Special Ed Quotes

All a woman actually wants is to feel special.

There's a special quality to the loneliness of dusk, a melancholy more brooding even than the night's.

The first thing the boy Garion remembered was the kitchen at Faldor's farm. For all the rest of his life he had a special warm feeling for kitchens and those peculiar sounds and smells that seemed somehow to combine into a bustling seriousness that had to do with love and food and comfort and security and, above all, home. No matter how high Garion rose in life, he never forgot that all his memories began in that kitchen.

What makes Pixar special is that we acknowledge we will always have problems, many of them hidden from our view; that we work hard to uncover these problems, even if doing so means making ourselves uncomfortable; and that, when we come across a problem, we marshal all of our energies to solve it. This, more than any elaborate party or turreted workstation, is why I love coming to work in the morning. It is what motivates me and gives me a definite sense of mission.

These are used solely for Blood Rites. (Leo) Is that like special ed? (Susan)

It’s just… I wish it was easier, for me, you know?” I make a special point not to look at her. “I wish it was someone else who was chosen for this. Someone competent. If only I didn’t stop that robbery. I wish I didn’t have to go through with it all.” It comes gushing out, with words like spilled milk. “And I wish it was me with you and not that other guy. I wish it was my own skin touching with yours…” And there you have it. Stupidity in its purest form. “Oh, Ed.” Audrey looks away. “Oh, Ed.” Our feet dangle. I watch them, and I watch the jeans on Audrey’s legs. We only sit there now. Audrey and me. And discomfort. Squeezed in, between us. She soon says, “You’re my best friend, Ed.” “I know.” You can kill a man with those words. No gun. No bullets. Just words and a girl.

Wow, son. You’re mad retarded.” David whipped his head around and pinned my brother with a lethal glare. “Don’t say that word.” “Sorry.” Raymond kept staring at me. “You’re mad special ed.” David scoffed, and I burst out laughing.

I thought about this for days, just as I thought of the special-ed teacher I met in Pittsburgh. "You know," I said, "I hear those words and automatically think Handicapped, or, Learning disabled. But aren't a lot of your students just assholes?" "You got it," she said. Then she told me about a kid - last day of class - who wrote on the blackboard, "Mrs. J____ is a cock master." I was impressed because I'd never heard that term before. She was impressed because the boy had spelled it correctly.

As a writer, politician, scientist, and businessman, [Ben] Franklin had few equals among the educated of his day—though he left school at ten. (...) Boys like Andrew Carnegie who begged his mother not to send him to school and was well on his way to immortality and fortune at the age of thirteen, would be referred today for psychological counseling; Thomas Edison would find himself in Special Ed until his peculiar genius had been sufficiently tamed.

The problem, as Eric saw it, was natural selection. He had alluded to the concept on his Web site; here he explained—relentlessly. Natural selection had failed. Man had intervened. Medicines, vaccines, and special ed programs had conspired to keep the rejects in the human herd. So Eric was surrounded by inferiors—who would not shut their freaking mouths! How could he tolerate all the miserable chatter?

His stories were not always new, but there was in the telling of them a special kind of magic. His voice could roll like thunder or hush down into a zepherlike whisper. He could imitate the voices of a dozen men at once; whistle so like a bird that the birds themselves would come to him to hear what he had to say; and when when he imitated the howl of a wolf, the sound could raise the hair on the backs of his listeners' necks and strike a chill into their hearts like the depths of a Drasnian winter. He could make the sound of rain and of wind and even, most miraculously, the sound of snow falling.

Over the months since she had joined them, he had seen her attitude toward him change until they had shared a rather specialized kind of friendship. He liked her; she liked him. Everything had been fine up to that point. Why couldn't she just leave it alone? Garion surmised that it probably had something to do with the inner workings of the female mind. As soon as a friendship passed a certain point - some obscure and secret boundary - a woman quite automatically became overwhelmed by a raging compulsion to complicate things.

Ed, once called Aladdin, is the first artificial intelligence I’ve ever known. Maybe if Harry can kill Hiskott and if then I live long enough to see the world become the total science-fiction theme park it seems to be headed toward, I’ll probably know dozens of them one day. Let me tell you, if they’re all as nice as Ed has turned out to be, that’s okay with me.

The Asperger’s child at the gifted meeting is doing well in school, but the Asperger’s child at an autism meeting may be in a poor special ed program, bored, and getting into trouble because adults in his life hold lower expectations of his abilities. Unfortunately, in some cases, people are so hung up on the labels attached to students that they teach to these low expectations and aren’t even curious to learn if the child is actually more capable.

«Pensavo a come ci si debba sentire a essere un prigioniero che va a morire; guardi il sole e il cielo e l'erba e gli alberi, e siccome è l'ultima volta che li vedi, sono meravigliosi, pieni di colori che non avevi mai notato, e intensi e belli ed è terribilmente difficile lasciarli. E poi mettiamo che l'esecuzione sia sospesa, e ti svegli il mattino dopo e non sei morto; riuscirai a guardare il sole e gli alberi e il cielo e pensare che sono il solito vecchio sole, il solito vecchio cielo, i soliti vecchi alberi? Che non hanno niente di speciale, che sono le stesse vecchie cose che hai visto tutto i giorni, solo perché non sei più costretto a rinunciarvi?»

