Kyoto Animation's very own Naoko Yamada attended the screening of her latest film A Silent Voice during the Glasgow Film Festival just yesterday. A Q&A session was held right afterward, and since I was lucky enough to attend here is a transcript of this very interesting event. No spoilers, though those who have seen the film will appreciate some comments a bit more.
Disclaimer: As it was being filmed to eventually be included as an extra for presumably a bluray release, no actual recordings were allowed. Thus, this isn't an exact transcript of the event – wording may differ, but it's based off the plentiful of notes taken on Yamada's comments and her interpreter's so it should all get the meaning across. Do support whatever official release that includes the full event when you get a chance to!
Clements: For starters I'd like to ask – how does a film like this end up at Kyoto Animation?
Yamada: Well… One of our planning producers wanted KyoAni to produce it no matter what and brought it to us. Personally, when I saw the work was all about people's hearts, human emotion and kindness I thought it would really fit us.
Clements: As a 7 volumes manga, you can't choose to adapt every event. What particular elements did you want to focus on in your adaptation?
Yamada: It was the story of the protagonist Ishida Shouya, that's what I wanted to tell. Obviously he did something deplorable, but there's also hope and redemption.
Clements: When you handle a work like this and deal with the absence of sound, with deafness, is there any particular approach you have in mind?
Yamada: Rather [than worry] I thought I was lucky. The art of animation, if you want to call it that, is great in how it allows us to describe what is actually not there; if there's no sound, I can express the lack of it through color, vibration, the drawings themselves… So I felt I was really lucky to be able to do this.
Clements: I also noticed something that couldn't work back when it was a manga but does now in anime form [with audio]. You keep putting Shouya in situations where he's acting as if he also were deaf and unable to speak – in the hospital, when he can't hear her because of the waterfall… Is that also deliberate?
Yamada: Of course, I thought about that. We experience this story from Shouya's POV and obviously he can hear, but he tries not to listen to people. I think that while they're very different people, Shouko and him share many traits. She who can't hear and him who won't listen are fundamentally different yet very similar.
Clements: Is this a love story?
Yamada: What do you think?
Clements: (laugh) Well I did, both the first time I saw it and the second one today. But I've been checking critical reception and comments, and noticed complaints that it's presented as a romance when it's not. I'm curious if I've just been reading the film wrong.
Yamada: Yes there is [romantic] love but it's not the most important element. You can simply parse it as a coming of age movie, and love is one of the feelings Shouya experiences.
You know, production happened a while ago now so I didn't quite remember it myself. (laugh) But thinking about it again, yeah, it's a love story!
Clements: Ok ok, a cold it is.
Clements: Going back to the critics. When this was screened during Scotland Loves Anime, one of the judges (Miles) said something that stuck with me not only about the film but about Naoko Yamada's work in general: Nothing is wasted. There is a reason for everything. So I'd like to know – The Who's My Generation… why [did you use it]? What were you thinking? And I mean this positively!
Yamada: Do you want the serious answer?
Clements: Yeah, let's go serious.
Yamada: I talked with the sound director [Yota] Tsuruoka and he felt it should be a song everyone can relate to. While I was location-hunting in Gifu I started wondering what Shoya was like at that point: a kid who feels invincible but also deals with perhaps unfounded frustration. This song appeared in my mind with a bang.
Clements: You do realize it's been a licensing nightmare that needs to be cleared in every region.
Yamada: When I first requested My Generation by The Who the mood in the room changed and everyone went silent. So yes, I know.
Clements: But that's been sorted out.
Back to nothing being wasted. I've heard there are many secrets hidden in the film, such as flowers with a hidden intent.
Yamada: Yes, there are. People who know flower language will be able to interpret each one's message and that's great, but I made it so that even if you don't you can feel something because of the shot's layout or the flower's color. I'm happy to let that audience have their own interpretation.
Clements: It's hard for me to imagine you being a difficult director.
Clements: You're always smiling and friendly, totally unlike certain Japanese directors I could tell you about. How do you see yourself as a director? How would you feel if you looked at yourself working at KyoAni?
Yamada: Me looking at myself? I'd think… wow, amazing. I'd be jealous of myself – she gets to use The Who, that's cool!
Clements: What about getting the staff to do their job? Were there days were you felt it was an uphill struggle or was it a constantly happy endeavor?
Yamada: I think they're all very nice, but I'm terrible with words so I tend to express myself with gesticulation, sounds and facial expressions. I think some staff struggle to understand me. But in the end I feel like I got it across very well and that's great.
Clements: Have you considered carrying around a notebook like Shouko in the film?
Yamada: Yes, I might have to do that (laugh).
–In your previous films K-ON! and Tamako Love Story you started introducing scarce abstract elements to portray the characters' emotions, but lately in works like Euphonium S2's concerts and this movie the abstract becomes more commonplace. Is that a direction you plan on following in the future?
Yamada: Hmm, abstract. A world where one word is attached to one meaning isn't what I want to create. Take "love" – there's not just one significance, I want a world where that love can be expressed in many ways so that the feelings reach the audience.
–People always say KyoAni excels at highschool girl characters. Can you share some details as to how you create those girls?
Yamada: Hmmm… (laugh) I guess… I like them. I love them. I suppose the answer is through careful observation.
Clements: I think a lot of people here observe them carefully. This reminds me of something you said about K-ON!, that you and your staff treated the cast as if they were real people. Like if someone drew a girl's skirt too short you'd ask why, wouldn't she get cold? I think this empathy could be the secret.
Yamada: Yeah I do look at my characters like people. They're not drawings but living beings, that is why I'm interested in them to begin with.
Clements: Is that a studio practice or your personal view as director?
Yamada: That's how I see it myself, every [series] director at the studio has their own approach.
–The scene with in the ferris wheel stood out to me in how it portrayed Ueno's emotions through the footage of her knees. Did you enjoy the chance to communicate through other means…particularly the lower body.
Yamada: I love it (laugh).
–What was the part of the film that affected you the most when working on it? Also, thanks for making an amazing movie.
Clements: I think you're not the only one who thought she directed an excellent film (ovation).
Yamada: When I was drawing the storyboards concerning Shouya mother it was just…. Aaahhhh… Her motherly love made me cry.
–Quick final question about non-verbal communication in A Silent Voice.
Yamada: Yes, I was really interested in non-verbal communication so when this came up I was delighted that I could work on it.
Personal comments: A lovely Q&A corner, not so much because of its insightfulness but due to how much fun the director and the audience had with it. It's obvious Jonathan Clements enjoys Yamada's work and he understands how to win over the audience. Pretty much everything had either been explicitly answered before or strongly hinted at, but considering the dozens upon dozens of stage events Yamada attended for the film and its well-documented production it's very hard to find new tidbits. Personally it was satisfying to see multiple things I've commented about her work corroborated first-hand, plus interesting additions to them like how A Silent Voice is a love story but not quite a standard romance; people who have seen it will understand why I've been saying that the grand finale makes it obvious the focus is Shouya falling in love with the world. Yamada's struggle to communicate was one of the cornerstones of the long article about her career I wrote, so it was really nice to see her personally bring it up. And as much as she finds it hard to express it with words, seeing her talk about her approach to film-making and her very personal lens to shoot characters is always fantastic. I had already seen footage of her in events so I was aware of this, but I feel like most people were surprised by her demeanor – passionate but awkward, relying a lot on gesticulation and sounds to get things across. Criticism of her work (particularly for projects like K-ON!) paints it as artificial, which sounds rather ridiculous when you see her act like a real life Afternoon Tea Club member. Fan questions fluctuated in quality of course, but even the jokes were lighthearted. Great experience overall!
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OMG this is mad!!! the problems she has with communicating is exactly what I'm experiencing at the moment in art school!! I'm not alone….


