Posted by Rhett Mcdaniel on Wednesday, April 21, 2010 in News.
On April 1, the CFT held a conversation on teaching titled "Teaching First-Year Students: Cognitive Challenges of the First Year." About twenty-five faculty, staff, and graduate students participated in the discussion. Panelists at the session were Doug Christiansen (Dean of Admissions), Susan Kevra (French, American Studies), and Adam List (Chemistry).
One of the questions posed during the discussion was the following: If memorization is shallow learning, then what does deep learning look like in various teaching contexts? Below are answers suggested by workshop panelists and participants in response to this question, as summarized by CFT assistant director Derek Bruff.
Panelist Adam List pointed to the difference between algorithmic problem solving and applied problem solving. Algorithmic problem solving involves accurately following known procedures to solve problems of certain types. Students can often succeed at this kind of problem solving by following "recipes" they have memorized. Applied problem solving is that which requires more than just following procedures. It involves selecting appropriate procedures and adapting those procedures to work in the context of particular problems. We might call this creative or adaptive problem solving.
For more on teaching first-year students, see the CFT's teaching guide on first-years.


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Q: remote access mongodb on openshift I can't access remotely to my mongodb on openshift.
I tried this configuration:
mongodb.conf
bind_ip = 0.0.0.0  or bind_ip = 127.9.218.2
port = 27017
auth = true

Here you have the image

A: After you port forward,  use 127.0.0.1:27017 to connect.

