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Yes, Jesus Is With Us … But Do We Act Like It?
One day Barry the good Christian was riding his bike when he bumped into Jesus. It was quite a shock at first, but he was excited to hear that Jesus wanted to spend the day with him. What luck, to have God actually with him.
First thing he did when they arrived at his apartment was stand in front of Jesus for 25 minutes and sing love songs to him. This. Was. Awkward.
After worship Barry informed Jesus it was now time for them to have communion. Jesus smiled, stood up enthusiastically and asked where the wine was. This. Was. Awkward.
Barry informed Jesus very nicely that communion was actually done with grape juice, as this was the biblical way, and Barry always followed the Bible. Jesus seemed to roll his eyes, but Barry wasn't sure. Jesus then asked what they planned on eating for fellowship. Barry produced two tiny pieces of a cracker.
When Jesus asked why they were drinking grape juice out of a shot glass and holding a tiny piece of cracker, Barry decided it was best to ignore Jesus for a moment while he enjoyed communion. For Barry, it was a great moment of connection. Meanwhile, Jesus was still asking where the wine was.
Next he sat Jesus down as he wanted to share a 3 point sermon with him about how to live a better Christian life. Jesus asked if they could have a simple conversation instead. Barry laughed, thinking Jesus was joking. After 10 minutes Jesus actually fell asleep. Barry falsely assumed he was simply in deep meditation about the anointed message, and so continued for another 30 minutes. At the end, he politely woke Jesus up.
After Barry was sure Jesus was awake and listening he became very serious as he began his altar call. He asked Jesus, very convincingly, if he wanted to accept himself into his heart. In fact, he kept on asking with increasing pressure until Jesus raised his hand, upon which he prayed for Jesus to receive his salvation. Barry was very proud of himself – just wait until his prayer group heard about this!
After Jesus got saved by Barry, he was given a form to fill out all his contact details. Once he got all his details, he strategically walked Jesus towards the door. It seemed that Jesus wanted to hang out for longer, but why? They had already done everything important to the Christian fellowship experience.
Barry gave his best Christian smile, inviting Jesus back at the same time, same place the following week. Jesus, however, didn't understand his nice Christian smile actually meant 'It's time for you to leave now' and so he remained standing there, explaining that there was still plenty of time left in the day to hang out. This. Was. Awkward.
After Jesus finally got the hint and left, Barry sat on his couch, exhausted. 90 minutes with Jesus, he was convinced, was enough for one week.

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Updated: Egyptians Utilize Social Media in the Massive Anti Mubarak Demonstration: Now Live Streaming #Jan25
This 25th of January, the day Egyptian activists rallied Egyptians to demonstrate across Egypt against the rule of Egypt's President Hussni Mubarak and harsh economic conditions.
10s Thousands of rallied across Egypt in a bid to emulate the Tunisian revolution that toppled its dictator Zien Al Abden Ben Ali.
Egyptians were creative in using social media, with Khaled Saed anti torture page about to reach 400,000 followers, the page was instrumental in organizing activists – Khaled Saed is an Egyptian man beaten to death by 2 Egyptian police men because he posted a video on Youtube about Police corruption-
Now, Egyptian activists went more creative, live streaming demonstration, thus documenting live any attempt of police brutally, hence preventing that from happing.
Here is a link to the the live stream at Al Masyer Alyoum Egyptian Arabic newspaper:
and here is the stream it self:
On the other hand, activists are tweeting live from demonstration under hashtag #Jan25 with images of what is happing.
Seems the Arab world is going under wave of change that can not be stopped, in Jordan last week thousands of Jordanians rallied to topple Samer Alrifai's government, the same in Algeria and Yemen.
Update: Rased News Network (RNN) page on facebook is offering Minute by Minute updates about the events in (Arabic.)
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'Walking Dead' will premiere on AMC on Halloween
Check out the 'Walking Dead' teaser from Comic-Con
AMC's next drama series "The Walking Dead" will be lurching onto the small screen on Sunday, October 31 with a special 90-minute premiere.
The Halloween premiere keeps "The Walking Dead" in the familiar Sunday 10 p.m. time slot currently occupied by "Mad Men" for the remainder of its limited Season One run.
AMC is launching "The Walking Dead," based on the Image Comics series created by Robert Kirkman, with a six-episode season, focusing on a group of survivors in the aftermath of a particularly gruesome zombie apocalypse.
The series stars Andrew Lincoln, Jon Bernthal, Sara Wayne Callies, Laurie Holden, Jeffrey DeMunn and more, though fans of the comic know that nobody's presence should be taken for granted and that any character can be devoured at any time.
Kirkman is serving as executive producer along with David Alpert and Gale Anne Hurd. The series was adapted for AMC by writer-director Frank Darabont, also an executive producer.
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Manfred Schatz1925 - 2004
Painter, writer, professor of art
Born: December 10, 1925, Bad Stepenitz, Germany (now in Poland)
Died: 2004, Meerbusch, Germany
Born in 1925 in Stettin, Germany, Manfred Schatz pursued an art career from an early age. His father had been an artist (a portrait painter) and offered encouragement to his young son to follow a similar path. To pursue his goal, Schatz studied at the School of Arts and Crafts in his native Stettin. With this traditional European artistic training already in his background so early on, Schatz was soon accepted to the Academy of Arts in Berlin, before the usual requisite age of eighteen, based on his animal drawings from the Circus Althoff. Although he was still mainly focused on traditional academic subjects during these early years, a very personal experience with nature would later lead Schatz to depict only animals, and most especially wild animals, in his work.
Between 1943 and 1944, Schatz could no longer escape the war that was ravaging Europe; he was drafted into the German Army and sent to fight on the Russian front. Unfortunately, he was taken prisoner while he was in Russia, and spent the following four and a half years in a prison camp there. When he was finally freed from the camp in mid-1949, he sought solace in the countryside, living with his game warden brother on a hunting preserve. Marriage to a pre-war acquaintance named Ilse helped to raise his spirits, and it was during his time in recuperation (from exhaustion, tuberculosis, and near-starvation) that he began closely observing the habits and movements of animals in nature, deciding that he would work tirelessly for the remainder of his career to express their attitudes as truthfully as possible. From this point on, Schatz moved away from the more realistic style that dominated wildlife painting at the time, trying his hand at more impressionistic portrayals that captured animals as humans actually view them in the wild; perpetually in motion. This stylistic change in his artwork presented new challenges to the accomplished painter, but he persevered, aiding his work with field observations unhindered by the use of technical equipment like cameras, which Schatz believed would only impede his true viewing of wild creatures.
