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Think your brilliant app idea will earn some big bucks? HAH. You fool
Fewer than one in ten thousand mobile apps are actually going to make any money for their developers in the next couple of years, beancounters at Gartner have warned. Both Google's Play Store and Apple's App Store have over a million apps and games available to download, forcing people to look at recommendations, social networks …
Fewer than 0.01% of apps will be a financial success
Hardly surprising when just about anyone and their dog can upload any pile of crap to google play or wherever. The article says it all in second paragraph, over a million apps available, the good ones are getting lost in the noise. Take away all the flotsam and jetsam and the percentage will be much higher.
Re: Fewer than 0.01% of apps will be a financial success
Whole-heartedly agree.
But how to achieve that? Any entity with responsibilities for rejecting apps on the basis of "being either flotsam or jetsam" would be the target of a bazillion lawsuits in very short order.
Paris doesn't know how to fix it either.
But the real issue I face...
... is that it's impossible to find any apps that let me share voice, photos and text with my friends. If only someone would build that kind of app, and then do it again, and again and again.
odds and earnings
one in ten thousand
That's still WAY better odds than playing the lottery then.
Also - make less than $1,250 a day
That's 760 quid a day. (don't scoff, we're not all big bucks consultants y'know)
Three or four months of that and i wouldn't need to earn anything else for the rest of the year. very nice thank you. and still, better odds of achieving it than spending £2 every week on the lottery.
Re: odds and earnings
More importantly, that's £760 that's independent of location. £760 a day while living in the location of your choice? Yes please!
Re: odds and earnings
> That's 760 quid a day. (don't scoff, we're not all big bucks consultants y'know)
Are you perhaps making two potentially hurtful assumptions?
1. $1250.- is revenue, not profit. From that you have to subtract costs.
2. It is a very capable developer indeed who he, given the fierce competition, can single-handedly make a sustainable 500 downloads a day application. More likely this will be a company effort, or at least a small team of bright people.
Re: odds and earnings
>That's 760 quid a day.
If you only count the working week it's £200k a year. I could probably scrape by on that...
I think the whole thing is bollocks though; $1,250 over 500 downloads is $25 for the app, which seems a rather a high price point.
I suspect a misplaced decimal point.
Also - make less than $1,250 a day
I couldn't live on that!
Re: odds and earnings... I (w)hole-heartedly agree
That 1,250 a day is hardly anything to scoff at. I'd be thrilled to get that much for just 2 months. I'd be debt-free just about.
But, I wonder what the return ratio is.
As for rating of apps, Apple and Google seem to be taking different tacks. Doesn't googly have very weak requirements relative to Apple WRT uploading of apps? IIUC, Apple is hammer-handedly FIERCE about gate-keeping its garden from weeds and gopher and worms that might risk sullying the iPhone experience. I could be mistaken, though.
Also, I echo the cry for file-sharing .. That is, of things I own or am allowed to share. Content owners could put in sharability rights flags and leave it up to app makers to put in a feature that helps the content owners keep better track of their stuff's travels. Might already be in some play BWO cookies and bots and crawlers.
What I REALLY long for is a free or near free, flexible, non-call-back-home app that would let me embed copyright, date/time stamps, and notes on photos before uploading. But, I suspect that while facebook would claim it honors copyright notices, it would not at all like to find itself in court over proof of stripping metadata's obvioius counterpart -- warnings overlaid by the content owners. FB and other sites would come up with excuses to take down such photos from users' profiles, maybe such as, "We find that 99.995% of our users react adversely to and skip over photos bearing or obstructing photo content with notices and warnings that do not describe the actual photo...."
Well, Koreans and Japanese are crazed wild with lavishing their photos with cartoon characters, fonts, and more. I guesss I need to look harder, or more frequently. But, the bit about not reporting home... It bugs me that I think that what I consider private notes may be getting slurped up by sundry apps that all have permissions they should not have.
Priority # 1 for any honest app developer would be to resist in-building andy slurp feature, and avoid facilitation of backdoors hooks.
Just my 1.98 cents...
Re: odds and earnings
Yeah, well, you are the one who misplaced it. $1250 over 500 downloads is two point five bucks, not twenty five. What's unusual about that?
Dead Givaway
"Furthermore, of paid applications, about 90 per cent are downloaded less than 500 times per day and make less than $1,250 a day."
So, the Gartner consultant that wrote the report is on $1250 per day, then, I take it? Anything under that isn't worth bothering with.
