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Elektrobear wrote:Thanks!
You can download the ones on Newgrounds. The new album will hopefully be out soon.
www.elektrobear.com wrote:Weird to think about it.. Almost a year since I first acquired FL Studio and started thinking about making some music. In fact, I just dug up this old list of goals I made when I was just starting out.
1. Make awesome.
Well, that worked out nicely, didn't it? No? Aww..
2. Take over world
It's a work in progress, stop looking at me like that!
3. Build my own home studio
Totally working on that, I'm at the point where I need money so I can buy things. Just like the rest of the world!
4. Make website
Looks like it isn't all doom and gloom here.
Okay, yeah, I made up this list just now. But I'm sure it's what Past-Me was thinking about one year ago.
Welcome to Elektrobear.com - where all your dreams come true! Ever wanted to see a midget mudwrestle with a dragon while wearing a suit? Well, we don't have that here, weirdo. No, here you get to read whatever bs I feel like writing on a weekly basis, probably more often.
I've also got tons of never before heard music just waiting to be appreciated. Starting now, I'll be posting one track a day.
Midnight(visit website to listen)
The first track is a personal favourite of mine. It's the first piece of music I created, on the 2nd of august 2008. I had absolutely no idea how to work the software I was using, all I had to go on were my 3 years of piano lessons. So I grabbed the only instrument sample I was familiar with, the piano, and crafted the song known now as Midnight.
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in Spokane. You can also arrange to share housing with another student.
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Which pairs besides Gordeeva and Grinkov have landed clean quad twists in competition?
Which pairs besides Gordeeva and Grinkov have landed clean quad twists in competition?
Obertas/Slavnov landed it at 2005 Worlds, but it wasn't too clean:
Dan Zhang & Hao Zhang performed one. I don't remember where or when, though.
Marina Cherkasova & Sergei Shakhrai reportedly did it at the 1977 Europeans but the footage I have starts mid-way through the LP. They tried it at 1978 Europeans and Worlds but bother were under-rotated. However I have this clip which I uploaded a while ago which is from a documentary on soviet skating and shows a fully rotated quad twist which they performed at the 1977/78 USSR Nationals in Vilnius. It's a two-footed catch by him but this is the cleanest one I ever saw them do. It's at 0:43....
Didn't a pair in the 70's do a quint twist?
It might have been the quad twist I read.. it was a long time ago.
I don't claim to know everything about skating but I feel really certain that no one has ever done a quint ANYTHING!
"Michelle would never be caught with sausage grease staining her Vera Wang." - rfisher
Carman & Knierim
But it was back when she was tiny.
Just as G&G ditched the quad twist after Katia grew a bit.
floskate shared this:
1977-78 Marina Cherkasova & Sergei Shakhrai - Rotated Quad twist and Triple Toeloops
^ I also remember this. They were going to get the same marks with a Quad Twist if they executed a perfect easier routine, so they went for the perfect routine since this was the Holy Grail of 6.0 skating.
I found it highly coincidental that they stopped using it when they did.
I believe she did say that, but I don't recall whether it was in her book or whether it was from an interview.
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Just curious re singers/musicians/bands: What/when/ who is the best concert you've seen? And why?
Just curious re singers/musicians/bands: What/when/ who is the best concert you've seen? And why?
Barenaked Ladies. Because they are good showmen and I love Steve (the chubby one.)
What would Jenny do?
The Deadmilk Men. A special place in my heart for a special time of being a teen.
All of the Bruce Springsteen & the E Street band concerts I went to. Bruce and the Big Man were such showmen - the energy level was incredible. And the concerts lasted for hours. I don't think I could bear to go to one now - I'd miss the Bruce/Clarence bromance.
Also love U2, Rolling Stones. Loved Talking Heads in concert back in the day.
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I think I will have a snack and take a nap before I eat and go to sleep.
Bruce just gets better and better IMO - I've seen him live perhaps a dozen times in the last thirty years, most recently last month. The energy is incredible, and yes Clarence is missed, but his nephew is now the featured sax player, plus on this tour there's a whole horn section, back up singers plus the violinist who has been on tour several years. Nils and Steven were in rare form, but Patti wasn't there (she skips some dates) - bottom line is it's Bruce's show, and he carries it.
Other recent memorable concerts - Bootsy Collins, still funking it up 50 years later, coming through the crowd to party with his fans; Rush, also better than ever with incredible live shows and music that continues to rock - HARD; Melissa Auf der Maur at a small club - the coolest chick in rock; Prince always a showman and always real; Jann Arden, songstress and comedian extraordinaire.
