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5 Things It Turns Out You Were Right to Hate About School
#2. Competition in School Hinders Learning
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For those of us who weren't big into organized sports, being graded and getting scored on standardized tests were our first experiences with the stress of competition. The only students who enjoy being ranked are those at the top, and the valedictorian is the only student not imagining a swarm of flying dicks choking him to death on graduation day.
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"ValeDICKtorian, huh?"
"... I fucking hate you, Carl."
But competition clearly works in the real world, so most likely all of us non-valedictorians are just sore losers. After all, the modern world runs on competition. It's what made America great. The free market is all about pitting worker vs. worker, company vs. company, and idea vs. idea. The best comes out on top, and everyone pushes themselves harder out of fear of falling behind. Kids just need to man up and see how the grown-ups do things.
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Every three years, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development conducts a survey of the world's educational systems, called PISA. 2001 was the first year they managed to pry Finland away from playing air guitar long enough to be included in the study, and they absolutely crushed it, scoring at or near top marks in every category. No one was more surprised by this than the Finns themselves, since academic excellence isn't something they give one steaming shit about.
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"Tests? Who cares? I just taught him how to do 'Crazy Train'."
Finland has no standardized tests. They don't rank their students, select valedictorians, or even care all that much about grades. Teachers give individualized grades to each student and develop their own tests for their specific classrooms without any input from some central authority. There's no competition in Finnish education, and no private university scholarships to compete for. It sounds like the bullshitiest hippie wet dream ever conceived ... and it works better than any other educational system in the Western World.
How is that possible? Well, competition may make perfect sense when it comes to grown-ass men fighting over a leather ball, but in the classroom, it appears to just distract kids from the important business of learning. Denise Clark Pope, a lecturer at Stanford's School of Education, followed five high school students around for a year, and while a stunt like that would have landed us in a very special sort of prison, her outcome was much more productive: She found that high achievers spent more time "finangling the system" than they spent gaining knowledge. Meanwhile, students in Finland don't worry about maximizing their GPA or collecting enough extra credit hours to impress [College X], and as a result they end up actually learning stuff.
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"Learn things? Human teenagers? Bullshit."
And don't just take Finland's word for it. Professor Hall Beck of Appalachian State University found that students who focused mainly on their grades tended to have lower GPAs and shittier mental health than the kids who focused on learning. So what should replace grading? "Nonthreatening, task-related evaluation," otherwise known as correcting kids when they mess up without penalizing them for it. Again, it sounds like a load of rancid hippie crap, but it gets results.
Although to be fair, grades get results, too -- results that equate to kryptonite for our kids' brains. The mere knowledge that their work is being graded is even more effective than track day in PE at making them avoid school.
#1. Middle School Is a Horrible Idea
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There's no point in beating around the bush: middle school sucked, hard. You had to go from being the oldest kid at your elementary school to being the youngest kid at some strange new school. Adolescence is hard enough to deal with on your own -- stirring you into a hormone stew with a few hundred other kids, all taking to puberty like a duck takes to auto repair, just makes the whole situation that much worse.
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It's basically Oz for kids.
As a result, you probably spent most of middle school wishing you could go back to elementary school. Now that you're an adult, of course, you know that moving tweens on is the right thing to do because ... sorry, we drew a blank there. What were we saying again?
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Astoundingly, it turns out that locking a bunch of acne-riddled hormone junkies in a big building together is a fucking terrible idea. Middle schools have a crime rate 30 percent higher than elementary schools. Grades suffer, too -- a study of New York City schoolchildren found a sharp drop in math and English scores in students who went to separate middle schools, compared to kids in K-8 schools.
Their performance might best be described as "flaccid."
You might expect a difficult transitory period -- what with the shock of moving to a new building and all the time spent discovering Internet porn -- but the bigger problem is that kids who go to middle school don't recover. That drop in test scores follows them right on through high school and makes it much more likely that they'll drop out of school altogether. If you have aspirations of raising a crack-addled streetwalker and you missed the boat on that whole in utero drug use thing, sending them to middle school appears to be a damn good way to play catch-up.
Several cities have already started jumping off the middle school ship. Even Baltimore, which The Wire taught us is just one big, fetid pot of heroin and cops with pickled livers, has seen the light: They're in the process of shuttering their middle schools and returning to the days of keeping sixth through eighth graders in elementary school. We assume the abandoned middle schools will be left standing as memorials to the crushed dreams of the countless students who pathetically floundered their way through them. That, or they'll be fenced off as toxic sites due to hormone permeation.
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What are the basic steps to securing a VPS installation that I plan to install Webmin on to host my blogs and personal projects?
danlefree's answer to this similar question is quite relevant here: http://webmasters.stackexchange.com/questions/2458/how-difficult-is-an-unmanaged-vps/2464#2464
Securing a server is more than just a one-off task.
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All good Linux distros install into a reasonably secure state out-of-the-box (at least after the first set of updates when you pull in the security patches that have been released since the install CD/image was pressed/released) so the job is not difficult, but it will take more time to do well than you might expect.
The great thing about a linux VPS is they are pretty secure out of the box. My first recommendation though it to talk to your host and see if they will harden or optimize the security for you. Most VPS with a control panel (webmin, cpanel, etc) are "managed" and they will do a lot for you. Especially if you aren't quite sure what you are doing this is the best choice, in my opinion.
