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How much would that new bipartisan Senate "Gang of Six" plan to cut the deficit by $3.7 trillion over a decade raise taxes? And how about your own tax bill?
Those seem like straightforward questions and pretty important ones, considering the praise the plan has garnered from President Obama as well as outside budget hawks like billionaire Blackstone Group co-founder Peter Peterson. But the answers are muddied by politics, arcane Washington budgeting conventions and the decisions the plan leaves to a future fast track "tax reform" by Congress.
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How's this for confusing? Senate Budget Committee Chairman Kent Conrad (D-N.D.), a Gang of Six member, told reporters that the plan would raise $1.2 trillion in new revenues over a decade. Yet the Gang also distributed an executive summary asserting that if the Congressional Budget Office were to score the plan, it would find it has "net tax relief of $1.5 trillion". In other words, according to this summary, it would actually cut the nation's collective tax bill.
So which is it?
The answer is that the plan will raise $1.5 trillion less than the CBO baseline projection ---a projection that includes only tax law currently on the books and not any popular expectations for what the law might be. In this CBO baseline, all the Bush tax cuts, including those for the middle class, expire at the end of 2012, when the two-year tax cut extension President Obama negotiated with Republicans last December ends. Also in this baseline, the alternative minimum tax "fix", which Congress passes every year or two to protect tens of millions of middle class Americans from the AMT, expires as scheduled at the end of 2011. As economist Leonard Burman puts it, the CBO baseline assumes "the AMT engulfs the middle class in a web of higher taxes and mind-numbing complexity".
But the CBO also has an "alternative fiscal scenario" which it says includes the continuation of certain policies "that people have grown accustomed to—because those policies are in place now or were in place until recently." That alternative includes the AMT fix and most of the Bush tax cuts, but not tax cuts for families earning more than $250,000 which Obama and many Democrats want to end. In this alternative scenario, the 2009 estate tax law, with a $3.5 million exemption and 45% rate is assumed, as opposed to the $5 million exemption and 35% rate in the 2010 Obama-Republican deal. (You can find more on scenarios in the CBO's June 2011 Long-Term Budget Outlook here.)
The alternative scenario is the one President Obama's bipartisan deficit commission used in its final report last December, which called for raising $800 billion over a decade by reforming the tax code----lowering rates but cutting or limiting a slew of credits and deductions (tax expenditures, in budget speak).
Similarly, the Gang of Six wants to use a loophole-closing, rate-lowering reform to raise $1 trillion over a decade for deficit reduction. (The Gang also called for raising $133 billion extra for highway spending over 10 years, without touching the gas tax. So it seems that money too might come from the income tax overhaul.) While the Gang left the heavy lifting of tax reform to the Senate Finance Committee, it suggested that the top individual and corporate tax rates be reduced to 23% to 29%, down from the current 35%. (Conrad's estimate that the plan would raise $1.2 trillion is apparently based on the CBO alternative, which it calls a "plausible" baseline.)


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How to Make Back to School Cupcakes
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This adorable bus will make everyone want to "get on board" for the first day of school! Back to School Cupcakes are a cinch to make and fun for all ages. Enjoy!
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Follow these steps to make the bus:
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My 2013 Ram 2500 won't let me select "Heavy Electric" mode either. I asked the dealer's service mgr. about this, but he was clueless, said he'd have to "study up on it". His first response was that my trailer's brakes were probably weak, and that I shouldn't need the "Heavy" setting. I told him that the manual said "Heavy" was available, and that I should be able to select it, regardless of his opinion of my trailer's brakes!
That's the mentality I got at first. Until I packed him up and carried him to my workshop and showed him the brakes on ALL my trailers. Two of them were new, less than 1000km. Now they are 'researching it'. And even if your brakes are not tip top it should still be available.
The pic below shows an excerpt from my OM. For you in the 2500 you should be able to select all four braking options. For me in the 1500 I should be able to select only Light or Heavy Electric. The Hydrolic options are the only ones that should be unavailable to me.
I have four tandem axle trailers and two triaxles. I use this truck to deliver them to job sites empty. When empty my triaxles weigh 2000lbs and my tandems 1500lbs, way below the weight limit of the truck.
I was always able to select heavy electric on the ITBC on the 2010. So why is it an issue now? If all the literature states that we can use light and heavy electric on our 1500s why can't I select it? Light electric is not enough power for even the tandems.
Everything in writing state's that we should have this feature, and don't forget I had it on the 2010.
Does anybody anybody know how I can escalate this to Chrysler Canada. It's really becoming inconvenient now. I have to be taking my 2500s from job sites to deliver empty trailers.
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We thank the National Institutes of Health, General Medicine (grant no. GM-60578), and the Army Research Office for generous support.
Terminating Platinum-Initiated Cation-Olefin Reactions with Simple Alkenes†
Article first published online: 13 MAY 2011
DOI: 10.1002/anie.201100463
Copyright © 2011 WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim
Angewandte Chemie International Edition
Volume 50, Issue 25, pages 5658–5661, June 14, 2011
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How to Cite
Sokol, J. G., Korapala, C. S., White, P. S., Becker, J. J. and Gagné, M. R. (2011), Terminating Platinum-Initiated Cation-Olefin Reactions with Simple Alkenes. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 50: 5658–5661. doi: 10.1002/anie.201100463
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- Article first published online: 13 MAY 2011
- Manuscript Received: 19 JAN 2011
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- biomimetic synthesis;
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- electrophilic activation;
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All for one: Phosphine-ligated platinum(II) electrophiles can activate polyalkenes for cyclase enzyme mimicking cascade cyclizations without the need for special terminating groups (see scheme). Like the cyclase enzymes, terminal alkenes that generate tertiary cations are good substrates, although the details of the cation termination depend on the alkene arrangement.


