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Rockbox mail archiveSubject: Open bugs in Rockbox
Open bugs in Rockbox
From: <tracker_at_rockbox.org>
Date: Sat, 11 Sep 2010 00:00:03 +0200
Flyspray contains 281 open bugs:
0 days old: WPS wont update every know and then on irver H320_at_32GB_CF
0 days old: Blackscreen with r28058 on D2 !!!
1 days old: Cannot reset the original hotkey behaviour in WPS
1 days old: [Games] Brickmania - faulty colision detection
3 days old: skin backdrop loaded is broken
3 days old: Album Art & Remote Scrolling bug on track change when main lcd off
3 days old: Computer won't boot with Rockbox plugged in
3 days old: Fuze v1 playback issues
5 days old: Pictureflow fix for Nano 1 and 2G
7 days old: Crashes with speed / pitch changed on WMA playback (Sansa Clip)
8 days old: Rbutil detects wrong drive as iPod.
9 days old: make zip and make install don't work as expected when rbdir is changed.
9 days old: Last.fm scrobbling when nothing listened to
10 days old: %Vf/%Vb (viewport colours) not working in conditionals
10 days old: %pf (Player: full line progress bar) not working
10 days old: Screen corruption after switching themes
10 days old: Skin parser chokes on too many nested conditionals (Ondio at least)
10 days old: Early USB broken (no statusbar & crash after disconnect)
11 days old: MR500 sim crashes when switching themes
12 days old: RaaA should not be storing the real full path in config.cfg
15 days old: No backdrop in FM Screen
18 days old: Rbutil fails to autodetect, Mac.
19 days old: themes not working ok
19 days old: In manual is missing section about "Running Time"
21 days old: iPod Radio Remote - (FM Radio and Button issues)
22 days old: %if() tag not in the manual
23 days old: Base skin: Problem with Touchscreen areas under a menu list
23 days old: Add original firmware instructions to automatic installation section of manual.
23 days old: %x() image "drawn below" %pb() in the same viewport doesn't show up
23 days old: Theme Editor doesn't render Vf/Vb correctly
23 days old: Recording causes player to lock up completely
26 days old: new bar tag features not in manual
31 days old: Manual doesn't tell you where to put album art for targets with pictureflow but no AA on WPS
31 days old: Sansa e200v2 progressbar lags when backlight activated
39 days old: Pictureflow and manuals don't agree on key settings.
40 days old: backlight fade in and fade out times missing from config file options
44 days old: Using player while charging
44 days old: Sansa Clip v2 FLAC playback skips regularly
46 days old: ipodpatcher sometimes fails when attempting to write rockbox to OSOS on ipodnano2g
47 days old: Rockbox Utility fails to create voice file for the current build.
48 days old: playback of atrac3_rm files sometimes fails on h300.
50 days old: bookmark on stop doesn't work on sleep timeout
54 days old: Bookmarks from tagcache don't work
54 days old: A-B Repeat cannot set marks on Sansa c250
59 days old: Fast Forward makes Musepack (SV8) "data abort"
65 days old: Volume needs to be turned down on FM radio when voice is reading items associated with FM radio.
65 days old: ONDA VX777 volume in FM-Radio
69 days old: AMSv2: power down fails sometimes when wake-up alarm timer set
72 days old: WPS is not loaded if the .wps file is not in the WPS directory
74 days old: Sansa Fuze V2 USB connection kills the player
81 days old: Display in FMS screen didn't update correctly
85 days old: .mod files - metadata in incorrect fields
85 days old: Resume on iPod Mini starts in same position in following file
87 days old: Rockbox fm reception is bad compared to original firmware
88 days old: 11khz, 22khz do not work on iPod Nano2G
90 days old: the wps_time_countup member of sruct wps_state is neverer written, only read.
92 days old: No digital audio playback.
93 days old: PictureFlow runs jerkily while playing music on Nano2G after the recent feature addition
95 days old: Wrong playlist order after moving tracks to position right before current
97 days old: Auto-Change Directory crashes hardwarecodec players
101 days old: INSERT via HOTKEY returns to WPS (inconsistent!)
102 days old: last Arabic character in a line appears as the first for some cases
102 days old: bidi orientation
102 days old: After selecting a theme with a custom FMS, there is no way to turn the custom FMS off
102 days old: Volume is turned up to the maximum when the battery level gets very low
114 days old: PictureFlow doesn't respect "Show album title" setting on file.
115 days old: stop playing when switch hold to off on SA9200
116 days old: PictureFlow segfault when showing tracklist or playing - fixed.
120 days old: iPod FM Radio Remote
129 days old: Simulator - long power press fails to power-off device
133 days old: Skipping and stuttering in low bitrate .WMA files
135 days old: Sansa e200V2 simulator ALT+F4 fails
140 days old: not able to move in DOOM!
145 days old: CF Moded iPod mini2G fail spinup disk
148 days old: Rocboy isn't playable for Rom that have a size of more than 1m
154 days old: FLAC with CUEsheet playback issues (reopening of FS#7354)
158 days old: A theme can confuse the playback system
163 days old: sansa fuze v1 scroller doesn't obey 'first button press enables backlight only'
165 days old: H120 not start original IRiver Firmware with LCD Remote holding Rec + Play
168 days old: Elements from playback screen bleed into USB charge screen
171 days old: music pause on buffer refill - FS#10919 not completely solved
172 days old: Improve detection of MTP devices
176 days old: Flac decoding of large/high quality file fails
176 days old: "*PANIC* Stkov main" in (Text)Viewer
176 days old: "*PANIC* Stkov main" in Text Editor
179 days old: playlist viewer in wps causes problems on startup
182 days old: Screendump crashes Nano 2G
185 days old: Data abort on unplugging charging cable
187 days old: WAV problem with new Rockbox build & video iPod 60/80GB
202 days old: Gigabeat F halts occassionally when resume or USB plugged in
205 days old: Brickmania: Game doesn't load well
205 days old: rockbox doesn't employ software charge monitoring on 3G
208 days old: ipod 3G doesn't automatically enter disk-mode for usb connection
212 days old: block on the last top line grows with lines removal in the bottom
214 days old: Viewers icons applied incorrectly
214 days old: Click when pausing/resuming with fade/max precut settings on
218 days old: c200 v1 LCD doesn't turn on when changing Backlight setting from Off to On
222 days old: Rockboy Nano2g sound
228 days old: Stereo Click
229 days old: Playback stuck after selection of broken/non-playable audio file
233 days old: Can�t open any .txt files which larger than 1M!
240 days old: Manual incorrectly claims that the sleep timer and wake-up alarm are mutually exclusive
245 days old: Can't load Rockbox on Cowon D2 from SD
247 days old: Changed default codepage is applied only afterl reboot
248 days old: iPod Nano 2G USB Issues
258 days old: Low battery makes it forget everything.
260 days old: no track will play after playing a deleted, semi-buffered track
261 days old: Unable to mount as mass storage device under Ubuntu
264 days old: Directory listing slow
271 days old: Crash when powering on with USB connected
271 days old: Manual: Code duplication
273 days old: Font get loaded fragmented.
279 days old: iPod Mini firmware often starts with alarm set and shuffle play enabled after using Rockbox
287 days old: Simulator returns distorted PCM data
289 days old: Sansa E200 won't correctly connect mass storage with HID enabled
291 days old: Rockbox will get stuck in the main menu if disconnected from the car adapter
294 days old: backdrops can make plugins unusable
298 days old: Choppy playback when pitch turned down.
299 days old: Some problems about the clickwheel and USB connection
302 days old: ROLO issues on ARM v4/v5 targets
310 days old: Rockboy Scrollwheel sensitivity
320 days old: Battery leakage after one-time usage of USB until restart
323 days old: Tag DB Never Builds
325 days old: Audio player selection is not visible while window is out of focus
326 days old: Rbutil will not autodetect e200v2 in win7
327 days old: Peakmeter on ipod 5g using too much CPU (replacing FS#10527)
328 days old: Database Initialization locks up with SD card
329 days old: Mp3encoder encodes short, squeaky files.
336 days old: Rockbox panic: I1E+Level6
339 days old: Hitting new button as old button is released doesn't release old button
347 days old: Remote hangs
352 days old: Deleting files in USB mode can confuse resume playback/bookmark functionality.