Toyota wasn’t really worried that it would give away its “secret sauce.” Toyota’s competitive advantage rested firmly in its proprietary, complex, and often unspoken processes. In hindsight, Ernie Schaefer, a longtime GM manager who toured the Toyota plant, told NPR’s This American Life that he realized that there were no special secrets to see on the manufacturing floors. “You know, they never prohibited us from walking through the plant, understanding, even asking questions of some of their key people,” Schaefer said. “I’ve often puzzled over that, why they did that. And I think they recognized we were asking the wrong questions. We didn’t understand this bigger picture.” It’s no surprise, really. Processes are often hard to see—they’re a combination of both formal, defined, and documented steps and expectations and informal, habitual routines or ways of working that have evolved over time. But they matter profoundly. As MIT’s Edgar Schein has explored and discussed, processes are a critical part of the unspoken culture of an organization. 1 They enforce “this is what matters most to us.” Processes are intangible; they belong to the company. They emerge from hundreds and hundreds of small decisions about how to solve a problem. They’re critical to strategy, but they also can’t easily be copied. Pixar Animation Studios, too, has openly shared its creative process with the world. Pixar’s longtime president Ed Catmull has literally written the book on how the digital film company fosters collective creativity2—there are fixed processes about how a movie idea is generated, critiqued, improved, and perfected. Yet Pixar’s competitors have yet to equal Pixar’s successes. Like Toyota, Southern New Hampshire University has been open with would-be competitors, regularly offering tours and visits to other educational institutions. As President Paul LeBlanc sees it, competition is always possible from well-financed organizations with more powerful brand recognition. But those assets alone aren’t enough to give them a leg up. SNHU has taken years to craft and integrate the right experiences and processes for its students and they would be exceedingly difficult for a would-be competitor to copy. SNHU did not invent all its tactics for recruiting and serving its online students. It borrowed from some of the best practices of the for-profit educational sector. But what it’s done with laser focus is to ensure that all its processes—hundreds and hundreds of individual “this is how we do it” processes—focus specifically on how to best respond to the job students are hiring it for. “We think we have advantages by ‘owning’ these processes internally,” LeBlanc says, “and some of that is tied to our culture and passion for students.

I had been trying to find some sort of exercise program that wasn’t overly bourgeois, but I was having a problem. Weight-lifting was too obviously fascist in nature. Horseback riding was too imperialistic. I gave a lot of thought to starting a co-ed softball league, but that turns out to be closely tied to beer consumption, and I didn’t need the carbohydrates. I had to do something to improve my health that didn’t compromise my revolutionary ethics. (I went so far as to ask my mother for advice on the subject, and she sent me a link to a Chinese tour company that specialized in re-enactments of the Long March, which sounded fascinating but would take me away from Washington at a pivotal time in history, so I didn’t sign up.)

[ … ] Qui l’autore avrebbe voluto porre una pagina di puntini. − Sarebbe sgraziato −, disse l’editore, − e per uno scritto così frivolo mancar di grazia è la morte. − La politica – obbietta l’autore – è una pietra attaccata al collo della letteratura, che, in mezzo agli interessi dell’immaginazione è come un colpo di pistola in mezzo a un concerto. È un rumore straziante, senza essere energico. Non s’accorda col suono di nessun istrumento. Questa politica offenderà a morte una metà dei lettori, e annoierà l’altra metà che ne ha trovata di ben più speciale ed energica nel giornale del mattino. − Se i nostri personaggi non parlano di politica, non sono i Francesi del 1830 e il vostro libro non è più uno specchio, secondo la vostra pretesa…

There was also a “perverse inverse relationship” between fame and accuracy. The more likely an expert was to have his or her predictions featured on op-ed pages and television, the more likely they were always wrong. Or, not always wrong. Rather, as Tetlock and his coauthor succinctly put it in their book Superforecasting, “roughly as accurate as a dart-throwing chimpanzee.

Piange, senza fermarsi. Piange per tutto ciò che è stato, per tutto ciò che sarebbe potuto diventare, per tutte le ferite che ha subito, per tutta la felicità che ha provato; piange per la vergogna e la gioia di poter essere finalmente un bambino, con tutto il corredo di capricci, insicurezze e bisogni; piange per il privilegio di potersi comportare male ed essere perdonato; piange per il lusso di sentirsi ricoperto di affetto e di attenzioni, di vedersi servire un pranzo ed essere costretto a mangiarlo; piange perché finalmente, dopo una vita intera, riesce a credere alle rassicurazioni di un genitore, a convincersi di essere una persona speciale ai suoi occhi, nonostante tutti i suoi errori e i suoi atteggiamenti odiosi, anzi, proprio per quelli.

According to Shaivism, anupaya may also be reached by entering into the infinite blissfulness of the Self through the powerful experiences of sensual pleasures. This practice is designed to help the practitioner reach the highest levels by accelerating their progress through the sakta and sambhava upayas. These carefully guarded doctrines of Tantric sadhana are the basis for certain practices, like the use of the five makaras (hrdaya) mentioned earlier. The experience of a powerful sensual pleasure quickly removes a person’s dullness or indifference. It awakens in them the hidden nature and source of blissfulness and starts its inner vibration. Abhinavagupta says that only those people who are awakened to their own inner vitality can truly be said to have a heart (hrdaya). They are known as sahrdaya (connoisseurs). Those uninfluenced by this type of experiences are said to be heartless. In his words: “It is explained thus—The heart of a person, shedding of its attitude of indifference while listening to the sweet sounds of a song or while feeling the delightful touch of something like sandalpaste, immediately starts a wonderful vibratory movement. (This) is called ananda-sakti and because of its presence the person concerned is considered to have a heart (in their body) (Tantraloka, III.209-10). People who do not become one (with such blissful experiences), and who do not feel their physical body being merged into it, are said to be heartless because their consciousness itself remains immersed (in the gross body) (ibid., III.24).” The philosopher Jayaratha addresses this topic as well when he quotes a verse from a work by an author named Parasastabhutipada: “The worship to be performed by advanced aspirants consists of strengthening their position in the basic state of (infinite and blissful pure consciousness), on the occasions of the experiences of all such delightful objects which are to be seen here as having sweet and beautiful forms (Tantraloka, II.219).” These authors are pointing out that if people participate in pleasurable experiences with that special sharp alertness known as avadhana, they will become oblivious to the limitations of their usual body-consciousness and their pure consciousness will be fully illumined. According to Vijnanabhairava: “A Shiva yogin, having directed his attention to the inner bliss which arises on the occasion of some immense joy, or on seeing a close relative after a long time, should immerse his mind in that bliss and become one with it (Vijnanabhairava, 71). A yogin should fix his mind on each phenomenon which brings satisfaction (because) his own state of infinite bliss arises therein (ibid., 74).” In summary, Kashmir Shaivism is a philosophy that embraces life in its totality. Unlike puritanical systems it does not shy away from the pleasant and aesthetically pleasing aspects of life as somehow being unspiritual or contaminated. On the contrary, great importance has been placed on the aesthetic quality of spiritual practice in Kashmir Shaivism. In fact, recognizing and celebrating the aesthetic aspect of the Absolute is one of the central principles of this philosophy. — B. N. Pandit, Specific Principles of Kashmir Shaivism (3rd ed., 2008), p. 124–125.

