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FSU TE Christo Kourtzidis to transfer

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. -- Florida State tight end Christo Kourtzidis will transfer, his father, Akis, confirmed Thursday. The move leaves a gaping hole at a key position on the Seminoles' roster.

Kourtzidis played sparingly as a freshman in 2012, but figured to see more action this year after senior Kevin Haplea suffered a season-ending knee injury during summer workouts.

Kourtzidis was battling his way back from his own injury as well. He suffered a torn labrum in his shoulder in Florida State's Orange Bowl win over Northern Illinois in January but continued to work out through the first week of spring practice. After a half-dozen practice sessions, however, the team determined surgery was the best option.

With Kourtzidis' departure, Florida State has just two scholarship tight ends on its roster -- freshman Jeremy Kerr and junior Nick O'Leary, who is also recovering from serious injuries following a motorcycle accident this summer.

O'Leary is expected to be ready for the start of fall camp -- which opens Aug. 6 -- but coach Jimbo Fisher said earlier this week that the team was already going to have to be creative in filling voids at tight end.

"Kerr has got to come on, and then we also have some of our big linemen," Fisher said. "You can flip-flop, bring extra linemen in the game, do different things to create those edges. We'll have to work and make sure we do have a plan."

Kourtzidis was a three-star recruit out of Orange (Calif.) Lutheran in FSU's highly regarded 2012 signing class.


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Activision’s ‘Skylanders’ Game Harvests Big Profits from the Virtual World

by Anthony John Agnello | February 15, 2012 6:00 am

Say what you will about the content of products offered by Activision Blizzard (NASDAQ:ATVI[1]), but the world’s biggest video game publisher is good at separating consumers from their money. Its latest gambit might prove that there’s a future outside of digital goods in the gaming business, and retailers should be jumping for joy.

They could use some joy. Video game retail isn’t what it used to be. Much to the chagrin of GameStop (NYSE:GME[2]), Best Buy (NYSE:BBY[3]), Wal-Mart (NYSE:WMT[4]), and the many others who watched as total U.S. video game sales at retail fell steadily from $22 billion in 2008 to $17 billion in 2011. A significant amount of that vanishing revenue has migrated to digital platformsApple‘s (NASDAQ:AAPL[5]) App Store, which offers tons of content for mobile devices, and the lucrative market of social games that’s benefitted Zynga (NASDAQ:ZNGA[6]) and proliferated on Facebook and on smartphones.

Some retailers, including GameStop, are finding that consumers are willing to spend on digital goods at bricks-and-mortar retail locations as well. That business, though, relies on popular services like Activision Blizzard’s Call of Duty Elite subscription service, which in turn relies on the popularity of physical products like Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3, a game that racked up $1 billion in sales within 16 days of its release in November. Which suggests that there has got to be a way to get people spending on video games in stores again.

Plastic action figures and their virtual counterparts

Enter Activision and Skylanders: Spyro’s Adventure. Released in October 2011, the game is available on every machine under the sun, including home gaming devices like Microsoft‘s (NASDAQ:MSFT[7]) Xbox 360 and Sony‘s (NYSE:SNE[8]) PlayStation 3, portables like Nintendo‘s (PINK:NTDOY[9]) Nintendo 3DS, and smartphones like the iPhone. There is even a website and online community to supplement the standalone titles.

Skylanders‘ raison d’être, though, is the assortment of collectible plastic figurines that are sold alongside the game. Kids playing at home place the action figures on a pedestal-like peripheral device synced to their gaming device of choice. An RFID chip inside the toy is recognized by the game and allows the player to use a digitized version of the toy’s character in the game itself.

Thirty-seven figures are currently available, and the line is scheduled to grow in 2012. At $10 per figure (often more due to some figures’ scarcity), a game that was a $60 product on its own suddenly has the potential to be a $500-plus earner. Not to be glib, but the sky is the limit.

The risk of releasing a full product line into a shrinking traditional-games market (as measured, at least, by retail sales revenue) paid off beautifully for Activision at the end of 2011. While the company didn’t reveal an exact dollar amount for how much Skylanders earned during the fourth quarter of 2011, Activision did say that it was the tenth best-selling video game by dollars earned during all of last year, and it was the only game in those ranks that was marketed to children.

Sky-high expectations

The company presented Skylanders in its financials as its “next $1 billion franchise.” Even as the company’s Call of Duty series continues to boom, Skylanders represents promising diversification of its portfolio, and its success should make Activision an even more integral partner for retailers like Best Buy and GameStop. It’s a game that thrives on the sales of multiple physical goods.

Activision has been in this position before, though, with a strong retail product fueling a billion-dollar brand. In that case, the company so badly flooded the market with product that it destroyed the entire market segment: Guitar Hero was the first franchise to produce a title that earned $1 billion on its own in video game history, in part because people needed to buy specially equipped controllers—plastic “instruments” designed to mimic the real things—to play the game. It was another case of a $60 game becoming a potential earner of $300 or more. Activision’s aggressive marketing of the brand, declining interest in the product, and saturation of the market with new titles forced it to cancel the series in 2011, though.

Skylanders has performed impressively and has tons of room to grow. Investors and retailers alike should keep their fingers crossed that Activision has learned its lessons.

As of this writing, Anthony John Agnello did not own a position in any of the stocks named here. Follow him on Twitter at @ajohnagnello[10] and become a fan of InvestorPlace on Facebook.

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Sunday, February 7, 2010

Keeping busy

Hi there, and thanks for sticking around during my hiatus! The last couple of months were busy with out-of-town trips, holidays, and work. What downtime I had was taken up by utter relaxation. As always, I'm still working on some creative projects, and promise to share them when the time comes. In the mean time, I just started my second session of my farm share and as a result I've been very busy in the kitchen. Here are some of the successes:

Gingery stir fried tatsoi with brown rice and fried egg.

Papadi Chaat.
Best Indian snack food ever. Most of the ingredients were purchased, but I did make the cilantro chutney. This video is a good place to get started.

Homemade pizza with sauteed kale and garlic. Kinda like this.

Spaghetti squash with tomato sauce.

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CanarySanctuary said...

