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Car doesn't overheat but my coolant reservoir tank overflows while I have my a/c running. Why is this happening?
My car has 55000 miles.
My car has an automatic transmission.
Hello, A few different items can cause the coolant reservoir to overflow. If this is going on while the vehicle is not overheating, it is a bit less common.
The most likely causes would be a failure of one of these components:
When the AC is on, it puts a slight strain on the vehicle, which takes up some of the available horsepower.
A qualified Technician such as one from YourMechanic will be able to diagnose your coolant reservoir tank overflow fault and perform any repairs required.
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Commencement activities for the Unity College Class of 2015 will take place May 9 on campus, featuring author Terry Tempest Williams as keynote speaker.
Williams will send forth a graduating class of approximately 120 students in this, Unity's 50th anniversary year. More celebrations are planned for summer to commemorate the anniversary.
Williams – a naturalist, free-speech advocate and "citizen writer" who has consistently shown how environmental issues are social issues that ultimately become matters of justice – has testified before Congress on women's health issues, been a guest at the White House, has camped in the remote regions of Utah and Alaska wildernesses and worked as "a barefoot artist" in Rwanda.
Known for her impassioned and lyrical prose, Williams is author of the environmental literature classic, "Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place;" as well as "An Unspoken Hunger: Stories from the Field;" "Desert Quartet;" "Leap;" "Red: Passion and Patience in the Desert;" "The Open Space of Democracy;" and "Finding Beauty in a Broken World." She is also a columnist for the magazine The Progressive.
"We are honored and thrilled Terry Tempest Williams will address our graduating class," said Unity College President Dr. Stephen Mulkey. "She is someone who has used her gift with words to power a new generation of leaders in land conservation. I'm sure our graduates will find her talk inspiring as the mantle of environmentalism is passed to them."
Commencement activities include:
Thursday, May 7
- 11 a.m.: Senior BBQ/Award Presentation for all graduate candidates, their families and friends, employees, and media. The location is in the tent next to the gym. Award presentations anticipated to begin around 12:15. Please RSVP if you plan to attend the barbecue.
- 12:30 (approx.): Marching rehearsal in the gym for seniors.
- 7 p.m.: Evening performance by Adam Scott. More details are on the UCCPA website.
Saturday, May 9
- 11 a.m.: Gathering for guests of graduate candidates, light refreshments in the tent adjacent to the gym.
- Noon: Gym doors open
- 1 p.m.: Commencement ceremony (approximately 90 minutes)
- 2:30 p.m.: reception in the tent.
On Saturday, parking is available in most places on campus; however, it is preferable for graduates' guests to park near the gym. No parking will be available behind the Student Activities Building.

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Chris Mellon tells this story in the Tom Delonge "To the Stars" intro video you've probably seen. Chris states that he spoke to the original pilot in the encounter which we now know as "Captain David Fravor," and has verified the following.
USS Nimitz and Fighter Jets Encounter "Fleet of UFOs" in Ocean off California
A US Navy ship, the USS Nimitz, while off the coast of San Diego along with the USS Princeton, encounters a white oblong UFO 40 feet long and 12 feet thick, without wings or apparent exhaust that does fantastic things while facing the battlegroup and two F-18 fighter jets.
- The object avoids the jets and ends up behind the approaching fighter.
- Gun camera video and forward-looking infrared radar (FLIR) is recorded.
- The object remained close to the boats for hours.
- At one point the object soars to 80,000 feet, then drops at supersonic speed to hover 50 feet off the ocean.
- More F-18's are dispatched after the originals return because of low fuel.
Chris Mellon met with one of the F-18 pilots in the incident – Dave Fravor. The account was relayed by a friend, Paco Chierici, in an article here. If that article link does not work, I've copied it entirely here so it doesn't disappear.
There have been a number of developments coming out about this incident – a lot more information has been divulged.
Captain David Fravor (Pilot) Statement on Tic-Tac UFO Incident
Captain David Fravor came out himself and has described exactly what happened during his encounter (at least one of his encounters) with the Tic-Tac craft. That video is HERE. Capt. Fravor appears to be completely honest about the event of the day, and since the DOD has already declassified much about the incident, he must have been cleared to tell his story. This helps immensely.
Kevin Day on USS Nimitz Ship Reveals His Part in the Tic-Tac Incident
This video (below) is from Coast to Coast AM. In it, Kevin Day, a radar controller on the Nimitz ship tells his side of the story.
Interesting Kevin Day quote – "If they had hostile intent, there's nothing we could have done about it anyway." Both Chris Mellon and Luis Elizondo have said exactly the same thing.
Extremely interesting to me are the capabilities of the Tic-Tac craft which were caught on radar:
Number of Craft Seen over Nov 10th to Nov. 16th – 'not less than 100'
Number of Craft Typically Seen at Same Time – '8-10'
Speed of Craft while Climbing and Descending – an optical physicist, Bruce Maccabee, calculated the speed to be about 48,000 miles per hour.
The Material with Highest Temperature Standard on Earth? It's tantalum carbide and hafnium carbide materials which can withstand about 4,000° Celcius. That's 7,232° Fahrenheit.
This is interesting because the calculations for the Concorde Jet flying at 2,000 MPH has a temperature increase of about 182° Kelvin (327°F) on the skin of the plane. This is due to air molecules hitting the craft at that speed.
Flying at 48,000 miles per hour would heat the skin of the Tic Tac to around 7,403°F if flying at the same elevation the Concorde flies – which is around 50,000 feet. The Tic-Tac flew to sea level though – where the air is MUCH thicker… so the temperature increase in the skin of the craft could be assumed to be much hotter.
Analysis of Tic Tac UFO Behavior
When approached and visual contact was made, Capt. Fravor saw the Tic Tac immediately descend from 28,000 feet to the ocean's surface, and possibly underwater as Kevin Day has stated. It dropped extremely fast – without any sonic boom. Kevin Day marveled at its capability to do that. Capt. Fravor brought his plane down to follow the craft, and when he did, the Tic Tac popped right back up to 28,000 feet and continued going south at 100 knots as it was before it was interrupted.
Kevin Day verified that he was able to also see the Tic Tacs go from about 80,000 feet to sea level at mind-numbing speeds. Even more interesting, Kevin's fellow Navy members operating other kinds of radar saw the Tic Tacs come from "outer space" down to 80,000 feet.
What's considered "outer space"?
100 kilometers (62 miles) elevation is considering the border of outer space, so at least that high.
VIDEO of TIC TAC EVENT
This is a video depicting a graphical video interpretation of the USS NIMITZ incident with the Tic-Tac style videos in 2004. What is really fantastic about this video to me is that you get an idea that the pilots in the event must have had their heads spinning at the capabilities of these Tic-Tac shaped craft.


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1. sda2 (the Vista boot partition) came up under cfdisk as a fat16 partition so LILO (on MBR) gives the second boot option as DOS! I'm leaving it that, I alway did like DOS...
2.Screen resolution was way off but the guys at the LUG tried a live Kubuntu with KDE 4 RC on it and it picked up the Intel chipset and gave it the correct resolution, so I guess I'll have to wait until 5.9 has KDE before I can fix it.
