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The Mining Association of Canada (MAC) expressed concern regarding the portrayal of Canada’s mining sector by the PEW Environmental Group and a lack of balance in “A Forest of Blue – Canada’s Boreal Forest, the World’s Water keeper”.

Canada’s mining industry is committed to minimizing and mitigating the impacts of its operations on the natural environment.  To that end, the Mining Association of Canada and its members welcome constructive dialogue with all communities of interest, which can lead to improved environmental performance.  Wherever possible, that dialogue should be informed by verifiable, peer-reviewed science.  Organizations like the Pew Environmental Group (PEG) can be a source of such information, especially given their stated commitment to apply “a rigorous, analytical approach to improve public policy, inform the public and stimulate civic life.”  In an effort to support PEG in fulfilling that commitment, MAC offers the following specific comments on the organization’s recently released report.

Environmental Assessment and Permitting

PEG states that “Outdated mining laws in many parts of Canada allow for free-entry mining, often lacking an application process or environmental review”.  There is not one province or territory in Canada where a mine could be built without going through a plethora of provincial/territorial and federal approvals.  In fact, Canada’s environmental review and application processes are among the most rigorous and comprehensive in the world and are regularly held up as a point of reference in the international community.

Orphaned and Abandoned Mines

It is true that orphaned and abandoned mines exist across Canada.  For this reason, the mining industry, through MAC and the Prospectors and Developers of Canada (PDAC) joined with Mining Watch Canada and other non-government organizations, several government departments and Aboriginal Canadians to form the multi-stakeholder National Orphaned and Abandoned Mines Initiative (NOAMI).   Created in 2002, NOAMI reports to the mines ministers of Canada, and makes recommendations for collaborative implementation of remedial programs for orphaned and abandoned mines across Canada.  More information on NOAMI’s ongoing work can be found at

Environmental Stewardship

While the report mentions MAC’s Toward Sustainable Mining (TSM) initiative, it fails to recognize that   participation in the program is mandatory for all MAC members and that publicly reported results require independent third party verification.  The TSM program has been in place since 2004 and has earned MAC the Globe Foundation Award for Environmental Performance and has been twice independently assessed by leading sustainability experts as best-in-class across all sectors nationally and internationally.  More information on TSM, including results can be found at

Recognising the very important challenges associated with water quality and usage, MAC has for many years been an active participant in many multi-stakeholder initiatives including the Mine Environment Neutral Drainage (MEND) program, Assessment of the Aquatic Effects of Mining in Canada (AQUAMIN) and the Aquatic Effects Technology Evaluation (AETE) program.  Most recently, we have collaborated with the National Round Table on the Environment and the Economy to produce a report entitled “Changing Currents: Water Sustainability and the Future of Canada’s Natural Resource Sectors “ (2010).

“The errors and omissions in the report are of great concern to MAC in that they may lead readers to incorrect conclusions” said Gordon Peeling, President and CEO of MAC.  Many of the references cited in the mining portion of the report are vague and difficult to verify  - some are even identified as being unpublished.  These do not meet the standard of peer-reviewed science.

The Mining Association of Canada and its members work closely with many communities of interest, civil society and government to develop and implement public policy that supports a mining industry that is of great benefit to current and future generations of Canadians.  Good policy decisions can only be made when they are based on fact and sound science; we always welcome the opportunity to participate in constructive, multipartite dialogue.  MAC intends to contact PEG to explore gaps in their portrayal of some of the issues.

About the Mining Association of Canada

Based in Ottawa, the Mining Association of Canada is the national organization for the Canadian mining industry. Its members are engaged in mineral exploration, mining, smelting, refining and semi-fabrication.


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SNLD have not yet confirmed the resignation of their chairman

Khun Htun Oo, the leader of Shan Nationalities League for Democracy. Photo: Mizzima

Shan National League for Democracy (SNLD) party Secretary Sai Nyunt Lwin told Mizzima that they had no comment yet about the news on the resignation of Chairman Khun Htun Oo.

“We cannot confirm yet this news as we have not yet received this letter so that we cannot yet confirm it,” SNLD Secretary Sai Nyunt Lwin said.

Khun Htun Oo aged 75 is a veteran politician and he is one of the founders of SNLD party which was formed after the 1988 popular uprising.

Shan state based Shan Pai Journal editor-in-charge Sai Zin said, “Most of the people want to see him leading the party. He is leading not only SNLD but also other alliance parties. So most of the people don’t want him resigning from the chairman post.”

Shan veteran politician Khun Htun Oo contested in the 1990 general elections from Hsipaw constituency and he won this seat.

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The 2018 Leadership Awards Luncheon Keynote Speaker, the CHAIRMAN JOHN HOPE BRYANT, the founder, chairman, and chief executive officer of Operation HOPE, Inc.

MLK Leadership Luncheon Keynote Speaker John Hope Bryant

American Banker magazine 2016 "Innovator of the Year" Inc.’s “The World’s 10 Top CEOs” (honorable mention), and one of Time magazine’s “50 Leaders for the Future” named in 1994, John Hope Bryant is an American entrepreneur, author, philanthropist, and prominent thought leader on financial inclusion, economic empowerment and financial dignity.

Bryant is the founder, chairman, and chief executive officer of Operation HOPE, Inc. the largest not- for-profit and best-in-class provider of financial literacy and capability empowerment for youth and adults; chairman and chief executive officer of Bryant Group Ventures and The Promise Homes Company, and co-founder of Global Dignity. The last five U.S. presidents have recognized his work, and he has served as an advisor to the last three sitting U.S. presidents. He is responsible for financial literacy becoming the policy of the U.S. federal government. In January 2016 Bryant became the only private American citizen to inspire the renaming of a building on the White House campus, when the U.S. Treasury Annex Building was renamed the Freedman’s Bank Building. The Freedman’s Banks’, founded by President Abraham Lincoln, legacy has become the narrative of the work of Operation HOPE—to help all people become fully integrated into our nation’s economy. In April 2017, a historical marker inspired by Bryant  was installed at the Memphis International Airport 49 years to the day that Eastern Flight 381 arrived from Atlanta.

A member of the founding class of The Forum of Young Global Leaders, and founding member of Clinton Global Initiative, Bryant is a LinkedIn Influencer, contributor to Huffington Post and Black Enterprise, and a member of the World Economic Forum Expert Network. His Facebook Live “Silver Rights” Series has received millions of views. He has received hundreds of awards and citations for his work, including, Oprah Winfrey’s Use Your Life Award, and the John Sherman Award for Excellence in Financial Education from the U.S. Treasury.

Bryant founded Operation HOPE, HOPE Global Forums, HOPE Global Initiatives, Operation HOPE, South Africa, Operation HOPE, Saudi Arabia, Operation HOPE, Morocco, Operation HOPE, United Arab Emirates, HOPE Inside, HOPE Business In A Box Academies, Banking on Our Future, Banking on Our Future, College Edition, HOPE Coalition America, (Disaster Financial Recovery Score), EFFAK (Emergency Financial First Aid Kit for FEMA), Project 5117, 5 MILION KIDS Initiative, HOPE Corps, HOPE FILE (Fellows, Interns & Loaned Executives) Program, HOPE Office of Innovation, Research & Assessment.