1 years 4 days old: Aliasing when playing MIDI files on iPod 5G
1 years 9 days old: ipod 5g with "big disk" doesn't hdd spin-up after hdd spin-down
1 years 23 days old: Wrong value used when changing scroll bar width
1 years 30 days old: Player gets stuck begause of incorrect battery status
1 years 38 days old: Freeze During Ogg Playback When Rewinding from Very End of Track
1 years 41 days old: Doom Gets a Data Abort Error
1 years 41 days old: Changing system language stops playback
1 years 41 days old: flac_seek may fail after 10 frame_sync attempts
1 years 44 days old: Vorbis decoder glitches
1 years 55 days old: Audio adapters through the bottom connector cause system freeze in 3.3 on 5G iPod
1 years 57 days old: Build failure the uisimulator using MinGW.
1 years 62 days old: MR-100 requires reset if the hold switch is engaged after turn-on but before rockboot loads
1 years 62 days old: Wrong sort when title has a number
1 years 62 days old: iriver H10 freezes up with scroll pad stuck up and back light flashing then shuts off
1 years 69 days old: FM Radio Tuner quality compared to OF
1 years 73 days old: volume controls broken in FM radio mode
1 years 74 days old: Recording: After 3 mins - "Warning 000001" - then "Disk full" - Recording not saved (5 GB free)
1 years 79 days old: Tagnavi conditionals
1 years 80 days old: Setting Recording directory copies and renames the directory
1 years 81 days old: Chessbox playing errors and crashing
1 years 87 days old: bad voicing in the chinese language
1 years 90 days old: bugs with pitch screen
1 years 90 days old: Wavview refuses to open a wav
1 years 91 days old: ipod doesn't show connecting to PC
1 years 108 days old: HID input not working for me on ipod nano
1 years 108 days old: ovarlay loader for Lua is made while lua.ovl is not made.
1 years 108 days old: Rockbox not handling MP3s with large ID3 frames
1 years 121 days old: Acessibility issues in rbutil
1 years 139 days old: Cannot charge iPod from Rockbox on low battery
1 years 140 days old: wierd behaviour when changing folder name while plaing music in it
1 years 141 days old: LCD sleep can theoretically happen after the backlight turns on again
1 years 145 days old: License of firmware/export/usb_ch9.h is unclear
1 years 154 days old: Directory skip hangs iaudio x5
1 years 155 days old: iPod sometimes needs menu + select reset to turn on
1 years 155 days old: Clicking noise on Gigabeat S only when battery is fully charged and DC is connected
1 years 158 days old: Sometimes keys do not work after exiting plugins
1 years 161 days old: Scrolling doesn't pause at the top or bottom of a list on 2nd Gen iPod
1 years 162 days old: Pop noise via headphones when starting up
1 years 163 days old: crash in text editor
1 years 168 days old: album art fails to display
1 years 173 days old: fast changing time indicators when pausing with fading on
1 years 174 days old: database_changelog corrupted/wrecked
1 years 177 days old: latest nat sort fix still sorts wrong
1 years 178 days old: wma decoder cannot work when the bitrate of audio file is 20kbps
1 years 181 days old: v1 tag not read if v2 tag present regardless of content
1 years 195 days old: H10 5G MTP bootloader can't be built from configure
1 years 196 days old: USB connection not made when action_userabort() is used
1 years 197 days old: iAudio X5L remote erratic starting with build from 20090211
1 years 198 days old: Ipod Accessory bug reports
1 years 199 days old: fade on pause/playback in plugins is ignored
1 years 200 days old: "First Keypress Enables Backlight Only" broken on 5G and probably other clickweel iPods
1 years 206 days old: keyclick doesn't work when playback is paused
1 years 209 days old: iAudio M3 does not charge *ever* using Rockbox
1 years 219 days old: Release scripts are broken on many machines (/tools/release/*.pl)
1 years 220 days old: When cutting and pasting, overwriting doesn't work
1 years 222 days old: Playback is borked after attempting (and failing) to play a certain file.
1 years 223 days old: settings not saved when disk is not spinning
1 years 230 days old: RB sometimes forgets where it is in a playlist and that shuffle is on
1 years 235 days old: RockBOX freezes on X5L when changing between songs while RockBOX is accessing HDD.
1 years 237 days old: No header info in the .Scrobbler log
1 years 237 days old: m4a metadata read or stored incorrectly
1 years 240 days old: Manual installion section of Rockbox Manual refers to outdated error message
1 years 241 days old: log-today doesn't load in Google Chrome
1 years 241 days old: browsing through playlist interrupts playback
1 years 242 days old: Broken wav file playback
1 years 243 days old: Single Mode Bootloader fails reboot on updated Gigabeat S.
1 years 243 days old: WMA Decoder - Problematic Files with example
1 years 243 days old: Premature and multiple storage_sleep() in buffering.c
1 years 247 days old: "Beep" sounds very distorted and fuzzy.
1 years 249 days old: Sleep timer causing premature shutdown (3.0 and 3.1), codec failure (3.1)
1 years 253 days old: Car Adapter Mode isnt working anymore
1 years 257 days old: Playback skips and hangs badly on iPod Video 80GB on start up
1 years 264 days old: Resumes incorrect file after deletion from directory
1 years 265 days old: button queue should be cleared after some splashes
1 years 271 days old: Sound sometimes doesn't work on mr100 if booted without headphones plugged in
1 years 277 days old: no display visible on 2nd generation ipod
1 years 289 days old: SNES player missing tracks on certain SPCs
1 years 293 days old: rockbox.ipod not found
1 years 300 days old: PLAY and STOP buttons should be universal (where possible)
1 years 302 days old: Voice disappear when stopping playback.
1 years 317 days old: Idle Poweroff doesn't exactly poweroff X5
1 years 324 days old: Freeze when playing multi-track OGG files
1 years 324 days old: severe screen corruption on H300
1 years 341 days old: Bad meta-data cause momentary freeze when playing
1 years 344 days old: Crash when creating a bookmark
1 years 347 days old: Playback from cuesheet not scrobbled
1 years 350 days old: FM tuner reception fades over time
1 years 353 days old: Rockbox (and bootloader) mistakes battery for USB.
2 years 1 days old: playback engine gets confused by multiple simultaneous button presses
2 years 1 days old: jittering(?) when leaving "lcd mode" without changes
2 years 9 days old: JPEG Viewer on iPod
2 years 21 days old: resume for m4a isn't consistent
2 years 23 days old: BBC dowload ID3v2.3 tags not read reliably
2 years 25 days old: Rockbox hardlocks while recording
2 years 31 days old: r18234 - core + plugins shouldnt be calling opendir() directly...
2 years 53 days old: The number of characters included in the Sazanami-Mincho-Regular font are few.
2 years 53 days old: WMA Decoder - Problematic Files (Gaps/Skipping) - Example included
2 years 60 days old: Switching APE tracks no longer works on H120
2 years 61 days old: flac decoder doesn't handle truncated files nicely
2 years 63 days old: RBUtil reports a successful install on the e200R when it hasn't
2 years 73 days old: Freeze in Database
2 years 99 days old: Threads hanging if force track switching near buffer emptyness
2 years 100 days old: iRiver H340 skips when battery low
2 years 103 days old: AC3 playback does not work for single ripped songs
2 years 113 days old: AC3 Playback on iRiver H140
2 years 142 days old: m4a playback bugs
2 years 143 days old: compilation error due to GNU core utils BLOCK_SIZE value (and suggested fix)
2 years 153 days old: Equalizer is adding high noises
2 years 166 days old: Broken Manuals are Poorly Handled
2 years 166 days old: Extra button press required to continue browsing menus
2 years 170 days old: Freeze/Long duration when auto-creating bookmark if there's no free disk space left
2 years 187 days old: ALAC converted from dbPowerAmp is not recognized (RB r16536)
2 years 194 days old: MP4/AAC Playback problems
2 years 196 days old: Error saving non-current playlist file
2 years 198 days old: Backlight does not turn off when hold switch is on
2 years 205 days old: Sansa C240 Dock Line Level Audio disabled
2 years 211 days old: FM Recording disk thrashing
2 years 219 days old: Rockbox hangs on boot if disk full
2 years 228 days old: SPC codec failure rusuming playback on boot
2 years 248 days old: Duplicate entries in database (not caused by trash folders)
2 years 258 days old: power button does not exit the recording menu on a Sansa c240
2 years 259 days old: Idle Poweroff only reboots my 1G iPod
2 years 276 days old: Bugs in Rockbox SIDplay
2 years 294 days old: Distortion on some tracks
2 years 294 days old: Resuming playback from end of song after power on confuses playback
2 years 302 days old: Slow scrolling in file view without CPU boost
2 years 314 days old: End of voice clips are cut off when playback stopped
2 years 315 days old: Save playlist defaults should be adjusted to match standards, should use /playlist directory...
