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Let's stop this blight on society
August 25, 2013
To the editor: This letter is regarding the story about the father who spoke out on drug abuse by children. I was touched at the parent's response to his child's death....
Testing would be the beginning. Soon thereafter, a lot of people would be eliminated from the system. Those removed for drug use should be charged with theft according to the amount they have stolen from the taxpayer. They should be forced to repay this through labor, getting a job and making payments, or serve a lengthy prison sentence.
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Mrrose, even if the addiction rate was the same between those on welfare and those not on welfare does not make much difference to me. Drugs are destroying our communities, I just don't think working people paying for lazy bums to be high and multiply is necessary since it is so easily preventable through mandatory testing.
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RPGo did I hit a nerve? I'm not any one else, just me. No other names and never been banned. Just trying to have a discussion about how to handle some of the problems and drug abuse is a big one. Welfare recipients, no matter what you think of them, get addicted at the same rate as the rest of the population. We have problems here in the Valley with alcohol and drugs. Testing doesn't seem like it fixes the problem to me. There's not money for it and there's not money for treatment, unless we re-prioritize.
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Dang, before I forget about it Mrrose, why are you even back here? You were banned under the name mrcore, bidness, trooftella, and probably many others.
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Also, mrrose, speaking of social security that needs reformed. It should ONLY be available to people that actually paid into it. Welfare slobs, the constantly swelling ticks of society should not be receiving such benefits since they never contributed.
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I have a suggestion Mrrose, the elimination of one drug using bum from welfare saves more money in the long run. Say a person gets $40k a year, that is 400 drug tests for every one parasite removed.
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I notice that Bill didn't suggest a way for the county to pay for all the drug tests he's suggesting at a hundred dollars a pop.
Taydava, there's still a lifetime cap on how long an individual can collect TANF. The only reform was that states have more control on what requirements to set out. Maybe you're talking about how we should curb those pesky social security checks. Drug abuse is a huge problem in the area and needs to be dealt with none the less. I'm just not so sure you're ready to up your taxes or charitable donations in order to pay for the rehab programs.
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Welfare was somewhat under control when Clinton made them have to get jobs and not stay on welfare for life. Then Obunboy came along and redefined work and put the system back to the 70s that working Democrats complained about and opposed.
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Deekay, If you read what I posted and actually comprehend it, you'd understand that the comment was directed at people that are caught using drugs while on welfare. If a person is on welfare, and buying drugs; they are utilizing money taken from the public, (and people that have to earn it)and intended for use to feed, clothe, and house them and their children, and instead they are using it to partake in the criminal activity of illegal drug purchase and use. This is theft, fraud, etc... If a person has money to buy drugs, they apparently don't need money for food.
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"Adults on welfare should be sent to jail for a mandatory 10 years first offense and be forced to repay their benefits.".........HAHAHAHAHAHAHAA!!!!!!!!! That is the funniest and most ignorant thing I have heard in a while. Thanks for the laugh.
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That is cool with me EB. We have random testing where I work. Also, if something is damaged, the person that damaged it is tested. While we are at it how about charging those offenders with a crime since they are working for the public while high. I know of a person that works in such a job that could use a whiz quiz.
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Since we are talking of drug testing. Why limit it to the beneficiaries from programs. It should be extended to ALL PUBLIC EMPLOYEES (including the heads of the departments) AND "ANYONE" WHO DOES BUSINESS WITH THE CITY OR COUNTY. That way there is no feelings of bias at any level.
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The blight on society is progressive socialists and liberals with political correctness thrown in. No morals no family no accountability.
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No doubt that alcohol is a drug. There are some people that have an obvious alcohol problem. However, not everyone that drinks beer is an alcoholic. The other drugs are the real problem. Crack, pot, ******, meth, and prescription opiates find their way into the hands of too many people. I agree 100% with your drug testing plan. One more thing I'd add is that the test sample must be given while a qualified person watches. Also, high school athletes that test positive should be banned from participation for their entire high school career. Students over 14, expelled and forced into rehab. Adults on welfare should be sent to jail for a mandatory 10 years first offense and be forced to repay their benefits.
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How can I get a DotA 2 Beta key?
I know DotA 2 is still in its beta phase, but I see more and more streams from DotA 2 players. And I would like to play too, rather than only watching!
How can I get a DotA 2 Beta key?
Donation Method - Ask a bot for a Spare Key!
There is a Steam Community bot that people donate extra DotA 2 keys to. You can add the bot as a friend and send him the private message "give dota" to get a DotA 2 key sent to you. You can donate any extra keys you end up with afterwards.
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There are many other places around to check and it has no much sense list all sites here. Just check PlayDota forum and Dota 2 Reddit Channel, that are the two main Dota 2 international community sites at the moment. If a new giveway starts, it is usually advertised there.
SteamGifts is also an interesting community driven gift website (that support Steam logon) that often has Dota 2 keys.
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If you don't have time, skill or attitude for a contest, you can try to install Steam and fill this survey.
It is an hardware survey followed by a simple questionnaire that will be used by Valve to target potential beta testers. Identified subjects will receive the beta access and 2 additional keys to invite some friends.
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Be aware of scammers sites or people that try to sell you fake keys, there are many around. Also buying valid keys infringe Steam rules, so just avoid it.
A lot of Dota 2 keys were given away in the recent Christmas event. They are stored in people's Steam inventories, which are tradable. Dota 2 key are very valuable though - I've seen some trade as high as a copy of Skyrim or MW3 (though most go for a bit less).
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There is a link that is almost on the bottom of the page that you can sign up for the beta through your Steam account.
Also, it would seem that Play-Dota is giving out codes: Dota 2 Beta Key Draw
You can also buy a beta key on the Steam Market thingy.
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As a new year and the spring semester begin, the University of Colorado Boulder is welcoming the first class of journalism students entering under a new undergraduate degree structure called "Journalism Plus" that CU officials say will create better journalists, better news content and, over time, a more informed society.
Currently, more than 45 new students are expected to enroll for spring semester under the new Journalism Plus requirements. Journalism Plus stipulates that students supplement their journalism degree requirements with an additional field of study in a specific arts and sciences discipline, an approach that Journalism Director Chris Braider says will make better journalists and communication professionals, better university students and better citizens.
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Unanswered: Application updates not working on Android
I have a small WebApp I created using Sencha Touch 2.0.1.
I'm using a Manifest file to update the users device.
While the updates are working perfectly on my iPhone the Android device will not update.
I load my new App to the server and the iPhone displays the "New version available ..." message and update the application but the Android device displays the old version and does not display the message.
I tried to:
* Delete and reopen it on the browser.
* Delete the phone's Cash and reload it.
* Delete the App from the home screen and reinstall
nothing seams to makesAndroid update the App
Anyone has an idea why that mite happen ?
I'm using Sencha Touch 2.0.1
I'm building it by "sencha app build production"
And my manifest is a PHP file :
<?php header('Content-Type: text/cache-manifest'); echo "CACHE MANIFEST\n"; $hashes = ""; $dir = new RecursiveDirectoryIterator("."); foreach(new RecursiveIteratorIterator($dir) as $file) { if ($file->IsFile() && $file != "./manifest.php" && substr($file->getFilename(), 0, 1) != "."){ echo $file . "\n"; $hashes .= md5_file($file); } } echo "# Hash: " . md5($hashes) . "\n"; echo "\n"; echo "FALLBACK:\n"; echo "\n"; echo "NETWORK:\n"; echo "*"; ?>
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The new update available message is for the microloader loading delta updates. The cache manifest is something different. When the app is refreshed from the new update available message means that the delta update was downloaded and applied to localstorage. The cache manifest tells the browser to cache the files. The cache manifest would require a browser refresh because the files are downloaded the first time, then the browser can tell which files are new, the new files are then downloaded again to be cached.Mitchell Simoens @LikelyMitch
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So if I understand correctly to get the APP updated I should should:
1) Load the new files in to the server
2) Update the manifest (which in my case happens by itself)
3) Open the APP on my mobile
The APP then :
1) Detects using the manifest that new versions of the files are available
2) Display a message "New updates ..." message
3) Load the new version of the files into the local storage
4) Reload the APP using the new version of the files.