Bryant co-founded Wikia-HOPE Global Money Initiative, Gallup-HOPE Index and Global Dignity.

Bryant created Bryant Group Ventures, Bryant Group Companies, Bryant Speaks, Bryant Group Real Estate, The Promise Homes Company, Bryant Group Africa LLC, Bryant Group Motorsports Group and Bryant Group Motorsports Academy.  The Promise Homes Company is the largest minority controlled owners of institutional quality single-family residential rental property in the United States with a focus on working class and middle class communities.

Bryant directly inspired the creation of the City of Los Angeles loan fund (Administration of Mayor Tom Bradley), financial literacy as U.S. federal government policy, circa 2008, (George W. Bush Administration), U.S. Small Business Administration Office of Entrepreneurship Education  (George W.  Bush Administration), emergency financial disaster preparedness, response and recovery federal policy framework for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security/FEMA (George W. Bush Administration), commitments for 100+ local financial literacy councils across the U.S., and formalized the inclusion of FEMA into federal financial capability policy (a seat on the U.S. Financial Literacy & Education Commission for the Obama Administration).

Bryant co-founded The New Leaders organization (Los Angeles) and Just Brothers (Atlanta).

Through Operation HOPE and its partners, Bryant is today responsible for more than $2.8 billion of private capital supporting low-wealth home ownership, small businesses, entrepreneurship and community development investments in under-served communities across the U.S. Operation HOPE operates on-the-ground partnerships in more than 1000 U.S. cities, South Africa, Morocco, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, and has served more than 1.5 million clients, recruited and mobilized more than 22,000 HOPE Corps volunteers, enjoys more than 5,000 partners from government, community (including faith) and the private sector, and is the global leader in financial dignity.

Operation HOPE, founded as America’s first nonprofit social investment banking organization immediately following the Rodney King Riots of 1992, in South Central Los Angeles, today operates as a global non-profit software company, specializing in the software of human development—reverse engineering poverty.

Published in 2009, LOVE LEADERSHIP: The New Way to Lead in a Fear-Based World (Jossey-Bass) remained on the business bestseller list for a total of 18 months.

Published in 2014, How The Poor Can Save Capitalism: Rebuilding the Path to the Middle Class. The Solution for the 100% (Berrett-Koehler), has been translated into four languages (Arabic, Korean, Portuguese, and Greek). The book has also been widely recognized by Bloomberg Businessweek, TIME, Publisher’s Weekly, Black Enterprise and Essence, and has been featured in numerous media interviews, including CNBC Squawk Box, CNBC On The Money, Fox Business News, and a host of others nationwide.

Bryant served U.S. President Barack Obama as Chairman of the Subcommittee on the Underserved and Community Empowerment, and a Member of the U.S. President's Advisory Council on Financial Capability. In this role Bryant represented the broad interest of approximately 100 million American citizens who struggle at the margins. Under President Obama.

Prior to this, Bryant served U.S. President George W. Bush as Vice-Chairman of the U.S. President's Advisory Council on Financial Literacy, and Chairman of that Council Committee on the Underserved as well. Operation HOPE’s work led then President Bush to sign an Executive Order establishing financial literacy as federal policy for the first time in U.S. history.

Raised in Compton and South Central Los Angeles, California and homeless for 6-months of his life by age 18, Bryant has traveled to more than 100 countries, tirelessly promoting the virtues of hope, self-esteem, love leadership, dignity, empowerment and opportunity for all.

Former U.S. President Bill Clinton described Bryant in his bestselling book GIVING saying, “John Bryant is a 41- year-old whirlwind of ideas and action. Lean, intense, focused, and completely positive in his belief in the potential of poor people to prosper, with ‘a hand up and not a hand out."

Bryant has received more than 500 awards and citations for his work to empower low-wealth communities including the Martin Luther King, Jr. Living Legacy Award, and was People magazine’s “Community Hero,” on the 10th anniversary of the worst urban civil unrest in U.S. history.

Bryant’s work has been recognized with the 11th John Sherman Award for Financial Education Excellence from the U.S. Department of the Treasury, and he has received National Community Service awards from both Spelman College and Livingstone College, and the CUNY/Queens College President’s Award. The USC School of Social Work annually awards an endowed USC John Bryant Scholarship to a deserving student. Bryant has received an Honorary Doctorate of Human Letters from Paul Quinn College of Dallas, Texas, and in April 2008, Bryant completed the Harvard University John K. Kennedy School of Government, Global Public Policy and Leadership Program, as a Young Global Leader.

In the backdrop of the Great Recession of 2009, Bryant joined Professor Klaus Schwab, founder and chairman of the World Economic Forum, Archbishop-Emeritus Desmond Tutu, Global Dignity co-founders HRH Crown Prince Haakon of Norway and Professor Pekka Himanen of Finland, for the closing session of the Annual ‘Davos’ Meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, on the subject “dignity for all.” Global Dignity is now active in 55 countries.

Connecting civil rights with a 21st century vision for silver rights, Operation HOPE operates its flagship HOPE Inside location at Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, Georgia. Ebenezer was Dr. Martin L. King, Jr.’s pastoral church, and the Center itself was built in honor of Martin Luther King, Sr. (Daddy King).

Mr. Bryant is the founding curator of the Forum of Global Shapers, Atlanta Hub (World Economic Forum), a member of 100 Black Men of Atlanta, and a member of Ebenezer Baptist Church.

In 2015, Bryant created Bryant Group Motorsports to advance his passion for auto racing, as a sport, and a vehicle for greater social inclusion. He holds a full competition-racing license. In April 2016, Bryant took a 3rd place overall podium finish and a 1st place win in his class during the Phakisa 2-Hour Endurance Race in South Africa. This was his first official race ever. Bryant

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I am trying to save enough money to buy a good car. In order to do that, I am saving every penny as much as possible. Here are my few tips:
- Stop eating out (although my work requires me to eat out but I will try to stop this)
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Man Pleads Guilty to Multiple Mortgage Fraud Schemes

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John Voloshin, 56, Woodbridge, Connecticut, waived his right to indictment and pleaded guilty before United States Magistrate Judge Donna F. Martinez in Hartford, Connecticut, to one count of mail fraud stemming from his operation of multiple schemes that have caused losses of more than $1.5 million to individuals and lenders.

According to court documents and statements made in court, in 2010, Voloshin defrauded an individual for whom he had agreed to bid on the bank auction of a hotel on Nantucket. Voloshin instructed the victim to send him a check in the amount of $250,000 made payable to the name of the auction company. Rather than delivering money to the auction company, Voloshin deposited the check into a bank account for which he had sole signatory authority and used the proceeds from that check to enrich himself.

In pleading guilty, Voloshin also admitted that he committed three other frauds. In approximately 2006, Voloshin asked an individual to loan him $500,000. Voloshin indicated that he was in contract to purchase a house on Martha’s Vineyard, but that he needed the money or he would lose a deposit. The victim agreed to loan Voloshin the money. To date, Voloshin has not repaid the loan.

In 2008, Voloshin received a home equity loan in the amount of $250,000 from Webster Bank. In support of his home equity loan application, Voloshin submitted a false federal tax return. As of August 2011, the outstanding balance on the bank loan was more than $252,000.

