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Why The Onion's tweet about Quvenzhané Wallis made me so upset
When our children take their turn in the spotlight, they have the right to leave it unscathed. It's our job as adults to protect them.
By Sabrina James
Last night I sat down to watch the Oscar red carpet with my 6-year-old daughter Kaia. She played dress-up with her American Girl doll while I followed the commentary on Twitter. "Look, Mommy! Julie's all ready for the red carpet," she exclaimed, showing off the updo she created for her doll. She watched with mild interest until the moment we'd been waiting for arrived: Nine-year-old Quvenzhané Wallis appeared in a frenzy of flashing camera lights with her mom and sister in tow. "Look, Mommy, there she is! Look at her purse! It's a puppy!" Kaia jumped up and down. "I want one of those!" What a moment! I wanted my daughter to see a little girl, just like her, walking the red carpet among the most talented women in Hollywood. Quvenzhané did not disappoint. She was sassy and confident while talking to reporters. And she was dressed in a perfectly age-appropriate Armani gown that she chose because "it's sparkly!" Her mom looked on, proud as can be. I had a tear in my eye. "Do you know that she's going to play Annie in the new movie?" I asked. Kaia's smile was so big. "Wow, Mommy! She's the luckiest girl in the world!"
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I have been a huge fan of Quvenzhané from the moment I saw the trailer for Beasts of the Southern Wild. She made the movie when she was only 6 years old and earned herself a Best Actress Oscar nomination for her performance. She deserves a standing ovation from us. Instead, last night, on her special night, she was subjected to the most distasteful showing of adult "humor" I have ever seen. It started with a "joke" by Oscar host Seth MacFarlane about how it will be "sixteen years before she's too old" for George Clooney, but sadly it didn't stop there. The popular satire site The Onion tweeted the following to its more than 4 million followers during the show last night:
"Everyone else seems afraid to say it, but that Quvenzhané Wallis is kind of a ____, right?"
(If you want to see the actual tweet, it's here.)
As if it wasn't bad enough that she was sexualized in front of her peers during what was undoubtedly the most exciting night of her life, but to be further humiliated on a social networking site and called one of the most degrading terms that can be used toward women is reprehensible. The Onion is a satire site and although I am acutely aware that they didn't mean it, does that make it better? Am I supposed to laugh at the absurdity of the statement? Am I supposed to look at my daughter and think, wow, it would be really really funny and smart if someone jokingly called her the c word? How ironic.
Many online have tried to make this a race issue. Saying she was singled out because she's a young black girl. I hope that's not the case. To me, this has less to do with race and everything to do with the fact that we have stopped respecting the innocence of our children. We've become so desensitized by the Toddlers and Tiaras culture that we take hurtful aim at those who epitomize childhood as much as the fluffy puppy purses they carry on the red carpet. Imagine what went through Quvenzhané's mother's mind when someone pulled her aside last night to tell her what happened. Did her stomach bottom out like mine did? Did she look at her daughter with a tear in her eye and thinkwhy? Why tonight? What is wrong with this world?
I want my little girl to know she can do anything she sets her mind to. She can be herself, silly purse and all, and star in whatever version of life she desires. Kaia went to sleep last night clutching her American Girl doll tight, updo still in place, as I imagine Q did with her puppy purse. Both, I am sure, completely unaware of the storm brewing online in defense of little girls like them. In defense of their innocence. When our children take their turn in the spotlight, they have the right to leave it unscathed. It's our job as adults to protect them.
I wish the headlines today were different. I wish we lived in a world where Quvenzhané could wake up this morning and search the internet with her mama to find herself on our best-dressed lists. To see celebrities like Oprah and Beyoncé, her biggest fans, rave about her. Instead her family must hide the horrible truth from her. The truth that our media took a cheap shot at someone too small to stand up for herself or to even know what the word she was called means.
The way we treat our kids is no laughing matter. Quvenzhané Wallis is a lot of things. She is smart. She is sassy. She is talented. She is beautiful. And she is a child. She is not the c word. But thanks to the insensitive staffer at The Onion who decided to tweet and then recant the vulgar comment, this incident too is one of the ways she'll be remembered.