The above process does work on my iPhone but on the Android device it does not.
On the Android I need to manually clear the device History, Cash and cookies to that the APP to load the new version of the files.
Am I doing something wrong ?


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CNN cited the American Immigration Council's recent report ...
The DREAM Act
Creating Opportunities for Immigrant Students and Supporting the U.S. Economy (Updated 05/18/11)
This fact check provides answers to basic questions about the DREAM Act, from a brief legislative history to how and how many students would benefit. To download the PDF, scroll down to the bottom of this page.
What Would the DREAM Act Do?
Who Would Benefit from the DREAM Act?
What are the Economic Benefits of the DREAM Act?
What are the Additional Benefits of the DREAM Act?
The DREAM Act in Congress
Why has the DREAM Act Failed to Become Law?
Who Supports the DREAM Act?
DREAMs Coming True in the States
Each year, approximately 65,000 undocumented students graduate from high school, many at the top of their classes, but cannot go to college, join the military, work, or otherwise pursue their dreams. They belong to the 1.5 generation—any (first generation) immigrants brought to the United States at a young age who were largely raised in this country and therefore share much in common with second-generation Americans. These students are culturally American, growing up here and often having little attachment to their country of birth. They tend to be bicultural and fluent in English. Many don't even know that they are undocumented immigrants until they apply for a driver's license or college, and then learn they lack Social Security numbers and other necessary legal documents.
According to Professor Roberto Gonzalez of the University of Washington:
[t]he experiences of undocumented children belonging to the 1.5 generation represent dreams deferred. Many of them have been in this country almost their entire lives and attended most of their K-12 education here. They are honor roll students, athletes, class presidents, valedictorians, and aspiring teachers, engineers, and doctors. Yet, because of their immigration status, their day-to-day lives are severely restricted and their futures are uncertain. They cannot legally drive, vote, or work. Moreover, at any time, these young men and women can be, and sometimes are, deported to countries they barely know. They have high aspirations, yet live on the margins. What happens to them is a question fraught with political and economic significance.
Because of the barriers to their continued education and their exclusion from the legal workforce, many undocumented students are discouraged from applying to college. It is estimated that only between 5 and 10 percent of undocumented high-school graduates go to college—not because they don't want to, but because they cannot afford it or because some schools will not allow them to enroll. Even worse, there is often little incentive for them to finish high school, leading to high drop-out rates and the potential for them to become involved in gangs and illegal activities.
The Development, Relief, and Education for Alien Minors Act, or "DREAM Act," would provide a pathway to legal status for the thousands of undocumented students who graduate from high school each year. On May 11, 2011, Senator Richard Durbin (D-IL) and Representative Howard Berman (D-CA) introduced the DREAM Act as S. 952 and H.R. 1842, respectively. To date, the DREAM Act has 32 co-sponsors in the Senate and 2 in the House.
Organizations and individuals from across the country—from California to Kentucky, Oklahoma to New York—have joined together to support the DREAM Act. Thousands of undocumented students and their supportive classmates and teachers have met with their members of Congress, sent letters, held rallies, and staged hunger strikes and other activities in pursuit of making the DREAM Act a reality. Following the detention of an undocumented Harvard student in June, 2010, Harvard President Drew Faust stated that the DREAM Act serves as a "lifeline to these students who are already working hard in our middle and high schools and living in our communities by granting them the temporary legal status that would allow them to pursue postsecondary education."
Research has shown that the DREAM Act would be a boon to the economy and the U.S. workforce. Moreover, as the Migration Policy Institute (MPI) has pointed out, "The DREAM Act would create an unprecedented opportunity for many young people to step onto a path to permanent legal status, a path that would require them to demonstrate either a significant investment in their human capital or service to the United States through membership in the armed forces." The DREAM Act presents an opportunity that should not be wasted.
What Would the DREAM Act Do? ▲
The DREAM Act addresses the plight of young undocumented immigrants growing up in the United States who wish to go to college and obtain lawful employment. The bill allows current, former, and future undocumented high-school graduates and GED recipients a pathway to U.S. citizenship through college or the armed services.
- An undocumented high-school graduate or GED recipient would be eligible to adjust to conditional lawful permanent resident (LPR) status if they have been physically present in the United States for at least five years and were younger than 16 when they first entered the country.
- This LPR status would be granted on a conditional basis and valid for six years, during which time the student would be allowed to work, go to school, or join the military.
- The conditional status would be removed and the person granted LPR status after six years once the student has either completed two years in a program for a bachelor's degree or higher degree or has served in the uniformed services for at least two years and, if discharged, has received an honorable discharge.
- DREAM Act students would not be eligible for federal education grants. Students would, however, be eligible for federal work study and student loans, and individual states would not be restricted from providing financial aid to the students.
Who Would Benefit from the DREAM Act? ▲
There are an estimated 2.1 million undocumented children and young adults in the United States who might be eligible for legal status under the DREAM Act. For many of these young people, the United States is the only home they know and English is their first language. Each year, tens of thousands of them graduate from primary or secondary school, often at the top of their classes. They have the potential to be future doctors, nurses, teachers, and entrepreneurs, but they experience unique hurdles to achieving success in this country. Through no fault of their own, their lack of status may prevent them from attending college or working legally. The DREAM Act would provide an opportunity for them to live up to their full potential and make greater contributions to the U.S. economy and society.
- 114,000 potential beneficiaries with at least an associate's degree would be immediately eligible for conditional LPR status.
- 612,000 potential beneficiaries would be immediately eligible for conditional LPR status because they already have a high-school diploma or GED (and would have the incentive to complete two years of college or two years of military service to be eligible for permanent status).
- 934,000 children under 18 could be eligible for conditional LPR status in the future, which would provide them with incentives to finish high school and pursue a post-secondary education or join the military.
- 489,000 potential beneficiaries could be eligible for conditional LPR status in the future if they obtain a GED.
DREAM Act-eligible immigrants live in all 50 states, but some states have far more potential beneficiaries than others. The top ten states with the largest number of potential DREAM Act beneficiaries are California (26% of the national total), Texas (12%), Florida (9%), New York (7%), Arizona (5%), Illinois (4%), New Jersey (4%), Georgia (3%), North Carolina (2%), and Colorado (2%). All other states combined are home to one-quarter of potential DREAM Act beneficiaries.
What are the Economic Benefits of the DREAM Act? ▲
- The DREAM Act would give beneficiaries access to greater educational opportunities and better jobs, which in turn means more taxable income: A 2010 study by the UCLA North American Integration and Development Center estimates that the total earnings of DREAM Act beneficiaries over the course of their working lives would be between $1.4 trillion and $3.6 trillion. A 2008 study from Arizona State University found that an individual with a bachelor's degree earns approximately $750,000 more over the course of his or her lifetime than an individual with only a high-school diploma. As of 2006, workers without a high-school diploma earned $419 per week and had an unemployment rate of 6.8 percent. Workers with a bachelor's degree earned $962 per week and had an unemployment rate of 2.3 percent, while workers with a doctoral degree earned $1,441 per week and had an unemployment rate of 1.4 percent. A study by the College Board found that over the course of their working lives, the average college graduate earns in excess of 60 percent more than a high-school graduate, and workers with advanced degrees earn two to three times as much as high-school graduates. The U.S. Department of Labor found that the wages of immigrants in the 1986 legalization increased 15 percent over five years, and that the immigrants move on to "significantly better jobs."
