The RYA is delighted to confirm Yachts & Yachting and Suzuki Marine as sponsors of the RYA Dinghy Show for 2019.
Set to return to the magnificent Alexandra Palace on 02-03 March 2019, the RYA Dinghy Show in association with Yachts & Yachting and Suzuki is the only show in the world dedicated to dinghy sailing.
Long-term show exhibitors and supporters, Suzuki Marine are confirmed as sponsors continuing a 10-year association with the Show. The award-winning outboard motor manufacturer has forged a reputation for building marine engines that push the boundaries of power and performance, with some of the lightest, most compact models in their class. Visitors will be able to view their range of ultimate four stroke outboards on the Suzuki stand (F10) or visit suzuki.co.uk for more information.
Fiona Cole, Head of Marketing for Suzuki GB's Motorcycle, Marine and ATV divisions said, "We're delighted to be continuing our support for the RYA Dinghy Show and the sport of dinghy sailing in general. We're committed to working with our partner boat builders such as Ribcraft and Rigiflex to provide the ultimate safety boat packages for sailing clubs and training centres to help them get even more people out on the water.
"The RYA Dinghy Show is a great opportunity for us to network with the dinghy sailing community and we are looking forward to seeing everyone there."
Yachts & Yachting will once again be returning to support the show as sponsor and official media partner. The performance sailing magazine covers everything from Optimists to offshore sailing and is packed with unmissable advice from world class sailors and industry experts.
Georgie Corlett-Pitt, Editor said: "We're delighted to continue our support for the Show as official media partner and publisher of the official Show Guide. The Show is an unmissable opportunity to meet our many readers who love dinghy sailing as much as we do! Without a doubt the weekend is a diary highlight and a great way to mark the start of the season."
Visit the team on stand C64 to pick up a special subscription deal plus don't miss the March issue of the magazine which includes your free copy of the Show Guide.
RYA Director of Sport Development, Alistair Dickson commented: "The Show wouldn't be possible without our sponsors and we are hugely grateful to Yachts & Yachting and Suzuki for their ongoing support and commitment.
"The RYA Dinghy Show marks the beginning of the new sailing season for many clubs. The theme this year is #MyDinghyTribe, recognising the different tribes that make up the very diverse dinghy sailing community and we hope to see as many 'tribes' there as possible."
Also supporting the Show this year, are new hosts, double Olympic gold medallist Shirley Robertson; sailing presenter and journalist Matt Sheahan; and Match Racing World Champion and Olympic sailor Annie Lush.
With something for dinghy sailors both old and new, the 150 exhibitors range from boat builders and sailing brands to class associations, sailing clubs and RYA programmes. There will also be a full schedule of expert speakers, Q&A sessions and demonstrations on the Show's five stages, as well as plenty of free interactive activities to inspire the whole family.
Advance tickets are available at a special discount rate of £10.00 for RYA members and £12.50 for non-members. RYA clubs and large groups can also take advantage of a special discount price of £10.00 when booking six tickets or more. For those wanting a bit more of the action, discounted weekend tickets are available at £15.00 for RYA members and £18.75 for non-members. Don't forget up to four children go FREE with each paying adult.
You can buy tickets here or by calling the ticket hotline on 0844 858 9069.


Auto F&I, which is now in its seventh year of business, brings a service concept to independent motor dealers that is custom-built around the customer profile of individual dealers.
It offers the full bouquet of insurance and non-insurance products for the Finance and Insurance Managers (F&Is) that are on dealers' floors, catering for insurance and non-insurance products to dealer customers.
Among these products are mechanical warranty, tyre and rim warranty, credit life, top-up and comprehensive insurance, as well as non-insurance products such as scratch and dent, interior, and service and maintenance products.
Joining forces with GENRIC means that the Auto F&I's mechanical product line is now underwritten by an A- rated insurer with an impressive network, and that has a reputation for personalised and made-to-order service.
"We saw a reciprocal opportunity to grow our business, as did GENRIC, not just through our relationships, but also through the business of insurance and broader aspects than insurance," says David Horner, Managing Director of Auto F&I.
GENRIC in turn is supportive of this UMA because of Auto F&I's robust and longstanding relationships with not only the F&Is, but also with the dealership as a whole.
"Auto F&I has a proven track record of understanding individual dealers' needs and customising specifically for the dealers," says Cornel Schoeman, Chief Commercial Officer at GENRIC Insurance.


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Digiweb is Ireland's leading independent telecommunications company. Founded in 1997 and with head office in Dundalk, Digiweb provides nationwide broadband access and telephony services to residential and small business customers.
Digiweb is 100% Irish owned and run, and is headquartered in Dundalk, County Louth with its technical, installation and sales offices in Dublin. In May 2013, it acquired the British telecommunications company Viatel. At present it employs approx. 140 people around the country.
By virtue of its national wireless network and satellite services, Digiweb owns and operates Ireland's largest alternative last-mile access network.
They offer a variety of broadband services in Ireland which include Metro Wireless Broadband. This is a Broadband & Phone Package with very attractive options. Since 2007 they have been offering Mobile Broadband and Satellite broadband.
It is a full-service national communications and managed services provider. We provide nationwide broadband access, enterprise data networks, data centre and web hosting services, managed services and telephony to residential, business and public sector customers.
Why choose Digiweb?
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RIVERHEAD, NY – Peconic Bay Medical Center has named Jean M. Cacciabaudo, MD, as its new medical director. A fellowship-trained cardiologist, Dr. Cacciabaudo was formerly the chief of cardiology at Southside Hospital, and director of nuclear cardiology and associate medical director at Long Island Jewish Medical Center.
"Jean Cacciabaudo is the ideal leader for our medical staff as we transition and grow into a Regional Medical Center," said Andrew J. Mitchell, FACHE, president and chief executive officer of Peconic Bay Medical Center (PBMC).
"She brings a combination of medical accomplishment and leadership capability that is truly inspiring," said Agostino Cervone, MD, president of PBMC's medical staff.
Dr. Cacciabaudo will join the hospital during the most transformative time in the 65-year history of PBMC, the largest hospital on Long Island's East End, which joined forces in early 2016 with Northwell Health, New York State's largest health care system.
The medical center will break ground this spring on a $60 million critical care tower that will include the East End's most comprehensive trauma, intensive care and cardiac catheterization suite as well as a rooftop helipad certified by the Federal Aviation Administration.
Dr. Cacciabaudo received her medical training at New York Medical College and served her internship and residency at New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center, where her training also included clinical fellowships in hypertension and cardiology. As an educator, she has served on the faculties of the Hofstra Northwell Health School of Medicine, the Albert Einstein College of Medicine and Cornell University Medical College.
Dr. Cacciabaudo succeeds Richard Kubiak, MD, the hospital's medical director since 2007 who decided to return to faculty practice in the PBMC Medical Group, the East End's largest multispecialty medical group. During Dr. Kubiak's tenure, PBMC attained center of excellence accreditations for joint replacement surgery and bariatric surgery, received recognition for excellence in stroke care, and initiated its teaching programs in family medicine and surgery.
Northwell Health is New York State's largest health care provider and private employer, with 21 hospitals and over 550 outpatient facilities. We care for more than two million people annually in the metro New York area and beyond, thanks to philanthropic support from our communities. Our 61,000 employees – 15,000+ nurses and nearly 3,400 physicians, including nearly 2,700 dedicated members of Northwell Health Physician Partners -- are working to change health care for the better. We're making breakthroughs in medicine at the Feinstein Institute. We're training the next generation of medical professionals at the visionary Hofstra Northwell School of Medicine and the School of Graduate Nursing and Physician Assistant Studies. And we offer health insurance through CareConnect. For information on our more than 100 medical specialties, visit Northwell.edu.


