GUITAR SINGLE: Music Nine Batanghari

EVERY culture in the world, has two main pillars, namely their own language and music. In most cultures, both language and music are used to communicate. Language uses words as a medium to share thoughts and ideas, while music mating combinations of words (usually in the form of poetry) melodic and rhythmic components to communicate. Like language, music can communicate ideas and thoughts. Sometimes even music can be used for a deeper strata of communication that reveals the things that can not be said directly.

Do not be surprised when listening to a song or musical composition is expressive, a huge fan of trance music can be emotional and even orgasm. Music, through marriage poem, poetry, and, sound, will convey the expressions in everyday life, both pain (elegy) as well as joke-joke (joke) who entertain such kopelan Sahilin rhyme and Siti Rahmah in the genre of nine above Batanghari .
Music is sound that is received by the individual and vary based on history, location, culture, and tastes of a person (taste). The definition of music is also diverse, there is an opinion, music is a sound which is considered good by the hearers. Any sound produced intentionally by a person or a collection and presented as a musical composition. Music by Aristotle has the ability to reconcile a troubled heart, has a recreational therapist, and foster patriotism.
Some argue, can not cross the musical meaning across cultures. The reason is, we must speak by using the language of music from the local culture. Clearly the author does not agree with this opinion, music is a medium of communication through touch melody vibrated through taste someone, he will be flowing, fill the emotional labyrinth of listeners, even without understanding the lyrics, someone will immediately connect with a musical flow or rhythm of a song that pleased him.
For example, we will be appreciative (either if people did not think much of the music), although it does not understand the lyrics to a song, eg track Kebile-bile (song Sumatera), Bubuy Moon (song Sunda), or his I Feel Good (UK charts) James Brown is already familiar in the ears of society. Music touches to the depth of human soul, he would be late and has intercourse with a person's emotions. Especially when the shoreline, the song Batanghari nine reverb, home sweet home.
From Rejung to Guitar Solo
INDONESIA is a country consisting of thousands of islands that is said to stretch from Papua to Aceh. Among the many islands along with the multiethnic born, grow, and develop the arts that is the identity, identity, expressions of community media supporters. Art in Indonesia, this is the result of culture of local genius who was long enough, some even hundreds of years old. Among the arts is the art of music can be seen from the uniqueness of his playing techniques, sound (sound), presentation and form / organologi musical instruments.
In addition to folk songs, in almost all parts of Indonesia has a tradition of art music, such as Tarling, combine the cider, Jaipongan, gamelan, xylophone Kromong, java style (known as a form of music mixed with juice). There are already extinct but there are still surviving despite struggling with the breath of the storm buffeted the various streams of modern music ranging from pop to rock n 'roll indeed quickly familiar, especially, among the young. One of the songs and musical richness that grows in South Sumatra (Sumatera) is Batanghari nine.
Nine Batanghari concepts or terms, refers to the region, the region is another term from Southern Sumatra (South Sumatra, Jambi, Lampung, Bengkulu, Bangka island minus), which has nine rivers (Batanghari) empties into the river Musi. Batanghari in several local languages in South Sumatra, for example the language Rambang (Prabumulih) means river., Synonymous with the times (Java) or river (UK). In further developments, Batanghari nine also meaningful culture, namely cultural Batanghari nine, among which are music and songs Batanghari nine (hereinafter Batanghari nine). Broadly speaking Batanghari music and song is one of nine genres of art music or folk songs that evolved in South Sumatra, as in other regions of Indonesia.
Nothing special note about since when mainstrem Batanghari nine start there, nor was there a specific name related to this Sumsel wong art music. Community Sumsel only knew him by different designation; Batanghari nine songs, music Batanghari nine, nine Batanghari rhythm, rejung (Besemah), and there are mengidentikannya with a single guitar. Later, because this type of art is available in almost all areas of South Sumatra, a region known as the Nine Batanghari, bonding is also the name of "Batanghari Nine" in this type of art. According Sahilin, professional solo guitar picker of South Sumatra, this term began to be introduced by Djakfar Marik from the hamlet Jambabale, Pagaralam.
Music and songs rooted in the estimated nine Batanghari rejung (poem / literary speech in Besemah, one of the region Batanghari Nine). At first, rejung not use traditional musical instruments as an accompaniment instrument sounds, he just spoken with a distinctive rhythm.

Baju kurung buttons tige / Ditunde float to Selangis / fail threat kalu kite / How long reef tears / kalu ade berenay damping / Upright ambangan Mareduwe / kalu ade sungay sonny nyumping / suke selangis transmit rejung duwe is an example of a very popular rhyme at the time.