The church is a political body in that it is interested in the common good and not in the sense that it is a political party with members to represent. After evangelical flagship magazine Christianity Today published an op-ed by editor-in-chief Mark Galli supporting President Trump’s impeachment, the president tweeted that the magazine was looking for Democrats “to guard their religion” and that “no President has ever done what I have done for Evangelicals, or religion itself!”7 It not only revealed the president’s view of his relationship with evangelicals but highlighted the attitude many evangelicals share: Christians make political decisions based on what will protect them and their interests. But the church is commissioned to seek the flourishing of our communities, not special privileges for ourselves.

I hate spinach," the President of the United States blurted out. "Not the least bit sorry to see it happen." He spoke these candid words in a hush-hush, closed-door meeting with a "special advisor" from agribusiness giant, AgriNu. "Hate it." The President went on, "You know what else I hate? Peas. Despise peas... and there's so many of them." Edwin Edwards (why do parents do that?), otherwise known as Mr. Ed, leaned back with a sly smile. "What if I told you there was a way to get rid of spinach? And peas? And, at the same time, break open this damned European block to our special genetically modified seeds, allowing us to finally take control of the world market?" The President settled back in his seat, indicating for him to go on. Despite not liking vegetables, the President liked a man with a big appetite.

[A]t least since the late nineteenth century when the primary role in categorising sexual behaviour and naming what is ‘normal’ and what is ‘perverse’ passed, in most industrial societies, from the religious to the medical and scientific professions, we have lived with the notion of distinct categories of people labelled ‘homosexual’ and ‘heterosexual’. (The category ‘homosexual’ was coined by the Viennese writer Karol Benkert in 1869, ‘heterosexual’ emerging somewhat later.) Since that time, new discourses have tried to establish the male ‘homosexual’ as a distinct type of person - as opposed to same-sex attraction or same-sex acts being seen as a potential in everyone. As Peter Tatchell [‘It’s Just a Phase: Why Homosexuality is Doomed’, in Simpson (ed.), Anti-Gay, London: Cassell. 1996] puts it, ‘prior to that time … there were only homosexual acts, not homosexual people … [For] the medieval Catholic Church … homosexuality was not … the special sin of a unique class of people but a dangerous temptation to which any mortal might succumb. This doctrine implicitly conceded the attractiveness of same-sex desire, and unwittingly acknowledged its pervasive, universal potential

Barr decided to write a second letter to Congress, which would detail the special counsel’s principal conclusions. He and his team scanned the Mueller report looking for sentences that they could quote in the letter that summarized the special counsel’s findings or reflected the bottom line. They found the report to be a garbled mess and struggled to find something worth quoting. At one point, O’Callaghan homed in on this line: “While this report does not conclude that the President committed a crime, it also does not exonerate him.” “If we don’t include that, people are going to criticize us,” O’Callaghan said. Barr agreed. “You know what, Ed? That’s a good point. Let’s put that in there,” he said. As they finalized the draft of the letter, O’Callaghan called Aaron Zebley, Mueller’s chief of staff. He told Zebley that Barr would be laying out Mueller’s bottom-line conclusions and asked if he would want to read the draft before it was released. Zebley responded no, telling O’Callaghan that they did not need to see it. Zebley was hoping and assuming that Barr’s letter would quote the summaries the team had spent so much time on. But he didn’t say that to O’Callaghan. Yet again, the Mueller team declined an opportunity to weigh in on how their investigation’s findings would be presented to the public.

They taught him how to milk cows and now they expected him to tame lions. Perhaps they expected him to behave like all good lion tamers. Use a whip and a chair. But what happens to the best lion tamer when he puts down his whip and his chair. Goddamnit! It was wrong. He felt cheated, he felt almost violated. He felt cheated for himself, and he felt cheated for guys like Joshua Edwards who wanted to teach and who didn’t know how to teach because he’d been pumped full of manure and theoretical hogwash. Why hadn’t anyone told them, in plain, frank English, just what to do? Couldn’t someone, somewhere along the line, have told them? Not one single college instructor? Not someone from the board of Ed, someone to orientate them after they’d passed the emergency exam? Not anyone? Now one sonofabitch somewhere who gave a good goddamn? Not even Stanley? Not even Small? Did they have to figure it out for themselves, sink and swim, kill or be killed? Rick had never been told how to stop in his class. He’d never been told what to do with a second term student who doesn’t even know how to write down his own goddamn name on a sheet of paper. He didn’t know, he’d never been advised on the proper tactics for dealing with a boy whose I.Q. was 66, a big, fat, round, moronic 66. He hadn’t been taught about kids’ yelling out in class, not one kid, not the occasional “difficult child” the ed courses had loftily philosophized about, not him. But a whole goddamn, shouting, screaming class load of them all yelling their sonofbitching heads off. What do you do with a kid who can’t read even though he’s fifteen years old? Recommend him for special reading classes, sure. And what do you do when those special reading classes are loaded to the asshole, packed because there are kids who can’t read in abundance, and you have to take only those who can’t read the worst, dumping them onto a teacher who’s already overloaded and those who doesn’t want to teach a remedial class to begin with? And what do you with that poor ignorant jerk? Do you call him on class, knowing damn well he hasn’t read the assignment because he doesn’t know how to read? Or do you ignore him? Or do you ask him to stop by after school, knowing he would prefer playing stickball to learning how to read. And knowing he considers himself liberated the moment the bell sounds at the end of the eighth period. What do you do when you’ve explained something patiently and fully, explained it just the way you were taught to explain in your education courses, explained in minute detail, and you look out at your class and see that stretching, vacant wall of blank, blank faces and you know nothing has penetrated, not a goddamn thing has sunk in? What do you do then? Give them all board erasers to clean. What do you do when you call on a kid and ask “What did that last passage mean?”and the kid stands there without any idea of what the passage meant , and you know that he’s not alone, you know every other kid in the class hasn’t the faintest idea either? What the hell do you do then? Do you go home and browse through the philosophy of education books the G.I bill generously provided. Do you scratch your ugly head and seek enlightenment from the educational psychology texts? Do you consult Dewey? And who the hell do you condemn, just who? Do you condemn elementary schools for sending a kid on to high school without knowing how to read, without knowing how to write his own name on a piece of paper? Do you condemn the masterminds who plot the education systems of a nation, or a state or a city?

