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Microsoft and GitHub on Wednesday announced real-time collaboration in their respective code editors, almost as if they'd been collaborating.
Microsoft offered a placeholder rather than a product. Said program tools director Amanda Silver: "We're working on 'Visual Studio Live Share,' which enables developers using Visual Studio 2017 or Visual Studio Code to collaborate in real-time!"
So at some point in the not too distant future, developers working on a project in suitable versions of Visual Studio will be able to inspect each other's work from afar in real-time, editing each other as if they were sharing files via Google Docs... or Office 365... for, we guess, next-gen pair programming.
But not today. Interested parties, however, can sign up to participate in a private preview at a later date.
GitHub presented something more concrete, actual software that's available to be downloaded and used, albeit in beta form. Through the Teletype package for GitHub's open-source Atom text editor, developers can have their keystrokes sent through the interwebs in order to work on the same file.
Files remain stored with the person who initiated the session; contributors can be anywhere, assuming access to the requisite gear.
Teletype connects participants to GitHub's servers initially, then hands the connection off in a peer-to-peer scheme that relies on WebRTC data channels for encrypted communication. GitHub insists its servers never see your code, which maintains privacy and minimizes network latency.
Inviting other coders to your Teletype portal involves a few clicks to open a network connection and then sharing an appropriately long hexadecimal string via Slack or some other messaging app.
Pair programming, according to various studies over the years, produces higher quality code at a faster rate than that produced by solo programmers. But research published in 2001 suggested there are other reasons businesses might want to encourage coders to work together: backing up institutional knowledge and limiting the negotiating power of individual employees.
As the study put it: "The risk from losing key programmers is reduced, because there are multiple people familiar with each part of the system."
GitHub developer Nathan Sobo in a blog post said users might want to use Teletype with some means of voice communication and/or screen sharing. Eventually, he said, Teletype may be adapted to incorporate such features, which sounds about as concrete as Microsoft's plans.


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In this case, this laptop comes with a 17.3-inch screen made by TN + film matrix with a shiny surface. The screen image is very good, and the good deals and the brightness, contrast, and detail on the right level. The only downside is perhaps not the ideal point of view, there is a devaluation of colors from a different angle, which is typical of this type of matrix, and the glare on the screen from lighting fixtures in the room and from the bright sunlight, if you use a laptop on the road. Manufacturers have introduced the Asus Splendid technology, which allows the user to choose from multiple modes suggested optimal image for themselves.
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The Hohenklingen Burg or castle is a landmark perched about 200 meters above the small, picturesque town of Stein am Rhein in Switzerland. In the course of its long history, it has been protected from war and destruction and thus still looks very much as it did in medieval times.
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'Rose Man' retires without taking a sick day
SANTA CLARA, Calif.
He's retiring today with a perfect attendance record: He has never called in sick.
Officially, Leon is a groundskeeper or gardener, but to the faculty and staff at Mission College, he is a remarkable, self-trained horticulturalist.
Leon began planting roses in the 1970's when the campus first opened. It was a skill he picked up from tending to the gardens and yards of the estates of wealthy residents of the Peninsula and Santa Clara Valley. There was no budget, and Leon decided what varieties to plant and where to place them.
"This was all created by me," said Leon. "What I wanted -- I asked for donations, which they gave me, and I just started."
Even on a cold December day, most of the rose bushes are in bloom or are in bud, seeming to wish their caretaker well.
"You just can't put it in the ground and let it go," Leon said. "There are things you got to do: You got to baby it. Tender loving care, you know?"
Leon is retiring today and moving to Susanville.
Anna Brown was walking across campus today with her daughter, who is a Mission College student. She was admiring the beauty of the rose gardens as we were interviewing Leon. A former floral shop employee, Brown was impressed to learn of John Leon's 33 years of tending to the roses. She said the gardens must serve as a kind of aromatherapy for the students.
"I worked in a florist shop for a few years, and when I had a bad day, if I really wanted to feel better, I'd open up the freezer," said Brown. "I would walk in and just breathe in the flowers and roses. It works."
Leon, in fact, has his favorite roses and knows each variety by name. As he walked us around, he pointed out the ones known for their color and the ones with the greatest fragrance.
The Fragrant Cloud is one of his favorites for its distinctive, perfume-like scent.
"It doesn't have much of a bloom, but this is the one," said Leon. "It's very strong -- very strong fragrance on it."
How did he manage to go without a single sick day in 33 years? Leon surmises that working outdoors is probably a major reason, having access to fresh air and sunshine. Mission College long ago stopped honoring him with perfect attendance awards.
Leon loves his roses, but he will leave them behind to devote more attention to another rose in his life, his wife Rose.
"I hate to go," he says, "but there's a time and this is the time for me. So thank you."

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Most Pacific economies are unlikely to be significantly affected by heightened uncertainty in the global economy, says the Asian Development Bank's (A.D.B) July 2016 issue of the Pacific Economic Monitor.
"Despite significant risks to the global economic outlook, prospects for some of the smaller Pacific economies have improved slightly, reflecting stronger than expected performance in tourism, fisheries, and construction," said Xianbin Yao, Director General of ADB's Pacific Department.
"This positive news is balanced against continued challenges in some of the region's larger resource-export dependent economies due to low commodity prices prevailing internationally." The Monitor, ADB's flagship economic publication on the Pacific, projects that the economies in the region will grow by an average of 3.9% in 2016—about the same as projected earlier this year in the Asian Development Outlook (ADO) 2016.
This, however, is significantly lower than the 7.0% growth recorded last year, mainly due to fiscal pressures faced by PNG and the impact of the Cyclone Winston on Fiji—the Pacific's two largest economies.
Papua New Guinea continues to face fiscal challenges brought on by weaker-than-projected commodity prices. Growth is seen to slow to 4.3% in 2016 and to moderate further in 2017 (to 2.4%). The outlook for Fiji's economy is weaker as the full extent of damage and lost production from Cyclone Winston is taken into account. Growth in 2016 is now projected at 2.4%, but is expected to rise to 3.6% next year as the economy recovers.
ADB is also modestly downgrading its growth forecasts for Solomon Islands for 2016 and 2017 (to 2.7% and 2.5%), respectively. The impact of fiscal policy and logging performance are seen to drive this outlook.
Elsewhere in the region, the news is more positive. Vanuatu's economy has benefitted from the start of major infrastructure and Cyclone Pam reconstruction projects. Growth is expected to pick up to 3.5% in 2016—higher than initially expected—and to continue to accelerate to 3.8% in 2017.
Prospects for some smaller Pacific economies have also improved since the start of the year. In the South Pacific, the economies of the Cook Islands, Samoa, and Tonga have grown more strongly than expected buoyed by increased tourism, fisheries, and construction activity. Ongoing business environment reforms should further boost growth.
Growth is trending upward in the Republic of the Marshall Islands and the Federated States of Micronesia on the back of increased public spending from US compact and other development partner grants, and higher fishing revenues.
In Palau, growth is expected to moderate to 3% this year due to efforts to better manage rising tourist arrivals, but is projected to rebound next year as El Niño effects dissipate and the benefits of new infrastructure are realized.
The issue of the Monitor also discusses managing and harnessing the Pacific's fisheries resources through a series of policy briefs. Topics include: (i) Capturing the economic benefits from the Pacific's tuna resources; (ii) Managing rising fisheries license revenues; and (iii) Strengthening sustainability, food production, and livelihoods from Pacific small-scale fisheries.
The Pacific Economic Monitor is a bi-annual review of economic developments in ADB's 14 developing member countries in the Pacific, and includes policy briefs on relevant topics.
In combination with the ADO series, ADB provides quarterly reports on economic trends and policy developments in the Pacific.
Established in 1966, ADB in December 2016 will mark 50 years of development partnership in the region. It is owned by 67 members—48 from the region. In 2015, ADB assistance totaled $27.2 billion, including cofinancing of $10.7 billion.


