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- L. Denise Jackson
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- United States
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Do you think there is a benefit in providing a percentage of courses within every college free and online?
With the rising of educational costs and the competitiveness, the socioeconomic gap will continue to be wider unless there is a philanthropic mandate post-graduation to ensure that generations to come are not existing with a disconnected view of society and more importantly people that can contribute to our overall progression.
Sep 2 2012: Yes. In fact, as listed below, there are some resources readily available and focused on independent learners! http://www.academicearth.org/ & www.http://ocw.mit.edu/ . I have found myself brushing up on certain subjects, as well as gaining perspective and insight on foreign subjects I would have otherwise not had the opportunity to explore. Perhaps the next step is to make independent learning viable in the workplace today, or perhaps it is the responsibility of the independent learner to utilize what they have learned themselves. As we live in this technological age, we have the great opportunity to expand the classroom from physical geological coordinates to the beautiful world wide web. TED.com itself has contributed greatly to this initiative! Let us feed the fire and keep it going!
Julie Dick
Sep 23 2012: MIT and Yale and most likely many other credible universities and technical colleges have free courses. Of course you won't receive any credit for taking their free courses but the fact that the course are free and available to everyone is such a gift!
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Mark Hurych
Sep 19 2012: Yes, of course. And to go a step further, education should eventually be scaled up and open, like Wikipedia, to combine established information with new attempts at expanding knowledge.
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Our problem is that we rely in our institutional thinking on convergent thinking, but usually a better approach is divergent thinking, so instead of a constant stream of "not that, only this" we should experience an infinite expanse of "yes that, and that too, and that too, and that too" opening possibility after possibility. With increasing possibility comes real hope.
Juniper Blue
Sep 22 2012: Love it!Aug 30 2012: There is http://www.academicearth.org/ which offers free online courses from MIT, Caltech, Harvard.
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Adam Lorant
Aug 29 2012: I recently spoke with a friend who completed an online Stanford course on semantics and AI. The course was lead by one of the world leading researchers in this field. There were 160,000 participants from around the world. Only 22,000 completed the course. My friend was simply blown away with the calibre of the lecturer (delivered on-demand) and the interactive discussions with the brilliant participants. What terrific exposure for the professor and for Standford. This course was free.
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Can you imagine if Stanford had charged $5 for this course? (Potentially far more revenue/profit than a few dozen bums in a lecture hall.) Also, those 22,000 graduates from the course are prime recruitment candidates. How much do you think Google or Microsoft or Apple or others would pay to reach out to the top 10% of the class? What a terrific revenue potential for the school.
Safeguards can be put in place to ensure academic freedom is strictly maintained, but free courses offered worldwide is definitely a realistic scenario if there's the strategic and political will.
While I applaud and support the objective, I do not believe that philanthropy is the way to make it happen.
Aug 29 2012: This sounds like Coursera, a great resource for the lifelong learner!Sep 25 2012: "What we are seeing is the education system (at least the higher education system) attempting to recreate itself. " ~Gordon Barker.
I agree with Gordon Barker, and others, almost down the line about our educational system, especially in regards to our colleges and Universities and the impact the internet is having upon them as machines utilized to distribute and communicate knowledge.
I believe Colleges and Universities are trying to recreate themselves in the same fashion as the Newspaper industry is actively doing today. This change is being forced upon these two communication machines, by the facility of the internet to shape and redesign everything that connects to it.
People today can challenge themselves to become more than they are and apply this "free" education to everything they do in their day to day lives. Free education in any form benefits everyone. It's a win/win proposition with the capacity to pull everyone up the ladder of success wither that success is cooking a meal, learning how to write a novel, or installing a new front porch. The internet can, often, replace books and other learning material, even a whole University with it's extended reach into the lives of everyone.
I read that a young man, still in high school, developed a test for cancer that only cost three cents per test and did a better job than similar methods, already being use by the medical industry. He discovered all the components and ideas necessary to develop this test using Google and the internet.
That is one heck of a success story displaying how the internet could possibly bring a college degree or certification to anyone who desires it but, I must mention that the internet in it's present, unregulated form can do more harm to children than the opportunity it affords to educational institutions. A college campus, at least has some level of personal protection for the students. You can post an inappropriate link on the TED website and hurt children.
Tim Petersen
Sep 24 2012: Who's benefit you are speaking of? There is a reason the people are not offered online studies and degrees. I won't pretend to know the answer, but I will guess; if anyone could obtain any course and degree online it would kill the sports programs and that is probably the greatest opponent to ever seeing a common sense approach to online university studies and degrees. I think it would benefit anyone and everyone who desires to take the classes, it would also jeopardize the schools that have a master named profit and growth. I have known for years, most of the children of elementary, middle, and high school would not only be safer, with fewer dropouts, fewer teen age pregnancies, fewer shootings, rapes, etc., etc., it would save the economy an enormous amount of money and we would definitely have smarter, more intelligent children. If education would shift to online studies, more home schooling (with the scholastic material offered by the schools but online) smaller physical schools with much smaller operating costs, smaller utility bills, smaller food program costs, fewer buses, EVERYTHING! There is no good reason for us the people to continue the prehistoric education system we have now, if we are speaking of the benefits to us the people..... Not only are they entrenched into this society, no matter how grand of a failure they may have become, they are what fuel the sports programs which ultimately furnish ALL the participants in professional sports. Another needless industry in our the nation. Even though it is directly connected to your query, it is another subject and story altogether. Maybe if sports ever die out in this country, as I wish they would, and should, then maybe you will see the schools offer all the same classes and benefits of higher education online and at home. We may be correct thinking we have no need for the physical institution, we would be terribly mistaken to think they have no need of the physical us.
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Gabo Moreno
Sep 23 2012: There is a benefit for sure. I think it's a social imperative.Sep 23 2012: Does anyone know any online colleges that are free?Sep 22 2012: There is udacity.com where you learn by solving challenging projects. They offer courses mainly on computer science and engineering courses, but also some statistics and start-up business courses
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Juniper Blue
Sep 22 2012: YES!!! Access to education is critical and a tool to empower people to explore their potential.
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stan kinsman
Sep 22 2012: Online schooling rocks. I can learn about any topic to any level I care or am able to.
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Coursa.org offers online stuff covering a large variety of simple to oh boy. Many others out there too.
Ones who want knowledge can have it at their own pace with enough different explanations available online from such a variety of minds,one is sure to get it one way or another. People helping others. I like it.
Li Qianqian
Sep 19 2012: of course we can benifit a lot from these courses.we can learn each other without considering some questions like the distances、money and ect.and we can choose what we like to learn rather than learn it implusively.Sep 18 2012: What we are seeing is the education system (at least the higer education system) attempting to recreate itself.
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The current one was designed to fill a societial need when we had many workers with a few managers. Those people destined to be managers went to university.
That need is now largely gone but the new need is not clear (at least to me).
This is a transition phase that will eventually find a way to fund itself (30 people paying $3000 per online course or 90,000 people paying $1 for the same course with a global audience makes the same sense financially.
It will just take time for the system to settle out the payment methods, delivery and certification methods.
To validate who is actually logging on, I have seen some research that can identify a user based on the speed and pattern that they enter their passwords, where pauses are and where bursts of speed are seen.Sep 18 2012: Yes.Absolutley critical. .No transportation,distance or scheduling problems.No discrimination.There are not as many social distractions online.
Will tradtional classrooms become obsolete? Lots of cost ,time and resource disadvantages. Will the next generation of SIRI or IBM's Watson know a better answer to your question than your professor?
