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§ 2901. Success for all students in the general education environment
(a) It is the policy of the State that each local school district develop and maintain, in consultation with parents, a comprehensive system of education that will result, to the extent appropriate, in all students succeeding in the general education environment. A comprehensive system of education includes a full range of services and accommodations that are needed by students in the district. These services could include a separate alternative program if the district finds that some of its students could be better served in an environment outside the classroom, or if the district finds that separate placement is the best way to provide services to a student who is disrupting the class or having difficulty learning in a traditional school setting for educational, emotional, or personal reasons and thereby impairing the ability of the classroom teacher to provide quality services to that student or to other students. This chapter does not replace or expand entitlements created by federal law, nor is it the intent of this chapter to create a higher standard for maintaining a student in the general classroom than the standard created in the following federal laws: 20 U.S.C. § 1401 et seq., Individuals with Disabilities Education Act; 29 U.S.C. § 794, Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act; and 42 U.S.C. § 12101 et seq., Americans with Disabilities Act.
(b) [Repealed.]
(c) No individual entitlement or private right of action is created by this section. (Added 1989, No. 230 (Adj. Sess.), § 4; amended 1995, No. 157 (Adj. Sess.), § 8; 1999, No. 113 (Adj. Sess.), § 9; 2009, No. 44, § 40, eff. May 21, 2009.)
§ 2902. Educational support system and educational support team
(a) Within each school district's comprehensive system of educational services, each public school shall develop and maintain an educational support system for students who require additional assistance in order to succeed or to be challenged in the general education environment. For each school it maintains, a school district board shall assign responsibility for developing and maintaining the educational support system either to the superintendent pursuant to a contract entered into under section 267 of this title or to the principal. The educational support system shall, at a minimum, include an educational support team and a range of support and remedial services, including instructional and behavioral interventions and accommodations.
(b) The educational support system shall:
(1) Be integrated to the extent appropriate with the general education curriculum.
(2) Be designed to increase the ability of the general education system to meet the needs of all students.
(3) Be designed to provide students the support needed regardless of eligibility for categorical programs.
(4) Provide clear procedures and methods for addressing student behavior that is disruptive to the learning environment and include educational options, support services, and consultation or training for staff where appropriate. Procedures may include removal of a student from the classroom or the school building for as long as appropriate, consistent with State and federal law and the school's policy on student discipline, after reasonable effort has been made to support the student in the regular classroom environment.
(5) Ensure collaboration with families, community supports, and the system of health and human services.
(c) The educational support team for each public school in the district shall be composed of staff from a variety of teaching and support positions and shall:
(1) Determine which enrolled students require additional assistance to be successful in school or to complete secondary school based on indicators set forth in guidelines developed by the Secretary, such as academic progress, attendance, behavior, or poverty. The educational support team shall pay particular attention to students during times of academic or personal transition.
(2) Identify the classroom accommodations, remedial services, and other supports that have been provided to the identified student.
(3) Assist teachers to plan for and provide services and accommodations to students in need of classroom supports or enrichment activities.
(4) Develop an individualized strategy, in collaboration with the student's parents or legal guardian whenever possible, to assist the identified student to succeed in school and to complete his or her secondary education.
(5) Maintain a written record of its actions.
(6) Report no less than annually to the Secretary, in a form the Secretary prescribes, on the ways in which the educational support system has addressed the needs of students who require additional assistance in order to succeed in school or to complete secondary school and on the additional financial costs of complying with this subsection (c).
(d) No individual entitlement or private right of action is created by this section.
(e) The Secretary shall establish guidelines for teachers and administrators in following federal laws relating to provision of services for children with disabilities and the implementation of this section.
(f) It is the intent of the General Assembly that a gifted and talented student shall be able to take advantage of services that an educational support team can provide. It is not the intent of the General Assembly that funding under chapter 101 of this title shall be available for a gifted and talented student unless the student has been otherwise determined to be a student for whom funding under that chapter is available. (Added 1989, No. 230 (Adj. Sess.), § 4; amended 1995, No. 157 (Adj. Sess.), § 9; 1997, No. 87 (Adj. Sess.), § 1; 1999, No. 113 (Adj. Sess.), § 10; 1999, No. 117 (Adj. Sess.), § 2; 2009, No. 44, § 40, eff. May 21, 2009; 2013, No. 92 (Adj. Sess.), §§ 192, 302, eff. Feb. 14, 2014.)