Schatz was an almost immediate success with the public when he began exhibiting in 1953. His paintings sold well, but he realized that he would need to travel beyond Germany to study some of the animals that people were asking to see him depict, such as lynx. For this reason, for much of his mature career, Schatz made annual trips to Lapland, in Scandinavia, to sketch his favorite animals, including wolves.
The 1960s yielded several prizes at international exhibitions for his work; Moving Elks captured a silver medal at the Florence international wildlife exhibition in 1964, and Escaping Lynx won a gold medal at Dusseldorf's Interfauna exhibition in 1968. Winner of the former West Germany's Kulturpreis in 1979, which was the highest prize that country could bestow on a citizen, Schatz also received top honors at the Royal Ontario Museum's significant 1975 Animals in Art exhibition. He published several books within his lifetime including, Wildbahn Impressionen, which has been translated into English. He counted Bruno Liljefors and Anders Zorn as influences on his personal style, and although he was known throughout the art world for being quite shy and only speaking German, Schatz taught summer classes in his Meerbusch studio until his death in 2004 to scholarship students from Davenport Iowa's St. Ambrose University.


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More public hearings set on Public-Private Initiatives
Citizens will have another chance to voice their opinions on a proposed Washington Administrative Code (WAC) rule relating to the Washington State Department of Transportation's Public Private Initiatives in Transportation program (AKA "Toll Roads") at a meeting in Monroe Jan. 8, from 6 to 8 p.m. at the Eagles Hall, 114 Lewis St. Other meetings will be held in Seattle, Tacoma and Kent.
The proposed rule sets out the administrative procedures for public involvement activities that will lead to advisory elections on three proposed privately-financed transportation improvement projects, including SR-522 from Woodinville to Monroe. A possible project component is the collection of a toll to fund the road construction.
Persons who wish to respond but are unable to attend the hearings can send written comments to Bill Richeson, WSDOT Records Services, P.O. Box 47410, Olympia, WA 98504- 7410. Deadline for written comments is Jan. 17, 1996.
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IBM's Brain-Inspired Chip Tested for Deep Learning
IBM's TrueNorth computer chip shows it can do deep learning despite not having been designed for it
IBM's TrueNorth computer chip shows it can do deep learning despite not having been designed for it
Quantum computing pioneers want to patent AI telerobotics controlled by humans—and monkeys
Abundant Robotics is sucking apples right off the tree
Intel's purchase of Nervana gives the tech titan ownership of a specialized chip designed for deep learning
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A Turing test alternative, the Winograd Schema Challenge aims to determine how well AI handles commonsense reasoning
The first fatal crash involving Tesla's Autopilot system highlights the contradictory expectations of vehicle autonomy
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Building successful human-robot interactions means learning a lot more about what it means to trust someone or something
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Robots will soon have the power of life and death over human beings. Are they ready? Are we?
Robots will soon have the power of life and death over human beings. Are they ready? Are we?
If robots are going to drive our cars and play with our kids, we'll need to teach them right from wrong
As artificial intelligence in military robots advances, the meaning of warfare is being redefined
An early prototype applies machine learning algorithms to identify uneven surfaces
An artificial nervous system could help robots avoid damaging interactions
Watch-Bot will never let you forget to put the milk back in the fridge
In a tricky surgical procedure on pigs, independent robotic surgery produced better outcomes
The profession could be putting itself out of work
Company abandons incrementalism, but will keep on annotating road scenes by hand instead of by machine
Critics warn that robotic weapons will soon be able to make killing decisions on their own
Mark Zuckerberg kicks off Facebook's annual F8 developer conference by urging global cooperation, not walls and anti-immigration policies. Will Internet-beaming airplanes and VR/AR glasses bring us together?
Nvidia's Drive PX 2 system will be standard in all 10 Roborace cars
800,000 grasps is just the beginning for Google's large-scale robotic grasping project
Google DeepMind's artificial intelligence AlphaGo is a big advance but it will not get us to strong AI
The AI owes its success to self-training deep neural networks, which can, in principle, be applied to other domains. Like your job.
Google's AI makes history by beating Korea's Lee Sedol, the best Go player in the world
Emotional behaviors can make your drone seem like it's an adventurer, anti-social, or maybe just exhausted
Google engineers explain the technology behind their autonomous vehicle and show videos of the road tests


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Serendipity & mystery gifts
In the fine tradition of Serendipity, I don't know what I'm looking for. In fact, I expect to find something I didn't know I was looking for–several things even. When I see each I will know, "Aha! That's it! That's what I didn't know I wanted!"
And since I don't know what it will be, neither do you, and that's why each item is called a mystery gift.
Check out the info on mystery gifts from our destinations in Europe–Bucharest, Geneva, and Hamburg–which we'll be visiting this month. Johnny will be speaking (and me too, once) at conferences in each city.
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By Jean Schurman
It's been said it takes a village to raise a child. In Florence, a community is making the difference to about 20 students each year. The community is the Florence Carlton Community Church and the common denominators between the school, the church and students are a couple of retired teachers – Lois Horsens and Joyce Schroeder. The two were recently honored by the Florence Civic Club for their contribution to the community with this program.
Lois Horsens taught at the Florence school for 27 years. During that time, she taught kindergarten, first, sixth, Title 1, and reading. Joyce Schroeder was in the Florence School District for 13 years. She taught first, fourth and fifth grades during that time.
The program is called Homework Help. Horsens began the program because as a teacher she saw many students who just couldn't get their homework done after school.
"When both parents are working, it's hard to come home after work, try to get dinner cooked, help your child with their homework, and do the many other things that students are involved in," said Horsens. She soon enlisted Schroeder's help and the two prayed about how to proceed. They soon had volunteers from the church to help with homework.
The program runs from October 1st to May 1st. The sessions are every Monday, Tuesday and Thursday and run from 3:30 to 4:35. At first, Horsens and Schroeder would bring the students with them in their own cars and then take them home after the session. But as the number grew, it became evident a different mode of transportation was needed.
Enter the Florence Carlton Community Church. The outreach mission of the church is to spread the gospel of Jesus to Florence and the world beyond. With this in mind, the congregation decided to help the two teachers in their mission. They not only supplied more volunteers but also decided use the church van/bus as a way to take the students home after the session. The church also funds the cost of the gas which is the largest cost of the program.
"It not a way to get more members," said Schroeder. "It's community outreach filling a need."
The only religious aspect of the program is at the beginning of the session when the students and volunteers gather to say The Lord's Prayer. Once that is over, the kids head for their assigned groups and Homework Help begins.
