| Stop Chasing High-Tech Cheaters
Opening up The New York Times last week, I stumbled across an article that outraged me. "Colleges Chase as Cheats Shift to Higher Tech" detailed the struggle of some academics against new, high-tech forms of "cheating" that are based in Internet use, iPods, cellphones, and PocketPCs. The tone of the article was one of dismay at the collapse of morality in education. As I watched the article climb the "most e-mailed list" on the Times Web site through the day, my outrage increased. .
Street: Non-Communicable Disease and the Law
Yet the same voices can often be heard stridently opposing initiatives which seek to reduce the relevant risks, on the grounds they curtail individuals’ rights. Crackdowns on drinking and driving – now near universally accepted – initially evoked such reactions. More recently, despite widespread calls for action on our unacceptably high rates of child abuse, we saw similar responses during the repeal of Section 59 of the Crimes Act. Inevitably once such decisions are made, some will say we have gone too far and others that we have not gone far enough. And actually, that tends to show we got it about right! One problem we face in relying on laws to deliver better public health outcomes, especially now, is that the context in which the law must operate is changing more and more rapidly.
The All-Unwanted All-Pros, conference championship analysis, and more
As Bud Grant used to say, If you're afraid of the cold, you are already defeated! The fabled Packers Bikini Girls, who strip to triangle tops during Green Bay home games, impressed the football gods enough by doing this at minus-23 wind chill that the Packers were allowed to take the contest into overtime. But the Packers Bikini Girls put it out there for only a moment: McCarthy wore ridiculous Amundsen-Scott Station survival gear for the entire game. Cold Coach = Victory! Coaches, ignore this immutable law at your peril. Next, Preposterous Punt ≠ Victory. Trailing New England, football history's highest-scoring team, 21-12 with 9:21 remaining -- meaning San Diego needs to score a touchdown plus another score to win -- the Chargers faced fourth-and-10 on the Patriots' 36.
SUBS: Deserve respect for their service
In response to the article about Mary Jo Ketcham, I say good for her! She chose to be a sub at the high schools, and that is not an easy job. After reading the comments online about the article, I was disgusted by the sheer ignorance. No, Idaho does not require you to have a teaching degree to be a sub anymore. I don't know the true reason why, but I do know the school district has a hard time finding people to be subs. Yes, there are a few "flaky" subs, but there are "flaky" people in just about every employment sector. My father, Bob Trueblood, has been a substitute teacher in the Coeur d'Alene School District for 15 years. Dad got his bachelor's degree in 1991, he volunteered at NIC to help the people working on getting their GEDs (and he received an award from the Idaho Department of Education for all the hours he volunteered and all the students he helped), he also won the Regence Blue Shield of Idaho Ageless Hero Award in the Love of Learning category for the whole state and was presented with an award from then Gov.
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Production notes
When the house tries to swallow their new friend Jenny and no one believes the frightened trio's claims that the house is up to no good, it's up to them to investigate. They turn for advice to the only person on the planet who might even remotely understand what's going on, the wise one they call Skull, a 20-something slacker pizza chef and master of the arcade machine who once played a video game for four days straight on one single quarter, a gallon of chocolate milk and an adult diaper. "I have heard tell of man-made structures becoming possessed by a human soul," Skull tells them. You mean the house is alive? Yikes! Skull tells them the only way to stop the house from gulping down everything in sight is by striking at its heart, which the kids figure out must be the perpetually-fueled furnace in the basement.
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