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How to Instill a "Growth Mindset" in Children | K-12 Schools
As K-12 schools increasingly recognize the importance of social-emotional learning, many schools try to help children cultivate a "growth mindset." What does that mean?
According to Carol Dweck, the Stanford University professor who coined the phrase, having a growth mindset means believing that your basic qualities — like your intelligence or your good math skills — are things you can change, through your own efforts and the help of others. In his groundbreaking 2006 book "Mindset: The New Psychology of Success," Dweck contrasted this with a "fixed" mindset, which is best summed up as "you either have it or you don't." .
The difference matters. Research has shown that children with a growth mindset embrace challenges, persist in the face of setbacks, and learn from their mistakes. They feel a greater sense of control over their lives and become more motivated. All of this translates into academic impact: for example, a 2021 report from the Program for International Student Assessment (PISA) found that students identified as having a strong growth mindset scored significantly higher in all subjects than those who thought their intelligence was fixed.
Dweck and others the researchers found that simply teaching children the growth mindset can help them develop it, and it can have a direct impact on their success. Schools took notice and tried to help children see effort as the path to ability. But several common missteps have been identified over the years.
What Schools Teach About Growth Mindset vs. Fixed Mindset
If you think intelligence, skill, and strength are fixed, then every test, every draft, and every sporting event feels like an invitation to prove your greatness or reveal your deficiency. There is no third option. With a fixed mindset, if you have to work hard, it means you're not smart. You can't admit a misstep, let alone learn from it. The worry of being found missing is constant. These children, says Laura Markham, author of "Peaceful Parent, Happy Kids," "would rather [you] think they're smart, but they just don't try to think they're not smart.
With a growth mindset, children see the goal as development, not perfection, and can let go of this binary thinking, says Kristin Smith Alvarez, who has seen growth mindset coaching in working in dozens of schools as a teacher trainer in the San Francisco Unified School District. . When teachers cultivate a "culture of error," she says, with "that tone in the room of 'We're here to make mistakes as learners,'" children who face setbacks say things like "I don't know…yet" and "I'm a work in progress".
How Adults Can Help Children Build a Growth Mindset
We all slip in and out of both mindsets. To help kids adopt a growth mindset more often, Sean Talamas, Executive Director of Character Laba nonprofit that connects researchers and educators to improve student well-being, says in a way, "It's probably easier to think about the things you should try to avoid than things to do."
The first no-no seems unrelated: don't be bossy. Experiments show that when adults step in to take charge of a difficult task, children are more likely to give up on the next one sooner. Why? If you rush to help, you imply that they are not capable.
Parents often send hidden messages like this. "Without realizing it, we're constantly evaluating kids," Markham says. Even if it's positive—for example, "you're natural" or "you're so smart"—our assessment conveys a fixed mindset. Alvarez says compliments should avoid communicating, "You have fixed traits that I love" and instead praise specific aspects of performance, emphasizing hard work, practice, problem solving and perseverance.
When kids complete a task, she recommends saying, "We're going to give you problems that will challenge you so you can keep building and getting stronger!" »
Modeling is essential. Alvarez recently saw a teacher realize that she had made a phonetic mistake in front of the class. "She took the opportunity to say, 'Listen, I made a mistake here. We all learn and grow. At home, parents can do the same by sharing stories of setbacks at work and saying things like, "I'm not good at navigating Snapchat yet, because I haven't taken the time to 'learn the features.'
Growth Mindset Activities
In addition to changing their own behavior, teachers and other adults can try some child-friendly activities.
Read children's stories about characters learning from failure and persisting through challenges, like "Rosie Revere, engineer," suggests Markham. Tell them that tripping is part of the learning process. Markham says to let kids know they're supposed to feel challenged, and it's okay to be uncomfortable. The goal is to avoid what Character Lab calls "the lazy genius myth" and glamorize the effort instead.