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After dropping the emotive and fan-favorite "Beautiful", and right of the heels of being named an African Hip-Hop king by Lobatana Africa, X.O Senavoe follows up his ground-breaking intro video for "Taxi Music" with the excellent new video for his first solo joint "Say It Again", produced by Kid Konnect.
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His twist on the "xo" signature, using "when your chick's blowing me kisses, she's really saying my name" serves as a tie-in to the playful nature of the song while solidifying X.O's royalty ranking as a rap giant. The video will be followed right away by the release of the first single of the year and kicks off what will be a great year of non-stop X.O music.
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The upcoming facility will expand Cirrus' capacity of those services with space for aircraft storage, service hangars and a two-story office. (Rendering courtesy Cirrus Aircraft)
By Miranda Jaimes | 4:22 PM Dec 7, 2021 CST | Updated 4:22 PM Dec 7, 2021 CST
After opening a temporary facility at the McKinney National Airport earlier this fall, Cirrus Aircraft is gearing up for a $9 million expansion.
The temporary facility offers maintenance, flight training and management for Cirrus Aircraft owners in the area at 1500 Industrial Blvd., McKinney. The more than 47,000-square-foot facility will expand Cirrus' capacity of those services with space for aircraft storage, service hangars and a two-story office, according to documents filed with the state.
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"Cirrus Services continues to transform the way we deliver factory-direct service and support," said Todd Simmons, president of customer experience at Cirrus Aircraft, in a statement. "We recognize the importance of developing a world-class, comprehensive owner and operating experience, and our new location in McKinney, Texas, is the latest step in providing factory-direct support to our customers in the south-central area of the United States."
The Cirrus McKinney Factory Direct Service Center is expected to break ground in the first quarter of 2022 and be completed by the first quarter of 2023. The new center will eventually bring more than 30 jobs to the area, a spokesperson said.
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"It is like this, bhikkus: the practitioner goes into the forest or to the foot of a tree, or to any deserted place, and sits stably in the lotus position, holding his body quite straight. Breathing in, he knows that he is breathing in: and breathing out, he knows that he is breathing out.
3. 'I am breathing in and am aware of my whole body.
I am breathing out and am aware of my whole body.' This is how he practices.
4. 'I am breathing in and making my whole body calm and at peace.
I am breathing out and making my whole body calm and at peace.' This is how he practices.
7. 'I am breathing in and am aware of the activities of the mind in me.
I am breathing out and am aware of the activities of the mind in me.' This is how he practices.
8. 'I am breathing in and making the activities of the mind in me calm and at peace. I am breathing out and making the activities of the mind in me calm and at peace.' This is how he practices.
9. 'I am breathing in and am aware of my mind. I am breathing out and am aware of my mind.' This is how he practices.
10. 'I am breathing in and making my mind happy and at peace.
I am breathing out and making my mind happy and at peace.' This is how he practices.
11. 'I am breathing in and concentrating my mind. I am breathing out and concentrating my mind.' This is how he practices.
12. 'I am breathing in and liberating my mind.
I am breathing out and liberating my mind.' This is how he practices.
and observing the impermanent nature of all dharmas.' This is how he practices.
and observing the fading of all dharmas.' This is how he practices.
and contemplating liberation.' This is how he practices.
and contemplating letting go.' This is how he practices.
From The Sutra On the Full Awareness of Breathing, by Thich Nhat Hanh, Parallax Press, P. O. Box 7355, Berkeley, California. 94707 (1988), pp. 6 – 8.
From Walker Percy, The Loss of the Creature, 1954.
A young Falkland Islander walking along a beach and spying a dead dogfish and going to work on it with his jackknife has, in a fashion wholly unprovided in modern educational theory, a great advantage over the Scarsdale high-school pupil who finds the dogfish on his laboratory desk. Similarly the citizen of Huxley's Brave New World who stumbles across a volume of Shakespeare in some vine-grown ruins and squats on a potsherd to read it is in a fairer way of getting at a sonnet than the Harvard sophomore taking English Poetry II.
The educator whose business it is to teach students biology or poetry is unaware of a whole ensemble of relations which exist between the student and the dogfish and between the student and the Shakespeare sonnet.
To put it bluntly: A student who has the desire to get at a dogfish or a Shakespeare sonnet may have the greatest difficulty in salvaging the creature itself from the educational package in which it is presented. The great difficulty is that he is not aware that there is a difficulty; surely, he thinks, in such a fine classroom, with such a fine textbook, the sonnet must come across! What's wrong with me?
The dogfish is concealed in the same symbolic package as the sonnet. But the dogfish suffers an additional loss. As a consequence of this double deprivation, the Sarah Lawrence student who scores A in zoology is apt to know very little about a dogfish. She is twice removed from the dogfish, once by the symbolic complex by which the the dogfish is concealed, once again by the spoliation of the dogfish by theory which renders it invisible. Through no fault of zoology instructors, it is nevertheless a fact that the zoology laboratory at Sarah Lawrence College is one of the few places in the world where it is all but impossible to see a dogfish.
The clue to the situation in which the student finds himself is to be found in the last item: 1 specimen of Squalus acanthias.
If we look into the ways in which the student can recover the dogfish (or the sonnet), we will see that they have in common the stratagem of avoiding the educator's direct presentation of the object as a lesson to be learned, and restoring access to sonnet and dogfish as beings to be known, reasserting the sovereignty of knower over known.
However it may come about, we notice two traits of the second situation: (1) an openness of the thing before one–instead of being an exercise to be learned according to an approved mode, it is a garden of delights which beckons to one; (2) a sovereignty of the knower–instead of being a consumer of a prepared experience, I am a sovereign wayfarer, a wanderer in the neighborhood of being who stumbles into the garden.
One can think of two sorts of circumstances through which the thing may be restored to the person. (There is always the direct recovery: A student may simply be strong enough, brave enough, clever enough to take the dogfish and the sonnet by storm, to wrest control of it from the educators and the educational package.) First by ordeal: The Bomb falls; when the young man recovers consciousness in the shambles of the biology laboratory, there not ten inches from his nose lies the dogfish. now all at once he can see it, directly and without let, just as the exile or the prisoner or the sick man sees the sparrow at his window in all its inexhaustibility; just as the commuter who has had a heart attack sees his own hand for the first time. In these cases, the simulacrum of everydayness and of consumption has been destroyed by disaster; in the case of the bomb, literally destroyed. Secondly, by apprenticeship to a great man: One day a great biologist walks into the laboratory; he stops in front of our student's desk; he leans over, picks up the dogfish, and ignoring instruments and procedure, probes with a broken fingernail into the little carcass. "Now here is a curious business," he says, ignoring also the proper jargon of the specialty. "Look here how this little duct reverses its direction and drops into the pelvis. Now if you would look into a coelancanth, you would see that it–" And all at once the student can see. The technician and the sophomore who loves his textbook are always offended by the genuine research man because the latter is usually a little vague and always humble before the thing; he doesn't have much use for the equipment or the jargon. Whereas the technician is never vague and never humble before the thing; he holds the thing disposed of by the principle, the formula, the textbook outline; and he thinks a great deal of equipment and jargon.
This essay is from a book titled "Freedom to Learn" published in 1969, that contains the basic ideas on learning of a very creative and original psychologist like Carl Rogers.
I wish to present some very brief remarks, in the hope that if they bring forth any reaction from you, I may get some new light on my own ideas.
a) My experience is that I cannot teach another person how to teach. To attempt it is for me, in the long run, futile.
b) It seems to me that anything that can be taught to another is relatively inconsequential and has little or no significant influence on behavior.
c) I realize increasingly that I am only interested in learnings which significantly influence behavior.
d) I have come to feel that the only learning which significantly influence behavior is self-discovered, self-appropriated learning.
e) Such self-discovered learning, truth that has been personally appropriated and assimilated in experience, cannot be directly communicated to another.
f) As a consequence of the above, I realize that I have lost interest in being a teacher.
g) When I try to teach, as I do sometimes, I am appalled by the results, which seems a little more than inconsequential, because sometimes the teaching appears to succeed. When this happens I find that the results are damaging. It seems to cause the individual to distrust his own experience, and to stifle significant learning. Hence, I have come to feel that the outcomes of teaching are either unimportant or hurtful.
h) When I look back at the results of my past teaching, the real results seem the same – either damage was done – or nothing significant occurred. This is frankly troubling.
