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Charumathi Raghuraman, violinist in the Carnatic, South Indian musical tradition, is one of the premier young virtuosos of today. Seeing an inborn musical awareness at the tender age of five, she had her initial training with gurus, Smt. T.R. Balamani and Sri. N. Krishnan in Bombay.
Soon thereafter, the iconic violinist of South India, Sri. T. N. Krishnan noticed her precocious talent and ever since Charumathi has been an ardent disciple of the great violinist. Her playing is marked by wonderful sensitivity and excellent technique. To her credit, she also studies Carnatic vocal music with the great teacher Sri. P.S. Narayanaswami in Chennai, India.
A becoming bani, the capacity to translate her musical ideas into performance and confidence oozing from start to finish, Charumathi is certainly set to go places. "Koluvaiyunnade" was a bright rendition with madyamakala swaras in keeping with the raga. The swaroopa of Bhairavi and the Dhurita sequences infused with pep and vigour established a special equation with the rasika.


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Political pitches
September 17, 2015 @ 8:10 pm · Filed by Mark Liberman under Language and politics
At a loss for what else to say about last night's debate, I decided to follow up on "Political pitch ranges" (4/22/2015) by taking a look at the f0 quantiles of the 11 candidates' opening remarks:
As before, Jeb! has one of the lowest voices — here roughly matched by Ben Carson and Ted Cruz. Cruz's low pitch range is a bit surprising, since in the NRA speeches I looked at last spring, he was on top of the pitch-range heap. And again, Rand Paul had by far the highest voice of any of the male candidates — in fact he matched Carly Fiorina quite closely. I'm puzzled that (at far as I know) none of the myriad political pundits have commented on how high Rand Paul's speaking voice is.
Each candidate was supposed to take 30 seconds for a self-introduction. Some took at bit more, and some a bit less — but the most interesting thing to me was the distribution of post-intro applause from the audience. 9 of the 11 candidates got 4-7 seconds of applause, but two of them got none at all:
Intro Applause
Rand Paul 21.0 4.3
Mike Huckabee 43.6 5.7
Marco Rubio 25.5 0
Ted Cruz 32.0 0
Ben Carson 38.8 6.8
Donald Trump 26.7 6.1
Jeb Bush 23.0 5.1
Scott Walker 29.4 5.8
Carly Fiorina 35.7 6.4
John Kasich 37.5 6.1
Chris Christie 35.4 5.9
Marco Rubio ended his intro with a lame drought joke, which fell flat, and left the moderator to tell Ted Cruz to go forward:
In contrast, Ted Cruz ended with the same sort of emotional peroration as the other candidates — but for some reason, there was no audience response, at least not before Ben Carson starts his intro:
The noticeable breathiness of Senator Cruz's delivery is presumably the reason for his unexpectedly low pitch range.
Anyhow, here are the numbers behind the f0 quantiles graph:
CarlyFiorina 144 163 172 179 185 191 198 211 227
RandPaul 147 157 165 174 182 187 196 206 220
JohnKasich 115 125 134 145 155 163 178 196 219
MikeHuckabee 118 129 138 145 153 161 174 187 204
ScottWalker 122 133 141 147 154 158 164 173 184
DonaldTrump 130 140 145 150 154 158 164 170 181
ChrisChristie 116 124 128 133 138 143 149 156 165
MarcoRubio 119 126 129 132 135 140 146 153 163
JebBush 94 107 117 124 130 136 141 148 157
TedCruz 107 112 116 121 126 130 135 145 160
BenCarson 110 114 118 120 123 127 131 135 143
D.O. said,
It seems that Gov. Kasich has the largest pitch range of them all (I didn't watch the debate, but I assume they were not signing, otherwise it would be vocal range). I find the high ranging pitch very pleasing in oratory, so +1 for Gov. Kasich.
Sybil said,
I'm actually glad that no attention has been drawn to Rand Paul's relatively high pitch. Not that I'm a fan of his, or any of them, just that it's one less stupid thing to have to hear about… (Reading about pitch ranges here at LL is a whole other thing, of course.)
[(myl) I agree entirely. But like hair, out-of-the-ordinary pitch is one of those things that's often noted and caricatured.]
I wonder what's up with the Cruz data? Now you've almost made me want to listen to the actual debate, darn it!
[(myl) I'm in the same boat — so far, the introductions are the only part that I've paid serious attention to.]
Carmen said,
hey Mark, I'm totally addicted to this now, and glad to have the term rhetoricometry to name my poison. Question, could you possibly run the pitch ranges for us, for each of these? I can kind of eyeball it from your graph but would love to see the data since I think variations in pitch are often linked to emotion and masculinity in interesting ways.
bks said,
Cruz always sounds whiny to me, and I anticipated his F0 would be higher than most. Hmmm.
AHo said,
Very interesting, thanks Mark! Being a complete novice to this metric (rhetoricometry???) I found it non-intuitive that the female voice's fundamental frequency is less than an octave above even the lowest male. Is this typical? Or just Carly Fiorina?
[(myl) There's obviously a lot of individual variation among men and among women, and there are some cultural effects as well — see "Biology, sex, culture, and pitch" (8/16/2013) for some discussion. But as my summary of the biology indicates, the expected relationship is well short of an octave, more like a major sixth:
Human secondary sexual characteristics include a large difference in the pitch* of the voice, caused by a large difference in the average size of the larynx. This larynx-size difference is about five to seven times larger, in proportional terms, than the average difference between the sexes in height or other linear dimensions (about 50-60% compared to about 8-9%). It translates to a difference of about 70% in median pitch values, on average, between adult females and adult males. This difference is about 4.5 times the within-group standard deviation in such median values, which is a large enough effect that median pitch alone (for comparable speech samples) can be used to classify the sex of human adults quite accurately.
