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Transferred use of the surname, in origin an occupational name for a carter or cartwright, from Old English wægen 'cart, waggon'. It was adopted as a given name in the second half of the 20th century, mainly as a result of the popularity of the American film actor John Wayne (1907–79), who was born Marion Michael Morrison; his screen name was chosen in honour of the American Revolutionary general Anthony Wayne (1745–96).
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A man who went to deliver flowers to his wife at the bank where she works ended up helping police make an arrest after the bank was robbed Friday.
At 10:40 a.m. Aug. 30, a man wearing a motorcycle helmet and gloves walked into the Capital One bank in the Waldorf Market Place shopping center, pulled a knife and demanded money from a teller, according to the Charles County Sheriff's Office.
Sheriff's office spokeswoman Diane Richardson said that the teller gave him cash and the man, later identified as Julian Jerome Brown, 45, of Waldorf, drove away from the bank on a motorcycle with an amount of money that police won't reveal.
Police reported that the witness was in the parking lot when he saw Brown go into the bank wearing a motorcycle helmet. The witness reported that he thought it suspicious that he didn't remove the helmet and that the motorcycle had paper tags that read "BADDAZZ." When Brown exited the bank with a nervous bank employee at his side, the witness thought the bank had just been robbed and decided to get in his truck and follow the motorcycle Brown was driving.
The witness said he had confirmed the bank robbery with a cellphone call to his wife, who is employed at the bank. His wife relayed to police the location of the motorcycle her husband had followed.
Richardson said that the witness followed the motorcycle to the Hampshire neighborhood in Waldorf. Police officers surrounded the area, and while they were getting into position, Brown swerved to avoid hitting a police car and crashed. He ran from the scene.
Richardson said an officer caught and arrested him without incident.
She said that the witness went above and beyond what the sheriff's office asks of the community when it asks people to be nosy neighbors and report suspicious activity.
Richardson said that because of the witness's involvement, the sheriff's office was "able to make a very quick arrest."
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Brian Lang wrote:Just for clarification, is this a BYOP or random draw event?
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keith johnson wrote:For the DEC doubles at NGCT I'm going to give the biggest supporters of the course a special holiday deal .
If your rating is under 915, doubles will only cost you $5!
If your rating is 916-950, doubles will only cost you $10!
951 and higher will pay the usual price of $15 since they played for free last time.
There will still be the same payout as if there was a full entry fee being paid AND the winning team will get $100 PER PERSON!!
We will also have anyone with a 951 or higher rating playing with someone with a rating under 950 for this SPECIAL year end Doubles - as that format seemed to work well and create tight scores (12 of the 14 teams in OCT were within 6 strokes of the win)
Other specials available at this month's Doubles from NGCT:
1) For anyone bringing someone who has NEVER played the course - that person and the person(s) they bring will NOT have to pay greens fees!
2) There will be a special contest after the round and CTP's during the round for FREE NGCT certificates AND a free 2 hour Canopy Tour!
3) There is a special invatation to the top 3 doubles teams (Dollar and Tim Lawrence, Matt Rudzinski and Rob Kelly, Keith and Chris Senador) that have the best scores on the 3 most used layouts and they will play for FREE - PLUS a special Trophy will given to the team that has the best score at this doubles to celebrate the year end (Trophy made by a NGCT staff member)
There will also be a FREE raffle ticket given out with each entry for a drawing at the end of Doubles payouts and contests (MUST BE PRESENT TO WIN!!)
As Lexus says in their ads - "It will be a December to remember"
Don't forget the start time is NOON and signups will start at 11:41 AM, so come on out and join us at NGCT instead of fighting the holiday shopping crowds and maybe win some presents (or cash) for youself!
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TED Talks Education: The PBS special
Earlier this week on PBS: TED Talks Education, our first original televised event!
We're absolutely delighted with how the show turned out. Rita Pierson, Geoffrey Canada, Bill Gates and Sir Ken Robinson brought the house down with powerful talks, and host John Legend was truly inspirational.
The show is now available globally on the PBS website (http://www.pbs.org/wnet/ted-talks-education/) and, starting at 11am (EST), we'll be posting full-length versions of the talks from the show on TED.com. Several of them clock in at 18 minutes.
But enough about us. What questions and thoughts did the show bring to mind for you? Use this space to discuss.
May 8 2013: A little disappointed that Parent Education was not brought into the equation of education reform. In particular, working with at-risk students, parent education is a vital component in supporting education reform on many levels. Sir Ken Robinson briefly touched on community, but did not identify parents as a source to educate and stimulate their own child, and as a source to aid in reform.
Here is an example of a conversation I had with a High School student wanting to attend college; he informed me his parents would not allow him to attend college. His family wanted him to work full-time to assist with the finances. His parents had no knowledge that education could lead to higher wages and that Financial Aid was available. Unfathomable? You would be surprised. This is just one example.
I do want to reiterate on an earlier comment - college is not the answer for all and we as advocates must recognize the individual and provide them with options outside of the box.May 8 2013: Ken Robinson's summing up was really on the dot. Schools should be places where we educate to learn and not teach to test. Be great if teachers and schools could have the liberty to do just that...so that children learn to love learning and their natural inclination to innovate is given room to breath.
Well done TED for sharing this...more of the same please!!
May 13 2013: I totally agree with Sir Ken Robinson, usually 100% of the time. However, this speech was the only time I took exception with one thing he said. Everything was so eloquent and his analogies were exceptionally clever. However, one analogy was a off target and I only know this because of the amount of reading I have done in regards to education reform. He made a comparison between testing in education and medicine. It was not accurate A cholesterol level would align to the idea of a norm-referenced test. However, this is an entirely different type of assessment than those given today in the U.S. Today's high-stakes tests at the state level are standards-based assessments and they are an entirely different beast.May 13 2013: I really enjoyed watching all of the TED talks on education. (Side note: As an American not currently living in the US, I really appreciate the availability of all of the videos.) I am an engineering undergraduate student who is very passionate about education. What stood out to me the most from the talks that pertains to me and fellow students was this: We need to make students more involved in their own education.