§ 2903. Preventing early school failure; reading instruction
(a) Statement of policy. The ability to read is critical to success in learning. Children who fail to read by the end of the first grade will likely fall further behind in school. The personal and economic costs of reading failure are enormous both while the student remains in school and long afterward. All students need to receive systematic reading instruction in the early grades from a teacher who is skilled in teaching reading through a variety of instructional strategies that take into account the different learning styles and language backgrounds of the students. Some students may require intensive supplemental instruction tailored to the unique difficulties encountered.
(b) Foundation for literacy. The State Board of Education, in collaboration with the Agency of Human Services, higher education, literacy organizations, and others, shall develop a plan for establishing a comprehensive system of services for early education in the first three grades to ensure that all students learn to read by the end of the third grade. The plan shall be updated at least once every five years following its initial submission in 1998.
(c) Reading instruction. A public school that offers instruction in grades one, two, or three shall provide highly effective, research-based reading instruction to all students. In addition, a school shall provide:
(1) supplemental reading instruction to any enrolled student in grade four whose reading proficiency falls below third grade reading expectations, as defined under subdivision 164(9) of this title;
(2) supplemental reading instruction to any enrolled student in grades 5-12 whose reading proficiency creates a barrier to the student's success in school; and
(3) support and information to parents and legal guardians. (Added 1997, No. 60, § 9, eff. June 26, 1997; amended 2009, No. 44, § 40, eff. May 21, 2009.)
§ 2904. Reports
Annually, each superintendent shall report to the Secretary in a form prescribed by the Secretary, on the status of the educational support systems in each school in the supervisory union. The report shall describe the services and supports that are a part of the education support system, how they are funded, and how building the capacity of the educational support system has been addressed in the school action plans, and shall be in addition to the report required of the educational support team in subdivision 2902(c)(6) of this chapter. The superintendent's report shall include a description and justification of how funds received due to Medicaid reimbursement under section 2959a of this title were used. (Added 1999, No. 117 (Adj. Sess.), § 3; amended 2005, No. 54, § 14; 2009, No. 44, § 40, eff. May 21, 2009; 2013, No. 92 (Adj. Sess.), § 193, eff. Feb. 14, 2014.)
§ 2905. Prekindergarten-16 Council
(a) A Prekindergarten-16 Council (the "Council") is created to help coordinate and better align the efforts of the prekindergarten-12 educational system with the higher education community in order to increase:
(1) postsecondary aspirations;
(2) the enrollment of Vermont high school graduates in higher education programs;
(3) the postsecondary degree completion rates of Vermonters; and
(4) public awareness of the economic, intellectual, and societal benefits of higher education.
(b) The Council shall be composed of:
(1) the Secretary of Education or designee;
(2) the Commissioner of Labor or designee;
(3) the President of the University of Vermont or designee;
(4) the Chancellor of the Vermont State Colleges or designee;
(5) the President of the Vermont Student Assistance Corporation or designee;
(6) the President of the Association of Vermont Independent Colleges or designee;
(7) a principal of a secondary school selected by the Vermont Principals' Association;
(8) a superintendent selected by the Vermont Superintendents Association;
(9) a teacher selected by the Vermont-National Education Association;
(10) a member of the Building Bright Futures Council or designee;
(11) a career technical education director selected by the Vermont Association of Career and Technical Center Directors;
(12) a representative from the business and industry community selected by the Vermont Business Roundtable;
(13) an advocate for low-income children selected by Voices for Vermont's Children;
(14) a member of the House of Representatives, who shall be selected by the Speaker and shall serve until the beginning of the biennium immediately after the one in which the member is appointed;
(15) a member of the Senate, who shall be selected by the Committee on Committees and shall serve until the beginning of the biennium immediately after the one in which the member is appointed;
(16) a member of the faculty of the Vermont State Colleges, the University of Vermont, or a Vermont independent college selected by United Professions AFT Vermont, Inc.; and
(17) a representative of after-school, summer, and expanded learning programs selected by the Vermont Center for Afterschool Excellence.
