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Section of Baxter Avenue To Close As Repairs Made To Retaining Wall
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A section of Baxter Avenue will be closed starting Monday as a safety precaution while repairs are being made to a retaining wall, the Louisville Metro Public Works Department announced today.
A section of the retaining wall between Castlewood Avenue and Edenside Avenue in the Highlands has become loose and is moving into the curb lane, said Dan Curtis, manager of Traffic Operations with the Public Works Department.
As a result, Public Works officials will close about 250 feet of the curb lane on Castlewood near the retaining wall and a section of Baxter Avenue between Edenside and Castlewood as repairs are being made.
Money for repairs of the retaining wall is included in Mayor Jerry Abramson's proposed "Foundation for the Future" bond issue, which is currently being considered by the Metro Council. Repairs could take several months, depending upon weather conditions.
Curtis said Public Works officials will try to ensure that traffic can continue running through the affected area, although delays may be possible. There are dual left turn lanes at the intersection of Castlewood and Baxter avenues onto Baxter.
Curtis said the closures are necessary to ensure that motorists have a safe distance to merge into the outer lane and complete a left turn.
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Atlantans can view Oscar-nominated shorts
Been catching up on your best picture contenders in preparation for Sunday's Academy Awards ceremony?
Lefont Sandy Springs also will offer the chance to screen all five nominees in the best documentary short category at 10:30 a.m. Saturday and 6 p.m. Monday. 5920 Roswell Road, Atlanta. $15. 404-255-0140, www.lefonttheaters.com.
Meanwhile, Landmark's Midtown Art continues its daily run of separate programs of Oscar-nominated animation and live action short films. 931 Monroe Drive, Atlanta. $10.50; $8 ages 62 and up and under 12. 404-879-0160, www.landmarktheatres.com. www.shorts.tv/theoscarshorts. HOWARD POUSNER
Jewish festival prevails over winter weather
Two winter storms during its 23-day run couldn't derail the Atlanta Jewish Film Festival, which attracted 31,000 amid snow and ice that required 18 screenings (including opening night at Cobb Energy Performing Arts Centre) to be hastily rescheduled.
"Our team worked incredibly hard to make sure the show still went on and ultimately we were able to reschedule every screening," AJFF executive director Kenny Blank said in a statement about the event that concluded Feb. 20. "Our audience stuck with us and turned out in nearly record numbers, making the success of this year's festival one of our proudest moments."
Atlanta's largest film festival drew a record of nearly 32,000 in 2013, causing organizers to add extra capacity this year by extending the event by a day, adding a seventh screening venue and and via other moves that likely would have paid even greater dividends in better weather.
The festival also announced the 2014 Audience Award winners: best narrative was "The Third Half," Macedonia's official entry for Oscar best foreign language film consideration; best documentary, "Marvin Hamlisch: What He Did for Love"; and best short film, "The Funeral," a darkly humorous British coming-of-age tale. Check for an announcement of encores at www.ajff.org. HOWARD POUSNER


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Foxconn shuts the door when NGOs demand for corrective actions
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Students and Scholars Against Corporate Misbehaviour (SACOM) and other labour NGOs staged a protest outside Foxconn's Hong Kong headquarters this morning to express our concerns over the high number of suicides at its factories. Disgracefully, Foxconn did not use the opportunity to make a public account on the issue, but shut its door to the protesters. Furthermore, Foxconn called the security guards and police to "receive" us.
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18th May 2010
Since January of this year at the Foxconn Group, nine workers have already attempted suicide by jumping from buildings, resulting in the tragic death of seven, with two injured. Why would these young people, roughly all in their twenties, choose to leave this world in life's most beautiful time? This loss of life is so distressing, and makes us think deeply about the new problems of the second generation of migrant workers and the status of China as the "world's factory."


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Doing Nothing in Syria Is Riskier Than Getting InvolvedBy James Kitfield
Should the United States and its allies become directly involved in Syria's civil war, historians may well look back at Thursday's announcement that the regime of strongman Bashar al-Assad has used chemical weapons against his own people as an important inflection point. In truth, the Obama administration has already been quietly increasing its assistance to the Syrian rebels for months, as red flags continue to mount indicating that the cost of doing almost nothing about Syria has steadily begun to outweigh the risks of doing more.Read more
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The White House confirmed Thursday that Bashar al-Assad's regime in Syria "used chemical weapons on a small scale" in the civil war there, potentially escalating international resolve to end a violent conflict that has displaced 2 million people and killed 70,000 to 80,000 Syrians.Read more
Bush Library Dedication Both a Look Back and a PrologueBy Dan Balz, The Washington Post
All the living presidents came together here Thursday to pay tribute to one of their own, and for one brief moment, George W. Bush's presidency was free of controversy.
