The 2nd F-L-I-P Pillar: Building a Learning Culture Means Building a Listening Culture Part 1.
It seems simple enough, good teaching equals good communication. The problem is what has traditionally been held up as good teaching is the most rigid example of poor, one-way, communication. Flipped learning at its core is about changing the teaching model by changing the communication model. In its earliest forms flipped learning was about moving the one-way communication component of education to a medium suited to one-way communication thereby opeing up the classroom as the heart of interpersonal communication between students and teacher, and students and their peers. The power of the flipped classroom is found in making time for communiction and interaction, but if we limit communiction time to the period between the bells we are still missing out on the power of flipped learning.
The second pillar in F-L-I-P learning is "Learning Culture" moving instruction to student-centered learning, greater depth, knowledge construction by students, and student evalution of their learning. All of these areas can require a different communiction model for a flipped classroom than exists in a traditional classroom. Formative assessment, small group and individual interaction between students and teachers, shared and collaborative resources among students, opportunities for feedback and constructive criticism with opportunity for revision, and specific opportunities for learning reflection all need to be incorporated into flipped learning classroom.
When Jon and Aaron began incorporating instructional videos the goal was to mimic the traditional direct instruction component with computers, DVDs, and iPods. It addressed the student-centered need for instruction at a time and place that was flexible but the instruction was initially still a universal model where all students got uniform teacher determined materials. Moving from a base "flipped classroom" model to a deeper "flipped learning" model means more communication from students to the teacher. This is where formative assessment becomes so important.
Formative assessment is information gathering that is diagnostic rather than summative and is intended as waypoint markers that direct further instruction. Formative assessment can be high-tech, low-tech, or no-tech. One opportunity missed by so many flipped teachers is the fact that the high-tech apps, tools, and extensions are relatively easy to incorporate as flipped teachers have in nearly all cases created a technology and media framework for accessing online instruction, resource materials, and course information. If we as flipped teachers have gone to the trouble to build class websites, employ learning management software, create Google classrooms, why would we not leverage that framework to add interactive and data gathering elements to our videos with program EdPuzzle, Google forms, Youtube enhancments, etc? Why not include in the group space regular usage of Kahoot, Google Forms, or another digital responder system? As flipped teachers we are willing to train the class and parents to adjust expectations and to use technology wisely for direct instruction, the same framework can be used to gather formative information.
Low-tech and no-tech options are just as important for flipped teachers as the high-tech tools. It is possible to overload students with apps, tech, and muiltiple platforms and a temptation for flipped classes is to assume that all the tech used to teach students away from the classroom or in the individual space is also necescary in the classroom group space. Plickers is an example of a low-tech tool that leverages the power of personal interaction. If you are not familar to plickers just Google it (https://plickers.com/) , but in short every student has a piece of paper with a QR style code that can be "seen" and read by a teacher's smart phone. The app reads and tallies all student answers it sees as the teacher scans the classroom and collates them into summary charts. It allows 100% participation but also 100% annonimity in the group space. There are options for teacher to glean more information in the review process as well. The best part however is watching student reactions, answer speeds, responses to success and failure, and giving immediate feedback as neccessary. One device and a bunch of pieces of paper.
All the whizbang in the world does not guarantee learning, and just as flipped classroom is not about the video, flipped learning is not about the tech. The four letter word the flipped method provides is "time". Time that can be used for small group interaction as students that do not need assistance are working on a different digital or non-digital component of the class. Time that can be used for peer-to-peer learning activities. One old school tool that has made a comeback in my class is the individual whiteboard. This trick is a as old as school with slate and chalk, but I never liked the mess of 32 individual whiteboards. I have covered all four walls of my room with whiteboard for student work and presentation, but with increasing class sizes (and a prevelance of crutches and sports injuries) I have been using a half dozen 30″ by 24″ whiteboards for individuals and small groups to work and display work for the class. I love my whiteboard walls and my smaller boards as I can quickly circle the room and make instructional decisions based on what the students are telling me. Now a non-flip teachers may say they use whiteboard and boardwork as well, and I hope it is effective for them, but what makes it more effective in a flipped classroom is that because instruction has already happened in the individual space every student can be confident that they have at least something correct to share. Additionally, with them on their feet already flexible grouping is the next natural step.
Another great formative tool that is more tool and assessment and can be done digitally or in paper form is the interactive notebook. In short this is as the name suggests a notebook that is organized in such a way that it becomes a collection point for thoughts, questions, tasks, wonderings, information, examples, yle of teaching, etc. and becomes an artifact of student learning. One teacher I work with was looking to use Pear Deck to do her inteactive notebooks digitally for students who have defined organizational issues and need the structure and limitations of technology. Regardless of formate the notebook is not intended to be graded in many cases but becomes a thought record for the student and this is one of the best ways to make formative and instructional decisions. We all wish (sometimes) we could crawl into the heads of our students, and interactive notebooks can give us a window. Interactive notebooks are a study to themselves so go down the Google/YouTube rabbit hole and enjoy.
A person might notice that regarless of the level of technology involved, questions are at the heart of formative assessment. A well formed and well placed question to a student is many times the key to opening learning for the student. The role of the flipped method in formative assesment is giving students preparation and instruction in their individual learning space that allows students the opportunity to form good questions when they become appropriately frustrated in the process of learning. Data that can be gathered digtially through video interaction tools or check point assessments give teachers the opportunity to form good questions that can assess and direct learning in the group space. Most importantly the time gathered and protected by flipped learning that can be better utilized in the group space allows for more interaction between all learners and educators and more interaction means more opportunities for good questions.
In part 2 of this mini-series we will address how communication tools, methods, and procedures can lead to deeper learning and student knowledge creation.
Next Post Part 2 of The 2nd F-L-I-P Pillar: Building a Learning Culture Means Building a Listening Culture.


