My Goodyear career overview: Commercial brand specialist > interactive marketing specialist > assistant brand manager > product marketing manager > senior product marketing manager My attraction to the industry was driven by my aspiration to work for a large corporation in northeast Ohio I took an interest in how the commercial industry operates and the opportunity for innovation What is the biggest challenge you have faced in your career Managing the changes in the industry including the focus on sustainability product performance innovations and the advancement of technology or solutions in commercial trucking.  Who has had the biggest influence on your career There are two people who have had the biggest influence in my career and former President of North American Commercial Both taught me how to be a high-level strategic thinker many leadership skills which have been implemented throughout my career at Goodyear What is your biggest accomplishment in the industry Participating in a global Goodyear strategic initiatives team focused on future innovative products and solutions to advance technology in various commercial applications including last mile delivery Tell us about your current job and responsibilities I lead a team who helps develop the strategy for our current and future Goodyear product portfolio I also have begun to learn about all other functions of the business to help make the best decisions for the company What's been the biggest surprise of your current job The biggest surprise in my current job is my ability to make an impact beyond the tire industry It is important to me to drive innovation by not only making strides at Goodyear but also creating positive change on a global scale I have been married for five years to my wife We are trying to start our family and going through IVF If you could wake up tomorrow with one new skill I would do something in the fishing industry I truly enjoy all types of fishing (especially ice fishing) and spending time outdoors I believe you should have a passion for what you do and this is my favorite activity What's the biggest issue facing the tire industry Adapting to the new technologies and trends (EV sustainability) that are driving innovation in the commercial trucking industry I wanted to be a meteorologist because I loved the weather whether it is fishing in the river behind my house or spending time relaxing on my patio What goal did you set for yourself this year This year I wanted to focus on my own personal development and the development of one of my direct reports by learning about other important functions in our organization such as manufacturing and supply chain (both of us) have visited various Goodyear manufacturing facilities to help us develop the most effective product portfolio What do you expect to be doing 20 years from now I expect to be in a leadership position at Goodyear I expect to have grown my family and would be spending time with them This website is using a security service to protect itself from online attacks The action you just performed triggered the security solution There are several actions that could trigger this block including submitting a certain word or phrase You can email the site owner to let them know you were blocked Please include what you were doing when this page came up and the Cloudflare Ray ID found at the bottom of this page CUYAHOGA FALLS — In Woodridge's first game of the week against one of the better teams in the Metro Athletic Conference veteran coach Dennis Dever went with a sophomore on the mound to pinch hit in the bottom of the sixth of a tie game against Streetsboro "It's awesome," Pumper said of Dever's faith in him Dever also put freshman Jack Sweatt and sophomore Noah Lancy in for an inning apiece of relief against the Rockets who darted home to score the winning run on a pitch to the backstop in the seventh With four sophomores and two freshmen in Woodridge's starting lineup April 22 this is Dever's youngest team since the 2005 season It's about trust and the fact that Dever continues to put his young players in big spots "We've been together now for quite some time," Dever said "And I can kind of see what they're good at and what they're not good at and [I'm] trying to put them in positions to be as successful as they possibly can." Pumper started last season where most freshmen begin their high school baseball careers — on the junior varsity Pumper got a call-up to the varsity and impressed in his first start against Jackson you give your team a chance to win ball games." Pumper also showed tremendous composure against Streetsboro The Rockets had consecutive hitters reach in three of Pumper's five innings Yet Pumper managed to hold them to a single run "I usually just catch my breath," Pumper said "[I] realize I'm having fun out here and know I got my guys behind me that are going to make plays for me." has been a rising star wherever he has played earning the chance to hit leadoff and play centerfield along with his work on the mound "I'm very grateful for the opportunities he's given me but he's shown faith and I've been able to come through in some spots like tonight." Lancy didn't just come through against Streetsboro The sophomore also tossed a no-hitter in his prior start against Ravenna "[It was] just keeping them off-balance," Lancy said "Having more than just a fastball to throw continues to improveNot that it was simply the Bulldogs' Class of 2027 wreaking havoc against the Rockets Sweatt and Carter Maxa — both freshmen — came up with back-to-back Dever was quick to note his older players stepped up While four of the first six hitters in Woodridge's order were freshmen and sophomores junior Rory Johnston and senior Tyrus Hartman bring experience to the three- and four-hole And both delivered big plays to push the winning run across in the seventh as Johnston dropped down a sacrifice bunt to get DeVito to second and Hartman lashed a single to left to get DeVito to third "There's no doubt our young guys really came to play today and in big moments they came through," Dever said "But so did our junior returning starter Rory Johnston with a big sac bunt and Tyrus Hartman my senior four-hole hitter who had a big hit to get him to third which gave us the chance to win that game on that wild pitch." this is a remarkably young team — including sophomores at catcher second base and centerfield and a freshman at short — and the Bulldogs have suffered youth moments at times like a number of fielding miscues that set up Field's four-run first April 9 "You live with the physical errors," Dever said "It's the mental ones that we want to really clean up so we don't make those again as time goes on I think with a lot of playing time for these guys I think that the physical ones are starting to go away Our team's defense has been improving in the last two weeks tremendously." As Dever demonstrated time and again against the Rockets but I think especially just the coaching staff here they have so much faith in us and it really just shows," Lancy said "And I think we just absorbed that and we just want to play hard [and] do it for him." Powered by ATC Online LLP Lancy Downs is a senior policy analyst in the Center on Education and Labor at New America (CELNA) where she focuses on postsecondary pathways for youth She supports research and technical assistance activities across the Partnership to Advance Youth Apprenticeship (PAYA) a national initiative working to expand apprenticeship as a high-quality postsecondary option for young adults and other projects in CELNA’s youth pathways portfolio Her research explores federal pathways policy braided and blended funding for work-based learning a youth leadership development initiative within PAYA that brings together youth apprentices from around the country to develop ideas and strategies for improving youth apprenticeship Downs worked at the Convergence Center for Policy Resolution and the National Conference of State Legislatures as well as in strategic communications for education and social services clients She earned a master of public administration at George Washington University’s Trachtenberg School of Public Policy and Public Administration and holds a BA in art history from Tufts University Industry sales veteran Lance Eddy who most recently worked at Liberated Brands as the sales director of RVCA is the new EVP of sales for Birdwell Beach Britches He will join CEO Eric Crane, who is on a quest to transform Birdwell from an obscure direct-to-consumer play to becoming America’s heritage beach brand Crane said the hiring of Eddy marks a significant step in Birdwell’s commitment to strengthening its wholesale channel and fostering long-term “We’re excited to have Lance join our team to help shape Birdwell’s next chapter,” Crane said in a statement strategic approach to cultivating retail relationships and his deep understanding of the industry make him an exceptional addition to our leadership team Lance’s insights and leadership will be integral as we continue to grow sustainably.” rising through the ranks from sales representative to sales director “Birdwell embodies a legacy and a loyal customer base that simply can’t be replicated,” Eddy said “Opportunities like this come once in a lifetime and I’m both excited and proud to be part of this incredible journey.” Posted in: News Tagged with: Birdwell, Eric Crane, Lancy Eddy editorial@shop-eat-surf-outdoor.com advertising@shop-eat-surf-outdoor.com tiffany@shop-eat-surf-outdoor.com Matthew.Yates@emeraldX.com Find out the answers to these questions and more with Psychology Today Psychology Today Blog: Benign Neglect An anthropologist looks at contemporary parenting has been a student of parenting practices since he was born His own parents' talents in this line became much more evident once he was no longer their responsibility Two daughters provided opportunities to test emergent theory including the prominence of genes in sex-role typing (more later) his research has focused on childhood and the role of parents and others in supporting the transformation of children into competent adults His initial fieldwork was done among the Kpelle of Liberia followed by extended study in several very traditional cultures in Papua New Guinea Lancy has also studied pre-schools in Sweden He has authored over 60 articles/chapters and eight books including the second edition of The Anthropology of Childhood and Raising Children: Insights From Other Cultures.which has just appeared Psychology Today © 2025 Sussex Publishers The FPT Industrial engine manufacturing facility in Bourbon-Lancy has achieved Gold Level designation in the World Class Manufacturing (WCM) program after IVECO’s Madrid and Valladolid plants in Spain The factory specializes in the manufacture of the Cursor engine series which offers 77 technical variations and over 5,700 different options It has a production capacity of some 80,000 engines a year The Bourbon-Lancy site is recognized as a center of excellence for both diesel and natural gas engines manufacturing a range of bespoke engines to meet the specific requirements of a range of applications from On and Off Highway vehicles to marine and power generation The Bourbon-Lancy plant is well known in the region for its commitment to sustainability In  addition to being the home of the most successful natural gas-powered engines on the market the plant has also implemented a number of projects that focus on minimizing the impact of industrial activities and protecting the biodiversity of its surrounding environment World Class Manufacturing is one of the global manufacturing industry’s highest standards for the integrated management of manufacturing plants and processes It is a pillar-structured system based on continuous improvement designed to eliminate waste and loss from the production process by identifying objectives such as zero injuries