I really, really have to remember to check your blog posts only after having a full meal!


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Alfonso Cuarón's Gravity heralds the return of the glorious space porn movie. The swoon-worthy visuals make you feel as though you're actually in space, on a unique adventure. But there's a proud tradition of breathtaking space movies. Here are the 10 most lovely space films, before Gravity.

Note: these are in no particular order.

1. 2001: A Space Odyssey

Arguably one of the most gorgeous films ever created, Stanley Kubrick's game-changing, ahead-of-their-time visuals generated a real sense of wonder and awe. There is nothing like this film, it basically reaches out, grasps the audiences face and screams, "Behold the beauty of the beyond! We may be insignificant specks in the grand design of this world, but we're still able to touch the beauty of our galaxy.

2. Europa Report

The attention to detail and exceptional amount of research that went into the space thriller Europa Report is visible right there on the screen. As the small, privately-funded space crew makes its way to Jupiter's Moon, the importance of knowledge and discovery is highlighted at every turn. Perhaps the most satisfying moment is when the lander descends onto Europa, showing the cracked face of a new world.

3. The Black Hole

Created with the use of insanely intricate miniatures slowly moving across a painted sky, Black Hole was an exceptional bit of FX work for Disney at the time. Not being able to afford ILM, they made everything from scratch, taking the unprecedented step of enlisting the aid of computers. The Black Hole itself is still a gorgeous bit of swirling space porn, and nothing will top the majesty of the USS Cygnus.

4. WALL- E

The playful side of space! The little trash compactor with a heart of gold does what many of these films couldn't: give the audience a first row seat on the side of a spaceship as it broke free of a browned, wrecked Earth and into the enchanting blue skies of space.

5. Sunshine

Danny Boyle took advantage of Sunshine's proximity to the sun and bathed his starry world in light. Take away the astounding score and acting, and you still have gorgeous space porn that can stand on its own.

6. Star Wars (All of Them)

Look, we're just going to put all of the Star Wars movies here. Even the prequels. From start to finish the one thing all these movies have in common was a love affair with space. And even though Lucas had the smarts to create a lived-in universe he still made the skies glimmer. Each asteroid, space ship — heck even the faster-than-light travel took advantage of the majesty of space.

7. Apollo 13

Ron Howard's gorgeous tribute to NASA and the crew of Apollo 13 also helped instill a healthy fear of the insane dangers of space travel. The gorgeous shots of our Moon and home planet quickly made way for the fear of the unknown in the big black. The 1970s spaceship became a cold tomb for the men aboard Apollo 13, with stunning window dressing. And eventually, the final destination became an ominous headstone as the ship shivered in its shadow.

8. Armageddon

A scientifically inaccurate thriller that puts the entire fate of the world in the hands of oil drillers? Yes. However what Michael Bay manages to do with this film is create a feeling of genuine "hell yeah!" You know it's ridiculous, but you'd totally sign up for the suicide mission blowing up an asteroid in space because Holy Hell, it's gorgeous in that sky. Pair the epic shots of the oncoming asteroid with rotating cameras, trumpet calls, sepia tones and lots and lots of one liners and let's GO TO SPACE, MOTHERFUCKER!

9. Mission to Mars

What a beautiful (albeit totally convoluted) movie. The Brian De Palma-directed journey to the Red Planet is heavy on the breathtaking shots of space. But before it becomes an alien kumbaya-fest, the viewer gets to experience plenty of gorgeous space gut punches in the introduction. Really gorgeous.

10. Star Trek: The Motion Picture

And finally, our space helmets are tipped to the very lovely Star Trek TMP — you may not be our favorite Star Trek film, but you are certainly the most visually striking.


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LucidControl Universal Serial Bus IO Devices in a Few words

USB IO Modules

Innovative USB IO Modules

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Speech Journal: Good but crashes Review

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Good but crashes
I have used this app to create picture stories for a boy with autism that I work with. My intent for using it was to increase his turn taking ability. Unfortunately, the app crashes a lot. That makes him loose interest of course.
Luv4movies on Nov 3, 2011 for Speech Journal
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Love it!!
This is the first app I'm REALLY excited about. The only drawback it that I can't share what I set up for my daughter's visual schedule on my iPhone. We just have our iPad occasionally as it's my husband's through work. I wouldn't mind paying to be able to have it on my phone, I just just don't want to have to set up everything twice. Any chance of that happening in the future?
Vernzilla on Oct 27, 2011 for Speech Journal
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Great App for writing Social Stories
I use Speech Journal to write social stories for my students that are on the ASD specturm. It does a wonderful job. The camera allows me to personallize the stories to the children's individual environements and the recording feature also makes it so the students can work independently with the story. Wonderful tool for any educator. Once again the Mobile Education Store has made a wonderful app.
rrvjean on Oct 27, 2011 for Speech Journal
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A Flexible tool from Mobile Education
Like all the Mobile Education Store apps that I have tried this is very well done. Basically you can import any picture you want from your Ipad, then record audio to go with it. Once you have done that the student can listen to it and then record their own audio. So you can use it for speech practice, a video journal, social stories or whatever you imagination comes up with. You can have individual images or link multiple images to form a story or sequence. You can save and email the results. The ability to allow the student to record and playback their own audio is a wonderful motivator - they just love to hear themselves. Good job Mobile Education !
Patrick's mum on Oct 27, 2011 for Speech Journal
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great app
I love all the mobile education apps :) They have helped my children soo much!!!
welcometotheirworld on Oct 27, 2011 for Speech Journal
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Speech journel Tammy Hadley
This is another great app From Mobile education it allows me to adapt it to my sons needs.. we have even had the occasion to use it as a communication device as well.. highly recomned this app..
Tammy Hadley on Oct 27, 2011 for Speech Journal
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- facial and behavioural expression of pain and emotion by people with chronic back pain (EPSRC grant with Nadia Berthouze, UCL; Maja Pantic, Imperial College; Paul Watson, Leicester University)- influences on observer judgements of pain
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رقابت که بد نیست ... حداقل در شرق : تست سلسله مراتبی مدل انگیزش موفقیت در تنظیم آسیا