Sarah Creel said,
What do Paul's formants look like? If they're still pretty lowish, that might detract from him being perceived as high-pitched.

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To score points in basketball, you must first have the opportunity to shoot. Since there are five opposing players, you can't always create this opportunity alone, which is why you need to learn the fundamentals of passing a basketball accurately and effectively.
Steve Nash, one of most prolific basketball passers in the NBA explains the fundamentals of passing a basketball in the following video. Take some notes. Really.
Accuracy, cleverness and skilfulness in passing are an essential in basketball as emphasized by Steve Nash in the above video which shows and explains the fundamentals of passing a basketball.
Nothing is more discouraging than to see a player make a wild pass. In some cases a player will pass the ball, not having the slightest idea where it is going. This sort of passing is demoralizing.
One must pass the ball at the proper time. For instance, a slow pass across the floor to a man going at full speed generally results in a failure. If the pass is to be a short one it can be made too speedily. Many a basket is lost on too hard or rather too swift a pass at close range.
Passes which are thrown high in the air are of no use, except in rare cases. When passes are made this way it gives time for one's opponents to cover their men. Often these passes are intercepted by one's opponents.
Long passes are good if they are made with sufficient speed to carry their distance. These passes generally travel almost parallel to the floor, but sufficiently high to prevent their being intercepted.
Micheal Jordan explains how to execute the different types of basketball passing techniques in different situations during a basketball game in the following video.
Did you learn something from the above video? Great! Long passes can be made better with one hand than with two. In fact all passes can be made better with one hand. Passes with two hands used generally are made when the ball is being thrown in from out of bounds to in-bounds.
In many cases a pass could be made by bouncing the ball to one's teammate. This however is seldom done, since the ball does not travel as fast as by direct passing. A swift pass to a man makes him feel confident when he catches it. A man must have good judgment in catching the ball or he may injure a finger or wrist.
In many cases a pass can be made by rolling the ball along the floor and this is very often done. For instance if a man was covered and had the ball on the floor, and if one of his teammates were near, he could roll it along the floor to him.
Most of the time, only an accurate pass will lead to a score, which is why basketball passing is an important skill to develop as a basketball player.
The technique of throwing a basketball does not come to a player �naturally.� It has to be studied, developed, practiced.
The player, of course, must use a different type of passes in different situations. Very often, he has but a split second to hit his target. Sometimes he sees an opportunity to pass as he is receiving the ball. This means he must have the ability to get the ball away quickly, no matter where he makes the catch; high, low, or wide.
A long pass generally implies a pass of half or more of the length of the court. This pass is always a necessity when a man is uncovered and in position to shoot, and you wish to get the ball to him in a hurry.
It has frequent use, too, on an out-of-bound play under a team's own basket, when the ball is thrown clear down the floor to a guard coming up. Another possible use for it is in starting teamwork when recovering the ball from the opponent's bank, or from out of bounds under the opponent's basket.
The long pass should be quick and accurate, and over the heads of any possible opponents in front of the passer.
The player's judgment should tell him when to attempt the long pass during play, as there is little likelihood of its being successful when players of both sides are closely bunched at the farther end of the court.
It is rarely successful when thrown to a man who is advancing in the same direction as the pass, being hard to handle and offering a good chance for an opposing guard to cut in and intercept it.
1. The quickest way of passing is to pass from the position in which the ball is caught. No time is then lost in shifting the hands for a set style of passing. A team thus coached will have the fastest kind of teamwork, as the players do not have to stop to adjust the ball.
2. The speed of passes is an important item. It is essential not to throw the ball hard; There should be just enough speed so that the player can catch the ball while on the run without breaking his stride. The longer the pass the more speed. The time not to throw too hard is when a man is breaking toward you.
3. Most bad passes come from inexperience. The player finds his own progress is blocked, and gets excited, making a blind throw. In general, bad passing denotes a weakness in the stops, turns, pivots, and feints, as a player versed in all of these has aids in helping him to control the ball. Losing teams are apt to go in the air and pass wildly. Other bad passes result from lack of decision on the part of the thrower, who makes up his mind and then changes it too late.
4. A bad pass is not always the fault of the passer. He may have allowed for a break by the receiver, who crosses him by hesitating.
5. Fast teamwork implies not only the idea that the ball is thrown speedily, but that it is handled quickly by the player. Catch the ball first; then pass it.
6. A loose ball is nobody's pass. Get after it hard, even diving to the floor if necessary, to regain possession for your team.
7. Don't expect to receive a pass while stationary unless alone under the basket; be in motion.
8. Don't demand too much of your teammate. Pass so that it is possible to handle the ball comfortably so that he will not be caught off balance. Place the ball in front of him so that he may get it with elbows slightly bent.
9. Don't try to pass to a teammate through an opponent; nor through or into a number of players who are bunched.
10. A bad pass not only breaks up the offensive play, but often will entirely upset the defense. If an opponent intercepts it, the chances are that most of your men are out of position to help in the defense, and an easy score against you is the result, with a bad effect on the morale of your team.