Further development rejung started harmonized with simple percussion instrument sound, made of bamboo (getuk, getak-getung), animal skins (redap) and made of iron (corn, kenung). "Instruments" rejung is increasing again with the sound of wind instruments made of bamboo (seredam), iron (ginggung) and some even made of leaves (carak). Modern musical instruments, guitar, accordion, trumpet, violin, began to be known to be musical accompaniment instrument in Batanghari nine Western nations are expected since the entry into South Sumatra.
Since the use of modern musical instruments, traditional musical instruments began to be abandoned, only ginggung (ginggong) are still visible. Post-1945, according to the dynamics of development, the music genre Batanghari nine split into several sub-genres, such as the categorization of music is sometimes a subjective thing, among rejung (another meaning is the literature says), tige serangkay (triplet), rice pestle (eight example of a song; rice pestle Eight, Eray-eray, thousands upon thousands, Kumpay Beranyut, Fate of Malang), solo guitar (acoustic). Originally tige serangkay and rice pestle is the title poem in eight rejung. Amuntaukah ayik karawang / Ay, ngape nyabun aduhay dear son, sane side of sane / Amuntaukah whether the fate of poor / Ay, ngape tughun aduhay son, unfortunately was deniye in deniye / Amun this mbak rupees mandian / Ay, ngape dik aduhay bath, darling kayik road kayik / Amun mbak ni rupees sections / Ay, in the dead ngape aduhay, love is Kecik Kecik body is poetry triumvirate. During its development, tone, rhythm, melody, and harmony in both the song became the title song with another. What about the solo guitar?
Solo guitar and Phenomena Sahilin
Cultural Ahmad Bastari Suan said, the term in the context of a single guitar Batanghari nine relatively new, it is estimated emerged around the 1950s. Before this term appears, known as "Excerpts Dawi." Dawi is a solo guitar picker from Besemah area. The mention of a single guitar because it is usually accompanied by a stringed instrument (acoustic guitar), no other instrument, called a single guitar was then also sealed. Definition of a single guitar in nine different Batanghari single guitar specialists Jubing Kristianto or Iwan Tanzil in Jakarta. For them, a single sound of the guitar as an instrument in music. While the solo guitar in a mainstream sense Batanghari nine, other than as a musical instrument, is also the color of music or a sub-genre. Yok, we tunggalan or berejung guitar. That is, let us play the songs, a poem from a variety of languages or sub-ethnic languages in South Sumatra, with a single guitar techniques Batanghari typical nine. Current phenomena, synonymous with the solo guitar music Batanghari nine itself.
Solo guitar golden era is estimated around the year 1960 and the 1970s contemporary with the golden era of rock music in the West sono. "Flower generation" solo guitar is also emerging. At that time, people used to enjoy playing the guitar tungal tired at night after working all day. Before the '70s, in the Land Besemah, one way bachelors (youth) to pedakate of a hero (of course women), through a plucked guitar while singing the verses rhyme. This activity, usually done at night. Distinctive guitar sound has become the media for calling the idol (girl) that he came to beghare (a relationship or some flunky with a girl to approach the heart). Pantunnya, among others, reads: Dudol ancaw tasted kuday / beghase anjam ngulang pule / come here andun ninday / Amu can I beghusik kele night. The combination of chanted verse poem with a single guitar sound that's typical named rejung.
Music and songs Batanghari nine through a single guitar are generally melancholy. This relates closely to the structure of society with a sense of brotherhood, kinship, and love going back home. And according to the ripple effect of the flow Batanghari nine, this music has a meandering rhythm with lyrics such as rhyme bersahut long and continuous, like a long river. Currently Batanghari nine songs not only to relieve fatigue life humming or to seduce the girl's idol, but also as a profession and performing arts. Batanghari nine musical performances, sometimes display one or two singers who sing the rhyme bersahut, with a single guitar accompaniment.
Currently, the artist who used and still faithful to his art can be counted on the fingers, among wayah, Isran, Rasnawati, Buchori, Discik, Syafrin, Emilia, Asnadewi, Effendi Rusli, Armin, Arman Idris, Jefri, Paul, Sahilin. Sahilin and remains the most popular mascot in this lane. Sakingnya number of "show", invited President Yudhoyono has ever attended by Sahilin can not, because of clashing schedules. Although not the artist of Jakarta, was a professional and committed Sahilin fixed.
Theoretically, a single guitar plucking techniques Batanghari nine mostly pentatonic (five tone bertangga, compare with the music of Western products that are generally diatonic, seven tones bertangga). Utilizing the dominant melody excerpt bass (strings 4, 5, and 6). Any change songs, often, musicians nyetem (set) his guitar to produce a different rhythm. Of the eight basic tone on the guitar, often relying only five tones. The tones were combined in a pentatonic, like the gamelan, or percussion beats are rhythmic and somewhat monotonous, both melody maupu harmony.
Hanafi is the Department Karawitan, Indonesian Art College (STSI) Padangpanjang, West Sumatra, who observed nine songs are sung Batanghari Sahilin, explaining Sahilin guitar playing was unique. At Muara Kuang Fate song, for example, he played on metrum (unit of rhythm that is determined by the amount and pressure of syllables in each line of poetry) that is different. Metrum initial count of 4 has, in certain parts he played guitar on the count of 6 and 10. In fact, nothing appears on the count of odd, like a count of 5. According to Hanafi, who had a survey with Philip Yampolsky from the Ford Foundation, in his songs, Sahilin not want to be bound by the conventional bar patterns. Sahilin play by following the melodic phrases that basically has a different metrum although at the beginning is indicated by a count of 4 or metrum four per four (4 / 4).
Keeping Pesake Puyang
GENERATION Batanghari nine artists, especially the solo guitar, were increasingly few, he said, because no regeneration of smooth music and songs Batanghari nine. Today conservationists and guardians of this music is generally the elderly, while young people positioned as a music Batanghari nine outdated and hard to be downloaded for emotional and techniques. Interest in studying Batanghari nine of the youth is also low. This can be seen from at least the music and musicians who pursue this track. Communities in South Sumatra have not much idea about the strengths and advantages nine Batanghari music. They do not have a complete picture about the music and song. Although, generally, they never heard the strains of a single guitar. Therefore, we need an understanding of music through fonografi Batanghari nine, for example. At present, nine Batanghari development of music, so little understood, crushed by modern music. If Batanghari nine was an increasing demand, we feared was too late to understand one pesake (legacy) Puyang.
It seems that, in addition to grip Batanghari nine remain alive, the development of music and this song needs to lead to adjustment and the need for appreciation of contemporary society more dynamic and fast-paced behavior, then no one there Batanghari nine musical development considerations also lead to the placement of musical dynamics as the basis dramatic design of cultivating the music itself. Working on developing the concept of folk music which is adjusted with a touch of the performing arts purposes, means the necessary process of creative musical artists to develop and open up opportunities to Batanghari nine who had a pattern of this melancholy melody or rhythm in order to fill the parts in the color composition of a new, more dynamic music and do not leaving the spirit and strength Batanghari nine colors. One, a music group in South Sumatra was studying, researching, and brought the concept of folk songs / ethnicity, (color music Batanghari nine) while relying on the power of a single guitar sound is typical Rejung Pesirah Orchestra formed in early 2008.
Perhaps, we tried to grade dululah appreciative of this art without leaving our passion will flow particular music, pop, okay, we remain with jazz improvisation, we create a world with rowdy rock, dangdut moreover, should not be "wet senggol" eggs, campursari Monggo waelah, with house music, invites nganar Coy, with nine Batanghari, more indeed. What is clear, the message and load petiti petatah-nine poems in Batanghari may be useful for us.
In some areas of Indonesia, the art of folk music has been able to enhance national identity and even become one of the attraction for foreign tourists visiting Indonesia. It can be seen in Bali for example, the art of Balinese gamelan music is not only interested by the Balinese gamelan artists only, namely the younger generation kids elementary school, junior high school and pretty much beat him to practice playing the gamelan musical instruments.
In South Sumatra, to say the intensity of solo guitar music art does not seintensif in Bali and Java, but still, it does show that stretching the community efforts to keep it going. The assumption so far, impressed that just a single guitar pickers among the elderly, turned out when the solo guitar picker amateur Mapping in Single Guitar Festival held in 2003 and 2004 by a circle of young musicians in town Pagaralam, participants up to 65 people? And their average from among the young.
Although the facts remain the sole guitar pickers are present and flowing as in Pagaralam, there has not been able to be used as a barometer of significant developments. Or interested in this art alive and interested in the hamlets of South Sumatra? Pretension that Batanghari nine solo guitar picker just from the old and start losing keeper, is unquestionable. But still need to be concrete efforts from all parties, not only of cultural or musical artists of South Sumatra, even from the general public to contribute to musical culture Batanghari nine can be protected, such as making Batanghari nine local content in music lessons , or the more real to the culture of a single guitar nanggap not only in the event of marriage only. What has been done by a local television station in Palembang, featuring solo guitar artists also deserve thumbs up. So it's ironic, when the opening of Visit Musi 2008 and then the wah, Batanghari nine artists are not coloring his Musi river. In other words, who painted a rainbow on the river Musi is wong Jakarta. Bah! Source:

Riau Tourism, ASITA MICE Offer

Some time ago Pak Ngah write about Pekanbaru As MICE City, I admit Tourism in Riau did not have a strategic concept for achieving the target of visits each year. Ibn Masud, Chairman of Association of The Indonesia Tours & Travel Agencies (Asita) has said the development of Riau in Riau Tourism will thrive in the year 2010, but with a maximum effort such as the application of the concept of Meeting, Incentive, Convention and Exhibition (MICE) assessed as The main supporters to boost tourism industry in Riau Province.

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I think MICE is an appropriate concept for the condition of Riau and Pekanbaru City as the capital of this province. Because the city is often held Sorcerer event of national and international scale. business actors often make a big convention or large meeting in Pekanbaru.

Implementation of MICE to Pekanbaru and Riau is also supported by tourism facilities such as five-star hotels that can be a media MICE tourism. Hence, necessary measures are diseinergikan more cooperation with various parties involved. Like the principals of business and local government and business actors in tourism terkit Riau.


