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Bilingual thoughts on life, language, learning, and all things Latina.
Thursday, January 22, 2009
Feelin' good and cozy about tests
This test is actually a district benchmark math assessment which someone thought could also serve as a simulation for the actual state test. (Brilliant!) In other words, all students from Kindergarten through fourth grade will be tested today.
The "Quiet, TESTING" signs will be up on all of the doors, there will be silence in the halls, proctors will be assigned to every room, and an announcement from the principal will call for the testing to begin and end at the prescribed times. Those of you who are familiar with testing may also know that since my students are ELLs, they have certain accommodations, such as time and a half. Where the general program might have 45 minutes for a particular section, mine have 67. Some students use the time, some don't. Most get frustrated.
All this so our students will feel "comfortable" with the testing environment and time constraints.
My fourth graders are looking at two days of 46 pages containing 50 multiple choice and open-ended questions. A lot of the material on it has not yet been "covered". How can it be? We're always testing!
There's a district reading benchmark test which is supposed to take place "some time" next week; administration is not sure when. We'll also have a district writing benchmark assessment the first week in February.
You know, to make the students feel comfortable with testing.
3 comments:
- Stacey said...
Thanks for your honesty when you commented on our blog. I appreciate it so much.
You're right... you can force them to produce what they're not ready to produce. Just keep on keepin' on and it'll work itself out!
- January 25, 2009 at 6:19 PM
- Mr. McGuire said...
It's amazing, no matter where you go, teachers all have the same feeling about testing. And where do we get our feelings from--watching the students, of course!
- January 31, 2009 at 10:01 PM
- tom said...
We go from spring break to test prep week to test week. So yeah our kids are really going to love that? We look at it as just another thing we have to do that doesn't make a whole lot of sense. But then we do get to wear jeans if we wear our "official test T-shirts".
Staff motivation takes all forms.
Tom Anselm
author, YOU'RE NEVER TOO OLD FOR SPACE CAMP
- March 24, 2009 at 10:50 PM


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Practical Issues > Politics
Garrison Keillor and others on McCain
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Subject: Garrison Keillor comments on McCain
And it's an amazing country where an Arizona multimillionaire can attack a Chicago South Sider as an elitist and hope to make it stick.
The Chicagoan was brought up by a single mom who had big ambitions for him, and he got scholarshipped into Harvard Law and was made president of the law review, all of it on his own hook, whereas the Arizonan is the son of an admiral and was ushered into Annapolis though an indifferent student, much like the Current Occupant, both of them men who are very lucky that their fathers were born before they were. The Chicagoan, who grew up without a father, wrote a book on his own, using a computer. The Arizonan hired people to write his for him. But because the Chicagoan can say what he thinks and make sense and the Arizonan cannot do that for more than 30 seconds at a time, the old guy is hoping to portray the skinny guy as arrogant.
Good luck with that, sir.
Meanwhile, the casual revelation last month that Mr. McCain has never
figured out how to use a computer and has never sent e-mail or Googled is rather startling. It's like admitting that you've never clipped your own toenails or that you didn't know that
toothpaste comes out of a tube because your valet always did that for you. It's like being amazed at the sight of a supermarket scanner. What world does Mr. McCain live in? Where does he keep his sense of curiosity? My 94-year-old mother has sent e-mail.
Does somebody plan to show him how it's done and will they explain to
him what "LOL" means?
Andrew Sullivan of the Atlantic on McCain
McCain's Integrity
10 Sep 2008
For me, this surreal moment - like the entire surrealism of the past ten days - is not really about Sarah Palin or Barack Obama or pigs or fish or lipstick. It's about John McCain. The one thing I always thought I knew about him is that he is a decent and honest person. When he knows, as every sane person must, that Obama did not in any conceivable sense mean that Sarah Palin is a pig, what did he do? Did he come out and say so and end this charade? Or did he acquiesce in and thereby enable the mindless Rovianism that is now the core feature of his campaign?
So far, he has let us all down. My guess is he will continue to do so. And that decision, for my part, ends whatever respect I once had for him. On core moral issues, where this man knew what the right thing was, and had to pick between good and evil, he chose evil. When he knew that George W. Bush's war in Iraq was a fiasco and catastrophe, and before Donald Rumsfeld quit, McCain endorsed George W. Bush against his fellow Vietnam vet, John Kerry in 2004. By that decision, McCain lost any credibility that he can ever put country first. He put party first and his own career first ahead of what he knew was best for the country.
And when the Senate and House voted overwhelmingly to condemn and end the torture regime of Bush and Cheney in 2006, McCain again had a clear choice between good and evil, and chose evil.
He capitulated and enshrined torture as the policy of the United States, by allowing the CIA to use techniques as bad as and worse than the torture inflicted on him in Vietnam. He gave the war criminals in the White House retroactive immunity against the prosecution they so richly deserve. The enormity of this moral betrayal, this betrayal of his country's honor, has yet to sink in. But for my part, it now makes much more sense. He is not the man I thought he was.
And when he had the chance to engage in a real and substantive debate against the most talented politician of the next generation in a fall campaign where vital issues are at stake, what did McCain do? He began his general campaign with a series of grotesque, trivial and absurd MTV-style attacks on Obama's virtues and implied disgusting things about his opponent's patriotism.
And then, because he could see he was going to lose, ten days ago, he threw caution to the wind and with no vetting whatsoever, picked a woman who, by her decision to endure her own eight-month pregnancy of a Down Syndrome child in public, that he was going to reignite the culture war as a last stand against Obama. That's all that is happening right now: a massive bump in the enthusiasm of the Christianist base. This is pure Rove.