- The DREAM Act would allow legalized immigrants to invest in the U.S. economy: Dr. Raul Hinojosa-Ojeda of the University of California, Los Angeles, and others have studied the impact of legalization and found important long-term improvements among previously undocumented immigrants. Specifically, removing the uncertainty of undocumented status allows legalized immigrants to earn higher wages and move into higher-paying occupations, and also encourages them to invest more in their own education, open bank accounts, buy homes, and start businesses.
- The DREAM Act would save taxpayers money: A RAND study from 1999 shows that raising the college graduation rate of Hispanics to that of non-Hispanic whites would increase spending on public education by 10 percent nationwide, but the costs would be more than offset by savings in public health and benefits, as well as increased tax revenues resulting from higher incomes. For example, a 30-year-old Mexican immigrant woman with a college degree will pay $5,300 more in taxes and use $3,900 less in government expenses each year compared to a high-school dropout with similar characteristics.
- The DREAM Act would likely reduce the drop-out rate for immigrant students by creating a strong incentive for undocumented students to remain in school until graduation. Currently, most undocumented children are forced to work illegally in the cash economy as domestic servants, day laborers, and sweatshop factory workers. The DREAM Act would make these children lawfully eligible to work, and help fill positions like teachers, nurses, and service employees—positions that have long been in demand in the United States.
- The DREAM Act keeps talented students in the United States: Letting the talent of DREAM Act students go to waste "imposes economic and emotional costs on undocumented students and on U.S. society as a whole." The DREAM Act would also stop brain drain by allowing our most talented students to remain in the country. Currently, only 5-10 percent of undocumented high-school graduates go to college.
What are the Additional Benefits of the DREAM Act? ▲
The DREAM Act would help universities. The 11 states which, since 2001, have passed laws allowing undocumented students to qualify for in-state tuition have not experienced a large influx of new immigrant students that displaces native-born students. These states (Texas, California, Utah, Washington, New York, Wisconsin, Illinois, Kansas, Maryland, New Mexico, and Nebraska) are home to about half of the nation's undocumented immigrants. The measures actually tend to increase school revenues as students who would not normally attend college start to pay tuition.
The DREAM Act would aid military recruiting. The DREAM Act would help the military find new recruits—almost 8 percent of the current armed forces are foreign-born, and the military relies heavily on the translation and cultural expertise of immigrants. According to West Point Professor Lt. Col. Margaret Stock, the DREAM Act "would be tremendously beneficial to the military. It gives the opportunity to enlist hundreds of thousands of high-quality people." DREAM Act students are so desirable that the Department of Defense has supported the bill to help enlist new recruits and maintain the strength of the military. Deputy Undersecretary of Defense for Military Personnel Policy, Bill Carr, supports the DREAM Act and stated that the law would be "good for readiness" and would help to recruit "cream of the crop" students.
The DREAM Act in Congress▲
The DREAM Act was first introduced in 2001 by Senators Orrin Hatch (R-UT) and Richard Durbin (D-IL) in the Senate, and by Representatives Howard Berman (D-CA) and Chris Cannon (R-UT) in the House. While the co-sponsors have changed over the years, DREAM has generally enjoyed broad, bipartisan support.
In past years, the DREAM Act has come up for a vote several times and has garnered as many as 48 co-sponsors in the Senate and 152 in the House, yet it has failed to become law. It passed the Senate Judiciary Committee twice, by a 16-3 vote in 2003-2004, and by a voice vote without dissent as an amendment to the comprehensive immigration reform (CIR) bill (S. 2611) in 2006. After a similar CIR bill failed in 2007, the DREAM Act was considered as a stand-alone bill (S. 2205), which garnered a bi-partisan majority vote of 52-44 in the Senate, but failed to reach the 60 votes needed to invoke cloture. On December 8, 2010, the DREAM Act was brought up and passed in the House by a vote of 216-198 (H.R. 5281). However, when it reached the Senate on December 18, 2010, it fell five votes short of cloture, receiving 55 yeas and 41 nays.
Why has the DREAM Act Failed to Become Law? ▲
Many Republicans have come under fire for supporting any form of immigration "amnesty," including the DREAM Act. Senator Hatch, the original Republican co-sponsor of the bill, faced criticism in his home state of Utah for being too liberal on the issue. Despite earlier support for CIR in 2006 and 2007, Senator Hatch joined a group of conservative Senators in late 2009 who criticized DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano for suggesting that CIR (which would include the DREAM Act) would be a "boon" to the U.S. economy. Senator Hatch did not vote when the DREAM Act came up for cloture in late 2010, and only 3 Senate Republicans ended up supporting the measure.
Other former supporters of the DREAM Act have also switched their positions. In May 2010, five immigrants sat in the office of Senator John McCain (R-AZ) and refused to leave, asking him to sponsor DREAM. In past years, Senator McCain was a co-sponsor for the DREAM Act, but became more conservative on immigration issues during his 2008 presidential campaign and continued to do so during his 2010 Senate campaign, where he faced a primary challenge from the right. He voted against cloture for the DREAM Act when it came up in late 2010. One of the original co-sponsors of the DREAM Act, Senator Richard Lugar (R-IN), dropped his support for the 2011 DREAM Act in the face of his own primary challenge from the right, stating that President Obama was using the bill as part of a "political game."
Not only does the DREAM Act face flagging Republican support, but it could get caught in what Professor Michael A. Olivas calls the "ironic pincers" of being both too much and too little—catching the ire of conservatives who call it "amnesty," as well as the frustration of immigration supporters who think it could derail the larger battle for CIR. For the DREAM Act to pass, it would likely need the support of both the moderate Republicans who supported it in the past, as well as the Democrats who may be holding out hope for CIR.
Who Supports the DREAM Act? ▲
There is a large and growing network of support for the DREAM Act. Prominent organizations and individuals that support the DREAM Act include ethnic and civil-rights organizations, religious organizations, college and university presidents, labor unions, and national education organizations. The National Immigration Law Center (NILC) website includes a list of national, state, and local colleges, businesses, and organizations that have publicly supported the DREAM Act. This list includes:
- National Education Association
- American Association of Community Colleges
- Coalition of Urban and Metropolitan Universities
- National Parent Teacher Association
- National Association for College Admissions Counseling
- American Federation of Teachers
In 2010, these coalitions stepped up their activities in the hopes of moving the DREAM Act in Congress. For example, in May 2010, activists in California sponsored a rally in support of the DREAM Act. In Indiana, students staged a mock graduation to draw support for DREAM. Immigration activists in Boston have delivered more than 1,500 letters to the office of Senator Scott Brown (R-MA), urging him to support the DREAM Act. And four students from Florida's Students Working for Equal Rights (SWER) walked 1,500 miles from Miami, Florida to Washington, DC for four months to urge President Obama to stop the separation of families and the deportation of DREAM Act-eligible students. In September of 2009, United We Dream hosted over 100 coordinated events in 26 states to bring greater awareness of the plight of undocumented students and the need for the DREAM Act.