i) As a consequence, I realize that I am only interested in being a learner, preferably learning things that matter, that have some significant influence on my own behavior.
j) I find it very rewarding to learn, in groups, in relationships with one person as in therapy, or by myself.
k) I find that one of the best, but most difficult, ways for me to learn is to drop my own defensiveness, at least temporarily, and to try to understand the way in which his experience seems and feels to the other person.
l) I find that another way of learning for me is to state my own uncertainties, to try to clarify my puzzlements, and thus get closer to the meaning that my experience actually seems to have.
m) This whole train of experiencing, and the meanings that I have thus far discovered in it, seem to have launched me on a process which is both fascinating and at times a little frightening. It seems to mean letting my experiences carry me on, in a direction which appears to be forward, toward goals that I can but dimly define, as I try to understand at least the current meaning of that experience. The sensation is that of floating with a complex stream of experience, with the fascinating possibility of trying to comprehend its ever-changing complexity.
a.) Such experience would imply that we would do away with teaching. People would get together if they wished to learn.
b.) We would do away with examinations. They measure the inconsequential type of learning.
c.) We would do away with grades and credits for the same reason.
d.) We would do away with degrees as a measure of competence partly for the same reason. Another reason is that a degree marks an end or a conclusion of something, and a learner is only interested in the continuing process of learning.
e.) We would do away with the exposition of conclusions, for we would realize that no one learns significantly from conclusions.
I think I had better to stop here. I do not want to become too fantastic. I want to know primarily whether anything in my inward thinking, as I have tried to describe it, speaks to anything in your experience of the classroom as you have lived it, and if so, what the meanings are that exist for you in your experience.
How does a person learn? How can important learnings be facilitated? What basic theoretical assumptions are involved?
1) Human beings have a natural potentiality for learning.
2) Significant learning takes place when the subject matter is perceived by the student as having relevance for his own purposes.
3) Learning which involves a change in self organization – in the perception of oneself – is threatening and tends to be resisted.
4) Those learning which are threatening to the self are more easily perceived and assimilated when external threats are at a minimum.
5) When threats to the self is low, experience can be perceived in differentiated fashion and learning can proceed.
6) Much significant learning is acquired through doing.
7) Learning is facilitated when the student participates responsibly in the learning process.
8) Self-initiated learning which involves the whole person of the learner – feelings as well as intellect – is the most lasting and pervasive.
9) Independence, creativity, and self-reliance are all facilitated when self-criticism and self-evaluation are basic and evaluation by others is of secondary importance.
10) The most socially useful learning in the modern world is the learning of the process of learning, a continuing openness to experience and incorporation into oneself of the process of change.
1) The facilitator has much to do with setting the initial mood or climate of the group or class experience.
2) The facilitator helps to elicit and clarify the purposes of the individuals in the class as well as the more general purposes of the group.
3) He relies upon the desire of each student to implement those purposes which have meaning for him, as the motivational force behind significant learning.
4) He endeavours to organize and make easily available the widest possible range of resources for learning.
5) He regards himself as a flexible resource to be utilized by the group.
6) In responding to expressions in the classroom group, he accepts both the intellectual content and the emotionalized attitudes, endeavouring to give each aspect the approximate degree of emphasis which it has for the individual or the group.
7) As the acceptant classroom climate becomes established, the facilitator is able increasingly to become a participant learner, a member of the group, expressing his views as those of one individual only.
8) He takes the initiative in sharing himself with the group – his feelings as well as his thoughts – in ways which do not demand nor impose but represent simply a personal sharing which students may take or leave.
9) Throughout the classroom experience, he remains alert to the expression indicative of deep or strong feelings.
10) In his functioning as a facilitator of learning, the leader endeavours to recognize and accept his own limitations.
I have been chasing after Zen for what seems like a long time now, and recently, it has begun to seem that maybe the relationship is getting mutual. For those of you for in San Francisco. I tried to get Si to explain what it was that he was doing, and I couldn't understand a word that he said to me. Which makes me think now that he must have been pretty far along even then.
But the one thing that I got, somehow, was that whatever this was, it was something of immense value. Hmm.
And then, near the end of that turbulent and much maligned decade, the 60's, another good friend, Jerry Katz, a philosopher, loans me a book by Philip Kapleau: The Three Pillars of Zen. I read it uncomprehendingly, it talks about meditation, the basic instruction, to sit down and follow one's breath, counting up to ten breaths, one for each exhalation – this is so simple. How come that when I try to (try to) try it, it is so hard?
And this book gives me for the first time a Zen word: koan. And tells me what it is like to live with a koan. A koan is some kind of riddle or something, something that you cannot answer with your mind, something so fiendishly crafted that it in fact defeats your mind, after you have lived with it long enough.
Hey waidaminit! What is all this stuff about getting rid of my mind? What is so bad about having a mind, after all? Haven't I been going to all kinds of lengths to train my mind, and now I'm supposed to just chuck it? And for something as dubious as this, the first koan I remember encountering, and one that is said to be central to Zen?
The monk Joshu is asked: Has a dog Buddha nature?
And here are all these stories about extremely serious people, going through extreme hardships, meditating for many years, staying up, outside, under the moon, baying Mu into the night air. And for what?
Well, there is said to be a way of being, at the end of this indefinitely long and painful ordeal with Mu, something the least intelligible of all, something called enlightenment, or realization, or in Japanese, satori. And from the testimonials of several of the people in Kapleau's book who have had these satori experiences, something mysterious, which somehow comes through, despite their inability to talk about it (better: despite their indifference towards the impossibility of expressing this whatever it is in words) – something from far away and yet also nearer than language is calling to me.
And now the scene shifts, it is the summer of 1983, I have a grant, from the Jason and Marion Whiting Foundation, to talk to various people on the West coast about the relationships between art and science and philosophy and religion, which I feel are in some way inextricably intertwined, are much more alike than they are often thought to be, I am in Los Angeles. And I have been told, by a very dear friend, someone much farther along on this pathless path, that when she met the head of the Zen Center of Los Angeles, Taizan Maezumi Roshi, she burst into tears, she knew immediately that he was her teacher, changed from the practice that she had been doing intensively for years to follow this man.
This sounds wonderful. This is more like it. Certainty. Yes sir, I could sure use some of that, something to galvanize me, help me stop stumbling around so like a fool. I will go and see this Roshi fellow (if he will see me), maybe something magical will happen to me too, after all, I have been muddling around for 15 years, surely this should count for something?
So miraculously enough, I call up, am granted an audience with this man. He is small, very quiet, almost clean-shaven head, brown robe, surrounded by many kind people who live at the Zen Center, they take me in, give me tea, show me around – it is clear that there is a lot of work here, a lot of purpose, above all, a lot of love. I am beginning to get the idea: friendship is very important, somehow, in this whole difficult process. Friends have brought me this far, I am wrapped in friendship and love, from people who either have gone, like me, groping after something that they did not know how to describe either, or who were lucky enough to have figured out earlier that describing was anyway irrelevant.
My koan! My koan? What koan? Nobody ever gave me one. I'm not even in any Zen community, I don't have a roshi to go to to check in with, a roshi who will know when I have "solved" the unsolvable koan that I have been given.
So – but look here! He is obliquely (everything is oblique in this business) giving me a koan right now! I better ask him what it is!!
Wow! That is a koan?? This confused bunch of thinking and reading that I have been enmeshed with for who knows how long? This can be dignified with the name of koan? I had better collect some brownie points, I'll ask him how I'm doing, now that I'm a koaneer, like all the other real Zen students, who I have always been so envious of.
Aha. So it's not going to be so easy, hunh? This mooshing business, how could anyone do it anyway, it's impossible, the enterprises are too far apart, the reading is difficult, it's all in a vague area, who could even do something like this, they would have to have understood all of this, but me? No wonder (grrrr) I have gotten nowhere, I better just go back to ripping poems to pieces and loving syntax and things like that which I have to do anyway because they're so interesting that I have to do them even if I won't get realized for it.