Call me extravagant but I could probably manage to live on USD 1250 a day ....
class comment
made me laugh
Re: class comment
minus the contributions from class 1 & 2 national insurance contributions (from registering as self employed) and then having to pay VAT after the first 2 months at that rate.
All of a sudden, the total diminishes by an alarming amount! (still far better than you can get by working for somebody else and producing that app, mind)
The dirty secret of mobile apps - they don't make any money
Mobile apps have been a race to the bottom for a while now - and it's getting worse. Users have become accustomed to highly polished and functional apps, and then not paying anything for them. The resources required to build a professional app are already pushing beyond the limit of what a one-man band can achieve - consider the app itself, artwork, not to mention the development, hosting and support of back-end services that are commonly required by apps.
I have published two mobile apps across several platforms (iOS, Android and Windows Phone) and I can confirm the work involved is immense. And for all that effort, my apps generally bring in no more than £5/day on average. When you look closely at the stats though, it turns out that my apps are doing better than 90% of what is out there. This is the dirty secret - the very long tail of apps and profitability. The 90% below me make no money worth mentioning at all, and the next 5% (Top 10%-5%) make slightly better pocket money - say £100 per day range. I would be ecstatic to even be in that range. It's only the chosen few in the top few percent to make any 'real' money at all - i.e. enough to replace the day job
Re: The dirty secret of mobile apps - they don't make any money
It'll level out at some point - the market is still very young. Over time, those not making money will stop trying, and will leave behind those who are capable of making good apps that people are willing to pay for.
Free apps might often get downloaded, but in my experience most of them end up being terrible and end up being removed.
Re: The dirty secret of mobile apps - they don't make any money
It'll level out at some point - the market is still very young. Over time, those not making money will stop trying, and will leave behind those who are capable of making good apps that people are willing to pay for.
Those leaving will be replaced by the following generation of mobile app developers.
If you want to remove the noise then app stores need to charge a per day listing fee.
Re: The dirty secret of mobile apps - they don't make any money
Writing apps for profit is little different to trying to make a career as an author, musician or artist. A lucky few will make the big time while the rest will see little reward. Most therefore only do it for fun and a vague hope they might get lucky.
App stores have become too big but I don't know what the answer is. It's no different to having a store which stocks every book ever written, every recording and film ever made, every item ever produced. Nothing wrong with that but no one would find such a place useful for discovering what they will like as the sheer choice becomes overwhelming.
We rely on word of mouth and independent reviews to tell us there's something good and, though that may mean some real gems get lost in the process, I guess the best we can hope for is good categorisation of apps and user ratings.
Put bluntly; there has to be some kind of filtering because it can't work without any.
Re: The dirty secret of mobile apps - they don't make any money ... would it help...
Would it help if there were some payment mechanism via the mobbile users' carriers? If users are scarfing up apps and hardly using them, and, if they do not remove most of them, then they are just cluttering up their phones.
Why not have the google or Apple stores be able to know which apps the individual user finds dearest and put up apps on their persistence in the eyes of those users, then let THAT be the real judge. If a user keeps and regularly uses an app, elevate that fact (but not the user data, of course). Those who indicate they want to download and keep the app the could enter a micropayment arrangement so that developers can truly earn SOMEthing more than USD 0.003 per day. Users who tire of the app will have in aggregate made some sort of "thank you" nod to the dev for at least having taken their time to produce a perceptually-welcome app.
Those who produce rubbish would truly receive no reward.
Of course, this all would depend on:
-- The dev being user-oriented, with good polish and smooth app use
-- Google/Apple/et al not getting greedy on the micropayment facilitation charges
-- Users actually agreeing to enter micropayment arrangements for the duration
-- Good security and a/v protection for the users
-- nixing of spamming and astroturfing of user stats.
Of course, if the hosting stores can avoid being duped by malicioius/callous intruders on the net and phones, then they can act as micropayment facilitators and likely keep most all happy for their m/p durations.
Just my USD 1.95...
Quite a lot considering most apps seem to be created by 1-man companies.
Discoverability is the problem
As pointed out in the article, now there are over a million apps in these stores, it's really hard for anyone to find anything worth bothering with.
I think the best solution would be for the store managers to drop apps that are unpopular after a while. No downloads in a month? Delist the app. It sounds harsh, but it would be easy for any developer who cared to make sure they downloaded the app now and then to keep it listed and you'd probably find many don't bother to do that for apps that aren't performing at all anyway.
make less than $1,250 a day...
