Tag: James Sherlock
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Dominion’s Planned Offshore Wind Farm Need Not – and Must Not – Be Built Where Planned
by James C. Sherlock I am referring in the title, of course, to Dominion Power’s Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind (CVOW) project to be located in the hatched area below. It is planned for one of the U.S. Department of the Interior’s (DI) Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) offshore wind farm lease areas. Lease areas…
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Offshore Wind Turbines and Submarine Warfare
by James C. Sherlock Upon investigation of open source literature, I find that offshore wind turbines are less noisy than I imagined. But they present obstacles nonetheless, both physically and acoustically. United States submarine and anti-submarine efforts, operationally, in Navy labs, and in industry are led by some of our best and brightest. That is…
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A Primatologist at The Washington Post
by James C. Sherlock And they wonder why they are hated by people outside the bubble. A story by Stephanie McCrummen in The Washington Post, “In rural Georgia, an unlikely rebel against Trumpism,” comes across as an attempt at Hillbilly Elegy as written by a primatologist. Primatologists study primates in order to understand their evolution…
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Why Does Princeton Have All the Luck?
by James C. Sherlock Cavalier Daily, where are you? There is an article in The Daily Princetonian that is, end-to-end, utterly beyond satire. It’s title: “3 Princeton DEI staff members resign, alleging lack of support.” Where to begin? The “Prince” offers in a single posting Homeric tales of the peripatetic journeys of three school officials…
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Red States Have Significantly Higher Percentages of Minors than Blue States
by James C. Sherlock The Census Bureau yesterday released part of its 2022 population estimates. It showed marked differences in the percentages of children and adolescents under 18 among the states, Puerto Rico and the District of Columbia. Adults in red states are raising more children on average than those in blue states. And it…
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FOIA Council Responds on Request to UVa for Threat Assessment Team Records on Shooter
by James C. Sherlock On Sunday I asked the FOIA Council to provide an advisory opinion on the University of Virginia’s decision that information about that school’s threat assessment team deliberations in the case of the November shooter, Christopher Jones, will not be released as I requested. I received the answer this afternoon, which is…
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Democrats Allege Democratic Party Suppressed Democratic Voters in Democratic Primary
by James C. Sherlock It must be Republicans’ fault. Bill Atkinson of the Progress Index reported yesterday that Tavorise Marks, a candidate, Hopewell businessman and local civil-rights advocate, claimed to have witnessed voter suppression in Wednesday’s Democratic primary for the open House of Representatives seat in Virginia 04. That he, Marks, a Democrat, had seen…
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Authority of Virginia Principals to Keep Schools Safe is Dangerously Undermined
by James C. Sherlock At St. Anthony school when I was a student, Sister Mary Adria was the final decision authority. The only one, really. Sister Adria was the principal. There was no division staff, for the simple reason that there was no division. I guess parents could have appealed to the pastor, but we…
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Why Aren’t Children Learning in Petersburg Public Schools?
by James C. Sherlock Why aren’t Black children, on average, learning in Virginia public schools? You have heard and perhaps internalized all of the excuses. Cue the historical/social/cultural/economic theories. They are all interesting. And exhaustively pursued. And irrelevant. Black children in many Virginia urban public schools are not being taught properly in environments conducive to…
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The Woke Attack Black George Mason Astrophysicist for Disrupting the Narrative
by James C. Sherlock In WokeWorld, research will result in fierce attacks if it does not align with the “narrative.” Even if that research is by George Mason professor and astrophysicist Dr. Hakeem Oluseyi, who is president of the National Society of Black Physicists. The New York Times, in an article by free speech and expression…
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Dead Students, UVa, and the Virginia Freedom of Information Act – Part One – Only One Client
by James C. Sherlock Updated Dec. 18 at 16:30 The deck is stacked against the press, at least in the first step. The University of Virginia, unsurprisingly, considers it not in its interests to release information to the press about the work of its threat assessment team in the case of Christopher Darnell Jones. Mr.…
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Junior ROTC – Important to Students, High Schools, Society and the National Defense
by James C. Sherlock Richmond Senior High School (RSHS) is a 1,200-student grades-10-to-12 school in the Sandhills Region of North Carolina. Its mission, vision and belief statements genuflect at none of the shrines of progressive dogma. Not a single one. Minority enrollment is 57% of the student body (majority Black), which is higher than the…
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Can Threat Assessment Teams Function in Schools Practicing PBIS?
by James C. Sherlock Last I read, Attorney General Miyares’ Loudoun County special grand jury is still empaneled. There is another matter worthy of investigation in the cases of the rapes of two school girls in Loudoun County high schools. That is the matter of the threat assessment teams (TATS) in each school. The special…
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Buta Biberaj’s Hot Potatoes
by James C. Sherlock I admit it. I hope the cases against the two Loudoun County school officials actually go to trial. The indictments for misconduct by school system officials surrounding the rapes of two school girls seem to require it to assign accountability. But left-wing icon Commonwealth’s Attorney Buta Biberaj is in a hard…
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Public Education and the Management of Change
by James C. Sherlock Peter Drucker’s famous five questions should always be asked by and of government. What is the mission? Who is the customer? What does the customer consider valuable? What are the results sought and how are they to be measured? What is the plan, to include both abandonment and innovation? So, in…