I couldn't name a favorite, have loved so many, but thanks for the Bruce review of this show Jenny, Im seeing him again next month in Ottawa and was wondering about the show without Clarence.
Seeing Madonna Thursday. Also wondering how she's going to do now that she's, uhm, closer to my age now.
I've only ever been to two real "rock concerts" in my life; both times - Paul McCartney!!!!
Simon-Garfunkel reunion concert here - around 2005 or 2006. It was awesome.
Keane and Elbow who played small venues in Boston and both stayed on stage for almost 2 hours . I whine a lot about Brit bands I like not being big in the US, but when I get to seem them up-close, it makes it all worth it .
1969 Newport Folk Festival - the Everly Brothers (Wake Up Little Susie, etc.) with their father, Ike. Nonstop great songs and high, high energy; I've never forgotten it. This was the weekend Armstrong walked on the moon and Ted Kennedy had that infamous car accident, but it's the Everly Brothers I remember, and this is from someone who went to Woodstock later the same summer.
Motley Crue!
Nubka - Unpaid Slave Laborer...
Nov. 6th, 1975 UCSB, Bruce and the E Street Band. Only song I knew was Born to Run, but that concert changed my life. He showed me what rock and roll could be and wrecked every concert I've seen since then because he set the bar so freaking high! If you've ever seen the video of the 1975 concerts in London, you have a good idea as to what I saw. Amazing.
Add me to the list of Bruce Springsteen concert fans. I can't imagine anyone performing more solidly, and being more worth the ticket price, no matter what it is. I've been to lots of other good, even great concerts; but no one holds a candle to the Boss.
I am free of all prejudices. I hate everyone equally.~W. C. Fields
Bruce Bruce Bruce.
Green Day were pretty awesome too.
Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the universe.
Probably Josh Groban for my 17th birthday-his voice is so much better live than on recording (which is already incredible) and he's developed a great stage presence. Also, for one song he came into the audience and I totally close to him and
Barenaked Ladies were great, too! And I'll always remember my first concert, Blue Man Group...when I got banana in my hair. That was special, hah!
A Madonna's concert is definitely on my bucket list. I think she has at least 2-3 more tours left in her before she gets to 60.
Rush! The music, the so-professional musicianship! Also saw Emerson, Lake & Palmer twice, great instrumentation by Carl & Keef. Saw 'The Guess Who' (they couldn't call themselves that, as the bass player had the rights to the name, so they called themselves the 'Cummings & Bachman Band'), where you got treated to two genres of great hits, The Guess Who & Bachman-Turner Overdrive. With three bros, one sister-in-law and one nephew, went to see Zappa Plays Zappa!( Pappa would have been proud). Also saw a tail end of Ringo & His All Starr tour (Starr had to bow out when his daughter became ill, so Mark Farner, Billy Preston, Randy Bachman & Felix from The Rascals carried on for several cities in his abcense). Met Billy & Randy backstage, where I told Billy a politically incorrect joke:"Why doesn't Ray Charles ever sky-dive?" "? Don't know". "Scares the hell out of his dog!", and he has this most guilty smirk in response.


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ZLandrum said: What show/movie is this one from?
mrpapaya said 147 weeks ago
Twilightkite said: Oh god finally, an art shirt!
After the eternal saturation of Doctor Who, this is wildly refreshing.
While I agree that the original art shirts are wildly refreshing, don't knock Doctor Who.
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No problem, really!! It was such an amazing show, its pictures deserved to be shown to everyone
No problem, really!! It was such an amazing show, its pictures deserved to be shown to everyone
A grumpy Canadian will always be nicer than a polite Milanese
very good quality videos
no vids of Shizuka yet? it looks like a great show
For misskarne and other Canberrans, I asked on Palace Electric (the Canberra Palace Cinema) FB if they would be showing Opera on Ice from the Italian film festival, and if they had a date yet. Their reply was:
"At this stage we have not confirmed what films we will be showing from the Lavazza Italian Film Festival but we will certainly be keeping this on in mind!"
I doubt I'll still be in Canberra by the time this cinema opens, but hopefully the rest of you will get to see it.
My travel and adventure blog http://alisonanddon.wordpress.com
Opera on Ice will be shown on Canale5 today at 17.10! I hope someone will post videos on Youtube :-)
The 2013 edition is already set: It will take place on September 28!