Yes, McCain made a decision that revealed many appalling things about him. In the end, his final concern is not national security. No one who cares about national security would pick as vice-president someone who knows nothing about it as his replacement. No one who cares about this country's safety would gamble the security of the world on a total unknown because she polled well with the Christianist base. No person who truly believed that the surge was integral to this country's national security would pick as his veep candidate a woman who, so far as we can tell anything, opposed it at the time.
McCain has demonstrated in the last two months that he does not have the character to be president of the United States. And that is why it is more important than ever to ensure that Barack Obama is the next president. The alternative is now unthinkable. And McCain - no one else - has proved it.
Everyone needs to listen to both videos and check out the 2 sites on Viet Nam Vets Against McCain. The man needs to stop bragging about the fantasies he had in Vietnam! :-(
Is John McCain a traitor?
The impression that McCain and the media has attempted to portray of McCain's 5 1/2 years as a prisoner of war in North Vietnam is about as far from the truth that one could possible go. McCain, from the first moments of his capture, had behaved as a COLLOBORATOR and propaganda tool for his North Vietnamese captors.
http://www.youtube. com/watch? v=YuTemj7fmUY&feature=related
POW's Say John McCain Is A Lying Skunk !!!!! HTS 020908 p2
http://www.youtube. com/watch? v=6s7kEb6Osqc&feature=related
Viet Nam Vets Against McCain
http://www.vietnamv eteransagainstjo hnmccain. com/
McCain lost five U.S. Navy aircraft.
http://www.vietnamv eteransagainstjo hnmccain. com/cin_mccain_ lost_five_ u.htm
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'Gangnam Style' a YouTube ad hit: Google
Google on Tuesday touted YouTube video "Gangnam Style" by South Korean rapper Psy as an advertising success that has reaped more than $8 million in ad revenue.
Google Chief Business Officer Nikesh Arora cited the figure, which he credited to outside sources, while discussing the money-making potential of YouTube during a quarterly earnings call with financial analysts.
Ad revenue from popular YouTube videos is shared with creators of the content.
In December, "Gangnam Style" became the first video to break a billion views on YouTube, marking a historic milestone on the Internet.
A counter at the YouTube page showed that the music video has been watched more than 1.23 billion times since it was uploaded in July of last year.
Kevin Allocca, YouTube's trends manager, attributed Psy's success "to the universal appeal of catchy music—and er, great equine dance moves."
"Gangnam" is estimated to have earned the rapper millions more from digital downloads, advertising deals and on-demand services.
The song—which refers to a trendy Seoul district—spawned a mini tribute video industry, complete with copycats.
The quirky star, whose real name is Park Jae-Sang, won adulation in his homeland for the global hit and was awarded one of South Korea's highest cultural honors, the Okgwan Order of Cultural Merit.
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The order is for 20 N100/2500 turbines to go to the FWEL II project, which will come online next year. It includes a five-year service agreement.
Nordex will build the project together with Pakistani engineering company Descon.
The Fauji Foundation is a charitable trust set up for ex-servicemen and their dependents and of of Pakistan's major conglomerates. Other investors in the wind farm include privat equity fund manager Cap Asia and tea company Tapal Group.
In 2011, Nordex signed a 250MW master supply deal with Fauji Foundation, Gul Ahmed Energy, Metro Power Company and Yunus Energy covering projects in Sindh.


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How to Know If Your Partner Is Cheating On You ?August 09, 2018 11:23
(Image source from: herworld.com)
With the growing intensity of unhappiness wired with marriage, it isn't a very alien topic to witness cheating and infidelity in relationships and marriages. While pinpointing the common signs of whether or not your spouse is having an affair is a lot easier in today's date that it was a decade ago, there are still people who carry on with their tale inconspicuously.
If you are feeling troubled with your suspicions and need some little hints regarding the possible affair that your spouse is engaging in, here are the 5 most common things you need to look out for.
A completely changed routine
Did you have a set routine and had your partner return from the office and carry on with their day, along with you? There are possibilities that the entire thing might get turned upside down if they are probably cheating on you and having an affair. Alcohol reserved just for the weekends might often time end up making an appearance during the weekdays too.
Have you been driving alone?
While you might have travelled together during the initial days of your relationship or marriage, there are chances that the same might change if your partner is trying to inconspicuously hide something from you. Possibly what? Maybe an affair? So, if you are finding your spouse making up excuses to drive alone instead with you, there might be some trouble in paradise.
Might hit a nerve at times
Have you found your partner losing their complete chill even if you are being friendly with someone? Does the possibility of you making new friends irk them now when the same has never been a problem before? Chances are that now that they are out their being unfaithful, the possibility of you doing the same thing to them is nothing uncommon.
Defensive about affairs
Let's say you shared an instance about someone you both know having an affair with someone. If your partner is cheating on you, there are chances that they will get defensive about the affairs instead of actually speaking up about the downsides of it. If the topic of affairs becomes sensitive for them, it is definitely a red signal.
Lack of attraction
Disinterest is possibly one of the most common signs that your partner is cheating. If they are not even paying any kind of heed to what you are trying to convey, what even is the point? Lack of attraction and yes, I mean, physical attraction is definitely an alarming sign that your relationship or marriage might go down in shambles soon and all because of your partner being unfaithful to you.
Marriages are not easy and not even the hurdles that it brings alongside it. If you are finding any of these above mentioned points ticking off in your mind, chances are that your partner is cheating on you. Communication is the key in all relationships and marriages, so, reach out to them and get them to come clear about the possible infidelity.
