply these techniques to other significant transgender topics:

1. Locate three distinct and separate physical phenomena that have each been referred to with the term “biological sex”. How can definitions of biological sex be constructed to affirm or contradict trans people’s genders?

2. Name three specific and relevant differences between a trans woman voicing an identity as a woman, and a cis man voicing an identity as a helicopter. How is the term “identify” used to obscure these differences?

While there are many possible answers to these questions – and I hope to hear some that I haven’t thought of – here are just a few potentially useful pathways to follow when exploring these concepts.

How to construct biological sex

One of the most widespread notions of “biological sex” is a highly simplified binary division based on sex chromosomes: people with a Y chromosome are considered “male”, while those without a Y chromosome are considered “female”. This is a common definition among the general public, and numerous legislators in the United States have proposed bills containing some variation of this language in order to restrict trans people’s use of public restrooms and other facilities.

Even though this definition is an oversimplified rule of thumb that neglects to account for many complex aspects of sex and gender, it’s often used because it facilitates the misgendering of trans people. It encourages disregarding the gender a trans person lives as, in favor of focusing exclusively on specific segments of microscopic genetic material that have little direct relevance to their everyday experiences as a woman or man in society, such as using a restroom.

Of course, this is far from the only possible definition of biological sex, even though it may be the only one that most people are familiar with (Ainsworth, 2015). Another definition, primarily used by biologists and other scientists, refers to the differing sizes of the gametes produced by organisms which reproduce sexually (Roughgarden, 2004, pp. 2326). The production of the larger egg cell is considered definitive of a female member of a species, while the production of smaller sperm cells defines the male member of the species. This is considered a reliable guideline in biology because it embodies a general principle observed among sexual organisms: various evolutionary forces do not favor egg and sperm cells of a similar size, which inevitably leads a species to develop larger eggs and smaller sperm.

For instance, even in the unique case of a genus of Brazilian barklice where the ovum-bearing member uses a structure similar to a penis to penetrate the genital opening of the sperm-bearing member, the female is still considered female and the male is still considered male. The distinction is based on gametes rather than sexual anatomy, regardless of the female’s apparent penis and the male’s apparent vagina.

Another practical definition of sex had previously been enacted by the International Olympic Committee and the International Association of Athletics Federations. This standard was intended to target hyperandrogenism among cis women athletes, a condition where a woman’s body produces a higher-than-typical amount of testosterone, potentially conferring some degree of supposed athletic advantage (Jordan-Young, Sönksen, & Karkazis, 2014). If an athlete had a testosterone level of 10 nmol/L or greater, she was considered ineligible to compete with women unless she underwent medical or surgical treatment to reduce this level. While this rule has recently been suspended, it did serve as a concrete definition based on a specific biological aspect of sex, and was intended to regulate an individual’s entrance into the practical gender category of “woman”.

Additionally, some attorneys and advocacy groups have made the legal argument that a person’s identified gender is both an aspect of their biological sex, and should be considered the foremost determinant of their sex (Levasseur, 2015). This definition is based on these facts, among others:

  • Identified gender is not something that can be changed, any more than one’s chromosomes.
  • Gender identity likely has a fixed biological component.
  • The contemporary medical consensus on the most effective treatment of an incongruence of visible sex traits and gender identity recommends altering those physical sex features to align with the individual’s gender identity.

The identity-centered definition works to encourage legal and societal acknowledgement that a trans person is the gender they voice themselves as. In doing so, it’s meant to help trans people exist in all areas of society as their genuine selves, without being invalidated by other misgendering definitions that may be imposed upon them by others.

While this is just a limited selection of possible definitions of biological sex, it’s clear that the construction of these definitions can be decided on the basis of a large number of factors. One of those factors is how the person constructing the definition wishes for trans people and other gender minorities to be labeled. This complicates the naïve assumption of a simple chromosome- or genital-based model as the singular, objective determinant of a person’s biological sex.

The man who identifies as a helicopter

When I posed the question of how a cis man who claims an identity as a helicopter is different from a trans woman who claims an identity as a woman, this may have seemed absurd – and it is. But it’s also a comparison that’s been made in the wild by many individuals who apparently believe that this, or other parallels involving nonhuman creatures or objects, constitutes substantive criticism of trans people’s very genders.

Although it seems to be a remarkably trite bit of rhetoric, it’s worth examining as an extreme case: even an argument as brazenly disingenuous as this one can still gain significant traction among many, who find it truly convincing regardless of its straightforward deception.

When a trans woman says “I identify as a woman”, and a cis man says “I identify as a helicopter”, which descriptions could replace the word “identify” in those sentences? What is it that each of them is actually expressing with their use of the term “identify”?

A trans woman who voices herself as a woman is typically doing so on the basis of very significant personal traits and life experiences, and she expresses her identity as a genuine and honest declaration of who she fundamentally is. She’s likely felt a longtime discomfort with the physical features of her assigned sex, the social roles expected of men, or the presentation typically associated with men. She’s likely pursued aspects of medical transition or social transition that have significantly improved her mental health and overall well-being, and she probably goes about her life more comfortably and successfully as a woman than she did as an apparent “man”. She’s willing to face the significant harassment, discrimination, and other societal hardship that comes with her identification as a woman and her life as a woman, because to her, this is nevertheless very much worth it due to the deep and irreplaceable personal fulfillment that her embodied womanhood provides to her.

A cis man who says “I identify as a helicopter” is making a flippant and rude remark in the midst of a conversation that likely serves no purpose other than to express open hostility towards the identities of others. This claimed identity will not persist in his life beyond the end of the conversation. He hasn’t experienced any sort of ongoing, consistent disidentification with his human features or a deep personal sense that the features of a helicopter are more appropriate to who he is at heart. He does not intend to go about his life in the role of a helicopter, nor does he even wish that he could. Life as a helicopter would not resolve any psychological issues for him or improve his overall well-being. The choice of a helicopter as an object of supposed identification is arbitrary and clearly is not meant to reflect a significant component of his self on the same level as a person’s gender. The idea to claim an “identity” as a helicopter likely originated around the time he learned that transness exists and became distressed by this.