11. Except at very close range, make all passes quite stiff. This cuts down interceptions.
12. Whenever an opponent is close to a receiver, make a fake pass to draw him out.
13. When passing to a runner, �lead� him by at least one running step.
14. When passing to a runner going straight away, loop the ball so it drops over the shoulder turned toward you (this is the one over which he will be looking).
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Q: play audio using base64 string in react native I have encoded audio in base64 string using react-native-fs. Now I want to decode base64 string back to audio format and play in react-native.
import RNFS from 'react-native-fs';

const [audioBase64,setAudioBase64]=React.useState(null)

RNFS.readFile(audioPath,"base64").then((res)=>setAudioBase64(res))

Now my base64 string is saved in audioPath.
By the way for playing sound, I am using react-native-sound and I couldn't find any format to play sound in react-native-sound using base64 data.
If anyone has experienced this and resolve the issue then kindly do let me know.

A: i some how want to do something similar,
i think first we need to write string base 64 and after that play it
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const path = '${RNFS.DocumentDirectoryPath}/${attachment}.aac';
RNFS.writeFile(path, yourBase64String, 'base64').then(() => playSound())
const playSound = () => {
const sound = new Sound(path, '', () => callback(sound))
}
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Fabulous book. A must read.
Great read about the true history. Have recommended it to everyone I talk to.
Great insight and history of the early years of Alaska. Definitely would recommend as a good read--especially if you are an Alaska/Iditarod fan!
Great read for a history of Alaska in the early 1900s. Author did a good job at fleshing out the characters.
This is a good read and as I said in the title of the review...if you love dogs you will love this book. Our dog got a ton of pets and hugs when I was reading this true well researched story.
A very in depth look at the early years of sled dogs as well as the courage of the people who used and needed their service.
This was a very interesting book. It was neat to read about how several men and their dogs gave of themselves to save the small town of Nome during a the diphtheria epidemic in1925 and how they were celebrated for their selfless acts.
A detailed account of an amazing piece of history. Salisbury writes in a captivating way about human (and dog) perseverance..
This is a great read that holds your in attention. The many side journeys into details adds background to the events in a way that I have seen few books do.
Great read - full of interesting history.
It was a very true to life account of dog sled racing and the Alaska wilderness. I have raced that trail in snowmobiles and it can be very dangerous. I couldn't put the book down.
Wonderful story of history and person determination to help others.
Great read. One of those books that I just couldn't put down!
This is a story that will make you proud to be an American. It's an inspiring saga about the courage and caring of people who lived under very difficult conditions, and the animals who shared their lives.
This is a very well written book about the Iditarod race, how it all started. I am still currently reading it, but am enjoying learning about all the history.
Few today can manage this account of an era past but not forgotten. Self sacrificing love. Thanks Gay and Laney.
A story of bravery, courage and determination and a heart for mankind. It was absolutely spellbinding. What a wonderful heart some men have to aid a striken community in spite of indeterminable odds, overcoming nature at it's worst. to complete a mission and aid a struggling community.
This book has you at the first page, keep reading and the history lessons are amazing. Think i might have to read it again.
All dog lovers should read it. Great buy.
Delivered as promised. Good condition.
Great book for dog lovers and history buffs. All the dogs and drivers should be honored. I couldn't put it down.
A great book about true-life heroes. Written well enough to regret reaching the last page! This book is going on my gift list for others to enjoy.
Very interesting, well researched, well written and brings the whole experience to life.
It is a fascinating story every one should read.
Well written book about the race to bring medication to Nome during a diphtheria epidemic. Includes explanation of the history of the sled dog and those men who risked everything to save lives.
Fascinating and so touching! I could not believe I was so ignorant about this piece of history. Bravo and Thank You to the authors!
If you like history and/or dogs you will enjoy this book. Children enjoy books about Balto and this is the real thing.
Never heard of this before. Interesting history. A must for dog lovers. Also, a enlightening story of Alaska's early history in the American experience.
Book arrived in stated condition and quickly, no problems.
Haven't read yet but everything was fine. Would order again from this company.
What a disappointment! I was so anxious to read this book because the subtitle said it was "The Heroic Story of Dogs and Men in a Race Against an Epidemic." But I'm afraid the subtitle was like a promise not kept. That is, while this book did include this information, it just seemed to be slipped in here and there with a whole bunch of other stuff. The writing went all over the place. I only finished the book because I kept thinking I'd get to the part that really does tell the heroic story of dogs and men in a race against an epdemic."
Learned alot about dog sledding and airplanes in the hostile environment of Alaska. But I think the writing could have been better--make the story more exiciting so I could fell like I needed to turn the pages more quickly.
If this book was half as long, it would be twice as good, and would be rated accordingly.
1) The historical background of Nome itself provides worthwhile context to the diphtheria emergency.
2) The little-known effort to provide an aerial solution to Nome's needs is interesting and relevant.
3) The personal histories of individuals, both before and after the crisis, add greatly to the value of the book.
4) The role of Gunnar Kaasen is of particular interest.
Like the other mushers, he had the willingness and courage to participate in the sled dog relays. Unlike the other mushers, he made every effort to exclude other teams and to claim the final glory for himself.
The book repeatedly tells of Alaskan drivers being saved by their lead dogs even when humans were hopelessly lost and confused. It is hard to believe that Kaasen simply overshot the first roadhouse where he was to transfer the serum to another driver. The dogs knew where the roadhouse was.
Equally thin is Kaasen's explanation for consciously bypassing the last roadhouse and relay driver before Nome.
Kaasen wanted the glory for himself.