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Sending Out the Twelve(A)
9 Then (B)He called His twelve disciples together and (C)gave them power and authority over all demons, and to cure diseases. 2 (D)He sent them to preach the kingdom of God and to heal the sick. 3 (E)And He said to them, "Take nothing for the journey, neither staffs nor bag nor bread nor money; and do not have two tunics apiece.
4 (F)"Whatever house you enter, stay there, and from there depart. 5 (G)And whoever will not receive you, when you go out of that city, (H)shake off the very dust from your feet as a testimony against them."
6 (I)So they departed and went through the towns, preaching the gospel and healing everywhere.
Herod Seeks to See Jesus(J)
7 (K)Now Herod the tetrarch heard of all that was done by Him; and he was perplexed, because it was said by some that John had risen from the dead, 8 and by some that Elijah had appeared, and by others that one of the old prophets had risen again. 9 Herod said, "John I have beheaded, but who is this of whom I hear such things?" (L)So he sought to see Him.
Feeding the Five Thousand(M)
10 (N)And the apostles, when they had returned, told Him all that they had done. (O)Then He took them and went aside privately into a deserted place belonging to the city called Bethsaida. 11 But when the multitudes knew it, they followed Him; and He received them and spoke to them about the kingdom of God, and healed those who had need of healing. 12 (P)When the day began to wear away, the twelve came and said to Him, "Send the multitude away, that they may go into the surrounding towns and country, and lodge and get provisions; for we are in a deserted place here."
13 But He said to them, "You give them something to eat."
And they said, "We have no more than five loaves and two fish, unless we go and buy food for all these people." 14 For there were about five thousand men.
Then He said to His disciples, "Make them sit down in groups of fifty." 15 And they did so, and made them all sit down.
16 Then He took the five loaves and the two fish, and looking up to heaven, He (Q)blessed and broke them, and gave them to the disciples to set before the multitude. 17 So they all ate and were [a]filled, and twelve baskets of the leftover fragments were taken up by them.
Peter Confesses Jesus as the Christ(R)
18 (S)And it happened, as He was alone praying, that His disciples joined Him, and He asked them, saying, "Who do the crowds say that I am?"
19 So they answered and said, (T)"John the Baptist, but some say Elijah; and others say that one of the old prophets has risen again."
20 He said to them, "But who do you say that I am?"
(U)Peter answered and said, "The Christ of God."
Jesus Predicts His Death and Resurrection(V)
21 (W)And He strictly warned and commanded them to tell this to no one, 22 saying, (X)"The Son of Man must suffer many things, and be rejected by the elders and chief priests and scribes, and be killed, and be raised the third day."
Take Up the Cross and Follow Him(Y)
23 (Z)Then He said to them all, "If anyone desires to come after Me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross [b]daily, and follow Me. 24 (AA)For whoever desires to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for My sake will save it. 25 (AB)For what profit is it to a man if he gains the whole world, and is himself destroyed or lost? 26 (AC)For whoever is ashamed of Me and My words, of him the Son of Man will be (AD)ashamed when He comes in His own glory, and in His Father's, and of the holy angels. 27 (AE)But I tell you truly, there are some standing here who shall not taste death till they see the kingdom of God."
Jesus Transfigured on the Mount(AF)
28 (AG)Now it came to pass, about eight days after these sayings, that He took Peter, John, and James and went up on the mountain to pray. 29 As He prayed, the appearance of His face was altered, and His robe became white and glistening. 30 And behold, two men talked with Him, who were (AH)Moses and (AI)Elijah, 31 who appeared in glory and spoke of His [c]decease which He was about to accomplish at Jerusalem. 32 But Peter and those with him (AJ)were heavy with sleep; and when they were fully awake, they saw His glory and the two men who stood with Him. 33 Then it happened, as they were parting from Him, that Peter said to Jesus, "Master, it is good for us to be here; and let us make three [d]tabernacles: one for You, one for Moses, and one for Elijah"—not knowing what he said.
34 While he was saying this, a cloud came and overshadowed them; and they were fearful as they entered the (AK)cloud. 35 And a voice came out of the cloud, saying, (AL)"This is [e]My beloved Son. (AM)Hear Him!" 36 When the voice had ceased, Jesus was found alone. (AN)But they kept quiet, and told no one in those days any of the things they had seen.
A Boy Is Healed(AO)
37 (AP)Now it happened on the next day, when they had come down from the mountain, that a great multitude met Him. 38 Suddenly a man from the multitude cried out, saying, "Teacher, I implore You, look on my son, for he is my only child. 39 And behold, a spirit seizes him, and he suddenly cries out; it convulses him so that he foams at the mouth; and it departs from him with great difficulty, bruising him. 40 So I implored Your disciples to cast it out, but they could not."
41 Then Jesus answered and said, "O [f]faithless and perverse generation, how long shall I be with you and [g]bear with you? Bring your son here." 42 And as he was still coming, the demon threw him down and convulsed him. Then Jesus rebuked the unclean spirit, healed the child, and gave him back to his father.
Jesus Again Predicts His Death(AQ)
43 And they were all amazed at the majesty of God.
But while everyone marveled at all the things which Jesus did, He said to His disciples, 44 (AR)"Let these words sink down into your ears, for the Son of Man is about to be betrayed into the hands of men." 45 (AS)But they did not understand this saying, and it was hidden from them so that they did not perceive it; and they were afraid to ask Him about this saying.
Who Is the Greatest?(AT)