In reality, there is no particular similarity between the phenomena of a trans woman’s gender and a cis man’s helicopter argument. “I identify as a helicopter”, in this context, is expressing something along the lines of:

  • “I know very little about the actual lives of trans people.”
  • “I consider trans people’s identified genders to be a contradiction, impossibility, or delusion.”
  • “I’d like to trivialize and dismiss trans people’s genders by belittling them with a preposterous comparison.”

This is not an internal identity in any useful sense that we usually understand identities – it carries no substance of any such significance to the individual claiming it, and is solely directed outward against the identities and lives of millions of people. Here, the term “identify” is being used in perhaps the most superficial way possible, reduced to a hollow label that can be shuffled around and stuck to nearly any concept regardless of its relevance to the phenomena referred to by gender identity. Crafty usage of a word like “identify” is not sufficient to cause these two circumstances to take on meaningful similarities in reality. They did not possess those similarities before the term was applied, and they won’t afterward.

This plain trickery nevertheless fools many, because they find it difficult to see differences in clearly distinct situations once the same word is conspicuously and intentionally used for both. While it’s obviously not necessary to go through these analysis techniques in detail to reject such a self-evidently assholish assertion outright, this explicit procedure may still be useful for those who continue to struggle to see past the label “identity”.

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  • Ainsworth, C. (2015). Sex redefined. Nature, 518(7539), 288291.
  • Jordan-Young, R. M., Sönksen, P. H., Karkazis, K. (2014). Sex, health, and athletes. BMJ, 348, g2926.
  • Levasseur, M. D. (2015). Gender identity defines sex: Updating the law to reflect modern medical science is key to transgender rights. Vermont Law Review, 39(4), 9431004.
  • Roughgarden, J. (2004). Evolution’s rainbow: Diversity, gender, and sexuality in nature and people. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press.

Previously: Gender reasoning exercises: Symbol, substance, and tabooing your words (module 1-1)

About Zinnia Jones

My work focuses on insights to be found across transgender healthcare, public health, psychiatry, and history of medicine, integrating these many perspectives and guided by the lived experiences of trans people. I live in Orlando with my family, and work mainly in technical writing.
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6 Responses to Symbol, substance, and tabooing your words, part 2: answers (More Trans, module 1-2)

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  2. Leigh-Anne Wain says:

    I would be interested to see you have a go at those who claim gender dysphoria is the same as species dysphoria and therefore a form of invalidation.

  3. Chuck Kopsho says:

    I identify as a transwoman whose family are reticent about me fully transition to my real self. I’ve read articles about the three teens who have transitioned, IE Capri Culpepper, Jazz Jennings and Kim Petras about their journey to be themselves. I’m a 58-year-old male, and I wish to know if I’m too old to get HRT, and SRS. Thanks in advance.

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RePEc Genealogy page for Tarun Jain

This page traces who advised whom during graduate studies for Tarun Jain (RePEc Genealogy, EconPapers, IDEAS). You can help amend this and other pages of this project here. You can also look at the page's history.

Graduate studies

Tarun Jain got the terminal degree from Department of Economics, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia (USA) in 2009.

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RePEc Genealogy page for Florencio Lopez-de-Silanes

This page traces who advised whom during graduate studies for Florencio Lopez-de-Silanes (RePEc Genealogy, EconPapers, IDEAS). You can help amend this and other pages of this project here. You can also look at the page's history.

Graduate studies

Florencio Lopez-de-Silanes got the terminal degree from Department of Economics, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) in 1993.

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Oh hey, I actually did a meme (from chal). This one seems pretty interesting, actually. It looks at how popular your interests are.

So, genkischuldich, your LiveJournal reveals...

You are... 3% unique
(blame, for example, your interest in メガネ人)
and 9% herdlike
(partly because you, like everyone else, enjoy yaoi).
When it comes to friends you are a total whore. In terms of the way you relate to people, you are wary of trusting strangers.

Your writing style (based on a recent public entry) is intellectual.

Your overall weirdness is: 50

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You are weirder than 89% of other LJers.)

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I updated my lj userinfo (here: genkischuldich). It doesn't take as long to load anymore, is easier to read and is possibly more informative. Also, it includes my favourite colour, dark green.

Speaking of LJ, I'm moving a little further west this weekend. My new apartment is a lot bigger, a lot cheaper AND allows pets. However, because of this, I probably won't be posting too much. I have no idea how long it'll take to get the internet set up over there.

Finally, I did some writing today.
nekojitanekojita on 5th June 2007 13:43 (UTC)
good luck w/ the move!
Williamgenkischuldich on 5th June 2007 13:44 (UTC)
Thanks! :)
Sharon: D.Gray-man Rabi Have Faithsharona1x2 on 5th June 2007 16:53 (UTC)
Good luck with the new apartment. It sounds like it'll be a nice improvement for you.
Williamgenkischuldich on 6th June 2007 02:11 (UTC)
Thanks, I hope so! There are some problems with the apartment, but generally it's better!
Hi-chan (火ちゃん)hinoai on 5th June 2007 17:26 (UTC)
Good luck with the move!! I thought that you were moving the same weekend as me though.. did something happen?
Williamgenkischuldich on 6th June 2007 02:13 (UTC)
We didn't have enough quite money last weekend. Additionally, they want to clean the place a second time before we move in -- which is fine with me!
Starrie: kinda homecrabsushi on 6th June 2007 03:20 (UTC)
Hurray for moving~~ Hope it all goes well!
I'm still digging around on chintai.net, even if I've still got 3 and a half weeks to go. XD;
Williamgenkischuldich on 6th June 2007 03:36 (UTC)
Good luck! Actually, I think that's the one we used...
watersmeet256: date-sama!watersmeet256 on 6th June 2007 04:13 (UTC)
Ohh...New apartment~ Good luck moving! Moving always makes me feel so rushed for time though...:D
I know this is sudden but...
Mind if I add? :DDD
(Has been stalking your journal since your bambino review* Gets whacked*)
Williamgenkischuldich on 6th June 2007 04:19 (UTC)
I know what you mean! But I'm going to do it properly for the first time ever -- with a moving van! Before, we've always used the subway.

