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Jonathan Brendefur wondered why people struggled with math, then researched..and collaborated, published, innovated and...After years of persistence, he traced the root of the issue to early childhood education, identified 6 fundamental dimensions that can be measured, and built the only assessment tool that diagnoses a students ability and gives educators the information needed to give the right instruction to improve student outcomes. Not only that, he built curriculum, instruction, and professional development to help every person have the tools needed.
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Jason: Welcome to another episode of Decision Pints. Today our featured guest is Jonathan Brenda for of developing mathematical thinking, Institute of the University of Boise State University and many other things. We are talking over a pint of Snake River brewings, a extra Pale Ale and a look forward to the conversation. Cheers.
Jonathan: That was pretty good.
Jason: So this is a show about making things happen and the people who do it and in your case you've done so many things that we'll try to pare it down to the developing mathematical thinking institute at its at its center and how you got your start into creating this company and where your looking at going with it next. So tell us a little bit about a developing mathematical thinking and how you got your start.
Jonathan: So for me, I really want people in general just to understand mathematics and not just to understand it as arithmetic or computation, but really what is mathematical thinking? How do you think mathematically on all different topics? Kindergarten through twelfth grade. And so a number of different things happened to me when I started working with the Netherlands, the University of Utrecht, we had, that was our sister school when I was at the University of Wisconsin and the, the Dutch, they're really talked about what was called realistic math education. How can you visualize math, how can you connect it to the real world? And that really resonated with me when I was in graduate school and that's how I started thinking about, like ideas of tangent and sine and cosine and that originally just functions at the high school level a, and just building tons of connections. So when you bring up a topic, systems of equations, then can you actually think in the real world, look around and go, here's all the different ways that you could use systems. And then that sort of translating all the way down to preschool. So looking at it from four year olds all the way through high school, with just a goal of I want more people to really understand mathematics. And so that's where. So then my job and my team's job that I've been working with is really to help people develop mathematical thinking.
Jason: Excellent.
Jonathan: So a lot of people here mathematics and immediately this wall goes up thinking, oh yeah, because I'm intimidated, but not you. You, were interested in it. And as a researcher really started at the older ages and worked your way back, just finding, unwinding a, the thread finding earlier and earlier there were, there were things that were preventing people from having success later on. can you tell us a little bit about how long of a process was this research to get down to this kindergarten, early childhood education level and start to put the tools together that lets you create a company from him about 15, maybe 20 years of really kinda investing time in research and understanding how do people think about mathematics? And so I did start at kind of laugh at this, but, how do you, so our topic was functional reasoning sounds kind of funny, but I do sixth graders through twelfth graders a really understand functions in all the, all the different kinds from linear, quadratic, exponential tangent.
Jonathan: and as I started seeing holes where kids were actually able to really, take the real life situation and really mathematized take the math out of it, use it, create a function. I'm really talk about the coe relationships, the variance, the dependencies. And then all of a sudden I said, OK, well let's look more at the middle school range. And kids were struggling with place value and fractions and decimals. and then I started looking more at fifth grade. And finally I met, one of my professors, Elizabeth phenoma, she was wonderful. She said, you really need to spend time with kindergarten and first grade and understand what's happening at age five and six. So I started working with five year olds was a whole other experience. Some people think working at the high school level as a teacher was tough. You know, any kinder, first grade teacher, I might, they're impressive.
Jonathan: So, so that really got me involved in trying to help teachers at the elementary level understand the mathematics to then inform their teaching of mathematics. So that led to, a grant that I wrote and I was a math science partnership grant and I started working with three schools in the treasure valley and I gave them understanding of the mathematics, made the connections and the schools that achievement rates just started going up. so that got me, the first grant and that kind of led to thinking about, with a partner and I, what else to do with the company, which led to a couple other things that you may have questions for him.
Jason: I'm talking conversation. This is great stuff to persistence and perseverance on tackling a very complicated subjects and pioneering this research into getting at the root of helping people think mathematically because I seen multiple articles and I haven't reviewed the research, but, people who are better in math tend to be happier, healthier and wealthier. and as a young children grow into adults, this company that you've put together is helping to build a solid foundation to improve the lives of these kids, which is inspiring for those of us that see what you're doing. so first off, thank you for inspiring us. And second, can you tell us a little bit more about kind of the evolution of this research into the building of a company?
Jonathan: You're going to six? I haven't talked about company. Yeah. Yeah. So that led to, one of the teachers I was working with was really fantastic, Sam's brother. And so I ended up hiring him after one of my first projects to start working with me at the university and one of our first projects was with the State Department and I'm the math coordinator at the time. Had asked what, what screeners are out there for young kids, for kinder, first and second. So we really started looking into that and read a lot of research over a hundred articles and was really some fascinating findings where we were, we thought, OK, the screeners out there across the US are screening young kids on and do the other facts, can they count for, can account back and the identifying numbers. I'm cleared a bit with relational thinking.
Jonathan: it's simple as does three plus four equals five plus two. Can you look at those relationships? but as we started reading it was really measurement and spatial reasoning that became the crux of being able to determine whether the kids are gonna have huge holes and get through mathematics all the way into junior high and high school. And so then we started looking across again for screeners across the United States and we weren't seeing them. So we s we said, well, let's start developing. Once we developed a paper pencil one. And then a colleague of mine out in Washington said, I am running a company, I've got some programmers, let's actually build it online. And so that's where we actually formed the company. He and I formed developing mathematical thinking institute and so then, that kind of started that first, push into just looking at the assessment and trying to work with schools and we got a grant to really work on that as well. Then that's led to then creating more resources and just kind of building up from that k through k, six k eight kind of expanding and we also then do a lot of professional development working with teachers out in the, in the classrooms
Jason: [inaudible] that how exciting and so you're intervening and helping to measure and find opportunities to improve the education of the kids. but then it's actually not quite that easy because it's really teaching the teachers about these fundamental principles and how to isolate the areas that the student needs further instruction and given the activities and then follow through with making sure that they are improving. So can you talk a little bit about maybe some of the difficulties that you've run into as you've,
Jonathan: gone through? so a lot of element for good or bad and it gets a lot of elementary teachers aren't for elementary teachers go into teaching usually because they are there, they're focused on reading and getting kids to read. So mathematics isn't always just trying to say that nicely isn't always their main focus. And so then we try to, we do go into schools and really work on how do you teach geometry, how do you teach measurement, high cheech number better so that we can really get those kids to understand the mathematics talk mathematically and then build that foundation all the way up. And so it is a struggle where we have to really work with teachers to get a lot of content knowledge and then also pedagogical knowledge, the knowledge and actually teach. So if a kid doesn't understand fractions, are placed value, what is it, what types of tasks we actually give them. And so that's through, because that became an issue, the tasks, we actually started creating tasks. And so that's what we end up creating a curricular resources to really help teachers. and and we used a powerpoint format so that you could pose a question to the kids, but then if the kids are, when the kids answer, then you'd say, this is how you actually want them to speak mathematically. This is the type of way you want them to respond to it. So then we can, we can animate that in the program
Jason: was fascinating. So as you went through and started developing the curriculum resources, were there existing models that you built from or, or did you do a lot of independent pioneering into putting those lessons in items together?