3. Can't get sound at all even though it found the sound card and configured it during install.
I'm leaving it on 5.8 SOHO for my summer vacation because I need: - Scribus (I know it won't be true scale but I need to learn it) Bibletime OpenOfficethese would all be questionable under 5.9 at present (again I'm guessing)
The machine has worked well apart from the oversensitive touchpad, which seems to like moving the cursor when I use the space bar. I have a USB mouse so is there a way to turn it off? I'll have to poke around the forum, I'm sure I read about it somewhere.
BTW, I have read in several places that xorg 7.3 is supposed to be pretty good at auto-configuration and so should mostly start up without any xorg.conf at all. I haven't actually tested it though.
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These are the results created last November for the art/math integration project described here.
By the way, happy pi week everyone!
These are the results created last November for the art/math integration project described here.
By the way, happy pi week everyone!
I talked with an art teacher this afternoon about ways to integrate art and math into a project. She had some great ideas, plus we came up with more ideas in the course of our discussion, many of which I plan to try for Algebra 2 or Precalculus (both which I teach this year, fall and spring respectively). Geeking out while discussing the intersection of math and art reminded me of this awesome collaboration and its result from a few years ago!
Our first idea (in terms of implementing soon) was some colorful string art crossed with a discussion of the roots of unity, since my students are (today) using and graphing complex numbers for the first time. Math teachers, art teachers, and any interested others, check out this rough draft of the project and let me know any thoughts and advice:
This was an assignment I just wrote for a course I'm taking: to describe a day in my classroom from a journalistic third-person perspective. I figured I'd post it here as well. This is a slightly-fictionalized version of what occurred in my Principles of Engineering class on and around March 25th, 2014.
Upon walking into Nick Yates's engineering classroom at Patterson High School in east Baltimore, the first thing one notices is students gathered together working on a project at the center of the room. Walking closer, the project reveals itself to be a large structure, roughly eight cubic feet, which the students explain is a model house. Each wall has a different truss design, built out of coffee stirrers that form triangles that fit together into a square wall, two feet on a side. The students are collaborating in teams, each team responsible today for lighting up a wall of the house.
The students are a diverse group. Six countries of origin are represented here in this one room: United States, Nepal, Mexico, Congo, Nigeria, and China. Among students born in the US, the majority are black, but some are white and some are Latino. Boys outnumber the girls in this engineering class, as they do in the engineering field, but the girls tell of after-school mentoring programs and field trips that have helped encourage them to stick with their engineering classes and to pursue a STEM career.
As one boy positions a light emitting diode (LED) on the wall, his partner pulls off electrical tape and hands it to him to secure it in position. Another partner reads off of a circuit diagram in her engineering notebook, where they have designed the electrical circuit, instructing her teammates how to connect the wires in between LEDs. And the fourth team member is using alligator clips to join three solar panels together to make this wall's lights powered by environmentally sustainable source.
After a while, the team steps back to admire their handiwork. They bring over a lamp to simulate the Sun's rays hitting the solar panels, and flip the light switch to on. But the LEDs do not light up. They are daunted for just a moment, but soon start troubleshooting the problem to try and fix their electrical system. One student suggests they check all the wire connections, to make sure they are all twisted together properly, and two members of the team immediately start to do that. Another suggests getting a multimeter to check if the solar panels are even generating electricity. As others check every place where two wires meet manually, she goes to get a multimeter from the teacher's desk. She asks one of her partners to hold the multimeter's leads to the wires while she operates the device. Each solar panel is reading about 1.83 volts of electricity, but the lights are still not lit. Another team member suggests checking the plan, to make sure the solar panels are wired in series so that their voltages add up. The team consults their notebooks, verifying that their actual work reflects their design; it does. Some of the team is beginning to lose hope, and one suggests calling the teacher over for help. But one student, remembering the time he held an LED to a nine-volt battery too long and the bulb blew out, suggests making sure each LED is working. His teammate asks how they should test the LEDs, perhaps by holding each one to a battery to see if it lights up? He grumbles a little about this, thinking of all the work they had just done to tie the LEDs together with wires into a circuit, only to have to undo it all. But at this point the girl with the multimeter steps in, saying they could use the multimeter to figure out which if any bulb was dead. The team works together and finds they did have a non-working LED. They replace it with a new one, and the lights come on. Success!
(This post was mostly written last Tuesday, so dates referenced will be from then.)
So, last summer for me was a summer of travel. Over 10,000 miles round trip, from sea to shining sea, along roads new and old, long and short.
This year will be a summer of travel for my mind, instead. I have a number of different learning projects I am planning/attempting, from workshops to conferences, from in-person classes to online classes. Nearly all of which is free!
Here are a few of my plans:
Yesterday, I attended a class which introduced me to our local Fab Lab at the Community College of Baltimore County (CCBC). A Fab Lab (Fabrication Lab) is a community-driven and community-accessible location with computers, machines, and other tools needed for making things. A global network of more than 90 Fab Labs worldwide is run out of MIT. Artists, designers, engineers, inventors, as well as ordinary people with an idea they'd like to make a physical reality, all use Fab Labs.
The Fab Lab at CCBC is a little over a year old. It has a 3D printer, a CNC router, a CNC mill, a laser cutter/engraver, and a vinyl printer. I made the following key chain using the laser engraver, with the help of the lab's manager who was teaching me how to use the various machines and associated softwares & tools.
And a sign for my Computer Integrated Manufacturing (CIM) class, done using the CNC router and featuring a picture of a robotic arm:
Very cool.
Yesterday, today, and tomorrow, I'm in a training at the University of Maryland Baltimore County (UMBC, just around the corner from CCBC and its Fab Lab above), where I'm learning more about VEX robotics and their role in the Project Lead the Way engineering curriculum. Including learning how the pieces fit together, the functionality of the various sensors & other pieces, and how to program the VEX kits in RobotC, a variant on the widely-used C computer programming language.
I had two groups of students (6 students total) who began using and programming with VEX/RobotC this year. I learned some of it with them, but really appreciate this chance to work with the automation kits myself and really learn it much more deeply.
It's been fun so far! Here's the testbed full of motors, lights, and sensors where we are learning how everything works and how to program:
Tomorrow we'll be unleashed onto some actual functioning projects!
I've begun an online computer science course, Algorithms: Design and Analysis I, via Coursera.
I'm planning this summer to learn a lot more about computer science / programming. I only took one CS course in college (CS101). Yet I've been somewhat into programming ever since programming the quadratic formula (and many other math-related programs, plus a few fun/game programs) into my graphing calculator in tenth grade. In college, I also used some simple computer programs to design some original fractals (Java) and search for patterns in continued fractions (PARI/GP). And I had many friends in both high school and college who majored in CS or related fields. Since I've been teaching engineering, several of the courses I teach have involved programming components (see, e.g., the VEX Robotics and Automation section immediately above).
So I figured I'd like to learn more about CS & programming. I signed up this spring for Coursera's CS101 class, which (though I can't find a source for this statistic) I think more than 100,000 people worldwide also took along with me. It included video lecture segments, mini-quizzes embedded into the videos, automatically-graded programming assignments, and discussion fora where students could help one another (since the professor could not interact with so many of us individually). It was a decent review for me, since it's been years since I took CS101; I learned a few new things including some specifics of the JavaScript language as well as some things about how computer hardware works. Though it was very easy overall.