Those dreaded words. Every parent hates to hear them, especially when it is time to practice.
It can happen to the best of students. Everything is going well, and then all of a sudden, they don't seem as happy or productive. They avoid practicing, or just go through the motions if they do. When we ask what is wrong, we get a glazed look in their eyes, as if they don't really know.
How do we combat this slow creep of disinterest and boredom? When we can sense it happening right before our eyes, is there anything we can do to halt the process?
Human beings are creative. It is a part of who we are; we are dynamic organisms in motion. Not only are the cells in our bodies continually renewing, our thoughts, emotions, and even our self-image is being recreated every day as we encounter new experiences and new information.
Often our interest in music is tied to this vital sense of dynamic motion and change. And yet, paradoxically, in order to become skilled at music we must repeat things. But repetition by itself kills the creative side of us.
Simply repeating things over and over has a way of deadening our vitality. That's because repetition closes off the creative process.
Repetition is a valuable skill set. We have to repeat things in order to function. It is the brain's way of developing shorthand, to cope with all the information coming into it. Imagine how exhausting it would be to reinvent brushing your teeth every time you did it.
But we also need new experiences, new sounds, new flavors, new touches in order to thrive. No wonder we get bored: how much of our life is spent trying to repeat actions we've done a thousand times? Yes, it is exhausting to go without systems, but there is another kind of exhaustion: the slow, creeping boredom that comes from never allowing anything new or creative.
I know one especially creative student who was told, "Play this minuet 12 times each day." She was especially creative, and had gotten completely turned off by this kind of instruction. It may seem like an extreme example, but it came from a real Suzuki teacher. It is a danger inherent in the Suzuki method that we all need to admit and work to avoid: all repetition, no creation.
There needs to be a balance in every lesson, every practice session, and within every musical idea we encounter, of repeating and creating.
We do want to repeat the passage, or the motion, or the chord, until we can do it reliably.
But there must also be an element of expression, of bringing something only you can bring. That's what gives music its interest, because no two people play the same piece the same way.
Teachers, we need to be sure to add an element of the new and different to our lessons. Even the most tried and true teaching methods will not work with every student, and our most treasured Suzuki tricks may not work if over-taught or beaten to death. If you are finding yourself in this situation, try some of the activities below in some of your next lessons.
Here are 8 specific actions you can try right away. Pick one or two that seem appropriate for you and start today, then revisit this page when you need another idea.
Do it by ear. Step away from the music and invent something. Do it by ear, just explore the sound on your violin.
Play something new. Playing something entirely new is vital for maintaining creative interest. Go and search for a piece you haven't heard before.
Compose. Make up a piece from scratch by re-combining the notes they currently know how to play. Be sure to record it so you can remember it next time.
FIVE Note Scramble. At Pre-twinkle or Twinkle level, students know about four or five notes. Have them imitate various combinations of those notes.
Numbered Index Cards. Number a set of cards: A0, E0, A1, E1, A2, E2, A3, E3. Make 4 or 5 sets of each. Shuffle them up and have the student rearrange them in any order on the floor, then play the order they came up with.
Invent Within a Scale. For older or intermediate students, have them pick a scale (one octave to start) and play it to warm up. Then have them re-order the notes in any way they want, adding rhythm and rests for interest.
Play "Song of The Wind" as "Song of Molasses"
Play "Lightly Row" as "Rough Sailing"
Play "Sad Aunt Rhody" with low 2, introducing minor mode.
Parents and students, if nothing is working, speak up! Ask your teachers to bring some creative and new teaching to the table if you can sense your child getting bored. Saying "she needs a more creative direction" is perfectly ok. Often teachers need that sort of feedback in order to keep current with what is happening to the student at home.
Invention really works for motivation and re-ignited energy. I've seen bored students instantly come back to life when given an inventive task. Suddenly they wake up out of their lethargy and bring a new level of attention.


