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Chapter 06: Fixing our education crisis
"Too many of the people coming out of even our most prestigious academic institutions graduate with neither the skills to be economically productive nor the intellectual development to make them discerning citizens and voters." —American economist and columnist Thomas Sowell
"Many public-school children seem to know only two dates: 1492 and 4th of July; and as a rule they don't know what happened on either occasion." —American writer and humorist Mark Twain
What's wrong with
education in America
- Too many citizens aren't learning the basics. Democracy demands that the overall population be well enough educated to make intelligent choices. If people lack critical thinking skills and the basics of economics and history, they can be misled into making political decisions that put their very freedom at risk. They'll also have difficulty supporting themselves. Our public education system is failing us.
- Poor outcomes. In almost no part of American society do we spend as much money for such dismal results as we do in public education. This is mainly because the system is controlled by government bureaucrats and labor unions, competition is minimal, and many consumers (especially the poor) don't have choices.
- Government as the sole provider. When we structured public education, we established government as the primary provider. As with any bureaucracy, the bigger it has gotten, the more bureaucratic it has become. When a bureaucracy starts to fail, its first instincts are to solve the problem by adding even more bureaucracy. That's what has happened to our public education system over the past few decades. The more problems we find, the more levels of costly bureaucracy we add. And the more bureaucracy we add, the more problems we create.
- Political meddling. Education is as fundamental as a teacher and students. Yet every politician in the country has a finger in the classroom. The president, Congress, and various federal agencies. The governor, state legislators, the state board of education, district school boards, state and district superintendents, and administrators. School principals, department heads, advisory councils, the PTA, teachers' unions, and individual parents. With all those layers of bureaucracy, it isn't surprising that so few of our education dollars ever find their way into the classroom. In fact, it's amazing that any learning takes place.
- One size doesn't fit all. No one educational approach is right for every child. Children are different, and they learn differently; slow students get left behind or passed without acquiring basic skills and fast learners get frustrated and bored. We need a variety of educational approaches if we want to help each child achieve his or her full potential. But our government-provided education system provides us with schools that are essentially the same, with very little real diversity. Outmoded teaching methods too often bore students. Long summer vacations cause them to forget too much of what they have learned. This is especially hurtful for poorer students who may not get enough positive stimulation at home.
- Repressive bureaucracy. Big government bureaucracies deny choices, limit competition, stifle creativity, ensure mediocrity, and overwhelm schools with counterproductive regulations that often have little or nothing to do with education. Public education is underperforming because it is provided by an inefficient virtual government monopoly. Our schools are run like the Soviet economy and are showing the same symptoms of failure.
- Self-serving unions. Powerful labor unions protect bad teachers at the expense of good ones, as well as stifling excellence and innovation.
- Frustrated teachers. We have plenty of talented and dedicated educators, but they are being pulled down by the system. Education naturally attracts people who want to leave the world better than they found it. While they would like to be paid decently, money isn't the most important thing in the world to them—otherwise they would have chosen another occupation. But many of the best teachers leave the system because they become frustrated with poor results, oppressive unions, unresponsive bureaucrats, and repressive red tape.
- Outmoded and misguided priorities. The structure of today's public education was designed a century ago. Today's society is more complex. The world has changed, but public education fundamentally has not. Public schools continue to invest too much in outmoded school buildings when the rest of the society has increased productivity and reduced costs by embracing the Internet and developing new technologies.
How to fix what's wrong
with education in America
- Fund students instead of bureaucracies. If we truly value education and want better results, we will provide funding to students instead of bureaucrats, empower schools, get government bureaucrats out of the way, and let consumers make their own choices in a free market. This country's greatness was a result of allowing individuals to make individual choices. Why not try it in education?
- Parental choice. Increasing competition and providing more choices would be the most powerful and effective education reform. Instead of funding bureaucratic and union-dominated government-run schools, allow parents to choose the best education for their children and have funding go to the child's chosen school without regard to district boundaries. Some of these schools could be run by government entities, some by entrepreneurs, some by teams of like-minded teachers, and some by not-for-profit corporations. Some could be traditional; others could be Internet based. But in order to attract and keep students, they would all have to be good.
- Student commitment. Imagine students attending schools tailored to their needs—schools that they had a voice in choosing. Under the present system, students are seldom asked to commit to a school. They are simply assigned to it. In a choice system, a student would play at least some role in the family's decision-making process. He or she might be more willing to abide by the school's rules in order to stay there. Imagine what might happen if we can get more students actually committed to their schools!
