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Woe and Wonder
A #VQRTrueStory Essay
By Joshua Wolf Shenk
On a Saturday morning in early June, just before the heat spikes, I set out with my eight-year-old son from Las Vegas to Los Angeles. We start the way I drive to work—north on Spencer Street past rows of midcentury ranch houses; left around the playgrounds of William E. Orr Middle School; then right on East Katie where, just past Algonquin, I see two burned-out truck trailers at the edge of the Boulevard Mall parking lot. One has holes in its sides like white paper someone held a lighter to, blew out the flame, and burned again and again. Still, standing on its wheels and struts, it seems positively stalwart compared to its companion, collapsed on its belly—a gesture of abjection, it feels, but also prayerful? Inside the trailer shells I glimpse blankets and bottles and a plywood shed. I don't dwell, though. I'm on my way to get waffles for my boy.
At TIABI Coffee & Waffle, we walk through a glass door into the other side of the Las Vegas Valley. I show the clerk a picture of a face-waffle they made for us several years ago. The woman at the iron glances over. "I can top that," she says.
The burned-out truck, the face-waffle: These are the poles between which my experience of Las Vegas is strung. This is a place of woe and wonder. It's where you see a man at an interstate off-ramp asking for change with a full-grown pit bull slumped on his back, a paw draped over each of the man's shoulders. It's also the place where a couple—one very tall and bearded, one short and wispy and clean-shaven—created an independent bookstore and sanctuary for artificial birds on East Fremont Street, among a cluster of hipster retail, neon, and street art that feels like Marfa meets Burning Man.
In Las Vegas, I've gathered with writers at the edge of the desert, heard songs of lament and praise as the light dims from high-beam-in-the-eyes bright to soft orange to purple-blue. And I've driven past an elderly woman in a wheelchair-scooter, rolling down a side street, under full desert sun.
The word for this place is strange—and wonderful, I hasten to add, though it makes me a bit sad that I need to, that people don't understand the meaning of the word strange.
The city of Las Vegas is a small part of what's commonly called by that name. The midcentury neighborhood Paradise Palms (where I live), the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (where I work), and the world-famous Las Vegas Strip (which I scrupulously avoid) are all in unincorporated Clark County, not the city proper. "This is not what you should call a city," an old Vegas hand, the real-estate developer Michael Saltman, told me over Italian food at a strip mall, cooked by a man with a saga. "It's more like an area."
There's the classic postwar, car-city sprawl but somehow, as the strip malls and large signs lope farther and farther into the desert, it feels more than that. What's the emotional cadence to Las Vegas's sprawl? I wonder about this as my son and I head out via I-15 South, as we pass the Mandalay Bay, site of the recent ignominy, as we come to experience the world at seventy-five miles an hour. Then the peculiar frisson to life here comes home to me: Vegas is so much about movement, yet its gifts are so much in slowness. It is a landscape of neon signs (lit by excited electrons) and amphibians who stand and stare with a rare, occasional blink. On this road, once, I saw a bumper sticker on a truck: did you move here to be in a hurry? I made note of it on my phone's voice-memo app, at seventy-five mph.
Today, the boy as my copilot, playing NBA LIVE in the backseat, I decide to pay attention, to the presences and to the emptiness. Then, just before the Cactus Avenue underpass, something catches my eye, and I pull to the side of the road to observe what man has made of this slow and furious place, what we have done to try to contain nature—to build metal meshing around it, to hold it in some form.
It's a Sunday but the lobby of the Baker, California, post office is unlocked, PO boxes in a cold L-shaped room (so many little spaces, each with its own lock, its own distinct point of entry). The bulletin board announces job openings at Fat Burger and T-shirts for sale by the Baker Area Chamber of Commerce ($15; $18 for a V-neck). Valdez Tax Services has left a business card. So has Silver Valley Septic. The Ironwood Christian Academy is accepting applications for the 2018–2019 school year. They offer a Bible-based curriculum, character development, practical math, phonics-based reading, and cursive.
There are so many signs of life, but we haven't talked to anyone outside the car since TIABI, so I call the number on the sign a few paces from the post office, offering one-, two-, and three-bedroom homes. "The person you are trying to reach is not accepting calls at this time. Please try your call again later." The message is repeated in Spanish, followed by a busy signal.
I take this as another sign—of the desert's ambivalence to what's here, and who. In cities, old signs get torn down. In wetter climates, they might decompose. In the rural desert, things just sit there, at the mercy of the sun. This idea of the desert as a kind of open-air sepulcher is a theme that recurs to me on this drive from Vegas to L.A.
Luis Ramallo, an electrician who emigrated to the US from Argentina in 1988, was struggling to support himself in construction when he started selling jerky, olives, honey, and pistachios on the roadside where Highways 93 and 318 intersect, about fifty miles east of Area 51. He made nearly $1,000 his first day. When police eventually drove him off, he noticed, on the green card he showed them, the phrase "resident alien." That's how the idea for his alien-themed store was born.
A year later, in 2000, stopping in Baker, California, to get gas, he discovered the perfect location. "Now," he says in a video portrait (one of several online), "we are 100 percent involved with the alien theme."