Jonathan: So we ended up, we ended up going a different route because we looked at all the curriculum that was out in the United States and what were the holes and the two biggest holes that students weren't visually looking at mathematics. And so that visual spatial way of looking at math is key to success later. engineering schools. If you look at school on, different engineering schools, like, what is the school? And in boulder or Golden Colorado, they, you have you take a test on spacial reasoning to get into the school to become an engineer now. So engineering becomes just a, or sorry, a spatial reasoning becomes critical. So how do we really infuse a, a way of looking at the mathematics through a visual. I'm a visual patterns, and modeling. And then the second one was the language. What is the structure of math that you could decompose, you compose things, you iterate, units, you partition things. all of our algorithms become different ways of decomposing, composing by place value. And so giving them the language and the visual to understand to them do the operations and become both fluent at the mathematics and flexible enough to be a good problem solver at the same time. So that was kind of our take on trying to be different than a lot of other things that are out there. They're just practicing worksheets on their skill level. So we want that plus the language in this.
Jason: So I, I look at just building that curriculum seems like such a massive undertaking yet that's one component of the developing mathematical thinking institute and Developing Mathematical Thinking Institute is one component of your life. You're still active professor, you're still a researcher and a publisher. You're still a, an advisor for phd students. how, how in the world do you find the time to do all this?
Jonathan: That's a great question. I don't sleep much. Ah, yeah, I actually really enjoy the work. So I like the, for me the university work is really nice because it forces me to read a lot, so I stay up on the literature. Then my writing the articles and writing the grants also forces me to be. I'm just immersed in what's the, every year, every couple years there's little movements so I get to stay, stay up on that, which then leads to, when I'm out in schools I'm like, oh, these kids are struggling with this idea, let's try this. idea and then trying this idea of and translates to later at home creating curricular items. and then I work with my other colleagues and my staff on, on seeing if these ideas work over time, which then generates more curriculum and then, and then that ends up feeding back into what's the research say, what types of, grant should we write? And then so that kind of becomes circular. So half my time is over here at the university level and the other half is building other company stuff. The companies has so many other features though, to just all the. There's a lot of other components that I had no idea about it.
Jason: I love. The more that I hear, the more I learn, the more interesting and exciting it is because here is a fundamental part of everybody's life. And on the education side, it's, it's part of our current education, but you've found some major areas of deficiency and have worked not only to research what the problems are, but engineered solutions for it, validated those solutions with research and measurement in peer reviewed academic work. And that's still the tip of the iceberg because you're still out, putting on seminars for teachers. When somebody has a question, about the company, you're on the receiving end of the email and you're answering and they're calling you and when somebody is a password of a teacher doesn't work, you're part of the solution and it's, it's such a feel-good story, really the subject matter of the inspirational story of how you came to build what you have and it is incredibly exciting to look forward to where you'll go from here. So with that, let's take a moment and talk about what's next for the developing mathematical thinking institute and Yourself.
Jonathan: I like being at the university that really keeps me grounded, working in the schools with the research than I had liked that component. for, for the DMT, for, for the business. It's kind of exciting. We're moving to really work with more schools. We would like to work with schools that are title one schools that have, are in poverty where there's not always teachers with math degrees or that have a, just a lot of instructional issues. And so we'd like to work with schools like that. So we want to keep building that. I'm really wanna increase the type of resources, so we were moving away from a workbooks and a curriculum that's always on the page, so now we can do it electronically where students can have notebooks and journals and so that's, that actually frees up a lot of money for schools instead of spending so much on these curriculum adoptions too much easier and we can actually, modify the curriculum quickly and get it back out to teachers.
Jonathan: So that's pretty exciting. And then also moving toward, creating a cup, another set of assessments. So we have the primary math assessment for the [inaudible] level. We also want to build a three, four, five. So, how do we really key in on, on holes that kids have at the third grade, fourth grade, fifth grade, so we can help that aspect. And then, we want to start moving, to doing more apps. so kids can actually get more practice. That's really key ideas that they don't get practice with. A lot of that is the measurement and geometry type of items. and then, kind of moving out toward parents now too, and seeing if maybe that's a way that we can generate more excitement, more parents can start getting, they're getting, getting involved, getting their students to really understand the mathematics
Jason: that's incredibly exciting and impactful and benefiting the world in a positive way. it's an honor to have you here with us today on decision pints. Thank you so much. Thank you. Thank you everybody that tuned in. Thank you David and [inaudible] immersive. look forward to seeing you again soon.
Jonathan: Thank you.
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04 Oct 2009 - Preaching the News for Sunday
The Book of Genesis tells us that when the wild animals and birds of the air were brought before man, he had a name for each of them. Remote villagers in Uganda don't always have the answers they need in their daily encounters with the natural elements. Now, though, they have Question Box, a free, nonprofit telephone hotline that provides information to people in remote areas who lack access to computers. The premise behind Question Box is that a host of barriers keeps most of the developing world from taking advantage of the wealth of knowledge available through Web search engines, said Rose Shuman, the service's creator. That could be a drag on economic development. "So I was thinking, why not bring the information to them in a way that's most convenient and useful to them?" said Shuman, who is based in Santa Monica, California. People in two rural agricultural communities in Uganda can turn to 40 Question Box workers who have cell phones. The workers dial into the call center and ask questions on behalf of the locals, or they put the call on speakerphone so the locals can ask for themselves. The operators then look up the requested information in a database and convey it to the workers, who pass it along to the villagers. The workers are compensated with cell phone airtime. The service is a joint effort of Open Mind, a nonprofit group founded by Shuman, and the Grameen Foundation, which is best known for promoting small loans for the poor. It has received financial backing from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. In June Google introduced a similar effort in Uganda, also involving Grameen, which allows people to find information on topics like health and agriculture via text messaging. Source: An article by Ron Nixon for the New York Times
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Texting while driving is dangerous and shortsighted
20 Dec 2009 - Preaching the News for Sunday
"Lord, make us turn to you; let us see your face and we shall be saved," says this Sunday's psalm response. The issue with teens texting messages while they drive is quite the contrary: They have their faces turned toward their cell phones instead of the road. A nationwide ban of the practice would save many lives, advocates said. One study found texting drivers were 23 times more likely to be in an accident. But with momentum building in Washington for a federal ban, there is evidence that teen drivers might not pay much attention to it. One study found that where such laws already exist, young people often ignore them. In October, during a three-day conference in Washington on distracted driving, President Obama signed an executive order barring federal employees from texting behind the wheel. U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood said he would seek to expand that rule to bus drivers and truckers who cross state lines and called the conference "probably the most important meeting in the history of the Department of Transportation." The safety issue is not likely to go away soon. Nationwide the number of text messages was up tenfold in the past three years, and Americans sent an estimated 1 trillion messages in 2009. Among teens texting has supplanted phone calls as the preferred way to communicate. "We are seeing a clear trend of huge increases in text messaging," said Amanda Lenhart, senior research specialist at the Pew Internet and American Life Project. "If teens are a leader for America, then we are moving to a text-based communication system. For them, there is less interest in talking." Texting has even come in for criticism from the National Eye Institute, which this week blamed the practice for contributing to a 66 percent increase in the prevalence of nearsightedness, or myopia, since the 1970s. Source: Articles by Dan Whitcomb for Reuters, Hope Yen for the Associated Press, and Ellen Gibson for Bloomberg.com
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Sign of the times: Digital prayer requests
20 Jan 2013 - Preaching the News for Sunday
"Give to the Lord glory and praise," the psalmist urges this Sunday. Prayers of praise as well as of petition are coming to the largest group of Franciscan friars in the U.S. in a novel way: via text messages.The Friars of the Most Holy Name of Jesus Province, who staff 40 parishes, colleges, soup kitchens, and food centers along the Eastern seaboard as well as supporting groups in Peru and Tokyo, are among a small but growing number of religious groups offering this type of digital service.Their "Text a Prayer Intention to a Franciscan Friar" initiative, described as "faith at your fingertips," offers a novel way for Catholics to connect with those in religious life. "People are always saying to friars, 'Can you say a prayer for me?' or 'can you remember my mother who has cancer?' " said Father David Convertino, the New York-based executive director of development for the Franciscan Friars of the Holy Name Province."A lot of people text everything now, even more than email, so why not have people have the ability to ask us to pray for them by texting," Convertino said. The intentions are received on a website and are included collectively in the friars' prayers twice a day and at Mass.Most of the 325 friars, whose average age is about 60, are comfortable with the technology, said Convertino. "If the pope can tweet, friars can text. We have a friar who is 80 who was texting today."Homily hint: What to make of the growing dominance of text messages and online communications in social interaction? Is it a trend to be resisted? Embraced? Is there a middle road we can navigate, adopting and adapting technologies to serve real human needs—without letting them replace real human interaction? Food for thought and perhaps conversation this Sunday. Source: An article by Patricia Reaney for Reuters
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Montana Was the Number One Move-to Location During the Pandemic
Peter Christian Published: October 23, 2022
Missoula, MT (KGVO-AM News) - According to a national relocation tech company, moveBuddha, Montana was the number one target location for Americans to relocate during the two pandemic years of 2020 and 2021.
