| Fellow educators angry over teacher's dismissal
Colleagues of fired Cascade High School teacher Kay Powers reacted with anger to her dismissal last week, saying the Everett School District had created a climate of fear and intimidation among staff. Teachers who worked with the former journalism and English teacher said Powers, 65, was a dedicated educator whose punishment doesn't fit the charges against her. "She was the kind of teacher who changed kids' lives," said fellow English teacher Steve Garmanian. "When word got out that she'd been fired, it was such a shock. It didn't seem at all proportional. None of the charges against her have anything to do with her teaching." Superintendent Carol Whitehead notified Powers on Nov. 2 that she had been terminated after a five-month investigation. Whitehead said Powers had helped students publish an underground newspaper and magazine on school time and with school resources in express violation of directives not to do so.
Effective Internet Job Ads
Getting the best results from internet job ads is something of an art. Whilst we can not deny that the underlying attractiveness of a job will be a factor in a job ads success online, it is not the dominant factor.
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Preparing job ads that deliver results on the internet is not as straightforward as cutting and pasting a job description, even though many recruiters seem to think that is how it is done.
Let's talk real issues
As the pre-pre-campaign campaigning winds down to caucus crunches and early primaries, the critical campaign issues should finally get real attention. Campaign managers, consultants and the proliferation of frothing pundits have missed the boat. The views of the American citizens matter, and those concerns are forcing their way to the surface. Candidates who avoid them will fail. Being a footnote in history isn't on their agenda. The problem is, the meat and potatoes issues concerning Americans today, aren't on their agenda either. They'll soon face the reality that the American people will elect our next president. Their concerns need the attention not those of academic utopians, gutter-mentality politicians pandering to the lowest denominator, and certainly not one-world internationalists who tout the key to the future of mankind.
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Witnesses say more than 100 chanting monks in northern Burma are marching for the first time since a crackdown on pro-democracy demonstrations. The monks, in the town of Pakokku, did not shout slogans or make political statements as they marched for about an hour. The town was the scene of some of the monk-led pro-democracy protests that were stamped out after troops opened fire on demonstrators during the September 26-27 crackdown. The monks started their march at Shwegu Pagoda in Pakokku, a centre for Buddhist learning with more than 80 monasteries about 630km northwest of the country's commercial centre of Rangoon. They marched for nearly one hour chatting Buddhist prayers without incident, and then returned to the respective monasteries, two monks said in telephone interviews.
Review: Sandvox
Sandvox is an exciting web page creation software with plenty of features, designed to help you create a site with no previous experience. It is easy to make a web page or five, a blog, or photo and movie pages. You can create a group of pages for your home business, Cub Scout Den, soccer team, or church group, without knowing any HTML, CSS, or server stuff. Just drag and drop text and photos into a page. When you open Sandvox, you can start a new site or work with one that you have already started. Unfortunately, you cannot import a site created with another program. The work space is divided into three areas. At the top is the toolbar that includes all of your creation tools. Along the left side is a list of your assets such as each page, collections, photos, and movies. The large center section contains the page you edit.
Bissell’s people
A couple of months ago a space author generously sent me a copy of his book, telling me that he had used a number of my articles in writing it. So naturally I turned to the footnotes to see which ones and cringed to learn that he had primarily cited my Internet writings rather than my print articles. The reason that this bothers me is that I view my Internet articles as first drafts, not final polished works. They lack footnotes, for instance, and the careful checking, re-checking, and editing that I (and my editors—it's always good having someone looking over your shoulder) put into works that appear in print. Usually I write the Internet articles late at night, only a day or two before they go online, rather than weeks or months (or sometimes years) before they see print. My recent article about CIA official Richard Bissell's role in developing a key aspect of the first American space policy (see "Tinker, Tailor, Satellite, Spy", The Space Review, October 29, 2007) is an example.
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