My son likes beef jerky. He also wants a scorpion pop—a yellow lollipop with a scorpion in the middle. I tell him he can have the lollipop if he eats the scorpion and he takes the deal. Alien Fresh Jerky does sell jerky—a dozen or more kinds, including Abducted Cow Pineapple Teriyaki; Filet Mignon—Weed Killer Hot; and Honey Chipotle. It also has a wall of novelty hot sauces, including one with a skeleton's head as the cap, with a piece of black felt acting as a cloak. The hot sauce is called ASS REAPER. Underneath the name, the tagline: "That's your ass now."
Also on sale: alien-themed toys; garlic gloves; books such as "Crop Circles: The Bones of God"; "Ancient Aliens: The Coloring Book," and "The Alien World Order: The Reptilian Plan to Divide and Conquer the Human Race". One label says "hottest fuckin' wing sauce." My son tells me to stop cursing. "I can't help it," I say, laughing. "It's on the label!" He asks if he can read the label, too.
On the way out, we realize that the store itself—flanked with laser cannons, wheels at the building's four corners, and a command center over the entrance with two animatronic aliens—is itself a space ship.
"For me," Ramallo says in a video, "it's a challenge, as an immigrant, and personal for me to say I created something."
It reminds me of the phrase I adopted when people asked me about living in Las Vegas, and when I didn't have time for a proper briefing. "Life on Mars," I would say.
We see so much more. We see the world's tallest thermometer, and a gaggle of trucks that paint lines on roads; they're off duty, parked near one another like in an old-fashioned wagon circle, dried paint globs at the end of massive nozzles. We see a four-door truck with a purple suitcase and a fold-up wheelchair in the back. We see solar fields and an Army depot with garbage bins painted in camouflage. We see the ruins of the Bun Boy Motel. We see a "Trucker's Chapel" and signs for Ghost Town Road and the All Day Egg Café. We see a full roll of toilet paper next to a rusted can just a few feet before a sign that says $1,000 fine for littering.
There are many places we don't stop. I list them to my son, including Yermo. ("What's Yermo?" he asks. "I don't know! That's the point I'm making!")
We do stop for gas, and there we see Joey Riha leaning against his blue Chevy Lumina. His sign asks for money for a traveling memorial to his father, who died in April. They had just reconnected after Joey got clean. He's been to Maroon Bells with the ashes and to the Vegas strip. He's trying to get to the ocean.
Usually, I encounter people asking for money to get a meal, get some rest. It feels fitting that, on this drive, I'd find someone asking for money so that he can stay on the road.
At one stop—in Zzyzx, California, the site of an old spa made in the 1940s by a radio evangelist—it came home to me, this tension between presence and motion. Zzyzx is part ruin, part research center run by California State University. I wanted to see it but I also felt gnawed on by the mounting traffic from Vegas to L.A. on a Sunday. I drove past the signs that firmly instructed me not to drive past them, onto the boulevard for Soda Springs. Then I saw a green Toyota Land Cruiser pull out and follow me.
"I just have one question," the man said when I stopped, and he pulled up even with me. "Why did you ignore those signs?" I felt so embarrassed. I couldn't have felt worse if he was angry or mean. Why did I ignore those signs? Because I want to see the site and not get farther behind the traffic. I want to see where I am and get where I'm going.
This dispatch is from #VQRTrueStory, our social-media experiment in nonfiction, which you can follow by visiting us on Instagram: @vqreview.
Joshua Wolf Shenk
Joshua Wolf Shenk is an essayist and editor-in-chief of the Believer magazine. His essays have appeared in the Atlantic, Harper's, the New Yorker, Slate, and River Teeth Journal, among many others. His mainstage Moth story "You Can Come Back" appears in the book Occasional Magic: True Stories about Defying the Impossible. He is the author of Lincoln's Melancholy (Mariner, 2006), a New York Times notable book, and Powers of Two (Houghton Mifflin, 2014), a national bestseller. "The Curse of Cool" is adapted from Slouching Towards Los Angeles: Living and Writing by Joan Didion's Light, edited by Steffie Nelson (Rare Bird Books, 2020).
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Prior to TMM, JoEl held positions in both sales and administration with several Fortune 500 companies. He studied Industrial Engineering at FAMU-FSU Joint College of Engineering. He was also researcher with Florida Advanced Center for Composite Technology, working with DARPA, Lockheed Martin, and Boeing. He is a member of the American Carbon Society, Materials Research Society, the Society for the Advancement of Manufacturing and Process Engineering (SAMPE), Sustainable Nanotechnology Organization, and is an emeritus member of the American Chemical Society.
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Anthony Joshua defeats Andy Ruiz to Regain World Heavyweight Title
Liverpool set to beat Man Utd in £7.25m race for Minamino
Russia Banned From 2022 World Cup
Published by Remie at December 9, 2019
World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) has issued Russia a four-year ban from international sporting competition over doping failures.
The World Anti-Doping Agency's board made the announcement after they convened on Monday for a meeting around the International Olympic Committee's headquarters in Lausanne, Switzerland.
The agency disclosed that Russia planted fake evidence and deleted files linked to positive doping tests that could have helped identify drug cheats.
WADA President, Sir Craig Reedie said the decision has showed its "determination to act resolutely in the face of the Russian doping crisis".
"For too long, Russian doping has detracted from clean sport. The blatant breach by the Russian authorities of Rusada's reinstatement conditions demanded a robust response.
"That is exactly what has been delivered.