2 years 320 days old: Selecting a buffered track in the current playlist forces a rebuffer
2 years 331 days old: Shows Ata Error instead of charging screen.
2 years 338 days old: Disable shut down on Rockpaint for iPod & Suggestions
2 years 345 days old: Anti-skip buffer doesn't work correctly on read errors
3 years 5 days old: Strange behaviour after Disk Full error while recording
3 years 22 days old: Charging screen broken on V2 Recorder
3 years 34 days old: FM Radio Quality
3 years 40 days old: Radio disappears from menu!
3 years 52 days old: Small weaknesses in FM-radio on iAudio X5
3 years 63 days old: Playlist insert doesn't work after skipping directory.
3 years 83 days old: First keypress sometimes gets eaten (but configured not to do so)
3 years 94 days old: remote volume up keypress sometimes causes directory skip (iriver h140)
3 years 149 days old: Background noise present with LCD remote
3 years 154 days old: Dynamic data tags aren't refreshed properly on scrolling lines
3 years 157 days old: Recording on iPods have weird noise
4 years 9 days old: Battery display incorrect when H120 is plugged in
4 years 18 days old: "Fade on stop/pause" via Line-out does not work.
4 years 126 days old: mp3_encoder improperly encodes mono .wav files
4 years 133 days old: can't turn on iriver with the h300 non-lcd remote
4 years 140 days old: Keypad HOLD doesn't let go until scrolling is used
4 years 195 days old: H300 USB Bootloader Mode not working properly
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Congress and the President consumers it's greener and focused on fuel efficiency. UPDATE: It's not gonna happen.
UPDATE: Our sources now tell us this is probably not gonna happen. Sorry folks, no green-washing today!
The AP continues:
"Ed Welburn, GM's vice president of design, is leading a group that is studying name and logo changes, but no recommendation has been made, according to one of the people. Changing the background of the familiar square blue-and-white GM logo has been discussed, said the people, who requested anonymity because no decision has been reached."
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MANCHESTER – The good news is that America's high school graduation rate has hit an all time high, according to findings of the U.S. Department of Education. The bad news: the nation's higher education dropout rate has also hit an all time high, according to a recent study from The American Dream 2.0 coalition.
More students pack their bags for home over financial/credit debt than academic performance. Those lucky enough to graduate are confronted with student loan debt, which averages $27,000.00, throughout the U.S. College students in New Hampshire owed the most, with average debt of $32,440.00.
Many of these problems could have been alleviated with adequate financial literacy education prior to graduating from high school.
The New Hampshire Credit Union League (NHCUL) in partnership with America's Credit Union Museum (ACUM) has led the charge in educating New Hampshire school children on basic financial literacy through the CU 4 Reality Financial Education Program – in part with Financial Literacy Month events.
"What we know is that college students are 'signing on the credit card and student loan dotted line,' not realizing the full financial responsibility of these financial contracts," according to Daniel F. Egan, Jr., president of the NHCUL. "Student debt in this nation is reaching an epic level of more than $1 trillion dollars - $1,000,000,000,000.00 - and the financial stress is taking a toll on students via an increase in dropout rates," added Egan.
Financially stressed students are six times more likely to drop out, which decreases their income earning potential, coupled with student loan obligations, which are unforgivable. According to a recent study by the Credit Union National Association (CUNA) of high school students: "83% did not know the rates and 77% didn't know the duration of their expected or existing college loans….the results suggest that some students could be challenged in managing basic expenses or using such payment tools as credit cards in a consistently responsible manner as they enter adulthood."
"The goal of the CU 4 Reality Financial Education Program is to teach students the basics of spending, budgeting, credit and savings, with the use of a classroom guide, that can be tailored to educate elementary, middle, and high school aged students. The goal is to establish good financial habits at a young age – habits which will last and benefit them for a life time," said Egan.
The curriculums' culmination is the CU 4 Reality Financial Education Fair. The CU 4 Reality Financial Education Fair itself is a group event in which the students choose a fictitious 'financial life' (a job and an income) and they must determine how they are going to budget for needs and wants. They need to allocate funds for rent, utilities, insurance, credit card and student loans – then decide what they can afford to spend on discretionary expenses.
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"Credit is being extended to this segment at a younger and younger age. It is the goal of New Hampshire's credit unions to educate school age residents of financial options and help them avoid certain financial pitfalls," stated Egan. "Credit unions serve and advocate for their membership – these are member-owned businesses. For student loans, credit unions provide better interest terms, and student loan default rates for credit unions are 1.6% - well below the student federal loan default rate of more than 12%. April was Financial Literacy Month for credit unions, and New Hampshire's credit unions are proud of the service and community outreach they provide 24/7/365," concluded Egan.
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What is to be said about living books that hasn't already been said, said often, and said well?
And yet our public libraries seem to sell off more good books than they buy; the mall bookstores, as always, have mostly glitz-for-girls and scary-for-boys; and the sold-to-schools book flier that we brought home from last weekend's homeschool meeting--well, we won't even discuss what abominations were in that one. Homeschoolers, in a way, are lucky...the rest of the world knows about the big online booksellers, but we also know about smaller vendors who aren't embarrassed to combine Alfie and Plutarch in the same catalogue.
"Now do but send to any publisher for his catalogue of school books and you will find that it is accepted as the nature of a school book that it be drained dry of living thought. It may bear the name of a thinker, but then it is the abridgment of an abridgment, and all that is left for the unhappy scholar is the dry bones of his subject denuded of soft flesh and living colour, of the stir of life and power of moving. Nothing is left but what Oliver Wendell Holmes calls the "mere brute fact."" ~~ Charlotte MasonDry bones, no flesh, no colour...books fresh from the morgue? Whatever these textbooks were, as Miss Mason says in her paper, they obviously weren't the books that got Swedish schoolgirls fighting a duel about their favourite kings. Or the books that got Marva Collins' students working literary quotes into their everyday talk:
"Once when a student told a lie in class, someone said, 'Speak the speech trippingly on thy tongue,' and another chimed in, 'The false face does hide what the false heart does know.' If a girl was acting too flirty, the other girls would accuse her of acting like the Wife of Bath....Another time when a rubberband shot across the room, I asked Michael whether he had done it. He said no and blamed it on Phillip, who said, 'Et tu, Michael? This was the most unkindest cut of all.'" ~~ Marva Collins' Way, by Marva Collins and Civia TamarkinThe books are still there for the finding. I expect that when I go to the Big Used Booksale at the end of this month, I'd be able to find multiple copies of Shakespeare plays, anthologies of poems, hundreds of paperback classics used for one class or another and then discarded. They're getting a bit harder to find, but they're still out there....and they're "in here" too (online as e-texts). If we're brave enough to trust our children's minds to the great thinkers, the great humorists, the great observers, then Pascal and Plutarch, Voltaire and Vermeer are easy enough to pull up, download, reserve through even a small library, or find on a used-classics shelf.
Charlotte Mason explains that yes, mathematics may help you develop your mind in a certain way; that learning Latin is certainly good for developing certain strengths, "intellectual muscle" and so on; but none of these alone are going to give you "fact clothed in living flesh, breathed into by quickening ideas." This argument is not quite clear in the Parents' Review paper, as there appear to be a few words missing; it is clearer when you compare it with the same page from School Education:
"Mathematics, grammar, logic, etc., are not purely disciplinary, they do develop (if a bull may be allowed) intellectual muscle. We by no means reject the familiar staples of education in the school sense, but we prize them even more for the record of intellectual habits they leave in the brain tissue, than for their distinct value in developing certain 'faculties.'" ~~School Education, Chapter 16But she also has a warning for those who would take even good books and grind, pre-digest, or otherwise manipulate either books or school subjects to make them work the way we think they should:
"The fault does not lie in any one of these or in any other of the disciplinary subjects, but in our indolent habit of using each of them as a sort of mechanical contrivance for turning up the soil and sowing the seed. There is no reprieve for parents."There's no getting out of it or around it; there are no short cuts, magic machines, or snake oil potions that can take the place of good books, well served at the right time. And there is no magic clicker to tell you exactly what those are and when--even Charlotte Mason was chary about giving a list of the "hundred best books for the schoolroom." She didn't want people just taking such a list and trying to plug it in, "make it work." Now that is not the same as saying that any books are fine, including nose-picker histories and vampire romances; Miss Mason had definite opinions about good and bad books, and personally chose the best books she could find for her schools. But it's not about the booklist, in the end; it's about awakening to the possibilities of books.
