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Social media is a part of everyday life, but some employers have guidelines about what's acceptable, including several school districts.
Tamoco Hill's been teaching for 13 years, but she embraces technology with every lesson at Twiggs County High.
She uses a site called Edmodo. It's like Facebook, but for the classroom.
"I post assignments or a quiz or a discussion, and students go in and they post it," Hill said.
To get her students on board and ready to use the online platform, she had teach them digital responsibility.
Hill holds them to the same standards she holds herself to, both professionally and personally.
"If I have any idea or thought that something could be taken negatively, then my first thought is don't post it," Hill said.
That's exactly what Twiggs Superintendent Elgin Dixon hopes all his teachers will do.
He says his employees go through annual training about what's acceptable on social media.
Dixon says he holds all of them accountable since they've had the training.
"We will first hear both sides of the story. Once we hear both sides of the story, we will make an administrative ruling concerning it and we'll make a determination based upon the facts," Dixon said.
He says they haven't had a problem in Twiggs, and he hopes they never do.
Dixon says he knows there's a fine line between what's acceptable and what's not.
"Its easy to cross, so I always advise my staff, 'Don't do anything on social media that you wouldn't want shown on WMAZ,'" Dixon said.
That's what Hill hopes to instill in her students, too.
"Whatever you put, it's there forever, so if you want to be known for these crazy things and foolish things that you do outside of class, be mindful that they can come back and hurt you," Hill said.
Here are the social media policies for teachers in Bibb and Houston Counties:
Bibb County:
SOCIAL MEDIA Goal four of the strategy map speaks to a reliable organization. The employees' attitude and behavior, both in and out of the work environment as well as content and comments on social media, influence the community's attitude and perception of the schools and the District. As an employee of the BCSD, it is imperative that you represent the District in a positive manner; you are a role model for all students. At all times, employees' actions should reflect the District's core values: competency, open communication, defined autonomy, honor, and loyalty. Employees who act unprofessionally or in a manner that diminishes their ability to positively lead and impact the lives of children, or their ability to be viewed as a positive role model may by subject to disciplinary action up to and including termination.
Houston County:
The Houston County Board of Education (HCBOE) uses social media as one of many communication tools. These guidelines provide direction for employees who participate in online social media activities.
Whether or not an employee chooses to participate in a blog, wiki, online social network or any other form of online publishing or discussion is his or her own decision. Free speech protects individuals who want to participate in social media, but the laws and courts have ruled that school districts can discipline employees if their speech, including personal online postings, disrupts school operations. It is important to create an atmosphere of trust and individual accountability. Keep in mind that information produced by HCBOE employees is a reflection on the entire district and is subject to Board Policy IFBG, Internet Acceptable Use. Personal postings, even if marked private, may also be subject to relevant HCBOE policies and procedures, as well as to relevant local, state and federal laws. By accessing, creating or contributing to any blogs, wikis, podcasts or other social media for classroom or district use, you agree to abide by these guidelines. Please read them carefully before participating in any social media application.
What is Social Media?
Social media is user-created content posted online in a collaborative environment where users share opinions, knowledge and information with each other. Tools include, but are not limited to: Social Networking sites (Facebook, Google+, Ning, MySpace, YouTube, LinkedIn, etc.) Photo and Video Sharing sites (YouTube, Flickr, Shutterfly, etc.)
Podcasting and Vodcasting Blogs (Blogger, WordPress, etc.) Social Bookmarking (Diigo, Delicious) Wikis (Wikispaces, Google Sites, etc.)
Appropriate Response to "Friend" Requests
The lines between public and private, personal and professional are blurred in the digital world. By virtue of identifying yourself as a HCBOE employee online, you are now associated and connected with colleagues, students, parents and the school community in general. Use these connections wisely and well. You should also ensure that content associated with you is consistent with your work at HCBOE and your role as a public school/State employee.
Engaging in personal social-networking friendships on Facebook or other social networking sites is prohibited with students and strongly discouraged with parents or guardians of students. The district recognizes that Houston County is a tight-knit community and that staff members may have family members who are parents or students. However, the district cautions staff members against engaging in personal social-networking friendships with these individuals while the student is a member of the HCBOE. Instead, the district recommends that you use your official, school or system page instead. A suggested response for "friend" requests by parents or students follows.
Recommendation for responses to "friend" requests on staff personal pages:
If you are a student or parent requesting to be my "friend," please do not be surprised or
offended that I ignore your request. As an employee of the Houston County School System,
district procedures and practices discourage me from "friending" students or parents on
my personal pages. I would encourage you to "like" our school's and/or Houston County
School System Facebook pages instead. Thank you for your understanding.
Personal Responsibility
The Houston County School System encourages district employees with a personal online
presence to be mindful of the information they post. One's online behavior should reflect
the same professional and personal standards of honesty, respect and consideration that one
uses face-to-face and in work-related settings.
Be aware that even if you delete personal information, it may still be stored on the website's
server for a longer period of time.
There can be no realistic expectation of privacy on the World Wide Web, even if marked
"private." For example, "friends" may copy and paste your information and send it to
You are responsible for learning the appropriate security settings for any social media
(personal or professional) that you may use. Ensure that the settings are such that any
personal content may only be viewed by your intended audience. Be aware that, even if your
privacy settings are set properly, it is still possible for anyone who you've allowed to see
your profile to copy and paste text and send it to someone else. It is also easy for others to
"tag" or identify you in photos that they publish with or without your knowledge and
permission. Similarly, if you enable settings such as Facebook's ability to allow "friends of
friends" to view your content, it is extremely likely that unintended viewers will have
access to pictures and other personal content.
It is inappropriate to use e-mail, text messaging, instant messaging or social networking sites
to discuss with a student a matter that does not pertain to school-related activities.
Appropriate discussions would include the student's homework, class activity, school sport or
club or other school-sponsored activity. Electronic communications with students are to be
sent simultaneously to multiple recipients, not to just one student, except where the
communication is clearly school-related and inappropriate for persons other than the
individual student to receive (for example, e-mailing a message about a student's grades).
Material that employees post on social networks that is publicly available to those in the
school community must reflect the professional image applicable to the employee's position
and not impair the employee's capacity to maintain the respect of students and
parents/guardians or impair the employee's ability to serve as a role model for children.
Professional Responsibility
While social media can be a powerful communication tool and an educational tool for
students and parents, HCBOE employees are personally responsible for the content
they publish online. Be mindful that what you publish will be public for a long time—
protect your privacy.
Remember that social media in the classroom is an extension of your physical classroom.
What is inappropriate in your classroom should be deemed inappropriate online.
Teachers who use social networking to interact with students and/or parents in an
educational manner or as a communication tool must find a ways to interact without giving
students and parents access to their personal information and posts. Many social network
sites allow you to create "groups" or "pages" where you can interact with students without
giving them access to your personal account. Please see detailed Facebook guidelines for more
When contributing online do not post confidential student information. Do not post pictures
of any students on your personal sites.
Use a HCBOE provided e-mail as your e-mail contact for official or school-related pages.
Do not use your HCBOE provided e-mail as a username or e-mail contact for personal pages.
Please remember that all HCBOE policies and procedures, as well as relevant local, state and
federal laws (copyright, fair use, Family Education Right to Privacy Act, personnel statutes,
criminal statutes, etc.) apply to social media communications.
Overall Guidelines for Using Social Media
The following are general guidelines for using social media whether personally or professionally.