KGVO News spoke to moveBuddha's Content Marketing Specialist Mercedes Martinez, who said the mass exodus of people from heavily populated states like New York and California was primarily focused on the wide open spaces of Montana.
The two Biggest Culprits are California and New York
"People were just fleeing the more crowded states as much as they possibly could," began Martinez. "We saw a huge exodus from California and New York, which is still continuing to this day, but Montana in particular, out of all the open spaces was one of the most popular and Missoula specifically as well. People were just looking for more space and with remote work, it allowed them to do so and took advantage of their dreams of owning a ranch in those areas and jumped on it."
Martinez said Montana boasted impressive numbers when it came to relocating from other states.
"We take a look at the ratio of the number of people moving into the state versus out of the state," she said. "So in 2020, Montana had the highest ratio of moves in; 372 moves in for every 100 moves out, so there were almost triple the amount of people moving in as out during the COVID years."
People Moving Out - People Moving In...to Missoula
Of all the cities in Montana, Martinez said Missoula was by far the favorite place to relocate.
"The most recent data we pulled which was October 10 of this year, it has dropped down a little bit again to 207 moves in for every 100 moves out, so it's evening off," she said. "Definitely you can see the spikes that happened in the initial years of 2020 and 2021," she said. "Now it's tapering a bit, but Montana is still really high up there in comparison to all of the other states. Missoula is still the number one as it was back in 2020 as well, and Montana overall is still the number four ranked state in the nation (for relocation).
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Your rapidly increasing property tax bill can be traced directly to the exodus to Montana where home and land values skyrocketed due to the law of supply and demand.
"According to Zillow, in 2019, the average home price in Missoula was around $360,000, and now from the most recent data in September of this year, it jumped up to $580,000," she said. "So that's an over $200,000 increase in the home value, that's a 60 percent increase, which is pretty significant. I believe the national jump on average is around 42 percent, a 60 percent increase is still really, really high."
Move Buddha also provided this statistic: Every city in the state in their analysis is seeing higher rates of moves in than out. Especially number one Missoula, number 2 Bozeman, number three Kalispell, and number four Great Falls; all 4 of which are seeing over two times more moves in than out.
24 Closed Missoula Businesses We Wish We Could Bring Back
We asked Missoulians which of their favorite businesses that have closed down would they like to see make a triumphant return. Here's what they came up with.
28 Missoula Businesses That Opened, Changed Ownership, or Changed Location
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Roundup 2012
For my inaugural post (which I should have done weeks ago!), I'm taking the easy route with a top ten list of my favorite shows in Shanghai in 2012.
10. Li Xiaofei, "Assembly Line" (OV Gallery, 07/28 - 09/03): Industrial landscapes are nothing new in art but this emerging artist's documentary style video works have a candidness and lyrical quality that humanizes the factory machine.
9. Paolo Pivi, "Share, but it's not Fair" (Rockbund Art Museum, 07/07 - 09/09): This solo show from the enigmatic Italian artist demonstrates that artists aren't always self-serious and humor-less cranks. Her It's a cocktail party
installation was an especially gleeful spectacle to witness.
8. Xu Bing, "Book from the Ground" (Shanghai Gallery of Art, 04/21 - 05/29): The iconic Chinese artist made quite the splash earlier this year with a book that attempted to revolutionize the way we "read". A beautiful extension of his "Book from the Sky" project.
7. Zhang Ding, "Buddha Jumps Over the Wall" (TOP Contemporary Art Center, 06/02 - 07/15): Zhang Ding puts a whole new spin on this traditional and extraordinarily complex banquet dish with an equally complex installation and performance.
6. Chen Wei, "More" (Leo Xu Projects, 06/03 - 08/05): This Beijing-based artist proves once again why he's the Chinese photographer to watch with new works on eerie interiors composed with a painterly eye.
5. Shen Fan, "Landscape 9210" (ShanghArt Gallery H-Space, 04/15 - 05/15): Shen Fan continues to explore innovative approaches to traditional landscape painting with a multi-media installation that's more creative and thought
provoking than that of works from artists half his age.
4. Bill Viola, "Unspoken" (James Cohan Gallery, 03/09 - 05/06): Some may take issue with me putting this show so high on the list but it's exhilarating when Shanghai is treated to a heavy hitter like Viola. Viewers were able to see his monumental works on a more intimate scale.
3. Geng Jianyi, "Wu Zhi - 1985 - 2008" (Minsheng Art Museum, 09/07 - 10/12): Last year, there was the Zhang Peili retrospective at the museum. It's only natural that this year, Zhang's partner in 1980s avant-garde hijinks would also be given a special look. Undoubtedly influential, Geng Jianyi's work is still fresh.
2. 9th Shanghai Biennale: Reactivitation (Power Station of Art, 10/02/2012 - 03/31/2013): Say what you will about the Shanghai Biennale, this year was arguably the best since 2000. The new space impresses (despite the fluorescent lights and ugly escalators) and there was something for everyone. It's still on so don't miss your chance to see the best international exhibition in Shanghai. And if you missed it the first time around, read what I had to say about the Biennale here and here.
1. Yang Fudong, "Quote out of Context" (OCT Art Terminal, 09/29 - 01/03/2013): This wasn't a complete retrospective of everyone's favorite Chinese video artist but there was just enough to demonstrate why Yang Fudong is a critical darling and a potent voice of a generation. A definite highlight of this astounding show was One Half of August, which gives a whole new perspective to his film series Seven Intellectuals in a Bamboo Forest.


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This plant species is a tree from the botanical family Moraceae, commonly known as Common fig or Adriatic fig. It is native to the Mediterranean region, Western Asia and Middle East, but it is worldwide cultivated because of its nice fruits and as ornamental plant. The common fig is distributed in most of Palestine and wider area, but is rare in some regions. This plant species is found in habitats like smooth-faced hard sandstone outcrops of the Mediterranean woodlands, shrub lands and deserts and its conservation status is least concern.