- Get regulators out of the classroom. Public education can be improved only if we shift power and resources away from the central bureaucrats. Parental choice would be the ultimate regulation. If a school doesn't do a good job, parents will move their children (and their money) to a different school. This will get the politicians and regulators off the backs of the schools and break up massive school bureaucracies. Government regulations would be replaced by a student-driven system. And the thousands of school administrators who would no longer be needed could compete for teaching jobs.
- Decentralize decision making. Empower education providers to determine their own objectives, strategies, and tactics, and let them compete for students (and the funding that would come with each one). Each school could develop its own budget, curriculum, admission and discipline standards, scheduling, staffing, facilities, and investment in technology. (Especially in today's real estate environment, some schools might choose to rent or barter vacant space to free up more money for teachers and technology.)
- Encourage innovation and experimentation. With today's technologies, education could be custom-designed for each and every individual student. Individual schools (private, public, or charter) would be free to innovate, excel, and specialize in order to attract students and the funding that will come with them. Some could choose to excite their students by using educational games and new technologies. More computer-based learning could reduce the need for traditional school buildings, cut transportation costs, and give more students the opportunity to learn from the very best and most inspirational teachers.
- Beyond high school. All of the principles and solutions outlined here would apply equally to our bloated, expensive, and underperforming public colleges and universities. Funding the students instead of the institutions would magically improve every public college and university. And since college isn't right for everybody, students should have many more choices, including trade schools.
"Twenty years from now we will look back at education as it is practiced in most schools today and wonder that we could have tolerated anything so primitive. —American educator John W. Gardner
"True education makes for inequality; the inequality of individuality, the inequality of success, the glorious inequality of talent, of genius; for inequality, not mediocrity, individual superiority, not standardization, is the measure of the progress of the world." —American educator Felix E. Schelling
"Why is it that millions of children who are pushouts or dropouts amount to business as usual in the public schools, while one family educating a child at home becomes a major threat to universal public education and the survival of democracy?" —Author Stephen Arons in Compelling Belief: The Culture of American Schooling
My gripe after three kids & my wife as a public school teacher… Teachers represent the most highly educated workforce in the country. Yet, they are swamped with overpaid administrators. In many districts it can be close to, or more than, one admin per teacher. That seems to me to be the real waste and what's holding everything back from true excellence. The whole system needs to be rethought with teachers given more independence, responsibility and tremendously empowered.


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The program consists of two main phases.
Phase I is a 6-day long "technical" module (3*2 days) which aims at acquainting the participants with the different types of medical devices and some key sector-related challenges (for e.g. reimbursement, materiovigilance, traceability etc.). In order to ensure enriched cross-perspectives, each topic will be presented by a duo of corporate/business experts and challenged by the participants in groups.
Phase II is a 4-month long "business" module (between June and November 2016). Eight booming projects, selected by a jury during Phase I, will benefit from an intensive theoretical and practical coaching provided by experienced coaches and experts (both in the medtech and entrepreneurship areas). The objective is to develop, challenge and boost every business aspect of their project in the most efficient way. Customized coaching includes 5 one-day long collective business-oriented sessions, a total of 16 hours of individual coaching per group and peer-reviewed sessions aiming at challenging and strengthening participants' business pitch.
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Private Pilot Certificate
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USS: Building from an epic dispute
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Statement issued by the Communist Party's Further and Higher Education Advisory, 15 May 2018.
UCU members voted to accept the revised offer by UUK and settle the current dispute, for now. It has been an epic dispute. Unprecedented levels of collective action were taken by UCU members. This action achieved a positive shift in the employers' position. What has happened is a truce on terms that are more favourable to UCU than the employers wanted. The terms of the agreement are far from perfect but that is what happens in collective bargaining. Not only had the employers dramatically revised their opening position of complete shift to a defined contribution scheme and had agreed the defined benefit status-quo (for the moment) but USS and the state regulator also got out of the way to ensure they didn't block a settlement. Not revolutions, but shifts in the balance of power brought about by united collective action can produce material gains for members.


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If you think about it, aren't all video game trophies pretty much just participation trophies?
If you think about it, aren't all video game trophies pretty much just participation trophies?
Once Upon a Time some people used to insist that people needed to actually face a real challenge and overcome significant difficulties in order to feel good about rewards they'd earned. And I don't mean just video games, this long predates video games.
Well, it turned out that was all complete bunkum. People are ecstatic to get rewards they didn't earn and don't feel guilt about it. That's not all bad – game achievements are fun and harmless (except when they're so badly designed they detract from the game). Some of them even require some real skill.