Be Transparent
How you represent yourself online is an extension of yourself. Do not misrepresent yourself by
using someone else's identity or misrepresenting your identity. Be honest about who you are,
where you work and what you do.
Always a School Employee
Although the lines between public and private, personal and professional, can become blurred in
the digital world, you will always be considered to be a HCBOE employee. Whether it is clearly
communicated or not, you will be identified as an employee of the School District in what you do
and say online. If you don't want it on the 10 p.m. news or in the daily newspaper - don't share it
School Values
Represent HCBOE district values. Express ideas and opinions in a respectful manner.
All communications should be done in good taste. Build trust and responsibility in your
relationships. Do not denigrate or insult others including students, staff, administrators,
parents, or other districts. Any online contributions must be in accordance with the appropriate
policies, guidelines and relevant laws. Consider carefully what you post through comments and
photos. A violation of these policies, guidelines and/or relevant laws could be regarded as a form
of professional misconduct and may result in disciplinary action.
Build Community/Positively Represent School
Represent HCBOE, the students and parents you serve in the best light. Respect the privacy and the
feelings of others. Under no circumstance should offensive comments be made about students or
colleagues (including administrators) nor the District in general. Negative comments about
people may amount to cyber-bullying and could be deemed a disciplinary offence. Your posts and
comments should help build and support the school community. Do not comment on nor forward
unsupported information, e.g. rumors. You are responsible for what you and others post, even if
on a personal page, so be certain it is accurate and supports your organization. It is a good idea to
monitor your profile page to ensure that all material posted by others doesn't violate these
guidelines. Once posted you can't take it back.
Other Online Activities
Part of the Internet's popularity is its many online diversions. Be careful of gimmicks or games
that many websites use to increase web traffic. Examples can include risqué surveys or quizzes.
Often comments or information thought to be shared in private are capable of being shared
publically. Also, employees may be disciplined for using their online access for non work-related
Share your Expertise
Write what you know and be accurate. Add value to the discussion. Post something useful. Provide
worthwhile information and perspective. A district's most valuable asset is its staff represented
by its people and what you publish may reflect on the school. Speak in the first person with your
own voice and perspective.
Respectful and Responsible
Employees, parents, and students reflect a diverse set of customs, values and points of view.
Be respectful for others' opinions in your posts or comments. You are responsible for the content
you post. Do your tags, descriptions, and your image portray you and the District in a professional
Own and Correct Mistakes
If you make a mistake, admit the mistake and correct it quickly. Share your error with your
principal, Human Resources, or District Relations so they can help address the issue effectively.
Clearly state if you've corrected a previous post. Even though damage may be done, it is best to
admit your mistake and correct it. Apologize if appropriate.
HCBOE Social Media Guidelines for Faculty & Staff
Confidential Information
Online postings and conversations are not private. Do not share confidential information whether
It is internal school discussions or specific information about students or other staff. What you
post will be seen by others and will be online for a long time. It can be forwarded or shared in just
a few clicks. Do not write about colleagues or students without their expressed permission.
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HCBOE Social Media Guidelines for Faculty & Staff
Personal Information
Be careful about sharing too much personal information. People often share personal information
such as their pet names, their parents and children's names, where they grew up, and more. This
information may help a hacker guess your passwords. If you share that you will be out of town, a
criminal may use this to target your home for a burglary. Do not share with a student your
personal problems that would normally be discussed with adults. Be smart and don't share too
much information.
The Internet is becoming an increasingly popular educational tool and place to share personally
created movies. You are responsible for all you do, say, and post online, including video. Anything
you post online should represent you in a professional manner as others will see you as connected
to the School District. Anything you show in your classroom should be previewed by you in its
entirety, prior to any student seeing it. Consult a supervisor if you feel the content may be


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I was watching TSN a couple of nights ago and the hockey panel was having a conversation in regard to the Toronto Maple Leafs. The interviewed a few current and former players about GM Brian Burke and the question was posed to each whether they felt he should continue in that capacity given the past three seasons.
I say there are similarities with our situation because RR is essentially what a GM in professional sports is without the money aspect. He is responsible for not only coaching the players, but also scouting, evaluating and recruiting talent.
During this show, the entire panel and each of the players interviewed agreed that it was too early to tell whether BB was doing a good job and he should be given at least four years to prove himself in Toronto.
In the year prior to BB arriving in Toronto, the leafs were 36-35-11. During BB's time they have gone 34-35-13, 30-38-14 and are currently 12-14-4. As you can see, there has been no improvement to this point and they have actually regressed (in terms of their W/L's) since he took over as GM.
The reason each person had for him continuing as GM was that Toronto were heading in the right direction. They hadn't seen it on paper yet, but they were certain, given another year, you would start to see it in the W/L column as well.
RR has been here for three seasons and during each has shown steady (albeit slower than some would like) improvement. I think even those that aren't crazy about the improvement on the field would agree that he is doing a lot of great things off the field as well (though the haters will cling to the NCAA investigation).
I guess my main point is if we have seen clearly that the team is improving on the field, things are going well off the field, relationships between teammates are as strong as they have ever been and we have every reasonable expectation that things will continue to get better is it too soon to send RR packing?
I think most would agree that it is far easier to build a winning teams when you operate in the pro market. You can make trades, use your minior league system, pick up a free agent etc etc etc.
In college, you pick up a player out of HS and hope that the potential you saw gets realized and that he stays with you for four years. If he doesn't pan out, transfers, leaves early...there are no trades, no free agents you can sign or minor leaguers you can call up. You have to deal with it.
If it is reasonable that BB should have four years to build a winning team in Toronto in a professional sport, how can it be unreasonable for RR to have a fouth year to show what he can do, especially he has shown improvement throughout the course of his contract?
This is a question to the board. I don't want to talk replacements or anything of that nature, just simply if you think three years is enough justify why? If you believe he should be given one more year, justify why?
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Live racing returns to historic Pimlico Race Course Thursday, April 2, for the opening of its 37-day spring meet, highlighted by the 140th renewal of the $1.5 million Preakness Stakes (gr. I) Saturday, May 16.
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The Maryland Jockey Club announced 2012 Preakness InfieldFest will include performances by Grammy Award nominees Maroon 5 and Wiz Khalifa.
The Maryland Jockey Club announced April 20 the public infield will be open Kentucky Derby Day, May 7.
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April 20, 2018: Physics Day at Six Flags St. Louis
[] Curriculum Materials
[] 2017 (2018 form soon) Physics Day Order Form
[] Getting the Most out of the Materials
Where: Six Flags, St. Louis; Interstate 44 at Eureka, MO.
When: Friday April 20, 2018, 9am-5pm
Again this year, Physics Day is exclusive to high school physics -- Math and Science day is one week later -- giving your students even better access to the rides. SLAPT highly recommends the picnic combo package that includes buffet lunch in the catering grove - it's much better than waiting in lines at the food vendor stations. If you choose to buy park admission tickets without the lunch, you can save several dollars per ticket if you order in advance. You also get one free chaperone ticket for every 15 paid tickets. Bus and car parking is $XX per vehicle. Processing fee is $10 and is indicated on the order form. The 2018 order form will be linked above soon. You can also call Six Flags at 636-938-4800 ext 6288. Curriculum materials can be downloaded below.
If you would like to volunteer to help out with the data collection at Mr. Freeze on Physics Day at Six Flags (April 20) please fill out this form by Thursday, April 20. If you volunteer for at least 2 hours you will receive a free meal voucher and a ticket to return to the park at another point this year. Volunteers will assist with the distribution and collection of WDSS vests and help with downloading and printing graphs for students after they have collected data. You will be trained on the spot to do your job. It is a lot of fun!