And if takes dictation and types PDF will you be able to ...Sep 18 2012: I agree that it should be free but not online. because, you could people registering for the courses, but let other do it for them.
if it's going to be online; then stringent measures have to be put in place to make sure all rules and regulations on those courses are followed.Sep 18 2012: With the number of universities offering free online classes trending upward (without regards to speed), I think the question is not "is there a benefit" because undoubtedly an educated populace is preferable, but is online the best method of receiving that end. I personal go to a "brick and mortar" university and I feel that there are learning and social aspects that you miss by only or mostly doing online classes. A few of those aspects being team work, the need to become global citizen, how to successfully manage time in unpredictable environments, and the like. Now, I do completely agree that rising tuition cost for higher education is ridiculous ( I mean debt for higher education eclipses credit card debt) and needs to be either be state or federally managed, but that's not going to happen only through free online class offerings.Sep 15 2012: Bringing down the cost of education is always a good thing.
Yuguo Zhang
Sep 15 2012: To be it will surely be beneficial to provide free access of the world's finest college's courses to everybody in the world. It's flexible, efficient and durable.
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But the problem always remains about whether some colleges will be willing to participate or someone might take advantage of this program to make a huge profit.
chen xin
Sep 15 2012: i don't know wha you are saying.now every day we surf the internet.it is enough,i think we should do something .no class.but practise.you konw we are reducing our time of outdoors.i don't think it benifit to our health,so sometimes out .and do .oh my god.what am i saying !Sep 15 2012: It is beneficial for educational institutions to provide a percentage of their courses free and online.
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Online learning has its inadequacies; some fields need practical learning(pilots,doctors); the academic community is also an important part of learning(learning all alone with the computer will never be a good replacement for one-on-one interactions with other learners)
But what can be learnt with the free online resources should be learnt.
Imperfect learning/education is better than ignorance/illiteracy.Sep 12 2012: It's getting harder to come up with a better joke on the job while installing a new roof because most of the guys have direct contact to the best jokes in the world online.
The average roofer has seen more videos on how to install a roof, what tools to use and better ways to achieve result because of the internet. It's getting harder to find people in common labor jobs who have not learned something on the internet these days. In other words, people are more educated and knowledgeable about their jobs because of the internet.
As long as the internet is free there will not be a disconnected view of society. Most people will be on top of just about everything. The socioeconomic gap will continue to be wider because of economic issues not related to educational access. You don't need a degree to create and develop a business or manufacturing process that will enable you to hire people with degrees to do all the head work. I know of a few business owners who built a Midwifery clinic, had only a high school education and employes doctors nurses and midwives with masters degrees.
It' just business. What should be of more concern is will a more educated population who learn for free on the Internet bring down the cost of professional salaries because they can preform the same work with the help of a computer and will work for less than those with a degree. Will industry want to hire these people who can cheaply and easily get certification in their chosen field?
I see the gap closing.Sep 11 2012: I think that with the rising cost of education, more people would turn to free online education and realize that it's actuallly pretty damn good.
Sep 15 2012: I think there is an important distinction to be made here. On-line learning is great for being educated on quick ideas or demonstrations of certain skills. True knowledge and education comes after synthesizing information, considering options and developing a personal theory. This is often aided by discussion and debate. Unfortunately, the later is not ideally suited for on-line academic experiences.
Sep 15 2012: On the contrary, a ton of discussions and debates are held online. And the medium of an online forum has a ton of advantages over the medium of a real-life debate such as...
1) Accessibility
You can have discussions without your physical presence
2) Continuity and Getting all ideas across in a single post
You can have a discussion without people interrupting you before you even express your points
3) Multi-linearity
The discussions can be multi-linear where you have sub-threads of a discussion within a discussion and still be "heard" by all.
In a face-to-face real life discussion, a forum or even a chat messaging platform is not ideal because the face-to-face talk is much faster at communicating ideas to/from each person, and you can also communicate not only through voice, but through body language, eye contact, facial language, or even drawing/showing physical objects/ideas to one another.
To say that discussion and debate is not suited for online academic experiences is a weird statement, because having online discussions and debates is different from real life debates and they are inherently suited for different kinds of discussions/debates. Unless you were referring to the quality and the quantity of the learning experience.
Sep 15 2012: You can ahve discussions, but you do need human instructors in fields like medicine and the exact sciences, still, online material always helps.Sep 15 2012: It depends whether the on-line format is based on real time or not. Those discussions that allow others to comment over time with the capability of responding to earlier comments may be more alligned to what you outline. Unfortunately, many real-time videos on-line or copies of lectures given durng a course are limited and exclude the person watching from home from entering into the discussion. Learning comes from the latin word for "draw out". Too often we think of education as "stuffing in" information.Sep 15 2012: @John
True, which subject benefits more from the different media of discussions is dependent on the subject itself.
For something like Computer Science, you really don't need human instructors as much as most other subjects.Sep 15 2012: @Joseph
Hmm, I'm not sure I know what you're referring to. If you're talking about online videos that imitate real world lectures, then I agree that it's not that great of a way to learn, but this is not because it's online that it's not good, it's because the lecture model itself is just not good. I mean I've been to many lectures the model of single sender to multiple receivers is inefficient for a lot of comprehensive learning. The lecture model can only really be most effective if the lecturer is great.
Adrian Smith
Sep 10 2012: Yes I do agree, but where is the profit in that?
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So do you think it's going to happen?
I do think it should, but in this day and age most but not all people think more about the value of money than any gaps that maybe appearing or need filling within society.Sep 10 2012: thank youSep 3 2012: Dear Maria
Am far to liberal and scientific to say 'doing that for years'. And fresh ideas are not limited to the young, I have them every day and with my experience in life have more than the young have.
And as for free on line teaching check out the Khan Academy web site, thy go far beyond just free teaching.
Linda Taylor
Sep 3 2012: No benefit at all except a personal benefit of completion. The biggest problem with online courses is that anybody can be sitting at that computer answering questions and watching videos.
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Just because I registered for the course does not mean that I took it. I could pay someone to sit at the computer and answer questions for me. However, there would be some new employment opportunities...
Sep 15 2012: "I could pay someone to sit at the computer and answer questions for me."
Just as in regular collegewhere you can pay someone to make your assignments and take home exams.
jim Parker
Sep 3 2012: The MIT and similar offerings are great.
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And you're right, the student doesn't get his/her ticket punched as having attended MIT or wherever.
jim Parker
Sep 2 2012: Nothing's "free."
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Every online course requires an instructor to lead, grade and administer the course. That teacher commonly does not donate his/her time. They expect to be paid for their work.
If the student does not have to pay for that particular course then the money to offer the course must come from another source such as higher tuition or higher taxes.
SOMEbody's "gotta" pay.
Sep 3 2012: Hey Jim,
While you are correct in that the professors do need to be paid, the great thing about MIT OpenCourseWare is that they are video recorded lectures, syllabi, and notes that are simply put online for independent learners or people who were unable to go to a university for a multitude of reasons. It's great! Why would anyone pay for school then you ask? Well, the disadvantage of OCW is that you do not have contact with the professor for questions or explanations (generally). Completing courses 'independently' is not recognized in a certifiable way. It is also quite a different learning environment all together, you have to be strict on yourself to do the work, as no one will be checking it, there simply will be no grades. While avenues of ''free'' learning cover the most essential component in giving an opportunity to increase knowledge; they perhaps do not give the prestige or credibility that going to a university would, which might result in lesser potential to carry forward the knowledge in a corresponding subject-area job or in graduate study.Sep 12 2012: I learned to be an excellent computer programmer checking out books for free at the library. Well, they weren't entirely free. The taxpayer paid for them and the publisher paid the author. I also had to build my own computer because there weren't any ti purchase in any of the stores.
Most of the people who learned to program at college, who didn't already have loads of experience from practicing at home made pretty poor programmers. They usually ended up in sales and managing projects.
To learn to program requires a lot of time and occupying space with your fingers and your mind. Starting to learn this useful art when you enter college is a bit too late to compete with those who started when they were 12 years old at home.
The software industry doesn't need prestigious programmers they want coders who can follow directions and code the work. Prestige goes to the boss, who probably dropped out of college to pursue his grand idea.
