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Man returns $125,000 that fell from armored truck
FRESNO, Calif. (AP) — A Salvation Army worker in California is being rewarded for his decision to return a bag containing $125,000 that fell from an armored truck.
Joe Cornell tells The Fresno Bee that he found the cash Tuesday after a Brinks truck pulled away from a red light in Fresno and left the sack behind.
"I started crying and shaking," Cornell said. "Everything was going through my mind — the good devil/bad devil thing. What to do?"
Thoughts of the imminent arrival of his fourth grandchild soon helped him decide.
"I thought, 'What would I want her to think of me?' That made up my mind right there," he said. "I got on my radio and called my boss. 'Hey, I found a bag of money.' "
Cornell, 52, is in a Salvation Army substance-abuse rehabilitation program. His duties for the organization include working on donated trailers.
"I went down there carrying the bag like I was Santa Claus," Cornell said.
Brinks spokesman Ed Cunningham said he isn't sure how the truck lost the money, and he called the incident a security issue.
The company will give Cornell a $5,000 reward and make a separate $5,000 donation to the Salvation Army.


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ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Memorabilia from the AMC hit television series "Breaking Bad" is scheduled to be auctioned to benefit Albuquerque-area Goodwill stores after the nonprofit helped with production.
Goodwill Industries of New Mexico is holding the event Saturday and will sell props such as mock Drug Enforcement Administration hats and certificates used by the characters from the show, the Albuquerque Journal reported.
The production company donated the memorabilia to Goodwill Industries of New Mexico after the organization allowed "Breaking Bad" to use Goodwill items for some of its scenes, said Shauna O'Cleireachain, the group's chief administration officer.
The series, filmed largely in Albuquerque, ends Sept. 29.
The local Goodwill's staff is still going through the trailer full of items, and O'Cleireachain didn't want to give too much away about what was in the collection from the show.
"We're excited, because a lot of the props and such are easily recognizable from the show," she said.
In February, the Albuquerque-based Joy Junction, New Mexico's largest emergency shelter, received a donation of clothing from the show to sell at its thrift shop. The sale attracted hundreds of people.
"Breaking Bad" follows former high school teacher Walter White, played by Bryan Cranston, producing and selling methamphetamine with a former student, Jesse Pinkman, played by Aaron Paul.
The show, with its dark themes and addictive story-line, often features different parts of Albuquerque, from a regular carwash to well-known local restaurants.

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Restore Sanity rally
The Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear was a comic effort by liberals to counter the influence of Glenn Beck and the Tea Party Movement. The rally took place October 30, 2010, in Washington D.C., and was organized by satirists Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert. The rally name was similar to Glenn Beck's highly successful Restoring Honor event, but while Beck's rally was a serious gathering of citizens that are concerned about the country, the Stewart rally was designed to mock Americans who support conservatism, and to joke, laugh and have a good time, just days before the Democrats power and influence was crushed at the polls on November 2nd.
Stewart and Colbert originally planned separate rallies, the Rally to Restore Sanity and the March to Keep Fear Alive, but they eventually merged them to make the Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear.
Many of the Left's supporters of the socialist One Nation rally planned to attend. Estimations of the crowd attendance at the concert by popular rock stars and other entertainment ranged from tens of thousands (initial USA Today report) to about 215,000 (Breitbart and others).[1] This represented a fraction of the comedians' combined television audience. In addition, there was not much of a presence by the trade unions. Domestic terrorist Bill Ayers endorsed the rally,[2] as did Barack Hussein Obama, although the latter refused to attend. Indeed, almost no major candidate for office was willing to attend.
Sources of participation
Left-wing socialist advocates, such as MoveOn.org, put their support behind the rally. Billed as a non-political rally, immediately following the event, a political MoveOn.org 'Sanity' phone bank was established to get out the vote. One of those groups attending was Students For Sensible Drug Policy.[3] The group pushes the legalization of marijuana. Another liberal group attended was "animal liberation" activist group PETA.[4] The Huffington Post returned with transportation for 10,000 plus, Oprah Winfrey donated to the cause by paying all expenses for Stewart's studio audience.[5] Government workers marched at the rally. In defense of their co-workers, government workers and their friends and family were encouraged to join up and march together for the "Government Doesn't Suck March." [6]
Per the Rally To Restore Sanity website,
|Think of our event as Woodstock, but with the nudity and drugs replaced by respectful disagreement; the Million Man March, only a lot smaller, and a bit less of a sausage fest; or the Gathering of the Juggalos, but instead of throwing our feces at Tila Tequila, we'll be actively *not* throwing our feces at Tila Tequila.
See also
- ↑ Jon Stewart Rally Attracts Estimated 215,000 - Estimates made by aerial photography with a 10% margin of error
- ↑ Terrorist Ayers Endorses Stewart/Colbert Rallies, Accuracy in media, October 26, 2010
- ↑ SSDP.org
- ↑ Stewart, Colbert: Isn't there a better way to restore sanity?, WaPo, October 26, 2010
- ↑ Stewart, Colbert Throw 'Non-Political' Rally in Washington Ahead of Midterms, FOX New, October 30, 2010
- ↑ 'Government Doesn't Suck' march planned, Washington Post, October 25, 2010


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Minnesota, feds increase dollars for college grants
ST. PAUL -- College students facing rising tuition when they head to campus next fall have at least some good financial news -- state and federal governments are increasing grant programs.
ST. PAUL -- College students facing rising tuition when they head to campus next fall have at least some good financial news -- state and federal governments are increasing grant programs.
Up to 9,000 more Minnesota students from low- and middle-income families may receive grants and many of the 83,000 existing grant recipients could get more money.
"Given what has happened to family financial circumstances over the past year, this couldn't have come at a better time," said David Laird Jr., president of the Minnesota Private College Council.
It is one of the rare areas of more government spending during a recession.
However, uncertainty remains over the grants, and state institutions still could face deep budget cuts as Gov. Tim Pawlenty balances the state budget by cutting nearly $3 billion in the coming weeks. The Republican governor has been a strong supporter of the student grant program, but college leaders are practical.
"Who knows where he will have to turn when he gets down to those last few million," Laird said.
"That is the wildcard," added Michael Uran, St. Cloud State University financial aid director.
The governor has said he likely will cut state-run college and university budgets by July 1.
President Barack Obama and Congress injected $15.6 billion of new funds into the Pell grant program nationwide. Federal changes and a new law from Pawlenty and the Minnesota Legislature added $70 million to the state's college student grant program over two years, which spent $149 million last year.
"The cumulative of the two going up is a powerful message," said Eric Berg, enrollment management vice president for the College of St. Scholastica in Duluth.
The federal and state grants go to students whose families otherwise may not be able to afford sending them to college. Most students' families earn less than $40,000 a year, and the practical uppermost limit is $70,000 income.
The top Pell grant in the 2007-08 school year was $4,310. Congress upped that to $5,350 beginning next fall. The average Minnesota grant is expected to rise 17 percent, to $1,712.
Since the Minnesota grant program is tied to the Pell plan, the federal increase freed up state grant money for more students, Uran said. The Legislature also voted to allow students to receive grants for nine semesters instead of just eight.
Many students from low- and moderate-income families will benefit from the grant influx, but it will mean more for some, according to Karen Lee of Concordia College financial aid office.
"It will help them come back when they otherwise could not," the Moorhead college administrator said.
In general, most students already have committed to a college and the added money just will reduce loans they need to take out. However, Berg said, it may mean students will shop around more before committing to a college in the fall of 2010.
The federal and state decisions "make it possible for students to choose what type of instruction is better for them," said Laird, whose private colleges often lobby for student grant increases while state-run institutions often prefer state money to flow directly to state schools.
Uran said the change he could see in 2010 is more students attending college.
"It allows students who previously felt they could not afford to go to college to take another look at that," Uran said.
Still, he said, "I don't think there will be a significant surge."
Most Minnesotans do not know about the increased grant money, so Berg said colleges need to tell students.
"The college's responsibility in the next month or so is to communicate as fully as possible what this means, and to whom," Berg said.
College leaders say it is important to help students in need.
"With today's economic hardships, expanding Minnesota's need-based aid was more important than ever," said Pam Jolicoeur, president of Concordia College and board chairwoman of the Minnesota Private College Council.


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Daughters, Honor Your Mothers
- Nicole Whitacre Contributing Writer
- 2006 17 Jul
My mom, sisters, and I watched the movie together, all four of us huddled on the same couch. The Birds was Dad's idea. He thought it would be funny to see us get scared, and he wasn't disappointed.
Despite the nondescript title, we discovered that The Birds is not a National Geographic special on the treetop warbler. With 1960s-era special effects, this Hitchcock thriller remains a perfectly chilling tale of maniacal birds that conspire to attack human beings. They swarm schoolchildren, strike when least expected, and peck people to death with their bills. I won't give away the ending, but suffice it to say, it's not happily ever after.
To this day, the sight of birds perched on a telephone wire still makes me wince and walk a little faster. I can't quite convince myself that they aren't secretly plotting my demise. Probably a mild case of ornithophobia—fear of birds (I had to look it up; so don't be too impressed). But as scary as The Birds is, there are verses in Scripture I find even more frightening because they aren't from a two-hour spectacle on my TV screen. These verses are deadly serious about God's perspective on how I relate to my mom.
Most of us are familiar with the fifth of the Ten Commandments and the promise it contains: "Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long in the land that the LORD your God is giving you" (Ex. 20:12). But keep reading past Exodus, and you'll find that there are some pretty severe consequences for the sons or daughters who dishonor their parents. A brief sampling is enough to make me shiver:
Leviticus 20:9: For anyone who curses his father or his mother shall surely be put to death; he has cursed his father or his mother; his blood is upon him.