a system of periodic third-party audits evaluates all of the WCM pillars forming an overall score for each plant that is the basis for three achievement levels: Bronze The WCM audit in Bourbon-Lancy noted progress and consistency across a variety of both manufacturing and managerial areas including Cost Deployment and Autonomous Maintenance Workplace Organization leading to the Gold Level designation FPT Industrial Bourbon-Lancy plant awarded World Class Manufacturing Gold Medal Lo stabilimento FPT Industrial di Bourbon-Lancy ottiene la certificazione Gold Level nell’ambito del programma World Cla Lancy teaches a number of anthropology classes the origins of writing and literacy and archaeology of ancient civilization one of the general education core classes at Utah State But even Lancy's "routine" classes are anything but routine In the Honors section of his civilization/humanities class an assignment features students working in groups to create short humorous plays that capture the essential aspects of family life in an early civilization such as China or Rome The students then perform the plays for the class at a dinner theater Lancy offers a distance education version of the class He has team-taught another section of the class at a local high school The class is replete with materials that Lancy and his team have produced including a textbook/mystery novel/adventure game on CD-ROM Each of his recorded lectures is illustrated with dozens of slides he's taken at archaeological sites around the globe One of his nomination letters said he is an outstanding teacher for the same reasons he is an outstanding researcher: he has immense curiosity about everything and "he brings the same intensity and rigor of inquiry to his classes that he brings to his research." who now serves as director of the Honors Program said he continually re-invents his teaching model to take advantage of new technology It is a complex process that can be improved and improved and improved." "I always try to challenge complacency in my students; I do not want them to think 'standard' is OK so I certainly don't want to ever be complacent or feel 'standard' myself," he said "If I had been handed a book on day one of teaching that outlined the perfect teaching method - the bible of teaching - that would have been nice," he added "But I probably would have been changing it by day two It is this discovery process that keeps teaching interesting I think I continue to enjoy teaching because it allows me to reinvent myself." Personal Web Page CLERMONT — Jason Lancy was no math wizard as a youngster But he grew to love numbers and now is the chair of the math department at Windy Hill Middle School in Clermont Lancy earned a new title: Lake County Teacher of the Year The 10-year veteran reflected on his relationship with math and how the heartburn from it made him a better teacher "Students tell me that how I explain math is different and easier to understand and that’s because I can empathize when they feel lost and confused,” he said when first nominated in January Lancy received the award during a ceremony hosted by the Educational Foundation of Lake County The community came out and supported the teacher of the year with gifts and funding It was a magical night," said Carman Cullen-Batt Three finalists from 47 nominees were up for the award The other two finalists this year were Dee Dee Bitter a fourth-grade teacher at Seminole Springs Elementary a geometry teacher at East Ridge High School Lancy is now nominated for Florida teacher of the year Lancy also got to drive home in a brand new car donated by the Jenkins Auto Group of Leesburg He needed the new car to haul away the other goodies he got including several gift baskets a new office chair and heaps of gift cards and tickets including Disney annual passes I am overwhelmed by all the honor and gifts," Lancy said "It was definitely one of the greatest nights of my life." his classes greeted him with high-fives and applause for his win and I shared the night with them and showed them pictures "It was unlike any Monday I've ever had before we didn't do everything we were supposed to do today so we'll be back to work." 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Volume 9 - 2018 | https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2018.01201 Cultural psychology assumes that the ecocultural conditions of a particular setting shape children’s pathways resulting in multiple adaptive solutions to universal developmental tasks While the adaptivity of attachment and children’s psychosocial development during the early years has been thoroughly investigated attachment research during middle childhood continues to reflect Western ideals of family most studies only focus on parental attachment figures this restricted empirical perspective does not only result in a Eurocentric bias it also neglects theoretical reflections on the growing complexity of attachment during middle childhood thus only considering a limited selection of all individuals contributing to the children’s feeling of security To investigate the variability and adaptivity of attachment during middle childhood this study assessed children’s attachment figures in two extreme settings of development introducing an exhaustive network perspective on attachment during this developmental stage Children of the Cameroonian Nseh (N = 11) and German children from Bad Nauheim (N = 11) identified and differentiated all individuals contributing to their attachment need in an exploratory and transdisciplinary approach The socio-structural composition of children’s attachment networks follows the context-specific systems of care and concepts of interconnectedness and the ecological features of each setting resulting in marked differences between both contexts reflects children’s preoccupation with similar developmental challenges across settings Same-aged peers contribute to the children’s feeling of safety in both settings thereby deviating from previous reflections on their subordinate relevance during middle childhood these results support the adaptiveness of children’s attachment patterns while also demonstrating universal trends across contexts They highlight the collective nature of attachment during middle childhood that exceeds the impact of individual dyads broad and context-sensitive research strategies become a necessary addition to attachment research in order to generate an exhaustive understanding for children’s development across cultural contexts There are two complementary approaches to investigate this adaptiveness of children’s developmental pathways and to make the ecocultural context an inherent part of this research: an ecologically informed research strategy drafted specifically for attachment research and the comparison of prototypical settings Despite the growing attention this developmental stage has gained in the last years attachment research of middle childhood is still marked by three major research gaps: A cultural bias only investigating an excerpt of all attachment figures and methodological constraints limiting the children’s own contributions Most attachment researchers of middle childhood have already expounded the problem that previously observed patterns could be culturally biased due to current samples and methodological approaches being limited to Western contexts (Kerns et al., 2006; Seibert and Kerns, 2009; Chen, 2015) thus acknowledging contextual adaptiveness of children’s attachment patterns they have not yet begun to consequently include the specific developmental context of their Western samples in their studies in order to empirically reflect on the distinct processes of adaptation Based on this current state of research on children’s psychosocial development during middle childhood this study aims to extend the investigation into the adaptiveness of attachment beyond the first years focusing on children’s attachment figures Combining the identification of these individuals with a functional perspective we explore who provides children with a feeling of security and how this feeling is established during middle childhood In order to consider both contextual adaptiveness and universal patterns representing a traditional and a Western environment of childhood and include each developmental context in its distinctive setup By making the contexts an inherent part of the study we are able to explore and discuss links between empirical data on children’s attachment patterns and the distinctive contextual characteristics of each setting Introducing a network perspective on attachment during middle childhood overcoming the limiting hierarchical focus on superordinate parental attachment figures resulting from monotropic concepts of attachment The exhaustive assessment allows us to explore the complexity of the entire resource of attachment investigating the size and the composition of this collective of individuals establishing a feeling of security we are able to understand if children distinguish between various domains of security and if they allocate these responsibilities to different attachment figures with members of children’s attachment networks possibly cooperating to jointly generate a comprehensive feeling of security we aim to implement a child-centered approach with the children’s own concepts of attachment and security guiding our research while combining psychological research and ethnographic methodology We endeavor to generally reduce any possibly restricting preselection or specifications since we do not share the children’s age group or even cultural background Due to varying cultural rules of emotional display (Keller, 2014), we focus on the attachment figures’ role of a secure base in this study, thus defining attachment figures as individuals who provide a continuous feeling of security and comfort, enabling free exploration (Ainsworth, 1989) To investigate the selection process, children do not only identify these individuals, but also characterize them on socio-structural dimensions, focusing on age, gender and physical proximity, selected for their importance in structuring interactional patterns in both contexts and their previously demonstrated influence on the children’s selection of general social relationships (Epstein, 1989; Ruble et al., 2006) Children also characterize their individual ties concerning relationship stability with long-term continuity previously only been ascribed to parental ties to empirically investigate the influence of this feature on the children’s selection and to assess its distribution across all ages of attachment figures children are asked to characterize these attachment figures concerning their perceived functionality in order to assess the respective roles of individual attachment figures in maintaining a feeling of security and to further investigate children’s understanding of security and their perception of context-specific sources of (in)security each of which constitutes an example for the prototypical sociodemographic settings used to compare and contrast childhood development: Nseh in Cameroon as an example of a traditional and Bad Nauheim in Germany as an example of a post-industrial Western middle-class setting The 11 participating children of Nseh (6 girls 5 boys) between the ages of 6 and 10 years were recruited with the help of our local research assistant After receiving a written consent by the clan’s leader adult guardians and children individually gave written consent in accordance with the Declaration of Helsinki to voluntarily participate after receiving information on the study Introductory sessions and interviews in Pidgin English and Lamnso took place in the children’s free time five boys) were recruited at a primary school selected to match the sample of the Nseh in gender and age range The sample only includes children without a migration background so as to assess