I wish...
Re: make less than $1,250 a day...
I make less than $1,250 a day. I'm living the dream!
Having your app in some app store is seen as a badge of honour by some people.
I suspect $1250 a day is a slip - he probably means $1250 a month or maybe a year?
It's not a Store, for God's sake
The issue is in understanding from the (newbie) developers. An app store is about making your executable (.EXE) available for download. Now, as with any other website, no website will be visited ONLY if either of the 2 happens:
1. A search engine points to it when user asks. Monetary investment needed.
2. A community or group has been notified about it by other advertisement means (TV, brochure, enterprise rules). Investment needed or you have already invested money in your enterprise.
Now, the majority of apps are being developed by indie developers who are new to business or just making it after the office hours and they perhaps miss the point. None of the store managers (Apple, Google or MS) admit this upfront on their site. All they suggest is make something wonderful.
I'll however give credit to Microsoft which used to its store "Marketplace". But, not anymore. :(
What's that then?
Re: .EXE?
(.EXE) is just a reminder of how in past everyone used to search and download files with .EXE extension. Ofcourse, the mobile stores have their own proprietary extensions for their bundles.
Seems that Apple, Google et al love to trot out how many apps they have in their stores whenever the situation allows, what a skewed measure of success! This is then further compounded in the general media by stories of the "successful Apple having over a million apps", while also ran's e.g. MS, BB have only a couple of thousand.
So no incentive to employ any kind of quality control really while this KPI is king. The real measure of an app stores value would be something more like number of apps above a threshold of downloads, say 10 a day on average over the past month.
Only 100 apps make a profit?
So... there are 1,000,000 apps, and 1 in 10,000 will make a profit. 1,000,000 / 10,000 = 100. So are they saying there are only 100 apps making a profit? Sounds a bit low to me.
Re: Only 100 apps make a profit?
> there are 1,000,000 apps, and 1 in 10,000 will make a profit.
> 1,000,000 / 10,000 = 100. So are they saying there are only
> 100 apps making a profit? Sounds a bit low to me.
Yes, that's clearly wrong. The "top 100" are making tons of cash. I have an app that is somewhere in the top 1000 for the UK only, and well below that when viewed worldwide, and it makes me a respectable living.
Didn't Apple say they are paying out $1billion/month?
I wonder what the actual report, rather than the press release, says.
Filtering through the crap
Filtering through the crap is by far the biggest challenge facing anybody using any App Store. There are plenty of great apps that just fall to the bottom because they cost a little bit. People will take free but crap apps in favour of good but cost a couple of quid apps.
As an example I've been looking for a suitable calculator for my iPad. Sure there are plenty of free calculators out there that do the job, but they were all basically simulating a traditional calculator. Up until recently the best I could find was the TI-nSpire app which was more of a CAS app than a calculator, meaning it can be heavy going. Then just after the new year I noticed something in the iTunes app store as a new addition called Tydlig which has now replaced all calculators on all of my iOS devices. However it costs around 3 quid which means it'll probably and undeservedly fall out of sight because people are too tight arsed to pay for a bit of quality and innovation.
Check it out, just google Tydlig - it's probably the coolest calculator for iOS out there.
By the way I'm in no way associated with this app, although I did have an email conversation with the author regarding a very obscure and minor bug that I found.
Especially young people are brainwashed by corporate propaganda: "if you work little bit harder you could be a King of UK someday". No way man. The idea of becoming IT-millionaire is just a fantasy. The truth is that IT jobs, just like industrial jobs are moving to developing countries and will never come back here. You'll more likely become a new Beatles or Rolling Stones than IT-millionaire. One doesn't have to be even a good singer or guitar player. Just act pervert enough.
marketing, marketing, marketing
I'm a one-man-band and I've written a number of iOS apps. I may as well have thrown them straight into a skip rather than publish them in the App Store. If no one knows they are there, no one is going to buy them. And the chances of anyone stumbling on them decrease each day as more apps are published. It doesn't matter how good the app is.
I used to pour scorn on marketeers but now I realise that unless you have a serious marketing budget and marketing know-how, forget writing apps for anything other than fun.
you only need 2 things...
A huge marketing budget or...
A pre-made audience of 1000s of eyeballs you can tell about your app
Otherwise your app will drop like a little stone into the middle of the pacific ocean.
People forget you don't have a technical issue building apps because even if you can do it yourself you can hire someone to do it. You have a marketing issue - unless you have deep pockets.
