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"Children who know how to think for themselves spoil the harmony of the collective society that is coming, where everyone will be interdependent. Independent, self-reliant people will be a counterproductive anachronism in the collectivist society of the future." — John Dewey, 19th century Socialist party member and educational philosopher whose ideas are still studied by teachers today.
Education is not a one-size-fits-all product. Every single child is unique, with his own particular talents, interests, strengths, and weaknesses. It is well-recognized for example that different children have different methods by which they learn the most efficiently. Some are kinesthetic learners, learning much more quickly and easily in an environment in which they can practice what they are being taught hands-on. Others are auditory learners, learning much more quickly and easily through class discussion and reading aloud. Still yet others are visual learners, learning much more quickly and easily when they can see what it is they are trying to learn either in writing or on video or in visual charts and graphs. But the State education camps do not–indeed, can not–accomodate each child's unique pace and style of learning. Children of all methods and speeds of learning are stuffed into one room, forced to learn at the method and speed of the lowest-common-demoninator in the class. The quickest are deprived of the opportunity to excel, and the slowest are deprived of the attention they need.
Some children, although they do excel in one or more areas (say, math and science), have absolutely no interest whatsoever in some other area (say, history). In the State education camps, however, they are not allowed to proceed in the areas that interest them; instead, they are forced to continue memorizing dry facts (the dates of various events; the abbreviations of various chemicals) in those subjects in which they have no interest. What benefit does a future journalist gain from being forced to memorize the periodic table of elements? What benefit does a future engineer gain from being forced to write an essay on To Kill a Mockingbird? What benefit does a future mechanic gain from any of it? And what benefit does society gain from being compelled to spend thousands of dollars subsidizing this?
In the State-education camps, children of all temperaments are forced into the same classes together; and thus, bullying is an experience shared by everyone who has been forced through the system. Nonathletic and overweight students are forced into the same gym classes as the more athletic ones; and for many children, it is no exaggeration to say that these are the worst years of their lives–some become so overwhelmed that they end up committing suicide or carrying weapons to school. The State's education camps thus breed violence and hatred among a large number of children, and provide many of them with the setting for the most miserable years of their lives. Just last week (April of 2009), for instance, bullying led an eleven-year-old to suicide. GLSEN reported that this was at least the fourth suicide linked to bullying already this year.
"Is it not ironic that in a planned society of controlled workers given compulsory assignments, where religious expression is suppressed, the press controlled, and all media of communication censored, where a puppet government is encouraged but denied any real authority, where great attention is given to efficiency and character reports, and attendance at cultural assemblies is mandatory, where it is avowed that all will be administered to each according to his needs and performance required from each according to his abilities, and where those who flee are tracked down, returned, and punished for trying to escape–in other words, in the typical American high school–that we attempt to teach 'the democratic system'?" – Royce Van Norman
In a society that has risen to untold levels of prosperity thanks entirely to one single economic factor–a consistently increasing specialization in the division of its labor–how does it make any sense to force each unique child through the exact same educational mold, indifferent to that child's interests, talents, pace and method of learning? Shouldn't the greatest degree of specialization be encouraged as early as possible, for the benefit of both the student and society as a whole? Shouldn't each student be allowed to develop as far as he possibly can in his own subjects of interest–even at the detriment of subjects in which he has no interest? Shouldn't each student be allowed to learn in his own particular way, and at his own particular speed? Wouldn't society as a whole benefit as much as the individual student from a system which allowed the student to flourish in his own peculiar talents and interests, at his own distinct pace and in his own preferred method?
In an educational model imposed from the top-down by a faceless federal bureaucracy in the style of a Soviet monopoly, a one-size-fits-all education is indeed the only possible option. But imagine the prospects of a system where dozens or more schools, each free to set their own curriculum and offer any combination of classes they chose, competed in order to attract the attendance of students. Some schools would focus on english, literature, and journalism. Others would concentrate on science and mathematics. Still others might offer training in various trades–one might offer training in computer-repair skills and programming; another might offer training in such trades as welding and carpentry. Free to openly compete with each other to try to attract customers, and recognizing that their very existence depended entirely on the continued voluntary support of those customers, schools would be on a constant search for any and every innovation that could increase the satisfaction of parents and/or students. One obvious consequence of such a system would be that students who made no effort to learn, or disrupted class for other students, would not be tolerated for a moment–no school would want to lose the business of several students just because they tolerated a single disruptive one; and so, any report of bullying would be taken seriously and punished severely. Bullying and harassment would no longer be routine experiences that most children would have to suffer through.
A few hypothetical innovations that private enterprise schools might employ: students could be separated into separate classes based on their preferred learning method, whether visual or auditory. Visually-oriented students might learn the day's lesson with graphs, charts, and written notes; auditory-oriented students with a lecture, and recorded audio instead of notes. Schools would likely put an end to the practice of grouping all children by age, opting to group them instead by their proficiency as well as their characteristic style and pace of learning. Some schools might remove sports from their curriculum in order to put more emphasis on education; others would retain them and use sporting events as an additional source of funding. While some schools might continue offering their education for nine-months out of the year, with two months out for summer and another month out between Christmas and other holidays, others could simultaneously offer their education year-round, offering three-week breaks every nine and thereby spreading its breaks more evenly throughout the year instead of concentrating them all during the summer. There would no longer be a debate over which of these systems should be imposed on the entire educational system from the bureaucracy down. Any other system or program demanded by a justifiably large number of customers would inevitably be offered by some entrepreneur seeing the opportunity to establish a new market or niche–and everyone would be free to make his own decision as to which system or set of programs he would prefer.
Likewise, there would no longer be any debate over such things as whether prayer should be allowed, or whether intelligent design or evolution should be offered. Each school would be free to set its own policy, and each student would be free to patronize the school of his choice. In regards to the allowance of prayer, each school would be free to either allow all religious expression, disallow expression of any religion, or even officially endorse a particular religious denomination and only take in students of that particular religion or lack thereof. Religious students who wished to get their education alongside fellow students of the same religion would be free to do so, and nonreligious students who wished to get their education as far away from religion as possible would be free to do so as well.
Given the freedom to innovatively compete, schools would find creative solutions to these problems that a federal bureaucracy never would have dreamed of. In response to the evolution-creation debate, one possible innovation might be to allow ninth and tenth graders to choose between an evolution or intelligent design class, and then bring both groups together in the eleventh and twelth grades for debate classes in which each group would try to defend its own position from the other. In such a hypothetical system, each student would understand both evolutionary and creationist ideas more thoroughly from both sides. But innovations such as these are never even discussed in regards to the public schools, much less implemented–and they never will be, because state-education camps don't face a single one of the economic incentives that are so fundamental to the operation of a voluntarily financed, private enterprise school.
Of course, in all likelihood schools as a routine would publish statistics on the post-graduate successes of its students, in order to attract students through statistical demonstration of its proficiency in preparing individuals for sucessful careers. I personally find it unlikely that creationism would long be taught within such a system, because the number of people willing to voluntarily purchase creationist courses would drop rather significantly if and when statistics found graduates of creationist classes having little or no success in scientific fields. Individuals actually seeking a successful career in science would gravitate towards the courses whose graduates had the highest success rates; and programs teaching evolution would, in my humble opinion, fill this role rather quickly. Regardless, this issue would remain open for free market enterprise to decide. Besides, even if creationism is in fact wrong, the minds of devout religious creationists are unlikely to be changed by using the State to force those individuals into classes teaching evolution. Respect for individual choice and tolerance of opposing viewpoints are more important than shoving a particular viewpoint down people's throats—particularly when the minds being thus forced aren't planning on changing any time soon anyway. Individuals have the right to pursue their own happiness—and if that involves the voluntary purchase and attendance of courses on creationism, then so be it.