Coursera, along with a few other recent innovative websites like it, is being referred to as a MOOC: massive online open classroom (or course). Because its classes are free and accessible worldwide ("open") and are enrolled in by tens or hundreds of thousands of students at a time ("massive"). Some people are talking about MOOCs as the next big step in the educational revolution; I can attest that the experience is much more like an actual class than just viewing lecture videos. I have yet to really engage the discussion fora for help, but I see study groups forming there, both in-person meetings based on geography, and Skype study groups being set up based on time zone or language spoken. Many other people ask questions in the fora which are quickly answered by fellow students or volunteer teaching assistants.
If this topic intrigues you, check out the two articles linked above (the words 'some' and 'people'). They are quite interesting and thought-provoking about the future of education!
This summer, I signed up for the Algorithms course, which looks like it will be much more challenging, though also like I will learn a lot from it. First I had to pick a programming language. I feel like a lightweight in several languages, from my experience in Java years ago, to knowing a little C based on my robotics teaching experience, to knowing a little Python based on using it to control a virtual robot and help it navigate a maze in an after-school club I advise. I spent this weekend taking a crash course in Python to catch myself up to speed. After that, so far in the Algorithms course, one week in, I've programmed a multiplication algorithm and programmed/analyzed the running time of a merge sort algorithm. I've spent dozens of hours on it so far, but am really enjoying it!
Both CS101 and Algorithms are taught by Stanford professors; Coursera partners with faculty from several universities.
On a lighter note, I've also signed up for this Udacity course that says it will be looking at/analyzing/explaining some cool physics problems, while also visiting actual historical locations in Europe of the scientists who studied them. I'm thinking it will give me some nice perspective and/or new ideas for teaching the physics-related sections of Principles of Engineering (POE).
Speaking of new ideas for teaching POE, I've also signed on to take a week-long materials science course at Howard University in Washington, DC. It is being sponsored by ASM International, a materials science/engineering professional society formerly known as the American Society of Metals. They provide free materials camps for teachers across the country at many different sites (see their website for more info).
I signed up for this because a) it's free; b) it's local – I can just catch the MARC train from Baltimore into DC; but mostly c) to learn more about and be able to teach the materials unit of POE better. I feel that the materials engineering unit/lessons in POE are often the dullest sections for my students. All of POE is quite difficult/challenging, with a lot of advanced mathematics and high-level physics concepts. But the other units I am able to better balance out between the difficulty of the concepts and the exciting projects we do. In this unit, students analyze properties of various materials, discuss what causes those properties, discuss how materials are used in manufacturing processes, do various materials-related math word problems, and use a stress analyzer machine to pull apart (stretch it until it breaks, called a tensile test) a piece of metal and then analyze its graph. While students love seeing the metal piece snap in two, I am not able to sustain that interest through the rest of the unit, which I take as a failing on my part. So, I hope to learn more during my week of Materials Mania, as well as to find ways of engaging students better in the topic.
Hooray for the start to my summer of learning!
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Like many teachers, I have suffered through some pretty awful professional development (PD) days. Some where we are read to off a PowerPoint slideshow, one of the techniques we are told is not good teaching practice. Others are more interactive (e.g. think-pair-share) but still boring and/or not relevant to actual teachers.
I am a firm believer that PD needs to be much more self-directed to be effective. We, as teachers, are professionals. As such, we can be trusted to work toward our own professional growth.
I get so much out of reading blogs by and tweeting with other math teachers–including lesson ideas, projects, worksheets, innovative techniques, clear explanations, and feedback on my ideas. Mythagon does a great job explaining the value of the math blogging/tweeting community here. The engineering education community is smaller, but I've worked to create and find spaces for that collaboration to occur as well, including by creating an online course to share resources with other engineering teachers in Baltimore City, and by starting this very blog.
In an official PD Day setting, where teachers have school but kids don't, what could a more self-directed PD look like? It could include time to develop and grow a virtual professional learning community (blogs, twitter, as described above). It could include time to collaborate with other teachers in the building or district, self-selecting colleagues in your subject area or outside it, and deciding as a group what topics need to be discussed. It could include a variety of seminars/presentations, each led by teachers, of which you can pick which ones to attend that you need the most development in.
The best PD is that which I can use in the classroom the next day or week or month. Some of the best days of PD for me personally have come from a series of workshops organized specifically for PLTW engineering teachers, through the Community College of Baltimore County and the Time Center. They've been offering these trainings for the past several years, and recently received an NSF grant to expand their ongoing-PD model to other schools and states across the country.
I attended one of these PD's a few weeks ago about using and programming with FischerTechniks and RoboPro. We learned advanced programming techniques (variables, subroutines, displays, inputs/outputs, commands & operators, branches and wait fors). We applied some of these techniques to arithmetic operations, and some to operating the crane you see above.
For the second half of the day, we had time to complete a project of our own choosing. I needed some help and practice time with pneumatics, as they were not part of my original training in the Principles of Engineering and Computer Integrated Manufacturing courses but have since been added to the curriculum in both. To use the new curricula, we had to purchase supplemental kits, since our FischerTechnik kits did not come with pneumatic components. So this was still pretty new to me, and I really valued the time I had to explore, learn, and get help from both the professor and a teacher-classmate. We built the simple pneumatic system you see below, which will store compressed air in the tank using a motor and cylinder pump system, then convert the pressurized air to vertical or lateral motion. This has been especially useful, since I've been using the instructional resources provided that day, plus my greater understanding of this topic, to teach pneumatics and fluid power to my CIM students this week!
I shall be attending another PD this Friday at CCBC to improve my skills in using Autodesk Inventor, a 3D modeling software.
It's down to the home stretch for both Mustaches For Kids and #NaBloPoMo!
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Only one day left in November – we're almost through!
Although this is my sixth year teaching, I've been struggling with classroom management issues this fall in my last-period Geometry class. So we haven't been able to do some of the cool projects I talked about last year (click the Geometry tag to see more). And a few topics we haven't been able to delve into at quite the same level as I could with a more-motivated group of students.
A few details on some topics we've worked on during the past month or so:
The lesson on three-dimensional polyhedra went fairly well for the first two parts. Students constructed polyhedra from nets and by building their skeletons out of gumdrops (vertices) and toothpicks (edges). They discovered the relationship between vertices, edges, and faces found by Euler (V+F=E+2). But when I tried to bring the whole class to proving that only five regular polyhedra exist, I lost 80% of the class. I don't know if it was too many steps, too long for their attention spans, an aversion to the logic of proofs, or the overall class dynamic. I don't believe the math was too complicated for them (it just has to do with angles in regular polygons, spatial relationships, and our previous topic – tilings of the plane). I provided a sheet for taking guided notes. But much of the class turned that sheet in without having taken any notes.
Some of the more successful lessons have been a few that tied into what my students were learning in their engineering class. In late October – early November, my sophomore Geometry students were building and analyzing truss bridges in their Principles of Engineering course. Several teachers got together to plan lessons in various subjects that tie into the topic of bridges. In October, near the beginning of that unit, I did a lesson on the strength of various shapes. Students tried to use paper to hold the most books at least one inch off the table. They constructed a bridge that could hold the most rolls of pennies, using just one index card. And another bridge of multiple index cards, designed for length.
A couple weeks later, after they had developed designs in the engineering class, I had them analyze some of the geometry of triangles. This connected their bridges to what we were currently talking about in Geometry, with triangle congruence, proof, naming, and the Pythagorean Theorem.
Bridge Geometryhttp://www.scribd.com/embeds/73632593/content?start_page=1&view_mode=list&access_key=key-1xgwxwz3mcqb0iig9brt//
We've also learned about isosceles triangles, angle relationships, and circles in the past month.
