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Meet Captain Kate McCue, the first American woman to 'drive' a mega-ship
Captain Kate McCue has commanded the 2,918-passenger mega-ship Celebrity Edge since 2019. | Photo courtesy Celebrity Cruises
By Fran Golden
In March 2020, in honor of International Women's Day, the Celebrity Edge cruise ship set sail on a groundbreaking voyage. Not only was an all-female crew staffing the bridge for the first time, but at the helm was Captain Kate McCue, the first American woman to command a megaship.
McCue, who has piloted the $1 billion, 2,918-passenger ship since 2019, does so her way, wearing Louboutin shoes and accompanied by a hairless cat named Bug Naked who is dressed in a uniform and pushed around the ship in a stroller. The captain has also been known to don a mermaid tail to swim in the warm waters of the Caribbean.
We caught up with the 43-year-old McCue in early 2021 as she was anchored near the Bahamas with a sparse crew, awaiting a post-COVID return to passenger service.
Kate McCue at the helm of the Celebrity Edge. | Photo courtesy Kate McCue
Right now, you're on a ship with no guests. Does it feel like a ghost ship?
We have 132 crew members onboard. We all get into a very specific routine. Normally, we have about 4,000 people here, guests and crew, and there's a lot of positive energy from guests, who are in a vacation mindset. But it doesn't feel like a ghost ship because I make sure the chandelier in the Grand Plaza is always lit; I see it as the symbolic heart of the ship. And there is music on the PA all the time, because a quiet ship is a very lonely ship.
Is it true that guests are sending care packages?
We are getting care packages like bonkers. They've been sending books, puzzles, candy, snacks, decorations. It's a really a lovely thing for them to do. It makes them feel a lot closer.
What exactly does a captain do? Do you drive the ship?
Yes, the captain does drive. I am the CEO of the ship. I have an executive committee made up of staff captain (the second in command), chief engineer, hotel director, and human resources manager, and they handle their respective departments. I have overall command of the ship. It's all my responsibility.
Why did you pursue a career at sea?
I went on a cruise with my family when I was 12 years old. It was a four-day sailing to the Bahamas and I spent the entire time with the cruise staff and had a blast. I said to my dad, "I am going to work as a cruise director when I grow up." And he said, "You can do that, or you can drive the thing."
When I went to college, he reminded me of that conversation. He guided me toward the California Maritime Academy. The thing is, he had applied there when he came out of the Peace Corps, but they told him he was too old. So, I am living the dream now for both of us.
How did you work your way up?
It is definitely a marathon, not a sprint. It was 19 years from the time I graduated and started sailing on Disney Cruise Line as a third officer [to the day I became a captain]. I moved to Royal Caribbean International, coming in as a second officer, and worked my way up.
In 2015, I was sailing with my husband as a guest on the Quantum of the Seas, where he was chief engineer, and I got a call from Lisa Lutoff-Perlo, president and CEO of Celebrity Cruises, asking if I would come over to that sister company as captain. I said, "Heck, yes."
McCue's career was inspired by her first cruise when she was a child. | Photo courtesy Kate McCue
You have some 1.3 million followers on TikTok (@captainkatemccue) and more than 228,000 on Instagram. Why is it important to have a social media presence?
I want to be able to show a behind-the-scenes view of how things really are on a cruise ship. Also, when I was promoted to captain in 2015, I did not anticipate the external spotlight of being a female in that role, and it did become quite a bit to handle. I use my platform to answer questions and normalize having a woman in this position. I believe the more open we are about it, the easier it is going to be for women coming up.
Do you look forward to the day when you are not referred to as the female captain?
You better believe it. I would just love to be the captain. My name tag only says "Captain." Some people still tend to call me Kate. I worked hard for the captain title. I want to be called captain on the ship. Male captains are always addressed as captain.
When you're not on the ship, you live in landlocked Las Vegas. Why Vegas?
Because my parents live there. My dad was working at Area 51 [a highly classified Air Force facility in Nevada]. I don't know what he was doing—he can't say. We stayed with my parents when we got off ships. My parents finally said, "We love you, but for the love of Pete, go buy your own house." So we moved about 300 steps away from them.
Does your husband sail with you?
He could, prior to the pandemic. He loves coming onboard. He's a bit of a drama queen, though. He'll walk around and ask people, "Do you know who I am?" And when they say no, he says, "I'm the captain's wife." He thinks it's really cute to say that, which it is.
Having achieved captain, what are your future career aspirations?
I would love to build a ship, to take it from the time the keel is laid until she is put into service. That will be my equivalent of having a child. I would love if my husband was part of it, so we could build it together. On top of that, I'd like to be the ship's godmother. I don't think any time in history has the captain been the godmother/mermaid.
What's with the mermaid tail?
Bonaire is my favorite Caribbean island because it is so untouched. Swimming in Bonaire is like putting your face in a fish tank. It's just phenomenal. The mermaid tail makes it more fun, being able to swim around and feel like you belong in the ocean. And it's easy to swim with because it's a mono-tail that floats. It's better than flippers.
How do you view the future of cruising post-COVID?
Whenever something tragic happens in the world, it changes the way that we operate, but I think it makes us safer. Our crew members have jumped onto new health procedures and protocols and have a willingness to do whatever it takes to bring our guests back onboard.
I personally like wearing a mask because I only have to buy half the makeup I used to.
When you think about your future vacation options, with cruising you have a controlled environment. I have full confidence that it's going to be the safest place that you could vacation.
What are you most looking forward to post-pandemic?
Seeing our guests walk back up the gangway. And we'll be at the top of it with pots and pans and anything we can make noise with to welcome them back on. And I have a feeling that it's going to come this year. But I am also confident that it's not going to be premature, that we're going to do it right, when it's time.
Fran Golden is an award-winning travel writer who has sailed on more than 150 cruises. In addition to writing for leading travel publications, Golden is the author of more than 20 travel books, including her latest, 100 Things to Do in Alaska Before You Die (Reedy Press, March 2021). She lives in landlocked Cleveland with her travel writer husband, David Molyneaux.
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Smallpox in 18th-century Banbury
Our last lecture was a terrific high-speed adventure through the interface between genetics and archaeology bringing us the very latest research in this very fast-developing field.
Our next lecture is much more locally based but is also the result of recent work. On the 8thNovember Dr. Rosemary Leadbeater, who has recently joined the society, will be talking about 'the constant terror of this loathsome and fatal disease'; facing smallpox in 18th-century Banbury. Rosemary is an Associate Lecturer at Oxford Brookes University, and her talk takes an in-depth look at the transmission of smallpox in Banbury in the eighteenth century and the impact of the disease on local families. It will also discuss the ways in which communities were successful in helping to control the disease. Rosemary teaches social history and the history of medicine and health at Oxford Brookes, and completed her PhD thesis in 2016, with the title Experiencing Smallpox in Eighteenth-Century England. She has also investigated pauper letters as a historical source and written on Florence Nightingale.
Don't forget that access to the Education room at the Museum is via the canal towpath through the Cafe.
The Society will again be holding a pre-Christmas book sale, featuring its own publications and those written by members, at this meeting on 8 November. 2018, a Dr Leadbetter's article in the recent edition of Cake & Cockhorse has aroused much interest, and the meeting is likely to be well-attended.
Members of the Society are welcome to bring copies of their books for sale: the book stall will be managed by Clare and Stephen Jakeman, and authors bringing books for sale are requested to list them, and present the list, with the books, to Clare or Stephen. Any money from sales and any unsold books will be returned once sales have ceased after the end of the meeting.
Prices of all books should be clearly marked.
This is a sale of new books that might be given as Christmas presents. Please do not bring second hand books.
Please do not bring an excessive number of books as display space is limited, and past experience shows that at most only three or four copies of any one book are likely to be sold.
The Banbury Historical Society is proud to have published 35 books on the history of the town and adjacent parts of Oxfordshire, Northamptonshire and Warwickshire in the 60 years since its foundation, and a 36th volume is at an advanced stage of production. The Society also takes pride in the number and range of publications produced by its members.
On Wednesday November 7th there is a change to the advertised programme of the Brackley History Society: the talk will now be given by Chris Rowe, and it will be about the Eleanor Crosses.
As described in a previous enewsletter, Dr. Richard Buckley will be talking about the search for, and discovery of, Richard III's bones under the car park in Leicester in Kings Sutton on 24th November in aid of Save the Children (7.30 pm followed by drinks and canapes, tickets £15 from Margot Bell 01295 811166 or margot.bell@mypostoffice.co.uk).
If you're interested in that, but can't make it, Dr. Buckley will be talking to the Middleton Cheney History Society on Monday 26th November 7.30 pm. This will be in All Saints Church, Middleton Cheney.
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Think Green is coming to Norwalk, thanks to a program of the Greater Norwalk Chamber of Commerce.
The Chamber's Leadership Institute held its graduation breakfast on Wednesday morning at the Dolce Norwalk Center, and it was announced that the 17 participants have put together Think Green, an event that will feature several exhibitors that will highlight conservation and environmental measures.
Think Green will take place from 3 to 7 p.m. on Friday Feb. 27 at Norwalk Community College.
The Leadership Institute, which began in 1981, is a Chamber program designed for Norwalk's new and up-and-coming business and community leaders. The nine-week program focuses on a variety of topics -- such as local government, economic development, media and education -- to help prepare the individuals for leaderships roles. Local prominent business people lead the weekly sessions.
The cornerstone of the institute is a project that the participants work on together. Historically, the end results of the projects have been reports given during the graduation event. Last year the Chamber changed the criteria of the projects to have tangible results at the end of the program.
This year all 17 participants worked on a single project, Think Green.
"We wanted them to focus on an activity that would be beneficial to businesses and the people of the city. We wanted an all-encompassing project," said Tony Izzo, site director at Northrop Grumman Norden Systems and chairman of the Leadership Institute. "All of the members played an active role and they did an outstanding job. It's a good project that will help everybody out. We gave them very little direction at the beginning."
Think Green will be free of charge and open to the public. The exhibitors, most of whom are already lined up, will be charged a small fee, which will be donated to a local school. The list of exhibitors include South Norwalk Electric and Water Co., Green Demolitions, Aitoro, iPark, and General Electric.
Brian Griffin, vice president of the Greater Norwalk Chamber of Commerce, was impressed with this year's Leadership Institute participants.
"We gave them a vague description of what we wanted and they took it upon themselves to develop it and put it together," he said. "Even though they've graduated, they'll stay in touch and keep working on it until the expo. This (Think Green) is something we hope to continue doing every year or every other year."
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A recent collision between two nuclear submarines in the Atlantic Ocean has raised concerns among anti-nuclear organizations.
In the incident that took place earlier this month involved British and French submarines that were undergoing exercises. Neither sub suffered any heavy damage, and there was no loss in containment of the nuclear material on board.
The HMS Vanguard (see photo) is one of Britain's four nuclear powered subs. She was launched in 1994 and holds 16 nuclear-armed Trident missiles. The French's Le Triomphant was launched in 1997 and also carries 16 nuclear missiles.
This is not the first accident to involve nuclear submarines, and that safety record is a major concern for anti-nuclear activists. When the safety issues from the nuclear submarine service are coupled with those involving nuclear reactors, the negatives seem to outweigh the positives. A disaster involving one of the land-based nuclear plants, or a sub-based platform, would be disastrous.
To date there are six nuclear submarines that have sunk in incidents. Two were American and four were Russian. There have been 14 incidents involving radiation issues from on board nuclear reactors. And, of course, that does not account for the instances that were not leaked or released to the public.
This is an issue of major concern here in Connecticut. First, we are home to General Electric, suppliers of nearly all nuclear weapons and power plants to the U.S. Navy. We also have the Electric Boat Company, which builds the latest nuclear subs for the Navy based in Groton, CT. And last, but not least, our nuclear safety concerns involve both the Indian Point and Millstone plants. A breakdown in any one of these would be catastrophic for those living nearby, and we are very much in Ground Zero.