A state-education camp that is assured of subsidies and state teachers who are assured of being paid whether children are learning and parents are satisfied or not has no incentive whatsoever to improve its quality, cut its own wastes, please parents–or hell, even to teach children. The Supreme Court has ruled that the public schools that people are forced to subsidize through taxes in fact have "no duty to educate individual children." Compare this to private schools like Sylva Learning Center that give a refundable promise to teach in two months what the public schools can't teach in ten–for half the price.
Of course, some percentage of the children forced through the state system have no desire or intention whatsoever to learn anything–and yet society is forced to pay approximately $10,000 in taxes to drag them through the system anyway, so that they can accomplish absolutely nothing apart from making life more difficult for teachers and lessening the quality of education and amount of attention on all the other children in the system who are actually trying to make an effort. These children still end up dropping out of school and getting a job in manual labor despite their mandated "education." This process is counter-productive in every conceivable way—it wastes taxpayer money; it wastes teacher's time; it wastes the time of the rebellious and uncooperative children; and it lessens the level of individual attention (and, therefore, quality of education) for all the children in the system actually making an effort to learn. In a private enterprise system, it would be no loss that such children would not be forced through the system at taxpayer expense for twelve entire years—and it would be clear to those children that, education or none, their future is entirely in their own hands. Thus, every child attending a given class in a private enterprise system would have strong incentive to make the best effort he possibly could to learn and not be disruptive; and the school in question would have strong direct incentives to punish and prevent such practices as bullying, drug dealing, and harassment. That every single one of these incentives is absent from the state-education camps is surely accountable for the omnipresence in these camps of drug dealing and harassment. Society as a whole will be better off when those who actually want to learn are able to get the best and most personal education possible, while those who don't and aren't willing to make an effort aren't forced with thousands of taxpayer dollars to pollute the entire system for everyone.
Children would not be the only group to benefit from a private enterprise in education. Teachers, in fact, would benefit greatly as well. One of the greatest reasons teachers' wages are so low is because the massive waste allowed by the absence of profit-and-loss incentives in the public system has to be spread out across all of the state's employees, thus lowering wages for all teachers all across the board. The first economic incentive a private enterprise school would face would be to lower its costs by cutting any wasteful or unnecessary expenditure. These lowered costs of operation would then be passed on to teachers, as schools competed to hire the most efficient staff possible by attempting to offer the best teachers higher wages than their competitors. Teachers with high success rates and good reports from ex-students would be more valued, and as such the school at which they were employeed would offer them the high wage justified by their proficiency. Teachers with low success rates and poor reports from ex-students would soon be let go or fired. Thus, free market schools would select and rewards its teachers for merit just as every other sector in the free market selects rewards its employees for merit. The profit-and-loss system would give schools the incentive to fire bad teachers, offer raises to better ones in order to prevent competing schools from attracting them with the offer of a higher salary, and cut wasteful spending wherever possible. This would also thus provide teachers with a direct incentive to teach as efficiently as possible and try to make their lessons interesting enough to keep their students' attention; in other words, to ensure the success of their students in whatever way possible. Hence, the first effect of free enterprise in education would be to raise teachers' wages across the board, as wasteful spending was cut and schools competed with each other for the best teachers; and the second effect would be for teachers' wages to increase or decrease in direct proportion to their actual success in teaching, providing teachers with an actual incentive to increase their proficiency and give special attention and focus to each individual student. That every single one of these incentives is absent from the state-education camps is surely accountable for the overwhelming failure of these camps to educate American children in even such basic skills as reading and elementary arithmetic.
Now to provide an answers to a few simple objections.
1. "There are parents out there who just don't care. They do not care if their kid gets an education; they do not care if their kids skip school. Some parent would rather them stay at home, stay in the yard, or work."
First off, in a system in which parents actually had to purchase their child's education (directly, instead of indirectly through taxation), parents would most definitely care if their children were skipping the education that they were having to pay for. Second, most parents plan to rely at least to some degree on their children to take care of them in old age. Third, not many parents enjoy the prospect of keeping their children "up" unnecessarily. Thus, only if a parent didn't want his children to be able to leave home and become self-sufficient, didn't plan on relying on them at all in old age, and planned on keeping them up at home himself for an indefinite period of time would he not want them to get an education that would lend itself to a successful career. Only if all these motives are found to fail might there be a need for negligence laws against failing to provide one's children with an adequate education, and a free enterprise educational system would have room for such laws just as there already are negligence laws against failing to provide one's child with sufficient food, water, and clothing, in the absence of government-operated, mandatory restaurants and clothing stores. Regardless, such laws may actually prove unnecessary. In early-eighteen-hundreds America, for instance, before public education had even been introduced, private educational attendance in Boston was recorded at 96% by a committee organized to study the issue.
This country was far more literate before education became a state province than it is today. In fact, if education had remained private, any proposal to turn it over to the state would shock all lovers of freedom. But now, Americans [have become] inured to the intellectual serfdom of state education. —Joseph Sobran
2. "In a private enterprise system, only the rich would be able to afford education."
Even right now, with the limited market that private schools receive, the majority of them cost less than the public schools. It is crucial to realize that the state schools are not free; they are simply funded through taxation instead of voluntary payment. It costs $10,000 to send a single child through public high school. Private high schools, by comparison, average between $5,000 and $7,000 for a better education over the same period of time. And if private enterprise schools replaced the public schools, their greatly expanded market would provide them with a financial incentive to offer their services even cheaper. Is it better business to sell a service for $10,000 and attract 150 customers, or to sell that same service for $4,000 and attract 500? In this example, the school in question would increase its total income by half a million dollars by cutting its tuition by more than half. And in a free enterprise system, private schools would most likely operate on an even greater economy of scale than this, and would thus quickly lower prices even below these hypothetical rates. Here is a link to one of many studies demonstrating that the actual price of public schools is twice that of the average private school, and approximately equal to even the most elitist, expensive private schools in existence.
Chris Cardiff, of the National Center for Independent Education, has calculated that if every single one of the 16 million poor and lower-middle-class children in America were provided with a $1500 scholarship to a private school, the cost would come to $24 billion. This is less than 8% of what is currently spent on public schooling nationwide. Even on top of a tax burden surpassing 40%, Americans already donate more than $216 billion dollars to charity each year–and an additional $37 billion is raised in addition to this in private donations to higher education. Raising the mere $24 billion needed for the education of the poor in higher-quality private schools would be no problem at all, especially once Americans received the $316 billion dollar tax cut that would accompany the abolishment of government-operated schooling. The business community itself, because it benefits from the existence of a market of well-educated workers, would be likely to donate to schools that taught students skills that made them into valuable workers. Many businesses already have to spend a great deal in order to educate their workers themselves; so, in a private enterprise system, these resources would simply be redirected to the private sector. What about children in isolated, rural areas? A full education from kindergarten through college is already available through correspondence, video, and the Internet; and if this avenue was proven useful, like anything else proven useful in the free market, it would expand. All of these factors and more would increase the ability of poor and/or rurally isolated students to get an affordable, high-quality education.
"Many companies have moved operations to places with cheap, relatively poorly educated labor. What may be crucial, they say, is the dependability of a labor force and how well it can be managed and trained, and not its general educational level, although a small cadre of highly educated creative people is essential to innovation and growth." — Thomas B Sticht, president and senior scientist, Applied Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences, Inc; Oct 23, 1989
Beyond the fact that private schools would offer affordable and effective education to a wide market, it must also be recognized that every citizen does not actually need an entire high school education. Manual labor is an economic necessity, and there is little justification for forcing every single manual laborer through twelve years of the same science and history classes, with taxes appropriated from other citizens. As a final example: in New York, an entirely private and completely free education was offered to students by a group of teachers working in an abandoned store under the name, "Harlem Prep." These teachers offered their curriculum to the poor black students that the state system had failed and discarded as hopeless. After four years of Harlem Prep's program, over ninety percent of these poor students, who had previously been rejected by the public school system, went on to receive a college diploma and then hold successful careers. How did the public school system respond to this? By shutting Harlem Prep down.
