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11:25am Update – things went very late last night, so this is still a rough draft. There’s lots of tweaking to do, and we’re just getting started on that. Thanks for the feedback!

– Okay. I’ve made a few changes based on Kate’s requirements. A few things though, captcha stays. It will help eliminate the 20/hour spam comments that SDA got on a regular basis. When we have that many spams, we don’t even look at the spam comments to decide if batb’s (as an example) is clean because the url had the word ‘ban’ in it. We just delete them all. So, the captcha will help you too.

See below the fold for up to date changes.

Cheers,
lance

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The State of Public Education

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Toby Young is a British journalist, who got involved a few years ago with the creation of what Americans would call a “charter school”. The education facility he co-founded is called the West London Free School.
Earlier this year he did a podcast with James Delingpole, in which he describes his battles with Far Leftist teachers in London and to what extents his opponents went to, trying to prevent the school from ever opening. Echoes of Waiting for Superman come to mind.

Blog Notes

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The long awaited platform upgrade is ready and tested and (barring unforeseen circumstances) will be initiated this evening. During this time, SDA will be offline.
If we run into problems that result in extended downtime, I’ll post updates via @Katewerk. With luck, all will be back up in the morning.
A few factoids: Since inception, 21,714 blog posts and 757,177 comments have been posted to SDA. We’ve pushed 1362.82 GB out the server so far this year.
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Thanks to everyone who’s helped make it possible!
(Note: Any resemblance between the timing of this post and apocalypses, Mayan or otherwise, is hopefully coincidental. )

Y2Kyoto: I’ll Miss The Siberian Express

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Russia is enduring its harshest winter in over 70 years, with temperatures plunging as low as -50 degrees Celsius. Dozens of people have already died, and almost 150 have been hospitalized.
­The country has not witnessed such a long cold spell since 1938, meteorologists said, with temperatures 10 to 15 degrees lower than the seasonal norm all over Russia.
Across the country, 45 people have died due to the cold, and 266 have been taken to hospitals. In total, 542 people were injured due to the freezing temperatures, RIA Novosti reported.

Mother of Invention: elephant antifreeze
h/t PeterJ

The CBC’s Australian Cousin

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SDA readers may take some solace in finding out that the CBC is not the only highly biased taxpayer funded “news” organization in the world. The Australian Broadcasting Corporation’s Managing Director, Mark Scott, recently pronounced that his network does not have any particular political bias. Another Australian begs to differ. Reading through that, a lot of the same devious techniques employed there are also used by the CBC.
The best line of all was this one:

“I guess if you stand on a platform that leans to the left for long enough, it begins to seem level again.”

Reader Tips

Reader Tips 28 Comments

Exactly 2 years ago a group of singers assembled at a shopping mall in Southern California to delight everyone present with an incredibly special performance. While we realize that this has a significant chance of offending the overly precious sensibilities of the politically correct princesses out there (both genders), it’s a risk we’re willing to take.
In the run up to Christmas, we hope that the lives of you & your family are not too frenzied and you do take a few moments to enjoy the true meaning of the season.
In between your other responsibilities, if you have a few moments to share your reader tips in the comments, that would be much appreciated.

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