Proverbs 20:20: If one curses [or dishonors; it is the same word] his father or his mother, his lamp will be put out in utter darkness.
Proverbs 30:17: The eye that mocks a father and scorns to obey a mother will be picked out by the ravens of the valley and eaten by the vultures.
Not looking good for the disrespectful daughter, is it? But God is not finished yet. The Bible also says that when we fail to honor our moms, it's as serious as dishonoring God Himself. Charles Bridges, author of a commentary on the book of Proverbs, explained, "The cursing of a parent was visited with the same punishment as the blaspheming of God; so near does the one sin approach to the other. The rebel against his parent is ready to 'stretch out his hand against God' himself. (Job 15:25)"1 These verses frighten me because I have been guilty of dishonoring my mom.
Dishonor comes in many different forms: from open defiance to sly disrespectful comments. For me, it was at some point in my teen years that I began to develop a haughty attitude toward Mom. I grew to think quite highly of my own abilities and opinions and not so highly of hers. I found fault with her clothing, her way of speaking, and the godly priorities of her life. My sin was small in my own eyes, but not in God's. For even one of these "small," proud thoughts I deserve the full punishment of a dishonoring daughter.
I'm not what you would call subtle; so it wasn't long before Mom perceived my disrespect (days, weeks maybe—I'm so glad it wasn't much longer). She confronted my puffed-up thoughts and pointed out the arrogance and pride from which they sprang. She proved her mother's love for me in spite of my insulting attitude toward her. And God used her kind response to produce sorrow and repentance in my heart.
To set the record straight: Ask anyone who knows my mom, and that person will confirm that I was mistaken in my thinking. Mom is clearly superior to me in every way—beauty, intelligence, gifting, and most importantly, godly character. (She wants me to take this sentence out, but I'm not listening.) But you know, sin distorts and mangles our view so that we no longer see things rightly. I certainly didn't.
To this day I feel sorrow over how Mom must have felt when she uncovered the truth of my haughty attitude. No mother should ever have to experience disrespect from her daughter—least of all, my mother. But even more grievous is the fact that my dishonor was ultimately against God.
So what did it look like to begin honoring my mom? What does honor look like for all of us? Puritan pastor and author Matthew Henry wrote that honor is "an inward esteem . . . outwardly expressed upon all occasions."2 Honor begins in our hearts and our thoughts. It means that we cherish, esteem, and look up to the woman God has chosen to be our mom. Then we follow through on that attitude by showing respect through our words and our obedience. The scope of honor for our mothers, as the Bible describes it, is far reaching. It includes:
• Obedience while under her authority (Eph. 6:1; Col. 3:20).
• Dependence upon her wisdom and counsel (Prov. 6:20-23).
• Eagerness to receive her training and instruction, especially in the language of biblical womanhood (Titus 2:4-5).
• Dedication to serving her and meeting her practical needs (1 Tim. 5:4).
• Respect and esteem for her godly example (Prov. 31:28-31; Eph. 6:1).
• Pursuit of a God-glorifying lifestyle that brings her joy (Prov. 10:1; 15:20; 23:24-25).
• Encouragement and gratefulness for her sacrifice (Prov. 31:28-31).
(For those of you reading this whose mom is not a Christian or is an immature believer, honor will look different in your case. Though there are many things you can apply from this list, you are not to follow your mom into sin, condone her wrong behavior, or respect her ungodly lifestyle.)
Still not getting the picture of what it means to honor your mom? Well, try this. Stop and think of a person you really admire or wish you could be like. It's probably the first person that popped into your head. Now what kind of thoughts do you have about this individual? Are they admiring thoughts? What kinds of things do you say to him or her (if you get a chance)? Are they flattering and encouraging, sweet and kind? And how do you act toward this person? Do you go out of your way to be around this person, to do things for him or her, to get him or her to like you? If so, you are honoring this individual. We all honor someone, don't we? Well, God commands that we treat our moms this way. And if your mom is already the person you admire—way to go! Honoring your mom is one way to honor God Himself.
There are no "buts" to this command. We shouldn't think we are the exception to this rule. The Bible doesn't say, "Oh, by the way, if your mom isn't cool, or if you don't agree with her decisions, you can disregard this command." The requirement to honor our mothers applies to everyone, all the time, and for the rest of our lives.
God demands nothing less than perfect honor toward our moms. However, maybe you, like me, are guilty of dishonoring your mom, and ultimately God. And you, like me, realize you deserve the awful fate assigned to the dishonoring daughter. It is good for us to begin to comprehend the seriousness of our sin. However, we must not despair: God has provided a remedy for every girl who has dishonored her mother. He sent His Son, Jesus, to earth. Jesus lived a perfect life, including flawless honor of His mother. Yet He received the punishment from God for our dishonoring so that we could be forgiven. If we repent and trust in Him, we can be cleansed from our sin. And we can also have hope that, by His power at work in us, we can become young women who honor their moms.
By God's grace the rewards of honor are more wonderful than the consequences of dishonor are scary. We are reminded in Ephesians 6:2-3 that the charge to honor our mother is "the first commandment with a promise, 'that it may go well with you and that you may live long in the land.'"
The secret of the good life is right here in God's Word: Honor your mom (and dad). Then it will go well with you, and you will receive the favor of God. Who would not want a long and happy life? I don't know who, in their right mind, would turn down an offer like that. Sign me up!
This column is part of an ongoing series on Mother-Daughter Conversations on Biblical Womanhood. Last month's installment: A Mother's Discipline Should Point Daughters to God's Truth.
Carolyn Mahaney is a wife, mother, homemaker, and the author of Feminine Appeal: Seven Virtues of a Godly Wife and Mother, and Girl Talk: Mother-Daughter Conversations on Biblical Womanhood. During her more than 30 years as a pastor's wife, Carolyn has spoken to women in many churches and conferences, including those of Sovereign Grace Ministries, which her husband, C.J., leads. C.J. and Carolyn have three married daughters and one twelve-year-old son, Chad.
Nicole Mahaney Whitacre is the oldest daughter of C.J. and Carolyn Mahaney, as well as a wife, mother, and homemaker. She assisted her mother with Feminine Appeal, and is the co-author of Girl Talk. Nicole and her husband, Steve, have one son, Jack.
Carolyn and her three daughters keep a weblog for women in all seasons of life, also entitled "Girl Talk."
This column was adapted for Crosswalk from Girl Talk: Mother-Daughter Conversations on Biblical Womanhood (Crossway 2005) by Carolyn Mahaney and Nicole Mahaney Whitacre © 2005 (Used by permission of Crossway Books, a division of Good News Publishers, Wheaton, IL 60187, http://www.gnpcb.org.)


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The Logic of Occupy Wall Street for Canada
The Occupy Wall Street Movement and the Occupy Together movements that are inspired by it actually have a simple premise: society shouldn't be run for the unrestricted benefit of the wealthiest. The immediate grievance is the 2008 banking crisis, in which the U.S. banks engaged in fraudulent and criminal activity and were subsequently rewarded for doing so with trillions in government funds, while their victims reaped evictions and foreclosures.
Canada did not have a crisis of the same severity, for a few reasons. Canada has a different banking system with a differently-regulated mortgage authority (although there are important similarities in the way the government takes risks and the private banks profit, and the Canadian system is far from invulnerable to crisis). The government is in the mortgage-backed securities business, but not in the totally unregulated way that the business ran in the United States. Social democratic politics are a little bit stronger in Canada than in the USA. Because the Conservatives were in a minority government at the time, the other parties were able to wring a stimulus out of the federal government that blunted the recession (the Bank of Canada also provided emergency funds and lowered interest rates to help the banks). But the overall problem, and direction of society, is the same, and the Occupy Together movement should find fertile ground in Canada.
Who Are the 1 Per Cent?
The slogan of Occupy Wall Street is "We are the 99%." So, who are the 1 per cent in Canada? A 2010 report by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (CCPA) by Armine Yalnizyan documents "The Rise of Canada's Richest 1%." There are 246,000 of them and their average income is $403,000. They hold 13.8 per cent of incomes, and pay some of the lowest taxes that the top 1 per cent have ever paid, historically.
To look within this 1 per cent (at a tiny fraction of it, 0.0002 per cent) economist Jim Stanford pulled some figures about Canadian billionaires from Canadian Business magazine for the Progressive Economics Forum. There are 61 Canadian billionaires, with a combined wealth of $162-billion (5 times the size of the federal government's budget deficit). This is 6 per cent of all personal net worth in Canada – they own twice as much wealth as the bottom 17 million Canadians. Their wealth increased by 8.4 per cent last year (while average hourly earnings in Canada grew by 2.5 per cent). On average, they added $100-million per household, while the average household added $524.
Through a few historical accidents, Canada has been spared the most spectacular aspects of the U.S. financial crisis, but it is hard to dispute that Canadian society is organized to benefit private corporations, and especially finance. The economics of this favouritism has been documented extremely well over the years by the CCPA. A 2010 report by the CCPA's Toby Sanger, for example, shows how the financial sector has had a 23 per cent profit margin during the past decade, compared to 7 per cent for non-financial industries. Sanger quotes "a leading bank analyst" who estimates that Canada's top banks will have $40-billion in excess cash by the end of 2012, the sum of all federal and provincial deficits projected for 2012-13. Corporate income rates have been cut from an average of 42.6 per cent in 2000 to 28 per cent by 2011, with more tax cuts coming. The tax cuts in this sector, and the tax havens for the fraction of the 1 per cent, have helped bring about the revenue shortages that are then called "deficit crises," which governments then use as pretexts for austerity budgets.
