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50 Cent: 'Baseball slipped out of my hand'
50 Cent has defended himself after famously botching the ceremonial first pitch at the New York Mets baseball game on Tuesday, insisting the ball "slipped" from his hand.
The rapper, real name Curtis Jackson, took the mound at Citi Field at the start of the Mets' home game against the Pittsburgh Pirates, but his off-course throw was labelled "terrible" and "one of the worst first pitches of all time" by multiple sports commentators.
He laughed off the incident by joking after the game, "50 Cent is the best. Curtis Jackson, I don't know what's the matter with him!" and writing on Instagram.com, "I'm a hustler not a Damn ball player. LMAO …"
However, 50 had another excuse on Friday when he was quizzed about the embarrassing mishap during an appearance on ABC's "Good Morning America."
Asked whether the poor pitch was a publicity stunt for his new album, "Animal Ambition," he stated, "Oh no, it slipped! It slipped out of my hand… I'm not a professional pitcher, I make music."
He then admitted the throw had been so bad, he was even teased about it by a police officer: "I actually got pulled over by New York City police… He pulled me over and I said, 'I got my license, right?' because I was a little nervous when he pulled me over. I was, like, 'Oh no, what did I do?' and then he said, 'You know that pitch was terrible…'"
50 Cent's bad week continued during his GMA appearance in Central Park after technical difficulties blighted the start of his performance. The rapper hit the stage for a rendition of his new song Smoke with singer Trey Songz, but a faulty microphone caused him trouble for the first few seconds of the set.
However, the sound issue was quickly resolved and the 38 year old went to perform his hits "In Da Club," "Just a Lil Bit" and "Big Rich Town" with singer Joe.
Evan Rachel Wood blasts Michelle Rodriguez romance 'lies'
Newly single Evan Rachel Wood has returned to Twitter.com to slam "lies" suggesting she "hooked up" with fellow actress Michelle Rodriguez following her split from husband Jamie Bell.
The actress logged off Twitter on Wednesday, revealing she was stepping away from it "for a while," hours before news of her marriage breakdown was announced.
However, the bisexual star decided to break her Twitter silence on Friday to dismiss false reports linking her to Rodriguez after they both attended the Los Angeles Gay & Lesbian Center's 2014 An Evening with Women fundraiser, which took place in early May.
Wood tweeted, "Looks like someone is already trying to start a rumor that I 'hooked up' with Michelle Rodriguez at 'an evening with women.'
"I have never even said 'hello' to Michelle Rodriguez. I think it's convenient someone chose to make up the story now and not that night."
Sharing a video clip from the event, she added, "If 'a source' saw us leave together, why am I seen here leaving alone?"
She continued, "This is 'journalism' at its lowest. Complete lies made up to exploit a public separation, as if that isn't hard enough. Disgusting. Also just because you are in a photo with someone doesn't mean you spoke or slept together. Really guys?"
Wood and British actor Bell wed in October, 2012 and welcomed a baby boy last July.
Benji Madden dodges Cameron Diaz romance question
Benji Madden has fueled rumors he is dating actress Cameron Diaz after attempting to dodge questions about the reported romance in a radio interview.
The Good Charlotte star has been photographed spending time with Diaz in California in recent weeks, and he was quizzed about the gossip during an appearance on Los Angeles radio show On Air with Ryan Seacrest on Friday.
When host Seacrest asked him if the speculation was true, Madden laughed nervously and said, "Well, Ryan, there's only one way to find out."
He then tried to deflect the attention away from himself by suggesting Seacrest play an old game he used to have on the show, titled Ryan's Roses, in which fictional listeners call in to air out their suspicions about a cheating partner. An on-air staff member then phones the accused lover, pretending to be a florist offering to send a dozen free roses to the person of their choice to see who they would pick.
Madden's change of subject prompted Seacrest to end his line of questioning.
The rocker had reportedly been introduced to Diaz by his sister-in-law, Nicole Richie.
Mariah Carey takes the New York subway
Superstar Mariah Carey ditched her usual luxury transport as she headed home after a New York charity gala on Thursday to hop on the city's subway system.
The singer posted pictures of herself leaving the Fresh Air Fund's Spring Gala and boarding the 1 train with manager/producer Jermaine Dupri on Instagram.com.