Ficus carica is a tall tree species that grows up to 9 m high, whose stems are strong, with multiple and twisting branches, commonly spreading wider than in their height. This is a dioecious plant, which means that there are female trees of Ficus carica and trees that are male. The leaves are alternate, palmate, with 3 to 5 lobes. The flowers do not have petals and form a cluster in a special kind of inflorescence called syconium, which is typical for Ficus genus. A syconium is formed by a fleshy and enlarged hollow receptacle with up to 7000 multiple ovaries on the inner surface. Each of the ovaries is from a highly simplified flower, which are not visible from the outside of the syconium. The small ostiole is a little hole that serves as a passage locate in the middle of the fruit. Due to this unusual arrangement, the plant shows an interesting symbiosis with a wasp species, a very specialized pollinator adapted to enter the ostiole and move within the fruit in order to pollinate the flowers. This plant is therefore pollinated by an up to 2 mm small wasp, called Blastophaga psenes. Since the wasps do not lay eggs in the fruits of the female fig trees, syconium of male trees are more probable to have wasps' larvae. Normally, in fresh cultivated figs wasps are not found, because the fruits are coming from female trees of a domesticated variety that does not require pollination for fruiting. Furthermore, the mature fig syconium is also called a multiple fruit because of its numerous ripened ovaries. The flowering time of fig ranges from April to July.
Interestingly, Ficus carica has been cultivated for thousands of years, being one of the first plants that were cultivated by humans. Rests of fig trees were found as a sub fossil from 9400–9200 BC in a Neolithic village in the Jordan Valley. Curiously, these findings date from earlier than the domestication of wheat and legumes, meaning that figs were the first or one of the first plants used in ancient agriculture. In addition, figs were already widespread in the ancient Greece, when Aristotle had even made notes on the reproduction of the tree and noticed that the plant has individuals female and individuals that are male.
The common fig has been also widely used in traditional medicine against diseases related to digestive, endocrine, reproductive and respiratory systems (e.g. sore throats, coughs, and bronchial problems), against gastrointestinal (colic, indigestion, loss of appetite, and diarrhea), urinary tract infection and cardiovascular disorders.


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7 edition of Men"s changing roles in the family found in the catalog.
Men"s changing roles in the family
Published 1986 by Haworth Press in New York .
Sex role -- United States,
Men -- United States,
Fathers -- United States,
Family -- United States
Other titles Marriage & family review.
Statement edited by Robert A. Lewis and Marvin B. Sussman.
Contributions Lewis, Robert A. 1932-, Sussman, Marvin B.
LC Classifications HQ1075.5.U6 M46 1986
Pagination xvi, 277 p. ;
These roles such as the father being the worker and the mother being the homemaker and caregiver are now declining. The mother is becoming the supplementary provider and she retains the responsibilities of child rearing and the male is adopting the role of caregiver as well as provider. In the s and s, the change in the economic structure of the United States –-the inability to support a nuclear family on a single wage–-had significant ramifications on family life. Women and men began delaying the age of first marriage in order to invest in their earning power before marriage by spending more time in school.
In time, perhaps, the changing roles of women and men in general will take on a different shape in the workplace. Attitude Toward Traditional Gender Roles. As of , men and women aren't as likely to agree to traditional gender roles as they did in Back then, 64 percent of employees of all ages agreed the man should earn the money and. His actions and familial role is an example of how the gender roles have been redefined to encompass women's changing role in society. As a result, the man's role in the family has changed to encompass a larger role. Now both men and women are expected to spend equal time with their children while earning money.
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Vietfood, Chinatown
Pritesh Mody | 20 Oct 2015
Confused over which restaurant to eat at in Chinatown? Well the Chinese may be a little irked to hear that London's latest Vietnamese restaurant, Vietfood, provides a strong contender for the best restaurant in the area!
What.../ We no longer have to traipse to Hoxton for great Vietnamse food with the launch of Vietfood! Who.../ Chef/Proprietor Jeff Tan is seen as one of the UK's top Asian chefs. Amongst his impressive achievements is his 3 years as Chef de Cuisine at Hakkasan Mayfair during which time the restaurant was awarded a coveted Michelin Star. The Vibe.../ Set over two floors, the large high ceilinged rooms are flooded with natural light from huge sash windows and skylights. Floors are a mixture of oak boards and vintage tiles, walls are mottled light grey and exposed brickwork with matching open fireplaces. There's a strong industrial feel to the venue which is juxtaposed with antique furniture and curiosities. The Menu.../ There's sooo much goodness on the menu, it's difficult to explain where to start. Firstly, think large steaming bowls of Pho or Bun noodles, expertly made from twelve hour simmered bone marrow stock or delicately flavoured chicken broth; varieties include Flash fried fillet steak with garlic Hainan style, King prawn, Spicy brisket and Mushroom to name a few. Delve a little deeper, and you'll find a host of other delectable dishes including the sensational Smokey spiced quail and wonderfully crisp and aromatic Soft shell crab. Brimming with confidence, you may even feel compelled to order one of Jeff's signature Crispy seafood balls with parmesan mint cheese. Don't. Don't get me wrong - it's not bad; it's just a bit dull compared to the incredible array of more traditional dishes that are not only beautifully presented but packed full of flavour, texture and bite. Oh, and value is spot on too. It's pretty easy to walk out stuffed and happy for under £15-£20/head. We went and here's why you should go.../ Outside of Kingsland Road in Hoxton, the wonders of Vietnamese food are incredibly under-represented in London. Vietfood goes a long way to correct this imbalance, with delicious food, a lively vibe and affordable prices. Where.../ Vietfood 34 – 36 Wardour Street, London W1D 6QT www.vietnamfood.co.uk
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Kenya, South Sudan Deny Pirated Arms Were Headed to Sudan
Officials in Kenya and South Sudan are denying reports that a shipment of tanks and other military equipment was headed for Sudan when it was seized by Somali pirates last week. The reports have prompted questions about whether the Kenyan government is assisting South Sudan in its efforts to strengthen its army before a 2011 referendum on secession from the North. VOA Correspondent Alisha Ryu has details from our East Africa Bureau in Nairobi.
In a telephone interview with VOA, the South Sudan army Chief of General Staff Oyay Deng Ajak said the former rebel group has nothing to do with the consignment of 33 refurbished Russian-built tanks and other arms that are aboard a hijacked Ukrainian freighter off the coast of Somalia.
"The content does not belong to us. All the documents - even the Kenyans themselves, they have publicly announced that the ship(ment) belongs to them," Ajak said.
Questions about the cargo and where it was headed arose after Somali pirates seized the ship last Thursday as it sailed toward the Kenyan port of Mombasa. The pirates are demanding $20 million for the release of the ship and its 20 crew members.
On Monday, the U.S. Navy's Fifth Fleet in Bahrain said it believed the cargo's final destination was Sudan, not Kenya.
A maritime official based in Mombasa, Andrew Mwangura, told reporters earlier that pirates found documents that showed the T-72 tanks, rocket-propelled grenade launchers, anti-aircraft guns and ammunition were destined for South Sudan. Mwangura added that four other military shipments for South Sudan passed through Mombasa port in the past year.
In the Kenyan media, government spokesman Alfred Mutua and defense ministry spokesman Bogita Ongeri dismissed Mwangura's report as baseless, insisting that the seized cargo was being delivered to Kenya for use by its military.
