| Your views on the Green debate
Poll Results The Americans are ahead again. This time it's in their negative attitudes towards the "green imperative". We asked for your feedback in December and followed up with a quick poll in January. Our thanks to the 3,000 or so folk who responded. But what a stark contrast between North American respondents and the rest of the English-speaking world. Freeform Dynamics has analysed the responses to January's poll and discovered that the mood, by and large, is that "something must be done". But a significant dissenting minority exists in the US. Forty per cent of respondents there regard the "green imperative" as scaremongering or hype, compared with a 20.7 per cent average in the rest of the world. Take a look at the red bars in this chart: Among other things, web activity logs provide details of the browser and operating system being used, so Freeform made another cut according to the operating system being used.
Test Candidate Words with the Sword
So much of media/pundit lip flapping over the past few election cycles has been devoted to the “Evangelical" vote. The term has been loosely defined at best, if not entirely mischaracterized or downright adulterated at worst. To examine Presidential candidates who would woo the evangelical vote, it is important to note whether they truly understand who it is they seek. When the average citizen hears the term evangelical, mental imagery will vary from the true meaning, all the way down to some misguided equivocation to cultish demons like Jim Jones and David Koresh, or even Islamic extremism. Unfortunately, the liberal media is more likely than not to hold and espouse such misconceptions. Evangelical, as defined with general accuracy in most dictionary entries, best describes the individual Christian.
School has a Means to lead
Means' daily charges are more than 2,100 students in 10th through 12th grades who attend classes at the district's central campus. The sheer number of youths under his supervision makes establishing personal relationships, or even having face-to-face interaction, diffi cult.
Part of it is just being present, Means said.
"It's a challenge. I try to be out in the hallway" when students are changing classes, he said.
He also does lunch duty at least two or three times a week.
"And it's going to various activities, whether that's the school musical or athletic events," he said.
Often, parents tell Means that they hope their children have never been in his office. But the truth is, it probably is a good thing if they have.
Collin College, Austin College sign pre-admission agreement
Collin College has signed its ninth admission agreement, this time with Sherman-based Austin College, the schools announced yesterday.The agreement gives Collin College students transferring to Austin College a leg up on their college career, said Marisela Cadena-Smith, a Collin College spokeswoman.Students who declare their intent to transfer to Austin College are assigned advisers from that college who guide them through their career at Collin College. While the agreement doesn't guarantee automatic admission to Austin College, working with the school's academic counselors ensures that students' credits seamless transfer, she said.Michael Strysick, executive director of college relations, said students would know exactly what courses they would need to take at Collin College to prepare them for their junior and senior years at Austin College.Through the counseling process, students avoid surprises that often hit students transferring from community colleges to up-level institutions.
The perfect storm could really blow
Mark Mitchell from London, Canada writes: Why does not anybody realize that U.S. military presence in Afghanistan, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, and Kuwait virtually ensures the free flow of oil supplies to the West? Moreover, why does nobody realize that the dollar's linkage to those massively protected supplies ensures the United States can continue to sustain its massive debt so long as its military holds the world's oil hostage? "
The US Navy ensures that there is stability in the world. The USA is not dependent on oil from the mid-East (no more than 15% of its daily oil needs come from mid-East). Same cannot be said for Europe, Japan and China. Without the USA protecting the world's oil supply Japan and China certainly would have to take steps to to do so. Yet a militarized Japan is not acceptable to China, similarly Japan could not accept China controlling Japan's access to oil.
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