"Once she [Erika, a six-year-old student] began reading and saw what fun it was, there was no stopping her. She became addicted to books. If she wasn't reading one of the Judy Blume books or one from the Laura Ingalls Wilder series, then she was trying out the Fables of La Fontaine or the Song of Roland. One day, as I went around the class asking each child what new bit of knowledge he or she had learned that day, [she] said, 'I'm like Socrates*. The only thing I know is how much I don't know. I'm learning something new every day.'" ~~ Marva Collins' Way*In this term's Plutarch study of Solon, we learned that Solon said the same thing. I don't know Socrates very well: did he also say he was learning something every day, or was Erika misquoted? It doesn't matter much, but I'm curious.


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Fire Dragon Meridian Qigong
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Rescued from a Dumpster on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, a discarded diary brings to life the glamorous, forgotten world of an extraordinary young woman.
For more than half a century, the red leather diary lay silent, languishing inside a steamer trunk, its worn cover crumbling into little flakes. When a cleaning sweep of a New York City apartment building brings this lost treasure to light, both the diary and its owner are given a second life.
Recovered by Lily Koppel, a young writer working at the New York Times, the journal paints a vivid picture of 1930s New York—horseback riding in Central Park, summer excursions to the Catskills, and an obsession with a famous avant-garde actress. From 1929 to 1934, not a single day's entry is skipped.
Opening the tarnished brass lock, Koppel embarks on a journey into the past, traveling to a New York in which women of privilege meet for tea at Schrafft's, dance at the Hotel Pennsylvania, and toast the night at El Morocco. As she turns the diary's brittle pages, Koppel is captivated by the headstrong young woman whose intimate thoughts and emotions fill the pale blue lines. Who was this lovely ingEnue who adored the works of Baudelaire and Jane Austen, who was sexually curious beyond her years, who traveled to Rome, Paris, and London?
Compelled by the hopes and heartaches captured in the pages, Koppel sets out to find the diary's owner, her only clue the inscription on the frontispiece—"This book belongs to...?Florence Wolfson." A chance phone call from a private investigator leads Koppel to Florence, a ninety-year-old woman living with her husband of sixty-seven years. Reunited with her diary, Florence ventures back to the girl she once was, rediscovering a lost self that burned with artistic fervor.
Joining intimate interviews with original diary entries, Koppel reveals the world of a New York teenager obsessed with the state of her soul and her appearance, and muses on the serendipitous chain of events that returned the lost journal to its owner. Evocative and entrancing, The Red Leather Diary re-creates the romance and glitter, sophistication and promise, of 1930s New York, bringing to life the true story of a precocious young woman who dared to follow her dreams.
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This may come as a shock to my wife, but things are changing. I thought the least I could do is tell her, before she heard it from a stranger on the street… or on Twitter.
But don't feel sorry for her; she's tough. She'll bounce back.
Yes, it's time to cut ties… and move the blog.
What? You thought I was leaving my wife. Seriously? Where would I go?
I think we all know that I'm not capable of taking care of myself.
So I'm definitely not moving out of the house. She might divorce me and remarry, but I'm not leaving.
Maybe her lawyers can force me to live in the basement, but that's where I draw the line.
If all goes well, maybe she will marry someone who plays golf. It would be nice to have a fourth for the Saturday tee time.
Plus, if the 3 of us are going to eat dinner together every night, it wouldn't hurt to have the same hobbies. At least that will give us something to talk about.
But once again you've got me distracted.
I am considering moving the blog to WordPress.
It has outgrown its present home. It needs things that I can't give it. I felt like the blog was my baby, then one day I looked up and it's become a teenager.
Of course, it doesn't slam doors, hog the bathroom, or ask for money (so I have that going for me…).
It does need other things.
More plugins, a better header, a place to recommend books and resources, possibly a picture of me and an explanation of my job, and definitely the ability to post pictures in individual blogs (yes, I know they are called posts… stop emailing me… I like to call them blogs).
I feel like if it isn't getting better, it will get worse (I smell the first of a long line of PrincipalsPage.com bumper stickers and t-shirts).
While my wife has done a wonderful job setting the Blog up until now, I think I now need professional help.
Plus, she says she doesn't have time and I should stop bugging her. Fair enough. Never let it be said that I don't catch on after being told something like 147 times.
The whole design a blog thing is more complicated than you might think. And it turns out people don't like to work for free.
Who knew?
I am in the process of assembling a team from all over the world. Only the best highly trained professionals are good enough to work on my blog.
Of course, as long as they are cheap.
A cartoonist from Minnesota has been hired to draw the header. I met him through a lady in Chicago whom I have never met (isn't the internet cool?).
Soon, I will be hiring someone to do the nuts and bolts of the blog transfer. I am down to either a guy from India or a lady from Canada. Maybe someone from Tennessee. I can't decide.
This wouldn't be possible without my contacts on the internet.
I am pretty sure this is the wave of the future. And schools, teachers, and administrators need to understand this.
Kids have already got this, so we don't have to worry about them.
It continues to dumbfound me that people think technology is a passing fancy.
Students aren't going to wait on educators who continue to focus on having them look up words in the dictionary, spend years teaching them to write in cursive, or not take them to the computer lab on a daily basis.
But today I can't focus on changing people's ideas because I have work to do.
I need to get this blog moved. And sell my wife on the idea that husband #2 needs to be a golfer.
Just kidding.
I have people moving the blog.


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With the lockout over and hockey back, we've decided to spruce up CHBTV over at Canucks Hockey Blog and do them bi-weekly. Nothing fancy, just Vancouver Canucks fans talking hockey, settling arguments and maybe a beer or three.
We're not sure where we're going with this but we've got a pretty good idea. It'll be a fun learning experience for me as well, giving me something to film and edit. If you're a hockey fan, check us out! If you have a discussion topic or question or maybe you want to come join us one week, let us know!


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Ingredients for Sauce:
5 cup refine/granulated sugar( if you want your sauce thicker add more sugar)
1 cup chili boh or Sambal Olek
5-6 chili padi aka thai's bird chili(chopped fine)
2 tbsp sticky shrimp paste (har ko) must have!!
3 tbsp of caramel black thick sauce (I use Yuen Chun brand) don't use the regular thick soy sauce,it's smell raw!!
1 tsp of salt
1 tbsp roasted crushed belacan (shrimp paste)
I lb of fried/roast coarsely crush peanut for sprinkle
Ingredients for Salad
jicama (sengkung)
fried crullar (yauh char kwai)
green or fuji apple
**Peel and cut above vegetables and fruit to your portion,then mix rojak sauce ,only use few tbsp of sauce depend on your salad portion**
Method for Sauce:
1:Prepared a clean medium bowl,combine chili boh/sambal olek ,sugar,salt,roasted belacan,sticky shrimp paste (har koh) and caramel thick soy sauce.Mix all the ingredients in the bowl ,use a spatula or big spoon to stir the mixture until well combine.Keep stirring (about 30 times)until the sauce become thick and gooey ,then add in chopped bird's chili.Check the seasoning (salt and sugar) before store in clean container.(No water needed!!!)
2: Use a clean spoon each time you want to scoop the sauce out.Store the remaining sauce in fridge.Shelf life is about 6 months to a year..
3:Prepare your favourite cut fruits in a plate,add rojak sauce one spoon at a time into your salad.Then sprinkle with roasted crushed peanut on top before serving.
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The $65,000 Question
On Tuesday, active major league rosters expand from 25 players to 40 players. As a result, it's one of the most stressful times to be around a Triple-A team.