Mwangura says what he disclosed must have been highly sensitive because he received a follow-up call from the police commissioner in Mombasa.
"The commissioner called and said, 'Do not talk to the media about this issue.' I do not know why they want to kill this story," Mwangura said.
Nairobi's claim of ownership of the cargo raised eyebrows among arms experts in the region, who note that Kenya's military suppliers are Britain, China, and the United States and there is no record of any Kenyan military personnel being trained to operate Russian-built tanks.
South Sudan, on the other hand, receives military assistance from both the United States and Russia and is said to be eager to equip its army in preparation for a possible renewed conflict with the government in Khartoum.
Although the delivery of the tanks and arms to South Sudan does not violate international arms control rules, it has the potential to unravel a peace deal the southern rebels signed with Khartoum in 2005 to end the country's two-decade-long civil war. The accord states that one side must consult the other before making any military purchases.
It also gives the South autonomy until 2011, when a referendum will be held to determine secession from the North. But most of the country's oil reserves lie in the South, and there is fear that Khartoum, which has been purchasing aircraft and weapons from Russia and China to fill its own arsenal in recent years, may not allow southern Sudan to become independent.
Kenyan government and military officials declined to speak to VOA about the controversy surrounding the seized arms shipment.
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Somali pirates who seized a Ukrainian ship transporting weapons to east Africa say the vessel has been surrounded by three foreign warships.A man who identified himself as pirate spokesman Sugule Ali told reporters Sunday that the pirates will not surrender, despite being under siege by a U.S. warship and two European warships. Speaking by satellite telephone, Ali said the pirates are demanding a $20-million ransom for the release of the vessel. Reports on Saturday…
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Somali pirates holding a Ukrainian ship carrying military hardware are denying reports that a disagreement among the gunmen about what to do with the ship has led to a fatal shootout. But as VOA Correspondent Alisha Ryu reports from our East Africa Bureau in Nairobi, the pirates on board are made up of militiamen from two rival clans, who have little in common. Pirate spokesman Sugule Ali tells VOA that reports that a deadly firefight two days ago killed three…
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Premia Holdings Ltd. Completes the Acquisition of Navigators Holdings (Europe) NV from The Hartford
Premia Holdings Ltd. has recently completed the acquisition of Navigators Holdings (Europe) NV and its subsidiaries, including property and casualty insurer Assurances Continentales NV (known as "ASCO"), located in Belgium, and its captive reinsurer Canal Re S.A., located in Luxembourg, both of which recently ceased writing new business. Navigators Holdings will be renamed Premia Holdings (Europe) NV.
Bill O'Farrell, Group Chief Executive Officer of Premia, noted "We are pleased to close this important transaction with The Hartford. We will repurpose ASCO from an insurer in run-off to a provider of run-off solutions, with growth opportunities for our newest team members. We look forward to bringing our financial strength, coupled with our operational and structuring expertise, to Continental European insurers."
Premia is a leading provider of risk transfer solutions focused on legacy risks and run-off insurance portfolios with an established insurance platform operating in Bermuda, the United States and United Kingdom, including a managing agent at Lloyd's of London.
This transaction, which has been approved by the National Bank of Belgium and the Commissariat Aux Assurances in Luxemburg, closed on December 29, 2021.
About Premia Holdings (www.premiaholdings.com)
Premia Holdings Ltd. is an insurance and reinsurance group with operations in Bermuda, the U.S., the U.K. and Europe that is focused on sourcing, structuring and servicing business in the global property and casualty run-off market. With over $1 billion in managed capital, Premia is well equipped to execute acquisitions and reinsurance transactions in the global P&C run-off market. Premia was launched in 2017 as a run-off specialist and was sponsored by Arch Capital Group Ltd. and Kelso & Company.
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Users of Microsoft's 'free' Windows 10 find unexpected ads on lock screen
Neil Hughes | Feb 24, 2016
Microsoft recently began running advertisements directly on the lock screens of Windows 10 devices, catching users by surprise with marketing on their PCs and tablets.
A full-screen ad featuring video game heroine Lara Croft began appearing on Windows 10 lock screens this week, inviting users to "Discover the legend within." Gamers are encouraged to purchase the new title "Rise of the Tomb Raider" from Microsoft's Windows Store.
Some users also took to Twitter back in January to complain about advertisements for the "Minions" movie appearing on their Windows 10 lock screen. The ad featured the titular characters rowing a boat across New York City's East River, complete with multiple links to the Windows Store to buy the hit film.
Though many users don't realize it, Microsoft's "free" Windows 10 operating system is configured by default to display such ads on the lock screen whenever the Redmond, Wash., software company decides to do so.
Via Raul Burriel.
Those running Windows 10 can disable the ads by opening Settings, choosing "Personalization," and then "Lock screen." Once there, uncheck the box for "Get fun facts, tips, tricks and more on your lock screen."
While Microsoft might characterize its lock screen promotions as "fun," users online expressed a very different reaction.
"@Microsoft - my OS is not your ad delivery system," Twitter user Kendall Miller wrote in January.
Windows 10 launched last year as a free upgrade for all Windows 7 and Windows 8 users. The lure of a no-cost update helped propel Windows 10 to installs on more than 200 million devices by the start of 2016.
Apple's OS X upgrades have been free since 2013 with the release of OS X 10.9 Mavericks. The Mac maker has been awarded patents for ad-supported operating system concepts, but publicly has never shown any inclination to make such a drastic change to its product strategy.
pmz
I was all prepared to deliver an outraged, fist-shaking consumer diatribe...then I read: "Can be turned off in settings,"...and completely lost interest.
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Probably each W10 copy is a node in a supercluster network, using your machine for free; a clusterfuck in short.
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I have to ask if these ads were 'targetted' at the users?
If they are then they must be slurping just about everything you do on your PC/Laptop.
Another step too far IMHO.
Well, Microsoft, I will never ever use another of your Operating Systems. I know that I am not alone in that view.
On my self built win 10 pro desktop this is not even an option.
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pmz said:
The reality is that this is yet another item to place in a checklist when configuring a Windows 10 system that was downloaded free as an upgrade to their botched Win8x systems.
Honestly... Microsoft thought this would be "fun"?? How much money is Microsoft getting to whore out ads to its users? I know Microsoft has zero ethics, but I'm even surprised they stooped to this level. This is a low-level that Google would do.
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The Gators volleyball team cheers after hearing they have been selected to host the first weekend of the 2022 NCAA Tournament on Sunday night. Photo from @GatorsVB via Twitter.
Gator Volleyball Takes on Pittsburgh in NCAA Tournament
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As their season comes to a close, Gator volleyball players are heading to Wisconsin to compete against Pittsburgh in the NCAA tournament.
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NCAA Regionals
The Gators have taken this season with pride. Throughout each game, fans have seen just how committed they are to their team and school. The NCAA Regionals started off with 64 teams and are now left with 16.
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Throughout their first two matches, the Gators were able to rack up a grand total of 17 aces.
This match will be the first time the Gators and Pitt have met since 1998, but both teams are as ready as ever.
If the Gators are able to win their next match against second seed Pittsburgh, they will move on in the tournament.
Gators v. Pittsburgh
The Mary Wise Show, a volleyball show hosted on Monday nights by the Gator's head coach, previewed the game. Wise and her co-host Tom Collet shined a spotlight on Elli McKissock.
