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We are delighted to have received this further prestigious national award, the 4th this year, for 360 degree safe, David Wright, SWGFL e-safety consultant.
The Internet Keep Safe Coalition (iKeepSafe) is thrilled to announce that partner South West Grid for Learning (SWGFL) has won yet another prestigious award for their 360 Safe Tool: The British Computer Society's Community Project of the Year Award.
The British Computer Society and Computing UK IT Industry Awards provide a platform for the entire IT profession to celebrate best practice, innovation and excellence. This year's awards featured 23 categories covering projects, organizations, technology and individual excellence.
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Like the Generation Safe™ 360 Self-Assessment Tool—which is a customized version of South West Grid for Learning's 360 Tool—schools use the tool to find out where they lie on the digital citizenship spectrum. Once they receive their results, they're directed through the next steps for achieving Gold Medal School certification.
"We are delighted to have received this further prestigious national award, the 4th this year, for 360 degree safe," David Wright, SWGFL e-safety consultant said. "It is clear from this and also the judge's comments that the tool has significant impact in schools to the benefit of the children and staff. Preparing and improving online safety provision is an increasing priority for schools and their leaders and it is fantastic that 360 degree safe can help in this very regard."
The three additional prestigious awards that Mr. Wright refers to include the: BETT (British Education Technology Tradeshow) Award, ISPA (Internet Services Providers' Association)
Across the United States and in Asia Pacific, teachers using the Generation Safe™ 360 Self-Assessment Tool have expressed their enthusiasm for the tool—clearly indicating that the awards are well deserved.
"Before Generation Safe, we talked about how to address issues of digital citizenship, but we had no common framework to drive our decisions," explained Senior Director of Instructional Technology from Tamalpais Union High School District, Joel Hames. "Now that we have completed the 360 assessment, we have been able to develop specific action plans, and to involve a broader group of stakeholders. All of this is contributing to a more robust and impactful digital citizenship program in our district."
iKeepSafe congratulates SWGFL for their impressive achievements this past year and looks forward to a continuous and successful partnership moving forward.
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Yes, but to be fair, Babbage thought Lovelace was nuts.
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This has required building relationships with a number of bodies. I recently announced that the project had been accepted into the portfolio of projects handled by the Computer Conservation Society. They will provide expert advice as needed.Plan 28: Analytical Engine project gets underway (Thanks, John!)
The other vital body to work with is The Science Museum in London. Doron and I have been working with The Science Museum team at many levels to ensure that the project is known about and that we would be able to get access to Babbage's plans and notebooks to perform the vital academic study of the Analytical Engine as Babbage imagined it. The first step to doing that research was to digitize the entire Babbage archive. Digitization greatly facilitates research as these precious documents can be viewed conveniently from around the world.
I am pleased to be able to say that The Science Museum agreed that digitization was vital and undertook this project. The work on digitization started on Monday, September 12 and early in October Doron and I will have access to the digitized versions of Babbage's plans and notebooks for study. This great first step on Plan 28 is, finally, underway. We are very, very grateful to The Science Museum and all we have worked with there for their support and for having undertaken this vital work that will benefit not only Plan 28 but all those who wish to study Charles Babbage's work wherever they are.
(Image: AnalyticalMachine_Babbage_London, Wikimedia Commons/Bruno Barral, CC-BY-SA-2.5.)
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Yes, but to be fair, Babbage thought Lovelace was nuts.
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If you visit London, do not miss The Science Museum. It's phenomenal. Plus, you can buy beer in the cafe.
Doron's book on the building of the difference engine (understandably, if confusingly, named "The Difference Engine" like the Gibson/Sterling novel) pretty much dismisses the Ada myth. While Ada did provide examples of engine programs (really just algorithms) in a series of notes to her translation of a French article about the Analytical Engine, they unfortunately seem to be paraphrases of Babbage's own work, not original work.
That doesn't mean she didn't put Babbage's work together in novel ways (also known as "programming").
In a way, I hope this is true. It would amuse me greatly if the computer scientist vs. programmer divide began in 1842…
Not if you are trying to cast Babbage as CS and Ada as Programmer. To Babbage, the engines were a form of notation. He was a mathematician firstly and knew that the difference between software and hardware is completely arbitrary.
She wrote notes on his programs, which included original code. While she did not move the state of the art forward, she did understand it which put her in a very select company of mathematicians indeed.
All you need is non-electric means of networking (which probably exists, but I don't know about) and you can make a working steampunk internet.
Needs pneumatic tubes.
Well, electric telegraphs existed in the 1830s, co-temporal with Babbage's work, so you can integrate the two and still be legit. ;)
(And yeah Gibson & Sterling did exactly this in _The Difference Engine_.)
