Some Glances At Time
Just some glances at time…
It’s interesting how people decide to put their complaints to good use, even if they’re still just complaining. The OCW movement was the first movement to get full 24/7 media coverage in several years(besides elections and all that). I suspect that the Tumblr website(http://wearethe99percent.tumblr.com/) got the info out there the best, considering that Tumblr is the best format for people who just want to put a picture out for the world to see.
However, many comparisons on the right have been made between the start of the Tea Party movement, and what the OCW movement is doing now. While I don’t go with the main consensus on this issue, I do recognize that what the media tried to accuse Tea Partiers of in the beginning are happening with Occupiers. I don’t remember any Tea Party rally that defamed property, and the police had to get the Occupiers out to clean the park of human road apples(if I’m correct).
Kim Kardashian doesn’t know what marriage means. She threw a $10 million wedding, and then she divorced the guy because they couldn’t get along. No wonder marriage is failing as an institution in America; the rich think that it’s a happy, life-long friendship. My parents have been unhappy at times with each other, and at other times joyful with each other. Then again, I think Kardashian’s problem is that she will only accept happiness as a pampered rich child.(That’s about as much as I know about her - and as much as I wish to know about her.)
Penn State former defensive coordinator Jerry Sandusky has been found to be a child molester. The horrors of our world today. Just think about one of the boys who was molested, and was passed by one of the other adults; do you think he trusts anyone? Oh….how wonderful it would be to go back to the days when there was still a Rally’s here in town.
Several of the messages/posts/”likes” on Facebook right now just make me sigh at Mankind’s shallowness. My friends are doing posts about “when I was:, crush:, fav. teacher:, biggest fear:,” etc. I know you, don’t you think that your fear would be obvious to me? And past loves are in the past.
One post stuck out to me from two friends(both female), daring guys to send girls a message they would never forget. I think I just might take them up on that offer.
If I’ve learned anything over the past month, I’m no Stephen King. I went back to work on the outline for my short story. Still working on it, but better to be humble than exalt oneself(know that I’m not a good writer than struggle through 100 rough drafts, thinking I am).
aquatics:lokilaufeysons:thallydraper | frauleinl | kateoplis:
R.I.P., the movie camera: 1881-2011
An article at the moviemaking technology website Creative Cow reports that the three major manufacturers of motion picture film cameras — Aaton, ARRI and Panavision — have all ceased production of new cameras within the last year, and will only make digital movie cameras from now on. As the article’s author, Debra Kaufman, poignantly puts it, “Someone, somewhere in the world is now holding the last film camera ever to roll off the line.”
too upset to function properly right now tbh
fuck everything
Something is wrong with the world.
Writer’s Tip #1: Find other writers.
I’ve noticed improvement with my attendance to my writer’s meetings lately. I attend two of them: Tuesdays for critique, and Fridays for quiet writing time(and a nap, once my energy finally drains).
First the critique group. I’ve only read two times there, but since then, I’ve gain much more knowledge and wisdom of the craft than I had before. When I presented my research paper, everyone found so many flaws in it that I realized I needed to go back to the blackboard(and I still do). Even though they attacked my paper like a teenager on food, the feedback will help me with my revision.
Last time, we wrote a beginning for critique. I wrote the beginning for a short story inspired by the San Diego blackout(my mind goes places). One gal across from me told me I had a good idea, but the way I had written it made it confusing. Now I’ve re-written the beginning, and working on the story.
Also go to writer’s time groups. The quiet setting between you and the paper(or laptop, be it so) helps put the time in focus, and sets it apart from the hectic events of life.
May the Lord bless you,
Pravda Veritas
When we are working for a reward, we do exactly what is necessary to get it and no more.
Not only are we less apt to notice peripheral features of the task, but in performing it we are also less likely to take chances, play with possibilities, follow hunches that might not pay off. Risks are to be avoided whenever possible because the objective is not to engage in an open-ended encounter with ideas; it is simply to get the goody. … when motivated by rewards, “features such as predictability and simplicity are desirable, get through quickly and reach the goal.” More succinctly, “rewards are the enemies of exploration.”
Alfie Kohn
Worth the reblog.
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(via political-cartoons)
Trying to reach parents on the phone or by e-mail is often fruitless. Asking students why they are missing class can produce short, unhelpful answers. Heiber recalled visiting the home of a 10th-grader on a Saturday in Southeast Washington and discovering the problem after talking a few minutes with the student’s older sister.
Their mother had suffered a heart attack and a stroke. The sister, a nursing school student, said she and her sister “take turns staying home with her each week so she’s never here alone. We’re both missing a lot of school, but until she gets a little better, she can’t stay by herself.” When the educators learned that, they could work on alternatives.
According to Table 79 of the Digest of Educational Statistics 2010, the average base salary of public school teachers was $49,630. I do not know what the numbers in the parentheses mean. This table was prepared in late 2009.
Link to document: http://nces.ed.gov/pubsearch/pubsinfo.asp?pubid=2011015
Thoughts on Education: The Many Children Held Back Act
If there’s one piece of legislation that angers me, it’s the NCLB act - Many Children Held Back. <iframe width=”560” height=”349” src=”http://www.youtube.com/embed/LV7od-RU1Jw” frameborder=”0” allowfullscreen></iframe> This summer, Secretary of Education Arne Duncan planned a goal for reauthorizing ESEA(the act which made NCLB possible) by the beginning of this school year; well, time is approaching, Mr. Duncan, and I haven’t heard about any reform. I have heard aboutwavers for reforming schools. I figure that since education reform is such a big topic, I would write about my beef with the subject. 
In short, the Many Children Held Back Act has done no good; it has cultivated more harm by setting students up for a reality that does not exist. Instead, standardized testing needs to be abolished, and a new system has to be set up - one that doesn’t involve useless tests.
God Bless,Fetyukovich
“Developing the skills of inquiry…”
For one thing, this implies that it is no longer
realistic to define the purpose of education as
transmitting what is known. In a world in which
the half-life of many facts (and skills) may be ten
years or less, half of what a person has acquired
at the age of twenty may be obsolete by the time
that person is thirty.
Thus, the main purpose of
education must now be
to develop the skills
of inquiry.
Love this.
Georgia Tech student Justin Myers recently had a very bad evening. He was expecting guests in his dorm room when four armed intruders greeted him at the door. They were able to steal merchandise and knock out two of the 19-year old student’s teeth for two principal reasons: 1) Armed robbers are always armed, and 2) Georgia Tech students are never allowed to have firearms on campus.
http://townhall.com/columnists/mikeadams/2010/12/28/full_metal_yellow_jacket
Traveling the world and shooting 1 second of footage in each location
MUST WATCH
Matt Damon defends teachers against a [expletive] cameraman!
Obviously NSFW language, but the best thing I know I’ll see all day.
(by GLteachers)
Really? The salary’s that bad? I hear that the health and retirement benefits are good, Mr. Damon.
Michael Bromley, a teacher in Washington, DC, writes: My colleagues groan when I say it, and then tell me to shut up: teachers are over-paid. Truly, we are.
On tenure:
The current system of tenure ignores merit in favor of seniority, according to Geoffrey Canada, Educational Activist and President of Harlem Children’s Zone in Harlem, New York. Teachers become complacent, because it is difficult to terminate them.
Read more: Debate Questions on a Teacher’s Tenure | eHow.com http://www.ehow.com/info_8636450_debate-questions-teachers-tenure.html#ixzz1U5QbEsF8
I also think that this particular camera man is able to keep his focus on you, rather than film every squirrel he sees.