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AOE Fall Site Visit today. Combined with our school's open house this evening in the heavy rains, that made for another >12 hour day. Tomorrow I'm promising myself <9 hours (shooting for a standard 8 hour workday, but promising <9).
Encouraged by some of the feedback from our site visit. We have continued to make progress as an AOE in all four areas (academy development, curriculum/instruction, advisory board, & work-based learning). We've put a lot of pieces in place that are helping our students. Still have more work to do in every area, but solid progress has occurred. Some is thanks to me, but much is thanks to our awesome team of teachers, or thanks to our terrific industry partners.
While impressed with that progress, the major piece that is still not in place is the AOE as a small learning community within the larger high school. With common planning time built into the school day for our AOE teachers (by grade). Including a pure academy model where students stay with academy teachers for all subjects and don't go to other academies except for electives or rare offerings (e.g. AP calculus). Not because other academies' teachers suck, but because our AOE teachers will collaborate and make connections around engineering, and because our AOE teachers will meet and collaborate around improving education for our shared students. Right now there is lots of cross-academy teaching, which doesn't fit in with the AOE model.
If this were to fall into place, it would make much of what we are doing for AOE so much easier, and make some things possible that are not currently possible. With the new principal and new leadership team, today was really their first in-depth introduction about the goals of the NAF/AOE model. So here's hoping that we will have a commitment to work along these lines for next year.
Anyway, I apologize for errors of grammar and sentence fragments and such. I usually proofread for you, but not tonight. Need some sleep now. :^)
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Today I was away from my school and my students, attending a conference. It was held by the National Academy Foundation (NAF) at Baltimore's NAF High School. So, pretty close as conferences go!
It was a first-time gathering attempting to create a sustainable professional learning community of educators from schools with NAF academies from the southern Northeastern United States. That is, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware, Maryland, and Washington, DC. I met people from Philadelphia, PA, Elizabeth, NJ, and various counties across Maryland. Some were teachers, some were principals, some were academy directors, some were work-based learning coordinators, some were industry partners. The focus today was on work-based learning and internships.
Unlike some PD's and conferences, I did take away a lot from today. I'm outlining it here, both to share with y'all and also to commit myself to following through on these items. Before Thanksgiving, I will:
Within the year, I will:
November is here! A much better month than October. October is overwhelmed with the craziness of a new school year (craziness that was hiding away in September as students and teachers get to know one another). In November, the amount of work doesn't get any less, but we're getting back into the swing of things. A rhythm and some semblance of normalcy is established, enough to carry on with other things–like blogging!
As mentioned in my recent post, I plan to do my second annual NaBloPoMo this November! That means a post every day. Be ready for wide swings in post quality and themes, like last year: anything from a just a picture with captioning paragraph, to a manifesto on proofs with example, to descriptions of lessons, to Baltimore City education politics. While not every post will be a masterpiece, the point of writing every day is to get words flowing so that some quality writing may appear.
Coming up in November are some great events and topics that I plan to address, including:
Let me know if you have another topic you'd like me to address, and/or which of the above is most interesting or important to you!
Also, don't forget to check out my co-conspirators on this daily blogging project: A Parent, Bmore Schools, Epiphany in Baltimore, and Smallest Twine. They are on my blogroll at right, but are so awesome that you should add them to your own link list or blog reader. In addition to providing one another moral support and encouragement in daily blogging, I hope we engage each other in conversations across our blogs. This is a chance to rekindle some passionate but respectful discourse about education in Baltimore.
Happy November, everyone!
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Hi all,
I know it's been a while.
All sorts of things going on at my school, many of them awesome! It feels like more work than ever—I know I didn't put in quite so many 12- and 13-hour days last year—, but it takes a lot of work to help build a great school. [More updates on school stuff soon, I promise!]
One downside to being so busy and overwhelmed with work is less time for my blog 😦 . I haven't posted in almost two months.
So, to get myself back in the habit of posting ,I thought I'd go from one extreme to another (what's the opposite of quitting cold turkey?): jump into a commitment to post every day for the month of November!
You may recall that I tried this last November, my first foray into National Blog Posting Month (NaBloPoMo, a la NaNoWriMo). At the start of the month, I was not sure I could make it. Especially considering that my blog at that time had fewer than 30 posts total from more than a year of writing, and here I was attempting to double that within a month!
But somehow or other, I made it through the month. Some days I only managed a really short post, like a picture with a one-paragraph description. I also learned how to schedule a post in advance, which I had never done before that month. That really helped me cover the very-busy or otherwise-focused parts of the month, including Thanksgiving. But I successfully posted every day in November 2010.
This evening, I talked it over with some other Baltimore education devotees on Twitter, and we agreed to help motivate each other to post more. So, with them as my blog buddies, I'm officially announcing my intent to join in NaBloPoMo for my second November, and post something every day for a month!
If you're curious and might want to try it out too, check out the FAQ and news about NaBloPoMo, and also my post explaining why I attempted it last year. You can register with the official folks (see the "news" link last sentence) or stay under their radar and just post each day for a month. It's always more fun when more people are involved, so give it a try!
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Berbere Chicken
- Total Time: 5 mins
- Hands-on Time: 5 mins
- Makes: 4 servings
Spice up your back yard grill with something a little out of the ordinary.
featured ingredient:
Frontier Organic Berbere Seasoning 2.3 oz.view product
- 2 teaspoons Frontier Organic Berbere Seasoning 2.3 oz.
- 1 pound chicken breast
1. Rub the Berbere seasoning on the chicken.
2. Bake or grill the chicken until thoroughly cooked (about 15 to 20 minutes, depending on the thickness).
Use pork, steak, tofu or fish instead of chicken for a different meal option.
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We found out that along with the Democrats, there were enough Republicans who so quickly forget recent lessons when dealing with energy issues, that Michigan is going to go backwards.. … again.
While I suspect the lobbying arms of the major providers we quite convincing, and insisted we MUST make this step towards the future, it merely illustrates the point that even those who call themselves Republicans cannot possibly understand the nature of the effects of restricting competition. I would have expected the Democrats to be so ..um, brilliant. Yeah, I said it. ..well.. maybe just a case of plain intellectual laziness.
OK, again for those of you who failed to look at the results of Government MANDATES. Lets take a look at the automakers and how they were expected (by law) to abide by congressional rules of emission standards. Standards which have little market basis, but are the result of a CLAIM that CO2 is warming our atmosphere. Proponents of such legislation say "If you are wrong the earth is going to go up in a great big ball of flame, and if we are wrong, then no harm done right?" WRONG.
For anyone who pays attention.. DETROIT IS DYING or is already DEAD! Not because people don't want cars, but because they cannot afford them. Cannot afford because it costs more to make cars and trucks this way, yet guess what? It doesn't make a difference. Emission standards which require reduced CO2 into the atmosphere necessitates the adding of equipment which then REDUCES the output of the automobile, thereby requiring MORE Fuel to do the same work. Do I have to spell it out further? In the end, we get the same at a HIGHER cost.
Think I have gone off task? Nope. My point is that Government, in its "gotta do something now" mentality has NEVER passed the test. When government makes an attempt to make new rules, and affect what should be left as FREE markets for the public good it more often messes things up horribly. This, are according to the Free Press:
"A package of three bills dramatically changes the way Michigan utilities are regulated, giving the state's two largest power generators — DTE Energy and Consumers Energy — near monopolies in the markets they serve and allowing them to raise rates with no oversight until after the fact.