Please fill out the online volunteer form at THIS LINK, or email Jen Meyer at email@example.com to volunteer for as little as a couple of hours or as much as the whole day. If you have questions send an e-mail to Jen Meyer.
We are grateful for any help you might give as we try to provide this worthwhile experience for all of our physics students. Friday will be fun!
See you at Six Flags,
Rex Rice, Gabe DelaPaz, and Jen Meyer
Resources for Ride Analysis at Six Flags, St. Louis
- Teacher Introduction
- Suggestions for making measurements
- Constructing measurement equipment
- How to Measure Acceleration Power Point (if you can't click and download try right click and select "save.... as" ) additional Notes: NOTES
- Six Flags St. Louis Park Map
- Student Introduction (Word,.pdf)
- Answer keys to most rides are available -- email Rex Rice for more information.
Also available at the end of this table are zipped, combined Honors and Regular Freshman versions; plus zipped, combined short and full Upper Division
Full Upper
Division High
School Version
Short Upper
Division High
School Version
|Batman, the Ride
|Movie (4.5 MB)
|Movie (140 MB)
|Mr. Freeze
|Movie (3.2 MB)
|Movie (229 MB)
|Highland Fling
|Movie (3.4 MB)
|Movie (42.6 MB)
|The Joker
|Movie (3.0 MB)
|Movie (56.2 MB)
|The Ninja
|Movie (2.4 MB)
|American Thunder
|Mine Train
|The Boss
|All Rides ZIPPED
|in file at left
|in file at left
Matching Graphs of Ride Data to Videos Activity (most files .pdf)
The following rides are either not operating anymore or activities are pending changes.
|Upper Div
|Screamin' Eagle
|Riverview Racer
|Waterstreet Cab
|Rush Street Flyer
|Movie (4.1 MB)
|Movie (67.8 MB)
Another Great Resource!!: Math materials for exploring Six Flags, contact Steven Williott if you have questions or suggestions.
Dear Physics Teacher:
Getting the Most out of the Materials
The curriculum materials posted here have been specifically developed to help you integrate amusement park physics activities within your physics curriculum. These materials have evolved over the past twenty years due to work by area physics teachers with influence from physics educators nationwide.
In order to get the most from Physics Day and these materials, please note the following:
- We suggest that you have your students focus on a small number of the activities at the park (for instance, one roller coaster and one or two circular motion rides). There are many more activities included on this website than could ever be done in one day at the park. We would rather provide too many activities than too few, so we have left it up to you, the teacher, to decide which activities are most appropriate for your students. To help you, most of the ride activities have a qualitative section consisting of conceptually oriented questions and a quantitative section that involves calculations. The "full" versions might be appropriate for a quantitatively based junior/senior level physics course. We have edited the full versions to create a shorter version for each ride that may be more appropriate for some more conceptually, less quantitatively oriented physics courses. These are labeled "short." We have also included versions, which have been edited for use with the freshman physics classes at Clayton High School that might be appropriate for similar groups from other schools. There are two versions of the CHS materials labeled "freshman (regular)", and "freshman (honors)." This website contains pdf and Microsoft Word versions of the materials. The Microsoft Word versions are included to provide you with the ability to edit materials so that they best fit your curriculum. Please feel free to modify these materials as you see fit.
- We strongly encourage you to use these materials throughout the year as they fit in to your physics course. Physics Day at Six Flags will be a far more valuable experience for your students if they are already familiar with the types of analyses that are used on the rides prior to going to Six Flags. Activities that your students do not do at the park can be modified and used for pre-trip preparation, post-trip follow-up, or anywhere else they fit into your curriculum. This "beyond Physics Day" use is possible because this website includes movies and data files for a large number of the rides. We have also included some activities which do not involve the rides themselves, but which may be related to the field trip as a whole. See the Appendices linked above
- Mr. Freeze is the "flagship" activity that we have written for physics day. It is the only ride for which "high tech" equipment is provided by Six Flags and Vernier. The Mr. Freeze questions explore a wider variety of physics concepts than those for any other ride. When planning the day at the park, we recommend that you include an appropriate version of the Mr. Freeze activities and add other activities as you think time will allow. Each student group will need a calculator, a stopwatch, and a sextant. (See the Equipment document for details on constructing a sextant easily and inexpensively.)
- Volunteer to help with the "high tech" data collection at Mr. Freeze. Physics teachers and other chaperones are needed to operate laptop computers for downloading and printing data, to shuttle vests and IDs, to issue data vests, and to familiarize students with using the data vest. You don't need to know anything about the equipment--we will train volunteers on the day of the event. Please fill out the online volunteer form at THIS LINK, or email Jen Meyer at firstname.lastname@example.com to volunteer for as little as a couple of hours or as much as the whole day. Six Flags will provide each volunteer with a free meal ticket for Physics Day and one complimentary admission tickets to return to Six Flags any time during the coming season. Your help is essential. Please email Jen and volunteer today!
- The park provides a picnic combo meal as an option that could make the students' time at the park more productive. The picnic combo meal is served buffet style in the World's Fair Pavilion; there is little or no waiting, it is "all you care to eat;" and the large, sheltered tables in the Pavilion allow students to work on the ride analyses while eating lunch. The food caterers require a definite cutoff date, so be sure to order tickets for the picnic combo meal well in advance of Physics Day.
- Please note that the devices that are commonly called "accelerometers" do not measure acceleration! These devices, that we call Force Factor meters, can be calibrated to measure the ratio of the normal force in the direction of measurement to the magnitude of the gravitational force. That ratio, the Force Factor, is a multiplier that can be used to find the normal force on an object. In other words, the Force Factor in a given direction multiplied by the magnitude of the gravitational force equals the normal force in that direction. Because of this, the labels on the graphs included in the materials do not read Acceleration vs. Time, but rather Force Factor vs. time. These ideas are explained in detail in the Suggestions for Making Measurements document. Additionally, there is a PowerPoint presentation called How to Measure Acceleration that you might want to use with your students (if power point will not open, plz right click the link and select "save.....as"). There is an accompanying student document called How to Measure Acceleration Notesthat you can use (with the PowerPoint presentation) to give them practice with the process of converting from a reading on the force factor meter to an acceleration value. In any event, you will want to be certain that your students understand how to interpret "accelerometer" readings.
- The St. Louis Area Physics Teachers association works closely with Six Flags St. Louis to promote Physics Day. Join the St. Louis Area Physics Teachers email list for free by visiting this ONLINE FORM. Doing so will ensure that you receive regular email updates of the events and activities of the group, including the latest information about Physics Day at Six Flags St. Louis. SLAPT is a non-profit group of physics teachers (middle school, high school, and college) that organize regular workshops for the purpose of improving the physics education. SLAPT is also the local "section" of the American Association of Physics Teachers.
It is hoped that you and your students will find these materials conducive to an enjoyable and educational day at Six Flags. We are very interested in your reactions and comments about this set of materials as we continue to revise/edit the materials. Any help you can give will be appreciated.
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The Fifa conquistadors are coming!
- Ivo Vegter
- 01 Jun 2010 (South Africa)
In an all-too-brief interview last week, Faith Mangope, the smart host of the current affairs show on Y FM, asked if her listeners – the vibrant young, black, rising middle class – were to believe that Fifa is just about exploiting a host country and leaving it worse off. The answer, unfortunately, was that this is a pretty accurate description.