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It's kind of hard to look at the latest issue of Mexico's Marie Claire without tearing up a little…
In the new issue with Lea Michele on the cover, the magazine's Editor-in-Chief Ariadne Grant revealed that during shooting, Cory surprised Lea on set while she sat for photos. It was just five weeks before his untimely death.
Ariandne recalled the day. Cory stopped by the Crescent Hotel in Beverly Hills, where the shoot was underway, to support Lea and he "showed up in great spirits and was nice to everybody there," observing that together they were "very nice and obviously happy and in love."
"He just asked for a Coke and stayed there watching the shooting until it was done," she added, saying that he took pictures with whoever asked.
In the cover story's accompanying interview, Lea talked about her relationship with Cory, on and off the screen.
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School necromancy; Level cleric/oracle 9, sorcerer/wizard 9; Domain loss 9, undead 9; Bloodline accursed 9
Saving Throw Fortitude partial; see text for enervation
Does energy drain count as a death effect?
Energy drain is not a death effect.
The undead type calls out immunities to "death effects" and "energy drain" as separate things.
Death Attacks description in the Core Rulebook doesn't mention negative levels or energy drain.
"Energy Drain and Negative Levels" is an entirely separate entry in the Core Rulebook and doesn't say energy drain is a type of death attack, not does it say that death ward protects against them.
Death ward gives a bonus against death spells and magical death effects, and goes on to say that the target is immune to energy drain, and suspends penalties from negative levels while the spell is active.
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We have a lunch thief at work and I keep a small cooler bag with my milk in it in the fridge at work. Well someone has opened it 3 times and I'm sure not gotten what they were looking for. So today I left a note in the top that said "please stay out of my sons lunchbox" We found out who the thief was by look on his face when he saw the note.
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I don't post to the GB forums (or blogs) very much but seeing as how there seems to be a diverse and friendly metal tingent, I may start to.
Unfortunately I can't hotlnk YouTube videos (I'm on my phone) but ill list a few albums I've been rocking lately and I hope you guys check them out. If there's one thing I love as much as video games, it's sharing music with people
Aoria - The Constant
New Keepers of the Water Towers - Starchild
Kongh - Sole Creation
Nails - Abandon All Life
Immolation - Kingdom of Conspiracy
Portal - Vexovoid
Devourment - Conceived in Sewage
Autopsy - The Headless Ritual
The Fall of Every Season - Amends
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JBoss airs expansion plans
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JBoss lands $10 million in fundingFebruary 19, 2004
Pandora's box for open sourceFebruary 12, 2004
JBoss expands open-source reachOctober 6, 2003
The company is evaluating a plan to purchase an existing infrastructure software, or middleware, company and make its product available for free under an open-source license, Bob Bickel, JBoss' vice president of corporate development and strategy, told CNET News.com.
Other expansion options include taking over an existing open-source project or writing its own integration and process automation software. The company could use some of the $10 million it gained from venture capital investors to finance acquisitions, Bickel added.
"We intend to have an entire middleware stack under a professional open-source business model and grow it on an incremental basis over the next one or two years," Bickel said.
JBoss makes money by offering services and training for a handful of freely available infrastructure software products, notably its JBoss Java application server, which is used to run business applications written in Java. Earlier this year, the company hired the lead developers of a few open-source projects, including Hibernate and Tomcat, and now provides consulting services for the software that those open-source projects generate.
JBoss' plan to make more middleware products available on an open-source basis underscores the growing influence of the open-source development method on the commercial software market. Sun Microsystems, for example, on Thursday indicated that it may transform its own Java server suite into open source and has said its Solaris Unix operating system will ultimately be made open source.
JBoss is looking specifically to open-source, standards-based integration software, called an enterprise service bus, and business process management (BPM) software, which is server-based software for automating complex business processes, Bickel said. Currently, enterprise service bus and BPM software are offered by both large commercial software companies and smaller, specialized ones.
One analyst noted that with a relatively minor sum of $10 million in the bank, JBoss would only be able to acquire a small company.
"They're not going to go out and pick up any of the smaller enterprise application integration or enterprise service bus players out there. It would have to be something pretty low-profile," said Stephen O'Grady, an analyst at research company RedMonk.
He noted that adding integration capabilities to the JBoss application server mirrors what other Java server companies are already doing and could help make JBoss more competitive.
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I have a theory. I think that the National League is not as bad as many people think but instead is very very balanced. Revenue Sharing has created a situation where teams in small markets can compete with the big ones fairly quickly. Teams are signing their players way before they get to free agency and making free agency almost an impossible way to "buy" a winner.
I think even the American League is becoming very balanced (save the Yanks and Red Sox and even they are having a much harder time than in the past). Personally I love this balance but it does seem to make things strange when the "BEST" team in the American League won something like 90 games and actually gave up more runs than they scored.