The utilities are guaranteed at least 90% of the state's electric market under the changes."
Monopoly. Remember that little game? It was probably one of the best demonstrations of what happens when one party holds all the properties and puts little enhancements all over em. Problem here, however is we arent rolling dice anymore, we are already occupying the space, and free parking is nowhere to be seen.
Stay tuned for part II – WHO WILL PAY MORE?


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It's likely that, given the tainted GOP field, Marco Rubio will get another look from conservatives seeking a 2016 standard barrier. If so, it seems only fair that Rick Perry, if he chooses to run, should get another look too. And the strongly positive response Perry received following his speech to CPAC this week suggests that conservatives may well be willing to consider Perry again.
Actually the two potential candidacies raise different questions. Rubio fell out of favor for a substantive reason — his sponsorship and lead role, along with Chuck Schumer, in pushing for amnesty and a path to citizenship for illegal immigrants. Perry fell off the map because of poor debate performances and other such shortcomings as a candidate in 2012. (Perry was also hurt by his willingness to cut illegal immigrants educational breaks, but he didn't support amnesty or a path to citizenship).
It should be easy, then, to take a meaningful second look at Perry. If he runs, he will either perform well in debates and on the stump or he won't. We should learn pretty quickly if what we saw in 2012 is what we will get in 2016.
Even if Perry campaigns well, he won't be the candidate of choice for the conservative base, his reception at CPAC notwithstanding. Sure, Perry has governed a huge state successfully on a largely conservative basis for 13 years. But he hasn't done anything heroic like protecting us from drone attacks on Main Street or pushing for a partial government shutdown that offered no prospect of accomplishing anything.
Perry would instead provide an alternative to Rand Paul and Ted Cruz on the one hand and Chris Christie or a similarly center-right choice on the other. That seems like a space from which a credible candidate could make a credible bid.


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Beetroot Soup
Beetroot Soup
Beetroot — 600 gr
Potatoes — 300g
Chicken broth — 500g
Olive oil — 100g
Carrots — 3 pieces
Red onions — 1 pc
Dill — beam
Salt and pepper — to taste
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First, cut the beets into strips. Then a young carrot semirings. Onions and dill finely chopped. In a wide pan or frying pan, heat the olive oil and fry the onion until transparent. Add the potatoes and beets. Fry for about 5 minutes. Following send carrots and cook for 1-2 minutes more. Squeeze garlic.
Fry vegetables 1 more minute, then add the chicken broth. Boil the soup over medium heat until such time as beets and potatoes are tender. Add 2/3 of cooked dill, stir and let stand about 20 minutes. Garnish with the remaining third of fennel, a teaspoon of fat sour cream and serve with fresh bread.
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text: The majority of marketers are already dabbling in artificial intelligence, according to Salesforce's annual State of Marketing report, but the field will expand rapidly over the next two years. Artificial intelligence was the top-ranking technology that marketers planned to expand the most over the next two years, with Salesforce estimating that A.I. will grow 53% faster than any other type of technology. Fifty-one percent of respondents expressed some level of familiarity with A.I.-powered digital marketing, while a quarter planned to begin a pilot program within the next two years.


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Some parents might be asking, "How do I know if my teen needs residential Therapy?"
I often tell parents that if they find themselves seriously concerned about their child's behavior or emotional state more than once or twice a month, then they need to take action. They know their child better than anyone else, and they need to pay attention to their "gut."
The longer a parent waits to deal with serious emotional and behavioral issues in their teen, the more difficult it will be for a parent to address these issues themselves, and the greater the potential that residential therapy will be needed to assist the parents.
There are many specific warning signs: defiance, rebellion, lying, depression, isolation, suicidal communication, refusing to participate in family activities, being secretive, dramatic changes in behavior, friends, or academics, destructive habits such as drugs, alcohol, cutting, or eating disorders, choosing poorly in relationships.
When you get to this stage, you have probably already discussed your concerns with your child on multiple occasions with little success and have maybe consulted with a local therapist. Unfortunately, outpatient counseling typically depends on some level of willing participation from the client. Oppositional teens often struggle to make positive gains in the local counseling office for three specific reasons: First, because they have difficulty trusting a professional that they only see for brief weekly sessions. It usually takes a great deal of time to build trust with a teen and they often doubt the motivations of people that they perceive as only caring because it is their 'job.' Second, teens often have difficulty expressing themselves through talk therapy and do much better when given an opportunity to express themselves through experiential therapy. Some of the best counseling is done at Shelterwood while walking on the campus in the evening or sitting around the campus lounge with a cup of hot chocolate. Third, when left to their description of events or attitudes, teens find it to easy to mislead an outpatient counselor. Outpatient counselors are put in a tough spot because they can only work with the information that they are being provided and oppositional teens find it easy to shift blame and avoid responsibility when they are the only ones in the office and the counselor has no other vantage point.
If your teen remains unmotivated and uninterested in changing his/her approach to life than residential care is the best option. Residential therapy affords the counselor an opportunity to watch and interact with the teen throughout the day, seeing them at their best and worst while they interact with teachers, peers, and house staff. Having been burned before, parents are often wary of a counselor's ability to see through the manipulation of their teen.
Because of the 24/7 nature of residential therapy, it is really difficult for teens to mislead for very long. But they certainly try, especially at first, enlisting one of three different approaches. One approach that usually only lasts a few days is to make attempts to act 'good,' trying to demonstrate that their placement was an overreaction by the parents and that they really don't need to attend such a program. A second strategy that they use is to try and create doubt within their parents. They make assertions as to how bad the other kids are, or how horrible the food is, or maybe they will create elaborate stories about how the teachers don't care about academics enough, or how the counselors just don't understand. After all, "You are right, Mom and Dad, I really do want help but just not here. It seems dangerous, unprofessional or not right for our unique family needs." The third technique is simply a power play, an effort to threaten parents with hurting themselves, hurting others, running away, or withholding future love and connection if they are left in the program. Of course, I have also seen teens switch techniques when they are not achieving their desired results of getting removed from the program.
It usually takes a few weeks and maybe even a month or two to work through the teen's resistance to change. We use empathy and strength until teens slowly recognize the safety of their current surroundings and begin to let down their guard and become more honest. By placing their teens at Shelterwood, parents are clearly communicating to their teen that there are consequences. And by keeping their teen at Shelterwood through graduation, those teens are learning that their mom and dad are serious about them learning these lessons before they return home.
It is important to remember that each teen is a free moral agent with his or her own will. Some teens act on what they are learning while they are still in the program. For others, they might need to return and struggle again before what they learned can be solidified into lasting change. Earlier this year, I heard from one young man who wrote to thank me and to tell me what he had learned at Shelterwood. The remarkable thing is that this young man did not finish our program; in fact, he had to be removed from the program. He described in some detail the things he learned in our program and the desire to come back and visit.
So, if you are dealing with a struggling teen right now, you are not alone, and you are not a bad parent. However, you are in a massive battle. You cannot focus on your past mistakes, and lose heart and give up. The Bible reminds us to "forget what lies behind and to press on." Seek the prayer and encouragement of others, and the wisdom and counsel of professionals. And continue to believe that love never fails!