I've been banging this drum all year. In my very first column in January, I called for a boycott of Fifa and its sponsors. At the time, it seemed contrarian, petty, and even unpatriotic. But as we drew nearer to the big day, more and more headlines popped up exposing some of the iniquities of Fifa. Protest websites appeared, graciously citing my Daily Maverick columns in their own calls to boycott Fifa, or worse.
While this rise in anti-Fifa sentiment is gratifying, it is important to reiterate a number of important qualifications.
First and foremost, there's no need for pessimism about South Africa's ability to host the event. We've done almost everything right so far, and there is no reason why we won't run a terrific event. When we're up against it, South Africans can and do work miracles. We've done it before, and we'll do it again this time.
Besides, Fifa can hardly complain about Africa's shortcomings when it cannot even get tickets sold, even on the simple basis that random people are randomly selected to watch random matches from random seats at random times in random host cities. It is a damning indictment of Fifa's competence that the worthies in their ivory tower did not realise it wouldn't even occur to most African football fans to buy tickets online. Its claims to care about a continent about which it clearly doesn't know the first thing is the height of conceit.
There probably will be a few nasty incidents, but they will not spoil the event. True, the British tabloids are salivating at the prospect of lurid tales of barbarism and violence. The Daily Mirror even arranged to print in South Africa, just for this purpose. To them, I'll say this: Sorry, chaps, but the heathen natives will disappoint you. Best get some filler copy ready about how awful the vuvuzela sounds.
While boycotting Fifa, we should still enjoy the football. Fifa might claim tyrannical rights, but football is the people's sport and we have a right to enjoy watching our national sides play, no matter how rapacious or corrupt the governing body is.
Support our team, and here's hoping their recent run of results extends well into the group stages. It would be sweet justice to see the French handball team ejected from the tournament at the hands of our boys. May the luck of the Irish be with you, Bafana Bafana.
Do welcome the visitors to our wonderful country. We have much to show off, from the festive taverns in the townships to the splendours of nature. Make them jealous. Make them want to come back.
We'll have much to be proud of when the World Cup is over. Of that I have no doubt.
However, none of this changes the fact that Fifa, its exclusive marketing partner, Match, and the cartel of official sponsors, have invaded this country like rapacious conquistadors. They strong-armed our government – who surely were hoping for more than just a little self-aggrandisement – into writing special laws that have "Fifa" in their title. That is not Fair Play®, Fifa. In this country, we have a constitution that is the envy of the free world. It says everyone ought to be equal before the law.
Fifa and Match shamelessly bullied our tourism industry. South African tour operators have been elbowed aside in favour of foreign giants by a $30,000 licence fee Match charges for each and every country to which they'd want to sell packages. South African accommodation venues have been left in the lurch and out of pocket. Some guest houses were smart enough not to sign the book-length contract Match dumped on their desks. Others, even when fully booked, are bitter about their treatment, complaining about last-minute cancellations without compensation and high-handed instructions to keep rooms reserved at no charge. They are incensed at the eye-watering commission Match demands, which makes South Africans look like profiteering opportunists.
When even the few who do stand to make a profit are angry at Fifa, you know something's up. Unfortunately, they are in the minority.
Most South Africans – the people who were supposed to benefit from this grand Roman circus – are being treated like Grant Abrahamse. He registered a design for a keyring in 2004, featuring a football, a vuvuzela and the date "2010". When Fifa belatedly discovered this, its jackboots demanded a R250,000 licence free, plus royalties on the profits. How many keyrings did the Fifa protection racket think he'd sell? So much for feeding his family.
Compared to the 3,600 cases filed in Germany in 2006, Fifa has already filed 50,000 "ambush marketing" actions against ordinary South Africans who were just hoping for a few crumbs from the table. This is a "great moment for Africa"? It's no such thing. It was designed, from the ground up, to be a great moment for Fifa and nobody else.
Meanwhile, we'll have R100 billion or so in infrastructure debt to pay off. Only some of it makes any sense in terms of development goals. The rest was at white elephants; they will stand as expensive monuments to the political folly of having signed over our government to the exploitation of Fifa. No amount of window-dressing by Fifa's social responsibility department will turn these boondoggles into real development aid.
To help pay for the R100 billion, foreign visitors were expected to contribute some R20 billion to GDP. This was a poor return on investment even before the expectation of visitor numbers dropped from half a million to a mere 200,000. The only satisfaction we can draw from the poor turnout from overseas is that it will also put a dent in the loot-filled coffers Fifa hopes to lug back to Sepp Blatter's palace in Zurich.
Allegations of graft swirl around Fifa and the Blatter royal family like green bottle flies around a steaming pile of manure. Andrew Jennings, a reporter for the BBC's Panorama programme, recently interviewed for the Daily Maverick by Kevin Bloom, has made it his mission to expose the bribery and vote-rigging. Not surprisingly, he does not get invited to Fifa press junkets. The Local Organising Committee in South Africa, when questioned by the Mail & Guardian, claimed private privilege for the public rights that the South African Football Association ceded to it. After how Fifa treated South Africa, why would it surprise anyone to find it is rotten to the core?
It is too late to do much about the pillage to which we're about to be subjected. But it is not too late to speak up. It's no good to grin and bear it, just to put a positive spin on the World Cup. While the world is watching, it should hear exactly how Fifa steamrollers foreign governments and pillages developing countries. Nobody will listen when they're all back home, the television cameras have been switched off, and we're left counting our losses.
One can hope that such wholesale exploitation won't happen to, say, Brazil. Maybe its government can do more to guard its citizens' rights against being usurped by foreign invaders. Either way, Fifa ought to be cut down to size. It is not a sovereign state. It should do business on a level playing field, honestly and fairly, as it demands of the sport over which it claims proprietorship.
Saying that the World Cup will be great for nation-building and international marketing is like saying that colonialism was great for establishing civil service bureaucracies and commerce. It is true, but it is also very much beside the point.
Therefore, do enjoy the World Cup. But when you buy a flag, or a shirt, or a meal, or a vuvuzela, do as I did: check that it is not "approved by Fifa". The World Cup trademark on a product just means that the gangsters took their cut.
Don't fund the extortion racket. Make sure your money goes to support honest, hard-working people. They deserve your custom. Fifa and its sponsors most certainly do not.
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Thursday, September 20, 2012
Turning Stories into Stories by Lucy Felthouse
Firstly, I want to say thank you to Leigh for having me on her blog – thanks!
So, turning stories into stories is the topic of this post. I'm a very nosey person—I admit it. I like to know what's going on, I ask people lots of questions and I eavesdrop on conversations. I also encourage people to tell me stories—true ones, though. Why? Because they often provide the best inspiration for turning into erotic stories.
My latest release, Ditched, is a good example of this. I have a friend who fairly recently left the British Army, and although he'd never tell me anything classified, despite how much I pestered him, he often gave me snippets about what life was like, what sort of things happened day to day, and so on. One particular story he told me was about when he and a fellow soldier were on exercise on Salisbury Plain. Somehow they screwed up timings and ended up waiting for their pick up way earlier than needed. Then the weather turned shitty, and they had to shelter in a ditch.