When Schroeder and Horsens were still teaching at the school, it was easy for them to see who really would benefit with extra help after school but now that they are 'retired', the two rely upon the teachers at the school and the Title 1 program recommendations to get the students into the program. However with room for only 20 students, and with many students returning to the program each fall, there isn't a lot of room for new students. But there is a waiting list and as one drops out, another comes in.
The program is set up with one volunteer and four students per group. The grades range from first grade to fifth grade. Reading and math are emphasized but if the student doesn't have homework, then the student practices spelling words, works on math facts and quizzes or reads. Communication with the parents and the teachers keep the volunteers and students on track. If the student is absent, the parent is expected to call either Schroeder or Horsens.
"It's a question of safety and respect," the two concur. If the parents don't call in an absence, Horsens or Schroeder are on the phone tracking down the child.
There are about 18 volunteers that help with the program. Not all are teachers but all want the children to excel. Some help in the groups of students, others put together program packets and others drive the students home. The turnover rate of the volunteers is almost nil and so the continuity of the program remains pretty stable. In addition, this has allowed Schroeder and Horsens to divide up their duties a little more. Each has one day a week off but both will step in and cover for the other for vacations and trips.
Early on in the Homework Help program, Schroeder said they planned complex snacks for the students but as the program has evolved, so have the snacks. Although occasionally there are fancy snacks, most days its popcorn or pretzels with apples or other fruit once in a while.
While both women are passionate about teaching and helping students, both are also very adamant the award from the Civic Club shouldn't be 'a Lois/Joyce award. It should be a recognition of a congregation putting the needs of students first.'


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man i was fubard last night
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Cartesian theater
a mental screen or stage on which things appear to be presented for viewing by your mind's eye
the timing of conscious will
experiments suggest that brain wave activity precedes willed movement but that the reported time of consciously willing movement follows the brain activity
four basic properties of consciousness
intentionality, unity, selectivity, and transience of consciousness
dichotic listening
people wearing headphones are presented with different messages in each ear; when you focus on one set of words, you often don't realize changes in the second set of words
cocktail party phenomenon
people tune in one message even while they filter out others nearby; more inclined to select information with special interest to you
minimal consciousness
consciousness that occurs when the mind inputs sensations and may output behavior
rebound effect of thought suppression
the tendency of a thought to return to consciousness with greater frequency following suppression
ironic processes of mental control
ironic errors occur because the mental process that monitors errors can itself produce them (e.g. in the attempt not to think of a white bear, the mind is searching for a white bear)
Frued's dynamic unconscious
an active system encompassing a lifetime of hidden memories, the person's deepest instincts and desires, and the person's inner struggle to control these forces (e.g. sleeping with a parent)
Frued's repression
a mental process that removes unacceptable thoughts and memories from the consciousness and keeps them in the unconsciousness
cognitive unconscious
the mental processes that are not experienced by the person but that give rise to the person's thoughts, choices, emotions, and behavior
subliminal perception
thought or behavior are influenced by stimuli that a person cannot consciously report perceiving
altered state of consciousness
a form of experience that departs significantly from the normal subjective experience of the world and the mind
somnambulism (sleepwalking)
a person arises and walks around while asleep (usually during slow-wave sleep)
activation-synthesis model
dreams are produced when the mind attempts to make sense of random neural activity that occurs in the brain during sleep
psychoactive drugs
chemicals that influence the consciousness or behavior by altering the brain's chemical message system
drug tolerance
the tendency for larger drug doses to be required over time to achieve the same effect
substances that reduce the activity of the central nervous system (e.g. alcohol, toxic inhalants); sedative or calming effect that produces sleep in high doses and can kill you in extremely high doses
expectancy theory
alcohol effects are produced by people's expectations of how alcohol will influence them in particular situations
balanced placebo design
behavior is observed following the presence or absence of an actual stimulus and also following the presence or absence of a placebo stimulus
alcohol myopia
alcohol hampers attention, leading people to respond in simple ways to complex situations
substances that excite the central nervous system, heightening arousal and activity levels (e.g. amphetamines, ecstasy, cocaine); causes insomnia, aggression, and paranoia
narcotics or opiates
drugs derived from opium that are capable or relieving pain (e.g. opium, heroine, morphine, methadone, codeine); very addictive for a very long time
endorphines or endogenous opiates
neurotransmitters that are closely related to opiates; naturally reduce pain; when people use narcotics, brain's endorphin receptors are artificially flooded
drugs that alter sensation and perception, often causing hallucinations (e.g. LDS, PCP, and ketamine); dramatic and unpredictable changes, but unlikely to be addictive
the leaves and buds of the hemp plant that contain THC; mildly hallucinogenic, affects short-term memory and motor skills and coordination; low addiction potential, no tolerance, maybe psychological dependence
an altered state of consciousness characterized by suggestibility and the feeling that one's actions are occurring involuntarily
hypnotic analgesia
the reduction of pain through hypnosis in people who are hypnotically susceptible


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In contemporary South Africa, mythological production has played a major political and social role of nation re-legitimisation. However, the deliberate construction of a unifying and inclusive mythology does not prevent competing mythologies from emerging. The following issues will be explored : the genesis and discursive context of myth production in the New South Africa; the stakes of myth production for the elite, the minorities and public opinion in South Africa in terms of power; the myth institutionalisation process and its outcomes in terms of political future for South Africa.
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I read Gary Hamel's piece, The Facebook Generation vs. the Fortune 500, with great interest. In it, he talks about the tensions that traditional, cubicle-land corporations will likely face as a creative, connected workforce comes on-line. I was particularly interested because, as a member of the higher educational establishment, I'm part of the pipeline, sitting in-between K-12 and the workplace. More importantly, I think that higher education faces many of the same challenges that the Fortune 500 does. So, with that said, I'd like to parallel Gary's piece, edging towards the extreme in my reflection (playing agent provocateur, perhaps) on the tensions between the Facebook generation and higher ed.
Gary's essay is focused around twelve observations regarding the connected world that the "Facebook Generation" are likely to take for granted. In each case, I've responded with a reflection on the state of higher education that contrasts these points.
- All ideas compete on equal footing. While this may be true in open communities, higher education is not an open community. We have accreditations and certifications to maintain. We have programmes in place and curricula to advance. While some individual classrooms may create space for innovation, departments and institutions are typically (highly) resistant to change. "We tried that once... what, ten years ago? It didn't work then; it won't work now." In no small part, this is because there is no financial incentive for the faculty of any given department or institution to adapt to change – they've lasted this long, why change now?
