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hmm not me weird but they charged my card 1 dollarI gotta say this. I decided to try Apple for ordering this year, even though I've honestly never had any problems through AT&T. I only thought of doing this because of what I've heard from others last year about getting theirs a day early through AT&T and shipping. I finally gave up and went through AT&T again. I got as far as "add to cart" through Apple within the first few minutes and when I clicked on it, I got "session timed out". It basically worse after that with not even being able to have it check my eligibility with AT&T. I won't ever try that again. lol. Successfully ordered though AT&T. Hopefully the note about removing my unlitmited data won't actually happen. We will see.
Just got confirmation email within 2 mintues of placing order.
Your iPhone has been reserved.
I wouldn't worry about it if you see they charged your card. Did you also get the popup about your unlimited data (if you have that) being "NOT COMPATIBABLE" with the iPhone4s and it would be removed?
btw You only get "reserved" if you order through Apple I believe. Oh and as far as your email timing. I didn't get mine until almost 24 hours after I placed my order last year. I was worried and remember being upset that maybe I lost my place in line. In the end I had my phone by noon at my doorstep on the day it came out. With them charging your card, don't let the timing of when you get your email worry you imho.
ok so i re did the order got the email right away this time but i see 2 charges for 1 dollar on my card i think ill have to call them to assure i am not getting charged for two iphone 4s
i also got Thank you for your recent order! Your iPhone has been reserved. and i did through atnt not apple
Welll that's one way to make sure you get at least one. I'm guessing you didn't read my reply to your worries before ordering a second one.
Hopefully they don't both cancel each other out.
If the "Only 1 4S per account" is true for us AT&T oderers, I would think they would automatically cancel the second order. Of course, you never know and calling would be the only way to assure they don't.
I woke up at 2am and by 2:15 the apple store was still down so I went back to sleep and ordered at 7:15am with no problem and Oct 14 delivery.
Like many of you, I noticed that AT&T didn't have any clarification on the data plan. It just said my old one doesn't work. I didn't like that answer so I did a 611 and called their customer service. She didn't say what the data plan they were replacing the unlimited plan with was but she did say it wasn't what we had. A cursory look at their other plans showed a 200 meg plan for that price and my wife uses 2 gigs a month on average. Also, I was grandfathered in under some 1500 text plan, which wasn't offered on their site. Be careful when ordering as they can lock you into something you totally didn't intend to end up with.
"Awww man the 4S is so ridiculously over-priced, over-hyped and is just a speed boost and minor upgrade. But I'm still gonna get it anyway because Apple told me to."
Like I said....so many people whine when Apple doesn't give them what they want when they want......and those same people turn around and buy the under-expected product that Apple puts out there anyway.......which is why Apple will continue to ignore you and put the product THEY want out there.
So all of you stop complaining and go buy this phone because we all know you're going to cave in and get it sooner or later.
so if i want to get the new phone, i no longer get my $5 200 messages??????
i only send about 100 a month, which was perfect for me
i'm not interested at all in paying $20 for "unlimited" when all i need is that $5 plan.
it's stupid they don't offer it. if i stay on my current phone, i'll still have the plan.
they should be able to just give me a new hardware device and NOT have to change a freakin text messaging plan.
Ordered mine early this morning with no problem and Oct.14th delivery also.
i hope so =/
i've been a customer for 15 years, same cell number
i'm still very bitter when i went from the first iphone to the 3GS, they used to include 200 texts in the plan, then they decided to screw you over to get the new phone by making you get $5 for 200 texts =/
they just want to nickel and dime you everywhere.
i don't need an unlimited $20 for texts =/


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This is Rechner, a new app for iOS. It's a calculator, but not an ordinary one. For one, it's prettier and much simpler. But, most importantly, it's fully gestural, designed for a touchscreen. According to its creators, it's 200% more efficient than a regular calculator.
Basically, they created four basic gestures of additions, subtractions, equal and clear, which they think are the more commonly used functions by normal people. They hid the rest of the calculator functions in an easily accesible drawer.
I guess that, if you only use basic function, it can be faster to use once you learn the gestures. I'm having a hard time to believe it, so we will have to try it when it comes out "soon." [Rechner via Necedades—In Spanish]

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SAN FRANCISCO -- San Francisco quarterback Colin Kaepernick came to the line of scrimmage on fourth-and-1 from the Carolina Panthers' 2-yard line with just more than six minutes left in the first half on Sunday. He barked out signals, giving the appearance, at least, that he was changing the play in an effort to get the Panthers to jump offsides.
They didn't bite.
The 49ers took a delay of game penalty, then settled for a field goal and 9-0 lead.
"That showed this team respect," Carolina linebacker Thomas Davis said.
The Panthers went on to win 10-9, but that moment stands out among a game of big moments for the Carolina defense. It stands out because the 49ers, who already had been stuffed for 1-yard losses on two third-and-1 runs by Frank Gore, admitted they couldn't gain a yard that could have led to a touchdown and changed the entire outcome.
It was even bigger when you consider on the play before the Panthers forced and recovered a fumble by tight end Vernon Davis that everyone at Candlestick Park except the officials saw as a turnover.
The officials ruled it an incomplete pass.
The Panthers didn't let that detour or detract them, either.
"I've played on defenses that had good games," said Thomas Davis, who has been with the Panthers since 2005. "But I haven't been on any that's played the way we're playing since I've been here."
And none that played better than on Sunday.
"Everybody brought their 'A' game, and we needed it," defensive end Charles Johnson said.
Carolina came into the game ranked third in the NFL in total defense and second against the run. It has a chance to move up after holding the 49ers to 151 total yards -- 45 in the second half.
The recipe was simple. It's the same one the Panthers (6-3) have been using all season, and a reason they should be in most games if they continue to do it effectively.
Stop the run. Hit the quarterback. Take the ball away.
"That's what we do," safety Mike Mitchell said. "That's our game plan every week."
The Panthers held a San Francisco team ranked No. 1 in the NFL with 153 yards rushing yards per game to 105 -- 25 in the second half. They sacked Kaepernick a season-high six times.
And on San Francisco's last play they intercepted a Kaepernick pass to win their fifth straight game, sixth in their past seven.
The simplicity of the defense is what makes it so impressive. The Panthers don't use a lot of blitzes and exotic formations. They come straight at you with a seven-man front.
Four of the sacks came when rushing four or fewer defenders.
"Nothing fancy," defensive coordinator Sean McDermott said.
The biggest part of McDermott's game plan against San Francisco was to keep Kaepernick in a lot of third-and-long situations. They were successful, and as a result the 49ers were 2-for-13 on third down.
That's 15 percent if you're doing the math.
Kaepernick was 0-for-6 on throws of more than 10 yards, the first time he's failed to complete a deep pass with multiple attempts for the first time in his career.
Kaepernick also was ineffective running. For the first time this season he was held without an official scramble, and he was 0-for-4 with two sacks when he did escape the pocket.
In other words, the Carolina defense was suffocating.