The loyalty of Kaasen's dog team was poorly reciprocated. Kaasen said of Balto, "Damn fine dog" and "If it wasn't for Balto, I wouldn't be alive today." Yet after the serum run, Kaasen sold his team, including Balto, to stateside interests including vaudeville acts. It remained for a Cleveland businessman to rescue the surviving dogs from a miserable existence. Kaasen apparently never looked back.
1) An abundance of scarcely relevant material, randomly dumped in globs, interrupting the main storyline.
An anthropological comparison of Athabaskan Indians and Eskimos may be quite appropriate for a different text, but for this book the material is tangential at best. And a reader interested in the serum run has little need to know about attempts to introduce reindeer into Alaska.
2) The book relies on barely credible details of each driver's travails along the trail.
These men were mushers, not novelists or historians, and they had their hands full just keeping alive. There was no time to record each snowdrift, wind gust, precipice, or overflow along the way. Since the drivers seem to have been men of few words, written or spoken, and since the authors had no opportunity to interview any of the drivers, much of the detail seems to have been manufactured in the interests of a good story.
3) A very minor, but jarring, comment caught my eye when the authors were discussing Eskimo kayaks. There is a reference to a kayak's "mouth." After more than 50 years of paddling everywhere from Guatemala to Hudson Bay, I have yet to hear anyone refer to a kayak's cockpit in this manner. Perhaps I need to get around more?
Net: The authors seem determined to make a full-sized book out of what could more usefully be a longish magazine article or a slimmer volume. The book suffers as a result.


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Chubb's 'The Best Teachers in the World' Disses MSOs
[Note: This article first appeared as a comment to Withrow's ETCJ article on 11.8.12. -Editor]
I was not going to respond to Frank B. Withrow's "Education in the 21st Century: The World Is Our Classroom." Then I went to this meeting, and, since the recent election, I have been thinking. I know Frank. I know that he is speaking to all of the educators, but in Washington, lots of people sit on stages and affirm that there are certain practices that will change the world. I believe in Frank's ideas and leadership. The nation turns a blind eye to the plight of children in rural, distant, unconnected and urban schools while seeking a digitized curriculum.
I don't find it amusing that lots of the "experts," if they have children, quickly explain that their kids go to Arlington, Montgomery, or Fairfax Schools. Never mind that lots of DC schools are in terrible need of modernity, and a few STEM schools don't change the equation. The learning landscape is not even in DC and other places.
They just took librarians or media specialists out of DC elementary schools. I left teaching in DC years ago because of the lack of resources (Anthony Bowen is now a police station thanks to Rhee, but it is clean and no longer reeks of urine when the heat is on).
We lived through Rhee. Few have noted the ravages of her plan. Then I read Michael Keany's "A Plan to Get the Best Teachers in the World" (11.10.12). Keany says:
In his new book, The Best Teachers in the World: Why We Don't Have Them and How We Could [Hoover Institution, Nov. 2012], Education Sector's John Chubb explores strategies for how the United States can cultivate and retain the best teachers in the world, all with an eye toward raising student achievement. Jeff Selingo, an Education Sector senior fellow, sat down with Chubb to discuss the book at a recent Education Sector author talk.
I was there. I am sure that you will not see me on the video. Keany continues:
Selingo started off the conversation asking Chubb to weigh the importance of teacher recruitment versus teacher training, a main theme in the book. Chubb argued that most of the evidence that drives teacher quality points to training. Selection matters, he says, and so does aptitude. But training is critical, argues Chubb. "The dominant explanation of success is what teachers learn on the job."
At the discussion Chubb said that an Ivy League education was the key. Keany continues:
The challenge with this, however, is the variation in ongoing professional development and teacher improvement. "Training on the job needs to be structured," says Chubb. And, part of the solution might be to focus on leadership within the school, he suggests: Does the principal provide a structure by which teachers can collaborate and learn from each other? Does she really know what good instruction looks like? What training is needed and effective? School leaders must be more focused on creating the right context and structure, argues Chubb.
Chubb's mantra was TFA, Ivy League schools, charter schools, and KIPP.
Before KIPP there was a series of parochial schools that were successful. Scratch a successful minority, and you will find that experience or the resources of the armed forces.
TFA does not believe that teachers should make teaching a career, and, anyway, there are not enough Ivy League schools nor people who can afford them in the minority groups.
Do people really, really think that there are no good teachers except those who are TFA trained? They did mention Vanderbilt. My student, who was teaching there, left because of the short emphasis on content for TFA.
Do people really believe that the only true and measurable education takes place in Ivy League colleges and universities? That those of us who graduated from MSO, which means minority serving organizations, as chopped liver? I know that is not true. There are some good points in Chubb's book. But the conversation and the video dis minorities who do not attend the Ivy League schools. Shame on him.
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Claude Almansi, on November 11, 2012 at 5:39 am said:
Hi Bonnie,
Are the video highlights in Author Talk: 'The Best Teachers in the World' that Michael Keany mentions not representative of the event, then?
I'm asking because re: "Chubb's mantra was TFA, Ivy League schools, charter schools, and KIPP.", in these videos, it's Jeff Selingo who seems hooked on Teach For America, John Chubb only mentions it once, but as an example of the existing interest for teaching, an interest that should be tapped to develop better training, bottom up, from the schools themselves. Ivy League universities are not mentioned, only Vanderbilt is (in the 2nd video) as a model of that kind of training based on schools' needs. And charter schools and KIPP are not mentioned.