To be medical doctor, you have to go to medical school but to be a good doctor you have to spend a lot of time in the emergency room and on the floors, making mistakes. That's a scary thought.
What they have today I didn't have is online MIT, video lectures, and access to programing materials all over the net. The gap between needing a college education to accomplish most projects today is reduced by the computer which does most of the processing with logic and math. Spending more time at home with Mathcad an adequately designed program manual and access to people who can guide you and critique your work will create more mathematicians than college.
The only thing keeping these people out of the work force is the requirement for a college degree, which is swiftly being replaced by the Certification process.
Adam Lorant
Aug 30 2012: Wow what a great resource. Thanks very much for the tip!
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I guess the original point I was trying to make is that free and online courses can be funded by corporations and that this could be a very lucrative opportunity for universities to expand their brand and global reach while also increasing revenues (and without compromising accessibility). A real win/win.
Sep 12 2012: Combine that with the opportunity to take a test and get the prestigious degree would be big winner. Imagine, spending all your time at home studying and taking a test that says you graduated from Harvard.
Why do we even need the degree? Certification is the best route for industry to hire qualified people cheaper. Most projects are so large these days that specialization, and the ability to become specialized in more areas of industry is what is needed most. I think the avenues used to deal with the Haitian earthquake incident reveals this need. They needed to get the specialists, medical, water, housing, transportation, energy, to the sites of greatest need and I understand it was done by just a few people and some computers, in under 50 hours.
Jake Maddox
Aug 30 2012: The question is will people take advantage of it if it were free? I think those who desire an education will find a way to acquire it. And I believe there are many options that currently exist for those specific individuals to obtain an education.
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Sep 1 2012: I think that you bring up some great points, but if the classes were truly free easily accessible, I don't know if it matters how many people take advantage of it because even if just one person were more interested in learning and acquiring knowledge wouldn't that already be worth it? I think that offering this is great and it should be available and made public. I had no idea that there were free online courses offered from those Universities and I consider myself pretty "hungry for knowledge". TED talks are also great for learning about new things and they can also be accessed for free, as long as you have a computer with internet.Sep 12 2012: Yes, this is the real question. I agree entirely with Lacee Sherman's comment. And it brings up a question of an old project to put computers in the hands of every child. What happened to that project?
Dan F
Aug 30 2012: No, not if it's gaming the system - ultimately you more or less get what you deserve.
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There is potential here and there is no reason high school should be exempt from this avenue of learningl, or a prison for that matter.
In order to recognize student academic achievement for a given courrse at a given time, which has been truly earned demands more than smiles. It must operate with credible controls. Some independent operation (already mentioned). Perhaps is could be made commenserate with the institutional standard method via some independent staff and facility, suppose:
The online class is certified from the high school or college institution, etc. Students then registerer the start and completion dates for the course and are bound by set timetables and instructions.
Students take tests at a specified time including a final examination at a certified location. The final exam is sealed coming and going with a set time for completion and the posting of results.
Students pay a fee for the facility including the sargent of arms, testing and grading experts. Academic achievement is measured by a grade A through F.
To become an accredited course on a student's academic record a certified test location, process, and personnel need to be adequate and professional.
Done right I would have no problem with someone getting a basic degrees online. It could be considerably less expensive than the standard method and offer more choices. Online classes can be demanding and what a solid education is all about.
But nothing worthwhile is free in my experience.
Sep 12 2012: It is interesting to note that when I worked with some young prisoners (they like the term inmate), so they could get their GED, they had almost no skills at all in writing or math. What was more interesting is the rate they learned the material and accomplished their goal, under pressure of the prison environment. Most of these kids were very smart; so smart they didn't believe they needed an education to make money.
Fritzie -
Sep 12 2012: I have also worked with a lot of people of all ages, mostly homeless, on GED. Sometimes between the time they were in high school and the time I saw them, learning that content became their own objective rather than that of a higher authority. Other times they were the victims of schools unresponsive to their needs and were getting on board to try again in a more hospitable, more personalized environment.
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Sep 12 2012: This is my opinion also.
I often asked myself, how could such a smart kid not learn to read and write? Is it the fault of the school system or the living environment of the kid. They learned very quickly and everyone I taught ranked high on the GED score. I'm a bit tougher than most. I start off math with fractions. It's hard but once the see the light and master simple addition, subtraction, multiplication and division of fractions they tend to zoom through everything else with ease.Aug 29 2012: I believe all education should be absolutely free. In one of TED talks (don't remember which one), the speaker explained how our ability to communicate is the ground for progress of our society.
Everyone should have access to knowledge, universities, museums, internet...
Can you imagine how many Einsteins did we lose because they couldn't get an education.Aug 28 2012: Sometimes I use YouTube to educate myself. A worldwide commitment on this topic will be great.
Sophia Grace
Aug 28 2012: In several countries education is completely free - benefiting society by having more people in education and more people working. And thereby paying back their fees through taxes.
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Aug 29 2012: Our contry has so called free education system. But it is not as shiny as it looks at first glance. Through your lifetime you more than pay for your school through several taxes. They may look small in monthly amount of money paid for it - but in a lifetime the amount gets quite big, And that can be also problem for people who do not even use the possibility of schooling and do not go to any school after primary. They actually pay the study for others without any direct profit for them (There can be an indirect --> as you said society benefits by having educated people in their country).
Aug 29 2012: In Scandinavia education if free, and most people (around 80%) takes at least High school/college or equivalent.
It is mandatory to attend school (or be home school and pass exams) from approx. 6 till 15-16 years old.
I do believe the high percentage getting degrees or diplomas/certificates is due the education being free.
This allows children from all walks of life to get an education and is a big part of creating a stable economy.
I do believe other countries would benefit from free education for all. And pay through taxes.
Education benefits us all, and we all benefit whether directly or indirectly.
Aug 29 2012: In the United States we have free public education as well through what is called twelfth grade. It is mandatory to attend school here also until about age fifteen or sixteen, I think, but families can also choose to homeschool their children.Aug 29 2012: can you help me please to improve my english?
Sep 3 2012: I myself can't help you, but here are some websites for people who are learning English - hope this is helpful to you
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_as_a_foreign_or_second_languageAug 28 2012: I think it is a very good idea to do this. And not because of the price factor.
If some kid reads about or tries a course or part of a course and that sparks interest, then it has paid for itself
Debra Smith
Aug 27 2012: My university did not offer every course I wanted to take so in the summers when my kids were home full time I took a couple of online courses on letters of permission from my university at the University of Ottawa. I look back at them and I know that they added to my strengths and definately encouraged organization, computer skills, different sorts of organization and time management. I was greatly enriched by taking these courses and I think I took three over the course of my undergrad degree. I paid full price for these.
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Aug 27 2012: I don't know that every college should need to get involved in this, but it is terrific that such a large number of great universities have, either by posting lecture notes and videos online on their own websites or by joining up with EdX or Coursera.Sep 26 2012: I am talking about my country INDIA. Though the government claims 100% literacy in the country, there are still some pockets which are poverty ridden. Children from these places go bear footed to colleges especially girls. Its a very pathetic situation. Even to date some children are working for a living when they are supposed to be studying. So if education is free upto the level of Masters Degree, the deserving shall be very gratefull for those creators and initiators of this policy. Care should be taken in parting with cash to individuals who tend to help the needy, destitute women and orphan children seeking help in higher studies. There greedy men who pocket the money and goodies which come from uk, usa, etc. in the names poor children. I have heard of man who used sell milk powder received freely from denmark which otherwise should have been given to the poor children & women who are supposed to be under his care. Well there is a cancer called corruption which exists in every country and shields some of these humans(monsters) who should have been lawfully punished. This story is approximately 40 years old. Corruption is like a lemon which has been pickled. Lemon is our world and the pickle is the saucy corruption. Once the corruption is erradicated, we can imagine real free education. Because in our country if somebody has anounced a free gift, you got to pay the concerened authorities to enjoy the freebee. Happy Conversing! God Bless us all.Sep 26 2012: Yes in every way except for economically and moraly to those who pay for and administer the classes being the universities and their students, but they are smart enough to know how important somehthing like this is consider COURSERA.ORGAug 29 2012: The industry tends to reduce costs on their operations by establishing "Standard Operation Practices".