As I recall, the replica difference engine was designed with period manufacturing, metallurgical, etc. in mind. Erm- it was designed to be period correct.
If the analytical engine truly wasn't able to be completed in part due to the "state of the art in precision engineering" then how are they planning on making it now?
I wouldn't mind if it were made like a watch- similar size gears, jeweled pivots and mating surfaces, etc. but that might not be as grandiose and impressive as the two difference engines that have been made so far.
But if we're not interested in being period correct, then I'd like to see a difference engine built with a 3D printer. Preferably a DIY 3D printer.
I think they cut the gearing for the Difference Engine replicas assuming tolerances that would have be achievable back in the day. My guess is they'd do the same here. Babbage designed assuming that the parts wouldn't be totally perfect. The limiting factor seems mainly to be that he couldn't afford to have that many parts cut by hand.
Someone needs to scan that so I can 3D print it.
Related: The Computer History Museum in Mountain View, CA has the second created Difference Engine #2 on display and demonstration. Here's some photos and video I took the last time I was there:
Info via The Computer History Museum
Photo: http://flic.kr/p/9jRJPS
Video: http://flic.kr/p/9jRKe9
Video: http://flic.kr/p/9jNFVn
How long before a patent troll sues them?
Whether or not Doron's book is an accurate reflection of history, I can't say. But 2D Goggles (http://sydneypadua.com/2dgoggles/lovelace-the-origin-2/ ) is much more entertaining, and therefore what I choose to believe what really went down.
Then what? A square root? Or pi to 4 places?
No discussion of Babbage's work is complete without a mention Tim Robinson's amazing Meccano work:
He's built several functioning Difference engines, and most amazingly, one of the control barrels from the Analytical Engine – complete enough to execute (what appears to be) a simple goto loop.
I saw him demoing a Difference Engine at the Maker's Faire a few years ago. It works!
The first step to doing that research was to digitize the entire Babbage archive.
Impossible! They'd need some sort of… some sort of… analytical engine to accomplish that!
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Shouldn't be too difficult to build a virtual prototype in Minecraft, right?
And.. no mention of the difficulty of the manufacture of Babbage's machine would be complete without noting that his nephew was Joseph Whitworth… yes the same Whitworth of the mechanical standards. At the time of Babbage no standardised thread or measure existed. You couldn't just go to the hardware shop and buy a tub of M6 nuts and bolts, they all had to be made by hand and no standard existed for threads or diameters. Whitworth's work with his uncle and the difficulties they had may well have spawned the desire for accuracy for which Whitworth is known to this day.
Doesn't sound right, although all Brits are related. Babbage did not work with Whitworth. He employed Clement and later with a mechanic whose name escapes me at the moment. Machinists said: "Babbage made Clement; Clement made Whitworth and Whitworth made the tools.
Ada Lovelace didn't design a computer language. She wrote the first known documented computer program.
You can read her original notes at The Analytical Engine:
"Sketch of the Analytical Engine" by L. F. Menabrea, translated and with extensive commentary by Ada Augusta, Countess of Lovelace. This 1842 document is the definitive exposition of the Analytical Engine, which described many aspects of computer architecture and programming more than a hundred years before they were "discovered" in the twentieth century. If you have ever doubted, even for a nanosecond, that Lady Ada was, indeed, the First Hacker, perusal of this document will demonstrate her primacy beyond a shadow of a doubt.
Wikipedia says:
Some biographers debate the extent of her original contributions. Dorothy Stein, author of Ada: A Life and a Legacy, contends that the programs were mostly written by Babbage himself. Babbage wrote the following on the subject, in his Passages from the Life of a Philosopher (1864).
I then suggested that she add some notes to Menabrea's memoir, an idea which was immediately adopted. We discussed together the various illustrations that might be introduced: I suggested several but the selection was entirely her own. So also was the algebraic working out of the different problems, except, indeed, that relating to the numbers of Bernoulli, which I had offered to do to save Lady Lovelace the trouble. This she sent back to me for an amendment, having detected a grave mistake which I had made in the process.
Even though Babbage designed the original program, it's clear Ada Lovelace was a programmer and perhaps debugger even before the computer the program was written for was ever built.
Dorthy Stein is rather sever on Ada. Ada's accomplishments were not negligible even if she did not rival Babbage; nobody did. This is not the only example of program writing before the machine is built.
>Ada's accomplishments were not negligible
I agree. The link to her original notes (my first blockquote) and Wikipedia's quote of Babbage (the sentence and paragraph after Dorothy Stein is mentioned) were attempts to support that view.
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The fourth-floor friends are back for a third season of nerdtastically laughable antics. From guest appearances by Wil Wheaton and Katee Sackhoff, to goth love, internet dating and North Pole expeditions, The Big Bang Theory: The Complete Third Season is full of laughs and some interesting new changes as the series continues to evolve.