"I would say we out-physicaled them," coach Ron Rivera said. "That is about as tough as any football game gets."
The Panthers have been playing this kind of defense all season. They held Seattle, considered by many the best team in the NFC outside of San Francisco, to 12 points in the opener.
But this game will open a lot of eyes.
It opened San Francisco's eyes on fourth-and-1 from the 2.
"We say it every week," defensive end Greg Hardy said. "I know the words. We dominate. We take what we want. We do what we want. That's because we work hard."


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LCD Soundsystem's "Best Funeral Ever"
LCD Soundsystem
Shut Up and Play the Hits
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A little over a year ago, James Murphy announced that his band, the indie dance-punk group LCD Soundsystem, would play its final show at Madison Square Garden in April. For many, the announcement came out of the blue—the band had released three critically-adored, fan-beloved records, and seemed to be at the top of its game. But that was the idea: "If it's a funeral, let's have the best funeral ever," reads the title card that opens Shut Up and Play the Hits, a documentary about that final show and the forty-eight hours before and after. It's a glorified concert film, but one that aims to be something more, to varying effect.
For those of us who, say, watched the final performance alone in the wee hours of the morning on a patchy livestream thousands of miles away, and for whom never seeing the band live is a great life regret, Shut Up and Play the Hits is about as close as we're likely to get. The film capturing this last hurrah screened in a small number of theaters around the US on July 18, in an attempt at recreating the concert vibe. As Murphy explained, "it seemed like it would be better to see this in a theater that was pretty full, and pretty full of other people who actually wanted to be there," and while people weren't exactly getting up and dancing in their seats, there was a lot of vigorous head-nodding. The live show emphasizes the punk aspects of the band's sound without losing any of the dance, and footage of ecstatic concertgoers letting loose is a highlight. Getting people moving is the LCD Soundsystem ethos: Murphy says the band grew out of wanting "to play for people who were having fun."
At one point, the band launches into "North American Scum" with the backing of Canadian-American indie-rock superstars Arcade Fire; as Murphy rambles through an introduction, vocalist Win Butler yells out the film's title. And while the concert itself ran nearly four hours, the film instead tends towards the hits, featuring songs like "All My Friends," "Dance Yrself Clean," and "Losing My Edge." But amidst all the fun, the camera keeps returning to one kid who's crying inconsolably throughout the show. For all its insistence on having a good time, LCD Soundsystem has always been much more than a party band to fans. "Did we not just pull off a high school play at Madison Square Garden?" Murphy asks as the film opens, and it's more apt than the comparison to a funeral in its evocation of shared experience and bittersweet triumph.
The non-concert footage is more of a mixed bag: Murphy is funny, thoughtful, and self-deprecating throughout, but many of the morning-after shots, while well-edited, are a bit too pointed, seeming like a hipster version of a "Stars! They're Just Like Us" feature of a celebrity magazine (James Murphy walks his dog! Makes coffee! Puts on pants!). Interspersed with Murphy's musings on stardom and coolness—"this isn't a person whose foot would hurt because he kicked something the night before," he says of David Bowie, and he can't quite wrap his mind around the idea of Nick Cave checking his email—the implied parallels are sometimes overly insistent, particularly given the carefully framed, nostalgia-gauzed cinematography, which looks great but feels overdone in the age of Instagram.
In addition to footage of Murphy's daily life, there's also a fair amount of material from an interview with an occasionally cloying, self-describedly pretentious, but nonetheless effective Chuck Klosterman. He keeps pushing Murphy to identify LCD Soundsystem's defining failure, and Murphy eventually concedes that it might be quitting, mentioning something Kanye West once said about fear of true stardom: "That's the hipster justification of failure…Everyone who could be a real rock star is just fucking scared." Murphy keeps saying he doesn't want a rock star life—he wants kids, to take the subway, to eat wherever he wants—but he can't help but wonder whether that's a good enough reason to quit, and you can't help but wonder whether he's just kidding himself. Onstage at the Garden, he looks incredibly sad. Towards the end of the film, as he stands alone in a storage room, he starts to cry.
At one point, Murphy tells Klosterman that talking about himself in endless interviews bores him, but he still feels compelled to constantly clarify his meaning. And indeed, the entire film feels like an act of revision and revisiting—a chance for more people to see the band's final show, yes, but more importantly, a chance to understand why the last show happened that way, and for the ragged edges of a seemingly clean break to show. In that, Shut Up and Play the Hits will feel less like an act of closure for devoted fans than the reopening of a wound.
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Designing Central Bank Loss Functions
Kydland and Prescott (1977) consider the issue of the time-inconsistency of optimal policy and its source. Our paper provides additional insight on this issue. They develop a simple model of monetary policy making, where the central bank needs some commitment technique to achieve optimal monetary policy over time. Although not their main focus, they illustrate the difference between consistent and optimal policy in a sequential-decision one-period world. In our solution, the government appoints a central bank or delegates to the central bank an objective function that differs from the social welfare function. The central bank's welfare function causes the consistent policy implemented by the central bank to prove optimal for society. The optimal institutional design for the Kydland-Prescott sequential-decision one-period model requires the appointment or delegation to a completely conservative central banker.
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text: The Google Play Store is a Mess. Hooked Can Help.Mike Fahey12/05/12 2:55pmFiled to: hookedAndroidGame DiscoveryGoogle playLostguidanceKotakumobile35EditPromoteShare to KinjaToggle Conversation toolsGo to permalinkWith hundreds of thousands of games to choose from and few organization options, Google Play isn't the friendliest place to find something to play. It's easy to get lost in the ever-growing sea of Android apps. Game discovery app Hooked is Google Play's lighthouse.AdvertisementThere are a bunch of game discovery apps for Google Play, so many that one day soon we might need a game discovery app discovery app. If it's worth its salt, that app would point to Hooked. While similar apps give recommendations based on the games you download, Hooked makes its picks based on what you play. That's extremely important to a person that downloads a handful of apps every day to try out, playing them for a couple of minutes and then never going back.Loading up Hooked on a relatively fresh Android-powered phone, I played a couple of my regular titles, rated some of the games I had installed reflexively, and let the recommendation engine do its thing. Most of the recommendations were games I already play and enjoy but had yet to install on the device. That means it's working.AdvertisementHooked let's gamers search free games, paid games or both, narrowing recommendations by specific genres. It learns your habits incredibly quickly—after a day or so of training I feel like it's got my back.On top of the recommendation engine, Hooked also acts as a convenient launch pad for all of your Android games, presenting the titles you own in an easy-to-navigate list. Plus it's free, so there really is nothing to lose, other than the minutes spent trying to find your way through Google Play.Hooked — Free [Google Play]Reply35 repliesLeave a reply


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The purpose of this game is to break out of the rooms. Solve the puzzles and all the hidden objects that you have to use in the rooms in order to advance to the next room. If you like escape games, puzzle games or hidden object games you have something to look forward to.Test this game out and see for yourself.
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A full-day kindergarten proposal is drawing support from Moffat County School District principals and administrators.