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Afghanistan's Development Debacle
Daniel Schulman
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Over the years, the US and its international partners have directed an impressive amount of development funding to Afghanistan. Not so impressive: their efforts to ensure billions in aid is actually reaching the intended targets. Afghanistan's foreign minister, Rangeen Dadfar Spanta, once estimated that only about $10 or $20 out of every $100 in US development assistance ends up filtering down to the communities it was meant for. Where does the rest go? Some is eaten up by unwieldy chains of contractors and subcontractors, which take their cut and pass the work on until there is little money left to actually complete the projects they were hired to carry out. Some is siphoned off by corrupt officials and contractors. Some—well, we're not entirely sure where it went. Meanwhile, Afghans have complained bitterly about the state of development efforts. In some cases, the promised aid simply hasn't materialized—or, if it has, the result has been shoddily constructed (yet high-priced) projects that are basically useless.
Along with an influx of troops, the Obama administration is planning a surge of civilian personnel and funding to address Afghanistan's formidable development challenges. That's the good news. Here's the bad: part of this effort will likely be overseen and coordinated by a UN division that has been plagued by allegations of waste and mismanagement and the US development agency that has turned a blind eye to its transgressions.
A little-noticed report [PDF] by the Government Accountability Office, highlighted on Monday by Fox News, paints a bleak picture of what Obama's civilian surge is up against. It focuses on the US Agency for International Development's oversight of millions in reconstruction projects carried out by the UN's Office of Project Services (UNOPS), which has overseen efforts to build schools and medical clinics, rehab secondary roads, and construct bridges and hydroelectric plants. Here's the gist:
Among other things, USAID apparently overlooked a growing stack of U.N. audits and investigations that pointed to fraud, mismanagement and lack of internal financial controls by UNOPS in Afghanistan, even as the U.S. agency continued to shovel money in UNOPS's direction. So did other branches of the U.S. government, to the tune of an additional $100 million.
In a stunning number of cases, however, USAID also ignored its own oversight procedures and did not even insist that contracts with UNOPS enshrine the agency's uncontested right to access financial records that would tell how the U.S. government money was spent. Consequently those records were never examined.
In other cases, it looked like legal loopholes were created to make sure UNOPS got to keep its financial records out of USAID's reach.
Worse, the oversight disaster may still not be fixed—even as UNOPS, claiming that it has changed its ways, may get a bigger role in Afghanistan, financed with dollops of U.S. money, in the months and years ahead.
UNOPS has had a very troubled track record in Afghanistan. To begin with, the American official who directed its operations in the country from 2002 to 2006, Gary Helseth, stands accused of diverting around a half million dollars in development funds to bankroll his own high-flying lifestyle—including renovating his home in Kabul, splurging on first-class travel and fancy restaurants, and throwing lavish parties. And an investigation [PDF] by USAID's Inspector General, obtained by USA Today in April, substantiated a host of serious allegations against UNOPS and its parent agency, the UN Development Program. "The U.N. delivered shoddy work, diverted money to other countries and then stonewalled U.S. efforts to figure out what happened," the paper reported.
Despite UNOPS' well documented shortcomings, ramped up development efforts in Afghanistan raise the likelihood that the agency may take on an even greater role in managing reconstruction projects. If that's the case, the Obama adminstation should be planning for a surge of not just manpower and money, but oversight.
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A trust by definition is a relationship whereby property is held by one party for the benefit of another. The terms to be aware of are settlor/grantor (person or persons who create a trust) and trustees (person or persons who holds the property for the trust's beneficiaries).
A trust can be created while a person is living, and this is called an inter vivos or living trust, but a trust that is created upon death is a testamentary trust. An irrevocable trust is a trust that cannot be changed by the grantor while a revocable trust can be modified by the grantor.
There are a wide variety of Trusts that can be created, but I will herein below provide a description of a few types of Trusts that can be utilized in estate planning.
1. Special Needs Trusts: Trust designed to protect the assets of a loved one with a disability, while retaining eligibility for needed government benefits for health care and financial assistance. The need for a Special Needs Trust becomes acute when a disabled person is an SSI (Supplemental Security Income) recipient. SSI is a mean-tested programs which means that countable resources (i.e. cash and other assets that could be converted to cash) affect eligibility. A person with a disability cannot own more than $2,000.00 in countable resources to be eligible for SSI. A Special Needs Trust allows the beneficiary's primary residence to not be counted up to a designated amount currently $500,000.00 or $750,000.00. One car or van is also not counted. Life insurance with a face value of up to $1,500.00 is also not counted. If a beneficiary earns more than $65.00 a month then his or her SSI payments are reduced one dollar for every two dollars earned. The trustee can purchase for the beneficiary non-countable assets. The trustee needs to make sure that all bills are paid from the trust and not from the beneficiary.
2. Spendthrift Trust. A trust that is established for a beneficiary which does not allow the beneficiary to sell or pledge away interests in the Trust. There are a few exceptions such a child support obligations.
3. Revocable Trust for Children. A trust can be created for which a portion or all of proceeds from an estate can be placed. A trustee or trustees are named to provide for the children. This type of trust is normally created in case of the death of both parents. A Guardian or Guardians of the children are normally named in the Will, and the Revocable Trust is used to guard the assets that are being used for the care and education of the children. The Guardian or Guardians can also be the Trustee, but the Guardian can also be separate from the Trustee.
4. Irrevocable Life Insurance Trust (ILIT). An ILIT formation is a method used in estate planning to avoid life insurance funds being included in estate valuation for tax purposes. An ILIT is a trust used to hold life insurance policies. The ILIT is named the primary beneficiary of the policy. The Grantor of the Trust cannot serve as the Trustee since this would give them a degree of control or ownership of the Trust that the IRS would deem part of the estate. The ILIT and subsequent change in beneficiary needs to have been created more than three years prior to death to avoid the IRS including the life insurance proceeds in the estate. The ILIT is irrevocable so the Grantor of the ILIT would lose the power to revoke the Trust after it is created, but an ILIT can be an effective aid in estate planning.