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Kitchen renovations and transforming prime off the objects that may generate a excessive Return on Funding.
It will be significant that the renovations embrace updates and each high quality supplies and workmanship so as to retain and improve worth when transforming. Like all renovations, kitchen renovations they have to be in line with the overall look and tone of the realm that you simply stay in.
- Kitchen – renovation or replace with high quality of supplies and workmanship in line with the realm
- Toilet – renovation or addition with high quality of supplies and workmanship in line with the house and the realm
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- Updating Décor – lighting and plumbing fixtures, counter tops, changing worn flooring (vinyl or carpets) or refinishing hardwood flooring
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The Essentials of Resources – 101
Facts you Need to Know about Section 1031
As a property investor, you must bear in mind that each dollar that you've working for you within an investment is creating your cash, and, conversely, every greenback that isn't working for you represents a lost chance to compound your earnings further. So, in the event the time comes to place your property up available, you have two possibilities.
The first option you have at your disposal is solely to generate an outright sale and identify a gain. This suggests you must pay cash gains taxes. When you pay money to the US government, you are dropping potential profits.
The second, and sometimes more lucrative option, would be to conduct a 1031 exchange. A terrific way to keep more of the investment funds creating you more money should be to carry out an exchange as opposed to producing an outright sale.
Section 1031 has a nonrecognition provision, meaning you would not have to pay the taxes immediately; the truth is, it is possible to defer the taxes indefinitely, even though your prosperity is compounded by the additional income made by investing your taxes deferment. As an example, for instance, you own some little investment properties, like duplexes, whose value have elevated over time. As of this juncture, your primary inclination might be to create an outright sale and experience some great benefits of your investments. But a clever investor by having an eye on the long run might decide to carry out a 1031 exchange and place the proceeds from these smaller investment properties towards the acquisition of another, larger residence, which will, itself continue to appreciate in benefit over time, in the meantime continuing to cause you to gain more money. Additionally, the cash available to you out of your cash gains deferral will purpose to increase your power to leverage for greater financial loans, maximizing your potential income.
1031 exchange is not only for land and buildings. It is possible to generate a 1031 exchange on any real-estate held for investment decision in your enterprise or trade, along with certain kinds of private home, from cranes or backhoes to a plane or collector car. Section 1031 is especially advantageous for anyone who has dollars in antiques or collectibles like collector vehicles, because of the greater capital gains liability around the sale of these things. It is important to notice, nonetheless, that you can't make a 1031 exchange on the stock, bonds, or interest within a REIT.
So, next time you discover that you intend to sell an appreciated bit of real-estate or another home, pause for an instant to think of the longer term dividends you could experience were you to produce an exchange. If you decide to perform an exchange rather than selling your assets up front, you can maximize your wealth and come out on top.
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1st and 10 : top 10 lists of everything football
Get everything you ever wanted to know about America's most popular sport in 1st and 10. Presented in the format of Top 10 lists, this book is a comprehensive yet fun look at the greatest aspects of the game. From the top Super Bowl moments to the best-looking uniforms, SI Kids ranks 50 different topics from the gridiron. Readers are guaranteed to love the big, exciting action photos from the Sports Illustrated collection and the insider knowledge of SI Kids. Filled with trivia and information, ……more
I survived the shark attacks of 1916
Based on true events! It's the summer of 1916 and the Jersey shore is being terrorized by a Great White shark. Can 10-year-old Chet and his friends survive a swim in the local creek? In the summer of 1916, ten year-old Chet Roscow is captivated by the local news: a Great White shark has been attacking and killing people up and down the Atlantic Coast, not far from Chet's hometown of Springfield, New Jersey. Then one day, swimming with his friends, Chet sees something in the water. . .…more
My life as a stuntboy
Derek Fallon gets the opportunity of a lifetime - to be a stuntboy in a major movie featuring a pretty teen actress. After accepting the job he learns that he is the star's stunt double and must wear a wig! His friends are never going to let him live this down. If that weren't his only problem, his parents are threatening to give away his pet monkey, and his best friend just posted an embarrassing video of him on YouTube. Can life get any worse? Still, Derek takes it all in stride and even manag……more
Doctor Proctor's fart powder
Nilly is new to the neighborhood, but is quick to make friends: Doctor Proctor, an eccentric profess? and Lisa, who is teased by the twin terrors Truls and Trym. Nilly and Lisa help Doctor Proctor develop his latest invention, a powder that makes you fart. The powder makes Nilly and Lisa VERY popular at school when they sell it for fifty cents a bag. And they get revenge on Truls and Trym by giving them an extra-strength dose of fart powder that shoots them up into a tree! It's all good farty fu……more
Star Wars Origami 36 Amazing Paper-folding Projects from a Galaxy Far, Far Away....
Kids love origami-and what could be cooler than transforming a piece of paper into Boba Fett, Princess Leia, Yoda, or R2-D2? And not just any paper, but custom-designed paper illustrated with art from the movies. Star Wars® Origami marries the fun of paper folding with the obsession of Star Wars . Like The Joy of Origami and Origami on the Go , this book puts an original spin on an ancient art. And like Star Wars® Scanimation® and Star Wars® Fandex® , it's a fresh take on Sta……more


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Ommen, Holland | 5th Public Talk 12th August, 1938
Questioner: By merely insisting on individual fulfilment are you not putting aside the social question? How can the individual who is ever in relation with society, be the only important factor? Why do you emphasize the individual?
Krishnamurti: Without the individual, society cannot exist; this social entity is not independent of the individual. Society is the relationship of one individual with another. Society is personal but it has become an independent machine with a life of its own which merely uses the individual. Society has become merely an institution which controls and dominates the individual through opinion, moral laws, vested interests, and so on. As institutions are never important but only the individual, we must consider his fulfilment, which cannot be brought about by mere change of environment, however drastic the change may be. The mere alteration of the superficial will not bring about the deep fulfilment of man, but only mechanical reactions. This division as the individual and the environment is mechanical and false; when fundamentally each one understands this to be so, then the individual will act integrally, not as an individual nor as merely the mechanical product of a society, but as an integrate human being.
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Project Nirvana with GoToMeeting Workspaces
Online meetings have always worked well for synchronous projects and communication, but what happens when everyone can't be at the same meeting at the same time?
Citrix GoToMeeting understands the challenges facing project collaborators, and is looking to solve the problem with GoToMeeting Workspaces.
One Project, Several Challenges
Keeping your project in-sync can be quite an undertaking. Let's look at some of the work and software required to keep a project on track:
Meetings – If there's more than one person involved in the project you'll need to meet, so you can brainstorm, discuss ideas, and gather feedback. If you're all in the same office, and have a nice meeting room, you can do this in person.
If you have team members working remotely, or scattered across the globe, you can accomplish this with online meeting software.
One of the biggest challenges with both online and offline meetings is scheduling. Checking everybody's calendar, sending out, and responding to meeting requests, are all part of the game. The bigger your project team, the more back and forth you will have.
Calendaring apps like Microsoft Exchange and Google Calendar make this easier, but there's always going to be a team members who haven't updated their calendar, or end up missing the meeting.
Document/File Syncing – Perhaps the only thing more challenging than setting up and and participating in project meetings is document and file collaboration.
For example, let's say you have a small team working on some copy for your new website. If you're using a word processing application like Microsoft Word, you're going to have to save the document you're working on to your local drive, then email that file out to your team members for review and additional input.
