Daylight Savings Time Ends November 2, 2008, at 2 am
Daylight Savings Time Ends November 2, 2008, at 2 am. Turn your clock back.
The official U.S. time is here: http://www.time.gov/
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Archive for the ‘Uncategorized’ Category.
If you use AVG do NOT accept the update on 10/23/08
If you do you will lose ALL Internet access.
Switch to McAfee…..
Sheesh
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Diplomas Count 2008 – Dropping Out of High School
As the nation struggles to close its graduation gap, Diplomas Count 2008 examines states’ efforts to forge stronger connections between precollegiate and postsecondary education.
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Nationwide, about 71 percent of 9th graders make it to graduation four years later, according to data from 2005, the latest available. And that figure drops to 58 percent for Hispanics, 55 percent for African-Americans, and 51 percent for Native Americans.Those rates improved slightly from 2004 to 2005 for all groups, but large gaps remain across states. While more than eight in 10 students graduate on time in Iowa, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Vermont, and Wisconsin, for example, the proportion drops to fewer than six in 10 in the District of Columbia, Georgia, Louisiana, Nevada, New Mexico, and South Carolina.
Analyses conducted for Diplomas Count by the EPE Research Center also continue to show wide disparities between state-reported graduation rates and the center’s estimates. Such disparities are one reason that the U.S. Department of Education proposed new rules this spring that would require all states to calculate graduation rates based on a uniform method that tracks cohorts of students as they progress through high school.
“Executive Summary,” Diplomas Count 2008, by Education Week and the Editorial Projects in Education Research Center
More
- Diplomas Count 2008
- Table of Contents
- Interactive Map of U.S. Congressional Districts
- Graduation Briefs
- Mapping Tool – A geographical Web interface where users can create interactive maps and download special reports for any school district in the country that includes comparisons to state and national statistics.
- High School Dropout Rates – from Child Trends DataBank
- “They made it!,” by Joanne Jacobs, June 7, 2008
- Mapping Educational Progress 2008 – from the U.S. Dept. of Education
- Famous High School Dropouts: Part 1 | Part 2
- High School Dropouts In Their Own Words – Susan Lulic Enholm
- “High School Graduation Rates in the United States,” by Jay P. Greene, Manhattan Institute, April 2002
- “High School Graduation, Completion, and Dropouts: Federal Policy, Programs, and Issues,” by Jeffrey J. Kuenzi, CRS Report for Congress RL33963, July 24, 2007 (26-page pdf
) (also available from Open CRS)
- “Vulnerable Youth: Federal Mentoring Programs and Issues,” by Adrienne L. Fernandes, CRS Report for Congress RL34306, January 4, 2008 (38-page pdf )
- “What You’ll Wish You’d Known,” by Paul Graham, January 2005 (I wrote this talk for a high school. I never actually gave it, because the school authorities vetoed the plan to invite me.)
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Redneck Update, er, Red State Update
A few videos from Red State Update….
Catching Up With Edwards, Biden, Huckabee:
Hillary Wins Kentucky, Obama Takes Oregon:
From Red State Update
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Context matters…
Leonard Slatkin, music director of the National Symphony Orchestra, was asked … What did he think would occur, hypothetically, if one of the world’s great violinists had performed incognito before a traveling rush-hour audience of 1,000-odd people?
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In the three-quarters of an hour that Joshua Bell played, seven people stopped what they were doing to hang around and take in the performance, at least for a minute. Twenty-seven gave money, most of them on the run — for a total of $32 and change. That leaves the 1,070 people who hurried by, oblivious, many only three feet away, few even turning to look.
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[W]e shouldn’t be too ready to label the Metro passersby unsophisticated boobs. Context matters.
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There was no ethnic or demographic pattern to distinguish the people who stayed to watch Bell, or the ones who gave money, from that vast majority who hurried on past, unheeding. Whites, blacks and Asians, young and old, men and women, were represented in all three groups. But the behavior of one demographic remained absolutely consistent. Every single time a child walked past, he or she tried to stop and watch. And every single time, a parent scooted the kid away.
The article includes video.
“Pearls Before Breakfast: Can one of the nation’s great musicians cut through the fog of a D.C. rush hour? Let’s find out.” by Gene Weingarten, The Washington Post, April 8, 2007
Hmmm, wonder what would have happened if he’d played at DuPont Circle, or Union Station, or GW/Foggy Bottom, or in NYC at the 66th Street Station or the Columbus Circle station ….