In June 2010, Voloshin applied for and received a $520,000 refinance loan from a mortgage lender for a property he has owned on Martha’s Vineyard since 1999. In association with the loan application, Voloshin submitted a financial account statement showing an account balance in excess of $3 million at UBS when, in reality, he had no account at UBS. Voloshin used approximately $250,000 of the refinance loan proceeds to pay the victim of the hotel auction fraud scheme.

In total, Voloshin‘s schemes resulted in losses of approximately $1.52 million.

Voloshin is scheduled to be sentenced on April 5, 2012, by United States District Judge Robert N. Chatigny, at which time Voloshin faces a maximum term of imprisonment of 20 years.

Voloshin has been detained since his arrest on November 18, 2011.

David B. Fein, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced the guilty plea.

This matter is being investigated by the Federal Bureau of Investigation. The case is being prosecuted by Assistant United States Attorneys David T Huang and Michael S. McGarry.

This case was brought in coordination with the President’s Financial Fraud Enforcement Task Force, which was established to wage an aggressive and coordinated effort to investigate and prosecute financial crimes. The task force includes representatives from a broad range of federal agencies, regulatory authorities, inspectors general, and state and local law enforcement who, working together, bring to bear a powerful array of criminal and civil enforcement resources. The task force is working to improve efforts across the federal executive branch, and with state and local partners, to investigate and prosecute significant financial crimes, ensure just and effective punishment for those who perpetrate financial crimes, combat discrimination in the lending and financial markets, and recover proceeds for victims of financial crimes.

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Let Those Leaves Lie

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The leaves are falling! It’s time to start the arduous process of raking and bagging leaves, or hire someone to do “fall cleanup” to make the yard tidy.

But what if you didn’t? What if you kept the leaves in your yard? You’d have healthier soil and happier plants, that’s what.

Trees and other plants evolved to live in soil that is continually enriched by the leaves and other plant matters that die every year, according to Meghan Midgley, soil scientist at The Morton Arboretum. The soil is full of fungi, bacteria, worms, and other organisms that will readily digest the leaves, making the nutrients they contain available to plants’ roots. When we remove the fallen leaves from the garden, we’re throwing all that nutrition away.

Here are some tips for being smart about fall leaf cleanup:

  • Use the leaves for mulch on perennial beds or around trees and shrubs. Just rake them where you want them to go. Most of them will be gone by spring—evidence that the decomposers in your soil have been hard at work.
  • Add leaves to the compost pile, where they are an important carbon source. The most efficient compost pile will have far more leaves and other brown, carbon-rich materials than green, nitrogen-rich materials such as green plants and vegetable scraps.
  • Shred leaves into small pieces and they will break down faster in the compost. They also won’t blow around when used as mulch. It’s easy: Just rake them into a pile on the lawn and run the lawnmower over the pile a couple of times.
  • Rake whole leaves off the lawn so they don’t form a mat over the grass all winter. It’s fine to scatter some shredded leaves there; in fact, they’re good food for the microorganisms that live in the soil and nurture the grass.
  • If you don’t have a compost pile, leaves make autumn the perfect time to start one. Rake up a big pile of leaves and mix them with green materials—end-of-season annuals from your pots, the remains of the vegetable garden, fruit and vegetable scraps from the kitchen. Stir in a shovel-full of soil from the garden to provide the fungi and microbes. Water the pile occasionally to encourage microbial activity.
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Tuesday, 1 October 2013

October 1 - Teachers answer Gove with action

Leicester (Credit: Heather Rawling)
Reports are coming in from across the Midlands, Eastern England, Yorkshire and Humberside of a strong and determined response to today's regional NUT/NASUWT strike action.

This success, based on teachers' seething anger at Gove's attacks, will build further support for the last of the regional strikes in London, the South and the North-East on October 17 - and then for the national strike planned for November.
Cambridge (Credit: Heather McKenzie)

As Roy Bowser, the NUT Executive member from Barnsley reported from the Sheffield rally: "This was the best rally I've seen in years - must have been near to 2000 ... This bodes well for November not least because I think the turn-out far exceeded expectations".

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Patrick Murphy, NUT Executive member from Leeds reported on similar numbers at their rally. Around 1000 marched in Nottingham. Rallies also took place in Leicester, Cambridge, Luton and Birmingham.

Gove's policies are damaging education

On the day of the strike, and on the day of Michael Gove's speech to Conservative Party Conference, the Times also carried a front page article on the complaint from Carol-Ann Duffy, Malorie Blackman, and many more authors and academics that pupils are 'being damaged by endless tests set by Gove'.

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They wrote: "Competition between children through incessant testing and labelling results is a public sense of failure for the vast majority ... These damaging developments must stop. If they go ahead there will be devastating consequences for children's mental health, for future opportunities and, most importantly, for the quality of childhood itself".

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Of course, now that those tests can also be used to determine if a teacher gets a pay-rise, then that stress and damage will be even worse. That's one reason why many parents will be backing teachers - and blaming Gove for the disruption caused not just by today's strike - but right through the year because of Gove's damaging policies.

June 27 was solidly supported in the North-West. October 1st has been solidly supported too and, this time, news of the action has broken through into the national media as well. So now let's build October 17 in the South and then LET'S ALL STRIKE TOGETHER IN NOVEMBER !

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Non-Fiction Scrolls in the College Classroom

One day, on Pinterest, I saw a pin that showed kids on the floor with long "scrolls" of text. I clicked on it and read about how this elementary school teacher tapped the students' papers together instead of making a packet and had them annotating the texts. I tucked this idea away for awhile.

Finally, this semester I found a way to incorporate it in my class. My students needed to find quotes that they could use to analyze fairytales from the introduction to The Classic Fairy Tales by Maria Tatar. Understanding the entire article was not really the focus of this exercise. The article is rather long so I thought this might be the perfect opportunity to try the scroll activity.

First, I printed out the introduction.  I made sure to print it single sided and made one copy for every 3-4 students in my classes. I then took the time to tape each piece of paper edge to edge. (I found a small piece at the top and at the bottom of each page worked well).  This was a little bit time consuming but it's something you could definitely have a student help with.

Then I rolled them each up and secured with a paper clip.

In class, I showed my students examples of the types of quotes they were looking for.  I told them they'd be working in groups to find and highlight any part of the text that fit the criteria I'd laid out.  I wish I'd been able to tell them ahead of time to bring high lighters- it works best, I think, if each person has a different color.

I made each group leave the classroom and find a quiet area to work.  I wanted them to have to get up and move! (My one class is at 8am!) I told them they could take turns looking at each section or they could each look at 2 pages but that as a group they should be able to find at least 10 examples.

Once we came back into the classroom I had them designate one person as "Master of the Scroll."  I then started asking - what's the first example you found? If I agreed with it I gave it a number and marked it on my scroll too so that we could have a common language.  What was super cool was that a few students found examples that I hadn't even found originally!

After we found the examples I told them to each pick one to use when writing their paper.  Within their groups no one could repeat an example.  (This was purely so I wouldn't get bored reading their papers.) I had told them to copy down the quotes, but a few had the genius idea to just take a picture with their phones! In the future that is what I will instruct them to do in the first place.