The real problems start to occur when sections of the document are overwritten, or discarded inadvertently, as people try to collaborate asynchronously.
Even if you have some kind of version control system, this can be a painful experience, as you email the file back and forth. Did you make sure to carbon copy all the team members? What happens if your hard drive crashes after making major edits?
Synchronous AND Asynchronous Collaboration with GoToMeeting Workspaces
GoToMeeting is looking to solve the problem of asynchronous project collaboration with the introduction of GoToMeeting Workspaces. The goal of Workspaces is to keep project meetings, communications, documents, and files in a centralized environment in the cloud.
By keeping all of your project materials in a central workspace, people working on the project can download, upload, and edit documents with ease. All of your important files, and notes about those files are stored in the cloud, so you never have to worry about backups. You can easily leave comments, or ask questions within the document for everyone to see.
Perhaps the most impressive aspect of GoToMeeting Workspaces is the ability to instantly start or join a meeting directly from within the workspace. This mimics live office environments, where you're able to pull everyone together for an impromptu meeting.
GoToMeeting Workspaces Coming Soon
GoToMeeting hasn't released Workspaces yet, but it's expected by early to mid 2012. In the meantime, check out the Workspaces demo they performed at the Barcelona Synergy conference:


text: Software & Apps Design The History of Desktop Publishing From PostScript to Publisher these are the highlights by Jacci Howard Bear Writer A graphic designer, writer, and artist who writes about and teaches print and web design. our editorial process Jacci Howard Bear Updated on December 11, 2019 Peter Dazeley/Getty Images Design Graphic Design Photoshop Animation & Video 3D Design Tweet Share Email Several events of the mid-1980s, including the development of Aldus PageMaker (now Adobe PageMaker), ushered in the era of desktop publishing. It was primarily the introduction of both the Apple LaserWriter, a PostScript desktop printer, and PageMaker for the Mac that kicked off the desktop publishing revolution. Aldus Corporation founder Paul Brainerd is generally credited with coining the phrase, "desktop publishing." 1985 was a very good year. Brief Timeline 1984 - The Apple Macintosh debuts.1984 - Hewlett-Packard introduces the LaserJet, the first desktop laser printer.1985 - Adobe introduces PostScript, the industry-standard Page Description Language (PDL) for professional typesetting.1985 - Aldus develops PageMaker for the Mac, the first "desktop publishing" application.1985 - Apple produces the LaserWriter, the first desktop laser printer to contain PostScript.1987 - PageMaker for the Windows platform is introduced.1990 - Microsoft ships Windows 3.0. Fast forward to 2020 and beyond. You can still buy Hewlett-Packard LaserJets but there are hundreds of other printers and printer manufacturers to choose from as well. PostScript was at level 3 while PageMaker was at version 7 but is now marketed to the business sector. Quark In the intervening years since PageMaker's introduction and purchase by Adobe, Quark, Inc.'s QuarkXPress took over as the sweetheart of desktop publishing applications. But today Adobe's InDesign is firmly planted in the professional sector and wooing over many converts on both the PC and Mac platforms. While Macintosh is still considered by some to be the platform of choice for professional desktop publishing (that is changing slowly), dozens of consumer and small business desktop publishing packages hit the shelves in the 1990s, catering to the growing legions of PC/Windows users. Microsoft Joins the Crowd Most notable among these low-cost Windows desktop publishing options, Microsoft Publisher and Serif PagePlus continue to add features that make them more and more viable as contenders to the traditional professional apps. Desktop publishing in the 21st century has seen a change in the way we define desktop publishing including who does desktop publishing and the software used, even if many of the original players remain.


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Rents Rising, But at a Slower Pace
Rents Rising, But at a Slower Pace
Apartments rents increased 3 percent in 2012, a slower pace than in 2011 where rents rose 4.8 percent. The historical norm for the past two decades in rental increases is 2.5 percent per year.
According to MPF, many property owners weren't as aggressive in asking for higher rents in 2012 as they were in recent years.
"Many on the operations side of the apartment industry have focused on sustaining their very tight occupancy levels during a period when job growth and new household formation have been fairly sluggish at the same time that renter movement has begun to inch up from the unusually low levels experienced in the previous few years," says Greg Willet, MPF Research vice president.
The highest priced rental markets continue to be in the San Francisco Bay Area, where rents rose the most in 2012.
The following were the metros with the highest rent increases in 2012:
- San Francisco: 8 percent
- San Jose: 7.7 percent
- Oakland: 7.1 percent
- Denver-Boulder: 5.9 percent
- Nashville: 5.1 percent
- New York: 5.1 percent
- Houston: 4.8 percent
- Charlotte: 4.6 percent
- Portland: 4.4 percent
- Seattle-Tacoma: 4.3 percent


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Grading 'Waiting for Superman'
September 23, 2010 | This article appeared in the October 11, 2010 edition of The Nation.
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Here's what you see in Waiting for Superman, the new documentary that celebrates the charter school movement while blaming teachers unions for much of what ails American education: working- and middle-class parents desperate to get their charming, healthy, well-behaved children into successful public charter schools.
Here's what you don't see: the four out of five charters that are no better, on average, than traditional neighborhood public schools (and are sometimes much worse); charter school teachers, like those at the Green Dot schools in Los Angeles, who are unionized and like it that way; and noncharter neighborhood public schools, like PS 83 in East Harlem and the George Hall Elementary School in Mobile, Alabama, that are nationally recognized for successfully educating poor children.
You don't see teen moms, households without an adult English speaker or headed by a drug addict, or any of the millions of children who never have a chance to enter a charter school lottery (or get help with their homework or a nice breakfast) because adults simply aren't engaged in their education. These children, of course, are often the ones who are most difficult to educate, and the ones neighborhood public schools can't turn away.


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Revision as of 07:27, 7 January 2020Barbie and the Rockers when under fire from Jem and the Holograms, but Barbie had a recording career far before that 1987 outing.
A doll of many careers, her first time as a singer was a set of three 45 rpm records with a booklet titled Barbie Sings!, released in 1961. Perhaps as a tie-in, she appeared as a nightclub singer (with Ken at piano) in the "Barbie the Nightclub Singer" story of the Dell comic book Barbie and Ken #2 (August-October 1962).
Many albums followed sporadically, with a strangely prolific burst of releases in the early 1980s.
In the early 1990s, a "Rappin' Rockin' Barbie" doll was released, with a boom box that played "a real rap sound," according to the now cringe-worthy commercial.
Barbie Discography (incomplete)
- Barbie Sings! (Mattel, set of three 45 rpm records with booklet) 1961
- A Happy Barbie Birthday (Columbia #105163) 1965
- "I'm Happy I'm Barbie" (Mattel, 45 rpm single) 1970
- "Fly, Children, Fly" (Mattel, 45 rpm single, included with the Barbie "Fashion 'n Sounds" playsets) 1970
- "A Little Bit Of That Sky" by Ken (Mattel, 45 rpm single, included with the "Live Action Ken On Stage" playset) 1970
- "Rapping in Rhythm" (Mattel, 45 rpm single, included with the Barbie 'Groovin' Gauchos' outfit, no.1057) 1971
- Barbie and Her Friends (Kid Stuff Records KPD 6003 LP) 1981
- Barbie Christmas Album (Kid Stuff Records KSS 5009 LP) 1981
- Country Favorites (Kid Stuff Records KSS 5008 LP) 1981
- Barbie Dance Party (Kid Stuff Records KSS 5010) 1981
- Barbie Birthday Album (Kid Stuff Records KSS-5011)1981
- Looking Good, Feeling Great (Kid Stuff Records 1016 LP) 1982
- Barbie Sing-along (Kid Stuff Records KSS 5019, 6 song EP) 1982
- The Look (Rincon Recordings – R2 70797, LP) 1990
- Beyond Pink as Barbie, Christie and Teresa. (Sony Wonder 63489) 1998


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Council demolishes scrap yard proposal
It came into council chamber like a wrecking ball.