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Maybe this concept can be applied to the education process. Something like "Technology Assisted Standard Teaching Practices" can be developed to make education accesible for everyone.Aug 29 2012: I have a disconnect probem with the subject and the explaination. I will address the title. People that believe any thing a college does is free is not well informed. You can take a course on line but you will not get credit for it unless you pay the fees. The new on line thing at Stanford offers a certificate of completion and that is about as close as you are going to get in the US.
Answer: Would benefit you in cost savings. Would never happen in a college setting. They are selling a product. You want the sheepskin you pay up.
Sep 13 2012: As a businesman, I'm more concerned with competence than I am certification. Knowledge without application is not worth the paper it's printed on. I'm all for free education, when's lab?Aug 29 2012: A lot of universities and bodies are already doing that, there is Cousera and MIT, which offer free courses. Also Antioch College in Yellow Spring, Ohio, is offering free tuition to all students who enroll in the college in the next three years.
At anytime, anyone can go online and equip themselves on various informational tools at any time from one of these sources and the web in general, you tube, etc. But the question still remains, how can one get free online certified education.Aug 29 2012: Perhaps a reduced fee - I think that all the required general edcuation courses should less expensive and as much as possible - online. I feel that we do not work for a college degree for the general subjects - while there is value there in the general studies, our goals are usually well defined and the generals are the 'grunt work' required to get to our ultimate goal. The greater value is in the specific classes that get you to your chosen proffession/subject matter.
On the other hand - people esteem lightly that for which they do not pay - some sort of balance twixt cost and ease is needed. Last - the buy one get one apprach has merit - it could very easily grow the base and increase revenue at the same time. Cell phone companies have been using bundleing techniques for years.....Aug 29 2012: Yes. If some classes were offered free and on line, it would be the equivalent of getting a buy one, get one free promotion for that particular college. Traffic into that school would increase, people that never of thought they would like the product would try it, parents would definitely direct their undecided children there and viola, more people would be spending their money there. It's a great marketing promo that introduces and spreads knowledge. Good luck with your idea!Aug 29 2012: Free? Moneyless society? I wonder how this could be implemented. How would persons creating/developing course materials be compensated for their work to provide others a free education? Would you compensate those persons who manage the online resources? Would you compensate those developing research from which course materials are written? How far up the line should people not be compensated so that you could have a free education? Would other people need free services so they can live and feed families so that you could have your free resources?
Difficult for me to imagine a moneyless society. Does moneyless mean no form of any compensation?
If we ask for free education, then what else should be free to those who receive a free education?
Free. Who would control the quality of a free education?
Wow! People could ask a lot of questions about how to do this and what would be the result.
What would you do with a free education? Would you offer your services free to others coming up behind you?
I need help to visualize how to get a free education and then live life thereafter.Aug 28 2012: I agree with your thoughts but from a different perspective. I'm 66 years old and would not mix well with young students at a school even though I can well afford it monetary wise. One line I can continue learning until ether my mind or body goes. Though I do have the money, free for all on line would be the best solution.
Aug 29 2012: I like this perspective, and thought the same thing myself. But then, when I sat in classes with younger students, it opened my eyes to fresh ideas. Now, it's hard to be around "mentors" who tend to say, "this is the way we've been doing it for years." I can't relate to that mode of thinking anymore.
As far as online goes, a free-for-all model would water down the curriculum, I'm afraid. I received my undergrad from a public institution, and now I am enrolled in classes at a private institution. I already see a world of difference in terms of the quality of education I'm receiving. Free generic skills-based learning is good, but how does a free class master the art of social action and community development? You have to roll up your sleeves and get out there and do it if you want to really learn from it.
Aug 30 2012: I agree with the fresh ideas a young student would have, it's the their social behavior I could not take. And the free internet teaching I only meant it for me and ones like me. At this time in life I just want to learn more on many subjects for my personal satisfaction.
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Aug 28 2012: I believe in a moneyless society and free education for all at any age with no limits except those the individual imposes on themselves by virtue of lack of intellectual curiosity. Thanks to the Internet, free (uncertified) educations are available to all. we need to devise a system of free certification.
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Sep 3 2012: Compulsory education is a step-child of corporate interests, and is responsible for all that is wrong with education today. It is nothing more than a corporate subsidy, and it's stated purpose was to create workers - and (according to Rockerfeller who helped establish it) NOT educated people.
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The reason that the global economy is in such fragile state today is because of the banksters who have joined with corporations. If you put the military industrial complex in charge of education, paying only for certain types of education that they will sponsor, you will see more of what is happening today. We are being educated more and more and fewer and fewer things. That's dangerous. It produces functionally uneducated graduates.
Sep 3 2012: Thank goodness. I was worried. I was thinking about all the continuing education I have had. The only education that was free was always corporate sponsored. Many times, if you wanted a certificate, you had to pay a minimum amount, like $50. If you wanted academic credit, it would cost over $1000. All for the same course. So the only way I know that we could have free online education is with some type of sponsorship. I agree that corporate sponsorship is a bad idea. Government? Philanthropic?
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Bronx, NY (Sports Network) - This is why Joe Girardi wants Mariano Rivera to stick around.
He's still so damn good at his job.
Rivera, the retiring all-time saves leader, put the brakes on a four-run White Sox rally in the eighth inning Wednesday night and earned a four-out save as the Yankees held on for a 6-5 win.
Girardi pulled ace CC Sabathia with runners at first and second and one out in the eighth inning, giving the ball to David Robertson for his second outing in 10 days.
After Robertson gave up three runs while only retiring one batter, Girardi called in Rivera, who struck out Alejandro De Aza with runners at first and second to get the Yankees out of the inning with that slim winning margin.
Rivera set down the White Sox in order in the ninth for his 41st save of the season and 649th of his career.
The stop came one day after Girardi said he didn't see a reason why Rivera, 43, had to retire after the season.
Robinson Cano had three hits, including a solo homer, and knocked in two runs for the Yankees, who completed a three-game sweep after being swept in three by the White Sox last month.
Sabathia (13-11) -- 3-1 in his previous four starts but with a 6.17 ERA -- was charged with three runs. He gave up five hits and four walks and struck out four but walked off to cheers with a 6-1 lead.
"He was at 110 pitches," said Girardi. "I thought he was fatiguing."
Robertson gave up runs on singles to Avisail Garcia, Josh Phegley and Marcus Semien and also walked a batter.
"It probably got a little closer than we would have liked," said Girardi, who made the move to put in Rivera. It was the lifetime Yankee's first four-out save since July 24, 2011.
On Tuesday, Girardi told ESPNNewYork.com of Rivera: "I don't see any reason why he couldn't do it next year, I don't. He's made it pretty clear that he doesn't want to [return], but I always say, you know, January rolls around and sometimes you have a different feel about what you want to do."
Girardi said he would likely talk to Rivera "at some point in the offseason."
"I'll tell him when the season's over, 'Take a month. Take a month and a half, two months, and make sure this is really what you want to do. Because once you do go, it's hard to come back.'"
The White Sox lost their sixth in a row. They had already been swept by the Red Sox on a 10-game road trip.
Erik Johnson (0-1) made his major league debut and took the loss, allowing five runs -- three earned -- on seven hits and three walks. The righty struck out one over six innings.
"To get us to the seventh that's good stuff for a young guy who hasn't been up here," White Sox manager Robin Ventura said.
Brett Gardner's two-run triple to the left-center field gap was the big blow in a four-run fourth inning for the Yankees. Lyle Overbay had an RBI double in the inning and Cano singled to knock in a run and make it 5-1.