Also, some very nice backstage videos have been posted to the official Opera on Ice website, they are definitely worth checking out!
Backstage: http://www.operaonice.eu/backstage-evento-2012.html
Trailer of the 2012 show: http://www.operaonice.eu/video-prese...ento-2012.html
Photos from the 2012 show: http://www.operaonice.eu/photogaller...2011-2012.html
DVD of "Opera on Ice 2012" can be buy from 27.12.2012 on a newsstands in Italy:
I am looking to buy the first Opera on Ice on DVD but can't quite figure out where to locate it to buy a copy (and the website is in Italian). Is someone able to help me?
When you are up to your arse in alligators it is difficult to remember you were only meant to be draining the swamp.
The dvd was only sold with a weekly magazine here in Italy and it was sold for 1 week only in the newspaper stands. I guess the only way to have one is to request if there are old, unsold copies of the dvd and have them delivered. Maybe I can write to them and ask them if they do such deliveries abroad? (they usually do them in Italy). Is there more than one person interested?
I think she probably meant the official opera on ice website which was posted above http://www.operaonice.eu/news/opera-...a-edicole.html
When you are up to your arse in alligators it is difficult to remember you were only meant to be draining the swamp.
Ok. I'll just email them and see what it turns out. I'll let you know in this thread, so that other people can read if interested
Thank you so much for your help Eleonorad.
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Hi everyone, just to let you know that I've sent the email but all I got was an automatic reply from their web site that says that previous numbers of the magazine with the dvd can be sent in Italy for 15€. They don't mention nothing about the availability of the copies and the chance to ship abroad which I asked for in the email so I guess I'll just telephone them to have more details
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Some quick napkin math, you can tell me how far off base I am with my assumptions:
Your typical day is 6:30-4:00. Assume you're a typical teacher. In most jobs that's base 9 hours base pay (1/2 hour unpaid lunch), plus time and a half for the 1 hour overtime. 9.5 hours/day paid.
You work a "couple" hours on the weekend. I'm not sure how literal to read that. I'll assume that means 4 hours on the weekend. All overtime pay, so 6 hours paid for that.
Now to figure out the school year. I don't know where you work, I won't ask. I grew up in the Osseo school district, I think its a typical enough district. Their calendar is here. School year runs Sept 3-June 5. During the summer there are 7 days staff training and 4 days for Open House before the start of school. So before accounting for holidays, the work year is 42 weeks + 1 day.
Holidays in District 279 during the school year (not including staff training days, Labor Day, or Memorial Day):
Christmas: 8 days
Spring break 5 days
MLK, Presidents Day, and other random holidays: 8 days.
Assume that the typical teacher will work half-time during the holidays. Instead of 21 days, 10.5 days of holiday during the year.
So the actual work year then is 40 weeks, 1.5 days, where each week is 53.5 paid hours paid (after overtime) and the 1.5 days equates to 14.25 hours paid (after overtime).
Total paid hours then after including time and a half for overtime is 2154.25 hours / year.
According to this, average 1st year k-12 teacher salary in MN was $33,009 for the 2010-2011 year. Average teacher salary in MN was $53,680 for the same year. Assume no COLA increases since that year.
The apples to apples, hourly wage then, works out thusly:
First year teachers: $15.32 / hour
Average teacher: $24.92 / hour
Is that a fair estimation?
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And don't get me started on union stuff, I appreciate their efforts on many fronts but on ensuring teacher quality they are far and away the biggest problem. like any union these days they don't protect quality workers, they protect all workers. Even the awful ones with no business influencing kids.
Your estimation seems right Hammer and even if I do more than average those rates aren't real inspiring to draw high quality people into the field. Ben was right, we supress salaries in the fields of education and social work because we minimize the jobs importance\difficulty.
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Since this thread is no longer about Alex Meyer and about teachers it's being moved to 'The Sports Bar' for continuing discussion.
Also, most districts allow you to get paid for the nine months instead of 12. Assume a new teacher around 36,000, that teacher would make the equivalent of 45,000 for the school year. Again, not going to acquire many of the best people out there.
If we don't want bad tenured teachers, we should incentivize the job more. Like they do in many of the best educational countries in the world.
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"I'm a math teacher."
What would typically ensue at this point would be one of three things, 1) their personal horror story of how they began to hate Math, 2) how much they loved their AP Calculus teacher/class, or 3) they'd look for someone else to talk to as I was not going to make enough to warrant the type of lifestyle they wanted to live (Dallas area).