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But when Edna falls in love with Bullock, it could mean dire consequences for the kid. A comparison of alcoholics and selected samples of nonalcoholics in terms of a positive concept of mental health. The development and applications of social learning theory Selected papers. Francine encourages him to include Steve, so the two take a road trip in search of doors for the sports car. But when an accident ruins the Smith family name, a humiliated Stan fakes his familys deaths and moves everyone out of Langley Falls to escape his shame. Soon, all of Langley Falls becomes enthralled by her singing voice including Roger, who takes his crush on Hayley a bit too far. Roger suffers a horrific car crash as he tries to take a picture of his crotch on a traffic speed cam. Meanwhile, Roger and Klaus head to France for a little RR but their trip takes a turn for the worse when Klaus gets busted for smuggling drugs back into the U. Psychological environments of university departments Effects of college students identity status and ego stage development.
Stan returns home with the wrong thermos and exposes the family to hazardous material, causing them to think they only have 24 hours to live. So, Stan tries to convince his friend that God exists by making his life extremely hard until his plan backfires. But a wrench is thrown in the system when Max falls in love with Gina Michelle Monaghan, a golddigging waitress who threatens the familys inheritance. The relationship of a measure of selfactualization POI to a measure of pathology MMPI and to therapeutic growth. Theory and measurement of social interest Empirical tests of Alfred Adlers concept.

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What is the Mileage Reimbursement Rate for Businesses for 2012?

Mileage Reimbursement

In any event, the new rate became effective January 1, 2012.  Remember, this is the optional standard mileage rates. These rates are typically used by businesses to help calculate mileage expenses for employees.

It was last adjusted in mid-2011 and the 2012 rate is unchanged from that.  Beginning on Jan. 1, 2012, the standard mileage rates for the use of a car (also vans, pickups or panel trucks) will be 55.5 cents per mile for business miles driven.

This rate can be particularly important in states like California.  California Labor Code section 2802(a) states that an employer must indemnify its employees for expenses they incur in performing their job duties. While this won’t include commuting miles, it likely covers employees for mileage driven for business purposes in personal vehicles.

As a reminder, companies with personnel policies about their mileage reimbursement should consider updating their policies immediately to reflect this change. In the future, employers can draft a policy that states that their standard mileage rate will be consistent with the IRS’s rate without reference to a particular number.

  • Sharon Sinkoski

    Question: is this the same rate used by tax payers to figure mileage for IRS?

    • Anonymous

      Typically yes.


format changes

Format changes often when a presentation is moved from one computer to another. This is the cause of quite a few nervous starts, anxious half hours and embarrassed deliveries. Make sure everything that the original presentation moves to the podium and to the audience. Format changes apply to everything that can be changed and and The Good Presenter avoids those before getting to the conference stage.

Format changes can be considered under design, programme and image size. Each contains traps for the unwary. There is no foolproof means of avoiding all problems but preparation, arriving early at the event and running through the presentation with time for changes will reduce those stress levels. Format problems can be avoided by considering any opportunity for a computer to change settings.

format changes

An important starting point for a presentation is in its slide size. The “default” size on most recent programmes is now 16:9 but 4:3 on older versions. This image is 16:9, the ones below 4:3. Some versions of Powerpoint to default to “on screen projection” and even this as widescreen is not the same as 16:9, very confusing. Check with the organisers before starting any design; everything will change. If unsure, prepare two presentations, one in 16:9 and one in 4:3.

The commonest format changes are seen with the use of incompatible type. In design, a presenter chooses from the typefaces stored on their computer. These typefaces are drawn from the standard “Office” software but also from downloaded programmes including games and from type specifically downloaded from type foundries. Their weight and position place them in a specific place within a slide and this is saved in the format of the presentation. If this file is then moved to a computer that doesn’t have the same font, a substitution is made. This is seldom equivalent and format changes

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The most frequently used presentation software is Microsoft Powerpoint. The formatting of a presentation is often very close when transferring presentations across from one computer to another. Problems can occur and it should be noted that backwards compatibility (you having The Most Up To Date version), cross platform compatibility (Mac to PC) and exporting from other software such as Keynote can all lead to issues of a format change.

The best means of avoiding format changes it to present from the computer on which the presentation was constructed. Whilst not ideal, IT support at a conference are now used to presenters arriving and asking to use their own devices. The responsibility here for connection lies solely with the presenter. Purchase your own connector that will take video output from your device and connect to VGA or HDMI. Test run the swap with IT at least twice. If you don’t know what this entails, you probably shouldn’t be attempting this manoeuvre without help.

If your presentation does not involve animation a clean fix is to effectively take screenshots of each slide when constructed and then construct a separate presentation using only these images. For PC, set the presentation in Play mode. Hold Alt-PrntScrn and a copy of the screen is sent to the Clipboard. Annoyingly, there is usually NO mention of this on your screen. Open Paint and Ctrl-V (paste) the result. It may be possible to crop this image. Save as .jpg and then insert this image into the presentation software. For Mac, Ctrl-Shift-4 brings up a cursor. Hold down can then be used with the trackpad to highlight the area of interest. This is saved as a screenshot on the desktop. Edit with Preview if required and insert directly to the programme.

Format changes everything. The Good Presenter is prepared for this. Ensure the correct slide size is set before any slides are constructed. Consider delivering the presentation from your own laptop if there are complex fonts or animations but ensure you have the appropriate connector. If there is any doubt over programmes, compatibility or operating systems use a screenshot and save each slide as a separate image and use this file to present from. Format changes and can catch many unawares.

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type not font

Many people think that improving the p2 of your presentation means getting rid of bullet points and replacing them with pictures. While I welcome any movement to rid presentations of “slideuments”, text still plays an important role in illustrating the key message of your presentation. And when it comes to adding text to a presentation slide, the most frequently asked question is “What font should I use?”

Think Type Rather Than Font

Instead, I recommend that you ask a different question—how do I best leverage the use of text in my slide? Doing this involves two components: choosing type and using type.

Choosing Type

We have an abundance of choices of typefaces today, from those pre-installed on our computers, available for free on the Internet and for purchase from type foundries. These choices can be overwhelming. Many, in the quest of looking for something unique, have made poor choices for presentations. So how do we navigate through these choices?

David Underwood, a professor of Graphic Design at the University of Colorado at Boulder offers two simple rules:

  1. Choose the typeface that reflects your messages and not your personal taste.

Just because you think Comic Sans looks cute (and different from the boring Calibri that everyone seems to use), does not mean it is appropriate for your talk on end-of-life care, even if you are talking to Pediatricians!

2. Let your best work be reflected by the best work of the experts: stick with the classics.

Classic typefaces remain timeless for a reason: they work well. Although I am a self-professed typography nerd, I am not an expert. I rely heavily on the recommendations of expert designers for choosing typefaces for my presentations. Here are some suggested typefaces from two highly-recommended experts:

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Recommendations from typography expert, Ina Saltz

Recommendations from presentation expert, Garr Reynolds

Using Type

Some rules on using type:

  1. Limit text on your slides. Remember that whatever text you put on your slide needs to be read quickly (with just a quick glance).
  2. Stick with one typeface. I would recommend only using one typeface that has a number of weights (regular, medium, semi-bold, bold, etc).

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Helvetica Neue is one of my go-to typefaces. It is based on the classic Helvetica typeface and has a wide range of weights to use. Here are samples of slides using UltraLight and Medium (left slide) and Bold and Thin (right slide).
      3. Exploit contrast in your type. Think of how you can change the type elements to make your message easy for the audience to see. Make the important word(s) much larger, or in a heavy weight, or in a different colour.