Alfonso Soriano's sacrifice fly in the seventh extended New York's lead to 6-1.
Earlier, the teams both scored a run in the first inning. Garcia hit an RBI double off Sabathia and Cano homered off Johnson on a first-pitch breaking ball with two outs.
The Yankees improved to 5-1 on a 10-game homestand that ends with four against
the Red Sox beginning Thursday ... Sabathia's four-out save in 2011 came vs.
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Anthony Hargrove And Agent Visit CBS To Discuss Saints "Bounty" Program [Video]
Former New Orleans Saints defensive tackle Anthony Hargrove and his agent Phil Williams joined James Brown yesterday on CBS to discuss Saints' alleged bounty program. While "bountygate" is old news for most of America, it still matters very much to Hargrove. It's an excellent interview, and definitely worth watching.
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"Bounty" Players Appeal, Want Goodell to Recuse Himself
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In , Employment and Skills Development Canada launched a national research study, the Essential Skills Research Project (ESRP), to examine how essential skills were used in various jobs. More than 3,000 interviews were conducted across Canada with people working in some 180 occupations. The workers interviewed were identified by their employers as performing their job in a fully satisfactory manner.
- Earlier work in Canada, the United States, Australia and Great Britain identified a set of skills that were used in virtually all occupations. We call these "Essential Skills".
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Separation and Divorce
The frequency of divorce in modern society has not made the process any easier for those involved. The friends and family of those separating may feel the effects of the anxiety, sadness, or anger. Sometimes there are children and pets to consider. The circumstances of separating and breaking off a marriage, however, still call for basic consideration, respect, and honesty.


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Founded in the 1860s, Graceland Cemetery on Chicago's north side is a popular resting place for local A-listers from the Victorian Era; headstones read like historic headlines. Famous names buried beneath impressive monuments include businessmen Phillip Armour, Cyrus McCormick and George Pullman; architects Louis Sullivan, Daniel Burnham and Ludwig Mies van der Rohe; civic leaders Marshall Field, Potter Palmer and Joseph Medill; and sportsmen William Hulbert, Robert Fitzsimmons and Jack Johnson.
But Graceland isn't just an old boys' club; powerful women who shaped Chicago history also rest here. For instance, Kate Warne, the nation's first female Pinkerton detective, and Frank Lloyd Wright's Prairie School artist-architect employee Marion Mahony Griffin. Bertha Honor Palmer helped bring the 1893 World's Columbian Exhibition to Chicago and donated her French Impressionist paintings to the Art Institute. Mary Jane Richardson Jones, a free African-American woman, funded Provident Hospital for Blacks and a Black women's nursing school.
Despite Graceland's tranquil parklike setting, there's no rest for these 19th-century celebrities. Free, self-guided cemetery tours are posted on Graceland's website, and tourists wander among tombstones firing off photos like paparazzi. For guided cemetery tours, contact the Chicago History Museum (312/642-4600; chicagohs.org) and the Chicago Architecture Foundation (312/922-8687; architecture.org).


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|Vermont Travel Ideas on Waymark . com
I've been poking around the Waymarking.com website from time to time and enjoying what I have found. There are more than 1700 entries on 70 pages in the Waymarking Vermont category.
I'm not sure what order everything is presented in. The Vermont listings start with covered bridges for no apparent reason so I suspect all the entries are posted in order that they are received. There is a good search function on the site so it should be easy for you to narrow your search.
"Secret Waterfalls"
The screen shot above shows a listing for "local secret" the Old City Falls waterfalls that sounds very inviting and larger than most of the falls in Vermont (first step of 25 feet and a second step of 20 feet). It is located near Stafford VT.
We have what I would guess are a million waterfalls here but most of them are not large. I suppose most of them are a "secret " to folks from out of state but all are certainly well known to locals. Quite often they are part of popular local swimming holes too. Ask around wherever you are and most Vermont locals will be happy to share the information and give you directions.
If you don't want your children (or yourself for that matter) to see some of the locals swimming "in the buff," just ask what the usual practice is too. Most of the time, everyone will have on swimming gear but occasionally you will find a swimming hole, often a more remote one, where there is a greater chance to see people in their birthday suits. Don't get excited about this prospect. If you have not experienced it, you will quickly learn that the vast majority of people look a lot better with their clothes on.
(c) 2008 Jeff Connor Grunberg Haus Inn
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3 Mar 2008
|"Do Y'all Still Have Some Snow Left in VT Now?"
That's the question I got from a wonderfully cheerful person somewhere south of the Mason Dixon line who had never seen snow and was calling in early March. He wanted to know if he had missed the snow this year or if there was still time left to travel to Vermont and see snow. I was happy to tell him that most years we get the greatest amount of snowfall in March compared to other months.
Most of the people I speak with are surprised to hear we get more snow in March. When they are seeing the beginning of Spring where they live, Vermont is building to a grand winter finale.
To see what I mean, take a look at Stowe Resort's five year weather history. Not only is March the snowiest (I guess that is a real word), but it's the end of the month when the largest amounts of snow are falling. The last week in March averages 32 inches at Stow, far more than any other week there.
Stowe's Snow Report shows 309 inches of snowfall so far this season, just short of the season average of 327 inches.
It's been a great year for skiing and other winter activities but don't feel that you have missed it if you have not been here yet. There is plenty of snow here for you to enjoy and more is on the way.
In fact, this is a good time of year to enjoy winter. The days are longer, temperatures are higher, and there aren't as many people skiing, snowmobiling, snow shoeing, etc. I wish more people were aware of how good it can be here in March. It would be great to see the ski areas and the Vermont's Department of Tourism getting the word out about March. I'm sure more people would come if they knew what it is like here this month.
For the more technically inclined, and maybe a few inexperienced skeptics, you can view a current snow depth map from the National Weather Service to see how much snow you can expect when you travel to Vermont or other New England states.
The areas in dark blue represent depths of 20 to 39 inches (50 cm to 100 cm), and the purple lines, which you can see run along the mountain ranges, represent 59 to 98 inches (150 to 250 cm). Those are current snow depths, not the amount that has fallen this season. The map is updated every day.
Plan a trip to Vermont and enjoy this great winter season we will continue having for the next month.
(c) 2008 Jeff Connor Grunberg Haus Inn
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28 Feb 2008
|Dog Sled Rides and Skijouring in Vermont
Photo courtesy of October Siberians
I read today that the famous Alaska Iditarod race is starting this Saturday and it lead me to thinking about all the sled dog activity here in Vermont. (Side note: many participants in the sport prefer the term "sled dog" rather than "dog sled" but you will see both terms used even by the people who run professional operations.)
In fact, if you would like to see a sled dog race and won't be in Alaska this week, there is a race you can watch at Burke Mountain Ski Resort in East Burke VT. There will be races both Saturday and Sunday.
A number of operations around Vermont offer sled dog rides and a couple of them offer skijoring too. Skijoring is done on skis and involves the dog(s) pulling the person via a harness attached to the dog. I've seen skijor racing a couple of times and it's impressive how fast they get going. You certainly don't want to fall down . . . I'm not sure the dogs would stop for a while - they're pretty enthusiastic.
The best one-stop source of information about sled dog rides in on the Vermont Outdoor Guide Association website. Atii is listed as one of the sled dog outfits but they are taking a year off from sled dog rides because they are rebuilding their group of dogs. Many of the current dogs have gotten too old to pull. However, Atii is still offering skijoring this year.
It's a unique adventure. Give it a try.
(c) 2008 [except the October Siberian photo] Jeff Connor Grunberg Haus Inn
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26 Feb 2008
|Discount Carrier AirTran to Begin Vermont Flight Service
AirTran has the newest fleet of Boeing 717's in the US
On May 21, AirTran will begin nonstop flight service three times a day between Burlington, VT (BTV) and the Thurgood Marshall Airport, Baltimore/Washington (BWI). The airline will be using Boeing 717-200 planes which seat 117 passengers, 12 in business class and 105 in coach.