Kashmir Shaivism also developed an integrated and effective method of spiritual practice that includes intense devotion, the study of correct knowledge, and a special type of yoga unknown to other systems of practical philosophy. These three approaches are meant to be carefully integrated to produce a strong and vibrant practice. Yoga is the main path that leads to Self-realization, theoretical knowledge saves yogins from getting caught at some blissful but intermediary level of spiritual progress, and devotion provides them the strength and focus with which to digest correctly the powerful results of yoga and so avoid their misuse. This is a practice for both the mind and the heart. The teachings offers offer a fresh and powerful understanding of life that develops the faculties of the mind, while the devotional aspects of Kashmir Shaivism expand the faculties of a student’s heart. Combined together, both faculties help students reach the highest goal to which Shaiva yoga can dead them. The yoga system of Kashmir Shaivism is known as the Trika system. It includes many methods of yoga, which have been classified into three groups known as sambhava, sakta, and anava. Sambhava yoga consists of practices in direct realization of the truth, without making any effort at meditation, contemplation, or the learning of texts. The emphasis is on correct being, free from all aspects of becoming. This yoga transcends the use of mental activity. Sakta yoga consists of many types of practices in contemplation on the true nature of one’s real Self. Anava yoga includes various forms of contemplative meditation on objects other than one’s real Self, such as the mind, the life-force along with its five functions (the five pranas), the physical form along with its nerve-centers, the sounds of breathing, and different aspects of time and space. Trika yoga teaches a form of spiritual practice that is specific to Kashmir Shaivism. This system, along with its rituals, has been discussed in detail in Abhinavagupta’s voluminous Tantraloka, which is one of the world’s great treatises on philosophy and theology. Unlike many other forms of yoga, the Trika system is free from all types of repression of the mind, suppression of the emotions and instincts, and starvation of the senses. It eliminates all self-torturing practices, austere vows or penance, and forcible renunciation. Shaiva practitioners need not leave their homes, or roam as begging monks. Indifference (vairagya) to worldly life is not a precondition to for practicing Trika yoga. Sensual pleasures automatically become dull in comparison with the indescribable experience of Self-bliss. This is a transforming experience that naturally gives rise to a powerful form of spontaneous indifference to worldly pleasures. Finally, regardless of caste, creed, and sex, Trika yoga is open to all people, who through the Lord’s grace, have developed a yearning to realize the truth, and who become devoted to the Divine. — B. N. Pandit, Specific Principles of Kashmir Shaivism (3rd ed., 2008), p. xxiii-xxiv

What makes Pixar special is that we acknowledge we will always have problems, many of them hidden from our view; that we work hard to uncover these problems, even if doing so means making ourselves uncomfortable; and that, when we come across a problem, we marshal all of our energies to solve it.

I gialli sono persone che rivestono un ruolo speciale nella nostra vita,che accarezziamo ed abbracciamo e con cui dormiamo; lasciano il segno nella nostra esistenza, parlare con loro rende migliori e permette di scoprine le lacune. Sono l'anello evolutivo dell'amicizia.

Don't worry special Ed. There's always tomorrow.

Student behavior had been a challenge, Walmsley told me. One girl sometimes got up from her seat to dance across the classroom. A boy with a special-ed diagnosis could answer problems on paper but had trouble speaking up in front of his classmates. On a quiz, he wrote Walmsley a note: “Teacher, you think I’m stupid, but I’m not.” On the wall was a chart showing a ladder, each level representing one behavioral demerit. Step 1 is a warning. At Step 3, a child is sent to the “icebox,” an isolated chair at the back of the classroom. By Step 5, a parent is notified, and the child is removed from the classroom. Each student’s name was written on a wooden clothespin, and as he or she accrued demerits, the pin moved up the ladder. Like Arpino with her kindergarteners, Walmsley spent an extraordinary amount of time policing how his fourth graders sat. Were their eyes “tracking” the teacher? Were pencils resting in the pencil groove of the desk? He didn’t hesitate to give demerits for small infractions. “Remember how I was talking about chocolate milk? How milk and chocolate are our products?” he asked the students, referencing the previous day’s multiplication lesson. When a boy named Anthony answered, “Yes!” he earned a demerit for speaking out of turn. By the end of the period, Anthony’s clothespin had moved up the ladder, and Anthony was sitting in the icebox, scowling.

WHILE I THINK the reasons for postmortems are compelling, I know that most people still resist them. So I want to share some techniques that can help managers get the most out of them. First of all, vary the way you conduct them. By definition, postmortems are supposed to be about lessons learned, so if you repeat the same format, you tend to uncover the same lessons, which isn’t much help to anyone. Even if you come up with a format that works well in one instance, people will know what to expect the next time, and they will game the process. I’ve noticed what might be called a “law of subverting successful approaches,” by which I mean once you’ve hit on something that works, don’t expect it to work again, because attendees will know how to manipulate it the second time around. So try “mid-mortems” or narrow the focus of your postmortem to special topics. At Pixar, we have had groups give courses to others on their approaches. We have occasionally formed task forces to address problems that span several films. Our first task force dramatically altered the way we thought about scheduling. The second one was an utter fiasco. The third one led to a profound change at Pixar, which I’ll discuss in the final chapter. Next, remain aware that, no matter how much you urge them otherwise, your people will be afraid to be critical in such an overt manner. One technique I’ve used to soften the process is to ask everyone in the room to make two lists: the top five things that they would do again and the top five things that they wouldn’t do again. People find it easier to be candid if they balance the negative with the positive, and a good facilitator can make it easier for that balance to be struck. Finally, make use of data. Because we’re a creative organization, people tend to assume that much of what we do can’t be measured or analyzed. That’s wrong. Many of our processes involve activities and deliverables that can be quantified. We keep track of the rates at which things happen, how often something has to be reworked, how long something actually took versus how long we estimated it would take, whether a piece of work was completely finished or not when it was sent to another department, and so on. I like data because it is neutral—there are no value judgments, only facts. That allows people to discuss the issues raised by data less emotionally than they might an anecdotal experience.