"Russia was afforded every opportunity to get its house in order and re-join the global anti-doping community for the good of its athletes and of the integrity of sport, but it chose instead to continue in its stance of deception and denial," he added.
Reacting, Russian Prime Minister, Dmitry Medvedev said the ban was part of "chronic anti-Russian hysteria."
"It is obvious that significant doping problems still exist in Russia, I mean our sporting community. This is impossible to deny.
"But on the other hand the fact that all these decisions are repeated, often affecting athletes who have already been punished in one way or another, not to mention some other points – of course, this makes one think that this is part of anti-Russian hysteria which has become chronic," he said.
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Thomas and Kathleen Clarke Letters
Thomas Clarke was one of the key architects of the 1916 Easter Rising, while his wife Kathleen was a founder member of Cumann na mBan and became Dublin's first female Lord Mayor. Find out more about them both.
Albert Einstein Letters 1921
By 1921, Albert Einstein was already a household name. As his fame grew, his circle of correspondents also expanded. Find out more about his life and social circle through his letters.
Visualizing Hemingway: A Man in Letters
The John F. Kennedy Library have published a blog post on how Visual Correspondence's tools can illuminate the life of Ernest Hemingway. Using data from the Library's detailed finding aid, correspondence from over 50 years of the author's life has been collated and visualised on this site. Read the blog post here. or start visualising his letters.
A close friend of writers such as James Joyce and T. S. Eliot, Ezra Pound was instrumental in getting these writers (and many others) published and promoted. And of course he was a major poet in his own right. Find out more about his letters.
Letters on this Date
From Dobree, Bonamy To MacMillan & Co. (1947)
From Einstein, Albert To Guillaume, Edouard (1921)
From Dowden, Rt. Rev. John (Bishop of Edinburgh) To Stoker, Bram (1901)
From Clemens, Samuel L. To Pugh, T. B. (1873)
From Kilgallin, Lillie To Shorter, Clement King (1925)
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From Musiol, Robert To Jähns, Friedrich Wilhelm (1879)
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I never wanted to believe that my dad was stealing from his job as a road worker, but when I got home all the signs were there.
@Maximilian! The theory of relativity is perfect. Thank you for sharing.
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Stephanie Taylor Recognized with Infirmary DAISY Award
Little Rock, Rewards
Stephanie Taylor, RN, who works in the Infirmary's Geriatric Psych unit, was recognized with a DAISY Award for the care and attention to detail she provides her patients.
Stephanie was nominated by a patient's daughter who was calling to check on her father's chloride and sodium levels, which had been running critically low.
When she called to ask about the levels, they were reported to her incorrectly, and she became very concerned. The patient's daughter called Stephanie, who immediately told her the correct levels.
In addition, Stephanie also found her father's belongings, which had not been transferred from his previous unit.
"Thank you for going the EXTRA mile. The 7th floor is difficult. She keeps it together!"
The DAISY Award was established by the DAISY Foundation in memory of J. Patrick Barnes who died at 33 of ITP, an auto-immune disease. The Barnes Family was awestruck by the clinical skills, caring and compassion of the nurses who cared for Patrick, so they created the national award to thank nurses everywhere.


A rare opportunity to hear one of Mexico's most celebrated String Quartets, the Cuarteto Bellas Artes de México (Fine Arts Quartet of Mexico) will take place Tuesday, Oct. 13 at 7:30 p.m. in Texas A&M International University's Center for the Fine and Performing Arts' Recital Hall.
The concert, hosted by the Mexican Consulate in Laredo, Gateway Rotary Club, Laredo Philharmonic Orchestra and the Instituto Cultural México Laredo will feature works by Mexican composers.
General admission is $10; admission for students is free with an ID. Proceeds will support the Laredo Gateway Rotary Club and the Laredo Philharmonic Orchestra.
Led by violinist Balbí Cotter, the Cuarteto Bellas Artes was founded in 1974 and is comprised of internationally recognized musicians of México. It performs orchestral and chamber music featuring compositions by artists such as Beethoven, Mozart and Schubert but with a special emphasis on works by Mexican authors.
The quartet's members include Cotter, on violin I; Viktoria Horti, violin II; Matthew Schubring, viola and Adolfo Ramos, violoncello. Members regularly participate as soloists for the most prestigious orchestras of México in both national and international venues.
The Cuarteto has performed in numerous festivals including the Internacional Cervantino (Guanajuato, México); Miguel Bernal Jiménez (Morelia, México), and Música Nueva Manuel Enríquez (México City). They have also performed with famed pianists Guadalupe Parrondo, Eva María Zuk, Manuel Delaflor, Luz María Puente, Jorge Noli, Duane Cochran and María Teresa Frenk as well as cellist Boena Slawinska.
They performed with popular Mexican artist Eugenia León for the premiere of Astor Piazzola's tango opera, "María de Buenos Aires" during the 70th Anniversary of Mexico City's Palacio de Bellas Artes (Fine Arts Palace).
For more information, please call the TAMIU Office of Public Relations, Marketing and Information Services at 326.2180, e-mail prmis@tamiu.edu or visit offices located in the Sue and Radcliffe Killam Library, room 268.