"The administration feels this is the right direction to go," said Mark Rydberg, School District finance administrator. "That's been made abundantly clear from the response from the community."
During the Moffat County School Board's March meeting, School District superintendent Pete Bergmann presented a plan to move forward with full-day kindergarten.
The board unanimously agreed to move to the next step, which is finding available funds for the project.
Rydberg said funding could come from several sources.
"Funding is undetermined, but we're leaving all options on the table," Rydberg said. "We might receive some extra money from the stimulus package, but we aren't sure how much or how we can use the money."
Currently, the School District offers half-day kindergarten.
Fifty percent of students in Steamboat Springs and almost all students in Hayden attend full-day kindergarten, Rydberg said.
Zach Allen, Sunset Elementary School principal, said if the full-day kindergarten proposal is approved, it would have to be the only option.
Allen said district parents would not be able to choose between sending their children to full-day or half-day programs.
"Whether there's a choice between full-day and half-day, tuition is tied together with that choice," Allen said. "That's up to the School Board to consider."
Having some students in half-day and some students in full-day would create learning gaps, Allen said.
"Studies have shown students in full-day kindergarten outperform their peers in half-day kindergarten," he said. "We want everyone entering the first grade at the same level."
Diana Cook, East Elementary School principal, has experience with both full- and half-day kindergarten. She said she was pleased the district was moving closer to full-day kindergarten.
"I have been so pleased with the support from the School Board," Cook said. "Looking at the research, I do believe full-day kindergarten is the best early intervention program for our little ones."
She said having students in class for the extra time improves more than academic skills.
"Just as important is the social development of the children," Cook said. "Students in the half-day program might be losing that social piece, because sometimes it's just 'rush, rush, rush.'"
Cook, who once taught kindergarten, said the extra time allows teachers time to bond with their students.
"What I know from teaching both half-day and full-day kindergarten is students in the full-day program get much more depth," she said. "They aren't constantly being rushed from one thing to another."
Extra time also gives students more time to explore subjects thoroughly, Allen said.
"It's about depth, not breadth," he said.
A move would increase students' time in the classroom, Allen said, not the expectations.
"Kindergarten is their first exposure to school, and most of these students aren't ready for a paper-and-pencil, sit-down kind of curriculum," he said. "At the same time, we don't want to just add on another half-day schedule to their day.
"It all starts in kindergarten. If we can expand that, we will be setting our students up for future success."
Cook said parents who want half-day kindergarten might be losing an opportunity for extra growth for their children.
"I understand the concerns of parents who want to see their children in a half-day program," she said. "At the same time, children who don't attend full-day kindergarten are missing half of the depth."
Fitting the increased number of students into the elementary school schedule could be a potential problem for the schools, Allen said.
"For full-day kindergarten to work, we need to have our schedule set," he said. "We need to be able to schedule music and physical education for the extra session."
For Cook, the scheduling is a challenge, not a problem.
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Editor, The Daily Home:
This is in response to a piece by Walter Williams, "The Education Establishment's Success", from June 25, 2014.
I find it ironic that an editorial decrying America's education system is so poorly written. His reliance on rhetoric suggests to me that he doesn't have enough facts to build logical arguments. His conclusions are unsubstantiated. His resorts to insults are contemptible. His convoluted thinking is impossible to follow. Perhaps a better title for his article would be "Random thoughts and rants".
He jumps around from the environment to politics to American history, and ties it together with a statement about our founding principles? Whatever happened to critical thinking? Have the faux news channels and talking heads killed our judgment by spoon feeding us what we want to hear? By appealing to our gut instead of our brain? Did God give us intelligence, and not intend that we use it?
I do believe he gets one thing right, however. He warns us of America falling "easy prey to charlatans". Yes, I imagine there were some people who read his rambling, and agreed. With what, I can't tell.


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Um… I'm not sure that really makes the point for viability very effectively but…
Actually, that story kind of confuses me. I…
I need a drink. Or several.
In order to prove how wonderful hydrogen fuel cell cars are, Rep. Eric Massa (D-N.Y.) decided to drive one from New York to Washington DC for his congressional swearing in. But the fuel cell car has a range of under 200 miles, and the trip for NY to DC is 300 miles. So here's what he did:
Massa drove one fuel cell car while a hybrid SUV [Chevy Tahoe] towing an additional SUV followed along. Once he got half way, he switched to new fuel cell car [which I assume was towed to the half way point sometime earlier so that it would be waiting for the environmentally-conscious congressman]. The empty fuel cell was then towed back by the first SUV. As he continued on his journey, the second SUV followed. Once Massa arrived in DC, the second SUV then towed the second fuel cell car back to NY.Rep. Eric Massa's excellent fuel cell road trip
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Um… I'm not sure that really makes the point for viability very effectively but…
Actually, that story kind of confuses me. I…
I need a drink. Or several.
Doesn't all this SUV driving defeat the purpose of using the fuel cell. Even though they were hybrids, I wonder what level of emissions they left behind.
While I respect the effort to promote alternative fuels, it seems like his stunt draws more attention to the limitations of fuel cells (e.g. short range, lack of filling stations)…
Also hydrogen is probably the worst alternative fuel to be promoting right now, but that's neither here nor there.
He's got his heart in the right place, but wouldn't an SUV (even a hybrid SUV) towing another car use more gas than usual?
Wow, a real life, grown up Ferris Bueller.
If he wanted to make a point about emission free transportation, why didn't he take Amtrak?
That reminds me of the airplane-refueling around-the-world puzzle. LOL.
Let's try the math.
Let A = 1st car driven
Let B = 2nd car driven
Let Y = 1st SUV
Let Z = 2nd SUV
Let D = distance of trip
A travels 0.5D, B travels 0.5D. A+B=D. Y travels 0.5Dx2=D, Z=0.5Dx3=1.5D. Y+Z=2.5D
So, the hybrid SUVS travelled 2.5x the total distance. The fuel cell cars drove the distance. So in total, 3.5x the distance from NY to Washington was driven to get his ass from NY to Washington. So the SUVs would have to have 40% the emissions (assuming zero emissions from the fuel cell cars) of the alternative to make this trip anywhere approaching worthwhile. If he'd just driven one of the hybrid SUVs to Washington, it would be a 150% improvement!
That's assuming that the 2nd car was at the halfway point by some magical means. If another SUV towed it there and returned, that adds another 1D to the SUV cost. Now requiring 28% of the emissions to be worthwhile.
A better example would have been to set up a temporary fuel cell refuelling station at the halfway point. It might still have worked out to being worse, but at least would have shown the viability and hidden the costs. Look! If we had hydrogen refuelling stations, this could be a zero-emissions trip! As opposed to: I'm a total moron.
Not to mention what this probably cost the taxpayers.
Have to agree with #3 Zikzak – Hydrogen is wrong technology to be pushing. The fact that a whole new filling infrastructure would need to be built is only one reason, but thanks for pointing it out Representative Massa. (Rep for an area not too far away my my own district as well!)
Hmmm, does that qualify him as an idiot, or a moron?