In office, the nation's 43rd president lived through eight tumultuous years. But as he and dignitaries from around the world joined to dedicate the George W. Bush Presidential Library and Museum on the campus of Southern Methodist University, there was no mention of Iraq, no talk of Hurricane Katrina, no reference to the financial collapse that marked his last months in office.Read more
'We Stand With You,' Obama Tells Mourners at Texas MemorialBy Peter Baker, The New York Times
A somber President Obama paid tribute on Thursday to firefighters killed in a spectacular explosion that devastated a small Texas town last week, praising their courage and vowing to help their community recover from a "time of unimaginable adversity."Read more
Special Interests Shadow Immigration ReformBy Beth Reinhard, National Journal
The most important spokesman for the immigration-reform bill in the Senate, Florida Republican Marco Rubio, is promoting a "myth-busting" website. No, the legislation will not offer immigrants free phones. No, illegal immigrants will not be eligible for welfare benefits.Read more
Obama Needs To Let Republicans Win Immigration BattleBy Amy Walter, Cook Political Report
In the wake of the defeat of gun control legislation, lots of DC-insiders are speculating that immigration reform will meet the same fate. The president doesn't have the juice, they say, to muscle any sort of significant, complex legislation through Congress. That may or may not be true. But, what is clear is that if Obama wants a victory on immigration, he's got to step away from the bully pulpit instead of spending all of his time behind it.Read more
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Bush Library in Dallas Opens with Rare Presidents Club ReunionBy Michael Duffy and Nancy Gibbs, TIME
Presidential libraries are the workshops where legacies can be polished and memories can be modified, and so the living members of The Presidents Club take them very seriously. Which is why five presidents will meet for only the second time today at the dedication of the George W. Bush Presidential Library at Southern Methodist University in Dallas.Read more
Obama's Delicate Task at Bush Library EventBy Peter Baker, The New York Times
President Obama has left little mystery about how he views his predecessor. "The failed policies of George W. Bush" wiped away a budget surplus and "squandered the legacy" of bipartisan foreign policy. Mr. Bush put two wars "on a credit card," led the country away "from our values" and "crashed the economy."Read more
What We've Learned About George W. Bush Since He Left TownBy John F. Harris and James Hohmann, Politico
The one duty we owe to history, said Oscar Wilde, is to rewrite it.
Four years after leaving office, the history of George W. Bush's presidency is being rewritten — ever-so-slowly, and not yet in ways that fundamentally challenge popular understandings of the man and his tenure.Read more
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Dems, GOP Talk Up Deficit Reduction, But Don't ActBy Charles Babington, Associated Press
Liberals' loud objections to White House proposals for slowing the growth of huge social programs make it clear that neither political party puts a high priority on reducing the deficit, despite much talk to the contrary.Read more
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The House of Representatives will spend 15% less on its own operations this year than it did three years ago under a cost-cutting effort launched by Speaker John Boehner that is on pace to save taxpayers more than $400 million by the end of this year.Read more
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Congratulations are in order for former North Kingstown High School basketball and baseball player Mark Medeiros.
The 21-year old has unofficially won the November "Streak for the Cash" on ESPN.com after making the most correct picks on various sporting events this month and because his streak was the biggest of the year, he is set to take home the $150,000 prize.
The University of Rhode Island men's basketball team continue its rough start to the season Wednesday night, falling to in-state rival Brown 65-56.
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It was a rough Tuesday night for the South Kingstown and Narragansett football teams as both squads saw their hopes at a Super Bowl title end in the semifinals.
The Rebels led Hendricken 7-0 after a Garrett O'Dowd punt return touchdown, but the Hawks took over and scored the next 42 points in a 42-14 win over SK in the Division I semifinals.
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EAST GREENWICH ŌĆō Some people think outside the box.
Jerry Thompson thinks outside the box stores.
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EAST GREENWICH ŌĆö Two local restaurants that have had recent issues with town officials found the Town Council less than amenable to their requests for entertainment licenses Monday night.
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EAST GREENWICH ŌĆö The line ŌĆ£there's no such thing as a free lunchŌĆØ will no longer be a punch line in East Greenwich schools.
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The council voted 4-1 Monday night with Vice President Carol Hagan McEntee dissenting to keep the current number of licenses, thereby denying the application by an East Greenwich woman Susan Pagliarini to open up Village Liquors, a proposed 1,742 square foot wine boutique in the South County Commons.
Monday night the South Kingstown Town Council voted to keep the number of liquor licenses at four, dashing the hopes of one East Greenwich woman to open up a wine boutique, Village Liquors at the South County Commons. Check out today's paper to find out how Village Liquors and the four current liquor store owners opposing the increase made their cases.
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Hotel in Mexico City (Polanco) near Monumento a los Ninos Heroes
Located in the heart of Mexico City, this hotel is within walking distance of Museo de Arte Moderno, Monumento a los Ninos Heroes, and Museo Rufino Tamayo. Also nearby are Parque Zoologico de Chapultepec and Castillo de Chapultepec.
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In addition to a coffee shop/café, Wyndham Garden Mexico City Polanco provides complimentary wireless Internet access, dry cleaning/laundry services, and laundry facilities.
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ok religious discrimination rant time
It is never ok to say that God is santa clause for adults. Just do not even go there.
It is OK to say that. The only thing that's not OK, is your support of censorship and oppression. You can't tell me what to say and what I'm allowed to say. Santa Claus is a superstitious belief that issues rewards or denial of rewards in response to good behavior. It's a superstition taught to children. How is that not exactly like God?
I completely understand and respect that not everyone has the same religious beliefs or any at all, but why would you phrase it in that way.
To show you that your belief system is based on a series of logical flaws and environmental conditioning.
That is what you call religious discrimination whether you think it or not.
No, discrimination prevents an individual from equality in either society or the law. If I said Christians couldn't eat at my restaurant or black people can't play on the playground or homosexuality should be a crime, that's discrimination. Telling you your ideas are wrong isn't discrimination. If it were, there would be no truth. I bet you call your math teacher discriminatory for disagreeing when your answers are wrong. There is an objective truth and I assert your belief about god isn't part of it. That's not about discrimination. That's about challenging indoctrination.
If something similar was said about any other religion then there would be uproars, but because it's about christianity it's fine to say what you please.
Bullshit! I say the same thing about the phoney baloney religions of Islam, Scientology, Mormonism, New Age weirdos, people who believe in karma, ancient greek, ancient egyptian mythology, gozer worshipers, Orthodox Jews, Voodoo and other island religions, witch-burning snake-juggling faith healers, living gods, etc, etc, etc. What do you think makes your ancient, unjustified belief more accurate than any other religious belief? What makes it more real than Zeus or Allah or Santa Claus?
I'm proud to call myself a Catholic and a believer in God, so i don't really value it when people are offensive towards my religion.
You don't value it? Does this sentence have meaning?
But something about that comment really really annoyed me.