The days of launching an app and just getting sales are gone. I have had apps on the appstore for 3+ years and they derive a modest income which has steadily declined.
It's a shame they didn't bother to include Windows Phone
Where they will have seen how developers make much more money since the apps-to-users ratio is much much better. The Android store is *so* broken now because it's impossible to charge for anything. I don't know why developers even bother with it.
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Winston Champagne Bar will now host special "Apres Work" happy hours from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. Monday through Friday. The menu includes $5 beers, $8 whites, $10 reds, cocktails and flatbreads, and $12 sparkling. A selection of live music "Live at Winston's" will run Tuesday through Thursday, and D.J.'s will play Thursday through Sunday. Reservations aren't required but can be made here. [Grub Street]
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*Another interesting article from my favorite newsletter.*
ScienceDaily (Dec. 28, 2009) � Research studies have suggested that the hormone ghrelin, which the body produces when it's hungry, might act on the brain to trigger overeating behavior.
New research in mice by UT Southwestern Medical Center scientists suggest that ghrelin might also work in the brain to make some people keep eating "pleasurable" foods when they're already full.
"What we show is that there may be situations where we are driven to seek out and eat very rewarding foods, even if we're full, for no other reason than our brain tells us to," said Dr. Jeffrey Zigman, assistant professor of internal medicine and psychiatry at UT Southwestern and co-senior author of the study appearing online and in a future edition of Biological Psychiatry.
Scientists previously have linked increased levels of ghrelin to intensifying the rewarding or pleasurable feelings one gets from cocaine or alcohol. Dr. Zigman said his team speculated that ghrelin might also increase specific rewarding aspects of eating. "They give us sensory pleasure, and they motivate us to work to obtain them," he said. "They also help us reorganize our memory so that we remember how to get them."
Dr. Mario Perello, postdoctoral researcher in internal medicine and lead author of the current study, said the idea was to determine why someone who is already stuffed from lunch still eats- and still wants to eat something very high in calories.
For this study, the researchers conducted two standard behavioral tests. In the first, they evaluated whether mice that were full preferred a room where they had previously found high-fat food over one that had only offered regular bland chow. They found that when mice in this situation were administered ghrelin, they strongly preferred the room that had been paired with the high-fat diet. Mice without ghrelin showed no preference.
"We think the ghrelin prompted the mice to pursue the high-fat chow because they remembered how much they enjoyed it," Dr. Perello said. "It didn't matter that the room was now empty; they still associated it with something pleasurable."
The researchers also found that blocking the action of ghrelin, which is normally secreted into the bloodstream upon fasting or caloric restriction, prevented the mice from spending as much time in the room they associated with the high-fat food.
For the second test, the team observed how long mice would continue to poke their noses into a hole in order to receive a pellet of high-fat food. The animals that received ghrelin kept eating much longer.
Humans and mice share the same type of brain-cell connections and hormones, as well as similar architectures in the so-called "pleasure centers" of the brain. In addition, the behavior of the mice in this study is consistent with pleasure-seeking behavior seen in other animal studies of addiction, Dr. Zigman said.
The next step, Dr. Perello said, is to determine which neural circuits in the brain regulate ghrelin's actions.
The work was supported by the National Institutes of Health, the Foundation for Prader-Willi Research, and the National Alliance for Research on Schizophrenia and Depression.
Guess what? The swine have finally left my lungs & I'm finally recovered enough to jog with doggie- much to her delight! My little dog LOVES cold weather. Sometimes the walking is sheer misery for me, especially on windy days like yesterday, when even a small lake like the one we walk around make the breezes blow so much stronger; but today I'm off to (I hope) buy some Under Armour. The official "race" season starts in February, and I'm not going to suffer wearing my summer tights anymore!
My travel season will be slower this year. I have dumped three major events this month already. January is ALWAYS a heavy month for green industry events, but this year and next, I have some hugely expensive goals to meet, and as any Arborist knows, $$$ doesn't grow on trees. Additionally, due to H1N1, I didn't take placement exams, or register for school in a timely manner, so I ended up with a LOUSY schedule that conflicts with every single industry event. I'm still anxious to hear from last semester's intructors about my final grades. Due to absences, I may be just shy of an A in one of those classes.
And how about fitness resolutions? This year I'm trying some new stuff. I came up with 6 things I have been contemplating for some time. Ready?