As chief executive Steve Hannah of the Onion wrote in his apology this morning, "Miss Wallis, you are young and talented and deserve better. All of us at The Onion are deeply sorry." We all are, little girl. So, so sorry.
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Trails ~N~ Tails & it's organizers welcome you to our group! This group is open for anyone wanting to do more with their dog regardless of breed, size or ability. There is a trail or event to cover a wide variety of interests. NEW 2013 Dog Training Classes held in Old Saybrook. FREE Activities include: HIKING Trail hikes occur on the CT Shoreline and up the CT River. Each hike varies in length, duration and ability which is outlined in the event description. EVENTS ~We attend annual events suc …
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45 CFR 2554.32 - How will the hearing be conducted and who has the burden of proof?
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The ALJ conducts a hearing in order to determine whether a defendant is liable for a civil penalty, assessment, or both and, if so, the appropriate amount of the civil penalty and/or assessment. The hearing will be recorded and transcribed, and the transcript of testimony, exhibits admitted at the hearing, and all papers and requests filed in the proceeding constitute the record for a decision by the ALJ.
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Summary (Magill's Survey of American Literature, Revised Edition)
Middle Passage, Johnson's third published novel, is a complex blend of allegory, adventure story, tall tale, and philosophical meditation. The novel won the National Book Award. It follows the misadventures of Rutherford Calhoun, the narrator, who is an entertaining liar and consummate rogue. Calhoun, a slave, flees first to New Orleans and then, to escape marriage, to sea. Ironically, he stows away on a slave ship, the Republic, and so his adventures begin.
The novel's characters are a motley collection of freaks, misfits, and oddities. Ebenezer Falcon, captain of the Republic, is a stunted, twisted dwarf whose brilliant mind and strong will are devoted to his own evil ends. Cringle, the first mate, is a well-meaning but ineffectual liberal, able to perceive evils and injustices but incapable of acting to resolve them. Josiah Squibb, the alcoholic, often-married but never-divorced cook, serves as a representative both of humankind's baser instincts and of rough but necessary common sense.
In Africa, the Republic takes on a cargo of slaves from the Allmuseri tribe (a group frequently mentioned in Johnson's fiction as a symbol of original African nature and unity). The crew also brings on board an enormous box that contains the Allmuseri's "god," a monstrous shape-shifting creature that drives mad those who listen to it.
On the return voyage, a mutiny and slave revolt, perhaps...
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Summary (Masterplots II: American Fiction Series, Revised Edition)
Winner of the National Book Award for fiction, Middle Passage is a fanciful account of the misadventures of a twenty-two-year-old black man, a freed slave who ends up aboard a ship bound for Africa to take on a cargo of slaves. Middle Passage is divided into nine entries made by Rutherford Calhoun in a ship's log. The first entry is dated June 14, 1830, and the last is dated August 20, 1830. Calhoun narrates each entry.
The book's action begins in New Orleans, where Rutherford Calhoun has drifted after being freed from slavery by his master, a preacher in southern Illinois. Calhoun, mischievous by nature, becomes involved in petty crime and ends up deep in debt to Papa Zeringue, a Creole gangster. Rutherford has also entered into a platonic relationship with Isadora, a young schoolteacher. Papa offers to forgive Calhoun his debts if he will marry Isadora, but for young Rutherford, any thought of marriage is too constricting even to contemplate. To escape, he stows away on a slave ship, the Republic. The ship puts to sea before he is discovered.
After he has been found, he is brought before the captain, Ebenezer Falcon, a strange but philosophical man, misshapen both in physique and in morality. Falcon turns out to be both a dwarf and a monster, but in his first interview with Calhoun, there are only intimations of this monstrosity. Falcon decides to allow Calhoun to work aboard the ship without compensation. For...
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Summary (Identities & Issues in Literature)
Middle Passage is the story of Rutherford Calhoun's life-changing journey aboard the slaver Republic in 1830. Like Charles Johnson's earlier Oxherding Tale, this book is narrated by a young black man born into slavery but with a superior education, whose story is rooted in nineteenth century history but whose savvy, humorous voice bespeaks a twentieth century intellectual consciousness.