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These are sample slides, taken from presentations that Ross has given. On the left, this slide uses contrast in both weight (bold vs regular) and size to make the statistic stand out. In the example on the right, the dramatic picture captures your attention. By being strategically placed in line with the infant’s eyes, your eyes are directed to the statistic that is further highlighted by contrast not only in size but in colour.

In summary, choosing a typeface is relatively straightforward—stick with a classic typeface that reflects your message. More importantly, pay attention to how you can use the attributes of type—colour, size, weight—to make the message easily seen by your audience. Remember type not font, for Bob’s sake.

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Good analogy- guest post

A good analogy can make or break a presentation. It’s always a pleasure to share thoughts and ideas from other presenters on the site. I was pleased to receive this guest from Simon McCormick giving some of his thoughts around the use of a good analogy in a presentation.

A good analogy is like a good joke: understood by everyone, offending nobody and memorable enough to be used by others to similar effect.  Unlike a joke, it doesn’t have to be funny… but then that’s the thing about analogies; they don’t have to be perfect, just good enough to make their point.

Analogies can be a great tool to use when giving a presentation.  Apart from the fact that they should help explain a point, they can add some colour, a change of pace or maybe even a bit of humour to the proceedings.  It also gives you the opportunity to change your tone of voice and your body language as you aim to make a deeper connection with the audience.  A good analogy is almost a break from the formal part of the presentation, a pit stop that allows everyone to draw breath at the end of an explanation or to prepare for the next.

good analogyAnalogies are a powerful tool but just like Uncle Ben said to Peter Parker: ‘With great power comes great responsibility’.  So I, like Baz Luhrmann, would like to dispense my thoughts on the use of analogies based on nothing more reliable than my own meandering experience.

Do you need an analogy?
Before you start trying to come up with an analogy just stop and think, do I really need one?  Remember, for all their power, analogies are NOT what you are trying to get across, they are a tool to help you explain or illustrate something else.  They are, by their nature imperfect and one step removed from your goal so, if you can explain your point simply and clearly as it is, do so.

Make it simple.
There are few things as painful as a presenter having to explain an analogy at length, trust me if it takes that much effort to explain then you need to find a better analogy.  Think Hugh Grant trying to say ‘I love you’ to Andie MacDowell in Four Weddings and a Funeral…it might be endearingly foppish in a Richard Curtis romantic comedy but in real life, it’ll just be irritating.

Make it relevant.
An analogy only works if the person hearing it understands what you are talking about.  Medical speciality, age, country and culture are just a few of the reasons your well-chosen analogy will fall flat on its face. The beloved TV, books and music of our youth may be a rich mine for analogies but anyone born ten years after you is unlikely to understand.  Be wary of specific
sporting analogies too, believe it or not, not everyone understands the offside rule, what a quarterback does or why NASCAR even exists. In the famous Star Trek: The Next Generation episode ‘Darmok’ (see how I’m alienating some of you with this) Captain Jean Luc Picard and his crew find themselves struggling to communicate with a race called the Children of Tama who speak in an analogy based language.  It is only after they have a common experience (fighting off an invisible monster, obviously) that communication can finally begin. Instead, a really good analogy reaches deep

In the famous Star Trek: The Next Generation episode ‘Darmok’ (see how I’m alienating some of you with this) Captain Jean Luc Picard and his crew find themselves struggling to communicate with a race called the Children of Tama who speak in an analogy based language.  It is only after they have a common experience (fighting off an invisible monster, obviously) that communication can finally begin. Instead, a really good analogy reaches deep into the collective experience of the audience, connecting at an emotional level and helping not just explain but motivate the listeners.

Don’t make it distracting.
Remember, the analogy shouldn’t be the star of the show: it is a tool to help explain something else.  If the analogy is distracting because it is too funny, too unpleasant or too controversial the danger is that it overwhelms the main point and becomes what your audience remember. Ultimately, whilst a really good analogy may be funny, unpleasant or controversial it should be remembered because it points brilliantly to the issue at hand.

Don’t apologise for its failings.
An analogy usually starts with the phrase ‘It’s a bit like…’ because that is the case, it is just a ‘bit like’ what you are trying to explain, it isn’t the samething…that’s the point!  Make it good, think carefully how it might be misinterpreted (sometimes deliberately) and then, if you are still happy, go for it.  If someone wants to take it too far then that’s their problem, unless of course you make that mistake for them…

Don’t stretch it too far!
As I said above, an analogy is only supposed to be a bit like your main point, not the same as it.  If you start stretching your analogy you are inviting your audience to do the same and this creates a couple of problems. Firstly they will start to get distracted, wondering how much further they can take it themselves and then, inevitably, they will start to see the areas where the analogy differs. Either way, they are no longer listening to what you are saying and you risk the analogy being the only thing they remember. Keep it smart by keeping it simple.

Avoid urban myths.

The thing is, most urban myths aren’t true so if you use one some smart a**e will point it out at the end and that will distract from the learning. Alternatively, everyone knows it isn’t true already, can’t believe that you don’t and now think they can’t trust anything else you say.  Always do a fact check if using a real life example and remember; a duck’s quack does echo, you can’t see the Great Wall of China from space and Walt Disney wasn’t cryogenically frozen!

Whilst a good analogy will never win an argument or prove a point, it can help clarify difficult concepts, cut through distracting details and add emotional pull to a presentation. It can inspire an audience to listen, stimulate a desire to learn and plough the ground of a hardened mind, in preparation for the seeds of learning to be sewn. A good analogies is an extremely powerful weapon in the battle against insipid, low-value presentations and I believe we should all learn how to use them well.

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Misteria Paschalia

Entry Fee: 60-160 PLN

Start Date: 2015-03-30

End Date: 2015-04-05

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Misteria Paschalia, which translates as ‘Easter Mysteries,’ has become one of Europe’s leading festivals of ‘early music.’ Early music doesn’t mean what comes out of your radio before noon, it refers, broadly, to the performance of music composed before Beethoven.

You may think the world is familiar enough with the works of composers such as Bach, Handel and Mozart, but the point of the early music movement is to perform these, and less well-known works, using instruments and methods that are much closer to those that these great names would have known in their lifetimes. The results can be startlingly unusual performances of works you thought you knew inside out.

Misteria Paschalia, as the name suggests, always takes place around Easter and has been on Krakow’s cultural map since 2004. The festival, organised by the Krakow Festival Office, has become bigger and better each year and now attracts music lovers of all kinds from around the globe.

It’s not just the audience that come from far and wide. The festival has consistently attracted the biggest names in the interpretation and performance of historical music, including Concerto Italiano, Les Musiciens du Louvre-Grenoble and Il Giardino Armonico.

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• ‘PH must boost ties with China’

    FORUM KEYNOTE SPEAKER Former president Fidel V. Ramos answers questions after delivering his keynote address during the business forum sponsored by The Manila Times (above) . Ramos then exchanges views with Richard Cant, regional director of business management consultancy firm Dezan Shira and Associates and Stratfor vice president Rodger Baker (lower).  PHOTO BY  MELYN ACOSTA

    MANILA TIMES FORUM: CHINA’s rise to economic superstardom is inevitable, thus it is imperative for the Philippines to rekindle and even strengthen its ties with Beijing which were severed by worsening disputes in the West Philippine Sea (South China Sea), former Ambassador Roberto Romulo said on Wednesday.

    Romulo, who is now the chairperson of AIG Philippine Insurance Inc., said Philippine leaders should accept China’s preeminence.

    “Why should we care to bring our relations to normalcy? Because [China’s rise] is a reality that we have to accept. [Thus it follows that] engagement and mutual accommodation is unavoidable,” said Romulo during the Philippines-China Business Forum at the Dusit Thani Hotel in Makati City organized by The Manila Times.