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(Original Image and Text, Copyright (c) 2010 Cynthia Shenette) This photo was taken in October of 1949. My mom, Christine (Szerejko) Shenette is the fifth rider from the bottom. The visit to the Grand Canyon was her final stop on a cross-country bus trip by herself. Mom told me she would save up her money and vacation time at work for a couple of years and then take a trip. On this particular trip she made stops in Chicago, Salt Lake City, with her final destination in California. She met family friends of my grandparents, Ben and Stella Lewanas, when she arrived in California. I know she also visited San Francisco, Yosemite National Park, and Pasadena. I have a collector's plate from Pasadena on the wall in my kitchen that she brought back from her trip. From California she stopped at the Grand Canyon, where this photo was taken. I believe my mom stayed at the Bright Angel Lodge. She often talked about her mule ride down into the canyon--clearly a highlight from her trip. Apparently she enjoyed her time so much at the Grand Canyon, she overstayed her visit and had to take the bus straight home, making no stops between Arizona and Massachusetts to get back to work the following week!
Not So Wordless Wednesday: Mule Train Into the Grand Canyon
4 comments:
- Michelle Goodrum said...
I love it!. That is truly a "vintage" photo with a great story to go with it.
- September 22, 2010 at 12:16 PM
- Nolichucky Roots said...
Fabulous picture - and fabulous woman. Quite a legacy.
- September 22, 2010 at 1:07 PM
- Cynthia Shenette said...
Michelle - Thank you so much for your comment! I'm glad you enjoyed the photo and the story as well. I try to be "wordless" on Wednesdays but every photo seems to have a story to tell!
- September 27, 2010 at 7:36 PM
- Cynthia Shenette said...
Susan - Thank you for the comment! She was a fabulous woman. I love that she'd take these bus trips by herself. I don't go to the grocery store without my cell phone, and there she was going across country by herself on a bus. I can't imagine doing the same thing myself. Of course if I ever did, I KNOW she'd tell me not to...
- September 27, 2010 at 7:46 PM
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West Oakland youth center finally nears debut
It looks like 2014 will be the year the West Oakland Youth Center finally opens now that the city has a tentative deal with Alameda County to operate the recently renovated but still barren facility.
While no opening date has been determined, the city is targeting a spring debut, said Casey Farmer, policy analyst to Councilwoman Lynette Gibson McElhaney, who represents West Oakland.
Gibson McElhaney's predecessor, Nancy Nadel, got the ball rolling on the center seven years ago when she spent more than $800,000 from her council office budget to buy the former Olivet Institutional Baptist Church at the corner of Market and Brockhurst streets. But the building sat vacant for years because the city had no money to refurbish it or pay for programs.
Renovations, funded primarily through a $5 million state grant, were finished last year. Also last year, the City Council budgeted funds to get the center up and running. The only question had been who would operate it, but under an agreement that will go before the City Council this month, the city would turn it over to the Alameda County Department of Parks and Recreation.
Farmer said that unlike the YMCA across the street, the youth center will focus on high school students and dropouts and will have a strong career development program. "We want this to be strategic so we truly meet the needs of the community," she said. "We think we're poised to get there with the partnership that has been developed."
Another candidate for Oakland mayor
Nancy Sidebotham, an active East Oakland resident, announced her candidacy for mayor Friday. Sidebotham who has run several times for City Council and worked to recall Mayor Jean Quan two years ago, said she was dissatisfied with the current field, which includes incumbent Quan, Councilwoman Libby Schaaf, San Francisco State Professor Joe Tuman, Port Commissioner Bryan Parker and former school board member Dan Siegel.
Sidebotham said she will fight corruption at City Hall, demand accountability on how tax dollars are spent and target banks over the foreclosures that have destabilized many Oakland neighborhoods.
San Lorenzo Library closes for expansion
The San Lorenzo Library closed Tuesday as work began to almost double the size of the building.
A temporary library will open in early spring around the corner at 16032 Hesperian Blvd., which formerly housed a Hollywood Video store, said Peggy Watson, head of branches for the Alameda County library system.
"We're working very diligently to open it even sooner than that, but we can't say what the date will be right now," she said. Because the temporary site is smaller than the library at 395 Paseo Grande, some books will be stored at the old Castro Valley Library during the construction.
When the expanded library reopens in 2015, it will be almost twice as large as the current 14,000-square-foot building, with more meeting space, Watson said.
The $9.4 million expansion is being funded with development money that was returned to Alameda County by the state, according to a representative for Alameda County Supervisor Wilma Chan's office.
The due date on items checked out of the San Lorenzo Library has been extended to April 2, Watson said. They can be returned to any of the county's other branch libraries or the bookmobile. The schedule for the bookmobile can be found at www.aclibrary.org.
San Lorenzo Library users' library cards are valid at all county libraries.
Piedmont general election begins
Early and mail-in voting begins Monday for the Feb. 4 general election in Piedmont, but voters do not have too much choice in who will sit on the Piedmont City Council.
Three candidates are running for three open seats. They are Teddy King, Tim Rood and incumbent Councilman Jeff Wieler. They will replace two termed-out council members: Mayor John Chiang and Councilman Garrett Keating.
More competition exists in the school board race, where three people — Doug Ireland, Amal Smith and Hari Titan — are running for just two open seats.
Also on the ballot is the Measure A pension debt refinance bond. The measure asks Piedmont residents to approve an $8 million bond to refinance the city's "side fund" obligations owed to the California Public Employees' Retirement System.
Those who wish to vote early in person must go to Oakland and visit the Alameda County Registrar of Voters Office at 1225 Fallon St., Room G-1, between 8:30 a.m. and 5 p.m. on weekdays.
But those registered to vote by mail can also drop their ballots off at Piedmont City Hall, 120 Vista Ave., in Piedmont.
County launches online "budget dashboard"
Got questions about Alameda County's $2.69 billion annual budget? A new website, http://budget.acgov.org, breaks it down in charts.