DREAMs Coming True in the States ▲
Some states have already made it possible for undocumented students to pursue their college dreams. While states cannot legalize the status of undocumented immigrants, they may allow undocumented students to attend their universities and qualify for in-state tuition. Colleges and universities each have their own policies about admitting undocumented students; some deny them admission while others allow them to attend. However, even when undocumented students are allowed to attend college, the tuition is often prohibitively expensive. If they cannot prove legal residency in a state, they must pay the much higher out-of-state or international-student tuition rates, and they do not qualify for federal student loans, work study, or other financial assistance.
Without financial aid or in-state tuition, it is extremely difficult for undocumented students to afford to attend a public university. Almost 40 percent of undocumented children live in families below the federal poverty line, compared to just 17 percent of native-born children. The average income of undocumented immigrant families is 40 percent lower than both their native-born and legal-immigrant counterparts.
To help undocumented students afford to attend college, 11 states have passed laws that provide undocumented students with the opportunity to receive in-state tuition. California, Illinois, Kansas, Maryland, Nebraska, New Mexico, New York, Texas, Utah, Washington, and Wisconsin permit undocumented students who have attended and graduated from the state's primary and secondary schools to pay the same college tuition as other state residents. Note that four of these states are among the top 10 that have the most potential DREAM Act beneficiaries. The laws in these 11 states require undocumented students to: 1) attend a school in the state for a certain number of years; 2) graduate from high school in the state; and 3) sign an affidavit stating that they will apply to legalize their status as soon as they are eligible to do so. Nine other states (Colorado, Connecticut, Florida, Iowa, Massachusetts, Mississippi, Missouri, Oregon, and Rhode Island) are considering similar legislation in 2011.
These laws are in compliance with federal law. Section 505 of the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996 (IIRIRA) prohibits states from providing any higher education benefit based on residency to undocumented immigrants unless they provide the same benefit to U.S. citizens in the same circumstances. Therefore, the 11 states also provide that U.S. citizens or LPRs who meet these requirements, but who no longer live in the state, are able to qualify for the in-state tuition rates as well.
Conclusion ▲
The plight of DREAM Act students encapsulates many facets of today's immigration crisis. Caught in a system where there is little, if any, means for legalizing their status, smart, hard-working kids face an uncertain future because of their inability to continue their education, work, or join the military. Since 1996, when draconian immigration reforms eliminated many of the traditional forms of relief from deportation, a generation of young people caught between worlds has grown up without legal status. The loss of potential, productivity, and hope for these individuals is also a loss for this country. The United States is missing out on talented workers and entrepreneurs, and is losing vital tax revenues and other economic contributions. While fixing this particular problem will hardly resolve the need for CIR, it will unlock the door to the American dream for thousands of young people each year.
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5 Ridiculous Modern Fashions With Badass Historical Origins
Since the day man first realized he could cover his butt with the skins of lesser beasts, he's been torn between purely utilitarian clothing and looking cuter than Ugg, that cocky jerk caveman down the path. It seems like fashion trends these days are nothing but pointless peacocking, but you might be surprised to find out that many of them arose from a very genuine need. Meet the rebellious and emotionally damaged offspring of aesthetic and function ...
#5. High Heels
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Even the most stylish woman will admit that high heels are a pain. In addition to routine complaints like soreness and calluses, they can cause permanent nerve and joint damage. But hey, they make your legs look longer and push your booty up and out, which is totally worth the risk of serious injury, according to booty aficionados everywhere.
Professor Emeritass, Booty Studies, Oxford University.
But Originally ...
High heels weren't even created for ladies. Not only were they the exclusive domain of men, but they were the exclusive domain of the manliest of men: soldiers.
"The high heel was worn for centuries throughout the Near East as a form of riding footwear," according to Elizabeth Semmelhack from Toronto's Bata Shoe Museum. It started in Persia, where horseback warriors found it difficult to maintain their stance while shooting their bows and arrows. They created shoes with a defined notch into which the stirrup would slide, allowing them to balance properly on their horses while standing.
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And look fabulous while doing so.
When Persia embarked on its first diplomatic mission to Western Europe in the 16th century, the royals they met were delighted by these novelties. They added their own fashionable twist by increasing the height of the heels to let everyone know that the wearers were people of status who couldn't be bothered with common things like walking very far or functioning correctly in society. Women really only started wearing them when it became fashionable to dress androgynously. That's right: Women first started wearing high heels to look more butch.
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So if you "men's rights" guys really believe in your cause, you'll strap these on and take back what's yours.
#4. Popped Collars
The polo shirt is the standard uniform of the upper-middle class: classic, office-appropriate, vaguely sporty (but not the barbaric, poor people kind of athleticism). And when office hours are over and it's time to kick back, why, you just pop that collar up like a douche-sail and ride the breeze into Pussytown, population: soon to be you.
"Hope these clouds clear up. It'd be a shame if they ruined the Roofie Regatta."
But Originally ...
It turns out there was plenty of substance to this stupid style.
Tennis player Rene Lacoste, aka the alligator logo guy, is credited with the invention of the polo shirt, which caused quite a stir when it was introduced in 1926. You see, tennis players used to be restricted to uncomfortable and impractical attire: heavy, long-sleeved oxford shirts, starched to roughly the same stiffness as a rich white dude's butthole at an ethnic comedy show.
"I'll keep the hat. I'm not a savage."
Rene didn't enjoy playing tennis in a set of cloth armor, so he set out to make a lightweight, well-ventilated, short-sleeved shirt that would actually have some functionality for a person who swings his arms around in the glaring sun for hours at a time. A key component of his design was a flexible collar that could be propped up to protect the player's neck from the sun. That's right: The first popped collar was not only intentional, but practical.
The practice of wearing your polo shirt with the collar folded down didn't catch on until the wealthy spectators, to whom avoiding the outdoors was a raison d'etre, adopted the style. The guy with the popped collar is technically doing it right -- and you, gentle soul rocking through life with collar modestly flat, are emulating a bunch of clueless rich jerkwads.
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"The solution to this problem lies in the heart of douchekind.
If only I had known, I should have become a watchmaker." -Rene Lacoste
#3. Mohawks
Since the late '70s, the mohawk has been the hairstyle of choice for informing The Man that you will conform only to the standards of people who like the same music as you. The mohawk dates back to and is named for the Native American tribe, while the association with punk rock is a little harder to track: It's because they're both warriors, right? Warriors who don't conform to authority, be it white slavers or your mom asking you to take the garbage out.
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"However, I will conform with recommended annual physicals. That's just common sense."
But Originally ...
The Mohawks weren't doing it as a symbol of defiance. They pioneered the hairstyle because they were just plain sick of folks ripping their scalps off their heads. To combat the growing practice of snatching enemy scalps in battle, which was generally performed by making an incision around the hairline and gripping the hair to yank off the scalp, the Mohawks would pluck the hair from the sides of their heads, leaving only a 3- or 4-inch strip at the crown of the head, which would typically be separated into three locks that would then be braided or otherwise decorated. This ensured that there wouldn't be enough hair at the hairline to lift the sides of the scalp away from the incision.
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"Plus it concealed my receding hairline, which did wonders for my self-esteem."
To recap: The original mohawk was a purely logical and necessary defensive measure to avoid getting part of your head taken off. But unless there were some particularly savage mods dominating the scene, it was pure vanity for the punks.
"I'll have you know I'm one-sixteenth ... uh, Tonto. So there."


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We know about Kolmogorov Criterion for the tightness of a stochastic process $X_n(t)$
1.The sequence $(X_{n}(0))_{n\geq0}$ is tight.