Odd. In the editorial choices behind these video highlights, was there perhaps a wish to make the event appear less elitist than you perceived it live?
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bonniebraceysutton, on November 12, 2012 at 4:16 am said:
I replied to you on email and some of my passion has cooled downI was an invited guest to the event. Yes the video is not a reflection of the whole event, but it was a media event.
As a teacher who attended a minority serving institution because that was all that was available to me because of segregation and prejudice which still exists in some areas I have been sadly aware that the face of technology and education is white. We do have people of color who are talented and who have stories to tell that would be inclusive of all.
I am not against good leadership like Vint Cerf, Karen Cator, and I learned even a lot by attending a set of conferences about the work that the current secretary of education is doing , Meeting the Challenge was that conference and I applaud the work.
There are a set of factors that even the best teacher cannot change.
There is documentation of the problems, but perhaps the media edits out the problems because they are "boring". I had a reporter interview me and some others , and she said while she understood, she did not think that her editor would find the problems interesting and /or easy to solve and that people preferred learning about the new technologies.
There is still a digital divide, an economic divide, a depth in subject matter divide and an access divide. Many students do not have teachers who have access to technology in a fluid and interesting way.
I worked with the advisory board of the George Lucas Educational Foundation for more than ten years, hearing experts, learning about projects and knowing of places of excellence, case studies that show that there are many ways to teach.
I learned from Chris Dede, from Seymour Papert, from a diversity initiative that was from the NEA, NFIE so I shudder when people start to hang all the dirty laundry of education on the unions. But that is another story.
I am currently not teaching, but being an advocate where I can, without funding, because I believe it is important to educate every one and my school , is the Tracy Learning Center, in Tracy California where we have a school K-12 that provides an individualized curriculum for every child and which is run by the teachers.
I am not against the real leaders in education, SETDA has just gotten funding, Doug Levin is doing a state organization. I am not wanting to hold up computational thinking, and computational problem solving There are people who have invested time and money in helping me to create, share, understand and write about Supercomputing even though to many people it is unknown except for their use of the tools,
I did not matriculate at the University of Illinois, but I have learned about many things there in the organization of the National Center for Supercomputing Applications. Today lots of my friends are going off to the Supercomputing Conference and I am not . I wanted to, but
funds were not available to me. How I know it is important that minorities and women need to be involved and championed in their work is through the variou organizations that reach out to share their knowledge . NCWIT. http://www.ncwit.org, such a wonderful organization.
Last week I attended a Washington DC Octo event. i felt like I was in the year 1992. I did ask one question which was why did the outside people have to teach technology when the DC schools spent more than any school system in the country per pupil. But I really knew that the system is in remake mode. I was quickly told that there are STEM
institutes, and that there are some students who do graduate. I was also told that there was this bus that would go through the neighbors and share the knowledge of technology. I worked such a bus for the President of the United States and Al Gore so I was excited to go into the bus. The young man was a tech guy, He says he is going to teach Drupal to neighborhoods. I went on a truck to neighborhood of need and started wherever the person was, we did round tables for the businesses, we did instruction for administrators and school board members, we did teacher days and I loved the parent days where people who had never touched a computer came to sew what in the world we were talking about. ( we did have funding from NTIA)
I guess I think first you have to teach what it is, why it helps, personalize it and infuse it in the schools so that it is a matter of daily proactive practice . No teacher , even me is bigger than the possibilities that are available online. I like being a facilitator for change. Sadly there is still a narrow look taken at the places of need in education. Karen Cator is right,we do need to do all the things she is saying, but teachers have school boards, principals, and state boards and groups to vault over if those groups do not understand how technology and wise use of the media changes the face of education,
Further, Chris Dede is at Harvard, and he fights to change the face of education even there. You have to read his work. He came from George Mason where I was a student, later.
There are people who hate me because I want the use of computational thinking, problem solving and new ways of working to be a part of the whole K-12 movement to change. I am used to it.
A lot of the people who are advising people how to teach do not have a vast experience in teaching, learning, and being a part of thinking about the educational process. I look forward to what it is that George Lucas will do with the foundation. I learned so much from that foundation and was able to help using the projects, films. resources, and ideas that are liberally shared .
We talk about math rarely. Math sucks in most schools. The teachers who taught me in the parochial schools tested us at the beginning of the year and the end of the year. There was no finger pointing for once a year testing that happens in February. Hello? THe whole year has not even passed and teachers are being held accountable for a year's work as they go into the half year mode in reality.
We hold children in their learning. I used to be a teacher of the talented and gifted. It was very, very hard and rewarding work.
All children do not learn at the same rate. I loved seeing Seymour Papert ask people in an audience to sit by age groups.. you get the message. He was poking fun at our way of age grading, but is is what we have to address the needs of young students. It seems only in music are people allowed to grow and change as they can.
Hopefully there will not be the science of yesterday being taught to the children of today. Frank Wilthrow would be pleased with the students I taught using his Voyage of the Mimi. I was able to teach it because it was interdisciplinary ( The Maya Tapes) so it was under the radar, and we did the science, math, social studies, geography and culture of the Maya. We crossed subject matter areas in the 6th grade and it was fun to attend a National Geographic Dinner. I was sitting with geographers and telling them how I could not afford the project so I previewed it and bought the books so I at least could create some version of it. Well, the film director of the project and his son were at my table and in a week I had the whole project as a gift. WIth the Internet now, and the places like http://www.concord.org, the Exploratorium, the NCSA and their gateways with visualization and modeling and
big data.. those are the things that people should be talking about
but it takes work, scholarship and depth of content.