Sure you can add! Which Bambino review? I've written three of them... :)


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X-Files: Game Kids Daily Training To Be Violent

The news media (collaborating with entertainment media), show things like violence, war, killing, and so forth. And so do the entertainment media, although under the label “movie” or “game”, very openly on all kinds of movies. Now, this brings us to another closely related subject : Games.

Children nowadays, play with PlayStation, Xbox, Nintendo games, computer games, watch cartoons on TV, play online war games, and what have you. Most of these games and cartoons contain violence, fights, shooting, killing, etc. But, in a “harmless” wrap. But the concept is exactly the same as “hurt thy neighbor”. Those kids are growing up, with a mindset filled with violence. It’s harmless, right? And then, what happens next, is “real” violence, ranging from irritation, mild aggression, to vandalism, fighting, injuring and killing. Harmless, right? And quite likely with minimum emotion, because it is “normal”.

We live in a world where people get their daily brainwash through television, internet, radio, newspapers, magazines. And they are not aware. All that information gets swallowed, without asking themselves the question “what am I going to do with that information?”. Those folks are getting reprogrammed every day again. They live by whatever comes out of the screen or radio.

Movies, such as the early series of the “X-files”, labeled as “entertainment”, contain more “truth” than the government would ever publicly admit on the news-channels Such movies are allowed, even promoted, of course, because they appear under the label “science fiction” or “fantasy”. And nearly everybody takes that for granted.

So, there are several ways to convey information to the people. But it is up to the sharpness of their minds to separate the wheat from the chaff, the “truth” from the “fake”. Entertainment media fill up the news media, and vice versa. And here ends and starts the vicious circle of the media.

Media : “the best way to lie is to do it loudly, looking into the eyes, without blushing” like “here are the data, but it is not true”. And that is what the media are doing.

And the internet ? Well, that is not very much different, because the media is largely virtual. I would say, even worse. Staring at the computer screen, people submerge themselves in a dreamworld. Any form of unpunished bad behavior seems normal these days.

All of the above, and more, unfortunately, are seeds of terrorism. If the basis of education and so-called entertainment does not change for the better, then terrorism will keep on being reborn. Think about it.

Please note that the FCC “ruled” years ago that subliminal programming with television was illegal, but it never stopped. You find it more common on cable TV. They are using subliminal conditioning on all cable networks. They use it to emphasize different elements of what you are seeing around you. People end up being brainwashed and stay programmed this way towards ignorance, violence and wanting to have.

None of all the computer games has been subject to any ruling concerning subliminals. None of all the computer games has been correctly analyzed on its impact on the human mind, especially on children and their mental growth. “It is just a game”, that’s what they say. It’s harmless. Yeah sure.

But for the mind’s subconsciousness there has never been any difference between fantasy and reality. Any dream feels real when you’re in it.

For a child it is very tempting to check out reality, compared to what he or she learned in the games.

Little kids play all sorts of games that offer loads of shooting, fighting, crashing, and what have you. All in all, a lot of violence. PlayStation, Nintendo, XBox, PC and many other game machines are accessible by any child.

Most parents think that a game is just a game, therefore not having any adverse effects on the mind of their children. They read the label “game” on the package, and they think it is just a game.

But all those machines are educational systems. Essentially, they are teaching machines. The word “game” is synonymous with the word “educator” or “teacher”. Even the most innocent arcade games of pointing to moving balls and shooting them into a bucket, these are training programs to improve specific reaction qualities of the destructive kind. Prove me otherwise!

A game can be defined as a series of actions and reactions in relation with overcoming resistances and counter actions in order to reach certain goals. In a way, just like life is.

The subconscious mind does not know the difference between a fantasy, dream, and reality. Intelligent psychologists know that. Idiot psychologists work for the game industry and are well paid.

Today’s children spend more time communicating with electronics than with people. And if they communicate to real people, they do it through email, chat, sms, etc., not in person.

Most electronics are hosting violent games. Even the “innocent” arcade games, abstract as they are, they do very clearly instruct the operator (read: the child playing that game) what to do and how to react. Synaptic programming in the brain ensures optimization of action-reaction patterns, and from thereon the child doesn’t know any better ever after: “Seek and destroy!”. No wonder after playing such game 10 times a day during 100 days. Thousand times synaptic training reps. That’s a whole lot of brainy building.

Children learn how to enjoy killing and destroying. They learn explicit language and unethical behavior. They learn a certain meaning of success, in the realm of violence. They are rewarded by points, stats, numbers, stars, status, same as adults do in social networks, earning their numeric rewards.

And after some time it all runs on autopilot. Children have been brainwashed in the most pleasant way about the least constructive activities. For them it has become “normal” to act & react as taught by the games. As a consequence, their reality has been programmed already towards a reality future that today seems only a game.

Terrorism has in this regard a whole different meaning. It is not president or dictator, political processors as they are. The war on terror is completely off course. They fight no real enemy It is CPU and TFT, violence educational processors. Billions of them. And because of this number, we can speak of a world crisis of some sort. The war on terror should be a large scale regulatory action on the creation, selling and use of games.

And I say this: Terrorism starts with games.

In fact, as a billion people are having their daily dose of fighting and destruction, it equals to a world war. Let’s call it a subconscious war. Every game console is an instrument of terror. And so terrorism comes from within. The ultimate strategy.

This problem can only be solved if there are enough intelligent leaders who are conscious about this subject. Are there any? Hey man, is there IQ in the oval room? There is not a single leader who recognizes the virtual implications. All eyes are closed, except to the countless gaming TFTs in some apathetic way. Governments sure have that hidden agenda, to leave the gaming industry as it is, simply because it wants the population to reduce their number by themselves effectively.