2.There exist constants $\gamma\geq0$,$\alpha>1$, $K>0$ and an integer $n_0$ such that $$E(|X_{n}(t_{2})-X_{n}(t_{1})|^{\gamma})\leq K|t_{2}-t_{1}|^{\alpha}, \forall n \geq n_0$$ for all $t_{1},t_{2}$.
My first question: what should the $n_0$ depend? Could it depend on the $t_{1}$ and $t_{2}$?
My second question: Is there any other criterion for tightness with the parameter $\alpha=1$ for the version of the moment condition?


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5 Characters Who Totally Missed the Moral of Their Own Movie
All of the truly meaningful lessons in life (the importance of love, the trappings of power, the follies of dinosaur cloning) are taught to us by movies. We learn by watching the established heroes of the film either learn a lesson themselves or fight to protect it.
This is why it's so weird when, on occasion, the good guys of the film seem to let the obvious moral that they themselves helped establish whiff by them as they do EXACTLY what they just taught us to never do.
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#5. The Jedi Enslave Slaves So the Sith Won't Make Us All Slaves
The Moral:
Star Wars is as basic as good vs. evil gets, and no matter if the evil is the Sith or the Empire, the side of good remains the same in each film. Jedi (the spiritual, bearded hippies of space) want freedom and democracy, and the Sith want to have all the power and all the control, and perhaps explode a planet or two if it suits their needs or seems like it might be fun.
But of course that's what makes them the bad guys and the Jedi the good guys -- while the Sith and Empire won't be content until they hold the entire galaxy in their fists, the Jedi are selfless, thinking only about the well-being of others. After all, you don't see Obi-Wan or Yoda enslaving countless drones of men for their own purposes, right?
What, did you think these guys were salaried?
The Miss:
In Attack of the Clones, Obi-Wan stumbles onto an army of clones while tracking the bounty hunter Jango Fett (wanted for the attempted assassination of Senator Amidala). The clones have been created in Jango's likeness by order of a Jedi who had died years before the order was placed. Totally not sketchy.
When he contacts the other Jedi and informs them of what's going on, they ask Obi-Wan if he thinks this army is connected to the threat on the senator's life, and in what has to be the least intuitive moment of his Jedi career, Obi-Wan says no.
"Tell you what, we'll just call it in the air: Heads, they're connected. Tails, they're not."
The Jedi seem to agree with this assessment, because this isn't Star Wars: Attack of the Functional, Logical Plot, it's Star Wars: Attack of the KEEP MOVING THE PLOT FORWARD UNTIL GIANT CGI MONSTERS ARE FIGHTING CGI CLONES! So the Jedi Council doesn't dwell on this for a second, and why would they? What would a bunch of clones of the guy who tried to kill the senator have to do with that guy who tried to kill the senator? Did you answer "Probably nothing, I bet"? Congratulations, you're Yoda. As Yoda, you then, after making a few moves in the Senate, use these clones to build your own Grand Army of the Republic.
"Alright, helmets, time for lunch injections!"
And sure, having an entire army is convenient. We get that. But while Yoda was sending wave after wave of mindless clones to their deaths, did anyone stop to consider whether or not enslaving an entire race might be a bad thing or, at the very least, un-Jedi-like behavior? It's true that they were bred for battle and even designed to be genetically obedient, but that doesn't really change the fact that they are sentient slaves of the Republic.
In fact, them being created and designed for self-sacrifice really makes the whole situation that more horrifying. Utilizing the clones just because they've been bred for war isn't better; that's like saying, "No, no, it's cool, they're allowed to be soldier slaves because they've been soldier slaves since they were children."
Broken will to live included.
And they're the good guys!
#4. Lt. Col. Rhodes Puts the Iron Man Suit in the Wrong Hands So It Doesn't Fall into the Wrong Hands
The Moral:
The central conflict in Iron Man: 2 is this: Should Tony Stark be allowed to keep his one-man-army suit to himself or be forced to share it with the government? (The secondary conflict is "Look out, that robot warrior has WHIPS!")
He'll whip you in fucking half!
It's an interesting debate. On one hand, it's kind of a dick move to fly around all by yourself in arc-reactor-powered jet boots and not share that action with the rest of the world (not to mention totally unsustainable as a national defense plan). On the other hand, the rest of the world is full of lunatics who will no doubt use the technology for unspeakable crimes.
Stark decides to keep the armor to himself, but once we get introduced to Ivan Vanko (a combination of Crimson Fury from the comics and whichever one of Mega Man's villains had whips), the U.S. government gets really worried. If some Russian guy can build his own lightning-whip vest in his dank one-roomer, surely North Korea or Iran can eventually figure it out. This is why they call upon Lt. Col. Rhodes, a close friend to Tony, to try to talk Tony into giving up the goods.
Of course, the request is just him asking in the way you'd ask a dog to drop the ball.
Negotiations prove fruitless, as Tony has become more reckless, arrogant, selfish and just all-around douchey. Left with no other choice, Rhodes snatches one of Tony's back-up suits and turns it over to the government who, with the help of Tony's professional rival Justin Hammer, weaponizes the suit further.
Unfortunately for everything except the plot, Hammer has been secretly working with Vanko, the very same wrong hands everyone was worried about the whole film. This makes for many killer robots, followed by the expected explosions and death that would come with such killer robots, and it's up to Tony and Rhodes to team up and save the day.
When the smoke clears, Rhodes, now seeing just what this technology can do in the hands of one maniacal individual, does the responsible thing and returns ownership of the suit to Tony ...
This way, no more than 50 percent of America's military might is controlled by career alcoholics.
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... the alcoholic narcissist playboy billionaire.
Sure, early in the movie Tony thought he was dying of some kind of plot-device-related blood poisoning, which might explain away his reckless and erratic behavior. And, sure, he's been cured of the blood poisoning, so it's possible that he'll be less reckless, but still, eventually he's going to actually die, right? And even alive, he's still an asshole. He's still not going to work with the government, even though he's seen what happens when they're forced to blindly fumble around with his inferior competitors. But at least Rhodes knows better, right?
"OK, what haven't I exploded yet?"
Wrong. When the film ends, we last see Rhodes flying off, playfully telling Tony that he plans to borrow the suit and take on the role of War Machine. Even though the entire movie highlighted the dangers of giving total power to an individual, Rhodes is fine with that as long as he's the individual with the power. This is like a teacher insisting that a student share his gum with the rest of the class, but then decides it's OK as long as HE gets a stick. Only in this case the gum can kill people with missiles.
#3. Ethan Hunt Is Fooled Not Once, Not Twice, but Four Times in Mission Impossible
The Moral:
With all its ridiculous plot twists and ultra-action, it's hard to imagine any coherent moral lesson coming from a series of films that play out less like spy movies and more like an imaginary playground game. Even the name of Hunt's agency, Impossible Mission Force, sounds more like something scrawled onto the side of a treehouse than onto a government-run building.
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"Our front company is the International Monetary Fund."
But the movies are fun to watch. And there is one clear through line: Ethan is a good spy and a good man who loves his country and the company he works for.
Even though that company is fucking terrible.
First of all, Ethan gets wrongfully disavowed and hunted down by IMF in two of the three films, making them statistically more harmful than helpful. On top of that, in all three of these movies the bad guy is actually an agent for the IMF. All three films. This means that every problem of the series could go away if the agency had simply called it quits sometime in the '80s.
The Miss:
You can tell just from the preview alone that Hunt is back to his old ways of running on the sides of tall things while in a constant state of explosion-caused propulsion. He is once more working for the IMF and from the looks of it is once more disavowed by them.