But it's also the basis for the way the entire F2P industry pulls suckers in by showering them with 'rewards' then slowly turns off the spigot. It's also one of the reasons we have an entitlement society, since once you're used to the shower of unearned rewards it's painful to have them cut off – again, that's not just video games. Look at rich people's monster kids.
Honestly sarusa, you couldn't have said it any better. I enjoy a few "free" trophies, because it's the game creator's way of saying "Thanks for purchasing and playing my game!" and the more difficult trophies are for people who liked the game and played it to it's full extent. Sure, some trophies in some games are stupidly hard, but when you earn it you feel like you REALLY earned it.
I feel like "entitlement" is an overused and poorly understood term.
The term's original definition involved actually giving someone a title, as in "a title of nobility" or something along those lines. In our current society, it has lost some meaning, in part because titles are (to some extent) part of a defunct system of authority.
Essentially, using it in the context of a system of rewards that provides no authority to anyone is a bit of a distortion – not an unforgivable or inappropriate one, because of how language evolves over time, but perhaps an inadequate one, due to the context of its use being different.
As has been noted, it is naturally still a perfectly applicable term to use in discussing "rich monsters", and I think it's more suitable there than in talking about gamers getting frivolous participation trophies. But I do see some cause for alarm – and not because I think we're all vulnerable to being, as you put it, "suckered" by F2P companies.
The phrase "a fool and his money are soon parted" is appropriate in this discussion. In other words, there's something lacking in their common sense before the con artist ever arrives on the scene.
However, it's worth noting that the "fool" in this case is using *common* sense – the common sense native to our society, in which it is literally possible to "pay to win", if you have enough money.
In other words, it's inappropriate to have this conversation without addressing where that "common sense" comes from – and why anyone with less money than it takes to "pay to win" in real life should be discarding that common sense in favor of a rarer, more frugal one to begin with.
There's still titles today, and you can be entitled to something that comes along with them. However, those aren't as much honorary titles or such of nobility any more, but legal titles. Contracts, for example, or when a court finds that someone owes you compensation because they did you wrong.
So yes, people can very much still be entitled to something. Especially when I pay a games publisher upwards of $60 for a game and find it lacking in features that were advertised.
I just wanna let you know that this conversation is wonderfully refreshing. Thank you all.
I think this conversation just increased my iq
am i the only one who remebers the fact that in lollipop chainsaw there was that one achievement you got for holding the camera at a VEEEEERRRYYYY sepcific angle.
no, just me?
i'll go that way that
Simone is wishing they didn't read that. Not me though, absolutely not.
Participation trophies make sport worth it.
I'd like to see this cat try a NASCAR or F1 and see if he's better at that than Guitar Hero
He'd be a NAScat
Guitar hero
I got like a 90% on cry for eternity.
Is this an actual thing, you are rewarded for watching the introduction?
I have an old 'Start of a New Era' achievement from SoulCalibur IV on 360 that is exactly that.
Disgaea has "Watched the anime cinematic" ones, but they are the scenes from if you don't push start when the game tells you to pick whether you want to continue or start a new game, so it's actually possible to miss it.
Deadpool was the one I heard gave you trophies for really stupid stuff, as part of a joke.
Yep, some games do indeed use that as an achievement/trophy. It's usually a game where the intro is skippable, even on first run, so it encourages players to go back and watch it. It's easy to understand how a developer would like to encourage players to view the cinematic they worked hard on.
They can also be used for consumer research metrics. Set achievements for your game's various bits and pieces, and you can check those numbers to see how people are engaging with your game, or if they are at all.
And then they can cut what players don't enhoy and snd build on what they liked.
True. This comic's joke about a trophy for customizing your character? Someone would really care about that, even if it's just the people who made the customization tools. Bioware openly talked about the stats around how many people engaged with customization versus how many mashed through to the default soldier Shepard, and if I recall there's at least been discussion about randomizing which class the creation menu starts on in later games as a result, to make people think about it more or try something different if they just mash.
That sure is an intressting simple way of encuraging consumers to explore and discover the possibilities.
*and between intressting and simple
Yeah there are some games that will give you trophies for just hitting the New Game button. I think it's a way for them to force the game to stay on your trophy list forever even if you finish it because you can delete games with no trophies if you don't end up liking it. Or at least you can with achievements, I'm not sure about trophies.