46 (AU)Then a dispute arose among them as to which of them would be greatest. 47 And Jesus, (AV)perceiving the thought of their heart, took a (AW)little child and set him by Him, 48 and said to them, (AX)"Whoever receives this little child in My name receives Me; and (AY)whoever receives Me (AZ)receives Him who sent Me. (BA)For he who is least among you all will be great."
Jesus Forbids Sectarianism(BB)
49 (BC)Now John answered and said, "Master, we saw someone casting out demons in Your name, and we forbade him because he does not follow with us."
50 But Jesus said to him, "Do not forbid him, for (BD)he who is not against [h]us is on [i]our side."
A Samaritan Village Rejects the Savior
51 Now it came to pass, when the time had come for (BE)Him to be received up, that He steadfastly set His face to go to Jerusalem, 52 and sent messengers before His face. And as they went, they entered a village of the Samaritans, to prepare for Him. 53 But (BF)they did not receive Him, because His face was set for the journey to Jerusalem. 54 And when His disciples (BG)James and John saw this, they said, "Lord, do You want us to command fire to come down from heaven and consume them, [j]just as (BH)Elijah did?"
55 But He turned and rebuked them, [k]and said, "You do not know what manner of (BI)spirit you are of. 56 [l]For (BJ)the Son of Man did not come to destroy men's lives but to save them." And they went to another village.
The Cost of Discipleship(BK)
57 (BL)Now it happened as they journeyed on the road, that someone said to Him, "Lord, I will follow You wherever You go."
58 And Jesus said to him, "Foxes have holes and birds of the air have nests, but the Son of Man (BM)has nowhere to lay His head."
59 (BN)Then He said to another, "Follow Me."
But he said, "Lord, let me first go and bury my father."
60 Jesus said to him, "Let the dead bury their own dead, but you go and preach the kingdom of God."
61 And another also said, "Lord, (BO)I will follow You, but let me first go and bid them farewell who are at my house."
62 But Jesus said to him, "No one, having put his hand to the plow, and looking back, is (BP)fit for the kingdom of God."
Luke 9:17 satisfied
Luke 9:23 M omits daily
Luke 9:31 Death, lit. departure
Luke 9:33 tents
Luke 9:35 NU My Son, the Chosen One
Luke 9:41 unbelieving
Luke 9:41 put up with
Luke 9:50 NU you
Luke 9:50 NU your
Luke 9:54 NU omits just as Elijah did
Luke 9:55 NU omits the rest of v. 55.
Luke 9:56 NU omits For the Son of Man did not come to destroy men's lives but to save them.
Luke 9:1 : Matt. 10:5–15
Luke 9:1 : Matt. 10:1, 2; Mark 3:13; 6:7
Luke 9:1 : Mark 16:17, 18; [John 14:12]
Luke 9:2 : Matt. 10:7, 8; Mark 6:12; Luke 10:1, 9
Luke 9:3 : Matt. 10:9–15; Mark 6:8–11; Luke 10:4–12; 22:35
Luke 9:4 : Matt. 10:11; Mark 6:10
Luke 9:5 : Matt. 10:14
Luke 9:5 : Luke 10:11; Acts 13:51
Luke 9:6 : Mark 6:12; Luke 8:1
Luke 9:7 : Matt. 14:1–12; Mark 6:14–29
Luke 9:7 : Matt. 14:1, 2; Mark 6:14
Luke 9:9 : Luke 23:8
Luke 9:10 : Matt. 14:13–21; Mark 6:30–44; John 6:1–15
Luke 9:10 : Mark 6:30
Luke 9:10 : Matt. 14:13
Luke 9:12 : Matt. 14:15; Mark 6:35; John 6:1, 5
Luke 9:16 : Luke 22:19; 24:30
Luke 9:18 : Matt. 16:13–20; Mark 8:27–30
Luke 9:19 : Matt. 14:2
Luke 9:20 : Matt. 16:16; John 6:68, 69
Luke 9:21 : Matt. 8:4; 16:20; Mark 8:30
Luke 9:22 : Matt. 16:21; 17:22; Luke 18:31–33; 23:46; 24:46
Luke 9:23 : Matt. 10:38; 16:24; Mark 8:34; Luke 14:27
Luke 9:24 : Matt. 10:39; Luke 17:33; [John 12:25]
Luke 9:25 : Matt. 16:26; Mark 8:36; [Luke 16:19–31]; Acts 1:18, 25
Luke 9:26 : [Rom. 1:16]
Luke 9:26 : Matt. 10:33; Mark 8:38; Luke 12:9; 2 Tim. 2:12
Luke 9:27 : Matt. 16:28; Mark 9:1; Acts 7:55, 56; Rev. 20:4
Luke 9:28 : Matt. 16:28–17:9; Mark 9:2–10; 2 Pet. 1:16–18
Luke 9:28 : Matt. 17:1–8; Mark 9:2–8
Luke 9:30 : Heb. 11:23–29
Luke 9:30 : 2 Kin. 2:1–11
Luke 9:32 : Dan. 8:18; 10:9; Matt. 26:40, 43; Mark 14:40
Luke 9:34 : Ex. 13:21; Acts 1:9
Luke 9:35 : Ps. 2:7; [Is. 42:1; Matt. 3:17; 12:18]; Mark 1:11; Luke 3:22
Luke 9:35 : Acts 3:22
Luke 9:36 : Matt. 17:9; Mark 9:9
Luke 9:43 : Matt. 17:22, 23; Mark 9:30–32
Luke 9:44 : Matt. 17:22; Mark 10:33; 14:53; Luke 22:54; John 18:12
Luke 9:45 : Mark 9:32; Luke 2:50; 18:34
Luke 9:46 : Matt. 18:1–5; Mark 9:33–37
Luke 9:46 : Matt. 18:1–5; Mark 9:33–37; Luke 22:24
Luke 9:47 : Matt. 9:4; John 2:24, 25
Luke 9:47 : Luke 18:17
Luke 9:48 : Matt. 10:40; Mark 9:37; John 12:44
Luke 9:48 : John 13:20
Luke 9:48 : [Matt. 23:11, 12]; 1 Cor. 15:9; Eph. 3:8
Luke 9:49 : Mark 9:38–41
Luke 9:50 : Matt. 12:30; Luke 11:23
Luke 9:51 : Is. 50:7; Mark 16:19; Acts 1:2
Luke 9:53 : John 4:4, 9
Luke 9:54 : 2 Kin. 1:10, 12
Luke 9:55 : [Rom. 8:15; 2 Tim. 1:7]
Luke 9:56 : Luke 19:10; John 3:17; 12:47
Luke 9:57 : Matt. 8:18–22
Luke 9:58 : Luke 2:7; 8:23
Luke 9:59 : Matt. 8:21, 22
Luke 9:61 : 1 Kin. 19:20
Luke 9:62 : 2 Tim. 4:10
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LAist Interview: Leona Naess
By Michele Reverte
Published Oct 29, 2008 12:00 AM
In one respect, Leona Naess' current album, Thirteens, could be described in numbers. She spent four years crafting 13 albums' worth of songs from which she carefully selected 11 for her fourth album. But Thirteens could also be described in terms of raw emotion. For Naess, music became an outlet through which she could channel her grief after the tragic death of her father in 2004.
Thanks to unlimited time, supportive friends and some of the best songwriting of her life, Naess has created an intriguing, multifaceted record. From the rollicking "Leave Your Boyfriends Behind" to the reflective "On My Mind," she takes the listener on a journey. In anticipation of her gig with Ray LaMontagne at the Wiltern this Thursday, LAist spoke with Naess last week to discuss the sheer volume of material she wrote for the record, how one uses coffee glasses as an instrument, and the 500 Polaroids she shot in London.
LAist: Does the name of your album, Thirteens, have multiple meanings?
Leona Naess: Yes, it does, and you're actually the first person who has asked me about it. The thing is, there are so many reasons I chose that title that I knew if I said that in a press release or something, I'd have to explain it every single time. So I just left it at the simplest reason, but there are many of them. It's a significant number in my life.
Leona Naess - "Leave Your Boyfriends Behind"