In one photo, in which she is snapped in a floor-length sequined, blue gown, laughing, she writes, "Laughs pon de (on the) subway."
She adds, "Glimpses of our joyride on the 1 train #subwayincouture."
The 46 year old is not the only celebrity to take an unlikely ride on the subway – in 2012, Jay Z rode the train from Manhattan to Brooklyn for his concert at the Barclays Center.
Brad Pitt's alleged attacker hit with four criminal charges
Red carpet prankster Vitalii Sediuk has been hit with four criminal charges following his alleged attack on Brad Pitt at the Los Angeles premiere of "Maleficent" on Wednesday.
Pitt, who was supporting his fiancee Angelina Jolie at her film premiere, was signing autographs for fans outside the El Capitan Theatre when Sediuk reportedly jumped over a security barrier and rushed at the actor, appearing to strike him in the face.
The 25-year-old troublemaker was subsequently arrested by police and held on $20,000 bail, and he is now facing charges of battery, assault, unlawful activity at a sporting event, theatrical or exhibition and unlawful delay or interference of a sporting event, theatrical or exhibition, according to Eonline.com.
Prosecutors are also seeking an order barring him from upcoming industry events.
The news comes a day after Pitt obtained a temporary restraining order against Sediuk on Thursday.
Sediuk has become infamous for causing chaos on the red carpet – he previously made headlines in 2012, when he was slapped by Will Smith after he attempted to kiss the actor, and he was recently arrested at the Cannes Film Festival in France as he tried to crawl under America Ferrera's dress.
Charlize Theron compares life in the spotlight to rape
Actress Charlize Theron recently compared life in the Hollywood spotlight to rape.
During an interview with Sky News, the Oscar-winning actress was asked whether she reads coverage of herself on the Internet, and she insisted she tries to avoid looking up stories online.
She went on to compare coverage of her private life to being sexually violated, saying, "I don't do that (Google myself). So that's my saving grace. I think it's when you start living in that world and doing that that you start… I guess feeling raped."
Theron, who adopted a son in 2012, recently hit headlines when her new relationship with actor Sean Penn became public, but the star explains she tries to keep her family time private and doesn't understand why some celebrities publicize their personal lives.
She adds, "When it comes to your son and your private life (I keep it private), maybe that's just me, some people might relish in all of that kind of stuff (but) there are certain things in my life that I think of as very sacred and I'm very protective over them, that doesn't mean I always win that war, but as long as I don't have to see that stuff or read that stuff or hear that stuff… Then I can live with my head in a clear space. That's probably a lot healthier…
"My job has made my live incredibly blessed and good and I am very grateful for that but that doesn't mean that every aspect of my life becomes fodder for an article. I try to protect that as much as I can."
A spokeswoman for campaign group Rape Crisis tells WENN, "[Theron's comment] trivializes sexual violence and it completely fails to recognize the impact rape has on the lives of survivors."
Celebs pay tribute to music manager in new Mike Myers film
Mike Myers' directorial debut became a star-studded affair when he reached out for celebrity feedback on legendary music manager Shep Gordon.
Myers stepped behind the camera to make a documentary about his pal, who has represented some of the world's biggest stars, and Gordon's past and present clients and friends jumped at the chance to be a part of the tribute.
"Supermensch: The Legend of Shep Gordon" features anecdotes from Alice Cooper, Michael Douglas, Sylvester Stallone and Myers himself, who calls Gordon "the nicest person I've ever met, hands down."
And Douglas adds, "I have told Shep things I haven't told anybody, not even my wife."
Check out photos from the film's NYC screening Thursday night, and watch the trailer below.
Marilyn Manson gets recurring 'Sons of Anarchy' role
Shock rocker Marilyn Manson has been cast as an incarcerated white supremacist in the FX biker drama "Sons of Anarchy."
Masnon will appear in multiple episodes of the show's upcoming seventh season.
Confirming the news in a statement released on Thursday, the rocker writes, "Sons has been such a big part of my life, as well as my father's, so I was determined to make him proud by being involved in what will probably be remembered as the most amazing piece of television cinema.
"Now all I need is a motorcycle."