A fairly interesting tale all by itself, especially if you love hearing that kind of thing, like I do. But I took it and stored it in the back of my mind until I decided to write my first gay story. For some reason, that snippet surfaced and I turned the incident into something utterly different. The basis is the same, of course, but I added two fictional colleagues who happened to be bisexual and threw them into a heated situation which ended up turning into something even more heated ;)
So, there you have it. Turning a story into a story. I give people I talk to fair warning—anything you may say may be turned into an erotic story. I don't want any complaints ;)
Private Damien Stone is living in a nightmare. He's out on exercise on Salisbury Plain with Lance Corporal Michael Scott—who also happens to be a huge pain in the arse. He's a teacher's pet who seems to delight in bossing Stone around. But that's not the real reason Stone appears to dislike him so much. It's because Stone—who's bisexual—is seriously attracted to his superior, but he can't do anything about it, because Scott is straight. Or is he?
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"This can't be fucking right!" said Lance Corporal Michael Scott, checking his map for the umpteenth time.
"I can assure you, Scott, that it fucking is," responded his colleague, Private Damien Stone. He nudged the other man, pointed to a place on his own map, then raised his arm and indicated a rise in the ground in the near distance.
"See, that's that long barrow, so we are in the right place."
Looking at the barrow—one of the many on Salisbury Plain—then down at the map, and finally at his compass, Scott had to agree.
"So where the fuck are they, then?"
Stone had no answer for that one. He looked up into the lightening sky, which in the distance was being slowly tinged with pink, but saw no sign of their pick-up helicopter. Straining to hear even the faintest sound of rotor blades, Stone remained silent. Hearing nothing, he shrugged.
"Dunno. Perhaps we got the time wrong, or something?"
"I hope not, otherwise they've gone without us!"
"Nah. We're early, if anything. The sun's only just coming up."
Sighing, Scott stuffed his map and compass into a pocket, and said, "Well, I guess we'd better find somewhere to shelter. I don't like the look of that."
The that he was talking about was an ominous-looking black cloud being buffeted in their direction by the wind, which was picking up rapidly.
"With you on that one."
On an unspoken command, the two of them immediately split up and started to look around for somewhere they could keep out of the wind and imminent rain. It wasn't long before Scott shouted out, and Stone immediately turned and headed in the direction of his colleague's voice.
When Stone arrived, Scott had already removed his backpack and dropped it into the ditch he'd found and was striding down the slope to join it. Luckily, there'd been no rain over the past few days so the ground was dry. If the coming rainstorm ended up being heavy, it was entirely possible they'd get wet arses, but for now at least they'd be reasonably comfortable.
Following his colleague's example, Stone shrugged off his pack. Turning, he saw that Scott was standing with his arms out, ready to catch it. Tossing it, he gave a curt nod of thanks before heading down into the ditch.
Once there, he saw that some scrub covered a couple of sizeable rocks, meaning that they would at least be able to sit down. It would have to rain pretty damn hard for the water level in the ditch to get as high as the top of the rocks, so they'd be all right until the chopper arrived.
He hoped.
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Lucy is a graduate of the University of Derby, where she studied Creative Writing. During her first year, she was dared to write an erotic story - so she did. It went down a storm and she's never looked back. Lucy has had stories published by Cleis Press, Constable and Robinson, Decadent Publishing, Ellora's Cave, Evernight Publishing, House of Erotica, Ravenous Romance, Resplendence Publishing, Sweetmeats Press and Xcite Books. She is also the editor of Uniform Behaviour, Seducing the Myth, Smut by the Sea and Smut in the City. Find out more at http://www.lucyfelthouse.co.uk. Join her on Facebook and Twitter, and subscribe to her newsletter at: http://eepurl.com/gMQb9
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Theodore Goddard's move to sell off its Eastern European office to its former alliance partner, US firm Dewey Ballantine, is another example of the trans-Atlantic dream failing.
In the late Eighties and early Nineties, in the name of business strategy, firms looked at every option to expand. Globalisation seemed to provide the opportunity and many went down this path. And those who were not big or rich enough to do it alone found partners. At the time, the debate focused on how best to do it.
Five years later, the picture is clearer. A plethora of US-UK legal alliances has come and gone in the intervening years. Firms such as Macfarlanes, Nabarro Nathanson and Theodore Goddard climbed into bed with US firms in the hope that, at the least, it would provide more work and in some cases may possibly lead to merger.
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> -----Original Message----- > From: Doug Bunting [mailto:email@example.com] > Sent: Thursday, September 19, 2002 12:34 PM > To: email@example.com > Subject: Choreography WG proposal follow up? > > > Has there been any progress within the Web Service > Co-ordination Working Group on forwarding a recommendation > around the WSA WG's proposal to > create a new Choreography Working Group? Dave and I submitted a detailed report of the discussions at the F2F last week and the outcome of the various votes. They gave us an action to recommend the inputs from the proposed charter that are "necessary" and which are "desireable". See todays telcon agenda. They took an action item to work with the W3C team and management to contact the authors of the "necessary" inputs to try to get them made available to a W3C working group. There's still a lot of architectural work to do to figure out how the various aspects of what we're calling Choreography (as a temporary label) relate to one another and how they would best fit into a reference architecture, so we can pursue this ourselves. The progress we make can then be an input into the discussions of where and how to pursue industry standards in this area.Received on Thursday, 19 September 2002 12:46:12 UTC
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Today, Steve Lacey at the Center for American Progress published 20 Ideas for Job Creation: Keep Focused on Clean Energy. To build on the many good (or even excellent) ideas in that list (repeated below the fold), here are ideas 21-30 of places to go for Clean Energy Jobs:
- Go to your mortgage broker: Ed Mazria/Architecture 2030?s concept of buying down total mortgages (both commercial and residential) based on investing to improve energy efficiency. Perhaps $200 billion in investment cost over a 3-year period that would generate >$2 trillion in activity in some of the most depressed parts of the economy (construction workers) across essentially all of the country … perhaps in the range of 10 million jobs through those 3 years (and, then, likely many continuing) … and, remember the word investment? Likely that Federal government would recoup more than that $200 billion in costs due to improved tax revenues and reduced social costs (such as reduced unemployment payments). See
- Go to the Laboratory: Robustly funding the Advanced Research Projects Agency – Energy (ARPA-E) to the tune of $4 billion / year would support 60,000 jobs in the near term while providing resources to speed the development of technologies that will serve as the underpinning of a 21st century clean energy economy.
- Go to school: America's public schools are, in some cases all too literally, falling apart. Analyses of maintenance requirements have suggested perhaps more than $250 billion in backlogs for America's K-12 infrastructure and that backlog is only worsening as school system after school system cuts employees and cuts investment plans to deal with dismal financial books. there are tremendous values associated with greening school space that include improved student health, reduced energy (and other resource bills), reduced pollution loads, improved national capacity for 'greening' and 'energy efficiency', improved student performance, and substantive job growth. Considering the $250 billion backlog, the dearth of investment today, and the value streams to come from greening schools, a jobs program could fruitfully invest $100 billion in America's public schools (split between maintenance (& renovation) and greening/energy efficiency). This investment would create easily one million jobs throughout America.
- Go to school on the PHE-Bus: Perhaps more than any road vehicle, school buses are ripe for explosive introduction of plug-in hybrid electric technology. All it requires is a spark of investment and this energy efficient, pollution reducing, health and security improving market place will see explosive growth. $100 million per year would support over 2000 jobs.
- Go to the Cleaners: heating water (or, at times, preheating water) is currently one of the most cost effective paths in terms of energy value per dollar of investment. Laundromats (and other institutional laundries, such as hospitals) are prime places for solar hot water due to the high volume, 365 days a year water usage. And, there a number of solar hot water systems already in place in laundromats (such as this huge one in Chicago (proclaimed as the world's largest laundromat) and this laundromat/car wash in Jamaica Plains, MA (pdf)). As for the last, due to federal and state incentives, the payback period should be less than five years while ensuring the owner against fluctuating energy prices.