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Home DevOps JetBrains ups its style and refactoring game in PyCharm and GoLand v2018.3
JetBrains ups its style and refactoring game in PyCharm and GoLand v2018.3
PyCharm and GoLand, both members of the JetBrains IDE family, are now available in version 2018.3, offering developers new refactorings, improved accessibility, faster searches, and better GitHub support.
If you're into Machine Learning or containerization, chances are you'll have to work with Python or Go. JetBrains offers IDEs for both languages and used its last large update round of 2018 to spruce PyCharm and GoLand up for the festive season.
PyCharm now comes with an indentation indicator in the bottom right status bar, showing which type of indentation was picked for the file currently open, and offering a way to convert it to something that goes with your code style guide. There are also additional options for import sorting, which might help even more in achieving a somewhat consistent style when working with lots of external code.
If you tend to get a bit more wordy when formulating your TODOs, you're in luck, since the update also includes support for multiline TODOs. The latter are, similar to FIXME, a special type of comment, that PyCharm highlights for better findability.
Terminal tabs have become persistent and can be labeled in v2018.3, so that they won't get lost anymore if you close the software. If you've been having trouble quickly finding relevant functions, calls, or other code pieces, the "Search everywhere" popup now includes filtering options to narrow down your search.
Subscribers of PyCharm Professional Edition now have WSL interpreters available to them, offering another option for Windows users to run code in a Linux environment. If the IDE is connected to an issue tracker, the pro edition 2018.3 can measure how long a developer works on a ticket and update the issue tracker accordingly. It also bundles database and web language features from the DataGrip and WebStorm tools, which once updated, let users work with Cassandra or edit HTML without a plugin in Chrome for example.
What about Go?
Meanwhile GoLand just got a tiny bit more accessible: If you're using a screen reader, it should now be able to read things like line numbers and breakpoints. There's also a newly added high-contrast theme, which can be accessed via Appearance & Behavior in the Settings section of the IDE.
Since Go is widely used in the containerization community, it might please Docker users that GoLand now includes a new Build options field in the Dockerfiles run configuration. For now it only supports a couple CLI options, though. They include memory-swap, no-cache, pull, cpu-shares, and force-rm. The Kubernetes plugin got updated as well, which means that code completion, the Rename refactoring, code inspections, and quick-fixes are now also available when working with Helm resource template files.
Speaking of refactorings, one of the new additions in GoLand 2018.3 is Change Signature, which should make adding, removing, ordering, and renaming function parameters as well as adding or removing return values more comfortable. It comes in form of a popup window, so that users don't have to switch context to make a change. When reordering parameters, GoLand will also take care of swapping values at the call sites – naturally, using "Undo" will automatically reverse those changes as well.
When applying a Rename refactoring, the IDE will now inform you about potential conflicts the new name might introduce. It also offers additional inspections, which aim to find parts of the code that can never be executed as well as those that return errors, when the errors aren't being checked. If you're in need of a placeholder during programming, an "Add format string argument" intention was added to generate those for any provided expression. There are also Generate Constructor and Generate getter/setter intentions in place, to speed up development.
Those wanting to use GoLand with repository management system GitHub can make use of a new GitHub Pull Requests tool to have a look at or search through pull requests, create local branches, or open PRs directly on GitHub. This function is also available in PyCharm.
A complete list of new features can be found on JetBrains product pages (PyCharm, GoLand) under "What's new".
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The week-long NHL draft combine has already started in Buffalo, but the wooing of prospects never stops.
Foudy finished as the 19th ranked North American skater on the NHL Central Scouting Bureau's final list for next month's draft in Dallas.
His productive second half in London put him up there. His play for Canada at the recent under-18 world championships may push him even higher up the ladder.
And his performance in the combine's fitness testing, which runs this weekend after meet-and-greet with teams, could even push his stock even higher.
"You do train for it in a way," the 18-year-old said. "You do your regular routine, but we also added in the bike in training, too. You obviously have to work on the things they ask you to do at the combine. Not a lot of guys cycle. It's something different, so we would do a bike workout instead of running. We put on the mask (to replicate the VO2 Max stationary bike test) and all that stuff.
But the testing is a Foudy forte.
After being a last-minute addition to the Canadian Hockey League's Top Prospects Game in Guelph in January, he shone in fitness testing. The former Ontario high school hurdles champ won the vertical and broad jumps there, proved second-to-none in agility drills, was top three in forward and backward skating (with and without the puck) and his reaction times were off the charts.
The individual fitness tests in Buffalo are largely similar — so he's in good shape there.
"Having been through this sort of thing multiple times in my life, it's comforting," Foudy said. "In a track race, it's just you out there. When you're in the blocks, you're nervous. In a hockey game, you've got your teammates. And at this combine, you know almost everyone there — from playing with them or against them all year.
Foudy is one of three Knights among the 104 players at the KeyBank Center and HarborCenter facilities. Defencemen Evan Bouchard, a likely top 10 overall pick, and Alec Regula were also invited.
"It's nice to have them and go through it together," he said. "All the guys we've had on the team who have already been through the draft, they gave me advice on this combine and what to expect. They were a big help to me.
Foudy took five days off after returning from under-18s in Russia, then got right back into off-ice workouts. He enjoyed the Olympic-sized ice surface overseas and became a positive contributor to the Canadian squad.
The games against Windsor will take on additional meaning. Foudy's younger brother Jean-Luc, the Spitfires' most recent first-rounder, signed with the OHL club last week.
Liam laughed about the comment Jean-Luc made after being picked by the Spits last month. He said he was a similar player to his older brother —but more physical.