(c) The Council shall develop and regularly update a statewide plan to increase aspirations for and the successful completion of postsecondary education among students of all ages and otherwise advance the purposes for which the council is created, which shall include strategies to:
(1) ensure that every high school graduate in Vermont is prepared to succeed in postsecondary education without remedial assistance;
(2) increase the percentage of Vermonters who earn an associate's or higher level degree or a postsecondary certification;
(3) identify and address areas of educator preparation that could benefit from improved collaboration between the prekindergarten-12 educational system and the higher education community;
(4) promote early career awareness and nurture postsecondary aspirations;
(5) develop programs that guarantee college admission and financial aid for low-income students who successfully complete early commitment requirements;
(6) enhance student engagement in secondary school, ensuring that learning opportunities are relevant, rigorous, and personalized and that all students aspire to and prepare for success in postsecondary learning opportunities;
(7) expand access to dual enrollment programs in order to serve students of varying interests and abilities, including those who are likely to attend college, those who are from groups that attend college at disproportionately low rates, and those who are prepared for a postsecondary curriculum prior to graduation from secondary school;
(8) develop proposals for statewide college and career readiness standards and assessments;
(9) create incentives for adults to begin or continue their postsecondary education; and
(10) ensure implementation of a prekindergarten-16 longitudinal data system, which it shall use to assess the success of the plan required by this subsection.
(d) Together with the Secretary of Administration or the Secretary's designee, the following members of the Council shall perform any statutory or other duties required of them, including duties in connection with the Higher Education Endowment Trust Fund: the President of the University of Vermont, the Chancellor of the Vermont State Colleges, the President of the Vermont Student Assistance Corporation, the President of the Association of Vermont Independent Colleges, the representative from the business and industry community, the member of the House of Representatives, and the member of the Senate.
(e) The legislative and higher education staff shall provide support to the Council as appropriate to accomplish its tasks. Primary administrative support shall be provided by the Office of Legislative Council.
(f) The Council shall annually elect one of its members to be chair.
(g) The Council shall meet at least quarterly.
(h) The Council shall report on its activities to the House and Senate Committees on Education and to the State Board of Education each year in January. The provisions of 2 V.S.A. § 20(d) (expiration of required reports) shall not apply to the report to be made under this subsection. (Added 2009, No. 133 (Adj. Sess.), § 2; amended 2011, No. 129 (Adj. Sess.), § 16, eff. May 11, 2012; 2013, No. 92 (Adj. Sess.), §§ 194, 302, eff. Feb. 14, 2014; 2013, No. 142 (Adj. Sess.), § 30.)


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Here are four video clips of the trip to the Sebring U.S. Sport Aviation Expo in Florida:
Part 1: Flying the STOL CH 750 and the Zenith CH 650 south.... The STOL CH 750 as seen from the Zenith CH 650.
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Grammy has a Jones for Norah. The rookie chanteuse won the top three prizes at the 45th annual Grammy awards -- album of the year (for ''Come Away With Me''), record of the year (for her single ''Don't Know Why''), and song of the year (for Jesse Harris, the songwriter behind ''Don't Know Why'') -- as well as best new artist. Norah Jones took home five trophies in all, eight counting Harris' songwriting award and the two awards that went to ''Come Away'''s engineers and producer.
Other big winners were Bruce Springsteen and the Dixie Chicks, who took home three trophies apiece. (The Chicks' album ''Home'' also won an award for the art design of its packaging.) Among other artists nominated for four or more Grammys, Eminem won two; Ashanti, Sheryl Crow, Nelly, Alan Jackson, and Raphael Saadiq won one; and Avril Lavigne, Chad Kroeger, and Remy Shand were shut out.
The awards were presented live on CBS at a ceremony held at New York's Madison Square Garden. A list of winners in major categories is below.
Album of the Year
''Come Away With Me,'' Norah Jones
Record of the Year
''Don't Know Why,'' Norah Jones
Song of the Year
''Don't Know Why,'' Jesse Harris (Norah Jones)
New Artist
Norah Jones
Female Pop Vocal Performance
''Don't Know Why,'' Norah Jones
Male Pop Vocal Performance
''Your Body Is a Wonderland,'' John Mayer
Pop Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal
''Hey Baby,'' No Doubt
Pop Vocal Album
''Come Away With Me,'' Norah Jones
Female Rock Vocal Performance
'"Steve McQueen,'' Sheryl Crow
Male Rock Vocal Performance
''The Rising,'' Bruce Springsteen
Rock Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal
''In My Place,'' Coldplay
Rock Song
''The Rising,'' Bruce Springsteen
Rock Album
''The Rising,'' Bruce Springsteen
Alternative Music Album
''A Rush of Blood to the Head,'' Coldplay
Female R&B Vocal Performance
''He Think I Don't Know,'' Mary J. Blige
Male R&B Vocal Performance
''U Don't Have to Call,'' Usher
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''Love's in Need of Love Today,'' Steve Wonder and Take Six
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''Voyage to India,'' India.Arie
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''Scream a.k.a. Itchin','' Missy Elliott
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''Hot in Herre,'' Nelly
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''The Whole World,'' OutKast featuring Killer Mike
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''Cry,'' Faith Hill
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''Give My Love to Rose, ''Johnny Cash
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On October 11, members of the Administrative Regulations Review Subcommittee voted unanimously, by a 7 to 0 vote, to approve a plan to allow sandhill crane hunting in the Bluegrass State. With this final approval, Kentucky will join thirteen other states in which sandhill cranes can be properly and scientifically managed through hunting. Click here to see the proposal.