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50shadesofshady
All events & characters in this story are fictional. Start from the bottom post & read up.
Tag Archives: school
Grades are Due
The sun was still barely about to rise and the smell of dew was fresh on the grass. The tutors marched their way into Mrs. Larks classroom as zero period instruction was about to begin… Oh the joys of working at 6:30 am.
Being a Tuesday, it meant tutorials so the tutors collected the students work and began the separation process. Tom, being in one of his moods, grabbed the work and made it upon himself to separate which was unusual. For the most part we have one physics group, a precalculus group, a calculus group, and then random elective groups. Stella usually takes physics since James no longer works zero period and Tom usually takes calculus because he's the mighty priestess who swears he's the only one good at math (please James is almost done with his math degree and Tom isn't even in school).
As Stella waited for her group, Tom did something completely curve balled. He split her physics group into two and took one for himself. This is odd because it is normal for all the kids to be together so they can help one another and like stated before, Tom always takes calculus. Unfortunately, Tom's agenda consisted of something else and he was playing a sinister role by stealing Diego and Alejandro.
Diego and Alejandro are James' two students that are close to him along with Anthony. Stella promised James that she would watch out for them since he was exiled from zero period, but Tom always has to make things hard by upholding his Hitler complex. Stella was left with half of the physics group while Tom took those two plus an extra few. Stella tried to understand, but she continued her work because nothing phases her for too long.
The period ended. Stella was irritated only because Tom spent more time focusing on her group than his own. Stella couldn't figure out why when she has been working as a tutor longer than him so he really had no say in how she did her work. Oh well, Stella let it go. Work had to be done so the day continued with Tom's shadow casted over everyone.
First period ended and second period was about to begin. Stella arrived to Mrs. Larks classroom but Tom was missing. Already short tutors that day, Stella questioned where he was. Thinking he might be in Mr. Smiths class, Stella went over to look but no one was in there. Being a lead tutor, Stella needed to tell Mrs.Lark because knowing her bipolar mood she would start bickering about the short amount of tutors.
Stella: "Mrs. Lark where is Tom? He's missing and we need his help."
Lark: "Did you think about maybe he's in the restroom?"
Her response carried attitude. Stella dropped it. She could have said more because she also realized Katrina was missing, but its okay, not Stella's problem to worry about what gets done since Lark doesn't care.
Tom eventually showed up. Stella almost called in James to cover since Tom likes to call in Katrina when he wants, but letting things take course she sat down and did what she had to so the day could go faster.
Finally third period. James was now on the clock. The tutors greeted him and then they segregated because it was the period where half to go to Mr. Ross and half to stay with Mrs. Lark. Unfortunately, James remembered the new schedule and he was stuck with Katrina and Tom for the next two periods. Having an eye twitch moment, James sucked it up and waited for his assignment.
Third period was okay. James felt the tension still between him and Tom. James still doesn't quite understand why Tom hates him so much, but he speculates its because Mrs. Lark loves him too and Tom feels she should only love him since he's the baby. Whatever Tom, you are a grown man having to succumb to teacher work for tutor pay. Little princess bitch.
Finally a break. James escaped the death eaters and met up with the A team. He shared his feeling of wanting to do harm on to Tom and Katrina, but its always joke. Hope mentioned how it was half off drinks at Starbucks so the tutors made a plan to go during their lunch. Only one more period till they could put some distance between them and south shore.
The bell rang. Fourth period was about to begin. Then turmoil began.
James headed back to Larks class to endure one more period. Oh he could smell freedom already.
Tom was already collecting tutorials by the time he entered the room. Atta boy Tom.
James sat down and waited till he got his group. Knowing he wasn't going to get Anthony's group, he just sat there and talked with Anthony about his day and volleyball since he recently made the team. It's always nice to talk to the kids. Even though Tom feels we shouldn't get too close, the tutors are role models and establishing a good relationship with the kids means more chances for them to open up and seek the help they need.
Conversing a little more, James was soon interrupted by two students asking for help with their grades. They mentioned to him about how they received zeros on an assignment when they gave it Tom. Tom apparently told them he was going to put it in, but it never made the grade book. James grabbed the rosters and looked. Puzzled, they were still missing.
James finished all the grades the week before for Lark. Why you ask? She wasn't going to get it done and a few of the students already asked him to start inputting things because grades were about to be due. Out of the kindness of his heart, he finished them for her and thinking everything was okay was a mistake obviously for what happened next.
So James grabbed his laptop and was going to login and fix the grades. Knowing these students, he had no doubt in his mind that they did the work and with a lot of work already missing, he didn't mind giving them credit for the missing assignments.
Making way to the grade book system took some time. The wifi at work is horrible. Finally having reached the site, James went to go put in Larks login information. Waiting, James thought there was an error but a return message signaled "invalid password". James thought he misspelled it so he tried a few more times but nothing worked. The password was changed.
Was Lark mad that he did the grades? She thanked him last week so why was the password changed? Feeling bad for these two girls, he told them to talk to Tom because James knew Tom would know what was up.
Listening in on them asking him, Tom stated "Oh yeah I have them. I thought I put them in last night. I'll do it right now." James watched him access the grade book from afar, the password was new! It had a "d" and an "f" in it which before it didn't.
Lark sat behind her desk and just watched. She was too focused on her life as usual so she probably didn't even change the password herself. James knew Tom must have said something because the next thing that happened was a student complaining about her grade went from an A to a C.
When James finished the grades the week before he put in all her missing work that Tom neglected. This particular student was one that Katrina and Tom had a grudge against last semester. It was shady to see how the work James put in went missing. James told her to give the work to Tom so he could fix it because obviously he wasn't allowed to do grades anymore.
Whatever Tom. You can do her job for her. James only did it because he cares about the kids unlike Lark and grades hadn't been done since the beginning of the year.
South Shore continues to be blanketed by darkness. Tom was now playing god with the grades. Worst, how did he convince Lark to change her passwords? Well, she is gullible and so focused on her oh so perfect life that she doesn't pay attention to what happens at work.
James just bit his tongue and waited for Starbucks; he could use the caffeine. This situation already had him heated, but its not his problem like Stella says.
Let's just hope the actions of the ones who claim to be doing the right thing don't have serious consequences on the most important aspect of our program, the kids.
Then again when is the last time Lark or Tom actually cared about them? Keep asking yourself that.
Tagged drama, fiction, novel, school, short story, south shore, Tom, tutor
Curiosity Leads to Confirmed Rumors
Before the previous school year ended, there were rumors of Tom getting a student loan with Mrs. Lark as the co-signer. But he continued to not be in school so eventually that rumor died out. Tom was not able to continue university due to a hold on his account because he owed the college $2,000. When the new school year came around, Tom arrives to work one day with a brand new car. Stella thought this was odd because he did not need a new car and she always thought that he would pay off his hold before anything else. Evidently, she was wrong.
Every Friday, the tutors come in to grade the student's binders. But this school year, there was a one hour break between one of the classes. So the tutors help with little tasks here and there to keep busy. This particular Friday the tutors had different tasks. Tom, Lacey, and Stormy were running around campus asking teachers if they were interested in helping with the fundraiser that the program was holding. Teachers that helped would receive a free t-shirt. Stella and Hope were left alone in the classroom to total the amount of each t-shirt size from all the classes and Mrs. Lark left them there to go get breakfast.
Stella and Hope counted the t-shirt sizes and double-checked with each other that they had the right number. They wrote the total number of each size on a post-it and put it on Mrs. Lark's desk. Stella sat down in the chair behind Lark's desk and realized that her computer was left on. Out of curiosity, she skimmed through her e-mails and found nothing interesting or irrelevant enough for her to care. Hope and Stella were both hoping to find an e-mail about when the site coach would be visiting them so they can warn the other tutors in advanced. Since they both knew that Tom and Lark would not tell them the information that felt they had to sneak around to find out themselves.
After skimming through her e-mails, Stella and Hope looked at all the clutter on her desktop. They stumbled upon a file titled, 'Tom Billy Rae.' Billy Rae was a known organization that gave out scholarships and student loans. Stella clicked on the file and once it opened they were floored. Mrs. Lark did in fact co-sign for a student loan for Tom! The rumors were true! But where did all that money go? The loan was made on April of last year. A loan of $15,000. But Tom was still not in school. That loan could have paid off his hold. And it could have paid for a semester of classes. But why was he not going to school? Did he use it to buy that car that he did not need? It's been six months, so doesn't he need to pay off his loan now? The questions were coming but there will never be answers unless Stella and Hope asked Tom himself.
Now they knew why Tom did all her bitch work. She has him on a leash with that loan. Desperate times call for desperate measures but now he is stuck with her until he pays her back. Bad idea, Tom. Bad. Fucking. Idea.
Oh well, your problem, not mine.
Tagged drama, fiction, school, shady, story, student loan, tutor, twist
Protecting the Baby
After weeks of dealing with Tom and his controlling nature, the A team were getting fed up. Stella and James especially. Before the previous semester ended, Mrs. Lark would go to them for help and tell them everything. Now the vibe was different. Tom was doing everything in his power to separate members of the A team from Lark. Being the gullible person she is, he wanted to keep her close to manipulate her as much as he could. But someone can only bite their tongue for so long. So Stella and James came to South Shore on their day off to discuss their issues about Tom.
James started off telling Lark how he felt as if they were not close to her anymore. He felt that Tom was keeping her away from them. The tutors also voiced their opinion about how they hated that Tom was bossing everyone around. Stella hated that Tom bossed her around because they were both leads. Stella just cared more about the students than the new power she had. Thus, she asked the others what they wanted to do rather than tell them what to do.
Mrs. Lark heard what they had to say but it went in one ear and out the other. She said that Tom had a lot on his plate and that they should not have to ask him if he needs help. She mentioned how they never step up to the plate to help him but they never help because he never wants the help when they do offer it. Also, both James and Stella hated doing the bitch work. They hated doing teacher work for tutor salary, therefore, they tried to avoid doing tasks that were not in their job description. Lark continued to defend her unofficial adopted child until Stella and James just remained silent about their concerns because they knew it was a lost cause.