For many years, the media openly announce the headlines as “real”. And when it comes to Hollywood soaps, movies, and so forth, then the media announce it as “entertainment”. So, “real” and “entertainment” seem easy to recognize or distinguish. From the outside at least.

But between “real truth” and “fake” on TV and in the newspapers, there is no way for most people to verify the content. So they take it for “real” or “true”, because “everybody listens to the well respected media”. About Aliens and UFOs, the media merely dismiss the subject as “fantasy” or “esoteric”. And the same media uses Hollywood to mock-up Middle East war scenes that get pasted into the headlines on TV. Yes, some videos leaked out, I have some of these and they are real, and I can attest that Hollywood mocks-up Middle East news.

Fakes, play, games, elements of truth and reality are mixed into the bouillabaisse of news entertainment that is poured into everyone’s throat.

People get shocked each time a child commits a crime. If a child does something wrong, it gets blamed. People seem to have no idea that they, stupid parents, are directly responsible for the actions by children. There is no excuse for parents’ ignorance about games. Parents are supposed to think well and to be conscious about what is good or bad for the child. And in the end, as a result of their failure, they will be the victim of those whom they allowed to master destructive behavior.

This article based on a chapter from the book UNLIKE SOCIAL MEDIA LIKE.


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President's Radio Address

THE PRESIDENT: Good morning. This week, Congress began to debate its annual spending bills. The American people expect us to spend their tax dollars wisely, or not at all, and to pursue pro-growth economic policies that will allow us to reduce the deficit while keeping our economy strong.

Since my Administration's tax relief was implemented four years ago, our economy has added more than eight million new jobs, and we've experienced 45 months of uninterrupted job growth. With more Americans working and more businesses thriving, our economy has produced record tax revenues. The Treasury Department recently reported that this year's Federal revenues are up eight percent over last year. As a result, our Nation's budget deficit is about one-third lower than it was at this time last year.

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In addition to pursuing pro-growth tax relief, my Administration is working to reduce the Federal deficit through strict fiscal discipline. Over the past three years, we have met the urgent needs of our Nation while holding the growth of annual domestic spending close to one percent -- well below the rate of inflation. I've also proposed policies that would slow the unsustainable growth of our most serious long-term fiscal challenge: entitlement spending. By keeping taxes low and restraining Federal spending, we can meet my plan to have a balanced budget by 2012.

The Democrats in Congress are trying to take us in a different direction. They've passed a budget that would mean higher taxes for American families and job creators, ignore the need for entitlement reform, and pile on hundreds of billions of dollars in new government spending over the next five years. This tax-and-spend approach puts our economic growth and deficit reduction at risk.

For months, I've warned the Democrats in Congress that I will not accept an irresponsible tax-and-spend budget. I put Democratic leaders on notice that I will veto bills with excessive levels of spending. And I am not alone in my opposition. In the House, 147 Republicans have pledged to support fiscal discipline by opposing excessive spending. These 147 members are more than one-third needed to sustain my veto of any bills that spend too much.

Another key area of difference between my Administration and the Democratic leadership in Congress is my support for meaningful earmark reform. Earmarks are spending provisions that are slipped into bills by individual members of Congress, often at the last hour and without discussion or debate. It's not surprising that this leads to unnecessary Federal spending. And the problem is growing. Over the last decade, the number of earmarks has more than tripled.

In January, I proposed reforms that would make the earmark process more transparent, end the practice of concealing earmarks in so-called report language that is never included in legislation, and cut the number and cost of earmarks by at least half. My Administration has also developed the government's first public database of earmarks, and we've posted them on a website: On this website, we will also be releasing information on new earmarks, because this Administration wants you to see where your tax dollars are being spent.

After I announced my earmark reforms in January, the House passed a rule that called for full disclosure of earmarks. But in the past few weeks, Democratic House leaders announced that they were abandoning this commitment. Instead of full disclosure, they decided they would not make public any earmarks until after Members had already voted on the spending bills. This change would have allowed a small group of lawmakers and their unelected staff to meet behind closed doors to decide how and where to spend your tax dollars. I'm pleased to report that earlier this week a group of House Republicans stopped this plan and extracted a commitment from House Democrats to list all earmarks in advance and give lawmakers a chance to strike them. The American people need to hold House Democrats accountable for keeping that commitment.

In the weeks ahead, my Administration will continue pushing for earmark reform and holding the line on Federal spending. The American people do not want to return to the days of tax and spend policies. They expect accountability and fiscal discipline in Washington, D.C. And I will use my veto to stop tax increases and runaway spending that threaten the strength of our economy and the prosperity of our people.

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George Revel's evening casting class, which he likes to call “In Search of the Perfect Cast”, will again this summer be an informal casting session for all interested club members.

As many of you know, George admits to being a casting nerd. He is looking for those wanting to meet up every other week and work toward improving their casts. If that sounds great to you, meet at 6:45 pm on the following list of various dates, mostly Wednesdays (but not necessarily every other) at the GGACC's casting ponds to better enjoy the long days of summer.

In this class you will learn some drills and techniques that will help you improve your casting and your fishing. The class is free, but George is asking for donations to help raise money for the GGACC Youth Program that he will be starting this summer for the club.  He will provide details later about how best to make your contributions.

Bring your favorite rod, and the beverage of your choice. There will be a brief demonstration session followed by casting practice and more tips. No registration required.

Free casting lessons will be led on the following REVISED dates by George Revel, owner of Lost Coast Outfitters, three time National Fly Fishing Casting Champion, rod designer, and IFFF Master Certified Casting Instructor:

Wednesday May 18th @ 6:45 pm
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Partnering with their Tour Consultant, Troop Leaders find—or create—the perfect tour for their group.