Students should be stakeholders in their education. This will hold them accountable for their education and make students' education what they would like to learn while teaching them what they need to learn. How do we do this? I don't know yet, but I want to figure it out. Instead of losing students because they think school has little to no value, we need to engage students by helping them learn subjects that interest them in a method that fosters creativity.May 8 2013: I love the show. I sent the web address to the Assistant Superintendent for Instruction. I hope it is a beginning of a conversation with the parents and teachers.
I believe in the old adage; If you give a hungry man a fish, he will eat today. If you teach him how to fish, he will eat forever. If you teach and inspire a child to think, he will learn all he needs to know and pass the standardized test. It may not be at the same rate as other people and at the same time, but he will learn.
The classroom needs to be a safe place to learn and make mistakes. Most people learn more from their mistakes than from accidental successes. The story of the naming of 409 all-purpose cleaner cans be an inspiration to the children that have a hard time getting things correct on the first try. They want to give up. However, it took 408 failures to achieve success on the 409th time. The cleaner continues to sell.
Teachers and children must be encouraged and inspired to think and make mistakes in the teaching and learning process. Education should open the world to the next generation. We must change what we are doing in education.
Scott Schuck
May 8 2013: Ken Robinson's short "Death Valley" anecdote is a powerful metaphor. The desert bloomed because "- right below the surface are these [dormant] seeds of possibility waiting for the right conditions - -" It's precisely the same for our "Dormant Learner".
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They will 'bloom' under the right conditions:
1. Rich soil – family, community, culture;
2. Gentle rain – opportunity, guidance,resources;
3. Ample sun – (from) parents,teachers, mentors;
4. Good fertilizer – encouragement, caring, concern;
5. A little protection (from) 'pests' of all kinds.
These are the conditions in which the learner can search for, find and follow their OWN purpose and passion.
"Education is not the filling of the pail but the lighting of a fire".
It's already working! Check out the link below:
http://www.whatkidscando.org/archives/portfoliosmallschools/met/RealworldIllustrations.htmlMay 8 2013: I enjoyed it and I totally agree that the education system needs reform (I am not from American however so I don't know as much about it) however I was slightly put off by the fact that some people talking seemed to think that not going to college was failing. College is not for everyone and as far as I know many people will never use their college degree.
May 9 2013: Kirstie, that has become a prevalent belief in some groups. If you don't go to college, you failed. This is also the basis for how most large education systems run their programs. The "if I teach everyone as though they are going to go to college then everyone will learn better" model of instruction.
It is one way to do it, but it has serious detriments as well.
Marsha Grace
May 8 2013: TED is great. Love ya TED. The speakers tonight were spot on with the exception of one. Bill, we don't need another system for measuring teacher effectiveness. Instead, we need ALL the ideas of every other speaker on the podium tonight. It's a continuing waste of money to bring forth yet another system for evaluating teachers. Instead, teachers need: freedom from the testing industry through a moratorium on standardized tests; fewer students per classroom; better science equipment; more math manipulatives; 100 library books per student for each school library; 100% reliable internet connections in every classroom in America; school librarians who love books; and the authority to be as innovative and hard working as the employees at Google.May 9 2013: I support the 5 billion for education reforms.
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May 8 2013: i cannot see- so this is not edited-sorry
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I slept on it and listened to bits again before reacting. and i must say that the program hurt more than helped any real discussion on public education. Even TED and PBS disappointment me in that the subtext of the program was a sales pitch for technology, specifically Gates recommendation of a 5 billion doolar commttment to cameras in the classrooms...only 2% of the budget! Does Gates have a vested interest here? As a passing question, what are Bill gates credentials for being a central figure in "shifting tyhe educational paradigm or " an officer in the "revolution
this brings me to a criticism of the programs criticism of current education. The entire program had a "chicken little" mindset that education is in accute crisis. Dr. Canada condemned the system for historical failure because of of the inability to change. And though John Legend said at the outset that there would be no "finger pointing" , teachers and the current methods and management of teaching were criticized throughout. From first hand experience these simply aren't the case. teachers do get feedback well beyond mr' gates condecending "satisfactory" and teachers are creative and experiental and adaptive. I will go as far as accusing bill gates of intentionally misleading us with his ranking data. if you find the chart he used online shanki, china is not on it as it is a national comparison, even school kids could find the flaw in gates analysis and all the suspisseions in these sorts of comparison.-continued
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May 8 2013: Unfortunately, I was only able to watch the 2nd half of the program, but overall, I thoroughly enjoyed. Sir Robinson's speech touched on a point both my wife and I have been feeling for several years re: too much focus on testing and not enough on learning. Bravo. I felt each speaker had something insightful to offer (I particularly liked Malcolm Leonard's poem), although after a while, it felt like the talks were turning into a "we need to prove this can happen" instead of any presentation of how to fix the problems.
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That said, I would like to watch this from the beginning now to "catch up".
Lua Wells
May 8 2013: I was disappointed that almost everything said on the show last night was old news. Yes, it' s certainly true that kids need mentors and a safe haven, and it's true that passion & perseverance (grit) are keys to effective learning - but we already knew that, didn't we? And we've been trying to reform education for decades using these ideas, but we haven't had great success overall. Where are the new & revolutionary ideas we need?
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Some revolutionary ideas are found in Peter Gray's new book called Free to Learn - look at the info about Sudbury Valley School and the great success they have there - with no required classes, no curriculum, no grades, no homework, no tests. Instead, the school is a place of freedom where the students and their innate curiosity are given free reign. The school has staff members that are there to help, and resources of all kinds which the kids can use, and there are democratic rules that everyone has a say in, but the kids themselves figure out what they want to learn and when they.want to learn it. And it works! Those kids go on to colleges and successful careers and happy lives - they figure out what their own passions are, and follow them. Studies have been done about the kids, and books have been written - it's pretty fascinating, really.