It is obvious that his handlers may have the right idea when it comes to political propaganda, but their implementation in a manner that fully supports the professed ideology is a little lacking.
Sure, the vehicle was a prototype, and there was not likely to be a fuel cell recharging station along the way, but couldn't he have worked out a deal with GM to have a recharger/fuel tanks dropped off along his route via some sort of scheduled transport? Or at least hitched up a trailer to carry the extra juice? Maybe put a reactor in the trunk and split the trip into an evening and a morning drive; then plug in at a hotel.
I think that every politician should hire a geeco (geek+eco , c'mon people, adopt my meme, I want my 15GB of internet fame) to advise them whether or not their schemes are feasible within the constraints of both technology and ideology.
@10 The switch to hydrogen fueling stations wouldn't be that hard, just add a solar/wind powered reactor to each gas station, and drop a couple of storage tanks beside them (with appropriate safety and preventative measures ; underground would be best in my opinion) like they did when natural gas vehicles came on the market. The infrastructure/establishments are already there, they just need to diversify their products.
That just feels weird. I mean, I guess if he's trying to make a point solely about the reliability of the vehicle, then I guess it kind of makes sense?
Although it seems like the real message of this stunt, what I got out of it anyway, is that a pure electric car will require much less infrastructure upgrading than a fuel-cell based vehicle. If he'd been driving a pure electric, he could have stopped along the way to just plug the thing in.
As far as environmentalism goes, I believe the LOL-cats would say:
Yikes, that was an epic fail… however it demonstrates hydrogen's primary use; a tool for politicians to grandstand. (think west coast "hydrogen highway")
Hydrogen is not a fuel, it's a storage medium, and most hydrogen today is generated from natural gas, which is non-renewable, and already available all over the US/Canada.
I remember when Ballard had a fire on a hydrogen tanker truck here… The fire dept evacuated a 1km radius of houses around it, and had to fly in Praxair guys from California to deal with it… they sprayed water on the tanker and let it burn off.
Now imagine thousands of hydrogen stations around the country manned at minimum wage.
Looks like we're back in the days when someone waving a red flag had to walk ahead of an automobile. Baby first steps.
@15 Heee! Comments like that deserve a Boing (like a Digg, but for use here). Wonder is the gang will ever implement some sort of comment reply and 'props' system like Digg has, I'd like that.
He could've just swung by the Penn state filling station on the way… a quick search on http://www.hydrogenassociation.org/general/fuelingSearch.asp would've solved this problem.
He should have pedaled to DC on a bike.
This is dangerous. All his hot air interacting with the hydrogen, that could be explosive.
Green-washing SUVs takes us boldly nowhere.
Actually, I disagree with the assumption that hydrogen is the wrong way to go just because there is no current hydrogen refueling infrastructure.
One only needs to look at Europe's experience with LPG to see that both demand and supply can slowly but surely increase to the point where it is reasonable to run 99% of the time on LPG. A few years ago my wife and I traveled by LPG in our 1998 Citroen Xsara across Poland, Germany, the Netherlands, France, England, Scotland, Norway (took a ferry from England to Norway), Sweden, Denmark, Germany and back to Krakow, Poland. I think we did around 7,000 km on that trip at roughly 350-450 km intervals / 215 to 275 miles – because the LPG tank in our car maxed out at about 35 liters. Almost the same distance as Massa was getting. The difference is that even in countries where LPG is hard to find such as Norway and Denmark there are stations no more than about 150 to 175 miles apart.
Hydrogen just needs to be "considerably" cheaper than petrol to fill up with(say, 50% cheaper) and new hydrogen cars no more than a few thousand dollars more expensive than their petrol-based counterparts …and voila! Everyone will be buying them. At first they will be driven exclusively in cities or between large cities with hydrogen fueling stations but as demand increase, more and more stations would convert or add capability. Just as we've seen with LPG in Europe. It just needs to be cheap.
Massa, making it happen. I think we all need to stop being so critical and take a lesson from his determination. Bravo.
Also Adralien@14 How about training gas station attendants to handle and dispose of lye? I'm serious–electrolysis of water requires extremely high pH (usually achieved with high concentrations of lye) to run with a modest efficiency at STP. That's a major problem with the "Oh, we'll just stick some solar panels and a water splitter at every gas station in the US. It's cool." reaction to the "it's made from natural gas" argument (which you are absolutely right about).
Hydrogen fuel cells work great if you're AC Transit and can map out the exact routes of your vehicles (thus their exact mileage) and have enough of a budget to hire people who can deal with the various hazardous materials involved in electrolysis and the hydrogen itself.
Other than that, they're a turkey. I'd be pleasantly surprised if someone managed to make a worthwhile car out of them, but surprised is the operable word here.
A gallon of gasoline contains 1.3×10^8 joules of energy.
Let's take a conservative estimate at volume for a gas station. Let's say it serves 100 cars per day 15 gallons each. 1.3×10^8 * 15 * 100 = 1.95×10^11 joules… 1 watt = 1 joule per second. 86400 seconds per day… That's roughly 2.26 megawatts that said gas station is dispensing.
80 meter wind turbines can generate that kind of power, but not 100% of the time. So depending on location/geography/etc… You'd likely need 3-8 80 meter wind turbines to feed that one gas station. And you can't exactly put them right next to each other either.. They have to be spaced out a bit.
Now consider that many (if not most) gas stations serve more than 100 cars per day…
I don't think you'll be seeing a hydrogen fueling station that uses on-site wind to generate the fuel any time soon… Probably not ever.
So, in all, it would have been better for him to just drive there in a hybrid car. He would have been able to do that all by himself, wouldn't have had to have hybrid SUVs towing other cars around, pay for their drivers, etc.
Plus, your average person is going to see this and say "well, it's obvious those things aren't very usefull".
In all, he probably should have just taken the train from NY to DC… They took the car back, so he obviously didn't need to have it with him.
Even Hybrids are insanely wasteful when you don't have a good reason to be driving in the first place.
Dear Representative,
Just wanted to say thanks for demonstrating how hydrogen cell vehicles can be a total waste of energy.
Keep up the good work.
Yours sincerely,
The Oil Lobby
Well, uh, DAMN YOU AND YOUR LOGIC AND MATH!
Yet again the cold hard light of truth shatters
my warm and fluffy dreams. Not.. Going.. To.. Cry…
O.K. I admit that the SCIENCE! makes things difficult, but with effort an cooperation we could do it. The 'Fuel Companies' could pour some money into wind and solar farms instead of oil derricks and the associated structures. This power could be pumped into the grid from a location that can accommodate the installation, and then have the local station purify locally collected rainwater and streams (added benefit would be extraction and sequestering of toxins in the water) and split it on site. Do you think we could make the SCIENCE! do that?
Fool Cells (which is an appropriate epithet for fuel cells in automobiles) are strongly championed by Dick Cheney, George W. Bush, large American car companies, and the American and foreign Oil Industries. These same people are also in favor of dropping restrictions on the amount of arsenic permitted in drinking water.