This also used to be an indicator for older (PS3) games to see whether a game had been downloaded or not – which was important for getting a refund for a game bought "by accidant". If you had one ("Start the game")-trophy/achievement, refund was impossible. This was by no means a safe indicator, but also a reason some games have these. (I only know this for PS3, as I used to work in support there for a while)
There are *so many* games like this yeah. Heavy Rain comes to mind, as do a bunch of smaller indie games on Steam. I have no idea what proportion of my trophies are like this but I bet it's at least in the double-digit percentage.
Yes. Worse still are the achievement spam games on Steam. They have whatever the maximum number of achievements a Steam game is allowed to have and all you have to do to get them all is start the game and leave it running while it unlocks them as fast as Steam allows it to.
They have their high achievement count as a selling point. Players were buying them just to pad their total achievement count. So certain developers kept spamming them out.
Valve tried to kill their business model by disabling achievements on games that haven't sold enough copies. I think that worked.
Fun fact: Only 82.5% of the people who own Portal 2 on Steam have unlocked the achievement for watching its unskippable intro.
you posted a comment about unlocking an achievement
you posted a comment supporting the achievement of posting a comment about
unlocking an achievement
Achievement unlocked…
I'm too lazy to type the rest
You posted a comment replying to the achievement of supporting the achievement of posting a comment about unlocking an achievement!
You posted another comment replying to the achievement of posting a comment replying to the
achievement of supporting a comment that supports the achievement of posting a comment
about unlocking an achievement
You added way too many layers
You admitted you were lazy!
Why is this every online game from lvl 1-15
Because, games with levels need a lot of achievements to keep people playing.
"If you think about it, aren't all video game trophies pretty much just participation trophies?"
As the guy with platinum trophies for Kingdom Hearts Final Mix and Okami, kindly fuck off.
I was hoping for a response like this. Cheers to trophies which go beyond participation.
It's a joke based on the small achivements. Getting bigger achivements are of course more impresive than participation.
Meanwhile, in MHW…
*Hides from a pack of Jagras 5 minutes in*
*Achievement get*
Take on Dodogama quest and get killed by Deviljho
This punfest is a cat-tastrophe
This cat-ostrophic pun needs a pun-isment for not being very pun-ny.
That pun wasn't even pun-ny either! Also does any else think that onions are onion-tresting while mars bars are CHOC-a-block of goodness! Also Tyler's comment was purr-fectly Fine. I'm not kitten around, it wasn't paw-some but it wasn't claw-ful. You were also fur-tunate to have a claw-ver pun. Now have you ever heard the 'tale' of Ragnar the red? Purr-haps not? Okay. You were un-fur-tunate to get all these hiss-terical puns today.
Now take a 'paws' because there's even more pun-nier puns to come. Paw-don me but I must give just a few more puns. I could write the hiss-tory of puns. What type of mew-sic do you like? How did you purr-ceive these 'furry' puns?
-william shakespaw
*furry pun-ny puns*
Never! These paw-some puns will never stop. Actually I will stop. Paw-don me but I must leave.
Several bad puns later
Bad puns? Bad puns?!? How dare you say such purr-ible things about these furry, furry punny puns.
I'm gonna go out on a limb and guess
you don't leave your house
I agree Justin, these are not very good
Ha, nice name
J.k meowling I bet ur a Harry Potter fan and a cat or gamer cat fan too. (Nice user)(u know)
laziest trophies ever
Remember in minecraft were one of the "acivements" were basically opening your inventory. Real effort to get that one took me 3 days to get it.
What about Easter eggs those take skills
or for some people googling skills
Depends on what kind of easter egg it is.
Achievement:played 1 second
Achievement:played 2 seconds
Achievement:played 3 seconds
…now that's Aabs Animals for you.
At least some of the money from that goes to charity, so I guess it's cool. :P
Achievement: made a comment
People always make a deal out of trophies and achievements not being about doing anything worth rewarding but I've always seen them as a sort of to-do list that encourages you to explore more of what the game has to offer. You can learn a lot about a game by doing trophies that aren't readily apparent if you, say, just play through the story and move on.
This mechanic of video games, specifically Playstation, of having trophies for innocuous things like starting up the game, pressing "new game", watching the opening cinematic, it all drives me up a wall.
I do like to feel that I earned an achievement. I mean, I get it if I got an achievement for reaching a milestone in a game's story, or completing a quest line or something, but I recall getting an achievement for watching the opening cinematic for Disgaea 3 and thinking to myself "well…. that was stupid, all I did is start up the game." Didn't they have OTHER places that could warrant an achievement? Like getting a character to level 9999? Or reincarnating someone 10 times? Or defeating Overlord Baal again? Sure those are probably in there, but it really feels like reaching, like they had a quota of achievements to fulfill and ran out of GOOD reasons to earn them.