Maybe it's how accurate it is?
religion, prayer, god, santa, belief, spirituality, Christianity, atheist, atheists, atheism, agnostic, agnosticism, christ,


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Rage. Probably political rage. Maybe just personal rage. Lots of sarcasm and cynicism. Also pretty pictures.
James Joyce's refrigerator. One of the best New Yorker cartoons of all time. Happy Bloomsday….
The quote: "I go to encounter for the millionth time the reality of experience and to forge in the smithy of my soul the uncreated conscience of my race." From Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man.


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0206: To Hell with Curriculum, the Joy is in the Interaction
#education #revolution #occupyedu
I've devoted much of the past decade either preparing to teach or teaching. Never once have I been interested in being called a teacher. My sole interest, though often disrupted, has been to interact with other humans and share my love of learning—my love of becoming more and more human. I took my first job as an algebra teacher even though I was less than qualified with the subject matter in a relatively dangerous school just so I could share what had been shared with me through the years. I've taught different subjects, but have found the same joy of sharing with people. I teach what I know. They teach what they know. Each party grows a little. To Hell with the curriculum; education lies in the interaction.
Anything useful I have taught has been through honest interaction. In these moments I didn't act as a pious sage. I was simply human. It never came from a book, although it often directed learners or myself to some source. Lessons aren't prepared, they develop. My education on how to education was far different from what I am asked to enforce by administrators and evaluators. I'm asked to control kids and numb them with useless talk and practice that can be tested. The system of which I am a part is bunk and harmful to children and humanity. I am less convinced each day that there is any reform that can fix mess of a system—this beast of a machine. There are countless caring and well meaning educators whose efforts are thwarted by a brilliantly vile system. Cheers to you all. I need to make a step in a direction for the sake of myself and those around me. I want to share this life with thoughtful humans not mauled by a machine. What to do friends?
0201: Coming Clean and Stirring the Pot
#education #learning #resistance #CCSS
I've not stopped teaching subversive things. I've not stopped teaching purposeful defiance—civil disobedience. Classes revolve around revolutionary actions of the past and how they're relevant today. Through this we work to develop language and thinking skills to make action possible if the learner deems it necessary. We build foundations. Topics are selected, analyzed, possible action is discussed. I'm teaching my students. We're also learning proper technique, comprehension skills, analysis of new media, and lots of other thing CCSS claims to have invented.
However, I'm failing by being silent in meetings—sometimes not even attending them. They're funneling in more and more complicated ways to evaluate us. They're demanding things be done that have no research base. They simply demand our conformity. I've made my class an island. I lie low and am making no waves. By the way, the "they" is the 3rd party reform company that is colonializing the school district. Our little piece of rttt.
Everything has become a crisis. They're demanding constant group work, learning centers that be in constant use, even though most of these secondary teachers have no training in developing them. They want lecture to end entirely. Students should construct their own knowledge, but their has to be a foundation. Our students lack a lot of foundation. Years of testing has eliminated that foundation or never built it. Higher order thinking skills aren't entirely observable on a four minute pass either. There are demands being made with no presented research, or corporate research with no correlation to our students. I've kept my mouth shut during meetings for the first time in my career. I'm tired of fighting a losing battle, but not speaking is doing harm. It's allowing harm to be done with only a few being aware. Perhaps I'm silent because I'm changing locations next year. I have a senioritis of sorts. I've been copping out to avoid the headache.
I've not written out of shame. It's time I open my mouth again. I have no purpose in this terrible business if I'm not going to challenge those who make it terrible.
0194: Why I don't "just find another job"
#education #occupyedu #revolution #teaching #surveillance
I have a bit of venom toward the system that employs me. It has been suggested that "if [I] don't like it, then leave." That suggestion discounts my reasons for staying, and indicates that I'm concerned namely with/for my own well-being. I can see how an outsider might see it that way. Alas, I am a teacher—misunderstood, angry, and often misinterpreted. Those things are constant, but I'd like to speak to ye naysayers and support those who understand because they've stood where I have.
To the common comment "if you don't like it, then leave/find a new job/go to a better school/etc." Statements such as this one seem to assume that I have dissatisfaction with the work I'm doing. Which would be true to an extent. I'm bothered greatly by the structure of the system, and the way it presents itself. School, public school, presents itself as a benevolent system aimed at making lives and communities better. This also is true to an extent. Certainly, we teachers strive for that goal. However, actions are being taken to measure our effectiveness. Also a good thing, but no one is sitting down and looking at the qualitative data to see how a child is succeeding because of her interactions throughout her schooling. The way she has developed as a human being is given no credence. The way she can read and comprehend and understand and then apply to make her world better is never considered. She is a piece of data presented by a 3rd party testing corporation that measures arbitrary bits of information to compare data set to data set. Legislation has been passed to ensure this practice continues. The data collected is required and the companies that have lobbied for such mandates profit and profit and profit. The statement that I began with assumes that what is being done with public education is actually for the benefit of the children. "If they score better on these tests, then their lives will be better, we'll have proof." Of course, there is no real concern for such trivial things as well being.
Yes we live in a world that equates everyone with a certain group of numbers and data. Our existence can be summed up in numbers, if we allow that to be. As teachers we must resist the pressure to dehumanize those with whom we share this world. As humans we must strive to interact as humans and not as divided beings. I will continue teaching in such a way that values the human above the test score. I cannot allow myself to see data instead of kids. This continued belief will be my professional undoing. I refuse the newly prescribed definition of teacher. Perhaps partner in humanity would be better. I'll be a wrench in the cogs until I'm plucked from the machine.