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MACOMB/MOLINE, IL - - Western Illinois University was recently awarded a grant of $136,919 from Roy J. Carver Charitable Trust to equip and expand science laboratories on the Quad Cities campus.
"We have known for some time that there is an unmet demand in the Quad Cities area for affordable, high-quality, STEM-focused programs that will provide the sort of skilled labor that area businesses are seeking," said College of Arts and Sciences Assistant Dean Jim Rabchuk. "We are so excited that the Roy J. Carver Charitable Trust has offered this support to expand WIU-QC's ability to provide STEM-related course offerings and experiences to local students, both at the undergraduate and graduate levels."
The grant will permit WIU to upgrade an existing lab on campus with safety equipment, storage capacity and laboratory equipment that will enable the Quad Cities campus to offer WIU's introductory sequence of Chemistry courses. This will expand science-focused General Education offerings at WIU-QC, including prerequisite courses for the majors of Engineering and Civil, Mechanical, and Electrical Engineering. In addition, the funds will permit the purchase of equipment in support of the Ph.D. program in Environmental Science.
"WIU is grateful to the Roy J. Carver Charitable Trust for their generous support of STEM-focused initiatives on the Quad Cities campus. Western's enhanced science laboratory capabilities will expand course offerings and programming, establish innovative spaces for applied learning and research and create new educational opportunities for WIU students, area high school students who participate in dual enrollment and our Quad Cities community partners," said Vice President for Quad Cities Campus Operations Kristi Mindrup.
The Quad Cities region has a critical need for STEM-focused college graduates to meet the needs of the expanding economy. In response to this need, WIU-Quad Cities is dedicated to ensuring that campus spaces, programs and curriculum align to maximize student opportunities to gain hands-on experiences that prepare students for industry-based careers throughout the region and beyond. Investment in enhanced science laboratories will expand curriculum and research capabilities within Engineering, Physics, Chemistry, Biology and Environmental Science programs.
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Q: Bookmark all tabs in Chrome on iOS? Is there is a way to bookmark all of my tabs at once without having to go one by one while in Chrome for iOS?

A: There is no direct way to do this in Google Chrome for iOS.
However there is a work around:
It requires you to have sync enabled on both your iOS device and a Mac or PC running the desktop Google Chrome OS.

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*On the desktop computre launch Chrome, then go to the menu bar, and select History > Show Full History or press ⌘ + Y.

*On the left side select "Tabs from other devices".

*Find your device in the list and in the right corner press the three dots icon.

*Now choose "Open all".

*This will open every tab from your iPhone in a new window.