Secrecy is contrary to Christianity. Jesus did not found a secret society. When falsely accused of many things before the Sanhedrin, and when the high priest demanded to know His doctrine, Christ specifically stated: "I spoke openly to the world; I always taught in the synagogue and in the temple where the Jews always resort, and in secret have I said nothing."' Moreover, He warned His disciples against secret doctrines and practices with these words: "For nothing is secret that shall not be made manifest.... Therefore whatever you have spoken in darkness shall be heard in the light, and that which you have spoken in the ear in closets shall be proclaimed upon the housetops."29 The Bible declares that the "hidden things" are to be reproved and brought to light,' and that anything done in secret will receive special attention in the judgment.31 As for secret revelations beyond those given in Scripture, the Bible clearly rejects this idea by repeated affirmations of its sufficiency and completeness. For example: All Scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness, that the man of God may be perfect [mature, complete, lacking nothing], thoroughly furnished unto all good works.32 According as his divine power hath given unto us all things that pertain unto life and godliness, through the knowledge of him that hath called us to glory and virtue... .33 If any man shall add unto these things, God shall add unto him the plagues that are written in this book.

Two of my teachers made a huge positive difference for me. One was my football coach who did not think I was a loser, and encouraged me to stay in school and keep trying. The other was a special ed teacher who realized that I had a reading disability but that I wasn’t retarded. She honestly told me that she wasn’t trained to help people with dyslexia but that she knew it existed and that it wasn’t my fault. She knew how hard I was trying. She spent a year teaching me to fill in the blanks on paperwork such as job applications so I would have that skill when I needed it. She also let me leave class early so I could saunter into the lunch room from the direction of the “regular” classrooms so other kids wouldn’t know I was a SPED.” —Eddie—

What makes Pixar special is that we acknowledge we will always have problems,

Nonce Sense {Couplet} Once upon a time there lived a dyslexic dunce who was terrible atorthography. His special ed teachers added a nonce and now he's become a master at cryptography.

«Levi e io facciamo delle cose insieme che non facciamo con nessun altro. Che io non ho mai fatto con nessun altro. Forse dovresti farlo anche tu. Trova qualcuno con cui condividere qualcosa di speciale. Separa la tua vita sessuale reale dallo studio.» Cam aprì la cassa. Avrebbe mentito se avesse affermato di non essersi mai posto delle domande sulla vita sessuale di Sonny e Levi. Sonny era piuttosto dominante ed esigente per essere un bottom e Levi amava avere il controllo. Erano un mix interessante e lui ci aveva riflettuto sopra parecchio. Ma la scelta delle parole di Sonny lo distolse da qualunque pensiero vietato ai minori e non in senso positivo. L’amico parlava sempre di sesso vero come se ci fosse un altro mondo là fuori, lontano dal porno, un mondo che lui aveva dimenticato.

Ms. Bates accompanied me on my search for the special ed. department chair. She looked at the crowds of students in the halls and said she was ready for school to end. “Especially since it's the last year,” she said. “There's a different feel in the air.

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For all the rest of his life he had a special warm feeling for kitchens and those peculiar sounds and smells that seemed somehow to combine into a bustling seriousness that had to do with love and food and comfort and security and, above all, home.

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I’m not Susan Sarandon or George Clooney for one thing.” “Or Ed Asner, who is very special to me. But you are Walt Booth, and you rank right up there. But be careful, Walt. People will think we’re serious.” He grinned at her. “At the risk of scaring you to death, I’m very serious about you, Muriel. And a good relationship is exactly what I’m in the market for. That, and a decent dishwasher.

Breve anteprima del romanzo - ... . Attorno a Parigi c’era una grande foresta, ma quella è una storia proprio precedente a questa, anche se ha uno sfondo comune. I re di Francia venivano unti con un unguento speciale che era conservato nella cattedrale di Reims, e che nessuno sapeva di cosa fosse fatto ed era lo stesso con cui era stato unto Gesù; era un segreto. Sembrano cose molto lontane da quello che è lo spirito cristiano, in realtà ci sono due Chiese; ce n'è una oscura ed una ufficiale con due messaggi differenti ma che sono complementari - *** - ...Gli Egizi erano grandi manipolatori di quel marchingegno che stritola tutti e tutto. La Massoneria proviene dall'Egitto, è nata là. E’ tutta di provenienza egizia; loro avevano un'azione su quel marchingegno che fa accadere le cose - *** - Virginia era proprio ai vertici della Carboneria al tempo del Risorgimento - ripeté - perché qui c’è l’elenco dei nomi di quelli che avevano le fila di questo complotto, lei era a capo della Massoneria femminile, il suo grado era quello più alto, era chiamata Regina del Grande Firmamento - *** Fa parte dello stesso filone di quello dei Templari, quello su Nefertiti. La maggior parte degli archeologi non sa queste cose; che c’è un mistero lì. *** ... . E il concetto di Dio per esempio è l'archetipo del Sé proiettato nel collettivo, cioè è l'Io: l'archetipo dell'Io che si proietta nel collettivo e allora viene fuori il concetto di Dio. *** E la magia consiste nel manipolare questi archetipi in modo sapiente e costruire qualcosa e non lasciarlo al libero gioco delle emozioni perché sono le emozioni che influiscono sul Destino. *** - Perché venivano unti i re di Francia?- - Certo che quelle Chiese finiranno! Finirà tutto con il ritorno del nuovo Re. - Perché in un certo senso una parte passava attraverso di loro. La rivoluzione non è avvenuta così per caso, c'è stato un potere che ha affermato questo, sai? Le due cose dovevano concorrere; sai che alla fine c'è l'Apocalisse, con un messaggio, sempre di Giovanni. E non è una cosa solo così, allegorica, c'è sempre un fatto storico ed uno mitico insieme, vanno lette insieme le cose. Anche lì ci sta un evento, che accadrà - - La Chiesa finirà di esistere?- - Certo che quelle Chiese finiranno! Finirà tutto con il ritorno del nuovo Re. *** - Quanti li vedono così i Misteri? - Rifletté Sveva. - Recitano i Misteri come una litania. La maggior parte li vede e recita così; son tutte donnette che non sanno un tubo di niente. E’ vero? - ***