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"The Guest Room: A Novel"
CHRIS BOHJALIAN is the critically acclaimed author of twelve novels, including the New York Times bestsellers Skeletons at the Feast, The Double Bind,and Midwives. His novel, Midwives, was a number one New York Times bestseller and a selection of Oprah's Book Club. His work has been translated into more than 25 languages and twice became movies (Midwives and Past the Bleachers). He lives in Vermont with his wife and daughter.


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Q: crash at heap_alloc for c++ link with /MT I got a terrible crash in my c++ Windows application.
It always crashes (terminates itself without any prompt) at the constructor of some stl classes (e.g. string, iostream). Actually, it crashes at heap_alloc function which is prior to the constructor call.
The issue only happens with compiling and linking with /MT option. If I switch to /MD, everything works fine.
Any clue?
PS: My dev environement is Windows7 x64 + VS2010SP1, the only 3rd party library that I use is 7z (lzma86 SDK). And I'm building x86 applications...
Thanks,
-Miles

A: umhhh... I have found the issue.
It is due to an additional option '/ENTRY' was assigned to the project. (I just forgot it since it was a 6-years-old project). As the default _crtmain function doesn't get called, STL function fails.

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Why Didn't The DOE Remove The Principal For Covering Up The Beating Of A Student By The Dean?
The New York Daily News was given a video of a 300 pound dean bashing a 125 pound teenager into a table and based upon the video footage the Dean initiated the physical contact. Watching the video it is very obvious that the Dean violated Chancellor's Regulation A-420 (Corporal Punishment) and the Principal should have immediately contacted the Office of Special Investigations (OSI). Instead the Principal chose to ignore regulations and after watching the video, only gave a letter-to-the-file to the Dean. What was worse is that the school told the parent of the battered boy that her child had started the physical altercation.
The mother contacted the school when her son told her that the Dean started the physical altercation and that his back was hurting., When the mother called the Principal, Janiine Kieran, the mother was told that she would look into it and call her back. The Principal never did.
The question is why didn't the Principal follow the rules? Is she incompetent or did she deliberately try to cover up the attack by her Dean? Now the DOE claims they will investigate the Principal's action. In the meantime the Principal stays in the school when she is either incompetent or covered up a beating by her Dean. Where is Walcott's zero tolerance when it comes to this Principal?
For a complete look at the Daiky News article and video you can read and see it here.
Good Parenting Skills Are The Prime Factor In Student Academic Success.
Over the last few years I have written about why parents are the primary factor in student learning. Even the Emperor, Michael Bloomberg has lately realized how important parents are in their children's academic success and ripped them for not helping their children to achieve academic competence. Of course this is very different than the education reformers wanted to hear. These reformers, otherwise known as deformers, claim that a child's academic success depends on their teacher and not their upbringing. This very flawed vision is known as "no excuses" and deformers like ex-Chancellor Joel Klein and Michelle Rhee were strident supporters of this approach. Just read what these middle school students, who likely come from poverty and single parent households in East New York, acted at the World Trade Center Memorial. Is that the school's fault or do we place the blame squarely on the primary cause of their misbehavior, the lack of discipline in the family.
Study after study has shown that the social-economic influences in a child's family and community are approximately 80% of a student's academic success. How is a child going to learn when there are no books in a house, a parent to help with homework, and worse, allowing the child to roam the streets at all hours of the night! No wonder they are always sleeping in class. Where is the parent's responsibility to make sure that the child actually arrives at school on time , if at all? Are they fed properly? Why fault the school when the parents are the cause of truant and hungry students? That brings me to Michael Goodwin's article that identifies the root cause of poor student academic performance and that is the parents. While I do not agree with some of his conclusions such as Catholic Schools are better, I do agree with him that parents are the primarily cause of student success academically.
Turnaround schools" the Mayor should spend the money on wraparound services that help support the family structure and their involvement in the schools.
Tears And Anger In The Turnaround Schools As Staff Have Been Told That The New Schools Do Not Want Them.
Staff "pink slips" have been issued in some of the schools that will replace the closing schools in the "turnaround" process and the already terrible morale at these schools have just sunk to a new level.
Staff are being informed by e-mails that they were not selected for a position at the new schools and that they should look on the open market system to find a position. In my school at least 50% of the teachers have been e-mailed the bad news and there is plenty of crying and anger about what has happened. Worse, is that many of the teachers who are excellent teachers and even the "teacher of the year", as selected by the students, were told that they do not fit into the vision of the new school Administration. I guess it really is not about the students after all.
My school feels like a morgue with staff looking like the "walking dead" (zombies) and I am sure so do the other "turnaround schools" as the survivors of the culling comfort their soon departed colleagues who still must complete marking the Regents and giving back equipment and keys before leaving the school for good on their journey into the excess pool of "job fairs" , interviews, and possibly ending up as an ATR for the next school year.
Why couldn't this awful and unnecessary process wait for the Arbitrator decision? What if the Arbitrator decides for the UFT? How does one feel about returning to a school where the new Administration does not want them? What kind of school climate is there with such staff and Administration distrust? Moreover, how does this climate of distrust and suspicion help the students? Finally, what was the DOE thinking in pushing for a solution that is worse than the problem?
The Mayor has a temper tantrum and because he must have his way, 24 schools are in chaos and half the staff who have worked well with their unique student population are gone. Tell me how this is good for the students? "Children first"? Yeah right and I have a bridge in Brooklyn to sell you!.