Look, it's one thing when your bosses repeatedly fuck up, it's another thing when they fuck up AND treat you like garbage -- and boy do they treat him like some salty garbage in the third film, when Ethan's boss learns that he led an unauthorized mission to successfully capture a known enemy because of information he withheld from the agency. So what does he get? Paid leave? A demerit of some kind?
Nope! A sweet mouth patch!
Oh OK, Hannibal mask it is then.
By the third film, you'd think that after Hunt had saved the world twice in the past they would perhaps listen to what he has to say instead of instantly gagging him and assuming he's turned bad, but then again we're talking about an agency that has had a different boss for every damn film.
The newest is played by Metallica.
So after all that, he's learned absolutely nothing. It would be one thing if Ethan Hunt was like James Bond, who has absolutely no passion outside of his work and therefore would pursue adventure after adventure -- but we've seen just the opposite from him up to this point. He's even married and completely in love in MI:3 -- why wouldn't he just quit or work for literally any company that won't repeatedly disavow him and consistently hire traitors? There are so many companies that hardly ever do either of those things, Ethan. NYPD. FBI. Sports Authority. So many, Ethan. What's it going to take to get you to realize that IMF is the crazy ex-girlfriend of jobs?


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Colorfest Gallery Walk was so named to correspond with the changing leaves of the San Juan Mountains, and this year the timing is almost perfect. The autumn colors are always a source of inspiration for artists, and that is what inspired the first fall gallery walk about 18 years ago, though artists tend to come up short when it comes to archival skills and the actual date of origin is a matter of debate.
No matter. The weather is expected to cooperate with tonight�s festivities, for which the 11 members of the Durango Gallery Association and a few venues along for the ride will stay open late. Most will offer refreshments and some will have live music as well:
Durango Arts Center, 802 East Second Ave.: Western art for the Durango Cowboy Gathering; also �Feeble Points of Reference� by Alicia McKim in the Art Library.
Karyn Gabaldon Fine Arts, 680 Main Ave.: Watercolors by Laurel Covington Vogl.
Gadugi Center for the Arts, 734 Main Ave.: Multiple local and regional artists.
Wildshots Gallery, 734 Main Ave.: Photography of Claude Steelman.
Azul, 781 Main Ave.: Featuring local and regional artists.
Open Shutter Gallery, 735 Main Ave.: Composite photography by Fran Forman.
Sorrel Sky Gallery, 828 Main Ave.: Navajo jeweler Ray Tracey and Durango painter Phyllis Stapler.
Toh-Atin Gallery, 145 W. Ninth St.: Panamanian baskets with Jennifer Kuyper of Rain Forest Baskets.
Earthen Vessel Gallery, 115 W. Ninth St.: �An Evening with Nick Blaisdell,� master potter of Dalton Ranch Pottery.
Diane West Jewelry & Art, 934A Main Ave.: �Local Texture� with local artists Pat Hartman and Amaral Sequeira-Munoz.
Studio &, 1027 Main Ave.: Artist Rosie Carter and other local artists.
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Because we weren't chilly enough (and apparently needed a little more "toughening up" as we prepare for winter to arrive in full force)… the National Weather Service has dropped our projected overnight lows even lower!
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Our lows are now forecasted to be only a couple of degrees above zero, and windchills could be as low as minus 10 degrees. Saturday night and Sunday night will be frigid as well, but not quite as extreme, with overnight lows improving by several degrees (heat wave!).
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Is it safe to do sit-ups or stomach crunches in the early stages of pregnancy? When should you stop?
It can be safe all the way through pregnancy (albeit more and more difficult towards the end)
My wife asked the doctor this when we discovered she was pregnant with our first, as she was then doing upwards of 400 sit-ups every evening, and the comment back was that it was much better to be doing that than not exercising.
The comment was just to avoid doing it if it hurt, and when she was much bigger she found that full crunches were just not possible any more, so had to settle for a month of gentle crunches. The doctor also said to just be aware of joints loosening towards the end of pregnancy and to take care not to do twisting sit ups at that pont - but they weren't possible then anyway.
A lady at the gym I use worked out regularly throughout her pregnancy, including situps/crunches/leg lifts. I asked her about it and she said her doctor told her no worries, just pay attention and avoid exercises that hurt differently than before pregnancy. She stopped running because it became uncomfortable but walked and used an elliptical machine.
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As the granddaughter of the illustrious author Ernest Hemingway, Mariel Hemingway was destined to be in the public eye. But at just thirteen years old, Mariel became famous in her own right as she made her feature film debut in Lipstick. Four years later, she earned an Oscar nomination for her role in Woody Allen's film Manhattan. Mariel is an actress, model, yoga instructor, mother of two teenage girls, and one of the leading voices for holistic and balanced living. She is the author of Mariel Hemingway's Healthy Living from the Inside Out.
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It is said that if we create index on a column with more uniqueness than performance of that index will be more. But I believe that whether it is unique or not it will occupy same no. of blocks than why due to uniqueness it will be faster.
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The more unique the key is, the more you filter the data. For example if you had an index on a field with only 2 unique values such as gender, the index would only split the search space in half or the number of records / 2.
Choosing to index a field with a greater amount of unique records (cardinality) will divide the search space further until you reach a unique key where every key maps to one record, which is the most efficient index.
A unique index guarantees that the index key contains no duplicate values and therefore every row in the table is in some way unique. Specifying a unique index makes sense only when uniqueness is a characteristic of the data itself. For example, if you want to make sure that the values in the
The benefits of unique indexes include the following:
Creating a PRIMARY KEY or UNIQUE constraint automatically creates a unique index on the specified columns. There are no significant differences between creating a UNIQUE constraint and creating a unique index independent of a constraint. Data validation occurs in the same manner and the query optimizer does not differentiate between a unique index created by a constraint or manually created. However, you should create a UNIQUE or PRIMARY KEY constraint on the column when data integrity is the objective. By doing this the objective of the index will be clear.
Performance does not necessarily increase if an index is marked unique, though there are many good reasons to make an index unique if it is guaranteed to be so. One consideration is integrity:
Uniqueness has the biggest potential for performance gains in the query optimizer. Uniqueness guarantees allow many simplifications to be applied, and these usually result in 'better' execution plans. In the best case, a uniqueness guarantee might allow entire operations to be 'optimized away', which will usually benefit performance markedly.
The storage engine can also benefit from uniqueness, even though physical storage size may be unaffected either way. Take the common example of an equality seek on an index. If the index is constrained to be unique, the storage engine can perform a singleton seek: knowing that at most only a single value can be returned allows certain physical optimizations to be applied.
Where an index is not defined as unique, the storage engine must scan (forward or backward) from the starting point to ensure it returns all duplicated values. Performance testing shows that singleton seeks on a unique index can be 30-40% faster than the seek + range scan that occurs on the same data and non-unique-index. The situation is not entirely clear-cut however, if SQL Server uses linear interpolation search on a unique index with an unfortunate data distribution, performance can be 70% worse (on 64-bit systems).
Perhaps the biggest hidden cost to uniqueness is the cost of enforcing it. The storage engine always needs to perform extra work to check for uniqueness violations when modifying a unique index. Overall, my advice is still to enforce uniqueness wherever it logically exists, but to also be aware of the downsides of uniqueness too.