Alvarez agrees that the trick makes the challenge desirable. Make sure kids know that another student's work product is like an island on top of an underwater mountain, she says. Ask them what unseen effort could have gone into a peer's success to help children avoid thinking that others are naturally more talented. It brings them back to 'again', she says: 'It's a simple three-letter word, but it really shifts that power of possibility and breaks up the narrative of 'I'm no good at this'."
In study, supported by Character Lab, ninth graders who spent 15-20 minutes writing about a failure and how it changed them for the better – or a success story and what they did to get there – have demonstrated greater academic perseverance and obtained better grades. The effect lasted for weeks before fading away. Alvarez says even young children can engage in this type of thinking exercise to build their perseverance and resilience.
Common pitfalls of the growth mindset
But watch out for a few ways growth mindset coaching can go wrong.
First of all, you can't pretend. Alvarez says she will bring in elementary educators who deeply believe in the concept of a growth mindset for their students, but then say, "I'm not a mathematician." Markham sees the same thing in the way parents talk about themselves: "I messed it up" or "I'm just not good at tennis."
"Parents and educators who don't have a growth mindset themselves but are trying to follow a script to try to promote it, I think that can be… more harmful than helpful," says Talamas.
And it's easy to miss the mark of the "hard work" coin. Parents sometimes say, "You've worked so hard" when the child hasn't.
Another thing to keep in mind is that there are limits to the amount of hard work that is healthy. Researchers prevent that growth mindset messages can contribute to the "culture of grind" in high-performing schools. Talamas makes a related point: children often need to stop and try a different approach, and they should be encouraged to ask for feedback if necessary. Markham says, "That's where it's an art and not a science." Let them problem-solve and develop a tolerance for frustration, but offer enough support so they don't get "to the point where they throw it across the room," she says.
J. Luke Wood, a professor of education at San Diego State University, says the growth mindset assumes that children have a baseline level of confidence in their abilities, "and what you find out, with the colored students, many of them have never heard anybody say, 'You're smart, you're able.' In fact, the reverse may be true. They don't see themselves reflected in positions of power in the world as white children do. And in schools, Wood continues. to research confirms what other studies have long established: Black students are forced to wrestle with an assumption of academic inferiority. Knowing that, he says, "You can validate the effort they put in, their perseverance, but you also have to give them that invigorating message" that they are capable of.
Wood says parents and educators should aim for a combined message – expressing faith in children's effort and their ability – with any student who may feel marginalized, including children with disabilities, English language learners and girls in STEM classrooms.
Finally, context is important, especially for disadvantaged students. Growth mindset coaching can send the following message: "If you haven't done as well, it's because you haven't worked as hard," says Wood. But some children have more resources and support systems than others. And there is no fairness in being able to work hard academically when some children have to commute for two hours to school, to work, or to care for their siblings. Wood sees a danger in sending "a myth of meritocracy, a priming message."
Managing these concerns is easier if adults also adopt a growth mindset. View stumbles in your own messaging as opportunities for growth. If you continue, you will soon have children who react to a challenge in this way too.
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La fontaine de Neptune de Florence (Fontana del Nettuno), appelée aussi Il Biancone se trouve sur la Piazza della Signoria, juste à côté du Palazzo Vecchio.

Historique
Œuvre de Bartolomeo Ammannati (1563-1565) et de quelques-uns de ses élèves, parmi lesquels Il Giambologna, la fontaine fut construite pour le mariage de François I de Médicis et de la grande-duchesse Jeanne d'Autriche en 1565. Au tout départ, la commande avait été faite à Baccio Bandinelli qui en dessina le plan mais mourut avant le tout début de réalisation.

Le personnage de Neptune, en marbre blanc de Carrare, a les traits de Cosme I de Médicis et fait référence à la puissance maritime de Florence. Il repose sur un piédestal décoré par les statues de Scylla et de Charybde au centre d'une vasque octogonale.