After choosing a tour, it’s time to enroll travelers. Troop Leaders build their group with the help of their knowledgeable Tour Consultant and a collection of online resources.

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flag to emit an error if select result is null #272

m9dfukc opened this Issue Sep 20, 2012 · 1 comment

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m9dfukc commented Sep 20, 2012

I'm using async.js waterfall method together with sequelize to prevent 'callback chains of doom'. One scenario I'm regularly confronted with is that the first call in a chain is a select query and the following parts of the chain deal with the result of this select ... most of the time this results in code like this:

  function(callback) {
    Client.find(:id).done(function(err, res) {
      if(err !== null) callback(err);
      else if(res !== null) callback(new Error('Sorry no DB entry could be found!'));
      else callback(null, res);
  function(client, callback) {...

... it would be nice to have an extra flag in Sequelize to produce an error if there is no result available so I could just pass trough my callback to done() and handle the errors in async's final method.

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janmeier commented Feb 22, 2013

Hi @m9dfukc

Does this still pose an issue for you, i.e. would you still like to see this in sequelize?

Do you propose doing this on global basis, per DAO basis or per call basis. My suggestion would be to do it per call, or maybe per DAO so you can still allow some queries to return an empty result

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This luxury log cabin is located on a ranch in the Rocky Mountains of Black Hawk, Colorado, and is perfect for a group getaway. The cabin has six bedrooms and three full bathrooms, and excluding the use of sofa beds and futons, up to 13 guests can be accommodated. There is one king-size bed, three queen-size beds, and five single-size beds. The two-story master bedroom has an en suite bathroom, a walk-in closet, a hot tub, two flat-screen televisions, and a wall of windows with mountain views. There is also an additional small bathroom. A Pak n’ Play is available for infants.

The spacious kitchen of this glamping cabin opens up to the dining area and living room. The living room has enormous glass windows to let in the fantastic surroundings. There is also a theater in this vacation home rental that has a 65-inch HDTV with surround sound, and additional technologies provided include a 3D Blue Ray and MP3 player, a Wii gaming system, Wi-Fi, and a stereo system that broadcasts sound to the hot tub and the dining deck. A DVD and CD library is provided, and there is also a cozy study with a telephone and a copier/printer/scanner.

Outside, there is an enormous deck, patio space, and a seasonal garden. The dining deck has a table for 10 and a barbecue grill. The sun deck has two large sun loungers, and there is also a hot tub deck and a hammock area. The patio has a picnic table for 12. Finally, a fire pit is provided to allow guests to roast marshmallows under the stars. Read More

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This glamping site can host events with up to 75 people. Guests should inquire for prices if they are interested in holding a family reunion, corporate retreat, or weddings that numbers more than 13 people.

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    Featuring unparalleled views of the Rocky Mountains, this glamping cabin in Black Hawk, Colorado, is the ideal place for nature lovers to stay. It is encircled by 120 acres of unspoiled wilderness, and there is a lovely seasonal stream that runs through the property. Guests will enjoy fantastic hiking trails, flowery meadows, and superb sunsets during their stay, and best of all, this glamping site borders a national forest. Conveniently, there are shops and eateries within 10 minutes, and there are several attractions within 30 minutes of this luxury cabin. Read More

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    There is a two-night minimum stay at this vacation home rental in low season, and a three-night minimum stay during the summer peak season and over Thanksgiving. There is a five-night minimum stay over Christmas and New Year.

    Rates are based on 10-person occupancy, with a $50 per night/per person for each additional guest past 10. If the group consists of singles or unmarried couples, rather than a family, there is a $50 fee per night for each guest after eight.

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A Word To The Wise

By Pastor Alton Trimble

Manna For Today: Monday, October 19, 2015

A Word To The Wise

Today’s scripture reading: Proverbs 15

The scriptures we are contemplating today all have something in common; they each are related to words spoken. The importance of words cannot be overstated. What we say is giving shape to what we will have.

God has designed us in such a way that the creative power of our tongues has an impact on every detail of our lives. One can only imagine the number of things that we have talked ourselves out of or into, whatever the case may be.

Allow God to speak to you through the following scriptures:

1. Proverbs 15:1A soft answer turns away wrath, but a harsh word stirs up anger.

• The smoke we smell around us may be the result of our failure to deflect the flame that started it.

2. Proverbs 15:2The tongue of the wise uses knowledge rightly, but the mouth of fools pours forth foolishness.

• The antidote to bloviating is a wise word.

3. Proverbs 15:4A wholesome tongue is a tree of life, but perverseness in it breaks the spirit.

• Gentleness in speaking ensures the well-being of a spirit.

4. Proverbs 15:7The lips of the wise disperse knowledge, but the heart of the fool does not do so.

• Good advice is the result of abandoning foolishness and delighting in wisdom.

5. Proverbs 15:8The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination to the LORD, but the prayer of the upright is His delight.

• A prayer is never the wrong articulation.

6. Proverbs 15:18A wrathful man stirs up strife, but he who is slow to anger allays contention.

• Matching the intensity of the unwise will cause you both to burn.

7. Proverbs 15:22Without counsel, plans go awry, but in the multitude of counselors they are established.

• Three points on a curve provides a much safer view.

8. Proverbs 15:23A man has joy by the answer of his mouth, and a word spoken in due season, how good it is!

• “Like apples of gold in settings of silver is a word spoken in right circumstances.” Proverbs 25:11

9. Proverbs 15:26The thoughts of the wicked are an abomination to the LORD, but the words of the pure are pleasant.

• Pure words are those motivated by the Spirit of God.

10. Proverbs 15:28The heart of the righteous studies how to answer, but the mouth of the wicked pours forth evil.

• How many things could we have avoided saying by just a moment of careful thought!

Peace and blessings!

5 thoughts on “A Word To The Wise

  1. Phillip Bell

    I enjoyed this reading today. I know that my impulsivity can be the reason people don’t see Christ in me. So, Lord God, please help me resist the ability to speak without saying the words You ordain for me. I trust You today, to be my mouthpiece. In Christ, Amen.