1. Jump Rope. Cheap, small, and effective. Already purchased. Got the Buddy Lee book for Christmas.
2. Hula Hoop. Like a jump rope, it's cheap, doesn't take up a lot of room in my house, and will get me moving (in ways I never have).
3. Stilts. Another odd, ancient device that meets my space-saving, affordable, fitness criteria.
4. Pogo Stick. Still small, but getting heavier, and fairly pricey. I'm not especially serious about following through on this one, as I'm having some doubts about whether it will be even slightly enjoyable to bounce HARD up and down. I might need an aluminum bra.
5. Unicycle. Although it is on the pricey side, I'm very excited about this one.
6. Kayak (or similar self-propelled small watercraft). I've wanted one for over 2 years, and dammit, this year it's gonna happen.
Many people believe that they should buy themselves some small token, or pamper themselves in some way, as a reward for achieving weight loss milestones. It's a very common topic on the message boards.
I have NEVER been able to wrap my brain around the concept.
For ME, weight loss IS the reward. Better health and fitness beat ANYTHING I could ever buy for myself.
New clothes, salon visits, DVDs, and recreational activites are things I do routinely anyway; they have no connection to whether or not I lose weight or meet any fitness goals. If I lose weight (or gain, for that matter) I'll need new clothes ANYWAY. Scented candles... I've got plenty and they mostly get used during a power outage. I color my hair and get a pedicure every month; it's called 'maintenance'. And bubblebath- well, I'm not nuts about bubbles. But once again, bathing is pretty routine.
Rewards are what we get in exchange for, or as a result of, some type of effort or work. For example, a reward for the effort of getting out of bed and going to work every day is a PAYCHECK. Going to the salon or buying myself a gift isn't in the same category. It's simply bartering one thing (goods or services) in exchange for another (PAYMENT).
My thoughts are, I can buy whatever I want anytime, but I can't buy fitness and health, and I can't get weight loss ANY OTHER WAY but as a direct reward for my efforts.
And that's my $.02.
Many of you know my love of scientific research. Today I read this fascinating article and thought it interesting enough to share.
ScienceDaily (Dec. 21, 2009) � A body that is provided with food too often gets caught up in the maelstrom of a lack of exercise, obesity and ultimately diabetes. The trigger is a molecular switch that is controlled by insulin, a new study by scientists from ETH Zurich has revealed.
Eat breakfast like a king, lunch like a prince and dinner like a pauper. And nothing in between: no snacks, no sweets, not even anything we think of as healthy. For in order to stay healthy the body needs to fast between meals. At least this is what nutritionists would recommend were they to translate the results of a new study from ETH Zurich into practical terms. After all, the research group headed by Markus Stoffel, a professor from the Institute of Molecular Systems Biology at ETH Zurich, has discovered an important molecular mechanism that underlies a lack of exercise and therefore obesity.
The researchers present their findings in the current issue of the journal Nature.
The key switch player in this is a transcription factor called Foxa2. Transcription factors are proteins that make sure other genes are activated and converted into proteins. Foxa2 is found in the liver, where it influences fatburning, but also in two important neuron populations in the hypothalamus -- the region of the brain that controls the daily rhythm, sleep, intake of food and sexual behavior. The control element for Foxa2 activity is insulin, in both the liver and the hypothalamus.
If a person or animal ingests food, the beta cells in the pancreas release insulin, which blocks Foxa2. When fasting, there is a lack of insulin and Foxa2 is active. In the brain, the scientists have discovered, Foxa2 assists the formation of two proteins: MCH and orexin. These two brain messenger substances trigger different behavior patterns: the intake of food and spontaneous movement. If mammals are hungry, they are more alert and physically active. In short, they hunt and look for food. "If you watch a cat or a dog before feeding it, you can see this very clearly," says Stoffel.
The researchers discovered a disorder in obese mice: in these animals, Foxa2 is permanently active, regardless of whether the animals are fasting or full. This explains a well-known but until now unaccountable phenomenon: the lack of movement in obese people and animals.
To prove this, the researchers used a genetic trick to breed mice, in the brains of which Foxa2 is always active, regardless of whether they have just eaten or are fasting. These mice produce more MCH and orexin and move five times more than normal animals, in which insulin deactivates Foxa2 after eating or which are obese. The genetically modified mice lose fatty tissue and form larger muscles. Their sugar and fat metabolism works flat out and their blood values are considerably improved.