To the performance of index affect following things:
So, the more versatile values indexed field will have in all indexed rows - the less work will be performed by Sql Server's optimizer to find the hit


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Do you remember your favorite teacher? Why did you love them so much? Maybe you are really lucky and you have more than one favorite. I have one favorite teacher. I first met her as my 4th grade teacher, when half of my class was in 4th grade and the other half was in 5th grade, we called it a 4th/5th grade split. But I was extra lucky, and I got to stay with her in fifth grade, too. I know the reason I love her so much isn't because I was with her for two years; it's because she truly shaped the person I am today.
Every single day I hear at least one of her wonderful pieces of advice floating through my brain, "Never assume," "Never use 'most' or 'more' and '-est' or'- er' together in the same sentence," "Irregardless is not a word," "'A lot' is two words!" But most importantly, she gave me confidence. I was not the most popular student in grade school. I was self-conscious about my red hair and glasses. I was fine with my freckles, but I had a stain on my front tooth. Even though I smiled a lot, I always kind of figured the person I was smiling at was looking at my stain and not at me.
Miss Dunkelberg taught me to own all of that. She showed me that I was smart, and that I knew what I was doing, so I should stop second guessing myself and just do it. Most of all, she valued me for me. She saw that I was a quirky 10-year-old who loved to imagine I was on adventures far more exciting than my regular school day, and she let me use those in my assignments. After a couple of instances, she got used to me coming to class dressed like a cowgirl because I was comfortable in the outfit, not because I was practicing for Halloween. When I asked if I could do something different with an assignment she had given to the class, I was sure she would say no, but she didn't. She said yes! I learned that all I needed to do was ask for what I wanted. "If you don't ask, you'll never know." The wisdom she so willingly shared with my ten-year-old self remains today. Miss Dunkelberg was truly the best teacher I have ever had, and I know that I'm not the only student who has felt that way about her. Of course I didn't stop learning about myself after 5th grade, but she helped me see my own potential for awesomeness, and I now know that's exactly what I needed in order to grow.
National Teacher Appreciation Day is on May 7. Last year, we asked teachers what they wanted most from their students. It was no surprise that all of them said the best gift would be a meaningful "Thank you" from their students and the parents of their students. So we went to our creative team and came up with some printable "Thank you" cards that you can print out, decorate, sign and give to the educators in your life that you appreciate. Think about your own teachers that you currently have or your children's teachers, but don't forget about those teachers that made a difference to you when you were growing up. Imagine how it would make their day to receive one of these sweet notes from you in the mail. What a great way to truly thank them, by showing that you remember and really appreciate the effort they made to connect with you when you were younger.
Here are the cheerleader cards.
Who were the teachers that made a difference in your life? Tell us about them in the comments below.


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Almost all online writing workshops/classes/programs websites have scores of testimonials from students. It is very difficult to understand whether these really are students or paid testimonials. So, do online writing classes really help improve writing skills?
I think it depends on what you're looking for. People take writing classes for several reasons: to receive instruction from a teacher; to meet other writers; to have your work critiqued by a group; to be part of a community of like-minded souls.
So let's break down the answers according to those motivations.
Let's say at the outset that you should choose where to take your class based on the qualifications of the institution. It might be affiliated with a "real" as well as a virtual organization, such as New York Writers Workshop or Gotham. Or it might be affiliated with a major magazine, such as Writer's Digest. If you choose to take an online class, make sure it's with a well known, reputable outfit, and with teachers who have credentials in the kind(s) of writing they teach.
Now for the wanting to receive instruction from a teacher motivation. The way online classes often work is that you have a set amount of time to correspond one-on-one with your teacher, the teacher will read and comment on assignments, and be available during the time of the class.
There are limitations to electronic communication (lack of facial expression, tone of voice, etc.) but there are also advantages to it (people sometimes communicate more clearly in writing) so whether a virtual or physical classroom works best is largely an individual matter. If you're looking for critique and feedback about your work, I'd say that the skill of the teacher matters a lot more than whether you meet face to face or not. However, skill is sometimes more quickly assessed in person--several weeks can go by in an online setting before you know if you and the teacher really "jell".
Moving on to meeting other writers...in physical workshops, the interaction often continues after the class has ended, with members of the group meeting up in a coffee shop to keep workshopping and talking. This is harder to accomplish with an online class, in part because knowing whom you click with can be harder to assess. But it has been done with online classes creating Yahoo groups to continue the interaction.
Group critique is often the most valuable part of taking a writing class--and it's always a hard thing to get, at least when you're talking about good group critique. Some people will have edits to offer no matter what, even if a piece is working well--they're editors and that's what they do. Some people will praise everything; others will dislike everything. Finding people who can really tap into your intent as writer and figure out where your piece hits it or goes awry is like finding gold in the California gold rush. You're as likely to find such people in an online class as a physical one--but without the extra chatting and interaction that happens in a "real" class it can take longer to figure out who's who.
The writers community stuff is basically answered by the above. There are online communities that are at least as stable and long-lasting as physical ones. They can offer support, interaction, an exchange of ideas, and inspiration. The chance that any one class will lead to such a community is small--but so is the chance that one physical class will.
In short, if you're someone who is comfortable online, doesn't require the subtleties of physical interaction, and you can find an excellent outfit, online classes can provide instruction, critique, and even some fellow writers to meet.
Short answer: online writing workshops can be helpful, if you're careful to chose a good one, and if your level of writing and professionalism is in the same rough vicinity as the course. Additionally, almost any workshop has the immediate bonuses of A) encouraging you to write regularly, and B) getting some feedback on your work (though it might not necessarily be helpful feedback). Those are nice bonuses, but often easy to find elsewhere.
Let me expand on those.
Obviously you want a good workshop. You're quite right about testimonials being unreliable - they could be outright fakes, or lacking context, or from people whose opinion you wouldn't respect. So how do you find a good one?
(Personally, I've had a very good experience with Critters.)
Let's talk about appropriate level.
Finally, the bonuses - the very framework of a steady stream of feedback is, for many people, an encouraging, helpful one. This means the group doesn't have to teach you how to write (although it might); it may be enough that it encourages you to put more effort and polish into your writing. And writing is, of course, the best way to learn how to write. So this should be a serious consideration. On the other hand, a workshop can require a lot of effort, and possibly wading through a lot of unhelpful commentary and uninteresting manuscripts. Feedback and persistence can be had elsewhere; workshops are very good sources for them, but hardly exclusive ones.
Oh, and one last important note - one significant bonus you can get from workshops is to hone your own critiquing skills. That's a huge benefit, because it lets you see for yourself what works well and doesn't, and gives you lots of experience editing and suggesting revisions - all of which applies wonderfully to your own work forever after.
I hope these are helpful considerations in deciding whether a workshop can be helpful to you, and which one. Best of luck!
You won't like this answer: It depends.
First: I've never taken a online class. But I know a German online teacher, who led his students to bestsellers. I know this, because the German writing magazines reported on his online course. Yes, now you have to trust the magazines, but well ...
Besides that you should inform yourself about the courses from different sources, it also depends on yourself and how the course is organised. During the above mentioned class, you start writing your novel and send the pieces to the teacher, he revises, sends it back, repeat.
There are a lot of authors out there, who would never show their work in progress to someone else. Not their agent, not their editor, not their spouse. So, not only must the teacher be reputable, his kind of teaching must fit with your kind of writing. Good luck searching.
I asked this question myself. But I gave up researching and continued to write. For me it's a much better writing class.
I'm an online tutor. I don't know that online writing classes "do" help improve writing skills, but I know they can. It's a matter of finding a tutor who is not only skilled, but compatible with your personality. Of course you must decide that for yourself.