This video shows four of the scrolls marked up.

As I was dismissing class I did a quick thumbs up, thumbs down, thumbs to the side survey and most students had their thumbs up and a few to the side. None put their thumbs down.  And, then, at the end of the semester on my course survey a few students listed this activity as one that I should repeat in the future.

I think I might have them look for rhetorical devices, transitions, etc in the future with other articles, speeches, etc.  What uses can you think of?

Thanks for reading!

Tuesday, December 29, 2015

On The Web: "When Grading Harms Student Learning"

I recently read "When Grading Harms Student Learning" by Andrew Miller on Edutopia.  Since I've been thinking about how to improve my courses and have been discussing how we grade with colleagues this was right up my alley.

Miller breaks his article into 5 different areas and discusses how they each affect student learning.  First up he makes the case against zeros.  His main point here is that a zero for incomplete or not turned in work does not actually show what the student knows. I agree. However, if a student does nothing what should I do? Is it fair to other students who do the work, on time, to let someone else turn it in later? Do I have to keep the graded copies forever so the students who are still working on it don't get the answers/feedback?

His next point is in relation to taking points off for late work.  Like the zeros this makes the grade more about the students behavior versus what they actually know or don't know. I take off points for late work, but I agree with what he is saying. However I have the same issues as I did above. Especially as a college professor I need to prepare my students for the real world. Turning work in on time is a softskill that I think we are teaching. What would happen if we kept turning our grades, ieps, progress reports etc late? Perhaps there is a different way to approach this though.

Miller's third point is that sometimes we are "Grading Instead of Teaching." What he means here is that there are times where we are encouraged by administrators, parents, students etc to have lots of grades in the grade book so there's a constant update as to how a student is doing. What happens though is we spend more time grading/entering grades than we do actually teaching our students and ensuring growth. He advocates for more formative assessment and I strongly agree. I am working towards including much more formative assessment into my class.  In fact I'm presenting a session on it 3 times this spring.

Finally, Miller concludes with the idea of hope. He states it's our job as educators to help our students have hope. When they see a bunch of zeros or failures they start to lose hope.  I think this is a very good point and I'm working on how to structure my class so my students don't give up and keep working towards getting that "A."

Overall, the article gave me a lot to think about. I think many of these issues might be resolved by using game theory in my courses. I'm working on gamifying one of my classes... but maybe I could apply the game theory to my other courses to see how that goes.  Hmmm more to think about.

What are your thoughts on grades?

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Sunday, December 27, 2015

Asking For Help: Learning to Love my Instructional Designer

I know it all. Well, sometimes I like to think I do. As a teacher I am used to be the master of my domain, the HBIC if you will. In general, I think we, as teachers, tend to feel that what we're doing is most often right. We often teach the way we were taught or how our student teaching placement showed us and it's hard to break away from strategies that we've grown attached to even if perhaps they could be improved upon.

Teaching college, a lot of professors don't have any coursework in education and pedagogy, so we have at our disposal an instructional designer and a technologist. At first, as an adjunct, I didn't think I had much use for their services. I know how to plan lessons and to figure out how to meet objectives. However, now that I'm full time I've been spending more and more time with our ID and I have to say I'm becoming a better teacher because of it.
I first approached her this semester because my online students were having trouble finding the materials I wanted them to use. I wanted her to look over my blackboard site to tell me if it really was confusing. (Of course I was convinced she was going to tell me that it was perfect and that my students were crazy.) Instead she pointed out the few areas that she didn't understand why I needed. I explained my reasoning, and she got it, but she helped me see that I was thinking too much from the teacher facing side and needed to consider what my students really needed. She discussed how the more clicks to get to something the less likely a student is to ever see it. I made a few changes and had significantly less complaints for the semester about this.

This first experience gave me two takeaways:
1. Just because it makes sense to you doesn't mean it makes sense to everyone.
2. You don't have to wait till midterm or the next semester, quarter etc to make a change. If it will help your students change NOW.

This ID and I have now become work BFFs and are developing a great friendship outside of work too. So now I often go to her to discuss ideas for lessons, how I want to structure my syllabus etc. She's actually younger than me and has taught less years however, in this role, she gets to spend all day thinking about how to help instructors design their courses with their students' success in mind without getting bogged down by the grading etc that we all have to do so she has great insight. We are currently collaborating on a gameified version of one of my courses which is super fun.

She also helped me create a spreadsheet where I can list all my outcomes and objectives and then put down which assignments are activities, formative, and summative assessments for each outcome/objective. This way it'll be easier to keep my students "in the know" about what objective we are working on and I can make sure that I am absolutely teaching the material required of me.

Now, when I taught 7-12 I didn't have access to an ID. I'm sure many of you don't either. But you do have access to each other and to blogs and to education journals. I challenge you to think about your courses and about the last time you revamped anything. Consider the complaints you keep hearing from your students- are they actually more justified than you thought? Be willing to ask for help and feedback and be willing to act on the advice you're given. The more we grow and change, the better off our students will be.

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They study galaxies, help predict landslides: Meet India’s citizen scientists

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They don’t have PhDs or wear lab coats. They range in age from 10 to 75. But citizen scientists are helping actual scientists answer questions about the weather, wildlife, plant life, what’s really going on the in the oceans, and even what lies beyond the stars.

They typically have day jobs — as graphic designers and lifeguards, business consultants, architects and bankers. Many have to take time off to head out into the nowhere lands where they collect leopard scat, report on roadkill, count birds, survey households living around wildlife reserves, set up camera traps or measure beached dolphin carcasses.

A lucky few are able to pursue their passions at home, or just outside it. Rudolf Nonglait, 10, for instance, does his bit for science on his way home from school, every Friday.

He lives in the West Khasi Hills district of Meghalaya, and is helping SeasonWatch by reporting weekly on the leaves, fruits and flowers of a Himalayan cherry tree in his neighbourhood, for a countrywide study on the impact of climate change on the fruiting and flowering patterns of trees.

Similarly, mechanical engineer Pradeepta Mohanty, 30, of Bina-Etawa in Madhya Pradesh, scans sections of sky on his laptop after work, using raw data from the all-sky surveys done by TIFR’s Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope (GMRT).

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He is part of the RAD@home Astronomy Collaboratory citizen science project. Mohanty’s discovery of an intriguing galaxy merger was part of a 2016 research paper on tracking galaxy evolution published in the Journal of Astrophysics and Astronomy.

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Beyond the stars

The term citizen science refers to the engagement of members of the general public in scientific research mainly through data collection, occasionally also through analysis, under the guidance of professional scientists.

The term was coined in the mid-1990s and is attributed independently to an American ornithologist named Rick Bonney and a British professor named Alan Irwin. It was added to the Oxford English Dictionary in 2014.

But the concept isn’t new. In the mid-18th century, much before science was turned into an area of professional study, a Norwegian bishop created a network of clergymen to contribute collections of natural objects for his research.

Other early examples on record include lighthouse keepers on the Caribbean coast collecting data on bird strikes in 1880 for the American Ornithologists’ Union; the National Audubon Society’s Christmas Bird Count, which was launched in North America in 1900; and the British Trust of Ornithology’s Breeding Bird Survey, which has run annually since 1994.