- Go to the Market: Grocery stores, nationwide, are ripe for cleaning up with Clean Energy Jobs. Not only are the requirements clear, the solutions are straightforward, the financial return is tremendous, and this has the potential for kickstarting some jobs quickly while enabling stores to make more profits even while giving them the opportunity (which we can hope they'll seize) to pass on some of the savings to their customers. $4 billion year would create 80,000 jobs.
- Go Swimming for Jobs: The nation's swimming pools are notorious energy hogs and ripe for efficiency investment — in better pumps, solar hot water, etc … Looking solely to public pools, which eat up community resources, $300 million per year could create some 10,000 jobs while providing payback periods for local communities and public institutions (universities) of five years or less reducing costs while enhancing the community building resource of public pools.
- Go to the train station: Electrification of rail would cut U.S. oil demand, with improved intermodal transit, by some 2.5 million barrels per day after a ten-year program. That, at today's prices, would reduce America's trade deficit by over $90 billion dollars — per year. To achieve this program would require roughly $10 billion, per year, in public investment to spark private funding. The electrification program would foster roughly 400,000 jobs
- Go to the local park: Greening cities improves urban habitability and reduces pollution loads (including strain on the water systems with storm runoff). And, someone has to plant those flowers and trim those trees. $10 billion per year would foster over 200,000 jobs, with many of these in very high unemployment areas.
- Invest in infrastructure: The nation's infrastructure (roads, bridges, buildings, sewers, …) is, politely, failing apart. The American Society of Civil Engineers sees a $1 trillion+ shortfall between required resources and what is budgeted (and those budgets for repairs/modernization are being cut, not expanded). Addressing these shortfalls and modernizing our infrastructure won't come cheap, but not addressing the shortfalls will carry a much (MUCH) higher price. Putting in $2 trillion, over a decade, to repair and modernize public infrastructure would support over 5 million jobs while enabling a functioning society. (Double the resources and we now have a clean-energy system powering that society.)
These ten are examples of ways to create large numbers of Clean Energy Jobs while fostering a more prosperous and climate-friendly society.
Note that these paths, which in aggregate would put over 10 million Americans back to work, likely would not represent a "cost to bear" but "an investment to profit from" as the improved infrastructure would ease economic activity, the employed people would pay taxes, and so on …
These are, of course, just ten added to the CAP list. In addition to links above, see JOB! JOBS! JOBS! for a generalized discussion (with some more specific examples) of the power of clean-energy and climate-mitigation focused job creation paths for strengthening the economy while addressing our climate challenges.
The CAP list of 20 job creation paths:
1. Upgrade our nation's roads, bridges, and other basic infrastructure: 18,000 new jobs for every $1 billion invested.
2. Launch a rehab-to-rent program to turn tens of thousands of government-owned foreclosed homes into affordable rental housing, stabilize neighborhoods, and put construction workers back on the job: 20,000 new jobs a year.
3. Implement new EPA rules governing toxic emissions from power plants: 40,000 new direct jobs.
4. Protect health care reform, which will reduce health insurance premiums, expand coverage, and create jobs: 250,000 to 400,000 new jobs a year for the next decade.
5. Retrofit for energy efficiency just 40 percent of the nation's residential and commercial building stock and unleash massive demand for domestic labor: more than 625,000 new jobs over a decade.
6. Extend emergency unemployment benefits to long-term unemployed workers hurt by the economic downturn: more than 700,000 jobs.
7. Expand the payroll tax cut for employees and extend it to employers through 2012: more than 1 million jobs.
8. Extend national service programs to provide young people with full-time positions in AmeriCorps, VISTA, YouthBuild, and the youth service and conservation corps: 60,000 new jobs.
9. Pass Home Star, Building Star, and Rural Star legislation to make homes and buildings energy efficient while supporting the hard-hit construction industry: 250,000 new jobs a year.
10. Reduce the nation's dropout rate by half to add $9.6 billion in economic growth and $713 million in increased tax revenue: 54,000 new jobs.
11. Convert offshore wind power to electricity: 20 direct jobs for each megawatt produced in the United States.
12. Protect funding for community health centers over the next five years to provide health and related services at clinics and in the local business communities: 300,000 new jobs.
13. Protect the National Park Service from budget cuts, corporate interests, and antigovernment rhetoric to support jobs in outdoor recreation across the country: 247,000 jobs.
14. Increase freight rail capital investment: 7,800 direct and indirect jobs for every $1 billion invested.
15. Create a $10 billion trial-employment program with potential to help an estimated 1 million small businesses and startups hire long-term unemployed workers: 2 million new job opportunities.
16. Construct new power transmission lines to reshape our electric transmission grid and create new employment: Generating 20 percent of power with wind can create more than 500,000 jobs.
17. Expand the federal "jobs accelerator" program: Just $200 million in funding could result in 1,800 new businesses employing thousands of workers.
18. Reject a federal proposal to mandate employer use of the E-Verify eligibility verification system and protect 770,000 American jobs.
19. Revamp small-business financial assistance programs to better serve the needs of innovative, high-growth potential startup firms.
20. Create a "common application" for federal programs that foster the growth of small businesses.


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The Human Rights Campaign has release Growing Up LGBT In America, a truly remarkable report based on that organization's survey of more than 10k LGBT youth, ages 13 - 17. The picture it paints is at times a frightening one, with troubling statistics on bullying, suicide, homelessness, and other traumas and challenges that effect our youth.
While I would never want to diminish the pain that young LGBT people today suffer, I do think it's worth remembering that the very existence of this survey is remarkable progress. Society is rapidly shifting in the direction of seeing bullying and harassment as societal ills, rather than the sexual orientation and/or gender identity of the victims.
Not so long ago the standard response to the bullying of LGBT kids was to tell the LGBT kids to change and see their tormentors as exerting a beneficial pressure to change their "lifestyle." While this is sadly still the case in some places, it's no longer as universal as it was in my generation or that of the ones before me.
I'm reminded of a date I went on several years ago with a young man ten years my junior. I'd asked him what it was like growing up gay in rural New Hampshire, to which he replied
Well it was hard in elementary school because I was the only out gay kid so I felt pretty alone, but by middle and high school it was fine.It made me realize that his experience was, in its way, as different from mine as mine was from the generation before me. He was born after the advent of AZT, he'd always had out queer people on television, and for him it was a given that by the time he'd ready to be married he would have the right to do so (which proved true in his home state).
Just as we can't allow the progress towards social and political equality that our community has made blind us to the very real, and sometimes devastating trials LGBT youth still face, we also shouldn't loose sight of the fact that we've come an amazing way in a relatively short time.
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Roommate/College Food Stories
Spun off from responses from a different topic - Do you have any roommate food stories, good or bad?
My college roommate experiences are still rather fresh, so I have quite a few food/roommate stories. Sophomore year, I offered to share my mini fridge and tupper ware with my then good friend/roommate. There was a communal kitchen on our floor, so she would sometimes cook, maybe once a week. I would only cook maybe once a month, and only when it was a group pot luck. One week, we decided to cook together and she made this fabulous bean dish. She put the leftovers in the fridge, and week after week went by with her not eating it or disposing of it. I kept reminding her about it, and there came a point when it smelled so rank that I said "hey...I'm going to throw this out." She got so angry, so I just let it go. Literally two months later... IT WAS STILL THERE. I threw out the tupper ware with the molded beans, and she got so upset and angry! After that point, our friendship deteriorated and we haven't talked to each other in five years.