Think about it. The minimum major league salary is $390,000. As a result, a September call-up for the lowest paid guy on the totem pole is worth $65,000 (plus roughly $3000 in "meal money" for road trips).
Hyder brought that up last night when we were talking about Chris Carter's lame duck status with the PawSox. When the Yankees put in a waiver claim on Chris to delay his eventual trade to the Mets (forcing the Red Sox to keep Chris on their 40-man roster), they not only prevented him from getting valuable major league playing time in September with his new team, but they probably cost him a ton of money.
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On Saturday night, Chris started for the first time in nine games for Pawtucket and went 2-for-4 in a 3-0 loss to Scranton/WB. In other words, a guy who has to be consumed by his own misfortune and who's been on the bench for more than a week was still Pawtucket's best hitter.
The Mets are eventually going to get a guy who can flat-out hit. For Carter's sake, I hope that leads to a long major league career, which is obviously worth a lot more than $65,000.
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Paul Byrd's promotion to Boston on Sunday means the Red Sox currently have 39 players on their 40-man roster. Daisuke Matsuzaka is on the 60-day disabled list (which doesn't count toward the 40-man), so the Red Sox have to save a spot for him.
If you play the "who will get called-up" guessing game, it's helpful to know which Pawtucket players are on the 40-man roster and which players aren't. If a player is not on the 40-man and the Red Sox want to call him up, then somebody has to be designated for assignment to make room.
Here is a list of Pawtucket players who are currently on the Red Sox 40-man roster, who could be called-up next week with no roster juggling required.
Pitchers: Michael Bowden, Hunter Jones, Marcus McBeth
Catchers: George Kottaras, Dusty Brown, Mark Wagner
Infielders: Jeff Bailey, Aaron Bates, Jed Lowrie
Outfielders: Brian Anderson, Chris Carter, Josh Reddick
Here is a list of current Pawtucket players who have appeared for Boston this year but are no longer on the 40-man roster. To make room for one of these players, someone from the above list (other than Carter) will have to be designated.
Pitchers: Fernando Cabrera, Javier Lopez, Enrique Gonzalez, Billy Traber
Infielders: Chris Woodward, Gil Velazquez
Additionally, the Red Sox just traded for outfielder Joey Gathright who will immediately join Pawtucket. It appears that he was obtained to give Boston a speedy pinch-runner to have on the bench in September, so if/when he gets called-up, a player that is currently on the 40-man roster will have to go.
So who will get called-up next week? George Kottaras and Jed Lowrie appear to be locks. I would guess that Jeff Bailey, Marcus McBeth, and Joey Gathright are likely call-ups. After that, your guess is as good as mine.
By the way, I'm looking forward to asking Gathright about his famous jump over the roof of a parked car. It's been viewed nearly 700,000 times on YouTube. You can add to the total by watching here.
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If the Red Sox had not just traded for LHP Billy Wagner, I might have put Dustin Richardson on the list. Perhaps I still should.
The 25-year-old lefty has simply been phenomenal since his promotion from Portland on August 21st.
On Saturday night he tossed two perfect innings against Scranton/WB and struck out three of the six batters he faced.
Here are Dustin's numbers in his first four Triple-A outings: 5 IP, 1 H, 0 R, 2 BB, 8 K.
Right-handed batters are 1-for-12 vs. Richardson and lefties are 0-for-3.
Richardson will be pitching when the PawSox season is over, but it will be for the Mesa Solar Sox in the Arizona Fall League, beginning on October 13th.
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I don't mean to be overly critical of the Scranton/WB Yankees management, but last night's decision to delay the opening game of a doubleheader in anticipation of rain was absurd.
The two teams waited around under perfect weather conditions for more than an hour before the first drop of rain arrived. When the storm finally hit, it lasted for about 20 minutes, but the overall rain delay turned out to be 2:13.
As a result, I'm adding another thing to the list of rule changes for when I become commissioner.
New Rule: No rain delays until there is actually rain.
I don't care what the local meteorologist says or how ominous the storm appears on radar, if it's not raining when the game is scheduled to begin, start playing until it arrives.
Makes sense doesn't it?
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Because of the lengthy delay on Saturday, the scheduled doubleheader was pushed back to Sunday (on getaway day for the PawSox before a bus ride to Allentown).
Randor Bierd and Charlie Zink will be the starting pitchers in a pair of 7-inning games. I hope you'll join us for the radio call beginning with the pre-game show at 4:50 on the PawSox radio network and PawSox.com.


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Refreshing or Revolting: 2015 Chevrolet Colorado
After a short absence from the midsize truck segment, the Chevrolet Colorado returns for the 2015 model year with new powertrains and fresh styling. While the new Colorado is unmistakably a Chevrolet, it looks less like a Silverado than the previous model. The U.S.-market Colorado also has a unique look compared to the global model. Now that the U.S.-spec Colorado has been revealed, let's compare the new model against its predecessor.
Up front, both Colorados proudly display the Chevrolet bowtie on their grille's center horizontal bar. Unlike the previous model, where that grille bar extended through the front lighting cluster to separate the upper marker lights from the lower headlights, the top of the 2015 Colorado's headlights are flush with the top of the grille with marker lights integrated into the headlight cluster. The 2015 Colorado's grille also drops slightly below the top of the front bumper cover. Round fog lights replace the previous model's rectangular units.
Along the side, the 2015 Colorado's greenhouse swoops up toward the back of the rear window. A distinctive body crease starting at the leading edge of the front door goes through the door handles along the doors to the top of the rectangular taillights. The Colorado's wheel flares transition smoother into the fenders and bedsides. Lower on the side, a creased bodyline flows into the front of the rear wheel flare. Around back, the 2015 Colorado features a CornerStep rear bumper similar to the one first seen on the 2014 Silverado.
While a four-spoke steering wheel carries over, cruise control and infotainment controls are new and the shifter stalk has been replaced with a floor shifter. The audio system/infotainment screen is mounted higher on the dash and sits between the center vents, while the climate controls have been redesigned. The center stack now flows uninterrupted into the center console.
After a short hiatus, the redesigned 2015 Chevrolet Colorado returns to the midsize pickup segment with new styling. Do you prefer the looks of the 2015 Colorado or the last-generation Colorado?
Last week there were quite a few negative comments about the new 2015 Lexus RC coupe. Andres Conde Bosch said, it "Looks like a Scion on steroids. Freaking scary. I don't know what to think of this design. " Thecarguy55 wasn't impressed either: "FAIL! The front end is hideous. The grille is way too big and the headlights are too small. " And CALI-LIFER thought it was a poor rip-off of the Infiniti G37.
Still not all the comments were negative. Inline666 thought it was the "Best application of the spindle grille. The fact that the rest of the car looks good doesn't hurt either. RC-F any one???"


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By Edward L. Daley
When you figure in the $85 million million (aka trillion) worth of unfunded liabilities from Social Security and Medicare, the total debt amassed by the federal government of the United States comes to about $100 million million, give or take a few million million. That number is equate to roughly seven times the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) of our country. In fact, if we were to liquidate all of America's assets today for cold, hard cash – in an effort to meet the obligations of just those two programs – Social Security and Medicare would still be about $10 million million in the red.
Think about that for a minute. If our federal government seized everything of monetary value in our country, and used those assets to make good on the promises its made to America's elderly, disabled and poverty-stricken citizens, it would still find itself in greater debt than most nations on Earth.
Now consider this: Social Security and Medicare spending currently accounts for nearly half of all federal spending, yet even though we devote more money to these programs than most of our other budget items combined, we still find ourselves facing a real debt number (not that puny $15 million million the mainstream media keeps babbling about) so massive that the combined GDPs of every other country in the world – roughly $55 million million dollars – equal only a little over half of it.
Let me put that another way. If every nation on this planet pooled together all the wealth they produced in a year's time and gave every penny of it to the United States, we'd still end up roughly $45 million million in the hole. To give you an idea of how much money that is, here's a little visualization exercise for you. Imagine you were to stand forty-five million million dollar bills end to end. If it were possible to do so, they would stretch from the Earth to the moon and back approximately nine thousand times.
Now that you've got that image in your head – a wall of greenbacks eighteen thousand bills wide, stretching into space to a point so distant that you can't see the end of it – go ahead and double that amount, and then add another four thousand dollar-wide section to that imaginary money wall for good measure. THAT is our national debt; a wall of singles well over a mile and a half wide, and nearly 239.000 miles high.