All 23 episodes are included in this release, spread over two Blu-ray discs as follows:
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Ensemble sitcoms have been somewhat hit or miss over the years and it really all comes down to three somewhat obvious factors: writing, acting and chemistry. The Big Bang Theory has all three going for it in spades. One of the show's greatest strengths is the way the series' writers manage to pull pop culture references and nerd nods into what might otherwise be a relatively mundane concept for a sitcom. There is also a surprising amount of science throughout the series, helping it appeal to an even broader audience of well-read hermits. While canned laugh tracks and live audiences can be more of a distraction for home viewers, telling them when they should laugh, Big Bang Theory's live audience reactions only serve to support the smart writing and enhance the viewing experience.
Without strong ensemble connection, a series could (and usually does) fall flat on its face and fizzle out before the end of even a complete first season. As beloved series like M*A*S*H, Seinfeld, and Friends have shown us, when the chemistry between the actors works, freeing them to trust each other and really shine, a series excels and finds its way onto much-loved lists. Big Bang Theory began with a solid core cast of five characters and the producers knew just when and how to expand the ensemble to keep fans' interest and give more room for the actors to play and interact. Most notably, fans got to see more of Howard's girlfriend Dr. Bernadette Rostenkowski (Melissa Rauch, True Blood) and Sheldon's girl who is just a friend, Dr. Amy Farrah Fowler (Mayim Bialik, Blossom) at the end of the third season, both of whom would graduate to more core roles in the fourth season and beyond.
While each of the series' actors are remarkably skilled on their own, possibly the greatest strength of Big Bang Theory lies in the series' core cast. While the previous two seasons were definitely entertaining, Season Three is when the show truly seemed to find its groove. While the blooper reel and cast discussion found in the extra features show more of the off-screen personalities of the actors, the episodes themselves are a treat to watch as this group of friends get to play together. It's hard to believe these guys manage to get anything done, with such great material to work with and so many gifted actors to share in the process.
Let's be honest: the real reason you're reading this review is to find out whether to shell out the extra bucks for the Blu-ray version of this release or if the DVD version will serve you well enough. I have to confess that it has been some time since I did a side-by-side comparison of an SD presentation of a show or film, with an HD version. I gave season two a spin on DVD and was impressed by how clear the picture was, how true the colors seemed to be and how solid the presentation was overall. Not surprisingly though, the 1080p 1.78:1 Blu-ray presentation of The Big Bang Theory: The Complete Third Season will blow your mind! The image is razor sharp and crystal clear, the show's vivid color palette pops off the screen and find detail is consistently amazing throughout. While the audio mix leans somewhat towards the front of the room, audience reactions, music and other elements help create a pleasantly immersive experience.
I honestly have nothing negative to say about this release, aside from the slightly thin offering of extra features. "Takeout with the Cast of The Big Bang Theory" joins the core cast in Leonard and Sheldon's living room as they share Chinese food and stories from the series; actors Simon Helberg and Kunal Nayyar take fans on a tour of the series main sets and wardrobe department; and a painfully short blooper reel shows just how fun it must be to work on this series. It's a crime that with this many skilled people in front of and behind the camera, that fans aren't given commentary tracks on at least a handful of episodes.
The Big Bang Theory: The Complete Third Season is an easy recommendation to add to your Blu-ray library, especially if you're a fan. And if you're not a fan of this series yet, you owe it to yourself to check it out. The Big Bang ab workout you get with every show is not to be missed.
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The Rotaract Club of Birmingham (District 6860[citation needed]) is a service organization in Birmingham, Alabama.[1] It was founded in March 2004 by Birmingham natives Mike Mahon and John Peinhardt. The club is sponsored by 550 members of the Downtown Rotary Club, and has access to the resources of Rotary International (RI) and The Rotary Foundation. With about 230 members, the club is currently the largest community-based Rotaract club.[2]
The club holds bi-monthly luncheons at the Harbert Center[3] in downtown Birmingham. It meets on the first and third Thursday of every month and hosts guest speakers at its events. Speakers have included William Bell, the mayor of Birmingham, Bob Riley, governor of Alabama, John Johns, president and CEO of Protective Life Corporation, Hatton Smith, president and CEO of Royal Cup Coffee and Kate Nielsen, president of The Community Foundation of Greater Birmingham.
The club holds a number of social and networking events, including monthly happy hours, and promotes a "Service Above Self" Rotarian concept. In 2005, Rotaract chose literacy as a focus and targeted second grade reading comprehension.