data from a homogenous sample of families with a shared cultural model both children and parents then gave written consent to voluntarily participate in the study Introductory sessions and interviews took place during school hours The study was carried out in accordance with the recommendations of the ethical guidelines of the German Association of Psychology The protocol was approved by the ethics committee of the Department of Psychology of the Goethe-University Frankfurt While cross-cultural comparisons of extreme settings highlight contrasting differences in developmental patterns, they generate oversimplified explanations for observed patterns when only considering the impact of abstract cultural dimensions, neglecting the complexity of childhood environments (LeVine and Norman, 2008) the two selected contexts are understood as examples for extreme sociodemographic settings while we also take their individual setup into consideration aiming to take a closer look at both contexts of childhood on a variety of dimensions implementing the outlined ‘ecologically informed’ path to attachment research we are able to jointly highlight the range of developmental pathways of attachment during middle childhood while also reflecting on the context-specific processes of adaptation While these dimensions only constitute an excerpt of the multidimensional contexts we are able to discuss if patterns in children’s attachment networks correspondent to these contextual factors aiming to develop an exploratory explanation there are about 20,000 members of the clan living in Nseh Nseh is considered to be a village both administratively and in the self-concept of its residents The village covers a large stretch of land and is divided into several quarters according to the lineages of the clan Each of them have their own traditional administration several families with close kin ties share the same residence This dwelling unit is defined by distinctive borders with roads or pathways marking the limits of the compound parents and the biological and social children possesses an individual sleeping house on the compound parlors and open court yards are shared by all members of the compound family These are also the areas where most activities during the day take place resulting in a close interconnectedness and interdependence of the compound family children consider all other children from their compound to be their siblings Despite the increase in population resulting in urban densification in the general region sleeping houses are mostly scattered on large compounds with lots of free space in between 16 individuals (ranging from 6 to 23 members per residence) coming from 3.1 elementary families who share the same residence The mothers of the sample have an average of 5 biological children (ranging from 1 to 10 children) who are sometimes complemented by social children They were 20.2 years old when they had their first child (ranging from 15 to 30 years of age) Seven out of 11 fathers live with their children or support the mother The sample of Bad Nauheim was assessed in one of the more affluent suburbs Most nuclear families live in one-family residences built on large plots Since the near metropolitan area generally results in a densification of residential units these plots become increasingly smaller for families with newly built houses individual residences are clearly marked by roads children make a clear-cut distinction between their biological siblings and all other children The nuclear families of the sample consist of an average of 4.2 family members (ranging from 3 to 6 members) Mothers of the sample have an average of 2.18 children (ranging from 1 to 4 children) They were 32.3 years of age (ranging from 27 to 42 years) when they had their first child All children reported to live with both their biological parents The majority of families have their grandparents living in the same suburb The general infrastructure of Nseh is rather poorly constructed with most of the homes in the village not connected to electricity or a water supply system It is further impaired by the rough climate with rains and dry periods each lasting for months dissolving roads either into mud or dust While the health infrastructure has improved leading to a decrease in infant and maternal mortality the morbidity rate among children remains high due to the costs of medical care with children commonly suffering from malaria and respiratory diseases The economy of Nseh is based on subsistence farming Situated in a thick forest with a large variety of wildlife only decades ago all available land has been transformed into agricultural areas with the quality of the soil slowly deteriorating due to a constant cultivation The general agricultural situation is characterized by a high degree of insecurity since there is only a single yearly harvest so that surprising losses due to the weather or other unforeseen circumstances have a major impact making rationing necessary at the end of the crop year with children during middle childhood well aware of this situation Foreign investors constitute an additional threat with land grabbing and the discovery of noble earths in the region The former cash crop of coffee is no longer profitable due to the low world market price Almost all families have an additional income Most mothers only have primary education (64% of the investigated mothers) few have additional years of education (18% of the investigated mothers) or even a degree of secondary education (18% of the investigated mothers) Children during middle childhood constitute an active part of the work force while having a multitude of chores in the compound Only few children are responsible for any chores in their parental household most of them supporting their parents irregularly and on their own accord residential structures are likewise built on kin with elementary families on their individual plots constituting rather independent social units that are closely connected to grandparents and other close relatives While there is a slight connection between kinship and residency with grandparents of some families living in the same suburb this is not a regular pattern in the setting members of the community are linked through friendship and shared social or professional activities The overall community exhibits hierarchical levels built on income and social class the families of the sample have rather homogenous class affiliations While age differences structure interactional patterns in families and allocate responsibilities resulting behavioral norms are commonly not enforced in a strict way with children contributing to decision in everyday life Despite both parents of most families having comparable academic degrees a continuous gender-based income disparity lowers women’s economic power in the family Social power in the families is equally distributed but most household chores are still assigned to the mothers the family gathers in the kitchen to prepare and consume a shared meal and receive visitors children leave to primary school after having breakfast in their elementary families with most children reporting that both parents are present in the morning Since grades at the end of primary school dictate the following educational track having a long-term impact on career opportunities primary school education is very important to most parents most children participate in additional pedagogical and institutionalized structures of education children also regularly spend time with them children are able to cover larger distances within the entire suburb They also regularly spend their spare time playing or taking excursions with their parents with relationships between adults and children less influenced by age-based hierarchical concepts Most children report that their mothers are at home during the afternoon while fathers only return in the evening for a shared family meal or even after the child has gone to bed To firstly assess sociodemographic information on children and their environment we conducted individual guided interviews with all children of both samples asking them to describe their family structures the individuals’ ages and occupations and to detail their daily routines in their families and beyond considering activities in institutional settings and in their free time We also were able to select PEI since children of both contexts were well acquainted with the concept and the process of taking pictures with cameras being objects of everyday life in both settings While children of the Nseh had less individual practice than children in Bad Nauheim they were more familiar with analog cameras children received a disposable camera and the identification task together with rules to ensure privacy during the assessment process Standard English: “Please take pictures of anyone that is important to you take photo with any man way e be important for you Lamnso: “Kiì wò ku lì vindzЭЭdzЭm ve wìr vi a fЭm dzЭ vЭné wo wù dzЭЭn e shií fo wò wìr wo vèn wun lòo dzЭ a wàa dzЭ là fan a dzЭ kijuη e kfЭn a dzЭ kicaarsin.” German: “Bitte fotografiere alle Personen wohl und unbeschwert fühlst.” These translations were each developed in cooperation with bilingual experts All children received a detailed explanation on how to use the analog camera and took a first picture during the introductory session We highlighted that they were free to take as many pictures as they needed without feeling obliged to use all of the film follow-up interviews were conducted guided by the pictures children had used to identify their attachment figures with children providing socio-structural allocations of their attachment figures concerning age physical proximity and the duration of the tie and characterizing the individual functionality of each tie Children also categorized their attachment figures according to the closeness of their residence for us to understand if physical proximity and the resulting convenience of accessibility influences the inclusion of an individual into children’s networks We differentiated between units that allow children to independently approach these attachment figures conceptualized as a walk of less than 5 min and those units in which people can only be visited by parental mediation While the composition of dwelling units differs between both settings they are marked by distinctive borders and a clear decrease of interconnectedness beyond these boundaries in both settings it can be assumed that children have a similar concept of a “shared residence.” Since the concept of a “shared neighborhood” potentially differs vastly between both contexts we based this category on physical distance Additionally, children characterized the stability of each attachment relationship, stating their own developmental stage when constructing the tie, thus categorizing whether or not they had known the individual from birth, before or after the age of 6 or if they had only met the individual within the last year2 Standard English: “Why did you include this person How does he/she make you feel safe and comfortable?” Pidgin English: “Why you na take this person How e dey make you feel safe and comfortable for e corner?” Lamnso: “Bì‘ka mo a ki sho’on wír vЭn Wù lo wù ghàn é le bóo yiì aà wáa dzЭ là fan e kfЭn a dzЭ kijuη” German: “Warum hast du diese Person ausgewählt Wie gibt sie dir ein Gefühl von Sicherheit und Wohlbefinden?” Attachment figures were identified following the children’s statements on whom they had purposefully photographed We included pictures of representative objects if children indicated this in their interviews Some children also added people as part of their attachment networks during the interviews These few individuals were also included into the analysis As our main focus is on the children’s own perception their verbal statements are considered to be of the same relevance as the pictures taken