Stella and James left the impromptu meeting knowing that things would not be gum drops and rainbows at South Shore High but they hoped that Tom would at least simmer down. Maybe if he went to school like most of the tutors, he wouldn't be on everyone's case about insignificant things. Wonder how Krista, the site coach, would feel about a tutor not being in school… Isn't that suppose to be a requirement for a tutor? Observation Day was around the corner for the tutors, so what lies will be twisted to protect her baby?
Tagged deatheaters, drama, fiction, James, school, shady, stella, story, Tom
Twisting Words
The semester was going by quickly. Tom was out of control. Katrina was his little assistant. Mrs. Lark sat at her desk doing nothing productive except e-mailing her best friend about what to get for lunch. The other tutors were on edge about what to do. One little thing that the death eaters saw as wrong would bring dark clouds over South Shore High, which no one wanted.
As the days passed, Mrs. Lark wanted the tutors to have a meeting to get on the same page for grading tutorials. A meeting was held one day during their break. Right when it started, Lark left the classroom and immediately Tom took charge. He started telling the tutors to grade the tutorials how they would normally grade. After about ten minutes or so, the tutors were all done grading and Tom asks, "So did anyone give a student a hundred?" A couple tutors, including lead tutor Stella, raised their hands.
"No one should have gotten a hundred, there was something wrong with each one," stated Tom.
Tom proceeds to focus on a tutorial of one student in particular, Anthony. Anthony is a student that is always in James' groups and is a student that will only work well with James. Tom starts to stab at every single thing that he thought was wrong with the student's work and also how the original tutor graded.
As Tom was talking, Stella zoned out and started looking at the names of the tutorials that they were grading. A majority of the students came from one group. That very same group always had the same tutor… James. As realization hit, Stella started to somewhat listen to what was going on again. It wasn't just a meeting about getting the tutors on the same page, it was also a subliminal attack on James and how he had a good relationship with the students that looked up to him.
Tom continued to talk about nonsense and compare South Shore High to Northcutt High. He also kept saying how the tutors had to grade more harshly because their site coach, Krista, will be visiting them to observe. Everyone else remained silent. Stella assumed that he was getting tired of talking because he kept repeating himself. Her assumptions were correct when Tom says, "C'mon, guys, say something."
After a slight pause, Lacey, a tutor that works at three different schools, mentions how Krista is not as bad as how Tom is making her out to be. Stella adds her two cents and says, "We are not a demo school. We are no where near a demo school. So I don't think she will be as harsh as she is at Northcutt because they are becoming a demo school."
Katrina must have not have cleaned her ears because she looks at Stella with a dirty look and says, "Yeah. But that doesn't mean we should slack off." Stella gave her a dirty look back and states, "I never said that. I didn't say to slack off. I just said that I don't think she is going to be that bad." After correcting her, there was a tense silence in the air. But Stella thought it was better to say something than have Katrina twist her words around to the wrong person. After a while, Tom just mentions, "I guess we shall see then."
Yeah, Tom. We shall see.
The dark mark was starting to form once again.
Tagged drama, fiction, James, katrina, plot, school, stella, story, Tom, tutor, twist
No More Ross Town
Weeks had passed and things were silent around South Shore. Not a drip of hate in sight or a knife to be thrown at someones back. Things actually seemed content, at least until Mr. Ross finally broke.
A normal day of tutorials in Mr. Ross' class is always nice because things are comfortable. With Lark's class, there seems to be this imminent shadow looming over everyone making it hard to work sometimes, but in Ross' class the sun always seems to shine; even in the shady places.
Walking in this day though, something was different. Mr. Ross had something perplexing him and because the tutors care about him, they asked what was wrong.
James: "Hey Mr. Ross what's up? You look a little sad. Something bothering you?"
Ross: "Well not much. But, I wanted to ask you something and could this stay between us?"
James: "Of course, I'm not like Katrina or Tom"
Ross: "Has Lark ever said anything about me.. Like in a bad way?"
In that moment, James either could either tell him the truth or spin lies like the death eaters. Having known what Mrs.Lark has said, James knew it was time to tell the truth.
James: "Well Mr.Ross you know you are an awesome guy and a great teacher. To answer your question, I want to tell you the truth. Yes, Lark has said many bad things about you. She feels like you are not on a team with her and that you can be a flake sometimes. She always iterates that if she can make time, why can't you? Of course, we tell her you have kids and she doesn't, but being the self-centered woman she is, that isn't a valid excuse that you have kids."
Ross: "Ahh I see. Anything else?"
James: " Yes. She has made comments to our principal in order to make herself seem like she has done everything on her own and that you are a bad guy for not helping. But you know what Mr. Ross I know you support this program and us so don't listen to any of it!"
The mood set after that last sentence and Mr. Ross just retracted and stayed quiet. All he said before releasing the tutors do their work was "if that's how she feels, then okay".
The period was ending and the work was coming in to be graded. The tutors were about leave. Mr. Ross stopped James however and in the nicest manner said "I am done." Puzzled, James asked with what? Ross said, "I truly feel like I have done enough for this program to be a part of it, but if that's how she feels, then I cannot stop her from seeing things the way she sees it. I want to let you know that I have emailed her and told her that next school year I will no longer be teaching for this program. I am talking to administration and letting them know I am going back to just teaching all sections of English, but I wish Lark the best of luck."
Still sad, Ross carried a grieved smile and told the tutors to have a nice day.
All James could think was, Lark is going to need the luck because we just lost an important asset to our team. Thus, this officially marked the end of Ross Town leaving us only to deal with Lark County.
We can only hope the dark times don't consume the new school year, but that's like asking ice not to melt near a fire.
Tagged drama, fiction, school, story, tutor
Follow the Leader: Stella's Perspective
Before the first semester ended, Tom and I were made lead tutors at South Shore High. Mrs. Lark decided to make us leads because we have been there the longest and we have worked well together before. So I thought things would be okay since last semester the problems and tension diminished. Little did I know that the first day back for the second semester would be hell.
All the tutors came in for a meeting to talk about the new hours and also to refresh the kids on what we expect on how tutorials are suppose to be ran. Tom was being Mrs. Lark's assistant as usual, which was not surprising. He was telling the tutors what to do and where to go the whole day. What pissed me off was that Tom was trying to boss me around but I'm a lead tutor as well. He was telling me what to do but I still did my own thing.
I noticed that his power trip was getting bad when a student noticed. One student asked Tom, "Hey Tom, are you the leader or something?" and I nonchalantly say, "Well, I'm a lead tutor too but he just likes to have power."
Tom, embarrassedly said to me, "No I don't."
But I just said, "Sure." and went to the other class since this semester the tutors will be split during certain periods. After the classes, the tutors went to lunch and as we were all coming back for 6th period we got a text from Tom telling us all where to go. At this point, I was annoyed because he was telling me where to go like I was under him. But yet, we are the same level. We are both leads. Just because I'm not as demanding and bossy as Tom is, it does not mean that I'm not a good lead. The other tutors expressed how they wished that James and I were the leads because we are fair and we ask them nicely to do something and not just yell at them to do it like how Tom does. If this continues, I might just go off on them one day.
"These are dark times, there is no denying. Our world has perhaps faced no greater threat than it does today." – JK Rowling
South shore was being shadowed by a dark cloud. That clouds name was Tom, who to some of the tutors was the modern day Tom Riddle or better known by the name of Lord Voldemort.
Tom was quickly invoking the power he had as a lead tutor. Stella, also being a lead tutor, is nothing like Tom when it comes to who is in control though, which is sad because he maneuvers around her title and plays solo on who really take charge. Within those few days of being back at work, things were starting to rapture into something dark and truly evil.
James was still concerned about what had happened and thinking about it more and more, it started to piece together. For James, his main goal has always been the student over everything. Nothing is more important to him than the success of the kids and the ultimate goal of them going to college. In a way, you could say James has always had a soft spot for certain students, but generally he is just someone who cares. Apparently, Tom and Katrina felt last semester that this was uncalled for. Before break, James remembered that they both made comments about him being to close to the kids. James didn't deny it because it is true, but never did he let it cloud his judgements on how to grade or evaluate certain situations. However, when that semester ended James just let it go because Tom and Katrina always have something to say, which in most cases it's never nice.
Anyways, James thought back to that time when they mentioned that. It was all making sense. His hours were cut during the periods where he was closest to the kids. Katrina may have not been involved, but Tom sure as hell had a say in the hours and it was now clear what was going on. Tom had purposefully cut James hours in the areas where he thought he was becoming to close.
James was more sad now then mad. His job means nothing without the kids and now that Tom is playing god and is making decisions based off his own foolish mindset, he knew things weren't going to be the same.
James slowly thought things through and began to wonder what made Tom hate him so much now? Was it because he was getting close to Lark right at the end of last semester. Maybe he felt he was losing his connection to her since she was actually listening to what James had to say. Either way, he could not understand what was going on in Tom Riddle's mind, but what he did understand was that a new target may have been set on him.
At the end of the day, James just wanted to tell Tom off. He was so frustrated and upset with him but being the civil person he is, things slowly just were brushed under the carpet.
However, James remembered one of his students in particular that he promised he would make sure to always tutor. Anthony.
Anthony is a very special student to James because he is the only one Anthony will talk to. At the beginning of the year when James first started working Anthony didn't talk to anyone, but he slowly opened up to him and built a strong bond with him. That bond allowed James to tutor him and be the role model that he needed. With that said, Anthony knew something was up when Tom laid down the law and snapped at James to go to another class to tutor during his period.
Tom was being a dick, to put it bluntly. James wanted to stay for Lark's class fourth period because Anthony is in there, but Tom wouldn't let it happen. He told James "Go now" in a deameaning tone which alerted Anthony right off the bat that James wasn't going to be tutoring that period.
James was fumed at this point because he was being talked to like a child and like he did something wrong. Tom had no right to yell like that, especially since he isn't the boss. Meeting up with the others, James told them what happened and everyone was slowly opening their eyes to the newly proclaimed Lord Voldemort.