On raconte que les Florentins qui vinrent en nombre, nuitamment, pour découvrir la statue, firent plus de cas de sa blancheur que de sa beauté, d'où le nom Biancone, et qu'ils lancèrent la pique : « Ammannato, Ammannato, combien de marbre as-tu gâché ! ». Même si la statue n'était pas particulièrement appréciée, les travaux se sont poursuivis durant une dizaine d'années, les meilleurs sculpteurs de la ville apportant leur aide pour le pourtour de la vasque. On y perçoit l'influence du maniérisme avec les chevaux marins, les satyres en train de danser et les divinités fluviales. L'ensemble reste harmonieux et cohérent et constitue un exemple pour les œuvres ultérieures.

La fontaine a subi de nombreux dommages au cours des siècles : elle a été utilisée comme lavoir au , elle fut vandalisée le , un satyre fut volé au cours du carnaval de 1830 et elle fut bombardée par les Bourbons en 1848. Le , la main droite du Biancone ainsi que son trident furent endommagés, à la suite d'une tentative d'escalade au cours de la nuit (restauration au printemps 2006).

Derrière la fontaine, sur le mur du Palazzo Vecchio, se trouve une inscription rappelant comment les Otto di Balia e di Guardia (les ancêtres de la police municipale des  et s) interdisaient de rincer le linge dans la fontaine ou d'y faire d'autres saletés, sous peine d'une forte amende ou, pour ceux qui ne pouvaient payer, du supplice de la corde particulièrement craint (le corps est soulevé par une corde liée aux mains croisées derrière le dos, ceci ayant des répercussions sur l'usage des bras et des épaules).

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Under the Climate Change Act 2008, the UK Government must assess the climate-related risks to the UK up to the year 2100. HR Wallingford led the first national assessment of these risks for UK Government. To inform the second assessment, we led the development of new projections of water availability for the UK.
This assessment was one of four projects commissioned to inform the second UK Climate Change Risk Assessment (CCRA2) Evidence Report, published in July 2016. We evaluated the contributing factors for the current levels of risk in water resource planning, and then projected these according to a selection of plausible climate, population, adaptation and environmental protection scenarios to 2100.
We developed a tool to help us develop, assess and present supply and demand projections for public water for the whole of the UK. These projections then fed into a GIS-based database to map and compare water availability, taking into account other key water users and including environmental demand, to identify potential future 'hot-spots'.
We have provided a realistic and transparent assessment of future risks based upon the latest available evidence that the UK Government can use to inform its adaptation planning process. Our assessment is consistent with existing national and sub-national population projections, water company resource-management planning, demand projections and policy, such as the Water White Paper. Our approach also followed assumptions on adaptation to be taken into account in estimating the level of future risk.
Impacted zones are not restricted to the south-east of England .
All areas of the UK may be affected by deficits in the water balance either with respect to the environment or to public water supply, or both, depending on the scenario chosen.
The relative contribution of different factors in determining the supply/demand balance varies geographically.
Population, adaptation decisions (including decisions on environmental flow calculations) and climate are the drivers of the availability of water for public water supplies, other sectors and the natural environment that have been explored.
Population and adaptation decisions (including decisions on environmental flow calculations) frequently have a greater influence than climate on the water balance of an area.
The freshwater environment is highly connected and its management for human uses and freshwater ecology is very complex. This assessment reiterates the important dichotomy with respect to how to maintain and improve the freshwater ecology whilst maintaining clean and sustainable water supplies for human uses.
The potential for large absolute public water supply deficits and widespread ecological impacts are of national scale importance.
Whilst many adaptation actions need to be location specific due to local variation, there may be value in additional larger scale interventions.
These new projections of water availability for the UK enable UK Government to assess the relative severity of impacts under a range of future scenarios.
The nature of the impact between climate, water and agriculture can be complex but this research tested the validity of a simplified assessment approach.


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Iran Parliament Votes to Augment Transparency
EghtesadOnline: To help inculcate transparency in statecraft, the parliament ratified one amendment to the next year's (March 2019-20) budget bill on Monday obliging government-affiliated firms to log their activities in an online system.
According to the parliamentary news website ICANA, the Ministry of Economic Affairs and Finance and the Plan and Budget Organization are in charge of creating infrastructure by late July for launching an integrated online system to show the performance of government and non-government public companies.