*Now click "Bookmarks" from the menu bar and select "Bookmark All Tabs..." or press ⇧ + ⌘ + D.
You will now be able to save all these tabs as bookmarks and that group will sync back to your phone due to the sync feature you already enabled.
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Conversations With Literary Websites: The Quarterly Conversation
by Mark Athitakis (membership) | Jun-07-2010
This post continues a series on Critical Mass featuring websites dedicated to book reviewing online. Read the previous Q&As with The Rumpus and The Millions.
Launched in 2005, the Quarterly Conversation is an online journal featuring long-form interviews, reviews, and essays related to a variety of books---"so long as the books are of literary and/or cultural value," as the site puts it, but with a special interest in works in translation. Editor Scott Esposito answered questions about the Quarterly Conversation---and its related blogs, Conversational Reading and the Constant Conversation---from NBCC board member Mark Athitakis via email.
You launched your personal blog, Conversational Reading, in August 2004; the Quarterly Conversation debuted the following year. At the time, what role did you feel an online literary journal could play that a blog couldn't? Have the distinctions between what your blog does and what TQC does changed five years later?
Given all the changes of heart I've had about the form and function of blogs and online magazines during the years, I'm a little surprised that my original distinction between CR and TQC has remained consistent: essentially, my blog is the testing and sharing ground for all the books, chunks of information, and half-formed thoughts I figure are interesting enough to put out there to whoever wants to read them. The best description for it is simply "Scott's reading journal," and I'm gratified that people seem to find it interesting.
By contrast, The Quarterly Conversation is a place where I hope to present writing about literature that is considerably more developed and worked over, basically writing that aspires to more permanence than what I would put in a blog. It's a place where we add our contribution to the chorus of book reviews out there, where we interview authors doing interesting work, and where we provide in-depth, 4,000-word essays that attempt to explain why certain writers working today are important and even unique.
Needless to say, the other main difference is that CR is just me--it's just my thoughts, more or less unmediated and probably a little rough--whereas TQC would not exist without the hard work of many amazing writers and editors, whom it has been my good fortune to know and work with.
How has the Quarterly Conversation's commitment to covering international literature and works in translation evolved since its launch? Has the literary world, in print or online, generally gotten better or worse at covering these books?
It's funny, but I've gotten so used to having TQC identified with world literature that I've developed a pretty boilerplate response to this sort of question. When I started the publication I certainly didn't have any agenda, like "let's push foreign literature." I didn't even read that much myself. But over the years I've found that more and more often the fiction I was finding the most interesting was fiction being written in countries other than the U.S., so I naturally started reading those books--and writing about them--more and more, and so obviously TQC started to lean in that direction as well. I'd say the evolution is branching out from Latin American authors--which we've always reviewed quite a lot of--and breaking into other regions and languages. Although, I must say that we certainly do cover a lot of domestic literature, and I don't want people to think we're a "translation-only" publication: we just published our 20th issue, which includes works by Shane Jones, Anne Carson, Ron Slate, etc. We've recently interviewed Sam Lipsyte, Ander Monson, Lance Olsen . . . We just like to cover the most interesting, important books we can, wherever they're coming from.
As to translation's cultural presence: as good as literary translation has gotten at bemoaning its marginalized status, I do think many people in the field have noticed a change in past years. When Edith Grossman's book (Why Translation Matters) was published earlier this year, you had places like the New York Times and the Boston Globe giving it fairly significant and fairly positive coverage. Or look at Dalkey Archive's Best European Fiction--for a couple months you couldn't wave your dead cat around without slamming up against a new review of that book. I mean, it was praised to the heavens in Time magazine. And of course there have been events like Roberto Bolano, Jonathan Littell, even Stieg Larsson. My main gripe with this coverage would be that most of it still takes a very cliched approach, more or less bemoaning America's insularity and then promoting translation as a high-fiber, occasionally not-too-disagreeable way to meet your daily quota of foreign culture. Much as I complain, though, I think even this is changing, where a lot of reviewers now simply want to treat books as books, regardless of what language they were originally written in.
Who are your reviewers, and how do you find them? Are they established writers, people who are starting their reviewing careers, people who aren't particularly interested in reviewing per se but want to write about a particular book?
I think Wallace Stegner put it well in one of the essays collected in On Teaching and Writing Fiction. He talks about reviewing being a good way for upcoming writers to both break into the community and interact seriously with the books of the time. For instance, reviewing was how Ralph Ellison got his start. A sizable fraction of our reviewers are people like this, people in or recently graduated from writing programs who are looking for ways to be a part of the community. These people mostly aspire more to write fiction than be critics, but they can be very able critics since they understand the workings of fiction very well.
Then you have a lot of what I guess you could call industry professionals--professors, authors, people who work at presses, translators, people who run other journals and magazines.
And lastly--and I think this is a category that is far too often overlooked or simply ignored--you have what you might call amateur enthusiasts. These are people who just love the culture but who don't really have aspirations to professionally write. Many of these people write incredible stuff and are amazingly knowledgeable about literary subjects, but they're people who treat it more as a hobby than as a calling or a profession. I think they're one of the greatest untapped resources available to reviews of books, and I sincerely feel that book culture would be healthier if more venues were willing to look beyond the credentials and take people like this on.
As to where I find these people--pretty much everywhere. Some of them solicit me, some of them I solicit after I've read their work elsewhere. I meet them at conferences, literary events. Some of them are friends of writers I've worked with for some time. I guess you could say that I feel one of my jobs as an editor is to always be on the lookout for fresh blood.
Stylistically, what do you look for in reviews? Is there a particular type of book review that you feel works better for the Web than for a print publication?
I think the lede is hugely important online in a way that's not all that different from newspaper writing. I mean, if you look at a newspaper, it's very similar to a static, printed version of the Internet: it's all these stories that have almost nothing to do with each other jammed together, and if you're not hooked by the time you get to "CONTINUED ON A5" you're going to jump ship (because who wants to bother folding around that ungainly collection of paper for the sake of a story they're not that interested in?). The Internet is similar, but with about a million more options. So I think the lede is crucial, especially to something like a 1,500-word book review, where there's less incentive to be patient and invest yourself in it.
That said, our foremost aim with The Quarterly Conversation is always to treat the book seriously and give a deep, intelligent assessment of it. So if someone's just written a penetrating review of a great novel and the lede is a little weak, I'm going to publish the review and hope that the audience we've cultivated will have enough patience to stick with it.
What I most look for in a review is something Leo Robson summed up in a review he wrote in the New Statesman. Talking about Tristram Shandy, he wrote "Erudition is inimical to narrative flow, unless--as with Tristram and Maf--it provides the narrative flow." And that's what I want--erudition that provides the narrative flow (although I've read far to many reviews where the erudition was inimical, and that's absolutely not what I want). Essentially, a review where I'm so caught up in a reviewer's reading and critique of a book that I slide right on through. The review should create its own logic, a logic that's particular to the review as a genre, and maybe even unique to the particular book under review. Literary culture's most astute and enduring critics have always had a natural knack for intuiting this logic and embodying it in their reviews.
In addition to your own blog, the Quarterly Conversation now also hosts a group blog, the Constant Conversation, and you've published essays between the publication of formal issues of TQC. What prompted the launch of the Constant Conversation, and what value does the literary-journal model have now that you're pushing out essays and blog posts outside of the quarterly cycle?
I started The Constant Conversation because I like the kind of free-form, immediate engagement blogs can offer, and I wanted to have that as part of The Quarterly Conversation. Everything we publish in the magazine portion of TQC is closely edited and worked over--which I think is important--but I also see a lot of validity in those first few fresh-from-the-fire thoughts. I mean, Matt Jakubowski just wrote a post for CC calling Justin Cronin a sellout for writing a vampire book, and that led to a great debate in the comments field, with a lot of people running to Cronin's defense. You tend not to get that rawness and pointedness in something that a writer has labored over for a few weeks and then that has been edited and revised numerous times.
Or to take another example, Scott Bryan Wilson did a series of semi-inchoate posts on mass market paperback books he's collected. It was just some cool stuff he wanted to share, and it turned out that people loved it. And now as a direct result of that we've arranged for him to write an essay on these themes. So it's good for numerous reasons to have a forum to air these discussions, and I've long wanted TQC to be one of those nodes where such a forum existed.
As to the relevance of quarterly publication in an online world: I still like the quarterly mode because it gives us all a little reason to celebrate every three months. Publishing an issue feels like an accomplishment in a way that pushing out 20 or so articles over the course of a few months doesn't. For whatever reason, this is how people think. Plus, whenever we do a new issue all these sites say "new issue of The Quarterly Conversation," and push people over to the site, and that just doesn't happen with an article here, an article there.
But in a larger sense, I still like the idea of having a lengthy collection of writing where someone has said, "this is all a unit," and I think it has a lot of relevance to written culture. And that makes a lot of sense, since I'm a reader, and I love losing myself in a novel. Right now our culture is very much in a place where we're all about discreet little pieces that you get to plug together however you feel is best. Sure, I like that in a lot of ways, but I think literary culture needs people who see the value in encountering an object that someone else has put together and having the patience to take it all in.