Yeah, just having a special ending scene is nothing, and having a prize for doing nothing at all is also in itself nothing. Having an achievement that you can show off at any point marks progress and growth in-game (i.e."Defeated Jotun" "Defeated Devourer" "Defeated All Superbosses") is good. That said, I feel like having an achievement for completing the tutorial or watching the cinematic is kind of sweet. Just don't have the entire game be a stream of empty compliments.
Wow. I never watch openings if I don't have to so I would never get the first trophy/achievment. Sad
You should. There's a lot you can enjoy in the opening cinematic. And a lot you can learn about the world.
I mean, Skyrim's is kind of forced exposition, but…
No thx, I'm not a completionist. So eff the rewards.
Also I think the main game is B.S. unless a REALLY fun weapon is there.
A friend of mine once said that he learned to code for no reason other than to get into the PlayStation Trophy designing section of Sony. He wanted to make it so that the opening cinematic was about 5 minutes long (meaning it was like a 20 minute intro for a movie) and make a Trophy for watching it all the way through. Then make the game have 1 save slot, and make it so that restarting the game forcibly clears your data (no matter what the old game is gone from existence the second you press "New Game"), and that not only can you watch that cinematic one time per playthrough, pressing any button skips it.
Just to screw with people who wanted Platinum trophies and already cleared the game.
I swear to God it wasn't there before.
n a n i
I do like when game hands out at least one trophy early; I like to use the trophy data as a "gaming diary", and then it feels a bit weird when I've played a game for days before the first trophy pops.
Am I not getting something here or what?
GaMERCaT looks so cute in the last panel!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! =>w<=
Commit anime.
Trophy earned: You Earned A Trophy!
Trophy-ception or something. Proceed to trophy spam
I have 20 different achievements for putting on clothes
Good job, ur not nude in public!
Watch the language dangit
I clicked it and the video was unavailable. Now shut your mouth.
The video works perfectly for me.
i realized just now i have 500 achivements in minecraft, five nights at freddys, cat-lateral damage, and splatoon (1, 2, and octo expansion), just for playing the game.
y tho????? did we- i mean did they REALLY need so much achievements or add too many achiements?
Fnaf is f$#&ing moronic
i dont care wat chu think
Thank for your awesome comics gamer cat! They can be so relatable at times, as well as funny.
Trophy unlocked- exist
Trophy unlocked: You got a game console
Ima go buy merch wit meh monies
*buys merch*,
Bank Account Balance- -$17
Am i the only one getting oddly redirected to some kind of scam reward site?
Now I want to post the lyrics of You're not alone.
I remember when I played the Deadpool game and it gave me the achievement of getting up from the couch and then they gave me an extra one.
Tuesday in April
Trophy earned: Stepped on grass for the first time.
What the hell is grass?
It's that green stuff in this place called "Outside". I think they based it off of Tall Grass from Pokemon. I've only seen it a small number of times, and I'm not sure I get the appeal, they replaced the catching mechanism and high probability encounters with some trash thing where you can very rarely find anything anything of value. I submitted a bug report about the encounter rates, but I don't think the devs got it.
Who Is a oUtside?
Wait I could have sworn that was just some horror story told to small kids… It's not real… Right?
Oh it's real alright! And it's the spookiest thing right after spiders.
This is not going the way I hoped it would.
Lets be honest, this is a comments section.
I think it's a scam
Is anybody watching YouTube while on this website
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I'm watching life noggin
(BTW, what is life?)
I've seen life noggin
I'm watching a very old web series.
Not if you are playing a Paradox Interactive game! Just think of how hard it is to conquer all the world as Ryukyu islands? This is the "Three Mountains" achievment in EU4!
Three hammers
You should do a new years one where Glitch and Nano are scared by the fireworks
Nano: I've seen something like this in Dark Souls, let's kill it!
Glitch: Are you sure this is safe?
Participation trophies make sport worth it.


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The newly established riding school at Elveli Gård, Nordmarka Rideskole, in Sørkedalen Norway, found themselves without a teacher for one day this week.
For a small new business, it can be devastating if you have to cancel on your new clients last minute. When they are likely riders who are looking forward to their next lesson, the moment they get off the horse.