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This color will give you a hint of pink mix with coral at the same time.
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This color definitely grab people's attention.
Longevity: I could say it stays for almost 4-6 hours but each color shows different staying power on my lips. No.5 probably has low in power of staying compare to No.10. When I wear No.10, it last pretty well on my lips even after a super greasy heavy meal but No.5 normally will fade-off but it stays pretty well after a light meal and drinks in the morning.
Not only has it stayed longer but the color suitable with my skin tone. If I know I'm going to have liked a buffet meal, I will definitely going to apply Peripera Peri's Ink the Velvet No.10 right away. Then, I can enjoy my meal time with no worries.
Overall, Peripera Peri's Ink the Velvet has great color intensity and staying power. The whipped cream-like texture definitely a plus as it won't dry-up the lips. Peripera Peri's Ink the Velvet also easy to apply and stay as stains. No stickiness when I apply it and it does keep my lip moisturizing on early application (well, I still apply lip balm before apply it).
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This three-part story is about the first employment of an Intelligent Agent system on a U.S. Submarine in the year 2026. The scenario demonstrates how an Intelligent Agent can help solve a complex war-fighting problem by sifting through and interpreting tremendous amounts of data and thereby increasing the probability of mission success. The scenario provides a high degree of ambiguity, but the Intelligent Agent helps lift the fog of war by offering the commanding officer an Information Advantage.
Parts one and two of this blog series tell a fictional but realistic tale about a future submarine mission. These posts illustrate some of the features that an Intelligent Agent might have, and the role it might play in a future Commanding Officer's tactical decisions. I foresee a future where an Information Advantage will not only be more important, but also more challenging to achieve for two reasons.
First, I envision a time very soon, when the U.S. will rapidly develop lightweight, expendable, lost-cost, unmanned sensors that can be globally deployed in support of national maritime aims. I illustrated this story with UUVs and UAVs only because these are the next generation vehicles under development and are easy to imagine, but the forms of near-future sensors are practically limitless. Further, it is certain that future vehicles, no matter what their form, will carry multiple sensors. The data volume from these future sensors will be incredible by today's standards.
Second, our most significant global competitors are not sitting idle. They are strongly motivated to take a similar path and are already making significant inroads in cyber and sensor developments. There will be significantly more data to be mined, and it will be harder to achieve an Information Advantage over our competitors.
An Intelligent Agent should be designed from the start with human users firmly in mind. The agent will actually be part of the team and regarded as an essential team member. It will not be human, of course, but it will certainly offer advice and respond to queries. It will be important for the agent to be intelligent, and also, to be trusted.
The Intelligent Agent should synthesize the information from as many sensors as possible in order to bring a comprehensive and complete picture to the team. That said, it cannot overwhelm them with data. Much of the "thinking" and analysis of this data will have to be done by the agent, and presented to the team in a refined form that can be managed by human operators.
We should anticipate that new ways of visualizing data that will be needed and discovered. The story illustrated this through density maps, but many other forms of data visualization are possible. One of the strengths of human cognition is its ability to recognize and interpret patterns in information. The Intelligent Agent will leverage this.
Robust architecture will be a key enabler of the Intelligent Agent. The aim is not to replace sensor systems with a new piece of software, but rather to leverage existing systems in order to maximize the utility of this explosion of data in the decision making process. This will require an open and carefully designed architecture to receive and communicate seamlessly with legacy data systems. Additionally, we should expect that many organizations will have ideas for subsystems that will add features to the agent. Open architecture will unlock design creativity. Rite-Solutions has considerable experience in the design of robust and reliable open architectures similar to the one that will be needed for this system.
We should anticipate that manned and unmanned vessels will be "seen" as "nodes" in this system. The result may be a significantly distributed cast of people from many disciplines, separated geographically, who will be brought together for missions. The idea of a team, while certainly still valid on ships, submarines, and aircraft, will need to be expanded to include humans not present and systems like the Intelligent Agent who behave like team members.
One of the benefits of an Information Advantage is to uncover deception by our opponents. It is hard to lie while maintaining consistency with the facts as the Automated Information System deception in the story illustrated. Information Advantage can help humans find the "seams" in the deceptive story and to uncover it to their tactical advantage.
One of the most important aspects of Information Advantage is that it helps to reduce safety risks to humans or to repurpose them for tasks where human judgment is essential. Fleet decision makers will use the Intelligent Agent to make risk tradeoffs between manned and unmanned systems. In the story, rather than have a manned submarine follow a vessel, it might attach a sensor instead, turning that part of the mission over to operators stateside, while the submarine goes on to its next important tasking. This might actually liberate manned systems for far more important human-centered work. Some of these tradeoffs will be financially driven. For example, it might make more fiscal sense to deploy a thousand low cost sensors in a region rather than to send a manned vessel in to cover the same area.
Although the story illustrated a relatively unopposed interaction with a commercial vessel, a realistic application of the Intelligent Agent will include military systems across the full spectrum of combat. Having an information advantage will reduce our decision cycle times within those of opposing forces, allowing the application of force at the time of our choosing and to our strategic and tactical advantage.
Now is the time to begin development of an Intelligent Agent. We can't afford to be surprised by the need for managing the deluge of data that is inevitable as new vehicles and sensors are fielded. Defense leaders must find the right path by leveraging small business innovation, low-cost, and nimble operations during development of an Intelligent Agent.
Contact Rite-Solutions to learn how the Information Advantage can give your organization a competitive edge.