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Morris Dickstein (* 23. Februar 1940 in Manhattan, New York; † 24. März 2021 in New York City) war ein US-amerikanischer Literatur- und Kulturwissenschaftler, Literatur- und Filmkritiker und Essayist. Er war zuletzt Distinguished Professor Emeritus für Englische Literatur und Theater am CUNY Graduate Center in New York und Senior fellow des dortigen Center for the Humanities. Er war Mitbegründer des National Book Critics Circle.

Seine Forschungsarbeiten und -interessen reichten von der englischen Poesie der Romantik über die Geschichte der amerikanischen Literatur, die amerikanische Literatur der Gegenwart, Realismus und Modernismus in der Literatur, Urbanismus und Ethnien in der amerikanischen Gegenwartsliteratur, die Beziehungen zwischen Politik und Literatur und nicht zuletzt bis zu Film und Filmgeschichte und zum Musical.

Leben und akademische Karriere
Morris Dickstein wuchs in New York auf. Er studierte an der Columbia University, am  Jewish Theological Seminary in Cambridge und in Yale, wo er sein Studium mit dem Ph.D. abschloss. Zu seinen akademischen Lehrern zählen u. a. Lionel Trilling, der zur Gruppe der linken New York Intellectuals gehörte und regelmäßig für die einflussreiche Partisan Review schrieb, F. R. Leavis (1895–1976), Literaturkritiker und Lehrer am Downing College in Cambridge und am University College in New York, und Raymond Williams, der Begründer der Cultural studies. Er war befreundet mit dem international renommierten Literaturkritiker und umstrittenen "Literaturpapst" der 1970er und 1980er, Harold Bloom.