For a period of time---correct me if I'm wrong---the Quarterly Conversation was paying writers but, as the site explains, "With the prolonged economic downturn, advertising revenue has fallen off sharply. We hope to offer payment again when that changes." Can you talk a little bit about the decision to pay writers, what difference (if any) paying writers made for the site, and how the advertising landscape for literary sites looks today?
This is a question that seems to get a lot of attention, and while I don't doubt that is has some relevance, I do think it gets much more attention than it should. But anyway, it's something there should be a conversation about and I'm glad you asked.
The decision to pay was part idealistic goodwill on my part and part wanting to not have the site feel like a content factory. There are sites out there whose modus operandi seems to be "get as many people as possible to write free content for us, and with enough webpages we'll do massive traffic and get decent advertising revenue for the two or three of us at the top." So when I first made the decision to pay, I mostly wanted this small token payment to act as a demonstration that this wasn't our purpose as a publication, as well as to offer a small thank you.
The fact was that paying writers made--at most--a tiny difference. Most people (perhaps realizing I was paying this out of pocket) declined payment, and those that got paid didn't seem to really to give it much regard one way or the other. And anyway, I doubt many people look at TQC as a content factory.
My thinking on payment has changed a lot. I recently read a book called Drive by Daniel H. Pink that offered a lot of evidence that in many situations people perform worse when they get paid for something (particularly creative work), and that small, token payments like the one I was making do the most harm. He makes a pretty good argument that people enjoy doing this kind of work for reasons other than money, and that if you can't pay serious bucks it's just not worth it. That's not to say all venues should stop paying immediately--obviously the places that can afford to pay serious rates make it feasible for critics who take their work seriously to devote significant amounts of their time to acting as public intellectuals, and this is hugely important. I do wish there were more places that could pay these sorts of rates so that "freelance critic" was more of a viable option, but the fact is that the Internet just isn't at a place right now where Web-only venues can generate revenue to pay those sorts of rates. Ads just don't pay that much money, even if you do mega traffic. To offer serious payment to contributors we'd have to charge entry to the site, and that's not a direction I want to take TQC in.
What obligations do you and your contributors feel you have to participate in comment threads and keep the conversation going? When it comes to building a community on the site, what works and what doesn't?
I don't have a great sense of this, but I think that other than the contributors who have taken on the responsibility of blogging at The Constant Conversation, most probably don't feel a great obligation to participate in keeping the conversation going. This seems to be typical of the Web at large, where virtually all of the print publications have put their material online, but only a tiny fraction of the articles gets a serious response or generates an ongoing conversation. I think people just take literary criticism differently than other forms of discourse--I mean, the way people on political blogs dissect every tiny twist and turn and nuance of public policy! You'd never get that kind of minute discussion of a book review, and maybe that's for the best.
As to building a community, we do contests, I try to be in touch with our readers wherever possible, I keep good relations with writers, publishers, etc . . . all that helps. But in the long run, I think the best thing you can do is be consistent. To the extent that we've built a devoted following, its people who find someone valuable in TQC that doesn't exist elsewhere. The best way I can make these people devoted to reading the publication is to honor their commitment by maintaining a high standard and continuing to give them what they want. That's something that takes a long time, but I think after nearly five years we've built a pretty good brand and have strong good word of mouth and respect from a lot of people I'm proud to call readers of TQC.
Speaking of community, you've been spending the spring hosting a group reading of Javier Marias' Your Face Tomorrow trilogy. How do you build up a group enthusiasm for participating in such a large project? Has it picked up its own head of steam, or does it demand regular effort to keep people coming back and engaged?
Well, first of all, I'd like to announce a new group read--The Summer of Genji--and I'll come back to this in a second.
I think the best way to build and sustain enthusiasm for a venture like this is to pick a good book. These things seem to work best with long books--and even better if they're infamous for their difficulty--probably because you can build a group identity and some solidarity around what's seen as an imposing task. Plus, I think people really want to talk about what they've read, and those long, dense novels always provide a lot to talk about.
In the case of Your Face Tomorrow, somehow I got the feeling that there were a lot of people out there intrigued by this book and its author, and it turned out that there were. The group has been a success largely because YFT is such a great read--it's so compelling a novel that people have actually been reading ahead of the schedule, and I've had no difficulties at all keeping people interested in the book.
As to generating its own steam, that's a little harder since I'm pretty much the only person blogging this read, so there's no real steam to be had (although we've had lively discussions in the comments to my posts for a good 2 months now). However, to return to The Summer of Genji: this is a group read that I'll be blogging with around 10 other people, and I think here there might be some potential for the thing to run away with itself. It all really depends; Infinite Summer clearly struck a chord with the culture at large and that thing took off, but I get the feeling that often these things are just the work of a group of devoted people determined to blog a long book through till the bitter end.
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Hillary Clinton; The GOP's Best Hope in 2016
As it becomes increasingly clear that Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton are going to face off in this November's election, it's been both sad and funny to see Republicans putting their conscience and morality through the mangle in order to squeeze out a way to support Trump. To argue that our country would somehow be better off under Trump than Clinton is to completely reject at least fifty years of what it means to be an American. People are certainly welcome to do that, in fact many people feel that America over the last fifty years is very much worth replacing.
Civil rights, justice, equality, women's health, etc. are in fact parts of the new America that make a whole lot of Trump's ground troops very uncomfortable. I see very clearly why he appeals to them. Their generation has lost the battle to secure white male privilege and that is not the America they signed up for. Calling these followers of Trump stupid, or even worse, calling Trump stupid misses the mark. These are desperate individuals who are coming closer and closer to the day when being born white and male is just not going to be enough to give you a leg up.
This is not to say that other forces in our country aren't aiming to dumb us down. The idiocracy being built by the religious right is easy to document. As knowing how to think continues to threaten the monopoly on knowledge claimed by those with one hand on the Bible and one hand in our wallets, those people too are becoming quite desperate to hang on to what's left of their voice in the future of our country. Attacks on public education are getting more forceful and it almost seems like we're witnessing the Battle of the Bulge all over again. As a way of thinking and treating other people seems clearly (and thankfully) on the way out, one last desperate onslaught is being launched by those with the most to lose if people really begin to think for themselves.
Supporting Trump is logical and understandable for that group of people who aim to reverse trends toward racial harmony, equality of all people, sensible treatment of women's reproductive rights, etc. It's the leadership of the GOP that has me baffled. If Trump succeeds in winning his "throw out the bastards" campaign, THEY are the bastards he'll be throwing out! It's been a long time since we have had a clear choice in this country between a proponent of the status quo and someone who aims to completely remake our political system. Perhaps we have to go as far back as Eugene Debs (before we jailed him for questioning the WWI draft.)
I find it impossible to see what the GOP establishment finds so objectionable about Hillary Clinton. Sure, they have spent 20 years setting up their campaign against her should she ever be nominated, but that strategy was to be used if Clinton was running against a real Republican. All those years of fabricated scandals are about to be wasted.
If we look at the issues that really divide conservatives and liberals, how is Clinton any more liberal than George HW Bush? How is she any more liberal than her husband? She is certainly to the right of the already middle-right Barack Obama.
If we look at issues like gun control, income inequality, universal health care, capital punishment, racial equality, equality of all citizens, military spending, and privacy rights, how is Clinton any different than Presidents of the last 50 years?
Barack Obama continues to receive high praise for his role in helping the economy recover, but the single most important economic crisis has actually gotten worse under his leadership. Income inequality unlike anything we have ever seen in this country was the one thing liberals hoped Obama could ameliorate. But he hasn't. And Hillary Clinton isn't going to do anything about it either.
The Affordable Care Act is so far from the type of health care liberals had hoped for when Obama was elected, that most of us call it a major disappointment. And Hillary Clinton is not going to push for a single payer system that treats all Americans like real, live human beings.
Gun violence in this country remains a plague. And despite the hysteria of the NRA and its dopey minions, Barack Obama has done nothing to make our families safer. And neither will Hillary Clinton.
Barack Obama could not close Guantanamo. He couldn't secure complete exits from Afghanistan and Iraq. He has ground forces in Syria. The military consumes far too much of our budget. And veterans are still treated like shit by the Republican Congress who was all too eager to get them shot up in the first place. And Hillary Clinton seems destined to have us fighting somewhere during her first four years in office.
Assaults on our privacy devised by George W. Bush's team were not overturned by the Obama administration. The USA PATRIOT Act remains an affront to our constitutional rights. We are not safer in our persons, houses, papers, and effects because of President Obama.
Clearly all the things that Barack Obama might have wanted to do were derailed by his detractors. His early plans for a single payer health system were withdrawn. His early speeches on income inequality were buried. His plans to reign in the military-industrial complex have been shot down by the military-industrial complex. He's surely not to be blamed totally for these failures.
But Hillary Clinton isn't even going to try to fix the problems that really plague our country. Her presidency will look a lot like her husband's….a lot like W's…a lot like GHW Bush's. Middle-right with no real plan nor real desire to move the country to the left where it belongs.
So instead of using the game plan drawn up twenty years ago to defeat Hillary Clinton, the GOP would be better off making sure Donald Trump doesn't take the entire party down with his out of control plan to upend our government. They have four more years to work out a better strategy and to find a candidate that isn't going to make them look as ridiculous as they look now.