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The most commonly used formats for this type of data is RS422 and RS485 for 10 Mbit/s signals because it will travel long distances up to 4900 feet without degrading the data. RS422 is normally transmitted on a single pair of twisted wires as a balanced signal when only one-way transmission is required. This form is most commonly used for PTZ, cash register data, and access control systems. RS422 is designed for one transmit location and up to 10 receive locations.
The RS485 system is used when two-way communication is required. It is also transmitted on a balanced twisted wire pair but it can send as well as receive signals in what is called half duplex mode. That is when only one signal is sent and received at a time, so they share the twisted pair wires half of the time sending in one direction and the other half sending in the other direction. Full duplex transmission can be had using either RS422 or RS485 by using two sets of twisted pair wires, however in most cases two-way communications is not required. The RS485 will allow for many transmit locations and many receive locations on the same pair of wires in half duplex mode.
So, when you are replacing old standard definition cameras with new HD-TVI or HD-CVI cameras and you need to have PTZ control or any RS422 data you will need to have a pair of data wires running alongside the coaxial cable. If you find that it is difficult to install the data wires there is a way to put the RS422 data onto the existing coaxial cable and deliver the signal to the other end of the cable without interfering with the HD video signal.
By adding a small device to each end of the cable in-line with the video, you can inject the RS422 data control signal onto the cable then recover it on the other end of the cable so you can run the data in either direction to meet your requirements.
The DLT/DLR-1 is used to add data capability to any coaxial cable when data wires are hard to run or the coaxial cable is in-accessible. It takes the RS422 data signal and converts it for use on the video cable without interfering with the existing video, then at the other end of the cable it recovers the RS422 signal to complete the control path.
The HD-TVI or HD-CVI camera signals loop through the units at each end of the system and provides the RS422 data signal when it is difficult or to costly pull the data wires. This bock diagram shows how the DLT/DLR-1 units are installed on the cable.
For cash register data and other data that must be transmitted from the camera to the receiver point the data is running in the opposite direction from the video, so you reverse the transmitter and receiver positions because the data can be run in either direction on the coaxial cable. To learn more about this equipment and to get pricing call me at 1-800-235-6960 or Click Here to See More.
P.S. If you need access relay control over the same coaxial cable we have equipment that will do that also called ATU/ARU-2. Click here to See More about the ATU/ARU-2.