The approved sandhill crane hunting season is expected to begin December 17. Land east of the Mississippi has not seen sandhill cranes hunted in more than a century due to a decrease in the species' population. Over the last three decades their population has grown more than 300 percent and Kentucky's wildlife experts and biologists called for a hunting season that will help manage and conserve the species.
The Kentucky Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources (KDFWR) is confident that the thirty-day hunting season will result in approximately 400 birds harvested, which is less than one percent of the total population. The goal of the KDFWR proposal was to allow the greatest possible participation for hunters, while being certain the sandhill crane population is properly maintained for future generations.
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HONOLULU, April 11, 2013 – Living in Hawaii, there isn't a day that passes without me worrying about the ongoing nuclear drama between the divided Koreas. When Admiral Robert Willard retired from U.S. Pacific Command in March last year, his farewell address included a grim warning that North Korea's nuclear weapons were "now in the hands of an untested 29 year old."
The political scientist in me looks at this developing crisis and thinks to Barbara Tuchman's The Guns of August, seeing fearful parallels in the spiral of uncontrollable escalations and counter-escalations leading to war. This is the kind of moment in human events where you earnestly pray all of the leaders in the region aren't serious about going to war and will step back before it is too late. But as the late John F. Kennedy wisely observed, the word "crisis" in Chinese consists of two characters representing "danger" and "opportunity."
There is clearly a danger that this could be the beginning of a new era of instability and insecurity, but there is also the opportunity that the United States can recognize its weaknesses before it is too late.
U.S. policy of "pivot" toward Asia is deceptive: The key is China, not North Korea
Washington loves taglines and catchwords. The latest is the use of the word "pivot" to describe an adjustment of America's diplomatic and security posture to match the rising influence of China in the Asia-Pacific region. The term is deceptive as it invokes images in the mind of a soldier responding to the drill command "left, face" and casually pivoting to turn to the side.
In reality the appropriate name for this new policy should be a "jerk" toward Asia in which our civilian policymakers are only now waking up to the fact that since the late 1980s China has been modernizing its military and building up its conventional and nuclear forces to fight a superpower-sized adversary like the United States.
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Throughout the Clinton Administration the U.S. Navy was extremely concerned about China's acquisition of area denial weapons such as the wire/acoustic/wake-homing 533mm Yu-6 torpedo (believed to be a clone of the U.S. produced Mk. 48 ADCAP) and the 3M-80E Moskit cruise missile system.
By 1999, the developing arms race reached a new level of danger when the House Select Committee on U.S. National Security and Military/Commercial Concerns with China (also known as the "Cox Committee") issued a report that the People's Republic of China had likely stolen classified information about the designs of some six U.S. thermonuclear warheads including the advanced W88 physics package.
When George W. Bush assumed the presidency, his first major international crisis occurred on April 1, 2001 when a U.S. Navy ARIES surveillance aircraft bumped with a PLAAF J-8 Finback interceptor some one hundred miles from the Chinese military base in the Xisha Islands. The highly classified ARIES aircraft was damaged and forced to land on Hainan Island, allowing the Chinese the opportunity to closely inspect our equipment and temporarily detain the EP-3 crew.
The incident should have served as a warning to the evolving Sino-American tensions in the region but five months later on September 11, 2001 the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon sucked out all the policy air on China and focused America's attention almost exclusively on fighting terrorism and "draining the swamp" of Middle Eastern states perceived as supporters of terrorism.