Attention Eastern Ontario: Virtual Sherpas are here to stay!
We are very pleased to introduce the Business Sherpa Group Brockville Hub that will serve the needs of small and medium-sized businesses in Brockville, Cornwall and Kingston.
Business Sherpa Group (BSG) has created a unique business model to provide sustainable and flexible support of non-core functions to small and medium-sized businesses across North America for almost a decade.
This model offers sustainable and flexible back office support in non-core functions, and while it not only works well in larger cities, the model is particularly valuable when introduced to smaller communities where access to these resources has historically been scarce or unaffordable. Eastern Ontario business operators are welcoming greater access to virtual back office supports because of the flexibility this model offers. In fact, this model is fast becoming the preferred model businesses are using to resource these functions.
Now businesses in Brockville, Cornwall and Kingston will be able to access a broad team of senior and operational consultants including recruiters, human resources leaders, virtual CFOs, bookkeepers, strategic executives, and marketers.
We can connect your business to Human Resources (HR Senior Leaders, Recruiters), Financial (Virtual CFO, Bookkeepers), Marketing, Business Strategy, Family Enterprise and Business Coaching experts. Service offerings are tailored to the specific business needs of the organization, can start and stop as required, and can be structured to support a specific project or embedded as a resource in your organization.
Our Sherpas leverage technology to provide services remotely or they can provide their services on-site. Our clients quickly determine the right blend of on-site and virtual supports they need.
BSG offers a good value proposition to associates who prefer to work, live, learn and grow as professionals in smaller communities, as well as to operate in a socially and environmentally conscious manner when choosing how to do their work. They welcome the opportunity to build their expert base of knowledge through exchanges with their contacts in the BSG community and the professional development offered there.
Most importantly, our associates are committed to the added value this model brings to the businesses they support.
Jennifer Eastwood is the Business Solutions Leader for our Brockville, Ontario service hub. Jennifer is a strategic thinker, a highly engaged leader, and has consistently achieved excellence through collaboration internal and external to the businesses and organizations she has supported.
If you would like to learn more about Jennifer, keep reading here.


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Grand Rapids Police Dept. solicits input to better serve community
By Bryce Huffman • Aug 17, 2017
Grand Rapids Police Department
Lindsey Smith / Michigan Radio
The Grand Rapids Police Department wants a better relationship with the community it serves -- so it sought out a task force to review its policies.
The department volunteered for this review after a study released earlier this year found some racial disparities in traffic stops.
Ron Davis is with 21st Century Policing Solutions, a company made up of several former police officers that is helping the task force review police procedures.
He says the department is doing the right thing by getting an outside perspective.
"To do a voluntary study on traffic stops is a very positive thing. You know, the truth may hurt, but selective ignorance is fatal," Davis said.
Along with the controversy caused by the study, the department was criticized after video footage showed officers drawing guns on unarmed kids earlier this year.
However, Davis says the task force won't be investigating any specific cases. No specific policies have been identified for scrutiny yet.
Davis says there are tensions between police and the community.
"So in one sense, the challenges I see in Grand Rapids are very common to what I see around the country, how they're responding to the challenge is not so common and I wish it were," he said.
The task force will examine department policies and over the next year.
police relations
Grand Rapids community members discuss race and policing at first public meeting
By Dustin Dwyer • Jun 12, 2017
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Police department leaders and elected city officials in Grand Rapids listened quietly today at the first public meeting to discuss police and community relations.
It was the first of five scheduled public meetings on the topic. The meetings came about in part because of a study released in April that showed Grand Rapids police pull over black and Hispanic drivers at disproportionate rates compared to whites. And, there was an incident in March in which a police officer held five unarmed black boys at gun point.
Grand Rapids police chief says "sustained effort" needed to continue improving community relations
By Stateside Staff • Jun 9, 2017
Matthew Sutherland / Flickr - http://j.mp/1SPGCl0
Stateside's conversation with Grand Rapids Police Chief David Rahinsky.
The city of Grand Rapids has been working on trying to find ways to make sure police officers are not treating citizens unequally and improving relations with the community.
The city has been working to implement a so-called 12-point plan, something that's been in the works for a couple of years.
But, a recent traffic stop report indicated its officers are treating people of color differently than white citizens, arresting them more frequently. Then, there was the recent incident about an officer pulling his weapon on five unarmed African-American boys.
Grand Rapids Police Chief David Rahinsky joined Stateside to discuss.
If you're black in Grand Rapids, you're twice as likely to get pulled over
By Lindsey Smith • Apr 20, 2017
A new study finds Grand Rapids Police are biased when it comes to pulling over drivers in the city.
A study released this week shows black drivers are twice as likely to be stopped.


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The action is scheduled to start at 3:00 pm at the Gold Coast Hockey Centre
Updated: 11 April 2018 16:40 IST - Published: 11 April 2018 13:59 IST
We will back with the ladies semifinal tomorrow. Until then, Goodbye. This is Subhashish
Unbelievable final five minutes. India will face New Zealand while England play Australia in the semi-finals
Amazing drama and India have topped the pool!!!!!! India 4 - England 3
India have done it!!!! Half a minute to go!!!!!!
GOALLLLLLLLLLLLLL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
59' India SCORE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Just over a minute to go. Can India find another goal????
India need ONE more goal but they have drawn level. India 3 - England 3
GOALLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
58' PC for India. Can India score?
India take their goalie off. India need to score twice in four minutes. Rupinder Pal Singh is injured.
England 3 - India 2. Is it all over for India??
Sam Ward scores!!!!! GOALLLL!!!!
PC stands. India lose their referral.
56' England in the Indian circle. PC for England!!!!! India refer.
Just over five minutes to go. India HAVE to score to avoid facing Australia in the semi-finals!!!
53' Amit Rohidas gets a cross into the England circle. Can't find an Indian player.
53' Even-stevens again, but England have the advantage as they need only a draw to top the Pool. How will India respond??
England 2 - India 2
Danger now for India. Can they keep the PC out??? GOALLL!!!!!
52' PC for England!!!!!
Rupinder's flick takes a deflection off an England defender and India take the lead.
The goal stands. India 2 - England 1
England refer. Wil the goal stand??
GOAAALLLLLLLLLLLLLL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Harmanpreet and Rupinder both on the pitch. Who will take the flick???
51' India earn a PC.
51' Good cross in from Vivek Sagar. England attempt to clear and move ahead.
49' The England players back in numbers. Not allowing any space to India.
48' India 1 - England 1. Can India find their second goal?
46' India in the England circle but cant get a PC.
India have looked purposeful and will look to take the lead with fifteen minutes left on the clock.
The third quarter ends. India have looked extremely aggressive. Will they continue and maintain the tempo in the final quarter?
43' India trying to set up a move in midfield. Good work by captain Manpreet. Free hit for India outside the England circle
41' Fast action as both India and England try to press for a second goal.
39' Great ball in the circle for India. Sunil's touch finds Mandeep who cant get a shot at goal.
38' England manage to come away for the first time in this quarter. Free hit for England. Cleared by India.
36' England under a lot of pressure as India pressing hard. Can India take the lead?
35' India look aggressive. Shot wide by Sumit after a good move
34' Free hit for India outside the England 25. Green card for Liam Sanford
India steal the ball and Manpreet Singh scores. India 1 - England 1
Free hit to the defence. BUT GOALLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
PC awarded for India. England protest and refer.
Long corner for India.
Gleghorne charges Harmanpreet down.
31' India combining well. Unable to find a PC. Sjoerd Marijne looks on. Yes, India get a PC after all!!!!!
Shouts of "Come on India!" emanating from the Indian supporters in the crowd. India need all the support they can get.
The players are back on the pitch. The second half is about to being. What will India do differently? They need a win and have to score quickly.
Rupinder Pal Singh has looked good in defence for India. Sreejesh has been outstanding in goal. The Indian forward line haven't been sharp enough to accurately deflect some great crosses which came their way.
England have dominated the second quarter. India have to be more aggressive in the second half. England lead with a David Condon goal.