Salman Khan also has a lot of revolutionary ideas in his book. I believe that we've been talking about reforming schools for far too long. It's time to talk about reinventing them!May 8 2013: I am a huge fan of TED and feel they are vital in demonstrating that we all must become students as well as teachers in our modern world no matter our age or education. I have been working in this field for over two decades and sometimes I wonder why I keep fighting a system that seems so broken and unwilling to change however I sometimes forget and get reminded how important is the battle and how high the stakes are. I would like to say how much I enjoyed the evening event and could think of a better topic to kick off our first national televised TED event yet also state that the needs of rural america continues to be overlooked as does the high numbers of students who drop out of higher education with debt that is carried for a lifetime. Education is a lifelong pursuit that becomes close to impossible after one turns 18. There is a crisis in higher education as well as K12 with opportunities lost and society losing a enriched community that is required to support educating all of the young people in it. Adults must change first before children can follow our examples. We can not expect to educate a nation without increased funding, top people teaching, respect for all members of society and the various vocations they undertake, modeling of asking and answering difficult questions and lifting societies along with schools. Education is the right and duty of all the citizens of a republic.
May 9 2013: Theodore, I couldn't agree more with your comment, "Adults must change first before children can follow our examples."
Children have the power to change the world. Adults have the power to change their minds.
Maybe we need to rethink how educators are educated, before we can think about changing how kids are educated?May 8 2013: How do viewers take Action after seeing these inspirational talks with lots to think about? Will ted.com or pbs facilitate something based on topics?
David Poland
May 8 2013: I have not heard in quite a while a more simplistic attack on public education. Bill Gates has no idea. I guess if you are wealthy you must be an expert. Welcome to the second gilded age.
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Susan Santos
May 8 2013: The Gates family has a long history of supporting education and education reform. Bill Gates' mother had a degree in education and was a regent at the University of Washington for many years. Bill Gates' involvement in education is well known. His expertise comes from that involvement. I'm sure the money helps. Perhaps check your facts before presuming he was there simply to attack.
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David Poland
May 8 2013: I am an educator, I have lived with the Gates Family Reforms in an urban education setting, I do not need to "check the facts " I have lived them, these reforms have caused harm to students and teachers. No reform is better than bad reform. Next time you comment try not to be so patronizing.May 8 2013: Bill Gates, his family, and his foundation have a very specific agenda with education. They have a focus on charter schools and have supported those "reforms". Bill Gates and his family has not been a friend to education in general, just to those parts of education that they feel is most important to them.
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Bill Gates himself did not ever attend public school to the best of my knowledge, instead he attended a private school. Not a remarkable background to speak to education in general. Oh yes, he also dropped out of Harvard.
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May 8 2013: Mary, Mary, quite contrary. Until now I suspected you might be categorically opposed to expressed criticism. Good on ya girl! Gates does much good in our world. This particular night, however, he missed the bullseye.May 9 2013: Mary I agree with your comments. I have had the opportunity to hear Gates speak to education and work for one of his employees at the Gates foundation.
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He does wonderful things for the world. He has a solid tech company under his leadership. However, his remarks about education are, in my opinion, most often off the mark. Unless of course you are supportive of charter schools and the elimination of public education. He has no real experience in the education field so no real basis for his position. Yet, because he has a lot of money, he is allowed to gain an audience and express it.
I am continually disappointed when I hear him speak about education.
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May 8 2013: You raise an interesting problem, Mary. People are not very aware of what goes on in schools. Teachers know they get lots of feedback, but others do not know that. There may be some variation across schools, or states, in how much feedback they get, how regularly, and from whom. In terms of coaches as a vehicle for that, when coaches are hired to give feedback, it is vital that the coach be more proficient, rather than less proficient, than the teacher. I have seen examples of very poor quality coaching from narrow-thinking former teachers with little pedagogical skill.
Further when it comes to flipping, many people not in the classroom believe that public schools stubbornly stick to a format of lecturing while kids work on worksheets in rows of desks. In fact, in the last twenty years I have seen most classes "flipped" in the sense that class time is devoted mostly to group work and discussion. The sense in which they are not flipped is only that kids don't necessarily need to listen to lecture even at home.
I think many of the pictures people present of promising practice in school organization are quite on target but very much already in widespread use even in struggling urban schools. The portrayals of schools in many talks is not, I believe, up to date and is put forward sometimes more for desirable rhetorical effect than for accuracy. I do not know anything about rural schools or suburban schools.May 8 2013: Some kids are harder to teach than others, and some are absent so much, they get far behind. I have not taught self-contained SPED, so I have little experience with those for whom learning is most challenging and the teaching as well.
I think you are right that some teachers do not understand what the job will involve and, once they find out, don't last long in the classroom. As you write, loving kids is not enough. Having integrity is not enough. There is pedagogical skill involved and perceptiveness about everything that may affect the child's learning that day, an awareness of the concepts that tend to be difficult and misconceptions that tend to be frequent, and excellent communication skills. But you know this. It is also important all around not to have some of the personal issues that so often interfere with learning- narrow-mindedness, giant ego, inflexibility, quick temper...
In terms of your teacher week thread, I am always surprised at the number of people who are negative about all the teachers they ever had and cannot remember one who stood out. I say this because I went to giant urban public schools (graduating class of 1200 kids), and while I certainly had some teachers of comically low quality as well as teachers who were mean, I had so many who were memorable, who reached out to kids who were "different," and so forth. There are vignettes of this kind I would never put online but that I will remember all my life as if they were yesterday.May 8 2013: Here is my best guess. In Districts that adopt this, principals will be held accountable for requiring that teachers review the videos in some sort of department meetings. If one just leaves it to the teacher's initiative, I doubt many would find the time to review the videos, given all the after school time they typically spend on lesson prep and grading and staff meetings and parent conferences and after school work with kids who need extra help. The designated time for reviewing tapes might be the after-school department meetings that are typically used for administrative business or for reviewing student work, or they might be mandatory extra meetings on the teacher in-service days in place of collaborations that usually take place during that time.
When my District implemented a professional development program connected to a new textbook adoption, we were required to go to day-long trainings monthly while needing to leave a sub in the classroom, or, if we didn't want to sacrifice our classroom time with students, we needed to go one Saturday per month. Somehow this seems a less likely way of building in time for reviewing tapes.