I got where I was pretty good at spotting the 3rd even before it happened and would interject the disclaimer, "hey, those who can't, teach right."
I got into teaching because my education - double major in Mathematics & Chemistry, just missed a Physics major as well - accompanied with while working on my parents hog/grain farm and catering business wasn't exactly a combination employers wanted to see when I tried to apply for jobs in industry. There were a lot of similar cases. International publications, Pre-Med students who didn't get into Medical programs, but also, people who were in teaching for the long haul. Some of those had truly mastered the science and were calculated in all they did, truly amazing to behold. I will say, I love watching even a good plumber, or anyone who's really good at their trade. So I will acknowledge that bias if you will.
Then there were those teachers who, by this poster's post, probably experienced. And for that I'm sorry. I had some pretty rough teachers too. And I understand as a youngster (pre-18) those formative years typically have emotion tied to their experience more than a person who encounters a professional of another trade in his mid to late 20's for the first time. There's way more exposure to teachers too, and much like names, it often can take just one bad/poor teacher to ruin the entire profession/experience for a person. If you're a parent, you now get doubly exposed to the possibility of a bad teacher and you will have an emotional response to your child's emotional response.
Some of those teachers are beat down by administrations and regulations that just don't make sense. From shoving kids in AP classes as 'no pass no play' doesn't apply to not holding kids accountable for grades and no child left behind - these all have wildly different affects on how a teacher can do their job, which often includes writing curriculum, grading papers, and also talking to the kids' agents, er parents. Add any of those other things where I have to write up to 5 different versions of an exam because of ridiculous learning modications, and you just took away any hope of a social life for my week. Many in America, often don't look at a teacher with much respect, we are after all what's between them and their kid going to the college they want to go to. Or for more short term, their kid playing in the Friday night football game.
Let me share a story or at least something to shed light on how teachers are looked at in America versus say South America or in the East, like China, Japan, and the like. I love Chinese food, especially buffets. The quality is a little worse, but you get more choices. So Most weekends I'd choose either a Chinese buffet, a coffee shop, or pub with some good local craft brews to do grading and write the quizzes/exams for the coming week. I got to where I found a Chinese buffet I really liked and when I'd come in there they'd see all my books and naturally, the first time, asked what I did. And though their understanding of English wasn't that great, they understood: "Teacher."
You should see the look on their faces anytime I would walk in, the whole front end of the store would often exclaim, "Teacher. Teacher. Welcome! Come! Come! You sit here. Is this alright for you?"
It was if I was some celebrity. Why, well, you see, all the servers at that Chinese buffet were actually from China, they were working here to send money back home. But in China, teacher is perhaps the most respected profession of all or at least up there with doctors, lawyers, and the like. So I don't blame anyone who looks down on a teacher as meager profession, they live in a culture that says that and unless they gain a fuller understanding of their own culture and of the world - that's a view they would probably hold, even if a teacher they had in their formative years was a horrible portrait of a teacher.
As far as the hours compared to industry, of which I am now in, I worked typically from 630AM - 5PM with a 14 min lunch break. I had one planning period which was an hour. I also had to write curriculum at my job, which often consisted of all day Sunday while watching football. Equations editor, browsing 15-20 Calculus texts for problems that won't blow the kids out of the water, yet are at an incremental level of difficulty. I got to watch football this entire time, but still, it was work. I had 140 students, and had to put at least 3 assignments into the grade book each week and no more than a 2 day turn around for minor assignments (non Exams). So I had to grade papers at least 2 days a week during the week and even if I took just 1 minute to look over a quiz it would require 140 minutes. So I had 10.5 HR days plus grading (2.25 HR, 3x week) plus 8 HR on Sunday. Then there's Exam grading which was every 3 weeks, which would typically take me around 10 hours with entering all grades into the gradebook, writing comments, partial credit, etc.
We worked 38 weeks a year at 67 HR a week, plus one exam every 3 weeks. So 12 exams at 10 HR a pop. That's 2676 hours a year. Take that over 50 weeks, it comes out to 53.5 HRs a work week.
I work 48-55 a week now in Marketing Analytics. So it's about equal.
There are exceptions, Phy Ed teachers to Golf coaches, etc - with no lesson planning and no real graduation requirements (Math, Science, English, Social Studies) have it easy provided they aren't coaching either. They also get paid almost the same. For these - life is a dream. But they aren't the norm.