"Just the best back row player by far on the court match high seventeen digs as she patrolled the back row. Played back-to-back, such great defense. You know we talk about when she's in the zone, it's like that game is in slow motion for her."
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McKissock is an important aspect on the team because of this. Moreover, the defense she provides as a player is something most teams are unable to find.
McKissock is not the only player who was highlighted during the show. Alexis Stucky was the offensive player of the week.
"But I think offensive player of the week has to go to the quarterback, Alexis Stucky. With her love and assist per set, the fact that this team averaged 328 in the two matches is just elite. Every day, she did want to practice today, Alexis is going to make a set that just is crazy good. I've stopped saying it out loud but, in my head, I'm still saying 'oh my goodness and she's still a freshman'."
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With Stucky this good this early in her college career, Wise said she continues to improve with every game.
With McKissock and Stucky working together, the Gators pose a real threat to their competition in the upcoming weeks.
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David Rotheray - The Life Of Birds
Featuring a whole host of guest artists, David Rotheray's debut solo album, The Life of Birds' reads a lot like a who's who of the British folk scene. Lyrically written entirely by Rotheray, this 'vaguely ornithological' album offers a pertinent look at modern-day life.
According to the sleeve notes, the notional bird theme which runs through each of the 14 tracks, was sparked by the tale of 'The Sparrow, the Thrush and the Nightingale'. Despite its jaunty, whistled introduction and light-hearted melody, this is not a happy tale. Instead the songbirds' experiences convey a warning about music, greed and betrayal, which is brought to life by the inimitable Jim Causley. Split into 2 parts this sad tale bookends the album.
In contrast 'The Road to the South' makes no attempt to conceal its mournful/regretful tone. Instead Eliza Carthy's voice intensifies the sense of longing to leave the crowded metropolis of London for their old life in Hull.
'Digital Cuckoo' is a technophobe's delight. Railing against perceived 'advancements', the narrator fondly remembers the simpler lifestyle of times-gone-by, which is beautifully summed up by their distaste for the electric alarm clock, or 'Digital Cuckoo'. Musically it is impossible to ignore the nostalgic tone. Backed by Ros Stephen's expressive string arrangements, Bella Hardy plays her part beautifully as she conjures up images of simpler times.
'Almost Beautiful' and 'The Best Excuse in the World' revolve around the ending of a relationship, albeit in completely different circumstances. But whereas the latter leaves doubt as to the narrator's intentions, 'Almost Beautiful' is a heart-wrenching lament of someone mourning the effect of Alzheimer's on their partner. Almost exclusively accompanied by piano and violin, Eleanor McEvoy uses her voice to paint an emotional picture of someone who is forced to recognise that while they may look the same, the person they fell in love with has gone. They are 'just a lost and sad reflection of another's ghost'. Definitely not one for the feint-hearted.
This is a stunning album featuring an incredible array of collaborations. Touching upon some of the most pertinent issues of the modern-age, David Rotheray once against display his innate talent to write songs that directly touch the listener's soul.
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Released by Proper Records on 16 August 2010.
1. The Sparrow, The Thrush & The Nightingale (with Jim Causley) - 3:25
2. Living Before the War (with Bella Hardy) - 3:33
3. The Road to the South (with Eliza Carthy) - 4:02
4. Crows, Ravens & Rooks (with Kathryn Williams) - 3:24
5. Draughty Old Fortress (with Alasdair Roberts) - 3:58
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7. The Hummingbird (with Bella Hardy & Jim Causley) - 1:29
8. Taller Than Me (with Julie Murphy) - 3:55
9. Almost Beautiful (with Eleanor McEvoy) - 2:54
10. Flying Lessons (with Nat Johnson) - 3:42
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12. The Digital Cuckoo (with Bella Hardy) - 3:36
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Chairman Michel Prada discusses successful criteria of global standards
The Chairman of the IFRS Foundation Trustees, Michel Prada, gave a speech at the Eurofi Financial Forum event. In his speech, Mr Prada discussed three successful criteria for global standards, which include (1) a clear and supported purpose, (2) a wide and consistent use around the world, and (3) bringing tangible benefits.
In the speech, Mr Prada outlined these three criteria as it applies to IFRS. First, he used the IFRS Foundation's mission statement to present a clear and supported purpose. The mission statement states:
Our mission is to develop IFRS that bring transparency, accountability and efficiency to financial markets around the world. Our work serves the public interest by fostering trust, growth and long-term financial stability in the global economy.
Next, he noted that 116 jurisdictions require the use of IFRS and many other permit the use of IFRS on a voluntary basis. In addition, most of the countries that have adopted IFRS have done so without any modifications. This signifies wide and consistent use around the world.
Lastly, Mr Prada noted the positive results from reviews on the use of IFRS within Europe and other jurisdictions such as Australia, Canada and Korea. The reviews show that the application of IFRS "raised the quality and consistency of financial reporting, and brought benefits to companies and investors."
A transcript of Mr Prada's speech is available on the IASB's website.
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European Studies and Geography
UCAS Code: LR78
Master of Arts (with Honours) - MA (Hons)
Our degree programme has many distinctive features with regards to module combinations and specialisations and we have been commended for our strong interdisciplinary approach. During your studies you will have opportunities to combine perspectives from economists, geographers, historians, linguists, philosophers, cultural study specialists, as well as political analysts. By taking European Studies you will look at the forces which have moulded Europe and which will influence its, and your, future.
Languages, linguistics and classics
Human geographyLanguages, linguistics and classics
Others in language and area studies
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Welfare and housing associate professionals
Teaching and educational professionals
This is a fairly broad but rare subject and just over 200 UK graduates gained a degree in this area in 2015. Most of the degrees were offered by Cambridge. Most went into work when they graduated, but over a quarter of graduates went on to take a further qualification, with law, translation and teaching the most common. Graduates who went into work are broadly spread across a range of jobs — there's not many jobs other than teaching you can point to and say 'this is what European Studies graduates are particularly likely to go into', although finance, teaching, marketing and the arts and media feature strongly - the subject gives a broad range of skills and you can get a wide variety of jobs with it.
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The Numberlys – app review
The Amazing Flying Books of Morris Lessmore, the debut release from Moonbot Studios, was a milestone in book app development. It won numerous 'Best App of 2011' awards, and the animation that the short film it was based on received an Oscar nomination yesterday. (You can currently download this for free, BTW).
So what did I do when I wrote about it previously? I moaned. I said it wasn't actually aimed at children. It was aimed at animation lecturers. What a miserable sod I am! But now Moonbot have released their next app, so I have another chance to marvel at their visuals without being a total Grinch.
This is the Numberlys, a story about how the alphabet was invented by some frustrated number-things:
And the Numberlys is a wonderful app, beautifully created and full of original touches. It's not wonderful for the audience you would think it is aimed at, admittedly. But for a completely different audience? For them, it is wonderful.
Because you'd think it was aimed at 4-6 year olds, wouldn't you? Being an 'alphabet app' and everything, listed as suitable for '4+'? But if you were making something for that audience, you probably wouldn't do so in black or white. Or, indeed, include no visual imagery that four-year-olds can relate to, or even understand. 1920s German expressionist cinema, modernist architecture, the dehumanising impact of mass production – these are not part of a four-year-old's life. There is a truly lovely sequence, repeated a number of times, of cogs, pistons and steam funnels. This will be utterly incomprehensible to this audience. They simply won't understand anything about what they are looking at.