Our guide wears a helmet of dyed brown curls and a shield of large yellow daisies plastered onto a black sweatshirt.  She frowns us into the Special Ed room. “Visitors are viruses,” Tessy warns. “They cause fevers.” She fires two visitor’s passes our way.  “Clip these on.

Per tutti e per ognuno, l'universo esiste solo perché lui, lei o loro hanno una coscienza con cui concepirlo. Viviamo, perciò, entro i confini della nostra comprensione. Eliminate la coscienza ed eliminerete la grandiosa totalità del mondo.

Well, then here we are,” Beth said. “We’ve got a couple of kids with a couple of kids on the way, and they clearly love each other. What are we going to do?” Susan took a sip of her martini. “I don’t know about you, but I’m not going to rest until I see them married.” Beth threw back her head and laughed loudly, earning a glance from Jack. “I love an ambitious woman. So, I have a favor to ask.” “Sure.” “I know you’ll be zipping down here the second the babies come and I know the mother’s mother gets special privileges. Let me come soon, please. I promise not to crowd the cabin and I’ll do all the shit work without getting in the way.” Susan looked up at the ceiling, thinking. Then she glanced back at Beth. “Give us three days. And I’ll split the snuggling and shit work with you.” Beth put a hand on her arm. “You are a good woman. I made my son-in-law’s mother wait a week.” They both laughed loudly. “Do you think we stand a chance of getting them married before the babies come?” Beth asked. “I don’t know. They seem to have made up their minds about certain things, not that they’re sharing. And Abby’s very stubborn when she’s made up her mind.” “She seems to be perfect for him. Everyone’s entitled to a mistake here and there. Not to mention they have babies coming. Any second…” “Maybe if we put our heads together….” The door to the bar opened and in came Ed Michaels, Chuck McCall, Abby and Cameron. They stood just inside the door and stared at Susan and Beth who had a couple of empty martini glasses apiece sitting at the bar. “Just what are you two up to?” Cameron asked. The women grinned largely and Beth said, “Just getting to know each other, Cameron.” Abby tugged on Cameron’s sleeve to bring his ear down to her lips. “I never once thought it might be worse if they liked each other,” she whispered. “They’re going to be a pot of trouble.” He grinned and slipped a kiss on her lips. “Nothing we can’t handle, baby. Stick with me.” *

What makes Pixar special is that we acknowledge we will always have problems, many of them hidden from our view; that we work hard to uncover these problems,

Somewhere out there, there’s a thing so amazing that you can devote your life to it and never forget how special it is.

One theory is that the Normans who invaded England in 1066 became the ruling class and could afford to eat cows, pigs, and sheep and hence referred to them in their French language, beouf, porc, mouton, whereas the conquered Anglos only raised the cows, pigs, and sheep and hence kept these words for the animals.

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Just because someone owns her doesn't give him any special rights to her person," Silk told him, "and those daggers of hers enforce that. One does not approach a Nadrak woman unless one's tired of living. She makes that decision. The wedding customarily takes place after the birth of her first child." "Why was she so interested in the price?" "Because she gets half," Silk shrugged. "She gets half of the money every time she's sold?" Garion was incredulous. "Of course. It'd hardly be fair otherwise, would it?

Grace means that you and I are special and favorite to God without having to earn it. In other words, we are God’s favorites – and so is everyone else.

Grace is the God-given gift of intended, unearned relationship with Him as His special and favorite daughter or son.