My Summer Plans - Relax And Enjoy Myself.
I will be leaving my chaotic high school which will have the same students with the same academic and discipline problems, regardless if the school becomes a "Turnaround school" or not. In fact the school is expecting a greater influx of ELL and special education students which means more CTT classes and more academic and behavioral issues for the school. However, that is now behind me, I will be looking forward to my summer with a sense of calm and relaxation knowing I will not be part of this disaster in the making in my old school.
I do not expect any job offers this summer, despite the shortage in my subject area because of my salary, age, and the DOE discipline flag in my file, Remember, the DOE is encouraging the schools to hire the cheap, untenured, and young teachers since, for the principals it is not about what is best for their students but what is best for their budget. Yes, I will go to the customary job fair where I will have a reunion of the over 50 set and listen as we tell each other stories of our frustration in landing a position. I have already applied for twelve open positions and received no responses and I don't expect to receive an interview. I will not work summer school since I consider it "blood money", with no breaks from 8am to 1pm and Therefore, here is what I plan for my summer vacation.
Relax, and enjoy the summer in my backyard hammock.
Work on my garden and take bicycle rides in my neighborhood.
Go to the beach and swim in the water.
Take a cruise to Bermuda with my wife.
While many of my colleagues are worried about their school positions, I intend to relax and enjoy myself as I bide my time for the right position to appear that is a "good fit" for me.
The Racial/Income Student Academnic Achievement Gap Is Still Wide And The Numbers Are Very Disturbing Despite What The Mayor & Chancellor Claim.
Despite all the claims of the Bloomberg/Klein/Walcott Administrations that they are closing the racial/income student academic achievement gap the actual "college and career readiness"numbers for 2011 show a very different conclusion. For example in Queens the 2011 numbers showed that blacks have a college readiness rate of 10.5% and if you look at the black male population it falls below 10%! Gender wise females had better college readiness scores than males by 5%. Listed below is the various "college and career readiness rates" While I only used Queens High School data, the numbers and ratios are very similar for the other four boroughs. for all the Queens High Schools. All the data for NYC can be found on pg 126 of the NYS report here.
"College And Career Readiness Rates"
The numbers showed that for every black that is "college and career ready", there are three white and over four Asian students that are academically successful.
In addition, the New York State student progress report also showed that the Bloomberg small schools are a failure academically with an academically terrible 11% "college and career readiness score" compared to a dismal citywide 20.7% rate. That means that only a little over one out of every ten sstudents who graduate from the Bloomberg small schools are ready academically. This is success? I don't thing so. Furthermore, according to an unscientific survey by Ed the Apple, between 25-33% of all NYC high school students graduate with "credit recovery" credits and between 5-10% with multiple "credit recovery" credits.
Finally, The latest poll shows that Chancellor Dennis Walcott has seen a significant drop in his already poor approval ratings to a disappointing 37% from a high of 43% in March. I am shocked it is still as high as it is but like the saying goes "you can fool so of the people all of the time" and there are 37% who appears to have been fooled by the Bloomberg/Walcott rhetoric of advances in education progress when the evidence shows otherwise.
Maybe the news media should be writing articles how the Bloomberg/Walcott Administration should be held "accountable" for the dismal student academic results but then again the news rags rather scapegoat the teachers instead.
Why Chancellor Walcott's Op-Ed Piece Is A Bunch Of Trash As He Pleads For The Power To Fire Teachers Accused Of Sexual Misconduct But Found Innocent By An Independent Arbitrator.
I read with some amusement the Op-Ed piece by the Mayor's poodle, Chancellor Dennis Walcott in the New York Tmes and couldn't believe the spin he put into the article as he pleaded for the power to arbitrarily fire teachers accused of sexual misconduct but were found innocent by Arbitrators. In his piece he wrote many things that were either misleading or untrue.
First, He claims that substantiated investigations are proof enough that he would terminate teachers, regardless what the actual evidence is. People familiar with my story and my blog know that these investigations from OSI and SCI are not independent but are biased and unfair against an accused teacher. In fact, the Principal has a great deal of influence on how the investigation goes. If the Principal does not like the teacher, you can guess the investigators will substantiate bogus, false, and frivolous actions, and even hearsay statements as proof of sexual misconduct. I guess the Chancellor does not want the inconvenient truth that evidence should be used as the basis for determining if teacher sexual misconduct actually happened.
In 3020-a proceedings, a mandatory penalty of discharge shall apply to any tenured pedagogue a) found by a hearing officer to have engaged in sexual misconduct or b) who have pleaded guilty to or been found guilty of criminal charges for such conduct.
The Chancellor knows very well what the rules state. What he ignores is that if these Arbitrators were not following the rules then why does the DOE keep them on the panel year after year?
Third, the Arbitrators rule on the preponderance of relevant evidence not unfounded hearsay, rumors, and gossip or worse, unsupported accusations aided and abetted by unscrupulous Administrators. Of course, in Chancellor Walcott's piece he assumes all substantiated investigations and accusations are true, except when it is about his principals, that the Arbitrator's decision can be overturned by him.
Finally, the Chancellor claims that he should have the authority to make the final decision. However, based on my and other cases he apparently does not have the necessary knowledge or patience to read the transcripts of the 3020-a hearings but takes the lazy way out by reading the so-called substantiated investigative conclusions as his basis for making his decision to terminate teachers. Consequently, I must question his judgement to fairly evaluate the evidence since he ignores the Arbitrator's reasoned decision and will base his decision on the politics and not the evidence.
