I showed you how to make fabric
hearts in a recent post.
Not exact matches
The other day I was scrolling through my feed and I had three friends
in a row who'd
posted pictures of
recent camping trips, and while I still Liked them with all of my
heart, I also wondered why they thought anyone really cared.
According to the OECD, the UK rates as follows
in 2005 (only data I have access to), I've included data from the US since you've used them
in your
post and Germany and France as a comparison with two randomly picked (read: I saw them
in the list) European countries: Death from
heart disease per 100,000 population (23 listed): 13th 49.3; France 2nd 22.5, Germany 12th 48.3; US 7th 40.3; Japan 1st 18.4; Hungary 23rd 71.7 Death from cancer per 100,000 population (24 listed): 18th 175.6; France 15th 166.2; Germany 11th 161.2; US 10th 159.8; Mexico 1st 96.8; Hungary 24th 242.0 Data from the ONS for 2005 (most
recent report I could find) shows: Death from cancer per 100,000 population (19 listed): 8th 216.9; Germany 4th 215.3; Cyprus 1st 149.6; Hungary 19th 330.8 Death from
heart disease per 100,000 population (19 listed): 10th 141.5; Germany 8th 150.4; Portugal 1st 71.9; Lithuania 19th 490.6
Accordingly, and also per the research, this is not getting much better
in that, as per the authors of this article as well as many other scholars, (1) «the variance
in value - added scores that can be attributed to teacher performance rarely exceeds 10 percent; (2)
in many ways «gross» measurement errors that
in many ways come, first, from the tests being used to calculate value - added; (3) the restricted ranges
in teacher effectiveness scores also given these test scores and their limited stretch, and depth, and instructional insensitivity — this was also at the
heart of a
recent post whereas
in what demonstrated that «the entire range from the 15th percentile of effectiveness to the 85th percentile of [teacher] effectiveness [using the EVAAS] cover [ed] approximately 3.5 raw score points [given the tests used to measure value - added];» (4) context or student, family, school, and community background effects that simply can not be controlled for, or factored out; (5) especially at the classroom / teacher level when students are not randomly assigned to classrooms (and teachers assigned to teach those classrooms)... although this will likely never happen for the sake of improving the sophistication and rigor of the value - added model over students» «best interests.»
I expect these accusations will reach a fever pitch tomorrow, not just
in light of my
recent pictorial of PETA's brutal slaying of animals and its abhorrent defense of abusive shelters, but also because I will
post an article called «The Lie at the
Heart of the Killing: The Myth of Pet Overpopulation,» where I take to task the notion of national pet overpopulation, regional pet overpopulation, shelter overpopulation, and why the calculus doesn't change when you include the number of animals living on the street into the equation.
This practice is at the
heart of the philosophies of many a successful business, from startup companies to the Beastie Boys, as discussed
in a
recent Fast Company
post, Pop Goes the Pivot.