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Probably more important, is making sure the applications you install are up to date. More sites get hacked through a Wordpress exploit (for example) than they do through some exploit in the server OS. If you are custom coding scripts make sure you keep on eye on security as well, since you don't want to inadvertently leave an open door through something silly like your contact form.
Securing any machine, VPS included, isn't an exact recipe, but you can start out with the tutorials of 2 major VPS providers: Linode Library and Slicehost Articles
The first three can be performed through WebMin (in a fashion). You may want to look through ServerFault for this though.
I see that you mention webmin so will be a Linux box. Please check the documentation of the particular Linux distro that you'll install on that server.
For CentOS see this http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/OS_Protection
Just some points. - Change your SSH port. - disable directory listing of files. - remove server signature, tokens. - install some firewall
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Cheese, ham, and spinach make the perfect fillings for this easy-to-make calzone.
Prep Time: 15M
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- Preheat the oven to 475°F (245°C). Put a heavy baking tray in the oven to get hot. (They both need to be really hot before cooking the pizza.)
- Place the dough on a floured surface and roll it out as thin as you can-about 10-12in (25-30cm) in diameter. Brush the hot baking tray with oil, sprinkle with semolina, and place the dough on top.
- Spread the spinach over half the dough, leaving a 1/2in (1cm) border around the edge. Top with the ham, mozzarella, and basil leaves. Moisten the edges of the dough with a little water, then fold in half and seal together with your fingers. Sprinkle the top with a little water, then bake for15 minutes, until golden and crispy.
- Add the cooked ingredients of your choice, but keep it simple-no more than three or four are really necessary.
- Sprinkling the top of the calzone with a little water helps crisp up the dough.
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1 Feb 2013 7:18 AM #1
Why this tpl doesn't work?
I am trying to use template in a panel. The template trigger is come from another grid item selection. But this code doesn't work....
What is wrong with my code?
Just simple copy/paste my code to run...
Anyone, would you please fix this for me?
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1 Feb 2013 5:33 PM #2
There are a few problems, but easily fixable.
First, your selector in the itemclick handler is incorrect. Since "this" is in the scope of the handler (which will be the grid), the selector is currently trying to find a child of the gridpanel with an id of "detailPanel". Obviously, that doesn't exist.
So to fix that, you could easily do something like:
var detailPanel = this.up('panel').down('#detailPanel');
The next issue is on the next line. You have "detailPanel()", but that's not a method. Change it to:
detailPanel.update( record.data );
Finally, you might want to clean up the hanging commas that you have after the second grid column and the last panel. These will wreak havoc if you try to compress this.
Good luck!
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J.P. Morgan Seeks Bloomberg Data
J.P. Morgan Chase JPM -0.20 % & Co. sent a letter to Bloomberg LP this week asking that the financial news and information company show logs of all staff members since 2008 who used the company's data terminals to search activities of J.P. Morgan subscribers.
The letter, sent to a senior Bloomberg executive, also asks for the roles of the people who ran each query and asks for confirmation that Bloomberg employees have discontinued any inappropriate access.
Bloomberg is scrambling to repair any potential damage to its reputation after clients such as Goldman Sachs Group Inc. GS -1.07 % and J.P. Morgan expressed concern that information about their employees' use of Bloomberg terminals was used in the Bloomberg news-gathering process.
J.P. Morgan's move may be the first formal action taken by a Wall Street firm since Bloomberg journalists' use of the data came to light last week and could blaze a path for other firms to follow.
Other banks, including Morgan Stanley, MS -0.45 % have held dialogues with Bloomberg officials, including Chief Executive Daniel Doctoroff, according to people familiar with the matter.
Mr. Doctoroff reached out to Morgan Stanley executives and has been in touch in recent days with Thomas Nides, the firm's vice chairman.
"They're assuring customers this was a mistake and that they're going to rectify that," Mr. Nides said on Wednesday. "We want to make sure we have all the facts, but right now we're taking the company's assurances" that the issues with use of customer data didn't extend to trades or instant-message conversations, Mr. Nides added.
Bloomberg declined to comment on specific conversations with customers.
While Bloomberg faces one of its biggest challenges, its data terminals, which cost about $20,000 a year, have become deeply entrenched on Wall Street—and difficult for clients to give up.
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Bloomberg terminals, for traders, are virtual ecosystems on which they can negotiate contracts, research currencies or read a restaurant review.
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Since the New York company was founded by New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg in 1982, its data terminals have seized a growing share of the lucrative market for financial information.
Bloomberg in 2012 surpassed rival Thomson Reuters to become the largest financial-data provider in the world.
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Goldman uses about 5,000 Bloomberg terminals. Overall, Bloomberg said there are about 315,000 terminals in use, up from 258,000 at the end of 2007.
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Other Wall Street traders have expressed concerns that sensitive topics, such as looking for another job, would become publicly available through their use of the Bloomberg terminal.
Last year, J.P. Morgan confronted Bloomberg reporters as the news service reported on the bank's "London whale" trading fiasco, saying that some reporters were monitoring log-ins of certain figures involved in the episode, said a person close to the bank.