Nach seiner Rückkehr nach New York, lehrte er an der Columbia University und am Graduate Center of the City University. Er war Senior fellow am dortigen Center for the Humanities, das er 1993 gegründet hat.

Seit Beginn seiner akademischen Karriere schrieb er Beiträge für renommierte literarische und politische Zeitschriften und Magazine, darunter
The New York Times Book Review, Partisan Review, TriQuarterly, The New Republic, The Nation, Harper's Magazine, New York Magazine, Critical Inquiry, Dissent, The Times Literary Supplement, The Chronicle of Higher Education, Slate  und Bookforum.

Dickstein war von 1972 bis 2003 Mitherausgeber der Partisan Review und Mitglied im Verwaltungsrat des National Book Critics Circle.
Er war Mitglied der National Society of Film Critics, die den National Society of Film Critics Award vergibt, der neben dem Oscar zu den wichtigsten Filmpreisen der USA zählt. Er war Mitglied im Development Committee der  Association of Literary Scholars, Critics, and Writers.

Schriften (Auswahl)
 Keats and His Poetry. A Study in Development. Univ. of Chicago Press 1971. ISBN 0-22614795-9
 Mit Leo Brandy: Great Film Directors. A Critical Anthology. Oxford: Oxford Univ. Press 1978.
 Double Agent. The Critic and Society. Oxford: Oxford Univ. Press 1996. ISBN o-19-51137-0
 Leopards in the Temple. The Transformation of American Fiction. 1945-1970. Harvard Univ. Press 2002. ISBN 978-0-674006041
 Dancing in the Dark. A Cultural History of the Great Depression. New York: Norton 2009. ISBN 978-0-393-07225-9
 Why Not Say What Happened. A Sentimental Education. New York: Liveright 2015. ISBN 0-87140431-1

Weblinks

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 Interviewliste
 Publikationsliste
 Verzeichnis seiner Aufsätze