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Q: Problema con jQuery No puedo hacer funcionar jQuery
Esta es mi web bersekerprueba.esy.es
Lo descargue y segui estas instrucciones
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¿Qué me falta?
En mi FTP tengo las carpetas
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Carpeta / Imagenes ( Con las 3 imagenes llamadas 1 2 y 3)
Carpeta / Js (jquery-3.0.0.min ////
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A: Al ver los logs de la consola estas llamando mal las librerias y el css:
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<link href="Estilos.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" >

<link type="text/css" rel="Stylesheet" href="bjqs.css" />

Debería ser:
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<link href="Estilos.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" >

<link type="text/css" rel="Stylesheet" href="path_completo/bjqs.css" />

Donde path_completo es la ruta donde se encuentra esos archivos, por ejemplo podría ser:

<link rel="stylesheet" href="css/jquery.bxslider.css">

EDIT
Una vez que ya tienes bien las llamadas a cada archivo, estuve revisando el código html y tienes etiquetas sin abrir, por ejemplo dentro del
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 para cada imagen, revisa esos errores, y prueba de nuevo.
También en $('#banner-fade') estas colocando el id incorrecto, debería ser: $('#my-slideshow') ya que ese id le estas dando al div que contiene el slide.

A: En tu página web arroja un error como si no existiera el archivo js/bjqs.min.js:
1.- Yo creo que no has cargado los archivos js/bjqs.min.js
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EDICIÓN POR NUEVA RESPUESTA
Tal como me lo temia, no existe ningun archivo llamado: js/bjqs.min.js.
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West Jordan High School is a public high school located southwest of Salt Lake City in West Jordan, Utah. It enrolls around 1,800 students.

History
The school opened in 1981 with an expected enrollment of 1,298.

Extracurriculars
The men's varsity basketball team won the 2001 state championship, as well as the 2009 State championship against Lone Peak High School, the two-time defending champion.

West Jordan is well known for its music program. It has one of the largest choir programs of any public school in the state, with a record enrollment of over 300 students. The band and orchestra programs also consistently score well in competitions.

Notable alumni
Travis Hall, NFL player
John Penisini, NFL player

D. J. Tialavea, NFL player

References

External links
West Jordan High School
Jordan School District info page

Public high schools in Utah
Schools in Salt Lake County, Utah
Buildings and structures in West Jordan, Utah
Educational institutions established in 1981
1981 establishments in Utah

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I do not see my Tortoises (Hermann's, Redfoot, Russian) or my Gulf Coast Box Turtles. If they are active it is very early in the morning before I go out to the pen. Pretty much normal for here. We haven't hit 100 yet. Maybe once. The heat index is always over 100 to 107 during the heat of the day. Dewpoint near 70 or more daily. 77F to 80F is as low as the temp goes overnight. Been cloudless, windless, humid, high pressure.


At RE/MAX, community involvement doesn't stop with helping families buy and sell homes. In fact, that's where it starts. A desire to enrich the communities in which we all live and work – or, what is referred to as cause-marketing – has always been a cornerstone of the RE/MAX philosophy.
As a RE/MAX agent, you will inherit existing relationships with national organizations like Children's Miracle Network Hospitals and Susan G. Komen for the Cure. These relationships have taken many years to develop but you can benefit from them on day one. Imagine being recognized in your community as a national sponsor of a well-known nonprofit the minute you join – you would have the leverage to organize an event during your first month in business.
RE/MAX and its agents are like a big, extended family – one that helps each other in times of need. The RE/MAX Relief Fund offers emergency financial relief to RE/MAX Affiliates displaced or otherwise affected by disasters such as Hurricane Katrina and the Colorado wildfires.