For Stoffel, the study clearly shows that, "The body needs fasting periods to stay healthy." Moreover, you should make sure you have a good body weight. He therefore doesn't think much of eating many little meals spread out over the day; it is better to eat less frequently but well, and leave room in between to get hungry. After all, because insulin is released during every meal, thus suppressing Foxa2, the motivation to do physical exercise and burn sugar and fat visibly decreases.
Even at 330 lbs, I walked. Walking is the simplest and most basic form exercise, and in my view, it is what always comes first in an exercise program. If you CAN walk, you MUST walk. Meaning if the only reason you're not walking 60 minutes a day now is because you're out of shape, then you shall remain out of shape until you make a decision to change it. Sure, I had problems. Absolutely. But- the problem was actually just my weight, nothing more, and I knew I had to get moving to change that.
The walking route that I chose way back at the beginning of my weight loss journey is the same route that I am still walking today. The difference is, now I no longer struggle, huffing and puffing the entire way. Now, I can walk my route twice a day. And now, I even jog a little along the way. Yes, ME.
Think about this: what exercise would YOU recommend for a morbidly obese person, such as myself at 330 lbs, if that person were to ask for your advice? Walking! Of course! Almost anybody can do it. It doesn't matter HOW heavy you are. Talk to your doctor, and get started.
Now I want to make a very specific recommendation to you. Ready?
Walk outside. (If you don't have access to a treadmill, you can skip over this part.) Many people find walking on a treadmill boring and tedious. Three minutes feels like 10, and when you look at the timer, you feel so disappointed in yourself. If the treadmill is killing your enthusiasm, get outside. Wear a watch or carry a cell phone so you can time yourself. Walk 15 minutes in one direction, then turn around and walk back. You have just walked 30 minutes! If you're over 300 lbs and have trouble walking, start smaller, like 5 or 10 minutes. Choose a nice route, and change it when you want to look at different scenery. Do this every day, even in the winter, as long as there is no ice you could slip on. Speed is not the objective here, it is time spent on exercise.
Find what you can do, and DO it. Take control of your health RIGHT NOW. Begin immediately, don't wait for tomorrow, next week, or January 1st. Start this VERY SECOND. Think about how good it will feel to WALK with your kids trick or treating, or on a brisk Thanksgiving morning, or on a quiet, cold, New Years Day, when there is not a soul in sight, just you, breathing steam into the air. THINK about how much different your life will be, once you DECIDE to make it that way.
I never believed I could ever regain my health when I gained weight. I was in total despair. I knew I was heading straight into my own grave, and decided that I had to try to change EVERYTHING about my life. And you know what? YOU can do it exactly the same as me. Don't feel bad about yourself looking at the progress of other people- be inspired.
Walking a mile was pretty terrible when I was 330 lbs, but I did it anyway. Now I can do it faster. That is a great feeling. ALL this is possible for you.
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My school is a very nice environment. The teachers are wonderful, and are very kind and they care about students. If a student needs help, then they can for sure go to any teacher with any problem they have, whether it is for homework or for stress they experience from others. My school could improve by providing more options for after school activities, which would benefit the children because they are involving themselves at school more.
The staff. Teachers and administrators are approachable and they work with parents to benefit the students.
In regards to the last comments, how involved were you? My children received progress reports about every 4 weeks from all their teachers. I had to sign off on them stating I saw where my children were at. I have never had ANY problems communicating with my kids' teachers. The answer emails and return phone calls right away
The communication at this school is simply terribly. Our child was struggling and having some problems from the start of his last year. We weren't aware of this until after we received his first report card in November... Obviously this was very late. NW High School has up to date progress reports and communication tools that this school needs to adapt. In my son's 3 years though, they never did anything to improve this. I agree with the person who wrote that it's a waste of tax dollar money.
This school has a very bad communcation ... oh good luck if you want to talk to any staff members there... waste of tax dollar money... now i have to send my 2 other kids to private school..... it shows how much the vp cares when she cant take 2 minutes of her time to address a problem with my son!!!!!
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Lincoln JR. High school is a very good school. They have many fundraisers and extracurricular activities. Excellent teachers and staff too! Lincoln is a truly wonderful school in Skokie. I recommend to all! I now love going to school, ever since I was enrolled into District 69 in Skokie. Your kid will also love the school. Your kids will love the lunches, field trips, projects, sports, and clubs they offer. Trust me, I know first hand.
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I was lucky in that few people died during my childhood. The tragedy of that familial longevity is that people are inevitably dropping off like flies now and there is so much pain to deal with over a rather short period of time. So, it's safe to say that death is a topic I have given much thought to.