3. "But we've always had public schools!"
Not so. Mr. Matthew J. Brouillette, President of the Commonwealth Foundation in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania and former Director of Education Policy for the Mackinac Center for Public Policy, writes: "From the outset of the first settlements in the New World, Americans founded and successfully maintained a de-centralized network of schools, up through [the late eighteen hundreds]. Early America was arguably the freest civil society that has ever existed. This freedom extended to education, which meant that parents were responsible for, and had complete control of, their children's schooling. There were no accrediting agencies, no regulatory boards, and no teacher certification requirements. Parents could choose whatever kind of school or education they wanted for their children, and no one was forced to pay for education they did not use or approve of."
National compulsory attendance laws for public schools were not established in America until the late eighteen hundreds. The Commissioner of Education who passed these laws—William Tory Harris—had this to say about his accomplishment, in 1908: "The great purpose of school can be realized better in dark, airless, ugly places . . . Our schools have been scientifically designed to prevent over-education from happening . . . The average American [should be] content with their humble role in life, because they're not tempted to think about any other role. Ninety-nine [students] out of a hundred are automata, careful to walk in prescribed paths, careful to follow the prescribed custom. This is not an accident, but the result of substantial education—which, scientifically defined, is the subsumption of the individual." Harris, in these quotes, clearly expressed his pride at the fact that the public education system was succeeding in its goals of stifling private initiative and independent thought, turning its students into "automata."
This article so far has contained only a small amount of speculation on something for which there are literally an infinitude of possibilities. In reality, a fully free market in education, subject to the same innovative forces that gave society such things as electricity, cell phones, the ipod, and laptop computers, would develop innovations far more creative and effective than I could ever try to imagine or speculate about in a simple short essay. "It's time to admit," Albert Shanker, President of the American Federation of Teachers writes, "that public education operates like a planned economy, a bureaucratic system in which everybody's role is spelled out in advance and there are few incentives for innovation and productivity. It's no surprise that our school system doesn't improve: it more resembles the communist economy than our own."


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Who's Doing What Online?
In the U.S., more than four in five adult Internet users make use of social media offerings at least once a month, and half use social networks like Facebook, according to a new report. Sean Corcoran, an analyst with Forrester Research, says that online life isn't just for young people anymore.
IRA FLATOW, host:
I'm Ira Flatow. You're listening to SCIENCE FRIDAY from NPR News. Have you seen these new ads on TV? There's a cell phone ad in particular with teens trying to stop their parents from incessantly texting and tweeting.
It's sort of interesting because we think that it's the young people who are texting and especially tweeting, but it's not just for young folks anymore, and that's really the result of a new study that came out this week about just who is online.
Who is using these social communities? What are they doing? I mean, there are some people we don't want to know about, you know who I'm talking about, who you meet socially online, but who are the people? Where do they hang out, and what can we expect about the future? And that's actually the subject of this new study that came out this week, and joining me now to talk about it is Sean Corcoran. He is an analyst for Forrester Research in Boston, author of "The Broad Reach of Social Technologies," and he joins us by phone today. Welcome.
Mr. SEAN CORCORAN (Analyst, Forrester Research): Thanks, Ira.
FLATOW: I was surprised to read in your study that - but it reflects what we see on SCIENCE FRIDAY, about how much older people who are Twittering are than we might think.
Mr. CORCORAN: Yeah, well, I mean, Twitter is an interesting tool in itself, but one of the things, you know, the point of the research we did is we've been tracking this for about two years now, and what we found is now we're at the point where about four-fifths of Americans who are online are actually now participating in some form of social media, and a lot of that has been fueled by the growth of people over the age of 35. Some of that's through Twitter. I think Facebook has probably really been the biggest catalyst of it, though.
FLATOW: We're heard rumors that, you know - online sort of rumors on the Internet that Facebook is losing participants in droves. Is that correct?
Mr. CORCORAN: I don't know if that's true or not. I mean, the data I've seen is they're still at 250 million people globally. So you know, I haven't seen that kind of data yet specifically for them, but I mean, if you look at Facebook, they almost have nowhere to go to some degree because if they were a country, population-wise at this point globally, they would be number four behind China, India and the United States. So they're at a point now where they have a great deal of people. So it's a matter, I think, now of fixing - or not fixing, but improving their experience and really starting to make money is probably their focus.
FLATOW: Yeah, number four in the whole world.
Mr. CORCORAN: Certainly, yeah, I mean, the United States is a little over 300 million now, and they'd be at 250 million. So yeah, they'd be ahead of - I think Indonesia would be the next biggest. So, you know, 30 percent of their usage comes from the United States, but looking at the numbers that they have, I mean, it's pretty amazing the amount of people who are still using - I mean, before you start talking about them losing people, I think you have to look at how many people are actually using it now. I think that's still a big news factor.
You know, 250 million people using it globally. Half of them, roughly, are logging in on a daily basis. So you know, people are spending more than five billion minutes a day on Facebook. So that kind of activity shows that it's still doing fine, I think.
FLATOW: Is that the largest place anybody is congregating?
Mr. CORCORAN: You know, it's hard to say. I mean, you could say that, you know, some sites like Google and others have a lot of traffic, but people are spending more time, I think, on Facebook than really any other social network, that's for sure.
FLATOW: Right. Well, people can Twitter to us, as they do every week @scifri. That's @-S-C-I-F-R-I, and also, our number, 1-800-989-8255.
Now these people, what are they doing? I noticed in your report, you've broken it down to creators, collectors, spectators, joiners, critics, inactives (unintelligible)…
Mr. CORCORAN: Yeah, well, what we did is we actually - we created groupings based on activity, and really what we call the social technographics ladder, and really, starting at the bottom, there are people who are just inactive. They're not included at all. Now that group is down to as low as 18 percent. So only 18 percent of Americans who use the Internet don't use social tools in some way.
And then we started to look at what's the most basic way you could get involved, and that's a spectator, someone who just, you know, is online, maybe reading a blog or watching videos on YouTube that people have uploaded.
And then there is the joiners, which is now half of the Americans that use the Internet on a monthly basis have actually joined a social network of some kind at this point, and then we got into other things like collectors and critics.
People who tag things and organize things are collectors, people who do ratings and reviews are critics. and then finally at the apex we have creators, and at this point about a quarter of Americans who use the Internet are actually creator now. So that shows you how many people are actually out there publishing and creating information, and that has a lot of impact on a lot of different industries.
I mean, I cover marketing very specifically. So the advertising world is very different now, and also journalism and, you know, seeing what's happening with newspapers. You're seeing a lot of citizen journalists now.
FLATOW: It's interesting because I have some teenagers who I use as my gut checks on these things, and very few of them actually use Twitter. They love Facebook, but they're still doing mostly the old IMing, text-messaging.
Mr. CORCORAN: Sure, and that's actually - that makes sense. If you look at the nature of kind of the beast that Twitter is, and Twitter is kind of an odd counter-intuitive tool. You know, I don't know how often you use it, but I think a lot of people that use it are still trying to figure it out, but there has been some data that's been released.
Now, Twitter's grown so fast that it's kind of hard to really pinpoint some of this stuff. From one hand, it had about just a few million users in 2008. It's up to between 20 and 40 million, depending on who you talk to this year.
So to be able to even get a grasp on what is happening on Twitter is kind of difficult. Initially, it was more kind of adults, I guess, 25- to 44-type-year-old people that were using Twitter. There is some data lately from a company called comScore that just came out recently, I think in the last week or so, that 18 to 24-year-olds are one of their fastest-growing segments.