Teaching is tough, I'm glad I did it. But ultimately, as USAFChief said eloquently put it, for me, the combat pay wasn't enough to go through what a teacher has to go through. Teachers put up with a lot - we get annoyed at work when a college educated mid 20's to mid 40's adult acts up - try dealing with people where NO ONE has a college degree and NO ONE is over 18. And try to reason and rationalize with them.
I would say, if anyone has a low view of a profession, they should try it for themselves. The CEO of Waste Management had his eyes opened when he went out on the ground floor. If teachers, or any profession really, could get more people to do this, they probably could get better help from administrators, government officials, parents, and the like - as to do their jobs better. We all could.
"Those who can't, teach."
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I wonder what you think about the idea of a uniform national math curriculum (with multiple tracks). It seems to me that this would reduce the burden by providing lesson plans for teachers, and it could be paired with online support for students. I also think that math would be the best subject to try this, because there should be less regional variation compared with other subjects.
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People with the greatest talents will gravitate towards the top of their profession. What brings the most prestige, personal benefit, or pay? Top athletes get to pick where they play based on where they can win, get paid and/or be the Man on the team (see marbury). Most teachers get into teaching for the love of kids and a desire to make a difference in young lives (I have not met one that did not say this but I will leave room for error saying most) when we do not respect the profession, pay poorly, and the benefits are gone because they work other jobs in the summers, how do you expect to draw greatness into the profession. Like the Houston Astros, you get what you pay for.
I am a Special Education Teacher. I have been assaulted several times this year and I am told by administration that if I get hit or kicked it is my fault for not moving out of the way. Students cannot be restrained without consequences (hours of paperwork or administrative discipline) even when assaultive due to recent state law changes. Don't put down what others do until you've walked in their shoes. It is a fairly thankless job.
Tomorrow I will be in my office working to get caught up on paperwork. Several teachers are planning this together so we can also have a lunch together. The grass is always greener in the neighbours lawn isn't it?
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That said, on a separate note, my son has had trouble in school for several years now. We requested and were given a specific teacher in the fourth grade and have watched him go from hating school to enjoying it far more. It is amazing the difference that one person can make. My daughter could do well with just about any teacher in just about any system, but my son is a very high energy little boy who has had a ton of difficulties with school up until this point. One teacher has changed all of that.
But the union is also the biggest stumbling block towards incentive pay for good teachers.
You hit the nail on the head. Mathematics is a universal language. 2 + 2 using whole base 10 positive integers is always 10 whether you're in Japan, Germany, Brazil, or Minnesota. It would be the most logical choice to standardize and there's some leeway in this regard - at least on state levels. It would help for kids transferring districts to states and the like.
The problem is with Mathematics they're trying to re-invent the wheel. Gauss, Newton, Leibnitz, LaPlace, et al - all their math still applies.
School districts have administrators who are basically politicians. They're in a lot of pies. What's a big factor of housing costs? School quality or reputation. The ever so pressing: "You want a good education for your kids, don't you?" "Your kids' education is worth the extra money, aren't they?" They have to differentiate their school as 'innovative' and that means having something different, a better presentation, and 'improved methods' and 'new technologies' than other school districts. So administrators who are into jumping up jobs and getting districts popular and increasing revenue will dump the teachers every time. They can adjust. If they don't, can always find new teachers.
My Experience
In Texas, every kid is now starting at Tier 1 level. It basically means a teacher is now primarily responsible for discerning the inner workings of all 140 of his students. Learning styles (tactile, audible, visual, etc) and we have to write reports on it and have learning accommodations for each students' learning style. Try teaching a single lesson plan to 25-35 teenagers. Now they're stacking the bar and saying you have to teach 25-35 individualized learning plans. Then add the parents who don't want to deal with their kids and get them tested for everything to get accommodations. My kid has autism. Nope. My kid has ADD. Nope. My kid has ED. ED, as in emotional disorder. Ever watch Jurassic Park, the dinosaurs are testing the fences to find a weakness. If they can given a treat each time (positive re-inforncement) to try a weakness, they will continue. School becomes a game. Oh, and any kid with a 'learning disorder' (real or not, not saying some aren't real), I have to write another set of assignments for.