I did the Saturdays, because I hate leaving students with a sub. But as I usually spent all day Saturday marking and commenting on student work, this meant that on that one weekend a month, I did the all day training Saturday and all the grading Sunday and then was back to the classroom Monday.
If you are asking whether it would improve student performance, my guess would be no. At a certain point teacher burn-out offsets professional development gains. But I guess we will find out. If someone gives a district money to implement such a program, or really most any educational experiment, in an environment in which Districts are starved for resources, they will take the money and do whatever they are told to do to get the funding.May 9 2013: Mary you are forgetting one important point in your comments. Which, by the way I do appreciate your comments.
Some of those people who don't love teaching go into administration and get promoted to higher levels in the district. The qualify of administration has quite frankly declined quite rapidly. This is not true in all cases, but I noticed a decline several years back in the quality of the educational leaders. Even hearing so much as "well, why do they need experience in education, they are just managing people at the school." Sad, but we have lost many of the good educational leaders.
Also, valuable inservice in not taught in favor of "new" curriculum or standards training. Or the "newest" technology.
Sadly, so much needs to be done to right the educational conveyor belt that it will take professionals who are willing to work really hard for change that might not stick long term.May 12 2013: Teacher quality is a red herring in education reform. It makes me sad when billions are poured into this solution when it will not produce any results except discouraging more teachers already in the profession.
Instead, I propose taking a close look at neuroscience and learning theory. Neural plasticity may just be the proof of constructivist theory and you will never find a constructivist educator following a scripted textbook, mandatory protocol at the moment. Here is a poem I wrote in a very impassioned moment a few years ago, inspired by my daughter, now a kindergartner in public school.
Let's have an Imagination Ball. (age 4)
What's imagination? (age 30 +4 something)
Ideas and inventions (age 4)
Yes, let's. (True story)
Constructivist theory IS Neural plasticity. We have proof? Is it so?
We have PROOF, scientific proof of learning? Of how understanding is constructed? Discuss it. Debate it. Chew it. Is it?
But TIME, it's of the essence.
THEY will win.
but children are being left behind, shareholders are taking all their resources, gobbling them up
Standards-based reform is TOP down
student up, not bottom up
Let students drive instruction, not data
Let them drive us to places unexpected, beyond the expectations of our limited minds
But the distance must be MEASURED, SHOW GROWTH, COLLECT DATA, LONGITUDINAL, DISAGGREGATE, DRIVE INSTRUCTION, RANK, SORT
RACE to the TOP, to the finish.
What happens at the top? We finish learning? That's silly
START the clock.
ON your marks
Take your data. Connect my dots. Can you see my face? Do you see my life? Do you know my possibilities?
you don't.
You can't. You never will.
Big man in the chair, at a desk, looking down. You will never connect my dots with a birds-eye view.
Take a seat, listen and learn. I'll connect my own dots.
But I need your help.
Could you...
buy me some books?
let me explore?
grant me an art lesson?
expose me to ballet?
Allow me to bloom.
May 13 2013: What you may find is constructivist teachers leaving the profession on being forced to walk in lock step.May 8 2013: I appreciated Dr. Canada's reminder that we have to try a variety of strategies, even knowing some will likely not work. Along these lines, it is important, I think, for a district or school not to force a single pedagogical strategy on every teacher for every classroom. Children learn differently, and an approach that may be highly successful for one teacher-student pairing may not fit at all for another. Flexibility and differentiated instruction are key. I sometimes worry that some administrations will stamp out excellence and customization in favor of standardization and a higher degree of centralized control.May 8 2013: It was it excellent presentation. My one comment is the we need to look more carefully at how children develop and the various developmental stages a child passes through. These are mile markers that can indicate when a child is off course.
May 9 2013: Absolutely, Theodore and not just 'off course', but "on course" as well!
Seeing a child is fully able to blossom and express itself through stimulation and support is just as important!May 14 2013: Off course or just on a different course?May 8 2013: I thought it was a great first TV special for TED. It highlighted the work of a diverse group of educators who are passionate about what they do and what they can accomplish if we all take education to heart. Primarily, a quality education.May 8 2013: While I thought the speakers made many great points, I'd agree with Colin Mason that we need presentation of how to fix the problems. For example, a 20 yr old acquaintance with a troubled past but hard worker is handicapped by reading problems. Dropped out of h.s. in 9th grade, keeps missing GED classes (likely discouraged), not getting help, can't get into community college trade programs (and I suspect most apprenticeships) without GED/ability to read more than a tweet text. {And we live in one of wealthiest counties in US (Montgomery County MD) where county council just voted themselves substantial raises, in spite of massive educational/environmental/infrastructure problems -- total mess-up of construction of critical major public transit hub. Evidently workers or their supervisors flunked Concrete Construction 101 -- inadequate technical/trade schooling?}
Yes, it's absolutely critical to engage students, for example via problem-solving challenges used in Portland, ME, science class reported on PBS Newshour Monday May 6 http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/education/jan-june13/learning_05-06.html.
And in local vo-tech high school here, Thomas Edison HS of Technology, each year students build a house.
But what do you do for my young friend with reading problems, lots of what was called "grit" in TED talk, but no place to turn for help/guidance? (I tried to help but perhaps lacking "grit" found no easy/obvious solutions.)
It hurts our whole society to lose these kids, as much as those without documents if we have no "Dream" act. (And this young man has no serious involvement with crime to overcome -- and he hasn't given up -- so he's a relatively easy "save", with a steady girl-friend premed in community college to encourage him, though no stable housing because no decent job.)