If that mental image doesn't convince you that the people currently in charge of our federal government are so monstrously inept that they shouldn't be allowed to manage an 'Orange Julius' stand – let alone the budget of the United States – then I'm afraid nothing else you'll read in this article will be of any use to you. I suggest you move on immediately to more pressing endeavors, like… say… staring at small, shiny objects, but whatever you decide to do, please accept my humble apologies for interrupting medication time at the home.
Okay, so now that I've whittled down my readership to only those individuals with a firm grasp on reality, let me see if I can adequately summarize my previous assertions in a single sentence.
Our federal debt is really, REALLY big, and our representatives in Washington DC are really, REALLY incompetent.
Moving on…
Glenn Beck, the prominent radio (and former TV) talk show host, has stated on numerous occasions that the only difference between the DNC and RNC is that the latter party is taking our country down the road to statism and, ultimately, economic collapse at a slower pace than the former. And in a way he's right. The leaders of these two political groups are fairly similar in that few if any of them seem to give a rat's pucker about future generations of Americans, and the socio-economic hell they face as a result of this generation's utter lack of fiscal responsibility.
That having been said, Mr. Beck – if, indeed, that is his real name – has failed time and time again to point out that the overwhelming majority of conservatives who constitute the foundation of the Republican party, strenuously oppose the out-of-control spending practices of our elected representatives. He also doesn't bother to mention that the vast majority of leftists who comprise the Democrat party's base, exhibit exactly ZERO interest in restraining the growth and irresponsible budgetary habits of our federal government.
As a matter of fact, today's leftists wholeheartedly support the insane (yes, I said INSANE) increases in spending that the current administration has already inflicted upon our nation, and apparently wishes to double as soon as possible. What's their primary justification for this endorsement? Well, the Republicans increased spending over the past eight years by more than $4 million million, so now that the Democrat party is in charge, it gets to spend at least double what George W. Bush did on thousands of fatuous, government programs, idiotic make-work schemes and more freedom-smothering, federal bureaucracies than ever before. NEENER NEENER NEE-NER!
Tell me, is any part of what I just wrote inaccurate?
Okay, so maybe that "NEENER NEENER NEE-NER!" thing was a little over the top, but still…
Is there any doubt that the notion of expanding the scope and authority of the federal government originated with the left in this country, or that its subsequent growth momentum has been fueled by the "progressive" movement ever since?
Wacky, yet impassioned Glenn – the self-proclaimed "rodeo clown" and outspoken critic of government waste, fraud and abuse – seems to believe that we can just ignore the two main political parties in this country on election day and come together as a nation of independent voters to solve the myriad problems we face. Talk about naiveté! Regardless of how independent-minded one may be, if disseminating throughout the federal establishment the conservative ideals of limited government, personal accountability and fiscal restraint is one's aim, there's no viable delivery vehicle available other than the Republican party. After all, that's where the overwhelming number of politically active right-wingers reside today, and to abandon it at this point in history is akin to calling for the forces of conservatism to further fragment in the face of an aggressive and unified leftist front.
If he were a soldier in General George S. Patton's army, Private Beck would likely be relegated to the position of chief latrine scrubber for merely suggesting so foolish a strategic battle plan. Suffice it to say that no political ideology can be advanced in the United States without the assistance of an organized party of substantial wealth and influence. Independent political candidates don't win federal elections very often, and the few who do, usually find themselves alone in the wilderness when it comes to garnering support among their peers for their policy initiatives.
Like it or not, changing the culture of irresponsibility and corruption that defines our national government these days, means changing the culture of at least one of the two major parties currently running it, and to accomplish that, one needs to confront the problem from within. It simply cannot be done by standing outside the gates of power, shaking one's fists and wailing at the gathering storm.
Sure, there are times when large demonstrations by rag-tag coalitions of citizens can make a difference in the way our public officials behave at any given time, and you'll find no stronger proponent of such peaceful revolts than I. That having been said, truly influential mass protests are rare and their impact fleeting. Lasting change only comes about as the result of a concerted effort among people of like-mind to repeatedly vote into public office, honorable candidates from a common political party who are capable of persuading others within their ranks to do the right thing.
There will always be a certain amount of corruption in any group, however, which is why it's important to expose and punish as swiftly as possible the bad eggs in one's own party. For all their flaws, the leaders of the GOP do have some integrity in this regard, whereas Democrat bigwigs are utterly shameless in their repeated defense of demonstrably corrupt leftists.
It's going to take a lot of hard work to get the Republican party back on its conservative feet again, no question about that, and the transition from a party of wishy-washy RINOs to one controlled by genuine right-wingers, won't happen overnight. But think about the ramifications if we don't even try to salvage it. We'll be stuck with essentially two versions of the same party controlling the political direction of our country for at least a generation to come; one which continues to slide seemingly irrevocably into the cesspool of Marxism, while the other dances precariously on a sheet of thin ice above that same, putrid sewer.
That doesn't have to happen, Mr. Beck, but if you insist upon preaching the gospel of "to hell with both major parties" to a sizable audience of disenfranchised former GOPers, Libertarians and right-leaning independents, it probably will. If such a tragedy should come to pass, national bankruptcy and severe economic depression is not only probable, but a near certainty.
Indeed, if our nation is to survive the hopey-changey era of President Obama and his left-wing lackeys in Congress, electing vast numbers of true conservative REPUBLICANS to their respective high government offices is the only rational course of action available to us, and it is a course we must embark on sooner rather than later.


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This one is signed "Library Director." (Via Michael Sauers)
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This one is signed "Library Director." (Via Michael Sauers)
Is this a bad thing? When the plans for my new library were being drawn up, I suggested hat we build in some kind of shielding so no signals would penetrate the structure… Then, no such signs would ever be needed. I wish theaters would do this…
I can see -talking- on a cell phone being bad but phones do so much more than that these days. Instructions like this are just not reasonable to most people anymore.
It would also be "nicer" to have a place (or a few places) set aside for people to be able to talk on their phone and direct them there instead of just saying no.
Cell phones are no longer an optional accessory, but a part of life. We need to invite our customers and attached devices into our building with open arms…
The sign is unnecessarily restrictive. Most–if not all–cellphones have a vibrate and/or "sounds off" option, so receiving notification of calls and sending/receiving text messages doesn't have to be disruptive. (I seriously wonder how many librarians are aware of this, since cellphones rang in every single session of the last librarian conference I attended!)
Maybe it's a community thing, but most of the people I encounter at the library turn when someone's cellphone goes off and shoot them a look that clearly says, "Die!" The vibrate idea would be great if people had any common sense whatsoever, sadly they don't. This is why they also talk at full volume about their most personal matters in crowded rooms. Nobody else wants to hear about it… Then another someone's phone rings and they do the same thing after they just shot the other dumbass a dirty look.
It all depends. Certainly a university library can be a 'cathedral of quietness' as Garrison Keillor observed, and so the restriction is necessary. But students who use the library already observe these unwritten rules, so do we really have to ask?
On the other hand, public libraries can be incredibly noisy, filled with kids story hours, workshops, chats with staff at service desks, etc. Maybe posting the sign for a particular area, designated for quiet study, would be better.
This is my cell phone sign:
Sabrina, I want to work at your library. Trying to compete for a student's attention WHO HAS COME TO THE DESK for assistance, but insists on continuing to chat on the cell phone is beyond frustrating.
I have heard every ringer imaginable. I've had to go turn students' cells off b/c they have earphones on and can't hear it, or they've left their stuff and gone off to who knows where.
>Trying to compete for a student's attention WHO HAS COME TO THE DESK for assistance, but insists on continuing to chat on the cell phone is beyond frustrating.
No kidding. I just ignore them and do something else until they hang up.
I think some of my biggest pet peeves with signs like this are the use of red font, all CAPS, and underlining. And exclamation points. Seriously, is that necessary? Do we really think library users wouldn't understand a nice "please be courteous" sign? This is just so uninviting.
I really dislike signs like this. It is highly questionable to put up such an unwelcoming sign and then two steps away ask why students aren't coming to the reference desk.
I made this sign idea to try and get the message across while still having a bit of fun. http://www.library.cmu.edu/People/jfudrow/golden_silence.pdf
I have since talked to the director of the library involved and he has informed me that the library is active in discussions regarding changing the policy to something less restrictive.