0191: Swallowing the Pill: It's good because I was told
#education #occupyedu #subversive #revolution
It's sad to see educators so committed to their prescribed "job" that the question, "Am I really doing what I should be doing?" becomes impossible to ask. Unquestioning subservience is an easy trap. It's required to an extent. If teachers are to hold onto their jobs, they must, at least, pay lip-service to their prescribed roles as test trainers. This sort of unwavering support for the dying and toxic system must be in place throughout the entire system. Dissidents are deemed insubordinates and will quickly find themselves without jobs. There is no need to seek out the verbal rebels, those who complain about the system. Most bend their actions to meet the requirement of the state. We're evaluated, audited, and constantly watched. We turn in self-evaluations. We tell on ourselves, and trick ourselves into believing we are doing what is best by doing what we're told. Eventually, we find ourselves resigned to the fact that we are powerless against such a powerful system. That or we become so cynical that we should leave the classroom.
Are our only options to submit or leave? Surely not. Our rebellions must be tactical and individual. Support often can be found outside of our schools, often on blogs, and throughout social media where subversive teachers gather and speak openly about the tactics they use to actually teach in a system that has replaced teaching with training.
I've minced my answers and comments with my own questions I'm seeking to answer. Have you, dear reader, found it as productive as I have, or necessary as a human, to foster discussions that lead to a discussion of the education system among students? The discussion often has begun with a student asking why we must bother with a test rather than actually learning.
I aim to be honest in my practice and allow some free drifting, though I'm subject to inserting my own bias.
We teach people not curriculum.
(I apologize for not opening comments on this blog. I write from a smartphone. I cannot figure it out. Please feel free to post questions or comments, or email me @ firstname.lastname@example.com and on twitter @educated to death. Thanks.)
0190: Collaborate, but collaborate better than thy neighbor(?).
#education #occupyedu #SOSchat #deleuze #revolution
We've had several meetings this year that have all had a similar message: "create a competitive environment in your classroom to motive your students". We are told that they respond well to competition. They should always strive to do better than their neighbor. We are also expected to tell them that they are working toward a reward, even though we can't decide what the reward will be, or even if it will exist at all. And, at the same meetings we are told to put students in groups to "work together".
I understand what "we're" shooting for at my school. We're in trouble with the state—deep. Our goal, rather, our prescribed goal is to do anything we can to get the state of our asses. Administration is fumbling for any answer—little bits of 3rd hand research they've picked up at workshops and mashed together with whatever dung the consultants have passed down. Encouraging heavy competition between individuals and then asking for group collaboration is a bit contradictory. I understand this is an oversight. They're worried. We fear for our jobs.
The collaboration side of this equation gets swept to the side fairly quickly unfortunately. It's the unfed dog in the fight. Collaboration does not come naturally among my colleagues. We've been compared and divided by test scores, academic subject areas, grade levels, and meetings involve listening to one person ramble on about how we need to work together, but we never get the chance. So teaching collaboration is quite foreign for many—impossible for others. And, it cannot be ignored that the real goal for the higher-ups is to get the scores up to keep jobs and what-not, and I'm sure somewhere the really-higher-ups just want to keep everyone divided and on the never ending challenge of always outdoing thy neighbor (I'm sure this statement is just a mad raving of a cynical fool).
So what are we to do? What am I to do if I find encouraging brutal competition among my students unethical, cruel, counterproductive, and unfortunate? I've been reprimanded for not putting the sticker charts on the wall for my students to chart their progress against their neighbor. My learners happen to be working with each other—motivated as a group for the sake of the group and the learning.
Certainly, humanity first.
0183: The beauty of stepping aside
#education #teaching #revolution #SOSchat #student
I teach so my students will have the voice and the power to do what they think needs to be done. I'm passing the buck. I hope for the day when they rise up and demand equality. I hope I'm giving them the tools. I'd like to see a lot happen, but some of the things I want to see happen will not happen because of me. It's no longer my job to change the world. It's my job to help a few people (my students) create the tools themselves. If revolution is the outcome—good for them. If they decide I should be removed from this world during said revolution—good for them. If they choose to go in an entirely different direction that they deem worthy and fitting, then so be it.
I have my views. The kids I teach don't get an equal portion of the pie. None of the kids I've worked with have. I'm a mite bit angry about it. It should be evident. That anger, as unscientific as it may be, drives my action. My passion aside, the world is theirs. My challenge is to offer the tools and get out of the way.
0181: #Teaching and a few "Why's"
#education #SOSchat #blogging #k12chat #revolution
I can't put a finger on the solitary reason I teach. I believe we all do it for a slew of reasons. I know there are certain beliefs and goals behind what I do. The theory affects the practice and vice-versa.
Sharing these inner workings of my practice may seem exhibitionistic, and it may well be. Much of my blogging revolves around me pushing the inner thought outward through writing so I can be better aware of why I do what I do. Doing it publicly allows an audience to possibly benefit from my own discoveries, but more important you, if you choose are able to participate in my transformation by commenting, discussing, and so forth. So that's the 'why' of what I'm doing, or at least a part of it.
Back to the vague thesis: "why I teach". I gather this could be extended to why I blog. Teaching is a form of communication, and the more interactive, the better.
At the root of the 'why' is the rather lofty goal and belief in cultural revolution. That could be translated into transformation, and that might be a better term. However, I like the power and perhaps even a bit I the aggression that is embodied in the word revolution. It evokes the concept of change for and by the People. Hopefully, by writing and teaching I can be a part of shaking something loose in someone, that may shake something loose somewhere else.
Or perhaps, I teach and write stir something that will expose the need to create the skill that will lead to personal transformation in another, or more likely, myself.
There is the stark possibility that I am an attention whore, accompanied with the deeply selfish hope that I will change the world. That sounds rather megalomaniacal when written, but hey.
The above ideas are aimed at ideals and idealism, and a bit of narcissism. But, there are more immediately rewarding factors. Smaller goals that are more quickly and obviously attainable and wonderful. For instance, getting to witness a moment of discovery in another human being. Teaching (and writing) are full of tiny miracles and transformation of minds and realizations of humanity. I like to be around when that stuff happens.
