tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-83812682024-02-07T17:02:33.487-08:00Read ThatArticles & books of note (no sponsored content)Tom Beekhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11214111493303257906noreply@blogger.comBlogger148125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8381268.post-6003648420366118912018-06-09T11:11:00.001-07:002018-06-09T11:11:35.533-07:00[Skagit Valley Herald] Mount Vernon High School graduating seniors parade through downtown<div dir="ltr"><a href="https://www.goskagit.com/news/mount-vernon-high-school-graduating-seniors-parade-through-downtown/article_da208ac6-6cbf-5026-b14d-bdb4b497d4e9.html?utm_medium">https://www.goskagit.com/news/mount-vernon-high-school-graduating-seniors-parade-through-downtown/article_da208ac6-6cbf-5026-b14d-bdb4b497d4e9.html?utm_medium</a></div><span> </span> Tom Beekhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11214111493303257906noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8381268.post-2593399265846682612018-04-22T11:57:00.001-07:002018-04-22T12:19:43.300-07:00EquisetumHorsetail Grass, also known as equisetum<br />
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'Horsetails' (the genus Equisetum) are different from other plants in their asexual reproduction via spores.
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Go to <a href="https://internationalequisetologicalassociation.yolasite.com/">this web site</a> to find a variety of information about the fifteen or so extant species.
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I am job searching now, and so the decision about where to work and what type of employment to accept is on my mind. And although I like the idea of independence and agency with regard to my work, only being paid for acceptable work is a new risk.<br />
See, if you don't perform 100% in a salaried job, you may get a talking-to, or get written up at worst. But if you have signed a contract that stipulates performance and goals by a deadline, then you may lose your income entirely, and it will affect your future in a profound way.Tom Beekhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11214111493303257906noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8381268.post-56478096008430515452018-02-21T11:19:00.001-08:002018-02-21T11:19:31.808-08:00Bob Pritchett on How to Think About Work - Staring With Getting A Job<div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
<strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">1. Know what job you want.</strong> </div>
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<strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">3. Relevant work distinguishes you.</strong> </div>
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<strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">4. You will be Googled.</strong> </div>
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<strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">5. Research will set you apart.</strong> </div>
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<strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">6. Hiring managers desperately want to hire you.</strong> </div>
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<strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">7. Employers want to be wanted.</strong> </div>
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<strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">8. Finding a job is a lot like dating: the right fit matters, and it is worth the time to get it right.</strong></div>
<span style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /><br />Read more: <span style="color: #003399; font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-style: inherit;"><a href="http://www.thegrindstone.com/2015/10/26/career-management/hiring/8-secrets-to-landing-the-job-you-want/#ixzz57luwGCvd">http://www.thegrindstone.com/2015/10/26/career-management/hiring/8-secrets-to-landing-the-job-you-want/#ixzz57luwGCvd</a></span></span></span><br />
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</article>Tom Beekhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11214111493303257906noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8381268.post-22686646017546765982016-08-23T17:40:00.001-07:002016-08-23T17:40:32.334-07:00Names of the months and their meaning | Polish Language BlogOk, I'm on a Polish language jag...<br /><br />
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Given the various <a href="http://blog.oxforddictionaries.com/2016/08/learning-polish/" target="_blank">complexities of the Polish language</a> with regard to pronunciation, noun inflection, verb cases, gender, and vowel agreement, (taking a breath) ... Wow, Polish is a hard language to learn as an adult!<br />
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://commons.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Follitropine.gif" imageanchor="1" style="margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: clear:right;"><img alt="English: Follicle stimulating hormone." border="0" class="zemanta-img-inserted zemanta-img-configured" height="238" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cb/Follitropine.gif/350px-Follitropine.gif" style="border: none; font-size: 0.8em;" width="350" /></a></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption zemanta-img-attribution" style="text-align: center; width: 350px;">Hormone hierarchy (Photo credit: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Hormone_hierarchy.jpeg" target="_blank">Wikipedia</a>)</td></tr>