Maybe it's a community thing, but most of the people I encounter at the library turn when someone's cellphone goes off and shoot them a look that clearly says, "Die!" this is so true you better make your phone silent and in order not to bother anyone with your anoying ringtone.
It's almost like nobody these days as proper etiquette. Manners are unheard of and that is why we must post signs instructing people what not to do. Sad but true.
I'm sitting in my local public library right now and there are three loud phone conversations going on around me right now. I'm trying to study for finals and it simply cannot be done. When you talk about welcoming all customers, you are in fact unwelcoming to the people who are trying to use the library for its intended purpose. As a child I would have been taken out and sternly scolded for making noise int he library. What happened to a place where people can read undisturbed?


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Plants Illustrated 2018: Celebrating Trees
Exhibit - Painting | January 9 – 25, 2018 every day with exceptions | 10 a.m.-4 p.m. | UC Botanical Garden
Celebrating Trees is an exhibition of botanical art works by members of the Northern CA Society of Botanical Artists. This exhibit will honor the beautiful trees around us, featuring interesting details of each season.
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The rules and pace are much like an actual baseball game, but the chatter definitely was unlike anything heard in Petco Park.
"Car!" a player yelled to a teammate on the sideline. "There's a car behind you!"
"Tree!" someone yelled later as a pop fly came down.
And then there was the out that came after someone slugged a ball atop a six-story building. Another hitter got an automatic double when a ball rolled down the sewer.
The game is stickball, and it's being played in Little Italy this weekend.
"Once you play, you get a passion," said Willie Blas, who cofounded the San Diego Stickball League 15 years ago.
The hybrid baseball game grew out of the streets of New York, where a lack of parks did not deter children who had a little imagination, a toy ball and a stick.
When played by grown-ups, however, the game turns fast-paced and can get a little rough, with some players even known to slide into the home plate drawn with chalk on asphalt.
"Girls don't usually play," said Maria Centanni, one of the few women competing Saturday. "It's a tough sport."
Centanni's brothers, Louie and Joey, are co-directors of the San Diego Stickball League, which has held an annual Labor Day tournament on the streets of Little Italy since the league's inception.
The league also held a stickball season from April to August for three years but canceled this year's games after the city raised fees to use the streets.
The annual Labor Day tournament also was in jeopardy until it received sponsorship from realtor Anthony Napoli and restaurants Petrini's and Monello.
"We used to play this in Long Island when I was 8 years old," said Napoli after his at-bat Saturday afternoon.
With stickball a rarity on the West Coast, many people who happened by were seeing the game for the first time.
"We just heard the balls whiz by and thought, 'What's this?'" said Eric Boone, who was visiting San Diego from Washington, D.C., with Nicole Kelly.
"It's pretty cool seeing baseball played a different way," Boone said.
Saturday's game attracted eight teams — including the Crown City Locos, Street Sluggers and the Whompers — who played for a seed in Sunday's elimination rounds for the Jillie Trophy, named for original league directors Jim Strickland and Willie Blas.
The two learned about the game from New York native Bobby Ortiz. Blas, who played minor league ball for the Houston Astros in the early 1980s, fell in love with the game and quickly formed a team, which traveled to New York and went to the championship game their first year.
Stickball ever since has been a part of Little Italy, which along with New York, Florida and Puerto Rico, is one of the only places in the nation with an organized league.
Blas makes his own sticks — his favorite is nicknamed "Thor" — and rubber balls are bought from a supplier in Staten Island, N.Y.
The rules are similar to baseball, but with some notable exceptions. Gloves aren't allowed, the bat's diameter can't be greater than two inches, and the hitters pitch to themselves and are out with one strike.
There are also some unexpected consequences that come with playing on a city street. A throw to first may be deflected by a low-hanging branch, or a ball may bounce off a third-story patio but land in fair territory.
"I just fell in love with the game," said Terrance Cochran as he sat panting in the shade after hitting a home run for the Whompers.
"It's a good, family atmosphere," he said about why he likes the league. "We all spend time together."
Louie and Joey Centanni also said the fun atmosphere, along with a good cardio workout, are among the attractions to the game.
The tournament continues Sunday from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. on Columbia Street between Ash and Cedar streets in Little Italy.


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阅读能力是SAT考试考查学生的主要内容,针对国内SAT考生的阅读水平,灵格斯SAT频道为各位考生整理了SAT阅读理解模拟试题(1),供考生们参考使用。SAT Reading Comprehension Test 1
10 mins - 7 questions
The extract is taken from a book written sixty years ago by a British scientist in which he considers the relationship between science and society.
The pioneers of the teaching of science imagined that its
introduction into education would remove the conventionality,
artificiality, and backward-lookingness which were characteristic;
of classical studies, but they were gravely disappointed. So, too, in
5 their time had the humanists thought that the study of the classical
authors in the original would banish at once the dull pedantry and
superstition of mediaeval scholasticism. The professional
schoolmaster was a match for both of them, and has almost
managed to make the understanding of chemical reactions as dull
10 and as dogmatic an affair as the reading of Virgil's Aeneid.
The chief claim for the use of science in education is that it
teaches a child something about the actual universe in which he is
living, in making him acquainted with the results of scientific
15 discovery, and at the same time teaches him how to think logically
and inductively by studying scientific method. A certain limited
success has been reached in the first of these aims, but practically
none at all in the second. Those privileged members of the
community who have been through a secondary or public school
20 education may be expected to know something about the
elementary physics and chemistry of a hundred years ago, but they
probably know hardly more than any bright boy can pick up from
an interest in wireless or scientific hobbies out of school hours.
As to the learning of scientific method, the whole thing is palpably
25 a farce. Actually, for the convenience of teachers and the
requirements of the examination system, it is necessary that the
pupils not only do not learn scientific method but learn precisely
the reverse, that is, to believe exactly what they are told and to
reproduce it when asked, whether it seems nonsense to them or
30 not. The way in which educated people respond to such quackeries
as spiritualism or astrology, not to say more dangerous ones such
as racial theories or currency myths, shows that fifty years of
education in the method of science in Britain or Germany has
produced no visible effect whatever. The only way of learning the
35 method of science is the long and bitter way of personal
experience, and, until the educational or social systems are altered
to make this possible, the best we can expect is the production of a
minority of people who are able to acquire some of the techniques
of science and a still smaller minority who are able to use and
40 develop them.
1. The author implies that the 'professional schoolmaster' (line 7) has
A. no interest in teaching science
B. thwarted attempts to enliven education
C. aided true learning
D. supported the humanists
E. been a pioneer in both science and humanities.
2. The author's attitude to secondary and public school education in the sciences is
A. ambivalent
B. neutral
C. supportive
D. SATirical
E. contemptuous
3. The word 'palpably' (line 24) most nearly means
A. empirically
B. obviously
C. tentatively
D. markedly
E. ridiculously
4. The author blames all of the following for the failure to impart scientific method through the education system except
A. poor teaching
B. examination methods
C. lack of direct experience
D. the social and education systems
E. lack of interest on the part of students
5. If the author were to study current education in science to see how things have changed since he wrote the piece, he would probably be most interested in the answer to which of the following questions?
A. Do students know more about the world about them?
B. Do students spend more time in laboratories?
C. Can students apply their knowledge logically?
D. Have textbooks improved?
E. Do they respect their teachers?
6. Astrology (line 31) is mentioned as an example of
A. a science that needs to be better understood
B. a belief which no educated people hold
C. something unsupportable to those who have absorbed the methods of science
D. the gravest danger to society
E. an acknowledged failure of science
7. All of the following can be inferred from the text except
A. at the time of writing, not all children received a secondary school education
B. the author finds chemical reactions interesting
C. science teaching has imparted some knowledge of facts to some children
D. the author believes that many teachers are authoritarian
E. it is relatively easy to learn scientific method.


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Salvadorans on the march
In the US, what the word "Latino" connotes varies regionally. Often, regardless of accuracy, in the southwest it means "Mexican;" in the northeast it means "Puerto Rican;" and in Florida, "Cuban." Indeed, those are the three largest populations of Latino-Americanos in the country, although obviously not the only ones. Each have their own distinct culture, history, and place in America. This entry is about the fourth largest Latino population, Salvadorans.