So younger people are moving in there, but Twitter is really kind of a broadcast tool. It's a little bit more public than Facebook. Facebook's, it's an easier place to control. It's a little more private, and if you think about a teenager, for instance, a teenager is someone whose social network is usually right around them, within their school or, you know, right around them pretty close to them.
So using things like, you know, a cell phone or, you know, for mobile texting or, you know, your Facebook to kind of share your experiences makes sense, but when you get into an older age, I think a lot of us know this, you know, in your career, you start to build a network across the country or across the globe even, and you want to update those people pretty regularly, or you want to follow people that have something to say, and that's really what's brought some of the younger people into Twitter is that, you know, people like Mylie Cyrus and Britney Spears and Ashton Kutcher are regularly updating, and people are coming in to kind of hear what they're saying on a daily basis.
FLATOW: Do different demographic, different age groups, find different social media they prefer?
Mr. CORCORAN: Definitely. One of the things that Facebook's found is that women over the age of 35 have kind of flocked there, and they've certainly done that, and Twitter originally had a little bit more of a male twist at the beginning, you know, and then you look at MySpace, which is still around, still has 50 million people using it, but it's definitely for a much younger audience and focused a little bit more towards entertainment.
So people definitely have, based on age, and you can break it down by demographics. A lot of things have ways in which they use these tools very differently, and people's lives are different. So that's the way they do it. There are different life stages, and you know, as you get a little older, I think people over the age of 35 have found Facebook really great because you can connect with people you haven't seen in a long time, and you can, you know, you can kind of see what's going on in their life, but it's a very personal thing.
And then you have people using something like LinkedIn. It's really more for career, you know, professionals, and I use it personally as kind of like my virtual Rolodex. I just keep all the people who I feel like I need to keep in touch with from a career perspective in there.
FLATOW: 1-800-989-8255. Let's go to John in Berkeley. Hi John. John, are you there?
JOHN (Caller): I'm here. Can you hear me?
FLATOW: Yes, quickly.
JOHN: Yes. I just call myself a Facebook widower. My wife comes home, and she jumps on the computer and on Facebook, and I have to beg her or fight with her to get a greeting out of her, and then when I talk to her about it - and it's Twitter now also. We're both in our late 30s. She basically sees what she does on there as very, very important, even though, you know, six months ago or a year ago it wasn't even important in her life…
FLATOW: All right, thanks. You're dropping out there. Yeah, we heard that about Second Life when Second Life first started.
Mr. CORCORAN: Yeah, we call it the Second Life - and we have this term in the industry, we call it the shiny-object syndrome, where people tend to flock toward something, and they try it out, and if they like it they stay, if they don't, they drop off, and you know, Second Life, really, it still has a decent amount of people visiting it, but it's just not the same.
I don't think Facebook's at that point. I think Facebook's well beyond that now. I mean, like I said, the amount of people using it, the amount of time they're spending, you know, some of the other statistics you can throw out there. I mean, there's been - there's a billion, over a billion photos uploaded to Facebook on a given - I mean, people are using it as almost, you know, their personal address book, in a sense, and it's beyond that.
FLATOW: Well, that's what I was going to say. If you want to reach people as an advertiser or somebody, do you now go to Facebook instead of creating your own Web page?
Mr. CORCORAN: To some degree, you do, I mean, and that's actually a great point because that's one of the things we talk about with marketers now is, you know, marketers for years now, for decades, have been used to what we call shouting. It's this idea that, you know, advertising is talk at.
You know, you just throw a message out there, and if they hear it, great. But now people have the ability to talk back and talk back even more than you think, and it's very transparent to everyone else when they do talk back.
So what we tell, you know, marketers is that basically you need to start building relationships with people, and yes, you know, you'll have your Web site still, but you're going to have a presence in all these places where people live as well.
FLATOW: And so do you find one person? Let's say you want to find people on Facebook. How do you reach all those people? If there are 250 million people…
(Soundbite of laughter)
Mr. CORCORAN: Well, I mean, some of it's just - Facebook, you know, there are ways to search within the Facebook, and it works pretty well. I mean, the way I usually do it is I meet someone, and my personal rule is I only allow someone in my Facebook if I've met them and have a friendship with them. So…
FLATOW: You mean first face to face?
Mr. CORCORAN: Usually, or unless it's someone I spend a lot of time with work-wise - maybe I don't see that much, if they work on the West Coast or in Asia or something.
FLATOW: So you don't want 1,000 quote-unquote friends…
Mr. CORCORAN: And that's what I use Twitter and LinkedIn for. So I actually use it in different ways.
FLATOW: So you've decided where the limits are for each one.
Mr. CORCORAN: Yeah, and I think that's kind of the nature of each one. Facebook, the way it works is when you built your profile, you have to accept a friend, and a lot of those things that happen, they're very personal. So the things that are on my Facebook profile, for instance, are who my wife is and who my friends are and pictures of my life, and I don't' necessarily need to share that with everyone.
But Twitter, on the other hand, is kind of interesting because that's my way of - my kind of like my megaphone out to the world on, you know, things I'm talking about, you know…
FLATOW: So which are your core social community that you live in?
Mr. CORCORAN: Me, personally? It's the three that I talked about: Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn.
FLATOW: LinkedIn, and each one - LinkedIn for business…
Mr. CORCORAN: LinkedIn for business only. Like I said, it's like a virtual Rolodex. It plays a little bit more of a roll than that.
FLATOW: There's something new that Google is coming out with. There's the Wave? Do you know anything about that?
Mr. CORCORAN: I'm not as familiar with that. I mean, they have this thing called Latitude that they came out, which you are able to kind of track your friends through your mobile phone with Google Maps, which is a little bit different. But you know, everybody's trying to come up with something in this space.
FLATOW: And you've got to be careful where you go and what you say on these places because once you hit that return button…
Mr. CORCORAN: Yeah, especially Twitter. Sometimes you can't get that stuff back. I mean that's one of the things that's really broadcast out to a lot of people, and if people choose to follow you, they're going to, you know, hear what you're saying, so you do have to be careful.
And then, you know, there's always security issues, and I think these companies like Facebook have done a nice job of increasing the security and making it better, but you know, yet people should realize that when they, you know, they place things out there, it's on, you know, someone else's server and lives out there somewhere else.
FLATOW: Yeah, if you go on a picnic with somebody, and they take your picture…
Mr. CORCORAN: Yeah, it could end up out there.
FLATOW: It could end up out there, and people you don't want to see could see you on that picnic.
Mr. CORCORAN: And we said 24 percent of people are now creators. So, you know, everyone's kind of a publisher in some way.
FLATOW: And you think everyone, sooner or later, will be participating, even though they may be a lurker now?
Mr. CORCORAN: Yeah, I mean, everyone - it's almost impossible to avoid it at this point. I think social tools, the ability to share, it's just another dimension, another aspect of the way we communicate.
FLATOW: All right, Sean, thank you for taking time to be with us.
Mr. CORCORAN: Thanks, Ira. I really appreciate it.
FLATOW: You're welcome. Sean Corcoran is an analyst for Forrester Research in Boston. He's author of the new report, "The Broad Reach of Social Technologies," and very interesting stuff about Twitter.
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40 Days of Tips, Tricks, and Links: Day 10
I'm all about saving time in whatever it is I do. One thing that we should all be spending a good portion of our time on is reading the literature. It can be challenging to find new papers to read, especially if you're just searching for random keywords once every week or so. Fortunately, there are tools that are readily available to you to automate this process of seeking out new papers. By taking 10 minutes now, you can save yourself hours on the road in future literature searches, and you'll always guarantee that you have a fresh crop of papers waiting for you.