As long as you have someone who advises you, and get to write a lot, it will help. Further expanding on the question: You can only get so far with only theory or only practice; theory is necessary: it helps you write in certain ways expressly to create effect. Practice is also necessary: it helps you exercise the mindset you need to write. So the best would be to work with a tutor, write whatever assignments you get and then some more, presenting the assignments and the extra work to the tutor. They can then advise you on things you have done that might not be covered by the tutoring program, or that weren't directly treated in the normal course of the tutoring, thus helping you get farther, faster.
I'm a big supporter of any kind of online writing community. Classes give you a chance to meet others, work with experts, and it gives you deadline pressure to write (which a lot of writers benefit from).
I have provided my top five suggested online writing classes in a post on my blog.
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5 Terrifying Ways Police Can Legally Screw You Over
Although Hollywood likes to tell us otherwise, being a cop is far from Lethal Weapon-style no-holds-barred crime solving. Real police officers operate under a thick book full of rules and regulations intended to protect the rights of people like you.
It would be easy, then, to assume that you're safe from getting screwed over as long as you obey the law, or at least keep your crimes minor and private. You'd be wrong. In America, the courts have again and again given the police all sorts of leeway to royally screw up your life for almost no reason at all. It's just that most of you haven't been unlucky enough to find out that the police can legally ...
#5. Throw You in Jail and Repeatedly Strip Search You (Even if You're Innocent)
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Strip searching is not in vogue these days. Ten states have made strip searching prisoners downright illegal, and even the federal government -- the people who are generally cool with stuff like Guantanamo -- looks down on it. This is because strip searches are a slippery slope at best: They are both humiliating and a potentially massive violation of human rights, to the point where they can cause diplomatic scandals. And they can be done to you at any time, for the tiniest misdemeanors that may or may not have happened at all. And there isn't a damned thing you can do about it.
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Even chastity belts merely postpone the inevitable.
Take the case of Albert Florence, the last guy you'd imagine getting shit from the cops: As a happily married family man with a spotless record, he was the definition of an average, non-threatening middle-class dude. This did little to save him from the long, overly grabby hand of justice when a cop pulled him and his wife (who was driving) over for speeding ... and promptly arrested Florence. Their computer said he had an unpaid fine from seven years ago, and thus he had an arrest warrant on his ass. So, off to jail he went, where they kept him locked away for a full week.
Florence's only entertainment in the strange pit of despair his life had suddenly become were the two full-on strip searches he had to go through, complete with the whole "lift your balls in front of observers and cough" experience. Keep in mind that this was just a dude with an unpaid ticket. He wasn't a violent offender or a likely connoisseur in the fine art of rectal smuggling. There was literally no reason to put him through a strip search or, for that matter, throw him in jail, because in reality Albert Florence had no unpaid fines whatsoever. He had totally paid that shit years ago, and he had a receipt to prove it. It was just an administrative error.
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Yes, he had the receipt with him during the arrest. That just made the officers more suspicious.
Jail time interspersed with liberal stripping and nut sack-swinging search action did not make a fan out of Florence, who took that shit to court the second he was released. However, as the Supreme Court was happy to point out, the judicial system is completely cool with fondling minor offenders, even ones that turn out not to be offenders at all.
#4. Search Your Cellphone
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Think about all the stuff you have on your cellphone: your text messages, a complete list of everyone you know, a complete log of every time you contacted them, photos of yourself and everyone you know ... hell, just glance at a person's phone and every last speck of their privacy is gone. You know everything. Law enforcement is well aware of this, and as such treats your phone with the utmost respect, by which we mean they're totally allowed to grab your phone mid-sexting and start browsing through your impressive collection of dick pics any time they feel like it.
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"Plus, what's that, a video of this very arrest? Whoops, deleted."
Like everything in today's America -- from quality television to ridiculous dentist bills -- it all started with a meth dealer. Abel Flores-Lopez was your everyday wannabe Heisenberg, pushing methamphetamine to the hardworking souls of Indiana. Only he wasn't too subtle about his work -- a police informant heard him gossiping on his phone about where he was going to sell his latest batch. The informant went straight to the cops, who swooped right in, arresting Flores-Lopez and a customer. For evidence, they took his phone and, with no search warrant whatsoever, rifled through its contents, checking the call history to make sure the time matched the informant's testimony, which it did.
Flores-Lopez appealed his arrest, arguing that the cops had no right to rummage through his private phone and thus had obtained the evidence illegally. After all, in the pre-cellphone era, the police would certainly need a warrant to search your phone records or look through your mail. Why would that change now that all of the same information happened to be stored in electronic form on one handy pocket device? The fact that this personal information is easier to access means it needs more legal protection, not less.
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"But your honor, the government has already stolen all that information anyway!"
But Judge Richard Posner of the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals disagreed -- he promptly shot down the appeal and ruled that "containers" found on someone can be searched during arrest, comparing a cellphone to a diary. In other news, the cops can apparently snatch your diary whenever they feel like it.
The Obama administration has since sided with the judge, specifically recommending that the Supreme Court rule in favor of warrantless cellphone searches in future proceedings. But hey, you don't have anything on your phone you don't want strangers to see, right?
"Just a couple spam texts and my Snake score."
"Not me!" you say, "I keep that stuff on my laptop at home!" Well, guess what else the cops don't need a warrant to do ...
#3. Confiscate Your Laptop
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If there's one piece of personal property that law enforcement absolutely cannot touch without a ton of paperwork, it's got to be your computer. Movies confirm that the bad guys' mainframe can only be accessed through cunning plans involving a full team of agents and one eccentric computer geek. Even if you're running a drug cartel or actively researching weird shit about the leaders of the free world, the government can't go searching through your personal files without a shitload of probable cause.
Unless you attempt to cross a border. In that case, your laptop is now theirs, if they want it.
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No normal rules apply at the border.
Pascal Abidor, a major in Islamic studies, was traveling between New York and Canada when the Border Patrol yanked him off the train, locked him up, and interrogated him about why he felt the need to be so Muslimy about everything. While this was going on, his laptop was taken and searched, and they found something so filthy and un-American that they needed 11 more days to comb through it. The compromising material that gave them this right was a bunch of Islamic pictures, something clearly only a terrorist would possess. Or, you know, a grad student majoring in Islamic studies.
Abidor was eventually released, and he showed his appreciation by immediately suing the government, because come on. He had some unexpected backup, too: The National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers and the National Press Photographers Association also filed suit, recognizing that both professions would be royally fucked if a policy of "let's confiscate every laptop with weird pictures when their owners cross borders" took hold. Mutual interests make for weird orgies sometimes.
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Police also confiscate all videos of weird orgies.
Sadly, none of that swayed Judge Edward R. Korman of New York's Eastern District Federal Court, who squashed the suit. According to him, the federal government doesn't need a reason to search our computers at the border, and we shouldn't worry about it because those searches are, like, totally super rare anyway. And surely they'll stay rare, now that the courts have said that government agents can do it whenever they want, with impunity. That's how it works, right?


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Novel Evenings Book Club
The Novel Evenings Book Club meets the third Tuesday of every month at 6:00 p.m.at the Hilton Head Branch Library (except in November when we meet on the 4th Tuesday).
Everyone is welcome! Please direct your questions to Halle Eisenman, Reference Services, 255-6520 or firstname.lastname@example.com.
2014 Schedule
January 21 – Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail by Cheryl Strayed
February 18 – The Fault In Our Stars by John Green
March 18 – Middlemarch by George Eliot
April 15 – Z: A Novel of Zelda Fitzgerald by Therese Anne Fowler
May 20 – Shadow Divers by Robert Kurson
June 17 – The Valley of Amazement by Amy Tan
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