| University Requires Emergency Texting
The school is the first in the nation to mandate that students sign up for text message alerts, WCVB-TV in Boston reported. If students don't sign up, they can't register for spring classes. This weekend, the school sent out test alerts to about 40,000 students. There were glitches in the system, but the goal is to reach as many students as possible, as fast as possible, to improve response time to a crisis. .
Veteran Tazewell extension agent calling it a career
TAZEWELL, Va. — When this coming Friday rolls around, Mike Harris won't have anywhere he will have to be at 8 a.m."It seems like all of my life, I've had to be somewhere every day at 8 a.m.," Harris, the 23-year veteran extension agent of the Virginia Tech Extension office in Tazewell said. "This Friday, I can sit in the house until 11 a.m., if I want to. I don't have to go anywhere."Harris, 59, has spent a lifetime helping farmers, serving his country, supporting his community and learning how to read the subtle signs of seasonal and cyclical changes in the rhythms of the agricultural universe, and to figure out how farmers can survive those changes."That's not going to end just because I'm not in the office every day," Harris said. "I'll be working on my farm in Thompson Valley. As far as I know, I'm still the only Mike Harris in Thompson Valley.
Animated Computer Tutors Help Remedial Readers, Language Learners ...
ScienceDaily (Feb. 19, 2008) Tools developed by researchers exploring language and speech comprehension can be powerful aids for remedial readers, children with language challenges, and anyone learning a second language, according to psychology professor Dominic Massaro of the University of California, Santa Cruz. .
Diet won't stop me having fun
When I got back home, I took Rocky out for a walk and Steve made beef stir fry for tea with loads of vegetables. One good side effect of my new healthy regime is that the whole family is eating better. We are buying fresh food every day and not buying so many sweets and junk food. I will have a piece of fruit rather than a biscuit and no longer crave crisps after a particularly horrible experiment - one of our experts set fire (don’t try this at home) to a single crisp and you should have seen the fat that oozed out of it. It was truly disgusting and has put me off crisps for life. I’m planning on a big walk tomorrow and will try and do a bit of running as well. I do have such a lot more energy and I feel much better. I hope you do too.
Get Schooled
These kids are going to get a very brutal wake-up call someday and the results ain't gonna be pretty at all. In fact, we're already seeing the results of some of this stuff. Some of these people I see coming out of college now just can't believe it when they're told something is merely "good," because they've been told they're nothing less than fantastic all the time since birth … and heaven forbid if they hear something they do truly isn't even "good," but "not so good," to "bad" or even "horrible." .
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