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Narrating Voice and Building Self on Digital and Social Media
'This is Lebanon': Narrating Migrant Labor to Resistive Public. Rayya El Zein, University of Pennsylvania. This research looks at the calling into being of an ideal political subject through social media. 'This is Lebanon' is a platform run by a Nepalese immigrant, Dipendra Upetry, where migrant workers have been sharing stories of labour abuses. The Lebanese system for migrant work is particularly conducive to labour abuses, as workers often have a 'sponsor' who they may also live with. El Zein is looking at how the voices of labourers affect the political imagination around what it means to be Lebanese. 'This is Lebanon' inverts a popular tourism hashtag, #thisislebanon, and when Lebanese citizens complain that "this isn't Lebanon", Upetry invites them to change working conditions if they want that to be true. The Kafa campaign, run by a Lebanon NGO in coordination with the International Labour Union, shared a series of ads about a young couple trying to decide what the right thing to do is regarding the person doing domestic work with them, imagining change as coming from educated middle class people who just need guidance. These are ideologically-inflected ideas of politics that position the individual as the mechanism of change.
Instagramming Persian Identity: Ritual Identity Negotiations of Iranians and Persians in/out of Iran. Samira Rajabi, University of Pennsylvania. This research came out of trying to understand why some people refer to themselves as Persians, and others as Iranians. Rajabi looked at how identity is being negotiated on social media, particularly Instagram, which led to exploring particularly the ways in which identity are written on women's bodies. Many women were part of the Iranian revolution, but they were the first losers after the revolution. Trauma has had a huge impact on how identity is negotiated, and tactical media can be one way to respond to the deep symbolic trauma many people from Iran have experienced.
Hijacking Religion on Facebook. Mona Abdel-Fadil, University of Oslo. This focuses on the Norwegian Cross-Case – a newsreader tried to wear a cross while reading the news, and was told she was in breach of guidelines. There's a Facebook group: "Yes to wearing the cross whenever I choose". This is a good case study for understanding identity politics, the role of social media users in amplifying conflicts about religion, modes of performing conflict (and understanding who they are performing to), and the politics of affect. The Facebook group is dominated by conservative Christians who are worried about losing Norway's Christian heritage; nationalists who see Norwegian identity as inextricably tied to Christianity; humanists (predominantly women) who try to bridge differences; fortified secularists, who argue ferociously, particularly against the nationalists; ardent atheists (predominantly men), who tend to be fan the flames by abusing religious people, then step back. The group is shaped by master narratives that require engagement: that wearing the cross is an act of defiance (often against Muslim attack); that Norwegian cultural heritage is under threat (with compliance from politicians). There's an intensification and amplification of conflict, including distorting and adding to the original conflict. We need to understand that for some people this is entertainment – an attraction to the tension in the group, and how easy it is to inflame emotions.
Discussion session: Lilie Chouliaraki, in responding, noted the role of trauma and victimhood, inviting speakers to reflect on the role of victimhood and self-victimhood in constituting subjects and identities here. Rajabi noted that trauma requires a different level of response – the stakes are different. But trauma is medicalised, we treat it as something to be dealt with individually rather than politically. Abdel-Fadil is trying to work out how to write from a place of vulnerability about this: how to take the sense of suffering expressed by these people who feel like Christianity or Norwegian identity is under threat seriously, while not necessarily accepting that they are actually victims.
Digital Media and the Body
Drawing from Abigail Selzer King
Towards a theory of projectilic media: Notes on Islamic State's Deployment of Fire. Marwan M. Kraidy, Annenberg, University of Pennsylvania. Kraidy asks why ISIS uses the symbolism of fire so frequently. There's a distinction between digital images, operative images (for example, drone footages) that are part of an image; projectilic images (images as weapons); and prophylactic images (which build a sense of safety and security). In ISIS's symbolism, fire becomes a metaphor for sudden birth and sudden death, for the war machine, and for flames of justice. Speed is essential to the war machine, and to fire. A one-hour ISIS video would have about half an hour of projectilic sequences. ISIS uses a torch as a metaphor for the war machine, and the hearth as a a metaphor for the utopian homeland. Fire activates new connections between words and images. Immolation confuses the customary chronology (for example, of beheading videos).
You Have Been Tagged: Incanting Names and Incarnating Bodies on Social Media. Paul Frosh, Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Tagging has become a prevalent technique for circulating images on social media, and serves various purposes for social media platforms (for example, adding more data). Naming and figuration are linked to the life of the self. Names aren't just linguistic designators – they're also signifiers of power. Names perform the entanglement of the social subject. Tagging requires a systematic circulation of the name (you must join the platform). Tagging interpolates us as subjects of a particular system, and revitalises the ancient magical power of action at a distance through naming. Tagging is a magical act of germination. Being tagged carries a social weight, prompting us to respond. Tagging sends social signals through others' images, as opposed to selfies. Tagging goes against the grain of networked selfhood in digital culture, re-centring the body. Tagging is the fleshing out of informational networks.
Selfies as Testimonies of the Flesh. Lilie Chouliaraki, London School of Economics and Political Science. Aesthetic corporeality becomes important when we think about vulnerable bodies. Digital testimonies produced in conflict zones are elements of a broader landscape of violence and suffering. How does the selfie mediate the faces of refugees? What does the remediation of these faces in Western news sites tell us? Three types of images: refugees being photographed to take selfies; refugee selfies with global leaders; celebrities taking photos as if they were refugees. Chouliaraki notes that refugees taking selfies in Lesbos are celebrating not just having arrived, but also having survived the deadliest sea crossing. Refugee selfies are remediated through a series of disembodiments; their faces are, at best, an absent presence, or, at worst, fully absent.
Feminist Theorizations Beyond Western Cultures
Orientalism, Gender, and Media Representation: A Textual Analysis of Afghan Women in US, Afghan, and Chinese Media. Azeta Hatef, Pennsylvania State University and Luwei Rose Luqui, Hong Kong Baptist University. This study looks at media representations of women in Afghanistan, thinking about the purposes these images serve in relation the war on Afghanistan. Media coverage in China is controlled by the government, but soft news is offered a bit more leeway than hard news outlets. Nevertheless, in China mainstream media conveys the same theme: Afghan women oppressed by brown men. Both US and Chinese media portrays Afghanistan as backwards, with women's freedoms entirely limited. While violence against women in Afghanistan is worthy of attention, but these media representations operate to amplify distinctions between "us" and "them", justifying intervention (and failing to recognise the violence done by that intervention).
Production of subject of politics through social media: a practice of Iranian women activists. Gilda Seddighi, University of Bergen. This research looked at an Iranian online network of mourning mothers, drawing on Butler's conceptualization of politicization. There was a group, "Supporters of Mourning Mothers Harstad", composed mainly of asylum seekers, connected by Facebook and other mechanisms. Motherhood can be seen here as a source of recognition of political subjects across national border. The notion of motherhood was expanded to include children beyond their own. Nevertheless, many women interviewed spoke of their activism as apolitical, and belonging to a particular nation-state was taken for granted.
Subject Transformations: New Media, New Feminist Discourses. Nithila Kanagasabai, Tata Institute of Social Sciences. This research attempts to look at new strands of feminism in India, particularly in smaller towns in Tamil Nadu. Work from urban areas has tended to position Women's Studies as urban, upper-caste, middle-class, English-speaking, online, and speaking for marginalised groups. Students who Kanagasabai interviewed drew on 'the feminist canon' (for example, Virginia Woolf, Shulamith Firestone), but also on little magazines – small local literary magazines in regional dialects of Tamil, which previously circulated predominantly among unemployed, educated men. These magazines have shifted to allow women, Dalits, and people from scheduled tribes to express themselves. Little magazines open space for subjectivity, offering a critique of seemingly universal social norms, including casteism and gender roles. Students interviewed mention these magazines alongside sources like Jstor and Economic and Political Weekly, which speaks to the development of new methodologies. Publishing in little magazines (as opposed to mainstream feminist journals) is seen not just as convenient, but also as a political decision. Moving online did not mean that little magazines transcended the local or temporal – readership remains limited and local, but they are still important spaces. Following feminists online has lead to a deeper everyday engagement with feminist literature. Lurking needs to be viewed within the framework of collaborative learning, and engagement can happen during key moments. Most students didn't relate to the title of feminism (which they felt required a particular kind of academic competence), but instead related to women's studies.