Rutherford's adventures begin when he stows aboard a ship to escape a woman determined to bring him to the altar. The Republic, a slaver, ships out to Africa; there it picks up a special cargo—a hold full of men, women, and children of the mystical Allmuseri tribe. The Republic's captain also secretly brings on board a crate containing the captured Allmuseri god.
Middle Passage blatantly evokes Moby Dick: Or, The Whale (1851), "Benito Cereno," and Homer's Odyssey (c. 800 b.c.e., English translation, 1616) among others. Johnson flaunts, mocks, and turns on end these similarities: His dwarfish Captain Falcon is a caricature of the crazed Ahab; the ringleaders of the revolting Allmuseri are Babo, Fernando, and Atufel; Isadora, Rutherford's intended, knits by day and unravels her work by night to forestall marriage to her new suitor. The Republic's voyage is a darkly comic version of the Pequod's, but one highlighting...
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Summary (Masterplots, Fourth Edition)
Rutherford Calhoun, twenty-two years old and newly freed from slavery by an Illinois farmer on his deathbed, is enjoying life in the wicked city of New Orleans, Louisiana. His former master had educated young Rutherford in the classics and the Bible. However, for Calhoun, freedom means living the dissolute life of a petty thief, gambler, and womanizer. He has run up a debt of fifty thousand francs, owed to a black gangster, Papa Zeringue.
Calhoun has been keeping company with Isadora Bailey, a free black schoolteacher with impeccable morals and ambitions to reform him. She loves him; but he does not have marriage in mind. Zeringue, acting as Isadora's protector, has agreed to forgive Calhoun's debts if he will marry her.
The night before the wedding, Calhoun, after an orgy of drinking in a seaside tavern, steals the identity papers of drunken sailor Josiah Squibb, a cook on the ship Republic, and sneaks aboard as a stowaway. When he awakes with a hangover, he discovers that the ship, a wreck constantly needing repair, has a crew of malformed, incompetent misfits. An exception is Peter Cringle, the first mate, who is a New England gentleman. Captain Ebenezer Falcon is a pederast who rapes young Tom, the cabin boy. Squibb is permanently drunk, and Calhoun must take over the galley. He soon confirms his suspicion that the ship is a slaver, bound for Guinea to pick up forty Allmuseri, members of a tribe of mysterious wizards. With the...
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Summary (Masterplots II: African American Literature, Revised Edition)
Middle Passage is Rutherford Calhoun's account of the last voyage of an illegal American slave ship, the Republic, and of his personal quest for knowledge of the meaning of his life. When the novel begins, Calhoun is a twenty-one-year-old freed slave from Illinois who supports his life of pleasure in New Orleans by theft and lying. To escape a forced marriage to Boston schoolteacher Isadora Bailey and debts owed black underground leader Papa Zeringue, Calhoun stows away on the slave ship Republic, where he meets even greater dangers than he faced on land. As a slave he received a classical education, and since his captain requests that Calhoun write the ship's log, he both records the ship's adventures and ponders their philosophical implications.
Calhoun makes the journey with strange mates. Captain Ebenezer Falcon, a fearsome dwarf, wants fame as a world conqueror. First mate Peter Cringle is a New England gentleman with a "core of aloneness." A failed captain of industry, he makes the journey to fulfill his father's wish that he become a captain of commerce. Nathaniel Meadows, a parson-type who looks "Biblically meek," sails the seas to escape punishment for the murder of his whole family. Squibb, the cook to whom Calhoun is made assistant, drinks continually. Indeed, all forty crew members are loners traveling in search of a new frontier, Calhoun decides.
When the ship reaches the Gulf of Guinea,...
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VTU cautious after learning that a failed student was teaching other BE students
State varsities are taking the lead in having dubious faculty on board. While one member of the RGUHS faculty is aged 'two', some teachers of Visvesvaraya Technological University (VTU) are teaching engineering students even without a degree to their name.
As a rule, only a candidate with a masters in engineering can teach students pursuing the bachelor's course. Recently, VTU received a petition from a student alleging that one teacher had not even completed the BE course. "When we asked the college, they said they had merely accepted whatever had been submitted by the candidate. Many colleges do not have a clue about the background of their faculty. We have decided to do a thorough check," said S A Kori, registrar, VTU.