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The club has a board of directors with ten members that serve one-year terms. The 2011-2012 the board consists of the following people:
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How to bring legend and search for WMS layer in QGis? I can see the WMS layer in Qgis but can't make any legend for identifying feature types and searching in WMS layer?
You cannot search in a WMS layer because a WMS doesn't have an attribute table. It's just an image.
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Lemon Chicken Skewers
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Taken in the issue of June 2003 of Coup de Pouce. I tried this recipe and it's really good. In the preparation time, there is 15 minutes included for the marinade time.
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- 2 tablespoons olive oil
- 2 tablespoons fresh lemon juice
- 3 garlic cloves, chopped finely
- 1⁄2 teaspoon dried thyme
- 1⁄2 teaspoon salt
- 1⁄4 teaspoon pepper
- 1 lb boneless skinless chicken breast, cut in 1-inch pieces
- 1 green bell pepper, seeds removed and cut in 1-inch pieces
- In a bowl whisk together : olive oil, lemon juice, garlic, thyme, salt and pepper. Add the pieces of chicken and toss to coat well. Let marinade for 15 minutes. (You can prepare the pieces of chicken until that step and cover with plastic wrap. They'll be good until 24 hours in the fridge).
- Prepare barbecue to medium-high heat. Remove the chicken from the marinade and put them on 8 metal skewers (or wood skewers but soaked in water), alternate with the pieces of green bell pepper. Put the skewers on a greased grill and cook 12 to 16 minutes or until the chicken is golden and is not pink inside. Turn the chicken skewers occasionnaly.
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Made these for my folks on a Friday night -- the quick marinade was just what we needed for a last-minute grilled meal. Everyone enjoyed them. I added some red onion too to go with the green peppers.
Quick and tasty. Lemon,chicken,garlic and thyme in perfect harmony...you can't go wrong! Easy enough to make even the most novice of cooks look accomplished! A great mid week supper dish. Thanks Boomie.
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I am currently pregnant through IVF with my 1st due November 21, 2012. I am 33wks tomorrow with 1 baby girl. I have seen that IVF is a high risk for preterm labor/early birth. I am wondering if anyone who had a singleton through IVF, how far along you were when you gave birth? If you can help, Thanks.
IVF moms, PLEASE HELP. Risk of IVF pre-term birth to singleton?
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Just today, I looked after twins born at 33 weeks. They were on CPAP for 24-48 hours, and now they are just working on feeding. They are about a week and a half old and have no IVs and are starting to learn to breastfeed.
Good job getting this far, and I wish you all the best!
Thank you so much for responding. Do you see early birth due to IVF because many are twins or do you see many also for singleton?
I don't know the term CPAP? a week and a half and no IV's seems postive.
I just happen to come accross the info and I am a google junkie, but overall I am healthy and my pregnancy seems normal. My OB considers me high risk still, and I see a perinatal 1x a month in addition to my 2x mo Ob. So when I saw this it woried me a little, but overall I am hopeful that I will continue to have a fully term pregnancy
Thank you again, it was really nice that you are so supportive. Your job must be very intense. (in both an exciting and scary way)
My pregnancy wasn't considered high risk, but I had borderline high thyroid levels, so I had to do the non-stress test (think that is what it is called) every week for the last month or so, but otherwise I had a pretty normal pregnancy and birth.
Good luck! I am sure it will be just fine :)
I delivered 5 days before my due date through singleton IVF. I was also considered a high risk pregnancy.
No need to worry: at 33 weeks, your LO is pretty well developed. Congrats!
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You are all so amazing for responding. Thank you so much. I am going to get it out of my head and enjoy! ( well try to..) When I came accross the info it made me nervous, but with your help I will relax.
Thanks again everyone!
IVF does seem to increase the risk of preterm birth, but I think the risk is partly because there are more multiples, too. IVF singletons are definitely seen less often than twins in my unit.
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Fox Sports Wisconsin will televise all of the games in the first-round series between the Milwaukee Bucks and the Atlanta Hawks.
On Thursday FS Wisconsin announced that all of its first-round telecasts in the Bucks-Hawks series will be in HD.
At least Game 1 and Game 3 of the series will be televised by ESPN (also in HD) and can be seen by viewers in the Milwaukee market. The ESPN telecast of Game 1 will have Dan Shulman on play-by-play with Jon Barry on analysis and sideline reporter Ric Bucher.
Barry said in an interview Thursday afternoon it was a shame Bucks center Andrew Bogut was lost for the season on a freak play.
"I don't think a lot of people know around the NBA how good he was playing," Barry said. "He was No. 2 in the NBA in points per game in the paint. Terrific low-post player. He rebounds. He can make plays. Just a highly skilled big guy. When you take that out of the lineup, Milwaukee has a very difficult time scoring."