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To purchase land and return it to a wild flower meadow, re plant hedgerows and run a market garden producing old varieties of fruit, plants and vegetables. Help and save all old varieties of heritage fruit and vegetables, flowers and plants and help going forward to provide local work and training for people out of work in the local area. Also, provide small wildlife areas on the site to help insects like increasing the bee population.
For all those who are kind enough to donate to this project, I will offer a 25% discount on all orders within the UK (mainland) of plants, flowers, fruit and vegetables grown at the market garden and a yearly calendar. For those outside the UK unfortunately we cannot send items like the above in the post so we will be sending out a calendar once a year which will show photographs and updates.
With a wealth of experience dealing directly with members of the public and a variety of organisations, I am an enthusiastic and conscientious individual with excellent communication, organisational and time management skills. I am a dedicated and committed person who takes pride in delivering and achieving tasks to a high standard. Having run my own property business and having been a Nottingham City Councillor - I also served many years as a trustee to several charities. I am an extremely customer focussed and community spirited individual. I very much enjoy direct customer contact and value quality service and support. I have a flexible and adaptable attitude. I have a great passion for the countryside and the protection of endangered species.


PXW-X70 users can upgrade their camcorders with 4K acquisition capability through a new paid 4K licence. The licence provides support for QFHD shooting at 30p, 25p, or 24p, bringing stunning quality and high resolution to an incredibly compact camcorder. This capability will be available from all Sony dealers to PXW-X70 users, either at the time of purchase or at any point afterwards. The list price (without tax) for the 4K upgrade (CBKZ-X70FX) will be 485 Euro.
At BVE 2015, Atomos showcase 4 exciting new Shogun features, including a BVE exclusive world first, released for free to existing and new users of Shogun for the end of February 2015.
Blackmagic Design has announced that the Blackmagic Pocket Cinema Camera was used to shoot the feature film Inside the Belly of a Dragon, an official selection of the 2014 Cambodia International Film Festival.
When it was released Final Cut Pro X featured a single viewer for watching through rushes or edited content. Apple did bring back a second viewer later in the development of Final Cut Pro X. The way the two viewers work together is different than the way dual viewers work in many other systems. This tutorial provides an overview of the advantages of working with dual viewers and shows just how useful these can be used while editing.
Compound Clips provide the means to simplify your edit by collapsing many clips into a single clip. These can be used to take a complicated Timeline and to reduce a portion of the Timeline, or all of the Timeline, into a single clip. The Compound Clip can then be positioned and edited like any other clip.
AutoDCP is a cloud-based service which enables you to upload your project online and convert this to the DCP format. You simply register and upload your master files. Once the process is complete your final DCP files, ready for cinema distribution, will be returned to you online.
Eyeheight reports strong and increasing demand for its innovative BroadcastSafe range of plug-in compliance software. Available in four versions (BroadcastSafeFCPX for Apple Final Cut X and Apple Final Cut 7, BroadcastSafePP for Adobe Premier Pro, and BroadcastSafeMC for Avid Media Composer, the plug-ins enable video editors to ensure that their productions are compatible with broadcast signal legislation in their target markets.
Sydney, Australia - I last filmed at this location in 1998. another time, with very different technology. This time I'm back with friends and co-workers and were having fun shooting timelapse, still photographs, and enjoying the process of image creation.
The knowledge and experience of each of the creatives comes through in this piece how they work, how they think. and how they put their creative and technical skills to work. We get to appreciate the results.
"So we have chosen to do this timelapse as a continuous record rather than just the multiple frames per second because we don't want to lose anything that we're seeing in the frame. We've got a lot of movement in this frame, there's a lot of boats passing through. And with continuous record you don't get that staggering effect where if you're only getting 2, 3, 4, 5 frames a second you lose the other 20 frames. So we're doing a continuous record to enable that flowing shot. To give us the option of a nice smooth timelapse. And what this also means is that in post production weve got the options to do whatever we want with the shot."
It is remarkable to see what changes in 15 years of technology; the quality of the video and still images is fantastic! Which of course makes me wonder just what the next 15 years will bring.


Александр Меригольд is truly exotic! Among people living in new york, there would only be 4,727,970 people like him!
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AQA have organised the content of the programme of study into ten big ideas, which can be taught over two or three years, giving you clarity and structure. Download the free syllabus, student check sheets and transition tests.
With each big idea broken down into building blocks of knowledge, you'll see what students need to know and how they should be able to apply that knowledge, so they can develop a 'mastery' of the key scientific concepts before starting GCSE science. Extend objectives are also included to stretch more able students. Working scientifically has also been broken down and includes enquiry ideas outlining the skill strategies and principles behind each topic.
AQA's syllabus gives you a framework for delivering the National Curriculum, whichever exam board you offer at GCSE.
These KS3 Science worksheets and interactive activities have been hand-picked to help you teach this syllabus.


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Nokeng tsa Taemane ligt in de provincie Gauteng en telt 53.203 inwoners.