Margaret Eide Hillestad, chair(wo)man of Nordmarka Rideskole turned to Pluvinel for help. Margaret contacted several instructors in the nearby area via the digital resource, and luckily one of the instructors, Gry Cathinka Wold, was able to step in on short notice. The riders were pleased with the sporty temp, and their feedback to Gry was that they felt seen and that she had taught them some new techniques. You can find, and read more about Gry Catinka Wold on Pluvinel.
Nordmarka Rideskole is a small family owned riding school, 35 minutes outside Oslo centre. Four families have come together to run this Equestrian startup with a wish to expand the offer in the local area. The riding school is based at Elveli Gård and have several lovely ponies and horses available for beginners to novice level. The group lessons are small - max six on each lesson. Nordmarka Rideskole still has available spots if you or your kid is interested. Check out their schedule here.
Pluvinel is a global independent digital resource where riders (and riding schools) can find instructors and trainers within all disciplines and methods, nearby.
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Friends and Fangirls, we have progress! It's not all perfect, but I finished a couple products since last time, so let's get into it!
For chapsticks, I'm not crazy proud of this progress, because it doesn't feel like much, but I've been using it almost daily. But, that's alright, because there's progress in other products!
I didn't take a new picture of the Chocolate Soleil bronzer because, again, while I've been using it daily there isn't much of a dent. I am making sure to dip my brush in the same spot every day, and I can see a dip, but it isn't huge.
Next up is the Better Than Sex mascara, and you can't see progress, but I can feel a change. I know I've been using it for awhile, and I do have some worry about it expiring, but it doesn't feel gross yet. It is feeling less like the wand is crazy full of product every time I use it.
Same goes for the eyeliners. I think I'm really getting somewhere with the Eyeko Liner, but I still haven't touched the others. I am hoping to be done with Eyeko in the next month, and then I'll get right into the others.
Two down, one to go with these body washes! I do have a whole cupboard full of other Lush body washes, but I'm feeling really good about getting through what I have so far. I'm really proud of how many washes I've gone through this year, and I can't wait to get through some more!
I wasn't sure about this perfume when I started using it, but unlike the other one, I am falling in love with it. It's a beautiful scent, but it disappears pretty quickly. While this isn't something I'll purchase, I'm enjoying using it while I have it.
This BalanceMe eye cream isn't going anywhere fast, but that's because I only need the tiniest amount every day. I use this at night to try to help with my eye bags. I think it's helping, but I've got some serious bags for it to work through.
Since I see this eyeshadow daily, it doesn't feel like I'm making much of a dent, but compared to the last update, my dent has grown! I am still enjoying this, but this isn't something I would purchase a single shadow of.
We're almost there, fam. I am probably one use away from finishing off this face wash, and I'm so glad. I have a new BirchBox coming in later this week, and I believe there will be a new face wash in there. Once this is gone and until I get my BirchBox, I'll be stealing my boyfriend's face wash, so I don't buy new products.
Kiss Nivea goodbye, and point my towards Sympathy For The Skin! My skin tightening lotion is out of here, and I am so proud of myself. I won't be repurchasing this, because I don't feel it's necessary, but I did like using it at first. Since it's gone, I'm adding another Lush product; Sympathy for the Skin lotion. It's a luxurious lotion that I'm totally in love with. I have quite a bit in this pot, and I'm very excited to be using it.
This eyeshadow is still kicking, and it really does move around! My pan looks the same as it did before, but I can see some depth in the other, non-pan areas. I can see how people were saying it's tough to finish off color shock shadows, but I will persevere!
I think I have one day left with this lipstick! I've been using it daily, and reapplying every time I can. After today, I'll be starting work on the red, in hopes of finishing it off.
I've only used this mask a couple times, because I've been letting my masking habits fall to the wayside for the past couple weeks. I will be bringing this with me on vacation next week, and I think that'll help me finish it off. I still adore this mask, and look forward to finishing it off.
Yet another lotion, done! This year I have finished off 3 full size lotions, and that feels great. While I would repurchase this Tree Hut lotion, I won't, because I still have so many different lotions to work through. But, since I'm using a basic lotion to replace my Nivea lotion, I'm adding in a Coola BB Cream Sunscreen. I don't really like this product; it makes me feel kind of greasy. But, I'm almost done with it, and I am happy to have a reason to focus on finishing it off. I don't think this will be making it through my next update, but we'll see.
Yet another mask that I've barely touched. I feel like I've let the cleansing portion of my evening routine fall by the wayside these past couple of weeks, and that's lame. While I'll be focusing on the other mask during vacation, I'll be focusing on this until I leave for vacation. We'll get there, eventually.