کد مقاله سال انتشار مقاله انگلیسی ترجمه فارسی تعداد کلمات
5070 2012 12 صفحه PDF سفارش دهید محاسبه نشده
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Competitiveness is not that bad…at least in the East: Testing the hierarchical model of achievement motivation in the Asian setting

Publisher : Elsevier - Science Direct (الزویر - ساینس دایرکت)

Journal : International Journal of Intercultural Relations, Volume 36, Issue 3, May 2012, Pages 446–457

کلمات کلیدی
رقابت - اهداف تسلط - اهداف عملکرد - یادگیری عمیق - یادگیری سطحی - فرهنگ - چین
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چکیده انگلیسی

Competitiveness has usually been viewed as a negative trait as it leads to suboptimal outcomes. However, research in cross-cultural psychology has indicated that competitiveness may hold different meanings for people from individualist and collectivist cultures. The current study investigates the effects of competitiveness on different educational outcomes in the collectivistic Chinese cultural context. Utilizing the hierarchical model of achievement motivation, this study aims to examine the relationships among individual differences (trait mastery and trait competitiveness), achievement goals (mastery and performance goals), and learning strategies (deep and surface learning strategies). Six hundred ninety-seven secondary school students from Hong Kong answered questionnaires assessing the relevant variables. Path models indicated that there were important differences in the pattern of relationships among the variables in our study compared to previous findings in the West. First, contrary to Western studies, trait competitiveness was predictive of mastery goals and not only of performance goals. Second, performance goals positively predicted the adoption of deep learning strategies but were not significantly related to surface learning strategies. Results are discussed in light of current findings in cross-cultural psychology. The findings hold substantive theoretical and practical implications for researchers and practitioners seeking to understand achievement motivation of students from more collectivist cultures.

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Competition has received a lot of bad press. It has been associated with a host of maladaptive outcomes such as negative well-being, suboptimal learning, extrinsic orientation, aggression (Ryckman, Hammer, Kaczor, & Gold, 1996), low self-efficacy (Chan & Lam, 2008), prejudice (Sassenberg, Moskowitz, Jacoby, & Hansen, 2007), conflict among friends (Schneider, Fonzi, Tomada, & Tani, 2000), pathological gambling (Parke, Griffiths, & Irwing, 2004), and even reckless driving (Harris & Houston, 2010) among others. Within the more specialized field of educational psychology, competitiveness has also been frequently associated with maladaptive consequences such as increased stress, depression, (Dykman, 1998), and avoidance of school work (Harackiewicz et al., 2002a and Harackiewicz et al., 2002b). Although this generally negative view towards competition is slowly being challenged (e.g. Ryckman et al., 1996), the psychological literature still defines it as suboptimal. In fact, most researchers measure competition as the direct opposite of cooperation (e.g. Stapel & Koomen, 2005). However, it might be time for educational psychologists to reconsider this negative view of competitiveness given that recent research in cross-cultural psychology has indicated that competition is a culture-bound construct. It holds a different meaning for peoples from different cultures (Grum and Kolenc, 2008, Houston et al., 2005 and Stapel and Koomen, 2001). More specifically, within the educational domain it has been found that students from individualist countries are more likely to perceive competition as negative leading to a zero-sum situation while students from collectivist societies, on the other hand, are more likely to perceive competition as positive, leading to the improvement of themselves and society (Fulop, 1999, Fulop, 2005, Watkins, 2007 and Watkins, 2009). These divergent views on competition may lead to differences in how competitiveness influences various outcomes. Given these cross-cultural differences, it might be possible that the effects of competitiveness in a collectivistic culture like China would be different from those found in Western settings. To test this proposition, we used the hierarchical model of achievement motivation (Elliot, 2005 and Elliot and Church, 1997) which posited that trait variables/individual differences predicted achievement goals which in turn predicted various outcomes. The utility of this model lay in the fact that it included two key constructs that are closely associated with competition in the educational psychology literature: trait competitiveness and performance goals (Harackiewicz et al., 1997, Harackiewicz et al., 2002a and Harackiewicz et al., 2002b). This allowed us to test whether the pattern of relationships found among these constructs in the West was also applicable to the collectivistic Chinese setting. Studies in the West have unanimously hailed trait mastery and mastery goals as beneficial while casting a more negative light on competitiveness and performance goals (Midgley et al., 2001a and Midgley et al., 2001b). However, because of cross-cultural differences in the meaning of competition, the relationships among these constructs in the Chinese setting may be different from what previous research has found in the West.

نتیجه گیری انگلیسی

We found interesting differences between our study and previous studies conducted in the West. First, contrary to Western findings, trait competitiveness was positively related to both mastery and performance goals. Second, we found that performance goals were only related to deep learning strategies and not to surface learning strategies. This suggests that among Chinese students, both trait competitiveness and the adoption of performance goals seem to be related to positive outcomes. These paradoxical findings could be accounted for by cultural factors. This work, however, only represented an initial exploration. Clearly, more research is needed to draw more substantial conclusions. Thrash and Elliot (2001, pp. 12–13) claimed that “…mastery and performance goals, respectively, appear to have become nebulous mixtures of that which is ‘good’ and that which is ‘bad.”’ This study points to the need to contextualize this statement in different cultures. These results should also make us wary of generalizing results obtained in the West to the East. As Watkins (2000, p. 166) noted, “Western dichotomies…do not seem to travel to the Orient.”

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Take It as a Sign!

Quite often, when I sew a project, even a big one like a quilt, I don't do the math or make exact measurements. I don't like doing all the prep work, I just want to get my hands right in there. I suppose with patchwork that's OK. I really love it though when I end up with the exact amount of fabric I'm supposed to have. I take it as a sign.

A few days ago I had a similar experience. After buying a whole bunch of dye, (to dye my homespun) I went to Value Village hoping to find a big stainless steel pot, as required. Oh, I should mention, I had a nice conversation with the salesperson who sold me the dye. She explained that rather than mixing the primary colours, red, blue, yellow to get other colours, many people use a turquoise blue, magenta, yellow and sometimes black. Hmmm, I thought, I never heard of that.... Well, back to Value Village. I found a big, brand new stainless steel pot right off the bat, then when perusing the books I found a colour manual, with 24,000 colour samples, used by printers etc. And yes, the recipes/percentages use turquoise, magenta, yellow and black. Anyway, it made me take this whole yarn spinning/dyeing yarn thing as a sign that I'm on the right track, in the groove.