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2011 is set to be another exciting and competitive summer of cricket as Lord's hosts Test Matches and One Day Internationals against Sri Lanka and India.
tables on this very competitive team.
India's last visit, in 2007, resulted in a Test Series victory for the visitors and an enthralling ODI Series, which England won 4-3 in the deciding match. Holding the record for the most hundreds in Tests and ODIs, Sachin Tendulkar is hoping to finally get his name on the prestigious Honours Boards at the Home of Cricket. Could the July Test Match at Lord's be the occasion for him to accomplish this illusive achievement?
Keith Prowse, in association with Lord's, is proud to offer official hospitality at the Home of Cricket, providing unrivalled facilities and the perfect setting for entertaining guests. Combine our exceptional hospitality with a day of action packed international cricket to ensure you and your guests have a truly inspiring occasion.
This intimate setting provides the premium offer for hospitality at Lord's. Limited to only 120 guests, and with private tables of 2, 4, 6, 8, or 10 available, your colleagues or clients will enjoy superb hospitality in the lounge and a prime view of the action from your reserved Mound Stand seats nearby.
Chatting with a past international captain hosting the lounge, will ensure that you and your guests enjoy an experience at the Home of Cricket to remember.
This magnificent light-filled restaurant overlooks the picturesque Nursery Ground where you can see players from both teams warming up in the nets.
Here you can experience the finest hospitality throughout the day whilst enjoying world class cricket. The Nursery Pavilion is a superb restaurant that can accommodate groups of all sizes to meet all your hospitality needs. Just minutes away are your reserved Mound Stand seats, perfectly located to enjoy the day's action.
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Q: How to draw a closed curve?
The red box area is the part that annoys me, that's the start and end point of the path, but it doesn't have a curve effect
my code is simple:
const svg = d3.select("svg");
        let data = [[1, 3], [2, 4], [3, 4], [5, 6], [6, 5], [7, 3], [6, 1], [4, 2], [2, 2], [1, 3]]
        let datax = data.map(v => v[0])
        let datay = data.map(v => v[1])

        let scale_x = d3.scaleLinear()
            .domain([d3.min(datax), d3.max(datax)])
            .range([0, 960])
        let scale_y = d3.scaleLinear()
            .domain([d3.min(datay), d3.max(datay)])
            .range([500, 0])

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            .y((d) => scale_y(d[1]))
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            .attr('stroke-width', 2)
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A: It seems to me that in your data the last point is at the same position of the first simply to "close" the path. If that's the case, just remove that last point and use d3.curveBasisClosed, so D3 will close the path for you:

const svg = d3.select("svg");
let data = [
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let datay = data.map(v => v[1])