Children’s responses to the perceived functionality of each attachment tie were coded separately for both samples using ethnographic strategies to detect data-immanent patterns (Spradley, xs1980/2016) combined with a shortened approach to grounded theory (Corbin and Strauss, 2015) developing a set of categories to understand how individual attachment relationships provide security in both settings 278 attachment figures were identified and structurally and functionally characterized Frequency distributions of these 278 attachment figures then built the foundation for further data analysis using a t-test to compare the network size across settings as well as χ2-tests and Fisher’s exact tests for the socio-structural and functional dimensions of children’s networks A two-sample t-test indicates that children of the Nseh (M = 15.9 SD = 2.68) report significantly larger attachment networks than children in Bad Nauheim (M = 10.6 Distribution of age categories in both samples it neither influences the inclusion of an individual into children’s networks in either setting [for the sample of the Nseh χ2(1 p = 0.19; for the sample of Bad Nauheim χ2(1 nor do both settings differ in their composition concerning gender [χ2(1 the boys and girls of both samples show a significant preference for same-aged attachment figures of their own gender [χ2(1 This preference does not apply for any other age group as all other comparisons did not reach statistical significance with all χ2< 3.38 and all p > 0.09 (also see Supplementary Table 2) Distribution of residential categories in both samples Duration of individual attachment ties in both samples Concerning the distribution of stability across the age categories of the attachment figures almost all relationships exhibit long-term stability in the sample of the Nseh there is no significant relation between the individual attachment figure’s age and the duration of the tie (p = 0.61 For the sample in Bad Nauheim, there is a connection between duration and age categories (p< 0.001, Fisher’s exact test). Almost all adult ties are marked by long-term stability, as well as those to older peers. Ties to same-aged peers mostly result from the different stages of childhood, having a varying degree of restricted stability. However, there is a considerable number of ties to same-aged peers that stem from the earliest developmental stage (see Table 1) Classification into duration categories for each age group in both settings as percentages with each child employing at least three different categories to characterize their attachment figures while commonly attributing a single domain of security to each attachment figure In the most common category of perceived functionality children reference the ability of their attachment figures to help them to emotionally cope with socially difficult situations thus providing a resource that the child does not (yet) have The individual mediates the solution of the problem and re-establishes emotional balance “Because he is nice and he can comfort me he does not become agitated but rather asks them to stop with their fight and to calm down,” -a boy talking about his father) Relationships in the second most common category provide a feeling of comfort and security by means of their comprehensive character compassing several areas of life or several developmental stages thus providing a consistent baseline or a ‘secure base’ (“I feel safe 24/7 he is a part of my life,” -a girl talking about her father) These descriptions in the third most common category reference the reciprocal ability to find a harmonious agreement and to attune to each other in a conflict-free resulting in agreement (“We can always settle on what to play and he always agrees to play whatever the other person wants to play He knows how to get along well with anyone,” -a boy talking about his same-aged friend) In such relationships of the fourth most common category children reference the individual’s support in their education as a source of comfort and security They describe attachment figures as offering relief concerning school work outlined as a stressor (“When I entered primary school He helped me with my homework and also with finding my class rooms I will now transfer to a secondary school where he already attends class 8 he will help me there,” -a girl talking about her older brother) or as imparting knowledge outside of formal contexts this education being described more favorable Individuals assorted to the least common category of perceived functionality elicit a feeling of comfort and security by providing immediate instrumental help in physically challenging situations “We were on a boat ride on a river and I fell from the banana toy and hurt my arm and my knee and I fell into the water and he pulled me back unto the boat,” -a girl talking about her father) Categories of perceived functionality across age categories in the German sample of Bad Nauheim four categories of perceived functionality emerged when coding children’s responses with children using between three and all four of them to describe the functionality of their attachment ties children only attributed a single domain of security to each attachment figure This most common category describes all statements that explicitly reference a supply with food These attachment figures offer a resource the children cannot independently access Children either reference a unidirectional provision for older peers and adults or the process of sharing food for same-aged and younger peers (“He catches birds and prepares them and when I am passing he will give me a share,” -a girl talking about an older peer from her family) In these statements of the second most common category children describe a kin-based tie to their attachment figures referencing broad categories of kinship or describing in great detail the exact relationships (“They are my younger ones,” -a boy describing the relationship to his younger siblings) In these statements of the third most common category children describe their attachment figures as providing instrumental assistance in situations of everyday life especially concerning their chores in the compound and at the farm sometimes explaining the reciprocity of assistance but never relating to situations of distress (“When I send her to go and carry water she will go and bring the water and I will wash her dress,” -a girl talking about her younger sister) In these statements of the least common category children talk about friendship and the explicit emotional value of their attachment ties in broad terms (“They are my friends,” “I like them,” -a boy talking about his friends with a kinship tie) sometimes referencing their own emotional value for younger peers Categories of perceived functionality across age categories in the Cameroonian sample of the Nseh children across contexts display considerable differences whom they identify as their attachment figures and how these ties provide a feeling of security Since we included an in-depth investigation of both developmental settings in our study we can now reflect on the contextual adaptiveness of these patterns exploring links between empirical data and contextual features in order to understand how the observed attachment networks are shaped by ecocultural conditions Children of both contexts possess a diverse attachment environment during middle childhood presumably resulting either from a system of shared care in the Cameroonian setting of the Nseh or the social expansion during middle childhood in the German setting of Bad Nauheim children across both samples nominated a variety of individuals as their attachment figures This data demonstrates the complexity of the resource of attachment and the importance of a network approach with monotropic research strategies unable to adequately investigate the collective in its entirety possibly resulting from both the continuously larger social environment they experience from infancy on and their socialization toward interconnectedness we cannot easily assume that both studies assess data in a comparable ecocultural context Our context could possibly differ from their research setting concerning the possibilities of interactions with peers and the consistency of these relationships over the children’s development resulting from educational structures and care settings after school and even the degree of social interconnectedness of neighborhoods close-knit towns and anonymous urban settings Future research in the setting of the Nseh will need to determine why especially the different contributions to child care across genders do not influence children’s selection of adult attachment figures The influence of physical proximity and accessibility seems to depend on the legitimate interactional space of each setting The Nseh generally rely on kinship as a social concept of interconnectedness closeness of kin translates into physical proximity the legitimate interactional space in which children can freely move from early on resulting in narrow networks and a sharp decrease in relevance beyond this environment These limitations are increased by the lack of personal transportation the legitimate interactional space also seems to be based on kinship encompassing the nuclear family in the shared residence but also the frequently nominated grandparents Since there is no immediate correspondence between kinship and residential proximity beyond the nuclear family with many grandparents not living in the immediate neighborhood this results in geographically broader networks This kinship-based aspect of children’s legitimate interactional space is supplemented by institutional structures facilitating access to individuals from broader areas while restricting children from freely moving in their neighborhood Most children of Bad Nauheim report to own a bicycle or a scooter allowing them to independently cover a larger distance helping them to maintain these broader networks most ties to peers are marked by a lower degree of consistency originating from later developmental stages there is also a considerable amount of peer relationships that are characterized by long-term stability possibly contributing to the importance of same-aged peers as attachment figures in this sample our data highlights that relationship stability needs further investigations it has been assumed that stability only applies to adult leading to the exclusion of peers from further research Since our data contradicts these theoretical reflections future empirical research needs to address how relationship stability emerges based on ecocultural factors in order to understand to whom it applies in a specific setting and how it contributes to the selection of attachment figures we conclude that children in both settings rely on a network of attachment figures with the exact size and composition of this array adapted to the context-specific care system and concepts of interconnectedness and the ecological features of each setting Concerning the functionality of their attachment ties in establishing a feeling of security and comfort, the children from both samples distinguished between various domains of security that they allocated to different attachment figures, highlighting the distribution of responsibilities across the network. While the community has already been identified as a source of security for relational contexts (Nsamenang, 1992, 1994; Keller, 2016) this data demonstrates the cooperative nature of attachment during middle childhood in both settings with the functional impact of the entire network exceeding the impact of individual ties and a comprehensive feeling of security only established by a collective again demonstrating the importance of an exhaustive assessment of all relevant individuals Considering these domains of security in both contexts two different patterns emerge at first glance reflecting