Then, kids can re-take any assignment, quiz, or Exam for a 70. That is, if you get a 35, because you didn't prepare for the exam on Friday because you got drunk or played CS Black Ops (Counter Strike - a video game for those of you watching at home) - well, no worries, because you can just retake it and get a 70 on the exam. By that time you will know the type of questions on the exam and your teacher (me) now has to write another version of the exam and write an exam key. Their irresponsibility led to my weekend getting an extra work load. When I went to school, there no re-takes. You get 1-2 drops a year. Exams only account for about 30-40% of the class, so it's easy to make up a B with even a 70 exam average. If I have any kid who's below a 70 for any quarter, we had a 15 page report we had to fill out outlining all the learning modifications we tried to make sure they passed. We had to document trying to contact the parents, what learning options were discussed, etc. Guess what most teachers do? Would you like to write 15-20 15 page reports (in addition to your 67 hour work week) beginning on Tuesday through the weekend? For $50K?
Each year, teachers become more and more liable legally for a student's success and mental health. We have to report everything, if we don't, we stand a chance of legal stuff. Then you have students who might try to say you cheated them or didn't treat them fairly or they came in for tutoring and you didn't give them enough attention - they actually had to work with the other 12-15 students who come in regularly. They tell their parents, who contacts the principle - and we have a meeting. Another eat in to my evening.
Sure, there's bad teachers who don't care anymore. And they'll sit on good classes, I got lucky to be able to teach AP Calculus. Except, I had to write my own curriculum. Some districts will have a good Special Education dept who can help (project management) with a lot of the learning modifications - but you still have to write the exams. Try writing an exam that isn't over a student's head. It's hard. I know Calculus like breathing, I don't see the difficulty level without some sort of feedback. You find all their deficiencies in Algebra, Geometry, spatial understanding, etc - because teachers passed them beforehand. Guess who has extra work (tutoring, assignments, etc) to make sure these learners pass?
You can't make plans as a teacher. Your evenings are at the disposal or anyone's inability to take any responsibility for their own learning. There's over 5,000,000 videos, webpages, and learning tutorials online on algebra alone. Over half of my kids had smart phones, so they had access to this stuff all the time.
Education should be about learning to solve problems, learning to find a way through the obstacles given to you. Relationships will require this, your future job will require this.
The reason secondary education (k-12) is a joke is because everyone passes. We've said everyone deserves an education, but rather we've given them all diplomas and called it an education. We reduce to the lowest common multiplier. There's a reason 'pop' (or popular) music is so mundane - it has to appear to the largest group and thus has the lowest common multiplier. Everyone has to like something about it.
Same with health insurance, giving everyone health insurance doesn't mean health care. We have a dichotomy here where we're crossing our i's and dotting our t's. One doesn't mean the other. It can.
Obviously, my experience isn't everybody's experience and it shouldn't be taken as such.
But, I was a fun teacher, honestly. Imagine a farm kid (mechanical minded, familiar with livestock processes) with a Physics & Chemistry background teaching your Mathematics and Science courses. You get to design a potato gun and you get to launch a potato at your teacher and if it hits him (or within 3 yards) while he's standing 200 yards away, you make $100. Create your own video games. Explode watermelons and use CO2. Make your own vander graaf generator and make people's hair stand up. Then figure out why. Study Reighley Scattering and refraction of light. Mess with optics.
I was voted Most Inspirational Teacher in just my 2nd year. But I walked away because I had to give up my life to do so. I liked teaching and was looking forward to coaching baseball as well. But, I hadn't even gotten into coaching and I was already no longer be able to live and thus to inspire. I could no longer think or dream with the kids, because I was writing learning modifications or correcting retakes for 70's on every little assignment.
Or meeting with a principal and a parent because their daughter decided instead of trying to do their homework or come to tutorials that they found something online that says students associate 'red' with correction and have lower sense of self esteem when they see red correction marks/ink on their exams as opposed to other colors. (Not peer reviewed) So I'm in this meeting and I know the kid is just trying to not be grounded. So I stand up after a minutes of this discussion of grading in purple or black, walk over to the copier in the room, put the exam in there, hit copy, and bring it back, put the paper in front of the parent and student, "Whatever color I grade in will become associated with it being 'wrong'...here's your paper, it still says a '44', do you feel any better about this exam now that I've put it in black and white?"