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Lauren Dolgen exits MTV after 19 years
After 19 years at the Viacom-owned cable net, the exec behind 16 and Pregnant, Teen Mom and many other MTV reality titles is stepping down.
By Kevin Ritchie
MTV reality executive Lauren Dolgen (pictured) is leaving the network.
After 19 years at the Viacom-owned net, she is stepping down from her position as head of reality programming and EVP of series development. Her position will not be replaced.
Dolgen was promoted to the position last year amid lay-offs and restructuring at the network.
Her departure is the latest in a string of executive changes. Sean Atkins became MTV's president after Stephen Friedman left last fall. Three months ago, Condé Nast Entertainment exec Michael Klein joined the network as EVP of original content, replacing Susanne Daniels, who left MTV last summer to join YouTube.
Formerly the head of West Coast reality and executive VP of series development, Dolgen oversaw development and strategy for MTV's unscripted titles. Over her 19 years at the network, she worked in production and development on several breakout hits including Jackass, Ridiculousness, America's Best Dance Crew, The Real World and Are You the One?
She is also credited with creating and developing the series 16 and Pregnant, which she followed up with Teen Mom franchise.
"Teen Mom has been a top-five MTV series every year since it launched in 2009, and ratings aren't even the most powerful measure of its impact," Klein wrote in a memo to staff announcing Dolgen's departure. "Studies have credited the franchise with driving up to one-third of the overall decline in teen pregnancy – a staggering statistic. Teen Mom alone puts Lauren in the hall of fame.
"Lauren has been discussing the next chapter in her career with Sean for a few months now and I want to thank her for helping with the transition – and for her work in helping jumpstart the development pipeline," he added. "I look forward to digging in with the team and working to push this brand forward."
"As someone who's been around Viacom for a good chunk of Lauren's career, I was able watch it unfold with great deal of admiration," Doug Herzog, president of Viacom's music and entertainment group, wrote. "Her fingerprints and great work are all over MTV and its original programming. I've truly enjoyed getting to know her over this past year. I'm excited to see what comes the next chapter brings."
In April, MTV unveiled a "back to brand" programming strategy that will see the network shift focus toward live music and music-inspired programming.
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FIFA World Cup 2022: Teams qualified for Round of 16 – France, Brazil make the cut – get a full list
FootballFootball News
By Parasan On Dec 1, 2022
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In Qatar, 10 teams have thus far advanced to the knockout stages, including France, Brazil, Portugal, and Argentina. Learn which groups of 16 teams have qualified for the 2022 FIFA World Cup. The FIFA World Cup 2022 is nearing its Round of 16 stages as the group stages in Qatar come to an end. For the first phase, the 32 teams playing at the Qatar 2022 World Cup were split into eight groups, ranging from Group A to H.
The top two teams from each group advance to the FIFA World Cup 2022 Round of 16, the start of the knockout rounds, when each team plays the other once in a single-headed round-robin style. France, the defending champions from Group D, was the first side to advance to the Round of 16 following resounding victories in both of their group games.
After defeating Australia 4-1, Les Bleus defeated Denmark 2-1. With it, France avoided being eliminated from the FIFA World Cup in the group stage for the first time since Brazil in 2006. In the group stage, Germany in 2018, Spain in 2014, and Italy in 2010 all lost. Despite losing to Tunisia in their final group match, France still advanced as the group's top seed ahead of Australia.
FIFA World Cup 2022: Teams qualified for Round of 16 – France, Brazil make cut – get full list https://t.co/EIp2Z6XjCH
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The star performer for France thus far has been Kylian Mbappe, who is also one of the favorites to win the FIFA World Cup 2022 best scorer title. Cody Gakpo has led the Netherlands' campaign in the same manner, helping them advance as the top-seeded team from Group A and into the Round of 16.
Senegal eliminated Ecuador in their final group game, a game that was essentially a playoff, thanks to a late goal from captain Kalidou Koulibaly, who also helped Senegal advance as the second-place team from the group.
The winner of Group B also known as England won the group with two victories and a tie. While everything was going on, the USA men's football team advanced as the second-place team from Group B thanks to a goal from Christian Pulisic in the crucial championship game against Iran.
Brazil won their first two games to advance early from Group G despite being without star player Neymar due to injury (2-0 vs Serbia and 1-0 vs Switzerland). Portugal, led by Cristiano Ronaldo, also advanced without incident from Group G after defeating Ghana 3-2 and Uruguay 3-2. Argentina, led by Lionel Messi, recovered from an unexpected setback to Saudi Arabia to win Group C and go to the Round of 16.
Who qualified for the Round of 16 in FIFA World Cup 2022 so far? 11 of 32 teams have not lost a match, while 12 teams have not won a single match. pic.twitter.com/F3jieacdwP
— snehanshu shekhar (@snehanshus) November 29, 2022
Poland, who finished second, held off a strong push from Mexico thanks to a better goal differential. The Round of 16 of the FIFA World Cup 2022 in Qatar will include 10 teams: the Netherlands, Senegal, England, USA, France, Australia, Argentina, Poland, Brazil, and Portugal.
Qatar was the first team to exit the competition for a spot in the Round of 16 after losing their first two games. The hosts ultimately dropped all three of their group games, putting a disappointing end to their season.
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Local Responsibility for a Global Problem: Juliana v. the U.S.
The following is the text of the speech that Liz Stanton gave at Wednesday night's event at Tufts University celebrating the life and work of Frank Ackerman, one of the founders of Dollars & Sense, who died in late July.
I'd like to talk about some very recent work of Frank's.
Frank wrote an expert report wrote last year and made a deposition in that same case. Some of you may have heard of it.
Twenty-one kids are suing the U.S. government for knowingly failing to protect them from climate change. It's Juliana v. the United States, filed in 2015. It's been tossed back and forth between courts, included the U.S. Supreme Court for going on four years and has yet to see an actual hearing, a day in court for those kids, some of whom are now young adults.
In his expert report on behalf of Kelsey Juliana and her 20 co-plaintiffs, Frank explains that the conventional methods of economic analysis employed by the federal government in its decision making undervalue or dismiss altogether serious risks of climate damage. He writes about some pretty wonky, esoteric topics: the discount rate, fat-tailed distributions, contingent valuation, and credible worst-case risk assessment. He was one of quite a few witnesses offered by the plaintiffs. But it's his testimony—full of formal economic theory, moral philosophy, and a chapter on pricing the priceless—it's that testimony on which the judgment in this case may well hinge, if it ever gets that day in court.
The key issue for the justice department really shines through in Frank's deposition, a 300-page transcript of their interview in which the justice department's lawyer frequently pleads with Frank to, please, for the love of god answer a yes or no question with a yes or a no so that we can all catch our flights. Frank responds saying that a simple yes or no can be misleading without explaining the context and that he had "spent a career explaining these things to people, and it's not something you can turn off on a dime."
Local responsibility for a global problem. That's the key issue in Juliana v. the United States on the government's responsibility for future climate damages. And it's also the key in other legal proceedings brought before state and federal authorities regarding what kind of energy infrastructure we should be building today. Local responsibility for a global problem.
The argument goes something like this: Hey, look, we admit it. The U.S. is responsible for some share of global greenhouse gas emissions. U.S. emissions are 15 percent of the global total and U.S. government activities account for, maybe 5 percent of that 15 percent…Let's round up and call it 1 percent of global emissions. Now, our 1 percent is not the cause of climate change and stopping our 1 percent isn't the cure for climate change. So why should we do it? Why should we impose additional taxes on U.S. residents to pay for greenhouse gas mitigation activities that by themselves are doomed to fail.
Now I'm sure, given the audience, that many of you sitting here have already given this some thought and have a host of reasons why, in fact, the U.S. should pay to protect kids from climate change. You would tell the justice department that U.S. responsibility is the whole 15 percent, not just 5 percent of the 15 percent. You would point out the rather obvious folly of running our lives, much less our government, using this kind of reductive logic. Some of you might even get a bit irritated and start talking about Immanuel Kant and ask: what if everyone behaved that way?
And don't worry, Frank had your back on this. He said all of those things. Frank also had some things to say about value. And dignity.
Asked whether the environment's worth is best determined by the question, what would you pay to prevent damage or what would you pay to buy the right to inflict damage, Frank said:
"I believe that the public owns the environment. It's our common birthright. It's what we hope we will be passing on to future generations, and the people who want to pollute it should have to [pay for] it."
When asked about uncertain climate outcomes, Frank said:
"Climate change is a science experiment we're all doing once, and we won't know until it's over exactly how bad it turned out to be…[Precise answers aren't available.]…I think it would be very dangerous to wait for [them]. You can make up a number and say this is a precise number. But, you know, is it better to be precisely wrong than to be generally accurate…Economists do often play a pick-a-number game, and it often involves ignoring the really serious catastrophic risks."
The justice department's lawyer also tried to get Frank to agree that economics is "the study of the efficient allocation of scarce resources". And Frank acknowledged that that was one piece of economics.
This is about local responsibility for a global problem. Economists, like Frank, like many of us here, may get mistaken for mathematicians or accountants or stock brokers. But numbers are the medium for economics. They're not the subject that we study.
Frank was, throughout his career, a moral philosopher. Sorting through very practical questions of value and dignity, distribution and equity, right and wrong, and how to think about human beings that have not yet been born. His testimony in Juliana v. the United States lands smack in the middle of the kind of ethical question that has occupied economists since the Enlightenment: how do we translate collective goods, or bads, into individual rights and responsibilities.
Frank would ask us—and ask the U.S. government—to weigh monetary costs against unmonetizable benefits. And to recognize when the only solution to a global problem requires the whole world's participation, that reducing our moral responsibility to the isolated impacts of individual action is petty, specious, and really not the way anything important has ever gotten done in global history.
He'd say that Rome (as it were) is burning and the U.S. government is playing a pick-a-number game, telling us 1 percent of nothing is nothing.
He'd say that the cost of making our planet inhabitable is infinite and that even if you insist on pretending this is a math problem, that plugging infinite avoided costs into cost-benefit equations leads to only one conclusion: Do whatever it takes and do it now.
Liz Stanton is director and senior economist at Applied Economics Clinic. She and Frank Ackerman were frequent co-authors and collaborators.
Posted on September 20, 2019 September 20, 2019 Author Liz StantonTags climate change, Frank Ackerman, Juliana v. the United States, Liz Stanton
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Q: How can I build an sqlite table from this xml/txt file using python? I have an xml/txt file like this:
<text id="32a45" language="ENG" date="2017-01-01" time="11:00" timezone="Eastern">