Extremes of Inequality
In a society based on layers of inequality, the 99 per cent is itself differentiated. Another 2010 CCPA report by Daniel Wilson and David McDonald reveals one of these inequalities. The median income for Canadians in 2006 was $27,097; for aboriginal peoples, $18,962, or 30 per cent lower. Scholar Grace-Edward Galabuzi has documented social exclusion based on race and gender.1 And a recent report by the Conference Board of Canada shows that income inequality in Canada is growing faster even than in the United States.2 All of these inequalities are within the 99 per cent, which highlights the need for a more equal society in general. The extremes of inequality are glaring, but these grinding inequalities are no picnic either.
One comparison, made frequently in the media, that seems to drive progressives crazy is the one between Occupy Wall Street and the Tea Party movement, which is based on the magical idea that society should be able to afford things (from roads to wars) without paying taxes. When Tea Party politics got to Canada they helped elect Toronto's current mayor and helped give the Conservatives a boost to a majority government.3 The Occupy Wall Street movement's arrival in Canada could help discredit the austerity that the Conservative government will be putting forward in their next budget, and could help in resisting their plans to deepen inequalities and destroy what economic, social, and environmental fabric is left. •
- Grace-Edward Galabuzi. Canada's Economic Apartheid: The Social Exclusion of Racialized Groups in the New Century. Toronto: Canadian Scholars' Press, 2006.
- Tavia Grant, "Income inequality rising quickly in Canada," The Globe and Mail, September 13, 2011.
- I don't want to exaggerate this – Canada has always had these politics and there are "home-grown" explanations for these electoral results.


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Karolina was born on March 12, 1864 in house #21 in the village of Podborze in southern Poland.
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Karolina was her mother's first child. Marianna was 22 years old when she married Jan and 24 when she gave birth to Karolina. Can you imagine taking on the raising of 6 children at such a young age? I can't help but wonder how much or little attention Karolina would have gotten from her young mother and 5 step siblings. It must have been an extremely stressful situation... especially considering they would have probably been living in a 1 or 2 room thatched-roof hut with no electricity or running water. And things would soon get even more stressful...
Jan Furman, Karolina's father, died of inflammation of the lungs just 10 months after her birth. So Karolina never knew her father, and this left her mother in quite a difficult situation. Marianna didn't have the option of going out to work and leaving the children in daycare. Back in those days it was unheard of for a woman to work outside the home, not that there would have been any jobs available to her in the little village where she lived.
Marianna Lesniowski Furman remarried on October 3, 1865 when Karolina was about 18 months old. Her new husband, Jozef Kolisz, was about 10 years her senior but he had no children. So Karolina had a new daddy and it wasn't long before she had more new step siblings too.
When Karolina was 3 her step sister Agnieszka was born. Another sister, Appolonia, was born when she was 8 but she only lived for 4 months. And Karolina's mother gave birth for the last time when she was 13 but that child died the same day she was born. Her step father died in 1878 (when she was 14) and her mother never remarried.
There is one other thing of note regarding Karolina's birth and her place in the world. Karolina was born just 10 days after serfdom was officially abolished in Poland. She was the first child in her family, and for many generations before her, who was born free. I'm not sure how and how often political information was disseminated in the little villages of Poland in the 1800s. Were her parents even aware serfdom had ended when she was born? Was there a newspaper printed and distributed from a nearby town? I have no idea. Would Karolina's parents have been able to read it if one were? Doubtful. One of the many disadvantages of being of the peasant class was that formal education was generally not available and in some areas prohibited.
Serfdom is the socio-economic status of unfree peasantsunder feudalism, and specifically relates to Manorialism. It was a condition of bondage or modified slavery which developed primarily during the High Middle Ages in Europe. Serfdom was the enforced labour of serfs on the fields of landowners, in return for protection and the right to work on their leased fields. [Wikipedia](Continued) Karolina Furman's Family Life


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It doesn't look like the British Invasion is slowing down anytime soon, and we're more than okay with that! This week's crush is all about the music because we cannot stop hitting replay on the Union J "Beautiful Life" music video! The four hotties are literally everything you need in a boy band—they're hot, have great hair, amazing bods, and most importantly, adorable accents! Yeah, watch out One D is right!
Union J has been moving up on everyone's radar ever since their stunt on the UK's X-Factor, and their stock has seriously risen in the U.S. after the guys spent their summer opening for a particular pop singer we also happen to love, Selena Gomez. Now Jcats are awating the new release of the band's new album Union J that drops Oct 28th!
Union J just ranked on our top boy bands list and if George, Josh, JJ, and Jaymi keep up the cuteness (come on, even their names are adorbs!), they won't be going anywhere but up. That's why, this week we've got four times the hotness and four times the crushes on one super hot Brit boy band.
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Stroudsburg police officers started 1927 with arrests
Every New Year's Day, my father used to tell a story about a friend of his father, who was arrested on Jan. 1, 1927, near Stroudsburg for not changing his car's license plate to reflect the new year. Dad is gone now, but his children thought it would be fun to prove or disprove the story. Does the newspaper have a record of the arrest?
A.M., Worchester, Mass.
Yes, a published report about the arrest appeared in The Morning Press, a local newspaper of the time, on Jan. 3, 1927, and it reveals that your father's story may be true.
According to the reporter, a number of motorists were arrested for driving with expired license plates during the first two days of the new year in 1927. The news of the arrests made the front page of the newspaper:
"Many of the careless motorists were taught a lesson by the motor patrol on Saturday and Sunday driving with the 1926 license tags on instead of the 1927 tags.
"The patrolmen were out early in the morning looking for the violators and from all reports they caught quite a number of those who disregarded the signs which had been posted in conspicuous places all over the state. The fine for this offense is ten dollars and costs. The local squires will keep busy today hearing the cases which will come before them."
Those arrested locally were: J.D. Snyder of Sciota, John L. Smith of Gilbert, Joseph Woodring Jr. of Easton, Harold Detrick of East Stroudsburg, Edward Wolfson of East Stroudsburg and Edward J. Meehan of Taylor.
While cleaning out our late grandmother's home, we found an old black stove in the cellar. On the front of the stove is the script Canopy Range.
One of the family members recalled that Grandma had said that the stove had been in her parents' house in the Poconos.
Can you tell us anything about the range?
J.B., Hazelton, N.J.
Canopy Ranges — "For the Woman Who Cares" — were sold around the early to mid-1900s. Advertisements published in 1913 Monroe Record newspapers revealed the time period.
Sold at Van Etten's — The Stove Store at 585 Main St., Stroudsburg, the ranges were "made of plain smooth castings that were easy to clean and blacken, and being made of down-to-date construction, they (were) economical," according to the advertisement.
The longevity of the range, similar to your grandmother's stove, is documented in a 1966 classified ad in The Pocono Record. An "old black Van Etten cook stove made in Stbg., Pa." was to be sold during a public auction.
Could you print the address of actor Josh Brolin and for actress Helen Mirren?
H.S., Stroudsburg
Write to Josh Brolin, who played a young Agent K in the science-fiction film "Men in Black 3," at ID Public Relations, 7060 Hollywood Blvd., 8th Floor, Los Angeles, CA 90028.
Send your fan mail to English actress Helen Mirren at 2003 La Brea Terrace, Los Angeles, CA 90046. If you receive no response, try sending your letter to Ken McReddie Associates, 101 Finsbury Pavement, London EC2A 1RS.
For previous questions and answers, see poconorecord.com/consumer. Published questions are limited by space available.
Send questions to Write to Know, Pocono Record, 511 Lenox St., Stroudsburg, PA 18360.
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ElectroSmog Festival: Urban Wilderness Action Center
The Urban Wilderness Action Center (UWAC) is a project initiated by Eyebeam alum Jon Cohrs, in collaboration with the Eyebeam Student Residents, Eyebeam education coordinator Stephanie Pereira, and UK-based artist Kai-Oi Jay Yung. The UWAC project includes a web platform uwac.anewfuckingwilderness.com and a day of action where people from NYC, Berlin, Amsterdam and London will design and disseminate projects around the theme of "urban wilderness."
UWAC DAY is Saturday, March 20. Each of four lead cities will host a day of free artist-led interventions that respond to urban wilderness. We will document the day through a live Twitter, Flickr, and video feed streamed through the UWAC website.
• Live video chat with Berlin, London, and NYC: 1PM EST / 5PM GMT / 6PM GMT
• Live video chat with Amsterdam, Berlin, NYC: 4PM EST / 9PM CET
• Ongoing live Twitter, Flickr and Ustream feed from each project site on the UWAC website.
Join us at Eyebeam for a series of FREE and open to the public events:
- Eyebeam Student Residents Caroline Spivack, Jade Highleyman, Luther Cherry, Spencer Brown, and Zoe Penina Baker are working with artists Doris Cacoilo and Sonali Sridhar and gardener / window farmer Maya Nayak to workshop a guerrilla gardening andventure. Participants on UWAC Day will craft and distribute their own plant-based urban intervention.
- Tattfoo Tan (artist) will be onsite at Eyebeam collecting pledges for environmental stewardship, and teaching people the basics of urban friendly, worm-based composting. Free worms!
- Matthew Slaats (artist) will be at Eyebeam signing up participants to join Freespace, an initiative which will be made up of are forgotten spaces, private spaces, lost spaces. People are invited to go out and find and reclaim a space, or donate a space they control in some way for a period of time.
- Boswyck Farms will be demonstrating hydroponic systems, and introducing their new Mobile Guerrilla Kitchen
- Liz Neves (healthy home consultant) will invite participants to re-establish wilderness in NYC by recreating a lost world where beavers dammed and turtles swam in flowing streams, and foxes frollicked under towering trees.