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Posted by Edward theurj Berge on August 2, 2019 at 8:10am in IPS Inquiry
A 'power law' refers specifically to a statistical relationship between quantities, such that a change in one quantity has a proportional change in another. One property of this law is scale invariance, otherwise known as 'scale-free,' meaning the same proportion repeats at every scale in a self-similar pattern. Mathematical fractals are an example of such a power law. Power laws are taken as universal and have been applied to any and all phenomena to prove the universality of this law.
However, a recent study (Broido and Clauset, 2019) claims that "scale free networks are rare." They conducted an extensive review of one thousand social, biological, technological and information networks using state of the art statistical methods and concluded what the title of their article states. To the contrary, "log-normal distributions fit the data as well or better than power laws." And that scale-free structure is "not an empirically universal pattern." Hence it should not be used to model and analyze real world structures.
So why the fascination with trying to fit nearly all phenomena into the scale-free paradigm? Holme (2019) reviews the above article and the overall power law issue and notes that "in the Platonic realm of simple mechanistic models, extrapolated to infinite system size, the concepts of emergence, universality and scale-freeness are well-defined and clear. However, in the real world, where systems are finite and many forces affect them, they become blurry." Klarreich (2018) reviewed an earlier version of Borodo's paper and noted that per mathematician Steven Strogatz, in physics there is a "power law religion."
So what is the root of this religion? Holme nailed it when he said the power law universally applies "in the Platonic realm." This is a long-held, guiding myth that has remained strong in math. Lakoff and Nunez (2001) dispel this myth, noting that there is no proof of an a priori mathematics; it is purely a premised axiom with no empirical foundation. Just like the conception of God it is religious faith. We can only understand math with the mind and brain, so it requires us to understand how that brain and mind perceives and conceives. Hence there is no one correct or universal math. There are equally valid but mutually inconsistent maths depending on one's premised axioms (354-55). This is because math is also founded on embodied, basic categories and metaphors, from which particular axioms are unconsciously based (and biased), and can go in a multitude of valid inferential directions depending on which metaphor (or blend) is used in a particular contextual preference. They dispel this myth of a transcendent, Platonic math while validating a plurality of useful and accurate maths.
However Lakoff & Nunez do not see the above as relativistic postmodernism (pomo) because of empirically demonstrated, convergent scientific evidence of universal, embodied grounding of knowledge via image schema, basic categories and extended in metaphor. They see both transcendent math and pomo as a priori investments. And they also affirm universal validity, but through empirical methodology, not a priori speculation.
Lakoff (1987) also points out the following:
"The classical theory of categories provides a link between objectivist metaphysics and and set-theoretical models.... Objectivist metaphysics goes beyond the metaphysics of basic realism...[which] merely assumes that there is a reality of some sort.... It additionally assumes that reality is correctly and completely structured in a way that can be modeled by set-theoretic models" (159).
He argues that this arises from the correspondence-representation model, a model that has been legitimately questioned by postmetaphysical thinking.
Also see the above on the idealistic assumptions of modeling that came from a type of complexity theory that also assumed the universality of scale-free networks, while most actual networks do not display this kind of mathematical distribution.
A prime example of the power law religion is found in the model of hierarchical complexity (MHC). Commons (2008) admits the Platonic roots when he said: "The ideal truth is the mathematical forms of Platonic ideal." Granted he qualified this statement noting the difference between the ideal and the real, that we cannot know the ideal as pure form, only as it manifests in the real. And yet he further notes that Aristotle elucidated the real with postulates of logic, yet these too come from a priori axioms without empirical grounding. Yes, the logical entailments of his logic follow mathematical rules, but the axioms are presupposed a priori and taken as given. The MHC then is a combination of the ideal "perfect form, as Plato would have described it," with the representation of that form in the real domain. The duality of the ideal and the real is apparent.
Lakoff and Johnson (1999, Ch. 7) show that abstract set theory has no connection to embodiment:
"Spatial relations concepts (image schemas), which fit visual scenes, are not characterizable in terms of set-theoretical structures. Motor concepts (verbs of bodily movement), which fit the body's motor schemas, cannot be characterized by set-theoretical models. Set-theoretical models simply do not have the kind of structure needed to fit visual scenes or motor schemas, since all they have in them are abstract entities, sets of those entities, and sets of those sets. These models have no structure appropriate to embodied meaning-no motor schemas, no visual or imagistic mechanisms, and no metaphor."
However Lakoff and Nunez note that math per se is not merely socially constructed:
"In recognizing all the ways that mathematics makes use of cognitive universals and universal aspects of experience, the theory of embodied mathematics explicitly rejects any possible claim that mathematics is arbitrarily shaped by history and culture alone. Indeed, the embodiment of mathematics accounts for real properties of mathematics that a radical cultural relativism would deny or ignore: conceptual stability, stability of inference, precision, consistency, generalizability, discoverability, calculability, and real utility in describing the world" (362).
Nonetheless, the MHC used a particular kind of set theory were sets cannot be members of themselves but in other set theories they can:
"There are lots and lots of set theories, each defined by different axioms. You can construct a set theory in which the Continuum hypothesis is true and a set theory in which it is false. You can construct a set theory in which sets cannot be members of themselves and a set theory in which sets can be members of themselves. It is just a matter of which axioms you choose, and each collection of axioms defines a different subject matter. Yet each such subject matter is itself a viable and self-consistent form of mathematics. [...] There is no one true set theory" (WMCF, 355).
Commons, Ross, Miller (2010) note that Axiom 1 of the MHC is based on set theory and the orders are scale-free.
"Axiom 1 of the Model of Hierarchical Complexity (Commons, Goodheart, et al., 2008) posits that consistent with Piaget, that higher order actions are defined in terms of two or more lower-order actions. In terms of set theory, A = {a, b} where A is the higher order set, and a and b are lower order actions that are elements of that set A.. Note that the element a cannot equal the set A. An element cannot equal a set formed out of that element."
Sara Ross (2014) goes further in that the MHC's orders are scale-free and fractal.
"To possess 'universal, scale-free' properties means the MHC's orders of hierarchical complexity are fractal. Fractal means the repetition of self-similar patterns at different scales. Behavioral scales from the micro-biological to large social systems evidence the orders of hierarchical complexity (see Commons & Ross, 2008). The fractal transition theory is proposed as a universal, scale-free general model as well."
Here we are seeing the power law religion in action, given that the MHC's orders are ideal and they develop from scale-free power laws. And yet as Broido and Clauset noted above, real networks rarely display scale-free power laws. They further noted that given the empirical data, different models would be required to explain these other networks, that the scale-free model, while perhaps applicable for a few real-world networks, was inadequate to the task.
One example of a real world network is the human brain connectome. Gastner and Odor (2016) note that the connectome is not scale-free, so why use scale-free models to measure it? And why then extend scale-free models to everything? As noted above, is it a power law religion of the ideal imposed on phenomena?
"The structural human connectome (i.e. the network of fiber connections in the brain) can be analyzed at ever finer spatial resolution thanks to advances in neuroimaging. Here we analyze several large data sets for the human brain network made available by the Open Connectome Project. We apply statistical model selection to characterize the degree distributions of graphs containing up to nodes and edges. A three-parameter generalized Weibull (also known as a stretched exponential) distribution is a good fit to most of the observed degree distributions. For almost all networks, simple power laws cannot fit the data, but in some cases there is statistical support for power laws with an exponential cutoff."
A recent neuroimaging study (Smith et al., 2019) on brain connectome hierarchical complexity (HC) seems to support my notion that, like basic categories in cognitive science, HC arises from the middle out as 'bridges' rather than bottom-up or top-down. E.g.
"Dividing the connectomes into four tiers based on degree magnitudes indicates that the most complex nodes are neither those with the highest nor lowest degrees but are instead found in the middle tiers. […] The most complex tier (Tier 3) involves regions believed to bridge high-order cognitive (Tier 1) and low-order sensorimotor processing (Tier 2)."
"The results show that hub nodes (Tier 1(t)) and peripheral nodes (Tier 4(b)) are contributing less to the greater complexity exhibited in the human brain connectome than middle tiers. In fact, this is particularly true of hub nodes."
Also note that "this concerns wholly separate considerations of topology to the well-known paradigms of small-world and scale-free complex networks," being one of those new models that responds to the empirical date rather than trying to fit the latter into a one-size-fits-all scale-free model.
This appears to be a matter of the guiding metaphors used in defining worldviews, which over time transcend and replace their forbears given new information in a different time and context (Berge, 2019). Sociological worldviews form a continuum in the broad categories of pre-modern, modern, postmodern and metamodern. The modern, scientific worldview is based on a mechanistic worldview, with later iterations extending that metaphor based on the computer. Both are premised on dualisms of various sorts, like the difference and separation of body and mind, ideal and real and with computers, on and off with one pole in the duality being source, the other it's logical result. It's an either/or logic of the Aristotelian type noted above, itself based on a priori axioms.
The postmodern metaphor turned this dualism around, claiming that the ideal was fantasy, that only the concrete, real world had validity, the ideal just being so much hierarchical power relations over the real without any basis. However, the metamodern worldview syntegrates this dualism by acknowledging duality, but also everywhere in between the poles. In fact, it quits thinking in terms of poles altogether, e.g. Abramson (2014):
"But a still more intriguing question is whether antipodal analyses are any longer useful, or whether the time has come to speak of multiple dimensions of reality, actualities that are irresolvably contradictory and deliberately incalculable, and a state of affective response in which contemporary humans feel perpetually overwhelmed, but not critically degeneratively so. Whereas postmodern theories of hyperreality invariably metaphorized erasure of the line between fact and fiction as a gradual process of degeneration, collapse, and decomposition, metamodernism approaches contradiction, paradox, and ambiguity as reconstructive forces, and emphasizes not singularity qua collapse but multiplicity qua transcendence. […] The question to be asked of and into contemporary culture, then, is [...] indeed a transcendent metamodern condition in which the poles themselves have disappeared and we, collectively and individually, have found in the middle space between them an entirely new site of 'reconstructive deconstruction'" (7-8).
This is consistent with Lakoff and Johnson's cognitive science, a reconstruction of an empirical plurality of mathematics, allowing for their "contradiction and paradox," yet grounded in our universal embodiment in the spaces between metaphysical paradigms.
Permalink Reply by Edward theurj Berge on August 31, 2019 at 7:47am
Chuck Pezeshki replied:
Power law religion arises out of the typical academic Authority-driven/Legalistic v-Meme, as a status assertion that one (that's the authority part) has found the single constant for the universe (that's the legalistic/absolutistic part.) Not surprised at all, esp. relating it all back to some version of Plato.
Geoffrey West goes nuts on this (he used to be the head of the Santa Fe Institute) in his book 'Scale'. Some useful stuff does come out of this obsession. The book is long, but his concepts of sublinear/superlinear re: energetic flows is good, and useful as far as understanding open vs. closed systems. Bottom line? Open systems can live on, but closed systems that restrict information flow (like companies) are, sooner or later, gonna die.
Obviously (well, at least to me) most real systems are what we call multi-fractal -- the 'fractal/self-similar' part constraining itself to whatever the dominant physics are at that level. A basic example? A drop of water is constrained by surface tension, hence that little bubble on your spoon, if it's just a drop. If it's a bunch of drops, otherwise known as a river, a different set of scaling physics overrides, and, well, the river flows and makes vortices and such. It's not that hard. Unless, of course, you want to be the dude/dudette getting your name on the magic #.
This all maps to Edward's worldview stuff -- different mechanism producing different scaling. Like a good professor, I'll leave it on the board for those still reading this and NOT asleep to finish the calcs. :-) And for those particularly inclined, you can ponder the meta-linear nature of the transformation about for MHC -- chained operators do not nonlinear jumps make.
I did like the stuff about the connectome spreading out from the middle scales to larger and smaller. Cool!