Please read Accountable Talk's post for another response to the Chancellor's op-ed piece.
The New York Post Publishes DOE Generated Suspect Data And Claims That The City Did Better Then They Really Did. The Real Numbers Are Very Different.
I was shocked to see that the New York Post incorrectly published the student graduation rate and got it all wrong. While all other media outlets claimed that the City students scores were either the same or lower for 2011, the New York Post praised the Mayor's education policy by publishing misleading data generated by the DOE and which were not accepted by any reasonable educator; I guess this is just another case of the New York Post who will invent or use numbers inappropriately to prove their point even when they are wrong. The paper delivered to my school said the following.
"CITY GLAD, STATE SAD OVER HS GRADUATION RATES"
In the article they incorrectly used the wrong data to prove their case that the Bloomberg Administration's education policy was working. To prove their point here is what they used as data.
Graduation rates - DOE data NYC 65.5%, State data 60,9%.
Minority Changes - State data shows a drop in the graduation rate for blacks, while the other groups (Asians, Hispanics, and Whites) showed slight gains.
The data can be found in the NYS student progress report found here. Or in my previous post.
Once again, the DOE publishes suspect data that makes it seem that the failed education policy of the Bloomberg Administration is working when the actual statistics from, the State shows a very different conclusion of failure to close the academic achievement gap, a reduction in graduation and college readiness rates and a drop in black graduation rates.
More Proof That The Bloomberg/Klein/Walcott Administration's Education Policies Have Failed The Students.
New York State released last year's graduation statistics and it was not good news for the Bloomberg Administration as the bogus four year graduation rate actually dropped, despite the continued use of phony "credit recovery programs". The actual graduation rate slipped a tenth of a point to 60.9% in 2012 from 2010. By contrast the other major urban areas in New York State saw a 6% increase for 2011! What is worse for the Bloomberg Administration is that the more accurate "career and college readiness rate" actually went down significantly, from a terrible 21.4% level in 2010 to an even more terrible 20.7% score for 2011. Worse yet there was a lower black graduation rate which dropped two tenths of a point to 60.4% while all other groups saw slight rises in their graduation rate this year. So much for narrowing the student academic achievement gap.
The 2011 numbers include the last group of seniors who can graduate with a local diploma which means that the four year graduation rate is expected to go down by 10% or more for this year's high school graduates.who must pass the Regents. Moreover, with New York City also making "credit recovery programs" much more rigorous and limit the amount of courses allowed, that should allow an even further drop of the four year graduation rate for next year (2013) to below the 50% threshold. Just in time as the Bloomberg Administration leaves office with a deteriorating school system and lower student academic achievement.
The DOE attempted to spin the disappointing data by claiming that more students achieved the more prestigious Regents diploma and that the newer schools had better graduation rates then the schools that they replaced. However, based upon the 2010 statistics the "college and career readiness scores" were lower than the large schools the are replacing. The UFT's Jackie Bennett in her December 7th, 2011 article showed how poorly the new small schools (opened since 2003) prepared their students for college. The analysis by Ms. Bennett was startling with all the small schools lagging behind the large school in their "college and career readiness scores". Can you imagine if the small schools took their fair share of self contained special education and English Language Learners what their already low scores would be?
As for the better graduation rates at the small schools? Of course it's better because of the massive amount of phony "credit recovery courses" that their students take and let's not forget these school's failure to take the most needy of students (self-contained special education and English Language Learners) and counsel behaviorally and/or academically challenged students out of their school by claiming a lack of resources for the student.
Overall the 2011 student data just shows that the flawed Bloomberg education policy is a failure. Way to go Bloomie in your "children last" policy.
The Proposed DOE Weakening Of The Student Discipline Policy Will Further Encourage The Lack Of Student Responsibility.
Chancellor Dennis Walcott has proposed a significant weakening of the student discipline policy, especially in the classroom. For example students can no longer be suspended for cursing at a teacher, using their cell phones or ipods in the classroom, or defy a lawful command by the teacher. Moreover, the student can no longer be removed from the classroom for excessive lateness or their failure to work in class. These new rules are in draft form and can be found here. What is really amazing is that our next potential Mayor, Christine Quinn, otherwise known as Michael Bloomberg lite, wants to weaken it even more. Just unbelievable. Maybe these people should spend some time in the classroom before they develop these flawed education policy directives.
The new draft regulations recommend counseling for many student infractions and limits teacher authority to remove a student from the classroom. Weakening the student discipline code is short-sighted and harmful for the student in the long term. What the weakening of the student discipline code will do is to further reduce student responsibility and make them ill-prepared for the adult world. I have seen first hand what happens to a school when the Administration allows the students to run the school.
Can you imagine a student who went through high school showing up late to class, always text messaging in the classroom, and frequently being unprepared to work (no notebook or pen) and the only thing that happened to him or her was to take an occasional online "credit recovery" course that took less than a week to finish. The result is that the students receives an undeserved diploma. In my present school this happens far to many times and is a way to artificially raise the graduation rate.
Now this academically unprepared student tries to join the work force and since he or she is used to showing up late, having poor work habits, and disrespects authority guess what happens? Right the now ex-student cannot hold a job because companies will not tolerate lateness, poor work, or lack of respect.
