There are many examples of schools that succeed with low-income students. The problem is they are neither scalable nor sustainable. They are not scalable because they require talented teachers and principals. There are not enough of them to go around. They not sustainable because the teachers burn out.
The late teacher's union leader, Al Shanker said it best: "programs that are doomed to succeed and be forgotten."
I use nomorobo on my land line - works well. On my cell phone I use Call Blocker by Vlad Lee. It blocks all calls from numbers not in my contacts or whitelist. Blocked calls can leave a voicemail.
I have long been skeptical about the health effects of eating organic food, but I often buy it because it is healthier for the planet and healthier for the farm workers.
Given the political and economic realities, any effort we make is simply re-arranging the deck chairs on the Titanic. We humans are not programmed to sacrifice in the present to save our future.
Anyway, our present civilization is so fragile, with fragile infrastructure ( solar storm anyone ), financial ( 2008 again anyone) politics ( nuclear war anyone?) that something will snap and stop our carbon emissions.
So I click on watch ads all the time. As a result, I get almost exclusively watch, bracelet and ring ads. Some are for watches in the $250k range. Sorry, I am sticking with my $35 Timex watch. It tells time just as well, off by 10 seconds/month for you nerdy types.
Nuclear power with its massive cost overruns is so expensive that no private investors will touch it, only governments will build reactors. (correct me if I am wrong)
A Princeton-led research group has discovered (http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S16/13/72E53/index.xml?section=newsreleases) an isolated community of bacteria nearly two miles underground that derives all of its energy from the decay of radioactive rocks rather than from sunlight. According to members of the team, the finding suggests life might exist in similarly extreme conditions even on other worlds.
Murphy's Law, everything that can go wrong will go wrong, has not been abolished. Nuclear weapons have prevented major wars for 70 years, but this may be the conservation of catastrophe. Putting out many small forest fires builds up to a huge one. Connecting our cities to a large electric grid stops frequent small blackouts but builds up to occasional huge, multi-state blackouts.
Many total surveillance schemes have failed because even a low false positive rate can overwhelm the system. How will this program handle false positives?
At the headquarters of Denali National Park, there is an exhibit on caribou. They do not have an easy life. Four fifth of the calves never make it to adulthood, mostly falling to predators who rip them apart and eat them alive. The survivors are plagued by swarms of biting flies and parasites that burrow tunnels in their haunches before they are weakened by age or disease, and ripped apart by a predator.
This contrasts with responsibly raised farm animals, who have room, board, and medical care, live much longer than their cousins in the wild. They certainly die more humanely than being eaten alive, in fact they die more humanely than most of us do hooked up to machines.
I grew up in the country and saw how wild animals lived. I suspect that most animal rights people’s experience with animals is limited to dog, cats, and zoos.
While on a bus at Denali, we saw a fox walk by with a bloody squirrel dripping from his jaws This was a revelation to my wife who was raised in a genteel suburb. From the oohs and aahs it caused it seemed to be a revelation to most of the passengers.
While I certainly back humane treatment of captive animals,. I think at the further end, animal rights people, isolated from nature, are projecting their human selves on animals.
I set my default ring to silent, and only give an audible ring to those I know. If I ignore a genuine call they can leave me a voicemail. I put ignored calls on my auto-refect list. I wish Verizon would allow two default rings, one for callers on your contact list, and one for other callers.
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I'm embarrassed. I got the quote from a friend (now deceased) and now can't find it also.
There are many examples of schools that succeed with low-income students. The problem is they are neither scalable nor sustainable. They are not scalable because they require talented teachers and principals. There are not enough of them to go around.
They not sustainable because the teachers burn out.
The late teacher's union leader, Al Shanker said it best: "programs that are doomed to succeed and be forgotten."
We think we are in charge - well we're not!
For your mobile, use Call Blocker by Vlad Lee. For your landline use nomorobo.com .
I have no association with either beyond being a happy user.
I use nomorobo on my land line - works well. On my cell phone I use Call Blocker by Vlad Lee. It blocks all calls from numbers not in my contacts or whitelist. Blocked calls can leave a voicemail.
Most did not see it coming
I have long been skeptical about the health effects of eating organic food, but I often buy it because it is healthier for the planet and healthier for the farm workers.
Call Blocker by Vlad Lee blocks all calls not on your contact list. Of course, this means they have access to your contact list.
Given the political and economic realities, any effort we make is simply re-arranging the deck chairs on the Titanic.
We humans are not programmed to sacrifice in the present to save our future.
Anyway, our present civilization is so fragile, with fragile infrastructure ( solar storm anyone ), financial ( 2008 again anyone) politics ( nuclear war anyone?) that something will snap and stop our carbon emissions.
The commentators here can be seen as the wisdom of all fonts;
Back in the 60's lasers were considered a solution without a problem.
So I click on watch ads all the time. As a result, I get almost exclusively watch, bracelet and ring ads. Some are for watches in the $250k range. Sorry, I am sticking with my $35 Timex watch. It tells time just as well, off by 10 seconds/month for you nerdy types.
Nuclear power with its massive cost overruns is so expensive that no private investors will touch it, only governments will build reactors. (correct me if I am wrong)
I set my default ringtone to silent, and give ringtones to those I know.
I use Opera exclusively for FB and nothing else. That blocks tracking.
A Princeton-led research group has discovered (http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S16/13/72E53/index.xml?section=newsreleases) an isolated community of bacteria nearly two miles underground that derives all of its energy from the decay of radioactive rocks rather than from sunlight. According to members of the team, the finding suggests life might exist in similarly extreme conditions even on other worlds.
I had crashes doing that also.
Murphy's Law, everything that can go wrong will go wrong, has not been abolished. Nuclear weapons have prevented major wars for 70 years, but this may be the conservation of catastrophe. Putting out many small forest fires builds up to a huge one. Connecting our cities to a large electric grid stops frequent small blackouts but builds up to occasional huge, multi-state blackouts.
Many total surveillance schemes have failed because even a low false positive rate can overwhelm the system. How will this program handle false positives?
Unforeseeable Fuchsia!
Bad title -- sorry.
Note: I said, "responsibly raised". I am aware of the horrors of factory farming, I eat little meat, and when I do, I look at the sourcing.
At the headquarters of Denali National Park, there is an exhibit on caribou. They do not have an easy life. Four fifth of the calves never make it to adulthood, mostly falling to predators who rip them apart and eat them alive. The survivors are plagued by swarms of biting flies and parasites that burrow tunnels in their haunches before they are weakened by age or disease, and ripped apart by a predator.
This contrasts with responsibly raised farm animals, who have room, board, and medical care, live much longer than their cousins in the wild. They certainly die more humanely than being eaten alive, in fact they die more humanely than most of us do hooked up to machines.
I grew up in the country and saw how wild animals lived. I suspect that most animal rights people’s experience with animals is limited to dog, cats, and zoos.
While on a bus at Denali, we saw a fox walk by with a bloody squirrel dripping from his jaws This was a revelation to my wife who was raised in a genteel suburb. From the oohs and aahs it caused it seemed to be a revelation to most of the passengers.
While I certainly back humane treatment of captive animals,. I think at the further end, animal rights people, isolated from nature, are projecting their human selves on animals.
man bash
I set my default ring to silent, and only give an audible ring to those I know. If I ignore a genuine call they can leave me a voicemail. I put ignored calls on my auto-refect list.
I wish Verizon would allow two default rings, one for callers on your contact list, and one for other callers.