There are 14 AirTran destinations available from BWI, plus service to about another 50 cities you can view on the AirTran website Destinations and Route Map pages. Boston is one of those cities and is a popular airport for visitors to Vermont and other parts of New England.
AirTran is kicking off its Burlington service with a low introductory fare of $59. It must be booked by March 17, 2008, for travel through June 11, 2008. Fares listed are one way, available daily and are valid in either direction. There are some other charges such as $3.50 segment fee, $10 Sept 11 fee, and $18 airport passenger facility fee so be sure to read the fine print. You can book online or call 1-800-AIR-TRAN (1-800-247-8726) (extra $7.50 fee for phone calls too).
Currently, the Burlington airport has service to and from Atlanta, Cleveland (CLE), Cincinnati (CVG), Chicago (ORD), Detroit (DTW), Newark (EWR), New York (JFK), New York (LGA), Orlando (MCO), Philadelphia (PHL), Washington DC (DCA), Washington DC (IAD). To see details on these flights, go to the Burlington airport website
Winter tip: if you are flying here, we recommend renting a four wheel drive car. One of our recent guests requested one but it was not available when he arrived so he got a front wheel drive substitute . . . which he greatly regretted when we got a lot of snow during his visit. Be sure to insist on no substitutions for your four wheel drive car. None of the rental car companies have winter tires for some unfathomable reason but four wheel drive will help you get around much more safely. Remember, you are coming to the mountains of northern New England: we get a LOT of snow.
(c) 2008 Jeff Connor Grunberg Haus Inn
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25 Feb 2008
|Big Storm On The Way Will Make For a Great Ski Weekend in VT
Most of the weather forecasts I've seen for north central Vermont call for about six to ten inches of snow Tuesday and Wednesday. However, Josh Fox at The Single Chair Weather Blog is forecasting 13 to 18 inches. The upper elevations, such as the Mad River Glen ski area he is forecasting, get more snow than standard forecasts because of their altitudes. That seems like quite a disparity between 10 inches and 18 inches but it is not unusual for the upper elevations to get twice as much snow as the standard forecasts call for.
The headline in Fox's blog entry yesterday says: "Here we go !!! Big mid-week dump is now in the making !!"
I enjoy reading Josh's blog because he writes in a very friendly and well constructed conversational style. The entries are often detailed but when I find the writing has gone into more detail than I have time for, I just move on to something else.
And he is not perfect. But when he does have a cold streak (pun intended), he owns up to it and often explains how it happened. It gives the non-meteorologist interesting insight into how weather forecasting is done.
Roger Hill is a popular Vermont meteorologist located here in Waterbury. His web site is Weathering Heights (pun intended). He is not saying much about accumulation yet. His web site has lots of colorful weather maps if you enjoy getting into the details of weather.
Another popular weather forecasting service is put out by the Fairbanks Museum and Planetarium in St. Johnsbury VT. It is called Eye on the Sky and is produced by Chris Bouchard. His forecasts are the ones used by Vermont Public Radio.
Eye on the Sky is calling for one to three inches of snow Tuesday east of the Green Mountain and two to five inches west. The snow could mix with rain at times over the far southern valleys. On Tuesday night, Chris expects an additional three to seven inches.
Whatever the snow accumulation ends up being, this latest storm should make for good skiing, snowmobiling, sleigh rides, etc. We have deep base almost everywhere except I noticed snowshoeing at the lowest elevation in the Mad River Valley yesterday that the snow is only a few inches deep there. Most upper elevations such as our inn have a couple of feet of snow on the ground and the ski areas have much more.
For weather forecasts in other parts of Vermont, you can use the weather do-hickey in the right hand column of this blog. Just enter the zip code of the place you would like to visit or use one of the samples I supplied.
As a side note, I noticed on the Eye On the Sky website that on this day in 1936, three inches of BROWN snow fell in Vermont. It was most likely due to dust storms in the Great Plains. So I guess that was a "dusting" of snow (pun intended).
There's snow time like the right time to stop writing before I pun again.
(c) 2008 Jeff Connor Grunberg Haus Inn
|posted by grunhaus at 20:28 | permalink
22 Feb 2008
|This Is A Good Time To Buy Winter Gear On Sale
Vermont's Tubbs Snow Shoes
I just received an email from my friends at Umiak Outfitters in Stowe VT that they are having their annual 30% off sale on skis, boots, snowshoes (20% on Tubbs brand) and sleds this weekend.
In addition, Umiak has a online retail store page with discounted prices plus a clearance sale page on their website you might be interested in if you can't make it to their sale.
In fact, in your travel to Vermont over the next few weeks, it's a good idea to drop into the local ski shops and outdoor outfitters to see what they have on sale. Most of these shops have their summer gear on order and their new stuff is already starting to arrive.
(c) 2008 Jeff Connor Grunberg Haus Inn
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Moscow, Belgium (Aanrijding in Moscou)
Drama, Comedy, Romance
Matty is a no-nonsense, working class, 41-year-old mother of three, with a thousand yard stare whose life seems to come apart after a minor collision with a Belgian truck transporting Italian lollipops. The 29-year-old redhead driver Johnny has not only bruised her car but also her sense of self. Not only is Johnny uneducated, balding and a dozen years younger, it also turns out that he has an alcohol problem, a criminal record and a fondness for cheesy lyrics. Meanwhile, her art teacher husband Werner is trying to work out whether he prefers Matty to one of his 22-year-old students, while their three children are trying to figure out where they stand in relation to the opportunities and pratfalls of puberty. As Johnny worms his way into the heart of Matty and the lives of the other members of this dysfunctional, but lovable, family, it becomes clear that everyone has a right to happiness but that this right can be reached only by making choices, which are not always easy.
Cast: Sofia Ferri, Jurgen Delnaet, Anemone Valcke, Johan Heldenbergh, Barbara Sarafian
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Create a chart or graph
You can add a variety of charts and graphs into a spreadsheet, including line, bar, and map charts. You can also save a chart as an image and insert these images into a document or presentation. To create a chart or graph, follow these steps:
Note: It helps to label the data in your spreadsheet before creating a chart. For example, if you want to chart your expenses, you might have a row of numbers labeled 'Rent' and another labeled 'Groceries.' Then you might label columns by month or week, etc. These labels will appear automatically in the window where you create and preview your chart, as long as the labels are the first row and column of your selected range of cells.
Note: If you included labels for your data in your spreadsheet, you can specify that you want to use the first row and first column of your data as labels by checking the box next to 'Use 1st row as labels' and 'Use 1st column as labels.' These settings are automatically selected when you include labels in Row 1 and Column A in your spreadsheet.
- From your spreadsheet, select the cells with data you'd like to include in the chart. Alternatively, you can select a range or multiple ranges of data from within the chart editor. You can do so by clicking Select range... and entering one or more ranges by clicking Add another range.
- Select the Chart icon in the menu bar or choose Insert > Chart. The chart editor box appears.
- In the Start tab, you're able to edit the range of cells to be included in your chart, select basic layout settings, and view recommended charts.
- If you decide that one of the recommended charts isn't the right thing for your data or if you want to see more chart options, you can either click More >> or move on to the Charts tab.
- Preview your chart and edit as necessary.
- Click Insert. The chart appears in your spreadsheet. If you would like to go back to editing your spreadsheet without an inserted chart, click Cancel.
Here's how to give your chart a unique name or rename a chart:
- After you've started the process to create a chart, as outlined above, click the Customize tab of the charts dialog box.
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The Internal Revenue Service has proven it does not belong in a free society. Can the land of the free and the home of the brave still recognize the feudalism seeping into our government institutions?
These past weeks confront us all with the sad picture of a tyrannical IRS systematically stomping on the civil rights of groups they don't agree with. This type of political thuggery is a crime in America. Once recognized for what it is, we do not tolerate such behavior. In the past we have called out the National Guard to ensure systematic violation of civil rights stopped. Our institutions change their behavior to come in line with our values codified in the U.S. Constitution, or they are shut down.