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Ever since a car accident nearly 20 years ago shattered his leg bones and damaged his pelvis, Rick, who is 51, finds it hard to move about, and lives with daily pain.
Rick lives with daily pain, and benefitted from one-on-one health care and support while staying in House of Friendship's ShelterCare program.
Unable to work, Rick has also been homeless for many years, moving from place to place, trying to survive in a world where he has no home.
It's been different ever since Rick came to House of Friendship's Shelter program last fall. Since then, he's felt less alone.
"One day, I got exhausted, because so many staff were saying 'hi' to me and asking how I was," said Rick. "That was awesome. They are a pretty cool collection of human beings."
Thanks to you, Rick has a place to stay 24/7 to get the rest he needs. He also gets help with his housing search and access to health care on-site because of our ShelterCare model.
Rick knows what it was like before – with Shelter participants having to leave during the day.
"It just takes so much energy. You have to think about where you can go and lay low for the day, and always being shuffled along by people. If it's extremely hot or cold out, you can't sit outside."
Rick, ShelterCare participant
With his limited mobility, Rick also finds it hard to travel to appointments. He has to plan ahead, and only make one visit per day – anything more is too much.
By having services come to the Shelter, Rick can do things like apply for disability payments and search for an apartment.
Rick was also thankful to be staying in the Shelter when he had to receive emergency eye surgery after his retina detached. The surgery was a success, but Rick wouldn't have been able to follow his surgeon's post-care instructions without ShelterCare.
"People get discharged, and are told to stay inside and rest. If you are homeless, you can't. We need a place to be during the day when we are sick."
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THE cream of the crop of business was celebrated at the glittering Observer and Gazette awards ceremony this evening (April 4).
The very best in business from the Chichester, Bognor Regis, Midhurst, Petworth and Littlehampton turned out to the Hilton Avisford Park Hotel in Arundel.
Rox Music and Arts won the Hospitality Tourism and Leisure Award.
He praised the work of the volunteers in the community.
Brad Ainsworth, who runs his own wealth management firm won the start up award.
He said he was 'absolutely gobsmacked' and it was 'great to be recognised'.
Turner's Pies from Bognor Regis won three awards - Young Achiever, Retailer and Overall Business.
The family business has been taken over by Phillip Turner's three sons.
Philip Turner junior won the Young Achiever award. His brother Joe accepted the award on his behalf.
He said:"We have grown from something small to something huge but we do not want to be too big.
Caroline Spiby from Caroline's Dairy in Sidlesham won Business Personality and came third in readers' Choice.
For a full report and a picture spread see next week's Observer and Gazette.


Felecia Harvey got her children back from foster care in June 2013.
The Parent Partners program is a collaboration between the Dispute Resolution Center, the Washtenaw County Trial Court, and the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services. The support group connects people with children in foster care to "veteran parents" who have been successfully reunited with their kids.
Felecia Harvey is one of those veteran parents.
I meet Harvey in the backyard of her modest brick ranch in Ypsilanti where her four daughters are gathered around the sandbox. Matilda, Roxy, Serenity, and Rosalie are busy assembling a makeshift zoo. "We have a roly poly, some ants, and a frog, and a big beetle that I think he might eat," Matilda says as she shows me an aquarium full of sticks and leaves. There's also Rosetta the bearded dragon, and a turtle named Shelby. "The Shelby from the 'shell,'" Serenity explains proudly.
Felecia Harvey's daughters Serenity, Roxy, and Matilda pose with the family's pet turtle Shelby.
The four girls are all smiles on this sunny spring afternoon. Sitting and watching them, their mom can't help but smile too.
Harvey was addicted to OxyContin for a couple of years. But when her boyfriend died in November 2010, the pills got too expensive for her to buy on her own. So, she turned to heroin. By May 2011, Harvey was in jail on drug charges. Without friends or family willing to take in her three daughters, Madison, Matilda, and Roxy were placed in foster care.
After the state took her girls, Harvey tried to get sober. "I stayed clean for nine days" she recalls. But then she got a prescription for painkillers. "And then I went back on the heroin, and then it was a struggle. I could barely even make it to my court appointments." She kept failing her drug screens. And every time she'd try to get clean, painful withdrawals would send her back to the needle.
She stopped using heroin for good in March 2012. Her daughters had been in foster care for over 10 months at that point. It would take her another 15 months to get them back home. The court had a long list of things for her to do before she could regain custody. She would need to attend parenting classes, go to Narcotics Anonymous meetings, and find a place to live. But it was hard to keep appointments without a car.
It was a supportive caseworker that made all the difference. She helped Harvey keep track of her appointments and gave her rides to visits with her kids. "Being an adult is scary when you're an addict for so long," Harvey says, but having someone rooting for her gave her the courage to keep going.
Now, Harvey wants to offer that same kind of support to other parents like her. So, on the third Thursday of every month, she heads to Brown Chapel AME Church in Ypsilanti for the Parent Partners meeting.
Belinda Dulin, executive director of the Dispute Resolution Center (DRC), is the facilitator at the meetings. But she's quick to tell you that it's the parents driving this effort. The program evolved out of a series of focus groups the DRC held with parents who had been successfully reunited with their kids for at least one year. They asked the parents in those groups what challenges they faced while they were working to get their children back.
DRC Executive Director Belinda Dulin (center) stands with veteran parents Felecia Harvey (L) and Kim Young (R).
Unlike social workers who report to the court, parent partners aren't required to testify or talk to DHHS unless they think a child is in danger. So parents can vent their frustrations without worrying it will be a strike against them in court.
Parent Partners is one of a handful of programs like it across the country. It's fairly new, and the group has only met four times so far. But the results from other states are promising. Jefferson County, Kentucky started its Parent Advocacy Program in 2004. An evaluation of the program three years later found that children whose parents worked with an advocate spent less time in foster care and were more likely to be reunified with their families.
Until recently, all the veteran parents in Washtenaw County's program were volunteers. The budget for snacks was coming out of Dulin's pocket. But the group caught the attention of the Michigan Supreme Court. And now thanks to some extra funding, veteran parents will get a small stipend for their time, and Dulin can buy dinner for the monthly meetings.
It felt like a million bricks had been lifted off her shoulders. "My hope was restored," says Harvey. "I just knew God had bigger plans for me, and he totally does." She says those plans include helping other parents in Michigan's child welfare system feel a little less alone. She wants to give them the hope that someday they'll be sitting in the sunshine, watching their children laugh, and play, and sing, too.