Barry thinks the Bucks' biggest challenge against the Hawks will be to score against a team he describes as big, athletic and versatile.
"They can switch at almost every position, which makes them a better defensive team than people might think," Barry said. "They do a great job of taking care of the basketball - fewest turnovers in the NBA. Star player in Joe Johnson. Jamal Crawford should be sixth man of the year."
However, since the Hawks generate so much offense with those two players, ball movement becomes a problem at times.
"They have had difficulties in tight games in the fourth quarter," Barry said. "They have a tendency to need a spectacular play to get them going. They seem to rely on alley-oops, big dunks or steals. But they are a difficult matchup team because of their size and athleticism."
Barry said he did not know his assignments beyond Game 1 in the series.
Game 2 of Bucks-Hawks will be televised by NBA TV, but it will be blacked out in the markets of the competing teams. So Milwaukee viewers will get only the FS Wisconsin telecast of Game 2, while Atlanta viewers get the FSN South-SportSouth telecast.
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FS Wisconsin, which also produces and carries most of the Milwaukee Brewers telecasts, is moving two Brewers games to WMLW-TV (Channel 41) to show Bucks playoff games.
Brewers at Pittsburgh on Tuesday and Pittsburgh at Brewers on April 26 have been bumped to Channel 41. The Chicago Cubs at Brewers game on April 24 had been scheduled to air on Channel 41.
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Round 1 is scheduled for Thursday night on ESPN. Rounds 2 and 3 are set for Friday night, starting on ESPN and then switching to ESPN2. Rounds 4 through 7 are on Saturday.
The new format gives more weight and focus to the first-round choices.
ESPN's Jon Gruden said the new format could lead to more deal-making between the first night and the second.
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ESPN studio analyst Jalen Rose predicted the Hawks will eliminate the Bucks, four games to one, in the first round.
In his power rankings of the playoff teams in the East, he has Atlanta fourth and Milwaukee eighth.
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If this ruling means I never have to read some kid's crappy writing again, so be it.
What do you want?
Sleeping in class is against the rules.
Are school administrators so fucking stupid as to think that suspending kids for writing stuff like this is going to somehow keep it from ever happening? I'm not saying that this girl is now going to shoot her math teacher, but if it were something she had been seriously contemplating, how would suspending her help?
The next generation is going to grow up pissed off. Let's see what happens.
Creative writing should be encouraged, not punished. I think it's bullshit. Where would our society be if artists, writers, musicians, etc. had been forbidden to broach certain unpleasant topics or ideas? This girl had an idea for a story, and it was a pretty good storytrite to be sure, but thrillingand she's being punished because the story had a kid with a gun in it. The kid didn't shoot the teacher and get away, the kid got shot; it wasn't glorifying violence in school whatsoever.
i think i have mixed feelings on this one. while i'd like the students to have creative freedom... this is exactly the essay that would be paraded in front of everyone if said student goes on a shooting spree. there are certain things you cannot share/comment/joke about while in certain places -- a bomb in an airport for instance. the questions is does school shootings fall into that category?
oops!!! the question is: do school shooting fall into that category. sorry about the high school writing moment there...
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Assuming this wasn't a joke and this girl is seriously considering a violent action like the one she described.... How the HELL would suspending her from school help?? She would need counseling and specific attention, not disciplinary action.
Haven't schools been cracking down on these stories since Columbine? I fail to see how the Bong Hits decision is involved.
great, now that she is suspended she'll have plenty of time to riffle dad's sock drawer for the keys to the gun safe.
If I'd been suspended every time I fantasized about shooting up my high school, I'd still be waiting to graduate 10 years later.
@keshmeshi - "the special characteristics of the school environment and the gov't interest in stopping student drug abuse...allows schools to restrict student expression that they reasonably regard as promoting illegal drug use. That same rationalle applies equally, if not more strongly, to speech reasonably construed as a threat of school violence"
I don't have a problem with using the bong hits ruling (that kid got suspended for being an idiot). The problem that I have is the court used Wikipedia to research its ruling....
It sounds like a dream journal. What's the big fucking deal? I'm glad the cowards and beauracrats policing our schools now weren't so pervasive in my day...some of the shit I wrote made this look like Curious George. They'd have sent me off to juvie and given me shock treatments.
Sorry, that's "beaurocrat."
was it *really* necessary to [sic] it to death? especially since you missed a few... i mean, c'mon...
Whenever I had a teacher in high school who droned on and on forever, I would fantasize about throwing my shoe. Just the thought of it hitting them in the head made it all better.
Should I have been suspended...?
Welcome to Soviet America, courtesy of the Red Bushies.