Freedom demands courage. The IRS is out of control. Conceived as a bad tax experiment, the IRS has mutated into a statist enforcer.
In the United States of America, we don't have to stick with a failed experiment. Tell your representative and senators to immediately pass the FairTax proposal currently before Congress (HR 25/SR 122). Enacting the FairTax would phase out the IRS completely. FairTax expands our tax base.
By taxing consumption rather than income, earning is encouraged and hiding income becomes unnecessary. Imagine, bringing home all of your paycheck and not having to fear becoming too successful.
The FairTax is supported by years of academic scrutiny and economic research. Only the FairTax proposes to responsibly maintain the revenue we all know our government needs to serve our nation. Only the FairTax ends the IRS.
If you are tired of politicians whipping the public into a frenzy and then leaving the situation largely unchanged, take action to learn the facts yourself at www.fairtax.org. Tell Congress you want the FairTax passed and the IRS gone.
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Welcome to the board! I use MS Office picture manager to resize the photos. At the top right is edit picts and I click on that. Either compress them or change size to web large or web small seems to have worked for me so far. Cropping them of unneeded stuff also seems to help. I still get one or two that I have to go back and alter a second time. I'll bet I can do it in Photoshop but I haven't figured out how yet. I'm also guessing that if I learned to play with the camera settings, I might be able to just skip the resize, but again I haven't a clue how.
I have windows xp home edition and fun4now told me to use the pic resizer. Works wonderful and it keeps your original, so it "case" you want to keep the original for it's large pixel size so you can make a good photo later, no problem and LOT less hassle than photoshop! On the bottom of this page, there is another box that says "additional options" click on the box that says "Attach Files" and click on "Manage Attachments"
the new window that comes up there is a box that says: "upload file from your computer", click on "browse" and a menu comes up to look for your photo files. I keep mine in "my photos". clickk on that, choose your photo (keep it under 50kb). when the file name shows up in the "upload file from your computer", it also shows the link below that. close that box, and it should show up now on your "attach files" that you started with (below this window again). Click on "preview post" and your post shows up (not publically yet". Hit your link that should be in your "post" and see if it works the way you want. there are a few here that use photobucket and the pics come "alive" within your post, so no one has to click on any link.
good luck and ask if you have anymore questions. The pic below I resized to "medium" when I did it. Like DSW said, small or medium is fine, but preview it first, to see if it how you like it,before you post it up....
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thanks for the info
i'll play around with the resizing techniques in the near future. i like to repair and refurbish backhoe and excavator buckets as a sideline (i'm an xray tech by profession.) i have a few pics that i would like comments on and a few just to show y'all my best buddy. he's two and already tells people that we work on backhoe buckets.
Are you using:
Start, All Programs, Microsoft Picture It ??
PS: Anyone heard from Fun4Now?? I saw an OLD post of his, showing the pain meds he's on; I hope he's OK. He has shared a lot of information with others.RETIRED desk jockey.
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resize' option. Now, I wonder if it was there before the download?
grnxrymnky: try a right click on any photo in your 'puter to see if 'resize' is an option in the drop-down menu. If it isn't, follow Burninbriar's link. I thought that I'd have to open the 'program', but it 'just showed up' in the right-click drop-down of any photo. Computers don't come easy for me, that's why I 'whine' over the details.RETIRED desk jockey.
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Jim, Good to see a local on the board, good info here, great people too. Stick around long enough and you may get accused of looking like a Sesame Street character. Sorry Bert. couldn't resist,, seriously though, Welcome and don't hesitate to ask a question no matter how stupid. God knows I've asked my share. Craig, I was wondering the other day were fun4now was, Hope he's okay.Webb's Welding and Repair LLC
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Roommate issues are very common in college. A mom recently wrote to our Online Diabetes Support Team about a problem her daughter was having with her roommate. The following is her question and JDRF volunteer Melissa's response. If you have a question for the Team, please don't hesitate to contact us. A JDRF volunteer will personally respond within 48 hours.
Question: My daughter has just started college and has a roommate. Issues are arising because my daughter is trying to establish a regimented routine while the roommate wants to have things less so. Both are in difficult positions. The RAs are aware and working with them. How have other new college students been dealing with this situation and their health?
Answer: Hi, I'm 23, I've had type 1 diabetes (juvenile diabetes) for over 11 years, and I've had an insulin pump for over eight years now. I went to college early, so I actually got my bachelor's degree 5(!) years ago, but I remember well what it was like to negotiate with roommates.
You said your daughter is trying to establish a regimented routine while her roommate wants more flexibility in her schedule. I'm not sure how flexible the roommate wants to be, whether she wants to keep the lights on until 3 a.m. one night and sleep until noon another day of the week, or whether she wants to return to the room at all hours every night of the week and doesn't like it when your daughter needs to get up and move around to test her blood sugar, take her insulin, and eat every morning.
Whether or not type 1 diabetes or any other medical condition exists, incompatible sleeping habits can become a big problem when two strangers are thrown together in a dorm room. It sounds to me like the college your daughter is attending made a bit of a roommate mismatch in this situation–unfortunately this is not uncommon. Did your daughter receive a questionnaire to fill in about her sleeping/studying/scheduling preferences at some point in the past few months, or did the college not try to match roommates that way? Whether or not a questionnaire was used is not the crux of the matter, though. I had roommate switches in three out of four years of my undergraduate education even though I always filled in my questionnaires for the Residence Life office truthfully.
Some possible solutions:
Option 1: Compromise
It would not be wise to make any sudden, drastic alterations to your daughter's regimen in order to "fix" her relationship with her roommate. The issues at hand are most likely not purely to do with your daughter's type 1 diabetes anyway. The roommate may feel right now like your daughter's schedule is cramping her style. Sharing a room brings frustrations and tensions of many kinds–if type 1 diabetes were not part of the picture, there would probably be another reason for conflict between your daughter and her roommate.
One area where there may be some room for compromise is if your daughter prefers to get up and make her breakfast and study early, she may choose to hang out in the common room rather than in her room with the sleeping roommate. During my junior year, I liked getting up by 6:30 a.m. to make coffee in the hall kitchen and sit in the common room to study.
Having type 1 diabetes did not give me a license to make a lot of noise while my roommate was trying to sleep, but neither was her desire to stay out late and sleep in a license to wake me up while I was trying to sleep. It is possible that your daughter could compromise by doing some of her self-care tasks (for instance, eating) outside of the room when her roommate is asleep. But that may be all the room for compromise that your daughter has.
Option 2: Roommate switch or a single room
If your daughter and her roommate reach an impasse, it may be time to play the type 1 diabetes card. I had to do it in my junior year and I have absolutely no regrets about it.
After a particularly troubling confrontation about schedules that caused me to have an adrenaline-induced high blood sugar episode, I went to see the college administrator. She suggested a roommate mediation. I said no. I informed her that my blood sugar had shot up dangerously high because of the fight and if I didn't have a different room to sleep in within eight hours, she would receive a phone call from my parents' lawyer. Because I was a minor, the college was legally in loco parentis and I could accuse the administrator of endangerment. I had a new place to sleep within six hours…
In my senior year I was so sick of roommate dramas that I got a single room. I have not had a roommate since. I have become comfortable telling neighbors and friends that there might be cause for concern if they didn't see me for more than a day.
If I have not addressed all your questions, please do not hesitate to write me again. If your daughter wants to correspond with me directly, I would be glad to be in touch with her.