Do I really need to say anything more?
Burnable methane and petroleum, which were once biomass, come out of the earth. Burnable biomass grows from water, sunlight, and tiny amounts of common minerals. These things are fuels; you burn them to release their embodied sunlight.
Burnable free hydrogen does not occur in nature in any great quantity. It must be created from hydrogen compounds, and energy must be used to do this. Effectively, you must add sunlight.
Therefore, hydrogen is not a fuel. Hydrogen is an inefficient low-density energy storage mechanism.
One could easily convert all the petrol filling stations in the world into hydrogen filling stations. Simply burn a portion of the gasoline in a generator to drive a PEM conversion process to turn the rest of the gasoline into hydrogen. This would allow the existing energy infrastructure to remain substantially unchanged, only with higher cost to the consumer, less total efficiency, faster depletion of petroleum reserves, and (possibly) more pollution. We can call this the "Detroit Plan". If hydrogen cars become commonplace, that is how they will be fueled in places where high-volume natural gas pipelines do not reach.
…and after dropping off the chicken, he goes back to pick up the fox and the corn.
ShaneALeslie @16, as long as we're being wishful, what I want is a bitty red button with a tiny Jackhammer Jill on it that makes a BOING! noise when you click on it. If enough people say nice things about a comment, it gets one.
Goes to show that leaders are all about image and will suck the planet furiously to get "sustainable" brownie points.
The U.S., having given billion$ to GM should now force them to restart manufacturing the EV-1, the electric car they "killed".
Electric cars are far cheaper and more practical than hydrogen fuel cell cars. Electricity is available everywhere, hydrogen almost nowhere.
@22: Your information is incomplete and out of date. The technology exists to run a PEM fuel cell in reverse to generate H2 at high pressure, merely by pressurizing the liquid feed, at high efficiency, (70%+).
That does not make vehicular fuel cells a good idea… it is just a fertilizer-free supplement to the bogocity you be spreadin'.
@23: So what? Do we argue in any other case that the means of electrical production should be right there at the power consumption site (except aluminum smelters)? No, not often. Quit spreading fertilizer.
As a veteran of the fuel cell industry,, with thirteen years experience in pushing rocks up hills, I have to say that fuel cells are not a panacea to anyone's energy problems, like @Adralien said, "not an energy source, just a storage medium". They meet some needs for distributed stationary generation very well, and backup power for critical applications (my last 7-1/2 years at ReliOn).
A general comment on the "Hydrogen Economy":
This is a code word for, "wouldn't a buncha nuke plants be great? Then at night when no one needs all that juice we could just electrolyze water…"
I'm all ranted out, damn…
LOL Really sad thing is I am not surprised at all. Maybe he could have had a motor home follow with his close it it and another one with his family.
@31, Teresa –
Just getting profile pics working would be nice, thnx
Viable is a relative concept. Hydrogen makes sense only if used the appropriate ways. Fuel cells are "Sexy Tech" with price tags and edgy bits to match. We've still some learning curve compared to for example- Recreating Stanley Steamers. As a bridge and infrastructure creation tool for Hydrogen it might make sense.
Or you could get Detroit screaming at the blasphemy of a Steam engined SUV.
The reason to evaluate Fuel Cells Vs Recreating S team cars? Why the question gets raised is simple. We "had" the tech for Stanleys. That tech was REAL. It would fit into a Suv's engine bay easily.
We still do not have a REAL tech base for mass marketed FC's of any portable designs. Cost effective,Reliable,Safe- Pick any 2 for using Hydrogen at all. Let alone in Fuel cells. But if Hydrogen is to eventually end up in FC cars starting with Steamers might be that needed bootstrap for the infrastructure. We could arguably get some fixed route captive fleets steaming quicker and cheaper than FC's Look for example at "piston taps steam pintle" conversion kits that screw into spark plug holes… Existing bus engine becomes steamer "cheaper" than tearing it out for replacement. Later on we could work up refits to Electrics and FC's
Steam powered vehicles have an interesting synergy with hydrogen to mitigate the "choose any two" gotchas. The "already there" aspect of steam tech lets production ramp up faster. The water produced from burning H could potentially be reused as feed water makeup. Comparatively low pressure hydrogen stored in the ullage of a steamer's water tankage could exploit the needed pressure ratings for multitasking's overall cost assist too.
Actually, we already have an alternative fuel distribution network. It's called the electrical grid. Just create a Manhattan Project/Apollo Moon Shot program equivalent for battery technology and let's be done with this problem already. Yeah, I know, electrification has its own share of problems, but we're a lot closer to meeting a percentage of our transportation needs with electricity than we are with hydrogen.
Hmm actually all this story proves is that tyhere aren't a lot of Hydrogen stations out there.
Oh it's a stupid stunt but it proves nothing really.
There are a lot of fuel stations out there they just need to add new fuel to the range.
At forst it'll be 90-10% split, but it will swing the other way and they will over time switch .
My brother was telling me that there are now domestic set ups that can crack water for fuel running off of solar cells. He's this big environmental scientist type.
The problem is apparently storage at a domestic level.
But if you had a Hydrogen car like a Clarity you could run your wjhole house off the fuel cell plant and be making your own H in the back yard.
And any you weren't using you could sell on.
Micro generation is the answer,there are no HUGE central solutions that'll really work.
as ever pardon my terrible typing.
For the price of the additional entourage, he could get an additional cylinder of hydrogen, a regulator valve, and a fueling adapter. And a technician to take along who'd do the refueling, because entrusting a politician with a flammable gas, or generally anything that could go wrong, is unwise.
On a side note, the tails from electrolytic generation of hydrogen are enriched in deuterium. Could be exploited for heavy water production as a byproduct. CANDU reactors are nice.
The tritium, a byproduct from those reactors, and helium-3, its decay product, then can be later used in nuclear fusion systems.
In late 2007 I was at the European Bioinformatics Institution, and volunteered to help out with an opening ceremony they were having for their new building.
The then UK Minister of State for Science and Innovation, Ian Pearson came to speak. He was a little late, because he refuses to travel anywhere except by public transport (his previous post was Minister of State for Climate Change and Environment). This created minor inconvenience, since the Genome Campus is about 3km or so from the nearest train station, but they sent a taxi for that short part of the trip.
The point is, although I think New Labour have enormous flaws and are more Thatcherite than is good for them (or the rest of us), you have to respect Mr Pearson. He didn't put on a single, cheap stunt – he made a lifelong commitment.
(He also doesn't seem to get any press for it.)
He is both moron and idiot, above all he is a politician. He thought no one would discover and disclose his moronic dog and pony show. If he had any real concern for the environment he would have taken the train and a cab. One must ask exactly which lobbyist put him up to this stunt?