These ex-students move from short-term low paying job to the next and may never become a productive member of society and the reason is that the schools never held these students responsible for their poor academic work. I actually saw this at my usual breakfast spot.
Rather than weaken the student discipline code, we should strengthen it and hold students responsible if they are to become responsible and productive adults. Did the Chancellor ever hear of "tough love"? Oops, there I go again using a bad word (love) I hope the Chancellor does not sic SCI on me.
Just Imagine If Mayor Michael Bloomberg Had The Same Power As Wisconsin Governor, Scott Walker Had To Change Public Employee Rights.
I shudder to think if for some reason the Emperor, Mayor Michael Bloomberg had the authority to change public employee protections and rights as did Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker has? Under Scott Walker, Wisconsin's public employee unions lost many rights none more important than the "collective bargaining rights" for unions. Under Governor Walker's Administration the following erosion of employee benefits and rights have occurred.
Loss of collective bargaining rights by unions except for salaries.
Union dues and membership are no longer mandatory.
Health benefit premiums have doubled.
Pension contributions have increased to over 7%.
Teachers are required to abide by new working conditions like a sixth classroom period instead of a preparation period for example.
Elimination or restricting teacher tenure and adding more time.
The question is what would the Emperor, Michael Bloomberg do if he obtained such powers? This is easy to predict based upon his past actions.
Elimination of the Tribourough Amendment that keeps an old contract in place.
Replacing the defined benefit plan to a defined contribution plan (401K).
No seniority rights or step increases.
Drastically increasing health care premiums and co-payments to employees.
As for teachers, his favorite scapegoats. Here is what one can expect.
A temporary and replaceable teaching force.
Terminate all ATRs and teachers who have discipline charges.
A sixth teaching period and more time in the classroom.
Eliminate the 7% fixed income fund in the TDA.
Eliminate teacher due process rights.
It is a good thing we are not Wisconsin because if the Emperor, Mayor Bloomberg had his way, the experienced teacher who lasts long enough for a pension and retiree health benefits would be a rare event indeed.
We gave the Earth Science laboratory practical in the last week and many of the students missed it because they showed up late to class and were not let in. The laboratory practical is an important part of the Earth Science Regents and averages 15% of the final Regents grade. These students were told days in advance that if they are not in the lab room within five minutes after the late bell sounds that they would be refused entry to take the lab practical. Astonishingly, many of my and other teachers' students failed to heed our warnings about getting there on time and were shocked when we couldn't let them in. Now these students must hope that we volunteer a period of our time to allow them to do a "make up". In our school there is no money for per session "make ups". Therefore, I will give up my lunch period to let students take the laboratory practical and I can tell you very confidently that I will still have students show up too late to take it. Why would these students not show up on time? The blame lies with the school Administration. that ignores this behavior.
The fault lies particularly with the Principal of the school. Under his poor and leaderless Administration and inconsistent student discipline policy the many students who failed to show up on time can be attributed to his allowing students to enter the classroom anytime they want and teachers are lectured for locking their classroom doors or refusing tardy students entry to the classroom. The Principal tells the teachers to enforce the rule of "no cell phones or ipods" in class but refuses to take action against the very same students who use both in the school hallways and stairwells. Of course, teachers are ignored as the students realize that the school Administration does not have the back of the teachers. Moreover, the Principal seems to protect the behaviorally challenged students who walk the halls consistently and disrupt the school environment.
The consequences of the inconsistent strident discipline policy is the many students who failed to show up on time for the Earth Science laboratory practical and will probably fail the Regents. Of course guess who will blamed? You guessed it the teacher!
According To The Chancellor The Truth Is What He Claims It Is, Not What The Evidence Shows As He Fails To Understand What Sexual Misconduct Is.
Over the last few days young female teachers have been accused of engaging in sexual misconduct with their male students. Based upon the selected information presented so far it does certainly look like they committed sexual misconduct Of course only time and evidence will tell if they really did. However, the Chancellor, when discussing alleged teacher sexual misconduct, went further, and brought up the cases of the sixteen other teachers (all but one older and male) that he claimed had found to have committed sexual misconduct and should have been terminated. According to the New York Daily News, he sent the UFT President Michael Mulgrew the following letter.
"From time to time . we hear reports of teachers who engage in inappropriate, and sometimes sexual, misconduct with students," Walcott wrote in a letter to United Federation of Teachers President Michael Mulgrew. "Unfortunately under current law, when these reports are true, it is left to an arbitrator to decide on the punishment.".
Notice how the Chancellor assumed that the charges against the sixteen teachers where found to be true? While I cannot talk about the other cases, I will talk about my own on what is true and why the Chancellor is not capable of understanding the truth.
Truth, the most senior and respected Arbitrator on the panel threw out a phony letter to the file back in 2004 as "unfair and inaccurate". Yet the Chancellor did not bother to include it to the media. when he tried to vilify me.
Truth, A second Arbitrator found no "probable cause" that I committed sexual misconduct in 2008.Yet the DOE wasted over $500,000 in pursuing charges they knew were frivolous and also failed to include that information to the media..
Truth, the 3020-a Arbitrator found no "sexual misconduct" after weighing all the "preponderance of evidence" in 2011.