Over the past two decades, citizen scientists in the US have participated in projects to monitor water quality and scour the night skies for new celestial bodies. Online platforms like SciStarter and Zooniverse host projects requiring crowdsourced research across disciplines, from astronomy to ecology, the humanities, cell biology and archaeology.

“From a research perspective, in a project where it is important to understand what is happening over a vast area — an entire state, or the whole country — the most fruitful approach is to work with a large number of interested and enthusiastic citizens,” says ecologist Suhel Quader.

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A former research investigator with the National Centre for Biological Sciences, he launched the citizen science (CS) initiative MigrantWatch in 2007, while still with the NCBS. The portal, which morphed into Bird Count India in 2015, tracks the arrival and departure of migratory bird species to assess changes in their migratory patterns.

In 2010, Quader also set up SeasonWatch, and he was instrumental in setting up the Indian chapter of eBird, a CS operation managed globally by the Cornell Lab of Ornithology.

“When the programme was introduced at the school where I teach, last year, I encouraged Rudolf to join, even though he goes to another school,” says the 10-year-old’s father, Resly R Pariong, a science teacher. “Such projects teach kids to love nature at an early age and so, they are more likely to take part in protecting the environment as they grow up.”

Back home

In India, CS is still at a nascent stage. “Despite that, it’s an exciting time because of rapid growth and a growing number of participants,” says Quader.

The earliest large-scale citizen science project in India was the Asian Waterbird Census launched in 1987 and continuing till date. In recent times, smartphone access and social media have made it easier to launch CS efforts. For instance, this January, the Wildlife Trust of India and the UK-based David Shepherd Wildlife Foundation launched Road Watch, a Facebook page and smartphone app that encourages citizens to report wildlife roadkill incidents across the country.

“It’s a feasible, time- and resource-effective way to gather information,” says Radhika Bhagat, a wildlife researcher associated with the project. “Over time, the data will help us predict roadkill hotspots, identify worst-affected species and assess the efficacy of existing mitigation measures.”

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Elsewhere, locals are helping the Marine Mammal Conservation Network of India (MMCNI) with its open-source online database for sightings and reports of stranded mammals on Indian shores.

Among them is Sameer Kankonkar, 35, a lifeguard in south Goa. “When humpback dolphins and turtles wash up on the shore, I take photographs, measurements, note location, time, type of animal and condition,” he says.

In Rajasthan, people are helping collect data on man-animal conflict on the edges of reserves, for a study conducted jointly by the US-based Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS), the Bengaluru-based non-profit Centre for Wildlife Studies (CWS) and Duke University, USA.

Under the guidance of Krithi Karanth, associate conservation scientist with the WCS, volunteers surveyed thousands of households to learn about crop damage and mitigation measures used by locals, to understand how living around a wildlife reserve impacts livelihood.

Their findings were used in a paper published in the peer-reviewed Oryx – The International Journal of Conservation, in 2017.

“Besides basic field skills, citizen science helps the lay person shed notions of romanticism, especially when it comes to wildlife conservation, and gain a more realistic experience, learning how complex and challenging it actually is,” Karanth says.

There is scope for much more, in terms of scale and complexity. “One of the reasons citizen science remains undervalued is the rigidity of India’s formal systems of science,” says Sunita Narain, environmentalist, activist and head of the New Delhi-based thinktank Centre for Science and Environment. “Most of our scientists are so fossilised and rigid that they don’t allow non-members or innovators to survive. This must change.”

Extensive training could help, adds Ramakrishna Ramaswamy, formerly of TIFR and now a professor at Delhi’s Jawaharlal Nehru University.

“India needs everybody to participate in science, but for that, professional scientists need to invest in training the minds of common people,” he adds. “As Louis Pasteur put it, fortune favours the prepared mind.”

Tracking landslides

For five years, Pune-based microbiology student Mitali Inamdar, 22, and nine other citizen scientists — including bankers, engineers and business consultants — have been contributing to an inventory of landslide-prone areas in Maharashtra. They have identified 169 hotspots so far, are these are being further divided on the basis of causes — landslides due to rock fall, mudflow or debris. Their study is part of the Satark landslide-warning project by the Pune-based Centre for Citizen Science (CCS).

The catalogue, co-related with satellite imagery, is used to issue alerts in regions susceptible to landslides. “Citizen scientists are needed for this project because satellite images alone are not enough. On-ground support provides greater accuracy,” says CCS secretary Mayuresh Prabhune.

For this project, the scientists travel to far-flung villages to collect soil samples, take readings of wind velocity, and interview locals. “It’s hard work, but it’s worth it,” says Nitin Tamhankar, 38, a banker from Pune who uses most of his leave to work on the project. “It’s gratifying to know that our contributions could help save lives,” Inamdar adds.

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Over the past three years, estimates based on their data have been used to issue alerts in the hilly Malshej Ghat and Lonavala-Khandala regions of the state. “On days of high rainfall, the team co-related the rainfall intensity in the regions and shared information with us, indicating high probability of landslides there. It helped us issue advisories to corresponding district collectors,” says Suhas Diwase, collector of Bhandara district and former director of Maharashtra’s disaster management cell.

A research paper based on their data is also in the works. “It will be a first-of-its-kind inventory in India,” says meteorologist Jeevanprakash Kulkarni, a member of the World Meteorological Organisation (WMO) and retired scientist from the Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology, and now vice-president of CCS.

Counting crows

Around the world, birds have been the first and most popular projects involving citizen scientists. Currently, long-term projects in India include a Kerala Bird Atlas (KBA) and Common Bird Monitoring Programme (CBMP) that are roping in citizen scientists to identify area-wise bird diversity and distribution. For the KBA, 1,500 enthusiastic birdwatchers – students, teachers, doctors, senior citizens – accompany expert birders to survey birds, water bodies, fruiting trees and invasive plants within selected areas.

“The data will help us analyse how land-use and habitat patterns affect bird populations,” says Praveen Jayadevan, a district coordinator for the project. The ambitious five-year project, to be completed by 2020, will be the first systematic bird atlas for an Indian state. “Based on this research, we’ll also be able to estimate the number of years that habitats take to change, which affects bird populations, and help initiate conservation efforts.”

The CBMP, launched by the Bombay Natural History Society last year, has participants walk the same 2-km grid at the same pace, thrice a year, to spot birds perched on or near an invisible transect line. “This method, when used over a long stretch of time, say seven years, will give an accurate idea of trends in common bird populations,” says Dr Raju Kasambe, project manager of the Important Bird Areas programme at BNHS.

Retired banker Madan Tillu, 64, is volunteering with his wife, Prachi, 59, a banker. “She tracks the birds, I make notes. This has improved our knowledge of birds. And it’s a great bonding exercise,” he says. The largest citizen science database of bird records in the country is eBird India, a two-year-old website and mobile app powered by Bird Count India, a collective of conservation organisations, and the UK-based Cornell Lab of Ornithology.

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“The documented sightings undergo a check system akin to peer review, which makes them more reliable,” says Pronoy Baidya, who used some of its findings in for his research paper on the birds of Goa, co-authored with Mandar Bhagat and published in the South Asian ornithology journal, IndianBIRDS, in January.