The whole trip makes me think of this scene from "A Night at the Opera" (about 6 minutes in)
I think we all need to stop being so critical and take a lesson from his determination
If he'd start by thinking a little more he wouldn't have to be so determined. (thanks Tesla)
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This paper examines poverty in the United States from 1960 through 2005. We investigate how poverty rates and poverty gaps have changed over time, explore how these trends differ across family types, contrast these trends for several different income and consumption measures of poverty, and consider explanations for the differences in trends. We document sharp differences, particularly in recent years, between different income poverty measures, and between income and consumption poverty rates and gaps. Moving from the official pre-tax money income measure to a disposable income measure that incorporates taxes and transfers has a substantial effect on poverty rate changes over the past two decades. Furthermore, consumption poverty rates often indicate large declines, even in recent years when income poverty rates have risen. We show that bias in the CPI-U has a sizable effect on changes in poverty. Between the early 1960s and 2005, an income poverty measure that corrects for bias in this price index declines by 14 percentage points more than a comparable measure based on the CPI-U. The patterns are very different across family types, with consumption poverty falling much faster than income poverty since 1980 for the elderly, but more slowly for married couples with children. Income and consumption measures of deep poverty and poverty gaps have generally moved sharply in opposite directions in the last two decades with income deep poverty and poverty gaps rising, but consumption deep poverty and poverty gaps falling. While relative poverty rose in the early 1980s, changes in relative poverty have been fairly small since 1990. We examine the role that demographics, taxes, and transfers play in explaining changes in poverty over the past three decades. We also consider whether measurement error, saving and dis-saving, and other explanations can account for income and consumption differences.
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Trevor Sather (born 3 December 1973) is a British film-writer and actor.
Along with Sacha Tarter, Sather co-wrote and co-starred in the 2006 British movie The Gigolos, directed by Richard Bracewell. Sather played the 'gent' to Tarter's 'player' in the movie about a fantasy world of London gigolos and their clients. The movie also starred Susannah York, Anna Massey, Siân Phillips, and British actor and singer Basil Moss.
Sather was educated at St Paul's School and St John's College, Cambridge. Sather was a very successful secondary school and university debater. He represented England at the World Schools Debating Championships in 1991 and 1992, and was selected for the English-Speaking Union (ESU) Debate Tour of the United States in 1995.
Sather worked for the ESU in the late-1990s as the head of its Centre for International Debate and Communication Training in London. He was the editor of the 18th edition of the ESU's debate publication, Pros and Cons: A Debater's Handbook, published in 1999. Sather is also a former Vice-Chairperson of the World Schools Debating Council Executive Committee, and a former Convenor and Chief Adjudicator of the World Schools Debating Championships.


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It's Paltrow times two in this whimsical but ultimately plodding romantic comedy. The coltish beauty plays a British PR exec named Helen whose life forks into parallel plots: Helen #1 catches her daily commute train, while Helen #2 misses it. The film explores the impact of this split-second twist of fate; after catching the train, Helen #1 ends up catching her boyfriend in bed with another woman, while Helen #2 misses the train and all subsequent clues about her lover's unfaithfulness. In the end, the film's intriguing premise is not so much a question of karma, but which Helen has the best hairdo. |


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The two were rehearsing for a scene in Bombay Velvet and that's when the Kapoor lad and KJo had a laughter marathon
Karan Johar has produced Ranbir Kapoor's many films but the two will share the screen for the first time in Anurag Kashyap's Bombay Velvet. The two actors have already started shooting for the film in Sri Lanka last week. And we hear Karan surprised everyone by nailing his first few scenes bang on. But that's not the reason why Ranboo and his co-star were in splits.
The Wake Up Sid actor and his producer were rehearsing a scene and KJo was trying his best to look serious and getting ready to deliver his dialogues. That's when Ranbir couldn't control himself and started laughing. Looks like Mr Kapoor is having a hard time to get used to KJo's new role.
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Specialized curriculum Reform?
I recall 20 or more years back when I was getting my graduate degree in Special Education and a mate of mine getting his degree in basic training let me know that his dad, a school essential, said that I likely shouldn't squander my time getting a bosses in Special Education. He said that Special Education would be inevitably growing dim of government funded instruction. I was verging on finished with my lords now so I figured I would need to take my risks with it, other than what other decision did I have in any case by then?
I landed a Special Education position and instructed for around 10 year. There were a considerable measure of good and bad times over those 10 years, and in the end I concluded that I needed a change so I got affirmed and changed over to secondary school history. Now in my profession I recollected what my companion had said 10 years back and thought about whether I was on top of things on schools no more requiring specialized curriculum educators, despite the fact that it was 10 years after the fact. I thought about whether my employment was currently sheltered in my recently discovered home in the history division.
All things considered, I adored showing history, however life has its own particular clever ways that aren't adjusted to us and what we need, so following 10 years of showing history I for one got a five star instruction on spending cuts and my occupation was dispensed with. Gratefully, I arrived on my feet back in Special Education, trust it or not.
It had been over two decades since my old master's level college pal let me know that the requirement for a specialized curriculum instructors was vanishing. Amid the past two decades my companion had gone from doctoral level college to grade teacher to collaborator chief to important, much the same as his dad had done. I had gone from master's level college to a specialized curriculum instructor to history educator to back to a custom curriculum educator, similar to no one else that I know had done. Furthermore, trust it or not there was still a group of a specialized curriculum employments accessible when I arrived there for a moment time. Truly, there was quite of employments there on the grounds that there is a lack of a custom curriculum instructors in 49 out of our 50 states. Envision that… Two decades after I was informed that Special Education was leaving, and I observe that regardless they can't get enough custom curriculum instructors.
Quick forward a couple of more years to today and there is another and intriguing turn influencing Special Education called full incorporation. Presently consideration isn't another thing to our schools. In actuality incorporation has a long fascinating history in our schools.
Six decades prior there was the Supreme Court Case of Brown v. Leading group of Education. In 1954 the new tradition that must be adhered to got to be incorporated schools for all races. Four decades back the notable law of Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) started to produce results and guarantee that more than six million understudies with incapacities have the privilege to a and fitting instruction, which implies they too get to ever be incorporated into with the general training populace.
To help this happen schools make a Planning and Placement Team (PPT) that meet and examine an understudy's Individual Education Program (IEP) and after that place the understudy in the suitable instructive setting in view of the understudy's needs and the law. The position likewise should be the minimum prohibitive environment (LRE). I can in any case recollect my school teacher portraying the slightest prohibitive environment in a short story that one would not convey an automatic weapon to deal with a fly. Or maybe, one would simply convey a fly-swatter to deal with a fly. As such, if a child's incapacity can be managed in the area school, then the child doesn't need to be sent crosswise over town or even to another town's exceptional school.
Instructor Education and Teacher Quality
One of the parts which encourages national improvement is instruction by guaranteeing the advancement of a useful human asset. The establishment of solid instructive structures prompts a general public populated by edified individuals, who can bring about positive financial advancement and social change. A Positive social change and its related financial development are accomplished as the general population apply the abilities they learned while they were in school. The obtaining of these abilities is encouraged by one individual we as a whole 'educator'. Thus, countries looking for monetary and social advancements need not overlook educators and their part in national improvement.