- Contribution counts far more than credentials. In an open project this might be the case, but in higher education your contribution only matters if it received funding or was published (preferably in the right journal). Did you write something and release it under an open license? Was it valuable to your community? It doesn't matter. When the gatekeepers of your community bless your work, then it has value. Before then, it's a "gray publication" at best, and it doesn't even have a place on your resume.This is especially problematic with respect to teaching, as open educational materials (homework exercises, video lectures) currently have no place in the tenure and promotion process of the vast majority of faculty.
- Hierarchies are natural, not prescribed. The academie is the original mythical meritocracy. That said, it is not a meritocracy—we have fiefdoms and territory to defend, whether the space is physical or intellectual. Many a PhD graduate has been sent off into the world with the admonishment to keep their mouths shut. Why? So we don't blunder into a turf war or some other petty departmental/institutional political nightmare that might, in some way, comprimise our professional advancement. Respect, and possibly even fear, the hierarchy.
- Leaders serve rather than preside. Not in the academy—academics get credit for presiding. As an academic grows their (research) career, they end up taking more important roles on conference, journal, and (ultimately) funding committees. The successful academic has direct power over whether colleagues publish whether they receive funding (see #2). Leaders preside, not serve, in academia, both locally at their institutions and nationally/globally within their disciplines.
- Tasks are chosen, not assigned. With respect to their research, academics can do anything... that they can get funded and published. But don't talk too broadly about work in progress! If you fail to get it published/funded—well, that's failure. Academics serve themsleves best by being quiet about work until it is done, has passed review, and is on the way to the printer/the check is in the mail. The myth of equality in many departments also surrounds the allocation of teaching load: no matter what their area of expertise, a newly minted PhD will teach the courses that are open to them in their department. It is unlikely that they will teach in their area of expertise if a more senior faculty member "owns" the course most closely related to their area of specialization. When they are finally able to teach a course close to their heart, the cycle is perpetuated.
- Groups are self-defining and self-organizing. This is one of the few points where I think there are a lot of similarities between academia and the online world. No one works on things they don't want to... unless it is particularly advantageous, politically speaking.
- Resources get attracted, not allocated. I liked Gary's terminology: resources get allocated top-down, in a politicized, Soviet-style budget wrangle. I'd say that sums up most of academic funding?
- Power comes from sharing information, not hoarding it. Nope. See my previous points, I'm afraid I'll sound like I like flogging dead horses. As a note, though: after academics take funding from (say) the NSF, they publish their work into closed journals that their libraries then have to license back from the publisher. So, the public pays for the research, and the results get privatized. Why? Because academia is not fully prepared to acknowledge the value of open publications and open editorial process... but a Springer-Verlag monograph or a publication through the Harvard University Press... well, we know those are good.
- Opinions compound and decisions are peer-reviewed. While good ideas might propagate quickly online, it is fair to say that nothing happens quickly in academia.
- Users can veto most policy decisions. Oddly, faculty built the system they're in. And, we've given ourselves a say in what we do—we allocate funding, we review each-other's work—but we're pretty vicious about it as a group. It is unlikely that we'll see a "crowdsourcing" of research anytime soon. Likewise, I'm uncertain how decentralization will impact higher education in general. While students can rate a member of the faculty poorly, it is going a bit far to say they have "veto" power.
- Intrinsic rewards matter most. Yes, the intrinsics keep us going. And yes, we tend to align our teaching and our research with our passions. But to be clear: academics are not volunteers. Our job is to educate and to do research—sometimes more of one than the other, depending where we are. We get no credit for contributions to open communities, because they don't get reviewed by our peers... but if we had spare time, I'm sure we'd enjoy the process. (I've heard colleagues say "They pay me for the administrative work, I teach because I love it.")
- Hackers are heroes. WHAT DID I SAY!? KEEP YOUR HEAD DOWN! Mercy. Activists and rabble-rousers have no place on a faculty! Order! Decorum! More exclamation points!
Research and teaching
I've painted a grim picture of the academie. You can do a search for "tenure horror stories" and find many first-person accounts of the ugly that exists in higher education. In truth, you can find a lot of ugly stories in education in general, largely because the educational establishment is underfunded and undervalued in many societies.
I could be swayed to believe that the promotion of research as the "objective measure" of an academic's worth is, in no small part, responsible for many of these tensions. There is a great deal that has written about the value of a diverse undergraduate education (The Case of the Disappearing Liberal Arts College, Science at Liberal Arts Colleges: A Better Education (PDF) can both serve as starting points), and I'm not going to try and recreate it here. I will say, however, that few institutions, if any, have clear, publicly communicated policies about how they assess undergraduate instruction, and how faculty can engage in the production of artifacts surrounding their teaching that can be shared and evaluated as part of their professional development.
I make a point of our lack of effective models for sharing and evaluating excellent teaching simply because it is in the space of great teaching that we stand to innovate most with the Facebook Generation. If I turn my classroom into an incubator for decentralized ideas, a space where my students actively pursue knowledge and challenge each-other (and, for that matter, the world), that classroom will look completely unlike every other classroom at my institution. Expectations matter, both on the part of my students and on the part of my colleagues... and a radically different approach in the classroom challenges everyone's expecatations. Why does this matter? If I want to keep my job, what kinds of risks do I take, as an educator, to provide the best/most engaging/most challenging education possible for students who are part of Generation Facebook?
(To be clear, there's not a lot of research surrounding adult learning that screams that decentralized models of learning are highly effective... blended approaches that leverage the best of both worlds are almost certainly needed, and we neither know what those models look like, nor do we know how best to evaluate the teaching and learning in those contexts.)
To wrap this up, I would like to share Roger S. Jones's letter in Physics Today (July 2010). He is talking in the context of personal experience and Joseph Hermanowicz's book Lives in Science: How Institutions Affect Academic Careers. Specifically, Roger is writing about the (possibly wrong-headed) importance academic institutions have placed on the role of research (eg. publication, funding) in the academy.
The research obsession is both self-reinforcing and self-destructive. The eroding state of science and science education in the US today is at least partly due to that misguided and harmful attitude in our universities. It has disfigured the humanities into useless imitations of some kind of quantitative science and has made the exact sciences a shadow of what they ought to be as part of liberal education and knowledge. It's tragic that at a time when science should be setting the standard for truth and understanding, science academics and administrators are too preoccupied with their own self-advancement to play the valuable and important leadership role.
My reflection of Gary's list of "12 work-relevant characteristics of online life" is an amalgamation of the worst academia has to offer. The list does not necessarily reflect my own experiences, nor does it necessarily reflect the typical experience of faculty in higher education. That said, there is truth in the list, and at the core are tensions surrounding research vs. teaching, open vs. closed systems, traditional vs. alternative models of teaching and learning, and centralized vs. decentralized thinking.
