Update your bill (all of them) progress.

Reflect on:
The
current situation for the health care bill in the Senate. What is
happening? What happened over the weekend? What is the path forward for
potential passage?

National Bill, H.R. 2078: Nothing else has happened since this bill was referred to the subcommittee on Workforce Protections on June 4, 2009.         

 State Bill, H.B. 349: No action has taken place regarding the state bill. It was re-committed to Appropriations on April 23, 2009, but that is still the latest thing to happen to the state bill.            

City Council Bill, 090569: My tracked bill forr the city council has been passed. It was passed by the council on October 29, 2009. Then, city council bill 090569 was signed into law by mayor Nutter on November 4, 2009. In order to get this bill passed, the democrats in the Senate must find a way to convince the Republicans that having public option in health care would not destroy what we have had for all these years and throw our country into calamity. 

Reflection: I think the senate needs to just go ahead and pass the health care bill with public option. We need to get out of this recession as soon as possible, and this bill to reform our health care can help, so why not pass it? The Senate decided to move the health care reform bill to the Senate floor over the weekend. 

Today when I went out to the polling facility, I quickly noticed that the election scenario this year was hardly like that of last year at all. There were no lines, and not a huge amount of people streaming in and out of the facility. The only similarity between this and last year's election that I saw was that the same people were overseeing/facilitating the voting process, such as Ms. Terry. Connor. From what I understand, today's election scene is much less active than last year's because citizens are voting for individuals for positions that aren't as high as president and vice president. For example, here in Pennsylvania, the election was for Supreme Court judges/justices, the retention of already serving Supreme Court officials, and also for election judges, which Terry was one of the candidates for. So, I would say that because less authoritative figures are being elected today, everyone isn't't as interested in the election, making the voter turnout  lower and causing the facilities to receive less activity. In New Jersey, however, the new governor is being elected, so I would assume the activity is of a higher level over there. For Pennsylvania, it's simply a drop in the frequency of business regarding this year's election due to decreased priority in people's eyes. 

National, H.R. 2078= Nothing else has happened.

State, H.B. 249= No further action has taken place so far.

City Council, Bill 090569= This bill was scheduled to be part of the focus for the meeting we went to on 10/22/09, but the motion was passd to suspend its decision until next meeting, along with several of the other bills that were supposed to get decided on this week.

National Bill, H.R. 2078: No ore action has been taken regarding this bill since June 4, 2009.

State Bill, H.B. 349: Nothing has happened sinc eit was recommitted to Appropriations on April 23, 2009.

City Council Bill, 090569: Nothing else happened with this one since last week, and the next meeting for it is still scheduled for 10/22/09.

If I could have just one of my bills pass, I would want it to be the national one, H.R. 2078. Since it establishes a national comission for studying employment and economic insecurity, it would allow us to better understand our problems regarding finance and available occupations for our citizens. If we understand our problems well through this comission that can possibly be established, then more legislation to assist America and bring us out of a recession faster will come as a result. 

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House Bill, H.R. 2078: Nothing else has taken place regarding this bill.

 State Bill, H.B. 349: Nothing else happened with this one so far either. 

Philadelphia City Council, 090569: Something happened. My city council bill was reported favored favorably after its recent meeting, and a rule suspension has been requested. The next meeting regardign my city council bill is scheduled for October 22, 2009. 

As far asthe national leevel is concerned, my bill about an association to study employment and economic security is more than likely not getting the required attention because of the health care situation. That is due to the fact that health care is currently the most important aspect of our country's organization in the eyesof our legislators. The focus of our government, at least nationally at the moment, is on health care and recovering frm our recession. 

House Bill= H.R. 2078: Nothing else has happened with this bill yet. It may still see action, but at this point it's probably not very likely.

Senate Bill, H.B. 349: The last action was still when it got re-committed to Appropriations on April 23, 2009. No further action has been taken with this bill either.

City Council Bill, 090569: Nothing happened since this bill was referred to the Committee on Streets and Services on September 1, 209. As far as I know, its next meeting scheduled for October 12, 2009 is still going to happen.

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Oak , Manali . "Why is Education So Important? ." Buzzle.com, Intelligent Life on the Web  may 30 2008 1. 15 Jan 2009 <http://www.buzzle.com/articles/why-is-education-so-important.html >.

    The gist of this article is why it is good to stay in school and maintain an education. It talks about what people will gain from an education and how maintaining one will lead to a better life.

Beekman , nancy . "The Dropout's Perspective on Leaving School. ." ERIC Digest 1. 15 Jan 2009 <http://www.ericdigests.org/pre-927/leaving.htm>.

As indicated by the article’s title, this source looks more into the reasoning behind dropouts becoming dropouts and what they have to say about their own situations/decisions to drop out.

Hawke , Patricia . "Philadelphia Schools Aid High School Dropouts." streetdirectory.com 1. 15 Jan 2009 <http://www.streetdirectory.com/travel_guide/14698/education/philadelphia_schools_partner_with_the_community_college_of_philadelphia_to_aid_high_school_dropouts.html >.

    This is an editorial about dropouts in Philadelphia in and a program that has been devised to help them out. It talks about how many people have dropped out in the past, and schools making an effort so aid them in their lives and possibly lead them back to finishing school.

"How The Public Schools Are Failing Our Children -- The Drop Out Problem."  The Social Venture Capital Foundation, Inc. (SVCF) 4 . 15 Jan 2009 <http://www.seedsofchange.org/schools_failing_dropouts.htm>.

    The article is a detailed list of certain key problems/issues relating to the schools, but not only geared towards Philadelphia and dropouts. It provides the problems, then the sources where the information for those problems came from, and finally, the solutions to those problems as determined by the SFVC.