Now to my worry. Revenue sharing is going to come to a major halt real soon. The Yanks are about to move into their new stadium and when that happens the Yanks cash flow will be diverted from the Reds, Royals, and A's to paying off the new stadium. This could have the effect of the small market teams being put back into the situation like they were 10 years ago. I found an article that I will post on the next post that explains this situation. (I was reminded of it this week from a Gammons column)
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Is balance not bad teams causing this low win (Cards in 2006, D-Backs 2007) total each year?
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I feel like the schooling part of parenting is so so hard and I am so sick of hearing about people with children who do so well in school. My children (8th grade and 2nd grade) are both struggling learners. Both struggling learners who want so badly to do well and often cannot. My oldest was tested privately and does have a slight disability but not enough of one to really qualify for any help. It is so hard as a parent because I try to help but they often fall to pieces with me and I just don't always feel like they are getting the support they need. We actually moved across the country to be able to afford to put them in a very small farm school where there are no grades and very small classes. The school is such a wonderful place but I am not always sure it is academically consistent enough. We are most likely going to have to move again which will put them both into public school again and that worries me terribly. Does anyone else have children like this? I feel like I never hear about just average children- everyone seems to only have gifted children now. I feel like I am living in a world where my children will just flounder and I am so afraid for them. Is anyone else in this boat? How do you just accept that this is the way it is and more importantly, how do you help your child accept that they, unlike many of their friends, won't get high test scores or get into amazing private schools? We don't place an emphasis on these things but they seem to want them because of their peer group. How do you help them to feel okay with who they are when the whole world seems to be so focused on AP classes and always getting into the next thing.?
I look at it like this: It is true that the whole world seems to be focused on the competition to get ahead. It is also true that the world, and our society especially, is pretty messed up when it comes to what we should have as our top priorities. When my children were born I sent only one wish up into the heavens, and that is that they would grow up to be kind. Great schools and good grades are wonderful, but they are nothing without kindness and character. Those things can't be graded, but they count more than anything.
When I was in school I remember the divide between the so-called advanced kids and so-called learning disabled kids. I remember thinking that some of the kids who were considered "slower" were in fact really witty and fun to be around. I thought, how could they be "slow"? Now I think, are they really disabled or is our school system just not willing or able to teach some kids in the way they are able to learn? Just thinking out loud here.
I think your kids will do wonderfully in life as long as you see them as perfectly capable and gifted in their own way. Just because their gifts can't be graded doesn't mean they aren't there. I believe every child has a gift. Just because it's not math, science or reading doesn't mean it doesn't have value. Who knows what amazing things they are capable of.
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Thank you so much Dalia. I so needed to read that. I also wished that my children would be kind souls and if there is one thing that they do excel in, it is that and I am very thankful. Thanks for the kind words.
I wonder this often! I have three boys. 2 of them are gifted with learning disabilities. 1 of them is on the autism spectrum, high functioning, but had a lot of trouble early on. It always seems like a struggle balancing all their needs!
I don't have school-aged children yet, but I SO know what you mean. I will be damned if my kids get caught up in a system where the most important thing is the grade. Seems like it's even more important than learning.
I look at it like this: It is true that the whole world seems to be focused on the competition to get ahead. It is also true that the world, and our society especially, is pretty messed up when it comes to what we should have as our top priorities. When my children were born I sent only one wish up into the heavens, and that is that they would grow up to be kind. Great schools and good grades are wonderful, but they are nothing without kindness and character. Those things can't be graded, but they count more than anything.
When I was in school I remember the divide between the so-called advanced kids and so-called learning disabled kids. I remember thinking that some of the kids who were considered "slower" were in fact really witty and fun to be around. I thought, how could they be "slow"? Now I think, are they really disabled or is our school system just not willing or able to teach some kids in the way they are able to learn? Just thinking out loud here.
I think your kids will do wonderfully in life as long as you see them as perfectly capable and gifted in their own way. Just because their gifts can't be graded doesn't mean they aren't there. I believe every child has a gift. Just because it's not math, science or reading doesn't mean it doesn't have value. Who knows what amazing things they are capable of.
My DS is witty, fun to be around, and very artistic. He also has ADHD- Inattentive and Auditory Processing Disorder and some parts of school are a major struggle for him.
My DD is witty, fun to be around, athletic, and creative. She is academically average.
I have three kids-
My son has the ability to do well in school, but does just enough to get by with mostly Bs.
My oldest daughter has to work her tail off for her grades. She gets mostly Bs, with the occasional C. We actually had her evaluated in 3rd grade because she seemed to be struggling compared to her peers. The doctor said we noticed it more because she was in a Catholic school with kids who all did well and had lots of support from home. She would probably not have stood out at all in a public setting; she is just your average kid.
My youngest is very, very bright but also has an incredible work ethic. If she were in public school, she would probably qualify as gifted.
I think it sometimes seems like all kids are very bright and gifted in school because that's what you hear- bragging so to speak. As a high school teacher, there are lots of average, great kids out there.
Yes! DD1 has dyslexia. School has always been a massive challenge and honestly she failed everything before this year even with extensive tutoring. As a last resort we placed her into a private catholic school this year because we had gone through every other school in our area and it was trying this or homeschooling. She just made the honor roll. Who knew. With her, we have never made school a priority. She excels at sports so we pour a lot of energy into her other talents.