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16 Hits är ett samlingsalbum utgivet av det svenska dansbandet Lasse Stefanz 2005.

Låtlista
 De sista ljuva åren - Lasse Stefanz med Christina Lindberg
 Du försvann som en vind
 Över en kopp i vår berså - Lasse Stefanz med Christina Lindberg
 Låt en morgon vakna
 En man som han (A guy like that)
 Ett liv med dig
 Du vinner igen (We all get lucky sometimes)
 Tomma löften, tomma ord
 Vår kärlek är stark
 Det finns en vind
 Du kan tro på mitt ord
 Dig ska jag älska
 I ett fotoalbum
 Ute på vischan
 Emelie
 Midsommarafton

Samlingsalbum av Lasse Stefanz
Samlingsalbum 2005
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2018 Ellis Medal Preview
By Will Hunter
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Season 2018 was one of the most even and exciting in recent years, an no doubt the 2018 Ellis Medal count will be just as closely fought. Let's take a look at the leading contenders for the SFNL highest individual honour.
Matt Kreymborg (St Pauls)
The reining Ellis Medallist had another tremendous season in 2018, booting 39 majors from 17 games to finish fifth on the league table. A genuine match-winner, Kreymborg's dominance in the front half of the ground was a large part of his side's success this season. Be it in the air or at ground level, the dynamic Dog was near unstoppable on his day, and his ability to win the hard ball, take strong grabs and produce stunning goals both thrilled crowds and sparked teammates. However, a big drawback for Kreymborg is the all-round evenness of this St Pauls side, which could see a few votes lost to some of his teammates. Curtis Murfett and Steve Muller in particular both had their days out during the year, which could see the pair secure a couple of BOGs. That said, Kremborg is a proven vote-winner and a second straight Ellis Medal is a very real possibility.
Chris Carey (East Malvern)
Without doubt the most dominant player in the competition in 2018. Carey, a towering ruckman with elite skills and athleticism, stamped his authority on every game he played and was a key factor in East Malvern's rise to their maiden Division 1 Grand Final. And his contribution was multi-faceted, in a manner not too dissimilar to Collingwood's Brodie Grundy. Not did only his prowess in the air gave the dangerous Panthers midfield silver service, but his work around the ground was simply brilliant. Essentially, Carey became an extra midfielder at the contest and his tank allowed his to go all day. He also solidified his standing as a big game player by being named BOG for bother the SFNL Interleague and Vic Metro teams. A genuine superstar that is more than deserving of this year's Ellis Medal, but will the four games he missed due to Vic Metro and VFL commitments hurt his chances?
Ryan Mullett (East Malvern)
Few players have dominated local footy over the years quite like the highly-decorated Mullett. A three-time Chandler Medallist in the Eastern Football League, the classy Panthers veteran is a huge chance to add the SFNL's top prize to his extraordinary football CV. Mullett's silk and consistency this season was a vital asset to East Malvern this season, and of his 16 home and away matches this year, very few of them were off days. The sheer amount of footy he won at Carey's feet, in addition to his propensity to push forward and impact the scoreboard, means he would certainly have been at the forefront of the umpire's mind when it came time to do the votes. Even in matches that East Malvern lost, its possible Mullett could sneak in for minor votes, which will certainly help his cause. The Panthers may have several top-line midfield options, but when the game is there to be won, Mullett is head and shoulders above the rest.


During the 2016/17 fire season in central Chile, wildfires burned about 600,000 ha, a record for the region (most of the area burned between 18-Jan and 5-Feb, 2017). Two factors are considered the main responsible of such a large area burned: (1) an intense drought with strong head waves (January was the hottest month in record), and (2) the fact that the region is covered by large and dense tree plantations that create a continuous fuel bed. The tree planted are two alien species: Pinus radiata and Eucalyptus sp., from California and Australia, respectively. Most burned area (+60%) were plantations, and if we standardize the area burned in relation to the area with each landuse in the region (plantations, native forest, grasslands, agriculture) we see that the plantations were more affected by fire than expected by their area in each region; and this contrast with the other landuses (Figure 1, ). That is, tree plantations were an important driver for the large area burned (highly flammable).
Interesting is that the two species planted not only are highly flammable, they also have very good (although very different) postfire regeneration mechanisms, because both are originally from fire-prone ecosystems and have adapted to coupe with crown fires. Pinus radiata have serotinous cones (closed cones that open with fire) and showed an extraordinary "natural" seedling regeneration postfire (Figure 2 top), while those eucalytps planted show epicormic (stem) resprouting that allows a quick canopy recovery (even young trees, Figure 2 bottom). All suggest that these plantations were born to burn!
Figure 1: Analysis of the areas affected by fires according to types of use (forest plantations, native forest, Scrubland + pastures, and agricultural areas), in relation to what is available in each of the 4 regions that have burned the most (V, RM, VI, VII are: Valparaiso, Metropolitana, O'Higgins, and Maule). Positive data means that fire has positively selected this type of use (it has burned more than expected by the area it occupies); the negative data indicate that fire tends to avoid such landuse. There is a strong tendency for plantations to burn more than expected according to their abundance in the landscape (positive values), while native forests, scrub, or agricultural areas are burned similar or less than expected according to their abundance (negative values). The region VII (Maule) is the most extreme in positive selection of plantations and negative of other uses. Elaborated on the basis of official SIDCO-CONAF data (Chile) .
Figure. 2. Postfire regeneration of tree plantations. Top: Extraordinary postfire seedlings regeneration of Pinus radiata (adult trees are dead). Bottom: epicormic resprouting of eucalypts (mixed with dead pines). Photos from early September (ca. 7 months after fire), in the Nilahue Barahona fire (O'Higgins region, Chile).
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