Although many opportunities were woefully neglected, certainly I am happy for the extra years I have been able to spend with these people. I am also happy that I have been able to completely abandon all belief in heaven, hell, valhala, the North Pole, etc. prior to most of their deaths. When I was a child, Heaven and Hell were considered very real places. The fear of Hell, I think, was more a reason why I continued believing than excitement over Heaven--which sounded horribly boring. A family friend died when I still believed and it tore me apart thinking that he was probably in Hell. My mom had a dream that he had repented moments before he died and that was how she dealt with it. Even then I knew that that was just a sort of cognitive dissidence which thankfully I don't need anymore.
My Dad died nearly a year ago. It was tragic, there's literally not a single day where I don't think about him, but I know for a fact that he is not in hell or anywhere else for that matter. I wish he were alive, but I don't have to worry about him being tortured for the entire rest of eternity. Such things are nonsense and I wish my believing mother could have that comfort. Rather than waste time and stress about what could be happening to him (and all rationality says is not), I can instead concern myself with memories, and trying to make the best of life in his absence.
He will be gone forever, and there are a million things I wish could be different, but my greatest sadness is that my newphew will grow up without his grandpa. The only thing I can do is to let his memory live on through me.
I tend to disagree with your assessment of 'fear'. As far as I can tell, religion itself created the fear of death. When cultural anthropologists study tribal humans who are without religion, these kinds of fears simply do not exist, concepts of imaginary beings do not exist either.
Fear is a tool used that powerful people use to subdue masses, so fears are created, even when/where there should be none.
Death, we die, so what?
Death needs to be de-tabooed, de-sacrified, de-mysteried. (sorry for invented words :)
Celebrate life, and when someone leaves it, celebrate who they WERE in life. Make it your duty to carry their memory with you and keep their gifts in the world.... or something like that.
I couldnt agree more. In teaching my kids about death I found it went right along with teaching them where the atoms come from that combined to make them. They understand that my wish to be creamated stems from my desire to get those atoms back into circulation when my life is over.
I think my kids and I both take great comfort in this knowledge. And the fact that they can keep some of my atoms close to them for the rest of their life also seems to give comfort to loss they will have to one day except.
They are not free from all fear... if a large predator prances into camp at night, moms fear for their child's safety, as does any animal. It's the general assessment of fear without a concrete causal agent. I look at your definition and I see that your version of religion is the result of a populist push, which I totally disagree with. Religion does not originate, as far as I can tell, from "the masses". I see it only as a tool, that wiser people (surprisingly?) discovered. A tool for mass manipulation and control, which utilises a weakness of the human brain, mimicry. These wiser people discovered they could hold POWER over others by creating fear 'systems', fear concepts, where no direct causal agent is present. In the end, it does take a wise person to exercise such control over others.
I don't think there is much in our society that is 'populist' in origin, most grand ideas, inventions, philosophies, etc all have very punctual and 'personal' origins, I see religion no differently.
I, as you, as a youth, occasionally rationalised religion through the awesomness of 'nature' as you mention... but I've come to realise that it does not fit the general pattern of human inventiveness.
To me fear should be non-existent outside of immediate risk to life. All other forms of fear are social disfunctions due to human overpopulation and the stress of constant close proximity.
I prefer to envision human society as an ape society, rather than an ant/termite/bee society, as many overpopulation-denialists would like to compare us to. We are not insects, we are apes. And the incredibly high densities we chose to live in are not conducive to healthy non fear. Our instincts and evolution do not take into account big city life and fast cars and nasty bosses, so our biology does what it can to cope... and fear/anxiety is a common result.
I am presently reading (ever so slowly) a book called RISK, which is along those lines as well.
As you say, fear is an extremely interesting topic :)
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Saturday was apparently errand day for the smiling Maggie Gyllenhaal, Peter Sarsgaard and, clinging close to daddy, daughter Gloria Ray, born April 19, as her parents were seen shopping for groceries in their Brooklyn neighborhood.
Not in the mix with them on this cloudy day: Gloria's older sister, Ramona, 5.
As for being a mom, Gyllenhaal has said, "There's no way to prepare for the challenges, the immense joys, the surprises, the disappointments and the shocks. Your heart just rips open. It's amazing."
Originally posted 11/28/2011 04:45PM
Maggie Gyllenhaal and Peter Sarsgaard are expanding their family.