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Bully in the family
“A favorite tactic of the bully in the family is to set people against each other. The benefits to the bully are that: the bully gains a great deal of gratification from encouraging and provoking argument, quarrelling and hostility, and then from watching others engage in adversarial interaction and destructive conflict, and the ensuing conflict ensures that people’s attention is distracted and diverted away from the cause of the conflict.”
“Bullies within the family, especially female bullies are masters of manipulation and are fond of manipulating people through their emotions (e.g. guilt) and through their beliefs, attitudes and perceptions. Bullies see any form of vulnerability as an opportunity for manipulation, and are especially prone to exploiting those who are most emotionally needy.”
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The bully may try to establish an exclusive relationship (based on apparent trust and confidence) with one family member such that they (the bully) are seen as the sole reliable source of information; this may be achieved by portraying the target (and certain other family members) as irresponsible, unstable, undependable, uncaring, unreliable and untrustworthy, perhaps by the constant highlighting – using distortion and fabrication – of alleged failures, breaches of trust, lack of reliability, etc.
Tim Fields on bullying within the family, on “Thru the Looking Glass” blog, February 1, 2007
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Merry Christmas!
The Christmas Tree and Neapolitan Baroque Crèche at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in NYC, November 21, 2006 – January 7, 2007.
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“My Name Is Rachel Corrie” – anyone seen this?
Here’s Terry Teachout’s take on “My Name Is Rachel Corrie.” Anyone seen this?
Politics makes artists stupid. Take “My Name Is Rachel Corrie,” the one-woman play cobbled together from the diaries, emails and miscellaneous scribblings of the 23-year-old left-wing activist who was run over by an Israeli Army bulldozer in 2003 while protesting the demolition of a Palestinian house in the Gaza Strip. Co-written and directed by Alan Rickman, one of England’s best actors, “Rachel Corrie” just opened off-Broadway after a successful London run. It’s an ill-crafted piece of goopy give-peace-a-chance agitprop–yet it’s being performed to cheers and tears before admiring crowds of theater-savvy New Yorkers who, like Mr. Rickman himself, ought to know better.
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“My Name Is Rachel Corrie,” by contrast, is a scrappy, one-sided monologue consisting of nothing but the fugitive observations of a young woman who, like so many idealists, treated her emotions as facts. “I am disappointed,” she declares, “that this is the base reality of our world and that we, in fact, participate in it. This is not at all what I asked for when I came into this world.” To mistake such jejune disillusion for profundity and turn it into the climax of a full-length play is an act of piety, not artistry.
“Bulldozed by Naivete,” by Terry Teachout, Opinion Journal, October 21, 2006
“My Name Is Rachel Corrie,” at the Minetta Lane Theatre, 18 Minetta Lane
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“Ten Percent Tip Teaches Waitress Valuable Lesson”
After receiving “subpar” service and experiencing an unusually long wait for his $4.75 lunch at a local Beefside Family Restaurant Monday, customer Gus O’Connor opted to give waitress Carla Hyams a reduced 10 percent tip in an attempt to communicate his dissatisfaction and raise awareness of the areas in which he felt her performance was lacking.
Hyams, 49, who has been serving tables at the popular eatery for 13 years, expressed enthusiastic gratitude for the “immense personal growth” the gesture will afford her, adding that, in the long run, the experience will make her a better waitress.
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“If he hadn’t withheld that 50 cents, I’d make these mistakes over and over for the rest of my career,” said the 49-year-old server.
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O’Connor said his overall goal was not only to receive better service, but to help Hyams become a role model for her two teenage children, Tyler and Michael.
“Ten Percent Tip Teaches Waitress Valuable Lesson,” The Onion, October 19, 2006
Wasn’t it Hemingway who left a $50 tip when he got lousy service for an inexpensive lunch, and when the waitress gushed “Thank you!” he said, “You ought to see how I tip for good service.”
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World Cup on TV
Anyone who knows anything about football in the US doesn’t watch the World Cup on ESPN … we watch Univision in Spanish … because 1) they don’t clutter up the screen as much, 2) they don’t cut away from other countries national anthems before the game starts, 3) they are rooting for all the teams but especially the underdogs and those in the western hemisphere (GO Mexico! GO USA! GO Ecuador! GO Costa Rica! GO Brazil! GO Togo! GO Trinidad and Tobago! GO Paraguay! GO Argentina!) , and 4) because they are EXCITED and PASSIONATE about the game…
Then we watch GOLTV in English for the post-game … especially like the Irish announcer, he gets so excited …
In NYC, tune in to WXTV 41 … I moved the cable outlet and TV into my office …
World Cup: Yahoo | BBC
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