As a tool for teaching the alphabet, it goes against all the educational guidelines you can imagine. All text is shown IN BLOCK CAPITALS THROUGHOUT, for a start. It's in a lovely art-deco font so it works for visual impact, but this is not how children learn to read. There are no lower case letters in the app at all. When letters are referred to audibly it is always by their names ('ay') and not their sounds ('ah'). Each letter of the alphabet is revealed in order over the course of 20 minutes or so, so it is not trying to teach the order of the letters by repetition.
At one point in the app, it has an intermission. It displays a grey screen and the word INTERMISSION, and plays background music at you until you click past. I was reminded of how Monty Python put an intermission in (I think) the video release of The Holy Grail back in the '80s, which was very funny in context. The context being, of course, that the audience was old enough to remember a time when intermissions were common in cinemas, and so would recognise it as being out of place in the VHS medium. Four-to-six year olds, however, do not have knowledge of out-of-date cinema practices. Nor can they even read the word INTERMISSION, which is displayed in caps and not spoken aloud.
So, for alphabet-learning children, it's a total non-starter. But go a bit older than that, say 7-12? Then it's terrific. The character design and animation are first class, and the characters are totally engaging. The music is even better – there's an award-worthy musical score if ever I heard one. The imagination on show, the craft, the humour – all wonderful. More importantly, the pacing and the variety of the interactive elements is really well done (there is an interactive element for the creation of each letter in the alphabet. They are too tricky for 4 year olds but perfect for older kids). The 'comedy German' voice over – think Borat-style almost-racist – really appeals to this age group. They are also, of course, more comfortable with fantasy worlds that have no elements of their own world to relate to, and so the homage to 1920s German expressionist cinema should not trouble them.
In fact, the app is so perfectly suited to this age group that they will probably overlook the fact that it's about the alphabet.
Still, you have to wonder. The "who is this for?" conversation – do they not have those at Moonbot?
By johnhiggs • Posted in childrens, Moonbot, Uncategorized	• Tagged ipad, moonbot, morris lessmore, numberlys
Budgets and Pricing of Book Apps
The economic realities of making and selling tablet book apps are currently as vague as Hell. In the absence of any hard figures, though, we have anecdotes, and they tend to be pretty grim.
Ustwo have rather wonderfully been very upfront about their experience with their Nursery Rhymes With Storytime app. It cost £60,000 to develop, they say, sold over 37,000 copies and rose to be the top grossing app in the App Store's books category. All very impressive, but unfortunately it returned only £24,048 in revenue.
(Of course, as anyone familiar with the UK Children's market will tell you, Nursery Rhymes don't work overseas. Sure, there is some overlap with American 'Mother Goose' tales and a few of the rhymes are known in a few Commonwealth countries, but they are essentially British, an unusual Victorian invention that romanticises the pre-Victorian era. This is the reason why nobody makes, say, a Humpty Dumpty cartoon series these days. With this in mind, gaining the top spot in the Book App charts is pretty impressive, although of course they may have been referring to a UK-only chart)
But anyway – such anecdotes are backed up by the gist of the talk at MIPJuniour in Cannes last week, where there was much scepticism from publishers about Apps. Egmont's Emma Cairns-Smith sums it all up neatly:
With an e-book you can sell it at pretty much the same price as the book, but as soon as you put that on an app you have to sell it at 99p. There are real commercial issues around it. It is far more expensive for us to make an app than an e-book, and yet we can charge far less for it. That's the conundrum.
What should we make of all this? It's true that the user base for tablets is still young and that another good Christmas, plus the arrival of the Kindle Fire, should see a much larger market to sell to. Of course, as we noted when we discussed the low barriers to entry in this market, that will be matched with far greater competition.
Then there's the cost of producing these things. They should get cheaper, as off-the-shelf development software arrives. And yet, and yet… there is a natural tendency to budget-bloat in the creative industries. People resist lower budget productions, as if they believe it negates the value of their work. They are professionals, and big budgets are a sign of status. It's almost as if creative people judge their own sense of self-worth by the size of the budgets they work with.
I've been around a while now, and I've seen how this all plays out. In the independent TV boom of the early 90s, the rule was that any company that made one programme but still hired a receptionist would not last the year. Whereas in the first dot com boom of the late 90s, the rule was that any company that had receptionists with Apple Macs would be gone in six months. With all that in mind, take a look at Moonbot Studios, who did the Morris Lessmore app we looked at a while back:
MOONBOT studios Office Tour from Moonbot Studios on Vimeo.
Damn, there's a nice place to work, don't you think? And I'm sure they'll do brilliant things and have patient backers with very deep pockets. But while it doesn't bode well for a company to have both a vague business model and a GIANT LAMPSHADE!!!, there doesn't seem to be a rush to very low budgets happening, especially when you have to compete with such high-profile money-burners as this. Cheap and small, in a global marketplace, will equal invisible. At least, that's the current thinking.
So what does that leave us with? Well there is the quasi-blasphemous idea of trying to sell apps for a lot more money. Evidence for this comes from Faber's Waste Land App, which sells for £9.99 and reportedly made its development costs back in six weeks. We should be slightly cautious here; much of the video content for this app came from an old BBC documentary and, given the links between Faber and the Elliot estate, you have to question how much of its research and development costs were hidden. But even so, it's still an impressive achievement and supports Faber & Faber's argument that good stuff is worth the money.
Of course, in this era of 99p ebooks, there's a lot of disagreement about pricing digital content and the Waste Land example does go against the prevailing tide. To give my own example, I wrote a book called I Have America Surrounded: The Life of Timothy Leary five years ago, and while it does not sell a massive amount, it sells enough to remain in print – a sturdy ol' backlist title. The ebook was initially priced at £2.99, where it steadily sold a few copies. Occasionally, however, it goes down to 99p, and the sales figures shoot up like crazy. Then it goes back to £2.99 and remains steady and unspectacular again. For that reason, it's just gone back down to 99p.
I've tried to work out why this is. As far as I can see, it's a good book and a total bargain at £2.99. How can price be that sensitive? My best guess is this: It's not how good the book is, it's how much the book is needed. People do enjoy reading about the life of Timothy Leary, it's quite a yarn, but they don't really need to do so. They don't think that it's going to affect their Twenty First Century lives a huge amount.
But when a book offers something that people feel they need, then the price point stops being so important. Then they are prepared to pay a tenner for it. The Waste Land app, I would suggest, sells to academics and poetry lovers who feel that they need to understand the poem better, and that if it costs a tenner to do so then so be it.
So for those developing apps, the question isn't "How can I make this cheaply enough to get my money back?" Instead, the key question should become, "What would make this app sell at a Waste Land price point?" Because all the signs are that the book apps that sell are going to have large budgets, and they will need to be recouped.
By johnhiggs • Posted in Tablet Books	• Tagged book app, budget, Faber, moonbot, morris lessmore, nursery rhymes, price, pricing, The Waste Land, ustwo, Waste Land
Writers, Animators and Morris Lessmore
One of the few certainties in life is that, when an animator is left alone to do their own thing, they will immediately set to work on a dialogue-free short about a lonely man in a room.
It's not easy to say why this is. Animators have a reputation as solitary creatures, but the ones I know are social butterflies compared to writers and programmers. It may well be that animation is hard, so melancholic pathos seems more appealing when all that is needed is a second of stillness followed by a droop of the eyes. Whatever the reason, a dialogue-free animation about loneliness can still be a perfectly valid thing. The opening sections of Up and Wall-E are both variations on this theme, and for me they are my favourite part of those films.