Flat out, I like to teach, write, communicate, show out, and so on so forth. I have fun. It's difficult and grueling, but it's wonderful. I get to fight for what I believe, and I get to help other learn to fight for themselves, and realize they're worth the fight. Teaching is full of "I get to's".
I could write more, and I will, but this is enough for me today.
0142: #Teaching for #Revolution
#education #SOSchat #occupyedu #occupy
Why teach critical thinking of not for revolution? Revolution is change, transformation, innovation. It's a concept that is inevitable if people learn to think, learn to learn, learn that they are the creators of culture. Critical thinking embraces the individual power to create, collaborate, question, reinvent, and so forth. When we teach or help learners develop their critical thinking, we are not teaching revolution in the political or economic sense, though either of those may come; rather, we helping learners revolutionize their own consciousnesses. Revolution of consciousness is far more threatening than political or economic revolution because it is permanent, sustainable, decentralized, humanizing, and is multifactorial. As teachers, as humans we must strive for this sort of revolution. The world belongs to those who own their own minds.
0174: #Teaching, a noble profession? In a noble field?
#education #SOSchat #occupyedu
A friend of mine and I were discussing an assessment class he is taking to complete his teacher certification. He said, "It feels like an homage to standardized testing, and everyone's buying it—even the professor." We've had numerous discussions along this line throughout his teacher education training. A topic that resurfaces time and again is the propaganda that is shared, spewed, and reiterated from some of his should be mentors. Other professors are a little more straight forward. "It's like they're pumping us up to go into battle," he mentioned, "they tell us what we're doing is noble, but I don't know if I agree."
His crisis is valid. We are members of a profession that is called noble by those within, without, and above; and then demonized by those same people. But, above all we're taught, pumped up, to believe what we're doing is noble, especially if we're following the rules, keeping quiet, and maintaining the status quo.
So is it a noble profession? Is education a noble field? I'd like to think so, I've given a nice hunk of my life to it. What are we to make of what we're taught to think? How do we tease the good from the bad? I'll do my best to do some personal teasing, what I don't do, or do wrong, you can work on.
The field of education is not in and of itself noble. The system itself is quite corrupt and at least highly dysfunctional. It works for some, and leaves quite a few more with scraps and in the cold. Could the Wobbly adage "An injury to one is an injury to all" be applicable to inequitable system? It most certainly could and should. Our system and its mechanisms are inviting attitude that would oppose this line of thinking. "My school functions well", "My students have good scores.","I'm a good teacher." might function as rationale to demonize or at least disregard the experience of another teacher as bad, ill-informed, or dysfunctional. Perhaps this is why the field is not noble. There is no merit in supporting one's neighbor. As if the notion of "neighbor" were permitted in many of these testing factories. How many of us have experienced teacher isolation simply because we were to busy.
If the field, as is, is not noble, then what is to be gleaned from this trash heap? Some schools, districts, teachers, and students thrive. Others struggle to stay afloat, but they give it their all. There is no accounting for the myriad reasons why some students do better than others, though there is ample research to say why. We know that some teachers are more effective than others, at times, and at other times are just as useless as the worst of us—at least that's how we might feel if we're honest. So where is the nobility?
It's in the people, of course. It's in our willingness to fight, though not always on a unified front, for our students. It's in the ability to see beyond one's own classroom, no matter how difficult, and support and understand a struggling colleague (near or far). It's in our ability to do what we know is best, because we are professionals and we have critical minds, despite what we are told is best. This system is failing because the best interest of the stakeholders is not guaranteed by its biggest investors.
Our power is in our refusal to be pawns, and our refusal to swallow the pill. What's best for profits is not what's best for kids. We are noble when we teach critically. We are noble when we stand for the learners in our care. We are strong together.
0172: The Sullied Good We Do: Teachers as Cogs in the Machine
By the very nature of our position as teachers we have the ability to do many wonderful things. We equally have the power to do great harm, with or without intention. Our system of compulsory education is at the very least imposing, beyond that it serves to colonialize and massify every soul that passes through its machinery.
These statements and ideas are bothersome as they serve to split me, the teacher and human, in half. They indict me of some unconscious atrocity committed at whim my own hands. Further, by making such statements I run the risk of alienating myself from anyone who finds them as offensive as I do, and guarantee that I will be misunderstood on some level. But, I believe the duality of our profession holds truths well worth bearing witness to. To not notice the dual nature of what we do would be negligent. By understanding it better and our role within it, we are better able to disrupt what needs disrupting and bring forth our more valuable attributes.
My intent is not to expose some conspiracy by some powerful few; rather, I want to understand my role in a system that functions beyond the intention of the pieces that work within it. It's a system that is both benevolent and useful, and equally harmful. There are aspects that enlighten and liberate, and suppress and colonialize. Unfortunately, as the tiniest pieces of this machine, teachers, it is not always possible to decide how our duties will be carried out, besides outright rebellion.
I debate whether I should provide a laundry list of specific characteristics of the machine, its cogs, and their functions. I think this would be trite, as we all have our own understandings that hopefully are perpetually changing. The truth I put forth is simply that, my understanding of the truth. I challenge you as a teacher, human, thinker to examine your understanding of your role within the system. Be honest in seeking the good you do, and the atrocities, no matter how small, you commit. Honest reflection is a means purging and pruning anything unnecessary or ill.
I will make one solid indictment of the system, its teachers, and consequently myself: all children are not served equally; some experience great gains, others have experiences that are detrimental to the educational, personal, and public lives.
As we are cogs in a machine, so is the education system. Blame and intention are too minute to tease from the grand playground. Disrupt what you can, and be conscious.


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Since Sandy flushed New York City's subway system like a filthy urinal in the Times Square T.G.I. Fridays there has been much anxiety over the fate of our city's prodigious subway rats. Would New York streets now be overrun by disease-ridden rats driven from their subterranean lairs? No, says a guy whose singular passion is hunting and killing New York City rats.