@8 steve, i assume it was neither a joke nor a serious threat. of course you never know. anyways, why the vitriol? of course if it was a serious threat she would need counselling and specific attention (which is punishment in itself!). but read that PDF file linked in the article. this was being passed multiple times in class after the teacher requested they stop, and the students were being obnoxious.
this is a case where the student needs to learn some common sense... seriously. there are times when you don't say certain things because it is not in your best interest. this is clearly one of those cases, as is talking about bombs in airports. a year expulsion might be extreme -- but i'm not talking about the punishment, i'm only saying that i don't think writing about shooting a teacher should be protected in every case.
if i were a teacher, i would want certain limits so i could do my job for the sake of the students who were interested. find a better case to support a student's free speech than this one. find a case where she writes about sex or something else normally objectionable. but let's give our poor teacher's a break on the student/teacher violence front.
i would like to note that in addition to being a disruption in class, the above link ends with, "Boim wrote for her schools student newspaper, The Sting." hardly a private journal entry, if that is the case.
@13 No, it's "bureaucrat." =)
"And then I woke up" is the oldest cliche in the pre-teen short story style guide. That alone is grounds for one week's detention.
That wasn't creative writing. I wrote shit like that in high school too. Lots of kids did. Boring. But I never killed anybody, either.
If you're a kid in school and you're stunned because a teacher overreacts to a story like that, you know exactly what you're getting into. Ever since Columbine it's been a knee jerk thing. And you're gonna be shocked that the school reacted the way they did? No wonder this genius can't write a coherent paper. D minus.
You mised a '[sic]' that'd be roll (as in roll call) not 'role'.
Seriously, it was difficult to read the damn story with all the damn '[sic]'s. I think we all understand that our education system doesn't successfully teach spellling to too many of our students, why not just let the story flow?
Huh. And an analyst of the Bonghit ruling stated that that ruling was a narrow, exceptional case and there was no need to worry about it being used as a precedent.
All I can say is, this is a student who obviously needs to spend MORE time in class, not LESS.
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What A Friend has lost his way since finishing fourth in the 2011 Cheltenham Gold Cup and, having not won since 2010, is very much an outsider but Ferguson felt there was some grounds for optimism.
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|8 Ounce, sliced
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|1 Clove (5 gm), finely chopped
|Vegetable oil
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Cover and simmer just until lettuce is wilted, about 5 minutes.
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Calories 577 Calories from Fat 290
% Daily Value*
Total Fat 33 g51.1%
Saturated Fat 4.3 g21.5%
Trans Fat 0 g
Cholesterol 0 mg
Sodium 1080.1 mg45%
Total Carbohydrates 64 g21.3%
Dietary Fiber 17 g68%
Sugars 20.1 g
Protein 17 g34.6%
Vitamin A 883.6% Vitamin C 248.1%
Calcium 33.3% Iron 64.6%
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I was talking to a client in the retail sector and reviewing the important figures in his company. A quick overview showed us that the sales were taking a dive and something needed to be done to increase those sales before the end of the quarter.
My first thought was to look at pricing strategies and consider an end of season sale to boost takings.
As a business coach, I usually guide my clients to the right answers. But in this case, the error in judgement and the potential profit impact was so high that I had to immediately banish the thought.
The idea that people will buy from you because you are the cheapest is totally flawed. There is a difference between price and value and the truth is, people are looking to buy value, not spend the least.
Discounting your product actually has a much larger impact on your business than you may think.
Imagine that your customer is paying £100 for your product or service. Let us take £60 as your direct costs. So with a total price of £100 and direct costs of £60, you have a gross profit of £40.
Now let us assume you decide on a 10% discount. You are reducing the amount that you get from your customer to £90. Your direct costs, however, remain the same at £60. Now you are making a gross profit of £30. The decrease in just 10% of the price is creating a 25% decrease in your actual profit. And the smaller your margin, the bigger the drop in profits.
So if you are planning to discount your product, make sure you assess the real impact on your business. Most of the time, it won't be worth it.
When business owners come to me for business coaching, they are usually trying to take their business to the next level. And yet, the only time they have ever increased their prices is because of an increase in costs.
This is a huge missed opportunity, especially for those who provide services. If you have been practicing your business for some years, your brand has gained value. You have proven that there is a market for your expertise and that in itself makes it more valuable.
When the value of your product or service has changed, you can reconsider your pricing strategies.
If your costs have not gone up, a small price increase can dramatically increase your profit margin. If your price is £100 and your costs are £60 and you put up your prices by just 10%, you are actually increasing your profit by 25%.
When you increase your prices, even by a small incremental amount, the effect on your profits can be just as dramatic as the damage that comes from discounting your products.
You cannot just increase prices whenever you like. You have to assess what the value is of the product you are offering and whether your price truly reflects that value. So your pricing strategies should focus not on price but on value.