Educators are the central point that drives understudies' accomplishments in learning. The execution of educators by and large decides, the nature of instruction, as well as the general execution of the understudies they prepare. The instructors themselves hence should bamboozle instruction, so they can thusly prepare understudies in the best of ways. It is known, that the nature of educators and quality instructing are the absolute most essential components that shape the learning and social and scholarly development of understudies. Quality preparing will guarantee, to an expansive degree, instructors are of astounding, in order to have the capacity to appropriately oversee classrooms and encourage learning. That is the reason instructor quality is still a matter of concern, even, in nations where understudies reliably get high scores in worldwide exams, for example, Trends in Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS). In such nations, educator instruction of prime significance as a result of the potential it needs to bring about positive understudies' accomplishments.
The structure of educator training continues changing in all nations in light of the journey of creating instructors who comprehend the present needs of understudies or simply the interest for educators. The progressions are endeavors to guarantee that quality educators are delivered and some of the time just to guarantee that classrooms are not free of instructors. In the U.S.A, how to advance astounding instructors has been an issue of dispute and, for as far back as decade or something like that, has been spurred, essentially, through the techniques recommended by the No Child Left Behind Act (Accomplished California Teachers, 2015). Indeed, even in Japan and other Eastern nations where there are a greater number of instructors than required, and structures have been established to guarantee fantastic educators are created and utilized, issues identifying with the instructor and showing quality are still of concern (Ogawa, Fujii and Ikuo, 2013). Educator training is thusly no joke anyplace. This article is in two sections. It first talks about Ghana's educator instruction framework and in the second part takes a gander at a few determinants of value educating.
Ghana has been making conscious endeavors to deliver quality instructors for her essential school classrooms. As Benneh (2006) showed, Ghana's point of educator instruction is to give a complete instructor training program through the arrangement of beginning instructor preparing and in-administration preparing programs, that will create skilled instructors, who will enhance the adequacy of the instructing and discovering that goes ahead in schools. The Initial educator training program for Ghana's essential teachers was offered in Colleges of Education (CoE) just, until as of late when, University of Education, University of Cape Coast, Central University College and other tertiary foundations participate. The most striking contrast between the projects offered by the other tertiary organization is that while the Universities instruct, inspect and honor testaments to their understudies, the Colleges of Education offer educational cost while the University of Cape Coast, through the Institute of Education, looks at and grant declarations. The preparation programs offered by these foundations are endeavors at giving numerous qualified instructors to educate in the schools. The National Accreditation Board certifies educator preparing programs with a specific end goal to guarantee quality.
The National Accreditation Board authorizes instructor training programs taking into account the structure and substance of the courses proposed by the organization. Henceforth, the courses keep running by different organizations vary in substance and structure. For instance, the course content for the Institute of Education, University of Cape Coast is marginally not quite the same as the course structure and substance of the Center for Continue Education, University of Cape Coast and none of these two projects coordinates that of the CoEs, however they all recompense Diploma in Basic Education (DBE) following three years of preparing. The DBE and the Four-year Untrained Teacher's Diploma in Basic Education (UTDBE) programs keep running by the CoEs are just comparable, yet not the same. The same can be said of the Two-year Post-Diploma in Basic Education, Four-year Bachelor's degree programs keep running by the University of Cape Coast, the University of Education, Winneba and alternate Universities and University Colleges. As a result despite the fact that, same items pull in same customers, the readiness of the items are done in various ways.
It is through these numerous projects that educators are set up for the essential schools – from nursery to senior secondary schools. Elective pathways, or projects through which educators are readied are seen to be great in circumstances where there are deficiencies of instructors and more instructors should be prepared inside a brief timeframe. A run of the mill illustration is the UTDBE program, said above, which configuration to outfit non-proficient educators with expert abilities. Be that as it may, this endeavor to create more instructors, in view of lack of educators, has the inclination of including quality.
The Importance of Computer Education For Teachers
Computers run the planet of today which is time that this is understood by educators. The thought of studying a guide and likely to a collection isn't perfect towards today's pupils. Pupils read right into a topic on the website instead of proceed and also have to see a whole guide or need to read for the part-they are looking and prefer to get online for. Therefore, in case your a trainer what're one to do? Computer training for academics is what every college must do.
for that issue all college areas, as well as academics, have to start to combine technology into all classes which post may tell how to you.
Computer training for academics should that small of the package since all academics who've simply started possibly know just how to combine technology in to the classes, which means you must just train those individuals who have been training for awhile.
How will you combine technology into your classes however? That's the issue here and all academics are requesting is the solution. Study may be the number the web is used by one factor pupils for. Several college libraries as well as some libraries don't offer the info they need on particular subjects to pupils however the web may typically possess the data they require. The issue with this particular may be the quality of the info but academics can check by taking a look at the base records of the content where the info originated from to determine.
Several colleges are now actually having assessments are taken by pupils on the linen named a Scantron styles of it. A Scantron is just a linen where you've 50 questions an overall total of 100 concerns, on each aspect, and therefore are provided multiple-choice questions AE. The instructor may give you a Scantron that will be wherever you reply a check linen along with the concerns, the Scantron is just a sheet where you bubble in Whether-E. The instructor then places the solutions in an unique device along with a computer says instantly and the Scantron levels the check from the solutions the instructor put in the computer.
Besides test and study taking there are lots of different ways to combine computers into your training. Nowadays there are projection displays that permit you to create on them switching ostensibly right into a whiteboard. You're ready to look at films about the whiteboard, quit the movie, and attract the movie within. This really is very useful for Background academics because it enables them to show etc and the fights.
How Employers Can Help You Receive A College Education
Companies might not appear the obvious option to visit for training and tuition help, nevertheless companies are one of training assistance due to their workers and the top companies for training plans. Training help is provided by companies in numerous methods:
Tuition help is paid by * Immediate: The company gives in advance for diploma program, or that class, certification. The worker doesn't have outofpocket cost.
* Repaid tuition support: The company pays for certification, that class, or diploma program following the worker has properly completed this program. The company might spend after every program or just following diploma or the certification is finished.
* Academic/Professional Advancement journey help: The company might purchase travel costs associated with go educational applications including programs at meetings or remote establishments /exhibitions.
And never have to utilize holiday * time-off /individual times: When The worker must arrange their routine to create period for training, the company might supply off time with pay. Additionally, when the pupil is seeking plan or a distance training program but needs to go perhaps a residential training necessity or university the company might permit the worker without needing holiday period to go to. Companies could also supply time-off with no need to make use of holiday time for you to attend university visits.
* Compensation or Direct Pay for resources and training supplies: The company supply or might buy tools for example processing equipment, materials, or books.
As the worker is operating * at Work Training: That Is training offered towards the worker from the company. Several companies are suffering from learning and extensive instruction applications that blend class. Some companies have organized with neighborhood schools to supply credit for such programs' conclusion. If this isn't the situation together with your company, then previous learning evaluation in university or a college might be a choice to get credit for at work training.
* Help for dependents and partners: Some employers may even supply academic help for dependents and that partners of the companies. This might contain help for education in addition to tuition support for personal primary or education.