DD2 is just an average kid. Doing fine in school.
DS1 has a whole host of issues and we have no idea how he will end up doing in school but honestly we don't care.
Keep your eye on the big picture. School is not everything. Like in Peony's family sometimes there are other interests (athletics, etc).
I think a far more important predictor of your children's future success and satisfaction in life is their social skills. I have seen a lot of miserable, bitter, prickly smart people (have one in my extended family). On the other hand, I was struck recently by the successes of two average classmates of mine with very good social skills. One is now the spokesperson for the Dept of Labor for my state and one is the newly elected mayor of my hometown. To the best of my recollection neither of these folks were Honor Society material. Obviously the best scenario is to excel both academically and socially, but I think a case could be made that the folks who excel socially (and I don't mean who are super "popular" in a "Mean Girls" way, but true good, caring friends who are fun to be around) have more success in life. My smart, prickly, angry relative has had a lot of strife both at work and home.
My dd1 is both smart and challenged, and challenging to parent. She's probably twice exceptional (gifted and with other issues—with anxiety and perhaps non verbal learning disorder, ADD). My dd2 is very bright, not the best in her class — we live in Lake Wobegone where all the kids are above average — but does excel in writing/reading. She gets frustrated with math sometimes, though. Overall she's probably easier, but that has more to do with the lack of obstacles (the anxiety can be crushing for dd1).
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I think, when you have kids who struggle academically, it can seem like everyone else in the world is raising little geniuses. My DS is dyslexic, and I used to want to scream at all my Facebook friends who were posting about their kids sounding out words in preschool, or getting bored in first grade because they were expected to ready Junie B Jones when they really wanted to read Harry Potter.
As time has gone on, though, I've found out that there are more struggling kids than you might think when you're in the throes of school struggles with your kid. There are really many more than there should be thanks to failures on the part of many schools, but that's a whole other can of worms.
If all the other kids in the world really were gifted, it wouldn't mean anything. It's the parents of the gifted kids who tend to talk the most about their kids' school experience, but I really think they're in the minority.
Every kid is wonderful and gifted in some way, though sometimes it might take awhile to come out. My DS is finally beginning to hit his stride in school, but even before that, I could look at him and see his creativity, his scientific mind, and his boundless curiosity, and know that he'd turn out just fine.
And, yes, even the academically gifted kids, sometimes especially the academically gifted kids, have problems. I can think of three such kids in my circle of acquaintance. Some friends of mine have a first grade daughter who is bored out of her mind at school. Her older sister was the same way until she got into the accelerated program in 3rd grade, but their school has nothing for accelerated kids before 3rd grade, so in the meantime this poor girl is starting to hate school. A friend of DS's taught himself to read at 4 and breezes through school, but suffers from crippling anxiety and has difficulty making friends. DS takes ballet with another 3rd grader from his school. She missed getting into the accelerated program by 2 points on one test, probably because she was having an off day. I talked to her mom early this year and she said her daughter loves the social aspect of school but is bored to tears with the academics. This is at a school that is a magnet for differentiated instruction and really does a good job overall at trying to reach kids who are both ahead and behind. Since then, the school has done its best to work with this family and had the girl pulled out for gifted 4th grade math and reading, but it's still not ideal.
In the meantime, my DS is being challenged by the "average" 3rd grade material he's getting, but finally keeping his head above water. For a long time I didn't think that would ever happen. OP, I'm sure your kids will be fine in the end. Do your best, when you move, to find a school that will serve them well. There are so many options in most areas, the local public school doesn't have to be your only choice.
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If you feel that every other parent aroud you is talking about how well their gifted kids are doing in school and everyone on your kids' peer group in that little farm school without grades is hung up on high test scores, AP classes and gaining admittance into amazing private schools (or even *shudder bragplaining about their advanced reader on facebook the way another poster described), you should take a good hard look at both your and your kids' friends. Because bragging about your kids' academic success that way is insensitive and rude. You should hang out with friends, online and IRL, who do not make you feel bad or defensive about how your own fun witty and kind kids are doing and your kids should be with friends who care about being fun and witty and kind in their personal interactions even if they care about good grades and good schools. Because grades and schools do matter - you know it, I know it and and your kids know it as well as everyone else here and pretending otherwise would just make me feel insincere. But whether they should matter to the extent they do and whether they should matter among friends at all - those are different questions.
There is a place on mothering where those who are parenting gifted kids hang out - not because that is such a wonderful and exclusive community to be but because those parents have experienced how talking about gifted kids' struggles in a school system geared to the average-to-bright child sounds like insincere bragplaining to other parents and makes them feel bad and defensive. But those struggles are real. There are many ways a system can underserve kids who do not fit neatly into a system's round holes.
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I would like to point out that giftedness, in the realm of academics, is defined as scoring in the top 2 percent of a standard cognitive test. By definition, the parents of academically gifted children must be a very small minority. I expect that most of these vocal, bragplaining parents have really bright hard-working healthy kids who get a lot of support from home, and are doing really well in a system that is geared exactly towards the needs of bright, hard-working healthy kids who get a lot of support from home. The system is not geared towards the needs of bright hard-working children with learning disabilities, nor is it geared towards the needs of a tiny minority of kids who, depending on their level of giftedness, may find themselves to be unique not just in their classroom, but in their whole year or even their whole school. (You may find the parents of those 2 percent kids to be very much in the closet).