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After reading <u>Anna Karenina</u>, I was impressed by the chapters that take place in the countryside. The loving detail in the scenes and characters here is telling.<br />
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From <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20071113180921/http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/toc/modeng/public/BirLeoT.html" target="_blank">Paul Birukoff's, <i>Leo Tolstoy: Childhood and Early Manhood</i> (1906)</a>:
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<b>Childhood: days of idyll, Moscow and Kazan University</b>
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Count Tolstoy was a gentle, easy going man. Quick to tell a joke, he was reluctant to mete out corporal punishment that was so common at the time to the hundreds of serfs on their estate. He disliked wolf-baiting and fox-hunting, preferring to ride in the fields and forests, or walking with his children and their pack of romping greyhounds. Leo recounts outings with his siblings, friends, and paternal grandmother Pelageya Nikolayevna Tolstoy (d.1838) to pick hazelnuts; she seemed a dreamy magical figure to him. Sometimes he spent the evening in her bedroom while their blind story-teller Lev Stepanovich narrated lengthy, enchanting tales.</blockquote>
Tom Beekhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11214111493303257906noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8381268.post-7970444533146134322014-08-18T09:56:00.001-07:002014-08-22T17:40:53.466-07:00A woman finally wins the Fields Medal after 50 years. Why did it take so long?by Sam Howison | theguardian.com <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/aug/13/woman-wins-fields-medal-odds-maryam-mirzakhani">link to article</a><br />
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"As a child Maryam Mirzakhani was told a story by her elder brother about the mathematician Carl Friedrich Gauss, and how he, as a schoolboy, solved a mathematical problem, adding all the numbers from 1 to 100, in seconds. She couldn’t master the solution but when it was explained, was dazzled by its elegance, sparking the love affair that brought her the Fields medal.<br />
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So how did he solve it?<br />
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The answer is fiendishly simple once you know how. Gauss discovered that on adding the consequential numbers of the highest and lowest values in the sequence you would get 101. So for example, the first pair takes the lowest value, 1, and the highest value, 100, and, when added, give 101. Similarly, for the second pair, the second lowest and highest numbers, 2 and 99, summed give 101, and so forth. In total there are 50 pairs each amounting to 101, so using simple multiplication (50 x 101) the answer is given in seconds, 5050. Or as Mirzakhani puts it, “a beautiful solution”."<br />
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Tom Beekhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11214111493303257906noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8381268.post-68489115941499792842014-03-15T08:07:00.001-07:002014-03-15T08:09:32.071-07:00Inspiring Spiritual Quotes from His Grace Mahatma Das<div><br></div><div><h1 class="post-title" style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; clear: left;"><a href="http://www.mahatmawisdom.com/quotes/humility/trying-to-impress-others/" title="Trying to impress others" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; outline: none; font-size: 17px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font color="#000000">Trying to impress others</font></a></h1><div class="quote-content" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-style: italic;"><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">When we truly desire to become more humble, we become painfully aware of how often our actions are motivated by the desire to impress others.</span></p></div><p class="quote-author" style="text-align: start; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; font-variant: small-caps;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">— <a href="http://www.mahatmawisdom.com/quotes/humility/trying-to-impress-others/" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; outline: none;">Mahatma Das</a></span></p></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><a href="http://www.mahatmawisdom.com/">Inspiring Spiritual Quotes from His Grace Mahatma Das</a>Tom Beekhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11214111493303257906noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8381268.post-23085984249405592982014-03-14T16:44:00.001-07:002014-03-14T16:44:35.875-07:00George Gray -- Spoon River Anthology<pre style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #222222; font-family: 'andale mono', 'monotype.com', 'lucida console', monospace; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; margin-top: 1.5em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">I HAVE studied many times
The marble which was chiseled for me--
A boat with a furled sail at rest in a harbor.
In truth it pictures not my destination
But my life.
For love was offered me and I shrank from its disillusionment;
Sorrow knocked at my door, but I was afraid;
Ambition called to me, but I dreaded the chances.
Yet all the while I hungered for meaning in my life.
And now I know that we must lift the sail
And catch the winds of destiny
Wherever they drive the boat.