Good starting points?
NASA ( My Nasa)
http://www.nwit.org
Concord.org
NCTM
The Geographic Alliances
If you have a tool and you don't know how to use it. Is it a tool? I think not.
I have a few cheerleaders. They are the people who helped to invent the Internet. There are people who truly understand transformation.
It is not just in Ivy League schools. The transformation of schools in Maryland was not even mentioned.
Bonnie Bracey Sutton
The National Geographic has rich resources that are shared in alliances for teachers, but sadly geography is not a subject that is taught. Daily we look at television and she the world, but only in digital format. I wrote a piece on that in my blog, i thought it was too K-12 centered to share here.
Citizen science is a new idea. That for a later discussion.
The essay on Geography
http://thepowerofus.org/2012/11/11/the-magic-of-maps-gis-the-wonderful-world-of-geography-
I did not post it here because it is very K-12.
Genter.. We need to interview Ruthe Farmer. Here is the correct URL
http://www.ncwit.org/.
There are so many resources here.
NASA was my educational scaffolding and diversity was just a part of what they did. I was a Christa McAuliffe Educator, and won prizes for my work. It is how I came to meet George Lucas, through the networks and then to be invited to serve on his advisory board for ten years.
They had at that time CHallenger Fellows , and we had projects and funding to do our projects. But NASA still provides for teachers, the media does not now promote them as much as they used to
NASA –
mynasa.nasa.gov/portal/site/mynasa/index.jsp?bandwidth=high
Mar 28, 2011 ·
If you find something on the NASA site you'd like to read later, you can click the bookmark icon to add it to the bookmarks or playlists panels.
http://www.nasa.gov
NASA.gov brings you images, videos and interactive features from the unique perspective of America's space agency. Get the latest updates on NASA missions …Each NASA Center has a focus, and some of us have been trained, professionally developed at several sites. Langley, the Cape and are my official sites of training and there is professional development going on far better than the TFA content. There are courses available through different universities that link to NASA far superior to the courses in many universities but available to use in every kind of course. Goddard is where I did the astronomy in depth.
Got very little ones, they have stuff.


Not many (if any) London photographers will have had a Blenheim Palace wedding and witnessed a full on version of musical chairs in the Orangery mid wedding celebrations, but not many Blenheim Palace weddings will have been graced by Fee & David and their guests. Mad as a box of frogs this lot, everyone of them but boy was this a mighty fine wedding to photograph. Cameras at the ready and just shoot what is happening in front of you was my brief for this one and it was that simple. It was so colourful and fun that any decent wedding photographer would have thought Carlsberg had moved into the wedding market.
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Tennessee: "Bill allows suits over gun free zone incidents"
Once again some advocates are advancing what they see as gun rights at the expense of the general rights of private property and contract. This time it's a new state law that "allows any Tennessean with a valid gun permit to sue a property owner in the event of injury or death provided the incident occurred while in a gun-free zone." More specifically, the "legislation places responsibility on the business or property owner of the gun-free area to protect the gun owner from any incidents that occur with any 'invitees,' trespassers and employees found on the property, as well as vicious and wild animals and 'defensible man-made and natural hazards.'" The bill excludes situations where the law itself imposes the status of "gun-free zone," but includes situations in which a Tennessee business adopts the status in order to follow the policy of its corporate owner or franchisor.
Traditional Anglo-American law grants to a property owner as a matter of course not only the right to exclude guns, but also to ask of customers and other invitees that, as a condition of their visit, they agree to assume the risk of some "defensible hazards" contemplated by the law, such as harm occasioned by roaming wild animals. Is it too much to ask that gun advocates promote the actual rights prescribed by the Second Amendment against government infringement — which certainly could use promotion right now — rather than infringe traditional individual property and contract liberties by inventing spurious new gun "rights"? [Tennessean via Bearing Arms] Earlier on laws restricting property owners' rights to set rules against guns in parking lots here, here, here, here, related Roger Pilon at Cato, and, also with coverage of "off-duty conduct" as a protected class in discrimination law, here.
Filed under: guns, premises liability, property law, property rights, Tennessee
If you decide that in order to frequent your business, I must abandon my Constitutionally-protected Right to defend myself and others, then you assume responsibility for my safety.
Should some event occur in which I am injured or worse, then myself or my family should have legal recourse.
My concealed carry permit means that I have been fingerprinted, had my background checked by the FBI and trained according to the TN state standard.
Your little sign that makes it a misdemeanor to carry on your premises, will NOT stop any thug or terrorist intent on committing a felony.
Do you tell people what they can discuss? Do you tell people they cannot pray before they eat? Do you ban any large groups from getting together to discuss certain topics?
Then you don't restrict the practice of 1st Amendment Rights.
Why would you restrict the practice of my 2nd Amendment rights then? Do you really think criminals will honor your sign? My "offensive" weapon may be the only thing that keeps you and other customers from getting killed.
By John C
The proliferation of gun-free zones is a classic case of over-lawyering, and one you should recognize as such. It is the results of insurance companies and company lawyers completely over-estimating the probability of a CHL holder causing harm on the premises. Essentially, a gun-free zone says that their customers should be rendered defenseless without compensation and that further, the lives and property of the defenseless customers are valued LESS than the lives of CRIMINALS who could harm them. After all, wounded/dead criminals and/or their families have a propensity to sue their victims and the premises in the aftermath of their discovery that said victims could fight back.