- Safari 7 will invite participants to embark on a self-guided tour of urban wildlife along the No. 7 Subway line. Listen in, grab a map, and go!
- Jay Weichun (filmmaker/artist) will be onsite from 2-6PM making flower bombs. Using a simple mixture of regional wildflower seeds, soil and clay, flower bombs are a fun way to spread color and life to places of neglect. Participants are invited to make their own flower bombs and form their own flower bombing collectives!
2–6PM CET, Berlin:
Myriel Milicevic + Jon Cohrs are organizing the Berlin Micro-Turf Expedition. With a team of self-defined experts they will survey parking lot ecosystems, abandoned infrastructures, trade routes, and micro habitats of Berlin by dissecting the fringe-ecologies within the city. The expedition will report back live with its band of specialists who will setup up camp in several different areas in Berlin. Using a methodology that analyzes ecological succession the expedition will collect samples, map wildlife, illustrate the topography, detect seismographic data, and observe the micro-climates to create scientific models of future urban habitats.
3–6PM GMT, London:
Everbloom Pocket City Pollination: Kai-Oi Jay Yung organises Everbloom Pocket City Pollination, a day of urban wilderness activity between 3-6pm, Saturday, March 20 across North and East London. Everbloom will unify rogue concrete cultivation experts and integrated social gardeners in synchronised urban wilderness activity across Harringay to Shoreditch. Private and public action will share skills and deploy guerrilla tactics across multiple sites and activities; from inner city housing, parking lot and religious grounds to council endorsed Memorial site. Actions involve a chance to share skills, meet fellow green belts or beginners and undertake some clandestine activity; from edible wild flower patchwork exchange, vegetable balcony advisory, pumpkin planting and mistreated yard clear up to a geo-map seed bombing walk.
There are two public urban wilderness events to get involved in on the day, with Tim Osborn at Furtherfield, and dispersal of the latest seed vegetable capsule technology in an exploratory walk across Shoreditch. This is a chance to join forces, bring some seeds and experiment in subversive gardening tactics to cultivate our forgotten, unlikely concrete settings for a healthier, self-regenerating city garden
Everbloom resists inertia of urban environment beyond risk of getting arrested and into walk to work. Yung serves cohesive mulch, pollinating communication between the loci events to generate and configure process, stimulating healing landscape.
Pocket City Pollinators include: Stoke Newington Transition Group, Friends Of Arnold Circus, The New Hanbury Project, Tim Osborn, Vanessa Harden and Sam Varney. Participants include: local residents, recovering addicts, university students and passers by.
Public Events: Take Part in Two Events Across London
Urban Wilderness activity
Time: 3:00-5:00pm
Place: Furtherfield.org
HTTP:// Gallery, Unit A2, Arena Business Centre, 71 Ashfield Rd, London N4 1NY
Bring your seeds and your tools: nurturing the sites of a mud strip in a nearby public car park and the overgrown Furtherfield.org's rubbish strewn back garden…
Seed Capsule Bombing Walk
TIME: 5:30pm Meeting point at Hoxton Square Fountain, walk till 6:30pm, Shoreditch, N1 6PB
Capsules will be provided but welcome to bring along some seeds
Other events across London:
- Stoke Newington Transition Group will demonstrate seed planting techniques, seed bombing skills, and balcony gardening wisdom.
- Friends of Arnold Circus will team up with the local Bengali community for a day of gardening around Arnold Circus
- New Hanbury Project will work with Sean the Gardener along with some very special East London students to revitalize the garden of a Shared Housing Project in Buxton St, E1
9PM CET, Amsterdam:
Urban Wilderness Amsterdam: ElectroSmog goes Schijnheilig. Amsterdam, a city once known as a happening place, is suffering from the bureaucratic drive to over regulate. In the nineties, an abundance of underground initiatives marked Amsterdam as a home of spontaneity and experimentation. Squatted cultural centers lined the waterfront, free radio stations populated the air waves. Due to sparked up property prices and an ever growing political pressure to formalize everything and anything, Amsterdam underground culture has dissipated. Instead of the metropolis it claims to be, it has become the village we all know it to be. Where one has little chance of running into the unexpected.
As a necessary antidote, the closing event of the Amsterdam Electrosmog festival will take place in the squatted gallery Schijnheilig. There will be lectures on branding and public space, streamed guerilla gardening actions from around New York, London and Berlin, performances, ex-pirateers of radio 100 behind turntables, and much much more. Come along and play!
UWAC has been conceived of as part of ElectroSmog, a new, three-day, international festival that will introduce and explore of concept of "Sustainable Immobility": a critique of current systems of hyper mobility of people and products in travel and transport, and their ecological unsustainability.
As part of this festival, Eyebeam has also organized a skillshare on Tools and Models for Online Collaboration, led by Eyebeam fellows and residents.


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Bang-a-lore has always provided a bang for my lore. This is one city which never ceases to shock me. Today I pick up the paper (Bang-a-lore Mirror) and what do I see? No, it is not in Kannada and that wouldn't have shocked me because it is rumoured that all programmers from Bangalore must code in Jave which is the Kannada version of Java. I saw a Bihari programmer being beaten up because he wrote "import java.lang.*" instead of "import java.lang.kannada". Biharis seem to be manufactured to be beaten up.
So back to the BM: The front page carried the headlines "VAIKUNTA SAMARADHANE ON JULY 6". For those who aren't familiar with ceremonies, Vaikunta Samaradhane is the Kannada tourism package for a 11 day trip from Samarra to Vaikunta. This ceremony is planned for the great and late Michael Jackson. Man, I am going to miss him. Once he was all of Western pop music to me. To think his was the second song I sang on stage when I was 7 or 8 (the first being La-Isla Bonita). May the Gods keep his soul well and happy.
Back to BM again: The amazing Kannadigas plan to conduct the 13th day ceremony for MJ. For once they seemed to wake up in time but I wonder what's the point! Technically it would be a flawed thing to do and even if not technically inclined the man probably doesn't want to go to Vaikunta (he wouldn't want to do the twirl and toe stand or moonwalk on the ocean of milk in front of the reclining Lord).
Bangaloreans (and maybe not all of Karnataka) are quite a clueless bunch. Be it in food, sense of patriotism, current affairs or anything else, they are rather slow and hence, late. Let's study the psychological inclination (their incline is usually zero degrees).
I recall when Saddam H died and Indians said he would go to Vaikunta because it was Vaikunta Ekadasi. Point is, he didn't want to. He was Muslim. I don't know where that was missed on all the tour plans. I am sure Vishnu wouldn't have a hassle (though if the signboard on the gates was "Maam Ekam Sharanam Vraja" then we might have a problem). Bangalore woke up after 11 to 13 days and there were riots. An autorikshaw was burned (as an offering to appease the Gods and allow S H into devaloka) for sure (I saw it happen and had to tell my driver to rush from the spot and not peep outside the window!). All this after most of the newspapers had stopped running articles about him.
Several years ago when BSNL had the notion of quarter, half and full rate for STD calls, I was in Bangalore visiting my cousins. I had to call my mom (who wasn't travelling with us) and decided to utilise the half rate (quarter rates require Bombay-like business drive) slot. Bangaloreans had mistaken half rate to mean the amount for which they can sleep and usually woke up by the end of that slot. Not a single shop would be open and I was told that they would open only by 10:00 hrs only to be shut for lunch and then opened again till they closed for sunset (which would have happened whether they closed or not)!! Being a Mumbaikar I would travel late but Bangalore buses (I was told) then shut service around 20:00 hrs! That is when I learnt that Bangaloreans were probably awake for the same number of hours that we folks slept and that was structured around their meals!
Some people blame this relentless lethargy on the climate, some on the Kannada script and most others on the way Bangalore is spelt (hence, the urgent move to spell it differently: Bang-a-loo-roo). I blame it on their sugar levels. Once upon a time, when God (or Chacha Nehru) was chiselling out India from a block of land, he decided to do draw Karnataka. He figured that these people are least likely to be creative as far as food goes, so he placed them in the midst of states which had their own cuisines (and far from the states which didn't want any damage done to their sarson ka saag and makki di roti). Then he gave them bags of sugar. Karnataka dishes are predominantly other state dishes with a scary amount of jaggery or sugar. It is like they are all half-blind and confuse sugar for salt or crushed jaggery for chilli powder (colour blind). They think they are being creative: Let's take an idly and do something with it… hmmm… let's add sugar. Let's take a bonda and do something with it… hmmm… let's call it Mysore bonda. And then they get confused with similar looking liquids: sambhar, kozhambu and rasam are all the same to them and true blue Kannadigas mix soup into their rice because, you guessed it, it is a brown liquid too. And then they create their own flavour by adding jaggery to it. So picture Kannadigas looking over their shoulder into your dubba and taking home your dish only to bring back the same thing the next day with sugar or jaggery in it calling it their own huli or gojju or saaru. Everything which is not a gojju is a huli until you dilute it and then it becomes a saaru. That is why Kannadigas never have Bengali friends. What more can you do to a rosagulla!?
Everything Bangalorean is Namma (if you are in Bangalore) and everything that is not work is a habba. Everything that is too much for you is sakath and if you are Kannadiga too, then you are maga. You can combine them in various forms and you know enough Kannada. Namma sakath habba, maga. Namma sakath maga. Maga, namma habba. Or the radio repeat: Sakath hot maga! It goes on. Another simple way to manage with Kannadigas is adding a "maadi" at the end of every English sentence. Sounds very Kannada to a lot of people.