The Philadelphia Inquirer , "Editorial | School Dropouts." Bnet October 2006 1. 15 Jan 2009 <http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_kmtpi/is_/ai_n16971984>.

    For one thing, this article is from the Philadelphia inquirer, which good because it relates to the location of the dropout issue my team (Lonnie and I) is focusing on. The only thing is that the whole article isn’t viewable unless you have a Bnet account. However, the part I can see still contains useful information.

    This article is obviously important because it relates to Philly. Basically, the article can be informational and equally as argumentative because of the way it presents it’s support. But also, it throws the issue out at you with quotes like this:

Grey , Barry . "High school drop-out rate in major US cities at nearly 50 percent." World Socialist Web Site  April 3 2008 1 . 15 Jan 2009 <http://www.wsws.org/articles/2008/apr2008/scho-a03.shtml>.

    This article explains a report by an educational advocacy group founded by Colin Powell. The report was about a study conducted in the 50 largest U.S cities to find their dropout rates and show how bad the situation is from a more statistical standpoint.

"http://www.nea.org/home/18106.htm." National Education Association  1. 15 Jan 2009 <http://www.nea.org/home/18106.htm >.

    Plain and simple, this is the National Education Associations plan for reducing the school dropout rate. It is a 12 point plan that provides what the article claims to be “the most promising actions supported by experience and data.” Some of the points include establishing high school graduation centers, increasing education relating to careers and programs for workforce readiness, and especially important, early action to get students on track before they drop out.

Mezzacappa , Dale . "On dropouts, Nutter promises results." Philadelphia Public School, The Notebook  Spring 2008 1. 15 Jan 2009 <http://www.thenotebook.org/editions/2008/spring/on_dropouts.htm>.

    In The Notebook’s article, mayor Nutter discusses his plans to help reduce the dropout rate over the next 5-7 years, and his plans are briefly analyzed. A multitude of Nutter’s direct quotes are present in this article, and a little of his relation to Project U-Turn is touched on.

"Philadelphia's Project U-Turn: Citywide Efforts to Address the Dropout Crisis ." AmericanYouth Policy Forum  March 8 2007 1. 15 Jan 2009 <http://www.aypf.org/forumbriefs/2007/fb030807.htm>.

The American Youth Policy Forum’s article is a combination of sorts. First it gives statistical analysis of the dropout rate in Philadelphia. Following that is information on other people in different groups/organizations who are part of Project U-Turn and/or trying to address it. This article basically is an overview on what’s going on with dropouts.

Nijmie , "Mayor Nutter to Give First Education Policy Address." Young Philly Politics  Sept 10 2008 1. 15 Jan 2009 <http://youngphillypolitics.com/topics/dropout_rate>.

    This source is basically a brief analyzing of mayor Nutter’s plans to address the issue of Philadelphia’s dropout rate of around 45%. It talks about his Education Policy Address for Thursday, September 11 2008 (article came before actual address). The article basically provides an opinion on how mayor Nutter can effectively handle the problem and the author’s opinion on what he has planned to do already.

The experimenting has died down in a sense because everyone is getting ready to go on Winter Break. Currently, we are planning on doing further experiments relating to our sunlight angles. After break, we will more than likely redo the Clinometers experiments if we need better accuracy, or try another form of experiment if need be.

After performing our sunlight angle experiment with the Clinometers (I found out the proper name for them), we found the average sunlight angles. The average angle that sunlight hits our school from the West is 20°. The average angle East of our school is 30°. Using this data, we will know effective angles to set up solar panels on our schools roof so that we can potentially collect as much energy/power/electricity as possible to help towards making our school Green in the future. 

We have come to an agreement in class on what type of experiment to perform. In order to find the sunlight angles, we will be doing an experiment based on our 9th grade Geometry projects. We will have a viewing tube attached to protractors with sting and weights. As we look up to see the tops of the buildings where sunlight, the weight will pull the string down and show us the angle at which sunlight hits our school. Each group will have their own viewing/angle device and use it to find the sunlight angles at several different points to get an average sunlight angle in the polar directions, east and west from our school.

Now, we are in the midst of finding where the sun strikes the school at different positions. We are discussing how to set up an experiment that will allow us to find the angles that sunlight hits SLA with relative accuracy. Since there are many other buildings around the school, many taller in fact, we know the sunlight angles will be different depending on where we look, so we are also discussing a way to address this in our experiments.

Today, our group managed to greatly improve on our experiments from last class. We managed to further compare different potential sources of energy to the miniature solar panels. This was done by hooking up an ammeter to a grapefruit, then the solar panel, then a battery. We found that the battery was the best source of electricity, but we know that the solar panel would last much longer since it can get recharged very easily by the sun and won’t need to be replaced. Overall, I think our second class with the miniature solar panel turned out well.

In Engineering class, we have started an experiment to see whether or not miniature sized solar panels could be useful and efficient to our class, and potentially the world. The group I was part of managed to compare the electricity potentially produced by the mini solar panel, versus that of a grapefruit. It turned out that the grapefruit gave off more electricity than the mini-solar panel, but this is more than likely because there was not a great multitude of light outside and the lights of the room were our main source for the panels. However, we will attempt to improve this upon our next class and try to achieve better results.

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11/5/08
    
        Dear President Barack Obama,
I am very glad to see someone such as yourself come into the White house, especially in these troubled times. Just to get things straight, the fact that you are of African American origin is not a factor as to why I believe you are our country’s best choice right now. It is your policies and strategies that I believe will help get America back on its feet. On another note, I read the email Ralph Nader sent you attempting to expose your so-called cowardice. This has not shaken my view of you at all and only strikes me as a desperate cry from a dirty politician to start drama over a victorious candidate. But alas, let’s move on to why I am writing this letter.