<s id="1">
foo
bar
</s>
<d>
11235
</d>

<text id="32a47" language="ENG" date="2017-01-05" time="1:00" timezone="Central">

<s id="2">
foo
bar
</s>
<d>
11235
</d>

<text id="32a48" language="ENG" date="2017-01-07" time="3:00" timezone="Pacific">

<s id="3">
foo
bar
</s>
<d>
11235
</d>

I want to build an sqlite table like the following using python:
id  language    date        timezone    s           d

32a45   ENG     2017-01-01  Eastern     foo bar     11235
32a47   ENG     2017-01-05  Central     baz qux     11235
32a48   ENG     2017-01-07  Pacific     foo bar     11235

Any idea how can I do this? I cannot use xmltree module because the xml tags in the original file is messed up. I would really appreciate the help. Thanks.
Edit: I can easily take each text as a list inside a list. Like this:
['<text id="32a45" language="ENG" date="2017-01-01" time="11:00" timezone="Eastern">', '<text id="32a47" language="ENG" date="2017-01-05" time="1:00" timezone="Central">', '<text id="32a48" language="ENG" date="2017-01-07" time="3:00" timezone="Pacific">']

But I don't know how to take the id, language etc. from each list separately.

A: Redirected from here:
How can I make sublists from a list based on strings in python?
import xml.etree.ElementTree as ET
import pandas as pd

strings = ['<text id="32a45" language="ENG" date="2017-01-01" time="11:00" timezone="Eastern">',
'<text id="32a47" language="ENG" date="2017-01-05" time="1:00" timezone="Central">',
'<text id="32a48" language="ENG" date="2017-01-07" time="3:00" timezone="Pacific">']

cols = ["id","language","date","time","timezone"]
data = [[ET.fromstring(string+"</text>").get(col) for col in cols] for string in strings]
df = pd.DataFrame(data,columns=cols)

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What's Up Buttercup?: Ride my bike until I get home.
Ride my bike until I get home.
Another cute necklace alert! This one is very me! I've got a lovely bike that I'm actually shocked I haven't blogged about. She's my pride an joy; having not yet passed my driving test it's the best, most stylish and cheapest way to get around.
On the driving front I am getting better; I had an awesome driving lesson on Saturday despite a particularly amusing episode with an emergency stop.
So I'm driving along and my instructor says right so we are going to do an emergency stop blah blah blah when I say stop....just stop. So we're driving along and he says stop as anticipated, although instead of stopping I slam my foot on the accelerator instead of the break and the car speeds forward. I'm now wondering why the car hasn't stopped so I take my foot of the pedal and do it again!!
It was very funny, luckily myself and my instructor just fell about laughing as it wasn't dangerous and I just made a complete fool out of myself. He did tell me at the end of the lesson that I should book my test, so that's good!
Anyway; on to the necklace. So this is from notonthehighstreet.com I don't know if you've heard of them but they've got some gorgeous gifts for ladies and gents, jewellery, home, garden and even some clothing.
One thing I must admit; there is so much choice you will be on the site for hours. I wonder how long their average customer spends on the site. I'm sure it's much longer than the readers of my blog. You cheeky little rats.
So I spent hours traipsing around the jewellery pages, with about 5 different tabs open as I liked so many different items but payday was a little far away to get them all.
I finally settled on this kooky necklace by Daniel Darby Jewellery. I was drawn to it as it's silhouette is exactly the same as my bicycle Elsie. (yes I know, don't judge me).
It's really striking, the chain is a great length and it's great that it's so unusual, I wore the necklace to a house warming party this weekend and got a number of comments. Even my dad liked it enough for a compliment. So that's something.
The great thing about notonthehighstreet is that the brands aren't those that you will have necessarily heard of before. (hence the site name I guess) I for one am a massive fan of lesser known brands that are a little more difficult to get hold of but it is unlikely you'll see some one else wearing the same thing. Notonthehighstreet is sort of like an online market place. With the vendors having their own profiles etc. Big fan.
Bicycle necklace by Daniel Darby -notonthehighstreet.com £40. Free delivery.
love that website they have some super cute different pieces.


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Q: What's the default value of BlendEquation? I'm reading source code of a WebGL app and found it doesn't use blendEquation. But it has enabled BLEND and set blendFunc. And blending is working.
Does blendEquation have a default setting or value? What is it?

A: See original OpenGL ES 2.0 specification or reference pages it is clearly says that