Scientists and city officials have already largely debunked the possibility of an impending "ratpocalypse." But I wanted to hear from someone with a more hands-on knowledge of the tiny filthy bastards. So I called Richard L. Reynolds, the leader of a loose-knit group of dog owners who use their working terriers to hunt rats on Friday nights in Manhattan, known as the Ryder's Alley Trencher-fed Society (RATS). Reynolds has been hunting rats with dogs for decades, and when I called him in New Jersey, where he still doesn't have power, and asked about the possibility of a great rat invasion, he delivered a fascinating monologue on rats and their behavior, which I will transcribe roughly word-for-word here:
"I kind of doubt [that there will be a rat invasion.] I've been messing with New York City rats for about 20 years now—they're pretty predictable. Remember that Norwegian rats are essentially water rats. They got here by being waterborn. We used to hunt in Liberty State Park and I saw a rat take a dive off a 50 foot bridge and swim across the bay to get away from our dogs. They're fairly well acclimated to water. The stories you hear about big hordes of rats being produced by the flooding I wouldn't believe it. I don't think you'll see armies rats wandering around.
The places where these rats live, where they call home, they're really secure. We can't get them there. We have to draw them out to try to hunt them. There's a building I've been trying to get in. The building has been vacant for 20 years. They're shooting a movie in there and last week I saw that the door was open and I thought, Oh golly this is great I've been wanting to get in.
They also travel in waves from place to place. If something goes wrong, if they start digging up the street for instance in once place the rats will generally pack up and move someplace else for a while. The populations aren't necessarily stable. I used to have a group of homeless guys who would actually email me and tell me where the rats are. The city cracked down on them and they moved south so we don't have those guys anymore.
[Rats] move from place to place and you'll hear about it, the news media will tell you where they are. Somebody will bitch about their neighborhood being overcome with rats. We get certain amounts of calls from certain places telling us where there is a lot of rat activity. 83rd street over on the east side is big time. Riverside Park has got a lot of rats. And the Parks Department is trying, they've got their own megabait boxes. We haven't been able to get very many rats in Riverside Park because they don't have to go too far from their burrows to feed. The only way we can get them out of their burrows when they're in there is to smoke them out, and even though they have a new ratsmoker on the market in England we don't have one over here. It's far too noisy for us to use so we never have. Though we could make a career out of using a smoker in Chinatown.
The other day I was in the housing projects over on [redacted] and there are thousands of rats that are active there. I'd just as soon that not become public information. We're going to go down and hunt there next Friday night.
We don't do any good on depleting the rat population, we just make it seem like that. A rat comes into season every three days and can have a litter every 23 days. The average litter is about 12. They reach maturity at about five weeks. So if you kill two rats today you're eliminating about 23,000 rats next year. That's the only way we justify our existence.
Sometimes these rat alarms are a little blown out of proportion. Somebody sees a rat that looks like a small kangaroo. and they're more knee-jerk reactions than reality. And the rats do move so if they see a lot of rats today there's no guarantee there will be there tomorrow. They migrate, there's no two ways about it. There will be a lot of activity and then they'll die down."


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Recycling 'RoboCop' won't save movie studios
As remakes and sequels have increased, movie attendance has plummeted. It's more correlation than cause, but it doesn't mean US audiences don't want original ideas.
The first trailer for director José Padilha's remake of the 1987 cyborg-cop cult classic made the rounds on Friday, along with Padilha's assertion that his version would be super relevant because it mulls the evil use of drones -- you know, like the entire "Terminator" franchise did.
The film comes out in February, and we're all supposed to be duly impressed by the new RoboCop suit -- black is the new stainless steel! -- and its updated politics and computer-generated images.
We're also supposed to pretend that Sony (SNE) didn't pull this off the intellectual property scrap heap, send it to the fabricators for recycling and regurgitate it at us in a more bloated form -- just as we've been doing faithfully for the last decade or so.
The '90s weren't an ideologically pure moment in mass-market U.S. cinema by any means, but seven of the 10 top-grossing films of the decade -- "Home Alone," "Aladdin," "Jurassic Park," "Toy Story," "Independence Day," "Titanic" and "Saving Private Ryan" -- weren't sequels or remakes. But for the last decade, with the exception of "Avatar" in 2009, the top-grossing film each year has been a sequel or part of a franchise.
What's the difference, you ask? Between 1990 and 1999, movie attendance rose from 1.19 billion tickets sold to 1.46 billion. Since 2003, ticket sales dropped from 1.53 billion to just 1.36 billion last year. The blame for the drop in ticket sales to pre-1999 levels doesn't lie exclusively with sequels and remakes -- high-definition TV, the Internet, Blu-ray, streaming and video games are all often cited as culprits -- but they may be a symptom of that drop.
Longtime blockbuster-building directors Steven Spielberg and George Lucas made ripples back in June when they suggested that Hollywood was no longer willing to take risk and was content to just throw large sums of money at sure-thing rehashes. The result, they said, would be a niche theater experience and $100 to $150 tickets.
It explains why Disney (DIS) opened the bank vault to make "The Lone Ranger" and was dealt a vicious blow when it tanked at the U.S. box office. It also explains why Warner Brothers (TWX) basically starved Legendary Pictures and director Guillermo Del Toro's giant robot and monster movie "Pacific Rim" and allowed it to be eaten alive by a "Star Trek" sequel here in the U.S.
However, the monster battle with the big $190 million budget still made more than $100 million domestically -- finishing just outside the Top 20, but ahead of "Die Hard," "Smurfs," "Red" and "Percy Jackson" sequels -- and raked in $300 million abroad. That made a sequel not only likely, but perhaps imminent.