The flag of El Salvador
The indigenous people of what's now El Salvador are the Pipil. Today, 90% of Salvadorans identify as mestizos, in this case usually meaning of Spanish and Pipil backgrounds. Although only 1% of Salvadorans self-identify solely as Pipil, in reality the percentage is likely higher, but, due to prejudice, many Salvadorans are reluctant to embrace their Native side.
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Drew Barrymore is 'king diaper changer'
- She is focused on instilling a sense of self-worth in her daughter%2C Olive
- Actress married art consultant Will Kopelman in June
- New makeup line%2C Flower%2C is launching at Wal-Mart
Drew Barrymore pulls up her patterned top and grabs at the circle of extra flesh around her waist. Her daughter, Olive, is four months old, but like most new moms, Barrymore hasn't rebounded to her pre-baby bod. And she's totally fine with it.
"It takes time. Screw these impossible expectations. I'm doing it very healthy and sensibly. You gotta be nice to yourself. What kind of parent are you going to be if you're to be berating yourself in the mirror? I want to instill in her that when she's happy on the inside she'll be the most beautiful on the outside. I have to live by that same mantra and it's a lot easier because I get to eat," says Barrymore.
She and art consultant Will Kopelman tied the knot last June in Montecito. And now, she's in New York, with husband and daughter, promoting her new makeup line, Flower, which is launching at Wal-Mart. She loves her beauty line, but Barrymore is gaga about her child.
"Oh my God. I am king diaper changer. Absolutely. I love baby care," she says. "You want in life to have that sense that you know what to do. The baby has a schedule. This is the temperature the bottle should be. This is how you swaddle. This is how you use a bulb syringe. This is when you do tummy time. I do everything so fully. The best thing I can do is be calm and happy, because she senses stress."


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TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — If the presidential election were held today, Romney and Obama would be more or less tied, the latest polls show. But on one voter test, Obama has a clear advantage:
Who would you rather have a beer with?
Or, if you don't drink (as Romney doesn't), who would you rather have a glass of lemonade with? Or take with you on a road trip (with or without your dog)? Or invite over for dinner?
Simply put, there is a likability gap.
This may seem trivial compared to questions like, say, which candidate you think will better revive the economy or safeguard the nation's nuclear weapons. But election after election has demonstrated that how voters feel about their candidate matters. A lot. It buoyed Ronald Reagan and helped sink John Kerry.
Likability has become a political buzzword that stands for something deeper. More like affinity. Empathy. How well does he or she connect? How much does he understand people like me?
There are Republicans who think this will be the deciding issue for Mitt Romney. He has about as good a playing field as a challenger could hope for, yet has not broken past the president. The election, they believe, may well turn on whether Romney can use this week's convention and the fall debates to really connect with voters in a way he has not yet been able to.
Democrats see this as Obama's core asset. Even in these hard times, voters feel he gets their plight better than the rich guy does. Asked which candidate better understands the problems of people like you, Obama beats Romney among registered voters 51 to 36 percent in the latest AP/GfK poll. Some 53 percent of adults hold a "favorable" opinion of the president, compared with just 44 percent who view Romney favorably.
And that is a president who isn't actually all that touchy-feely himself, having at times been compared to the "Star Trek" alien Mr. Spock, who suppressed emotion in order to solve problems. In fact, Obama's personal ratings are lower than most presidential candidates in recent elections, notes polltaker Andrew Kohut. They are just better than Romney's.
That is Romney's challenge.
CAN HE persuade voters to feel comfortable enough with him to turn out Obama? Not just to agree with him on issues but to trust him with their futures? That is why likability is about a lot more than having a beer.
It is about addressing what The Economist, a business-oriented British newsmagazine, editorialized as their "main doubt" about Romney: "Nobody knows who this strange man really is."
One striking element of this long campaign is how little Romney did over years of campaigning to really introduce himself, apparently not wanting to distract from discussion of the weak economy.
But Romney and his campaign were on course to use this convention to "warm up" his image. The candidate and his wife, Ann, sat down with Fox News at their home in New Hampshire the other day.
The correspondent, Chris Wallace, shared their pancakes as Ann described how Mitt had ironed his own shirt just that morning. "I noticed he was doing the laundry last night," she disclosed.
For his part, Romney did what he could to address the issue: "Remember that Popeye line, 'I am what I am and that's all what I am.'" What voters really want, he says, is effective management of the economy and for that he is your man.
In another interview, published by Politico on Monday, Romney acknowledged his likability problem but blamed it on the waves of attack ads Obama and his allies have launched against him (although his personal ratings were low even before the barrage).
He tried to turn the issue around on Obama, calling him a nice guy but a failed president.
In other words, American public, you liked Obama as a candidate but are disappointed in him as a president, while I, Romney, may be disappointing as your candidate but will deliver as your president.
Jon Stewart scoffed when George W. Bush (at that point a teetotaler) was described as a guy you'd love to have a beer with. I don't want a president I can have a beer with, Stewart said, "I want my president to be the designated driver." Given the highway pileup the American economy has just been through, Stewart's quip isn't all that far from Romney's campaign argument.
But can likability or affinity be separated from issues and effectiveness? That is becoming one of the principal questions of this campaign.
The question is sometimes posed as if managing the economy, on which Romney scores better, is different from the personal qualities that Obama scores better on. Some Republicans argue that Obama's personal ratings are all that keep him afloat amid the economic wreckage.
But that misses the point, says one Democratic consultant. Those personal qualities may actually be a way some voters connect politics to their economic facts of life.
"If you are part of the working class and you believe that the deck has been stacked against people like you for a decade or so," this consultant said, "who is likely to be the more 'desirable' remedy for that — the financial CEO who 'understands' the economy or the guy you think is fighting for people like you?"
Which is why fighting for you is an Obama campaign mantra.
IN TRYING to overcome this, Romney is banging into a pretty deep vein of American political feeling. Ever since Andrew Jackson let his supporters traipse mud through the White House, there has been a resistance to letting the patricians back in power.
It took a huge economic crisis for Americans to elect the Hudson valley gentryman, Franklin D. Roosevelt. Herbert Hoover in fact was a good man, just a failed president, which is exactly what Romney is trying to say about Obama.
Romney's team has been planning to use the convention to highlight Obama's failure, as they see it, without denying the president's likability — and their own candidate's competence, as they see it, while acknowledging the need to humanize him.
This highlights the risk they have taken by waiting until so late in the campaign to try to personalize the candidate. Because Hurricane Isaac has intervened, in more ways than one.
On the obvious level, it has disrupted and overshadowed the convention so far. It has created a conversation about the last Republican administration's handling of a natural disaster when Romney would like to talk about the present Democratic administration's handling of the economy.
But as if to confirm that he is what he is (to channel Popeye again), the hurricane has created the kind of test for Romney that campaigns so often throw at candidates, a sudden change of terrain when the campaign was in the middle of doing something else.
These moments can be opportunities. What better chance to project empathy and connection than a looming threat to life and property? And Romney, Ann at his side, seemed to start out that way. The couple's thoughts, he said, were with the people in the storm's path, and he expressed hope that "they're spared any major destruction."
A more empathic politician might have left it at that, as his running mate, Paul Ryan, did. But Romney kept going, effusive about the convention and how it would go on despite the storm.
"I like my speech. I really like Ann's speech," he said. "Our sons are already in Tampa, and they say it's terrific there — a lot of great friends. And we're looking forward to a great convention."
Which, if his ear for connecting with people is as tin as it seems to be there, might be somewhat less likely than he hopes.
EDITOR'S NOTE — Michael Oreskes is senior managing editor for U.S. news at The Associated Press. Reach him at moreskes(at)ap.org.
Copyright 2012 The Associated Press.
WATCHING THE SHOW: Mitt Romney, trying to connect
TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — If the presidential election were held today, Romney and Obama would be more or less tied, the latest polls show. But on one voter test, Obama has a clear advantage:


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I have installed the 12.10 beta (with all updates) on my iMac Early 2008. One annoying problem I'm having is that, when I log out of my account and go back to the login screen (lightdm, per default), the screen stays on: it never goes blank. This is not good for my display I guess!
The screensaver (set to just a blank screen) works just fine when I'm logged in. The problem only appears at the login screen.
Any ideas?