Look, I can see the bottom! Its really great to be making visible progress on this, and I'm excited to keep going. Some of this will definitely be coming on vacation with me, as I plan on doing some swimming, and I'll be needing the hydration for my hair.
As I mentioned about a million times, I will be going on vacation next week. I'm hoping it'll help me get through some products, and I'll have a great time. But since I'm not bringing my laptop with me, my next update will be a week late. my fingers are crossed that it means I'll have tons more progress. So we'll see! Have a great couple weeks, Fangirls, and keep panning!
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Then one day, as suddenly as Akhneton had entered my life, he left. A few weeks later – 10 years ago today – Mark David Gerson was reborn in that same Arizona courthouse, this time not as "Mark," but as "Mark David."
Today, on the 10th anniversary of the legal birth of my "Mark David" persona, I share the story behind my name change, in this excerpt from Acts of Surrender: A Writer's Memoir.
I was driving along California's Pacific Coast Highway in early January 2005 when suddenly, as I had experienced with "Mark" seven-and-a-half years earlier, the name Aq'naton no longer fit. [I had changed the spelling from Akhneton to Aq'naton a few years earlier.] I swerved into the next pullout and, shaken, stared at the ocean, steel-gray on this overcast day. If I wasn't Aq'naton, who was I? Was I David again? Mark? Neither felt right.
"What about 'Mark David,'" my friend Martha suggested, rapidly calculating its numerological significance.
I repeated it a few times. Mark David. Mark David. Mark David. It felt odd, an unusual compound name that seemed to stumble out of my mouth rather than trip easily off my tongue. Still, "Mark David" felt more right than a return to Mark, David or Aq'naton, so I adopted it...and once again reintroduced myself, somewhat anxiously, to the world.
A few days later, I drove back to the Camp Verde courthouse, to the scene of that first legal name change. In Arizona at the time, name-changes did not require legal notices in a newspaper. They involved a summary hearing before a judge. The first time, in 1998, my court appearance took place a few weeks after I handed in the paperwork, in a session filled with uncontested divorces and other quick-gavel decisions. This time, I was only passing through Sedona with no plans to stay beyond the next few days.
"I'll be traveling," I told the clerk when she offered possible court dates weeks out. "Are there no other options?"
"Hang on a sec," she said, and disappeared into a back room. Five minutes later she reemerged. "Can you be back here in two hours?"
I nodded.
She grinned. "I found a judge who will give you a private hearing."
Three hours later I was in Division Six of the Superior Court of Arizona. "Why are you changing your name?" the judge asked.
I told him Aq'naton had been a pen name and that I now wanted all my affairs back in my birth name. It was the simplest piece of a larger truth.
He scribbled something on his pad.
"Are you changing your name to avoid debts or to hide from creditors?"
"No, sir."
He scribbled something else on his pad, signed the name-change order and passed it to the clerk. She stamped it.
It was 11:11 on January 27, 2005. Six years and eight months to the day after Akhneton Yoseyva had been legally created in this same building, he ceased to exist. Mark David Gerson had been reborn.
Adapted from Acts of Surrender: A Writer's Memoir © Mark David Gerson
Read more about my many name-changing experiences – and much more – in Acts of Surrender: A Writer's Memoir, available in paperback on most Amazon sites, from selected other online booksellers, from my website or from your favorite ebook store.


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About the Project
This collection of information on memorial projects in Turkey highlights positive examples of memorialization among the many groups and individuals that have suffered harm or grievance over the past 100 years in the late Ottoman Empire and the Republic of Turkey. This project is a collaboration between the World Policy Institute in New York, the Fetzer Institute in Kalamazoo, Michigan, and Hafıza Merkezi in Istanbul. It grew from the realization that Turkey shares many features with other societies moving from oppression and violence into a more peaceful, democratic future.
The initial project idea was suggested by Belinda Cooper of the World Policy Institute after attending Hafıza Merkezi's first workshop on Memorialization in December 2011. To explore further the many questions surrounding memorialization and the ways in which it can contribute to human rights and democracy that came up during this first workshop, we organized a follow-up workshop in Mardin in February 2013 that brought together participants from various political, ethnic and religious groups with an interest in memorialization.
We also invited experts on memorialization from Germany, Israel, and Bosnia, three countries that are also grappling with difficult and contested histories. This website is an outgrowth of that workshop. It provides information on the many initiatives throughout Turkey that seek to address historical events that have been denied, repressed, or misinterpreted.
These efforts may be controversial, and not all are equally successful. But the very act of grappling with history in new and honest ways, we believe, is a step towards a more democratic and just society in which all groups and all people are respected and heard.