One way of adding value is to assess your expertise. As a long-standing and trust-worthy business, you provide assurance to customers and you can add a premium for that assurance.
Another way is to identify your competitors and figure out how and why you are better. If you are not, then make yourself better so you can increase your prices.
It is possible to add value in some way without discounting, while providing a lower fee to your customers. You can do this by providing offers instead of discounts.
A really great example is what supermarkets do, where they offer vouchers for "£6 off your next £40 spend" or something to that effect. You can also create "buy 2 get 1 at half price" deals and add value without discounting too much much.
If you feel that you absolutely must offer a discount then make it work for you in some other way. An easy way to get value for your business out of a discount is to relate the discount to an early-bird payment or shorter credit terms such as, "10% off if you pay up front".
But whenever you can, say no to discounting. Instead, come up with smart pricing strategies to provide value without slashing your profits.
Copyright © 2015 Graham Thatcher
I read with great interest this week the news that Twitter is getting into the ecommerce space.
In an idea copied from the very popular US-based service Woot, Twitter will be advertising time-sensitive deals via a dedicated account (@earlybird). In a reversal of traditional marketing norms, you will only receive the daily deals by following the account.
Sites offering time sensitive deals, vouchers or private sales clubs have rarely been off the front pages of tech or retail blogs for the past year. It seems almost every day I am reading about a Groupon clone springing up. Even the old man on the digital high street, Amazon, is in the game with their recent acquisition of Woot.
I can see the attraction. As humans we like to feel special, we like the sense of getting a good deal or "beating the man". Sites like this play as much towards our egos as they do our budgets.
We can learn from this. Why not experiment with your online or traditional marketing or sales processes? Make things personal, spend time researching your customer base and tailor the offering. I love it when I walk into our local fishmongers and they know my name and what I normally buy. I always get offered something special that they know I would like. It may sound gimmicky, but it works.
Technology is enabling us, ironically, to become more personal. Why not give it ago?
Ben Dyer is CEO for SellerDeck
Companies are generally very good at collecting customer data. They have processes and systems in place to record every touch point a customer has with them. Whether it be in-store, online, through an email or direct mail campaign or via telesales and telemarketing, behaviour is tracked from various sources and saved into various systems.
However, all too often this data is not integrated, it is stored in different locations or departments (web databases/offline databases/telesales databases etc) and is never consolidated into one central location. As a result companies fail to create an individual customer view and ultimately miss seeing the value of their data.
This is because segmented customer data can't be analysed for trends or buying habits and opportunities to cross sell or up sell are missed. Most importantly, you cannot build a relationship with your customer without knowing everything about them.
By using an intelligent data management solution that will automatically pull customer data from your various sources into one central database, you can start to build an individual view of each customer, learn everything about them and begin to build valuable, meaningful relationships.
When you can see, on one simple interface who your customer is, their browsing and buying history, what messages they respond to, how they respond, at what time, what they like and don't like you can communicate with them in a relevant and targeted way, learn about them and understand how they interact with you. By doing this you begin to add real value to your data.
The next step needs to be taken in data capture and individual customer views need to be created to ensure trends and behaviours aren't missed or ignored and businesses can begin to learn about every aspect of their customer.
Local press has been having a torrid time of it lately. It seems that scarcely a week goes by without reports of more problems for titles and groups within the medium. It's also a tough time for small businesses, which are seeing their profits squeezed by the downturn, while knowing full well that there has never been a more important time to shout louder than others in their field. Given these circumstances it might seem like a very frightening time to commit precious promotional budget to a struggling medium. But there are alternatives, and now is a great time to explore them. A service such as Signposter.com, an online service helping UK businesses buy and manage outdoor advertising, offers a viable, effective, low-cost and risk-free way to build up promotional collateral free from any potential surrounding editorial negativity. There is no denying that local press has a role to play in the promotional mix for small businesses. It's a proven way of reaching consumers in a local area. But now is surely the time for local businesses to do some research and be more adventurous, and gain stand-out by doing so. Outdoor advertising is now within the reach of small business managers.
Some people think that price is everything. My son currently works in my company, SellerDeck, sitting beside me in the home office. His job is account managing customers who use our ecommerce web hosting. It's very instructive listening in. We're not the cheapest offering, although we believe that we offer good value. Since you will start losing orders and customers the second your ecommerce web site goes down, and Google research suggests that marginally slow sites reduce orders by 20%, you would expect quality of service to be the major topic of conversation. Often it is, but for a minority, price is all that matters. In fact, there are relatively few products and services where price should be the sole criterion. These probably include electricity, where the same stuff always comes down the same wire anyway, and petrol, where rival brands across town often sell petrol from the same refinery. But some people always focus on price. The question is; do you even want to speak to customers who only care about price? Wouldn't these customers be better hassling the competition? They not only pay less, they can also waste a lot of time. Competing on price requires the lowest possible cost base. So most businesses try to compete on overall value. My suggestion is if you aren't losing a few customers on price, you probably aren't charging enough. And those customers that you would lose from slightly higher prices, will probably be the very same ones that would be the least profitable and the most trouble.