Authors have begun to use eBird data from India in published papers around the world, adds Aasheesh Pittie, Hyderabad-based ornithologist, bibliographer and founding editor of IndianBIRDS. “Historically, birding in India has been restricted to urban spaces. With digital technology, more data can be gathered from across the country, and this will greatly benefit conservation efforts.”

The Big Bang Theory

As a kid, to escape his parents’ arguing, Pradeepta Mohanty would go to a park near his home, lie on the grass and gaze at the night sky. “It gave me a sense of wonder, and a sense of peace,” he says.

There wasn’t much an aspiring astronomer could look forward to in his hometown in Odisha, though, so Mohanty became a mechanical engineer and now works at an oil refinery in Madhya Pradesh. But he never got over his love affair with the stars.

So when he came upon the RAD@home Astronomy Collaboratory during a random search for astronomy groups on Facebook five years ago, he signed up immediately. This is a citizen science project that trains anyone who has or is pursuing a degree in science or engineering, to scan patches of sky and make astronomical observations.

Through Facebook e-classes, Skype calls and telephone conversations with Ananda Hota, a radio astronomer at the Centre for Excellence in Basic Sciences (CEBS), Mohanty, now 30, learnt how to use NASA Skyview’s virtual telescope to generate images of any part of the sky, analyse the data from the all-sky surveys done by TIFR’s Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope (GMRT), and find celestial objects catalogued online.

For three hours a day, Mohanty scans footage on his laptop and marks faint-and-fuzzy objects that could indicate unique galaxies with supermassive black holes, radio-jet interactions and star formations.

“Citizen science speeds up research. It’s possibly the only way to meet the Big Data challenge in astronomy,” says Hota. This project was launched in 2013 and is supported by the National Centre for Radio Astrophysics (Pune) and the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR, Mumbai), among others.

It currently has 110 citizen scientists scanning footage of the sky across India.

Some of their findings, including Mohanty’s galaxy merger, were included in a 2016 research paper titled ‘Tracking galaxy evolution through low-frequency radio continuum observations using SKA and citizen-science research using multi-wavelength data’, in the Journal of Astrophysics and Astronomy published by the Indian Academy of Sciences and Springer Nature.

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Thoughts on yet another school shooting...

Um...I'm afraid we DO need gun control. You don't hear about this stuff happening in Canada, where guns are pretty much nonexistent. America needs to rethink its relationship with guns. There's a right to bear arms and then there's a right to enable massacres. These aren't evil geniuses with masterminded plots. These are simple people with disturbed whims and America's love affair with guns helps these people turn their whim into reality. Seriously, HOW MANY TIMES ARE WE GONNA GO THROUGH THIS???

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After 12 Years of Rocking Out, Slot Machine Have Just Started Rolling

21 June 2018

Back in the year 2000, Atirath "Gak" Pintong had just heard his band's drummer sing, and decided that he should drop the sticks and take to the mic instead. They were both high school students at the time, trying their luck in the 'battle of the bands' contests that were held around Bangkok. With Karinyawat "Foet" Durongjirakan as their frontman, Gak and the rest of the band hoped that they could finally score a win at the next big competition.

They didn't.

But they performed well enough to land in second place. That was all the motivation their band, Slot Machine, needed to keep making music.

"We are determined and never give up on any difficulties," Foet says, reflecting on the ride they've been on since high school. "I think this is the main reason we have come this far."

Band members came and went over the next few years, and Slot Machine's sound evolved with a makeup that seemed to be in flux around the time they signed with a major label. With the entry of Janevit "Vit" Chanpanyawong and Settharat "Auto" Pancgchunan in 2006, however, they had finally found their mix. It was then that they recorded "Phan (Yesterday)", which Auto asserts still best represents Slot Machine's sound.

"This song explains it all," he says.

"Phan," a sweeping alternative rock ballad that reflects on the importance of remembering pain as the stories that shape us, launched the group into stardom, with millions of Thai music fans getting their first listen of Foet's emotional vocals, Gak's smooth bass lines and Vit's catchy guitar hooks, all carried by the heartbeat of Auto's drums.

Despite being together for a decade, and despite winning numerous awards throughout the early 2010s, Slot Machine feels they've only scratched the surface. By 2014 they'd been a mainstay of Thailand's music scene for eight long years—a lifetime for many groups—but they'd not yet tried their chances in the international market.

"After five Thai albums, we discussed with the label for ideas on how to share our music with the world," Gak says. "We all felt it was the right time to cut an English album; we were ready."

They were eventually introduced to Steve Lillywhite, the legendary producer behind Dave Matthews Band's Crash, The Killers' Battle Born, The Rolling Stones' Dirty Work and U2's first three albums—among other iconic items in his portfolio. After hearing Slot Machine play, he knew he wanted to work with them.

"Working with Steve was like hanging out with an extremely talented and wise uncle," Gak shares. "We shared many similarities, such as our outlook in life, work ethics and most importantly, we love the same types of music."

The end result of their collaboration, Spin the World, is a roaring 10-track opus that reflects just how much the band has grown together. Like the groups that inspire them (The Beatles, Radiohead, U2), Slot Machine shows an uncanny ability to evolve without losing sight of their identity. Every song in Spin the World, from the energetic title track to the winsome "I Know, I Know," up to the fiery "MRT", features departures from their original sound, but still manages to be undeniably theirs.

It is, in a sense, a rebirth for Slot Machine—one of the many they've undergone in their storied career. Today, at the top of their game, Foet, Gak, Vit and Auto are still hungrily making music, always discovering something new to Slot Machine as they continue to grow as artists.

It's been a hell of a journey, but from their music it's clear that there's still plenty of payoff left.

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Sunday, January 3, 2010

Johnny and the Elder Dragon of Highlander

I have a very mixed opinion of EDH. I very much enjoy playing it, primarily because Spike isn’t allowed in the door. Sure, people can play Condemn and Hallowed Burial, but that also makes them a dick and people won’t play with them. Part of the reason is that EDH has somehow solidified itself as a very casual format (I would posit that it is where Timmy shines the most, being a slow format with a multiplayer slant with a different game every time) and being such is not inviting to play when the experience is ruined. Sure, there’s the guy who Cheatyfaces out a Gleemax, but other than that it’s usually ok.

Another reason is that since EDH is almost always a multiplayer extravaganza, you have to pay more attention to staying alive than killing the opponent. This comes partially in ignoring those Spikey rules that you have to learn to win otherwise (lifegain is useless, always attack, etc), but also in just not being an annoyance or an outright jerk. Avoid those creatures that ping someone for a little bit each turn and focus more on the big bombs, don’t play things that will make everyone want to kill you. However, if the effect (though annoying) is suitably hilarious or if it hurts everyone (including yourself) equally, then it can stay. A perfect example of this is Grip of Chaos, one of the cards that I will probably put in every red EDH I ever play.

I also really like the whole general-focused part of EDH. When building one, I look at every card and wonder “How will this combo with my general? Is there any good synergy there?” I built a Jenara, Asura of War EDH and was bored by it because it was just a turn 3 general that needed protection, then a bunch of Bant cards since she would be the only attacker I ever used. But when I built an Experiment Kraj EDH, I loved it because every single creature I put in was for an ability to steal or for putting counters on creatures. Sure, it didn’t win as often, but it was much more fun to play.