SEE RELATED: North Korea: Forget the nukes, the real threat is binary
As the United States expended both her global political clout and economic advantage in a war of attrition against Iraq, Afghanistan and countless terrorist organizations hiding in caves and cloaked among civilian populations all around the world, China continued in her arms buildup. Just over a decade later, China has grown so powerful that our civilian political leadership can no longer dismiss the rise of the Dragon.
The "pivot" towards Asia is a jerk in which the United States – with her dying economy and "transformational" military tuned for fighting small states and international bandits – is facing a China that has been cranking out ICBMs, cruise missiles, stealth fighters and a manned space program during the ten years we were at war.
North Korean threats: Asymmetric Deterrence
The problem with most U.S. policymakers and media pundits is that we tend to base notions of rationality and reason not in cultural context but in comparison to how Westerners think. The average American looks at a Cold War relic state like North Korea and automatically assumes their sabre rattling – unmatched by technological or military power – is evidence of stupidity and an irrational desire to be pounded by Uncle Sam. And like the average American, our politicians think they have the crisis under control.
Think again.
Amid the rise of China and the decline of the United States, North Korea has every reason to feel empowered to threaten its neighbors. For starters, the North Koreans are obviously well aware of the fact that President Barack Obama is under immense domestic and geopolitical pressure to maintain perceptions of U.S. solidarity with South Korea and Japan. The North Koreans know all too well that the United States is concerned about China and how America protects (or fails to protect) her allies can have broad reaching implications for regional influence.
Perception is everything in international statecraft. The fact that some in South Korea are suggesting the country pursue nuclear weapons of their own is a testimony to the fact that the U.S. security umbrella is increasingly seen as unreliable (after all, we're in an age of "calculated ambiguity" over "massive retaliation"). North Korea's threats are less an act of instability and more an effort to provoke division among U.S. allies.
North Korea's leaders also recognize the fact that Washington D.C. can't balance her checkbook and is in growing fiscal turmoil. Unlike North Korea, whenever the United States conducts major military operations, millions even billions of dollars are spent on fuel, maintenance and maneuvers. Even as sequestration forces the United States Air Force to shut down multiple combat squadrons around the world, North Korea knows that its threats must be matched by a Western response that is costly and depleting even if no bullets are fired.
As the Chinese tactician Sun Tzu wrote, "All warfare is based on deception … If your opponent is of choleric temper, seek to irritate him. Pretend to be weak, that he may grow arrogant." The United States cannot afford to pay its own Congress the exorbitant salaries it receives, let alone maintain a constant state of alert over North Korea. The United States can back down, but if so, it risks inviting the possibility of an attack and appearing weak before allies that may in the future pursue security arrangements of their own. The United States can raise its level of escalation, but in doing so, it blows its already strained budget.
In all this, North Korea has proven that a small state with minimal armament is capable of gridlocking the United States. This is a dangerous precedent, because even as the United States is watching China, China is likewise watching the United States. In the future as America's fiscal condition devolves, her global credibility will diminish along with her military preparedness and powers such as China or Russia can make military threats to compel diplomatic concessions from the United States.
It is for this reason that the United States needs to seriously restructure its attitudes towards global intervention and domestic bureaucratization. America needs to shut down its endless train of wars – the war on terror, the war on drugs, the war on poverty, the war on illiteracy – and commit to rebuilding its economy and recapitalizing its aging military. If we do not take immediate and sweeping steps to gain control of our fiscal health and rebalance our military, America will be in grave danger of joining the ash heap of failed nations.
In the Bible, John of Patmos wrote of how he witnessed in heaven "the sixth angel poured out his vial on the great river Euphrates and the water was dried up, that the way of the kings of the east might be prepared" (Revelation 16:12). As I watch current events unfold, I can't help but see in this North Korean crisis the Asian nations growing in prominence, even as the West diminishes. We are living in very dangerous times and our elected officials would do well to consider carefully the future of our United States of America.
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Despite the title actually a very good book for beginners
Learn Python The Hard Way
Chapter 16 / Exercise 27 deserves a :doh:
Anyone who thinks that's a good way to learn logic shouldn't be teaching programming IMHO
It is deliberately aimed at people with no programming experience.
The book is a very beginner book for people who want to learn to code. If you can already code then the book will probably drive you insane. It's intended for people who have no coding chops to build up their skills before starting a more detailed book.