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In the same line of thoughts, how much should the VC be fined with? What an irony…
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VTU can fine other people but what about the biggest scam..The Vice chancellor of VTU.How much does he decide to fine himself.?
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U.S. Corn Becomes World's Most Expensive
Trean Senior V.P. Scott Shellady on the factors behind the U.S.'s rising corn prices.
Jan 7, 2013
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Corn prices have heard about this and we -- bragging rights the world's most expensive court.
And as if food and gas prices aren't high enough all -- companies right here in the US are buying more -- from other countries because it's cheaper.
You blame the drop you can also blame the ethanol mandate and Scott -- -- Senior vice president with tree aunt and great to see -- Scott thanks for coming on the show.
A problem while 77% of Americans saw their tax bill go up with this fiscal -- deal people be happening here that ethanol makers were able to keep their tax breaks.
They extended the and one dollar and one cent per gallon tax credit for ethanol makers they also allowed them to continue to depreciate their equipment.
What do you think about that.
Well you know it's been about ten or even twelve years -- -- the government's been about -- those -- lawmakers and it's not just Obama bush was there as well -- but lately the administration is much greener than it was with bush and I think that this is -- -- new Sandra but you know.
This is the government's answer to giving ourselves off of foreign oil -- The Middle East but at the end of the day.
It's more corrosive it takes more energy to put out of the ground and transport it it's just not a viable solution but it's a short term solution that they're gonna stick with.
For the short term.
I remember what I was a kid I used to see the archer Daniels midlands commercials where they would say you know when they were putting corn and cheered -- your gas tank and it's so clean was always on the Sunday morning political shows.
But you look at the market distortions that have come into play as a result of it for example.
I'm in 2010 we didn't import any corn from Brazil all the sudden we are on pace to exceed ten million dollars in imports imports over all of corn.
Went up 55%.
Last year overall all the corn that we bring into this country so why are we importing corn.
When we have a lot of -- in the country right now what's the what's the reason -- firmer.
Well you know the a lot of the stuff that's -- hitting the books certainly is coming and imports is was booked a while back to you know.
What we were really out of whack and that was because we had this drought and -- by the way we still have a -- and it's worse than it was a while back.
We haven't got any the water that we needed or they mean it -- so we're gonna have another tough time next year mark my words.
We need more than time it rains you get rid of this problem but also.
You know we've had the Fed c'mon let's say that the thing about unwinding QE and that's cause a dollar to get stronger that's helped bring things back -- alignment when these -- these deals were being booked.
The dollar was really cheap because -- -- a lot of -- fed money in their number one and number two is we had a real big drought here so there's not just one thing -- market more expensive than it normally is but yes you're right 13 of our balance sheet of corn.
Goes up and off.
-- I mean we're saying is when I go to the start -- -- court or by going by serial or anything else that corn is in.
There is a lot of competition for that corn now as a result I mean there's the drought out there killing part of of the crop and then there's also this fight to use it for fuel instead of food.
Maybe now is not the time to be -- -- to be turning precious corn into fuel.
I agree with you and I'm not a big fan about the -- on all and we've got a family farm and if you took away that ethanol mandate that's the biggest single thing -- -- corn prices higher may -- than they should be.
The core price were absolutely -- of you can imagine adding back in 13.
Of the annual -- -- that corn balance sheet.
That would be you know that would -- those prices to the floor but that keeps also the midwest farmer -- remember those votes as well -- -- to -- first on the ballot.
Number two is that.
Yes you've got more competition globally and you've you've seen already a higher price rise most core prices and like I said -- all the viewers have to be especially where.
We're not giving them the ground water that we need to have a successful your next year and if you remember a most of these -- -- the last hundred years.
Lasted at least two years in the dust bowl was for yeah I'm not saying it's going to be a total disaster we've got some things are really worry about here and it could be the fact that we even import more corn next year.
And you have to wait what's going on here because you mention of corn prices collapsed obviously that would be very got for corn farmers and that's not what we're rooting for.
But the average person sees the price of chicken -- everything that feeds on corn go up you see the price of the things that you -- in the supermarket that contain corn go up.
You see the price of gasoline go up because ethanol is expensive so -- you're paying for it.