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  2. Thank you for todays word Lord. I can’t count the times my mouth has gotten me into or out things. Very important to apply these scriptures before we speak. Father help me to guard my tongue and think before I speak, allow and encourage me to use kind words and words approved by You! Continue to give me devine direction in every detail of my life, overflow me with wisdom and the desire to do Your will, in Jesus’ mighty and matchless name, Amen!

  3. OT

    Thanks for Manna for today, because of the things I say, said, did, and do have gotten me into and out of places, and situations that was very uncomfortable, and unpleasant to be in. In those experiences I continue to pray to you FATHER IN JESUS’ NAME and believe that you will and have help in times of need to give me the right words to say and the right attitude to display whenever I encounter them.

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  4. Michael

    We all have areas in our lives or situations where we need to “tame our tongue” and watch what we say. I pray for the patience and proper attitude so that I can speak life into even the most stressful situations.

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  5. Alicia

    Wow, I can’t tell you how may times I’ve had to pray to “tame my tongue”. This is a daily prayer and a consistent practice. I’ve learned to think first before I speak because if I don’t my tongue will definitely deliver a negative delivery and in turn will result in a negative response. Thank you Lord for your patience and grace!!!

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Why Penetration Testing in Healthcare Isn't Enough

Posted by Ben Ransford on Jun 26, 2017 4:01:00 AM
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That thumping sound is the drumbeat of healthcare cybersecurity news stories. Ransomware, malware, spyware, records theft, covered entities, breaches. Suddenly hospital board members are asking questions about cybersecurity preparedness. That's healthy.

When the board starts knocking, well-meaning CISOs and security teams spring into action, ordering up assessments and other services from a growing cottage industry of third-party security consultants. That's healthy too — healthcare is one of many industries that needs an ecosystem of support around security activities.

The best assessments are sound, complete, and actionable. The worst ones ain't.

Given a statement of work from a third-party assessor, how can you tell whether it's sound, complete, and actionable? That's for a forthcoming post. This post is about one kind of unhelpful assessment: the kind that's only a penetration test.

Pen Testing Alone Misses the Mark in Healthcare

Unless your board has some serious security experience, it's easy to placate them by showing them that you've hired a name-brand firm to conduct a penetration test. The sky's the limit when it comes to paying a team of überhackers to produce a lengthy report. But are you better off afterward?

There are three key reasons penetration testing alone is less useful in healthcare than in other industries.

Reason #1: Asset Diversity

Penetration tests work best when the client can generalize the results — when infiltrating one system teaches you lessons that you can apply to all of your systems. For example, pen-testing the operating system image you deploy to all of your workstations or servers is a great use of resources. Fix that system image and you've eliminated a huge portion of your attack surface.

But healthcare isn't delivered from a fleet of identical workstations. Clinical environments contain every kind of computing device, from cheap sensors to million-dollar C-arms. It's not uncommon for a single hospital's network to contain 1,000 or more unique device types. Penetrate one type of device and you've assessed... 0.1%. Pay the wizards to penetrate a hundred device types — which they'll happily do for a price — and you've assessed... 10%. Not enough zeroes before that decimal point.

Reason #2: Legacy Devices

Not only do assets have different types, but they also have different vintages in a real clinical setting. Unfortunately, software doesn't age gracefully. Pen-test a medical device based on an old operating system and you'll see vulnerabilities that you vaguely remember reading about years ago. Remember Conficker? Yep, it's still a threat in healthcare. Pen-test only the newer models and you'll miss the vulnerabilities afflicting the older ones.

If you pay a consultant to rehash years-old exploits or the pen test is so narrowly focused that you miss huge swaths of aging devices, you're not using your money efficiently and your risk assessments will be out of whack. Worse, you won't be able to take actions that meaningfully improve your security posture.

Reason #3: Tied Hands

Penetration tests often reveal vulnerabilities in medical devices to the hospitals that operate those devices. But a common refrain among manufacturers is that customers are not meant to apply operating system updates or otherwise change device software. What is a healthcare provider to do when they learn about vulnerabilities they've been told not to take action to remediate? Or when they learn of design flaws, such as a poor selection of encryption ciphers, during a pen test, how can they prioritize engaging with the manufacturer — especially when there are bigger fish to fry?

If you find yourself saying "yes, we know" more than a few times to a pen tester's findings, you're probably experiencing some degree of the tied-hands problem.

Bonus Reason: Vanishing Perimeters

Devices come and go (ideally not with PHI). Clinicians returning home from conferences with unreported $4,999.99 clinical devices, lax vendors setting up new systems on the "Hospital-Guest" wifi at 4:50pm on a Friday, bored patients with a technological bent — all of these happen. Take-home devices smudge the "perimeter" over to poorly secured home networks. Cloud services might not be reachable from every vantage point. All of these realities make it harder to reason about security based on a penetration test.

If Not Pen Testing, Then What?

Not not pen testing. Yes to pen testing done well. Penetration testing is appropriate, but it's not a panacea. If you engage with a consultant that offers security assessment and pen testing, here are some useful questions to ask them:

  • Will you give us an accurate inventory of our systems, even the ones you don't single out for extra scrutiny?
  • What is your plan to relate security to patient safety? Will you help us establish a set of priorities that align with our commitment to patient care?
  • How will you ensure that the clinical side of the organization — clinical engineers, biomeds, patient care staff — will understand the assessment and be able to put it in context?

A forthcoming blog post will go into more detail about productive, whole-team relationships that can put assessments into action. Subscribe to this blog for email updates when new posts appear, and join our announcements list to periodically see what we're up to.

Stay safe!

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Are You Preparing for Your “Right Time”?

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A Life-Long Learner by Jim Johnson

This is an excerpt from my workbook, The Path to Promotion.  (previously titled “Right On”). This section is from the “be the right person” chapter…

Think about your current job responsibilities.  Have you mastered them?  Does the quality of your work reveal this?  Too often individuals believe they should be promoted but yet they have not mastered their current responsibilities.  How shallow and blind!