The measure makes it mandatory for the entities as well as municipalities of cities with over one million people to register and regularly update data about their financial statements, budgetary performance, project investments, number of employees (mentioning the types of work contracts and wages) by the end of first half of the next fiscal in September.
The PBO is also required to allow the Economy Ministry and the Supreme Audit Court access the online data. The two bodies are required to report on the performance of companies operating within this system to the Majlis Plan and Budget, and Audit Economic commissions, Financial Tribune reported.
The bill warns that bodies that don't abide by this law will be convicted of "adverse possession" of government assets.
The Supreme Audit Court is a government agency under the supervision of the parliament. It is tasked with controlling the financial records of ministries, institutions, government companies and organizations that use government funds in any manner.
State Companies' Budgets
The Majlis also tasked the PBO with submitting a detailed report on state-run companies when submitting the annual budget to the legislature. Accordingly, the budgets of state companies should be approved in their annual general meetings and be submitted for parliamentary review in a separate attachment to the annual budget plan.
The government usually presents state companies' budgets as an amendment to the budget bill and MPs review it without making any changes. But as their spending (many of which are loss-making) became heavier demands for closer supervision grew louder.
In cooperation with the Oil Ministry, the PBO is required to also draft the details about the new financial relations between government and affiliated companies of the Oil Ministry within the first half of the next fiscal on Sept. 22 and draw on that report for drafting the 2020-21 budget.
"The report should cover details about revenues and spending pertaining to oil and gas products, clarifying government ties to companies which in turn should boost their performance and corporate identities".
In addition to the government-affiliated companies mentioned above, the PBO is also required to present in the budget attachment data about the value and volume of shares, dividends, and performance of companies in which the government ownership is below 50%.
Multiple Jobs Banned
Majlis banned the membership of government officials, including senior managers and deputies of executive bodies, to the boards of directors of state and non-government public companies. The ban covers their appointment in all executive positions
In the same vein, the government is obliged to determine the wages and perks of the general directors and members of the board of directors of state and non-government public companies within a month after approval of the new budget law.
Lawmakers agreed on an amendment to the budget bill which proposes 10 trillion rials ($74 million) to be allocated for renovating and boosting cooperatives and help create jobs.
The funds are to be secured via reimbursing debts incurred due to non-enforcement of the general policies of Article 44 of the Constitution on privatization by selling bonds and financial assets.
As per regulations, the government is required to allocate 30% of its earnings from divesting public assets to national cooperatives to alleviate poverty. The fund is to be given to Tose'e Ta'avon Bank as capital raise to boost its lending capacity to improve cooperatives create jobs.
Article 44 of the Constitution states that the economy pivots on three primary sectors: state, cooperatives, and private. It was amended in 2004 to allow for privatization of the bloated bureaucracy and downsize the government creating in its wake more space for private enterprise.
In addition, dividends of the Steel Pension Fund's shares in the Iranian Tobacco Company to the ceiling 1 trillion rials, were approved by the MPs to be used for paying pensions and healthcare bills of steel industry retirees.
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Tracy K. Smith, the 22nd Poet Laureate of the U.S., spoke at the annual Saint Mary's Christian Culture Lecture on Wednesday night.
The acclaimed writer shared her beliefs on the connections between poetry and faith, read her work and explained the Christian undertones of her writings. Smith said faith and poetry provide an opportunity for spiritual and personal awakening.
Tracy K. Smith, the Poet Laureate of the U.S., delivers the Christian Culture lecture at Saint Mary's on Wednesday night.
Smith said the use of metaphor is especially prevalent in the New Testament of the Bible and provides Christ and the disciples with a way to transmit not only information, but also awe.
The layered perspectives, imaginations, sensibilities and vocabularies of the Gospels reveal a singular, universal truth, Smith said.
Though poetry and Christianity do not share the same terms, Smith said, the two share a commonality that allows exploration of the world and oneself.