All over the place as a result of this Scott thanks for breaking on the issue for us we appreciate it.
All right if it's time now.
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As a Class A affiliate of the New York Yankees, the Charleston RiverDogs aim to enchant fans with shapely curveballs and winning line drives. The club takes the field at Joseph P. Riley, Jr. Park, where fans can take in views of the Ashley River as they watch the next crop of MLB stars sprout from the nutrient-rich soil stored within their cleats. Between innings, fans can snack on the Riley Park's concession stands' pickle dogs, brat cheesesteaks, and old-fashioned boiled peanuts—just some of the delicacies that have lured ballpark-cuisine fans from the Travel Channel to The Joe.
Captain John Ward Jr. presides over Affinity Charters' trio of seaworthy vessels, which slice through Charleston Harbor's surging whitecaps during boat tours, charters, and fishing trips. Ward Jr. holds a 100-ton Masters License from the U.S. Coast Guard, and his overarching goal is to provide guests with experiences that are safe, exciting, and productive.
During fishing trips, Captain Ward Jr. taps his more than 25 years of experience navigating Charleston's aquatic arteries to usher fisherpeople through the nutrient-rich ecosystem. Attendees cast their lines for numerous seasonal species, including sea bass, Spanish mackerel, and the increasingly rare leather boot.
Dolphin-encounters tours put seafarers face-to-bottlenose with an undulating army of slick-skinned mammals splashing through their natural habitat. Alternatively, information-hungry patrons can climb on board for an eco tour, where Captain Ward Jr. imparts facts about the harbor's ecological ebb and flow, as well as its vibrant panoply of blacktip sharks, barracudas, and mer-senators. The harbor and sunset cruise allows drifting duos to observe the sun's incandescent descent into a kaleidoscopic loch of rippling reds, oranges, and yellows, which glint off of downtown Charleston.
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3 Reasons to Pack Your Diet with Color; Stay Thin, Get Healthy, Stay Youthful
Friday, November 11th, 2011Eat your way through a rainbow of fruits and vegetables every day; not only will it help keep you thin for life, since they are lower in calories, but these foods are chock full of antioxidants to keep you healthy and youthful.
Red foods are full of lycopene, which reduce risk of several types of cancers. Foods in this group include: Red apples, beets, red cabbage, cherries, cranberries, pink grapefruit, red grapes, red peppers, pomegranates, radishes, raspberries, strawberries, tomatoes and watermelon.
Researchers at SUNY Upstate Medical Center say if we triple our intake of these age-defying antioxidants, we can add at least four healthy years to our lives. I think it's amazing that there are so many different colors of fruits and vegetables to choose from. How entertaining to color-code our food! It keeps things simple. Just eat a variety of colors, and you don't have to know the names of everything inside, plus, fruits and vegetables will help keep you healthy, young — and thin.


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Abstract: The Republic of Botswana is one of the sunniest countries in Southern Africa. It has very little cloud cover, insufficient rainfall, very low humidity, and very low wind speed throughout the year for most parts of the country. The daily extremum temperatures appear to be very much related to solar irradiation which in turn depends on sunshine duration. In Botswana, solar irradiation on a horizontal surface is measured only at Sebele, but sunshine duration and extremum temperatures are measured at several locations throughout the country. This paper presents bivariate models that relate solar irradiation to sunshine duration, and solar irradiation to extremum temperatures for Sebele, Botswana. Autocorrelation analysis revealed that the solar irradiation series is stationary for d=2 and D=0, sunshine duration series is stationary for d=0 and D=0, while the extremum temperatures series are stationary for either d=0 and D=N where N=1, 2, . . . or d=1 and D=1. It is found that there is a lag of three months between the peaks of the differenced series of fractional sunshine duration and fractional solar irradiation. On the other hand it is found that there is at most a lag of one month between the peaks of the differenced series of maximum temperature and solar irradiation, and that there is no lag between the peaks of the differenced series of minimum temperature and solar irradiation. Analysis of the noise component revealed that the bivariate processes under consideration behaved either as a purely seasonal MA processes of order (0,1,1) or as ARIMA processes of order (0, 1, 1)x (0, 1, 1)12 or as a purely nonseasonal, autoregressive process of order 2. We claim that the relationships found for Sebele can be applied to estimate solar irradiation at other locations with climatic conditions similar to Botswana. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10311/177 Files in this item: 2
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Abstract: Abstract Harmonic analysis of sunshine duration and solar irradiation measured at Sebele, Botswana is carried out. The data used consists of the monthly averages and the Julian-days averages of sunshine duration and solar irradiation sequences. This study involves splitting the time series into deterministic and stochastic components, and determining the proportion of the variance explained by each component. The stochastic component is analyzed for persistence using the Box and Jenkins technique. It is found that the stochastic component for monthly averages solar radiation series is best described by the second-order autoregressive Markov process, while that for Julian-days averages series has no memory. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10311/138 Files in this item: 2
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by Allison Dagen and Aimee Moorewood
In February 2012, a message quickly circulated among our faculty in the reading program at West Virginia University. Congratulations, we did it! Without reading any further into the body of the email–all five of us understood the message. The program report we submitted a semester earlier to the National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education (NCATE) had been approved. Nationally recognized. No conditions.