Truth, the DOE failed to appeal when the Arbitrator's decision was rendered. If they were so sure that I committed sexual misconduct, why would you not appeal?
Here are some other truths that the Chancellor fails to, or is unable to understand.
Truth, that any teacher that commits sexual misconduct is automatically terminated by the Arbitrator based upon the UFT-DOE contract Article 21G-6 pg 120. It states the following.
Truth, the Chancellor claims that any SCI or OSI investigation that substantiates the charges, no matter how frivolous, is "proven".
Truth, according to the Chancellor a fair and impartial hearing where evidence is necessary is not as important as a biased or politically motivated investigation and the bogus charges that result from them.
Truth, the independent Arbitrators are jointly appointed to one year terms by the DOE and UFT and can only be reappointed yearly when both sides agree that they are doing a good job. Therefore, the Bloomberg/Walcott claim that the Arbitrators are influenced by the UFT in determining the penalty is a lie.
Truth, the Chancellor practices a "double standard" when it comes to Administrators and teachers, see here and here.
Truth, the Chancellor has blindly followed the Mayor's policy without question.
I must conclude that the Chancellor's idea of truth is vastly different than the common person. In the Chancellor's world the truth is what he and the Mayor claims it is not what is real.


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but when I try to make it easier with Jquery i get undefined in variable datasrc...
it works when i use a single element selector instead of $(this)
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A: Try this :
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Which university is most likely to get rid of diversity on campus?
In 2018, the University of California at San Diego (UCSD) was ranked first on a list of colleges and universities that are most likely "to get rid" of diversity in their student body.
According to the UC San Diego Diversity Study Report 2018, "UC San Diego ranks first for its perceived acceptance of racial and ethnic minorities and second for its ability to reduce its diversity."
It is a ranking of diversity that is based on the UC Santa Barbara survey, which was conducted in 2015.
The Santa Barbara study found that the UCSD students are more likely to have experienced discrimination, been harassed or verbally assaulted than the students of any other college in the country.
"UC Santa Barbara has an overall higher rate of discrimination against its minority population," the report reads.
"While this is a good thing, we know that this discrimination can have negative impacts on students' mental health and emotional well-being."
This year, the UCSB campus was the subject of widespread media attention after it was revealed that two of the four male student leaders in the student government had been accused of sexual misconduct.
The women who were accused were not even students in the UCSC Student Government.
As reported by the Los Angeles Times, the women were "not involved in any political or social action, but they had a long history of being accused of inappropriate behavior in the past."
According to a report in The Atlantic, the UC Davis campus was also named as one of the campuses that is most hostile towards minorities and women.
According the report, UC Davis was ranked the least diverse campus in the U.S. in terms of the percentage of its students that were Hispanic, Asian, black, Native American, Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander, and black or Asian-American students.
"This report is not a reflection of how diverse or progressive UC Davis is as a whole, but the experiences of students and faculty at UC Davis," the University said in a statement.
"The campus has a long, proud history of diversity, including the inclusion of women and people of color in its academic community, and a diverse student body that includes students from all backgrounds and walks of life.
Our diversity strategy is designed to foster a campus environment that is inclusive, welcoming, and supportive of diverse students and our community."
According the survey, UC San Francisco, the largest public university in the nation, was also ranked as the most diverse.
UC Berkeley was ranked second and UC Irvine third.
The university said that its diversity strategy has a "tremendous amount of support" from the local community and that it was working to address the concerns raised by the students.
The report said that UC Berkeley and UC San Jose have committed to creating a diversity task force and that they are "actively seeking feedback from faculty, students, and staff" regarding the campus.
According it, the task force would be formed to review and improve the campus diversity program.
UC Davis also has an "aggressive" commitment to reducing its diversity and was ranked fourth in terms "diversity and inclusion," according to the report.
"In addition to a number of important initiatives that have been initiated, the campus has established a strong community of students, faculty, and alumni dedicated to the goal of creating a more inclusive, diverse and equitable campus for all students and employees," the university said.
According a report by The Atlantic: "A majority of respondents in the 2018 UC San Jacinto survey said they were aware of the fact that they had experienced bias or discrimination based on their race, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, age, disability, or religion on campus.
Nearly a quarter of respondents said they had been harassed at some point in their lives, and another 24 percent said they felt intimidated or harassed by a campus police officer."
According a UC Davis spokesman, the university's "commitment to eliminating discrimination and creating a safe, welcoming and supportive environment is reflected in the campus' current diversity efforts and ongoing efforts to engage with community members to understand and address issues related to diversity, inclusion and inclusion."
UC Davis has also created a diversity committee comprised of students from different racial and gender identities, including "one woman who identifies as trans, one black woman, and one white man," the spokesperson said.
The UC Davis Diversity Report 2018 says that UC Davis strives to "engage and understand students and staff on a broad range of issues and to create an environment that fosters a safe and welcoming campus."
"We have an obligation to our students, staff, and faculty, who represent an overwhelming majority of our students and students of color, to create a safe space that is welcoming to all," the statement reads.
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A recent Gallup poll indicates despite beliefs that economic conditions are improving, "Americans are increasingly pessimistic about the future of the economy." Following 2008's recession, clearly Americans are wary of changing economic conditions. Just because people see an improving economy does not mean they believe it will stay that way. What amount of stability is necessary to boost confidence?
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