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Answer to yesterday’s puzzle: A poor excuse is better than none at all.
John Quigg
Dayna Perry Kudos
Kudos to Dayna Perry for winning a KIPP Foundation award for excellence in teaching, Aug.1.
Dayna is a teacher at KIPP Philadelphia Elementary Academy, a charter school in North Philadelphia. The award was bestowed on 10 teachers nationwide based on track records in improving student performance, commitment to helping students succeed and leadership in the classroom and their schools. It comes with $10,000.
KIPP stands for the Knowledge Is Power Program and is a national nonprofit network of 162 charter schools that are focused on preparing students for college.
Charter schools — including cyber ones — along with homeschooling and vouchers are the future, and salvation, of education in this nation.
The red-tape filled, union-ruled public schools are dinosaurs that deserve the tar pit.
Dayna Perry Kudos
Fat Because Your Legs Have Nothing To Do
You’re fat because your legs have nothing to do. Some machine is doing that for you.
At least that is the conclusion of an Stanford University School of Medicine study by Dr. Uri Ladabaum as reported by NPR.
Ladabaum looked at data collected by the federal NHANES program in 1988 and compared it to 2010 expecting to find that we have really started pigging out.
Nope. Caloric intake remained about the same. What was different, however, was that physical activity was a lot less. In the ’80s, 80 to 90 percent of people did at least some activity during their leisure time. About half say the same thing today.
For white and African-Americans — men and women — between 18 and 39 the number of those getting no activity more than tripled. For Mexican Americans, it doubled.
Dr. Tim Church, a professor of preventative medicine at Pennington Biomedical Research Center at Louisiana State University said that in 1960 about half of Americans had jobs that had a lot of physical activity. Today it’s about 1 in 10. He said that American men were burning 140 fewer calories during the day while women were burning about 120 fewer calories daily.
As a pound is usually considered equal to 3,500 calories that is more than a pound a month not being burned off.
Blame the internet.
Anyway, here’s the soundtrack for the story that we were sure you were waiting for:
Fat Because Your Legs Have Nothing To Do
Pennsylvania Seed Library Smacked Down By State
The Cumberland County Library System thought it had a neat idea. With the local Penn State Agricultural Extension System and the Cumberland County Commission for Women, it created a seed-gardening program — aka a seed library — that allowed residents to “borrow” seeds in the spring and replace them with new ones harvested at season’s end.
It was launched on April 26, Earth Day, at the Joseph T. Simpson’ Public Library in Mechanicsburg as part of the borough’s Earth Day Festival.
Sixty signed up.
Oh pity them for they didn’t realize they were part of a nefarious plot to violate the Pennsylvania Seed Act of 2004 signed into law by then Gov. Ed Rendell.
The Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture sent a high-ranking official and a bevy of lawyers to the library in July to shut the program down and make sure those running things got their minds right.
The Seed Act is about proper labeling in the sale of seeds, which the library was not doing. Apparently our state officials feared the seeds might be mislabeled on purpose hence allowing terrorists to spread poison ivy or some such thing.
Some cynics think the crackdown is because big agriculture doesn’t want competition no matter how small.
When is it going to dawn on the rest of you that really stupid and/or greedy people are governing our lives?
Hat tips Tom Flocco and Naomi Creason of the Sentinel of Cumberland County.
Pennsylvania Seed Library Smacked Down By State
Nation Of Africa Says Biden
Nation Of Africa Says Biden
One heart beat away but we don’t care.
Still it’s worth knowing what we are getting in the event Barack Obama is impeached as he deserves to be.
Vice President Joe Biden was a speaker at today’s, Aug. 5, U.S.-Africa Business Forum hosted by Bloomberg Philanthropies and the U.S. Department of Commerce.
The event was billed as the “first-ever U.S.-Africa Business Forum.” Here is what our Vice President said:
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That’s right. He called the Continent of Africa, the world’s second largest and second most populous; a place with 54 fully recognized sovereign states (“countries“), nine territories and two de facto independent states with limited or no recognition, a nation.