And now it is 13 and a half years after those three words. I have been mooshing together fiercely in as many ways as I could think of, in a bunch of different settings and places around the world, sometimes some of them seem to work, others fall flat on their face. The not so vague guilt with which I was beset in 1983, guilt at not doing something recognizable, not doing pure syntax, or pure poetics, or pure something, at being lost without even being able to tell anyone except extremely kind and patient friends what I think it might be that I think I am lost in – miraculously, this permaguilt has begun to thaw. At first I had tried to sort of compartmentalize, say, by putting books that I read about enlightenment and like that in a different category (like not business expenses) from journals, books, real books. And also to keep it out of the classroom. I mean, this is all private, my trip, right? How can I, in good conscience, lay it on anyone else? I can't, which however does not stop me from laying it on, thick, in bad conscience.
Because oooo would I like to be a realized being, a saint, a guru. MmmmMMMM. I'm losing patience with all this waiting, I don't have the moxie to really do all this fierce practice which all the heavies do, hey! – maybe it just isn't my karma to get enlightened this time around, not my fault, so why not pretend that I do know something?
This is just the tip of a whole iceberg of gruesome crud which I will spare you. Plenty more where that came from. And strange though it is to tell, although one might think that such feelings would have enough power to keep me flagellating myself indefinitely, in fact my arm seems to have gotten a bit tired, or some of the fun has begun to go out of it for me. Not that it isn't always there, a trusted friend, ready to hand whenever I would like to welcome it back – but somehow, its hook isn't set so deep in me anymore. It has moved from stage front towards the background, towards the wings.
There's a lot more like that too, should you wish to hear it. It is very hard to say just in what way it is not what it was in 1983. It is not that I now believe in different things, exactly – maybe a slightly better way to say it would be to say that the belief is in more of me. Or that it comes from a deeper place.
Maybe two things will help point to something just barely perceptible. Some twentieth-century painter, I think it was Max Ernst, but I don't know for sure, he was asked: what do you tell young painters? He said: I tell them to quit. That way, only those who have to will keep on painting.
Or there is an expression in German: die Hand für etwas ins Feuer legen – "to put one's hand in the fire for something." To believe something so much that you would actually put your hand in the fire as a kind of demonstration of your degree of commitment to it.
Now I feel more of a chicken about physical pain than I imagine most people do, yet there are things I have seen in poems, say, or maybe even about all of this mooshing, which I would put my hand in the flames for (I'm not saying how long, mind you). However much this may be true, when push comes to shove, is in a way immaterial. I am just trying to find some way to describe what may be different in the Haj of 1997 from the one in 1983. I don't think that there was much in the older one that he would have put his hand in the fire for.
Or maybe another way to talk around this feeling is to say that wanting has become somewhat irrelevant. I used to want to believe in mooshability, and was assailed by doubts guilt etc. Now, despite the continued presence of all that dark stuff, mooshability just is. It's as if at times I become Mr. Moosh.
I am going to skip a lot of stuff about what it was that the Buddha awakened to, which is called in Sanskrit Dharma, and which we might quickly translate as "what is firm, or the Law," or: "the way things are." There are many books which talk about this much better than I know how to. Instead, what I want to talk about is how the Buddha passed this wisdom down to his students.
And there, the answer was, and still is today: from the deepest place in his heart to that same place in his student. The Buddha's great insight and courage and determination had enabled him to completely purify his heart, and had also given him the ability to see clearly into the hearts of anyone who wanted to follow his teaching, and to tell when someone had truly understood, and embodied, all of it. And when that mystical point was reached, what happens is something that we who have not experienced this can only guess at: it is written that at that point, there ceases to be any difference between that Buddha and the student. They are One in their deepest heart of wisdom.
And what happened when one of the Buddha's students, who had personally achieved this fusion with the Buddha, started teaching still other students? Well, the same thing: when one of the students' students had achieved a pure heart, that fact would be revealed to the pure heart of her or his teacher, and again teacher and student would fuse into one. And thus arose the notion of lineage, and today there are Buddhist masters who can tell you who their teacher was, and who their teacher's teacher was, and so on, all the way back 2500 years to the Buddha. There is an unbroken conduit of Light that radiates from the Buddha that comes down into the lives of these living masters today.
The Buddhists say that we are all already Buddhas, but that we don't know it. All the work that we do on ourselves is to help us to wake up and remember who, in our deepest essence, we most truly are. They say that each of us has a sleeping Buddha in us, and that we can wake that Buddha up.
a tree was a tree, and a lake was a lake.
a tree was no longer a tree, and a lake no longer a lake.
a tree a tree, and a lake a lake.
So what I had expected to happen, through hanging out with Zen, namely that I was going to become a roshi, that didn't happen. Instead, Maezumi Roshi, with his endless kindness and insight, saw that inside of me, there was sleeping a potential Moosher of Art and Science. With his great wisdom and compassion, he saw all kinds of different flavors of Buddhahood in the different people who were drawn to him to study. Some he would see could wake up to become pure bakers, or mothers, or dancers, or bus drivers, or flutists, or . . . or even mooshers. To each his koan.
And what matters in this inner transformation is not the profession of the awakened being – what matters is only that their heart is pure. The rest is just trapping. And anyway, as soon as you have "solved" one koan, there is another fiercer one right behind it, and it will come into your living room, invisibly, and wait for you to gradually become aware of its unshakability.
So what we learn is not to become anything special. Rather, since each of us is unique, each of us has to find that special thing in us which we can so merge with that we will end up being identical with it. The result of that experiment is on one level that we have become a transcendent baker, or whatever. But far more importantly, what we have learned is: the Possibility of Awakening. We learn that we can find a way to turn our senses inward, to find out what we truly cannot help doing, what we must do even if more famous, etc., people around us tell us to quit. What we would put our hands in the fire for. If we have learned that once, then, should we wish to continue on the pathless path, a dharma friend who is further along than we are can help us to look again within us, in an even deeper place (there seem to be no final places, which you can arrive at and have no even deeper places to wake up into).
So why all the above? What is this leading up to?
It is probably too late in the day to say anything like "briefly, . . . ," but what I am vitally concerned with is our educational institutions. Most schools and colleges think that education consists in teaching stuff, whether the stuff is driver ed or Italian, or calc or accounting. But I think that to believe this is to make just the same mistake I made, when I thought that waking up was necessarily to wake up to being a guru, roshi, whatever. No.
Learning is, always and only, about waking up. I am a linguist. What I must do, when I teach linguistics, is to show to the students what it is like to live the life of someone who cannot help being a linguist, who would be a linguist even if he drove a hack forty hours a week to earn a living, someone who is permanently addicted to the beauty of language. I show them myself and my fascination, not in order that they learn about what allophones are, or what chômeurization is, or anything concrete like that at all. Rather, I live this love for language in their presence, and I invite them to ask: is there anything like that in me? Do language and I have any business together? If so, they can come to me, and ask: what is my next step? And if not, simply not. No blame whatsoever. On to the next class.
My first linguistics teacher, Bernard Bloch, a brilliant linguist and teacher who was the head of the graduate linguistics program at Yale, was the alarm clock who woke me up to my linguisthood. There was a sleeping linguist in me, and he sensed that, and after he had awoken him, he had the bad luck to let me into a handcrafted major in linguistics at Yale, which had no undergraduate program in linguistics. I was to take some graduate courses, do some reading courses, and generally behave like linguistics inebriates behave. I, however, had different agendas, and proceeded to waste his time while I was at Yale, playing football, poker, and being on the radio station, doing essentially no studying. But he gritted his teeth and bore up through my dismal scholastics at Yale; I think he may have known that the hook was set so deep that sometime I might really settle down and start to think.
This all by the boards. I am here suggesting fundamentally just this. What happened in Linguistics 20, in my freshman year at Yale, was that there was in me a sleeping linguist, a linguist in ovo, one who did not know there was a possibility of waking out of the sleep in which he was wrapped. Within Bernard Bloch, there was not only an awakened linguist, but there was also his own sleeping linguist, who had been there until his teachers (I think that Raven McDavid and Leonard Bloomfield were some of them) had called to that sleeping and playful Essence of Linguisthood within him. I think of these sleeping linguist-buddhas, baker-buddhas, nurse-buddhas, whatever, as little kids, say around five or six, who love to get together and play. They called to Bernard Bloch's linguist-kid, and awoke him, and he later, in 1956, called to me, and awoke mine.