Yesterday I went to my local head shop to buy a gram scale, so I can accurately measure the powdered dye. If I had deliberated over the scales for any length of time I would have walked out of there thoroughly stoned. Massive clouds of billowy, blue smoke were wafting through the store. You've got to love Vancouver!
Here's another one. Last weekend when I was checking out a thrift store in Steveston I spotted a big hand knit, wool blanket. Someone else was looking at it and I saddled up beside her, pretending to be interested in something else nearby, all the while thinking, don't you buy it! She put it down, and I went in for the grab. You know what? I turned it down too. I left the store, went back to the park, couldn't stop thinking about it, decided to go back, (walking more and more quickly) and it was still there! Waiting for me!
I had decided I could not pass up all that wool! Yes I only wanted it for it's wool. Even though most of the colours were great, and it was all knit in a painstaking knit one, purl one rib, it was full of knots! Yes knots! So sad. It had to be frogged!

So this....

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Friday, February 01, 2008

Finished Objects

Here is / was My So Called Scarf, done in Manos de Uruguay. It's a beautiful
colour way, but neither of these photos does it justice. I frogged the So Called for a simple 2x2 ribbing because I found it just too thick and stiff, even though I went up a needle size. I still think the pattern really suits the yarn and I was invisioning a square block of this as a section for a pillow. It's an easy knit, but a strange pattern, kind of like somebodys inebriated non knitting friend invented a new stitch. I did see a woman on the bus the other day wearing her So Called Scarf done in Noro's Silk Garden and it looked (and felt) amazing. Yes, of course I fondled her scarf!

As The Yarn Harlot says in Stephanie Pearl-McPhee Casts Off
"Running your hand down the sleeve of a fellow knitter's sweater when you meet him or her is a healthy expression of knitterly interest and is not at all odd. It's the knitters handshake."

Please read the Yarn Harlot, you'll feel good about your obsession with knitting. She's a hoot!
And now, if you're a reletively new knitter and you want something a tiny bit challenging in terms of fiber and something very impressive, try Kid Silk Haze. This is the simple Feather and Fan pattern, the easiest lace for a beginner. Use bamboo needles for grip and have a delicate touch when ripping back. This photo shows the haze quite a bit more blue than in reality. Another repeat or so and it's blocking time. Yeah!

Oh, and on a final note... I got invited to Ravelry! It's the best! Go get yourself invited!


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Third ship-struck whale reported in the Pelagos Sanctuary this summer

Today, August 19th, Tethys researchers surveying the Ligurian Sea waters 17 km off Sanremo encountered a sperm whale with serious ship-strike wounds on its back.

The researchers tracked the animal using their towed hydrophone array, until it surfaced again. The sperm whale was exhibiting unusual behaviour: these large cetaceans usually stay still at the surface while recovering from a deep dive. This particular individual, however, was swimming at a fast pace, suggesting avoidance behaviour towards boats.

The researchers managed to take a few pictures of the wound before the animal disappeared underwater, likely swimming away from the boat. It was only fair to leave the animal alone to avoid further disturbance.

This encounter further documents that ship collisions with large whales are a common occurrence within the protected waters of the Pelagos Sanctuary, and that further enforcement is needed to effectively protect these magnificent creatures.

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Protect Your Portfolio From Volatile Markets With This Strategy: TheStreet

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If the second half of 2016 looks anything like the first, investors are in for quite a volatile equity market. 'Markets always have some volatility, but it's been increasing the last couple of years,' said Nardin Baker, chief strategist at Guggenheim Partners, a global investment firm with $240 billion in assets under management. 'Events seem to cause a spike in volatility, volatility may fall and then stay at a somewhat higher level than in the past.' While it's anyone's guess as to what those events are going to be, Baker said investors should be cautious about taking on too much risk right now. The VIX, Wall Street's fear index, which measures volatility, traded at an average of 18 year-to-date. On Friday, the VIX traded near 14.8. Its high for the year was 28.14, reached on Feb. 11, the same day the blue-chip Dow Jones Industrial Average hit its 2016 low of 15,660,18. At the start of 2016, worries about China's economy sparked worries of a global recession, leading to a markets swoon. To grapple with volatility Baker stressed the importance of an optimized volatility strategy, where a portfolio's holdings are altered based on various market conditions. 'With optimized volatility, we measure which stocks have been rewarded in the recent past: high risk ones or low risk ones,' Baker said. 'Then we find an optimized portfolio that tilts towards those either high risk or low risk ones - whichever is being rewarded.' Baker said this changes the portfolio's risk exposure, but only after the market has started to reward risk. Markets usually reward risk after major selloffs. 'You don't have to do anything in terms of making decisions - we are always measuring what the reward to risk is and the portfolio automatically shifts the exposure,' he said. Baker said investors can take part in this strategy through an exchange traded fund. Guggenheim offers the U.S. Large Cap Optimized Volatility ETF , which contains 120 S&P 500 names. Meanwhile, Baker is watching two factors for the remainder of 2016: the dollar's strength and interest rates. '[If the 10-Year Treasury yield] stays low at 1.5 percent, we're probably in for some slow [economic] growth,' he said. On Friday, the 10-Year yield fell to 1.385 percent, a record low, as investors continued to flood safe-haven government bonds, following the historic June 23 Brexit vote. Baker also doesn't expect the Federal Reserve to hike interest rates in 2016. 'If you look at future curves, the markets aren't forecasting much growth or much inflation,' he said. 'The Fed would like to raise rates, but they're not really compelled to at this time.' TheStreet's Scott Gamm reports from Wall Street.

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One of the biggest news stories of the last week has been the revelation that many recent smartphones have an app called Carrier IQ pre-installed on them. This is either a simple diagnostic tool or a nefarious bit of spyware, depending on whom you ask.