For next time: Centralized vs. decentralized
I've been thinking a lot about centralized vs. decentralized systems lately. As I work to bring my own students into open projects, I am acutely aware of the tensions they feel—they are bridging centralized and decentralized communities through their efforts. Their work is evaluated in two contexts: by me, in a centralized world, and by the community, in a decentralized world.
Many challenges lurk at the intersection of the open world of FOSS and the (traditionally) closed world of the college classroom. Perhaps it is because I'm reading The Starfish and the Spider with my first-year students right now, but I believe there are a lot of opportunities for educators who embrace the chaos and find ways to support their students in entering into and flourishing in the connected world of decentralized learning.
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Figuring out how you are going to afford the high costs of higher education can be an intimidating prospect for anyone. However, you should not be dissuaded from furthering your education because you think you will not be able to afford the expense. Instead, spend some time researching all of the financial aid or college grants you may qualify for; some of which may include federal school grants.
Yeah, you can always avail of federal state grants like Pell Grants that you can avail of. You can also do online inquiries for better options , there are informational sources of school loans for this kind of inquiry. On top of that, you can always do part-time jobs; there is nothing impossible if you're committed and determined to achieve something after all.
The one thing I would say Matt, even on this campus, is that the newer generation of faculty (who will hopefully be moving into positions of power in the next decade) is far more receptive as a body to the sorts of things you mention that perhaps our more senior peers are. I have high (albeit perhaps naive) hopes that some sort of systemic change is achievable over the long term. But maybe I'm just being silly!
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Officers Inducted during Annual IACP ConferenceA trio of police officers from Philadelphia was formally inducted into the IACP/DuPont Kevlar Survivors' Club during the 110th Annual IACP Law Enforcement Education and Technology Exposition.
Officer Sean F. Mellon was pursuing a vehicle wanted in a carjacking on when the vehicle's two occupants stopped and fled on foot. As Mellon overtook one of the fleeing suspects and attempted to apprehend him, the subject brandished a .40-caliber pistol and fired two shots. The first shot struck Mellon in the lower right chest and was stopped by his protective vest. The second bullet went below the vest into the officer's lower torso, fortunately missing vital internal organs. Fellow officers returned fire, killing the suspect at the scene. Mellon was hospitalized for two days and released. Since the incident, Mellon has qualified for promotion to detective.Officer Alfred Diggs of the Philadelphia Police Department's Northwest Narcotics Field Unit was working surveillance when he observed a person buying drugs on a street corner. After arresting the buyer, Diggs and his fellow officers went after the dealer. As they identified themselves as police officers and attempted to arrest the seller, the subject pulled a .357-caliber handgun and fired a nearly contact single shot striking Officer Diggs in the upper right chest. The bullet was stopped by Diggs's body armor. As the suspect fled the scene, he was shot and wounded by officers. He was later apprehended. Diggs was treated at a hospital for a bruise and was released. He has returned to active duty.
Officer James T. Madden observed a suspicious male subject near the 30th Street train station in Philadelphia. After determining that the subject had escaped from Amtrak police officers, Madden attempted to arrest the suspect. A struggle ensued as the officer tried to apply a pair of handcuffs to the subject. The suspect swung his left arm with the handcuff attached, striking Madden in the face, and grabbed the officer's 9mm service pistol. The suspect fired a single shot into the officer's back that was stopped by his personal body armor. Madden spun around to see the suspect aiming the gun at the Madden's head. Madden knocked the gun away from the suspect, who then fled. The suspect was arrested a short time later and charged with attempted murder of a police officer. Madden, who was hospitalized briefly for a bruise caused by the bullet that struck his vest, has returned to active duty.
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The three "exchanged pleasantries," and the man and girl indicated they were on a hiking trip, Andrea Dearden, a spokeswoman for the Ada County Sheriff's Department, tells PEOPLE.
The rider sensed nothing suspicious about the encounter until he got home later that day and saw news reports about the search for James DiMaggio, 40, and 16-year-old Hannah Anderson, Dearden says.
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Dearden said local, state and federal authorities are searching the rugged, mountain terrain, which spreads across 2.3 million acres, and have blocked all of the trails leading away from the area where the pair was spotted.
"We're using as many resources as we possibly can to try to locate them," Dearden tells PEOPLE.
DiMaggio is wanted on suspicion of murder and arson in a search that began in California and spread to Oregon, Washington, Nevada, British Columbia, and Mexico's Baja California state before reaching Idaho. A motive for the murder-abduction is unclear, although multiple friends of Hannah's tell PEOPLE that DiMaggio recently confessed to her that he had a crush on her.
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These cute little arrows are so simple to make and perfect for bagging up and giving away as Valentine's! At first I was going to dip the pretzel part in pink candy melts to match the gummies, but I ended up opting for a simpler version that kids can get in on the action with! I didn't think of creating cupids bow until after I came up with the idea for these took the photos...maybe next year I'll create a whole cupid candy pop tutorial, bows and arrows included!
Candy Cupid's Arrows
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- Jelly hearts (You can find them in the Valentine's section of most grocery stores, WalMart, etc.; I got mine on sale for .99 cents!)
- Pretzel Sticks
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Cut a "V" shape out of the top of the heart.
Gently push heart onto one end of the pretzel stick and push cut out heart onto the other end. Make sure both hearts are facing the same direction. (I made tiny cuts in the jelly hearts with scissors to make it easier to slide them onto the pretzel stick.)
Now print out (or write) some cute tags, tie with ribbon and you have some seriously cute Valentine goodie bags.


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For AFSC's Area Office of the Carolinas, this year's Peace Day was much more than a one-day ceasefire. Peace, for us, rather than an absence of violence, is about building community through cultural sharing, celebrating diversity, and developing personal relationships based on respect and trust.
In Greensboro, our Day of Peace was a two-day tour of the city for a visiting delegation from AFSC-Indonesia. We used their visit to highlight aspects of Greensboro's culture and activism.
New Garden Friends School
Monday morning, the Associate Head of New Garden Friends School, Jane Carter, led us and our guests through both the upper and lower campuses so that we could share some different ideas with the students about the United Nations' International Day of Peace, two days later. In a high school class, and in a group of 7th and 8th graders, we showed students two short films about the effects of war on society and on individuals, and brought with us our visiting AFSC staff from Indonesia, Jiway, Nurul and Wiweid.
The first film was made by an international student at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro from South Korea. She tells of a once-united Korea, and how the two regions were divided by external forces. Once the war broke out, and a line was drawn, her family was also split, unable to contact each other on either side. Though the support from powerful nations is long gone, the two sides never reached an agreement, and remain in a state of armistice. Nothing has been won through the bombing and fighting, but she is often reminded by her grandmother that much has been lost.