I was also sad to see all the money spent on turning this TV-TED into something between Oscars and rock concert. Are the attention spans of people who watch TED talks so limited?May 8 2013: the constructive observations made by the program were first that education (schooling) does not occur in a vacuum that it is a reflection of the larger cultural institutions of politics, economics and family. Rita Pearson stated up front that we know why there is such a high dropout rate "for reasons such as poverty and negative peergroup influence" Sure wanting to go to school becuase it is stimulating and revelvant in a kids life is important and schools can do a better job, but schooling in not autonomous. the other conclusion concerned the formula for success. though i am very suspious when the experts refer to the science of education , the psychologists presentation seemed based on science. i understood the conclusion to be that 'grit' was it. all other factors were secondary. she went on to say that tragically see had no idea were it comes from or how to develop it. tthough not much, a start. the other constructive observation the show made was that we lack a thought 'philosophy of education behind our schools. the show was a superfical hodgepoge of confused ideas, [latitudes and misinformationMay 8 2013: This was so very inspiring! I work for the Head Start program here in OKC, and we're thinking of showing this to staff to get them excited for the new school year. But I cannot find where we can purchase the video. Any help?May 8 2013: Read You Don't Understand Me by Keirsey to get a handle on the system that you may not have had before. Those who teach in college and special places like Julliard are very different than public school teachers. Artisans are virtually unknown in public school. They really don't want Promethians much either. So much for scientists, engineers, or performing artists.May 8 2013: For as long as it has been debated how our Education System is flipped and outdated, what prevents these changes from happening and why isn't it happening? Is it unions, money, government, the education system itself, culture, teachers not wanting change, etc... what Actions can the millions of Viewers take after viewing, what are tradeoffs when these changes occur, how can change be made or a deeper understanding in how to participate besides this forum... I want to act now, but not sure how...May 8 2013: @davidpoland And how long have you worked in the educational sector of America? Yea, that's what I thought.


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Monday, August 29, 2011
Farmhouse Table Setting
48 comments:
- Stef@ said...
Happy weekend to you!!!Thanks for sharing.. these images are fantastic.. full of inspiration!Thanks!!
- August 29, 2011 at 7:38 AM
- Lori @ Katies Rose Cottage Designs said...
Tracey ~
That is all so very beautiful!! I would love to come over for dinner there :)
Thank you for sharing with us your gorgeous setting ~
- August 29, 2011 at 7:39 AM
- Debby said...
I am coming over with Lori (above), hah. What a fun setup....so cute.
Glad you are spending time with the little ones. They grow up way too fast. I am sure you will have so many fun memories. Enjoy the fall.......at least the heat wil be better. I hope anyway.
- August 29, 2011 at 7:46 AM
- Lili said...
The little jelly jars holding the herbs must have the best fragrance ever! Your ideas for reusing even the simplest of things just adds so much charm and inspiration in our often too much "throw away" world. I just love it over here Tracey! And I always marvel at how much you get done being a busy mama as well, and I know how much joy you must bring to your family creating beauty like this in and around your home. xoxo ~Lili
- August 29, 2011 at 8:11 AM
- paige said...
what a gorgeous table setting tracy.
the images are gorgeous :)
- August 29, 2011 at 8:27 AM
- Morning T said...
So dreamy and perfect eye candy for this crazy Monday morning! Your vision always amazes me Tracey~ thanks for sharing your gift with us.
Have a great week!
- August 29, 2011 at 8:28 AM
- Sandra van Doorn said...
i absolutely love these pictures. and the suitcases... i have something about vintage suitcases, perhaps because i tend to live my life in one!!
xo sandra
- August 29, 2011 at 8:48 AM
- Jacqueline @ HOME said...
Real life is so much more important than blogging, isn't it Tracey ? Your children must come first.
I love your photographs, the table setting, the herbs and the old suitcases. XXXX
- August 29, 2011 at 8:54 AM
- Rhonda said...
Your blog oozes French, I love it!
Family first, I totally get that.
I've been creating away, since the heat is brutal here. Soon, I will be able to enjoy the outdoor activities again.
- August 29, 2011 at 9:03 AM
- Secret Garden Cottage said...
Beautiful outdoor table setting, Tracey!! Glad to hear all is well with you and that you just needed a little break from blogging. :)
Gorgeous pictures... as always!!
- August 29, 2011 at 9:07 AM
- Landbohaven said...
Gode billeder.
Tak for kigget.
- August 29, 2011 at 9:09 AM
- Kristin @ My Uncommon Slice of Suburbia said...
So pretty Tracey, love how re used the fabric as a tie around the napkins. Makes me want to go out and have a picnik!
Enjoy the last week with your little one :)
- August 29, 2011 at 9:11 AM
- Laurie said...
Beautiful farmhouse table setting. I love the serving table with the seltzer bottles...
Enjoy your babies these last few days of summer!
- August 29, 2011 at 9:16 AM
- Josie said...
Beautiful setting! I could sit out there forever :)
- August 29, 2011 at 9:24 AM
- Tinas vita bo said...
Just lovely!!
Hugs Tina
- August 29, 2011 at 9:56 AM
- Leah C said...
I think you have the best table settings in the land:) Beautiful, beautiful photos, Tracey! Love every detail:)
- August 29, 2011 at 10:03 AM
- Laura @ 52 FLEA said...
Such a lovely setting and beautiful photos! What have I been up to? Dodging Hurricane Irene! Whew!
- August 29, 2011 at 10:12 AM
- It's me said...
Beautiful setting !! where has you been ???...lovely week darling...glad to hear from you...love Ria...xxx..
- August 29, 2011 at 10:17 AM
- Fresh Vanilla For C said...
LOVE this! Thanks for sharing the beautiful photos. That is somewhere I would love to go to eat!
Have a great day!
:) Cheryl
- August 29, 2011 at 10:20 AM
- manon 21 said...
Une bien joli table,ambiance agréable pour de belles invitations.
- August 29, 2011 at 10:29 AM
- Ashley said...
What a gorgeous setting, I love every detail! Have a great week! Xoxoxo
- August 29, 2011 at 11:23 AM
- LuLu & Co. said...
I'm hanging on to what's left of summer too... My kiddos started school last week and it's been a whirlwind! Loved stopping by and seeing what you've been up too.
- August 29, 2011 at 11:47 AM
- songskatesang said...
- August 29, 2011 at 12:07 PM
- Marina Mott said...
Amazing pictures!!xx
- August 29, 2011 at 12:11 PM
- Rachel Noelle said...