Apple iPhone SpyingThe app is keeping a log of the phone’s activities and sending this information to wireless carriers. The companies who use it say this info is only being used to debug problems with the phone: dropped calls, battery failures, etc. Many users, however, resent that details like all the websites they visit was being collected without their knowledge, and with no way to opt out.

The company directly behind this app, also called Carrier IQ, has jumped to its defense, promising that what they do is completely innocuous. Nevertheless, lawsuits and a Congressional investigation are already under weigh.

Carrier IQ has been found on a wide range of devices — Android, iPhone, and BlackBerry. It has been estimated that it could be on as many a 140 million phones.

This issue is still playing out, so be sure to drop by Brighthand to keep an eye on the latest developments.  This story has been reported in the main-stream press, but not in the kind of detail we can bring you.

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Wednesday, October 11, 2006

The science curriculum debate

When I was training as a science teacher, the National Curriculum was billed as the solution to the shortage of scientists and engineers in the UK. By making 'Double Science' (i.e. two GCSE's worth of combined science) compulsory for all kids at GCSE, the government hoped more students would fall in love with science and go on to study it at University.

Instead, schools wrestled with the reality of teaching all students - all students - huge great wodges of science. Hell has fewer miseries more grim than a set five science group you see for 20% of their timetabled time. As other options emerged (downgrading to single science - 1 GCSE of combined science - switching to GNVQ or similar) schools with a high proportion of this type of student grabbed them.

At the other end of the spectrum, many students found that their options to study science in the future were severely limited. Potential future scientists were frustrated, as schools could not easily offer them the 'three sciences' option alongside the compulsory Double Award. By insisting that everyone did some science, less and less students were able to prepare for the rigours of A-level. Students who were somewhere between the extremes - unable, at the tender age of 14, to know if they would blossom into academic success or leave school early, were usually shifted into whichever solution offered the best 'headline results'. This was all the more galling, because this was why we got rid of grammar schools - to allow students longer to grow into academic success, keeping their options open, most especially those who did not have parents acting as pro-education cheerleaders on the sidelines.

So the powers-that-be put their heads together once more, to try and work out a solution which gives all students what they need to survive in a technological society, while at the same time inspiring and equipping future scientists. The result was the science reforms that have been rolled out this Autumn, including 'Science for the 21st century', a GSCE which aims to provide scientific literacy. [A briefing from the Association for Science Education here]

In a telling quote from the BBC
...pupils who take up 21st Century science are unlikely to be those who plan to take science at A-level and then university.
Today, Sir Richard Sykes, Rector of Imperial College and member of the Institute of Ideas, has criticised the new GCSE science qualification because they will lock students out of future university courses.

I am in such anguish. I have not taught GCSE science for many years, but I have long thought that the UK education system needs something like a 'science for life' course. Forcing all 15 year olds to study physics is just wrong. And I love physics. I really enjoyed teaching science and think that everyone needs to be scientifically literate in order for society to survive.

At the same time, I also know that students who do not have a good GCSE foundation struggle hopelessly at A-level. They need to have had strong teaching, traditional-style courses and the curriculum time to study all three sciences, or at least two to sufficient depth.

So, I'm with OCR, who summed it up thus,
"GCSE qualifications in the sciences are required to meet two quite different needs: firstly, to prepare all students for life in the 21st century, in which science is a part of everyday experience, and secondly to prepare future scientists for their studies at A-level and beyond."
Why can't we do both? Why can't there be flexibility, options, choice, risk? I'll tell you why not. League tables.

Children lose out when they are not given the option to take courses that they are less likely to pass. Schools can't afford the risk of entering students for challenging subjects. Far better to put them in for the courses that will maximise their 'success'. Because the bottom line is the league table pass rate. At all costs we must service the pass rate. So the question becomes 'What science options can we afford to offer in our school? Which will guarantee a better bottom line statistic? Which is safest?' In this context, schools will continue to offer whatever courses best service the pass rate.

The 21st century science course is for 'students unlikely to take science at University'. How many schools will take that decision for all their pupils at the age of 14 simply because it is too costly for them, in terms of the league tables, to do otherwise?

I've been feeling sick about this all day. I have arrived at the desperately depressing conclusion that there is no reform in current education that can ever work while schools are held up to public judgement and competition using highly simplified statistics alone. The forces acting on schools today distort and corrupt the education of children. They are evil.

More information from the BBC here, and see the Guardian here, and all about the Insitute of Ideas here.

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Mr Ken said...

Pepperpot, I don't usually comment on an issue unless I have something useful to add. But in this case you've said it all; league-table fever is strangling education.

You know it, I know it, everyone who teaches knows it.


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Jaguars linebacker Daryl Smith is the kind of person linebackers coach Mark Duffner would like to have as a son.

"If his mom and dad would allow me, I'd adopt him in a second," Duffner said Thursday as the Jaguars wrapped up their third week of organized team activities.

Duffner's comments are typical of the way the Jaguars talk about Smith.

"I've been impressed from the time I worked him out at Georgia," Duffner said. "I like his maturity. I like his work ethic. First and foremost, he's a top-flight person."

Duffner said Smith was the Jaguars' best defensive player last year. He led the team in tackles, and he's the high-character type of player teams like to build around.

Smith has only one problem — getting recognized.

A low-key person playing on a small-market team that has won one playoff game in his six-year tenure, Smith has flown under the national radar screen and hasn't made the Pro Bowl.

Not that the soft-spoken Smith seems to worry about his low profile.

"You start worrying about that stuff, and you're not focused on what you need to do," he said. "All I can control is what I need to do. I'm cool with that, man. It'll take care of itself. If I get recognized, oh well. If I don't, oh well."

Smith rarely draws attention to himself. When he makes a tackle, he goes back to the huddle. He doesn't celebrate.

"You don't see me dance," he said. "Don't take it as a weakness or anything like that. I'm just me. I'm telling it like it is. I ain't no rah-rah guy. Nothing like that."

Smith knows the best way to get recognized is to play on a winning team.

"If we win, people are going to find out [about him]. I mean it. It's about winning games at the end of the day," he said.

Linebacker Kirk Morrison, who toiled in obscurity on losing teams in Oakland before he signed with the Jaguars, understands Smith's plight.