By JimInHouston
Is somebody up for re-election and is trying to get votes? I'm pretty sure that I can sue for failure to provide adequate security already, concealed carry permit or not. Why should concealed carry holders get special treatment?
I've posted on this subject before. I understand and respect the property owner's rights, that's why I leave my weapon locked in my vehicle, when I go into a "gun free" zone. I also believe that with the property owner's rights comes the responsibility for the owner to provide for my security when I am in the owner's business or have been invited on to their property.
My concern on this subject mainly dealt with an employer restricting my ability to have a weapon locked in my vehicle, in the parking lot. The statement that I made in earlier posts is that if my employer has this policy, they should be responsible for my security on my way to and from work, since their policy has restricted my ability to provide for my own security.
By Jim Collins
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By Tennessee: "Bill allows suits over gun free zone incidents" – Nebraska Firearm Owners Association (NFOA) Political Action Fund
I like Walter but he blew this one
By jack burton
As JH suggests, there is a distinction between a gun free Zone imposed by the proprietor's personal belief, and a gun-free zone imposed on the proprietor by insurance companies, either reacting rationally to an abusive State tort system, or overreacting to an exaggerated liability threat. If the problem is insurance companies, it is not clear the the best remedy is even more latitude to the tort system.
By Hugo S Cunningham
Is it too much to ask that gun advocates promote the actual rights prescribed by the Second Amendment against government infringement — which certainly could use promotion right now — rather than infringe traditional individual property and contract liberties by inventing spurious new gun "rights"?
Yes, it actually is too much to ask. There's no reason why gun advocates should have to stick to only opposing violations of the Second Amendment. Free speech advocates, for example, don't stick to opposing violations of the First Amendment. They also advocate things like anti-SLAPP laws, that are in the civil courts but still relate to the right even though they are not covered by the right.
By David C
I'm a card-carrying NRA member, but why shouldn't I be able to declare my private property as hoverboard-free, selfie-stick-free, unicycle-free, or (heaven forbid!) gun-free?
I don't understand how a "consistent" Conservative can be OK with this.
By Robert Allen
@Jim Collins:
" I'm pretty sure that I can sue for failure to provide adequate security already, concealed carry permit or not. Why should concealed carry holders get special treatment?"
In most states, you're wrong. If you are the victim of a crime, in many states, the owner or possessor of the property has no duty to protect you against assault by a 3d party. See e.g., Dykema v. Gus Macker Enterprises, Inc., 492 N.W.2d 472, 474 (Mich. Ct. App. 1992) ("The general rule is that there is no duty to aid or protect another."). States following the Restatement (2d Ed.) of Torts, generally recognize an exception to this rule when there is a "special relationship" between the owner or possessor and the injured person. Recognized special relationships "include common carrier-passenger, innkeeper-guest, employer-employee, landlord-tenant, and invitor-invitee." Id. 492 N.W.2d at 474. However, the special relationship doctrine usually is not extended to cover injuries caused by 3d parties, such as criminals. A few states, such as Kentucky, have adopted the formulation in the Restatement (3d Ed.) of Torts, which eliminates determining duties owned based on whether the person injured was an invitee, licensee or trespasser, in favor of factually based analysis on whether the injury was proximately caused by a risk which was reasonably foreseeable. In locations where there is a history of violent criminal activity, even before Kentucky adopted the Restatement 3d's standards, an owner or possessor had a duty to invitees to protect them from criminal violence. The new Tennessee law appears to extend the reasonably foreseeable test to CCW holders on the assumption that they would protect themselves and others, but for the owner or possessor's decision to prohibit the carrying of firearms on the premises. It further provides the owner or possessor immunity from an action based on the statute, which created a new cause of action but does not purport to restrict causes of action already recognized by Tennessee law, should the owner or possessor authorize CCW permit holders to carry firearms on the premises. So, "why should [CCW] holders get special treatment?" Apparently, because the Tennessee legislature decided that persons who can pass the back-ground check and undergo the required training should either be allowed to defend themselves, or the owner or possessor who prohibits that becomes very close to the insurer of the CCW holder, even if Tennessee law does not otherwise provide a remedy for the CCW holder against the owner or possessor.
You also stated:
The statute isn't express on this point, but by creating a new cause of action by statute, it arguably creates an implied exception to the exclusive remedy of the Tennessee workers' compensation law. Generally, when an employee is injured on the job, workers' compensation benefits are the exclusive remedy against the employer. Non-economic damages (e.g., damages for personal injuries) are not recoverable from the employer. A tort action against the 3d party who caused the injuries is still available (which is subject to the workers' compensation insurer's subrogation rights against any recovery), but, most criminals aren't wealthy and most liability insurance policies contain exclusions from coverage for intentional acts. So, a right of recovery against the criminal who caused the injuries is fairly hollow. If the new statute is held to imply an exception to the workers' compensation law's exclusive remedy rule, then a CCW holder employee who was injured in a way that s/he could reasonably have prevented by use of a handgun to defend him/herself may be able to recover personal injury damages from his/her employer and the employer's liability insurer. That will likely cause possessors and owners and their liability insurers to re-consider the risks of prohibiting CCW holders from carrying concealed handguns on their premises. I'd think you'd support that.
@ Robert Allen:
"but why shouldn't I be able to declare my private property as . . . gun-free?"