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Bloomberg previously said it had appointed Steve Ross, a senior executive responsible for the day-to-day operations of its terminals business, as its first dedicated compliance chief.
In a television interview Tuesday, Goldman executive Gary Cohn said he had been in frequent touch with Mr. Doctoroff, but added he wanted more answers for how the company's data are stored and used at Bloomberg.
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Are there any resources that show how are the various proofs of important theorems in mathematics are invented? I don't understand how can anyone come up with this method for proof for example. I want to know some of the process of thinking. I can understand the proof, fill the missing steps and prove easier theorems by myself but there are proofs that although I understand the logic behind them, I don't know how they are discovered.
I think this is learning proof skills, practicing, challenging yourself and sometimes allowing the art of proof to flow like a master creates a painting.
You should do problems, practice, explore.
For example, see my response here and you should learn all the proofing approaches in those books and then step it up in the areas that interest you.
Expanding problem solving skill
As an example, Wiles spent seven years working on the proof for Fermat's Last Theorem (and it had a correctable error). When Wiles was asked about this error in a Nova (www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/physics/andrew-wiles-fermat.html) special, he literally starting shaking. In other words, just like an artist cutting off an ear, it can drive you mad!
So, I am not sure if anyone can truly answer your question, but in simple terms, one must learn and practice the art and maybe there is a masterpiece in your future!
This book is quite old, but it may answer your question. I found it enlightening.
"An Essay on the Psychology of Invention in the Mathematical Field", by Jacques Hadamard.
It's not too technical neither in the mathematics, nor in the psychology.
I know exactly what you mean, when you wonder how some results were discovered. By trial and error, and a lot of playing and guesses, you can prove them. But where did they get the result?
How a new result makes its way through your mind is a fascinating question. Sometimes I myself come up with some new mathematical intuition. It starts as a blurry idea, and when it finally gets a concrete form, that can be proved or disproved, it feels as if I had had that idea for ages.
I find helpful, sometimes, to read from the very mathematicians that made the discoveries. You can often catch a glimpse of what they were thinking, and why. This is true especially if the mathematician in question was highly intuitive (like Riemann or Cartan). For example, what was Riemann thinking when he came up with his famous conjecture?


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1932 Ford Highboy Five-Window - Wish ListWritten by Brian Brennan on September 1, 2011 Contributors: Randy Lorentzen Building your next hot rod project can be as complex or as simple as you wish
Sometimes less is more. Bobby Alloway is no stranger to hot rodding or building award-winning cars. Oftentimes we hear others utter, "He has the eye." A "gift" many of us think we have or at least wish we did but in reality we are "normal" and can come close on a good day.
Bobby is "right" more often than not, proving it time and time again when he rolls out the latest build from his shop—Alloway's Hot Rods in Maryville, Tennessee. Truth be told, precious few of us build our cars from initial framerail to the last rub of the polish rag. That's where the talent pool at Alloway's filled in with their individual expertise, like Joe and Josh Bailey (father and son), Scott Emert, Scotty Troutman, Toby Caldwell, and Dustin Ford.
The Rat's Glass '32 Ford highboy five-window project initially was the result of a late-night dinner (local grab and drive) where Bobby and I had time, followed by an idea. In our conversations we acknowledged any hot rodder can have a good-looking traditional car while utilizing readily available parts. For the average rodder the key was precious little fabrication to make the project attractive to those of us who are talent challenged. The idea behind this coupe is to show off an entire build where you or I could substitute many of our own parts gathered from years of swap meet meandering, trading with fellow car club buddies, or purchased from our wish lists. We took the "what's readily available" approach but it is expected most rodders will substitute their thoughts on accessories, powertrain, etc., and the means by which to come up with said parts and pieces. Of course, a liberal supply of sweat equity is required in any build. Bobby spent many a late night working on this project as the days were filled with, well, his day job. (Since I was involved, there was precious little help provided. Besides, I live far, far away—for which Bobby is thankful!).
The foundation of this hot rod was a pair of framerails from LRS Chassis utilizing Pete & Jakes crossmembers arriving at a stretched 109-inch wheelbase. Other components used in conjunction with the Deuce 'rails are a Currie 9-inch rearend, 3.70 gears, drum brakes, and Aldan coilover shocks all positioned by a P&J ladder and Panhard bar combo.
In front the chassis' suspension is centered on a P&J drilled and plated 4-inch drop I-beam with accompanying P&J early Ford spindles, steering arms, kingpins, and their Super Stopper disc brake package, utilizing Wilwood calipers and finned and polished backing plates. The dual reservoir master cylinder replete with three-pedal assembly comes by way of P&J with Lokar pedals and e-brake assembly; the clutch is cable operated. Shocks are chromed monotube P&J with dust covers. Steering is based on a Borgeson Vega-style box with accompanying U-joints, supports, and steering shafts attached to an ididit steering column, topped with a Lecarra TransAm wheel.
Big 'n' littles give the highboy its rubber rake, working the corners in the guise of BFGoodrich Long Trail T/As and ET-IIIs Dragmaster wheels. The rubber measures 155/80R15 and 275/60R17 with the 15x5 (4.5-inch back spacing) and 17x9.5 wheels (5-on-4.5-inch bolt pattern).