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I did mention multi-fractals to the Yahoo Adult Development group. E.g., from this [1] article:
"Multifractals are more highly advanced mathematical structures: fractals of fractals. They arise from fractals 'interwoven' with each other in an appropriate manner and in appropriate proportions. Multifractals are not simply the sum of fractals and cannot be divided to return back to their original components, because the way they weave is fractal in nature. The result is that in order to see a structure similar to the original, different portions of a multifractal need to expand at different rates. A multifractal is therefore non-linear in nature."
And from this paper[2]:
"Self-organized criticality (SOC) purports to build multi-scaled structures out of local interactions. Evidence of scaling in various domains of biology may be more generally understood to reflect multiplicative interactions weaving together many disparate scales. The self-similarity of power-law scaling entails homogeneity: fluctuations distribute themselves similarly across many spatial and temporal scales. However, this apparent homogeneity can be misleading, especially as it spans more scales. Reducing biological processes to one power-law relationship neglects rich cascade dynamics. We review recent research into multifractality in executive-function cognitive tasks and propose that scaling reflects not criticality but instead interactions across multiple scales and among fluctuations of multiple sizes."
Some of the references I've provided show that cognitive functioning, and natural phenomenon generally, operate via multifractal cascades, not linear, repeated, monofractal similarities. The latter are an imposition created by formal mathematics under the guise of ideal Platonic forms and/or ideal Aristotelian rules and categories. As much is admitted in this MHC paper (pp. 113-15) [3]. Even advanced maths [4] operate via such cascades and not formal necessary and sufficient conditions that fit into tidy, reiterated sets. It seems to me that any model of complexity should be based on how dynamic systems actually operate rather than trying to fit them into a formal ideal.
The crux of the issue [5]:
"Hierarchical organization is a cornerstone of complexity and multifractality constitutes its central quantifying concept. For model uniform cascades the corresponding singularity spectrum are symmetrical while those extracted from empirical data are often asymmetric."
[1] https://www.sciencedaily.com/rel.../2016/01/160121110913.htm
[2] https://www.frontiersin.org/.../10.../fphys.2012.00102/full
[3] https://www.dareassociation.org/.../GWOF_A_330277...
[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multifractal_system
[5] https://arxiv.org/pdf/1503.02405.pdf
I also reminded of this Mascolo quote:
"Although it is possible to identify particular tasks and activities that operate within particular domains of thinking, feeling, or acting in everyday life, most tasks involve an integration of multiple task domains. […] Higher-order skills emerge from the constructive differentiation and inter-coordination of skill elements from diverse task domains. […] Viewed in this way, it becomes clear that development takes place in a multidirectional web of pathways (Fischer and Bidell, 2006) rather than a unidirectional ladder. […] Developing skills do not move in a fixed order of steps in a single direction, but they develop in multiple directions along multiple strands that weave in and out of each other in ontogenesis, the developmental history of the person (or other organism)" (336-37).
Also now an Integral World article here.
This morning I was re-reading a paper I co-authored with Michel Bauwens, which reminded me of the above discussion. From footnote 2 of that article:
Bryant (2011b) discusses how Bhaskar sees the difference between the transcendent and transcendental. The former assumes a metaphysical foundation for knowledge as described above. Transcendental deduction bypasses such a framing by speculating on what virtual preconditions must be supposed for knowledge to be possible. The virtual by this definition is multiple and immanent without any need of a transcendent, metaphysical underpinning. Bryant (2008) explores this in depth in another book about Deleuze.
Nobuhara (1998) asserts that for Hartshorne relative (r) terms are the basis of absolute (a) terms, noting: "As the concrete includes and exceeds the abstract." The ever-changing relative domain includes within itself the abstract absolute. He defines the absolute as supremely relative, or surrelative.
Another way of approaching the asymmetrical relationship between the relative and the absolute is through basic categories and image schema as elucidated by Lakoff (1999). Recall that these prototypes are in the middle of classical categorical hierarchies, between the most general and the most particular. Basic categories are the most concrete way we have of relating to and operating within the environment. Thus both the more particular and more general categories are more abstract. And yet our usual way of thinking is that the more particular the category the more concrete or relative the object it represents is and vice versa.
Which is indeed related to the absolute being asymmetrically dependent on the relative, if by relative we mean those concrete image schema which are the basis of more abstract derivations. It's easy to confuse them because our 'common sense' associates the more concrete objects of the world with the most particular objects on our constructed hierarchies; the same for the most abstract and ephemeral of thoughts, which do not seem physical or material. And yet these hierarchies are not constructed that way, instead being from the middle up and down via image schema and basic categories.
Such things are unconscious and not readily apparent. So of course we can 'reason' from both the bottom-up and top-down in such hierarchies if we associate the relative with the most particular and the absolute with the most general or abstract. But we do so from the most concrete of image schema, the actual relative, while the top and bottom of the usual, classical hierarchy are the most abstract.
This chart/image helps with some of the ideas above. E.g., #16 noting multiple scales and levels interacting, reminding me of Mascolo's quote above. Although #15 claims that "complex systems are often nested hierarchies." Which of course depends on what we mean by nested hierarchies. If by that it means fractals with scale-invariance, then that per above is rare, not often. Also note that the chart is similar to Edwards' chart of the categories of lenses.
From this piece, which feeds my thesis:
"[...] a paradox known as the continuum hypothesis. Gödel showed that the statement cannot be proved either true or false using standard mathematical language. [...It] efficiently boils down to a question in the theory of sets [...Cantor] was not able to prove this continuum hypothesis, and nor were many mathematicians and logicians who followed him."
"Gödel [...] showed that the continuum hypothesis cannot be proved either true or false starting from the standard axioms — the statements taken to be true — of the theory of sets, which are commonly taken as the foundation for all of mathematics. Gödel and Cohen's work on the continuum hypothesis implies that there can exist parallel mathematical universes that are both compatible with standard mathematics — one in which the continuum hypothesis is added to the standard axioms and therefore declared to be true, and another in which it is declared false.
Nonlinearity in Living Systems is the title of a recently published e-book by Frontiers in Applied Mathematics and Statistics. Here's an excerpt from the introductory editorial.
"The biological basis of physiological signals is incredibly complex. While many researches certainly appreciate molecular, cellular and systems approaches to unravel overall biological complexity, in the recent decades the interest for mathematical and computational characterization of structural and functional basis underlying biological phenomena gain wide popularity among scientists.[...] We witnessed wide range applications of nonlinear quantitative analysis that produced measures such as fractal dimension, power law scaling, Hurst exponent, Lyapunov exponent, approximate entropy, sample entropy, Lempel–Ziv complexity as well as other metric. [...] Also there is another more theoretical challenge of contemporary nonlinear signal measurements, especially including fractal-based methods. The question of choosing the right method and its possible adjustment in order for the results of the analysis to be as accurate as possible is the persistent problem.[...] We seek to bring together the recent practical and theoretical advances in the development and application of nonlinear methods or narrower fractal-based methods for characterizing the complex physiological systems at multiple levels of organization. [...] A comprehensive understanding of advantages and disadvantages of each method, especially between its mathematical assumptions and real-world applicability, can help to find out what is at stake regarding the above aims and to direct us toward more fruitful application of nonlinear measures and statistics in physiology and biology in general."
Excerpts from this article in the ebook, "Measures and metrics of biological signals."
"With the growing complexity of the applied mathematical concepts, we are approaching some serious issues of foundations of Mathematics. Before that, let us mention that the symbol ∞ does not represent infinity uniquely since Cantor's discoveries in 1873, when he showed that arithmetical and geometric infinity, i.e., natural numbers and real line are different infinite quantities. As a consequence, infinity has been scaled in terms of pairwise different cardinal numbers. However, the size of this scale is enormous; it cannot be coded by any set. This was the creation of Set theory, and the beginning of the studies of foundations of Mathematics, which is probably never ending."
"We learned that Mathematical theories, packed around their axioms can be at the same level of logical certainty, while obviously impossible mixed together since with colliding axioms.[...] Let us just say that AC (Axiom of Choice) is very much needed in the foundations of Mathematics, but there are alternatives. [...] Some of the functions close to the above-examined fractals are complex enough to open the fundamental issue. [...] On the other hand, we can stay on the flat Earth and deal only with short approximation of the phenomena, avoiding entering the zone of the complex Mathematics and its fundamental issues. Yet, as proved by Goedel, we cannot escape the hot issues even remaining only in Arithmetic, nor in any theory containing its copy (like Geometry)."
Excerpts from The Number Sense by Dehaene, pp. 242-45 are below. I'd say whether or not one believes in Platonic math, both it and formal math are abstract with a priori axioms divorced from concrete reality. The intuitionist or constructivist math he notes below, while accepting our innate categories of thought, are not the same as the image schema and basic categories of cognitive linguistics (and in fact are not referenced). But it bases this similar idea on the relation of math to our embodiment.
"Twentieth-century mathematicians have been profoundly divided over this fundamental issue concerning the nature of mathematical objects. For some, traditionally labeled 'Platonists,' mathematical reality exists in an abstract plane, and its objects are as real as those of everyday life. [...] For an epistemologist, a neurobiologist, or a neuropsychologist, the Platonist position seems hard to defend—as unacceptable, in fact, as Cartesian dualism is as a scientific theory of the brain."
"A second category of mathematicians, the 'formalists,' view the issue of the existence of mathematical objects as meaningless and void. For them, mathematics is only a game in which one manipulates symbols according to precise formal rules. Mathematical objects such as numbers have no relation to reality: They are defined merely as a set of symbols that satisfy certain axioms. [...] Though the formalist position may account for the recent evolution of pure mathematics, it does not provide an adequate explanation of its origins."
"A third category of mathematicians is thus that of the 'intuitionists' or 'constructivists,' who believe that mathematical objects are nothing but constructions of the human mind. In their view, mathematics does not exist in the outside world, but only in the brain of the mathematician who invents it. [...] Among the available theories on the nature of mathematics, intuitionism seems to me to provide the best account of the relations between arithmetic and the human brain. The discoveries of the last few years in the psychology of arithmetic have brought new arguments to support the intuitionist view. [...] These empirical results tend to confirm Poincare's postulate that number belongs to the 'natural objects of thought,' the innate categories according to which we apprehend the world. [...] Intuition about numbers is thus anchored deep in our brain. Number appears as one of the fundamental dimensions according to which our nervous system parses the external world."
Power laws are a burr in my butt today. From this article:
"Many self-similar systems are scale invariant only in discrete steps. A blood vessel tends to branch into two smaller vessels, a fluid vortex into two or three smaller vortices, and the Sierpinski triangle is self-similar only by powers of two. These systems preserve relative proportions upon rescaling from one step to the next, but not upon arbitrary rescaling. This property is termed discrete-scale invariance or discrete renormalizability. It is a weaker condition than the continuous scale invariance underlying the Pareto distribution. Whereas strict scale invariance implies a power law and vice versa, discrete-scale invariance allows log-periodic modulations in the frequencies of observations that deviate from a pure power law such as Eq.(1). Such modulations are indeed observed in bronchial tube diameter, vortex ens-trophy, and financial asset prices."
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"A common graph mining task is community detection, which seeks an unsupervised decomposition of a network into groups based on statistical regularities in network connectivity. Although many such algorithms exist, community detection's No Free Lunch theorem implies that no algorithm can be optimal across all inputs. [...] We find that (i) algorithms vary widely in the number and composition of communities they find, given the same input; (ii) algorithms can be clustered into distinct high-level groups based on similarities of their outputs on real-world networks; (iii) algorithmic differences induce wide variation in accuracy on link-based learning tasks; and, (iv) no algorithm is always the best at such tasks across all inputs."