I do get a bit annoyed because every card has to combo with the general, not necessarily with each other. I have a Doubling Season in that Kraj deck, but I had to cut a bunch of cards that I realized I had thrown in just for the sake of that crazy enchantment. But still, for the most part I get to build a synergy deck.

Another great aspect is that I don’t have to fill the deck with the traditional control cards, because (and this is terrible) I trust that other people will have them. Why run Wrath of God when I know some other player will get annoyed if someone has a bunch of creatures and cast it himself? I run very few Counterspells in EDH unless they are suitably hilarious.

The big annoyance for me is the building of the deck. Some decks are easy (Reaper King? Throw in every Scarecrow and Goat Scarecrow. Done.) but others can be daunting. I find a general and then look for cards to go around it until I have about 400 cards that could all fit perfectly, then I have to cut that down to 60. Not a fun task, especially after cutting hilarious cards over and over. Limiting myself to cards under 2$ helps a lot, but occasionally I splurge for something great.

This is all a way of saying that I recently built my very own Jhoira of the Ghitu deck. She was my second proxied EDH, but now I’ve rebuilt her for realsies with cards and everything. She’s a fun general because finding cards for her was basically going onto Gatherer, filtering Red and Blue and sorting by CMC, then sticking in all the cards at the top.

I haven’t cut the last couple cards, but once I do I shall order it and hilarity shall ensue. Here’s a slightly premature decklist for those who care.

Total: 104
General: 1
Jhoira of the Ghitu

Lands: 37
Smoldering Crater
Miren, the Moaning Well
Oboro, Palace in the Clouds
Minamo, School at Water's Edge
Terramorphic Expanse
Darksteel Citadel
Kher Keep
Gods' Eye, Gate to the Reikai
Soaring Seacliff
Remote Isle
Crumbling Necropolis
Mountain x8
Reliquary Tower
Shinka, the Bloodsoaked Keep
Grixis Panorama
Forgotten Cave
Spinerock Knoll
Magosi, the Waterveil
Cascade Bluffs
Izzet Boilerworks
Zoetic Cavern
Lonely Sandbar
Island (8)

Mana Sources: 2
Izzet Signet
Darksteel Ingot

Spells: 41
Clout of the Dominus
Fury Charm
Alexi's Cloak
Magebane Armor
Mizzium Transreliquat
Whispersilk Cloak
Double Negative
Invoke the Firemind
Wild Ricochet
Rekindled Flame
Psychic Possession
Shivan Meteor
Paradox Haze <--4 turns becomes 2 turns? OK!
Mind Control
Spellweaver Volute
Rush of Knowledge
Fool's Demise
Grip of Chaos
Jokulhaups <--- in here purely for the name
Overwhelming Intellect
Urza's Armor
Flame Wave
Blatant Thievery
Knowledge Exploitation
Eye of the Storm [This card should be banned --Lee :/] [You ban Condemn, Hallowed Burial, and that one counterspell thing, and I'll ban this. Deal? - DHaas]
Temporal Cascade
Insurrection <-- this should be in every red EDH ever built because it is too good
Decree of Silence
Searing Wind
Eternal Dominion
Decree of Annihilation
Sway of the Stars

Creatures: 23
Capricious Efreet
Rift Elemental
Jhoira's Timebug
Sakashima the Impostor
Summoner's Egg <-- remind me to show you a combo deck I have around this card
Magma Phoenix
Empress Galina <--- a mainstay of blue EDH
Mindwrack Liege
Homura, Human Ascendant
Uyo, Silent Prophet <--he needs an EDH of his own
Draining Whelk
Knollspine Dragon
Stalking Vengeance
Tidespout Tyrant
Lorthos, the Tidemaker < --surprisingly cheap for a Mythic
Bloodfire Colossus
Living Inferno
Denizen of the Deep
Kederekt Leviathan
Inkwell Leviathan
Deep-Sea Kraken

[I wanted to throw in a Worldgorger Dragon, so that it could come out of suspension at the same time as a Decree of Annihilation, but appaaaaaaaarently it's banned. Lame.]

I’ll write a report of what happens if I get to play it with a large enough group any time soon (unfortunately MWS doesn’t support multiplayer, so there are only 2 EDH’S worth playing because they win consistently and are boring and sucky to play against.


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Monday, October 25, 2010

Snack Match: Ice Cream

A snack match is an allergy-friendly snack that nutritionally and/or visually resembles a popular children't snack.

This week's snack is:
Ice Cream

Snack Match substitute:  Fruit Sorbet

Fruit Sorbet

3 cups frozen fruit
1/2 - 1 cup juice or water
1/2 cup sugar
  1. Place frozen fruit into a blender with 1/2 cup juice or water.  Blend until smooth, adding water or juice as needed.
  2. Place fruit mixture in a counter-top ice cream maker and freeze according to the manufacturer's instructions.
  3. Once frozen, place in a container and freeze for a few hours to reach desired consistency.  Stir the container about every hour to maintain the smooth texture.
NOTE:  If you do not have an ice cream maker, you may place the fruit mixture in a freezable glass baking dish.  Place the container in the freezer for 3 hours, removing it to stir the mixture about every 1/2 hour until frozen.

  1. Good idea. I think I might try this. Just have to find a time when I'm free every 1/2 hr for three hours. (:

  2. Before I invested in the ice cream maker, I would make it in the evening or we'd mix it together so it would freeze during nap time. This way, the sorbet is ready when everyone wakes up!