If you feel that their current school is not serving your kids well and you may have to place them in public school anyway, I'd post about their specific struggles and the learning disability your oldest has been tested for in the special needs forum. There are some very very experienced parents out there in fighting for the services and accomodations their kids are entitled to in public schools. Private schools may not be the best choice for your children, and moving them may be a blessing in disguise.
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Thank you all for your very thoughtful and wise responses. I think I just needed to hear some of these things. We have been fortunate to live in some great school districts but the downside of that is that you do have that weird competitive vibe with some of the parents and even if it is just a few parents, they always seem to be so loud. There are other kids in my children's school now that struggle with learning issues too and the reason my children are there is that the school really works to make all learning styles a nonissue by working with all children one on one no matter what their needs. I think I am just frustrated by the way the public school system seems to be a one size fits all mentality. I know there are many great public schools and many many amazing teachers. I just wish it was a little more varied for different learners. Again, thank you for all of the kind responses. Thank goodness for the mothering forum!
my kids go to good schools, so far with average results. my 6.5yr old has an occupational therapist who comes in to work on his fine motor skills, so I guess below average on that. but they are really happy and considerate kids, and am at peace with that. I think part of it is they were both preemies so perhaps normal was aspirational for the first year or two. they will have plenty of time to be stressed out in their lives I figure why add to it now.
that being said, I engage them as much as possible in learning activities (we have memberships to 4 museums) but I honestly just want them to love learning, and let the standardized measurements fall where they may.
it's hard not comparing to others, I hope you can resist the pressure and know you are doing what your kids need, that is at least as, if not more, important than being classified as "gifted" (whatever that even means these days
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I have three kids-
My son has the ability to do well in school, but does just enough to get by with mostly Bs.
My oldest daughter has to work her tail off for her grades. She gets mostly Bs, with the occasional C. We actually had her evaluated in 3rd grade because she seemed to be struggling compared to her peers. The doctor said we noticed it more because she was in a Catholic school with kids who all did well and had lots of support from home. She would probably not have stood out at all in a public setting; she is just your average kid.
My youngest is very, very bright but also has an incredible work ethic. If she were in public school, she would probably qualify as gifted.
I think it sometimes seems like all kids are very bright and gifted in school because that's what you hear- bragging so to speak. As a high school teacher, there are lots of average, great kids out there.
Your kids are like my kids exactly! My son works an average amount and is average. My oldest daughter works a bit above an average amount and scores average. My youngest placed into gifted so, while she doesn't go to the "gifted school" in our area, she is pulled to get more challenging work. She the one most likely to cry if she forgets her homework at school, get frustrated if she doesn't understand something and get mad if she isn't achieving high scores (She's 8, btw). That said, my son is an awesome aspiring DJ and, for being 12, he's pretty good! My daughter is introverted and a fantastic FANTASTIC writer (her spelling is terrible, though) and has a way with animals. My high achieving daughter is bubbly, sensitive and a great dancer. All traits not really measurable on tests or in school (except writing, but if she spells stuff incorrectly, it will haunt her in older school years).
As an aside, my son struggled in french at school. He worked REALLY hard for Cs on tests. He was so frustrated. We talked a lot about giving 100% of your effort and how that was more important than the grade. But when he was expecting a C in French on his report card and he got a B-? Well, we all celebrated that! My son occasionally felt dumb compared to classmates in elementary school but I think he has come to terms with it because we've talked about strengths in other areas that are not academic. My introverted daughter is really unconcerned about what grades other people make. She's kind of in her own world of books and writing. I do worry a bit about my youngest but I'm sure she will find some balance as she gets a little older. (I hope!). I think if we always worry about academics, we minimize the other strengths children may have. School is just a part of their day and just a tiny part of their whole lives. I'm sure there are many average people who have achieved great things. :)
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Yes! And I know what you mean about no one talking about how average their kids are. Mine, like yours, was ID'd as having some minor LD but she was at a school that was already meeting her needs quite well (and as best they could) so we never had her officially evaluated. So, she just kind of went though elementary as an average kid. Then, for 5th grade standardized testing she did super well and was placed in the faster track group for middle school. I was shocked and spent the first several months worried that they would move her. She's going GREAT. Turns out, while I do think she's average, I think the most important thing about my DC as a learner (in a school setting) is that she meets expectations. She hasn't blown anyone away with her amazing skills but she's conscientious about getting her work in and is cooperative in class and that gets her through pretty well. It has allowed her to stay in the honors class and get good grades. Still, I consider her an average kid. The school does seem to be amp'ing up the expectations for this next quarter and I'm a bit nervous for DC - I think she has a goal to improve her grades, which I don't see happening if they raise expectations. But, we'll see.
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At this point, I just translate a lot of the gifted kid talk in my head to "parent thinks his/her kids are special and awesome" and try to leave it at that. Sometimes it seems like, when we talk about kids, they're all gifted. If they do well in school, it's because they're gifted. If they do badly, it's because they're just too gifted to do well. After a while, the term loses all meaning. I harbor dark suspicions that enrichment programs for gifted kids in my local schools are functioning as a means of segregating higher-income, (usually) white kids from the rest of the class.