Why do you need to learn Kannada? Because many people out here speak just that. Buses carry information in Kannada and all of them go to a place which resembles a poorly untangled jalebi. Karnataka ministers are striving hard to make everything Kannada. All government office forms are in Kannada so you basically have no clue whether you signed on your own certificate of death or marriage certificate (but does it matter?).
Then we are left with the urge to be a part of everything: software, gay parades, software, beauty pageants, software, traffic congestion, software, pub culture, software, flooded roads because someone emptied a bucket of water, software, rising hemlines, software (no, no, not related to the rising hemlines), world cup matches, software, rock concerts, software and the IT industry. The movie industry is ultra-sad with all actresses top heavy and actors top-light.
In summary, if you can "swalpa adjust maadi" then it is a fun place as long as you are not Bang-a-lored! No, lored is not a person.


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20 CFR § 416.1806 - Whether you are married and who is your spouse.
(a) We will consider someone to be your spouse (and therefore consider you to be married) for SSI purposes if -
(1) You are legally married under the laws of the State where your and his or her permanent home is (or was when you lived together);
(2) We have decided that either of you is entitled to husband's or wife's Social Security insurance benefits as the spouse of the other (this decision will not affect your SSI benefits for any month before it is made); or
(3) You and an unrelated person of the opposite sex are living together in the same household at or after the time you apply for SSI benefits, and you both lead people to believe that you are husband and wife.
(b) if more than one person would qualify as your husband or wife under paragraph (a) of this section, we will consider the person you are presently living with to be your spouse for SSI purposes.


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The most important feature in this new version is the pivot table. You can select 2 columns and generate a pivot table for the data in these columns. Here is an example with data from a new tool I'm working on:
FYI: this shows which root certificates are present in the AuthentiCode signatures using MD5 or SHA1.
Here's a list of changes:
- Quick fix for empty field bugs reported by Troy Larson
- Replaced Copy button in Values form with Copy Values and Copy All
- Added hide doubles column command
- Added Hide column; row counter & timer
- Added Load from clipboard (paste)
- Added Generate…
- Added "Has header row" option, code for version 0.7.3 provided by Patrick Thomas
InteractiveSieve_V_0_7_6_0.zip (https)


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Today's Savannah Guthrie Is Engaged
Wedding bells will soon be ringing at the Today show: Co-anchor Savannah Guthrie got engaged to her longtime boyfriend, Mike Feldman, over the weekend.
Feldman proposed to Guthrie while the two were on vacation in Turks and Caicos. "It didn't dawn on me he was actually asking," Guthrie told Today's fourth-hour hosts,Kathie Lee Gifford and Hoda Kotb, on Monday. "He got on one knee and I still thought we were just talking."
See more celebrity engagements
During the broadcast, Guthrie got a very special congratulations from none other than Bradley Cooper, who was on set to promote The Hangover III and presented Guthrie with a dozen red roses.
"Wait a minute, you just had your ring on a second ago," Guthrie's colleague, Matt Lauer, quipped as she accepted the bouquet with a bare hand.
NBC Upfront: New fall schedule and more
No specific date has been set, but the wedding will take place "as soon as possible," Feldman told NBC.
Watch Guthrie's announcement and Cooper presenting her with roses below.
Visit NBCNews.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy
View original Today's Savannah Guthrie Is Engaged at TVGuide.com
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Story by
James Glick
James is a London based technology blogger and writer for The Next Web Network. Working for UK online advertising agency 20:20 Media and An James is a London based technology blogger and writer for The Next Web Network. Working for UK online advertising agency 20:20 Media and Analytics, James has a strong passion for start ups, social media, apps and the web community. He can be found writing for his personal, company and of course TNW UK blogs. Follow him via Twitter and Facebook.
BBC's iPlayer has been a great success since launching in July 2007, with an assured, well designed and functional product that has breathed innovation across the on demand media industry.
CXO, the business news site, met with the BBC's Chief Technology Officer, John Linwood to find out more about the man behind the success and included a great info graphic depicting the sites traffic statistics since launch that you can see in full below.
The Question Time episode with BNP leader Nick Griffin topped the episode view charts with 928,000 requests.
85% of program visits are from computers which prompts the question of whether and how the BBC will develop mobile access further. At current there are optimised versions of the site for mobile devices like the iPhone, though in that case a WiFi connection is required which in turn restricts access.
It's now available on 15 platforms and transfers 12.5gb worth of data per second and speaking to CXO, Linwood describes the obstacles that the popularity of the service can produce.
"One of the challenges we share with many other suppliers on the internet is that our user demand on the systems changes. For instance, if we have a very popular show on iPlayer and we get a huge speak in demand," Linwood said.
"One example that is keeping me awake at night is the 2012 Olympics. We know that people will be accessing it from their PCs or their phones because it will be on in the daytime so the BBC is going to have to build up a huge amount of infrastructure to support that."
The service has come under fire from ISPs due to the sheer amount bandwidth it uses and is a potential reason why the BBC have been held back in their efforts to increase mobile use, with 3G networks already struggling as it is.
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Wheels of misfortune turning
The problem of America's congested roads has long been simple: too many tires vying for a fixed amount of pavement. But with a growing bicycle culture joining the car culture, the difficulties have expanded greatly. The conveyances now travel at very different speeds, follow different rules of the road and expose their operators to vastly different levels of physical vulnerability.
Let me start with a disclaimer: I am no fan of the car culture. I use buses, trains and my feet, as well as my car. And I'm a fair-weather bicyclist who sticks to routes with little traffic.
But the rise in all-conditions, all-traffic bike commuting is causing considerable anxiety and injury or worse — and for all concerned. Here's a real-life example:
I'm driving at night on a city street with two narrow car lanes. This is a college neighborhood in which students habitually emerge from between parked cars, wearing earbuds and dressed in black.
As I scrutinize the shadows for darting students, a bicyclist materializes on my right. She passes me in the tiny space between my Honda and the parked cars, offering a high sign. I give her a high sign back out of friendliness but also out of relief that I hadn't veered 3 inches to my right and done her terrible damage.
The cyclist was clearly operating under a set of dangerous assumptions: That I had eyes on the back of my head possessing superhuman powers of peripheral vision. That the extra eyes were wearing infrared goggles able to detect bodies in the dark. That I was not intoxicated or texting or otherwise distracted.
Different dynamics govern bicycle-pedestrian interaction. Amateur cyclists traumatized by motorized traffic often try to share the sidewalks with pedestrians. But when the coast is clear on the road, they whiz through crosswalks, frightening those on foot.
My father was hit by a bicycle going the wrong way down a one-way street. He had looked before crossing, but not in the direction from which no traffic is supposed to come. He ended up in the hospital.
Meanwhile, tragedies befalling bicyclists are legion. In San Francisco, a 24-year-old riding in a bike lane was killed when a truck made a right turn into her. It is really hard for a trucker to see a silent low vehicle coming along the right. When the driver was not cited, controversy ensued.
My sister commutes by bike in Boston and offers accounts of death and near death. A friend died after his bike slipped on the snow and fell under a truck. In this case, no one was really at fault. The story sharply curbed my interest in bike commuting, however, though not my sister's.
You be the judge. I'm driving at rush hour on a busy four-lane with no shoulders at the sides. We're going uphill, and there's a slow-moving bicycle taking up the right lane. Actually, he was doing great, considering the demands of pedaling up a steep slope, but he did slow traffic behind him to 12 miles an hour. Because the hill was long, drivers knew they were in for an extended crawl unless they veered one lane left into the stampeding traffic.
Now, the cyclist has a legal right to be on the road. But he is creating a traffic jam and raising blood pressure all around him.
How does one factor in all the factors? You want to encourage biking, but there really has to be separation from motorized vehicles and pedestrians.
Of course, bicyclists should honor the laws of the road. Harder to enforce, though, are the laws of common sense.
Follow Froma Harrop on Twitter @FromaHarrop.


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Female athletes commit to colleges. Next stop: 9th grade
New York Times Syndicate
Sanford, Fla. Before Haley Berg was done with middle school, she had the numbers for 16 college soccer coaches programmed into the iPhone she protected with a Justin Bieber case.
She was all of 14, but Haley was already weighing offers to attend the University of Colorado, Texas A&M and the University of Texas, free of charge.
Haley is not a once-in-a-generation talent like LeBron James. She just happens to be a very good soccer player, and that is now valuable enough to set off a frenzy among college coaches, even when or especially when the athlete in question has not attended a day of high school. For Haley, the process ended last summer, a few weeks before ninth grade began, when she called the coach at Texas to accept her offer of a scholarship four years later.
When I started in seventh grade, I didnt think they would talk to me that early, Haley, now 15, said after a tournament late last month in Central Florida, where Texas coaches showed up to watch the her juke past defenders, blond ponytail bouncing behind.
Even the coaches told me, Wow, were recruiting an eighth-grader, she said.
In todays sports world, students are offered full scholarships before they have taken their first College Boards, or even the Preliminary SAT exams. Coaches at colleges large and small flock to watch 13- and 14-year-old girls who they hope will fill out their future rosters. This is happening despite NCAA rules that appear to prohibit it.
The heated race to recruit ever younger players has drastically accelerated during the last five years, according to the coaches involved. It is generally traced back to the professionalization of college and youth sports, a shift that has transformed soccer and other recreational sports from after-school activities into regimens requiring strength coaches and managers.
The practice has attracted little public notice, except when it has occasionally happened in football and basketball. But a review of recruiting data and interviews with coaches indicate that it is actually occurring much more frequently in sports that never make a dime for their colleges.