If anything like the above is what happens in the process of forming people, then it suggests consequences of the most profound kind for the educational system. First and foremost, waking up is an event wrapped in friendship and playfulness, which is not to say in the least that it does not involve intense seriousness and immense quantities of hard work, as anyone who has watched kids build sand castles at the beach well knows. As far as I can tell, the greatest impediment to this process is fear. I think that as soon as obligations, like homework, exams, grades – all those good things which we all know are absolutely indispensable to conducting a class – as soon as those come in, the possibilities of successful wakings up are shrunken greatly. They do not go away entirely – look at me – I woke up in a regularly structured class with homework, exams, the whole schmier. How come it worked for me? How come I woke up?
I think that I woke up despite the system, not because it promoted the awakening process. And yes there are many people who have had the fantastic good fortune to have awoken to their callings in standardly structured classes. But I am impressed, and saddened, by the huge numbers of people who have not awoken to the Possibility of Awakening, and who either drop out, in the most radical cases, or who go through life desafinados, slightly out of tune, not radiantly realized, not having found their true calling. Our failure to these people may not be as dramatic and visible as it is in the case of a high-school dropout, but the human loss is devastating. The number of people who hate their work is so high that it is not an accidental fact that the day of the week and time when most Americans die is Monday at 9 AM.
for waking up in our educational institutions?
But I will not try to imagine them now. Here I invite your contributions.
And I will end as I started, with Zen – a quote from Leonard Cohen, a long-time student. This quote belies what I said at the outset – that words are useless. When they are very good, words can point, clearly, at what lies beyond language. I like an ending that destroys the beginning. It seems a nice way out of some of the tangles that writing anything like this brings, inexorably, with it.
What is a saint? A saint is someone who has achieved a remote human possibility. It is impossible to say what that possibility is. I think it has something to do with the energy of love. Contact with this energy results in the exercise of a kind of balance in the chaos of existence. A saint does not dissolve the chaos; if he did the world would have changed long ago. I do not think that a saint dissolves the chaos even for himself, for there is something arrogant and warlike in the notion of a man setting the universe in order. It is a kind of balance that is his glory. He rides the drifts like an escaped ski. His course is a caress of the hill. His track is a drawing of the snow in a moment of its particular arrangement with wind and rock. Something in him so loves the world that he gives himself to the laws of gravity and chance. Far from flying with the angels, he traces with the fidelity of a seismograph needle the state of the solid, bloody landscape. His house is dangerous and finite, but he is at home in the world. He can love the shapes of human beings, the fine and twisted shapes of the heart. It is good to have among us such men, such balancing monsters of love.
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Cheap Nights Out
By Bwog Staff	on Aug 28, 2007 12 Comments
In which Bwogger Armin Rosen shows first-years how to break out of Morningside without breaking the bank.
New York's expensive, but the cheap bastards among you are in luck. Yes, New York's notorious cigarette taxes mean that smokers will have to do a little pinching—or, better still, quit smoking altogether. And although $6.50 might seem a little steep for a sandwich, the tenth punch of a Ham Del Gold Card and its attendant free hero drops the price to a slightly more reasonable $5.90 something. Even then, it's possible to subsist off of club pizza, the Wednesday night vegetarian potluck, various Hillel events, and post-conference wine and cheese receptions (IAB 15 is a goldmine, by the way…).
But what if subsistence just isn't enough for you? As freshmen will soon discover, a night away from campus does wonders for your mental health. And luckily, New York is one city where parsimony needn't keep you in. What follows are a few suggestions for how to have a good time even if you're not dropping Franklins.
Take in some culture: Whether you have a favorite Rossini tenor or are just grubbing for cultural capital, there's little classier than a night at the opera. With new Metropolitan Opera general manager Peter Gelb ongoing campaign to broaden his company's appeal, there's also little in New York that's cheaper: the lower-level standing room is an affordable $20, while the stratospheric Family Circle is only $15 on weeknights. And speaking of Rossini, this blogger highly recommends checking out the Met's revival of last year's brilliant new production of Barber of Seville.
High5tix.org doesn't offer a huge variety of $5 theatre tickets, but it can surprise from time to time (it once got me into the Blue Man Group for free). If you're of open mind and shallow pocket, you should also check out some Off-off Broadway—PS 122 and The Brick are excellent, sub-$20-a-show venues, although anything off-off is bound to at least be, umm, interesting. And as the back page of just about every Playbill in town will probably remind you, acoustically-perfect Carnegie Hall has $10 student rush tickets.
Go to a concert: While even the beloved Knitting Factory can ask an exorbitant $15-20 for a main-space show, a glut of cheap and mind-expanding venues has sprung up in its place. For $5, John Zorn's experimental jazz club The Stone will school you in music the likes of which you probably didn't know existed. For less than that, Luna Lounge, Union Hall, Arlene's Grocery, Glasslands and literally dozens of other places will clue you into New York's vast independent rock scene.
But by far the best cheap venue is Harlem's St. Nick's Pub. Quality downtown jazz rooms like Smalls have turned into swingers' clubs for the yuppified West Village set, but the small and usually-packed St. Nick's gives a damn about the music—and has a ludicrously low (and seldom-enforced) $3 cover charge. The Saturday night Afro-jazz jam, which usually concludes at around 3 or 4 in the morning, is highly recommended.
Ride the Staten Island ferry: When this blogger graduates sometime in the middle of the next decade, he fears that this turd-shaped isle, which was gerrymandered into New York City for reasons unknown, will be the only affordable place left in the city. Yet aside from offering a horrifying glimpse of the future, the cheapest date in New York promises impressive views of the Statue of Liberty, Ellis Island and the lower Manhattan skyline, as well as access to Staten's myriad attractions. The Yankees! Fresh Kills! The Ship graveyard! Why Staten Island is an undiscovered gem—although this blogger won't blame you if you take your boy/girlfriend/bottle of Georgi and drag yourself back to Manhattan.
cheap stuff
@Seth Staten Island wasn't gerrymandered into New York City. gerrymandering refers specifically to the drawing of boundaries for electoral purposes; Staten Island's inclusion in New York City was unrelated to voting or elections.
tipster says:
13 years ago at 5:49 pm
@tipster Manhattan School of Music, two blocks up Broadway, has tons of recitals, master classes, and some concerts that are free and open to the public.
http://www.msmnyc.edu/calendar/index.asp
to add to that says:
@to add to that so does Juilliard, right in Lincoln Center. I think even their theater productions are free, although don't quote me on that.
http://www.juilliard.edu
Terminology checker says:
@Terminology checker Who the hell refers to $100 bills as "Franklins"? It's all about the BENJAMINS, baby…
A word from the wise says:
@A word from the wise As someone who has done the $15 family circle standing room at the Met, I would like to point out that the average opera is about 3 HOURS long, and that the standing room ushers are fascists and would not let a child who was too short to see over the chest-high wall stand in the aisle so she could see, much less allow us to sit down in the empty seats (the family circle was half-filled that tuesday night) for the second act.
I would most definitely encourage going to the opera, but if you plan ahead, you can get student priced SEATS for about $25. You will have to get these a bit in advance, but being able to sit makes all the difference.
High 5 warning says:
13 years ago at 11:35 am
@High 5 warning Word to the wise, High 5 is only for 18 and under…its a great program, but designed for the high school set
so use your ids with caution…fortunately they don't really check…
dept. resources says:
@dept. resources Don't forget: Barnard Dance dept usually has tickets to certain shows (i.e. Fall for Dance) or knows of discounts (Dance Theatre Workshop).
The theatre dept. might be the same way.
Miller Theatre also has a great student discount. Just $7 for a show.
@Anonymous what do we care if franklin, that philandering show-off, gets dropped!
we are columbians! only should we care if we drop our dear hamiltons.
good times says:
@good times What about student rush for Broadway shows? 25$ isn't exactly cheap, but it's a hell of a lot better than 115! And I saw Evil Dead, the Musical for like 20$, 4th row center. You just have to be persistent.
also says:
@also Health Services (like NY State) is offering free patches/gum starting this fall; I think you just have to meet with someone first.
SI is part of NY says:
@SI is part of NY Not because of a boat race
http://www.nypost.com/seven/02212007/news/regionalnews/bloomys_s_i__boat_tale_takes_on_water_regionalnews_.htm
No smoking says:
@No smoking Hmmm, is 'quit smoking' really good advice, considering nobody on campus smokes? Except maybe the SOA
I'll bet ol' Armin is really trying to prove to the prefrosh how 'cool' he is.