Initially, both the RGB blend equation and the alpha blend equation
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Terracotta Festival 2010
June 12, 2010 VirginieSelavy
Terracotta Far East Film Festival
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Prince Charles Cinema, London
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The Electric Sheep team reviews the highlights of the 2010 Terracotta Far East Film Festival.
Accident (Soi Cheang, 2009)
The term 'high-concept' was coined to describe Hollywood blockbusters that can be summarised in a single sentence; however, it could also be applied to Accident, a Hong Kong thriller about a team of assassins led by the intensely disciplined Brain (Louis Koo), who disguise their hits as 'accidents' so that nobody realises that a crime has actually been committed. Produced by the prolific Johnnie To, Accident exhibits an icy aesthetic that keeps the audience at an emotional distance but serves to maintain suspense during the sustained set-pieces. The unexpectedly romantic score by French composer Xavier Jamaux, who previously collaborated with To on Mad Detective (2007) and Sparrow (2008), aims for a tragic resonance that is undermined by the comparatively one-note characterisations of Brain's crew, but Cheang's psychological approach towards pulp material ensures that Accident has a meditative quality that is rarely found in upscale action cinema. JOHN BERRA
Vengeance (Fuk sau, 2009)
Vengeance marks a return to what Johnnie To does best – stripped down gangster stories with a hard-boiled edge and slickly executed stand-offs. The plot is simple – a woman barely survives the assassination of her family and demands that her father Costello (Johnny Hallyday), a French chef, take revenge on those responsible. Costello employs a trio of hitmen (played by To favourites Anthony Wong Chau-Sang, Gordon Lam and Lam Suet) to track them down, but there are a number of twists and turns as the group make their way to Simon Yam's unrepentant crime lord. As usual, To provides some memorable set-pieces that are both playful and fraught with tension. It's their simple poetry that gives To's films a distinctive mark, with a touch of the bizarre and the humorous that sets his work out from the crowd. RICHARD BADLEY
Antique (Min kyu-dong, 2008)
When arrogant yuppie Kim decides to open a cake shop, assuming that such establishments will offer plenty of opportunities to meet available women, his search for a pastry chef leads him to former high school classmate Min, who has become known as 'The Gay of Demonic Charm' after being sacked from numerous bakeries following flings with co-workers who find him irresistible. Somehow, this simple set-up serves as the springboard for multiple narrative strands to the point that there are three films competing for audience attention; Antique is ostensibly a comedy about the unusual professional relationship between Kim and Min, but it also takes a darker detour into thriller territory and flirts with the form of the musical through dizzying montages. There are some hilarious moments scattered throughout this adaptation of Fumi Yoshinaga's popular manga, and the themes of friendship and forgiveness are effectively conveyed amid the colourful chaos. JOHN BERRA
Cow (Dou niu, 2009)
In Chinese director Guan Hu's Cow, set in 1940, a village simpleton emerges from hiding to discover that his fortress home has been destroyed by Japanese soldiers. The narrow lanes are eerily quiet; the dirt in the square stained with blood. Confused and terrified, he discovers that the only other survivor is a 'foreign' cow that he's promised to care for. Cow unfolds in a series of flashbacks, mixing humorous scenes of village life with the simpleton's harrowing struggles to keep himself and the cow alive as his home is overrun by returning Japanese soldiers, the Kuomintang, and fellow refugees. The result is a tragic black comedy about the futility of war, told from a unique point of view in an already crowded genre. Initially curious and captivating, it's a shame that the film starts to drift in the second half once the novelty of the plot and set-up start to wear thin. SARAH CRONIN
Summer Wars (Samâ wôzu, 2009)
This new animé from director Mamoru Hosada is more satisfying than his previous offering, The Girl Who Leapt through Time, although its promising beginning and beautiful animation are equally marred by a fairly simplistic message. The story revolves around a young boy, Kenji, who, while staying with the family of a classmate he has a crush on for the summer, accidentally helps a hacker crack the code to the 'OZ' network, a Second Life type of virtual world used by everyone, from private users to government and military institutions. As the mysterious attacker wreaks havoc in OZ with potentially disastrous consequences in the real world, Kenji has to find a way to stop him. The animation is excellent, with two contrasting styles used to represent real and virtual worlds, and the tone is charming and humorous. But while the story is initially captivating, it quickly descends into a basic good versus evil battle underpinned by an unsophisticated, conservative belief in traditional values. VIRGINIE S&#278LAVY
Phobia (See prang, 2008)
As with most horror anthologies, Phobia is a mixed bag. A quartet of ghost stories from Thailand that vary in stylistic tricks and genre clichés, they seem like extended 10-minute shorts hastily jammed together with no particular format. Some of the stories are linked by references to other characters but there's no common theme or central thread, and the title itself is misleading: this isn't an exploration of different phobias, just a straightforward play on people's understandable and natural fear of ghosts. Last Fright is the most technically accomplished of the bunch, a slow-burning chiller that doesn't rely on ropey effects, just old-fashioned storytelling. But the anthology's stand-out is In the Middle, not because it's particularly scary but because it keeps a tight, coherent plot, revolving around a group of lads on a camping holiday who are haunted by a friend after he's drowned. RICHARD BADLEY
Read full reviews of Vengeance and Phobia, out on DVD in May 2010.
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Terracotta Festival 2010: Preview
May 4, 2010 VirginieSelavy
Following the first Terracotta last year, festival director Joey Leung has once again been scouring the Far East for his second mixtape of Asian blockbusters and mysterious oddities. As before, his MO is to provide a short, yet eclectic program that demonstrates the wonders of Eastern cinema, one accessible to both film geeks and casual viewers.
Terracotta will open with Asia's biggest name – Jackie Chan. Little Big Soldier (2010) is his latest action movie, and although it's another buddy movie of sorts, this time set in ancient China, it's an assured return to form for the veteran martial artist. The festival will close with another spectacular period piece, Bodyguards and Assassins (2009), a lavish crowd-pleaser that follows an assassination attempt in 1905 Hong Kong. For those tired of headache-inducing 3-D cartoons, the Far East proves there's nothing wrong with the old-fashioned way of delivering thrills.
While Chan is a household name, Leung is keen to highlight emerging talents such as Huang Bo, star of Cow (2009), a Chinese black comedy about a peasant tasked with saving a cow's life during World War II. 'This little-known film has won some major awards and is set to take off internationally – we were glad we got to it early!' explains Leung. He also uncovered Japan's Fish Story (2009), a sci-fi comedy set in several different time frames about punk rock and meteorites: 'These two films are must-sees for people out to discover something different.'
Leung has also acted on feedback from last year's festival and added late-night horror screenings and documentaries to the Terracotta programme. The Thai film Meat Grinder (2009) is an Asian take on Sweeney Todd, retelling the gruesome fable with a noodle-seller who starts harvesting human meat for her legendary soup stock, while Phobia (2008), also from Thailand, is a collection of four supernatural tales. But Terracotta is also set to educate, not just entertain, with a double bill of documentaries profiling In the Mood for Love cinematographer Christopher Doyle and exploring the impact of the yakuza on Asian cinema. Director Yves Montmayeur will be on hand to talk about these films as Leung is hoping to get behind the scenes of Asian cinema: 'The awareness of who's who helps those new to the genre navigate the vast offering of films. What's important to us is that we bring in the next generation of film fans and students.'
Those who have fond memories of Johnnie To's Sparrow from last year's festival will be pleased to hear that the director returns with another French-inflected crime tale. In Vengeance (2009), a French chef (played by musician/actor Johnny Hallyday) jumps between Macau and Hong Kong in a tough, near-wordless quest for revenge. It's To back to his hard-boiled best, revisiting the starkness of Exiled and Election while mixing in shades of Memento.
Manga fans will be able to catch the spectacular conclusion of the 20th-Century Boys trilogy based on the award-winning series by Naoki Urasawa as well as the entertaining family adventure K-20: Legend of the Mask (2008). There's also animé in the form of Summer Wars (2009) and the usual strangeness from South Korea with the light-hearted musical Antique (2008), so somewhere within the 15 handpicked films is a movie guaranteed to pull you into the weird and wonderful world of the Far East.
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22 May 2019 ~ Written by Paul Heery. Published in Discussions and Debates. Read 3839 times.
The way that the development of the Multi Academy Trust has transformed the educational landscape has been rapid and unpredictable. It has provided innovation and energy and led to notable successes, but it has also brought controversy as a result of actions that have thrown all MATs into disrepute. This article argues that MAT leaders have a duty to uphold the highest ethical standards if the sector is to thrive.