    An expert in the field of diplomacy, Romulo noted that China’s fast emergence as a global economic superpower affects the Philippines’ “economic well being.”

    Although the Philippine government has the right to seek international arbitration, such as the filing of a “memorial” before the United Nations’ International Tribunal on the Laws of the Sea (Itlos) to assert its sovereignty over contested rocks and shoals in the Spratlys, by doing so the country only further dampened the soured relations between the two countries, Romulo said.

    He said that while business to business and people-to-people relations have continued, he pointed out that whenever the Chinese government has control over business projects with the Philippines—such as those involving tourism and investments of state-owned enterprises—the government acts against the Philippines.

    He underscored the need for cooperation, compromise and joint use of the region for the mutual benefits of each country.

    “While it is correct to invoke the principles of international law, or condemn the bullying by China, let it not be forgotten that democracy is not about gaining more of victory but rather achieving an outcome that promotes national interests,” Romulo said.

    Given China’s importance, he cited the urgent need to “manage tensions, rebuild ties and seek cooperation rather than conflict.”

    Already, Romulo observed that since the disputes began in 2012 over ncursions in Scarborough (Panatag) Shoal, the local economy has been affected. Trade between Manila and Beijing has slowed down and huge planned investments were either lost or “forgotten” due to the sanctions China has imposed on the Philippines.

    He cited the recent travel advisory by China against its citizens traveling to the Philippines due to the problem of kidnapping.

    According to Romulo, there are only about 400,000 Chinese tourists who visited the country annually when Chinese tourist arrivals in neighboring countries reached two to three million a year.

    China’s share in the export industry in the Philippines was only about 2 percent, he said.

    These disputes somehow slowed the Philippines pace of growth, Romulo added.

    “Technology transfer arrangements, virtually ceased . . . poor performance of the Philippines relative to Asean can be attributed to hesitancy in trusting our economic future, our own anemic economic growth. [China has a] huge potential for us but we are not in a position to take advantage of China’s potential,” said Romulo.

    The former envoy also warned against violent confrontation or provocative actions against China such as when President Benigno Aquino 3rd sought the backing of the European Union in its position against Beijing’s nine-dash line principle in asserting sovereignty over the claimed islands.

    He said China will never separate the sea row from all its other forms of relationship with the Philippines and that it will not back down on its territorial claims. Because of these, he said the arbitration process may take forever because China simply will not budge.

    He further explained that China’s hard stance on the territorial issue is not just a “political stand” but a reflection of how the Chinese citizenry look at the issue. He said these viewpoints are taught to every child in China’s schools.

    Romulo noted that some are experts on China’s history are convinced that the 1.2 billion Chinese are not familiar with exclusive economic zones and other sea laws, believing that they own the sea lanes and other areas in the Spratlys since the time of the Ching Dynasty.

    He said China’s bullying sends a “chilling effect” to other Asian countries and which in the eyes of the Western powers is an emerging “threat that has to be contained,” but it also fires up deep territorial sentiments among the Chinese.

    “How do we go about creating an environment for a compromise as possible? First step, clarify issues that are driving competing claims of sovereignty, understanding the dynamics [in China],’ Romulo said.

    He said China has two major interests in the WPS— access to energy resources and strategic concerns.

    Because of China’s growth, it has become “imperative for China to reach out for oil closer to home,” Romulo pointed out.

    On strategic concerns, he explained that China wants unhampered access to the Pacific and Indian oceans, something which the Philippines should sympathize with instead of “stoking high emotions and patriotic fervor” in China.

    “[The issue] is driven more by protecting its territorial integrity and fishing grounds, thus, stoking high emotions and patriotic fervor,” Romulo pointed out.

    He said the Philippine government’s position on leaning toward the United States for help has only made matters “more complicated.”

    “Because of our lack of military wherewithal, we involved the American mantle of protection. We took the US side of freedom of navigation,” said Romulo.

    He said that earlier the Chinese have been proposing to shelve the issue of sovereignty and opted for joint use of the sea resources.

    Romulo said claimant countries should work this way and work together in terms of maritime cooperation that will maintain peace and stability in the region.

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    1. Mr. Romulo is saying that a weak country like the Philippines must bow to the wishes of powerful China, because even if the Phil Govt position is correct it will take ITLOS forever to decide, and has no means of enforcing its decision anyway.
      I don’t agree with this mendicant statement, because there is the UN General Assembly that the PHG can seek redress and sanctions against China’s illegal grab of its 200-nm EEZ.
      When ITLOS will decide that China’s 9-dash line has no legal basis in international law, or by any historical right it would follow that China’s encroachments into the 200-nm EEZ of the Philippines and other countries are illegal.
      All countries affected by China’s illegal intrusion can then ask the UN General Assembly to pass a resolution for China to vacate all its illegal structures and reclaimed reefs.
      If China refuses, then necessary naval police action will be used to destroy those Chinese structures. China’s resistance may compel the UN General Assembly to organize a UN Naval Police Force to enforce the sanctions. That would be similar to the UN police action during the Korean War.
      China knows it will lose a naval confrontation with US-Japan-EU-India-Australia combined naval force. Without aircraft carriers, only China’s planes based from Hainan will be able to reach the battle area but with very short engagement time. China’s frigates and submarines will be easy targets for the allied forces.
      It is doubtful if China will risk everything by going into nuclear war, when they can settle down for some gain by being a reasonable in mutually developing the West Phil Sea, which the Philippines and the other countries are willing to offer provided China stops its bullying tactics.

    2. Romulo has a point. its all our fault anyway, and its kind of too late now. first, we or our politicians and corrupt AFP officials squandered the AFP modernization fund. so now we are so weak militarily to prevent China’s encroachment. we have to suffer the consequences of our own demise. its winner takes all, China worked hard to improve their economy and build their armed forces, they did their homework while we slept most of the time and focused on stealing money with each other. so we are the losers. now we asked Uncle Sugar to intervene but our Uncle is also economically dependent on China. so it may that the US will not help us in case of more incursions and shooting clashes. the US already mentioned this that they will be neutral. so we need to re-adjust our foreign policy with China in regards to the WPS and take advantage of the economic benefits of it by making peace with China and consider joint exploration. like the saying if you can’t beat them join them.

    3. felipe duermas on

      So, we Filipinos should kiss their A@@! We should go deal with the Americans and Europeans, atleast they do business the LEGAL way, unlike the Chinese they do it by bribing people and I mean people, not just the government.

    4. a very sound proposition. In fact, the only viable option for the country if we truly want to to to turn the the philippines into the economic powerhouse in the region which we could have been had we been bold enough and mature enough to do so. Mr. Romulo should have heeded his own “wise counsels” when he was in the position to do so.

      • suggestions inoy should send his 3 itlog to china to communicate for the settlement of this issue anyway as we see these 3 itlog maybe can help because of their expertise ano masasabi nyo call ABAD AND drillon for the assistantce para nman may masabi na ngawa silang mabuti sa bansang PH


Fabrice “Fab” Tourre to Address U.S. Senate

In a prepared statement released prior to todayÃ¢â‚¬â„¢s scheduled testimony to the US Senate, Fabrice Tourre, the Goldman Sachs director at the center of the SECÃ¢â‚¬â„¢s investigation into the role Goldman Sachs played in the CDO fiasco, will deny all allegations of misrepresentation. Tourre is the only Goldman Sachs employee so far included in the fraud charges against the Wall Street giant.