With China already considering many U.S. sequels and remakes too dumb for its moviegoing public and U.S. audiences rewarding relatively small films, including "Spring Breakers," "Mama" and "The Purge" with big profits, moviegoers are maintaining a market for original films. It's not their fault that big studios have grown too lazy, uninspired and cynical to meet customers where they're at.
Don't like going to the movies anyway. I'll wait for the movie to come to me in my own private home theatre. No morons sitting next to or behind me crunching and munching popcorn, crinkling wrappers, talking, kicking my seat, bringing in their rotten children, or babies wailing. Besides, most new movies are the same old overblown CG special effects, loud noise, fights, explosions, beautiful models kicking everyone's **** with karate/ballet, and predictable endings. If I have to take a leak, I either have to hold it or climb over everyone and miss some of the movie...or I can just put it on "pause"...
OR like the movie Oblivion that borrows from Moon, 2001, Independence day, Doomsday Machine from classic Star Trek.
Face it, everything has been done. Remakes are just easy cash cows to prop up an industry that hasn't accepted technology shift to the home theater system w/ internet connection. The industry has NO fresh ideas for stories..
Potty humor is stale, CGI explosions are boring and horror is for sickos.
The price of a movie ticket is what may limit a movies box office draw.
Somehow someone thought it wise to bring up the cost of a movie ticket to what we see it to be today..
Realistically an adult movie ticket should not be more than 5.00 dollars period.. Any extra revenue should be available by offering related movie extras such as autographed posters, toys and so on the producers should use their own imagination as to what extras they can offer in the theatre, but it shouldn't be in higher ticket prices.. Remember dvd sales at times brings in more than the box office itself.
What has happened with the price of a movie ticket is that they have taken a page off the book of oil producers and seek out reasons to raise the prices. If a movie company wants to spend x amount of money to produce a movie, well that's their problem. Not the consumers. Many low budget movies turn out to be much better than big budget movies. Furthermore many big time directors made their best work when they where starting out in the business and the budget money wasn't there and they had to use their imagination.. Whatever happened with that. Haha.
When a society begins to stutter… when it begins to repeat artistic motifs from the past in lesser forms and with inferior execution… it is a sure sign of decadence and a harbinger of decline and collapse. Hollywood "re-makes" (for instance, big screen versions of bad television shows from the '70s) are indicators that we have run out of ideas as a civilization.
We will soon be on the slippery slope toward collapse unless the self-appointed arbiters of public taste and consumption… who are really nothing more than money-men trying to maximize their profits by feeding the lowest-common-denominator recycled rejecta… get out of the way and allow the new and creative to be born… instead of stillborn.
The ideas of the most creative members of our society have been ridiculed, marginalized, and co-opted by consumerism for decades. We're doomed as a culture if we can't find a way to stop it from happening.
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At 9.1 percent in 2006, the "work-experience unemployment rate" (those looking for work during the year as a percent of those who worked or looked for work during the year) was little changed from 9.3 percent in 2005.
The 2006 rate is low by historical standards, but is above the series low of 8.6 percent reached in 2000.
The rate for blacks fell between 2005 and 2006; however, at 13.0 percent, it was higher than the rates for Hispanics (10.2 percent), whites (8.5 percent), and Asians (7.3 percent).
These data are from the Current Population Survey. To learn more, see "Work Experience of the Population in 2006," (PDF) (TXT) USDL news release 07-1923.
Bureau of Labor Statistics, U.S. Department of Labor, The Editor's Desk, Work-experience unemployment rate in 2006 on the Internet at http://www.bls.gov/opub/ted/2007/dec/wk5/art02.htm (visited September 24, 2014).
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Understanding Epilepsy
Diagnosis, treatments, and ways to cope with this complex disorder
Diagnosing Epilepsy
"Diagnosis of epilepsy is purely clinical," says Dr. Joshi. "The EEG is a good supportive test, and in difficult cases, a video EEG may be needed." If your child has had seizure activity, his or her doctor will recommend an EEG to watch brain wave activity. Video EEG and longer EEG monitoring may be needed to help your doctor tell the difference between seizure look-alikes and actual seizures. The doctor may also order a blood test and a CT scan or MRI to assess brain structure. She may even call for a lumbar puncture (or spinal tap). Your doctor will also ask a lot of questions to help determine what type of seizure, or seizures, and epilepsy your child has to accurately treat your child.
Adam's mom, Sara—who is also a registered nurse—recommends that parents keep a seizure diary for their child. "I would advise parents to closely watch and time the behaviors that you are concerned might be seizure activity," she says. "Write them down and videotape them if you can. 'What time of day do they occur?' 'What was the child doing prior to the event?'" This information, she says, is most helpful in determining what type of seizure(s) your child has.
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As many Marylanders are busy preparing for the holidays, the state's politicians are scurrying to raise money for an election next summer.
The political calendar is chock full of breakfasts, luncheons and evening receptions geared toward gathering as much in donations as possible by January, when many candidates are barred from fundraising during the 90-day General Assembly session.
"I bought a set of roller skates to get me around from one fundraiser to the other," joked longtime Annapolis lobbyist Bruce Bereano, who attends as many as he can.
The pace is usually brisk this time of year, but it's even more frenzied because Maryland's 2014 primary election is early — in June rather than the traditional September.
"There is a sense of urgency to get it done now," said Bruce Plaxen, who chairs the state trial lawyers' political action committee.
The fundraising push is driven by the high cost of running campaigns in Maryland. Some candidates for governor have estimated that they will spend at least $10 million on the primary alone. Competing in a state Senate primary can cost hundreds of thousands of dollars, and even a House of Delegates race can reach into the high tens of thousands.
Last Sunday, Republican gubernatorial candidate David R. Craig kicked off the post-Thanksgiving rush with a reception in Salisbury — and the fundraising quickly intensified.