Love your french farmhouse table setting Tracey! :) Ive been busy with the kiddos too~ How fast the summer went by..but i am so ready for FAll!! xo Rachel
French Farmhouse 425
- August 29, 2011 at 12:14 PM
- Deni. said...
- August 29, 2011 at 12:46 PM
- TheCrankyCrow said...
Beautiful setting and tablescape, Tracey....Each and every detail is just perfect...can almost smell those herbs from here....heavenly. (And that menu sounds positively delish!!) Clinging on to summer for dear life here, but knowing I'll soon be embracing my true love - fall!! :o) Have a wonderful week! Smiles & Hugs ~ Robin
- August 29, 2011 at 1:44 PM
- Jeanneoli said...
I would come to your party anytime!!! So pretty!!
- August 29, 2011 at 3:35 PM
- My Bleu Chine said...
Très belle ambiance champêtre ! So nice photos and lovely colored things ! Stéphanie
- August 29, 2011 at 5:20 PM
- Gwendolyn said...
A beautiful setting and the menu sounds scrumptious!
- August 29, 2011 at 5:23 PM
- Sheila R said...
You truly inspire me with all you attention to detail! Love your beautiful setting.
- August 29, 2011 at 7:24 PM
- Chrissy...The Apothecary Shop said...
Hey darlin.....how are you?? Love this post...every detail so perfect! I have to tell you how much I enjoyed the last issue of Jdarc....one of the best ever.Well good luck with the whole back to school thing( I do miss it)Talk soon,Chrissy x0
- August 29, 2011 at 7:28 PM
- flowerlady464 said...
So pretty! Would love to sit there and visit while enjoying something delicious.Drooling over the little metal table. Please let me know if it ever needs a new home.
- August 29, 2011 at 7:32 PM
- Country Dreaming said...
Looks lovely!
Enjoy your kids till school starts.
- August 29, 2011 at 7:59 PM
- Candylei said...
Lovely photographs and country styling! I know you must have had so much fun.
- August 29, 2011 at 9:43 PM
- the poor sophisticate said...
Your blog is not only beautiful but truely inspirational! Thanks for sharing! God Bless :)
Molly B
- August 29, 2011 at 11:09 PM
- trumatter said...
Beautiful as usual! Honestly, can't believe its time for fall already!
- August 30, 2011 at 6:15 AM
- Nook & Cranny said...
I just love your farmhouse table setting. I love that it is outdoors.
Thanks for sharing.
- August 30, 2011 at 1:41 PM
- koralee said...
Beautiful my sweet friend...your talent always amazes me. xoxoxo Hugs
- August 30, 2011 at 8:22 PM
- Curtains In My Tree said...
How Devine
- August 31, 2011 at 4:28 PM
- stricksonne said...
that is all so very beautiful!!! soooo pretty!!! greetings, angie
- August 31, 2011 at 6:46 PM
- Lilli's Welt said...
I can't comment on your newest post - so i wrtite here on this older post:
I would like to be there with you! It is certainly great and the photos are very promising!
Unfortunately, Denver is a little too far from here ... , o)
Many greetings to you and have fun!
- September 1, 2011 at 4:16 AM
- Anita said...
I took some time off too...so much to do. But now we are back and have a giveaway, so I hope you stop by...
- September 1, 2011 at 9:45 AM
- Jenna @ Sequined Sunsets said...
Gorgeous as always! I love the use of herbs as center pieces...so pretty and would smell great!
- September 1, 2011 at 2:23 PM
- Ann said...
Oh what a lovely outdoor table setting... so idyllic and a little whimsy ♥
- September 2, 2011 at 12:33 AM
- Mel said...
Loved seeing you again, and appreciated your sweet nature and photo tips too!! Look forward to a hug again on your next visit!!!Have fun!
- September 2, 2011 at 2:45 PM
- Ella på Bråkmakargatan said...
I´m happy to find your blogg, lovely! I just bought the book Romantic Prairie Style.
- September 3, 2011 at 10:17 AM
- Bohemian said...
Have a nice Trip... your outdoor vignette is lovely and so fresh and airy... loving the French Jam Jars, I'm a sucker for such lovely packaging! *winks*
Dawn... The Bohemian
- September 4, 2011 at 9:53 PM


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I've been waiting awhile for this. They do an article for every team and they are hilarious. Make sure you click on the link to read the rest of the article as well as the comments from the fans.
1. They just can't wait to ruin Ryan Tannehill. There's nothing more enjoyable than watching an NFL team draft a project quarterback, swear to keep that project QB tethered to the bench for at least a year, and then IMMEDIATELY throw out those plans before the season has even started. The Dolphins reached to draft Ryan Tannehill because they didn't have the ammo to move up and draft shovel-ready QBs like RG3 and Andrew Luck. It's like drafting in your fantasy league, realizing you need a wideout, watching all the good ones get selected in front of you, and then settling for Doug Baldwin (NOTE: I tried to use a Dolphins wideout for this analogy, unfortunately the Dolphins have no wideouts. Literally. I'm told they'll be using inflatable wideouts for the majority of this season). No one is EXCITED to draft Ryan Tannehill. Drafting Ryan Tannehill is something you do after drinking too much and intentionally doing something to hurt yourself. NFL Network Mike Mayock said Tannehill is "at least a year away from being a functional NFL quarterback." Oh goody. Sounds fantastic. NEVER DRAFT A WHITE QB JUST BECAUSE HE CAN RUN FAST.
In an ideal situation, the Dolphins would let Tannehill ride the bench for a year and THEN let him go out and suck the way we all know he will. Instead, they've decided to stick him out there this season, with no one to throw to and no possible hope for success. NFL teams never seem to heed the lessons of David Carr. Time and again, they take a young passer and happily let opponents dismantle his psyche bit by bit. By the end of this season, Tannehill will be throwing passes with his eyes closed from the fetal position.