Istruzione, affari e industria, viaggi e logistica, banche, vendita al dettaglio e shopping, intrattenimento, welfare e sanità, politica e relazioni sociali, in breve la vita stessa per come la conosciamo oggi è diventata inconcepibile senza la presenza di pratiche, prodotti, servizi e tecnologie digitali. Chiunque non sia stupito di fronte a una tale rivoluzione digitale non ne ha afferrato la portata. Stiamo parlando di un nuovo capitolo della storia umana. Naturalmente, molti altri capitoli l'hanno preceduto. Erano tutti ugualmente significativi. L'umanità ha sperimentato un mondo prima e dopo la ruota, la lavorazione del ferro, l'alfabeto, la stampa, il motore, l'elettricità, la televisione o il telefono. Ogni trasformazione è unica. Alcune di queste hanno cambiato in maniera irreversibile il modo in cui comprendiamo noi stessi, la nostra realtà e l'esperienza che ne facciamo, con implicazioni complesse e di lungo periodo. Stiamo ancora scoprendo nuovi modi per sfruttare la ruota, basti pensare alla ghiera cliccabile dell'iPod. Al contempo, è inimmaginabile ciò che l'umanità potrà ottenere grazie alle tecnologie digitali. Nessuno nel 1964 (vedi capitolo 1) avrebbe potuto immaginare come sarebbe stato il mondo solo cinquant'anni dopo. I futurologi sono i nuovi astrologi. Eppure, è anche vero che la rivoluzione digitale accade una volta sola, e cioè adesso. Questa particolare pagina della storia umana è stata voltata ed è iniziato un nuovo capitolo. Le generazioni future non sapranno mai com'era una realtà esclusivamente analogica, offline, predigitale. Siamo l'ultima generazione che l'avrà vissuta. Il prezzo di un posto così speciale nella storia lo si paga con incertezze che destano preoccupazioni. Le trasformazioni indotte dalle tecnologie digitali sono sorprendenti. Giustificano un po' di confusione e di apprensione. Basta guardare i titoli dei giornali. Tuttavia, il nostro posto speciale in questo spartiacque storico, tra una realtà completamente analogica e una sempre più digitale, porta con sé anche straordinarie opportunità. Proprio perché la rivoluzione digitale è appena iniziata, abbiamo la possibilità di plasmarla in modi positivi che possono fare progredire sia l'umanità sia il nostro pianeta. Come disse una volta Winston Churchill, "prima siamo noi a dare forma agli edifici; poi sono questi a dare forma a noi". Siamo nella primissima fase di costruzione delle nostre realtà digitali. Possiamo costruirle bene, prima che inizino a influenzare e modellare noi e le generazioni future nel modo sbagliato. La discussione sul bicchiere mezzo vuoto o mezzo pieno è inutile perché la questione davvero interessante è come possiamo riempirlo. Per individuare la strada migliore da percorrere nello sviluppo delle nostre tecnologie digitali, il primo, fondamentale passo è cercare di averne una maggiore e migliore comprensione. Non dovremmo sonnecchiare nella creazione di un mondo sempre più digitale. L'insonnia della ragione è vitale, perché il suo sonno genera errori mostruosi. Comprendere le trasformazioni tecnologiche in atto sotto i nostri occhi è cruciale, se vogliamo guidare la rivoluzione digitale in una direzione che sia preferibile (equa) dal punto di vista sociale e sostenibile da quello ambientale. Ciò può tradursi solo in uno sforzo collaborativo. Pertanto, in questo libro, offro il mio contributo condividendo alcune idee su un particolare tipo di tecnologia digitale, l'intelligenza artificiale (IA), e un problema specifico, la sua etica.

Every touch feels adoring. Special.

I came to see my maternal intuition as a compass pointing true north. Ignoring it could never yield a good result. In those cases where the needle was pointing away from where the experts wanted me to go, I had to trust what I call “mother gut.” I know that if Jake had stayed in special ed, we would have lost him, and this light that now burns so brightly would have been extinguished forever.

«Sei stata bravissima.» Allunga una mano verso di me e mi fa una carezza. «Il pensiero di averli tra le braccia mi ha fatto stringere i denti per il dolore del parto, perché sapevo che la felicità sarebbe stata superiore a questo momento di temporaneo dolore.» Faith è davvero qualcosa di speciale, qualcosa di prezioso, che terrò al sicuro da ogni pericolo. «Sei la donna più forte che abbia mai conosciuto e sei anche quella più bella.» Si mette a ridere divertita. «Anche in questo momento con i capelli sudati?» A me non interessano queste cose. Ha messo al mondo i miei figli, ha stretto i denti durante il parto, non si è mai lamentata durante questi mesi della gravidanza. Per me lei è un’eroina dal cuore enorme. «Certo, sei sempre meravigliosa in ogni istante della tua esistenza. Anche quando non credi di esserlo, ed è questa la vera bellezza.» Mi guarda con lo sguardo malizioso, ma so che è molto contenta delle mie parole. Mi parla con un sorriso deciso. «Sei diventato davvero troppo romantico, mio signore.»

There isn’t a person out there who knows me. Who I truly am. Who I want to be. I’ve never had that special connection where I’m understood. It always feels like there’s a curtain between me and any person I’m talking to, and I worry I’ll always feel this separation from the world. Like I’m an extra piece to a jigsaw puzzle, discarded and forgotten under the couch, while everyone else clicks with their matching corners.

They sit on the surface of cells, grabbing specific molecules that float past. Through their actions, cells can detect and react to the substances around them. This process is temporary: After the GPCRs are done, they either release or destroy the molecules that they’ve grabbed. But one group of them bucks this trend: opsins. They are special because they keep hold of their target molecules, and because those molecules absorb light. This is the entire basis of vision. This is how all animals see—using light-sensitive proteins that are actually modified chemical sensors. In a way, we see by smelling light. Skip

At the same time, a single-issue current 10 Year Note can get very Special, and no one likes to pay the Special Repo rates. Thus, the dilemma. Traders want to be short the current issue and buy it back at the reopening auction. However, if too many shorts roll into the current issue, it will trade extremely Special. It’s a game of cat and mouse. “Did the shorts roll forward?” When all the stars are aligned, there’s a deep short base in the 10 year sector, and a majority of the shorts roll into the new issue. That’s when a severe shortage occurs. Most 10 Year Notes won’t trade extremely Special, but when one does, it can be big! The graph below illustrates the 1.125% 2/15/2031 as a current 10 Year Note. During the week before the first reopening settled, it averaged below -3.00%, and even traded as low as -4.25% one day.

In general, outside of the auction cycle, 2 Year Notes accumulate the most shorts when the market expects the Fed to raise rates or there are a lot of yield curve flattening trades. “Flatteners” mean the Street is expecting short-term rates to rise relative to long-term rates. Proprietary trading groups will short-sell the 2 Year Note and buy the 10 Year Note against it. Given that the duration of the 10 Year Note is about five times greater than the 2 Year Note, it means that they are short-selling about five times as many 2 Year Notes as 10 Year Notes to be correctly risk weighted. When big hedge funds are in this trade, the 2 Year Note can get extremely Special.

Credo di non aver ancora mai detto cosa provo davvero per Charlotte: diciamo che lei mi strappa il cuore e lo infila in un forno a microonde, poi lo guarda mentre diventa bollente ed esplode. Quando sto con lei sento il sangue scorrere caldo e denso nelle vene. E' una cosa bellissima. Molti potrebbero pensare che non abbia nulla di speciale. E avrebbero ragione. Ma lei è davvero speciale, perché nessuna prima era riuscita a farmi quel giochetto del forno a microonde.

Judah Karkowsky’s executive expertise is specialized in the EdTech sector.