Referring to himself as the Ã¢â‚¬Å“FabÃ¢â‚¬Â Tourre in a number of emails released shortly after the indictment was announced, the tone of TourreÃ¢â‚¬â„¢s emails suggest that he was fully aware of the likelihood that the CDO offering would lose money. In an email dated January 27, 2007, Tourre sent the following email to a friend:

More and more leverage in the system, the whole building is about to collapse now. Only potential survivor, the Fab Tourre standing in the middle of all those complex, highly-leveraged exotic trades he created without necessarily understand all of the implications of those monstrosities.

The centerpiece of the SECÃ¢â‚¬â„¢s charge against Goldman and Tourre is that Tourre neglected to reveal the extent to which hedge fund manager Paulson & Co. was involved in engineering a CDO linked to subprime mortgages. The SEC further alleges that Tourre knew that Paulson was betting against the subprime market, and planned to short the CDO, and despite having this information, he actually told investors that Paulson was planning to take an equity position in the CDO.

In addition to Tourre, several high-ranking Goldman Sachs executives, including Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Lloyd Blankfein are scheduled to appear before the Senate Subcommittee. According to a prepared statement, Blankfein will tell the Subcommittee that Goldman Sachs did not attempt to profit by deliberately betting against its clients, and that Goldman Ã¢â‚¬Å“didnÃ¢â‚¬â„¢t have a massive short against the housing marketÃ¢â‚¬Â.


The problem is that most income for the wealthy (myself included) comes from stock gains or dividends which have lower tax rates than income.
You don’t even need to tax it at 80% because if you did billionaires would move elsewhere (see…
Mark Suster

Ironically that’s exactly what Bernie Sanders proposes in his Robin Hood plan.

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Why You Should be Using Project Management Software

Project management software and public relations projects are very similar. That is, they both work by breaking down a project into specific steps with exact costs. In fact, public relations projects need project management software because it allows PR professionals to control costs, provide continual real time updates and systematize produces. Below introduces four reasons why you should be using project management software for your PR projects.

Tracking Progress

Project management software allows you to delegate and track numerous assignments. As a result, users can instantly review the statuses of all unfinished tasks and follow up accordingly. In fact, project management software often eliminates the need for unnecessary meetings, emails and face-to-face follow ups. Keep in mind that many project management software packages come with real time communication tools. In addition to this, project management software allows employees to collaborate with each other through sharing information, documents and updates. All of this results in increased accountability and transparency.

One of the best benefits of project management software is the ability to control costs through risk management, financial forecasting and budget tracking. In fact, it becomes easier to estimate budgets as time goes by because there are past budgets that can serve as accurate models. Project management software allows you to continually forecast the budget and resource usage. This reduces budget overrun and scope creep. It will also help with properly utilizing available resources and preparing for future needs.

Public relations projects are time sensitive with unchangeable deadlines. Project management software encourages proper management of employees, the budget and resources. Consequently, PR managers can then break down project steps into key milestones, then individual assignments, which are further broken down into actionable tasks. Once the baseline project schedule is complete, project management software makes it easy to ensure that minor tasks are completed so that major key milestones can be finished in a timely manner.

Online Solutions

Web based software and cloud based project management platforms also increase efficiency, communication and overall performance. Many project managers also like that these services are easy to deploy, affordable to use and accessible from anywhere, anytime and on any device. Online project management platforms result in extremely accurate real time visibility. Finally, since they are centralized and universally accessible, employees can both access and share information more quickly.

In summary, project management software helps project management professionals with tracking progress, budgeting and scheduling. Complex public relations projects need the innovative and convenient solutions that project management software has to offer.

Dmitry Romantsov is a project manager from New York City.


Examples of Farms 133 themes?

I am a newbie so please forgive the question. I have downloaded the Farms 133 theme pack; however i cannot find anywhere that gives an example of what each theme looks like. Is there such a place, or will I have to activate each theme to see what it looks like.


Dark Knight Rises Reviewers’ Lives Threatened

So it has come to this.

Why so serious?

In case you’re not familiar with the webcomic XKCD, that means I’ve been rendered a bit speechless. Rotten Tomatoes, the movie review site that collates reviews from all over and combines them into a critic score (and later allows the audience to score the movie) has been posting its collected advance reviews for The Dark Knight Rises, debuting at 12:01 AM Friday morning.

This has led to a pack of raving idiots bashing, trolling, and even death-threatening reviewers who have given it a less-than-positive review. Let’s face it:  Christopher Nolan set the bar pretty darn high with The Dark Knight, so expectations have never been higher. People have a strong attachment to Batman. People love Batman. People loved that movie, from its creepy-as-all-get-out depiction of the Joker to the thematic elements and other jargon that I’m not going to pretend I know much about.

But death threats? Is this what we’ve come to, internet?

(I guess that’s someone’s cue to “You Must Be New Here” me).

To anyone outraged that The Dark Knight Rises has been getting negative reviews, I have a few logical questions to ask you, and then I’m done until I review the damn movie myself in the wee hours of the morning on Friday.

Have you seen the movie?

Having seen or not seen it, can you distance yourself enough from your emotional attachment to the character to determine whether or not it’s a good movie? (Because seriously, I’ve read so many comics in the last few years that I started to lose touch with what a “good” comic was, maybe that’s the case here).

If the answer is “no” to either one of these questions…stop bashing and death-threatening. If the answer is “yes” to either one of these questions…still stop bashing and death-threatening. It’s embarrassing.

As with any and all preemptive reviews, you have to take them with a grain of salt. If you’re dead-set on seeing it no matter what the critics say, well, why aren’t you waiting until you watch the movie yourself anyway?

Stop angsting. Stop freaking out. Just wait and watch the freakin’ movie.

Maybe…just maybe these reviewers are right. And now, just for suggesting that, I’m going to go hide from the internet for a while.

Earth One vs. Season One

DC and Marvel definitely like to take each other’s “good” ideas. Take, for example, DC’s “Earth One” series of graphic novels. Starting simply with just Superman and Batman, the goal is to, y’know Ultimatize the origins of these characters and tell a more accessible version for a modern audience. Superman: Earth One rocketed off the shelves. Volume 2 is expected this fall. Batman: Earth One is scheduled for this summer.

In response, Marvel launched its Season One series of graphic novels which, well, haven’t had as much success so far (at least as far as I understand) in comparison. Launched with the same binding and design, the Season One graphic novels are even named similarly and…yeah. I picked up Fantastic Four: Season One and found out that the already-thin volume includes 22 pages of another issue of the regular series that I already own.

I can definitely say that DC’s books are more of a financial and readership success. Really, my question is why did Marvel even bother? They already did Ultimate versions of these characters that are already no longer relevant to their target audience. In the end, I guess everything is cyclical.

To be honest, there’s not much thought to this post. It exists mainly to convey my frustration that Marvel attempted to piggyback onto DC’s success and dropped the ball entirely.


Multi-Asset Factor Investing

Over the past years factor investing has gained ground as an academically motivated investment style that allocates explicitly to factor premiums. Well-knows factor premiums are the value, momentum, carry and low-risk premium. Meanwhile, factor investing has become well established within equities and is becoming increasingly popular in other asset classes (e.g. corporate bonds). In a multi-asset context, where portfolios are constructed that consist of multiple asset classes (e.g. equities, bonds, currencies), factor investing is still in its infancy.

