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Everyone Else Is Cutting the Cord, So Why Aren't You? I cut the cord (dropped cable TV and switched to online streaming services) back in 2013 and haven’t looked back since.

Everyone Else Is Cutting the Cord, So Why Aren't You?

This is a trend that’s been growing for quite a while now and it’s becoming clear that people just aren’t happy with cable anymore. Online Streams Are Destroying Cable TV and These 3 Stats Prove It Online Streams Are Destroying Cable TV and These 3 Stats Prove It Online streaming services are beating the heck out of cable, satellite, and other forms of TV. Here are some mind-blowing stats that prove it. Read More In fact, the second quarter of 2016 alone saw over 800,000 pay-TV subscribers in the U.S. jump ship for better alternatives — and not only is it the biggest quarterly loss that the pay-TV industry has ever seen, but there’s still a “gradual increase in the decline rate”. But this is somewhat misleading. Why Generation Y is unhappy.

Say hi to Lucy.

Why Generation Y is unhappy

Lucy is part of Generation Y, the generation born between the late 1970s and the mid 1990s. She’s also part of a yuppie culture that makes up a large portion of Gen Y. I have a term for yuppies in the Gen Y age group—I call them Gen Y Protagonists & Special Yuppies, or GYPSYs. A GYPSY is a unique brand of yuppie, one who thinks they are the main character of a very special story. The Literary Review. It’s the day after Christmas, 2004.

The Literary Review

I’m eight years old. It’s about 8:30 am, and the sea is acting funny. It drags itself back kilometer after kilometer. We watch it go, slowly. When it stops, it piles up on itself, slab of water upon slab of water, until it’s swelled into a mountain with a tuft of creamy froth across its top. “What’s happening?” He shakes his head. Phuket Tsunami. How to Uphold White Supremacy by Focusing on Diversity and Inclusion by Kẏra. Since the civil rights movement, white people have exploited every opportunity to conceal their colonialist legacy and longstanding (ab)use of white supremacist power.

How to Uphold White Supremacy by Focusing on Diversity and Inclusion by Kẏra

They’ve proven time and again that they have no interest in rectifying that history, only in dealing with the fact that they could no longer deny the reality of those injustices. One effective tactic has been to separate white supremacy and colonialism from the way racism is understood and taught through schools, history textbooks, news media, and through any white-controlled institutions. These lessons, of anti-racism as-told-by-white-people, will be familiar to you: that racism is only explicit racial prejudice; that separatism is the essence of Jim Crow (and therefore inclusion is the antithesis to de jure segregation); and that the remedy for a racist society is a colorblind one. Photo CC-BY jm scott, filtered. The toxic effects of liberalism are clear in diversity advocacy and its language.

Replace Your Paper Filing System With FileThis for iOS & Web. If you manually download and manage your web receipts, bank statements, legal forms and other documents, you would probably benefit from the iOS app and paperless service FileThis.

Replace Your Paper Filing System With FileThis for iOS & Web

Currently only available only in the US, FileThis can act as a digital file drawer by retrieving all of your available online documents and receipts, and saving them in your own personal space in the cloud. Available as an online service, FileThis also works as an iPhone and iPad app. How It Works FileThis uses bank-level, 256-bit SSL security and encryption and can be used to track correspondance from US companies like Amazon, Comcast, Paypal, Target, Wells Fargo, Citibank, AT&T and many others. After registering an account with FileThis, you can add your supported web accounts which allows FileThis to download available documents on a weekly or daily basis, depending on which service plan you use. The FileThis cloud server provides better document management and viewing options than other cloud services. Digital Games and the Future of Math Class: A Conversation With Keith Devlin. Keith Devlin Part 8 of MindShift’s Guide to Games and Learning.

Digital Games and the Future of Math Class: A Conversation With Keith Devlin

Keith Devlin is a well-known mathematician and the author of many popular math books. He is co-founder and Executive Director of Stanford University’s Human-Sciences and Technologies Advanced Research Institute and is well known as the “NPR Math Guy.” He’s also a big fan of using video games as a teaching tool and the founder of an education technology company called BrainQuake. Devlin believes the future demands a substantial change in the way we think about math education. In this conversation, he explains why we now need different mathematical skills than we once did, and points out that the math curriculum of the 20th century did not equip today’s adults to mentor children in the math skills of the 21st century.

Devlin argues that video games are the perfect tool for teaching math. Jordan Shapiro: In 2011, you published a book entitled Mathematics Education For A New Era: Video Games As A Medium For Learning. Related. Shutterbean. The Swizzle - Clean up your inbox! Good News. FAQs.