27 Takeaways: One observation on every MLS team after Week 34 https://www.mlssoccer.com/news/27-takeaways-one-observation-on-every-mls-team-after-week-34 Recap: Seattle Sounders 1, LA Galaxy 1 https://www.mlssoccer.com/news/recap-seattle-sounders-fc-1-la-galaxy-1 Sounders’ winless streak reaches five in 1-1 draw with L.A. Galaxy https://www.seattletimes.com/sports...eak-reaches-five-in-1-1-draw-with-l-a-galaxy/ Galaxy’s playoff hopes tenuous after tie with Sounders https://www.latimes.com/sports/socc...layoff-window-narrows-after-tie-with-sounders MLS Power Rankings: NYCFC getting hot at the right time as Portland arrests slide https://www.espn.com/soccer/major-l...t-at-the-right-time-as-portland-arrests-slide Tifo video: Why are MLS franchises so valuable? https://theathletic.com/2926630/2021/11/01/tifo-video-why-are-mls-franchises-so-valuable/ Alexis Sanchez to MLS rumors arise as Conte nears Tottenham switch https://soccer.nbcsports.com/2021/1...rumors-arise-as-conte-nears-tottenham-switch/ FIFA hands Mexico two-match fan ban for anti-gay chants in Canada, Honduras matches https://www.espn.com/soccer/mexico-...-hands-mexico-two-match-fan-ban-for-anti-gay-
Glad to see FIFA meting out some punishment for fan behavior as it pertains to Mexico. If only CONCACAF and the USSF would grow a pair and make a stand on the issue. Along the same lines, is MLS doing anything about fan behavior at its games? Can it do anything about it? I'm referring to the obnoxious and quite audible chant Portland fans were making after the Timbers tied Seattle 2-2 a couple of months ago in Oregon (prior to the Sounders pumping in 4 unanswered goals to win the game going away). Nearly 20 years ago, the league came down with a definitive 'cease and desist order, or else' directive toward fans using the YSA chant on corner kicks. Some chants that you may be able to hear during a broadcast aren't really things 10-year old kids need to be hearing from 'adults'. Maybe I'm a fuddy-duddy about this, but you can be an enthusiastic fan who voices displeasure at a game without going overboard about it.
Tifo video: Why are MLS franchises so valuable? https://theathletic.com/2926630/2021/11/01/tifo-video-why-are-mls-franchises-so-valuable/ I’m not watching a video. Reminds me of one of those whiteboard time sinks where they write everything down the narrator is saying, just to sell you a bottle of reoccurring mind/body/sex pills that are just tums. Just put it in print. Thx, Jay!
Still beats Charlotte's copy of Charlton Athletic. And it's not only more creative than the Quakes' logo, it would acurrately identify the Quakes, a club so many feel lacks an identity. (If read aloud.)
Boy, amen to this. If there's one thing that makes me yearn to murder someone, it's having to sit through a "meeting" while some clown reads his 50 PowerPoint slides out loud one by one, line by line. Hey idiot, we can all read. Just send us the damn thing.
While CONCACAF (read: Victor "Spineless Weasel" Montagliani) wouldn't be inclined to intervene, FIFA will never allow this. They're VERY touchy about women's issues right now. Even if the response were to come from CONCACAF it would absolutely originate in Zurich. In any case, even the FMF knows that it would only make things worse, since it provides no incentive for the fans to stop. They'll keep on chanting and FIFA will keep on adding closed games until the women won't be playing in front of a crowd for 20 years. The real problem is if Mexico starts scheduling a whole raft of friendlies, calling in their B or C players and playing before empty stadiums that wouldn't be all that full anyway.
Rule 1 in my PhD program was all presentations are short as possible and you never read the slides. We actually know that reading the slides verbatim leads to less retention because the brain processes the auditory and visual as identical and squelches both so as to not use up too much working memory. You either use images with keywords to highlight things while talking or short statements that you expand on if needed, and never spend more than 1 minute on a slide. That's all well proven from decades of research done primarily by Richard Mayer.
In my former life, I was merciless to staff officers that read from a script or read the slides during briefings. I'd almost always reviewed their briefing and would have questions about a few points in the briefing. My first warning was, "Believe it or not, we learn to read even in Florida public schools." If they didn't get it, I'd tell them that they could speak only while planking That having been said, the content and the points raised in the video were good.
I wonder if that has anything to do with something I figured out about myself in college. Note taking actually made me less likely to retain and understand the info. I'd jot down very basic stuff, things like the date of the test or the chapters we were covering or whatever, but otherwise I'd just listen to the lecture and not worry about writing down everything the professor/TA was saying and I'd retain and understand a lot more of it than if I had been scribbling notes the whole hour.
There's really good evidence that unstructured note taking, by hand, is the best way to take notes in class. Basically just jotting down big ideas/concepts, and quotes that seem relevant. Follow that up with typing out more detailed and organized notes, within a couple of hours of the lecture, and initial retention is at its highest point. The best book length treatment on how we actually learn is Make It Stick by Peter Brown, but you could probably get all the useful information about it from Brian Johnson's "Philosopher's Notes" review of the book.
This was me as well, but I wouldn't even bother to take notes, mostly. I'm young (old now) enough, as well as being a business major, that most of my lectures had PowerPoint slides that they would send out after the lecture. Those were far better notes than anything I could take, and I would absorb a lot more just by listening.