I have seen all kinds of paths for "gifted" kids in adulthood, and I'm pretty convinced that identified giftedness in elementary school says nothing about a person's potential or capabilities. I am a huge believer, though, in the importance of learning to try, struggle, fail, and try again. That process is a lot less pleasant, and a lot harder for parents to talk about, then easy skill acquisition, but I think it ultimately means more. Working hard and being reliable are real skills that a lot of people have trouble acquiring.
There are some incredibly awesome, academically average kids out there.
miasandhadleysmom, is it more how you feel about the schools, or your kids? Do your kids have these feelings about being left behind, or that it's over-competitive at school? Are they happy?
My kids seem just about average academically. I tell them all the time that, "An average, normal kid who does his homework every night and pays attention in school will go far in life." My 4th grader likes it when I say that and it seems to motivate him.
My first grader seems pretty smart, but his handwriting is bad. He can't slow down. He just scrawls everything out as fast as possible. He may have a touch of ADHD. I've recently gotten really serious on him to learn proper letter-forming. I have to hold him in my lap practically kicking and screaming and hand-over-hand force him to write correctly. Apparently it worked, because the next day he brought his writing from school with m's and p's finally looking like m's and p's. Well, if we have to keep practicing kicking and screaming then that is what we'll do.
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Digital video is a medium that is now available to almost everyone. It can be captured on anything from a mobile phone to a high-definition camera, and published anywhere from YouTube to Blu-ray discs. In Premiere Elements 4 Essential Training, Adobe Certified Instructor Chad Perkins explores all the video editing capabilities of Premiere Elements 4. Chad starts with a real-world sample project, then covers techniques for importing and editing video; and adding effects, transitions, and animation. He concludes with a final project incorporating all the steps, including exporting and posting. Exercise files accompany the course.
Alright folks, now it's time for the good stuff. We are going to talk about getting video from your camera on to your computer. In the video editing world this is referred to as capturing. So what we want to do is, go over here to the Get Media button, and we want to get media or in other words video, from our DV Camcorder. So I'm going to click this button, which will open the Capture window. Now what's cool about this is that I actually have my camera hooked up right now via a Firewire cable to my computer. When you launch this Capture window, you're actually controlling your video camera from this window.
I don't know why I find that so cool, but for some reason to be able to control my video camera from my computer, it's like, I don't know. It's sort of like the Twilight Zone here or something. I love it. Now you want to make sure that your camera is in VCR or VTR or Playback mode, and not the Camera mode. So that being said, I'm going to hit the Play button, and launch my camera, so we can see the footage on my camera. (Video plays: And I raised a South African sal...) Just pause that there. So I'm basically playing back the video on my camera from Premiere Elements.
I could use this little Shuttle button here, if I want to step back, if I move it to the left then we go back in time a little bit. The faster or the more I move it to the left, the faster it's going to go backwards. There we go, I could also go forwards. Make it go faster. It's basically like a Fast Forward, the same way. Again the more to the right I hold it, the faster it's going to go forward. You could also name particular clips right here in the Clip Name area. Just click in there, maybe select something different. I want to call this turtle.avi.
OK so now what I want to do is show you very quickly before we capture this, this little flyout here. This is a little bit confusing. This is one of my beefs with Premiere Elements. There's this drop down here, this big old icon. So you think OK, this is where I get all my settings at. But there's actually way more settings at the little teeny-tiny flyout menu right above that. So here you have access to Capture Settings and Device Control as well, just like the big icon. That gives access to a lot more stuff as well. The only thing that's important is the capture of video and audio. Let's say you just want to get the audio, just the sound track of what you have recorded or let's say just you want to get the video without the soundtrack.
Maybe you know you're going to make a music video. So doesn't really matter what the audio was like at the time. You know you're just going to record over it. So you just capture the video and save yourself some disk space. Now I'm going to leave Scene Detect by Timecode selected here. What Scene Detect is, it's just a remarkable feature and it will allow Premiere Elements to go in and basically every time when you're shooting your video and you either pause the camera or stop the camera, it creates a new scene. So when you go through, and record your video through this Capture window here, Premiere Elements can actually detect every time you pause, it will make a separate video clip for every time that you pause the camera.
Now watch this. What I could do click on this Next button and I could say Go to the Next Scene. What Premiere Elements will do is it will look on my camera for the next time I paused the video or stopped it, and it will take me to that point in the Capture window. How cool is that? When you're finally record the video on to your computer, click the Get Video button to record that video. For more advanced settings you can come to the icon here, or to the flyout. Either one, doesn't matter, and select Capture Settings. So here in this window you can adjust the Capture Settings, but be aware these are your entire project settings.
So you could adjust General Settings for your project, Video Rendering Settings, Default Timeline, how many tracks there are, etcetera. I'm going to hit Cancel on this. You could also go to Device Control, and this will give you some more options for controlling your device. You could also click on Options, if you are having issues with your camera. You can change the Video Standard from NTSC to PAL and you can also specify your exact brand, and model and everything of your camera as well. With me and my particular camera, the exact model wasn't in here so I just said Generic.