Collective Identities and Memories
Collective Memory Matters: Mobilizing Activist Memory in Autonomous Media. Kamilla Petrick, Sandra Jeppesen, Ellen Craig, Cassidy Croft, & Sharmeen Khan, Lakehead University. Unpaid labour within collectives means that institutional memory isn't actively shared, but instead embodied within long-term members (who may leave).
By Király-Seth – Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=42295509
Emergent Voices in Material Memories: Conceptualizing Public Voices of Segregated Memories in Detroit. Scott Mitchell, Wayne State University. An eight-mile wall remains as a visible reminder of the history of segregation in Detroit, also serving as a space of education and hope. The wall was constructed by developers to raise property values for the White area by separating it from Black communities. Grassroots efforts to add a mural have shifted its meaning.
Repertoires, Identities, and Issues of Collective Actions of the Candlelight Movements in S. Korea. Young-Gil Chae, Hankuk University of Foreign Studies and Inho Cho, Hanyang UJaehee Cho, Chung-Ang University.
The Mnemonic Black Hole at Guantánamo: Memory and Counter-Memory Digital Practices on Twitter. Muira McCammon, Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania. Guantánamo is often left off maps: Johann Stein has called it a "legal black hole". McCammon tried to go to the library at Guantánamo for detainees – being unsuccessful, she tried following the Joint Task Force for Guantánamo on Twitter. McCammon asks what some of the mnemonic strategies used on the Twitter feed are. Only images of higher-up command and celebrities are posted. Traces of Guantánamo as a 'space of exception' have been deleted (for example, tweets noting the lack of Internet connection). The official 'memory maker', when posting on Twitter, can't escape others' memory-making (for example, responses to an official tweet about sexual harassment training at Guantánamo which pointed out the tremendous irony). When studying these issues, there are few systematic ways to track and trace digital military memory makers.
The Voice of Silence: Practices of Participation Among East Jerusalem Palestinians. Maya de Vries, Hebrew University of Jerusalem. This research focuses on participation avoidance, for example the boycotting of Facebook over the ways in which it censors Palestinian content, as an active form of resistance. de Vries notes the complexity of power relations in working with Palestinians in East Jerusalem. Interviewees choose not to engage in anything political on Facebook, knowing that it is monitored by the Israeli state. This state monitoring affects their choices around Facebook. There is also kinship monitoring – knowing that family are reading. Self-monitoring also plays a role. One interviewee notes that when she had to put her location down, there was no option for "East Jerusalem, Palestine". These layers of monitoring mean that Palestinians negotiate their engagement with Facebook cautiously, frequently choosing non-participation.
Voices of Freedom, Voices of Constraint: Race, Citizenship and Public Memory – Then and Now
Selected Research: "The Fire Next Time in the Civil Sphere: Literary Journalism and Justice in America 1963. Kathy Roberts Forde, Associate Professor, Journalism Department, University of Massachusetts-Amherst. After the end of slavery, new systems were put in place to control Black people, and exploit their labour. Black resistance continued, building a vibrant Black public sphere and paving the way for the civil rights movement. James Baldwin wrote that the only thing that White people had that Black people needed was power. White people should not be a model for how to live. White people destroyed, and were destroying, thousands of lives, and did not know it, and did not want to know it. Baldwin's writing was hugely influential.
Selected Research: Newspaper Wars: Civil Rights and White Resistance in South Carolina, 1935-1965, 2017. Sid Bedingfield, Assistant Professor, Hubbard School of Journalism and Mass Communication, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities. Talks about NAACP leader Roy Wilkins' 1964 opinion piece complaining about Black youth crime. This had parallels with segregationists' narratives, and Wilkins' had cordial communications with some segregationists. These narratives stripped away historical context and ongoing oppression when covering Black protests and expressions of anger and frustration.
Selected Research: Framing the Black Panthers: The Spectacular Rise of a Black Power Icon, 2017, 2nd edition; Rebel Media: Adventures in the History of the Black Public Sphere, In Progress; Jane Rhodes, Professor and Department Head, African American Studies, University of Illinois at Chicago. Almost everything Rhodes finds in the discourses of the 1960s is still relevant today in discourses of nationalism and race. Stuart Hall argues that each surge of social anxiety finds a temporary respite in the projection of fears onto compellingly anxiety-laden themes – like moral panics about Black people and other racialised others. US coverage of Britain in the 1960s tended to frame Britain as having issues with race, but an unwillingness to deal with it. Meanwhile, British press seemed to have almost a lurid fascination with racial violence in the US (with an undercurrent of fear for white safety in the US, and subsequently in Britain). Deep-seated anxieties around race and social change aren't subtle. As Enoch Powell came to power, media seemed to be tangled in debates about whether US or UK racism was worse.
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Boston returns to Wigan with Rugby Memories
Post by josie andrews » Mon Aug 12, 2019 9:11 pm
Wigan Warriors Community Foundation host a mini golf session at Robin Park Arena for Rugby Memories.
The Rugby Memories group has been nominated for a National Lottery Award due to its stand-out work in the community.
Club legend Billy Boston was in attendance, whilst Wigan winger Joe Burgess took part in the event.
Wigan Warriors Community Foundation welcomed their Rugby Memories group to the Robin Park Arena last week to take part in a mini golf session, which was attended by Club legend Billy Boston.
The group, which was launched in February 2018 as a way to help tackle isolation and support those living with dementia, reached the finals of the 25th Birthday National Lottery Awards, as it it competing in the Best Commuity and Charity Project category.
Wigan legend Boston, who scored 478 tries in 488 appearances for the Club between 1953 and 1968, was one of the members in attendance, as he celebrated his 85th birthday last Tuesday.
"I'm happy when I'm at places like this," he said. "It's nice to talk about things that happened ages ago because it brings back memories. I'm always happy when I'm back at Wigan. I'd love to be playing again but I'm too old now!"
Wigan Warriors Community Health and Wellbeing Manager, Claire Taylor, says it was 'extra special' to see Boston pay a visit.
"It was really nice because a lot of the people here remember Billy playing, whilst others were part of the team when he was here. It was extra special for him to come and really nice to see people get back together."
As Health and Wellbeing Manager, Taylor runs the group and she says the mini golf event is one of the 'new experiences' on offer at Rugby Memories.
"The mini golf has been really good and everyone has got involved," she said. "We wanted to do something a little bit different and offer new experiences."
"It's massively important to try new things; we are trying to keep people active and interacting in a different way.
"Running the group is one of the most rewarding things in my job because all of these people appreciate what we do and always say how much they enjoy it. It creates a new support network for them, which is invaluable."
Norman Hickson, a regular attendee within Rugby Memories, praised the positive impact that the group has on the local community.
He said: "This group of people are phenomenal. You look forward to coming, as it's like a home from home. As a carer it's very important - you come and you learn from other people.
"This is the top group to come to for us because everyone is integrated and it's nice to see friendly faces."
Hickson also shared his enjoyment of taking part in the mini golf event.
"It was absolutely fantastic; it was a bit of a change. Of course Billy being here has put the icing on the cake."
Group helper, Ian Hurst, says being involved with Rugby Memories means a lot to him.
"Socialising is my aim in life so I embrace seeing everyone because I love it and I feel like a kid at Christmas. It means quite a lot to me; I feel like a member - I really enjoy just being with people and talking about rugby."
Current Warriors winger, Joe Burgess, also headed down to the event to take part and test his own mini golf skills.
"It was good. Everybody looked like they were enjoying themselves so it is great for the community. It was also fantastic to see Billy Boston here on his birthday as well."
The 25-year-old praised the Community Foundation for putting on different events for the Rugby Memories group.
"It's good to see the members loving it and trying a few different things to keep them active."
https://www.wiganwarriors.com/news/2019 ... Qdh1zQc.99