Early scouting has also become more prevalent in womens sports than mens, in part because girls mature sooner than boys. But coaches say it is also an unintended consequence of Title IX, the federal law that requires equal spending on mens and womens sports. Colleges have sharply increased the number of womens sports scholarships they offer, leading to a growing number of coaches chasing talent pools that have not expanded as quickly. In soccer, for instance, there are 322 womens soccer teams in the highest division, up from 82 in 1990. There are now 204 mens soccer teams.
In womens soccer, there are more scholarships than there are good players, said Peter Albright, the coach at Richmond and a regular critic of early recruiting. In mens sports, its the opposite.
While womens soccer is generally viewed as having led the way in early recruiting, lacrosse, volleyball and field hockey have been following and occasionally surpassing it, and other womens and mens sports are becoming involved each year when coaches realize a possibility to get an edge.
Precise numbers are difficult to come by, but an analysis done for The New York Times by the National Collegiate Scouting Association, a company that consults with families on the recruiting process, shows that while only 5 percent of mens basketball players and 4 percent of football players who use the company commit to colleges early before the official recruiting process begins the numbers are 36 percent in womens lacrosse and 24 percent in womens soccer.
At universities with elite teams like North Carolina and Texas, the rosters are almost entirely filled by the time official recruiting begins.
While the fierce competition for good female players encourages the pursuit of younger recruits, mens soccer has retained a comparably relaxed rhythm only 8 percent of NCSAs male soccer athletes commit early.
For both girls and boys, the trend is gaining steam despite the unhappiness of many of the coaches and parents who are most heavily involved, many of whom worry about the psychological and physical toll it is taking on youngsters.
Its detrimental to the whole development of the sport, and to the girls, Haleys future coach at Texas, Angela Kelly, said at the Florida tournament.
The difficulty, according to Kelly and many other coaches, is that if they do not do it, other coaches will, and will snap up all of the best players. Many parents and girls say that committing early ensures they do not out miss out on scholarship money.
After the weekend in Florida, the coach at Virginia, Steve Swanson, said, To me, its the singular biggest problem in college athletics.
The NCAA rules designed to prevent all of this indicate that coaches cannot call players until July after their junior year of high school. Players are not supposed to commit to a college until signing a letter of intent in the spring of their senior year.
But these rules have enormous and widely understood loopholes. The easiest way for coaches to circumvent the rules is by contacting the students through their high school or club coaches. Once the students are alerted, they can reach out to the college coaches themselves with few limits on what they can talk about or how often they can call.
Haley said she was having phone conversations with college coaches nearly every night during the eighth grade.
Its Killing All of Us
The early recruiting machine was on full display during the Florida tournament, where Haley played alongside hundreds of other teenage girls at a sprawling complex of perfectly mowed fields.
A Sunday afternoon game between 14-year-olds from Texas and Ohio drew coaches from Miami, Arizona, Texas and UCLA the most recent Division I national champion. Milling among them was the most storied coach in womens soccer, Anson Dorrance of North Carolina, who wore a dark hat and sunglasses that made him look like a poker player as he scanned the field.
Dorrance, who has won 22 national championships as a coach, said he was spending his entire weekend focusing on the youngest girls at the tournament, those in the eighth and ninth grades. Dorrance is credited with being one of the first coaches to look at younger players, but he is not happy about the way the practice has evolved.
Its killing all of us, he said.
Dorrances biggest complaint is that he is increasingly making early offers to players who do not pan out years later.
If you cant make a decision on one or two looks, they go to your competitor, and they make an offer, he said. You are under this huge pressure to make a scholarship offer on their first visit.
The result has been a growing number of girls who come to play for him at North Carolina and end up sitting on the bench.
Its killing the kids that go places and dont play, he said. Its killing the schools that have all the scholarships tied up in kids who cant play at their level. Its just, well, its actually rather destructive.
The organizer of the Florida event, the Elite Clubs National League, was set up a few years ago to help bring together the best girls soccer teams from around the country, largely for the sake of recruiters. At the recent event, in an Orlando suburb, an estimated 600 college coaches attended as 158 teams played on 17 fields over the course of three days.
Scouts were given a hospitality tent as well as a special area next to the team benches, not accessible to parents, to set up their folding chairs. Nearly every youth club had a pamphlet handed out by a parent during the games with a head shot, academic records, soccer achievements and personal contact information for each player.
While the older teams, for girls in their final two years of high school, drew crowds of recruiters, they were generally from smaller and less competitive universities. Coaches from colleges vying for national championships, like Dorrance, spent most of their weekend watching the youngest age group.
Despite the rush, there is a growing desire among many coaching groups to push back. At a meeting of womens lacrosse coaches in December, nearly every group session was dedicated to complaints about how quickly the trend was moving and discussions about how it might be reversed. In 2012, the Intercollegiate Mens Lacrosse Coaches Association proposed rule changes to the NCAA to curtail early recruiting. But the NCAA declined to take them up, pointing to a moratorium on new recruiting rules. (At the same time, though, the NCAA passed new rules allowing unlimited texting and calls to basketball recruits at an earlier age.)
The most frustrating piece is that we havent been able to get any traction with the NCAA, said Dom Starsia, the mens lacrosse coach at Virginia. Theres a sense that the NCAA doesnt want to address this topic at all.
In an interview, Steve Mallonee, the managing director of academic and membership affairs for the NCAA, reiterated his organizations moratorium on new recruiting rules. He said the new rules on texting and calling were allowed because they were a presidential initiative.
Mallonee said the NCAA did not track early recruiting because it happened outside of official channels. He added that new rules trying to restrict the practice would be hard to enforce because of the unofficial nature of the commitments.
We are trying to be practical and realistic and not adopt a bunch of rules that are unenforceable and too difficult to monitor, he said.
Club Coaches in Key Role
The early recruiting system has given significant power to club coaches, who serve as gatekeepers and agents for their players.
One of the most outspoken critics of this process is Rory Dames, the coach of one of the most successful youth club teams, the Chicago Eclipse. In Florida, Dames kept a watchful eye on his players between games, at the pool at the Marriott where they were staying. As the 14- and 15-year-old girls went down the water slide, he listed the colleges that had called him to express interest in each one.
Notre Dame, North Carolina and Florida State have called about her, he said as one ninth grader barreled down the slide.
Another slid down behind her. UNC, UCLA and I cant even remember who else called me about her, he said.
Dames said that he kept a good relationship with those programs but that he generally refused to connect colleges with girls before their sophomore year in high school, when he thinks they are too young to be making decisions about what college to attend.
Some colleges, though, do not take no for an answer and try to get to his players through team managers or other parents. After one such email was forwarded to him, Dames shot back his own message to the coach: How you think this reflects positively on your university I would love to hear.
He did not hear back. Dames said that when his players wait, they find scholarship money is still available.
Most club coaches, though, are more cooperative than Dames and view it as their job to help facilitate the process, even if they think it is happening too early.
Michael ONeill, the director of coaching at one of the top clubs in New Jersey, Players Development Academy, said that he and his staff help set up phone calls so that his players do not miss out on opportunities. They also tutor the players on handling the process.
You almost have to, ONeill said. If you dont, you can get left behind.
Once the colleges manage to connect with a player, they have to deal with the prohibition on making a formal scholarship offer before a players final year of high school. But there is now a well-evolved process that is informal but considered essentially binding by all sides. Most sports have popular websites where commitments are tallied, and coaches can keep up with who is on and off the market.
Either side can make a different decision after an informal commitment, but this happens infrequently because players are expected to stop talking with coaches from other programs and can lose offers if they are spotted shopping around. For their part, coaches usually stop recruiting other players.
You play this goofy game of musical chairs, said Alfred Yen, a law professor at Boston College who has written a scholarly article on the topic and also saw it up close when his son was being recruited to play soccer. Only in this game, if you are sitting in a chair, someone can pull it out from under you.
Yen said that colleges withdrew their offers to two boys his son played with, one of whom ended up in junior college and the other at a less prestigious university. Other players who made early decisions went to colleges where they were unhappy, leading them to transfer.
The process can be particularly tricky for universities with high academic standards.
Ivy League colleges, which generally have the toughest standards for admission, generally avoid recruiting high school freshmen, but the programs do not stay out of the process altogether, according to coaches at the colleges, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the topic.
Two Ivy League coaches said they were generally able to look at players with a grade-point average above 3.7 and a score above 2,000 on the College Boards out of 2,400 much lower than the standard for nonathlete applicants. Ivy League coaches can put their recruits on a list of preferred candidates given to admissions officers, who in turn help the process along by telling coaches in the summer after an athletes junior year whether the player is likely to be admitted months before other applicants find out.
Fearing a Toll on Minds
At the Florida tournament, many players said they had given up all other recreational sports in middle school to play soccer year round.
A growing body of academic studies has suggested that this sort of specialization can take a toll on young bodies, leading to higher rates of injury.
For many parents, though, the biggest worry is the psychological pressure falling on adolescents, who are often ill-equipped to determine what they will want to study in college, and where.
These issues were evident on the last morning of the Florida event, on the sidelines of a game involving the Dallas Sting. Scott Lewis, the father of a high school sophomore, said his daughter switched to play for the Sting before this season because her old team was not helping steer the recruiting process enough. He watched scholarship offers snapped up by girls on other teams, he said.
Is it a little bit sick? Yeah, he said. You are a little young to do this, but if you dont, the other kids are going to.
A parent standing next to Lewis, Tami McKeon, said, Its caused this downward spiral for everybody. The spiral is moving much faster, she said, than when her older daughter went through the recruiting process three years ago.
McKeons younger daughter, Kyla, was one of four players on the Sting who committed to colleges last season as freshmen. Kyla spent almost 30 minutes a day writing emails to coaches and setting up phone calls. The coaches at two programs wanted to talk every week to track her progress. Throughout the year, Kyla said, she would have these little breakdowns.