Among the highlights: About 25.7 percent of the county budget is allocated for social services, 24.3 percent for health care, 21.4 percent for public protection and 12.4 percent for capital projects. About 31.2 percent of the county's revenues come from state aid, 16.9 percent from the federal government, 12.2 percent from property taxes and 9.8 percent from service fees. And at last count, the county government employs 9,196 people.


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New Comic Book Series, New Products, Product Reviews,
Dark Days: The Forge #1: The Epic Begins
"There is a feeling you get at the beginning of an adventure…"
Thus begins DC's epic summer event, Metal. The prelude, Dark Days: The Forge, is the perfect introduction, and sets the stage for the magnitude of what is to come.
Comics publishers often overuse the term "all-star" in their books, but in this case, it fits perfectly. DC has recruited its top talent, including writers Scott Snyder and James Tynion IV, for this one-shot story. However, the talent doesn't stop there, as the book also packs superstar artists Jim Lee, John Romita Jr. and Andy Kubert. Even the cast is epic, featuring Batman, Superman, Green Lantern, Hawkman, Aquaman, Mister Miracle – even the Outsiders.
Dark Days: The Forge #1 Will Keep You Coming Back For More
The issue gives just enough intrigue to keep you turning the pages with anticipation. Batman has discovered a mysterious substance in the Earth's metal. Unfortunately, no wants this information to come to light, including the Guardians of the Universe and the Immortal Men.
As Snyder's and Tynion's story unfolds – from the depths of the ocean to the Batcave on the moon – the mystery deepens. What is this mysterious metal? Where did it come from, and why is Batman obsessed with it now? The artwork is stunning and dramatic, exactly what's you'd expect from this superstar team. If that wasn't enough to keep you coming back for more, check out the final page. This final page is beautifully rendered by Lee and will seal the deal for this event.
That feeling you get at the beginning of an adventure? It's glee. Pure glee for what's to come.
Dark Days: The Forge #1, DC Comics, Released June 14, 2017, Written by Scott Snyder and James Tynion IV; Pencils by Andy Kubert, Jim Lee and John Romita Jr.; Inks by Scott Williams, Klaus Janson and Danny Miki; Colors by Alex Sinclair and Jeremiah Skipper; Letters by Steve Wands; $4.99.


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Allan Bennett I seem to remember told Crowley that Thelema wouldn't get anywhere because of it's complexity and recommended the purer form of Buddhism.
If it takes lifetimes for someone to reach 9=2 and they are still subject to reincarnation, that magick is a very slow system then why not simply use 'are there any limits to my awareness?' or 'who is watching the breath?' and stay there - just get off this wheel and go into non duality quickly - the rest follows. The magical system seems to be ' Yes it's hell but after enough training you're going to love this wheel'
Was this Bennett's point? And was he wrong?
I'm obviously going through a crisis of faith - but when you don't feel the world and you have anything to offer each other one does start to get the Bodhidarma 'stare at a wall for 20 years feeling' as being LESS painful than 40 more confusing incarnations where simply more karma gets added up. Not to mention it is a lot more Taoist and natural to realise one is the gates of heaven than storming the gates of heaven by straining every faculty to its utmost for decades.
It just seems simple to me why Bennett said this.
What are the disadvantages of going directly into non-duality? What are the true advantages of the Thelemic system over the non dual system?


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Lagos, Nigeria, November 15, 2012--The Committee to Protect Journalists condemns an attack on a Nigerian journalist on Saturday and calls on authorities to find the perpetrators and bring them to justice.
Three unidentified men attacked Abubakar Sadiq Isah, a reporter for the Daily Trust, outside the town hall in Kwali, a local government area in Abuja, the capital, Isah told CPJ. The journalist said he was covering a public hearing when men began to beat him on his face, chest, and back. Isah said the attack occurred in front of police, who finally intervened and took him to the police station. He said his attackers were not arrested and that he filed a complaint with Umar Ozigi, the police chief. He reported no serious injuries from the attack.
Isah told CPJ he believed the attack was linked to an October 23 phone call he had received from Joseph K. Shazin, chairman of the Kwali area council, in which the official said that the next time Isah returned to Kwali, he would be attacked. The call came after Isah had written an article, called "Father's car crushes son at a political rally" and published in the Daily Trust the same day, about a Kwali council car assigned to another local official that had accidentally killed the official's son during a rally.
In response to CPJ's questions about the attack and the threats, Shazin called Isah a "junk journalist" in connection with the "nonsense he wrote." He did not comment further.
Isah told CPJ that when he arrived at the police station on November 14 for joint questioning with Shazin, the chairman was not present, and that the police chief refused to say when Shazin would be questioned. Ozigi told CPJ he would be calling Isah the following week to set a date for questioning.
Ozigi denied to CPJ any knowledge of the threats made against Isah, but the journalist told CPJ that he had personally reported the threats to Ozigi.
"We are alarmed that Abubakar Sadiq Isah was attacked, but police don't seem to want to do anything about it," said CPJ Africa Advocacy Coordinator Mohamed Keita from New York. "We call on authorities to investigate the threats made against Isah and the brazen attack that was conducted right in front of police officers. Police should ensure the perpetrators of these crimes are arrested."
Isah told CPJ he has been threatened before. In October 2011, assailants seized his reporting equipment while he was photographing unfinished buildings in Abaji, another area council in Abuja, according to new reports. His equipment was never returned. Isah said he was told at the time to leave Abaji and that he would be harmed if he published anything in connection with the buildings.
- For more data and analysis on Nigeria, visit CPJ's Nigeria page here.