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Congratulations. First, about the above pic of @SupurMario27 and @TZAC81AU: yeah, we posted it yesterday. But the pic's too good and Jeremy's title too clever to let you miss it.
The good news is that Fannin and Zachery were only two of nine current and former Auburn football players, and 23 Tiger athletes overall to receive their sheepskin yesterday. Amongst the other names you might recognize are football players Mike Blanc, Byron Isom, Ryan Shoemaker, Clinton "Saturn V" Durst, Andrew McCain, Blake Field, and Robert Johnson (!); men's basketball players Dewayne Reed and Francis Aihe; men's swimmer Matthew Targett; and equestrian master Chelsea Anheuser.
A hearty WBE handshake and congratulations is extended to one and all. You've done us proud.
But while we're on the subject of academics … there's not much I'm willing to label "unacceptable" these days when discussing college football, since that's a term mostly used by message-board types frothing at the mouth over only beating Cupcake U by four touchdowns instead of five or six. But yeah, for me, this is just about unacceptable:
That's a graph of the SEC's 2009 APRs. It's just one year, yes, but in that one year, as measured by the APR, Auburn's football team was the worst in the SEC academically. And one of only three to fall below the Division I average.
That will not stand. That's not to say I can't (mostly) excuse Chizik and Co. for this one poor showing; it's a transition year, with lots of attrition and new procedures in place, and that results in poorer APRs just about wherever you are that's not a Vandy or Wake Forest. And rest assured it's not likely at all that Auburn ever sees actual penalties, even in the event this number doesn't improve. And it's true that the APR isn't a perfect measure of academic achievement.
But as Curtis Luper so famously said about recruiting rankings, if they're keeping score, you want to win. This is the NCAA's way of keeping score, in a game that's frankly much more important than a set of semi-arbitrary guru rankings. And Auburn didn't only lose in 2009, they got their rear ends handed to them. It truly is not acceptable, and Auburn must do better in 2010.
Welcome. Auburn has filled its vacant gymnastics head coaching position, hiring former Utah assistant Jeff Graba. Enjoyable canned introductory statement GO:
"I am both excited and thankful for the opportunity to coach in what I believe is one of the top athletic programs in the country," Graba said. "I am looking forward to the challenge of trying to improve on an already quality gymnastics program, and to compete in the SEC, one of the premier conferences in the country. My family and I are also thrilled to be a part of the Auburn Family, and we can't wait to get settled."
Graba, who was the 2009 West Region Assistant Coach of the Year, coached two NCAA event champions and nine All-Americans that earned 20 All-America honors during his tenure at Utah.
A 22-year coaching veteran, Graba figured prominently in the program's best span at Utah since the 1990s as he coached the bars, collaborated on the floor routines and served as recruiting coordinator.
"We are very pleased to bring someone of Jeff's caliber and experience to Auburn," Jacobs said. "He has played an instrumental role in the success that Utah has enjoyed during the last five years, and we believe Jeff can elevate the Auburn gymnastics program to new heights. We welcome Jeff and his wife, Bridget, and their five children to the Auburn Family."
If you're going to hire an assistant, it makes sense to hire one from one of the best programs in the country, right? Just one favor to ask, Jeff: could you beat 'Bama for us? That'd be great, thanks.
BlAUgosphere. To the "fantastic ideas that will never, ever happen for any reason" file (along with my suggestion that Auburn simply play Florida as a non-conference game) Jay Coulter adds the possibility of a Week 1 SEC/Big 10 football challenge. Again: this will happen when the sun goes nova and the pigs are leaving the earth via their newly-evolved Oregon-approved emo wings, or just before. But how incredible would it be if the first week of the season, instead of the annual routine of bodybag games, we had six primo SEC-vs.-That-Conference-Up-North match-ups to brag about/mourn all season long? If Auburn got to visit or host teams like Michigan or Iowa or even those weirdos from Purdue on an annual basis? Based on the results of the Northwestern meeting, it'd be a hell of a time. I should stop thinking about this right now, actually, before I get my hopes up.
Elsewhere, Kurt at WarBlogle is counting down his top 30 games at Jordan-Hare Stadium, and if I find some of his early selections … eclectic, shall we say, the memories make the series still well worth the read. You may know friend of the blog and longtime Auburn Internet guy Chad Gibbs; he has a book out.
And as always, there's lots to see here at TWER: J.M. returns with a look at the less-than-harmonious relationship between Emmitt Smith and the U of Florida, and how Auburn has played its small part in it; also among yesterday's graduates is de facto TWER spokesmodel Alice "Snorg Girl" Fraasa; and though it's been up for a while, if you missed the "Runaway Train" tour of 1945 Auburn at eBay, now's the time.
Over there. Best wishes to the Tide's Kendall Kelly, who's been removed from practice and possibly the Tide's roster for a scary-sounding heat-related illness (one that started at an evening practice, though). Hope for his sake it's nothing too serious, though the current expectations from Tide fans are that he's going to miss the entirety of fall camp.
From a football perspective, this is the worst place on the field for the Tide to have this happen; Kelly's a safety, and between this and the Rod Woodson dismissal the already-thin (by their standards) 'Bama secondary looks thinner by the day.
Etc. Via Justin Hokanson's Twitter feed, Tommy Thigpen said that Auburn's 2010 recruiting class is the best he's been a part of; given some of the hauls he helped Butch Davis with at North Carolina, that's saying something … speaking of Twitter, Tony Barnhart's blaming it for the death of open practices, though I think general coaching paranoia and the increased willingness of fans to side with their team over the local media probably has more to do with it … Smart Football explains why it's tough stuff to install a Bill Walsh-style West Coast offense at the college or high school levels; where was he when Todd Berry was getting hired at Army? … CFN's getting their CFN on in regards to Auburn's predicted record. They've got Auburn slotted at No. 23 preseason, FWIW … and for anyone still jonesing for a USMNT fix after the World Cup, the Yanks play Brazil in a friendly tonight at 7. If Bradley starts Robbie Findley again, I'm going to set something on fire, so that should be fun.
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Marmot says
Remind me how the APR is calculated. If a guy leaves early but is on pace with credit requirements, is that bad? Or is it just the guys who leave who are not on pace? Or is it something else entirely?
Marmot, IIRC, you get points for every semester a player is both enrolled and academically eligible. You don't lose anything for players who transfer out/leave while still eligible … I think.
Foy Onion says
Hey Jerry,
Anybody know what's up with Beaver? Haven't seen an update on hist site since June.
Not a clue. If I had to guess, I'd chalk it up to general fatigue. The shelf life of most fan-written blogs is positively mayfly-esque, though usually a blog with his kind of traffic perseveres a bit longer.
Per Tate's blog, David King also graduated. Strangely, none of the other beat writers mentioned him?!
If true, that's pretty damn impressive to come back and complete a degree 25 (25!!!) years after leaving AU!
WDE!
Missed that the first time, Jess. Also an awesome accomplishment.
Gabe says
This is what happens when there are 6 – 10 guys left from 25-30 person classes. This has nothing to do with Chizik and everything to do with the drop off in Tubberville's last two years. In 2004, 2005 our APR was #3 in the country…because Tubby had a string of successful classes without the Leboesque huge attrition we saw later…when we get aren't placing one third of our class at junior college and prep school then the APR works itself out and we win more games.
Auburn had 26 of their 27 recruits in the 2010 class qualify this year…so the APR numbers will probably be going up in the future.
Gabe, Daniel, both excellent points.