The hot rod music emanates from the Ford Racing headers, dumping into the Alloway-built exhaust system running through the Flowmaster Series 40 mufflers, but that's not the root. The epicenter of this earthquake is the Ford Racing Boss 302 sporting a modern 347ci producing 450 hp and 400 lb-ft, giving this five-window a whopping 6 hp per pound. Getting the power to the rear falls to a Ford Tremec TKO five-speed with 17 percent overdrive (2.87, 1.89, 1.28, 1.00, 0.82 First through Fifth gear split) hustled along by a Hurst shifter. Turns out this is plenty of power to move a 2,730-pound hot rod at a retina detaching pace. (Weight bias is front 1,261 pounds; rear 1,469 pound.)
Other engine goodies include the Edelbrock 750-cfm four-barrel carb riding on top of an Edelbrock Victor Jr. single-plane intake manifold, resting between Ford Racing aluminum cylinder heads directing premium gas fired by an MSD ignition system and a Powermaster starter. What would a hot rod be if it couldn't keep its cool inside the engine and the cab? A Steve Long Radiators brass and copper cooler is used to maintain engine temps while a Vintage Air Front Runner is brought into service to assist engine cooling (water pump) and keep "you and I" cool when cruising those hot summer days or warm us come the cool winter nights via the Vintage Air HVA/C system.
On the subject of interior appointments there's a Rat's Glass fiberglass dashboard fitted with a Billet Specialties ribbed and plated insert then equipped with a Classic Instruments six-pack (speedo, tach, fuel, oil, amp, temp) gauges; attached to the underside of the dash are the Vintage Air controls. The all-black leather interior is based on a custom-made bench seat by Steve Holcomb Interiors accessorized with Juliano's seatbelts, a mini-center console that houses the Hurst shifter, control for the Sony Marine RM-X60M control panel for the radio/CD player/iPod, and, of course, the obligatory oversized cup holder. Pedals (hot rod triple play) are from Lokar, while the steering column is an ididit with a Lecarra wheel, Specialty Power windows, and a Vintique mirror. The electrics are based on a Painless fuse panel with the individual wiring strung by Bobby's staff. The Rat's Glass fiberglass body has the look of a traditional hot rod with its 2-1/2-inch top-chop, filled roof, and chromed windshield frame, accented neatly by Vintique '33 Ford commercial headlights (embedded turn signals) and '37 Ford taillights. The use of the stock-appearing external gas tank from Tanks and spreader bars continue the traditional theme. Alloway's handled all of the build, including the body and paintwork, utilizing PPG Speedway Blue that's reminiscent of '09 Toyota Tundra color. Going from 106- to 109-inch wheelbase a Rootlieb hood with a Smooth Parts hood latch kit was lengthened to "fill-in" the gap above the frame. Finishing off the hood is a Brookville grille shell wrapped around a Jim Wrench insert. The accenting brightwork comes by way of Dan's Polishing.
It has the look of a traditional hot rod; stance, aggressive tire combination, loads of power, the obligatory three-pedals, no fenders (no roof would be better), and it sounds like a hot rod. It's all out there it is just up to each individual rodder on how to bring it together.
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The custom-made bench seat was built and stitched with black leather by Steve Holcomb and his staff at Steve Holcomb Interiors. The '32-style fiberglass dash came from Rats Glass and is filled with a Billet Specialties insert and Classic Instruments gauges. Other interior appointments include the Vintage Air heater, defroster, and A/C system, along with the Sony stereo, ididit steering column, Lokar pedals, a Lecarra TransAm wheel, and Juliano's seatbelts.The pulse for this hot rod comes from a Ford Racing Boss 302 (347 inches) pumping out 450 hp and 400 lb-ft of torque. Other engine accessories include the Ford Racing headers, Alloway-built exhaust utilizing Flowmaster 40 Series mufflers, Edelbrock Victor Jr. single-plane intake, Holley carb, MSD ignition, Vintage Air Front Runner, very cool Boss Ford Racing valve covers, and a Steve Long Custom Radiators with an electric fan. Steering shafts and supports, plus U-joints come by way of Borgeson Universal.The pulse for this hot rod comes from a Ford Racing Boss 302 (347 inches) pumping out 450 hp and 400 lb-ft of torque. Other engine accessories include the Ford Racing headers, Alloway-built exhaust utilizing Flowmaster 40 Series mufflers, Edelbrock Victor Jr. single-plane intake, Holley carb, MSD ignition, Vintage Air Front Runner, very cool Boss Ford Racing valve covers, and a Steve Long Custom Radiators with an electric fan. Steering shafts and supports, plus U-joints come by way of Borgeson Universal.Hiding in the trunk is the Sony stereo head unit combined with a CD player and the iPod pickup. As was the interior Holcomb fabricated and covered the trunk area.Attached to the end of the Super Bell drilled I-beam is the Super Bell Super Stoppers brake package complete with Wilwood calipers and finned backing plate.The headlights are a classic Alloway trademark in that they are '33 Ford commercial (with turn signal) from Vintique.


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When creating a release with git flow like:
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I'm prompted for a release message. I grepped around to see where this go, but no succes. Any idea?