Since you’re incapable of doing your damn job, I’m gonna go get your piece-of-shit nephew for you. I know he’s the one that’s been doing all of this, and so do you,” Fox snarled. “Nod your damn head.” The sheriff shifted his eyes uneasily around the room before he gave a stiff jerk of his neck. “I got you by the balls, Thompson. So, when I pull your leash, motherfucker, you better bark.” The sheriff’s teeth were clenched when he choked out, “What does that mean?” “It means that when I call you… you better fuckin’ answer. And Newt’s arrest better be made.

It must not be supposed that this kind of treatment is reserved by the Communists exclusively for their enemies. The young field workers, whose business it was, during the first years of the new regime, to act as Communist missionaries and organizers in China's innumerable towns and villages were made to take a course of indoctrination far more intense than that to which any prisoner of war was ever subjected. In his China under Communism R. L. Walker describes the methods by which the party leaders are able to fabricate out of ordinary men and women the thousands of selfless fanatics required for spreading the Communist gospel and for enforcing Communist policies. Under this system of training, the human raw material is shipped to special camps, where the trainees are completely isolated from their friends, families and the outside world in general. In these camps they are made to perform exhausting physical and mental work; they are never alone, always in groups; they are encouraged to spy on one another; they are required to write self-accusatory autobiographies; they live in chronic fear of the dreadful fate that may befall them on account of what has been said about them by informers or of what they themselves have confessed. In this state of heightened suggestibility they are given an intensive course in theoretical and applied Marxism—a course in which failure to pass examinations may mean anything from ignominious expulsion to a term in a forced labor camp or even liquidation. After about six months of this kind of thing, prolonged mental and physical stress produces the results which Pavlov's findings would lead one to expect. One after another, or in whole groups, the trainees break down. Neurotic and hysterical symptoms make their appearance. Some of the victims commit suicide, others (as many, we are told, as 20 per cent of the total) develop a severe mental illness. Those who survive the rigors of the conversion process emerge with new and ineradicable behavior patterns. All their ties with the past—friends, family, traditional decencies and pieties—have been severed. They are new men, recreated in the image of their new god and totally dedicated to his service.

Ed told them they were special. They were exceptional. Everyone became an expert. Everyone was smarter than everyone else. If they had doubts, that’s because they knew something in their gut. Something God was telling them, something they knew as patriots, something they understood because their blood was strong. Don’t let anyone tell you different. Don’t let anyone take anything from you. Arm yourselves. Get what’s yours and once you got it, fight like hell to keep it—fuck the rest of them. Ever and ever, amen. Idiots.

A particularly inspiring story was told by a mother whose autistic son just wanted to play with shapes and shadows. He was failing in his “Special Ed” program, where he was being forced to do things he didn’t want to do. She found that the more she encouraged him to do what he enjoyed, the more his shell cracked open. And when she followed his interests and made resources available to him to support those interests, he began to talk and to thrive. When he was three years old, she was told that he would never talk. At eleven years of age, he enrolled in a university and began studying mathematics.

WHILE I THINK the reasons for postmortems are compelling, I know that most people still resist them. So I want to share some techniques that can help managers get the most out of them. First of all, vary the way you conduct them. By definition, postmortems are supposed to be about lessons learned, so if you repeat the same format, you tend to uncover the same lessons, which isn’t much help to anyone. Even if you come up with a format that works well in one instance, people will know what to expect the next time, and they will game the process. I’ve noticed what might be called a “law of subverting successful approaches,” by which I mean once you’ve hit on something that works, don’t expect it to work again, because attendees will know how to manipulate it the second time around. So try “mid-mortems” or narrow the focus of your postmortem to special topics. At Pixar, we have had groups give courses to others on their approaches. We have occasionally formed task forces to address problems that span several films. Our first task force dramatically altered the way we thought about scheduling. The second one was an utter fiasco. The third one led to a profound change at Pixar, which I’ll discuss in the final chapter.

On “theatricality” as a descriptor, see the essays in the special issue “Theatricality,” ed. Josette Feral, Sub-Stance 31, nos. 2, 3, 2002; the collection edited by Tracy Davis and Thomas Postlewait, Theatricality (Cambridge University Press, 2004); Erika Fischer-Lichte, “Introduction” to “Theatricality: A Key Concept in Theatre and Cultural Studies,” Theatre Research International, 20, no. 2, 1995: 97–105; And Samuel Weber, Theatricality as Medium (New York: Fordham University Press,

You're never as bad as you think you are and certainly never as good. Keep your head about you. Strive every single day to be better than yesterday and even better tomorrow. Don't get caught in the trap of thinking you are something special.

Once, after one of our special effects software guys resigned, he wrote me an email containing two complaints. First, he said, he didn’t like that his job involved cleaning up so many little problems caused by the new software. Second, he wrote, he was disappointed that we weren’t taking more technical risks in our movies. The irony was that his job was to help solve problems that arose precisely because we were taking a major technical risk by implementing new software systems. The mess that he encountered—the reason he quit—was, in fact, caused by the complexity of trying to do something new. I was struck by how he didn’t understand that taking a risk necessitated a willingness to deal with the mess created by the risk. So:

In April 2016, the UN General Assembly held a special session on drugs, in anticipation of which former Secretary General Kofi Annan called for the decriminalization of all drugs for personal use, the increase in treatment options for drug abusers, the implementation of harm-reduction strategies such as needle exchange programs, and a focus on regulation and public education, rather than criminalization. In an op-ed in the Huffington Post, Annan wrote, “It is time to acknowledge that drugs are infinitely more dangerous if they are left solely in the hands of criminals who have no concerns about health and safety. Legal regulation protects health.

«Quando c'è una difficoltà non è indispensabile saper fare grandi cose, basta che uno abbia coraggio e faccia la cosa che sa fare» disse Salvo. «Ognuno di noi deve sognare di fare grandi cose, ed essere unico e cercare di diventare speciale, ma ci sarà sempre il momento in cui gli servirà l'aiuto di qualcuno» disse Miriam.