Allison Dagen
Aimee Morewood
Currently, over 150 graduate reading programs across the county have successfully attained accreditation through partnership between the Specialized Professional Association (SPA), the International Reading Association (IRA), and the National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education (NCATE). To achieve national accreditation, a program must submit a program recognition report before their institution's NCATE site visit. In this report, data of a program's six to eight key assessments are presented as well as a clearly defined explanation of how these assessments align with the IRA standards. See International Reading Association's website for a detailed description of the IRA/NCATE accreditation process.
Our goal in this short article is to share our experience of how we (unknowingly) transformed our accreditation process work and surprisingly developed something greater than a successful program report–that is, a Professional Learning Community (PLC). It is our hope that others who are working through this process or are about to can learn from our collective seven year journey.
At West Virginia University, we offer a 36-credit Masters of Reading program. WVU is one of five institutions in the state that offer Reading Specialist certification. During any given semester we have 100-150 active graduate students. Our program reaches students across the state through regional cohort groups and online course offerings. Our program faculty consists of five full time professors and half dozen adjunct instructors.
Our work on this accreditation period began shortly after the International Reading Association's Standards for Reading Professionals, Revised (2003) was released, one year after our last successful program recognition decision. Although we were seven years away from our next report submission, we knew that our program and our candidates would benefit greatly if we immediately integrated the new Standards, particularly the literacy coaching elements into our program. Over the next several years, we began developing a literacy coaching philosophy/strand, developing our program's key assessments and scoring rubrics, and collecting /analyzing candidate data. During this time, we also began to schedule regular program meetings, usually at least once a month (coinciding with our regular faculty meetings) and sometimes met more regularly, especially as some of our self-imposed deadlines approached. We all attended these meetings, contributed equally and took the program development work seriously. Further, at least one faculty member regularly attended IRA/NCATE training sessions at the annual conference and would return to share the most recent updates from IRA.
It was not until near the end of the process, only a few months before submitting our final program recognition report that we came to understand how certain dimensions of this process mirror traits of a PLC. As we (the authors) worked through some final report edits, we were discussing how PLCs were being implemented in the schools within which we worked. In these local schools, teachers discussed how they used their PLC time to plan and meet together to, explore current research, analyze student work, discuss best practice and pedagogy and make changes in curriculum and instruction to best meet their students' needs. Much of what the teachers were discussing regarding their PLC efforts were the activities we were engaged in for the past seven years.
Professional Learning Communities
Professional learning communities (PLCs) are not new phenomena in education. DeFour, DeFour and Eaker (2008) discuss three key characteristics defining a PLCs: (1) ensuring that students learn (2) developing a culture of collaboration and (3) focusing on results. Dana and Yendol-Hoppey (2008) present key elements of healthy inquiry-oriented PLCs. Below we highlight a number of these elements and share how we applied these principles in our accreditation work.
The outcomes of our accreditation work were (1) We have strengthened our high quality program for preparing our reading specialist candidates and (2) we also created a Professional Learning Community (PLC) among our faculty. While what we described here was the positive highlights of our group growing as a PLC in higher education, we recognize that we did stumble and hit some obstacles both individually and collectively during this process. However even with obstacles, the PLC provided support for our professional learning at the higher education level.