The second film is based on the United States' spending on wars over the last 10 years. In Iraq and Afghanistan alone, we have spent more than 1 trillion dollars. A number that large is quite incomprehensible. But our summer interns had a few ideas of how better to invest those dollars. Our cities could use community gardens as a way to create jobs, feed the hungry and build relationships between neighbors; local and state governments could use that money to hire more teachers, better teachers for public schools, and could provide scholarships for higher education; in our own city of Greensboro, citizens can hardly get from one part of town to another, and would greatly benefit from an improved public transit system.
After the films, the team from Indonesia explained some parallels between our two countries, and how they thought both could be directed towards a peaceful society. They expressed their belief that youth are the key to the future, and explained some of the projects they had done with young people. In Indonesia, tensions have been rising over the last few years, owing to increased religious extremism. AFSC-Indonesia is partnering with youth groups to lift up a different worldview.
In Yogyakarta, a dispute between street kids and transvestites led to a multicultural dance performance of Javanese horse dancing and ethnic-Chinese lion dancing. This performance, and the rehearsals leading up to it, became a forum for mutual understanding as they all worked toward the same goal.
In West Timor, around the time of the annual Protestant Easter parade, tensions had increased between religious groups and there were rumors of a planned attack on Muslims and mosques. Young people from different faiths took the head of the parade with a peace torch and banners celebrating diversity. When they reached a neighboring Muslim-majority town, they were greeted with applause and cheering. This Peace Torch, now touring the rest of the country, has become a symbol for "Unity in Diversity," which is Indonesia's national slogan.
The students were attentive, and in the short time we were there, we were able to engage in some discussion. Many of the students had ideas of their own about how they would spend a trillion dollars, from local police enforcement to charities, or a mansion for themselves. Both at the high school and the middle school, students made connections between the lack of funding for education and their own lives. Though New Garden Friends School is a private, Quaker school, and most of their educations have not yet been affected, they saw the potential for difficulties in their future. These are kids that see peace at work every day. When asked if they had been affected by war, the answer for most was "not directly." But by the end of the hour, they seemed to understand that they did not have to see soldiers in the streets or hear bombs going off to feel the impact of a nation at war.
Guilford College and the Underground Railroad
After talking with students, we headed next door to Guilford College, where Max Carter, Director of the Friends Center and Head of Campus Ministries, welcomed us and brought us to the cafeteria. Professor Eric Mortensen, Religious Studies, joined us during his lunch break to learn more about the variety of spirituality in Indonesia and offer his perspective on Islam in America.
Indonesia hosts the largest Muslim population in the world, given that around 80% of Indonesians subscribe to the Islamic faith. The other 20% of the country, however, is made up of Christians, Protestant and Catholic, Hindus, Buddhists and Confucians, and each region has a different demographic. But the extremist form of Islam seeping into all five major islands has no sympathy for other belief systems. Even the Muslims of Indonesia have been targeted and attacked for following an "impure" interpretation of Islam.
Following our meal, Max began a tour of local Quaker history, specifically as it related to the unauthorized transport of slaves to their freedom in the north. The very woods that compose Guilford's backyard were a known stop on the Underground Railroad. As we learned the different ways our Quaker ancestors risked their own lives to save the lives of thousands of escaped slaves, I reflected on the contradictions they must have had to reconcile. Lying, especially to an officer of the law, would never have been acceptable to the Quaker community, but they kept secret their hidden passages and harbored refugees because they had to obey God's will that all human beings have the right to freedom. The runaways who spent days or even weeks in the heat of a Carolina summer running through the mud with no shoes and no food are the real heroes; without taking a stand from the inside, change would never have come to our country. But when I think about the white folks who risked their homes to share it with a black man, I wish I could see more like them in our own time. Slavery is no longer the divising issue; police no longer ask for "freedom papers" based on the color of one's skin; schools are no longer allowed to refuse an education to children living in their district. But many similarities are to be found in today's society, regarding a person's legal right to exist. I choose to be one of those who cannot accept this privilege simply because it was given to me. Freedom is a right that must be shared to be authentic.
Following our Quaker tour, we stopped by HandyCapable, a non-profit that fixes up donated computers and offers them at a low price or for free to low-income families, schools, or handicapped persons. Our office has partnered with them to provide Movies Without Borders, a filmmaking class for immigrants and refugees, with the hope that their personal stories, through the media of short film, will have some affect on the dialogue in America surrounding migration.
The class brings together people of different backgrounds, cultures and ethnicities, and provides support for each student through a partner and group sessions. AFSC-Indonesia focuses on the potential of youth, and was interested in learning about this tool as a means to strengthen diversity across the archipelago. They talked with Trish Perkins, from Handy Capable, and our own Lori F. Khamala to understand the dynamic of the class and examine the potential for duplicating the class in an Indonesian context.
Democracy Chat
Every Tuesday morning, the Fund for Democratic Communities (F4DC) invites community members from around Greensboro to meet at a bakery to discuss issues surrounding democracy. Topics vary from education, to working with religious groups, to engaging youth activism.
This week, we heard from Jiway and Nurul about the issues surrounding democracy, diversity and inclusion on the other side of the world. The similarities were astounding, and we were able, as a group, to start thinking about creative ways to address these issues. One of the things that struck the group was the lifting up of a national, multicultural identity in Indonesia as a response to violence from a fast-growing force of radicalism within a branch of Islam. For Marnie Thompson, of F4DC, this was an "interesting and more positive reframe for me on nationalism, which I have generally felt mostly negative about, given the US version." The group was invited to bring Indonesia's peace torch here to North Carolina, and will be thinking of ways to tie it to the work that goes on in Greensboro.
International Civil Rights Center and Museum
Later in the morning, we took a tour of the historical site of the Greensboro sit-ins from the 1960s. The former location of the Woolworth's store where four black students from North Carolina's Agricultural & Technical State University (A&T) demanded to be served at the lunch counter, is now a museum honoring those four men's legacy and a cultural center for civil rights activism
The tour begins with what the Museum refers to as the Hall of Shame: a visual history of racist attacks all over the country, many of which took place in the South of long ago, but some in the last quarter of a century, in New England or in the Mid-West. We are then taken into different environments of a segregated America. Transportation, education, health care, and entertainment were all very different for blacks and whites.