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Q: How do I ensure that the SEEN flag on an IMAP email message is not automatically marked as SEEN on doing getContent I am dealing with a bad connection to an external IMAP server.  I need my application to download messages from this mail server periodically.  On many occasions, my code has already downloaded message using javamail and has executed message.getContent and is then processing individual body parts (attachments).  While it is in the process of doing this, the connection can drop.
I need to thus make sure that messages are not marked as SEEN automatically on doing message.getContent, which is how Javamail behaves, as described in this reply here:
https://stackoverflow.com/a/7679091/303106
Is there any way to make sure messages that were not downloaded are not marked as SEEN?

A: Message msg = ...;
((IMAPMessage)msg).setPeek(true);

A: Yes, use the BODY.PEEK instead of just BODY when fetching the data, and/or use EXAMINE instead of SELECT to open a mailbox. I'll leave it as an excercise to the reader to read the javamail's documentation to see how these options relate to the features provided by the havamail.


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A former leader of ground crews, Grissom said he knows how important it is for the air tankers to help firefighters on the front lines, especially in this week's extreme conditions.
At McClellan, the air tankers work from 8 a.m. to dark if conditions allow. Sometimes smoke hangs so heavy on the ground that pilots can't see to fly. It's an inherently dangerous job for the pilots and crews, who fly in hazardous conditions at low altitudes.
The massive red-and-white 747, called the "Spirit of John Muir," slows and drops to about 200 feet above the treeline before releasing its cargo – a mixture of water, fire-inhibiting chemicals and red dye for visibility.
The fires this week have kept planes flying at a record clip, officials said. Multiple planes line up at McClellan's five "pits," where crews pump in fuel and fire retardant at the same time. Then they take off again for the fires in the north state's coastal ranges.