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Let $A \subset B$ be a finite ring extension. Fix a ring homomorphism $\nu : A \to \Omega$, where $\Omega$ is an algebraically closed field.
I want to show there exists a non-zero homomorphism $v : B \to \Omega$ of $A$-modules.
I want show that the space $V$ of all the homomorphisms $v$ in (i) is a non-zero finite dimensional vector space over $\Omega$. Show that the algebra $B$ acts on this space. Show that eigenvectors of this action correspond to homomorphisms of algebras $\lambda : B \to \Omega$ that extend the homomorphism $\nu$. Deduce that the set of such homomorphisms $\lambda : B \to \Omega$ is finite and non-empty.
We can assume that $B = Ab_1 + ... + Ab_n$ where $b_1,...,b_n \in B$. The chose $v(b_i)=\omega_i \in \Omega-\{0\}$ and then define $$ v( a_1 b_1 + ... + a_n b_n ) = \nu(a_1) v(b_1) + ... + \nu(a_n) v_n = \nu(a_1) \omega_1 + ... + \nu(a_n) \omega_n \ .$$ This is an $A$-module homomorphism. Am I correct?
For the second part, that $V$ is not-zero follows from the first part. That it is finite dimensional follows from the fact that $v_i(b_j)=\delta_{i,j}$ (Kronecker's delta) with $i=1,...,n$ spans $V$ and hence $\dim V \le n < \infty$.
I define the action of $B$ over $V$ to be $$b \bullet v = \left( x \mapsto v(b)v(x) \right) \mbox{ for all } b,x \in B \ .$$ This seems to be the natural action to define. Am I correct?
However, I haven't managed to solved the rest (the eigenvector stuff and the relation to $\nu$).


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The first communist kingdom in the world. King father dies, the son is the new king. It seems it doesn´t matter to the world. This country is the hell,as the old democratic republic of germany.
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Padre e hijo, bien cebados y barrigones. El pueblo, muerto de hambre.
Sorry, I can´t traduce well.
Father , is dead. The son, is fat. The people is dying because of the hunger.
Great story telling shot. Pls see one of my response to one of comments below.
I think a square is a crowded and busy place, nat ther.. oh thanks for the view
Nice pic ... but ... the Kim Il Sung Square looks bland ... far too formal without that informal spark of life ...
looking into the closed society, thanks for the view
" Excllent & Fantastic PHOTO " Hates of to the PHOGRAPHER.
Amazing photo.
I like to view a photo for its dynamics, creativity, etc etc... How the camera is used or operated and the quality of the photos. Its also nice to see the world through our photographers eyes and a learning curve of what other countries have to offer in the beauty of their surroundings. What goes on behind the scenes whether political or mandatory issues each have with one another, is not really the issue here but the photography involved in taking the shot. Sure a bit of info is always welcome when it comes to the " where's and what's of where a photo was taken" . Unfortunately people are generally "born into a country" - where you never had a say in the matter anyway and so learn to live with what ever situation you are "born into" and make the best or most of it.... lets keep in mind the photo which is the main issue here. Sometimes we need to look on the brighter side of life and just enjoy the "planet earth" and the beauty of its creation.
Back to square number one !
Excellent shot.
A fantastic shot.
Despite this awe inspiring scene here in it's full suit of gray,
the way we are led to believe North Korea and it's people are,
the truth of the place is quite different.
People dressed quite brightly and many eye boggling pieces of original architecture.
Recently Black Washington DC Rappers Pacman and Peso made the country's first rap video and
if you follow them you soon see the place isn't the dreary hell hole we are Led to believe
This is a statement of of what (we) idealize and ultimately what we idolize - or at least an attempt to have some do so.
It makes me curious as to what percentage of the North Korean population are duped into buying into this distorted mindset.
The people are tiny comma's, on a HUGE page if writing! j.e.s.
The photography is breath taking. The scale of large and small is hard to comprehend,yet it is clearly there to see. I enjoy being a free thinking individual here, with free choices to make as I please. This is not a comparison, just how it is really, in different countries j.e.s.
Speaks to me of Egomania. It could be Hitler on the wall or Stalin. It sure wouldn't be me unless it was a most wanted poster! Scary that people can have minds like this.
Leave the politics to CNN, NatGeo. It's big, so are a lot of other places. It's structured, well so is much of the world.
Want to be a real artist, show a picture of violence or actual aggression in North Korea and forget the reality of domestic United States.
reminds me of China's Tiananmen Square. Exactly the same thing :(
Reminds me how Egyptian Pyramids were built by slave labor, for greatness and idolatry of their tormentors. A beautiful monument to human stupidity.
only flags and the mightiest picture which are colored.
Not criticising you in any way for your decision to visit, but did you give any consideration to fact that your visitor dollars and the visitor dollars of others are ultimately helping the regime? I am undecided on this issue.
awesome pic
Nice Photo,and this photo brings a different mood in our mind....
I would like to visit one day....
wow. nice photo.
Nice Photo and a Good Aerial View
Thanks for sharing. Great view from above. More info to store in my memory bank of new and unknown information about other countries.
I think this lifeless blankness is the essence of this photo,also, great portraits of great leaders hanging over minute people mimic the situation there.