On Wednesday, there was an evening reception for House Speaker Michael E. Busch and state Sen. John Astle of Anne Arundel, a breakfast for Democrat Jon Cardin's race for Maryland attorney general, a cocktail hour for Nic Kipke, the Republican leader in the House of Delegates; a cocktail event for House Majority Whip Keith Haynes; and a movie screening benefiting state Sen. Bill Ferguson of Baltimore.
On Thursday, all three Democrats running for governor — Lt. Gov. Anthony G. Brown, state Attorney General Douglas F. Gansler and Del. Heather R. Mizeur of Montgomery County — hosted evening events. Mizeur's was a Takoma Park house party celebrating her 41st birthday. Gansler's included two Major League Lacrosse stars, reflecting his lifelong passion for the sport. Brown schmoozed with young professionals in an Irish bar in Washington.
"It's harder to raise money when you have a high-profile gubernatorial race," said Anne Arundel County Councilman Jamie Benoit, who hosted the small fundraiser for Democrats Busch and Astle, where tickets ranged from $250 to $2,000. The gubernatorial candidates "are working overtime, and you're hitting a lot of the same people that they're calling."
At Brown's gathering in Washington, about 100 invited guests paid $25 to $250 to enjoy drinks and appetizers after work. The candidate arrived about 7:30 p.m. to give brief remarks and chat with a largely 30-something group of donors. The tie-free Brown stayed a little more than half an hour, nursing a beer that appeared to be more regular-guy prop than thirst quencher.
Gordon Linton, a former Clinton administration official and Pennsylvania legislator, paid $250 to attend. A veteran of many political fundraisers, he said he was impressed with Brown's.
"These are the people we get excited, get engaged," he said. "You've got to have a lot of these as well as the big-ticket events."
In the governor's race, the candidates are carving out time to dial for dollars nearly every day.
Gansler "does an awful lot of it at night at home," spokesman Bob Wheelock said.
Brown and his running mate, Howard County Executive Ken Ulman, have been hosting five to 12 fundraisers a week, said campaign manager Justin Schall. And in between, the lieutenant governor is working the phones.
"He spends almost every free minute when he's not doing his job" making those phone calls, Schall said. "It's a hard balancing act."
When the General Assembly session begins in January, fundraising goes on hold until April for legislators and those who hold statewide office — with one exception. Even though she is a state delegate, Mizeur will be able to raise contributions of up to $250 from individuals because she is accepting public financing for her run for governor. The state fund will match qualifying donations up to a total of $1.25 million.
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After Vince McMahon gave CM Punk the ultimatum of John Cena or Ryback as his Hell in a Cell opponent last week, one of the fine people I follow on Twitter alluded to it being a choice between "the devil Punk knows and the devil he doesn't know."
On tonight's edition of Raw, Punk himself used those very words when addressing the crowd. It was a clever tie-in with the pay-per-view poster that depicts Punk as a devil himself.
Punk's desire to toy with the crowd cost him, though, as Vince McMahon told him he was taking too long to decide, and that McMahon would make the choice for him later in the show. Punk found himself in a predicament where his fate rested in McMahon's hand. At this point, I began bracing myself for the announcement of Punk vs. McMahon at the PPV. Honestly, I wouldn't be all that opposed.
Paul Heyman warned Punk that "you can beat Vince McMahon, but you can't win."
Punk sent Heyman to convince McMahon to change his mind - or to step into a ring for a rematch. But McMahon was having none of it. He ordered a contract signing later in the show, and at that time, Punk would learn the identity of his opponent for the pay-per-view.
The contract signing started in the overrun of Raw, which is always a good sign for the viewing audience who have already sat through three hours of the show. And the result was a surprising one.
Punk will defend the title against Ryback at Hell in a Cell. Well, this is the critical point in the Ryback experiment when he'll either step up and prove himself worthy of the push or go bust.
He nailed Punk with Shell Shock to close the show with the champ laid out and the undefeated beast standing tall.
Well, we'll see what happens. This is obviously a side effect of Cena not being fully healed, and as I mentioned, it's a critical moment for WWE's latest project. I'm not sure this will pop a buyrate, but it will certainly have people talking - for better or worse.
Quick Hits
- Intercontinental Champion The Miz and Kofi Kingston both sounded good on the microphone, but Miz was the star of their segment, as he emulated Punk with a "shoot"-style promo. The Miz raised very valid points, though he conveniently forgot Kingston's semi-push against Randy Orton a few years ago. Kingston has potential to be a bigger player than he is, and hopefully this is the catalyst to that. Kingston got off to a good start with a non-title victory over Miz in the technical main event of Raw. The two had a good match. It was interesting to build toward their Main Event match Wednesday by giving the same match away here with a clean finish, but it makes it seem like Kingston has a chance when the title is on the line. I don't see Kingston winning the belt yet, but it will be interesting to see what happens as this will be the first week of Main Event not headlined by top stars in the company.
- Having Big Show dominate Daniel Bryan was a questionable move in my opinion. Yes, it gives Big Show something to brag about, since he and Sheamus have now both destroyed Bryan. But it's also a loss for one-half of the Tag Team Champions on the night the number-one contenders for their titles were supposed to be crowned. In order for the tag team division to be taken seriously, its stars need to be taken seriously be management. It was a nice touch having Kane save Bryan, though, even if he laughed at his partner afterward for losing. Maybe these two are going to start getting along in a nice reversal of the typical tag partner tension story angle.
- Do Primo and Epico change back and forth between being babyfaces and heels on a weekly basis? This week, they were seemingly playing babyfaces to the Rhodes Scholars' heels. Cody Rhodes and Damien Sandow were slated to face Rey Mysterio and Sin Cara in the finals of the number-one contenders' tag team tournament, but Mysterio called in sick. The match was good, but the result was a foregone conclusion. It's also odd to see the Colons go from being Ryback fodder to a competitive tag match, but this was good.


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