Paul is the Chief Executive Officer of the Trust, a current Ofsted Lead Inspector, former Head of both primary and secondary schools, including taking over three schools in Ofsted Category 4 and one in Special Measures, and a former LA School Improvement Adviser, as well as being a practising teacher.
I'm the CEO of a small MAT, currently two small secondary schools that were previously part of a hard Federation. My job title is Executive Principal. The advantage to this title is that when people ask what I do for a living, I don't have to say that I'm a MAT CEO. That's helpful, because if I do admit to being a MAT CEO, then either they don't know what it is, or they believe that I spend my days discussing which is the next school to forcibly academise with the Regional Schools Commissioner, signing permanent exclusion letters or flying business class on a study trip to New York – all paid for by hiring unqualified teachers and moving TAs to term-time only contracts.
The widespread introduction of Academies by the coalition government (as opposed to the few isolated examples that had existed previously) started the revolution but it is the introduction of the MAT that has fundamentally changed the educational landscape. MATs are doing exactly what they were set up to do, in line with the vision of Michael Gove. They have disrupted the system, which has led to creativity, innovation and entrepreneurism. They have provided a test bed for radically different approaches, from highly centralized 'franchise' school operations to the introduction of the Co-operative vision into education. I believe there is some potential in this re-imagining of education, whether that is in curriculum development, cpd or models of leadership, but there are risks and dangers as well.
A necessary consequence of the way this development has happened is that there are huge differences between the many different models of MATs. A MAT like ours is far similar in nature and scale to a maintained secondary school than it is to a nationwide MAT with more than 20,000 students. We've been shaping a new landscape, and that's led to a varied and fragmented system.
But this system is maturing now. At some point the lawlessness of the American Wild West, which allowed a few intrepid, risk-taking individuals to colonise and subjugate a continent, had to give way to a structure of laws, public services and government otherwise nothing sustainable and lasting would ever have taken root. In the same way, we need to put some roots down for this system to prosper. I believe that we're still in the Wild West stage and unfortunately for every Wyatt Earp, there's a Billy the Kid.
When I read of some of the excesses perpetrated by MATs, my heart sinks. I can't defend the indefensible, and whether that's a small minority or not, if it's the MAT structure that allows it, then that's a problem for us all.
Recently, I was contacted via Twitter by a colleague from a school in a different part of the country. He shared evidence with me of shocking practice from a MAT he had worked in, off-rolling, excessive exec pay, harshly punitive behaviour systems. All the evidence had been seen by inspectors, but the full pressure of a wealthy and influential MAT organization was brought to bear and the school was not censured, but was in fact lauded. This colleague is now an active campaigner against the MAT programme, and no wonder. I can tell him it's not like that in all MATs, he may even believe me, but it doesn't take away the bad taste or the feeling that it's the MAT structure that has allowed this to happen.
It doesn't have to be like this. The vision of schools working together in a MAT with a distinct identity, sharing resources, good practice and capacity, making itself locally accountable, working in partnership with other schools and the LA, and making a net contribution to the wider system is a hugely positive one, but if it's not underpinned by an ethos of integrity and public service, then the problems will keep coming.
I love the Ethical Leadership Framework highlighted in 'Navigating the Educational Moral Maze' - the final report of the Ethical Leadership Commission. It describes in practical detail what ethical leadership in education looks like and the standards we should hold ourselves to. If you haven't seen it, the whole report is here, with the framework on pages 11-12
It's a fantastic piece of work, a perfect summary of how we should expect leaders to behave. In our MAT, we are adopting it as the rule book for leadership. I've proposed that we add it to the job descriptions of everyone who takes on a leadership role. My only criticism of it is that so many of the provisions fall under the category of the bleedin' obvious, that we really shouldn't have to set them out. So, in the interest of keeping it simple, here's my suggestion of a few basic rules for MAT leaders:
Don't get rich – you didn't go into teaching for the money. At what point does someone decide that they are personally worth more to the children in their schools than ten teachers, or fifteen Teaching Assistants? What do they want all that money for? On its own, excessive MAT CEO pay is a strong argument for the view that the system isn't working. It is taking millions of pounds out of the system every year. At a time when we have Head Teachers marching on Parliament, campaigning for desperately needed funds, how do we justify this? Why is the percentage differential between a MAT CEO and a Head Teacher so much more than the differential between a Head and a Deputy, or a Head of Department and a class teacher? If we don't want people to think that the development of MATs is about lining our pockets, we need to stop lining our pockets.
Do unto others…if schools in a MAT only collaborate with other schools in the MAT, then their collaboration is doing more harm than good. Our family of primary schools is a brilliant group of schools, who collaborate with openness and generosity. Every school takes part with the exception of three schools who are part of large regional MATs. There is no particular reason why this means they wouldn't meet with their local HT colleagues, why their children wouldn't take part in shared activities, why they wouldn't have a voice in developments in the area. Nonetheless, they are absent.
With secondaries, it's worse. How have we ended up with a system where one school's downfall is another's opportunity? I know healthy competition is a good thing, and there have always been some schools that have a dominant position in the local community, but nowadays it sometimes seems that one school's problems are another MATs opportunity. We all have a stake in the system, and we all gain when the system is successful. As the saying goes 'A rising tide raises all ships'.
No macho management – Of all the memorable quotes from Sir Michael Wilshaw, the stand out one has to be 'If anyone says to you that staff morale is at an all-time low, you know you are doing something right'. Celebrating the fact that working in our schools is affecting the wellbeing and happiness of staff seems to me to be the behaviour of a pantomime villain. Anyone in a senior position in school has occasions when tough decisions have to be made and difficult conversations have to take place. Anyone who enjoys or celebrates this part of their job has lost their compass, and forgotten that these are real people's lives that they're dealing with.
A consequence of the MAT system is that the senior managers in a MAT very often don't know the staff on a personal level at all. They don't pass in the corridor, chat in the staffroom, queue at the photocopier in the way a Head Teacher in a school would. There's no personal relationship with the staff in the school, which means that when life-changing decisions are made, the people affected are simply statistics or names on a list. In this context, it's sometimes too easy to be tough. There's no such thing as a great leader who doesn't demonstrate compassion and humility in the way they treat people.
Show some love – when you're dealing with children and young people, they're not just customers or clients, their whole future is in your hands. We're in loco parentis, after all, so that's how we should behave. Parents can't permanently exclude their children or suggest that they might be better off moving in with the family next door. Once they're our children, they stay our children. One example - I can accept that permanent exclusion is sometimes a necessary evil, but by doing so, I'm also acknowledging that it is an evil. If we get to the point where students can't come back into school, then it should be the school / MATs job to sort out what happens next.
How can we make the case for the purpose of MATs when practices such as flattening the grass (public humiliation and traumatizing of children), off-rolling (sacrificing the life chances of vulnerable learners to boost meaningless statistics) and industrial-scale gaming (forcing students through meaningless qualifications solely to distort league tables at the expense of other schools) bring us into public disrepute?
Don't believe the hype – Humility is the most underrated virtue among leaders. Whether it's bragging in the local paper or humblebragging on twitter, there are too many leaders who think it's all about them. (I blame Michael Wilshaw again). Schools are the ultimate team effort, and as in all the best teams, no-one is indispensable. Sometimes, we fall lucky – right school, right time. Sometimes, it all goes wrong and there's almost nothing we can do about it, and it's a case of there but for the grace of God.
Finally, embrace hypocrisy – in the interest of full disclosure, I've broken all of the above rules, and many times over. The important thing is not whether you keep them as much as whether you're trying to. Recognise mistakes, and try not to repeat them.
I'm proud of working in a MAT with colleagues who I like and respect, serving amazing, positive young people in a community of which we are an integral part. I don't think it's inconsistent to recognize the positive contribution that MATs can make whilst at the same time expecting higher ethical standards from MATs as a whole. It looks like MATs are here to stay, so it's time to put down some roots.
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