Reading and writing poetry requires an act of submission, Smith said, through which one becomes a beholden stranger and places personal knowledge aside to make room for new discoveries. Smith said the revelations of poetry and faith come from outside of logic.
"As a writer and a spiritual being, I'm striving towards that which puts me in touch even only imaginatively with the largeness around and within," Smith said.
Smith said her work, "Life on Mars," draws unconsciously, even involuntarily, upon her experiences with faith. Her 2012 Pulitzer Prize-awarded poetry collection started as a method of exploring her anxieties about the future of America through extrapolation. However, after the death of Smith's father, she said the book became a way to wrestle with her grief and create a satisfying sense of where his spirit resided.
Imagining the afterlife through the lens of outer space helped Smith come to terms with death and those in her life who had died.
Smith's poem "It & Co." portrayed a God that Smith said she believed was greater than the one she already knew.
The unknowable, unattainable version of God Smith portrays through her work reflects her thoughts on what poetry is, she said. Smith said she allows herself to pose questions that can remain unanswered throughout her work and said she encourages others to embrace this notion in their writing.
Though Smith believes poetry does not always need to answer its own questions, she said poetry can still be purposeful in enacting change.


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Victoria is a major projects and construction lawyer with end-to-end transaction experience, including undertaking risk analysis, drafting contract documents and providing on-going contract management advice.
Victoria has advised on projects in Australia, the Middle East and Asia, so she understands decision making drivers and what makes for best practice project delivery. She also understands how to structure a procurement, drawing from experience across a broad range of contract delivery models including D&C, PPP, ECI, O&M and BOOT.
She has been:
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Listed as a 'One to Watch' in Best Lawyers for 'Construction / Infrastructure Law'; and listed as a 'One to Watch' in Best Lawyers for 'Project Finance and Development Practice'.
In Q1 2022 she facilitated the construction of a hydrogen plant and nitrogen plant under a build, own, operate and maintain agreement in Indonesia.
Areas of FocusEnergy and Natural Resources
Professional QualificationsSolicitor of the High Court of AustraliaSolicitor of the Supreme Court of Queensland
Advised the Asian Development Bank and the Government of Kazakhstan in relation to the development of a 300-bed general hospital on a PPP basis, in or around the campus of the Karaganda State Medical University located in Karaganda city, Kazakhstan.
Advised China Railway Construction Corporation in relation to the EPC Contract and associated documentation for the USD7.3 billion High-Speed Rail Linking Three Airports Project in Thailand. The project involves the design and construction of a 220km high-speed railway line on a PPP basis, which will connect three major airports in Thailand, namely Don Mueang International Airport, Suvarnabhumi Airport, and U-Tapao International Airport and provide connections to five provinces, Bangkok, Samut Prakan, Chachoengsao, Chonburi, and Rayong.
Advised Moorebank Intermodal Company on a agreement for the relocation of a key piece of road infrastructure (Moorebank Avenue) on an operational site at Moorebank Intermodal Terminal, including considering interfaces with State roads, local roads and land owned by third parties.
Advised the lenders to the successful bidder on the Red Sea Utilities PPP Project in Saudi Arabia, with a focus on the EPC and O&M aspects.
Advised UN OPS on the terms of its FIDIC 2017 based standard form major works and minor works contracts.
Advised a NSW State Government entity on the terms of an long term outsourcing agreement for the supply of property management and maintenance services.
Advised Infigen Energy on their acquisition of a gas power plant, in particular assisting with finalising the terms of the sale and purchase agreement and escrow deed.
Advised several 'blue-chip' corporate and retail occupiers in relation to the refurbishment and fit-out of their headquarters, offices and retail outlets (both FIDIC based, Australian Standards and bespoke multi-jurisdictional agreements).
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Queensland University of Technology, Bachelor of Laws (Honours), 2013
Queensland University of Technology, Bachelor of Applied Science (Environmental Science) (Distinction), 2013
Prior Experience
Prior to joining DLA Piper, Victoria was a Principal Legal Officer advising a department of the State of Queensland (January 2018 until April 2019) and a Solicitor in the Projects team of a global law firm (March 2014 to December 2017).