context-specific themes and conditions that vastly differ across settings Children of the Nseh talk about a world shaped by critical infrastructure and short supply with food They have a responsible role as an active part of the workforce in the compound and at the farm living in a hierarchical clan kept together by kinship ties emotional expressions are only legitimate toward peers being raised in a context of early self-regulation Children of Bad Nauheim describe a world shaped by educational challenges and a (growingly) diverse array of social settings in which close connections to the nuclear family are supplemented by well-attuned ties to peers While the setting offers physical stability overall the continuous expansion and introduction to new settings and individuals amount to confrontations with socially challenging situations However, when acknowledging the interrelatedness of general developmental themes in middle childhood across developmental contexts (Weisner, 1984), avoiding the “ethnographic dazzle” (Fox, 1970 it becomes apparent that the functional patterns can also be understood as children’s context-specific reflections on the same developmental challenges individuals providing support and orientation concerning children’s education constitute important sources of security mostly applying to superordinate older peers and adults Since they are also confronted with the expectancy of emotional self-regulation they value those individuals who continue to guide them toward independence in social situations that are (as yet) emotionally challenging for them Beyond these fundamental developmental themes, the children from both samples reflect on physical security, again demonstrating the adaptiveness of their functional patterns. Children of Bad Nauheim reference physical distress only in a small minority of attachment ties and mostly reference major incidents, possibly not experiencing their context as a continuous physical threat due to a stable infrastructure and high living standards (cf. LeVine, 1974, 1988) constitutes their main source of (in-)security living in an environment shaped by economic instability and a constantly perceived food shortage Lastly, children in both contexts confirm the importance of consistency, a relationship quality commonly understood as a basic requirement for the emergence of attachment ties and the feeling of security (Ainsworth, 1989; Mayseless, 2005) Children of Bad Nauheim directly describe the duration or range of a tie referencing not only relationships with adults with kin ties but also with peers they met in institutional settings who provide consistency especially in transitional periods of institutional changes further explaining the unexpected relevance of same-aged peers in the sample of Bad Nauheim the importance of consistency is only indirectly expressed using references of kinship as a context-specific marker for relationship stability This social cohesion of the clan ties individuals permanently together providing children with a continuous developmental setting Concerning the influence of age on perceived functionality only the Cameroonian sample demonstrates a statistically significant differentiation possibly resulting from stronger age-based hierarchical norms and resource allocations future research will need to supplement these results with observational data and possibly also with reflections from attachment figures themselves since our data only relies on the children’s own account Observational data will also help to further assess how different perceived functionalities possibly translate into differing interactional patterns and to further confirm the ecological validity of our approach To investigate the influence of age-based interactional norms possibly shaping children’s responses replication studies would need to employ same-aged peers as instructors and interviewers sharing the children’s age group and cultural background Including children in the coding process could possibly help to further bridge the gap of understanding between investigated children and researchers it will be also necessary to assess the children’s own perspective on their attachment ties in other developmental stages in order to analyze how children’s attachment networks and the perceived functionalities of their ties change with the transformations of their developmental paths especially focusing on transitional periods Concerning our approach of investigating the adaptiveness of children’s psychosocial development and the applicability of the observed patterns it is important to consider that we only investigated two settings While they were selected as examples for extreme sociodemographic settings and cultural models we mostly focused on individual processes of adaption in the distinctive settings it will be vital for future research to assess attachment patterns from several settings with a comparable sociodemographic setup in order to investigate the abstract impact of the fundamental cultural model on attachment during middle childhood beyond the individual context Since this study only constitutes a first exploratory approach to link patterns of attachment during middle childhood with contextual features future research will also need to consider the influence of other ecocultural characteristics of the multidimensional settings Concerning the data analysis, only a broad statistical analysis of individual dimensions could be conducted due to the exploratory nature of our study and the sample size. Larger samples in future research will help to include a more exact analysis and to also exclude that cultural differences only emerge based on possible sampling biases (van de Vijver and Leung, 2000) there are still major limitations that also need to be addressed especially concerning the definition of an ‘attachment figure’ with our broad assessment of anyone sustaining a feeling of safety possibly resulting in larger networks that include non-parental individuals Data across studies can only be compared if a consistent understanding of the functionality and necessary range of an attachment figure has been established children of both investigated contexts will need to further differentiate attachment from other relationship types companionship to substantiate that the ties assessed in this study actually reflect the children’s attachment network and not their general social environment by comparing children’s responses across both contexts our study demonstrates that children’s attachment networks during middle childhood are shaped by features of their distinct developmental environment that influence the socio-structural allocation and the functionality of these ties our data supports previous reflections on the adaptiveness of attachment to the ecocultural setting general challenges of this distinct developmental stage also impact children’s attachment networks resulting in structural and functional similarities across contexts; a pattern that only becomes apparent when contrasting two extreme settings From the children’s perspective in both contexts attachment ties are more complex than the mother–child–dyads used in most previous approaches to study attachment during middle childhood We conclude that a broad and exhaustive approach to attachment is important across developmental settings since network members seem to collectively establish and maintain children’s feelings of security across context-specific domains of security Especially (same-aged) peers 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About five minutes after arriving, the suspect began shooting at the deputies who returned fire and killed him according to the Sheriff's Office. He was identified as 32-year-old Rudy Marvin Duvivier For a guy that didn’t know a soccer ball from a Wiffle Ball Bremerton’s Lance McCoy sure has had a positive impact on the local sport of soccer general manager and coach of the famous Bremerton Chuggers for 27 years and has coached on and off the sport in the Bremerton School District for 13 of the last 19 years since disbanding the Chuggers in 2000 will have coached soccer 40 years after the Bremerton High School girls team's season ends Oct That date will mark McCoy’s retirement from coaching It is certain to be a bitter-sweet moment for a guy who believes whole-heartedly in the community of Bremerton and the players that have played on his teams “I just feel I have done everything possible you can do in the Kitsap community with soccer,” McCoy says “I have given everything I have for the game and the community and it’s just time for a younger person to take over.” His teams have not always seen success in terms of wins and losses but he has been recognized in the past with several coach of the year honors in the Olympic League because opponents realize that his teams were always well-schooled in fundamentals play hard and are steeped in good sportsmanship “What speaks volumes for him is he’s been voted coach of the year six times by his peers,” says Steve Wixson a close friend and a Chuggers teammate that was with McCoy at the beginning and at the end of the team’s long and successful run “His peers recognized his ability to deal with kids and they do a lot of things in the community and he always seems to get the best out of his kids.” One of the things he will do with this year’s team is put them on a school bus to go see a University of Washington women’s soccer game The team has a chance to be one of his best McCoy resigned his first go-around in 2010 when the Bremerton School District decided classified employees After a rule change he returned in 2016 as the program was hitting rock bottom Participation had fallen to 11 players and there was no junior varsity team “We ended up getting 41 kids,” says McCoy of the 2016 season “We kept every kid and it was one of the best years I ever had in soccer It was a good group of girls that worked in the community and did clinics This year we are right in the hunt for the playoffs It’s something that hasn’t been done since 2009 so I’m excited about the possibilities.” who is assisted by Jacki Hill Renner and John McKenzie a volunteer who four years ago was named the national recreational coach of the year 9 with a non-league game at Bremerton Memorial Stadium against Shelton and concludes with his retirement after the game with Klahowya but for a guy who had no clue about soccer in the early 1970s it’s been a great ride full of promise and positive attachments for the kids who played for him It was in 1972 that he and a few friends purchased a $12 soccer ball and went to Jackson Park to kick the ball around with a student exchange student from Morocco knew more about soccer than they could imagine the soccer bug bit McCoy hard and an amazing career that led him into the Kitsap Sports Hall of Fame in 2013 with the Chuggers began to burn brightly all across the Olympic Peninsula McCoy began high school coaching in 1997 by assisting Dick Thompson at King’s West (now Crosspoint Academy) and the following two years the late Gordy Duda at Bremerton McCoy took over and coached both the girls and boys program for four years but those years the players on those teams were really good A lot of them are coaching today and their kids are playing soccer McCoy stepped back two years to coach his daughter Hannah on a select soccer team and then returned to coach at Bremerton for her four years (2006-09) at the school Then came the district policy on classified employees — McCoy has been the head groundskeeper for the district for 24 years McCoy took his camera (he was even then a good photographer) and headed to the Olympics to find solace in the peace and quiet of nature Some of his photo work can be found on his Facebook page His photos are stunning and worth the visit Coaching soccer has always been about commitment to the community and to the kids for McCoy who sees the sport as a vehicle for reaching young kids who may have fallen through the cracks of life “Those are kids we have to help,” he said for an earlier story in the Kitsap Sun “I believe no one will remember whether we won or lost in 10 years But they will remember signing autographs in the gym and laughing and giggling We are building moments that they will remember and that will make them become incredible human beings that will give back to their communities we are into teaching them that this is the way McCoy will still be around – he doesn’t plan on retiring from his job for another 3 and a half years when his wife will retire from her longtime job – mowing school fields and doing maintenance work where he regularly runs into students and some of his players But much of his free time will now be devoted to hiking the Olympics with his camera and taking breathtaking photos of the beauty to be found there I just want to get out hiking and taking more photography,” McCoy says I enjoy the connections we have with each other the one-on-ones and the connections with nature It’s rewarding and virtually free and it’s right here for anybody to stand along a river or climb a mountain It’s absolutely remarkable and good for the soul.  “What I really like doing is 15-mile hikes I like doing stuff that people my age can’t I am on the right track of a good life and living well.  Sometime soon after McCoy coaches his last soccer game in late October he will assemble a team banquet where platitudes and awards will be given out His players might wonder who those older guys are in the back of the room and the secret will be given out now “It will be late October or early November and seven or eight Chuggers will be in the back,” explains McCoy I will explain they are the most important to my life They are the best teammates a person can have You don’t play 27 years with each other and not care about each other McCoy will introduce each one of them and then when all the talk is done he will turn to his Chuggers teammates and say we all are going out and have a beer.”  Terry Mosher is a former Sun sportswriter and regular columnist writing about people in the Kitsap County sports scene All Galena Morning Bird wants is to hear little sister’s voice and know she’s OK and the information within may be out of date All Galena Morning Bird wants is to hear her little sister’s voice and know she’s OK It’s been about a month since Morning Bird last communicated with youngest sibling “I’m worried sick. … (Lancy) has never been this distant,” she told toronto.com “It’s not like her to be out of contact for so long.” who may also go by Mae Morningbird and Erin Shouting in the area of Martin Street and Chisholm Drive She was reported missing to police on Sunday Originally from southern Alberta’s Kainai Nation Shouting has lived in Toronto for about three years but has recently been experiencing homelessness Shouting has been staying at various shelters and may have relocated to one in Milton in the last month or two Morning Bird said she always made an effort to keep in touch with her sister who had struggled on and off with drug addiction she said she’d recently sent Lancy some money and often encouraged her to “just come home” to Alberta and be with her family The last time the two interacted was just a few days before another one of their sisters died on April 1 “The last thing (Lancy) told me was that she needed some time to grieve and that she’d try to make it home for the funeral,” shared Morning Bird who grew especially worried when she didn’t show up for the April 14 service Lancy Shouting is described as five foot 11 and 130 pounds with shoulder length (or possibly shorter) black hair and a tattoo of a Batman symbol on her forearm She was last seen wearing a dark hoodie and black pants Investigators are also concerned for her safety Anyone with information is urged to contact police at 416-808-1400, or Crime Stoppers anonymously at 416-222-8477 (TIPS) or www.222tips.com Your browser is out of date and potentially vulnerable to security risks.We recommend switching to one of the following browsers: 2013 at 4:56 pm ET.css-79elbk{position:relative;}Walpole High School junior Valerie Lancy had no prior experience to giving speeches competitively until joining the school’s Speech Team this year The rookie member has found instant success on the team recently capturing first place in novice reading at a Speech Team Tournament held at Needham High School WHS reporter Kinsey Hirae reported in the student-newspaper that Lancy has seen her scores improve at every tournament she has attended – something that is rare for a new member Lancy’s skill set includes original poetry “It’s a chance to get out of your shell and show people the other side of who I am,” Lancy told Hirae of the WHS Speech Team Hirae reports Lancy hopes to get into acting while studying in college Her aspirations of acting are sparked when she is able to read off a role and become someone else “She has great pacing and comedic timing,” said WHS English teacher and Speech coach Ms but Lancy and the rest of the WHS Speech Team will compete in a Massachusetts State Competition this April To read Hirae’s story in its entirety, click here. 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The Turidomus investment foundation has announced the completion of the "Bachet-de-Pesay" development in Grand-Lancy (GE) The new ten-storey building was designed by Jaccaud + Associés Architects on Route de Saint-Julien Almost all of the apartments have loggias or private roof terraces overlooking the inner courtyard The building volume is structured by slight recesses in the street façade and color-contrasting plinth and attic zones Four public passageways into the courtyard connect the building with the neighborhood The surrounding area was designed by Atelier Descombes Rampini The new Turidomus building comprises a total of five entrances at Chemin des Anémones 2-8 and Avenue Eugène Lance 90 7,070 m² of rental space is divided into 156 apartments with 2.5 to 6.5 rooms - including five apartments with 4 rooms each for students - and two commercial spaces on the first floor In view of the public transport connections a reduced number of 119 parking spaces were created in the shared parking garage the initial letting was completed by Régimo Genève SA after just a few weeks The building was occupied in two stages in February and April 2024 When it comes to nurturing children’s creative skills argue two new books – especially when it comes to over-parenting By Shaoni Bhattacharya Must we exhaust ourselves with over-involved child-rearing WELCOME to the neontocracy: a world that revolves around the needs of children far beyond the basics of food and material comfort it is considered vital to maintain children’s happiness and for parents to do their own childcare and schedule life-enhancing activities for their kids The neontocracy is increasingly the ideal for the WEIRD world of Western For anthropologist David Lancy of Utah State University (who coined the term neontocracy) this aim is an outlier that bucks the historical and ethnographic record he picks apart the good and bad in WEIRD parenting Abandoning harsh practices (sending the kids into the forest in hard times but progressive virtues carry their own risks They can even feed rising levels of mental illness “New ways of child-rearing can leave many as kidults While Lancy is clear that he is an anthropologist readers who are parents will still feel uncomfortably nudged both books draw on more than psychology or neurology Lancy’s book is based on decades of anthropological research at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology concentrates on the relationship between kids and coding But Lancy’s book in particular delivers a cultural context that Gopnik’s book lacked And while Gopnik gently challenged Western parents Lancy will have them choking on their lattes A strong emotional and physical attachment to at least one primary caregiver (parent and across all cultures to varying extents the emphasis was for the mother not to get too emotionally invested in a newborn or young infant who might die or sap her energy and health and consequently the well-being of the family or community it could not be taken for granted that a baby would be considered a person a baby is considered as being still in the uterus for three days after birth and referred to as a “rat-child” rather than human while the Punan Bah see a child as little more than a body while its soul gradually takes residence high infant mortality gave Western societies a more utilitarian view of the cost-benefit of children Lancy cites a 6th-century Frankish law which decreed that the fine for killing a young woman of childbearing age was 600 sous compared with just 60 sous for a male baby and a mere 30 for a female one Lancy’s point is that modern practices – such as co-sleeping on-demand feeding and constant parent-child play – now associated with attachment parenting should serve both parties or be abandoned “We must not let the pendulum swing so far that other family members must suffer to stave off the dubious threat of reactive attachment disorder,” he cautions Lancy also dismantles another aspect of the neontocracy: the way the West hails the uniqueness of every child alongside an “everyone’s-a-winner” mentality “tolerate mediocre academic performance and rail against teachers who expose our children’s failings” teachers are banned from marking pupils’ work with red ink to avoid damaging their self-esteem While parenting styles promoting achievement and compliance with social or family rules, like that of the “Tiger mother” Lancy notes there is no evidence that high-achieving children are at particular risk of harm But this doesn’t mean we need more schooling or formal education our forebears thought learning through observation Cultures such as the nomadic Maniq hunter-gatherers of Thailand and Amazonian Matsigenka and Parakanã still encourage children to practise using tools we may be undermining their natural inclination to learn adult survival skills and so extending childhood and “failure-to-launch” Lancy’s research is so thorough and his writing infused with such gentle humour that even his admonishments and one-liners to parents are a pleasure advocating “benign neglect” in parenting my only criticism is that it was not long enough particularly on the consequences of WEIRD societies’ penchant for history-bucking parenting Lifelong Kindergarten takes its title from the research group Resnick heads at MIT’s Media Lab It promises so much: to shed light on how children and adults can be creative throughout life by learning from the ethos and practices of the kindergarten Lancy’s basic assertion – how to harness kids’ passions through collaborative projects and play – is clear in its implications for creativity Many of his examples draw on the interactions of children in online communities exploring what they can do with the programming language Scratch Resnick highlights the shortcomings of the formal classroom it feels limited by focusing so much on the MIT group’s work Piaget and stalwarts of creative play like the Denmark-based LEGO Group and even the woes of the Singaporean government in nurturing creativity in its high-achieving students teachers are banned from marking work with red ink to avoid damaging self-esteem” Childhood should be seen in cultural context Resnick explores dichotomies in teaching and learning styles: between the idea that adult intervention should be formal children need balance between freedom and structure to optimise their creativity And then there is the Silicon Valley idea of “playpen versus playground” While some computer games are like playpens requiring children to advance through levels others inspire creativity through virtual playgrounds children can build their own structures and