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German Newspaper 'Snippet' Law Passes: Watered Down, But Still Stupid
from the how-small-is-smallest? dept
For a year now, Techdirt has been following the sorry saga of Germany's attempt to make search engines and others pay for licenses to show even small excerpts from online newspapers. The main motivation seems to be to take money from Google for being successful, and to give it to the German publishers that are struggling.
Even though the idea that newspapers were suffering because of the short excerpts shown as part of search results is absurd, and existing copyright law already forbids unauthorized use of longer extracts, publishers had enough friends in the German parliament to get the "snippets" law pushed through today. However, along the way, a small amendment was made to the text that makes it slightly less damaging. According to the new wording (pdf - German original), quotations will have to be licensed unless they are:
single words or the smallest excerpts
Unhelpfully, no definition for "smallest excerpts" is given, which means there is still considerable uncertainty over just how many words can be quoted without paying a licensing fee. That's bound to have a chilling effect on the use of snippets, as publications err on the side of caution before court cases begin to establish what is and isn't acceptable. Another issue is whether quotations in blogs or on social networks will be exempt: according to the German magazine Der Spiegel they will ("probably", in the case of Facebook). But again, we won't know for sure until cases come to court.
Happily, there is still some doubt over whether the law will ever come into force. According to Der Spiegel again, the SPD (Socialist Party) may be able to overturn the law in Germany's other legislative body, the Bundesrat. Let's hope it succeeds, and saves Germany from the embarrassment of trying to implement such a backward-looking and unworkable law.
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Techdirt 2011: The Numbers.
from the not-the-end-of-the-world-yet deptHappy New Year everyone! Last year's "The Numbers" post proved to be quite popular, so we decided to do it again. 2011 was yet another banner year for Techdirt.
We handled around 14.7 million visits last year (up from 2009's 11M). Those visitors checked out the 3,923 stories that we posted and submitted 205,129 comments. Oddly, the #1 story for 2011 was one that was actually written in 2010, about the ubiquitous "Free Public WiFi" mystery. It turns out that a lot of people remain curious about all those "free public WiFi" ad hoc networks you see. Two stories about SOPA/PIPA graced the top ten, as well as the harrowing censorship tale of dajaz1.com. It appears that you folks are concerned about government censorship.
2011 was also a great year for the comment voting system. Congrats to Marcus Carab and Dark Helmet, who garnered the highest cumulative scores for insightful and funniest comments, respectively -- and, amazingly, each came in second place to the other in the category they didn't come in first. I sense a growing rivalry...
The top browser used by Techdirt readers was still Firefox (35%). Chrome, which lost by a narrow margin to IE last year, blew past IE's 15% to 30%. And there are still nearly 100,000 that are, despite all of the best efforts of Microsoft to convince you otherwise, still inexplicably using IE6.
Mobile usage jumped up to 1.6M visits this year, which is nearly a 200% increase from 2010. 615k of those visits came from iPhones, versus 566k for Android and 322k from iPad. In aggregate, Apple devices did beat Android. iPhone beat out Android last year by nearly 2:1, so clearly that gap is quickly closing.
Where did this year's traffic come from? Reddit jumped in the charts this year, referring 2.1M visits, up 277% from last year's 557k. I'm a little saddened to see that Slashdot is definitely not what it used to be -- referrals from them dropped by nearly a third last year. I suppose getting Slashdotted is no longer what it used to be. Continuing to perform quite well, however, are both StumbleUpon and HackerNews. Facebook also sent a decent amount of traffic.
To hear some of Google's enemies (including politicians in Congress) tell the story, the only way sites get traffic is via search engines -- and Google specifically. They act as though, if Google isn't sending you tons of traffic, you don't exist. Google definitely does send us a fair bit of traffic, but only about 20% of our actual traffic came from searches. We certainly value that 20%, but it definitely shows that you don't have to rely on search traffic to get traffic. Even more telling, here are the top three search terms that brought people to Techdirt in 2011:
- techdirt
- sopa
- tech dirt
All in all, people from 230 countries or territories visited Techdirt. Just like last year, there was a single visit from Christmas Island -- though, last year, we had someone in our comments suggest that the single Christmas Island visit may have been him, and not really from Christmas Island.
Last year, we noted that the only countries that we appeared to get absolutely no visits from were... North Korea, Western Sahara & Chad. Western Sahara and Chad, once again, failed to send any visitors... but, in a stunning development, we got two visitors from North Korea. And, in case you were wondering, Belarus, whose new laws will make it difficult for people there to access many websites, actually sent over 1,000 visitors last year. Also, I have no idea why, but the nearly 1,000 visitors from Gibraltar spent the highest average time on the site of visitors from any other country/territory -- averaging nearly 20 minutes per visit. People from Macedonia actually visited the most pages (on average) per visit -- at just under 6 on average from over 3,500 visitors.
And, of course, this isn't just about the odd facts, but about the overall community -- with many of you being quite loyal, which we appreciate to no end. 1.5 million of the visits -- or just over 10% came from people who visited Techdirt more than 100 times last year -- and the vast majority of those (just under 1 million) actually visited the site more than 200 times. You people rock.
Anyway, thanks again to everyone for making yet another year of Techdirt awesome. Here's to a fantastic 2012.
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News | September 10, 2011
NASA GRAIL Mission to the Moon Underway
-- Engineers have received communications from both GRAIL spacecraft, and their solar arrays have deployed.
-- NASA's twin GRAIL spacecraft have successfully separated from the upper stage of their Delta II rocket. They are on their way to the moon.
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- NASA's GRAIL mission to study the moon from crust to core successfully lifted off from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station's Pad SLC-17B at 9:08 a.m. EDT (6:08 a.m. PDT). Mission controllers will await communication in approximately 90 minutes from the lunar duo indicating they have achieved proper orientation and deployed their solar arrays.