"You are making this big life decision when you are a freshman in high school, she said. You know what you want in a week, but its hard to predict what youll want in four years.
Kyla said that when she told Arkansas that she was accepting its offer, she was happy about her choice, but it was as if a burden had been lifted from her.
I love just being done with it, she said.
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Dix, Dorothea Lynde, 1802–87, American social reformer, pioneer in the movement for humane treatment of the insane, b. Hampden, Maine. For many years she ran a school in Boston. In 1841 she visited a jail in East Cambridge, Mass., and was shocked at conditions there, especially the indiscriminate mixing of criminals and the insane. After inspecting other Massachusetts institutions, she wrote (1842) a famous memorandum to the state legislature. Her crusade resulted in the founding of state hospitals for the insane in many states, and her influence was felt in Canada and Europe. Dix also did notable work in penology. During the Civil War she was superintendent of women war nurses.
See H. E. Marshall, Dorothea Dix: Forgotten Samaritan (1937, repr. 1967); S. C. Beach, Daughters of the Puritans (1967); F. Tiffany, Life of Dorothea Lynde Dix (repr. 1971); D. C. Wilson, Stranger and Traveler: The Story of Dorothea Dix, American Reformer (1975); D. Gallaher, Voice for the Mad (1995).
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Honest homeless man meets man who set up fund
$150,000 raised for Glen James
The honesty of a homeless man who handed a lost, cash-filled backpack over to police has inspired more than $150,000 in donations to a fund set up in his honor, the fund's organizer said Friday.
Ethan Whittington, of Midlothian, Va., traveled to Boston this week to meet with Glen James and give him the good news of his financial windfall.
James was hailed as a hero last month after he turned in a backpack he found at a mall. It contained more than $2,000 in cash and nearly $40,000 in traveler's checks.
When Whittington, 28, read about James' honesty, he started a fund on the crowd-funding website gofundme.com. Since then, more than 6,000 donations have come in from people around the globe, raising just over $150,000 by late Friday afternoon.
Whittington said when he met James in Boston Thursday, he shook his hand and gave him a hug.
"He kept saying, 'Thank you,' " Whittington said. "You've got to continue to remind him that he is one who should be thanked, and he is the one who inspired people around the world because of his good deed."
Whittington said he and James talked about ways for James to use the money to improve his life. He said James' sister has found a lawyer who is setting up a trust fund for him. James has found an apartment and is looking into job training programs.
Whittington read about James after Boston police honored him with a special citation for turning in the backpack.
James could not be reached for comment Friday.
During a press conference at Boston police headquarters last month, James, who is in his 50s, handed out a hand-written statement saying he has been homeless since losing his job as a file clerk in a Boston courthouse in 2005. He said it would be difficult for him to hold down a job because he suffers from an inner ear disorder that causes episodes of vertigo.
He said he never considered keeping the money in the backpack.
"Even if I were desperate for money, I would not have kept even a penny," he said in the statement.
Whittington said he's been overwhelmed by the generosity of strangers who donated to the fund.
"Really, for me, it kind of restores your faith in the human race," he said. "You get to see that there are some good people out there. We can come together and accomplish something together."


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Just getting inside was the most Chinese experience I've had since returning to Australia. A broken escalator, a queue at the door, westerners turning away with a grumble when told of the wait time, a lot of Chinese people sitting around waiting for their turn to get in. The smell of chilli and frying and tea and beer on the air. Oh so good, oh so delicious. I even spoke Mandarin on my way in.
We ordered five dishes between the six of us, which actually turned out to be a perfect amount of food. One was meaty (kungpao chicken, ex-housemate V reports it was really good), the other four were straight from the 'vegetable' section of the menu: fish-fragrant eggplant, tudousi (yesssss), a mushroom + greens dish, and a dish predominately comprised of lotus root and black fungus.
The mushrooms and greens dish had a whole lot of oyster mushrooms, and those oyster mushrooms were perfect. The tudousi was tudousi (ie, potato and delicious and oily), and the fish fragrant eggplant (free of fish, if you are unfamiliar with the dish) was so good. The dish with the lotus was a refreshing change from the spice and the oil.
Service was a little hard to attract, and tea was charged $2pp which is the most I've ever paid for tea at a Chinese restaurant (though they did obey the action for 'omg more water in my teapot'). Bookings are definitely required as it was so busy. But I loved this meal. Food came out food and it was all delicious, and it only came to $17pp. I definitely look forward to returning.
Next time I'd like to order the mapo doufu (modified to have no meat), the cabbage and chilli, and the cold black fungus with chilli, which is an old favourite. I hope to eat these things in the very near future, so hit me up if you need a friend to go with!
I really love Sichuanese food. Om nom nom.
Wendy has reviewed the South Yarra location recently and said nice things about the cabbage and chilli (om nom, one of my favourite dishes)
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VATICAN CITY — As Pope Francis gears up to go to Brazil next week, a bit of Brazil showed up on his doorstep this morning.
Leandro Martins from Porto Alegre rode into the Vatican by bicycle today on a much anticipated pit stop from his planned 6,200-mile journey from Amsterdam to Asia.
As a fellow-Latin American, Leandro said he wanted to greet the new pontiff even though he knew it was a long shot.
In one of numerous letters (about 15) he wrote to Msgr. Alfred Xuereb, the pope's secretary, Leandro said, "I know it's going to sound ridiculous and you are going to laugh at me but… I really would like to meet him, OK go ahead…."
Well, if they did laugh, it worked. Leandro got a call yesterday from the monsignor saying he was welcome to come to morning Mass at the pope's residence, the Domus Sanctae Marthae, followed by a meeting with the pope.
Leandro tells the tale best in the "Vatican City" entry on his blog http://www.leandrobybike.blogspot.it/ The post also contains a slideshow of shots of the pope and the traveling "gaucho" (as he calls himself), including one of the pope visiting the bicycle parked outside.
Pointing to all the gear packed on the back of the bike, Leandro said he told the pope: "this is my house, the bed, and kitchen."
The pope also signed Leandro's flag, which is peppered with the signatures of many of the people he has been meeting on his journey. The pope wrote: "Que Dios te acompane. Francisco." (May God accompany you. Francis).


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Jan 4, 2018
This course was excellent in all aspects, including the interesting and extensive material, as well as Dr. Annemarie Zand Scholten's brilliant lectures that help students digest and enjoy the content.
Nov 15, 2020
Excellent course! Well narrated, even entertaining, VERY well structured, with supporting material, and a great mix of theory and examples or discussions. Perhaps the best MOOC I've ever encountered.
By Ludmila S•
Aug 30, 2017
I work in Scientific Research field, were I use this knowledge every day and I know all the given information, just need a course certificate.
So my experience:
This course is truly well organized, it is full of information and has everything you should know about the topic. I loved funny examples, which are used continuously through the course and help to understand material very well.
However, I had an unpleasant experience with assignments (so it is not a problem to receive knowledge, but problem to receive a certificate). The first problem is time. Assignments are extreme time consuming. They basically consist of scientific articles peer reviews. For example, it said, that you should spend 2 hours on this task. However, to review 1 article you need to read it at least 2 times, then think, then take notes, then read again. And if you don`t know all the material and criteria – you need to go and watch or read lecture material again and then read the article one more time. I knew all the review criteria, I do it on my work, so I did not need to read lecture material more than 1 time, but I spent about 10 hours to complete 1 assignment (and you need to do 6 of them).
Next problem with assignments – I found my work (my assignment) to be stolen for 2 times!!!! It is a very hard and time-consuming work and I was terrified to find my work copy pasted by other student! This is a nightmare for a person, who worked so hard! So now I also need to worry about receiving bad grades from students, who will find 2 similar works.
And this article review is a very hard task if you don`t have any experience, so I found other students like 70% failing this task. This is not like me judging too strictly - students just can not fulfil all the requirements. Like they write only 2 points instead of 10. Maybe this is the cause why they still my work?
About peer reviewing – this is not my first course on Coursera and I know, that 5 peer reviews to complete the assignment is a lot (usually 3 is enough). The course is not very popular so I am already waiting about month to be able to review 5 assignments from other students. When I go in to review I receive the note – sorry, no works available right now. I am not sure if I will finish this course with such course organization ☹.
So I am not really happy with the course assignments and not sure if I will be able to receive the certificate, but I would recommend it to person, who seeks for knowledge not for certificate.
AND the last assignment is simply horror! I see it for a first time in my experience on Coursera!! You have only 1 attempt in a MONTH! and 30 difficult questions about actual research. If you don`t pass it - you can retake it only after a month, basically, when you have forgotten the half of material! And bonus - you will not see your mistakes as you usually do on Coursera so no cheating and coping your answers is possible.
By Arnau G•
Jun 26, 2018
The quality of the course is great. No objections. But the structure of it made the experience a bit awful for me. I have a job, sometimes I have to travel and I did this course on my free time in order to keep improving and developing my career. So I studied and took the exams gladly. But the surprise came when I realized there were weekly assignments... which had to be corrected by other students every single week. This made the course very unpleasant, because every single week I had to do this assignments and if I were to miss one of it (because I was abroad), then there was no way to pass this course anymore... on that period. I had to change the dates again... and pay more because I took more time to do it. I do not understand this practice, but it makes the experience very enslaving and kills the perks of the MOOC. This is not what MOOCs are for. Otherwise I would go to a university and do the course there. Of course, my mistake was not to confirm it before. And I decided to give it a try nonetheless. But the final result is very negative. So despite the quality of the course, the exams (I enjoyed them! They are very practical) and the superb English of the teacher, I had to rate this course badly. Because every single time I had to do the homework it was a constant struggle to keep on doing it and I was really close to quit it. Because I insist, I did not enjoy it because of its structure and particularly because of the damn weekly assignments that had to be corrected by the students every single week. This is why, unfortunately, I will rate it this way: 2/5. I shall give a try to the next course, but if it is as tedious as this one (exams + weekly assignment every week), then I will quit both the course and the specialization... and I will recommend my friends and colleagues to NOT do this specialization. My apologies and hope you solve this problem in the future.