The bright side is that he did not suggest that they irrigate their crops with a sports drink.
Marino Vs Pelosi Update
Marino Vs Pelosi Update: A rant by former Speaker Nancy Pelosi caused her to be removed from the floor of Congress it has been reported
As reported here on Aug. 3 remarks made by Congressman Tom Marino (R-Pa10) on Aug. 1 concerning the border bill being debated in the House sent former Minority Leader and former Speaker Nancy Pelosi into a hissy fit.
Well, we have an update courtesy of Breitbart.com, Congresswoman Pelosi’s rant caused her to be forcibly removed from the floor of Congress by the sergeant at arms. It was likely unprecedented.
Marino Vs Pelosi Update
Witness Protection Program Has Heritage
Alex Mayyasi has a great article on the history of the Witness Protection Program at Priceonomics.com.
Mayyasi describes the program a being one of three major factors — the RICO Act and the use of wiretapes being the others — in beating the Mafia.
Mayyasi writes that U.S. Marshals have relocated 8,500 witnesses since the program formally began in 1971 and that no one who has stayed in the program has been killed.
He says family roots have sprung from the program.
“I know witnesses who had children, and now they’re grandparents,” he quotes one employee as saying. “I doubt their grandchildren have a clue about their grandparents’ past.”
Witness Protection Program Has Heritage
August 2014 First In 823 Years
This month counts five Fridays, five Saturdays and five Sundays. It is the first time this happened since 1191 and won’t happen again until 2837.
At least according to the internet.
Regarding the Chinese good luck thing, well, August is really not part of China’s traditional calendar albeit the nation has adopted the Georgian calendar as its official one.
August 2014 First In 823 Years
New York Times Graham Spanier Whitewash
The New York Times Magazine carried a paen, July 16, to disgraced former Penn State President Graham Spanier, by Micahel Sokolove.
Sokolove practically acquits him of the charges filed against him stemming from his handling of reports that one-time football coach and retired faculty member Jerry Sandusky was abusing children.
“The case against Spanier is at best problematic, at worst fatally flawed,” Sokolove says.
Sokolove writes about how the 66-year-old Spanier’s father flew into a rage at everything and beat him and made him eat everything on his plate and sometimes sent him to bed without dinner.
Sokolove writes that Spanier grew Penn State “from a remote outpost of American higher education into a top-tier public university” and had some of “world’s most decorated architects” design the new buildings on his watch.
He writes that Sokolove “paid his own way through Iowa State.”
Regarding the e-mails that led to the charges, Sokolove says that Spanier says he has no memory of writing it but that using the word “vulnerable” as in “The only downside for us is if the message isn’t ‘heard’ and acted upon, and we then become vulnerable for not having reported it. But that can be assessed down the road” was a bad idea.
And he blames the late Joe Paterno, anyway.
Maybe Sokolove’s biggest journalistic failure was his omission of any reference to the John T. Neisworth matter in which Spanier was told by a young man in 2002 about how Neisworth, a respected Penn State special education professor who literally wrote the book on autism, molested him. Neisworth would make a six-figure cash settlement to the man.
The contact was made with Spanier two weeks after Spanier had been told about Sandusky.
The New York Times whitewash is almost enough to make one take David Icke seriously.
New York Times Graham Spanier Whitewash
Produce Month In Pa
The Pennsylvania House way back on June 29 passed House Resolution 930, designating August as Produce Month in Pennsylvania, reports State Rep. Jim Cox (R-129)
Residents are encouraged to take advantage of local produce options throughout the Commonwealth by using the Department of Agriculture’s PA Preferred program, says Cox..
The state Department of Agriculture launched the PA Preferred program to identify and promote food and agricultural products grown, produced or processed in Pennsylvania, Cox said.
Cox said retailers carrying Pa Preferred Products can be found at this site.