PubCrawler is the first service that I would recommend. This website will scan the PubMed and Genline databases based on keywords that you provide. I chose to have it send me a weekly email on Sunday evening, so that, come Monday morning, I would have a fresh batch of papers to look through and see if I wanted to read. PubMed is more geared towards the biology/medicinal field, so some journals that you're interested may not show up (although the journals they do cover is pretty thorough). Google does have an alerts feature that will return results from blogs and news sources related to keywords that you provide. I've found this to be useful on occasion, but not nearly as useful as PubCrawler. The last option is to subscribe via RSS to the journals that you are interested in (I'll do a post on what RSS is later). This will give you daily updates on what's being published in the journal. This isn't as convenient as searching based on keywords, but it will give you more up to date information.
Unfortunately, that's about all that I know of for automating the search for papers. It is possible to search several sources at once using tools like Google Scholar, Papers, and Web of Science, but these aren't automated processes. For those of you in the non-bio related fields, I definitely recommend setting up a calendar reminder to do a literature search once a week based on a few specific keywords. Until something better comes up, this looks like your only option. Happy Hunting!
P.S. If I've missed any tools, or if somebody knows of a better way to find articles, let me know and I'll be sure to update this post. Thanks!
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July 17, 1990
UNITED STATES POSTAL SERVICE, Plaintiff,
NATIONAL RURAL LETTER CARRIERS ASSOCIATION and NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF LETTER CARRIERS, Defendants
Joyce Hens Green, United States District Judge.
The opinion of the court was delivered by: GREEN
The tangle of pending motions in this case grows out of a "craft jurisdictional" dispute the United States Postal Service ("USPS") is having with the two defendant unions over delivery of mail in Oakton and Vienna, Virginia. Rural letter carriers, represented by the National Rural Letter Carriers Association ("NRLCA"), perform this work. On March 30, 1989, the National Association of Letter Carriers ("NALC"), which represents city letter carriers, initiated a national-level grievance with the USPS claiming that, under their collective bargaining agreement, its members were entitled to deliver mail in these areas. USPS denied the grievance on June 30, 1989, and NALC appealed the matter to arbitration on July 10. The parties agreed in writing to commence arbitration before Arbitrator Richard Mittenthal on November 14, 1989.
Because of a prior decision in a similar arbitration, NALC did not oppose the intervention of NRLCA. NRLCA, however, did not participate and initiated a lawsuit to stop the November 14 hearing. NRLCA v. NALC & USPS, C.A. No. 89-3098 (GAG) (D.D.C.). Not wanting to accede to arbitration before someone not of their own choosing, NRLCA requested an order compelling tripartite arbitration before an arbitrator other than Mr. Mittenthal, but its application for a temporary restraining order was denied. The hearing went forward, without NRLCA's participation. Prior to the second scheduled hearing date (December 13), USPS moved for a continuance to enable it to attempt to compel NRLCA to participate in the grievance. NALC agreed to the postponement.
NRLCA voluntarily dismissed its complaint on January 2, 1990. USPS then filed the instant case requesting tripartite arbitration -- in other words, the inclusion of NRLCA in the USPS-NALC arbitration. USPS will not agree to schedule a new hearing date for the bipartite arbitration of the NALC dispute until the instant suit is resolved.
The following motions are now ready for decision: a motion by defendant NALC to compel bipartite arbitration with USPS; a motion by plaintiff USPS for summary judgment compelling the two defendant unions to submit to tripartite arbitration; and two motions by defendant NRLCA: to realign itself as a plaintiff in this case, and to continue the proceedings until it has an opportunity to conduct certain discovery.
For the reasons set forth below, NALC's motion is denied, NRLCA's motions are denied, and USPS's motion is granted. The parties are ordered to submit to tripartite arbitration before two arbitrators.
Each union is the exclusive bargaining representative of its letter carrier craft employees. Each has negotiated a collective bargaining agreement with USPS; neither is a party to the other's agreement. NALC's agreement with USPS, negotiated in 1987, provides for a multi-step grievance procedure, culminating in arbitration. All grievances involving interpretation of the agreement must be resolved through binding arbitration at the national level. The arbitrator is selected from an established national panel of arbitrators. Agreement between United States Postal Service and American Postal Workers Union, AFL-CIO, National Association of Letter Carriers, AFL-CIO, 1987-1990 ("NALC Agreement"), Art. 15. Arbitrator Mittenthal is one of these arbitrators. NRLCA's agreement with USPS is substantially identical, also providing for a multistep grievance procedure culminating in binding arbitration before an arbitrator chosen from an established panel. Agreement between United States Postal Service and National Rural Letter Carriers Association, 1988-1990 ("NRLCA Agreement"), Art. 15. It is in these agreements that each party stakes its claim.
The current positions of the parties are as follows: NALC wishes to compel bipartite arbitration between it and the USPS before Arbitrator Mittenthal, but would not object to intervention by NRLCA. NRLCA, on the other hand, apparently seeks to compel trilateral arbitration (or so it indicates by moving to be realigned as a plaintiff), but only if it has a voice in the selection of arbitrator(s). Yet NRLCA refuses to participate in arbitration if it takes place only before Arbitrator Mittenthal. Finally, USPS requests an order compelling tripartite arbitration, either before Mittenthal (its preference) or before Mittenthal and Zumas, the latter selected from the NRLCA panel.
Clearly, all parties believe that this situation should be and is appropriately resolved by arbitration. At issue is whether the Court has the authority to compel tripartite arbitration, and if so, in front of which arbitrator(s).
A. Compelling Tripartite Arbitration
This Court's authority to order tripartite arbitration is clear, especially in light of recent circuit court decisions. Generally, a party cannot be compelled to submit to arbitration unless the party's collective bargaining agreement provides for arbitration. United Steelworkers of America v. Warrior & Gulf Navigation Co., 363 U.S. 574, 578-79, 4 L. Ed. 2d 1409, 80 S. Ct. 1347 (1960). The two agreements governing here both have such provisions. That these arbitration clauses do not specifically provide for tripartite arbitration does not present an insurmountable obstacle.
The trend in the case law throughout the federal judiciary has been to order tripartite arbitration (and uphold such orders) in circumstances such as those presented here. This trend originated in 1969, when the Second Circuit held that where two unions each have arbitration clauses in their agreements, a district court has the authority and power to compel them to submit to tripartite arbitration, even though this type of arbitration was not specifically provided for in their contracts. Columbia Broadcasting System, Inc. v. American Recording & Broadcasting Association, 414 F.2d 1326 (2d Cir. 1969). Many courts have followed the Second Circuit's lead. See, e.g., National ...
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Welcome to the Gunshow
I have a 40k tournament this weekend that I need to get ready for. It's at Merlyn's so Im not worried about painting, as such I'm thinking about breaking my eldar out for the event.
It's been a while since I've played them and I want to get some Use out of my Seer council... The points limit is 1850 so this is what I think I am gonna bring:
1848 pts:
Farseer: Runes of warding, Runes of witnessing, spirit stones, Doom, Fortune, Guide: 175
Eldrad: 210
8 Warlocks: 1 W/ Embolden & Spear, 7 W/ Destructor: 278
-Serpent: Scatterlasers, Shuriken cannon, Spirit stones, Star Engines: 150
Troop: 640
10 Avengers: Exarch, double shuriken catapults, bladestorm: 152
-Wave Serpent: Bright lances, shuriken Cannon, spirit stones, star engines: 170
11 Gaurdians: Scatterlaser: 103
10 Gaurdians: Scatterlaser: 95
5 Pathfinders: 120
9 Warp spiders: Exarch, double death spinner: 215
Heavy: 180
3 War-walkers: 6 Scatterlasers: 180
This is a very meta-game specific list. Tyranids are very popular at Merlyn's and I will face them at least for 1 round, if I am doing well I most likely will have to face them twice. If I end up winning my first two games, odds are I will be facing Jason and his foot Gaurd. His list is very tough and I am going to need lots and lots of instant death shots to take him out. You might notice that my army can put out 62 str 6 shots a turn. That should be enough to push through any of his shenanigans that he pulls with his guard.