I've been waging savage battles in my garden for some time, but recently I realised I was losing the war.
Despite a sustained campaign – the horticultural equivalent of shock and awe – the weeds just keep coming back for more. Wildly overgrown pear trees have launched a daring counter offensive behind my shed. My borders are barren and my lawn is baldy.
A few days ago, just when I was coming to terms with the painful realisation I'm no Alan Titchmarsh, a leaflet fell through my door, posted by a local landscape gardening firm. It looked professional, included endorsements from satisfied punters and promised "A high-quality service at an affordable price". Nothing groundbreaking: but effective enough.
It made me think. Sure, even the smallest firms need to harness cutting-edge marketing solutions. Like many people these days, when I need something I usually turn to Google first for help.
But while it's easy to focus on web and e-marketing, this shouldn't be at the expense of more traditional alternatives. You must get the basics right – and often this means low-cost or no-cost solutions.
Trevor's a lovely guy who lives a few doors down from my house. He's a central heating engineer: the sign on his van told me so. I didn't know him, but called his mobile and he came around and fixed my radiators last winter. I told my friends how good he was and they too got him in, this time to take care of the far greater job of fitting a new system.
I'm not sure whether Trevor has his own website (let alone Twitters), but I know he recognises the importance of doing a good job at a fair price, while the simple sign on his van probably enables him to get much of his work. I've also seen his card in our local newsagent's window.
My garden? Well, the landscape people gave me a good quote and will soon launch the final decisive battle. Look out weeds – victory is mine.


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"With its strong variety and balance of previous fairgoer favorites and new acts, the Northwest Bank Stage is definitely going to be one of the many highlights of the 2012 fair," fair manager Jeremy Parsons said.
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Looney Lutherans and Bob and Beachcombers take the stage Sept. 11-13. The Looney Lutherans come together for an interactive and family-friendly show involving music and comedy. Bob and Beachcombers will take the audience back to the classic rock and roll beach hits of the 60s and 70s, and perform other rock and roll favorites.
The final weekend at the Northwest Bank Stage will feature Jared Sherlock and Six Appeal, Sept. 14-16. Jared Sherlock's love for magic combines with humor for a performance that will amaze audiences of all ages. A male a capella group, Six Appeal uses strong vocals to span decades of oldies, current hits and original music.


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Dauphine Potatoes
Total Time
Prep 15 mins
Cook 30 mins
This recipe is basically a mixture of mashed potato and choux pastry, deep fried to golden deliciousness. I have been totally addicted to these ever since my first chef job, when I used to make the daily potato dish and that was a LONG time ago! These are so good I can even eat these cold straight from the fridge! They are also really good as part of a snack menu instead of chips (fries to you lot not from the UK) with a hot tomato dip.
Ingredients Nutrition
- 1⁄4 pint water
- 1 pinch salt
- 2 ounces butter or 2 ounces margarine
- 2 1⁄2 ounces strong flour
- 2 eggs, beaten
Potato Mixture
- 1 lb potato, cooked and mashed
- 1 ounce butter
- 1 egg yolk
- For the choux paste:.
- Bring the water, salt and butter to a boil in a saucepan.
- Remove from the heat.
- Add the flour and mix in with a wooden spoon.
- Return to a moderate heat and stir continuously until the mixture leaves the sides of the pan.
- Remove from the heat and allow to cool.
- Gradually add the beaten eggs, mixing well.
- Potato mixture:.
- Add the butter and egg yolk to the warm mashed potatoes; mix well.
- Season to taste.
- Mix the choux mixture and the potato mixture together, making sure they are well combined.
- Mould the mixture into cylinder shapes (or quenelle them using two spoons).
- Deep fry in hot oil (185 degrees C./365 degrees F.), until golden.
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A very nice dish. Since everything goes together, you can make it a bit more easily my mixing 3 beaten eggs (since getting just a yolk from a chicken is difficult) with the choux pastry and then adding the potatoes and butter (I riced mine first) to the choux-egg mixture. Finally, if you are spoon-quenelle challenged, place the whole preparation into a large freezer bag and cut off a corner. You can now easily pipe the product directly into the oil.
Thank you so much for adding this recipe!
I recently ate at the "Stork" in BusenBach , Germany
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Thank you again, its so yummy and amazing.
This is very nice. Thanks :-)