"It all comes with wins and losses," Morrison said. "Everybody knows in the NFL that if you're on winning teams, you're going to get recognized."

Morrison said there's no lack of recognition for Smith within the league.

"In the NFL, we look around and see how other linebackers perform," Morrison said. "You can't hide on film. No one can hide. I've watched him since he came into the league. And when you looked at the Jaguars film, No. 52 always stuck out."

Now that Morrison is playing alongside Smith, he's even more impressed.

"You see the kind of work ethic he has, the intensity he displays in the weight room. And he's been a consistent player year in and year out," Morrison said. "He's played at a Pro Bowl level. There are very few spots, but I've got to think he's deserving of it."

Smith is versatile enough to play all three positions, but moving him around might not have helped him.

"I'm not sure we didn't slow him down," Duffner said.

Now he seems set as an outside linebacker. Last year he was on the weak side, and this year, he'll be on the strong side.

He'll combine with Morrison to form two-thirds of what the Jaguars hope will be an upgraded linebacking corps. Justin Durant and Russell Allen are fighting for the weak-side job.

Morrison likes playing alongside Smith.

"He's taking a load off me because I make the huddle call and am getting everybody lined up, and he's helping," Morrison said. "It's like having two middle linebackers."

Jaguars coach Jack Del Rio, who played linebacker in the NFL, said Smith is "a terrific linebacker. He's smart and instinctive, and he's been our most productive linebacker the last four or five years."

Defensive coordinator Mel Tucker said of Smith, "He's very much appreciated here. He's highly intelligent. He's got outstanding awareness and football instincts. He is very, very stout in the run game, and he does a fine job in coverage."

The Jaguars think Smith, a 2004 second-round pick, can still improve.

"I think he's got some growth to do," Duffner said. "I don't think we've seen the best of him."

First-round pick Tyson Alualu missed all three team practices this week with an undisclosed ailment, but he wasn't grouped with the injured players. ... With three defensive ends - Aaron Kampman, Reggie Hayward and Jeremy Mincey - sidelined, rookie Larry Hart worked with the first team. ... WR Clarence Denmark, a standout in camp, was sidelined with an undisclosed ailment. ... QB David Garrard threw two interceptions, one picked off by Michael Coe that was intended for Nate Hughes. ... Coe also knocked down a pass aimed for Hughes. ... The team ran its usual Thursday series of 100-yard wind sprints and Del Rio ran with them. ... CB Rashean Mathis has been busy while skipping OTAs because he wants a new contract. He got married a week ago.,

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Porsche has been doing a slow strip tease of its new Le Mans challenger for what seems like ages now. This time, they're showing off engine development. And if my eyes aren't deceiving me, this could very well be a diesel Porsche race car.

Around 46 seconds into the video, a close up of the cam covers on the race car shows four letters: TDFI. Now, that could mean two things. Turbo diesel fuel injection, or turbo direct fuel injection.

The earlier rumors for the Porsche engine centered on what configuration it would be. Some said V8, others called those people coocoobananas and said it was a flat six, and some band of heretics have said that it would be an inline four. While the engine layout hasn't been announced, what hasn't really been discussed is Porsche possibly going for diesel fuel.

Would a diesel Porsche LMP car be that much of a surprise? Not really. Le Mans has now been won by diesel cars every year since 2006. Gas cars have been given rules concessions and diesels have been given penalties to try and equal the fight in the last few years, yet they still have won. If they didn't at least consider a diesel, they'd be making a GOB Bluth level "huge mistake."

Hat tip to eagle eyes himself, Leo Parente!


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Assisted Suicide: Sheer Cliff or Clinical Reality?

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Jefferson Medical College Philadelphia, Pa

JAMA. 1994;271(1):23. doi:10.1001/jama.1994.03510250039017

To the Editor.  —Quill1 appears to be sincere in his efforts to promote a rational debate on the issue of physician-assisted death. However, his arguments are undermined by his ignoring and misrepresenting information that contradicts his views.In his discussion of the importance of proper pain management for terminally ill patients, he notes that "Experts who can provide formal or informal consultation in pain control and in palliative care are available in most major cities and extensive literature is available." He fails to cite the studies and reports that indicate that many physicians neither are aware of nor use these resources in managing the pain of terminally ill patients.2,3 In fact, the literature has demonstrated that physicians, including those directly involved in the care of patients with cancer, are often poorly trained in pain assessment and management.4 Yet Quill continues to ignore this extremely important point and

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Clinical Diabetes Mellitus: A Problem-Oriented Approach

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College of Medicine University of Illinois at Chicago

by John K. Davidson, 2nd ed, 822 pp, with illus, $149, ISBN 0-86577-370-X, New York, NY, Thieme Medical Publishers Inc, 1991.

JAMA. 1992;267(13):1842-1843. doi:10.1001/jama.1992.03480130162048

This article is only available in the PDF format. Download the PDF to view the article, as well as its associated figures and tables.

Dust-induced diseases have been recognized since antiquity: medieval lapidaties died of them, as did countless miners, stonecutters, and metal polishers. With the development of steam- and, later, gasoline-powered machinery early in the 20th century, however, workers in such trades were exposed to dramatically increased levels of dust. The result was a minor epidemic of dust-induced diseases, notably silicosis, that aroused both popular and medical attention in the 1920s and 1930s. came increasingly concerned about "consumption" around the turn of the century, especially after steam-driven equipment replaced hand drills and sledgehammers. Granite cutters complained that the new equipment raised unhealthy levels of dust, a charge that epidemiological studies eventually corroborated (a 1934 study showed that granite cutters were dying of tuberculosis at rates up to ten times higher than was average for males in Massachusetts). In November 1909, granite cutters near Barre, Vt, voted to refuse to use the "man killer"


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Brush With Death: A Social History of Lead Poisoning

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by Christian Warren, 362 pp, $45, ISBN 0-8018-6289-2, Baltimore, Md, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000.

Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med. 2001;155(8):975. doi:10.1001/archpedi.155.8.975

In 1956, J. Edmund Bradley and colleagues reported that 40% of children attending a well-child clinic in Baltimore had blood lead levels exceeding 50 µg/dL.1 Interestingly, most pediatricians in the late 1950s were not shocked by Bradley's report: after all, only 5% of Baltimore children had blood levels higher than 80 µg/dL, then thought to be the threshold for lead toxicity. Soon, other researchers had replicated Bradley's finds in other American cities. Still, no widespread concern arose regarding lead exposure. In sharp contrast, however, most European nations had eliminated lead from paint in the 1910s. Why, we might ask, did the United States tolerate so much environmental lead for so long?

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Playing v Coaching

Thought this was a wonderful excerpt from the late Jim Valvano’s autobiography.
[Here’s Jimmy V’s bio.]
When I switched from playing to coaching at Rutgers, it didn’t take more than a few losses to figure out the difference. Let’s get that one out of the way real fast. There is positively no comparison between being a player and a coach. The animals aren’t even in the same kingdom. Forget it.

Playing the game is easy. Playing is putting your sneakers on and answering intros and running and jumping and shouting and getting it on. If you play great, you feel great. If you win, you feel great. If you lose, you still feel great. Oh, you might put on a long face after a defeat, but if you’ve had a good game individually, it doesn’t bother you that much.

As a player, the way you play affects how you feel more than winning or losing. That’s why on a losing-team bus I’ve never insisted players show remorse and don’t talk. Don’t give me that silent, sad act.

Fans take the losses harder than players. I don’t care what anybody says; the player who goes for 40 big ones in a one-point loss and says he’s crushed — hey, take that outta here. And, even if you win big, the players who didn’t get into the game aren’t going to be happy, either.

As a coach, it’s a different mind-set. You can’t coach well and lose and still feel good. You win, you lose. The preparation in coaching is a hundredfold greater than in playing. I didn’t get nervous before I played. Playing was an absolute joy. Coaching was like giving birth. It’s labor, it’s work.

The thing is — unlike being a player — as a coach, that game is yours, win or lose, comedy or tragedy. It belongs to you. In that way, a coach is an artist. When you make a beautiful canvas, you’re proud. When you don’t, all the work and energy and effort is for naught. You’ve failed. You feel that failure deep inside your every bone.

Playing and coaching have so little to do with each other that it should come as no suprise how few players enjoy coaching when they’ve finished their active careers. They think they’ll like it because they want to stay “close to the game.” Then they find out it isn’t a game anymore.

It’s a total business at this level. On the one hand, it’s a discipline; on the other, it’s art. But it’s a discipline first, and a lot of people don’t like that: the hours in the tape room, the schmoozing with the media, the practices, the road trips, the X’s and O’s. What they see on TV is the nice suits and the guys in control; immediately they want to turn in their uniforms and move down to the business end of the pine.

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June 2001

Anthony Braxton Quintet
Basel 1977

Multi-instrumentalist, composer, chess grandmaster and occasional author Anthony Braxton once drew as much criticism and ridicule as Wynton Marsalis. Despite being a champion of experimental material in both the improvising and classical traditions, Braxton has been blistered for every sin, from having a cold, soulless style to being overly infatuated with Stockhausen and Dave Brubeck. When Braxton's pioneering, and recently reissued, solo-sax session For Alto was issued in 1968, the results were labeled either revolutionary or disgraceful depending on the perspective. Almost 33 years and multiple albums later, Braxton has been proved neither fraud nor seer. He was and is a fine player, especially on the cumbersome twins-bass and contrabass clarinets-and his compositions have become less pretentious and more engaging.

Quintet (Basel) 1977 features Braxton with the best cast among the discs. Trombonist George Lewis' floating, often humorous recants to Braxton's leaps and darts on alto sax, sopranino and clarinet, as well as Muhal Richard Abrams' masterful accompaniment and measured yet bluesy playing, make the four lengthy numbers engrossing. The highlight is the almost 27-minute "Composition 69 N/G," which gets bolstered by edgy bass work from Mark Helias and reliable percussive tapestry provided by Charles "Bobo" Shaw. Shaw's spirited drumming brings some funk and fire to the date, while Abrams imbues it with dignity and Lewis gives it spunk. Braxton's shrieks and moans on alto can become wearing when he endlessly repeats figures and phrases. The alto may be the instrument Braxton's most identified with but it remains his weakest, For Alto notwithstanding. His tone frequently sounds thin and shrill, and the ideas just don't flow as quickly or decisively as they do on any other instrument he plays.

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The Hilarious moment When Archie Bunker met Sammy Davis Jr

Archie Bunker probably draws up a ton of memories from your childhood. The TV character was a household staple in the 1970’s, and his legend continues to live on today. One episode in particular that many will never forget is this one. In it, Archie Bunker meets Sammy Davis Jr. for the first time – and it’s hilarious. Be sure to check it out and share it with friends and family if you enjoyed it as much as we did!

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Man goes to Starbucks 3 times a week, then the barista slips him this note

When Ibby Piracha went to his local coffee shop that day, he was expecting the usual, but what he got was so much more. Ibby is deaf, so the barista decided to do something special. She started to learn sign language so the next time Ibby returned, they would be able to carry on a conversation. Some things are worth so much more than a $6 cup of coffee.

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Easiest way to separate egg white

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extracteggwhiteWhile there are ingenious ways to separate the white from the yolk (e.g using a bottle or fancy equipments), we find the easiest and most convenient way is using a fork.

1. POKE Using one of the hands of a fork, lightly poke a small hole on top of the egg.

2. CRACK Then, make the hole bigger by cracking the shell with the fork.

3. REMOVE With  your fingers, remove pieces of egg shells to form a hole. An ideal size should be about the size of 5 cents. If its’ too small, it’ll be difficult for the white to flow out of the egg. If it’s too big, the yolk will flow out together.

4. POUR Pour egg whites into a bowl.

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You can use the egg white, along with sugar, thickened cream and dark chocolate to make chocolate mousse. sandalwoodmask3-jewelpie

The remaining yolk can be used to moisturise your face. Try an ayurvedic sandalwood mask.

How do you normally separate egg white and egg yolk?

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JewelPie’s Best Of October

October was such an exciting month for us! The top three highlights: 1) We’ve turned one year old, 2) Appeared in The Malay Mail (get a copy today!) and 3) got to know a lot more about you!