Experiencing this representation of my national history was very interesting for me. Our guests knew very little about our Jim Crow history, and I felt the Hall of Shame following me as they discovered more and more of the institutionalized racism of our country's past. I also feel my own experience as a white female from Connecticut living in Greensboro has given me the opportunity to know children who would have a hard time understanding such an environment as reality, but also to know adults who remember what it was like to be kicked to the ground for using the water fountain meant for white folks. Our elders' memories are now becoming history. The ICRCM makes history personal again, so that we might prevent it from repeating.
Our visit to the museum was a reminder for me that any great movement in history is made up of small, organized action performed by a few brave souls. This is the work AFSC is involved in, from Greensboro, NC to Washington, DC to Yogyakarta, Indonesia.
Rally and City Council Meeting
After lunch and a short time to regroup, we once again headed downtown to share some of Greensboro's contemporary activism with our guests.
In 2001, Greensboro's City Council voted to close the White Street Landfill in the eastern part of the city. The city had been sued by residents of Nealtown Farms in the '90s, based on accusations of environmental racism. By the start of 2007, all residential and commercial waste had to be brought to a transfer station. But less than two years later, a Councilman suggested that the landfill be reopened, as its closing had cost the city and residents up to millions of dollars. Many have questioned the motives and morality of reopening this foul-smelling health hazard. While Greensboro's entire demographics place African Americans and Hispanics at almost 50% of the population, the community affected by the landfill is over 84% African American and Hispanic. Some contend that if the landfill were located in a predominantly white neighborhood, reopening its gates would not even have been suggested.
After several years of fighting against the City's motions toward reopening White St, residents of the neighborhood have strengthened their voice beyond their simple demographic to include support from all areas of the city, all races, all classes and students at area colleges, most notably, A&T University, continuing its legacy of equal rights advocacy.
Several companies proposed waste management strategies with the city, and eliminations had finally brought Gate City Waste Services to the top. The final decision to reopen under that contract was to be brought to a vote at the City Council meeting on Tuesday.
Students from A&T, along with other community organizations scheduled a protest to take place before the meeting, so they could share their displeasure and concern with the Council once more before their fates were sealed. Beginning with a march from A&T's campus, a rally gathered at the city's municipal building. Hundreds of people held the plaza, a high turnout for an issue-related protest in Greensboro. The idea that many of the city's own would be exposed to foul smells, vermin, cancer, and other health risks brought a large crowd together in solidarity, the first of its kind in local politics for a long while.
When Gate City Waste Services withdrew their bid at the last minute because of the controversy it has dragged up, the crowd felt they had finally been heard, but knew that, as Mayor Bill Knight says "The problem is still there. It hasn't gone away." The city still needs a solution to the money leaking out of town through waste transport, and the citizens must still hold their decision-makers accountable for the health and safety of Greensboro. During the Council meeting, many public voices were heard, not only on the issue of the landfill, but on the Council's attitude and process throughout the situation.
I was proud to walk away from that meeting with Jiway, Wiweid and Nurul, able to call myself a citizen of Greensboro and participate in the activism that is part of America's rich history, but I was also reminded how very little we have come since the Greensboro Four took their seats at the lunch counter.
What is Peace?
We will not have peace in our society if our cities' representatives neglect to take a stand for human rights issues. We will not have peace if we wait for the money to talk, instead of listening for the voices of the marginalized. Peace will only come from our children examining their place in the world alongside their neighbors'. Peace will come from honest discussions about "hot" topics and those that are sometimes forgotten. We will find peace when we learn from history's mistakes; and when we find our common goals and celebrate our differences. The International Day of Peace means nothing if it means nothing but a ceasefire, for "peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek, but a means by which we arrive at that goal." (Martin Luther King, Jr.)


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Public Defender Carey Haughwout
Carey Haughwout is serving her third term as Public Defender of the 15th Judicial Circuit. She took office in January of 2001 after working as a private criminal defense attorney in
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As an advocate for the indigent accused, Carey has worked with many organizations throughout the State of
Her expertise was recognized with the Governor Lawton Chiles' appointment to the Domestic Violence Clemency Panel from 1995-1998 and the Supreme Court of Florida 1997 Appointment to the Special Advisory Committee on Minimum Standards of Competency for Counsel in Capital Cases. She was awarded the 1994 Legal Aid Society Pro Bono Award for Criminal Law service and the 2001 Pro Bono Homeless Advocacy Award.
She graduated with High Honors from Florida State University College of Law in 1983. In 1979, she earned a degree in economics and sociology from
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Monday, October 15, 2007
Scratch that Itch
When I was younger, I indulged in lakes of alcohol and the occasional dip into something less than legal. As I've grown older, my drinking has tapered off a good bit (although I've lost none of my taste for good liquor) and my "other" has disappeared entirely. I indulge now in the written word.
My habit peaks--or, at least, the expenses peak--right before a vacation. I have to have a few books and a short ton of periodicals to read on the airplane and in the hotel at night. If there is a beach involved, the habit swells to something that any of the members of Def Leppard would instinctively understand (although they might be confused at the delivery device). I'm leaving for a vacation in just over a week and a series of packages arrived for me at work today that will carry me through my vacation and a bit beyond.
My exclamation of joy was met with giggles by my office mates--and then eyes cocked in confusion at the source of my joy. Books. Beautiful book with that sweet, earthy smell of paper and ink. Just as beautiful, the words inside.
"Watching him swinging on his hammock, like a big fish in a net, I was reminded of his nickname."
"They took Sam down and buried him where he had fallen."
"Thousands of our countrymen are dead: we accept that the world can never be quite what it was."
The miracle of books--of well written words--is the drug that sustains me these days. Reading the thoughts, poetry, and creations of others (and, of course, wishing that I had their skill) is a happiness that I've always enjoyed in life, but now seem to crave.
While my coworkers don't understand me, I'm betting that some of you will. Maybe you'll even be a bit sympathetic.
The books? Paul Theroux's On the Edge of the Great Rift and Hotel Honolulu; Victor David Hanson's An Autumn of War, Between War and Peace, and Wars of the Ancient Greeks; Robert A. Heinlein's To the Stars (a hardback containing Between Planets, The Rolling Stones, Starman Jones, and The Star Beast); The InDesign Idea Book; and John Bowker's Beliefs that Changed the World: The History of Ideas of the Great Religions.
I think I'll need a little more time off than I happen to have available…
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awesome =)
I voted..saw you picture on the deviant
...saw you picture on the deviant, man
Voted! Congrats on the DD!
great work mate!