You need to develop a life of learning to prepare for future opportunities.  It begins with where you are today.  If there are areas of your job that you are not completely proficient in (proficient not perfection), then make it a priority to learn what you need to learn.

Proficiency brings so many benefits to you.  You will gain confidence.  A can-do attitude is hard to ignore and is “infectious”.  Job mastery demonstrates your competence.  You can control to some degree what others think of you.  Competency is always a favorable attribute.  And proficiency provides job security.  In today’s economy, you definitely want to be thought of as indispensable as possible.

A life of learning does not only take place on the job.  Are you learning outside of your daily shift?  One of the best ways to develop a life of learning is to read.  Your local public library is full of current magazines, journals and books that can aid in your personal development.  Read about current trends that affect your company, your department, and your daily duties.  You will be preparing yourself with useful knowledge for future projects and even for future interviews.

Area colleges and universities offer courses and degrees designed with the working professional in mind.  Degrees can be earned through in-class and online offerings.

Bottom line:  always learn.  Grow.  Develop yourself.

Being the right person means that you are committed to learning more               about yourself, your job, and your company.

Seek Clarity

In his new book, High Performance Habits, Brendon Burchard speaks about seeking clarity in Habit 1.  I shared this exercise with my Emerging Leader group yesterday.  I thought you might like to read this as well:

  1.  Describe (write it down) how you’ve perceived yourself in the following situations over the past several months – with your significant other, at work, with the kids or your team, in social situations with strangers.
  2. Now ask, “Is that who I really see myself being in the future?”  How would my future self look, feel, and behave differently in those situations? (note: think about how your future self would want to interact in ways that you would be proud of)
  3. If you could describe yourself in just 3 aspirational words – words that would sum up who you are at your best in the future – what would those words be?  Why are those words meaningful to you?  Once you find your words, put them in your phone as an alarm label that goes off several times per day.

I worked through this exercise myself.  I jotted down several things and finally landed on my 3 aspirational words.  I created a calendar event that displays these 3 words at 5:45 am, 1:00 pm and 9:00 pm every day.

Already, there are many times when I see those words and I am reminded to be my best and do my best to act out on these words.  It works.  What a great reminder.

Try it. In fact, order the book and start working your own high performance habits (link to the book is provided above). Begin working on becoming better.  You will not regret it.

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Read, Leader!

Do you read regularly? Are you intimidated by a book? Do you take a book off the shelf at the bookstore and think “I should probably read this” but then think “I’m never going to make it through 200-300 pages”?

You’re never going to read an entire book in a sitting. So don’t set yourself up for failure – at least in your mind. Try this instead.

Read 10 pages a day. That’s it. Just 10 pages a day. If you were like most adults, you can read 10 pages in 10 to 15 minutes. Perhaps faster.

If you can do this, and I believe everybody has at least 10 – 15 minutes a day to do that, you will finish a 200 – 300 page book in a month or less.

So grab that business book you’ve been putting off reading. Head to the bookstore. Go to your library. Get a book that’s going to motivate, inspire, educate, and change you. Start reading. 10 pages a day. 10 to 15 minutes a day.

You can do this. Read, Leader!

Book #3

As I shared earlier, one of my  goals this year is to read 12 books. I am actually on book #3 now. This book, Gritty, is co-written by a friend of mine, Ron Lewis.

Take the time to find out more about these brothers and their passion the following link. Order the book. By their book and give it to a first year college student. They will thank you for it.

Read a Book?! Me?!

Is this your response if someone asks you to read a book?  I’ve heard it from many people that I encounter.

Studies have shown that when a person graduated high school and even college that a vast majority never read a book after that. When I ask people why they don’t read, I usually get responses such as “who has time to read a book?”

The answer is simple. You do. No, you really do.

In his book, The Slight Edge, Jeff Olson tells us exactly how to read a book, an entire book, and as little as 30 days. Olson suggests that you set aside time to read 10 pages each day. Now I’m not a fast reader, but I can read 10 pages in about 10 minutes. Olson states that if you read 10 pages a day, you’ll finish a 300 page book in a month. But I think too many people look first at the 300 pages and become overwhelmed thinking “I’m never going to read this”. And then they don’t.

But if you break it down into simple segments – 10 pages a day – you can easily get through a book in a month. This is the secret to the slight edge – taking small incremental steps each day that gets you towards a goal.

What happens when you start to read?

  • You expose yourself to insights and thoughts that you wouldn’t get any other way.
  • You get an opportunity to learn something.
  • Ideas come to you.
  • A difficult situation may become more clear after reading.
  • You begin seeing your world from a different perspective.
  • It will positively affect your leadership style and your leadership abilities.

We probably all have heard it said that leaders are readers. There really is no downside to daily reading a book.

One of my goals for 2017 is to read 12 books this year. So far this month I’m about to finish book number 2. They’re not “long” books but I’m using the slight edge principles to read at least ten pages a day. As a result I’m moving through the books quickly and I’m gaining new knowledge and insight. And I’m journaling things that I’m learning (another goal of mine).

So, what are you reading? Yes, you! Put the slight edge in your favor, find a great book, and start reading. If you need a book list, start with The Slight Edge by Jeff Olson. At the end of this book he lists around a hundred books that he would suggest leaders start reading. That would be a great place to start. Or listen to your favorite podcaster. I bet they’ll be some suggestions there.

In your town there may be a used book store. You can get great deals at places like that. Or go to Amazon. You can buy great used books for a fraction of the original cost. And many of those used books are in great condition.

Don’t limit your leadership abilities by giving yourself excuses not to learn and grow. Start reading. You really will love it.


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Someone Just Asked if He Should Rent a Car & Go…Reservist. Get It?