My junior year, I had a friend who kept eating all my food, but I didn't really care too much in the beginning. My passiveness towards the situation really screwed me up, since she eventually started eating whole loaves of bread and jars of peanut butter within few days of me buying the stuff! Ridiculously, she one day said "You ran out of PB and bread, you need to get some more!" and that's when I yelled at her ... I also never spoke to her again.
Maybe it was me!! :( Hope you all have some fun/funny/crazy stories to share!


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Workout: Outdoor - Primal Work & Play in the Park
Outdoor Workout: Primal Work In the Park
Had a great natural movement workout yesterday with Nathan Chong in Ravenscourt Park.
Autumn's here - the days are shorter and it's getting colder but it didn't take too long to warm up after a 400m sprint.
We worked on some natural movement combos and made interesting use of the environment. I did take some video (but with the lack of natural light it won't be possible to post it as the video quality is so poor).
MovNat Workout Combo: (combinations of) -->
- Air Squats;
- Various Sprint shuttle runs;
- Tree Pull-Ups & Muscle-Ups;
- Rope Muscle Ups;
- Balance work on park bench, beams, single leg balancing and squats (see photo below)
- Running up a children's slide;
- Rope climbing;
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I am 16 years old. I have been sick since I was 9. I get extreme cramping and irregular bowel movements that vary from day to day or even during the day. when I was 9 I got my period for the first time and the doctors blamed it on that. That one year when I was in 5th grade was ****. The pain was so bad I couldn't function let alone leave the bathroom. I tried everything fiber, probiotics and the doctors were stumped. then I got the stomach virus and felt better. I would only get pains the week before and during my period. I also always had pain when I had to use the bathroom I was always constipated or having diarrhea. But from 6th to 8th grade it wasn't as bad. then when I got to 9th grade I got so sick I ended up in the hospital and I couldn't even move I had shooting pains all through my stomach it was unbearable I was nauseous and the pain was constant It even hurt to breath. they did a sonogram that night everything was fine so they sent me home. A few months later I had a colonoscopy and endoscopy that came up normal and they told my mom they have nothing else to call it but ibs. Then I was at a loss they told me the pain was all in my head and I need to live with it. I also had another sonogram scheduled we kept the appt. even though blood work and stool cultures and the endoscopy and colonoscopy were fine. The sonogram showed a huge ovarian cyst it was so big that it stretched out my ovary. how did they miss that in the hospital. Well they put me on the birth control to shrink it. the pill helped about 50% and I was a little better in 10th grade. Now i'm in 11th and the pain got worse we redid all the tests everything was fine and there was no trace of ibs but this time i'm nauseous and very gassy. They tested my gallbladder because of my symptoms but i'm I a lot of pain after eating so I just don't eat and im down 16 pounds in 3 weeks. I have no life and constant pain. I did go to see a counselor to prove its not in my head so that end is taken care of to me this all sounds hormonal and gynecological but has anyone been through this I need answers does anyone have any suggestions or know what it could be.Reply Follow This Thread Stop Following This Thread Flag this Discussion
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Googling, Twittering, Facebooking, Wikiwandering – we've all spent hours getting lost in the World Wide Web. But scientists suggest this activity, searching, stimulates the brain in the same way sex and drugs do, writes Slate's Emily Yoffe.
She spoke with Washington State University neuroscientist Jaak Panksepp (go Cougs), who after researching the emotional system of rats and humans settled on the idea that "seeking is the granddaddy of the systems."
Ever find yourself sitting down at the computer just for a second to find out what other movie you saw that actress in, only to look up and realize the search has led to an hour of Googling? Thank dopamine. Our internal sense of time is believed to be controlled by the dopamine system. People with hyperactivity disorder have a shortage of dopamine in their brains, which a recent study suggests may be at the root of the problem. For them even small stretches of time seem to drag. An article by Nicholas Carr in the Atlantic last year, "Is Google Making Us Stupid?" speculates that our constant Internet scrolling is remodeling our brains to make it nearly impossible for us to give sustained attention to a long piece of writing. Like the lab rats, we keep hitting "enter" to get our next fix. …
All our electronic communication devices – e-mail, Facebook feeds, texts, Twitter – are feeding the same drive as our searches. Since we're restless, easily bored creatures, our gadgets give us in abundance qualities the seeking/wanting system finds particularly exciting. Novelty is one. Panksepp says the dopamine system is activated by finding something unexpected or by the anticipation of something new. If the rewards come unpredictably – as e-mail, texts, updates do – we get even more carried away. No wonder we call it a "CrackBerry."
But does it make us stupid?
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Sons & Daughters of Los Santos
"Loyalty, honor, and a willing heart"
- DREAMLESS_ZzZ
[SDLS] was founded on October 26, 2013, we are a tranquil core based crew that strives to keep our entirety consistently well-preserved by incorporating a beneficial / heartening gaming experience for our members – our members are the veins of our existence. Our purpose is to simply relish the company of one-another and the enduring amusement that Grand Theft Auto 5 has to deliver – "fun".
Our members are of a colorful variety in personality, we all equally distribute our skill set to aid in the achievement of objectives, and we are always offering forth our undivided services to those in need. [SDLS] believes that the meaning of a "clan" shouldn't be based off of a vast headcount of random players who know nothing of one-another.
The meaning of a clan should not be bordered by conceit and the meaning of a clan should not possess a core of inequality. The meaning of a clan should be founded on a foundation of:
- Friends (a family)
- Wholehearted Players
- Equality
A player should not be the motive for a clan; the clan should be the motive for the player.
- Must be eighteen (18) years of age or older
- Must possess a proper functioning headset
- Must register on the [SDLS] headquarters website and become familiar with all [SDLS] processes
- Must not have their pre-[SDLS] P.S.N. account in association with other G.T.A. 5 crews (no multi-crewing)
- Must have their [SDLS] account active and participating in crew activities on a daily basis
Please, don't hesitate to contact us with any questions, comments, concerns, and / or suggestions. Visit the [SDLS] Headquarters website at:
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[SDLS] is a crew with the intention of beneficially bettering your gaming experience if you do choose to serve amongst us. We are a crew that desires nothing more than to kick back, pop open a chilled beer while b*tch slapping random pedestrians all around Los Santos. [SDLS] members are:
- Active on a day-by-day basis throughout the week
- Participates in missions, bounty collecting, races (vehicle, boat, and air craft), death matches, vehicle death matches, crew wars, and server all-out-war
So join our crew today! We look forward to seeing you on the streets!
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Ranger Creek Brewing and Distilling announced today that they are releasing South Texas Lager to the masses.
I had an early version recently at the Luke San Antonio/ Ranger Creek beer dinner. It was clean, crisp and refreshing. Great for a San Antonio summer evening.