If you have a better idea please propose it http://learnpythonthehardway.com/wik...osed+Exercises
Before you do, really make sure you know what a beginner actually can do. Beginners cannot do any of the following:
Write unit tests. This involves writing code that reasons about other code. That's damn near impossible.
Do complex boolean algebra. Later chapters of the logic section could do some of this but it's better to have them use the building blocks in Exercise 27 to do actual exercises than to do tons of boolean algebra.
Use regex. Totally off limits. Whole giant books have been written on regex and still real professionals get them wrong.
Work with projects spanning multiple files.
"Computer science". This word is banished. Don't even think computer science.
Complex math. If you learned it in college math then it can't go in the book.
OOP. None of it. Don't even try.
Recursion. Again, this book is way way below most functional or OOP concepts.
He teaches logical operations like AND and OR, not by explaining the concept behind them, but by suggesting that we should copy their truth-tables onto postcards to carry around and spend a week memorizing them. You think that's a good idea?!
* of course, XOR is an exception and hurts a lot of people when they first encounter it, and this does need explaining in more detail than the other two.
All they need to do is look at these Venn diagrams of the sixteen binary operations in Boolean algebra.
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Since the general civilization of mankind, I believe there are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations. James Madison
I like checking Yahoo news because I find it a great mental exercise to try and decode what is actually being said by all their amazing headline articles. Case in point from today. "Celeb couples who don't want kids" with the header photo of Ellen DeGeneres and Portia de Rossi. Here's another great one "Woman becomes a mermaid". On March 1 Yahoo had this article up about a gun that can literally shut you up by shutting down your speech function through delayed auditory feedback to the brain. Maybe not surprisingly, the gun is said to have been developed in Japan.
From the article: The developers say the gun could be used for seemingly innocuous purposes, such as enforcing rules requiring library patrons to keep quiet. It could also see action during large meetings when it is important that onlookers not disrupt the speaker…The free speech implications of the speech jammer are somewhat disconcerting…Political rallies and other protest gatherings could easily be quieted…should law enforcement or other agencies decide to equip themselves with the technology.
Interesting research. I wonder who paid for it? Doesn't the technology pictured look a little clunky and outdated? I'm not convinced that's the newest model in the line. I have heard many times that the technology we are publicly introduced to is 10 to 20 years behind that which is kept under wraps.
Here is a compilation video of the babbling reporter incidents which have occurred in the past year or two ( made by youtuber Trample on Snakes). Surprisingly, there is even footage from a 50's game show where the same gurgled speech happens. A lot of the people putting together these videos think this is evidence of the reptilian nature of the reporters themselves. I think the gun above may help explain part of this mystery.
Posted on March 5, 2012, in Civilization, Freedom, In the News and tagged babbling reporters, black box, freedom, lies, news reporting, reptilians, silence, technology, truth, weapons. Bookmark the permalink. 2 Comments.
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Fringe Midseason Report Card: Bby Carissa Pavlica at . Comments
Far too many of our favorite TV programs are on hiatus at the moment, with no new episodes airing until 2012. That's the bad news.
The good news, however? Now is an ideal time to gauge where these shows stand, Midseason Report Card style! We've already graded the first half of The Vampire Diaries and The Secret Circle. Up now: Fringe.
What has worked this season: Taken in pieces, how they have established a timeline void of Peter Bishop has been extraordinary. Much like the Christmas classic It's A Wonderful Life, we (and Peter) have an opportunity to see the lives of our favorite characters if he had never existed as an adult. It isn't pretty. This is most true for Walter, who never got over the loss of his son, and despite his best attempt he wasn't able to save alternate Peter. It's true, Peter's presence made a different in their lives and his absence means these aren't the characters we have come to love.
What hasn't worked: First, the pacing. While I understand these types of plots take time to develop, viewers don't have the staying power that the writers do. While it's entertaining, especially the time jumps, learning about Olivia's completely different life and how the Fringe division has become an elite division of the American government, it's just not moving fast enough. It shouldn't have taken Olivia seven episodes to realize she meant something to Peter in "his" timeline.
Second, the missing alternate universe. Peter gave his life so the two worlds could work together to fix all of the wrongs that were tearing them apart. After a strong start and a brilliant partnership in "One Night In October" they've barely been mentioned. Some of the strongest moments of season two occurred over there. It's sorely missing in season four.