The one matchup I am really worried about is Nick's Eldar. It's essentially the mirror match, the difference is that he has two more Grav-tanks in his army (unfortunately I only own 2) of course brightlances aren't exactly a good weapon to take against wave serpents so I'm hopefully I will be able to knock down is tanks via my torrent of fire.
Anyway I just figured I would put this out there, I will hopefully be able to take lots of pics and provide you with some battle reports. I've finally got some video capabilities so I might make a couple vids from the tournament. If you want to hear a voice more annoying then Brent's get ready, it's gonna be fun.
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Yup, Eldar tanks are pretty formidable especially when you put holo-fields on them. They don't hit very well though. You might almost get away with ignoring them. Otherwise it looks like your HQs are going to be what will take them out the easiest, if you can catch them. You definitely look equipped to take on horde armies! That's something i have a weakness for in my own list, but the metagame here is quite different. Good luck!! :)ReplyDelete
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This is my very first outfit post! This post also kind of doubles as a haul post, because I just got everything that I'm wearing the other day, but it's a lot more interesting because you can actually see it on. As I said in my previous post, plaid skirts are one of my favorite things ever, and I finally found the perfect one at Cotton On for $15! Because Cotton On was having a huge sale, I also went in and got this leather jacket for $20 (40 dollars off!!!!) and this shirt was $10 and I got it (mainly) because it looks kinda like this shirt that Tyler Joseph of Twenty One Pilots wore when I saw him live in October. These shoes (Express) are actually my sister's, but she let me borrow them for the day. Another big thing that I'm wearing that I just got today is my new glasses! I'm so happy with them and I love them so much.
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United States District Court, D. South Carolina, Florence Division
April 27, 2015
Fernando Contreras Alcalá, Petitioner,v.Claudia García Hernández, Respondent.
R. BRYAN HARWELL, District Judge.
Petitioner Fernando Contreras Alcalá ("Petitioner"), with the consent of Respondent Claudia García Hernández ("Respondent"), has requested that the Court allow him and his father, Antonio Contreras Monterosas ("Mr. Monterosas") to appear at trial telephonically or by live video (Skype) pursuant to Federal Rules of Civil Procedure Rule 43(a). (ECF No. 69.}[1] Based on the compelling circumstances of a Hague Convention trial, the Court finds that good cause exists to allow Petitioner and Mr. Monterosas to appear and testify remotely and, therefore, GRANTS Petitioner's Motion to Appear Remotely.
On October 27, 2014, Petitioner filed his Verified Petition in the Federal District Court for the District of South Carolina located in Florence, South Carolina. As explained in the Verified Petition, Petitioner, a citizen of Mexico currently residing in Cosolapa, Oaxaca, Mexico, brought the federal court action to secure the return of his two children, F.C.G., his nine-year old son, and A.C.G., his two-year-old son (collectively the "Children"). Petitioner alleged that the Children were, without his consent or acquiescence, wrongfully removed from Mexico and brought into the United States illegally by the children's mother, Respondent.
Because of his inability to be present in Court to testify, Petitioner filed the present Motion, requesting the Court permit him and Mr. Monterosas to testify, if necessary, by Skype or telephone under Rule 43(a). As good cause for permitting him to do so, Petitioner argued that he and Mr. Monterosas cannot travel because:
They likely would be unable to obtain a passport or visa to travel to the United States, and;
Both are financially unable to travel to the United States.[2]
Furthermore, Petitioner argued that appropriate safeguards would be present to ensure compliance with the mandates of Rule 43(a), such as his accurate identification by consular officials, his seclusion during the testimony to prevent outside influence, and his willingness to arrive early to test the technology involved so as to avoid interruptions during the trial.
The drafters of the Hague Convention directed that "[t]he judicial... authorities of Contracting States shall act expeditiously in proceedings for the return of children." Hague Convention, art. 11. Because of this directive, Courts have adopted flexible procedural approaches to ensure that cases are handled expeditiously, including allowing remote testimony. Specifically, Rule 43(a) permits a court to take remote testimony "[f]or good cause in compelling circumstances and with appropriate safeguards." Fed.R.Civ.P. 43(a). Courts within this jurisdiction have applied Rule 43(a) to allow parties and witnesses to testify remotely. United States v. Baker, 45 F.3d 837, 843-44 (4th Cir. 1995); Lopez v. NTI, LLC, 748 F.Supp.2d 471, 480 (D. Md. 2010); Edwards v. Logan, 38 F.Supp.2d 463, 466 (W.D. Va. 1999). Although a party's live testimony is generally the rule, an exception can be made in certain circumstances- the facts of this case present one such circumstance.
A. Good Cause in Compelling Circumstances
Courts applying Rule 43(a) have established several situations justifying a court in permitting remote testimony. One such situation is the inability to obtain a visa to enter the country. See, e.g., El-Hadad v. United Arab Emirates, 496 F.3d 658, 668-69 (D.C. Cir. 2007) (finding remote testimony from Egypt appropriate when the witness could not obtain a visa to enter the United States); Haimdas v. Haimdas, 720 F.Supp.2d 183, 187 (E.D.N.Y. 2010) (testifying from London because of the inability to obtain a visa), aff'd, 401 F.Appx. 567 (2d Cir. 2010). Other justifications include the burden of international travel, e.g., Lopez v. NTI, LLC, 748 F.Supp.2d 471, 480 (D. Md. 2010), [3] and even the impact that traveling will have on one's business, e.g., Dagen v. CFC Grp. Holdings Ltd, No. 00 CIV. 5682, 2003 WL 22533425, at *1 (S.D.N.Y. Nov. 7, 2003).
Coupled with the general relaxation of procedural rules to promote conformity with the overarching goals of the convention, i.e., the expedient return of the children, sufficient cause exists for the Court to grant the Parties' request. First, Petitioner and Mr. Monterosas are likely unable to obtain a visa, both for reasons outside of their control and due to their indigent status. As explained by Sarah Buffet, an experienced immigration attorney who submitted a declaration in response to Petitioner's first request to testify remotely, Petitioner would be required to travel to the nearest consular office to apply for a visa. Once he arrived and paid the application fee, there is no guarantee that he would have received a visa. In fact, Buffett opines that is likely that Petitioner would be denied a visa outright because of his limited financial resources. Furthermore, because Petitioner currently does not have a valid passport, he would not be able to even apply for the visa.
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|A view from above. One of Baz's (excuse me but actually, it's one of Busby Berkeley signature shots that he invented back in the 30's that Baz ripped off, but you know...) Don't choke on all that glitter.
|Not for a minute did I believe this love story. Those two couldn't have had less chemistry if they were first cousins.
Luhrmann probably latched on to certain words and phrases in that first act, like 'decadence' 'collosal vitality' and 'so we beat on' and put them to literal translation. And, compared to his other work, it's like everything else. A lot of show, and a lot of melodrama, but no real performances, and all of the character arcs have to be shoved into our faces as if we don't get what exactly it is each character is going through. Everything serious and violent has to be done in slow motion, and everything glamorous and uplifting has to look like it was just found in David Bowie's closet and shot through a Sepia filter. It's like, step away from the computer, and read the book another time. But, I'm quite honestly not hating on Luhrmann, I think he's really trying but he's tragically misguided. It's like giving a 3 year old a camera, they don't know what the fuck it is or what to do with it. I think he desperately wants to be camp or even cult, but takes himself too seriously to ever achieve that. He's nowhere near as brilliant as someone like Paul Verhoeven who could adapt Gatsby for half this budget and do a better job. So Baz is floating somewhere in between the John Waters/Todd Haynes/Andy Warhol territory and the Ridley Scott/Michael Bay/James Cameron territory...trying to find his own voice and style, but it's just not one that fits into any kind of spectrum or genre, it's (just like his films) a big ol' mess.
|Baz is like the George Lucas of his genre when it comes to actors, where he can take intense complex actors and just make them give the most boring two-dimensional performances of their careers.