South Texas Lager Release:
@Friendly Spot, Wed, 4/6
@Flying Saucer, Thurs, 4/7
@Freetail, Sun, 4/10
Here's the complete press release:
San Antonio's Only Microbrewery Releases BeerDesigned Specifically for the Alamo CitySAN ANTONIO, TX, April 4, 2011 – This week marks an important occasion for RangerCreek Brewing & Distilling. San Antonio's only microbrewery is releasing the beerdesigned specifically for their home city. Ranger Creek's core portfolio of four beers isfinally complete as their South Texas Lager makes its way into bars across the Alamo City.Ranger Creek's South Texas Lager was designed with San Antonio in mind. It is a crisp,refreshing Dortmunder Export style lager, a traditional German style popularized withindustrial workers in the Dortmund region. The beer is delicately balanced and refreshing,making it perfect for hot San Antonio summers. It has a sweet pilsner malt aroma withsubtle earthy, spicy, and herbal hints of German Tettnang hops. The sweet malt flavor andherbal hop character give way to a crisp, dry finish. The style fits with the historicalGerman influence of the area in addition to the flavor profile preferred by many SanAntonio beer drinkers."Our philosophy at Ranger Creek is to not only offer interesting beers for nerds like us butalso to help educate people and make sure craft beer is accessible," explains RobLanderman, head brewer. "For us it's about quality, balance, and being true to style."Mark McDavid, co?founder of the company, continues, "While we have beers in our lineupfor more progressive beer drinkers, we also want to offer something for the everyday beerdrinker looking to try something local. That's where the South Texas Lager comes in."Ranger Creek is excited to introduce San Antonio to the South Texas Lager and has plannedspecial events across San Antonio to do so. The Ranger Creek guys will be sampling theSTXL at the Friendly Spot on Wednesday, April 6th, the Flying Saucer on Thursday, April 7th,and Freetail on Sunday, April 10th. The bars will also be running specials on the beer."San Antonio is a special city, and we believe it deserves a beer made right here that it cancall its own," declares McDavid. "We feel like it's an injustice that it doesn't have one, andwe hope that the South Texas Lager will connect with San Antonio beer drinkers so thatbalance can be restored to the planet."


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quick praise on joe valesko at Zpacks as a vendor-- great CS- fast email response- and willingness to workshop/experiment ideas during the build--(with a know-how of what will/won't be possible). he express mailed the tarp to get it here in time for our mckenzie river hike-- awesome.
happy monday. have some coffee, and finish off that milk chocolate easter bunny treat.... here's a long video detailing the tarp, my rigging, and a few live still life's from our trip this weekend. the mckenzie river is rushing powerful right now... so maybe more visual fodder than being able to actual hear my detailing.


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Blame for cuts has to be shared
It was a shame that Richard Soer decided to make a party political point over the opening of the Bury Food Bank. It was entirely right that David Ruffley as our local MP should be there supporting the work of those providing for the increasing numbers who find it difficult to feed their families.The need for such foodbanks is of course a political issue but all of the three political parties bear some of the blame for the economic conditions that have made them necessary. One of the reasons is undoubtedly the cuts that the coalition government have made to the benefits of those who are unemployed or on low incomes. Another cause is the deregulation of financial institutions and the tax loopholes that have been exploited by multi-national companies which were introduced under the previous Labour and Conservative governments. To make matters worse, some of these companies pay the minimum wage, which is not a living wage, and expect the tax-payer to make up the difference through welfare payments. This may all be legal, but it is hardly moral.
David Ruffley has rightly shown his concern for those who cannot feed themselves, no matter how hard they work, now I hope he will take action in government to close the loopholes which allow such massive tax avoidance, and raise the minimum wage.
It is scandalous that 13 million people in this country live in poverty, while companies like Starbucks legally dodge their duties to the society in which they operate.
Richard Stainer
Bradfield St George
Your correspondent who referred to the need for a food bank in Bury St Edmunds must have a short memory if he doesn't remember it was the last Labour government who bankrupted this country. They were bringing in benefits making it financially better to stay at home rather than work. Spending money like there was no tomorrow.
This Government wouldn't be cutting staff numbers in the police and NHS workers if it had the money to pay them. Something, however, unpopular has to be done to get this country's debt under control.
Geoff Nice
Henry's grave is well cared for
I refer to the article 'Graves of military heroes' (Bury Free Press, November 9) that mentions the gravestone of Henry Addison VC, whose grave is in the churchyard of St Peter & St Paul Church Bardwell, and wish to correct misconceptions that the article may convey.
In view of the significance of the gravestone in the history of the village and especially of the memory of the hero that Henry Addison was and still is today, it receives regular care and maintenance. Only as recently as 2006 the VC & GC Association, the parish church and the parish council shared the cost for its major renovation that restored the gravestone almost to its original state.
Although some old graves may be at risk of falling into disrepair and even being destroyed, there is not any risk that this applies to the one in Bardwell. The article presented was not in any way sympathetic to what has been happening locally. It gave the wrong impression of the situation even including a photograph that did not show the actual gravestone concerned.
It would have been helpful if contact had been made with the regional representative of the War Memorial Trust, who is a resident in Bardwell and very much aware of the detailed position.
The article was clearly wishing to raise the profile of the legal risk for some gravestones and that is commendable but that is not how it has come across, with a significant number of Bardwell residents less than pleased with its tone. The impression given is much more that the grave is not cared for and at serious risk of being lost. That is far from the truth. A 'faculty' provides legal protection and would be required before anything could be done to any part of the churchyard or its contents. This is provided for under the provisions of the Care of Churches and Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction Measure 1991 that requires all works, alterations and additions to parish churches, their churchyards and contents to have faculty approval.
Many visitors from around the world speak highly of the church and its churchyard. It is maintained by the Friends of Bardwell Church and at present major renovation of one of the boundary fences is almost complete. It is therefore fair to say that Bardwell is very aware of its heritage and proud of all the good works that are done.
Peter Sanderson
Chairman, Bardwell Parish Council
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Cyclists can use the road
In reply to Ashley Ruffles (Letters, November 9), it is easy to see why the conclusion could be reached that 'cyclists should keep off the road' and indeed there are parts of the letter that I do agree with. If cyclists are to use their bikes at night, regardless of if they are on the road or a cycle path, then of course they should have lights on. I would also agree that if there is a cycle path then it makes sense to use it.
However, it is not mandatory to use a cycle path and is it always safer to do so? No, not always. For example heading down Mount Road towards Eastgate Street is all downhill and it would be easy do to 30mph. If it is in the morning, for example, with loads of children walking to school, remember half this path is for pedestrians, is it safe to go at that speed on the path? I would say not, better to go on the road.
I know there is always the argument about stupid cyclists who do stupid things and go through red lights etc.
The point is that if a cyclist riding correctly wants to use the road, he or she should be allowed to do so, the only thing that makes it unsafe is car drivers who like to think they own the roads and don't look properly.
Ashley Page
Bury St Edmunds
In answer to two of your correspondents who wrote letters about speeding and cycling, I would like to point out the work done by the county council's Road Safety Team.
They spend a lot of time in schools and working with drivers in their efforts to reduce casualties. They organise Bikeability training across the county in order to get more people cycling, more often, and more safely.
They are keen to promote the benefits of cycling and are about to launch a campaign aimed at both drivers and cyclists in a bid to take each other into consideration when on the roads. There is far from nothing being done about education and cycling by the County Council.
David Daw
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Halki Village Married Student Housing Complex
Halki Village has undergone a huge courtyard renovation. The asphalt walkways were replaced with a new brick walkway. Park benches provide an area where parents can watch their children play. New fencing and granite curbing was installed. Theentire area has been landscaped with beautiful trees and shrubs. It is quite a transformation and our families are thrilled!
Decks were replaced and new sliding glass doors were installed. Roofswere repaired, and exterior lighting installed. Sump pumpswere installed to address water issues. New hot water heaters, fan motors, and new laundry equipment were installed.