Awesome! You sure deserved the DD :]
good luck =D
Good Luck! nice idea
Great idea, really love your work :)
Clever concept, but I prefer shirts with great art.
thanks everybody, the response has been amazing!!!
kc_6201 i think the art on this is well refined and executed, but if you prefer sprawling imagery there are a host of other brilliant designs in this competition you will love, be sure you look around and support another finalist
This is fantastic! I voted :D
Nice concept :)
Congrats on making it on top ;)
Congrats on the DD aswell :)
I didn't mean the art wasn't well done. It's perfectly executed for what it is. Just meant it wasn't really for me. Good luck though! Seems like there is a lot of people that would buy this if it got printed!
I would buy this so fast.
i really, really, really want this shirt. :) +1
I'm getting this as soon as it gets printed, this shirt is brilliant!
awesome – thanks for all the support guys
I would seriously buy this in a heartbeat, is there anyway i can get one no matter what? haha (:
Wow, I'm looking at all of these shirts and they look crazy and dark and gloomy. This is simple, clean and I like the idea. You definately will win and I will buy. I have these new kicks that will work perfect with the shirt. :)


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By CTA President David A. Sanchez
I want to welcome you all back to another new school year - one that will likely prove to be exceptionally challenging in many ways, but will also give us an opportunity to effect great change. Like never before, we are seeing the profession of teaching under attack. We currently have a federal administration that asks us to compete for education dollars; corporate foundations are increasingly meddling in the classroom, influencing policy that leads to dangerous, experimental reforms; and too many of our state's elected leaders are failing to do their jobs, leaving us - still at this late date - with no budget at all. And that's why the elections this year are so very important: to help fix this broken process.
It's a travesty, really, a downright outrageous situation, that educators - who have day-to-day knowledge of the classroom and intimate, personal understanding of teaching - should be left out of the conversation regarding education reform.
I entered the teaching profession, as did both of my parents, who were lifelong educators, with the intention of making a difference and contributing to the growth of young minds. I personally was fortunate enough to get a first-rate education here in California - a state with such incredible wealth that it dwarfs the economies of entire countries. It's inexcusable that in a place of such abundance, schools are so starved for funds that corporate foundations like the Broad and Gates foundations can dangle sacks of money with strings attached and set their own education policy. For some unknown reason, our elected leaders have lost sight of the fact that public education is a basic right - not a privilege, not something to be bought and sold. Quality public education is what once built California and made it a great state. And quality, affordable education for all is what will once again make it a great state.
As I travel the state, it's clear to me that teachers are distressed by attacks being made on them, such as the one leveled by a Los Angeles Times story in August that used student results from California Standards Tests to evaluate teacher effectiveness for nearly 6,000 United Teachers Los Angeles members. The article was irresponsible and reckless, an oversimplification of a very complex situation. We don't dispute the importance of the data, but to think it provides a comprehensive view of a student or a teacher's effectiveness is ignorant.
Each of us has the responsibility to get involved and try to bring about positive change. It's time that we as educators understand exactly how policy is being made and by whom. From the effects of U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan's Race to the Top competition to corporate foundation influence to our state leaders dragging their heels on producing a state budget - a lot is happening behind the scenes that directly and profoundly affects our classrooms.
We all need to be engaged during this midyear election season. It's of the utmost importance that we elect pro-education candidates like Jerry Brown for governor and Tom Torlakson for state superintendent of public instruction. Both have strong records in support of public education. It's also important that we vote yes on Prop. 24, the Tax Fairness Act, to end $1.3 billion in special corporate tax loopholes that do not require the creation or protection of one single California job.
We have the opportunity to help turn around California and make our state a leader in public education. To do that we must be part of the conversation. We must talk to our friends, family members and colleagues over the coming months and convey to them the importance of the November election. With continued support from each of us, we will change the status quo and give all of our students the first-rate education they truly deserve.
Every child deserves a chance to learn and no child succeeds alone.
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which metroid is this?
I cant curl up - I push down and it wont curl up. Any help would be appreciated.
which metroid is this?
thanx for me sig manred
The original one released today.
Read the control manual that comes with the game.Originally Posted by canesfins
Manuals come with VC games?Originally Posted by Backwards Man
i think its just the down button, or maybe u forgot tobsave and u need to get it again, that happened 2 me b4
thanx for me sig manred
Jeesh do I have to spell out everything! Press the Home button when in the game...select controls or manual or whatever...it will tell you all the controls.Originally Posted by canesfins
to un morph ball just press up on the d pad....
You have to collect everything in this game, including the morph ball. The morph ball is directly left of the starting platform. From there, go right until you reach an up/down section and make your way towards the top. You'll eventually find a door on the left (I believe the second one) enter it and find the long beam.
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Sometimes when things are moving a bit too quickly in life, it helps to pump the brakes for a second, survey the situation and recollect our thoughts. That logic can be applied to the never-ending game of musical chairs between college basketball conferences as well.
While many of the conference-switches are fueled by mighty football, basketball will forever be altered. Traditional rivalries will be no more, strange contests between seemingly random schools will populate conference schedules, and teams like Cincinnati and Connecticut will be longing for the good old days of 2012.
Continuing the theme of slowing down to analyze a situation, read on to see a summary and breakdown of the biggest conference changes that will be in place for college hoops by 2014.


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Peters — Hellickson
Jennifer Peters and Jason Hellickson were united in marriage Oct. 5 at Bethel Lutheran Church in Willmar.
Matron of honor was Courtney DeLeeuw, friend of the bride. Jennifer's attendants were Hali Coble, Jen McCann, Katie Johnson and Chelsea Peters, friends of the bride, and Amy Ostendorf, sister of the groom. Flower girl was Morgan Hellickson, niece of the groom.
Best man was Steve Hellickson, brother of the groom. Jason's attendants were Jason Barten and Steve Stang, friends of the groom; Christopher Peters and Matthew Peters, brothers of the bride; and Brad Ostendorf, brother-in-law of the groom. Ring bearer was Ethan Hellickson, nephew of the groom.
Ushers were Craig Doll and Gary French, friends of the groom.
A reception and dance were held at Prairie Woods Environmental Learning Center in rural Spicer.
Following a wedding trip to New England, the couple resides in Greenwald. Jennifer is employed as a preschool teacher by Willmar Community Education and Recreation. Jason is employed as a supervisor by Judson Tank Company and works in Elrosa.


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One of two members of Russian punk collective Pussy Riot jailed in August for an anti-Putin performance has been moved to solitary confinement.
Prison officials stated that Maria Alekhina, 24, requested the move for her own safety; Russian site Lifenews specified that other inmates threatened Alekhina following a heated discussion about religion.
Band mate Yekaterina Samutsevich was released on appeal in October, but Alekhina and Nadezhda Tolokonnikova continue to serve their two-year sentences in remote labor camps.
We're sending positive thoughts for Alekhina's safety and, as always, hope that this unjust sentence will be overturned.
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