Google has rolled out a new feature to their Pixel customers. When we call a business, our display will show the company’s phone tree options before they announced them.
Called “un-grading,” the idea is meant to ease the transition to higher education — especially for freshmen who are the first in their families to go to college or who weren’t well prepared for college-level work in high school and need more time to master it. But advocates say the most important reason to adopt un-grading is that students have become so preoccupied with grades, they aren’t actually learning.
FREEWAY FLIP: A car is sent flying through the air after being struck by a tyre that fell from a nearby truck in Los Angeles. Police said no major injuries were sustained in the incident. https://t.co/bA4iYuS9tPpic.twitter.com/zCFELFPNra
Around 48% of quick-service restaurants like Starbucks, Panera and McDonald’s now give customers the option to tip, according to data released this month from Toast, a restaurant management software company. That’s up from 38% in 2020.
People are tipping less in part because of inflation, experts say. They are also overwhelmed with the number of places that give them the option to tip with a card on an iPad, leading people to be less generous.
Tuesday night will be the best opportunity to see five planets lined up in the sky with the naked eye. Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, and Uranus should be visible even in areas with light pollution just after sunset—“kind of like pearls on a necklace,”
The best thing my students ever gave me. I thought they were just really diligent note-takers the whole semester, but it turns out they were compiling a book of all the craziest things I'd said, all *very much* out of context. It's 152 pages long. pic.twitter.com/9ACboXXoiz
“New standards will be enforced for bat boys and bat girls, whose ability to quickly retrieve equipment will help efforts to speed up the game, according to the memo. The league will evaluate the performances of bat boys and bat girls and could ask teams to replace them if their performance is considered substandard.”
The story tracks the rise and fall of the silicone gel implant, from its humble beginnings at Baylor University College of Medicine to white-hot status symbol to eventual subject of lawsuits and federal bans and, ultimately, a safer reemergence in the twenty-first century. Our protagonists are based on real-life surgeons Tom Cronin and Frank Gerow, who invented silicone implants in Houston in 1962. Dr. Conan (Brian Hathaway) dreams of his legacy, while Dr. Rousseau (Josh Kumler) cuts a more empathic figure. The first implants went to, true story, a dog named Esmeralda.
Backed by a surge of campaign spending from far-right Christian megadonors, Republicans in Texas and nationwide are pushing legislation that would siphon money from public education under the banner of “parents’ rights.” These plans, commonly known as vouchers, would give parents the money the state would have spent educating their children in public schools — between $8,000 and $10,000 per child per year in Texas — and allow them to put it toward homeschooling expenses, private school tuition or college savings accounts.
Draconian is not the right word for it, but that’s what came to mind when I decided to get an eye exam at a local chain that offers the service and sells eyeglasses. I’ve taken pride in my great vision all my life, but as WifeGeedingII recently informed me, “Getting old sucks.”
Most of the exam was done virtually. I was led to an exam room where a lab tech set up a few things, then she turned the light off and I was looking through some ocular medical equipment in a dark room and conversed with a “doctor” on a TV screen in front of me. The doctor could control the ocular medical equipment remotely. For any of you who have been through such a procedure, it’s a lot of lenses being switched out and you are telling them which one looks better. One, or two? One, or two, or about the same? The whole thing felt so impersonal. I lost connection with the “doctor” three times, so I got to work with three different “doctors” and was feeling frustrated. Each doctor read from a script in a very monotone fashion, were heavily accented, and they all appeared to be working out of a cubical as opposed to an office.
Even though I really don’t like having to rent a car for a relatively short road trip, I do enjoy checking out all the new bells and whistles a rental car offers. My last two cars have been Toyotas, and I think it’s neat that the driver display always lists the speed limit of the road you’re driving on.
I’m sorry Nadel is going through this, but I hope he has a support system to get him through this. I know what’s it like to not have one during that kind of predicament, and it’s hell. I would have linked to the DMN story, but it’s behind a paywall. I understand the paywall concept, but I think this is one of those things they should open up to the public like they do some of their other articles.
Today at my kids’ school is a chance for them to ditch their uniforms in favor of dressing up like their favorite literature or historical character. I’d love to see a student push the envelope and cross dress and see what the administration does about it.
My favorite blogger, a lawyer out of Wise County, posted this nugget, “When an officer asks you “where you are headed?” feel free to decline to answer. It really has nothing to do with any traffic stop and, regardless, you don’t have to do anything other than hand over your DL and insurance.” My problem is, I don’t know how to gracefully decline answering the question without sounding like I’m being an arse.
I wish my ex could be as kind as Tom Brady’s. Mine actually said she hopes I get arrested and put in jail.
“Listen, I have always cheered for him, and I would continue forever. If there’s one person I want to be the happiest in the world, it’s him, believe me,” she said. “I want him to achieve and to conquer. I want all his dreams to come true. That’s what I want, really, from the bottom of my heart.”
That reminds me of the time I snuck out of my house in the seventh grade and drove around town with some friends who were old enough to drive. It was probably two in the morning and a cop pulled us over even though we weren’t doing anything wrong. When the cop asked my name, I so wanted to say, “I plead the Fifth.” I still wonder if that’s an acceptable answer and what would have happened if that’s all I said.
John B, eat your heart out. I’ve always admired how you keep a spreadsheet of books you’ve read and movies you’ve seen. And if you want to see more of her list, here you go.
My 94-year-old grandmother has kept a list of every book she ever read since she was 14 years old. Amazing archive of one person’s mind over nearly a century pic.twitter.com/Cu9znTgkJO
I wish there was a WordPress keyboard shortcut to increase an indent. I’ve found Shift and Tab will decrease an indent, but can’t find the converse of it.
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