Comments on: Decatur Won’t Participate in Atlanta Bike Share Program For Now

By: atlpaddy

atlpaddy — Fri, 07 Mar 2014 20:04:58 +0000

Agreed. I prefer to view my misspellings and grammatical errors as blows against tyranny, a la Noah Webster.

By: At Home in Decatur

At Home in Decatur — Fri, 07 Mar 2014 18:36:45 +0000

Fascinating. Of note, many competitive colleges are “test-optional” now. They felt that this move would encourage more diversity in applicants. Evidently, the colleges think that they can use grades, recommendations, and maybe course rigor–e.g. how many AP courses you too–to make equally good judgments about college performance. Some even have collected data that back up their conclusions. I’m still adjusting to what seems like a radical idea. I worry that the “softer” data are more open to subjective and biased interpretation. But the “objective” measures turn out not to be so objective anyway.

By: Rick Julian

Rick Julian — Fri, 07 Mar 2014 02:54:54 +0000

interesting. so much depends on their definition of advertising. in my opinion, the arrangement NYC has with Citi is one of branding, not advertising—the (only) creative they’re allowed is their logo and brand color, which is nothing to sniff at: over 42,000, blue Citi Bike trips happen each day in NYC, and on a relative scale, our bikes would offer a similar quality of brand exposure here.

my friends at Coca-Cola are looking for ways to activate associations of health with their cola brand(s). i can’t think of a more compelling way to accomplish that locally than sponsoring a fleet of 100 red Commi Bikes for the Peoples Republic of Decatur.

viva la revolutions!

By: smalltowngal

smalltowngal — Fri, 07 Mar 2014 00:04:31 +0000

The test was originally designed to be administered to students who had already been admitted to college, for purposes of guidance and counseling. (It was based on an IQ test used by the army in WW I to determine which soldiers were officer material.) Mostly vocabulary, with some math questions and some that had to do with identifying shapes. In the 1930s, Harvard got a middle-class president who wanted to recruit public school students from the Midwest, to dilute the upper-crustiness. He started using the SAT to award scholarships. The other Ivies jumped on the bandwagon, a few decades later Kaplan started selling test prep, and the whole thing turned into a huge industry. Ironically, it wound up becoming the kind of socio-economic barrier that old Harvard president had been trying to counteract.

See “The Big Score” in the March 3 New Yorker.

By: FM Fats

FM Fats — Thu, 06 Mar 2014 23:41:20 +0000

My sincere apology for the thread hijack.

By: FM Fats

FM Fats — Thu, 06 Mar 2014 22:39:48 +0000

Don’t get me started on the proper use of “momentarily”.

By: FM Fats

FM Fats — Thu, 06 Mar 2014 22:38:54 +0000

No. It’s the title of my memoir.