The Problem with Bonuses or Teacher Performance
Not all kids are created equal. Look at the problem with the Twins and the Yankees. It's the have's and the have not's. The problem with bonuses for being a 'good teacher' is you'd get teachers changing grades (already do)...so if you do EOY testing, that's based on the students you have. Already see this, teachers trying to get top kids from the previous year. Ultimately, something along the lines of a kid was 'here' and you took them 'here' - you see those stories. But kids are such a dynamic data point. I had a few kids who did horrible on EOY exams as someone told them they don't matter, they can graduate without them. Which is true, but killed my test scores! The other problem is most of the standardized tests are from curriculum from the year before, not the current year. This is a whole other discussion and my post is probably already too long to endure.
Teachers are disposable, thus back to Marta Shearing's post - "Teachers are a dime a dozen."
That's what administrators, laws, parents, and students have demanded they be. They don't want real teachers, because real teachers practice discipline and accountability. Learning is something to be owned, not given.
I subbed for a time in Indiana. I believe I made about $55 a day after taxes.
Also, the historical connection between teaching originally being a "female profession" and low-pay should probably not be overlooked . . . just sayin'.


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There's a phrase economists often say: If you want to see the economy improve, go shopping. That often seems like a rationale to embark on a self-indulgent shopping spree. But in the case of new car sales, it really did ring true last year.
Take Petaluma. That city brought in enough money last year from the sales tax on new cars to pay for its entire parks and recreation department, and still had a little left over.
A sharp increase in car sales across Sonoma County has sent a surge of tax revenue to local government agencies, while prompting local dealers to begin hiring again.
New car sales in Sonoma County jumped 27 percent in 2012, giving dealers their best results in five years, according to AutoCount data from Experian Automotive.
Statewide growth of new car sales also was strong. The number of new vehicles sold in California rose 25.3 percent, well above the 13.4 percent increase nationwide, according to the California New Car Dealers Association.
Auto executives attribute the increase in sales to the release of pent-up demand, strong trade-in values and easing credit conditions.
"We averaged a 40 percent increase in year-over-year sales, with a real acceleration in the last quarter," said Henry Hansel, owner of six auto dealerships selling 11 brands in Santa Rosa and Petaluma. "The whole industry, but in particular Northern California, seems to be performing better."
Toyota brands dominated sales statewide, capturing 21 percent of the market, followed by Honda with 12.5 percent and Ford with 11.3 percent.
Those gains make a substantial impact on the local economy. But the totals are still far below pre-recession levels. Sonoma County auto dealers sold 15,313 new cars last year, just two-thirds of the volume reached in 2005, according to AutoCount.
"New car sales is a large portion of our sales tax," said Bill Mushallo, finance director for Petaluma. "It's about 19 percent of our sales tax revenue, so it's been a significant impact here at the city over the last couple of years."
In Petaluma, sales tax revenue from new car dealers, which also includes revenue from those dealers' used car sales, reached $1.7 million in the fiscal year that ended June 30, Mushallo said, a welcome revenue stream in a city where the general fund budget fell from $48 million to $32.5 million in recent years.
"Last fiscal year generated a bit of a surplus because of the increased sales tax," Mushallo said. "We have very minimal reserves."
The increased sales also provide a boost to the local job market.
At its peak in 2006, Hansel Auto Group employed nearly 700 people. But when the recession hit — and statewide new car sales fell from an average of 2 million cars per year to just 1 million in 2009 — staffing at the auto group fell to about 425 people, Hansel said.
"It was painful," Hansel said. "It was truly survival mode. So it was a combination of layoffs, and a combination of people realizing that they weren't able to make enough income with reduced sales."
Car sales began picking up in late 2011, and so did hiring. The company now employs 500 people and plans to expand its workforce by an additional 10 percent this year, Hansel said.
Sales consultant John Knapp started at the Hansel Toyota dealership in Petaluma in November, after a previous career working as a press operator for the San Francisco Chronicle.
"It's a big deal," Knapp said about the job. "I've always been able to talk to anybody, and I was able to carry that over to this job," he said, before rushing off to help a customer who was checking out pickup trucks.
Michael's Harley-Davidson in Cotati also recently advertised job openings, said Steve Czegus, manager of Job Link, the county program that offers training and job-search assistance.
"People obviously are feeling a little more confident in their financial situation if they're willing to spend money on a Harley-Davidson, which would typically be seen as a luxury item," Czegus said.
Jorge Donan, 28, of Petaluma, said he's been postponing a car purchase for a while. If the pricing was right, he'd consider a new over a used model, he said.
"I'm trying to find the best car for my wife so she can take the kids to school," Donan said. "I've been trying to wait, and save a little more money."