"We are on our way, and early indications show everything is looking good," said David Lehman, GRAIL project manager at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif. "We will know more about GRAIL's status in a few hours, after an opportunity to analyze telemetry and poll our mission controllers."
After GRAIL's ride aboard a United Launch Alliance Delta II rocket comes to an end, the spacecraft will be on a path that will reach the moon in three-and-a-half months.
JPL, a division of the California Institute of Technology, manages the GRAIL mission for NASA. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, is home to the mission's principal investigator, Maria Zuber. The GRAIL mission is part of the Discovery Program managed at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala. Lockheed Martin Space Systems, Denver, built the spacecraft. Launch management for the mission is the responsibility of NASA's Launch Services Program at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
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2014: 6 W.H. aides to watch
John Podesta is coming. Phil Schiliro is coming back. Denis McDonough isn't going anywhere.
But as President Barack Obama enters a critical period of attempted revival after a constantly off-course 2013, those top staffers won't be the only ones shaping the year ahead. Changes are speculated for the communications and press operations, and the question of whether anyone will be fired over Obamacare still hangs in the air.
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"I suspect that we may have additional announcements in the New Year," Obama said in his end-of-the-year news conference. "There's a natural turnover that takes place. People get tired. People get worn out. Sometimes, you need fresh legs."
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Within the White House, though, many of the people who will be in charge of engineering the kind of year Obama needs to salvage his second term have already started shifting into place.
Here's POLITICO's list of six aides who will be emerging forces in the White House's efforts to define 2014:
David Simas — deputy senior adviser for communications & strategy
There was a time, just a year ago, when people thought David Simas was going to head back to Massachusetts and run for office again. He'd been on the City Council in his hometown of Taunton, after all, and the open governor's race and an interim appointment to John Kerry's Senate seat were both floated as reasonable possibilities for the man who'd just come off running polls and focus groups for the president's reelection campaign.
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The job he decided to go back to instead was in the White House, where his long official title translates into turning the White House's polling and other voter data into a targeting strategy to win support for the president's policy goals. For much of 2013, that meant running the Obamacare outreach and communications campaign — a difficult enough task before the website pratfall that sent faith in the health care law and the president who pursued it plunging.
Simas's job was never the technology, but his 2014 will be about the ongoing cleanup and public persuasion, especially now that people will actually be receiving their insurance under Obamacare and political opponents will be looking for any problems they can highlight to cast more doubt on the law. He'll also be helping build the plans for the renewed push on immigration reform and the economic issues — starting with an increase in the minimum wage — that the president is going to focus on.
That all explains why Simas — along with White House communications director Jennifer Palmieri — is seen as one of the main contenders for prime office space down the hallway from the Oval Office should Dan Pfeiffer decide to depart as senior adviser.
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Katie Beirne Fallon — director of legislative affairs
The White House has a lot to juggle with Congress in 2014: work with Republicans to find enough passable legislation to show that the president hasn't completely lost his juice; propose enough Democratic dream ideas to whip up the party base for November; and get invested in enough House and Senate races to help win back control of Congress for his last two years in office. Fallon will be the lead juggler.
Fallon, who's shifting over after just half a year as Obama's deputy communications director, has the kind of Hill experience that's rare among the president's top aides and that congressional Democrats have wanted more of in the West Wing for years. And not just any Hill experience: She rose through the ranks in the office of Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.), eventually becoming the staff director for his Senate Democratic Policy and Communications Center. Along the way, she picked up a few pointers on finding that Schumer sweet spot between workable policy and policy that works to press the opposition at the polls.
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Boxer Ryon McKenzie rekindles career in Canastota
CANASTOTA -- For Ryon McKenzie, it's been a mostly smooth transition from the Bahamas to Canastota.
"Except for the weather," the boxer said with a smile on a dreary Wednesday afternoon.
McKenzie's getting used to Central New York's meteorological patterns, but Saturday night he'll be back in the warmth of the bright lights on one of boxing biggest stages.
The light heavyweight has an 11-0 record with 10 knockouts. He'll put the perfect mark on the line against Eric Watkins (7-2, 4 KOs) as part of the second HBO Boxing After Dark at Turning Stone Resort and Casino's Event Center. The event returns to the venue after a successful opening run September 1.
McKenzie's journey north came during a lull in his career. Boxing is having a slow spell in the Bahamas, and McKenzie hadn't fought for nearly three years. He found himself working at a hotel in his homeland when Tony Graziano came into the picture..
The manager of three boxing world champions was staying at the hotel during a vacation when the security staff told him about McKenzie's potential. Graziano invited the boxer to come to Canastota. After a two-week visit, McKenzie decided to make the village his home.
"There are real good people around here," he said. "You can't get a better town than this. It's a pleasure to be out here in Canastota."
McKenzie began training with Ray Rinaldi in Syracuse upon his arrival in New York. He's received input from Rinaldi and Graziano, and has won his first two bouts since the move, both held at Turning Stone.
"Tony is like a wealth of knowledge," said McKenzie. "So is Ray. It's good to have the veterans behind you."
McKenzie, who won a bout during the first HBO event, will fight Watkins in the untelevised undercard. The main event features Thomas Dulorme (16-0, 12 KOs) against Luis Carlos Abregu (33-1, 27 KOs). The other two bouts are Karim "Hard Hitta" Mayfield (16-0-1, 10 KOs) against Mauricio Herrera (18-2, 7 KOs) and Miguel Vazquez (31-3, 13 KOs) against Marvin Quintero (25-3, 21 KOs). The event starts at 8 p.m.
"This is a great opportunity; I can't ask for anything more," said McKenzie. "It's very exciting."