Before being admitted as a Solicitor, Victoria was a Paralegal for a Tier One Australian construction and mining services company (December 2010 to March 2014).
Additional Experience
Victoria completed a 6 week secondment with Binarri-binyja yarrawoo Aboriginal Corporation providing corporate governance and policy support through Jawun. Delivering the 'Know Your Rights' program to newly arrived refugees.
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Would you be able to live without your scale?
If I put you on a workout and eating plan for 30 days and told you that you could not weigh yourself, would you be able to do it?
A lot of people in our 30 day flip program struggle with not being allowed to weigh themselves for 30 days.
Has this little devices that sit on your bathroom floor taken on a massive role in your day to day life? At some point in time our scales have become a digital morality compass on which we stand every morning to receive our verdict.
There you are a NEW day ahead of you holding your breath until that number reveals what type of mood you are going to be in today!
The worse is you could have been a "saint" narrowly avoiding the birthday cake in the lunch room yesterday but if that scale does not budge you are immediately stripped of your sainthood. You have done something "WRONG" and with a frustrated shrug of the shoulders and a few choice words you step off the scale carrying an even greater sense of weight, torment.
It is time to start asking some questions about your relationship with that pesky friend the scale. The one you are so oddly attracted to and despite your years of wrestling and quarrels you have never let go of this dysfunctional relationship.
When did we start using the scale as a compass for what to eat or NOT to eat?
Well remember when you were a kid do you ever remember overhearing the adults say "oh my kids can eat whatever they want and not gain a thing" OR "I do not know where they put all that food they must have a wooden leg". Our society is hyper sensitive to the relationship between food and weight. It often seems like the only conversation we have when it comes to food and our health.
Our society believes a lie.
If you are not overweight your food choices are healthy or good.
If you are overweight your food choices are unhealthy or bad.
Why did my hotel room at a recent fitness conference I attended have a SCALE in it? I cannot even take a vacation from my scale anymore.
Whether my kid is struggling with their weight or not, FOOD has way greater consequences than weight. Why has weight become our measuring stick for a healthy life?
Food can have a far greater impact on the things that really matter in this life.
Like energy levels, mental capacity, attention span, and emotional health. All of which cannot be measured on a scale. Have we perhaps become hyper focused on the longer term consequences of poor food choices? That we are missing the impact my food choices today can have on me today!
How much longer are we going to allow the scale to act as our moral compass?
How much longer are we going to teach our kids that food choices should be solely based on whether a particular food makes you "fat" or "skinny"?
Being hyper focused on weight does not seem to be helping the obesity epidemic. It is time to celebrate non scale victories and talk about all the HEALTH issues good quality food can HEAL. Yes food heals. Food restores. Food nourishes. Lets talk about what we are FOR not what we are against.
When our 5 year old ask "hey Dad is this good for me?" I will tell him how the food will make him feel today. Then let him decided if he wants to feel that way.
"Well that apple is going to make your tummy feel good, it is going to give you energy to jump on the bouncy castle and it is going to help you learn at school.
At our dinner table there is a lot of muscle flexing that goes on. As we feel how strong we are getting as we eat certain foods. Weight is never a topic. Neither is food morality. Food does not make you good or bad. We really do not make a big deal out of it. As a result our kids do not either.
How many times has the scale thwarted your plans to get healthy? How many times has it made you give up? I am not saying to never measure this component of fitness I AM SAYING stop using it as the ONLY thing you feel like you can never measure up to. The more you feel like you NEED the scale the LESS you should be using it. It is simple the more REAL food you eat the more UNREAL you are going to feel. Whether you are standing on a scale or not your body has a way of balancing these things out so get out off the scale and get into the kitchen for some food that is going to make you feel GREAT today!


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National children's charity Make-A-Wish Foundation UK, which grants magical wishes to children and young people fighting life-threatening conditions, is moving into mobile to keep up with where donations come from.