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Hochschullehrer (CUNY Graduate Center)
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Literatur (21. Jahrhundert)
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Amazon Belgium – The 21st Amazon Marketplace
In Amazon, Marketplace, News
Amazon has just announced plans to open its virtual doors within Belgium with its own dedicated marketplace, Amazon.com.be. It seemed there were problems in obtaining the address Amazon.be which has been occupied for years by a Belgian insurance company. Nonetheless, Amazon.com.be is here and soon-to-be ready for the Belgium market.
When will this happen?
Officially, Amazon has stated that Amazon Belgium will be launched within the next coming months. However, leaked documents that Business Insider gathered say that the marketplace will be launched this September.
Expansion within Belgium
Amazon also announced earlier in the year that Belgium will have its own logistics centre based in Antwerp. This is due to be built before the end of 2022. Amazon currently uses local couriers within Belgium but now with the announcement of its new marketplace and planned fulfilment centre, it seems the company will be using its own shipping network.
Amazon Prime will also be available at the time of launch. Consumers who currently have Prime membership through neighbouring European countries will be able to continue it through Amazon Belgium.
What does this mean for sellers?
Along with amazon.com.be, Amazon has also created sell.amazon.com.be where selling partners can register their business to become an Amazon seller whether this is FBA or FBM.
Up until this announcement, Belgian buyers had to purchase Amazon products through amazon.fr (France), amazon.de (Germany) & amazon.nl (Netherlands). In 2021, this accounted for over $447 million dollars in total across the 3 marketplaces which will now more than likely be seen within Amazon Belgium.
Further plans
Amazon has an enormous expansion plan in place where in 2023, the company plans to expand into another 4 countries: Chile, Columbia, Nigeria and South Africa.
The eCommerce giant is continuing to grow with expected revenue to jump more than double by 2025 so if you're thinking about setting up an Amazon business or already an Amazon selling veteran, now is the time to take advantage of this incredible opportunity.
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RICHMOND, Va. — Two nights ago the Richmond food scene welcomed the new American-French fusion breakfast-for-dinner tapas restaurant Leftovers Bestovers in a prime VCU campus location on the corner of Shafer and West Franklin Streets.
The space, which was made famous by the much-loved Cous Cous restaurant, had been searching for a new tenant for some time after serving brief stints as a burger joint and ramen spot. However the night took a turn when, only four hours into their soft opening, Leftovers Bestovers announced that they would be shutting down due to a lack of patronage and enthusiasm, despite their opening night being completely packed.
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The establishment became known as 'The Blue Maids Orphanage' because of the colour of the uniform worn by the girls: a dark blue dress with a large white apron and mobcap was worn indoors, while a white cotton cape, white straw with dark blue ribbon strings, white elbow-length knitted gloves, and strong shoes, were worn for walking. A thick cloth cloak of blue and black check was added in cold weather. Every article of clothing worn by the girls was made by themselves, with the exception of their bonnets and shoes. In 1916, the institution adopted 'The Blue Maids Orphanage' as its official name.
The Orphanage originally occupied Ashley Manor House which had previously been used as a Roman Catholic place of worship and a female penitentiary. The first three inmates entered the institution on 12th January, 1795, with the first name entered into the admission book being that of Bethlehem Dawes. The first patron of the home was Miss Gibbs who donated the sum of £100 to its funds, in addition to an annual subscription of five guineas. Miss Gibbs continued in this role for 46 years.
Asylum for Poor Orphan Girls, Ashley Manor House, Bristol.
In 1829, the Orphanage moved to new premises at Hook's Mills, Ashley Hill, Bristol, where 60 girls could be accommodated. Girls were admitted to the establishment from 6 to 12 years of age. Certificates or other satisfactory proof of parents' marriage, child's birth, and death of father and mother were required, together with a medical certificate of the child's health. In 1893, admission was extended to those who had lost only one parent.
The Orphanage site is shown on the 1903 map below.
The Blue Maids Orphanage site, Bristol, c.1903.
Asylum for Poor Orphan Girls (The Blue Maids), Bristol.
In May, 1873, an infirmary was completed at the site.
The Orphanage closed in 1927 and the building was acquired by the Salvation Army, then later becoming Mount Hope Nursing Home. The building was demolished in the early 1970s.
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In this section we have selected key readings covering the areas of border surveillance, citizenship and identity, consumption, crime and justice, infrastructure and the built environment, medicine, public services, regulation, telecommunication and workplace.
Andreas, P. and Snyder, T. (eds.), The Wall Around the West: State Borders and Immigration Controls in North America and Europe. Lanham MD: Rowman and Littlefield.
Bigo, D. and Guild, E. (eds.) (2005) Controlling Frontiers: Free Movement into and within Europe, Aldershot: Ashgate.
Salter, M. (2003) Rights of Passage: The Passport in International Relations. Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner.
Torpey, F. (2001) The Invention of the Passport: Surveillance, Citizenship and the State. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Zureik, E. and Salter, M.B. (eds.)(2005) Global Surveillance and Policing: Borders, Security, Identity. Cullompton, UK: Willan.
Garton-Ash, T. (1997) The File: A Personal History. London: Harper Collins.
Solove, D. (2004) The Digital Person: Technology and Privacy in the Information Age. New York: New York University Press.
Elmer, G. (2004). Profiling Machines: Mapping the Personal Information Economy. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press.
Gandy, O. (1993) The Panoptic Sort: A Political Economy of Personal Information, Boulder, CO: Westview Press.
Lace, S. (ed.) (2005) The Glass Consumer: Life in a Surveillance Society, Bristol: The Policy Press.
Turow, J. (2006) Niche Envy: Marketing Discrimination in the Digital Age. Cambridge MA: MIT Press.
Gill, M. and Spriggs, A. (2005) Assessing the impact of CCTV. London, Home Office Research, Development and Statistics Directorate.
Goold, B. J. (2004) CCTV and Policing: Public Area Surveillance and Police Practices in Britain. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Newburn, T. and Hayman, S. (2001) Policing, CCTV, and Social Control: Police Surveillance and Suspects in Custody. Collumpton: Willan Publishing.
Painter, K. and Tilley, N. (1999) Surveillance of Public Space: CCTV, Street Lighting and Crime Prevention. Cullompton: Willan.
Coaffee, J. (2003) Terrorism, Risk and the City: The Making of a Contemporary Urban Landscape. Aldershot UK: Ashgate.
Graham, S. (ed.) (2004) The Cybercities Reader, London: Routledge.
Graham, S. and Marvin, S. (2001) Splintering Urbanism: Networked Infrastructures, Technological Mobilities and the Urban Condition. London: Routledge.
Institute for the Future (2004) Infrastructure for the New Geography. Menlo Park: California. IFTF.
Kang, J. and Cuff, D. (2005) 'Pervasive Computing: Embedding the Public Sphere,' Washington and Lee Law Review 62(1): 93-146.
Armstrong, D. (1995) 'The Rise of Surveillance Medicine,' Sociology of Health and Illness, 17(3): 393-404.
Cole, S. (2001) Suspect Identities: A History of Fingerprinting and Criminal Identification, Boston; Harvard University Press.
Laurie, G. (2002) Genetic Privacy: A Challenge to Medico-Legal Norms, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Rose, H. (2001) The Commodification of Bioinformation: The Icelandic Health Sector Database, London: The Wellcome Trust.
Bellamy, C. and Taylor, J. (1998) Governing in the Information Age, Buckingham: Open University Press.
Snellen, I. and van de Donk, W. (eds.) (1998) Public Administration in an Information Age: A Handbook, Amsterdam: IOS Press.
Parton, N. (2006) Safeguarding Childhood: Early intervention and surveillance in later modern society, Basingstoke: Palgrave-Macmillan.
6, P. (1998) The Future of Privacy, Volume 1: Private Life and Public Policy, London: Demos.
Bennett, C. (1992) Regulating Privacy: Data Protection and Public Policy in Europe and the United States, Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press.
Bennett, C. and Raab, C. (2006) The Governance of Privacy: Policy Instruments in Global Perspective. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
Flaherty, D. (1989) Protecting Privacy in Surveillance Societies: The Federal Republic of Germany, Sweden, France, Canada, and the United States, Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press.
Regan, P. (1995) Legislating Privacy: Technology, Social Values, and Public Policy. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press.
Bamford, J. (2001) Body of Secrets: Anatomy of the Ultra-Secret National Security Agency. New York: Random House.
Crampton, J. (2004) The Political Mapping of Cyberspace. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Diffie, W. and Landau, S. (1998) Privacy on the Line: The Politics of Wiretapping and Encryption, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
Lessig, L. (1999) Code and Other laws of Cyberspace, New York, NY: Basic Books.
Monahan, Torin, and Rodolfo D. Torres, eds. 2010. Schools under Surveillance: Cultures of Control in Public Education. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press.
McKinlay, A. and Starkey, K. (eds.) (1998) Foucault, Management and Organization Theory: From Panopticon to Technologies of Self. London: Sage.
Stanton, J.M. and Stam, K.R. (2006) The Visible Employee: Using Workplace Monitoring and Surveillance to Protect Information Assets-Without Compromising Employee Privacy or Trust. Medford, NJ: Cyberage Books.
Zuboff, S (1988) In the Age of the Smart Machine. New York: Basic Books.