Best wishes,


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USDA Seeks Public Review and Comment on Draft Environmental Impact Statement for
Herbicide-Resistant Corn and Soybeans
Once APHIS receives a petition for regulatory review of certain GE plants, as it has from Dow AgroSciences, it conducts two required analyses before it makes its regulatory determination on whether or not the newly developed GE plants should be deregulated. First, under the Plant Protection Act (PPA), APHIS determines if the GE plants pose a "plant pest risk" to agricultural crops or other plants or plant products. The PPA defines a "plant pest" as organisms such as insects, bacteria, or fungi that can injure or damage plants or plant products. If the proposed GE plants do not pose a "plant pest risk," APHIS must then move forward with the deregulation of those GE plant varieties. APHIS's preliminary plant pest assessment of these three new GE plants finds that they do not pose such a plant pest risk. However, before making its final regulatory decision, APHIS, pursuant to the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), must also evaluate the potential impacts to the environment that may result from its regulatory decision. The NEPA review can take the form of an Environmental Assessment (EA) or, in this case, a more rigorous Environmental Impact Statement (EIS).
In 2011 and 2012 APHIS made available for public review and comment Dow's request for deregulation of these GE plants, as well as the preliminary plant pest risk and EAs it prepared in response to that request. Earlier this year, following its review of public comments received, APHIS announced it was electing to continue its environmental analysis and prepare an EIS to better inform the decision-making process.
The DEIS considers four alternatives: keep all the GE corn and soybean plants under PPA regulation; deregulate the GE corn plant only; deregulate the two GE soybean plants only; or deregulate both the GE corn and soybean plants. Under NEPA, APHIS is required to designate in the DEIS which of these options is its preferred course of action. Based on APHIS's PPA regulatory authority and its preliminary finding that the GE corn and soybean plants do not pose a plant pest risk to agricultural crops or other plants in the United States, the option to deregulate all three GE plants is APHIS's preferred alternative. While ensuring an analysis of the potential environmental impacts of its regulatory decision, NEPA does not provide APHIS with any additional regulatory authority to address potential environmental impacts beyond that provided by the PPA.
Concurrent with the APHIS regulatory process, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is conducting risk assessments to decide upon the approval of the proposed new uses of 2,4-D herbicide. This analysis includes a thorough review of any potential human health and environmental risks associated with the application of 2,4-D to the GE corn and soybean plants, such as additional use of the herbicide and potential off-site movement of 2,4-D to other crops or areas. EPA will make available its proposed regulatory decision in the coming months for public review and comment. After consideration of public comments, EPA will then make its final regulatory decision in coordination with APHIS's final regulatory decision regarding these plants.
APHIS encourages public input on its DEIS and will host a virtual public meeting to receive comments. APHIS will consider all public comments submitted during the comment period before finalizing the DEIS and plant pest risk assessment and then, based on these, making its final regulatory decision on Dow AgroSciences' deregulation request.
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hoops scoops 2012 season ..."in 2014 ryan tannehill etches his name in stone amongst the games elite qbs"..."ryan tannehill and andrew luck will carry the afc for the next decade plus the way peyton manning and tom brady have this last decade plus"
for the love of god get a real freaking mike already!!!
I'm not afraid of the Patriots. Historically, it's been one or the other: HARRASS Brady and win, or give him time and he kills us. I think we will split with them. Talib is a head case. Not scared of him either. Jags got pretty good value. But This doesn't make me any more concerned about facing the Patsies than before.
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He's not that good. Very lazy and incosistent. Just like Vontae.
Deshaun Watson is the TRUTH!
If it means less of Kyle Arrington, i'm all for it
Eh... he's one bad move away from a year long suspension, and he was struggling early in the year outside of the Tampa 2 defense. Could workout great for the Pats, but he's a Zone CB
Prior to last game I would have said CB was a huge need for this year as of now...but Jimmy played well and so did Carroll..Marshall coming back should help as well..
The Pats secondary is at best mediocre (this is being very generous), even when healthy. A fourth rounder is cheap, even for a half-season rental. If the guy is at all an upgrade, it is a win for the Patriots.
And an update: The Pats barely pull out a win against the Bills while Fitz has one of his best games ever against this terribad pass defense. Thank god Fitz had a brain fart at the end of the game and threw it directly to McCourty.


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Interpretive Handbook
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Vitamin A, Serum
Clinical Information Discusses physiology, pathophysiology, and general clinical aspects, as they relate to a laboratory test
The level of vitamin A in the plasma or serum is a reflection of the quantities of vitamin A and carotene (pro-vitamin A) ingested and absorbed by the intestine (carotene is converted to vitamin A by intestinal absorptive cells and hepatocytes).
Vitamin A plays an essential role in the function of the retina (adaptation to dim light), is necessary for growth and differentiation of epithelial tissue, and is required for growth of bone, reproduction, and embryonic development. Together with certain carotenoids, vitamin A enhances immune function, reducing the consequences of some infectious diseases.
Degenerative changes in eyes and skin are commonly observed in vitamin A deficiency. Poor adaptation of vision to darkness (night blindness) is an early symptom that may be followed by degenerative changes in the retina. In developing countries, vitamin A deficiency is the principal preventable cause of blindness. Severe or prolonged deficiency leads to dry eye (xerophthalmia) that can result in corneal ulcers, scarring, and blindness. Another important consequence of inadequate intake is acquired immunodeficiency disease, where an increased incidence of death is associated with deficient vitamin A levels. Increased susceptibility is associated with vitamin A deficiency. In patients with HIV, vitamin A deficiency is associated with increased disease progression and mortality.
Vitamin A in excess can be toxic. In particular, chronic vitamin A intoxication is a concern in normal adults who ingest >15 mg per day and children who ingest >6 mg per day of vitamin A over a period of several months. Manifestations are various and include dry skin, cheilosis, glossitis, vomiting, alopecia, bone demineralization and pain, hypercalcemia, lymph node enlargement, hyperlipidemia, amenorrhea, and features of pseudotumor cerebri with increased intracranial pressure and papilledema. Liver fibrosis with portal hypertension may also result. Congenital malformations, like spontaneous abortions, craniofacial abnormalities, and valvular heart disease have been described in pregnant women taking vitamin A in excess. Consequently, in pregnancy, the daily dose of vitamin A should not exceed 3 mg.
Useful For Suggests clinical disorders or settings where the test may be helpful
Diagnosing vitamin A deficiency and toxicity
Monitoring vitamin A therapy
Interpretation Provides information to assist in interpretation of the test results
The World Health Organization recommendations supplementation when vitamin A levels fall below 20.0 mcg/dL.
Severe deficiency is indicated at levels <10.0 mcg/dL.
Vitamin A values >120.0 mcg/dL suggest hypervitaminosis A and associated toxicity.
Cautions Discusses conditions that may cause diagnostic confusion, including improper specimen collection and handling, inappropriate test selection, and interfering substances
Acute ethanol ingestion may result in increased serum vitamin A levels.
Testing of nonfasting specimens or the use of vitamin supplementation can result in elevated plasma vitamin concentrations. Reference values were established in patients who were fasting.
Reference Values Describes reference intervals and additional information for interpretation of test results. May include intervals based on age and sex when appropriate. Intervals are Mayo-derived, unless otherwise designated. If an interpretive report is provided, the reference value field will state this.
0-6 years: 11.3-64.7 mcg/dL
7-12 years: 12.8-81.2 mcg/dL
13-17 years: 14.4-97.7 mcg/dL
> or =18 years: 32.5-78.0 mcg/dL
Clinical References Provides recommendations for further in-depth reading of a clinical nature
1. Ball GFM: Vitamins: their role in the human body. Oxford, Blackwell Publishing, 2004, pp 133-187
2. Ross AC: Vitamin A and carotenoids. In Modern Nutrition in Health and Disease. 10th edition. Edited by ME Shils, M Shike, AC Ross, et al. Philadelphia, Lippincott Williams and Wilkins, 2006, pp 351-375


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From the Old Norse personal name Rögnvaldr (composed of regin 'advice, decision' (also, 'the gods') + valdr 'ruler'). This name was regularly used in the Middle Ages in northern England and Scotland, where Scandinavian influence was strong. It is now widespread throughout the English-speaking world.
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