You can do so, or not, at your choice. The Tennessee statute does not mandate a choice. Rather, if allocates liability for the foreseeable risks of harm arising from a decision to prohibit CCW holders the ability to protect themselves, to the owner or possessor who decides to prohibit firearms on the property. IMO, making the person who makes the choice potentially liable for the consequences of his/her decision is consistent with those who believe we should bear personal responsibility for the foreseeable consequences of our decisions. Whether that is a "Conservative" position, in today's political climate, I will not venture an opinion on.
By wfjag
I'm with John C on this one. If a property owner is liable when a visitor slips and falls on his front steps, why should he escape liability for this hazard, which he had a much more direct and informed role in causing?
By jdgalt
1. Did the Tennessee Legislature go over a raft of incidents from over the years in which this scenario actually took place? I'd like to hear about it.
2. Are the victims in such scenarios unable to file premises liability or other tort suits to begin with? I seriously doubt it.
3. Could plaintiff's counsel in such a suit make copious use of the "gun-free" zone as contributing factor? I see no reason why not.
4. How exactly do we establish causation in such situations? We'd have to assume that in any of them, the aggrieved packer could have taken out the attacker.
5. Are packers without the ability to, you know, decline to visit private gun-free zones? Anyone making them go? Nope, didn't think so.
This is gimmicky, useless, hysterical and supremely butt-kissy legislation. I'll side with Walter.
By Anonymous Attorney
One of the most noted incidents…
On October 16, 1991, 35-year-old George Jo Hennard, an unemployed[3] merchant mariner who was described by others as angry and withdrawn, with a dislike of women and ethnic minorities, drove his blue 1987 Ford Ranger pickup truck through the plate-glass front window of a Luby's Cafeteria in Killeen, Texas.[2] Yelling, "All women of Killeen and Belton are vipers! This is what you've done to me and my family! This is what Bell County did to me…This is payback day!" Hennard opened fire on its patrons and staff with both a 9mm Glock 17 pistol and a 9mm Ruger P89 pistol.[4][5] He stalked, shot, and killed 23 people, ten of them with single shots to the head, and wounded another 27 before committing suicide.[2] Approximately 140 people were in the restaurant.
It was National Boss's Day and the restaurant was crowded.[6][7] At first, bystanders thought the crash was an accident, but the shooting started almost immediately.[1] The first victim was veterinarian Michael Griffith.[8] Another patron, Tommy Vaughn, threw himself through a rear window of the restaurant, sustaining injuries, but providing an escape route for himself and other customers.[1]
Hennard reloaded at least three times before fleeing to the bathroom after a brief shootout with police officers. During the shootout, Hennard was wounded by the police. The incident ended when he committed suicide by shooting himself in the head.[2][7]
Suzanna Gratia Hupp, who was present at the shooting where both of her parents were killed. She later testified that she would have liked to have had her gun during the shooting, but said, "it was a hundred feet away in my car" (she had feared that if she was caught carrying her gun she might lose her chiropractor's license).[12] She testified across the country in support of concealed handgun laws, and was elected to the Texas House of Representatives in 1996.[
Not relevant to this Tennessee law. Hupp was prohibited from carrying her pistol by Texas state law, not the owners of Luby's.
By Chris Mallory
Anonymous Attorney
Your comment amounts to the contention that people already have the right to pursue the claims protected by the statute.
If what you say is true, then the statute is redundant but harmless and Walter's claim that it advances gun rights at the expense of contract and private property rights is meritless.
By SVT
I support fully the owners right to exclude guns from his property. However if he does exercise his right he should, as with the exercise of any right, be liable for any unnecessary harm arising from that exercise.
By VonZorch
So if a private property owners says "no epipens allowed" and my child then dies from a bee sting shouldn't I be able to sue? If there's a sign that says "no shoes allowed" and then I step on broken glass and cut my foot shouldn't I be able to sue? If a movie theater has a sign "no flashlights permitted" and then there's some sort of emergency and I break my foot as everyone tries to exist in the darkness I still can't sue? What if a hotel says "you can't bring a fire extinguisher into your room" but then the hotels fire alarm fails and their sprinklers fail and finally I'm burned to death while trapped in my room, I still can't sue?
I'm not a lawyer but it sure seems like there should be a responsibility on a property owner if they explicitly ban a specific thing.
By Isaac
Right now, people who don't ban guns can be sued for damages inflicted by armed patrons — that's why insurers pressure them to ban guns.
The policy should be balanced. The liability faced by businesses that ban guns should look like the liability faced by those who do not ban guns. We should not allow liability to force businesses to ban guns.
By fsilber
If a proprietor put up a sign in large type "No guns" and in small type "except licensed carriers in this State according to law", would that give him the same protection as a simple "no guns" sign in the 95% of cases where the shooter was a criminal without a carry license?


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Watch: Mackenzie has dominant performance to win MMA debut via unanimous decision
In the first MMA fight of her career, Mackenzie Dern had good control of the action during all three rounds to beat Kenia Rosas via unanimous decision. The fight took place this evening, at Legacy FC 58. Two nasty armbars almost put an end to the match in the...
New home: Tammi and Mikey Musumeci leave AOJ/Atos JJ to join Caio Terra Association
Mikey and Tammi Musumeci announced this Thursday that they are leaving Atos/AOJ and joining Caio Terra Association. Tammi, a 2X black belt no-gi world champion and Mikey, a black belt Pan champion, are two of the most talented American grapplers today. They transitioned from American Top Team, in Florida, to...