Best episode: "Subject 9." At that moment it seemed we had opened up the giant gift box from which our greatest wishes would come tumbling out. Peter was back, Olivia and Walter both recognized him from their dreams and visions; it seemed they would be willing to discover what the appearance of this man meant to them.
Worst episode: "Wallflower." After the promise of the best episode, we made little headway toward understanding how Peter came out of the ether, where he was or how he was communicating with Olivia and Walter. Granted, baseball had some play in why we were left at this point for midseason, but we only have this. Peter is absolutely certain he isn't meant to be where he is, while the rest of us have no idea what to believe. To top it off, the idea of Olivia and Nina sharing a lovely life together was torn asunder by an unscrupulous deed.
Hopes for 2012: More answers. More alternate universe. Tell us if Peter is meant to be here and put his life back together or if there is someplace else to get back to. What are The Observers thinking as all of this unfolds? We've never even learned for certain whether or not Fauxlivia has Henry. I'm ready for the blanket to be ripped off the bed. Even if what I find leaves me cold and shivering, I'm ready to face the music. Are you?
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I see Fringe as a cinematographic masterpiece. Mainly because this show puts us in a constant state of attention and suspense. See Fringe, is to be attentive to small details and all that, for shares in merged two-dimensional universes, with interaction between the characters and their "copies". This is simply sensational. Fringe is a complex and intelligent plot, which "pulls" the imagination, as assistants, makes us "wiggle in their seats," excites our feelings of apprehension, fear, joy and passion. Fringe is all this and more.
I think its important to remember the pacing of a show like fringe depends in large part on how long the writers and producers wish the show to go for, and that proberly depends on how many stories the writers can continue to churn out before the ultimate end of that show.
In one interview Miss Torv thought that 5 seasons would be more likely, in another interview i saw John Noble said that the writers and producers had enough material for a 6 season show, and in still another interview Blair Brown said that the writers had a plan for at least 8 seasons.
What I'm trying to say no matter whether 5, 6 or 8 seasons a serial show like fringe has to be paced according, so to reach one of those conclusions.
For the record I think 6 seasons would be about right to reach the ultimate conclusion and to give us all the ending that I think we would have deserved.
I agree worse episode was Wallflower and best episode for me was "And those we left behind", because it felt like old fringe with the great chemistry between Olivia, Peter and Walter. That's what makes Fringe for me. This season has been a real snoozefest for me bar two episodes. Way too much Lincoln and Olivia when we have yet to know much about Astrid, Broyles and Nina. Also, we haven't seen Walternate yet and what he's like in this timeline. More mythology and answers from the Observers would be great. We are suppose to get more about the observers this season, where is that?
@ Review - I agree, people were unfairly hard on Anna in S1/early S2, blaming her for portraying a character who had a lot of problems and a really screwed up life as...acting like someone who had a lot of problems and a really screwed up life. Ironically I think people are doing the same to Josh now. Look at who Peter is. He's a guy who spent his 20's fast-talking his way through life, going from place to place and job to job and identity to identity. He was a loner, gambler, and con artist according to what we know. So portraying him as a sort of emo drama queen incapable of restraining his emotions would be completely out of character. Josh's portrayal of Peter is I think subtle and restrained and understated, which fits who Peter is - this incredibly smart guy from a parallel reality who is, paradoxically, also IMHO the most down-to-earth, approachable character on the show. He has the tendency to do a lot of amazing things but also simultaneously play it down like it's no big deal. It's easy to forget Peter never graduated from college and that apparently his skill set which includes everything from piano playing to precision pistol headshots to speaking multiple languages to computer hacking comes from nothing more than self-education and his own life experience. I think the biggest thing with Josh is that when things happen to Peter, we always see the reaction from OTHER characters far more than from Peter himself. I blame the writers for seemingly ignoring the chance to tell the story from Peter's POV. But in the episodes where Josh *does* get emotional scenes he does damn well - Entrada, The Man From the Other Side, Novation, etc.