"I think it's the greatest thing that ever happened for central New York," added Graziano. "In the 40s, 50s, 60s, 70s, 80s, right up through the 90s, Syracuse was a turning point for boxing. We had three world champions from central New York."
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Beaver Falls, PA - Not much has gone wrong in the first two weeks of the Geneva College baseball season. In fact, the Golden Tornadoes have won eight straight games and brought home a 9-2 overall record from Florida on Tuesday. On Wednesday, the NCCAA (National Christian College Athletic Association) named senior pitcher Derek Sumner the national player of the week.
Sumner helped guide the Golden Tornadoes to a perfect 6-0 record last week with doubleheader sweeps over Martin Luther, Northwestern and Bethany. Sumner chipped in on the mound and at the plate. Geneva′s number one starter made two starts and picked up a pair of victories with two complete games. In 14 innings of work, Sumner combined for 23 strikeouts in wins over Martin Luther and Bethany.
Equally as impressive was Sumner′s work with the bat. He finished the week 12-25 (.480) at the plate, including six runs scored and seven RBI′s. Sumner played a key role in Geneva′s most dramatic victory of the week. Trailing into the sixth inning on Saturday against Bethany, Sumner launched a go-ahead grand slam to cap off a five-run inning that pushed the Golden Tornadoes to their sixth victory of the week.
Geneva opens the northern portion of its schedule on Friday in the first of a three-game series against Penn State Beaver this weekend. The Golden Tornadoes will host the Lions in a single game on Friday before traveling across town for a doubleheader on Saturday afternoon.
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How well do you know the Code? Think you can spot violations the original installer either ignored or couldn't identify? Here's your chance to moonlight as an electrical inspector and second-guess someone else's work from the safety of your living room or office. It's your turn to identify the violation.
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It looks as though this installer gave a "haircut" to the conductors he landed on the 3-pole breaker at the bottom right of the photo. Because the conductors were too large to cram into the small terminals, the installer simply chopped off enough of the individual strands to make them fit.
Chopping the strands off could certainly create a "hot spot" on the wires, because they are no longer able to carry the full amount of current they were rated for. This could also be a violation of 210.19(A), if those chopped branch circuit conductors no longer have the ampacity required to serve the maximum load they serve. It is most definitely a violation of 110.14(A), which requires that wire connections to terminals must ensure "a thoroughly good connection" is made without damaging the conductors.
On the breakers in the upper part of the photo, you'll notice multiple conductors twisted together and jammed into the terminals. This would also be a violation of 110.14(A). The last paragraph of this section of the NEC requires terminals for aluminum conductors or more than one conductor to be identified as such.
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All of my past relationships were with religious people, and I know in the back of my mind it always bothered me.
Now Im wondering if there will ever be a chance that if I give up and date another religious guy, would there be a way that I could make it work?
"Love" can only be a good excuse for so long.
I was wondering if anyone else is wondering the same thing?
Do you care if your person of intrest is religious or Atheist?
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April 24, 2008
>Day of Silence registration continues to break records. We just passed students registering from 6,800 middle and high schools! We'd love to pass 7,000. Make sure you sign up if you haven't yet.
Last year at this time, we had slightly more than 4,000.
Thank you to everyone who is doing their part to make sure that what happened to Lawrence King never happens again.
Don't forget to check out our Facebook (here and here) and MySpace pages (here and here).
This map shows the concentration of student-led Day of Silence events around the country for 2008. There are events being held in all states and the darker the color the more DOS events. The underlying data was supplied by students who registered their participation at StudentOrganizing.org.
April 23, 2008
>CNN talk show host Larry King has made a PSA to call attention to the death of Lawrence (Larry) King and the problem of anti-LGBT bullying and harassment in schools. This is the second time in a week that a well-known personality has made a video tribute for this year's National Day of Silence. GLSEN would like to thank Larry King for taking the time from his busy schedule during Tuesday night's election primary coverage to tape this spot:
(Give it a couple of seconds to get started.)
April 23, 2008
>Tomorrow is Southern Connecticut State University's Annual Day of Silence celebration, and in less than twelve hours, LGBT Prism, my university's Gay/Straight Alliance; the SCSU chapter of Amnesty International, an international human rights organization; and a dozen of other student clubs and allies will be demonstrating on the large bridge that connects East and West Campuses and standing silently for about four hours. There will be some "Speaking People" to help coordinate how people will be spread out on the bridge and around campus; take pictures; talk to students passing by if they have questions about the people staying silent; and talk with the media should they arrive. We also know that many members of the campus community are staying silent in their classes; fortunately, the faculty and administration have been very supportive. We feel very lucky to have gotten so much support from the university. We are expecting even more people at our community vigil/speak-out later tomorrow night, which will be taped and sent to the president of the university. Even though she cannot attend, she has told us that she supports our message 100%!
I have received questions from many of my fellow students and some faculty about what to do if you can't stay silent. For instance, one of my fellow peers, a wondeful ally of the LGBT community, states that she has three or four oral presentations (one in Japanese!) tomorrow and can't stay silent or else she will fail her assignments. Moreover, one supportive faculty member told me she had already planned an important lecture for her class that cannot be held back and is conflicted as to how to observe the Day of Silence.
Fortunately, I was able to give these two people good tips on how to observe the Day of Silence, even if they can't stay silent for all or any part of the day:
1. If you're a student, let people know what the Day of Silence is and what people are doing nation/worldwide to observe or celebrate it. It is always good to let people know what the Day of Silence is and, more importantly, why it's so important even if everyone in your campus community is not observing it. By spreading the word and garnering support from students and school staff this year, you might be able to organize a Day of Silence the following year that will engage more students and gain more administrative support. Word-of-mouth is the strongest form of publicity!