2. Dan Snyder Jr. Dolphins owner Stephen Ross is ****ing terrible. Here's a man who spent last season trying to sell minority stakes in the club to celebrities as a way of boosting the team's profile. Because the average football fan is eight times more likely to attend a game if they know that Gloria Estefan is a one-percent shareholder. Ross also declared that he'd like to see the team change uniforms after watching the Marlins rebrand themselves. Because you should always take cues from the Marlins when it comes to things of that nature. I'm very excited for the team to erect a giant Carmen Miranda statue in the end zone. If Tannehill hits the statue, everyone at the stadium receives a free can of Fanta.
And those are among the more trivial of errors committed by Ross. He ****ed up the Jim Harbaugh courtship. He left Tony Sparano out to rot in front of his players for the equivalent of a full season. He was so openly desperate to sign Peyton Manning that should have stood out on the Sun Life Stadium sidewalk in fishnets, flashing his rectal warts to passing motorists. He somehow lost out on Jeff Fisher to the RamsTHE RAMS! Have you seen the Rams lately? They're dying. They have a **** roster and they play in a **** stadium in the ****tiest town imaginable. Jeff Fisher turned down a chance to live in Miami for THAT. That's how awful Stephen Ross is. At least when Dan Snyder makes an ******* move, he makes a BIG ******* move. He has ******* flair. Stephen Ross is a wannabe Dan Snyder, which has to be the single most pathetic thing a human being can be. But hey, at least the stadium has a nightclub. Jeeeesus.


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Thursday, June 22, 2006
Why Close GTMO?
Marty Lederman
I realize that this will be viewed as apostasy in some circles, but I must confess I remain very dubious of the increasingly frequent calls to close the base at Guantanamo.
I agree with you if procedures at Guantanamo were "regularized," the facility could continue to be used. But the sad thing is, Guantanamo in its current form has been used specifically to avoid all of this regularization. The surreal thing is the United States has always had the option of applying United States laws and judicial review at Guantanamo, but has avoided that strenuously. The continuing bad faith the government shows in treating detainees where the courts have ruled already is no cause for optimism.
I agree that it's pretty much irrellevent to the illegal treatment and abuse of the detainees. What's needed there is rigorous enforcement of the war crimes statute against the people responsible for the administratiion's criminal policies - starting with Bush, Cheney, Addington, and Yoo.
But I also think Guantanamo Bay should be returned to Cuba. The treaty is violation of the UN Charter etc.
As usual Charlie Gittings is rapid with the pertinent insights. Allow me to add a redesigned approach based upon a somewhat similar unresolvable prison matter, the detention in Krone camp of Mariel boatlifters, some of whom were former inmates before they rode the crest of the Cuban government's open door program in 1980. Some of the most difficult refugees to release were the known criminals. One program, evidently, was to connect the released known criminals with linkage to local social rehab programs in the area. I wonder if some of the Arab Americans who are involved in similar social safetynet endeavors could help acclimatize some of the Gitmo releasees. Downsizing what is occurring in Gitmo might be a forceful step toward winding down the worst of the confrontation. Krone Camp certainly was in the news a lot as many bright people tried to help the Immigration service to empty Krone of undesirable but undeportable refugees.
The idea needs some reworking.
While Gitmo is an occupied part of a foreign land, and even though Cuba would like to have it back in its entirety, addressing that substantial issue might detract from an effort to deal with the prisoners held there.
Perhaps the US supreme court justices currently writing the majority opinion in Hamdan have a differing view of how to bring justice to Gitmo. We should know that answer very soon.
Mariel boatlift genesis in Cuban history 1960-1980; written 2005 by college professor.
Release of marielitos to the refugee community, see page 32 of this 7MB pdf for the discussion of the Cuban community agencies becoming involved in managing criminals released onto the streets from Krone.
Agreed, but WP does want Gitmo closed, just not RIGHT NOW. As with those who want redeployment or even straight out withdrawal in Iraq, who really thinks that is really possible?
The focus on Gitmo, and away from other prisons -- known and unknown -- is especially problematic. Consider how so much focus is on Iraq as if Afghanistan is settled. The prison situation there is sadly but par for the course.
The only decent thing to do is to close it as soon as possible. Here is why.
The original rationale for Gitmo was to have a judicially inaccessible place where they could engage in cruel interrogations.
The second one was to have something useful for scaring people into submission. "If you don't cooperate with us we will ship you to Gitmo". To that end DoD published a lot of Gitmo photos showing truly atrocious, deeply inhuman treatment.
Neither of these works any longer.
Further interrogation of these people is useless (other than providing hand-on training for US interrogation personnel FBI, DoD, CIA and their doctors). Real interrogation is done these days in secret interrogation centers - who knows where. Plus shipping more people to Gitmo is politically not possible anymore primarily because of massive international outrage.
The only purpose Gitmo seems to be serving these days is to deflect attention from those other places.
The idea suggested here of shipping people held in Gitmo to US prisons is inhuman. This is because of gratuitous abuse anybody thought to be connected with 9/11 was subjected to in local US prisons and detention centers at the hands of US civilian guards. At least Red Cross comes to Gitmo from time to time.
If deflecting attention from other places is considered essential Gitmo will have to stay open despite massing damage this does to US interest in the world.
The only truly honest way to proceed would be transfer authority over those people to some sort of international body.
Let's face it neither the US government, or its judiciary can be trusted anymore to handle this situation decently.
Marty, the Supremes have ruled that the idea that Guantanamo is US territory is legal fiction. So you're a little behind when you say "…GTMO should be closed only when we are prepared to house all of the detainees in domestic facilities:" We underhandedly annexed it. And as I see it, that's reason enough to leave. But it makes false the notion that Guantanamo is not domestic territory.
I read you whenever you post. I know that you have a sense of right and wrong. So I can only conclude that you are ignorant of US/Cuba relations.
It was his assessment of the behaviors of the people in the Oriente that convinced Leonard Wood that the "uncivilized" Cuban were incapable of self-governance, in spite of what our Congress thought.
This so pained Good Cubans from the East that they have built their generations in response to that very affront to their dignity. (See the Castros.)
Marty, we don't belong there. We should vacate and abandon the place lock, stock, and barrel.
But if a moral argument is not persuasive than at the very least we close it down because it, being tainted beyond repair, rips the rug out from under our arguments against Castro's lack of due process.