The project was organized by Belinda Cooper, Meltem Aslan and Murat Çelikkan. Harun Ercan researched and wrote the entries. The website is designed by Derin Korman.
The project is grateful to the Fetzer Institute, http://www.fetzer.org/, which provided funding for both the conference and the website, and to the World Policy Institute, which provided administrative support. We would also like to thank the Sabancı Museum for hosting the Mardin workshop, Mesut Alp for his support during the workhop and Nar Photos for the photographs.
The Role of Memorialization
Observers of countries in transition believe that these countries cannot move forward from periods of violence or repression if they do not deal honestly with their history. But this is never a simple task. At least two sides, if not more, face each other in situations of conflict and repression, and each possesses a different view of historical "truth." Victims and perpetrators create vastly different narratives regarding their experiences: victims often focus on their own suffering, while perpetrators deny their role in causing that suffering or emphasize their own victimization in turn. These responses become still more complicated in cases where groups or individuals are implicated as both perpetrators and victims.
Memorialization is a primary means of presenting and dealing with these narratives. Memorials, or public acts of remembering, may vary greatly in form: they may be statues, parks, or museums, or less permanent commemorations such as demonstrations, theatrical productions, and traveling exhibitions. They may incorporate educational activities, shared learning and communication. And they may also play a variety of roles. Manipulated by political forces, memorials may emphasize grievances or glorify conflict, and thus encourage renewed hostility. But they may also serve a more constructive purpose by educating new generations, promoting reflection, healing, inclusion and reconciliation, and even serving as atonement. This aspect of memorialization, which contributes to peace and democratization, is what this website aims to present.
This collection of information on memorial projects in Turkey highlights positive examples of memorialization among the many groups and individuals that have suffered harm or grievance over the past 100 years in the late Ottoman Empire and the Republic of Turkey. The number and variety of examples exceeded our original expectations and showed that a real need exists for almost all the constituents of the society to commemorate "dark spots" in Ottoman and Turkish history, as a first step in creating a shared historical narrative. The examples chosen highlight efforts that help to reinforce the idea of human rights, educate wider audiences about historical events that have been denied or suppressed, and ultimately promote understanding and reconciliation among the many ethnic, political and religious groups that make up Turkey's multifaceted population. This group of examples will be expanded. It will also be supplemented with information from around the world on memorials and their function and effects. In this way, we hope to promote the honest debate and engagement that are necessary for a healthy democracy.


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Many schools' FAFSA deadlines are rapidly approaching, or even past. Whether or not you think you'll get need-based aid, you should be completing and submitting the FAFSA (and PROFILE, if applicable).
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Author: Dan Gutman
Pictures by Jim Paillot,
Publisher: Haper Collins Childrens
Published: September 24, 2013
Paperback, 144 pages
Genre: Children's
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It's Christmas, and you know what that means! Santa Claus is coming to town! Or at least to the local mall. But what happens when kid rapper Cray-Z gives a Christmas concert at the same mall and all his fans go bananas? One thing's for sure—if A.J. and his friends from Ella Mentry School want to save the day, they will need a Christmas miracle.
My thoughts:
Deck the Halls, We're Off the Walls a Weird School holiday special. The kids are on Christmas vacation and what do you do on Christmas vacation? Go see Santa of course! A.J. and his friends load up to go to the mall, but with these kids you know it's not going to be an easy trip. A.J. gets in all sorts of mischief as the day goes on.
Fans of My Weird School will love this holiday edition. They'll enjoy going on another adventure with A.J. and laugh at all his shenanigans. There is also a section at the end of the book full of quizzes, games, puzzles and more. This book is sure to keep kids entertained this Christmas season!
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Hot Peppers
Foods Included
Jalapeño, Habanero, Serrano, Anaheim, Chilies
Hot peppers are usually small peppers with seeds inside. The seeds are typically very spicy and can be left out to reduce the level of hotness. It is best to gradually add small amounts of hot peppers when cooking to make sure the dish doesn't get too spicy to eat!
Store It
- Store peppers in plastic bag in refridgerator for 3-4 days.
Cook It
- Cut off the stem and halve the pepper; remove seeds and membrane to decrease the heat.
- Sauté or roast. You can also microwave peppers in covered dish with a little water for 4-6 min or until tender.
Why It's Great
- Vitamin A keeps our eyes working, our immune system strong, and our cells growing.
- Vitamin C keeps our immune system strong and helps our bodies heal quickly.