The only person that I think gives any kind of performance (and you'll probably kill me for this) is actually Jay Gatsby himself; Leonardo DiCaprio. Though every time he said 'old sport' I cringed because he just couldn't get that to sound natural. He looked the part, he played the part, and he is the artifice through which we see the beginning, middle, and end of a golden age. And he plays all of those movements very well. I'll give him that...or rather to the best of his abilities. It's very hard for a performer like Leo to drown in abysmal material.
But in the end, we don't watch Baz Luhrmann's films for the performances lets be honest we watch them so our heads will twirl around until our eyes bulg from their sockets and steam comes out our ears like an old Looney Tunes cartoon. Unfortunately Baz in all of his aesthetic genius couldn't grasp that there is an ironic edge to Gatsby, it's actually not about the glitz and glamour, it's about the tragedy of how putrid and unreal all of that is and the awakening to that; it's the death of a dream not the birth of it. The disillusionment of Neverland and acceptance and acquiessance to banal and bland 'real world' life. Sorry if that ruined Gatsby for you, but you should have fucking read it by now. PS. It is such a fucking cop-out to adapt a book with first person narration into a film with first-person narration, like seriously? We need the book read to us by the main character? That's why we...read the book. I want my 13 dollars back.
Baz saves the last like 2 minutes to kinda pepper in some tragedy but it's conveyed through a teary-eyed, whiny Tobey Maguire trying his best to emote near a green screen, and feels reminiscent of like a child losing his favorite toy more than disillusionment of an entire era, as usual, it's pretty futile and devoid of any substance. And isn't that the ever-present problem with Baz? That he makes films that are all style and no substance? Give me an example to counter that I defy you. First he had to ruin Shakespeare for all of us, and now he's taken on bringing down Fitzgerald. Who's next Baz? I'd love to see your adaptation of 'Naked Lunch', I just hope the ghost of Burroughs stabs you in the eye. For some reason I have a feeling he's been itching like hell to re-do 'Breakfast at Tiffany's'. Can't wait to hear his bastardized version of Moon River. But for now, let's all sit quietly and wait for his new Kung-Fu epic. Heads are going to roll.
Trailer below (whirlwind of mehhhhhh)
|A still from Moulin Rouge, with the actors' wardrobe photoshopped so it would be appropriated for the right era.
|Subtitle: 'Ok, it's the 20's but pretend like you're at an LA nightclub in the now. Get her a vodka redbull'
Trailer below (whirlwind of mehhhhhh)


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Creative Harmony - Almost White Papercraft Challenge
Monday, 17 September 2012
Almost Ivory
Creative Harmony - Almost White Papercraft Challenge
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- Linda (Lindyloo) said...
Hello dear lady,
How are you doing? Well I hope.
This tag is stunning. The bright sunflower yellow is amazing and it adds so much life to this pretty tag. It is so cheerfully sunny and the embossing is really effective. Thank you for entering the challenge again.
I am sorry for being away so long from blogland but things have been really difficult of late, but I am on track now I think.
Take care of yourself.
Best wishes Linda x
- Monday, 17 September 2012 at 19:37:00 BST
- Jenny L said...
Hi Linda,
wonderful tag. Love the die cuts.Fab design so pretty too.
Good luck with the challenge.
Lots of crafty love. Jenny L.
- Monday, 17 September 2012 at 19:56:00 BST
- Sonia said...
Wonderful tag dear creative friend:)
Gorgeous flower and embossed paper:)
- Monday, 17 September 2012 at 21:52:00 BST
- Christine Harrop said...
Such a pretty tag Linda and such a sunny colour! Christine x
- Tuesday, 18 September 2012 at 08:07:00 BST
- coops said...
so gorgeous linda.i love your embossing and pretty flower ;D
- Tuesday, 18 September 2012 at 09:48:00 BST


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On May 28th, the Michigan Wolverines landed new commitments for the 2010 football class from DE/TE Jordan Paskorz from Allison Park, PA. Paskorz is a 3-star, 59th ranked TE in the country by Scout.com.
A second commitment came from Christian Pace of Avon Lake, OH on Sunday, May 31st.
Pace is a 3-star, 36th ranked OG according to Scout.com.
Word on the street is that a top-rated DE is about to commit in the coming days to the Wolverines. This player attending the second annual BBQ at the BigHouse organized by head coach Rich Rodriguez and staff.
It's only May and Michigan now has 12 commitments for 2010, with 13 slots still open and 8 months until next signing day (February 2010).
2010 class is really shaping up but Michigan's remaining areas of need are plenty:
Punter - Need 1 good one to replace Zoltan the Magnificent.
Linebacker - Need lots and lots.
Defensive tackles - need 1 or 2.
Defensive ends - have 2, need 1 more, maybe 2.
Running back - Need to find the next Avon Cobourne, Steve Slaton and Noel Devine.
Quarterback - Got a great one with Devin Gardner, but another QB provides much needed insurance...and competition!
Secondary - Michigan needs bodies at corner and safety to improve overall talent and depth.
Monday, June 1, 2009
Michigan Racking Up More 2010 Recruits
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- BlockO-CEO said...
I hope they land some better players so the rivalry doesn't die.
They still aren't out-recruiting the Buckeyes so they have a ways to go before they can beat them, but maybe in 4 or 5 years when Tressel retires and RRod is fired....LOL! I couldn't resist a little jab at UM...forgive me?
Seriously though, they seem to be headed in a better direction & I do hope they get it turned around for the sake of the Big 10's reputation and so that the game will be THE GAME once again!
- June 2, 2009 at 8:18 AM
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Macron urges local authorities to cut spending by €13bn
22 July, 2017
French local authorities will have to cut spending by €13bn by 2022, President Emmanuel Macron said last Monday, emphasising that "intelligent" savings can be found. This €13bn cut will be a shock to many, as Macron pledged only €10bn of cuts during the election campaign, French media recall. Francois Baroin, Senator and head of the French mayors' association, insisted that local authorities have already made 34% of France's savings in public expenditure over the last three years, while stating that "80% of the debt is the responsibility of the state." Anticipating pushback from unions, PM Edouard Phillipe said the government will not change its course.
The IMF last Monday hailed the French president's "ambitious" reform programme, saying his spending cuts and tax overhaul could "go a long way in addressing... longstanding economic challenges." The government has pledged to meet the EU deficit limit of 3.0% of GDP in 2017, a target France has missed for the past decade. The government said a week ago it had identified €4.5bn in savings in order to meet the goal.
Meanwhile last Wednesday France's armed forces chief General Pierre de Villiers resigned in a dispute with Emmanuel Macron over defence budget cuts. The row between them erupted after Macron announced an €850m cut to the defence budget in an effort to meet the EU's requirement that member states maintain their deficits at below 3% of GDP.
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Friday, June 30, 2017
Law Firms to Share $1.6 million +
By Walter F. Roche Jr.
Six law firms will share at least $1.6 million from the settlement of cases brought against a Nashville, Tenn. clinic in the aftermath of a deadly fungal meningitis outbreak.
In a series of motions filed today in U.S. District Court in Boston, Mass., the law firms are asking U.S. District Judge Rya W. Zobel to approve the fees but also to keep the amount of the payments secret.
Under the proposal the law firms will share 8 percent of the total awarded to victims. While that figure has never been disclosed, it is reported to be in excess of $20 million. The settlement resolves claims filed by 114 patients or their survivors who were injected with a fungus laden steroid in 2012 at the Saint Thomas Outpatient Neurosurgical Center.