Every once in a while, someone or something comes along that changes us and our lives. If those experiences and encounters resonate with us, they can transform our view of the world and how we choose to live in it. However, two people can have the exact same experience or encounter; one may be unaffected by it, while the course of another's life is altered. Perhaps this is due to an inherited predisposition. Or maybe it is all about timing.
A painting of the Santa Maria by Andries van Eertvelt. It is interesting to note that, despite his fabulous find, Columbus died a disappointed man because what he really sought and valued was fame and riches.
This may seem like a bizarre analogy, but developing an interest or passion may be similar to the way dogs develop fear. Puppies have a sensitization period between 7-12 weeks old when they may develop fear of something new like a vacuum cleaner, especially if they associate it with an unpleasant experience. Gradual exposure in a gentle and non-frightening way to sights sounds and things can help avoid developing such fears. Perhaps people have sensitive periods also, when they are more receptive or "ripe" for discovery. When presented in an accessible way at a certain point in our lives, those experiences have the power to significantly affect us in a positive way.
Some discoveries are made while in pursuit of something that was not part of the original quest. An example is Christopher Columbus's serendipitous discovery of America. By sailing westward, Columbus hoped to find a new route to India. Instead, his fleet stumbled upon the New World.
Most discoveries that change us are of a more mundane sort. In my case, a neighbor gradually introduced me to nature. When we were about seven years old, he started bringing my sister and me along for pleasant walks in the woods. We often came across interesting sights like turtles basking on a log in a vernal pool. We had fun searching for arrowheads in recently tilled farm fields. This early exposure to nature sparked a lifelong interest on my part, although I can't say I understand why it had no such effect on my twin sister.
I asked my husband Doug what inspired him to pursue a career in geology. As a college freshman he had no idea what to study. On his first day at Eastern, he joined the queue to sign up for classes. Dazed and confused, he asked the young lady at the table how to figure out which classes to take. She asked him what he was interested in. He said he enjoyed the outdoors. She suggested an earth sciences course. Fortunately, the teacher was Dr. Sherm Clebnik. Clebnik brought earth sciences to life for his students by making it interesting and relevant. And a geologist was born.
Sometimes a life changing experience is the result of an epiphany. An epiphany is defined as a "sudden, intuitive perception of or insight into the reality or essential meaning of something, usually initiated by some simple or commonplace occurrence." I had one when I moved from Amarillo, Texas to the Quiet Corner. On a sunny weekend afternoon, I was hanging laundry on the line out by the barn. The sheets were flapping in a gentle breeze, the sky was a brilliant blue, and the leaves crunching beneath my feet smelled like autumn. It hit me then that I'd probably never been happier. After a lifetime of moving, I realized that this was the place where I wanted to settle down and explore.
Next week's article tells the story of a man whose life was altered forever by a simple gift from his mother.