A variable is something that varies – a factor that changes. Variables can be things like a person's race or gender, the type of weather going on at the moment or the time of day, or what sort of exam results different people get or their scores on tests.
In an experiment, a scientist will focus on a particular thing they're interested in – the independent variable (IV). This is the topic the scientist is exploring, the thing that might be the hidden cause of behaviour.
Manipulated IVs are things that the scientists can change in order to see what happens. For example, a scientist could change how noisy a room is to see if people worked harder or not. Another example of a manipulated variable might involve testing a drug on one group of people while leaving another group normal.
A naturally-occurring IV is something that changes of its own accord. For example, no scientist can "make" people male or female. Sometimes it's physically impossible to manipulate a naturally-occurring variable. Sometimes it's just unethical – for example, it would be wrong to give someone a nasty disease just to see how they coped with it.
Experiments investigating naturally-occurring IVs are natural (or quasi-) experiments. These are much weaker, with lower internal validity, although they may have higher external validity (because the IV is one that chabnges in real life).
In an experiment, a scientist will be looking for a certain type of result. The dependent variable (DV) is the thing that changes – the outcome that you measure. In a successful experiment, changes in the IV should cause changes in the DV.
Remember how science tries to discover laws and make predictions? That's the beauty of experiments; they show causation - cause-and-effect. If your DV changes at the end of an experiment, you can conclude that the IV was causing it to change.
Operationalising means stating your IV and DV in ways that make it obvious how they are being manipulated or measured. In particular, an operationalised DV will create quantitative data.
Not "role models" but "aggressive role models" and "non-aggressive role models"
Of course, you can't always tell cause-and-effect from an experiment, especially an experiment on people. This is because the IV isn't the only thing having an effect on the DV. Usually there are lots of other factors going on too.
Factors other than the IV and the DV that might change during the course of a study are the extraneous variables.
Participant variables are differences between the participants themselves. Obviously, everyone's different and most participant variables (height, birthday, number of siblings) don't make much difference to a study, but others (intelligence, level of education, personality) might make a big difference.
Situational variables are changes that occur in the situation the participants are in. This includes things like the weather and heat, how crowded the room is and the time of day as well as "outside interference" like interruptions or distractions (a fire alarm, for example).
Experimenter effects are changes the experimenter makes, usually without realising it, by treating some participants differently from others. It's a form of bias and it often involves encouraging participants to act or respond in a particular way through body language or tone of voice.
Most extraneous variables make no difference or even cancel each other out, but they "sow seeds of doubt" about whether the DV is really being caused by the IV - they lower the internal validity of the study.
Some extraneous variables definitely make a difference to the behaviour of participants and interfere with the DV. These are called confounding variables because they confound (spoil) the validity of the research.
To deal with the problem of confounding variables, scientists will use experimental controls. A control is something that stops a confounding variable from interfering with the DV because it makes sure that the only important variables changing are the IV and the DV.
It's much easier to set up controls for extraneous variables in a lab experiment, because everything is taking place in a controlled setting that you can arrange beforehand.
In a field experiment, it's harder to set up controls because you have less control over a real-life setting with ordinary events going on all round you.
Although controls increase the internal validity of a study by reducing confounding variables, they can have the effect of lowering the external validity just as much. In particular, highly controlled experiments can lack ecological validity if the setting or the task become too unfamiliar or artificial. This is a trade-off between internal and external validity that all psychologists must make.
One type of extraneous variable that gets special mention is demand characteristics. This is when participants behave unnaturally because they believe they know the purpose of the research they are taking part in.
Martin Orne (1962) coined this phrase when he pointed out how people are naturally curious and in an experiment they tend to wonder what it's all about. If people think they've figured out what the purpose of the experiment is, the temptation is to be "good participants" and make the experiment successful.
Other people are awkward customers and, when they think they know what the experiment's about, they try to ruin it. This is what Phil Banyard (2001) calls the "Screw You" Effect - another type of demand chaacteristics.
Demand characteristics lower the internal validity (because something other than the IV is causing the DV) and external validity (because these people wouldn't behave that way in real life) as well as the predictive validity (because you can't predict future behaviour from unnatural behaviour).
Naïve participants do not realise they are in a study - or if they do know they are in a study, they have been misled about what it's really all about. Misdirection is an experimental control that reduces demand characteristics but it raised ethical problems because the naïve participants cannot give informed consent if they've been misled about the point of the study.
Don't confuse demand characteristics with social desirability bias. SDB is when people behave differently because they know they are being watched and their sense of what's socially appropriate comes into play: they are on "best behaviour". This is a problem if you arec trying to study antisocial behaviour (such as aggression). If you observe people in secret you may avoid SDB but that also raises ethical issues.
Controlling variables is particularly important in the experimental method and the correlational method. Even researchers carrying out pure observations and self reports will want to keep extraneous variables to a minimum. However, this isn't easy.
In general, there is a conflict between internal and external validity when it comes to controlling extraneous variables.
If you strictly control extraneous variables, you increase internal validity, but you probably create an artificial situation which has low external validity.
If you leave extraneous variables alone, the internal validity suffers but the external validity may be much higher, because the situation will seem less artificial.
Psychologists aren't always consistent in how they use terms. External validity and ECOLOGICAL VALIDITY are very similar. In fact, ecological validity is a special type of external validity. External validity is about whether you can generalise the findings to the outside world; ecological validity is how much the study itself actually resembles the real world. So it's possible for a study to have external validity even if it doesn't have ecological validity (eg brain scans, memory tests).
Cognitive Psychology studies mental processes and has to be particularly careful about operationalising independent variables (IVs). Many Cognitive studies find clever ways of teasing apart the subtle differences in memory and experience. For example, Baddeley (1966b) separates LTM from STM by using inteference tasks to "block" STM and then lists of similar words to separate Semantic LTM from Acoustic LTM.
Other studies go about measuring the DV in a more straightforward way. Milgram (1963) operationalises "obedience" as the maximum voltage a person would deliver shocks to, with 450V being "complete obedience". This is easy to measure and observe but perhaps lacks external validity.
Behaviourism is a school of Psychology from the 20th century that took a strong view about operationalising dependent variables (DVs). Behaviourists like B.F. Skinner argued that psychologists have no business studying DVs that can't be empirically observed. So, for behaviourists, mental processes (feelings, thoughts, fears, desires) have no place in Psychology and instead they only studied observable behaviour.
A good example of this is Watson & Rayner's study of Little Albert: instead of studying Albert's fear, the researcher's recorded his behaviour of turning away from the rat, covering his eyes, crying, etc.
These days, the Behaviourist approach is out of fashion and seen as too strict. You can operationalise variables even if you can't physically observe them happening. For example, Becker et al. (2002) operationalise "unhealthy body-image and possible eating disorders" as scores >20 on the EAT-26 questionnaire.
Field experiments and unstructured observations and interviews are much harder to control. For example, in Sherif et al.'s Robbers Cave study, it wasn't possible to "script" how the camp counselors talked to the boys or covertly record everything they said to each other. They had to "make it up as they went along". Nonetheless, Sherif tried to introduce some controls: he told the boys' parents not to visit them at camp (remove one set of extraneous variables) and the counselors were instruct not to advise the boys about what to do, just to help them once they had made a decision.
Experimenter effects only really disappear with a covert observation and not even then. For example, the children in Bandura's Bobo Doll study did not know they were being observed from behind a one-way mirror, but there may still have been demand characteristics because inflatable 'Bobo Dolls' are toys designed to be punched so the children may have assumed they were meant to be aggressive towards the toy.
Similarly, Gina Perry's criticism of Milgram suggests that many participants realised this was a study into obedience and they were supposed to go along with it because nobody was really being hurt.
It's also possible that the schoolgirls in Becker's study into the influence of TV figured out that the researchers were interested in the bad influence of TV on dieting and gave cthe sort of answers on the EAT-26 questionnaire that they thought the researchers were looking for: that TV was a bad influence, that they worried about their weight, that they wanted to be thin.
However, these studies also try to reduce experimenyter effects. Milgram didn't play the part of the experimenter in his own study: he got someone else (Jack Williams) to be the experimenter instead and gave him a script to follow. Bandura also scripted the behaviour for his actors and the only person who spoke to the students was their nursery teacher, not Bandura himself.
Experimenter effects were the very thing that alerted Pavlov to conditioning in dogs: the dogs started salivating at the sound of the researchers' footsteps. To remove these effects, he created a special sealed box to keep the dogs in where they would only be exposed to the stimuli he wanted to expose them to.
A 8-mark "apply" question awards 4 marks for describing the use of controls (AO1) and 4 marks for applying the Cognitive Approach to this (AO2). You need a conclusion to get a mark in the top band (7-8 marks). "Experimental controls" turn up in the Specification for the Cognitive Approach but you need to know thow controls are used in all the Approaches.
The Cognitive approach uses lab experiments which make use of controls to increase their internal validity.
Controls include things like following standardised procedures, scripting all interactions with participants and setting the experiment in a controlled environment.
Controls are supposed to stop extraneous variables from interfering with the DV so that you can tell if the IV is causing the DV to change.
Controlling variables too tightly can make the research low in external validity because it becomes too artificial.
An example of controls in a Cognitive lab experiment would be Baddeley using a slideshow to show his participants the same words for exactly 3 seconds.
Baddeley also followed a standardised procedure did the same interference task, which involved remembering a set of numbers.
This control prevented STM from affecting the results of the recall test because Baddeley was only interested in LTM.
Cogntive studies like Baddeley's become quite artificial because learning lists of unconnected words isn't a realistic thing to do.
The Cognitive Approach uses controls to test mental processes like memory that aren't usually observable. Behaviourists would say they should focus on behaviour instead of cognitions, because that's easier to observe and control.
Notice that for a 8-mark answer you don't have to include everything about controls. I haven't mentioned demand characteristics or experimenter effects. But it is a balanced answer - half description, half application.