@Nat Turner it is pretty close to a hell hole...
@Nat Turner Yeah its only because of west controlled media (BBC/CNN) we are forced to believe what they wanna us to believe
@Bev Hennager or Ceausescu
@James Robledo Jeff Oftedahl has shown a photograph with unique composition that is thought provoking to the viewer. Excellent work from a real artist.
@James Robledo How did they mention or address any political issues with this? This isn't even a photo by a NatGeo photographer, and the text below the photo is a quote of the photographer.
By highlighting the photo, NatGeo is showing us what on part of North Korea looks like. Not many people are familiar with North Korea's landmarks, so I believe they were not stepping into the realm of politics, but simply remained in the realm of geography to give us a glimpse into this country.
@cynthia t. When I first saw it, I thought it was Tiananmen.
@MILTON Camuyrano
Why do people keep repeating the error,
that the pyramids of Kam / Egypt were built with slave labor ?
No where is that written in antiquity,
the only reference I have found comes from those who have mis-read or did not understand what they they read in the Torah / Bible.
The Children of Israel / Hebrews were, allegedly,
put to task to "build the STOREHOUSE of Rameses",
not the pyramids.
Furthermore Rameses came at least a thousand years after the early pyramid age.
No one would dare suggest other similar cyclopean structures which also involve great scientific and engineering skills, such as, the pyramids of Mexico, Guatemala or China used slave labor,
no one would suggest it of Stonehenge in Predain,
so why of the earth's greatest monuments situated as they are in Africa ?
@MILTON Camuyrano or christian cathedrals
@Yaz Vastradiant Even the cars are black.
@Yaz Vastradiant a sad reality
@Michael Barry The year I visited, 2012, the UN allocated 12.9USD in aid to North Korea. The US has also given food aid to North Korea in the past, much of which ends up in the hands of the government. I'm not sure my tourist dollars make a difference in the success of the regime. Like Jonathan also said, I think tourism can also be a positive exchange between people. Tourists are likely the only foreigners most North Koreans ever meet, and if they can see that we're not monsters like we're portrayed, and also we can learn that they're not either, it can be beneficial.
@Michael Barry The few dollars they make is negligible. It's my opinion that having foreign presence in North Korea enlightens not only the outside world of what's going on inside; but for the insiders to see foreigners and to realize we are not the demons their state-run media portrays. Instead they see that we are good, healthy and prosperous people. Enough to be a catalyst of change.
I take it then that you have lived there and speak from experience.
Or could it be all your information comes from the Economist which I'm sure you know doesn't support any non capitalist country.
As for gulags which the article centers on do you think they are any worse than being incarcerated in a super max prison some where in America to feed the economically profitable private prison industrial complex ?
Quite often on spurious grounds such as race or being from the poorer classes.
Seek out and read about Monica Macias's life growing up in North Korea,
She is an African Woman who as a child, did meet racism, but it didn't take half a millenium for the North Koreans to start treating her as a human and not continue to subject her to the hell Africans of the western hemisphere are still experiencing.
@Ap H. Chand Thakuri @Nat Turner
I know,
we live in the lands of "Freedom" but we are only free to believe what "They " say is true,
At least these days if the mind is free and not mesmerised we can seek out various sources, make our own evaluations and not be like sheep.
@jan hamshaw @James RobledoThanks for your comments! North Korea is a fascinating place, one I hope more people take time to learn about beyond the political headlines.
@Jeff Oftedahl @jan hamshaw @James Robledo Yeah its only because of west controlled media (BBC/CNN) we are forced to believe what they wanna us to believe
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Al and Linda Goetz of the Sault adopted a family of ducks after their former owner was no longer able to care for them. The Goetz family welcomed the new additions, allowing them to join the resident ducks, where they will get plenty of food and bask in a heated pool throughout the winter.
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Using only photoshop filters, how can I give a paradisiac appearance to a photo? The type of photos to edit are mainly portraits of women, but the technique must also be applicable to landscape photography.
The classic "soft focus" effect can give photos a dreamy, paradisiac look. Though there are many ways to achieve the effect, here is one variety:
Open your image in photoshop. This image (taken at Pulau Dayang, Malaysia) is slightly underexposed and will need some lightening up too.
Please post your results, it would be great to see how it worked out for you! Good luck!
You could:
Here's an example I did with for number 1, picked it up during Emily Soto's workshop in KL. In example one I did not cover the whole of the lens with an object.
Here are some elements you can use to achieve this feeling:
Some of this can be done "only with photoshop filters", but you'll have best results if you start with source material that matches up. If not, you may want to consider very strong post-processing, using heavy blur and veiling effects to add mystery.


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SSU611: AP USHist+ (2013-2014)
CURRICULUM PROGRAM: Advanced Placement
COURSE TITLE: AP US History+
COURSE LENGTH: 36 weeks
Major Concepts/Content: The AP U.S. History course is designed to provide students with the analytic skills and factual knowledge necessary to deal critically with the problems and materials in U.S. history. The program prepares students for intermediate and advanced college courses by making demands upon them equivalent to those made by full-year introductory college courses. Students should learn to assess historical materials—their relevance to a given interpretive problem, reliability, and importance—and to weigh the evidence and interpretations presented in historical scholarship. An AP U.S. History course should thus develop the skills necessary to arrive at conclusions on the basis of an informed judgment and to present reasons and evidence clearly and persuasively in essay format.