In July, the California-based company iPull, uPull, approached Strathcona County council requesting for a Land Use Bylaw amendment to allow for site-specific discretionary use for a wrecking yard to be nestled on the corner of 24 Street and 87 Avenue within the Sherwood Industrial Estates. The area is zoned as a medium industrial district, which is homes to a mix of light and medium commercial and industrial companies. A wrecking yard is typically zoned as heavy industrial in the county.
Neighbouring businesses outlined concerns that the property would eventually turn into a junkyard and would become a dumping area for derelict cars, scrap metal and other waste, as well as result in unsightly outdoor storage and increased traffic and possible nighttime crime. To address some of those concerns, the company agreed to not stacking vehicles and parts in their outdoor lot, not demolishing on-site, a two-metre solid fence would be installed, scraps and waste liquids would be disposed of properly, and a traffic brief by an independent consultant was conducted by the company and reviewed by the county.
One of the founders of iPull, uPull, Tom Klauer described his company as the "Home Depot" for do-it-yourself residents looking to fix their own vehicles or restoration hobbyists. He promised the 133,000 square foot facility would offer a professional-looking interior, where the majority of car parts would be located. As for security concerns, the company already utilizes military-grade security technology to keep track of its inventory. On the environmental front, vehicles are processed within the first 24 hours, pulling the batteries, gasoline, oil, mercury switches, antifreeze, freon, and other chemicals, which are sent to certified recycling facilities. The proposed Park location would have been the company's first in Canada as it's currently operating out of Stockton, Fresno, and Pomona, all in California. It was posed to employ about 30 people and make an investment of $2 million into the property, inventory, and equipment (not including real estate). Klauer noted this isn't something he wanted to "bloop in over the weekend" but it was a very serious well-thought-out business model.
"One of the things that we pride ourselves on it that we do things right. This is a retail operation. It is not a junkyard. I realize that junkyard is the classification that we're working with (with Planning and Development), there is no recycling auto parts (classification)," Klauer told council. "We're going to make a huge investment here and we want to make sure we get it right… Customers can go in, pull their parts off and come out in a very controlled environment, for the most part."
The operation would have seen 200 to 250 customers on weekdays, with more interest surging on the weekends. About 200 cars would have been stored outside and if not sold within 45 days, it's removed.
The item took almost three hours to be presented by the business owner, to be opposed or supported by surrounding companies in the Estates, and for council to debate.
Jack Heart, Quincy Oilfield Productions representative was weary of all the customers it would bring into the area, some of which could be dishonest and come back at night to scope out other neighbouring properties.
"I hope all the councillors would consider their own property and having a rental place that's not very well taken care of and their own property values and what can happen to them," he stated.
To that end, Beghofer said hobbyists are not criminals and suggested more customers in the area, means more eyes that could catch crime. When asked by Berghofer about why the company was eyeing Sherwood Park as a location, the iPull, uPull rep said they wanted to be near the Edmonton-area market and the Sherwood Park Estates lot offered a great large building.
Businessman Dawn Loop is in the midst of building a medical cannabis facility adjacent to the property. He opposed the wrecking yard fully; "Let me be blunt. If we knew an auto body wrecking yard was across the street, we would not be there."
In the end, first reading of the Land Use Bylaw amendment was rejected in a 6-3 vote by council. Support was granted by Katie Berghofer, Brian Botterill, and Bill Tonita.
"When my gut tells me something isn't right, I need to trust my gut," noted Anderson after the lengthy debate.
"Bylaws are set for a reason," added Coun. Linton Delainey.
Coun. Dave Anderson zeroed in on environmental concerns, wondering if the company would be held accountable to a monitoring body or if the council would have to drop in for checks to see if materials are disposed of properly. Coun. Robert Parks noted he didn't see the value in changing the zoning and did not want to set a precedent with zoning for this wrecking yard, adding it was not appropriate to be located in that area.
Mayor Rod Frank also wasn't in favour of setting a precedent and didn't believe the traffic brief compiled the company's consultant would ease residents' and businesses concerns.
Botterill hinted he expects to see the file will be tested at a Subdivision Appeal Board hearing.


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The Visitors sure turned it out for their finale last night and if this is the final time we see 'em, at least they made it a bloodbath to remember. Not to spoil it for anyone who DVR'd the episode — which is most likely the series finale — we'll just say the powers-that-be seemed to have doused the hour in those sort of "whoaaa" moments that would have earned the reboot a lot more buzz had they been spread out over the relatively uneventful second season. Multiple deaths, the long-awaited look at the Vs without their skin, the arrival of original-recipe hunk Marc Singer as the leader of another anti-V group, and a botched Fifth Column plan of attack that may have cost mankind everything. God knows we certainly lost a big reason to tune back in should the show miraculously be renewed (again, no spoilers, but anyone who was jazzed about a certain cast addition this season should get the hint). But hey, in Anna's battle for mankind, I guess it's every woman for herself. And that twist definitely gave us the best line of the night.
So now we're left with a less-than-blissful cliffhanger, a lot of carnage among major characters and very little hope for a third season — not exactly a happy ending for the show or for the viewers who stuck in there. But then again, unresolved storylines, anemic ratings and tragically short shelf lives shouldn't be alien to fans of the traditionally troubled sci-fi genre.
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A Morenci native is battling an advanced stage of malignant melanoma and a fund was established to assist her and her children.
Morenci resident Lori Ann Cook, 35, is presently living in Fredericktown, Ohio, to receive help from family members. She is the daughter of David Pennington of Fredricktown and Peggy Pennington of Morenci. She is the granddaughter of Evelyn and the late Cary H. Underhill of Adrian.
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The Neighbourhood is Colubmia's latest outstanding alternative band. They're not perfect for mainstream listening, but they are for people who really like good music. They have a style that hasn't been done yet. It's kind of like hip-hop infused goth-rock. It's broody but it has a lot of soul too. They just released their Columbia debut, I Love You. and although it's not as great as I expected after hearing "Sweater Weather" all of those months ago, it's pretty good.
I Love You. starts out somewhat awkward with "How." it takes too long to get going and then once it does it just doesn't seem worth the wait. The album recovers right after that with some very good music in the middle of the album. Everything from "Afraid" to "Female Robbery" is great. There are some dull moments here and there, but overall the middle of the album is terrific. The production and the overall vibe of the album is pretty remarkable too. The start of the record fails to establish that, but the middle of the record pushes it through and solidifies it by track eight. The best part about I Love You. is Jesse Rutherford. His vocals are amazing and he does for The Neighbourhood what Kelvin Swaby does for The Heavy. They're different vocalists, but they both have a great amount of attitude that makes what their bands do work. Rutherford is awesome on I Love You. and he makes it worth checking out.
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