Bean, R.M. (2010). The Reading Specialist: Leadership in the classroom, school, and community. (2nd edition). New York: Guilford Publication.
Dana, N. & Yendol-Hoppey, D. (2008). The reflective educator's guide to professional development. Coaching inquiry-oriented learning communities. Thousand Oaks, CA: Corwin Press.
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IBM scientists have demonstrated a new approach to carbon nanotechnology that opens up the path for commercial fabrication of dramatically smaller, faster and more powerful computer chips. For the first time, more than ten thousand working transistors made of nano-sized tubes of carbon have been precisely placed and tested in a single chip using standard semiconductor processes. These carbon devices are poised to replace and outperform silicon technology allowing further miniaturization of computing components and leading the way for future microelectronics. Aided by rapid innovation over four decades, silicon microprocessor technology has continually shrunk in size and improved in performance, thereby driving the information technology revolution. Silicon transistors, tiny switches that carry information on a chip, have been made smaller year after year, but they are approaching a point of physical limitation. 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Furthermore, rapid testing of thousands of devices is possible using high volume characterization tools due to compatibility to standard commercial processes. As this new placement technique can be readily implemented, involving common chemicals and existing semiconductor fabrication, it will allow the industry to work with carbon nanotubes at a greater scale and deliver further innovation for carbon electronics. For more information, please visit www.research.ibm.com.
Great, but will hardware enthusiasts still be able to build computers with these processors? Miniaturizing worries me for that very reason.
Sure they will. We will probably just need a scanning electron microscope and a really fine pair of needle-nose pliers.
I remember reading an article similar to this a year back or more about silicon reaching it's limits & something about graphite being used, it was a university article if I recall......time to look for it again
It's been something that has been discussed several times over the years. They originally thought Silicon would reach it's limits a while back, but they made advances and extended its life quite a bit, who knows. I can't remember the exacts, but there was a problem with Graphite being used as a semiconductor, I wish I remember what my friend (an Electrical Engineer for what it's worth) said about it.
I do believe you are right Xeno, they tossed graphite in favor of graphene if I remember correctly. Disclaimer : I'm old and forget a lot.
You are correct. However they found that graphene can be very easily damaged, though it is also "self-repairing". I would imagine getting graphene to stay permanently stable is holding it back some what.
Because they can benefit from each other. AMD needs to improve its access to decent fabrication, and its R&D for CPUs. IBM would like the graphics expertise and x86 license. Plus, as Intel have shown, volume on low-profit products can allow for great high-profit products. FYI, Lamborghini started out making tractors and are now owned by Volkswagen.
I do sort of see your point, and the parallels to AMD. Lamborghini was always second fiddle to Ferrari, but they did have their glory days during the time of the Miura, followed by a slow decline during the Countach and Diablo era before finally coming into its own as a valuable modern brand after VW ownership. Would that AMD do the same if IBM were to buy them out.
I would indeed like to see an Intel vs IBM CPU war. IBM has been the go to chip maker for years on consoles. Before that servers and Macs. Heck if IBM had been serious in development with the PPC970s we would have seen some real nice performers. The ideas they had on paper for chips after the 970 were really good. With Windows adding ARM support with 8, it wouldn't be impossible to consider more RISC designs coming out. Just a shame 8 will likely go down in history as the tablet OS bastard child till Win 9.
We can't have blue on blue!!!!!! It breaks all manners of logic!!!!!!!! That would become a right of passage to be a computer enthusiast
I don't see any real benefit for IBM if they bought up AMD. Obviously AMD would benefit, but what would IBM really gain? At this point they clearly have no interest in manufacturing x86 products, and the tech that AMD has for GPU's is pretty irrelevant for them outside of maybe helping them make Console SOC's (which they already do iirc).
Thanks for the advice which i will never follow. I just wanted to express how super exited I am. BTW I really really really hope IBM buys AMD's. I know we will see a super CPU war. But I will be much more interested to see what happens to their GPUs.
A lot of the technology comes from IBM, and its fascinating. I want to meet the Chief Arcitect, the one that's not of this world


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