It actually worked better for me than guessing the same brand of my camera. In other words it's a Canon camera but just having it say Generic works better than actually choosing Canon and not having the exact model. So you might get luck with just having Generic if you don't find your exact device brand and type on there. So anyway I'm just going to go ahead and hit Cancel. Because I have already recorded this footage I'm not going to capture it now. But be aware that, that's all you have to do to capture footage and to make it video on your computer.
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This article is about the medical treatment of pain. For the study of algae, see Phycology.
Algology (from the Greek άλγος, algos, "pain") is the medical treatment of pain as practiced in Greece and Turkey. The Hellenic Society of Algology[1] and the Turkish Algology-Pain Society[2] are the relevant local bodies affiliated to the International Association for the Study of Pain (IASP).
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I *loved* every second of this interview ... whether or not Rose did a "good" job. Rose's technique matters little: Henri Cariter-Bresson's responses, and the projection of his "inner being" ("anarchist... finally reducing "anarchism" to "love") was marvelous.
Especially, when Rose asked him, "Why don't you accept the fact that you are a great (the greatest?) photographer?" - and Cartier-Bresson answered him, "Because it is not true. I have a camera, and I use it."
One really significant quote from HCB: "Everything worth knowing cannot be taught."
Rose: "What makes a great photograph?"
HCB: "Geometry, and everything in the right place ... and ...."
Rose: "You don't know?"
HCB: "No, I don't know,"
Rose: "And it can't be taught?"
HCB: "No. It can't be taught"
The DVD "Henri Cartier-Bresson: The Impassioned Eye" has a great deal more of the impish HCB - I found it much more enjoyable than the Charlie Rose interview.


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The Spirit of Wisconsin
Trade unionism has deep roots in Wisconsin. It was here that the forerunner to AFSCME was founded in 1932 and that pioneering labor laws were enacted, including the first state law allowing local government workers and teachers to engage in collective bargaining, signed by Governor Gaylord Nelson in 1959.
Wisconsin has often been a political outlier. More than a century ago Robert La Follette forged the Progressive movement in the state. It grew so strong that when the former Wisconsin governor ran for president in 1924 as an independent radical backed by the Socialist Party and the labor movement, he beat the Democratic and Republican presidential nominees in Wisconsin. The maverick strain was maintained through the twentieth century by liberals and radicals who briefly governed the state under the banner of the Progressive Party; by Milwaukee voters who kept electing Socialist mayors well into the 1950s (even as a right-wing populist, Joe McCarthy, was winning statewide and stirring a red scare nationally); and most recently by former Senator Russ Feingold. Pride in the Progressive tradition runs so strong that as many as 10,000 people gather each September for an annual "Fighting Bob Fest" in rural Sauk County, where invariably there is a reading of the words of the man who inspired La Follette, former state Supreme Court Justice Edward Ryan, who said in 1873: "There is looming up a new and dark power…. The enterprises of the country are aggregating vast corporate combinations of unexampled capital, boldly marching, not for economical conquests only, but for political power."
When students affiliated with the Teaching Assistants' Association, the oldest graduate student labor organization in the world, marched from the University of Wisconsin to the Capitol in one of the initial protests against Walker's bill, they decorated the area around the bust of La Follette. And as protesters slept in at the Capitol while Democratic legislators kept hearings going twenty-four hours a day in the early stages of the struggle, union activists like AFSCME's Ed Sadlowski kept a vigil at the La Follette bust. But it's not just nostalgia or tradition that distinguishes Wisconsin in general and Madison in particular. Madison was a hotbed of 1960s protests and has remained a center of activism and independent media. There are strong community stations like WORT-FM, and even commercial radio hosts like John "Sly" Sylvester have given daily coverage to the protests. Progressive TV and radio hosts like MSNBC's Ed Schultz, Democracy Now!'s Amy Goodman and radio's Thom Hartmann have broadcast from Madison in the past, and Schultz and Goodman returned for live broadcasts as the current dispute developed. Local elected officials tend to be progressive and pro-union; Dane County Sheriff Dave Mahoney played a critical role in easing tensions at the Capitol, making it possible for demonstrators to maintain a sleep-in after the governor and GOP legislators tried to force them out. That infuriated Walker so much that he and legislative allies initiated a clampdown limiting access to the Capitol before a judge ordered its reopening. Mahoney responded that his deputies weren't "palace guards."
Wisconsin's history and progressive infrastructure created a sense, expressed by many in the state, that was perhaps best summed up by an instructor at Madison Area Technical College, Mary Bartholomew, who declared, "I'm so glad it came here first. But I know it's going to have to go everywhere." Bartholomew is right; it does have to go everywhere. But that will not happen easily. While Walker is not backing down, other Republican governors will be smarter than Walker, as will Democrats who seek to make cuts in public employee pay, benefits, pensions and workplace protections. Noting the news from Wisconsin, Michigan Governor Rick Snyder announced, "We're going to go negotiate with our unions in a collective bargaining fashion to achieve goals. It's not picking fights."