Major Instructional Activities: Instructional activities will be provided relative to the content standards of the AP US History, and use chronological and spatial thinking, historical research, and interpretation to demonstrate intellectual reasoning, reflection and research skills.
Major Evaluative Techniques: Evaluation will be comprised of assessments for/of learning in content standards knowledge, historical analysis, making historical connections and social studies research skills utilizing primary source documents.
Essential Expectations: Upon successful completion of AP US History+ course, the student should be able to:
Upon completion of the AP US History course of study, students should be able to:
- Analyze and interpret primary sources, including documentary material, maps, statistical tables, and pictorial and graphic evidence of historical events.
- Take notes from both printed materials and lectures and discussion.
- Write essay examinations, analytical and research papers
- Express themselves with clarity and precision in oral presentations and written formats, citing sources and crediting phrases and ideas of others.
Course Notes: Weighted - Must Take AP Exam (+ indicated Weighted). Taken in lieu of US History


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Engaged Parents Have Healthier Adolescents
What helps young people make healthy lifestyle choices, resist drugs and alcohol, and other risky behaviors, or succeed in school? The answers aren't simple, and many factors are involved, including effective parenting, stable and healthy living conditions, and individual character traits (e.g., high self-esteem and positive and resilient temperament). Education and public health professionals are increasingly interested in examining these factors—often called protective factors—to understand which characteristics or situations are most likely to help teens make safer, healthier choices.
Parent engagement in schools, one of our promising protective factors, is defined as parents and school staff working together to support and improve the learning, development, and health of children and adolescents.1,2
What Does the Research Say?
The Community Preventive Services Task Force has found sufficient evidence to recommend interventions to improve parenting skills as an effective way to modify adolescents' risk and protective behaviors.3 One such skill is for parents to be engaged in their children's lives.
A growing body of research shows that adolescents engage in fewer health risk behaviors and perform better academically when their parents are actively involved in their lives. Parent engagement in schools can promote positive health behaviors among children and adolescents. Students who have parents engaged in their school lives are less likely to smoke cigarettes4; drink alcohol5; become pregnant6; become sexually active7; and be emotionally distressed.6 In addition, health interventions that include a parent engagement component have been shown to increase positive health behaviors such as children's school-related physical activity.8
Research also shows a strong relationship between parent engagement and educational outcomes, including school attendance9 and higher grades and classroom test scores.10 In turn, students who do well academically are less likely to engage in such risky behaviors as smoking cigarettes, carrying weapons, drinking alcohol, or having sexual intercourse.11-12
What Can Schools and Families Do to Promote Parent Engagement in School Health?
CDC researchers have created Parent Engagement: Strategies for Involving Parents in School Health [PFD - 2.10MB], which identifies the following evidence-based strategies for teachers, administrators, school staff, and parents to use to increase parent engagement in school health:
- Support a positive connection with parents.
- Ensure the school or school district has a clear vision for parent engagement that includes involving parents in school health activities.
- Ensure that school staff members have the ability to connect with parents and support parent engagement.
- Consider asking District and School Health Councils to obtain input from parents on how they would like to be involved in the school's health activities, services, and programs.
- Have a well-planned program for parent engagement in the school.
- Support a variety of opportunities to engage parents in school health activities.13
- Provide parenting support: build parents' knowledge, leadership, and decision-making skills to support the development of positive health attitudes and behaviors among students and help build healthy home and school environments.
- Communicate with parents: establish clear communication channels between parents and school staff.
- Provide a variety of volunteer opportunities: involve parents as school volunteers to enrich health and physical education classes, improve the delivery of health services, and help create safe and healthy environments for students.
- Support learning at home: engage parents and students in health education activities at home.
- Encourage parents to be part of planning and decision making in schools: include parents as participants in planning for special health-related events, school decisions, school activities, and advocacy activities through the Parent Teacher Association (PTA) or Parent Teacher Organization (PTO), the school health council, school action teams, and other school groups and organizations.
- Collaborate with the community: coordinate information, resources, and services from community-based organizations, businesses, cultural and civic organizations, social service agencies, faith-based organizations, health clinics, colleges and universities, and other community groups that can benefit students and families.
- Support working with parents to sustain parent engagement in school health.
- Appoint a dedicated team or committee that oversees parent engagement.
- Identify challenges that keep parents from being connected and engaged in school health activities.
- Work with parents to tailor school events and activities to address those challenges.
To help schools put these strategies into place, the document suggests specific actions for each strategy.
More Information
- Parent Engagement in School Health
- Parent Engagement: Strategies for Involving Parents in School Health [PFD - 2.10MB]
- Fact sheets on promoting parent engagement for:
- PowerPoint® slides for promoting parent engagement in school health [PPT - 7.4MB]
- Facilitator's guide for staff development on promoting parent engagement in school health [PDF - 2.23MB]
- Student Health and Academic Achievement
- Adolescent Health
- Healthy Youth
- FindYouthInfo.gov
- Epstein JL. School, Family, and Community Partnerships: Preparing Educators and Improving Schools Second Edition. Boulder, CO: Westview Press; 2011.