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Mentos eruption
I've seen some great Mentos and Diet Coke eruption videos on Youtube, and I've always wondered whether other soft drinks work too.
Here comes the science.
The Mentos eruption works just as well with any kind of soft drink, but it doesn't work with Fruit Mentos or sparkling water. It will be more explosive with powdered Mentos because of the increased surface area.
12 bottles of various soft drinks and 12 packets of Mentos were bought from a local supermarket. The bottles were opened and a packet of Mentos (eight sweets) was dropped into the bottle using our patented delivery mechanism (an empty Berocca tube).
Screenshots were taken from the video at peak foam. The images were scaled to make the bottles the same size and the eruptions were plotted on a pretty graph.
The average heights of the eruptions were calculated. Note that Coke Life and sparkling water were not included in either of the diet or regular averages.
Average height: 26cm
Average diet drink height: 26cm
Average sugary drink height: 34cm
Average Tesco drink height: 32cm
Average Coca-Cola drink height: 28cm
Our experiment shows that soft drinks containing sugar can produce higher eruptions than diet products, and that it does work with Fruit Mentos but not with sparkling water. Powdered Mentos do not produce a higher plume than whole sweets.
Sadly our delivery mechanism left a lot to be desired, and to be honest the height of the eruption a lot to do with how many Mentos were delivered into the bottle before it started foaming.
Wikipedia explains the science behind it. The world record for the most number of simultaneous Mentos and Soda fountains is 4,334 bottles at once!
Thanks very much to my awesome cameramen Jay-yoh and K-Herb.
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Folk science
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For our next session...
Famed psychologists
Popping into your mind
Milgram's obedience study
Folk science is a term used in psychology and anthropology to describe systems of knowledge about the workings of the natural world that are not based on the scientific method, often relying instead on either intuition or empiricism in its crudest form. Pseudoscience is often based on some sort of folk science and because many scientific findings are counter-intuitive, they may be difficult to grasp, rendered into a folk science form, or flat-out denied.[1]
1 Folk biology
2 Folk medicine
3 Folk physics
4 Folk psychology
Folk biology[edit]
Folk biology refers to common observations made by people about living organisms and how they interact with the natural world. Organisms are classified by a system of folk taxonomy and all known languages appear to have five (or possibly six) levels of taxa arranged in a hierarchical system (unique beginner, life form, generic, specific, varietal).[2][3] Creationism and biological determinism are often based on folk scientific interpretations of real biology.
Folk medicine[edit]
See the main article on this topic: Folk remedy
Folk medicine includes all pre-modern medicine, including traditional Chinese medicine, Ayurveda, heroic medicine, and some other types of alternative medicine, particularly those that existed prior to the 19th century. Folk medicine may also include some types of culture-bound syndromes that are psychosomatic and only occur within specific cultures (e.g., latah in Indonesia or susto in some indigenous cultures of Latin America).
Folk physics[edit]
A common misconception in folk physics (sometimes called "naive physics") is the idea that moving objects have some kind of "impetus," a sort of naive form of momentum in which an object has an internal force moving it forward. Thus, moving objects are conceived of in a pre-Newtonian framework in which objects in motion are not stopped or slowed by an external force, but their internal impetus is "spent" and they stop moving.[4] The idea of a "centrifugal force" in which a supposedly "true" force pushes an object traveling in a circle outward rather than the object's movement being a product of inertia is another example of folk physics.[5][6][7]
Folk psychology[edit]
Many commonly held ideas about the mind, such as a "ghost in the machine"-style free will and mind-body dualism, are now considered to be folk psychology (sometimes "common sense" psychology), based on our evolved cognitive biases. The idea of a soul or some kind of disembodied consciousness lies at the heart of various pseudo-psychological theories, e.g. non-materialist neuroscience. There is some debate in theory and philosophy of mind as to whether folk psychology holds some use for the psychological sciences or should be totally discarded.[8][9]
Nature woo
Other ways of knowing
Philosophical intuition
Science woo
Folk Science, Michael Shermer, Scientific American
On Folk Science and Lies, Quintessence of Dust
Frank C. Keil. Folk science: coarse interpretations of a complex reality. Trends in Cognitive Sciences Vol.7 No.8 August 2003
Scott Atran. Itzaj Maya Folkbiological Taxonomy: Cognitive Universals and Cultural Particulars. D. Medin & S. Atran, Folkbiology, MIT Press
Douglas L. Medin and Scott Atran. The Native Mind: Biological Categorization and Reasoning in Development and Across Cultures. Psychological Review (2004), Volume: 111, Issue: 4, Pages: 960-983
↑ E.g. quantum mechanics, which asks us to understand the universe in a very counter-intuitive way, is sometimes used to support pseudoscience (per Deepak Chopra and other quantum woo-meisters).
↑ Berlin, Breedlove, and Raven. General Principles of Classification and Nomenclature in Folk Biology. American Anthropologist, vol. 75, iss. 1
↑ Scott Atran. Folk Biology and the Anthropology of Science Behavioral and Brain Sciences (1998) 21, 547–609
↑ Intuitive Physics, Arthur B. Markman, Scientific American
↑ Centrifugal force, University of Virginia
↑ Centrifugal force, xkcd
↑ See also A Glossary of Frequently Misused or Misunderstood Physics Terms and Concepts.
↑ Stich and Nichols. Folk Psychology, in Stephen Stich & Ted A. Warfield, eds., The Blackwell Guide to Philosophy of Mind, (Oxford: Basil Blackwell) 2003. Pp. 235-255
↑ Folk Psychology as Theory, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
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thekidroro emerges as the fakest artist in town and the biggest scammer.
People have been scammed by him big time and advising others to keep away from him.
by James Boley
The more we talk about individuals doing extremely well in their respective industries and niches, the more we feel the need to talk about them. However, there are so many other cases too, where people literally get cheated, which forces them to never trust these individuals back because of such few bad apples across industries. As the music industry grows each day, more and more artists come at the forefront with the aim to build a distinguished image and status for themselves, but how many of them actually climb up the ladder of success by being honest artists? Very few, experts believe. So many of such individuals and artists as they call themselves are nothing but only fake stars and have thrived in the industry only by scamming others, which is a sad state of affair in society right now.
thekidroro has done that and how. Instead of making it huge as a genuine artist, which he could have done had he only focused on honing his skills as a singer and musician, this kid has gone ahead in doing all the wrong things and only cheating people monetarily. It is even more shocking for the ones who had actually listened to a few songs of his, which were also bought by him to fill up his Spotify and were not his in reality.
Besides gaining so much negative publicity, thekidroro has lost the respect of many listeners and music lovers who rely on different artists and music for their sense of peace and happiness. It comes as a shame as a few artists like him have been only scamming others in the market. thekidroro made a scam of $3K and also bought fake likes, followers, and plays from SMM panels. He is definitely not a kid, but a grown-up man, with a well-thought plan in his mind to cheat others and gain much negative publicity and recognition as a musical artist.
However, it is great people have come to know about his real side, and it is advisable to maintain a distance from him. His Instagram is:- https://www.instagram.com/thekidroro/
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Catherine "Cate" Anne Pearson
By Editor | June 7, 2018
Catherine "Cate" Anne Pearson, age 47, passed away Suddenly on Wednesday, May 30, 2018, at Optim Medical Center Collins, GA. Was a former resident of the Gradyville Community in Adair County,
A former employee at Kroger in Campbellsville, a native of Illinois.
Left to cherish precious memories of Cate are her husband of 18 years, Cecil Pearson, Jr.; 2 sons Ian Pearson of Albany KY and Cecil Pearson III of Collins GA; 4 daughters Gail Pearson of Collins, Taylor Pearson of Evans GA, Aiyana "Ya-Ya" Pearson of Collins, and Mattianne "Mattie" Pearson of Collins; 3 brothers Steve Falucskai of Holiday FL, Joe (Teresa) Falucskai of Campbellsville KY, and Gary Freiwald of South Dakota; 2 grandchildren John and William Pearson; numerous nieces and nephews and a community of friends also survive.
Visitation is scheduled for 4:00 p.m.-6:00 p.m. on Tuesday, June 5, 2018, at the chapel of Low Country Cremation & Burial in Reidsville.
Memorial Services are scheduled to follow visitation, beginning at 6:00 p.m. on Tuesday, June 5, 2018, at the chapel of Low Country Cremation & Burial with the Rev. John Griffin officiating.
Low Country Cremation & Burial in Reidsville, GA.
Obituary information is a courtesy to the family by Stotts-Phelps-McQueary Funeral Home in Columbia, KY.
Information provided by Joe Collins.


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