World class has been on Ryan Whiting's radar for awhile. With a PR over 72' in the shot put and another win in the discus, Whiting now embarks on his career as a professional athlete. His 72-1 is currently #2 in the world.
PA#1, 2 and 3 in the 100 meter dash from the PIAA AAA state champion Lydia Ali of Radnor (11.34 prelims-11.55 finals), and Ayanna Fields (11.63 prelims, 11.70 finals), and Zakiyyah Richardson (11.64 prelims, 11.71 finals).
Cheltenham took another crack at the 4x400, finishing 3rd in 3:15.62. Their last competition will be a the New Balance Nationals this coming weekend in North Carolina.


The easy answer is to track learner progress. The subtler, more powerful answer is to drive learner behavior.
Ariely came to regret this arrangement. The point system incentivized him to behave in ways that were not in the best interests of his students or even himself. Instead, he was driven to optimize his score.
If an expert on human behavior is powerless in the face of a point system, what chance do the rest of us stand?
As human beings, we are compelled to adapt our behavior to the metrics we are held against.
When we measure learning by counting up attendance numbers, course completions, and hours of training delivered, what we get is attendance, completions, and training time. What we don't get is effective learning or business impact.
The implication is dire. If we don't measure effective learning and business impact, it's not just that we fail to report on those things. They are likely not happening at all.
Your measurement strategy is an incentive strategy. If you give people points to learn, they'll care more about the points than the learning . (This is incidentally a central danger of casually gamifying L&D.) If instead you challenge learners and give them the chance to be recognized for their real achievements, you have the basis of a successful measurement strategy.
Behavioral surveys get right down to asking about what people actually do on the job, or at least believe they do. In these surveys, learners self-report how frequently they perform a set of behaviors.
With a frequency rating scale, you can avoid a lot of the fuzzy data that comes from asking about learners' subjective feelings (e.g. "how much do you agree or disagree?" or "how satisfied are you?"). And you can make the frequencies more specific (e.g. "once per day" instead of "sometimes") so that the distinctions between answer choices are clearer for the respondents.
Free or freemium apps like Typeform, SurveyMonkey, or Google Forms make it easy to build, deliver, and track behavioral surveys.
By surveying your learners about the frequency of their behaviors, you can set a behavioral baseline prior to a learning experience. Then after the experience, administer the same survey to show the behavioral impact of what people learned.
To show the durability of behavior change, survey learners weeks or months after the initial learning experience.
Behavioral surveys are subject to various response biases that would lead a learner to either underreport or overreport the frequency of a particular behavior.
A way to un-bias results is to confirm them by surveying the learners' peers, managers, or other colleagues as well. The knowledge that someone else is rating you makes you more likely to be honest, and any gaps in perception you uncover will be interesting to explore further.
You can also anonymize the data to reduce response bias. You'll lose data at the individual level, but still collect it at the department or organization level to show change happening across your workforce.
For a more sophisticated, even less-biased survey alternative, see Will Thalheimer's excellent Performance-Focused Smile Sheets.
SMART goals, OKRs, KPIs, MBOs – these are a few of the acronyms we use today to set and measure business goals. When we're trying to motivate learners, however, this goal-setting jargon often falls flat.
Enter milestones. A milestone is a significant event in someone's development. Unlike traditional learning objectives, milestones describe achievements that by definition would be meaningful to the learner.
Milestones are a way to track meaningful progress toward a business outcome. When a milestone is achieved, you know that change is happening and that learning is being transferred to the real world.
A good way to measure the progress of individual learners is to count up the number of milestones they are able to achieve in a quarter or in a year. Or, measuring the % of individuals who have achieved a specific milestone can tell you how prevalent a behavior is in an organization.
Performance rubrics make behaviors more specific and visible by spelling out the component parts of a successful performance.
Putting rubrics into the hands of managers, or even learners themselves, makes it much easier to observe a behavior, identify gaps, and give consistent feedback.
When giving learners regular feedback is impractical, performance rubrics allow learners to measure their progress against concrete criteria. In my all-time favorite learning book Design for How People Learn, Julie Dirksen offers an example of a self-evaluation flow that allows learners to practice, then evaluate their own performance with a checklist, and finally hear from experts.
Whether you go with a simple checklist or a more sophisticated rubric that spells out multiple levels of quality for each component action, make sure that all criteria are clear to the people using it. Before widely distributing a rubric, observe a manager using it to give feedback to a learner, or observe a learner using the rubric to evaluate their own performance after the fact. A good rubric takes the guesswork out of measurement, so look for any signs of confusion, and tweak the rubric accordingly.
Role models are people whose behavior learners can emulate. It needn't be any more formal than that. Whereas mentorship programs tie a single individual to another and require significant investment from both parties, role modeling is a lot easier to implement and can have a much wider impact.
For any learning initiative you want to measure, identify individuals who excel at the behaviors you want people to learn. These role models can tell you what gaps learners are exhibiting and how they are improving, or they can observe learners practicing and performing and give them feedback directly.
If you're wondering what role models have to do with measurement, think of them as human measuring sticks. Not only can role models provide feedback to learners, learners can measure their progress by continually comparing their performance to that of the role model. It's learning by aspiration.
The measurement here is more informal and less quantitative, but it is deeply meaningful. When offering critical feedback, role models are more likely to point out the correct flaw or offer the right corrective; and when things go well, their praise feels that much better to receive, and is a powerful incentive to continue learning.
To identify role models, focus on what people do, not on who they are. If someone in your organization excels at a target behavior, they can help you measure the performance of those learning it.
Get role models to share best practices and counterexamples with the team, and when they deliver these insights, make sure they provide all the specific, nitty gritty details that got them there.
The more examples of expert performance you can feature, the better learners will be able to model the correct behavior and also gauge their level of performance in comparison.
So hit pause on the point systems. Squirrel your smile sheets away. Put that ROI calculator down for just a moment.
Behavioral surveys, milestones, performance rubrics, and role models allow you to both measure change and create the right internal incentives for learning. And beyond measurement, these approaches reinforce learning points and give learners the kind of feedback they need to course correct, or celebrate progress. These are all good results. So treat your measurement strategy as part of your learning strategy, not just as a way to evaluate that strategy.
Comment below with an example of your measurement strategy. What have you done that has created the right incentives for learning?
If you haven't been measuring your efforts, consider taking a microlearning approach. Microlearning: The Modern Strategy for the Modern WorkplaceTo learn more about Microlearning, download our Guide .


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Local students welcome to heart screening Wednesday
Hazen High School will be hosting heart screenings for local youth ages 14-24.
Hazen High School will be hosting Nick of Time Foundation Wednesday, April 3 for ECG youth heart screenings.
The event will run from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. in the school's gym, 1011 Hoquiam Ave. NE in Renton.
The screenings are available to those ages 14 to 24 years old. Attendees do not have to be Hazen students to be eligible for the screenings.
Sudden Cardiac Arrest is the leading cause of sudden death in exercising "at-play" young people, according to an event poster. It is typically the result of an undiagnosed structural or electrical problem.
The goal of the foundation and these screenings is to reduce the number of deaths from sudden cardiac arrest through early detection as well as raise awareness and educate communities about sudden cardiac arrest, warning symptoms and the value of heart screenings, the poster read.
Student screening forms can be found online at the Nick of Time Foundation's website.
To schedule an appointment, return the form to Hazen's main office or scan/email to Vicki Olson at vicki.olson@rentonschools.us or 425-204-4250.
Tax deductible donations of $25 can be made online at the foundation's website. Cash or checks can also be made to Nick of Time Foundation and submitted with the completed form or at the appointment.
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