* 529 College Savings Plan: an university savings program may be offered by The company like a section of their benefits package. Like a section of this program, efforts produced by the worker in to the program may be matched by the company.
Although several companies provide extensive details about the training help they offer, some possibly provide no specifics, especially if it could be prepared to do much more if requested, or is a small company. This really is especially accurate for workers who're seeking training in an area of research that will assist them within their existing placement and when the company thinks that helping the workeris training may cause the employee to carry on using the business to get a substantial period of time following the program, certification, or diploma program is finished.
As a swap for encouraging training, several companies need some advantages in exchange. These can include a variety of issues, but usually contain a number of of the next:
1. The worker may find training at an establishment that's of top quality – frequently exhibited through the truth that among the accrediting bodies accredits the establishment.
2. The worker may generate a particular quality within perhaps a particular grade-point average or the class within the diploma or certification program. This need could need the worker to generate a particular quality in most program and differs extensively from company to company. In comparison, when the worker is currently finishing a whole diploma plan they might just be asked to generate a particular level point average.
3. The worker might be necessary to stick with the business to get a particular period of time after finishing certification, the class, or diploma program. This can be a typical period of time (for example twelve months) whatever the period of the training pursued or it might be a period of time on the basis of the period of the program, certification or diploma being attacked.
4. The worker might be necessary to hand back towards the business within the type of in one or service -onone instruction for additional workers.
In case your company is prepared to offer academic assistance for your partner, you personally, or your dependents, it's very important to obtain the information on that assistance written down, especially if starting an extended degree program. It's very important to examine your academic objectives together with your company and make sure that these advantages aren't likely to be stopped once you have started this program even when the company presently provides tuition support or additional training advantages like an area of the normal benefits offer. It might be advantageous to create an arrangement between your company as well as you – especially if your company is currently providing advantages that aren't recorded included in the standard rewards plan.
Even when your company is unwilling to offer academic advantages within the type of these above, every worker discovers abilities at work which can be recorded and utilized in order to generate previous learning evaluation credit in an university or college. It's essential that workers keep correct and extensive documents by themselves of instruction they finish fresh abilities they acquire about the job, about the job, and just how these abilities were acquired. Finished like an approach to showing the accomplishment of goals for previous learning evaluation whenever you can, preserve types of function.
Advantages of Examination-Oriented Education System
With learning problems within the Usa training program because the end-of World War II special-education continues to be helping pupils. The very first drive for specific training began whenever a number of guardian- advocacy organizations that were arranged appeared. In 1947 among the first businesses, its first conference was, kept by the National Organization on Mental Deficit. That designated a starting place for specific training today once we understand it.
Began within the 1950s the Muscular Dystrophy Association throughout the Civil Rights Movement. Kennedy's Cell on Mental Retardation were among a heightened quantity of advocacy teams for learning applications that are assisted. This powerful drive helped provide unique training into colleges in the united states within the 1960is as college entry was founded for kids with problems at regional and condition levels.
The guardian advocacy teams dating back to to 1947 set the floor ground for government regulation being qualified by Congress in 1975 which was named the "Training For Several Handicapped Children Behave" (Public Law 94-142). This work went in March of 1977 into result also it was the start for national financing of specific training in universities nationwide. The work needed public colleges to provide " free education that was appropriate " to pupils having a wide selection of ailments, including " talk, perspective and vocabulary problems, mental retardation, handicaps problems, along with other learning issues."
Regulations from 1977 was extended to provide data facilities and parent instruction. Later the federal government began applications targeting youths with possible learning problems. The Work from 1975 was transformed towards the "People With Disabilities Education Act" (CONCEPT) in 1990. Because business of CONCEPT significantly more than 6.5 million children babies and 000+ youngsters are now being aided every year.
Special-education in colleges frequently inadvertently overlooks a vital facet of why pupils suffer with learning problems. The reason why for understanding problems that are typical are intellectual abilities that are vulnerable. Reports show that 80% of pupils enrolled at some degree in specific training suffer with fundamental intellectual abilities that are poor. Intellectual abilities would be the psychological abilities this one must effectively discover academic topics. In greater detail intellectual abilities are studying abilities used-to keep data; procedure, evaluate, and shop emotions and details; and produce psychological images, read phrases, and comprehend ideas. They're to not be confused with educational abilities which may contain topics like technology, math, or background.
Correct screening to recognize these intellectual abilities that are fragile can help quality learning facilities put an agenda of motion together to reinforce them. This type of instruction can last an eternity. Students may challenge for that remainder of the existence till they're educated correctly by not targeting the intellectual abilities. It's recommended that you will get your youngster examined in a learning instruction heart providing you with intellectual screening. Distinctive training curriculum could be created for the kid to conquer their learning disability once examined an individual.


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Depending on what kind of a job you have, you might need to consult your phone and/or email quite often but most people don't need to do this. Many people use their emails, texts, phone calls, and status updates to keep track of what's going on in their friend circles. But what can you do when it becomes compulsive and you just can't help yourself from checking up using your mobile device all of the time? That's when your device becomes an electronic leash and it can be hard to let go of it.
Ways of Letting Go of Your Electronic Leashes
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Andrew Parrott was born in December 1861 in Worthington, Dubuque County, Iowa the son of Leven Parrott and Amanda Williams. He married Elsie Irene Parrott in 1889 (yes, that is also her maiden name - I have not confirmed how or if they were related).
Andrew's wife had died in 1910. On Monday, January 25th, 1915, Andrew Parrott was injured and died the following morning. According to the Sumner Gazette "A sad accident occurred at the big freight platform just north of Second street, Monday evening, when Andrew Parrott received an injury that resulted in his death Tuesday morning.....Mr. Parrott was a widower, and had kept his children together in their home since the death of the mother about six or seven years ago. [MidwestAncestree's note: actually only 5] He was a kind hearted and inoffensive man, and it is hard to believe that he would be the aggressor in any altercation. There is much sympathy among our people for his family."
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The Abe administration has no compelling reason to reject the call by opposition parties to convene an extraordinary Diet session.
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The media should stop giving the Abe administration's "reinterpretation" of Article 9 a legitimacy and validity that it does not enjoy under Japan's constitutional system.
Lawmakers should confirm the importance of civilian control of the SDF and pursue ways to strengthen the system rather than to undermine it.
The Abe administration and the Liberal Democratic Party have gone too far in their abuse of power.
The health and welfare ministry's decision to lower the upper limits of housing allowances alloocated to most of those people receiving livelihood protection assistance reflects the Abe administration's unreasonable attitude toward the weakest members of society.
How people who champion tolerance should deal with intolerant people who violently attempt to force certain values on others is one of the thorniest challenges for a pluralistic democracy.
As the Abe administration pushes to restart idled nuclear power plants that have cleared safety screening, the question of which local governments should also have a say in whether a plant may restart remains open.
A gap has emerged between Japanese and foreign media in their appraisal of Japan's political scene. Some overseas media are growing skeptical that Japan is indeed a champion of freedom and democracy.
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