He browsed the new and used cars on local lots, looking for inspiration. Drivers held onto cars longer during the recession, creating demand for used cars that outstripped supply, and sending prices for used cars soaring. New car dealers saw the opportunity and scrambled to get more used cars on their lots beyond the trade-ins they typically offer.
Customers who are hoping to save money at the pump by buying a more fuel-efficient model, or those who just can't wait any longer to replace their aging cars, are a big portion of the buyers, Hansel said.
"These are people who no longer had the confidence that their car is going to get them to work every day, but they held onto them because of economic uncertainties," Hansel said.
Nationwide, new light vehicle registrations are expected to rise 6.6 percent this year to 15.3 million vehicles, according to Polk, an global automotive market research firm. But the group warns that car sales likely won't return to pre-recession levels for many years.
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The Flanders Opera Symphony Orchestra was formed in early 1989 after a series of auditions for an international jury. This young and dynamic orchestra is composed of about 80 Belgian and foreign musicians.
The orchestra made its debut in 1989 in a concert featuring the mezzo-soprano Agnes Baltsa conducted by the then musical director, Rudolf Werthen, in the Pacification Hall at Ghent City Hall. Since then the orchestra has played in numerous successful opera productions such as Verdi's Simon Boccanegra, Otello, Un ballo in maschera, Falstaff, Rigoletto, La Forza del Destino, Il Trovatore, Luisa Miller, La Traviata and Giovanna d'Arco; Tchaikovsky's Eugene Onegin and Pikovaja Dama; Richard Strauss' Elektra, Der Rosenkavalier, Daphne, Arabella and Salome; Puccini's Edgar, La Rondine, Manon Lescaut, Tosca, Turandot, La Bohème, Madama Butterfly, La Fanciulla del West and Il Trittico; Wagner's Parsifal, Der fliegende Holländer, Rienzi, Lohengrin and Tristan und Isolde; Mozart's da Ponte operas, La Clemenza di Tito, Die Entführung aus dem Serail and Idomeneo; Handel's Alcina, Ariodante, Orlando and Rinaldo; Rossini's La Cenerentola and Il Barbiere di Siviglia, Massenet's Cendrillon and Werther, Offenbach's Les Contes d'Hoffmann and Humperdinck's Hänsel und Gretel. The orchestra also performed several 20th-century operas such as Britten's Billy Budd, Sir Michael Tippett's King Priam, Giorgio Battistelli's Prova d'Orchestra, Hans Werner Henze's Der Prinz von Homburg, and the world creations of a.o. Piet Swerts' Les Liaisons dangereuses, Wim Henderickx's Achilleus and Giorgio Battistelli's Richard III. Furthermore they played Alban Berg's Lulu, Janacek's Jenufa, Cunning Little Vixen and Kat'a Kabanova, Maderna's Venetian Journal/Satyricon and Thomas Adès' Powder her Face.
From 1993 until spring 1997 Stefan Soltesz was music director. As from the 1997-1998 season Soltesz became the general manager of Aalto Theatre in Essen. Marc Minkowski succeeded him as music director. Under his direction the orchestra gained much acclaim with Cendrillon (Massenet), Oberon (Weber) and Idomeneo (Mozart). The orchestra was conducted later by music director Massimo Zanetti (2000-2002). From 2002 on, its principal guest conductor is Ivan Törzs.
Silvio Varviso has been a permanent guest conductor at the Flanders Opera for several years now. Varviso has been much praised for his original and elegant interpretation of Puccini's operas, as well as for his captivating performances of Wagner's Parsifal and Tristan und Isolde.
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Sporting Life Bisping started martial arts at age eight, and was routinely winning kickboxing and Japanese jiu-jitsu competitions by his teens.
Paying His Dues Bisping was paid nothing for his MMA debut and he had to pay for his girlfriend's ticket to the event. He went on to win every major belt on the European circuit. • Training hundreds of miles outside of his hometown, Bisping sometimes slept in his car to save time and gas. • Frustrated and about to get "a real job," a girlfriend at the time told him to stick with it – a year later, he was cast on The Ultimate Fighter.
Upstairs, Downstairs His nickname "The Count" points to regal lineage – Bisping is a direct descendant of a Medieval Polish Count who was awarded lands in the 14th century after winning a famous battle for the King. • Gymmates who heard this fact, began calling him "The Count" as a joke, and the moniker stuck. • Pre-MMA, Bisping held far more working-class positions such as upholsterer slaughterman, builder and laborer.
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