Reservist is like a CNY gathering. Similar to how you dress up to the nines for your relatives, you want to show your army mates that you’ve been doing pretty well. Never mind that you’re close to bankruptcy; face more important. – Boss 2k17

Now, I haven’t gone through reservist yet (soon, man), so I can’t verify the validity of that statement.

But would you rent a car just for reservist?

While some of you would probably have this face going on…

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Some actually think otherwise.

And this Hardwarezone forum user is probably one of them.

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Is it worth the cost?

Sure, showing off your own car to your poor army mates might feel shiok.

But does it warrant the cost?

“Of course, why not? Can haolian a bit”

Some Netizens certainly felt that way.

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Some saw the sense in renting a car.

But some Netizens didn’t plan on entertaining the dude.

While the thought of impressing my army mates with a new car is certainly tempting, I don’t think it’s worth the cost.

Granted, not every car’s rental expenses would be close to $1,000, but you get the idea.

It’s super expensive.

To me, it really boils down to the point: do you get to book out every day?

Should you be able to book out everyday, it makes a lot more sense.

Yet even then, you have to take into account that you’re paying for a car you are parking for more than eight hours every day. Doesn’t seem that worth it to me.

What if I live very far?

While that somewhat changes things, there are private-hire car companies for a reason.

What if my camp is far AND in an ulu place?

All in all, I doubt it’s a good idea to blow all your money on a car for reservist, especially if you’re just going for the ego boost.

Face more important, or your wallet more important?

You decide.

And oh, just new information from the NSmen in the office: if you’re not a KAH (Key Appointment Holder), you would usually have to park your car so far from your bunk, you might as well rent a bicycle.

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By the end of the course, you should be able to meet the following objectives:

  • Describe the software-defined data center
  • Deploy an ESXi host and create virtual machines
  • Describe vCenter Server architecture
  • Deploy a vCenter Server instance or VMware vCenter Server™ Appliance™
  • Use vCenter Server to manage an ESXi host
  • Configure and manage vSphere infrastructure with VMware vSphere® Client™ and VMware vSphere® Web Client
  • Configure virtual networks with vSphere standard switches
  • Use vCenter Server to manage various types of host storage
  • Manage virtual machines, templates, clones, and snapshots
  • Create a vApp
  • Describe and use the content library
  • Migrate virtual machines with VMware vSphere® vMotion®
  • Use VMware vSphere® Storage vMotion® to migrate virtual machine storage
  • Monitor resource usage and manage resource pools
  • Use VMware vRealize™ Operations Manager™ to identify and solve issues through analytics and alerts
  • Manage VMware vSphere® High Availability and VMware vSphere® Fault Tolerance
  • Use VMware vSphere® Replication™ and VMware vSphere® Data Protection™ to replicate virtual machines and perform data recovery
  • Use VMware vSphere® Distributed Resource Scheduler™ clusters to improve host scalability
  • Use vSphere distributed switches to improve network scalability
  • Use VMware vSphere® Update Manager™ to apply patches
  • Perform basic troubleshooting of ESXi hosts, virtual machines, and vCenter Server operations

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  • System administration experience on Microsoft Windows or Linux operating systems
  • Understanding of concepts presented in the VMware Data Center Virtualization Fundamentals course for VCA-DCV certification

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2. Software-Defined Data Center

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  • Describe where vSphere fits into the cloud architecture
  • Install and use vSphere Client
  • Overview of ESXi

3. Creating Virtual Machines

  • Introduce virtual machines, virtual machine hardware, and virtual machine files
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4. vCenter Server

  • Introduce the vCenter Server architecture
  • Deploy and configure vCenter Server Appliance
  • Install and use vSphere Web Client
  • Manage vCenter Server inventory objects and licenses
  • Explain the benefits of Enhanced vMotion Compatibility

5. Configuring and Managing Virtual Networks

  • Describe, create, and manage standard switches
  • Describe and modify standard switch properties
  • Configure virtual switch load-balancing algorithms
  • Create, configure, and manage vSphere distributed switches, network connections, and port groups

6. Configuring and Managing Virtual Storage

  • Introduce storage protocols and storage device names
  • Discuss ESXi with iSCSI, NFS, and Fibre Channel storage
  • Create and manage VMware vSphere® VMFS datastores
  • Introduce VMware Virtual SAN™

7. Virtual Machine Management

  • Use templates and cloning to deploy virtual machines
  • Modify and manage virtual machines
  • Perform vSphere vMotion and vSphere Storage vMotion migrations
  • Create and manage virtual machine snapshots
  • Create a vApp
  • Introduce the various types of content libraries and how to deploy and use them

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  • Introduce virtual CPU and memory concepts
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  • Introduce vRealize Operations Manager for data center monitoring and management

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  • Introduce vSphere Replication
  • Use vSphere Data Protection to back up and restore data

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  • Describe the functions of a vSphere DRS cluster
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  • Install vSphere Update Manager and the vSphere Update Manager plug-in
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  • Use host profiles to manage ESXi configuration compliance
  • Scan and remediate hosts

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#GoShow17 headliner Bishop Briggs transforms from an affable, low-key personality off-stage to fiery dynamo when the lights turn on, and she can flip that same switch if you trouble her sister.

Dana and Giselle from the Morning Show found that out during their latest interview with the singer-songwriter, who also shared her connection to Sarah McLachlan and got real about the effects of depression on her songwriting.

Make sure to watch the whole video for a bonus round of Ben, Dana and Giselle’s favorite new game: 3 Questions You’ve Never Been Asked. Things get dark in a hurry!

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Rotorua Chamber of Commerce e-Marketing Articles

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We are pleased to announce that we have been chosen to write a number of articles for the e-magazine of the Rotorua Chamber of Commerce, Business Rotorua Now.

The first of our articles cuts through to the core of Search Engine Marketing & Google Adwords and how cost per click advertising can help promote your business to a motivated user exactly when they are in ‘research mode’ or ‘buying’ mode.

You can read the entire article here:, and keep an eye out for our second article, touching on Search engine Optimisation in the February / March issue.