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Ultraquick post - 2 April 2008
Apr. 3rd, 2008 01:06 amSilver News Service will be AFK starting tomorrow and going through Monday while I go back to the snowy mitten state to help bury my paternal grandfather. The timing on it is all wrong, of course, and has contributed significantly to my stress level by inverting just about every damn thing I was going to do this weekend, including a nice visit from family.
A Public Service Announcement from the American Heart Association - trained or not, if an adult needs CPR because of a heart attack, and you know this, give them what help you can. As it was explained to me in the class I took, at the moment of collapse, the person is dead. Anything that you do can only serve to improve that condition.
Another PSA: Turn your damn lights on when you're hard to see, but don’t be a dick and leave your brights on to blind everyone with.
My professional self finds it interesting that what one reads is often used as a metric of suitableness for relationships. And people say books are dying out. Professionally, I’m also interested in a “novel” solution to failing education and lack of knowledge - teachers get to know the students, and can thus better encourage them to stay in and study. If you treat the kids with interest and concern, rather than as cogs or troublemakers-in-waiting, they do better. Who would have thought that? As an additional bonus, it’s probably less likely that the students will plot to have the teacher killed. Considering that the whole thing was hatched because of a scolding one of the students got, maybe this one was unavoidable, but a good relationship would certainly keep it from progressing into the actual plot stage, I’d say.
International matters: States bidding to join up with NATO have a stiff fight ahead, Raul Castro relaxes some rules, Cubans take advantage by buying lots, The U.S. wants more UN troops to be put in Darfur,
Domestic news: 2003 memo says executive wartime authority trumps law. While the current administration still operates under this principle, the President, as I recall, does not have the authority to ignore the law. Suspend it, yes, or just parts of it, with appropriate declarations and potential backlash, but ignore it? Never. Then again, this shirt could encompass the whole of the current administration’s policy. Or perhaps a petition to rename the Oceanside Wastewater Treatment Facility the George W. Bush Sewage Plant, is the best way of describing the last several years.
Regarding candidates: John McCain will be campaigning at Burning Man this year. There’s something that just sounds wrong about a political campaign heading off to Burning Man. More generally, Matt Taibbi at Rolling Stone warns us against being caught up in all the distractions media and campaigns throw at us to distract us from real issues.
In financial matters, even student loans are suffering from the credit crises, making it harder for people to finance college education. The Senate is stepping in to help guard against foreclosures, though.
Other matters: Deutsche Telekom sent a cease-and-desist over endgaget's use of the color magenta, claiming that the color is part of the trademark. Despite the two logos looking nothing like each other, DT claims that there could be confusion between the two.
Cracking voicemail and changing the message supposedly permits international calls to be made by others to your phone while your account foots the bill. Which makes me wonder about whether or not the boilerplate voicemail messages would foil such an attempt.
Following up from a follow-up, the parents of a girl who died because they prayed and did not seek medical assistance have been charged with manslaughter and child mistreatment. So the law is being applied in this case.
Deliberate infection with a bacteria may kickstart the immune system into fighting cancer. Hrm. Well, doing it naturally has advantages. Just so long as the body can kill off the bug as well.
Intel is making a foray into mobile devices. Time for market competition and possibly oversaturation, it looks like. Who will reign out of this warzone?
To get your blood a-boiling, here's an example of what people start believing when you don't give them comprehensive scientifically sound sex ed, and instead insist only on abstinence.
Last for tonight, science fiction authors take a swing at the question Is science fiction antithetical to religion?
And with that, bed. I’ve still got a lot to do before I head home.
A Public Service Announcement from the American Heart Association - trained or not, if an adult needs CPR because of a heart attack, and you know this, give them what help you can. As it was explained to me in the class I took, at the moment of collapse, the person is dead. Anything that you do can only serve to improve that condition.
Another PSA: Turn your damn lights on when you're hard to see, but don’t be a dick and leave your brights on to blind everyone with.
My professional self finds it interesting that what one reads is often used as a metric of suitableness for relationships. And people say books are dying out. Professionally, I’m also interested in a “novel” solution to failing education and lack of knowledge - teachers get to know the students, and can thus better encourage them to stay in and study. If you treat the kids with interest and concern, rather than as cogs or troublemakers-in-waiting, they do better. Who would have thought that? As an additional bonus, it’s probably less likely that the students will plot to have the teacher killed. Considering that the whole thing was hatched because of a scolding one of the students got, maybe this one was unavoidable, but a good relationship would certainly keep it from progressing into the actual plot stage, I’d say.
International matters: States bidding to join up with NATO have a stiff fight ahead, Raul Castro relaxes some rules, Cubans take advantage by buying lots, The U.S. wants more UN troops to be put in Darfur,
Domestic news: 2003 memo says executive wartime authority trumps law. While the current administration still operates under this principle, the President, as I recall, does not have the authority to ignore the law. Suspend it, yes, or just parts of it, with appropriate declarations and potential backlash, but ignore it? Never. Then again, this shirt could encompass the whole of the current administration’s policy. Or perhaps a petition to rename the Oceanside Wastewater Treatment Facility the George W. Bush Sewage Plant, is the best way of describing the last several years.
Regarding candidates: John McCain will be campaigning at Burning Man this year. There’s something that just sounds wrong about a political campaign heading off to Burning Man. More generally, Matt Taibbi at Rolling Stone warns us against being caught up in all the distractions media and campaigns throw at us to distract us from real issues.
In financial matters, even student loans are suffering from the credit crises, making it harder for people to finance college education. The Senate is stepping in to help guard against foreclosures, though.
Other matters: Deutsche Telekom sent a cease-and-desist over endgaget's use of the color magenta, claiming that the color is part of the trademark. Despite the two logos looking nothing like each other, DT claims that there could be confusion between the two.
Cracking voicemail and changing the message supposedly permits international calls to be made by others to your phone while your account foots the bill. Which makes me wonder about whether or not the boilerplate voicemail messages would foil such an attempt.
Following up from a follow-up, the parents of a girl who died because they prayed and did not seek medical assistance have been charged with manslaughter and child mistreatment. So the law is being applied in this case.
Deliberate infection with a bacteria may kickstart the immune system into fighting cancer. Hrm. Well, doing it naturally has advantages. Just so long as the body can kill off the bug as well.
Intel is making a foray into mobile devices. Time for market competition and possibly oversaturation, it looks like. Who will reign out of this warzone?
To get your blood a-boiling, here's an example of what people start believing when you don't give them comprehensive scientifically sound sex ed, and instead insist only on abstinence.
Last for tonight, science fiction authors take a swing at the question Is science fiction antithetical to religion?
And with that, bed. I’ve still got a lot to do before I head home.