But even if other governors avoid Walker's divisive rhetoric and extreme tactics, that does not mean the labor movement and progressives can't learn powerful lessons from this fight. The first is that even after years of right-wing messaging, Americans—at least in key swing states—don't have much taste for unionbusting, even in the public sector. A Public Policy Polling survey of likely Wisconsin voters, released February 28, found that if they were electing a governor today, Democrat Tom Barrett would defeat Walker by a 52–45 margin. And other surveys have found solid support for collective bargaining rights. Recent national polls suggest that Americans favor protecting collective bargaining rights by a 2–1 margin. That's important when public employees and teachers are under assault from conservative think tanks and their media echo chamber.
The second lesson is that when the assault comes, it is vital to be bold and flexible. Members of the Teaching Assistants' Association were among the first to start sleeping at the Capitol, and that inspired others. So did a decision by members of Madison Teachers Inc., the city's education union, to take four days off to march and lobby against the bill. When Walker tried to set police and firefighter unions against the broader movement by exempting them from the worst assaults, MTI's John Matthews immediately went to firefighters and got them to join the protest in solidarity; the initiative was so successful that firefighter and police union members became key players. When the teachers went back to school, parents and private-sector union members stepped into their places on the picket line. When Walker tried to portray the unions and their members as greedy, union leaders made the not wholly popular choice to concede on a host of economic issues so the focus would remain squarely on the fight to keep collective bargaining rights. When Walker claimed that the demonstrators were being bused in from out of state, marchers began carrying signs naming the towns, villages and counties they came from; many state and local employees showed up in their work uniforms. The international unions certainly provided tactical and economic support, but they did so with an awareness of the need to be open to new ideas and approaches learned from the 1999 WTO protests in Seattle; indeed, the Seattle influence was so deep that some of its slogans were adopted, particularly "This is what democracy looks like."
The third lesson is that Democratic politicians can act in smart and courageous ways, especially when they see tens of thousands of their constituents through their office windows. The decision by State Senate Democrats to leave the Capitol to deny a quorum for the governor's bill was essential in giving its opponents time to build their numbers and rally communities. The marathon resistance by State Assembly Democrats, who forced a sixty-plus-hour debate led by younger legislators like Mark Pocan, Racine's Cory Mason and Milwaukee's Tamara Grigsby, strengthened opposition and further expanded the movement. This outside-inside strategy was critical for protesters and legislators. Ultimately, some Democrats still disappointed, and communication between the unions and the Democratic senators was stilted and at times dysfunctional. The Democrats are not a labor party in any classic sense, but the best of the Democrats championed labor's cause at critical junctures.
The final lesson is that the influence of corporate money in our politics must be highlighted, in order to show how fiscal crises are often manufactured or twisted for political gain. Even when the problems are real, the answers offered by Republican governors like Walker are not. One of the most popular signs on the streets, distributed by National Nurses United, said, Blame Wall Street. Instead of concessions, the nurses argued, it's time to focus on the corporate CEOs and speculators; as they point out: "In U.S. states facing a budget shortfall, revenues from corporate taxes have declined $2.5 billion in the last year. In Wisconsin, two-thirds of corporations pay no taxes, and the share of state revenue from corporate taxes has fallen by half since 1981." The same is true in other states. These facts must be stressed, repeatedly and aggressively, if the debate is going to shift from cuts in public services and education to demands for fair taxes and the revenues necessary for services and schools.
For all the excitement of Wisconsin, for all the hope the protests have generated, we are still only at a point where we can talk about changing the terms of the debate. But that's a big deal. After the policy compromises of 2009 and the electoral setbacks of 2010, which were so disappointing to progressives, the upsurge in Wisconsin has inspired people so powerfully that national labor leaders like United Steelworkers president Leo Gerard were ecstatic as they addressed the crowds of students, young teachers and state employees at the Capitol. "You have inspired this fat old white guy!" Gerard said.
But it's not just the labor leaders who are inspired, and that's the most important lesson. "Something about this has struck a chord of fairness and humanity that runs deep in all of us," Sarah Roberts told me as she waited for her mom. "We've been pushed around for so long, told we didn't have any power for so long. But I think our grandparents and our parents, they planted something in us, some values. And if we get pushed too far, we are going to push back. I think it started here, and I am so excited to see where we take it."


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"I think I fall right in line with this Pump shoe," he said. "This year I am custom fit for the Giants. I inflate and adjust to whatever's around me."Barber was at Reebok's launch party, along with the New York Knicks' Jamal Crawford and Jerome Williams, promoting the new generation of Pumps -- a version with no laces and no squeezable basketball on the tongue.
The actual pump now lies in the heel of the sneaker. So instead of manually pumping air into the chamber with your fingers -- ala Dee Brown in the 1991 Slam Dunk contest -- the air is released every time you take a step, with your actual heel doing the pumping. And after a few paces, the shoe conforms to the individual foot, providing an abundance of support.But not an overabundance, thanks to a release button designed so the pressure never exceeds five pounds per square inch. Following the trend of customization, Reebok is hoping to emulate the success of the iPod, video games and even food chains. "Go into Burger King and it's still, 'Have it your way,'" said Bill McInnis, the designer of the shoe. "Go into Starbucks and you can have a cup of coffee 50 different ways." But as much as Reebok believes in moving forward, the evening also celebrated the past, paying homage to the original Pumps, which launched in 1989. They showed clips of old commercials with Dominique Wilkins, Dennis Johnson and Boomer Esiason. And then, of course, Dee Brown pumping up his black high tops, then lifting off diagonally for the blind-lefty flush.
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