Since its inception in 1986, it has granted over 8,000 wishes. With technology advancing and with donators and channels moving to mobile and tablet devices via SMS, bemoko has developed a mobile micro-site console that allows information – including text, images and video – to create a 1 page mobile website "wish".


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Global Voices: Rules of the Game
By Cynthia Fuchs / 31 May 2009
People don't change overnight.
— Mal Smith Lela
"The way this country was built many years ago," observes Terry Isagimo of Papua New Guinea, "It works along who you know, and if you are asked to do a favor, whether it's a good one or a bad one, you have an obligation to do it, even if it's against your concerns." Isagimo is the campaign manager for Malcolm Smith Kela, and as he speaks, he's driving. It's not clear whether this is one of those "favors" someone might be asked to do, whether the supremely wealthy Mal prefers to ride with Isagimo because he's a friend, because the campaign is cutting costs, or because they plot strategy while driving across the rough terrain in search of votes.
What is clear, throughout the documentary Rules of the Game, that just how "this country was built" is not exactly a coherent story, much less one with stipulatory goals or measures. As the movie declares early on, the country to this day remains divided by lack of infrastructure and organization as well as an abundance of tribes and clans (hundreds) and languages (over 800).
Airing as part of PBS' Global Voices series, Thom Cooke's film examines the 2007 election for the Eastern Highlands governor, focusing on three of the 36 candidates: "white man and current governor" Kela; Jon Yogiyo, the president of Growers Direct Coffee (his campaign slogan, notes the film, is "'Grow coffee and you'll become rich,' which is what he's done"); and Julia Soso, head of a women's community organization, and the only woman in the race. As it travels with each candidate, the movie also trots through a brief, newsreel-pocked background on the nation's complicated history — from tribal fragments to Australian colony to independent state (as of 1975), which actually means utterly dependent on gobs of Australian aid.
This aid is, in 2007, jeopardized by rampant political corruption and violence during previous elections. All three candidates featured in the film are running against this history, as well as Prime Minister Michael Somare, each claiming to be the candidate of "change" (or something like it). The film doesn't look into the precise relations between the PM and Vietnam veteran Kela (also the owner of a "string of businesses," from hotels to helicopter transports to shopping complexes to clubs, in Israel and Afghanistan, Nepal and Tibet). Neither does it delve into possible business or other tradeoffs Kela may be wrangling in is carbon cap deals. It does, however, show the candidate giving lively speeches against the government in Port Moresby.
On this issue, which seems to be the issue of the election, Soso and Yogiyo concur. Soso asserts, "There's no leader giving direction, telling them what should be done and how should we go." And Yogiyo, the film narrates, means to "tap into" voter anger at the present government, railing against "the recycled Prime Minister and the recycled members: they've messed up the country, they're all in it for themselves." He makes his promises "international" when, visiting a mountainside village, his emcee introduces him with reference to "the governor of California, whom you know as the movie actor, 'Commando.' You know his action movies." This hero, avows the campaigner, "wants us to give power to John, to win this election." Yoyigo's plans for the future include shares in his latest coffee company and investments in roads to get the beans to market. It's true, notes the film, that these are "new concepts for coffee growers" in PNG, but Yogiyo's listeners are impressed when he kills a pig for one campaign event. (And it's instructive that the film juxtaposes this success with Soso's decision to bring bread and soda to a funeral gathering, which is not nearly so inspiring: apparently, voters want to be bought, just as they do in any other democracy.)
As varied and energetic as such efforts may be, none is guaranteed to win support. This is the film's primary and repeated point, that PNG is "one of the last places to join modern society," its progress retarded by lack of cohesive vision and long-term thinking, as well as an excess of opportunism and exploitation. As constitutional lawyer John Nonggorr puts it, no matter how much anyone wants to adopt "democracy," still, in PNG, "We've got to recognize the tribe, a tribe controls people." After multiple elections that were rigged, via threats, over-votes, stuffed and burned and bombed) ballot boxes, bribes, fights, and shootings, Nonggorr has been working on rewriting election laws. "It's a learning process: people are learning the bad things as well as the good." Welcome to "modern society."
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