In this research project we like to investigate factor investing in multi-asset context. Some inspiration can be found in the academic literature. E.g. Moskowitz et al. (2011) describe time-series momentum, Koijen et al. (2015) investigate the Carry factor, Asness et al. (2013) investigate value and momentum in several asset classes, and Blitz and Van Vliet (2008) look at applying valuation and momentum across asset classes.

We are interested to know if (and which) factors can be used in a systematic way as an tactical asset allocation tool to predict 1) the direction of individual markets; and 2) cross-sectional dispersion between different markets. In the end we want to know how we can best construct an absolute return strategy that can take long and short positions based on proven factors. In this research will use country and regional instruments rather than company specific securities.

Are you interested?

Assness, Moskowitz and Pedersen (Journal of Finanace, 2013), Value and Momentum Everywhere.

Baltas and Kosowski (2014), Demystifying Time-Series Momentum Strategies: Volatility Estimators, Trading Rules and Pairwise Correlations.

Blitz and Van Vliet (Journal of Portfolio Management, 2008), Global Tactical Asset Allocation: Applying Value and Momentum Across Asset Classes.

Daniel ad Moskowitz (2014), Momentum Crashes.

Du Plessis and Hallerbach (Journal of Alternative Investing, forthcoming), Volatility Weighting Applied to Momentum Strategies.

Koijen, Moskowitz, Pedersen and Vrugt (2015), Carry.

Moskowitz, Ooi and Pedersen (Journal of Financial Economics, 2011), Time Series Momentum.


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What is there to learn about standardization?

How are standards developed?

How do people come up with good and useful standards?

What makes a good and useful standard?

What characteristics of people are useful for developing good standards?

Can we train, or otherwise develop, these useful characteristics?

How can standardization be most effectively managed?

Once developed, how are standards best managed?

And how could a relevant qualification and course be developed?

  • How would we develop a curriculum, including practical experience?
  • How could we write good intended learning outcomes?
  • How would teaching and learning be arranged?
  • Who would be our target learners?
  • How would the course outcomes be assessed?

And more widely

The logic of competence assessability

(17th in my logic of competence series)

The discussion of NOS in the previous post clearly implicated assessability. Actually, assessment has been on the agenda right from the start of this series: claims and requirements are for someone “good” for a job or role. How do we assess what is “good” as opposed to “poor”? The logic of competence partly relies on the logic of assessability, so the topic deserves a closer look.

“Assessability” isn’t a common word. I mean, as one might expect, the quality of being assessable. Here, this applies to competence concept definitions. Given a definition of skill or competence, will people be able to use that definition to consistently assess the extent to which an individual has that skill or competence? If so, the definition is assessable. Particular assessment methods are usually designed to be consistent and repeatable, but in all the cases I can think of, a particular assessment procedure implies the existence of a quality that could potentially be assessed in other ways. So “assessability” doesn’t necessarily mean that one particular assessment method has been defined, but rather that reliable assessment methods can be envisaged.

The contrast between outcomes and behaviours / procedures

One of the key things I learned from discussion with Geoff Carroll was the importance to many people of seeing competence in terms of assessable outcomes. The NOS Guide mentioned in the previous post says, among other things, that “the Key Purpose statement must point clearly to an outcome” and “each Main Function should point to a clear outcome that is valued in employment.” This is contrasted with “behaviours” — some employers “feel it is important to describe the general ways in which individuals go about achieving the outcomes”.

How much emphasis is put on outcomes, and how much on what the NOS Guide calls behaviours, depends largely on the job, and should determine the nature of the “performance criteria” written in a related standard. And, moreover, I think that this distinction between “outcomes” and “behaviours” is quite close to the very general distinction between “means” and “ends” that crops up as a general philosophical topic. To illustrate this, I’ll try giving two example jobs that differ greatly along this dimension: writing commercial pop songs; and flying commercial aeroplanes.

You could write outcome standards for a pop songwriter in terms of the song sales. It is very clear when a song reaches “the charts”, but how and why it gets there are much less clear. What is perhaps more clear is that the large majority of attempts to write pop songs result in — well — very limited success (i.e. failure). And although there are some websites that give e.g. Shortcuts to Hit Songwriting (126 Proven Techniques for Writing Songs That Sell), or How to Write a Song, other commentators e.g. in the Guardian are less optimistic: “So how do you write a classic hit? The only thing everyone agrees on is this: nobody has a bloody clue.”

The essence here is that the “hit” outcome is achieved, if it is achieved at all, through means that are highly individual. It seems unlikely that any standards setting organisation will write an NOS for writing hit pop songs. (On the other hand, some of the composition skills that underlie this could well be the subject of standards.)

Contrast this with flying commercial aeroplanes. The vast majority of flights are carried out successfully — indeed, flight safety is remarkable in many ways. Would you want your pilot to “do their own thing”, or try out different techniques for piloting your flight? A great deal of basic competence in flying is accuracy and reliability in following set procedures. (Surely set procedures are essentially the same kind of thing as behaviours?) There is a lot of compliance, checking and cross-checking, and little scope for creativity. Again it is interesting to note that there don’t seem to be any NOSs for airline pilots. (There are for ground and cabin staff, maintained by GoSkills. In the “National Occupational Standards For Aviation Operations on the Ground, Unit 42 – Maintain the separation of aircraft on or near the ground”, out of 20 performance requirements, no fewer than 11 start “Make sure that…”. Following procedures is explicitly a large part of other related NOSs.)

However, it is clear that there are better and worse pop songwriters, and better and worse pilots. One should be able to write some competence definitions in each case that are assessable, even if they might not be worth making into NOSs.

What about educational parallels for these, as most of school performance is assessed? Perhaps we could think of poetry writing and mathematics. Probably much of what is good in poetry writing is down to individual inspiration and creativity, tempered by some conventional rules. On the other hand, much of what is good in mathematics is the ability to remember and follow the appropriate procedures for the appropriate cases. Poetry, closely related to songwriting, is mainly to do with outcomes, and not procedures — ends, not means; mathematics, closer to airline piloting, is mainly to do with procedures, with the outcome pretty well assured as long as you follow the appropriate procedure correctly.

Both extremes of this “outcome” and “procedure” spectrum are assessable, but they are assessable in different ways, with different characteristics.

  1. Outcome-focused assessment (getting results, main effects, “ends”) allows variation in the component parts that are not standardised. What may be specified are the incidental constraints, or what to avoid.
  2. Assessment on procedures and conformance to constraints (how to do it properly, “means”, known procedures that minimise bad side effects) tends to have little variability in component procedural parts. As well as airline pilots, we may think of train drivers, power plant supervisors, captains of ships.

Of course, there is a spectrum between these extremes, with no clear boundary. Where the core is procedural conformance, handling unexpected problems may also feature (often trained through simulators). Coolness under pressure is vital, and could be assessed. We also have to face the philosophical point that someone’s ends may be another’s means, and vice versa. Only the most menial of means cannot be treated as an end, and only the greatest ends cannot be treated as a means to a greater end.

Outcomes are often quantitative in nature. The pop song example is clear — measures of songs sold (or downloaded, etc.) allow songwriters to be graded into some level scheme like “very successful”, “fairly successful”, “marginally successful” (or whatever levels you might want to establish). There is no obvious cut-off point for whether you are successful as a hit songwriter, and that invites people to define their own levels. On the other hand, conformance to defined procedures looks pretty rigid by comparison. Either you followed the rules or you didn’t. It’s all too clear when a passenger aeroplane crashes.