This birthday reminds us that JewelPie came about because friends and family started to ask for cooking and DIY beauty recipes, housekeeping tricks and quick fashion advice.

While we may not know you like we know our love ones, we hope to do so through JewelPie comment section, Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. Do talk to us by leaving a comment and tagging us @jewelPie.

1. JewelPie turns one!
We turned on 11th of October and celebrated with a lovely cake from Chewies Delight.

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2. Banana Cinnamon Toast in 2 minutes
This quick recipe came about when we wanted to create something healthy, filling and can be prepared as quick as a packet of instant noodles.
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3. 10 Clever kitchen tools you want in your kitchen
We’ve found a cool local e-shop selling fancy kitchen tools.clever kitchen tools

4. Congee in ziplock bag
Super handy when you’re not feeling too well or lazy to cook!

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5. Edamame in 2 minutes
Making one of our favourite food to order at a Japanese restaurant right at home!

6. How to have beautiful, blown hair…fast
Blowing your hair takes too much time? We have 3 tips that can make it a little faster.

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7. Building A Basic Home Bar
Finally our bar is now looking more put together!

HOME PROJECT: The bar cart we put together at home

8. Three least fattening burgers at McDonalds
Do you know that Chicken Burger is different from McChicken ? The latter is a lot more fattening.

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9. Beauty or the geek?
With only one skirt, we put together two work outfit. One makes you look hot, another geeky.

10. Type faster with TextExpander
This amazing software is our current favourite and we see ourselves to be using it for a long time. It’s a MUST DOWNLOAD. Watch this clip to see how it makes typing so much faster!

11. PRODUCT REVIEW: Kenwood Citrus Press
Are you considering buying a citrus juicer? We’ve written about what we like and dislike about this particular model.

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12. FISH AND OLIVE OIL cookbook giveaway
We were giving away free copies to our readers. We plan to have more of these giveaways in the future due to such warm response!

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13. How to make a great cheese burger
We’ve entered Burger Lab’s kitchen and learned the many tricks on creating an awesome burger!

14. How to make fake blood for Halloween?
Too lazy to dress up. Try making yourself look bloody in only 5 minutes!
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15. Apple Sandwich With Peanut Butter & Chocolate Chips
A quick and healthy snack.
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Finally, we are giving away some of our favourite things worth RM 1000! All that you need to do is to answer some questions here. Good luck!

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Tuesday, February 13, 2007

Egypt (All Arab Nations) Being to Set Up to Fall in the Future

Christopher Jon Bjerknes

As I predicted, Egypt is being set up to fall. Egyptians cry out for nuclear bombs, which only serves to provide World Jewry with a pretext to annihilate Egypt. The Saddam Model becomes the Ahmadinejad Model becomes the Mubarak Model?

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Arab MP: Only nukes will erase Israel

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They see not our weakness, but our strength -- THEY always said that we were too strong.

That was the complaint from critics of the United States around the world -- the U.S. was so strong, so powerful, so always in control, and our critics found that offensive. With American power came American arrogance, or so we were told. Affection for the U.S. was sometimes invisible beyond our own borders. No one, the saying goes, loves Goliath.

Never mind that many of us inside the U.S. didn't see it quite that way; never mind that our power did not seem absolute to those of us who live here. We saw ourselves as doing our best to stay afloat on a fragile and uncertain planet. We were too strong? Does any American reading those words feel that they accurately describe the U.S. before Sept. 11?

Not that it matters -- when people are critical of you, it's not wholly important what your own view of yourself is. What's germane is that around the world, many of the countries, and their citizens, who didn't like us based their antipathy on the assumption that we were invulnerable.

We're not. We never have been. And the remarkable thing, in the days since Sept. 11, is that right now -- even as we may fear we're appearing a little weak, exposed, overwhelmed -- the world seems to be on the verge of changing its mind about us.

In what we see as our temporary shakiness, the world sees our strength -- a different kind of strength than they saw before. In what we see as our being knocked off balance, the world sees a magnificent kind of steadiness.

They're looking at us differently -- and, unless we're misreading their eyes, they are looking at us with admiration and new respect and, as difficult as it is for us to believe, a recognition that, if they are ever attacked the way were were last week, they hope they will be able to respond as we have.

I'm not speaking of our sworn enemies; I'm speaking of nations that, on paper, are our friends, but have often looked at us with barely concealed disdain. We were too big; we didn't need anyone. That's what they thought.

Now that they know otherwise -- now that they have seen us wounded -- something quite unexpected is taking place. The world does not see weakness in our hurt; the world sees high courage. The world does not see frailty in our pain; the world sees humanity. All those years when they proclaimed, and presumed, us to be too strong -- and now they are applauding a different kind of American strength than they were able to understand before.

You have heard from them in worldwide news reports; I hear from them in letters from people who read this column in countries outside our own borders. Their voices may be soft, but their message is unmistakable.

From a reader named Jeffrey Brown, in Auckland, New Zealand: "Here in New Zealand, and in Australia, we are aghast at the enormity of the bombings, and are experiencing a kind of pain and a form of sympathy that is utterly alien to us. We can only imagine the hurt that you and your nation must cope with. Our sympathy to the U.S., and hence our deep respect, is manifest in prayers and candlelight vigils, flowers at the embassy, notes and letters to friends and relatives so far away.

"But the reason I am writing this message is to tell you about one very unusual way that our respect and support for the U.S. has been expressed. I watched a sports event last evening -- a rugby match between two neighboring provinces, Canterbury and Otago, who are fierce, hardened rivals with fervent, partisan fans. In the grandstand were people waving flags.

"This is a very common thing at a rugby match, except that these people were not waving the flags of the rugby teams.

"They were waving the American flag.

"I have never seen that before. Good luck to you and your nation. We are with you all the way."

Perhaps this will endure; perhaps it will fade.

But for now, it is here -- and it is stirring to know it.

From Clive Allard, a reader in England:

"I look forward to visiting your country again. . . . The scars may heal. The pain and sorrow will always be there.

"Our tears are for you. May G-d bless you."

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