Teaching Social and Emotional Skills in Schools | MindShift. – 2012 September 20 “Back to School” on This American Life, Episode 474, first aired 2012 September 14 How Children Succeed: Grit, Curiosity, and the Hidden Power of Character by Paul Tough
Author: Penelope Gordon
“Jack of Fables”
The nine volume graphic novel series Jack of Fables written by Bill Willingham tells the story of the trickster Jack (e.g. Little Jack Horner, Jack the Giant Killer (from Jack and the Beanstalk), and Jack B. Nimble – with overtones of the Jackal from other mythologies), his son Jack Frost, sidekick Gary the Pathetic Fallacy…
Text Fragments
(Refer to the Writing Notes post for word usage and to Food Vocabulary for food-related words and terms. Also see Remnants and Famous Quotes.) Interesting Words Contronyms A contronym is a word that has opposite meanings. For example, when Michael Jackson said that he was ‘bad’ in his video “Bad”, he meant that he was really…
One Piece
(For a review of the One Piece Japanese manga series, see the One Piece post on AuntPennies.com.) In more than six dozen volumes available in the series the main characters have evolved, particularly those who started as adolescents. Unfortunately this has also added to the number of Barbie doll figures. On the positive side, Luffy…
Importing high-tech workers
Congress must reform immigration laws that send top STEM graduates to China – CSMonitor.com. 2012 September 10 print edition Rather than focusing on keeping foreign students of US STEM programs in the US post-graduation, I think that we should focus on enabling more US students to graduate from both US and foreign STEM programs and…
Children’s Classics
Rootabaga Stories by Carl Sandburg on Project Gutenburg
Remnants
(Refer to the Writing Notes post for word usage and to Food Vocabulary for food-related words and terms. Also see Text Fragments and Famous Quotes.) “find your Prints Charming” – from a 2012 September 18 Bed Bath & Beyond email advertisement for ordering decorator fabrics online. From the Jim Butcher short story “Day Off”, “he who…
Adult Paranormal Fiction
(Also see the Paranormal Romance Novels post.) Peeves Why do sequel blurbs lead off with phrases such as “her greatest challenge yet”, “she must confront dark secrets”, or “she uncovers a dark plot that may forever change the face of Y”? Pish. I appreciate a series in which the characters – antagonists as well as…
Drought: Farmers dig deeper
Drought: Farmers dig deeper, water tables drop, competition heats up – CSMonitor.com. – 2012 August 13 print edition It’s very troubling when farmers are tapping into the water table to switch from dry-farming to irrigation in order to grow resource-intensive, annual crops such as cotton and corn.
CloudCon Security Panel
GoDaddy: Outage Caused By Network Failure, Not Anonymous Hack. Unified approach to data security. CSO = Chief Security Officer Escrow account, service support commitments – for example, for how many years is AWS committing to support its new data archive service (Glacier)? SLOs and SLAs – objectives and objectives with penalties RAS commitments – ‘5…