But here’s a puzzle for National Occupational Standards. According to the Guide, NOSs are meant to be to do with outcomes, and yet they admit no levels. If they acknowledged that they were about procedures, perhaps together with avoiding negative outcomes, then I could see how levels would be unimportant. And if they allowed levels, rather than being just “achieved” or “not yet achieved” I could see how they would cover all sorts of outcomes nicely. What are we to do about outcomes that clearly do admit of levels, as do many of the more complex kind of competences?

The apparent paradox is that NOSs deny the kind of level system that would allow them properly to express the kind of outcomes that they aspire to representing. But maybe it’s no paradox after all. It seems reasonable that NOSs actually just describe the known standards people need to reach to function effectively in certain kinds of roles. That standard is a level in itself. Under that reading, it would make little sense for a NOS to be subject to different levels, as it would imply that the level of competence for a particular role is unknown — and in that case it wouldn’t be a standard.

Assessing less assessable concepts

Having discussed assessable competence concepts from one extreme to the other, what about less assessable concepts? We are mostly familiar with the kinds of general headings for abilities that you get with PDP (personal/professional development planning) like teamwork, communication skills, numeracy, ICT skills, etc. You can only assess a person as having or not having a vague concept like “communication skills” after detailing what you include within your definition. With a competence such as the ability to manage a business, you can either assess it in terms of measurable outcomes valued by you (e.g. the business is making a profit, has grown — both binary — or perhaps some quantitative figure relating to the increase in shareholder value, or a quantified environmental impact) or in terms of a set of abilities that you consider make up the particular style of management you are interested in.

These less assessable concepts are surely useful as headings for gathering evidence about what we have done, and what kinds of skills and competences we have practiced, which might be useful in work or other situations. It looks to me that they can be made more assessable in one of a few ways.

  1. Detailing assessable component parts of the concept, in the manner of NOSs.
  2. Defining levels for the concept, where each level definition gives more assessable detail, or criteria.
  3. Defining variants for the concept, each of which is either assessable, or broken down further into assessable component parts.
  4. Using a generic level framework to supply assessable criteria to add to the concept.

Following this last possibility, there is nothing to stop a framework from defining generic levels as a shorthand for what needs to be covered at any particular level of any competence. While NOSs don’t have to define levels explicitly, it is still potentially useful to be able to have levels in a wider framework of competence.

[added 2011-09-04] Note that generic levels designed to add assessability to a general concept may not themselves be assessable without the general concept.

Assessability and values in everyday life

Defined concepts, standards, and frameworks are fine for established employers in established industries, who may be familiar with and use them, but what about for other contexts? I happen to be looking for a builder right now, and while my general requirements are common enough, the details may not be. In the “foreground”, so to speak, like everyone else, I want a “good” quality job done within a competitive time interval and budget. Maybe I could accept that the competence I require could be described in terms of NOSs, while price and availability are to do with the market, not competence per se. But when it comes to more “background” considerations, it is less clear. How do I rate experience? Well, what does experience bring? I suspect that experience is to do with learning the lessons that are not internalised in an educational or training setting. Perhaps experience is partly about learning to avoid “mistakes”. But, what counts as mistakes depends on one’s values. Individuals differ in the degree to which they are happy with “bending rules” or “cutting corners”. With experience, some people learn to bend rules less detectably, others learn more personal and professional integrity. If someone’s values agree with mine, I am more likely to find them pleasant.

There’s a long discussion here, which I won’t go into deeply, involving professional associations, codes of conduct and ethics, morality, social responsibility and so on. It may be possible to build some of these into performance criteria, but opinions are likely to differ. Where a standard talks about procedural conformance, it can sometimes be framed as knowing established procedures and then following them. A generic competence at handling clients might include the ability to find out what the client’s values are, and to go along with those to the extent that they are compatible with one’s own values. Where they aren’t, a skill in turning away work needs to be exercised in order to achieve personal integrity.

It’s all clearly a complex topic, more complex indeed than I had reckoned back last November. But I’d like to summarise what I take forward from this consideration of assessability.

  1. Less assessable concepts can be made more assessable by detailing them in any of several ways (see above).
  2. Goals, ends, aims, outcomes can be assessed, but say little about constraints, mistakes, or avoiding occasional problems. In common usage, outcomes (particularly quantitative ones) may often have levels.
  3. Means, procedures, behaviours, etc. can be assessed in terms of (binary) conformity to prescribed pattern, but may not imply outcomes (though constraints may be able to be formulated as avoidance outcomes).
  4. In real life we want to allow realistic competence structures with any of these features.

In the next post, I’ll take all these extra considerations forward into the question of how to represent competence structures, partly through discussing more about what levels are, along with how to represent them. Being clear about how to represent levels will leave us also clearer about how to represent the less precise, non-assessable concepts.

E-portfolio Scotland

ICOPER and outcomes

Development of a conceptual model 5

Development of a conceptual model 4

Skills frameworks, interoperability, portfolios, etc.

Representing defining and using ability competency and similar concepts

I’ve been telling people, for quite a while, that I will write up suggestions for how to deal with abilities (competence, competencies, knowledge, etc. etc.) for many reasons, including particularly e-portfolio related uses. Well, here are my current ideas for the New Year.

They are expressed in a set of linked pages, each dealing with a facet of the issues. The pages are very much draft ideas, but serve the purpose of getting out the basic ideas and inviting other ideas for improvement. If you have an interest, please do at least leave a comment here, or e-mail me with ideas and suggestions.

GMSA advance

I’ll start with the portfolio- and PDP-related issues.

  • have the learner explain the coherence of modules chosen
  • assess that explanation as part of the award requirement.

Intellectual heritage tracing

I’ve only been hearing and thinking about plagiarism in the last few days – since going to the Assessment Think Tank in York in fact, but since then reading in many places. One of the debated ideas is encouraging students to use plagiarism detection services. Another, heard at York, is that the more adventurous students run more risk. Why? It is unlikely in some subjects (say Philosophy) to come up with entirely novel ideas, so if a student has an idea which was not represented on the reading list, they are less likely to know if someone has had it before, and thus more likely to be judged to have plagiarised – have passed off some ideas as theirs which actually came from someone else. They may not have known that, but they can’t prove it.

Those two ideas together spark off a bigger idea.

Sophisticated plagiarism detection services could be rebranded to be thought of as tracing the intellectual heritage of a piece of work. That would be very useful – I could write some thoughts down, submit them, and be returned a list of similar ideas, along with how my ideas relate to theirs (according to the software, which is not of course going to be perfect). Then I could look up the originals, and work them in properly: paraphrase and reference, for example. It would also be a powerful self-critical tool: instead of simply imagining the objections to one’s own supposedly new idea, one could see how others have argued against similar ideas in the past.

Incredibly useful in the field of patenting, as well, I would guess…

Have the anti-plagiarism people got on to patents yet? I’ll ask.


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Dance Of December

This song is by Eternal Tears of Sorrow and appears on the album Saivon lapsi (2013).

The four winds still keep moaning,
The song once heard at the birth,
It is the chant for the northern sun,
And for the seven stars of the Plough

Forged in the flames of the heavens,
On the vault of winter skies,
The ancient call for the snow,
And the rune for the blazing ice

Pouring tears of the weeping maiden,
Staining the dress of the virgin white,
Leaves the deepest kind of yearning,
In the chains of the northern lights

Like a moth in the darkness,
Through the flare of the charm,
And the first winter storm

Where the frozen leaves are falling,
And the light gives up to shades,
Sweet touch of the mother nature,

Seals up all in rest
In the arms of the darkest season,
Sleeps away the flame of the day,
Joins the dance of December,
The dance of descending winter veil