I agree on the worst episode. I consider "Wallflower" the worst episode of the whole show by far. The best for me is "And Those We've Left Behind", followed closely by "Novation". If there is anything this season has taught me is how unlikable, boring and sometimes intolerable I find Walter and Olivia without Peter. Walter is still crazy, but he doesn't amuse me anymore. I suppose I'm not supposed to be amused, but Walter was one of the reasons I tuned in to watch Fringe. Although I'm aware of the wonderful nuances John Noble brings to this iteration of Walter, it is not enough. Olivia is an even more uninspired bland cold version of S1 Olivia, who still falls for her work partners. Then they decided this wasn't boring enough and they added one of the dullest characters ever, Lincoln, and made it all about him, instead of focusing on Peter, which is what they promised anyway. They promised this would be Peter's season, but they lied. The only thing they've given us is lots of Lincoln and Olivia. What I hope for 2012: more Peter, more Peter/Walter/Walternate, more sense of danger, a resolution to the alternate universe, what's going on with September and the other Observers, more Astrid, Broyles and Nina, much less Lincoln if at all.
Having read some of the comments below, confirms what I said earlier.
If you think Fringe is all about adult-Peter and Olivia and Walter are nothing without him, you are negative about the episodes without him, and you get comments like they are robots or whatever, so how is that?? Walter is the same as before, but having not been able to save redPeter left a bitterness, and for some reason he has a phobia and does not leave the Lab, which had nothing to do with having adultPeter, if they end up presenting it as such, they do not know what a phobia is. Olivia in this timeline is warm and caring for Walter, has a sort of friendship with Astrid and cares for Lincoln. She only protected Walter in her first encounter with Peter, in 4.06 she immediately trusted him, was relieved he crossed the bubble, and wanted him to find his Olivia.
Simply because this Olivia is not drooling after Peter, she is a robot??? The way the writers have set this up with the overhype on Peter, and some of the writing, they are doing the exact opposite of last season.
Last season Olivia was more or less erased as a personality, brainwashed, replaced and then worst of all she had to return for Peter and was reduced to a needy, insecure woman, no longer the special one, hero, savior.
That went all to Peter. This season has been set up from 3.10 , all for Peter to be central, from the spoilers you can be assured, Peter fans, that he will be God incarnated, as he probably will cure Walter from his phobia and Olivia will have to fall for him again, with a bit of badluck for Anna maybe Fauclivia as well. Reminder; Olivia was a confident, smiling, happy and direct woman when we met her in the pilot with John Scott, he made her happy, not Peter, he only made her insecure and needy.
What she did for John Scott was breaking all the rules to save his life. I am one of those who immediately loved the Olivia Dunham character and recognized Anna Torvs great acting, sadly for Anna only some American critics did, it has always been about he Bishop Boys and Jackson and Noble, and Jackson seems to very much protected by the media. Every time you dare to point out that may be he is not that good of an actor, bam, but the amount of abuse Anna Torv had to go through, sickening.
A year ago the rest of the critics apologized and then asked why she was so underused in the first 2 seasons, the episodes in S1 and S2 with Olivia central are still favourite, only in the beginning of this year mr. Pinkner had something to say about this.
Simply put Anna Torv is awesome and the episodes with her central are the best of Fringe, and she deserves to get praise.
Agreed, on best and worst episodes; I'd give this season a C- or D, though, for the lack of entertainment and the sloth of pacing. As the commenter above said, it should be entertaining (doesn't have to be fun! happy! all the time, but it should be engaging); neither the story nor these lifeless others are. Agree too that the writers have more staying power for their writing than we viewers do. I've no trouble understanding or following the storylines, it's not THAT complicated...it's just gotten more like going to the dentist than watching a show I care about. And I have been fanatical about Fringe since the very beginning. This fall was promised to be about finding Peter and bringing him back (one of the interviews with the producers made it seem like a race against time to restore him....... but they have him back and ....yawn. They're not interested. It's like Olivia and Walter were replaced with automatons. Not only do I miss Peter, I miss the Peter-Walter and Peter-Olivia relationships. For me, without those original people and original relationships, it's not a show I want to watch. I didn't sign up for the Lincoln show, find the idea of another triangle simply embarrassing, and am hoping, hoping that things pick up the pace, and that our three are restored to each other, fast. Even the commercials have been more interesting than much of what they filmed so far. :(
Agree on , What hasn't worked. Best episode, and Hopes for 2012. I wish the season had started at Reiden Lake into SUB9. The writing might be genius, but this is a medium that demands entertainment. Which is nonexistent( Peter Pun) in season 4. More answers. More alternate universe. Yup yup CP..
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It was one of the first questions asked to Blackhawks general manager Stan Bowman during his end-of-the-season press conference.
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"Our relationship wasn't strained at all," Bowman said. "Obviously, there was a challenge when we had the long losing streak, but if anything we came together as a unit.
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