1. WHERE and by whom were the foundations of home laid?
"And the Lord God planted a garden eastward in Eden; and there He put the man whom He had formed." Gen. 2:8.
2. In making this home, what besides man was needed?
"And the Lord God said, It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him an help meet [one adapted, or suitable] for him." Verse 18.
3. After creating Adam and Eve, what did God say to them?
"And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth." Gen. 1:28.
4. To what are the wife and children of the man who fears the Lord likened?
"Happy shalt thou be, and it shall be well with thee. Thy wife shall be as a fruitful vine by the sides of thine house: thy children like olive-plants round about thy table." Ps. 128:2,3.
5. What are children declared to be?
"Lo, children are an heritage of the Lord." Ps. 127:3. "Children's children are the crown of old men; and the glory of children are their fathers." Prov. 17:6.
6. How should the wife relate herself to her husband?
"Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord. For the husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the head of the church." Eph. 5:22,23.
7. And how should husbands regard their wives? "Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave Himself for it. . . . So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife loveth himself. . . . Let every one of you in particular so love his wife even as himself; and the wife see that she reverence her husband." Verses 25-33.
8. Against what are husbands cautioned?
"Husbands, love your wives, and be not bitter against them." Col. 3:19.
9. Why should wives be in subjection to their husbands?
"Likewise, ye wives, be in subjection to your own husbands; that, if any obey not the word, they also may without the word be won by the conversation [manner of life] of the wives." 1 Peter 3:1.
10. Why should husbands be considerate of their wives?
"Likewise; ye husbands, dwell with them according to knowledge, giving honor unto the wife, as unto the weaker vessel, and as being heirs together of the grace of life; that your prayers be not hindered." Verse 7.
11. Why should children obey their parents?
"Children, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is right." Eph. 6:1.
12. How should parents bring up their children?
"And, ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: but bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord." Verse 4.
13. Why should fathers not provoke their children to anger?
"Fathers, provoke not your children to anger, lest they be discouraged." Col. 3:21.
14. By what means may the mother bind the hearts of the loved ones at home together?
"She openeth her mouth with wisdom; and in her tongue is the law of kindness." Prov. 31:26.
NOTE.-"We want to get into the hearts of our children if we hold them, and help them, and bless them, and take them to heaven with us."- Frances Murphy.
15. How will such a mother be regarded?
"Her children arise up, and call her blessed; her husband also, and he praiseth her." Verse 28.
NOTE.-"Show me a loving husband, a worthy wife, and good children, and no pair of horses that ever flew along the road could take me in a year where I could see a more pleasing sight. Home is the grandest of all institutions."- Spurgeon.
16. How faithfully should parents teach the precepts and commandments of God to their children?
"And thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy children, and shalt talk of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, and when thou liest down, and when thou risest up." Deut. 6:7.
NOTES.-"The home should be made a school of instruction, rather than a place of monotonous drudgery. The evenings should be cherished as precious seasons, to be devoted to the instruction of the children in the way of righteousness. But how many children are sadly neglected! They are not educated in the home, that they may comprehend the truth of God, and are not trained to love justice and to do judgment. They should be patiently instructed, that they may understand the laws that govern them, and that they may know the springs of their actions. They are to be brought into harmony with the laws of heaven, to cherish the truth as it is in Jesus. In this way they may be fitted to join the society of the angels, and to stand in the presence of the adorable Redeemer."- Sabbath School Worker, August, 1896.
"A church within a church, a republic within a republic, a world within a world, is spelled by four letters- home! If things go right there, they go right everywhere; if things go wrong there, they go wrong everywhere. The door-sill of the dwelling-house is the foundation of church and state. . . . In other words, domestic life overarches and undergirds all other life. . . . First, last, and all the time, have Christ in your home."- Talmage.
17. What is the great secret of a happy home?
"Better is a dinner of herbs where love is, than a stalled ox and hatred therewith." Prov. 15:17.
And one their heavenly rest.
And parents hold Him dear.
And live but for the skies.


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RecycloBekia, giving new life to unwanted electronics in Egypt
Heba HelmyNovember 3, 2013
A new cultural, entrepeneurial company is looking to spread its way across Egypt with a single idea: thinking before putting your computers, cell phones, or televisions – no longer of any value – into storage or onto the rubbish tip.
RecycloBekia is the first enterprise concerned solely with the collection of electronic disposal offering green recycling and safe date destruction to cpmbat the hazards of electronic waste along with conserving natural resources.
Tanta University students are the masterminds behind RecycloBekia. They were able to turn their novel idea into a viable business plan after winning the first prize in a contest organized by Injaz Egypt – a program that supports start-ups by promoting financial literacy skills and entrepreneurial mind sets.
The idea stemmed from the fact that Egypt overlooks the need for an e-waste management system to protect the environment.
"Most of the electrical and electronic equipment consist of valuable, recoverable materials including silver, gold, plastic and copper," Mostafa Hemdan, RecycloBekia CEO, said. "Consequently, recycling these components can save energy and natural resources."
Hemdan explained the disadvantages of piling up electronic disposal in landfill sites. "E-waste consists of toxic and hazardous metals, which rot gradually and – eventually – dissolve into the soil."
"This leads to contaminated water and food, or even worse, some are burned causing pollutant air emissions."
As a result of the absence of electronic recycling factories in Egypt, the company collects, dismantles, filters and sorts the electronic disposal, but then ship them off to factories in Germany to be recycled.
"The process of picking up the waste usually initiates with a form request being filled on our website by one of the local organizations, determining the exact amount of waste they want to get ride of," Hemdan explained.
Then, RecycloBekia sends its own pick-up cars for free along with offering a "green partner" certificate. Sometimes, if the waste quantity given by any organization is large, the company pays for it in return.
Mobinil, Orange, Intel, Oracle, and ExxonMobil are among the organizations that have been added to a list of green companies who have made positive steps towards helping the environment by joining RecycloBekia.
However, RecycloBekia's entry into the Egyptian start-up scene has not been without its obstacles.
"The country's unstable political situation has taken its toll on the company since our launch in 2011 coincided with the outbreak of the 25 January revolution," Nahla al-Shami, CRM executive of RecycloBekia, said.
"Normally, foreign countries don't welcome the idea of making deals on importing e-waste from a country already suffering from deteriorating economic circumstances."
The team members have also waded through other challenges, which they are making an all-out effort to overcome.
"We aim to make a quantum leap in the culture of e-waste recycling among the people of the region through launching awareness campaigns in clubs, schools, universities, and exhibitions and encouraging them to give up their unused electronic devices for a good cause," Shami said.
RecycloBekia plans to take electronics recycling to the next level in the near future. "Opening up the first electronic recycling factory in the Middle East and North Africa region is one of our aspirations that would establish a long-term plan for reviving the economy, and open doors to new job opportunities," Hemdan said confidently.
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Q: Best way to send Exchange email from Python when authentication token is required I have a corporative Microsoft Exchange account and a Python application. I would like to send emails from this account from my Python application with a token authentication, not with the simple (email_address, password).
I already have my Python application registered on my Microsoft Azure portal, have my client ID, token ID and everything. Could already obtain the token from the following lines:
import msal