The firms sharing the fees are Hagens, Berman, Branstetter Stranch and Jennings, Ellis and Rapacki, Lief Cabraser Heiman and Bernstein, Kinnard Clayton and Beveridge and Leader Bulso and Nolan.
"The 8 percent assessment has been the level of reasonable expectation of counsel and the claimants from the earliest stages of the multi-district litigation," the motion states.
"Significant good work was performed by many lawyers in pursuing claims asserted in the Saint Thomas cases," the filing states.
In a report filed earlier this week in the same court case, it was reported that checks have been processed for 90 of the 114 victims who filed claims against Saint Thomas. The payments represent about 90 percent of the total each victim is expected to finally receive.
The payments from the Saint Thomas settlement are separate from payments victims are slated to get from a nation settlement fund established under the bankruptcy of the New England Compounding Center, the Massachusetts firm that shipped the tainted methylprednisolone acetate to health providers across the country.
Some of the same law firms are sharing $6.2 million from a separate legal action stemming from the 2012 outbreak. Those fees were detailed earlier this week in a report also filed in Boston.
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Our class in now in the hall and we were not invited
One of our dear little enimeies of our dear axilottle friends has died. Rest in peace Little Lic.
We had a few tank cleans since last time.
Reported by Fish n Chips
By the way I liked dear Litttle Lic Chips


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Children are gift from the Lord, the fruit of the womb is His reward. Psalm 127:3
Children are a blessing.
They bring a level of joy to a family that could otherwise not be felt.
They are insurance that there will never be a dull moment with them around.
They are evidence of God's goodness and grace.
They are the new generation.
They are the ones that will carry the family name and line into the next generation.
They are friends with each other which ensures that the family closeness will continue.
They get excited to see each other.
run off to the playroom to play will dolls and dollhouses, books, and
computer games. The older ones read to the younger ones. The older ones
carry the little ones and encourage growth and development in them.
They are all ages and sizes, but that doesn't matter because they are family.
And they have already made our family proud.


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May 21, 2012
Certain scales defeat our ability to represent them. Subsequently it is impossible to impose on them concepts of hierarchy. For example, on the aesthetics of the supermarket. The petrol pump. There is no superlative for a packet of cornflakes. (Warhol) (The 'Hatch' in Lost.) Advertisements
January 7, 2012
The myth of the golem also expresses a scientific principle, oddly enough. Beginning from that which is 'dead' an alive thing is made. Are we to say: being alive requires that which doesn't exist to be in force, that is, a myth? The existence of the living implies the logic of myth.
October 10, 2011
It might be possible to speak of the synaesthesia of fiction.
August 14, 2011
For moral sense to exist it first requires the recognition that you exist.
July 12, 2011
the qunincunx.
July 8, 2011
What I am trying to do is look at the imagination of silence.


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Pottercon at Baltimore Soundstage on Saturday 3/25
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text: Yay! My mom got her tourist visa! She's set to visit us here next year, January 15, 2017. I'm excited and at the same time worried. It will be her very first time to travel alone. And she's not very good with texting and updating me whenever she travels. It's always my sister or father – whoever she's traveling with who updates me wherever she is. Well, I know everything will be fine. And I really hope she'll enjoy her time with us here. She truly deserves this vacation. 🙂


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Luthfispace is a blog where you would find interesting items from around the web off and on. Our field of interest are Current affairs, India, Islam, Science, Books, Literature, Heroes, Issues and Ideas, Inspiring stories and anything else we feel immensely appealing (not necessarily in that order). We collect good, useful and highly readable material from all over the web and place it in our Luthfispace. In other words, we are essentially a "filter blog". We link all the posts to the original source.
Motto of Luthfispace:
Konjam kaaram, Konjam inippu, Niraiya niraiya...!
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ie Little sour, Little sweet, More and More..!
In other words we want to share more and more stories both hot and cold, old and new, pleasing as well as heart wrenching.
Meaning of Luthfispace:
Luthf means love and Luthfi means lovable. Hence Luthfispace is nothing but lovable space.
Luthfispace : A tiny space in this world wide web you would love to visit more and more.
A space where you could find materials dearer to you. A space to visit and visit again.
A space to read, reflect and reform...!
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Wednesday, October 29, 2014
Student work from Vanier CAD AEC Program
Lately, I've been teaching in the Vanier CAD AEC program to Adult learners. The program is getting more interesting as we integrate teaching 3ds Max into the program. In our last group of students who graduated in September 2014, we had a number of really interesting projects. I thought I would feature them one at a time on these pages. The first one I would like to feature is Sonila Thaka. She worked on 2D drawings and a 3D model and renderings for a 2 story cottage. Pictured below are her exterior and interior renderings. Awesome..!
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Date Posted : 2015-08-19
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Here at Southern Medical Staffing, we offer a variety of positions in various medical settings including registered nurses, licensed practical nurses, certified nursing assistants, and respiratory therapists. If you are looking for a rewarding work experience while maintaining a flexible schedule, then you have found the right place. We want qualified healthcare professionals who are hardworking, reliable, competent, and trustworthy. We are very diligent when pairing our professionals to their medical specialty. You must take your job as serious as we do. Shifts are available 24 hours a day/7 days a week. You have no obligation to work a certain amount of hours, just work when you want to work. Additionally, you can maintain another job while working with Southern Medical Staffing.
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Well, in what was a painless exercise, Mrs. Blackwell and the new Master Blackwell, were discharged from the hospital yesterday.
|He just hung out here while Mrs. Blackwell and I went out.
He's already so self-sufficient.
There are some lessons we take from the last 18 days, valuable pieces of knowledge gleaned from our experience bringing a child into the world. But, having spent nine months hearing the deep philosophical revelations imparted to me by books, media and well-intentioned acquaintances, I now know how useless most of this information is.
After entering the hospital, we watched, quite literally, every, single plan and preparation we made dissolve into dust and blow away in a series of exasperated exhales.
So, after about 55 seconds of deep introspection, here's the most valuable piece of information I can impart: bring a pillow.
Hospital pillows are
almost without exception horrendous.
They are light and airy to a strange degree. Sure, you don't need a ten-pound pillow, but there's something a little off putting about an item that big weighing less than a grape.
And while they are unnaturally light, this lack of heft is inversely proportionate to their ability to resist the weight of a human head and prop it up to an almost cruel degree.
|Pictured: Baby pillow.
The highlight of these unholy creations is that they're lined with some sort of poly-vinyl that makes the pillow case slip off all the time. Frankly, I have got a tolerance for filth that I'm not proud of but, resting my head on a hospital or hotel pillow without a pillow case is something I do only accidentally or if there's money bet on it.
So bring your own pillow. You might get some arguments from folks that there are more important items. Comfortable shoes, snack food, bottles of water are fine items too. But, if your labor goes long, or you find yourself needing to sleep in the hospital, there is no other item you'll be so happy to have.
But, once you get comfortable, actually being able to fall asleep is another problem all together.


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Ferrari will debut an upgraded engine at its forthcoming home race, boss Maurizio Arrivabene has announced.
However, he admitted that the Maranello team might struggle on the long straights of Monza.
"We know very well that the characteristics of Monza are similar to Spa and Barcelona," he said, "which is less suitable for our car.
"I am sorry because it is the Italian grand prix, but I want to be a realist," Arrivabene added. "I have no intention to deceive the Tifosi — I prefer to say things as they are."
Ferrari may, however, get a boost from an upgraded engine, benefitting from the exchange of perhaps two in-season development 'tokens'.
"We might spent some tokens, but it will be very little, therefore it is not worth talking about a 'super power unit'," said Arrivabene. (GMM)


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Thursday, January 31, 2013
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