Yet the fact remains that animators' fondness for this form is noticeably greater than that of audiences. If in doubt, ask a commissiong editor how they react when they hear the phrase "animator's passion project".
Which brings us back to The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore. As I mentioned in this post here, this animated storybook is let down by a story which I believe I described as "hokey old arse". It goes like this: Morris Lessmore is a young man who likes order. Some vague unnamed event happens which turns his life upside down, so he finds solace in reading a book about Humpty Dumpty. He then moves into a library, spends his entire life with books, grows old and dies. The twist at the end is that he had been writing a book himself, about his life, which a little girl finds at the end. All this is smothered in the message "books are magic" and "everyone is special", but as each entry in Morris' book presumably reads "sat alone and read books again today", it's possible that the whole thing is essentially sarcastic.
It's not a story that seems aimed at picture book-age children. There is no antagonist, other than the process of ageing, and the main character is an entirely reactive protagonist that it is hard to care about. There are no jokes. The emotional core, a bitter-sweet meditation on ageing and death, is not something that five-year olds will relate to. The sections about caring and repairing books will reinforce, to a young mind, the idea that books are hard work. There is something to be said for stressing the value of books to that age group, but that is best done by exposing children to good stories rather than bad ones.
So, why was so much work put into bringing that particular story to fruition? It's entirely possible that developers Moonbot were being very clever, and that the target audience was never intended to be children. It's possible that the book exists to make as big a splash for the studio as possible, and that the target audience was always animation lecturers, Apple early-adopters and excitable journalists.
Then again, they may have made the fatal mistake of showing the story to their 5 year old children, asking them what they think, and hence genuinely believe that it's a story children love. Children at this age always give the answer that adults want to hear, and it is to the childs great credit how accurately they can deduce what this is. (Rather awkwardly, the only real way you can tell whether a children's story is a success is to wait thirty years and ask the now-grown reader if they remember it, then watch to see if their face lights up.)
But while Morris Lessmore claims to be a celebration of the magic of stories, it is a celebration of the magic of images. And that is no bad thing. It is an "animator's narrative", where a string of lovely, striking, memorable images are strung together and called a story. Look at the care and craftsmanship that has gone into the visual side of Morris Lessmore:
The Making Of Morris: Part 2 (Animation We Cherish) from Moonbot Studios on Vimeo.
Now – all this raises an interesting point about the current state of tablet books.
If you look at who is working in the medium of tablet books, then you'll see that illustrators and animators are doing themselves proud. Also present and correct are coders, digital developers and eager start-up businessmen. All these people have stepped up, experiemented and are trying new things. What you won't find are that many established writers. Indeed, looking at most of the tablet books I'll be talking about over the next few weeks, the majority are adaptations of existing printed text.
Why is this? Writers are usually quick to sniff out a chance of an audience. They have been quick to embrace Kindle self publishing and experiment with Twitter novels, but there is a noticeable lack of writers writing specifically for tablet books. In part, this may be due to a lack of contacts or programming skills. Digital developers tend to work more closely with illustrators than writers.
But it may also be because writers do not yet see any potential in the format, or see how a tablet book could be a better narrative than a normal one. And if this is the case, then it could be a serious issue.
Because if tablet books are to prosper, they will need writers to take the lead.
By johnhiggs • Posted in animation, Tablet Books	• Tagged animation, moonbot, morris lessmore, tablet books
Have a watch of this, it's the most visually impressive tablet book at the moment: The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore by Moonbot Studios.
Amazing, wouldn't you say? Certainly there are no shortage of people reaching for the hyperboles. Here's Ben Machell in The Times:
"It is not inconceivable that, at some point in the future, a short children's story called The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr Morris Lessmore will be regarded as one of the most influential titles of the early 21st century."
That's quite some claim.
I'm going to have to start by mentioning the elephant in the room here. As a story, and assuming that it's a story aimed at children, this is a load of hokey old arse. I'm going to do a separate post later to talk more about that, as the problems here shed wider light on tablet books as a whole. I do recognise that the user review section on iTunes is full of gushing 5-star reviews and I'm not trying to be deliberately contrary, but the disconnect between audience and storyteller does need to be looked at.
So, that significant problem aside, what have we got? It's a short story, one with 27 "pages" that takes about 15 minutes to go through, so a good length for a bedtime story. Each page has a few lines of text, which by default are read aloud to you, and an animated picture that you can interact with to produce a surprising result.
What this is, essentially, is the 'lift-the-flap book' model of tablet books. You read a page, and then look around the picture for something to 'do', and once that's done you move on to the next page. It's a good model to work to; lift-the-flap books are always a hit with pre-schoolers, who like both the element of surprise as to what they will find, plus the element of control in that it was they who lifted the flap and caused the picture to change. And here is a model that allows tablet books to be an improvement on physical books, as triggering an animation can be far more spectacular and page-changing that going from one image to the image hidden underneath.
So how does this work in practice? There's an 'everything but the kitchen sink' feel to the interactive elements. On most of the pages, you blindly stab about at parts of the image to see if they will do anything. On some pages, the parts that will trigger an event glow briefly to highlight what to touch, but this isn't consistent throughout. There are many times you find yourself accidentally turning to the previous or next page as you attempt to trigger actions in the part of the screen reserved for page turns. Some items just need to be touched, others need specific swipe motions. Some images 'reset' after the triggered animation, others don't. It doesn't have that consistent logic that pleases preschoolers, especially boys. Having watch a number of people try it out, there is definitely a 'stumbling blindly' problem with the interaction.
Then there are triggerable events that are more like 'mini games' – a book opens to reveal a ripped picture that you must reassemble, a tune needs to be played on a piano, you can fly Morris around the page by tilting the pad and so on. There's an admirable sense of trying everything out here, although by and large they do seem unconnected to the story – random diversions rather than necessary progressions. The triggered animations are the same every time, incidentally.
The music, as you can hear in the clip above, it fantastic. The voiceover made me cringe, although this may just be cultural, and it can be turned off. (The issue of tablet books that read themselves to you will need to be a separate post, incidentally. It is by-and-large the norm for children's tablet books, but I wonder if it is has a negative impact on the experience.) The app seems sensibly priced, at £2.99.
And it is beautiful. The craft on display is unarguable (even if cruel-hearted animation folk like myself will take a certain pleasure in pointing out when it is less than perfect, such as when Morris' arm glitches as he leaves the room of books – I know, I know. We can't help ourselves). Visually there is a strong echo of 1930s Hollywood, of a romanticised, simpler world devoid of such modern horrors as iPads and tablet books. The visuals keep the 'chuck everything in' approach of the interactive stuff, and mix CG, models, and hand-drawn animation, but they all hang together very well. The visual side is led by William Joyce, and it is a wonderful thing that artists of his calibre are working in this genre. It promises great things for the future.
The result is one of those 'buy to show people' apps, one which you use to show off your new iPad rather than read for pleasure. The Medium overwhelms the Message, but it does have the air of something new emerging, of something that will trouble the dreams of more conservative publishers. In many ways The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore is a triumph but, unfortunately, not in every aspect, and arguably not in the most important aspects. Which I will talk about soon in a new post.
The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore.
By johnhiggs • Posted in animation, Tablet Books	• Tagged moonbot, morris lessmore, tablet books