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Elizabeth Bishop: much revision from the biography by Megan Marshall.
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Millicent Garrett Fawcett: another woman writer honoured on her birthday with a Google Doodle.
Charlotte Lennox: much revision of detail from Susan Carlile's recent biography. Among a wealth of new literary information, it is nice to know that it was not the author but her thirteen-year-old daughter who appeared in court to face (quite likely false) charges of assault.
Andrea Levy: her essay "Back to my Own Country", published in 2014, appears online as an item in the British Library's exhibition Windrush Stories, along with family memorabilia and the manuscript of Small Island.
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Winsome Pinnock: the London revival of her first play, Leave Taking.
Lady Hester Pulter: the availability of her manuscript at the Pulter Project, http://pulterproject.northwestern.edu/.
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package com.triangleleft.flashcards.ui.vocabular;

import com.triangleleft.flashcards.R;
import com.triangleleft.flashcards.di.vocabular.DaggerVocabularyWordComponent;
import com.triangleleft.flashcards.di.vocabular.VocabularyWordComponent;
import com.triangleleft.flashcards.service.vocabular.VocabularyWord;
import com.triangleleft.flashcards.ui.common.BaseFragment;
import com.triangleleft.flashcards.ui.main.MainActivity;

import org.slf4j.Logger;
import org.slf4j.LoggerFactory;

import android.media.AudioManager;
import android.media.MediaPlayer;
import android.os.Bundle;
import android.support.annotation.NonNull;
import android.view.LayoutInflater;
import android.view.View;
import android.view.ViewGroup;
import android.widget.TextView;
import android.widget.ViewFlipper;

import java.io.IOException;

import butterknife.Bind;
import butterknife.ButterKnife;
import butterknife.OnClick;

public class VocabularyWordFragment
        extends BaseFragment<VocabularyWordComponent, IVocabularyWordView, VocabularyWordPresenter>
        implements IVocabularyWordView {

    public static final String TAG = VocabularyWordFragment.class.getSimpleName();
    private static final Logger logger = LoggerFactory.getLogger(VocabularyWordFragment.class);
    private static final int CONTENT = 0;
    private static final int EMPTY = 1;

    @Bind(R.id.vocabulary_word_title)
    TextView titleView;
    @Bind(R.id.vocabulary_word_translation_entry)
    View translationEntry;
    @Bind(R.id.vocabulary_word_translation_value)
    TextView translationView;
    @Bind(R.id.vocabulary_word_strength_value)
    VocabularyStrengthView strengthValue;
    @Bind(R.id.vocabulary_word_gender_entry)
    View genderEntry;
    @Bind(R.id.vocabulary_word_gender_value)
    TextView genderView;
    @Bind(R.id.vocabulary_word_pos_entry)
    View posEntry;
    @Bind(R.id.vocabulary_word_pos_value)
    TextView posView;
    @Bind(R.id.vocabulary_word_flipper)
    ViewFlipper flipper;

    private VoiceOverPlayer voiceOverPlayer = new VoiceOverPlayer();
    private VocabularyWord word;

    @Override
    public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
    }

    @Override
    public View onCreateView(LayoutInflater inflater, ViewGroup container,
                             Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        final View view = inflater.inflate(R.layout.fragment_vocabular_word, container, false);
        ButterKnife.bind(this, view);
        return view;
    }

    @Override
    protected void inject() {
        getComponent().inject(this);
    }

    @NonNull
    @Override
    protected VocabularyWordComponent buildComponent() {
        logger.debug("buildComponent() called");
        return DaggerVocabularyWordComponent.builder()
                .mainPageComponent(((MainActivity) getActivity()).getComponent())
                .build();
    }

    @Override
    public void onPause() {
        super.onPause();
        voiceOverPlayer.onPause();
    }

    @Override
    public void onResume() {
        super.onResume();
        voiceOverPlayer.onResume();
    }

    @NonNull
    @Override
    protected IVocabularyWordView getMvpView() {
        logger.debug("getMvpView() called");
        return this;
    }

    @Override
    public void showWord(VocabularyWord word) {
        flipper.setDisplayedChild(CONTENT);
        this.word = word;
        titleView.setText(word.getWord());
        if (!word.getTranslations().isEmpty()) {
            translationView.setText(word.getTranslations().get(0));
        } else {
            translationView.setText(R.string.vocabulary_word_not_available);
        }
        strengthValue.setStrength(word.getStrength());
        if (word.getGender().isPresent()) {
            genderView.setText(word.getGender().get());
        } else {
            genderView.setText(R.string.vocabulary_word_not_available);
        }
        if (word.getPos().isPresent()) {
            posView.setText(word.getPos().get());
        } else {
            posView.setText(R.string.vocabulary_word_not_available);
        }
    }

    @Override
    public void showEmpty() {
        flipper.setDisplayedChild(EMPTY);
    }

    @OnClick(R.id.vocabular_word_voice)
    public void onVoiceClick() {
        voiceOverPlayer.voice(word);
    }

    private static class VoiceOverPlayer {
        // TODO: move to core module
        private final static String URL = "https://d7mj4aqfscim2.cloudfront.net/tts/%s/token/%s";
        private MediaPlayer mediaPlayer;
        private VocabularyWord currentWord;
        private boolean hasCompleted;

        public void onPause() {
            mediaPlayer.release();
        }

        public void onResume() {
            mediaPlayer = new MediaPlayer();
            mediaPlayer.setAudioStreamType(AudioManager.STREAM_MUSIC);
            mediaPlayer.setOnPreparedListener(MediaPlayer::start);
            mediaPlayer.setOnCompletionListener(mp -> hasCompleted = true);
        }

        public void voice(VocabularyWord word) {
            // Start playing only if we want to voice some other word, or if we have completed playing
            if (!word.equals(currentWord) || hasCompleted) {
                hasCompleted = false;
                try {
                    mediaPlayer.reset();
                    mediaPlayer.setDataSource(String.format(URL, word.getLearningLanguage(), word.getNormalizedWord()));
                } catch (IOException e) {
                    // Do nothing
                }
                mediaPlayer.prepareAsync();
                currentWord = word;
            }
        }
    }
}

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