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The Seven Ways to Guarantee Failure
Here’s a great article that will make you stop and think about just how you have set out your goals, and how you intend to achieve them. It’s worth keeping this handy and referring back to it every so often, just to check you’ve not slipped into bad habits again. Why not use it as a training tool for your employees? There’s some valuable principles in here.
This is how to guarantee failure – read carefully, and spot how you could guarantee success!
The Seven Ways to Guarantee Failure
1.   No Goal  !
Successful people have very clear goals and the same is true for companies. The contrary is obviously true that if you want to fail, so then make your goals very vague and difficult to pin yourself down on, it also makes it difficult for other people judge your success. So a goal that says “my firm would like to make as much profit as possible over the coming years” is much more likely to lead to failure than “my company would like to attract 500 fee paying clients and thereby make a profit of £200,000 in 2 years time.”
When David Beckham took a free kick he was not just aiming in the general direction of the goal he was aiming for an area that measured two foot by two foot in the top left hand corner. Some would say that is why he was so successful compared to others, of course others would say it was just luck! So if you want to fail quickly then make sure you do not have a goal that is specific both in time and measured output.
2.   No Plan  !
However you may stumble upon a goal either in your business or personal life, one way to bring you back on track for failure is to have no plan to achieve that goal. The problem with most goals worth achieving is that they are by definition difficult. Only by having a plan that breaks down the challenging goal into achievable steps will you succeed. Therefore in your business it is better to have a marketing plan as to which customers you want to offer your services to and at what cost. You will also need an operational plan to decide what resources you need to achieve it.
Putting a plan together is a very time consuming affair and because by definition it forces you to look at the future. It is challenging in terms of what you may have to achieve as an individual and in your own personal growth. For example, if you want to operate in the high net worth area it may mean that you will have to become a Chartered Financial Planner and acquire premises that are appropriate to that type of customer. That all takes courage of conviction. So don’t bother with all that painful stuff, go for failure and ignore a plan. It is rather like the way to make sure that a training plan for your staff never happens. Do not write it down, then you can be reasonably confident that you will end up every year looking back and wondering why you never did deliver the training. This brings me to the third point.
3.   Do Not Share  !
Using the training analogy, I have noticed over the years that those firms who have a clear commitment to training their staff not only publish the plan to individuals, but usually have it on display in their office for everyone to see and to challenge and question when it is not kept on track.
It is noticeable that those people who are successful not only share their business plan with their employees but also their customers and professional intermediaries. This tends to show people why you are trying to achieve what you are setting out and their role in it. Clearly if you want to fail then you will want to avoid enthusing other people in helping you achieve your vision, after all the last thing you want is professional contacts ringing you and asking you to help their clients achieve financial wellbeing.
However, you may well have been on some course over the last few years that talks about goal setting and planning and the value of sharing it but remember you still want to fail.
4.   Procrastinate  !
A very wise man once said that you will never have enough information to make all the decisions before you launch your business. In the end you have to go with the data you can get and a will to achieve the result. One way to get you back on track to failure is to procrastinate, or to put off launching the business, or the new service, or changing your business model. There is always a good reason not to do it.
Every cost can be looked at as a cost not an investment. One common example I have come across with many small firms of IFAs is not to recruit the right amount of support staff to leave them free to spend more time with clients and even more challenging look for more clients. Let’s face it, prospecting is the bit that we all hate doing most so if you put off recruiting admin staff you will never have to face that challenge. Some things lend themselves much more easily to procrastination than others for example, a lot of firms put off the purchasing of software because they are complex and you are never really quite sure whether they will deliver the value of the licence fees. Of course you could use the software for the one element that you most need for example, database marketing or commission reconciliation.
However, maybe you now have a clear goal and a plan about how to achieve it and you have shared it with all the stakeholders. You feel compelled to make a start but remember we do want to replicate failure here so the next step is;
5.   Be Negative  !
It is always easy to say that “I couldn’t pass that examination” or “my clients are different than yours and would never pay a fee”. In the end it is easier to find a reason “why not?” than “why to”.
With so many other things to find to be able to blame such as Product Provider’s service or interest rate rises, increasing regulation etc. The list is endless. It is always much more difficult to find a reason to do things and put yourself in a situation of change where you lose the comfort zone of staying where you are. I am sure we have all heard the old cliché of Eddison finding hundreds of steps towards success in his search for electric light rather than hundreds of individual failures. After all he only changed the world we all live in!
So it is easy to be negative – we are back on track to failing. However, you may go to a New Model Adviser conference and people share their successes with you and you feel fired up and positive about things. But do not worry. The next step will put you back on track for failure.
6.   Mix with Negative People  !
If you cannot be negative yourself then find somebody negative to talk to. The great thing about negative people is that there are a lot more of them than there are positive people. They are always more vocal at meetings etc. therefore they are a lot easier to find. They in turn will be looking for solace in their own failure and will give you lots of reasons why you should not try anything new. Negative people have that innate talent at making you feel better about things at least for the rest of the day!
However, despite all of these elements of failure you may well find yourself on the edge off success. You may well have set yourself a clearly defined goal, have a detailed plan of how to achieve it and you have shared it with all your customers and you have not put off the difficult decisions, you are extremely enthusiastic about your chances of success and you have gathered a positive team of people around you to help you achieve it.
However there is one way to bring you back on track for failure and this is the most powerful one of all:
7.   Just Give Up  !
You can give up by instalments i.e. at each hurdle you can focus on individual parts of your plan that did not work out quite the way you wanted it. Instead of trying another way to achieve the same thing just use it as an excuse for slipping back into old habits. There is an unwritten rule called “The Perito Law” that says that 80% of results come from 20% of the people and the same can be said for activities. In other words 80% of what leads to success will come from only 1 in 5 of the things you do. The problem is that you have to try them all to find out which one will succeed. The easiest way to not find the one that will be successful is of course to give up on one or all of the first four. Failure cannot live in the face of persistency so stop trying and you will fail!
Of course all of this is a bit “tongue in cheek”. All I can say is that of all the successful people I have met they tend not to do the seven things above.
In my own career whenever I have got off track or even appear to be treading water when I have looked inwardly at my own behaviours I have found that I am normally doing at least two of the above.
I hope therefore, that like myself over the last twenty years you will find this in future, a useful checklist when things are not going as well as they could be. I have also found it a very useful coaching tool with employees. I hope that you can avoid things that guarantee failure and I wish you every success.
This has been adapted from an original article written in 2007 by Ian Thorneycroft, Managing Director of the compliance network, SimplyBiz.

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Leading up to Christmas in Munich

I can safely say these past few weeks have been busy. My work load has increased massively, Christmas is nearly here and I need to get presents as I have not even started! Not good. With the festive period approaching the city is going mad with Christmas markets and with the winter in full swing the atmosphere around the city is getting very excitable for the big day!  I would recommend coming to the German markets in Germany as they are just that much better than the ones we have back home. The whole ambience with the live bands, the smell of the “Gluewein” (mulled wine) and the crisp winter nights really gets you in the mood for Christmas.

Last week I made my first trip back to England and had an awesome weekend in London with my girlfriend.  Felt like a proper tourist in my own country which was a strange feeling but never the less was a lot of fun wondering around all the tourist traps! One thing I certainly miss about England is the food! Simple things like bacon sandwiches and coco pops in the morning is just not the same here in Munich! I made the most of those two things, having them every morning without fail. I did have a funny moment in a shop at the check outs, clearly thought I was still in Munich… I not only said hello and greeted the store worker in German I then said “Danke” when leaving the shop. I did not even notice what I had said until he looked at me like I was on another planet! I bet he thought I must be good at German, even if that’s pretty much as far as my vocabulary stretches.

Since my last blog, my role has changed a lot. I have grown in confidence in all aspects of my role and have learnt a lot about the company processes and the role we play in the market.  I have moved to the Customer Services team and have been allocated the customer base in Hungary and Ukraine, potentially taking over the Romania locations as well which will be pretty awesome. With the added responsibility it makes the role a lot more enjoyable, as I enjoy being pushed and staying organised with the customers, making sure everything is in order and things are running as smoothly as possible, which can be a big challenge! Something I picked up on quickly is the importance of building friendly relationships with customers. This not only helps you by making your life easier getting responses from your customers promptly, it also makes working with them a laugh at times. Another change in my role is an increased engagement with my new team. What makes it even more engaging is the diverse culture within the team. My colleagues are from many different countries such as Cuba, Turkey and Romania so I can go on cheeky holidays all over the place! Working in such an international team has opened my eyes up to how big some culture differences are and how growing up in some countries was so different compared to my childhood in England.

In other news I have a very nice announcement! So I said in my previous post that I had joined Munich Lacrosse team… I can now say I have scored my first goal for them as well!  I won’t mention what the final score was as that’s not important right now, but let’s just say we didn’t win…


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