To put meaning in one's life may end in madness,
But life without meaning is the torture
Of restlessness and vague desire--
It is a boat longing for the sea and yet afraid.</pre>
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--Edgar Lee Masters
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<br />Tom Beekhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11214111493303257906noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8381268.post-64560863026437947722014-03-07T06:54:00.003-08:002014-03-07T06:54:41.000-08:00Teachers' Bloated Salaries (satire)Teachers' hefty salaries are driving up taxes, and they only work nine or ten months a year! It's time we put things in perspective and pay them for what they do -- babysit!<br />
We can get that for less than minimum wage.<br />
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That's right. Let's give them $3.00 an hour and only the hours they worked; not any of that silly planning time, or any time they spend before or after school. That would be $19.50 a day (7:45 to 3:00 PM with 45 min. off for lunch and planning -- that equals 6-1/2 hours).<br />
So each parent should pay $19.50 a day for these teachers to baby-sit their children. Now how many students do they teach in a day...maybe 30? So that's $19.50 x 30 = $585 a day.<br />
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However, remember they only work 180 days a year!!! I am not going to pay them for any vacations.<br />
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LET'S SEE....<br />
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That's $585 X 180= $105,300 per year. (Hold on! My calculator needs new batteries).<br />
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What about those special education teachers and the ones with Master's degrees? Well, we could pay them minimum wage ($7.75), and just to be fair, round it off to $8.00 an hour. That would be $8 X 6-1/2 hours X 30 children X 180 days = $280,800 per year.<br />
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Wait a minute -- there's something wrong here! There sure is!<br />
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The average teacher's salary (nationwide) is $50,000.<br />
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$50,000/180 days = $277.77 per day / 30 students = $9.25 / 6.5 hours = $1.42 per hour per student -- a very inexpensive baby-sitter and they even EDUCATE your kids!)<br />
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WHAT A DEAL!!!!<br />
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Make a teacher smile; repost this to show appreciation for all educators.<br />
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<br />Tom Beekhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11214111493303257906noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8381268.post-21536743052973389552014-01-22T11:22:00.003-08:002014-01-22T11:22:58.878-08:00This Is the Man Bill Gates Thinks You Absolutely Should Be Reading - Wired Science<div dir="ltr">
"There is no author whose books I look forward to more than <b><span style="font-size: large;">Vaclav Smil</span></b>," Bill Gates wrote this summer. That's quite an endorsement—and it gave a jolt of fame to Smil, a professor emeritus of environment and geography at the University of Manitoba. In a world of specialized intellectuals, Smil is an ambitious and astonishing polymath who swings for fences. His nearly three dozen books have analyzed the world's biggest challenges—the future of energy, food production, and manufacturing—with nuance and detail. They're among the most data-heavy books you'll find, with a remarkable way of framing basic facts. (Sample nugget: Humans will consume 17 percent of what the biosphere produces this year.)<br />
From: <a href="http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2013/11/vaclav-smil-wired/">http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2013/11/vaclav-smil-wired/</a></div>
Tom Beekhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11214111493303257906noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8381268.post-46205099037526677642014-01-10T12:37:00.001-08:002014-08-18T10:02:32.792-07:00Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cat's_Cradle">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cat's_Cradle</a><br />
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Cat's Cradle is the funniest book I have ever read. It is "choke on your coffee funny," as one reviewer put it. It is one of the smartest, too. Ironic that it is an end-of-the-world story.</div>
Tom Beekhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11214111493303257906noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8381268.post-10417100410968576672013-07-31T11:43:00.001-07:002013-07-31T11:43:45.933-07:00Dr. Laura Markham > How to Use Positive Parenting<div style="text-align:-webkit-auto"><font><span style="line-height:normal;background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)"><strong style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;text-align:left">7. </strong><strong style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;text-align:left">Avoid Timeouts. They create more misbehavior.<em style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline"> </em></strong><span style="text-align:left">Timeouts, while infinitely better than hitting, are just another version of punishment by banishment and humiliation. They leave kids alone to manage their tangled-up emotions, so they undermine emotional intelligence. They erode, rather than strengthening, your relationship with your child. They set up a power struggle. And they only work while you're bigger. They're a more humane form of bullying than physical discipline. </span><a href="http://www.ahaparenting.com/parenting-tools/positive-discipline/timeouts" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;text-decoration:none;text-align:left">Click here for more information on why Timeouts don't work.</a></span></font></div> <span style="text-align:left;line-height:normal;background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)"><div style="text-align:-webkit-auto"><font> </font></div></span><em style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;text-align:left"><div style="text-align:-webkit-auto"> <font><span style="line-height:normal;background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)"><em style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline"><strong style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline">8. Consequences teach the wrong lesson if you're involved in creating them.</strong></em> On the face of it, Consequences make sense: The child does (or doesn't do) something, and learns from the consequences. Which, when it happens naturally, can be a terrific learning experience. But most of the time, parents engineer the consequences, and enforce the time out, so that any child can explain to you that consequences are actually punishment.<a href="http://www.ahaparenting.com/parenting-tools/positive-discipline/Consequences_Punishment" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;text-decoration:none"> Click here for more information on why Consequences don't work.</a></span></font></div> <div style="text-align:-webkit-auto"><font color="#494949" face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif"><span style="line-height:22px"><br></span></font></div><div style="text-align:-webkit-auto"><font color="#494949" face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif"><span style="line-height:22px"><span></span><a href="http://www.ahaparenting.com/parenting-tools/positive-discipline/use-positive-discipline">http://www.ahaparenting.com/parenting-tools/positive-discipline/use-positive-discipline</a></span></font></div> </em> Tom Beekhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11214111493303257906noreply@blogger.com0