games not unlike playing with physical Lego bricks Play – and the freedoms it unlocks – are key to Resnick and Lancy For the good of all and for maximum creativity it is time to unwrap the seedlings from the cotton wool in which we have enwrapped them plant them in rich soil and make sure they don’t grow up into another generation of overprotected kids Raising Children: Surprising insights from other cultures Lifelong Kindergarten: Cultivating creativity through projects, passion, peers, and play This article appeared in print under the headline “Time to get under-involved with the children” Explore the latest news, articles and features Justin LancyOctober 23, 2014 ShareSave On a cool, English Sunday afternoon, there was a crowd loitering on the sidewalks of this wealthy London neighborhood called St. John’s Wood. Some people were waiting to use the zebra crosswalk made famous on the cover of The Beatles’ “Abbey Road” album Others were using pens to scrawl messages on the front of Abbey Road Studios where that album—and many others—had been made Things like “Imagine all the people,” and “John Lennon Lives!” Abbey Road Studio’s most famous room was being opened to the public for a lecture by Ken Scott an engineer on The Beatles' seminal “White Album.” I had assumed that the topic a look at “vintage recording techniques and equipment,” occupied a fairly esoteric niche when I bought my ticket Judging from the long line to get into the building it was clear that music nerdery (like many other nerdy things) had gone mainstream Joining Scott were two younger music engineers from America, Brian Kehew and Kevin Ryan. Kehew and Ryan are the authors of Recording The Beatles a 500-plus-page volume created from 15 years of research and housed in a shell designed to look like a old-school tape reel box a celebration of music recording culture and the most detailed historical compendium of photography and information about the Fab Four’s time in the studio The book is also a subtle illumination of the dynamic relationship that occurs between people and their tools a constantly shifting balance which can either enable—or thwart—inspiration Abbey Road is famous for a good reason—and each year thousands of visitors flock to take photos and scrawl messages on its walls But it’s more than just a tourist attraction It’s a building full of history lessons that could help creative people working today The sanctum sanctorum of Abbey Road is Studio Two the room where the majority of The Beatles' recordings were made it doesn’t look all that different from a small school gymnasium: a big rectangular box with white walls any thoughts of dribbling basketballs fell away as I began to remember images of John Lennon and Paul McCartney standing around a microphone at the far end of the room tonal qualities which transcend its humble appearance short reverb unusual for a room its size.” These reverberant qualities are so well known that Abbey Road’s rental contract actually prohibits any sampling of its distinctive acoustic signature I could hear the echoes of the vocals and kick drums on some of my favorite recordings of all time To my left was a collection of vintage recording equipment arrayed in the corner (courtesy of the EMI Archive Trust) The first item on display was a gramophone and the collection progressed chronologically through a series of tape recorders and microphones before arriving at mixing desks used into the 1980s If you included the modern mixer across the room being used to run the PA system the gear present provided a fairly complete historical timeline of the last 90 years of recording science this exhibit at Abbey Road Studios embodies both the history of music recording culture and so many of the changes which have transformed it in our modern era was renamed Abbey Road Studios in 1970 after the Beatles album which made it famous its producers have had to navigate massive economic shifts in its industry Their challenge: Find a way to use cutting-edge technology while stay true to the studio’s historical roots When each of the tools in that display was first introduced many music experts were totally wrong about the impact they would have on creative culture “Records will kill live music,” they said as the phonograph gained popularity Tape recording was initially viewed with suspicion by recordists accustomed to using disc-cutting lathes many people thought it would surely relegate analog recording equipment to the scrap heap In what seems like a stunning example of shortsightedness some of Abbey Road’s most noteworthy gear was sold off in a 1980 sale as “memorabilia” at bargain-basement prices One example—A 4-track recorder used on "Sgt Peppers’" went for just $800 (that's $2,300 in today's money) What new tools do is force a reconsideration of the relative strengths and weaknesses of old tools creative professionals generally develop ways to blend the best aspects of both the old and the new Kehew agrees that every tool can have a place as part of an artistic palate Buy weird bad gear and great quality gear—see what it does for you I love Jon Brion's quote—‘I don't want to be Lo-Fi or Hi-Fi recounting that this was the approach that caused Beatles producer George Martin to turn down Abbey Road’s first 8-track recorder for use on the White Album The 4-track recorders used for years by The Beatles had been specially modified to help create some of their signature sounds Because the new 8-track recorder lacked those modifications Martin declined to bring it into the session was that it would be better for the process to maintain continuity Scott mentioned that The Beatles themselves had a different idea They decided to use the 8-track without Martin’s permission which got Scott and another engineer into a fair amount of trouble The fact that the device was used to track parts of “While My Guitar Gently Weeps” probably helped accelerate the forgiveness Even though new technologies can kill off old ways of working it’s ultimately up to humans to decide the hour that they should “It was the 60s,” Scott said of the incident Justin LancyAt the beginning of the Beatles era technicians had to complete what amounted to an extended apprenticeship program—and were even required to wear white lab coats (Winston Churchill once quipped that Abbey Road made him feel like he was visiting a hospital) Prospective engineers were brought up through the ranks slowly and instructed on the "rules of the process" at each stage culture—specifically counter-culture—began seeping into the studio and changing that dynamic relationship between the engineers and their tools the room became filled with incredibly skilled people who were willing to break any rule if it helped their artists create new and interesting sounds and deep professionalism which enabled Abbey Road’s technicians to respond to seemingly off-the-wall requests from The Beatles Engineers began to record amps inside cupboards to get unique sounds The studio’s tape recorders were rewired to automatically double-track performances was turned into an engineering puzzle that he had to solve when John Lennon took him up on his “suggestion” to fit the entire band in a small utility closet for the recording of “Yer Blues.” A sort of positive feedback loop was happening: Culture was driving the development of technologies which emboldened that creative culture to go even farther to create new tools and techniques This embrace of the unorthodox didn’t mean that the Abbey Road staff abandoned everything they had been taught in the “white coat days,” though Scott says it was that training which gave engineers the necessary skills to successfully and intelligently break the rules and develop all those new sounds and techniques the dynamic interaction between tools and culture has evolved in ways which may now be undermining the mindset that made Abbey Road successful the process of recording music is very much the same as it was in the time of The Beatles: Stick a microphone in front of someone or something and hit the “RECORD” button When you listen to recordings from a generation or two ago you often hear all sorts of rough edges: large dynamic transitions between loud and quiet the sounds of oversaturated tape and tubes Today’s creative paradox is that this human element which often makes a song distinct or artistically interesting is the thing which is almost always erased from modern productions “Do mistakes make music better?” I asked Kehew when it comes to what people like about music there was actually only one thing worse than these imperfections: perfection “I’ve done it and seen it many times," he said work on it 'til every part is ‘improved’ then listen This tendency towards incessant improvement has been encouraged by the power of modern tools sounds are almost always passed through a computer at some point in the recording process These computers have their own working paradigms—things like cutting-and-pasting and “infinite undo”—which gives them incredible power to alter performances It also adds more potential for overpolishing and something recording engineers refer to as "option paralysis," a state where the sheer number of choices available prevents decisions from being made Almost any element of a recording can be changed right up until the moment that a song is released to the public The limitations of Beatles-era technology were substantial by comparison and they forced a commitment to creative choices at earlier stages of the recording process an engineer wanted to exceed the number of recorded tracks that their tape machine allowed two or more tracks had to be mixed together and “bounced” to an open track elsewhere Mixes were performed by engineers in real time Big mistakes at any point in the process could force an entire recording to be scrapped It was because artists were often stuck with the mistakes they made that they sometimes decided to embrace them Once while recording a Beatles song called “Glass Onion” Scott accidentally erased a large number of drum parts that had been painstakingly overdubbed Lennon said that he liked the unexpected effect created by the glitch—and both the track and Scott stayed Scott was clear in his opinion: It isn’t so much the use of these new tools as it is their overuse that serves to undermine musicality "is a savvy or talented producer or engineer knows when to be bold and stop To let character and roughness and lack of polish exist I can bet most people spend more time polishing something than writing or creating the substance of it so you don't treat every damn thing as being so precious that 'It Must Be Perfect For All Time.'” I asked Kevin Ryan if he was able to heed Scott’s warning in his own work He laughed and acknowledged that knowing the risks of overusing digital tools didn’t make it any easier for him to resist that temptation an especially Beatle-like principle for not overworking something: “Let it be what it was,” he says Abbey Road straddles a line between modern culture and English Heritage It has become Pop Music’s Westminster Abbey: partly a tourist attraction partly a working cathedral where all the traditional rites and rituals are still observed Abbey Road is still producing hits though—even as tighter budgets and rising costs have caused many other recording facilities to close An almost unbelievable number of influential artists and projects have worked (and continue to work) at the studio Even if you eliminated the entire Beatles oeuvre the list is impressive Pink Floyd’s "Dark Side of the Moon” was tracked there Were these artists attracted to working at Abbey Road but there are probably more compelling reasons why so many great projects have emerged from St The people who worked at Abbey Road during the era of The Beatles enjoyed taking risks with whatever tools they had to work with They felt that great work always required a lot of skill It’s that spirit which