app = msal.ConfidentialClientApplication(
        client_id=param_client_id,
        client_credential=param_client_credential,
        authority=f"https://login.microsoftonline.com/{param_tenant_name}"
    )
result = app.acquire_token_for_client(scopes=scopes)

mytoken = result['access_token']

I tried to follow the steps on https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/exchange/client-developer/legacy-protocols/how-to-authenticate-an-imap-pop-smtp-application-by-using-oauth#authenticate-connection-requests  to edit the User_ID I was sending to the SMTP connection, but was not really successful.
The question is now what the best way is to gain access to my Exchange account via the token and send emails. I guess I cannot use the library smtplib as it does not support authentication (only the simple credentials I mentioned above I'd like to avoid) and keeps rejecting my connection requests.
Note I have already ticked the box "Authenticated SMTP" on Microsoft 365 admin center --> Users --> Active users --> (Myself) --> Manage email apps and there should not be any Conditional Access Policy preventing myself from connecting. So it's not a matter a permissions but using a better Python library, I would say. Or maybe there is some way of changing the (email_address, password) via the token to gain authenticated access??
Thanks in advance! Any help would be much appreciated!


It is not like technology in schools is a new thing – I have after all been following an education technology newsletter for a couple of years now. I remember when there was some kind of deal going on with Texas Instruments for a few years with the schools I went to, back when the idea of electronic calculators coming in and replacing mental addition was considered some kind of harbinger of the apocalypse or some such.
Computers for a long time were the preserve of those who joined after school clubs, and in the UK really weren't a big thing until well into the nineties. Around about this time I was researching the information super highway while rattling through a terrible dial-up connection onto primarily word based websites. Oh, how time's have changed.
STEM, which teaches science, technology, engineering and mathematics, and which at one point was working specifically to get more girls interested as a way of correcting the gender disparity in the tech industry has been a great idea.
Apple entering the classroom could of course be criticized in the same way that any commercial venture in education might – but is it pushing for the same notion of brand loyalty that you get when you look at Zuckerberg and his apps for kids? To me it doesn't feel the same, but I have to admit of course that my temperature gauge for Cook has gone up while it has started to plummet with Zuckerberg. Facebook – the necessary evil. Apple – more of a creative wellspring.
Anyway – Schoolwork, an app for teachers is launching this week. It is an app that allows a teacher to distribute assignments, track student's progress, collaborate with them, and the teacher can make assignments within specific apps. Sounds like a great idea, and you hardly imagine the endgame is to forward that data anywhere else but to the Apple Design team, so they can tweak and improve anything for future iterations.
Privacy is starting to become a very central thing in Apple's rhetoric about their products, and their past defense of people's data gives credence to that.
Their man competitor in the field, at the moment, is Google, with their Chromebook solutions. The Chromebooks are cheaper of course, and they are innovating in their own ways.
Classrooms, Google's browser based platform currently has 30 million students using it, and while they aren't as trusted as Apple in terms of their privacy and security measures, they aren't in anyway dealing with the same perception problems as Facebook.
One interesting new feature is that teachers can put Chromebooks on lockdown when handing out a classroom quiz, meaning the kids can't surf for answers. managed Chromebooks, sold with the idea that they are specifically for use in the classroom are a great idea. They are bringing in a central place for students and teachers to touch base within the system.
Microsoft's education themed announcement was underwhelming, and given their tendency to do things to your computer that you don't ask for, may, at least in my mind, rule them out as a stable platform to build classroom activities around.
Anyway, generally, there are some exciting developments, that, as log as they remain in service of the kids using them, and are not used as a shoe-in to create brand awareness in those using them (which to be fair, is, to some degree, unavoidable) then it could be a really good thing.
Kids are already tech savvy pretty early on in their lives, and using this to help them learn seems like a really smart way to leverage an environment in which they already feel comfortable. Education basics are always going to stay the same, but an evolving classroom is not a bad thing.
Just measuring the evolution of technology within my own lifetime in the classroom saw unbelievable leaps and bounds – from an abacus to an electronic calculator, through solar powered calculators, to computers, to phones. Who wouldn't want to live in a world where they can access the entire Encyclopedia Britannica on a small screen, rather than having to pore through 30-odd volumes? Although for a book worm that does also have a certain appeal.
How long until kids are strapping on their Oculus Ridge headsets and logging into their VR classrooms?


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Remember when long waits were common on Walker Road and we didn't have a rail overpass? This photo, taken from a small airplane in 1999, shows Walker at Grand Marais which is coincidentally also the site of one of Windsor's tornados.


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Best websites to look for contracts?
Discussion in 'IT Contracting' started by nisseki, Jan 22, 2019.
What websites do you use to find new contracts?
I found all my jobs on Indeed because I like how it gets jobs from most job websites and puts them in like a Google search.
Just about all the permie and contract IT jobs I've scored after 2003 have been via recruiters finding my CV on Jobsite (aka TotalJobs). I've only had two permie jobs direct which was a local authority and the NHS. All the rest have been via agencies. I've had my CV on CWJobs and Jobswerve in the past but never had anyone call me based on finding my CV on those sites. They've always quoted Jobsite to me.
I never apply for the advertised jobs because I suspect most are fake (CV harvesting and "can I have two references" fishing). If there is a real job to be had, and your CV is searchable then you can be sure an agent will find you.