- National Family, School, and Community Engagement Working Group: Recommendations for Federal Policy. Cambridge, MA: Harvard Family Research Project; 2009. Available at www.ncpie. org/docs/FSCEWkgGroupPolicyRecs.pdf.
- Burrus B, Leeks KD, Sipe TA, Dolina S, Soler R, Elder R, Barrios L, Greenspan A, Fishbein D, Lindegren ML, Achrekar A, Dittus P. Person-to-Person Interventions Targeted to Parents and Other Caregivers to Improve Adolescent Health : A Community Guide Systematic Review. American Journal of Preventive Medicine 2012: 42(3), 316–326.
- Storr CL, Ialongo NS, Kellam SG, Anthony JC. A randomized controlled trial of two primary school intervention strategies to prevent early onset tobacco smoking. Drug and Alcohol Dependence 2002;66:51–60.
- Perry CL, Williams CL, Veblen-Mortenson S, Toomey TL, Komro K, Anstine PS, et al. Project Northland: outcomes of a communitywide alcohol use prevention program during early adolescence. American Journal of Public Health 1996;86(7):956–965.
- Resnick MD, Bearman PS, Blum RW, et al. Protecting adolescents from harm. Findings from the National Longitudinal Study on Adolescent Health. JAMA 1997;278(10):823–832.
- Guilamo-Ramos V, Jaccard J, Dittus P, Bouris A, Bernardo G, Casillas E, and Banspach B. A Comparative Study of Interventions for Delaying The Initiation of Sexual Intercourse Among Latino And Black Youth. Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health 2011; 43(4):247–254.
- Haerens L, De Bourdeaudhuij I, Maes L. School-based randomized controlled trial of a physical activity intervention among adolescents. Journal of Adolescent Health 2007;40(3):258–265.
- Epstein J, Sheldon S. Present and accounted for: improving student attendance through family and community involvement. The Journal of Educational Research 2002;95(5):308–318.
- Fan X, Chen M. Parental involvement and students' academic achievement: a meta-analysis. Educational Psychology Review 2001;13(1):1–22.
- Hawkins JD. Academic performance and school success: Sources and consequences. In: Weissberg RP, Gullotta TP, Hampton RL, Ryan BA, Adams GR, eds. Healthy Children 2010: Enhancing Children's Wellness. Vol 8. Issues in Children's and Families' Lives. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage; 1997.
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Fact sheet: Health risk behaviors and academic achievement; 2010. Available at www.cdc.gov/HealthyYouth/health_and_academics/pdf/health_risk_behaviors.pdf [PDF - 1.20MB].
- Epstein JL. School, Family, and Community Partnerships: Your Handbook for Action. 3rd edition. Thousand Oaks, CA: Corwin Press; 2009.
- Page last reviewed: November 9, 2012
- Page last updated: November 29, 2012
- Content source:
- National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion
- Page maintained by: Office of the Associate Director for Communication, Digital Media Branch, Division of Public Affairs


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Hello guys,
Have you any idea how I can add filterrow plugin to listview?
I'd appreciate any help,
Thank you!!
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The filtering logic is the same for ListView and GridView, but you will have to rewrite how the filter row is rendered and resized.
How well do you know Ext? This is not something I would recommend to a beginner.
2 Sep 2010 4:27 AM #3
Hello Condor,
I know that both GridPanels and ListViews use the store which is the dataset that has to be filtered.
My question was if there were a plugin like Ext.ux.grid.FilterRow that I could use without rewrite.
I have already started to modify the above plugin in order to comply to ListViews,
Thank you for the immediate response
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The US Pipeline and Hazardous Material Safety Administration, the federal agency that oversees pipeline safety, said Exxon didn't have written procedures instructing employees how to protect the pipeline in case of natural disasters. Exxon was "disappointed in the findings of this report".
By BEN LEFEBVRE
US regulators proposed a $1.7 million fine against
ExxonMobil late Monday, saying the oil company didn't do
enough to prevent a 2011 pipeline leak that resulted in oil
spilling into the Yellowstone River in Montana.
Exxon's Silvertip pipeline leaked more than 1,500 bbl of oil
near Laurel, Mont., after heavy rains and flooding eroded the
area around the 12-inch line. Oil was found along a 70-mile
stretch along the river that required more than 1,000 people to
clean up.
The US Pipeline and Hazardous Material Safety
Administration, the federal agency that oversees pipeline
safety, said Exxon didn't have written procedures instructing
employees how to protect the pipeline in case of natural
"ExxonMobil failed to properly address known seasonal
flooding risks to the safety of its pipeline system, including
excessive river scour and erosion, and to implement measures
that would have mitigated a spill into a waterway," PHMSA said
in its allegations against Exxon, the largest US oil and
natural gas producer.
PHMSA is also proposing Exxon be required to put in place a
training program to teach employees how to react to emergencies
at the company's pipelines.
Exxon was "disappointed in the findings of this report,"
company spokeswoman Rachael Moore said.
"We committed to learn from the incident and have since
applied the learning to our remote control valve procedures and
operator training," Ms. Moore said.
The proposed fine comes after Congress passed a law in 2012
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