That's what Europeans are telling Bush.
I'd think twice before presuming that Prof. Lederman is ignorant of very much. He's been one of the most persistent and perceptive critics of the administration's illegal detainee policies.
Charley, I don't think anyone reading Balkinization would object to your pointing us to the sentences from Lederman putting the detainees in the context of violating the dignity of Cubans.
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Happy Monday, class! Everyone ready for some writing?
First, about those exclamation points. I never intended for you to feel paranoid about using them in your casual writing. The EP police are not coming to kick down your door if you use exclamation points in your message board posts, Facebook updates, IMs, comments on entries, grocery lists, and notes to your spouses. Please, don't apologize for those! See, I use them, too!
But if your writing is to be read by the general public, judged, evaluated, or published, leave them out (except in dialog, and only if absolutely necessary).
A brief review of the classes to date:
1. WORD CHOICE—it's vital. Ordinary words stinketh.
2. ADJECTIVES AND ADVERBS—beware. Trim, if possible.
3. VERB TENSE—Stay consistent
4. EXCLAMATION POINTS—avoid 'em.
5. DIALOG—make it sound natural
Here's this week's Quick Take:
Don't use anxious when you mean eager. They don't mean quite the same thing. Both words refer to anticipation of a future event, but anxious (like its close relative anxiety) indicates a feeling of worry, fear, unease.
On the other hand, eager implies that one is looking forward to the event with excitement or joy.
I'm eager to go to Disney World.
I'm anxious about riding the Tower of Terror.
Onward, then, to part two of the lesson on dialog.
When you were in junior high or high school and learning to write, did your teacher give you a list of words that can be used instead of "said" when writing dialog? It might have included words like
She gave you that list because she wanted you to use interesting words in your writing…but poor Mrs. Murgatroyd was misguided. The best place to use interesting words isn't necessarily in your dialog tags. There's nothing wrong with plain old said; use your interesting words in the actual dialog spoken by your character.
I read once somewhere (sorry, I don't remember where) that studies have shown that most readers gloss over those fancy said substitutes, anyway. Readers are interested in eavesdropping on a fascinating conversation. So instead of writing…
"I'm not sure about that," Joe argued.
…show your reader that Joe is feeling argumentative by putting the argument in his words.
"Only a clown would vote against the new widget factory," said Joe.
[I take a break from my regular lesson to proclaim that I take no position whatsoever on widget factories, and that this sample sentence was meant only for entertainment purposes. No debate on the merits of widget factories will be entered into.]
As with all of my classes, this is NOT an absolute rule. There are times when nothing will do but a whispered, or a replied, or an asked. Or even one of the fancier words on Mrs. Murgatroyd's list. I just suggest that before you use a substitute for said, you should ask yourself if there's a way to make the character's words show what you intend to say, rather than your description of his words. (Remember the writer's motto: show, don't tell.)
This goes double for any combination of substitute for said + adverb.
Sometimes I read something like this:
"Don't wake the baby," Sally whispered quietly. (Is there any other way to whisper? Don't use the adverb when it's implicit in the verb.)
"Look out behind you!" shouted Gloria excitedly. (While excitedly isn't the only way to shout, it would be better to put the excitement in Gloria's words, or to show her excitement by her actions or thoughts.)
If you find yourself frequently using this sort of construction, work on tightening up your dialog, and moving the "good stuff" from the dialog tags to the dialog itself or the characters' actions.
Write 50-100 words (no more than that, please) containing dialog. Keep last week's lesson in mind, and be sure that your dialog sounds natural for your character. If you use any tags other than said, justify them.
NOTE: You don't have to use dialog tags at all, but that's next week's lesson. Feel free to go beyond the parameters of this lesson, if you'd like.
If you do the homework, please either ask a question or make a comment. And if you don't feel like doing the homework, but want to ask a question or leave a comment that's fine, too. That's what keeps this class so interesting!


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Conversion Rate Optimization: Do Your Websites Have It?
Any website that has ever been created has been with the idea of the end user taking a certain action while on the website. Perhaps it's buying a product, filling out a form, or calling a phone number. Whichever it is, the user is encouraged to take some sort of action. How well users take the desired action on a website is called conversion rate optimization. If you want someone to fill out a form on a site, how well does the site design actually encourage the user to fill out that form?
Many websites out there are designed with the thinking that they want a user to take a certain action, but there is nothing that encourages the user to take that desired action. This is important because while someone is on a website, you have their attention, so you better make the most of it. Don't leave it up to the user to try and figure it out. Show them or even tell them what action you want them to take.
This is something that may seem foreign to some designers as they may just care about how things look, but if you want to take your abilities to the next level, then you should learn about conversion rate optimization. Here are 4 tips to help your conversation rates.
Run A/B Tests
One of the best ways to increase conversion rates on websites is to run tests, otherwise known as A/B tests. This means that you have 2 different options and split test them on users. For instance, you can run two different headlines and see which one works best in getting people to take the desired action you're wanting. It could also be images, buttons, colors, or any element on a website. As the old saying goes, test, test, and re-test for the best results.
Write In Second Person
Let's just be honest for a second. People care about themselves when it comes down to it. They don't want to hear about "we" or "they," but they want to hear words like "you" and "you're". Writing in this fashion also makes it easier to speak to a specific person's emotions and helps make the experience more personable.
Be Clear
If you want to increase the conversion rate of your website, then you need to be clear about what action you want the reader to take. If you want them to fill out a form, then make it clear that you want them to fill out the form. If you want them to call a number, then make it clear you want them to call the number. Many people feel this seems pushy, but if you aren't clear about what action you want them to take, then they will never take that action. Some people may not take the action because it seems pushy, but many more people will take the action because it's clear what you want them to do.
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All the top conversion rate optimizers work great, but they work even better if you do one simple thing with the readers of a website – form a connection. The more personable the connection, the better. Some of the top converting websites come from blogs or websites that have spent a lot of time creating a relationship with the reader. If the reader feels a connection and feels that you really care about them, then they will be much more likely to take whatever action you are wanting them to take.