By VUB•
Jun 4, 2019
The course is great and I've learned a lot. I don't rate 5 stars because in my opinion the assignements are really too too difficult, too demanding, it's too hard to assess the quality of published studies and researches without a class debate, some guidances and hints from teachers and/or a way to directly contact teachers or mentors. In this MOOC system we are too alone to properly deal with the kind of assignements we find in the course. Besides, time of dedication is brutally understimated, it takes a lot more time than the announced 4-5 hourse per week. So, it's very (and in some sense unnecesarrily) hard stuff, but the content is great, course design is great, the teacher is great. Congratulations!!
By Jitske L V•
Mar 13, 2020
The course content is fine, it provides you a basic outline of all topics you need to know for a basis in quantative data. However, I believe the course should be updated as the assignments have given students problems for several years now, they do not match the course content. Any comments about this in the discussion section have been left unanswered for 2-3 years.. It's sad that there is no one you can reach out to when you are having trouble with the assignments, but yet you still pay for it.
By Ashkan P•
Jul 23, 2017
This course is not well managed with lots of waste of time waiting for other peopel to rate your assignment.
By Kaushik R•
Jan 31, 2019
Outstanding course. Very useful for me. Very relevant to my job too. Thank you very much.
With regards,
Kaushik Ray
Dr. Reddy's Laboratories Limited,
Hyderabad, India.
By Rachael W•
Apr 13, 2017
This Course is not really free. You must pay to access quizzes and peer graded assignments.
Coursera is really moving downhill quickly in terms of free course offerings. It's such a pity.
By Athena L L•
May 8, 2018
It is well-structured and informative. The pop up questions are interactive and the animation is fun. I have learned a lot from the video instruction, recommended readings, and assignments. Thanks.
By chengxiaoxue•
May 8, 2016
Abstract when the assignment is related to psychology. Could you give us some not that professional articles?
The whole course is not designed in a clear and logic way. Overwhelmed with so many terms without clear explanations.
By Margarita N•
Oct 18, 2018
Es un excelente curso, además Coursera me propició el apoyo financiero dos veces. Me ha ayudado mucho y tengo muchas ganas de continuar con la especialización. La docente fue excelente y el contenido estuvo muy bien organizado.
By MD. M•
Jun 8, 2020
This course is really amazing. Instructor addressed all the topics with easy example which helped me to understand the topic easily. I am really satisfied. Thanks to the Quantitative Method Team!
By Srushti P•
Apr 13, 2017
This course is well taught, easy to follow and very interesting. I recommend this course for anyone who wants to gain a better understanding of research methods and critically reading research.
By Bethan R•
Feb 13, 2017
Useful and helpful course that is taught very well through the online lecture videos. However, think it needs to improve its help and guidance for students. I tried to get hold of the lecture organiser when the objective of the assignment was not clear and there was no-one that I could directly contact to ask a question and I was told on the live chat that my only option was to post my query on the forum - which nobody replied to. I think support should be more readily available from lectures rather than relying on other peers all the time who are sometimes just as confused.
By Beatrice B•
Jul 25, 2018
positive points: explanations in videos are often clear and comprehensible; video illustrations are fairly useful; the quizzes to test knowledge and comprehension of the concepts of the week are accurate enough (but only test 'passive' comprehension of the concepts).
negative points: explanations are extremely concise and often too short to be clearly understandable and effective; assignments are especially time- and effort-consuming and are not particularly useful in the perpective of passing the final test; the peer-assigned grades are neither reviewed nor moderated by course managers (so even if they happen to be rather questionable at times, they cannot be discussed nor changed); in the practice tests as well as in the final test some questions dealt with statistics concepts that were not featured in the course; the feedback in videos for the second practice test featured different response options for one question and an entirely different question from the adminitered test.
By Marcos B•
Jun 27, 2016
Couldn´t finish it because assigmnets were not graded.
By José L M D•
May 3, 2016
When you are late in delivery, they tell you "everything is fine, do not worry, you have until the last week of the course to complete the activity, get your note and end of the course." They'll repeat over and over again in every week. My course ended on May 15, but they have not let me present my last activity, May 3 even before the final exam. They have forced me to leave the current session, still unfinished deadlines, missing a single activity after two months of work, and enroll again in the next session, which still nor has begun, delaying all the planning I had made for the entire course and all terms of the following courses.
In short, disastrous system to keep deadlines and complete the courses that make it totally useless any planning you have to do to set the course for the months that suit you, which, in my case at least, may at risk which I can complete the full specialization before the deadline. Money thrown away.
By Laure-Anne V•
Dec 26, 2015
I had taken 99% of the course last time, but didn't have time to do the assignments or complete it fully. I was pleased to see it was running again.
I've followed many many many Courseras and this is by far the highest quality. Well done!
What you did right?
Illustrations. They perfectly capture the concept without distracting. They are amusing and just-the-right-degree-of-imperfect, which makes the course material feel approachable.The graphic design. The slightly messy, hand-written, crumpled paper background design is perfect. Not pretentious, not overly boring. Just that little touch of individualism and authenticity we need. This is a great way to avoid alienating your students, to keep a connection.
Philosophy of science, history of science, research designs, etc. Despite having studied for a BSc, an MSc, and a scientific postgrad, I had to find out about these concepts through on-line courses and podcasts. I was really happy to see these neatly presented to me in a structured way in one spot in the context of a formal
Research methods course. When covering these sections, you also did a great job at sticking to the important stuff. I am extremely impressed. In the reality of research, we get sucked in by the nitty gritty and forget about the big picture. Wonderful, wonderful, wonderful framework behind the scientific method.You actually bothered spell-checking the transcript, particularly for proper names. I've had Courseras where the transcript seemed more like a onomatopeas than serious text.
This is all I remember for now, all that's fresh off my mind, as am just up to week 2 right now, but I wanted to give you all a thumbs up for this great course you've wrapped up. I am seriously considering registering for the entire specialisation because of the quality of this course.
By Marc G•
Oct 7, 2017
This is one of the best courses I have taken on Coursera (or even in traditional university) in terms of its comprehensiveness and the high demand it places on students. By the end of it, I really felt that I had gained a lot of valuable knowledge. The explanations are simple and easy to follow, and cover the topics in quite a lot of depth. That was very important to me. The assignments are demanding and challenging, but doable, and it is nice that analytic and creative essays are combined so as to not put too much strain on students. The creative assignments are more fun and light weight, while the analytical assignments provide an opportunity to revise the materials more carefully and delve into the core of the topics. I can't wait to take qualitative methods in my next university break. Well done to all of you on the UoA Coursera team. Thank you!
By Randal S W•
Oct 1, 2020
I found the course to be very educational and rigorous. You really needed to study and interact with the materials. I felt like it delivered a really solid foundation to understanding quantitative methods. Thanks to the builders of this course!
By Loretta G•
Jan 5, 2018
This course was excellent in all aspects, including the interesting and extensive material, as well as Dr. Annemarie Zand Scholten's brilliant lectures that help students digest and enjoy the content.
By Jana K•
Jul 3, 2020
Best course ever! Both didactically and conceptually. No redundant information, very good examples, practical tasks do make sense and scripts are provided as well. Thank you a lot for this course!
By Tomislav S•
Nov 20, 2019
I am so pleased that I found this course and finished it. The instructor is competent and motivated. Her presentations are fluent, organized and methodical. Excellent sound quality and video processing. I really like the quizes. They were not simple, the questions require to think carefully and synthetically. I especially recommend to listen to bonus materials (interviews), they are a welcome contribution to the subject that has been presented. Forum was not of much help: peers are not eager to post or comment. Even though it is said that course requires around 4-6 work hours per week, if you are more thorough in studying (consulting related Wikipedia articles, browsing through forums, reading supplement papers), it would take you twice as much. The assignments were also interesting. All in all, I highly recommend this course.
By Yibo L•
Jun 22, 2020
I like this course so much! I am a law student and I think it is not enough for law student to only learn social science through reading laws, textbooks and writting essays. I think law students should learn how to conduct researches themselves and review researches of others. It is important because in that way, we have more possibilities to come up with more reliable hypothesises and hopefully improve the legal system (e.g., prevent crime). Really thank Pro. Annemarie Zand Scholten and UvA. The animations and transcripts of the course are just amazing.
我太喜欢这门课了!我是一个法学生,我觉得想要真正学好法律这门社会科学,仅仅是读法条、看课本、写论文,是不够的。我觉得,法学生还要学习如何自己进行(社会)研究,同时学会如何检验他人的研究。这挺重要的,因为通过这种方式,我们才能可能提出更可靠的假说,去改善我们的法律制度(例如,预防犯罪)。 非常感谢Annemarie Zand Scholten教授和阿姆斯特丹大学。这门课的动画和逐字稿真的做得非常棒。墙裂安利。
By Jan K•
Sep 23, 2020
Great even for PhD students!
By Randy B•
Jun 23, 2020
The peer review system has some flaws. People that take this course full-time are dependent on having enough assignments to peer-review, which is usually not the case. This hinders the planning of people who want to finish the course in a shorter timeframe.