The actors are expecting their second child together, her rep confirms to PEOPLE.
The Hysteria star and Green Lantern's Sarsgaard, 40, wed in 2009 and are already parents to 5-year-old daughter Ramona.
"I just didn't have a clue," Gyllenhaal, 34, has said of motherhood.
Originally posted 10/05/2010 09:30AM
With only two months to go until he turns 30, Jake Gyllenhaal has mixed emotions about the milestone.
"Look guys, I'm not 30 yet!" Gyllenhaal cracked at Saturday's New Yorker Festival in Manhattan. "Can you cut it with the 30 comments?"
Deflecting – humorously – any questions about leaving his 20s behind, the Love and Other Drugs star may feel wistful, but he also says he is comfortable with the person he has become.
Originally posted 08/21/2010 05:00PM
Talk about a movie with buzz.
Maggie Gyllenhaal has signed on for the indie film Hysteria – a romantic comedy set in Victorian London about the invention of the vibrator, Variety reports.
Gyllenhaal, 32, will play the daughter of a doctor, who, with his young colleague (Hugh Dancy) treats cases of female hysteria ... with a new electrical device, according to Variety.
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"[During filming], you had everyone come in your trailer and you had vodka and I wasn't used to that, but I had an almost 2-year-old and I was up for it. And I remember in the end it dwindled down [to a few people] and you put your arm around Scott [Cooper, the director] and said, 'This is our leader, man, this is our leader.' And I wasn't sure, but I went with you because you said that and you said that with all your heart … And I know something about his heart, and he deserves every award that you guys could come up with to give him."
Maggie Gyllenhaal, presenting her Crazy Heart costar Jeff Bridges his best actor prize Tuesday night at AARP the Magazine's Ninth Annual Movies for Grownup Awards, at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel in Beverly Hills.
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Originally posted 02/16/2010 11:20AM
As the younger brother, Jake Gyllenhaal might not get to impart too much wisdom to big sister Maggie Gyllenhaal. But when she earned her first Academy Award nomination this month – well, that's a road he's been down before.
His main advice for Oscar season? Have fun with it.
"He said, 'It's a lot of fun, and enjoy it in that spirit. If you make it too much more than that, you'll probably go astray,' " Maggie said at the Oscar nominees' annual luncheon Monday at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Los Angeles.
Originally posted 01/15/2010 01:35PM
While she may not appear in It's Complicated, Maggie Gyllenhaal felt a special personal connection to the romantic marital comedy – because of her own parents' recent divorce after 30 years of marriage, the actress told a private, star-studded gathering Tuesday.
Gyllenhaal said she laughed and cried throughout the movie, which stars Meryl Streep and Alec Baldwin as a couple trying to sort out their relationship after their legal split. "I'm kind of in the thick of all that, and it's nice to laugh about it a little," said Gyllenhaal, who presented the It's Complicated stars with the best ensemble cast award at the National Board of Review Awards, at Cipriani's 42nd Street in Manhattan.
Gyllenhaal, 32, also said that she and her mom, 63-year-old screenwriter Naomi Foner, who on Christmas Eve split from director Stephen Gyllenhaal, recently dished about men over a bottle of wine, "which we never would have done before she got divorced. She told me about the sexy Zen Buddist Ping-Pong-playing married carpenter who had been hitting on her."
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Maggie Gyllenhaal and Peter Sarsgaard are famously private – and they kept their weekend wedding characteristically intimate, sources tell PEOPLE.
The longtime couple exchanged vows inside the cloister of a convent called the Convento di Santa Maria di Costantinopoli, a luxury bed and breakfast in Brindisi, Italy, before just 40 close friends and family members, including the bride's brother, Jake Gyllenhaal, and his girlfriend, Reese Witherspoon.
A family friend, whom a source says donned a top hat for the occasion, officiated at the half-hour ceremony, which took place at 4:30 p.m. on Saturday.
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Maggie Gyllenhaal and Peter Sarsgaard made it official on Saturday: The longtime couple, who have a daughter together, tied the knot in a romantic wedding in Italy.
"We are happy to confirm that Maggie and Peter were married on Saturday, May 2," the actress's rep said in a statement to PEOPLE.
The celebration took place in a small chapel in Brindisi, according to European news reports. Among the guests were Jake Gyllenhaal and Reese Witherspoon.
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For many Georgians, the 2012 election season has been a three-act play - part tragedy, part comedy - that is moving toward a final curtain much too slowly.
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