seems central to creating enduring work and will hopefully continue to be a tradition that “honors the past and inspires today's ideas.” “But never get hung up on what happened before Today and tomorrow are as exciting… and always will be.” Arts & Humanities the great pyramids of Egypt have fascinated scientists and tourists alike for many generations along with the many other cultural treasures Egypt has to offer are one of Utah State University anthropology professor David Lancy's favorite areas in the world Lancy likes it so much that he has been leading tours to Egypt and the Middle East for Utah State students faculty and alumni every other year since 1996 "We have a great time and we are learning something," said Lancy "Students participating in the tour are earning a global education They are learning to understand and appreciate foreign cultures." Lancy says that study abroad promotes creative thinking and that is why he founded the Global Scholars Endowment Lancy started the endowment with a personal contribution because he has seen many highly qualified and eager students denied the opportunity of studying abroad The recipients from the endowment are top scholars at Utah State who have the commitment "As a professor of anthropology and leader of many student tours and he would like to reach out to more alumni by working with the alumni association on future trips To learn more about Lancy's travel program or the Global Scholars Endowment contact him at (435) 797-1322 Lancy and Utah State Vice Provost Joyce Kinkead took a group to visit Egypt over the holidays Kinkead finished this essay on the plane ride home from Egypt The fascination with Ancient Egypt seems universal It may be fueled during elementary school by reading about King Tutankhamun's treasures in a weekly reader or by visiting a touring exhibition on Ramses II who got to realize his childhood dream of visiting Egypt over the holidays on an "Aggies in Egypt" tour led by David F "I thought I had some sense of the size and splendor of Egypt; however it was much greater than I ever imagined," according to Groth who saw many of those splendors through the lens of a camera "Lying on my back in Tuthmosis III's banquet hall at Karnak Temple in Luxor or squeezing in a tomb to get a shot of the Book of the Dead literally focused my attention in places where the magnitude of the monuments can be overwhelming." The itinerary for the travel-study tour was notable for its inclusion of sites off the beaten path dubbed the "Valley of the Golden Mummies" for the cache of mummies found there in 1999 the city Indiana Jones sought in Raiders of the Lost Ark featuring ruins of obelisks and statues that prompted the travelers to read Shelley's famous poem Oxymandias "round the remains of that colossal wreck the lone and level sands stretch far away." Lancy noted that access to many sites was eased by having permission from Dr Director of the Supreme Council of Antiquities we would not have had the personalized attention at sites that are normally off limits One of the curators gave us a personal tour of nobles' tombs that are closed to the general public." Lancy also gave credit to Peace Tourism the company responsible for land arrangements "They are extremely proactive about making sure we got good treatment and access." The 20 travelers made their way through Middle Egypt a region off limits for the past decade due to internal strife group in the region is remarkable," noted Lancy "The local economy has suffered from the lack of tourism but there are remarkable sites in this area The high point of the tour for me was finally seeing the temple at Abydos a remarkably intact structure with vivid wall paintings and reliefs." Lancy continued "The Egyptian government is very sensitive about the safety of its visitors and we had the highest levels of security with our group 24 hours a day while in this region." Why travel to Middle Egypt "To see the progression of pyramid architecture where the ancient Egyptians tried out various models before hitting on the classic shape we know from Giza it's really necessary to see the Bent Pyramid it was this insider's view that made the trip memorable "We always see the exterior shots of the pyramids but I was inside duck-walking down the 190 foot long shaft of the Red Pyramid to look at the corbelled ceiling And being one of the 150 allowed daily to visit Nefertari's tomb was awesome especially since the tomb is closing for an indefinite period of time It truly is the most beautiful tomb in the Valley of the Queens." also stressed the beauty of Egypt's art and architecture "I made lots of sketches from the sites we visited The skill of the artists thousands of years ago is nothing short of astounding Their influence continues to be felt in contemporary art," Lancy agreed "The students on this trip really got an eye-opening experience I'm proud of the committed and studious way they approached the experience reading history and literature about Egypt before and during the trip and engaging in debates about those issues that still mystify us." USU Alum Elizabeth Schow ('99) found that in some respects not much has changed from 3100 B.C "The farming scenes depicted on the walls of the monuments---we saw these same scenes not carved in stones but with real people but there are also farmers using water wheels and hand tools to plant These daily scenes as well as the stunning monuments provided fodder for the photographers on the trip Describing himself as a "serious amateur," Loganite James Clow recorded hundreds of images they plan the next trip when they have developed all of the pictures from the last one Newton residents Robert and Doris Bartsch also toted a number of cameras so they could have just the right one for the photograph whether that was a felucca sailing on the Nile or fireworks being shot on New Year's Eve the Egyptian people were memorable for their friendliness and hospitality the site of the temple dedicated to the worship of Bastet we were almost swamped by children on a school tour," Elizabeth Schow noted and we got a group photo to send back to their school." Carlene McLaughlin spent some time in an Egyptian home in Fayum "This family just took us strangers in and shared afternoon tea and sweets They are remarkable for their warmth and friendliness these are the most important memories I'll take home with me," according to McLaughlin could not pinpoint one particular aspect as being more memorable from the grand scale of the pyramids to the medieval mosques I'm delighted that USU and its faculty are involved in these travel-study excursions I can say from experience that the chance to learn never really ends." The tour ended in Cairo where the Egyptian Museum was celebrating its centennial with a special exhibition on "Hidden Treasures," artifacts found in the museum's basement "The paint was still fresh in the new exhibition rooms in the basement," Lancy reported "This was a terrific time to be in Egypt." "Although the group members ranged in age from 15 to 75 there was a common passion for new experiences and I've learned so much on each journey that contributes to my teaching." Lancy is Utah's 2001 Professor of the Year and his selection by the Carnegie/CASE Foundation was based in part on his work with students in developing an educational CD Comments and questions regarding this article may be directed to the contact person listed on this page 20 surgeries and countless hours of struggle and perseverance Sarah Frei graduated with a bachelor's in Elementary Education The new $7.6 million cultural facility will provide opportunity for engagement with NEHMA's collection of modern and contemporary American art UNIVERSITY AFFAIRS SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY HEALTH & WELLNESS 8 Lancy Cheng was birding his usual patch near Quidi Vidi Lake in St Small flycatchers are scarce in Newfoundland and our only common ones are long gone by late fall Lancy knew that any small flycatcher in November was not only unusual He was able to get some good photos and alerted the birding community Subscribe now to access this story and more: Subscribe or sign in to your account to continue your reading experience Create an account or sign in to continue your reading experience The rest of the story shows how foolish this birding hobby can be Many people were able to relocate the bird which liked to hang out in the willows beside the Virginia River including the one by Jared Clark used in today’s Winging It so you would think that identifying the bird would be a piece of cake It would be an exaggeration to say that all the flycatchers in the Empidonax family look the same There are 11 species of them in North America and Our only regularly-occurring one of the group is slightly more yellow than the others but these birds have all migrated south by November all of the North American flycatchers should have migrated south by November By using subtle features like width of eye-ring ratio of wingtips to tail length and minor differences in bill length and head shape some of the other species can be eliminated from consideration But even flycatcher experts admit that there are two species that cannot be definitively separated based on looks alone: the alder flycatcher and the willow flycatcher those are the species that our flycatcher most resembled The only noise they might make is a one-syllable call-note The alder flycatcher says something resembling “pip” and the willow says “whit” Only a good recording could tell us whether this flycatcher was just a really or a huge rarity – our first ever willow flycatcher Try to imagine attempting to record the faint call-note of a tiny bird with the sound of the creek below and the wind whistling through the branches above this week the wind has been roaring through the branches for much of the time) and he was able to get two very weak call-notes recorded The mystery flycatcher wasn’t enunciating clearly enough Was it to turn out a boondoggle of Muskrat Falls proportions other birders were able to hear the bird slightly better The consensus was that it sounded more like the ultra-rare willow flycatcher would conclude that birders are clearly insane: “If you can’t tell by looking at the bird then who cares what it is?” But that’s crazy talk and if it does get identified as a great rarity it can possibly go on all kinds of lists: Newfoundland lists Canada lists and year’s lists — the list goes on This is not the first time a rare bird that was fairly well documented has gone unidentified in St In November of 2014 a meadowlark confounded experts from across North America as to whether it was the eastern or a western species the first step towards understanding is putting a name on things the annoying flycatcher without a name had not been seen in 48 hours As Emily Dickenson said: “Hope is the thing with feathers.” Other sightings On the same day as Lancy discovered the mystery flycatcher Shawn Fitzpatrick saw an unusually bright-looking orange-crowned warbler in his yard in St His photograph confirmed it as the first documented western subspecies of orange-crowned warbler ever for Newfoundland Isn’t it nice to find a rarity with a name Ken Knowles is watching the Winging It email: wingingitone@yahoo.ca Reviews and recommendations are unbiased and products are independently selected Postmedia may earn an affiliate commission from purchases made through links on this page The British Virgin Islands is an explorer's dream with more than 60 isles and cays to discover Expert-backed tips and a step-by-step breakdown to ward off these pests We tried it: Filtrete Smart Tower and the Dyson Purifier Hot+Cool Formaldehyde HP09 transmission or republication strictly prohibited This website uses cookies to personalize your content (including ads), and allows us to analyze our traffic. 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