2. If you're a teacher, incorporate the theme or message of the Day of Silence into your lesson plans. The faculty member at SCSU who I talked to stated that she was doing a lecture on oppression in Mexico, so I advised her that she should connect the Day of Silence's anti-oppression message with the issue of prejudice and discrimination in Mexico. Not only will this create a meaningful relationship between the Day of Silence and a course topic, but it also has the potential to mobilize students to learn more about the topic and take action.
I think it's important to remember that just because the Day of Silence requires one to stay silent, that does not mean that it makes one invinsible. Unfortunately, the many types of oppression that exist within society force one to be marginalized to the point of invisibility. However, our shared purpose for this day of action should be to show our communities that silence can often speak louder than words and serve as the mirror for people's own prejudices and societal bigotry.
April 23, 2008
>City of Dallas supports youth-led call for an end to the bullying and harassment. Dallas Mayor Tom Leppert has proclaimed Friday, April 25, 2008 as Day of Silence Day in the city.
WHEREAS, the National Day of Silence is a day in which students take a vow of silence to bring attention to the anti-lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender name-calling, bullying, and harassment faced by individuals in schools, including students, teachers, and other school staff;
WHEREAS, the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network has designated one day of every April as the National Day of Silence;
WHEREAS, the 2008 National Day of Silence will be held in memory of Lawrence King, a 14-year-old California student who was shot and killed in school in February by a 14-year-old classmate because of King's sexual orientation and gender identity/expression;
WHEREAS, more than 500,000 students from more than 5,000 junior and high schools participated in the National Day of Silence in previous years;
WHEREAS, more than 80 percent of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender students have been verbally harassed at school by their peers because of their sexual orientation or gender identity/expression;
WHEREAS, nearly 40 percent of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender students were physically harassed by their peers because of their sexual orientation or gender identity/expression;
WHEREAS, nearly 20 percent of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender students were physically assaulted by their peers at school because of their sexual orientation or gender identity/expression;
WHEREAS, 40 States do not have laws protecting lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender students from name-calling, bullying, and harassment that occurs at school because of sexual orientation ; and
WHEREAS, every child should be guaranteed an education free from name-calling, bullying, harassment, and discrimination regardless of their sexual orientation or gender identity/expression; Now, therefore, be it;
NOW, THEREFORE, I TOM LEPPERT, mayor of the City of Dallas and on behalf of the Dallas City Council do herby proclaim April 25, 2008 as
Day of Silence Day
In Dallas, Texas.
RALLY: The Dallas chapter of GLSEN, in partnership with Youth First Texas, has organized over 20 Dallas and Ft. Worth community organizations to join with the Day of Silence student participants for the first ever Breaking the Silence Rally.
The event, designed to show support for schools that are free from violence and harassment, will be held at 7:00 p.m. on April 25 in Reverchon Park, located near the intersection of Maple and Oak Lawn in Dallas.
April 23, 2008
>The ACLU has some tips for students who plan to participate in the Day of Silence.
1. You DO have a right to participate in Day of Silence and other expressions of your opinion at a public school during non-instructional time: the breaks between classes, before and after the school day, lunchtime, and any other free times during your day. If your principal or a teacher tells you otherwise, you should contact the ACLU national office or GLSEN national headquarters at GLSEN.ORG.
2. You do NOT have a right to remain silent during class time if a teacher asks you to speak. If you want to stay quiet during class on Day of Silence, we recommend that you talk to your teachers ahead of time, tell them what you plan to do, and ask them if it would be okay for you to communicate on that day in writing. Most teachers will probably say yes.
3. Your school is NOT required to "sponsor" Day of Silence. A lot of schools this year are announcing that they aren't sponsoring Day of Silence due to pressure from national anti-gay groups. But Day of Silence is rarely a school-sponsored activity to begin with — it's almost always an activity led by students. So don't be confused — just because your school is saying that the school won't officially sponsor or participate in Day of Silence doesn't mean that it's saying you can't participate.
4. Students who oppose Day of Silence DO have the right to express their views, too. Like you, they must do so in a civil, peaceful way and they must limit their expression to non-instructional time. They do NOT have a right to skip school on Day of Silence without any consequences, just as you don't have a right to skip school just because you don't like what they think or say.
Lambda Legal also provides these tips: click here for PDF.


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Experimenting with food and flavors is a passion of mine and I love to "explore" the globe through its cultures and their cuisines. Sometimes, I like to be region-specific with my cooking, and other times I, in the immortal lyrics of Fleetwood Mac, like to "go (my) own way" by using a basic flavor profile and letting the creativity flow.
This past week, my culinary journey was at a fork in the road. You see, I had a craving for cheesy Mexican enchiladas with tomato sauce, but also had the itch to experiment with some Indian flavors and wanted make the dish a little healthier. Thus, these vegetarian, gluten-free Indian enchiladas were born. I used a few basic spices that can be easily found in the spice aisle at most grocery stores — save for the Indian chili powder that can be found at an Indian grocer or easily substituted with regular chili powder — and some easy-to-find ingredients commonly found in most Indian cuisines, like butternut squash, chickpeas and tomatoes.
Paneer cheese, a fresh farmer-style cheese that doesn't melt, is a star ingredient in the filling. It holds up to high heat cooking and adds both bulk and protein to the filling. Paneer can be found at specialty and Indian grocery stores, but can be easily substituted with firm tofu (this would then make the dish vegan as well).
Even if you've never cooked Indian food before, this recipe is very approachable and can be adjusted to your taste and spice level: leave out the spicy chilies for a milder sauce or add more if you're a heat-seeker, substitute the kale with spinach, and you can even use different types of winter or summer squash in the filling if you please.
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