Manson's past TV credits include "Eastbound & Down" and "Californication," while he has also appeared on the big screen in "Lost Highway" and "Party Monster."
Kim Kardashian makes Instagram history
Newlywed Kim Kardashian has set a new record on Instagram – a snap showing her kissing husband Kanye West at their Saturday nuptials has garnered more than 1.9 million likes.
The previous record was held by Justin Bieber, whose cozy shot with ex-girlfriend Selena Gomez reached more than 1.8 million likes in the past five months.
Mindy Kaling cracks jokes at Harvard Law School graduation
Actress/writer Mindy Kaling raised laughs among Harvard Law School graduates on Wednesday by delivering a joke-packed speech at the college's commencement ceremony.
The "Mindy Project" creator feigned awkwardness as she opened the talk by assuming she was being given an honorary degree from the prestigious institution before being corrected by a member of staff.
The actress went on to list her own achievements, such as having a burger named after her, offer comedy advice to the aspiring law professionals and poke fun at her own alma mater, Dartmouth College.
She joked, "I know what you're probably thinking. Mindy Kaling, why did they ask her? She's just a pretty Hollywood starlet, what does that quadruple threat know about the law?… I'll have you know, I do know a ton about the law, because I sue everybody."
The star later conceded, "To be honest, I don't know much about the law. I graduated from Dartmouth College in 2001, an academic institution located in lawless, rural New Hampshire, where, when you arrive, you are given a flask of moonshine and a box of fireworks and you are told simply to, quote, go to town – except there is no town, there is only a forest and a row of fraternity houses that smell like urine."
Playing up to student stereotypes, Kaling also detailed her search for shortcuts while writing her speech, including asking her father to get her out of it, paying another student to do it and trying to buy a pre-written speech from a website.
She also joked, "One of you will sort out the details of my prenup. A dozen of you will help me with my acrimonious divorce."


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Scientists from throughout the world convened today to discuss the water crisis in agriculture and explore how new research can help farmers produce more with less. Their discussion was part of the annual meeting of American Association for the Advancement of Science, held this week in San Francisco.
"There is no question that the greatest challenge for agriculture in the near future will be the availability of adequate supplies of water of sufficient quality to support agricultural production," said Stella M. Coakley, an associate dean of the College of Agricultural Sciences at Oregon State University and one of the panel organizers.
Coakley, a plant pathologist with a specialty in climatic effects, sees the issues of water security and food security converging in agricultural areas around the world, including many parts of Oregon.
Panel members described how an increase in population, urbanization, and environmental consciousness has increased various demands for water, outbidding and reducing the water available for agriculture. Shrinkage of groundwater resources and a prolonged drought have aggravated the situation, and the greater frequency of more severe droughts predicted by some global climate change models are a cause for great concern.
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Ray Huffaker, from the School of Economic Sciences at Washington State University, addressed the changes needed in federal water laws and policies to protect water rights and to enhance efficiencies in water distribution, allocation, and marketing.
Bert Clemmens, from the Arid Land Agricultural Research Center in Maricopa, Ariz., discussed actions and technologies that could reduce field losses of rain and irrigation waters.
Robert Evans, from the USDA Agricultural Research Service in Sidney, Mont., described how competition for water will soon require a major shift from maximizing agricultural productivity per unit of land to maximizing productivity per unit of water consumed. He outlined new methods to increase water use efficiency of crops, technologies that include site-specific water management.
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We have all heard the word depression, and each of us likely has our own definition of it. For some, it is a momentary feeling of more "down and blue" than usual or a mood caused by something frightening, like cancer. For others, it is a clinical condition that includes unwelcome changes in sleep and appetite, loss of interest in usual activities, poor ability to concentrate, forgetfulness, and sometimes feelings of hopelessness and worthlessness.
Depression makes other cancer side effects worse. Therefore, it is important to get treatment for depression, just as you would any other uncomfortable side effect. Evidence even suggests that depression is associated with poorer survival rates, because depressed individuals may not follow through with treatment recommendations. They have more difficulty making plans, experience more side effects of treatment, and feel more isolated.
Mental health professionals classify depression in a couple of ways. A major depressive disorder describes a condition in which a person experiences symptoms of depressed mood, sleep and appetite disturbance, loss of interest or enjoyment in previously enjoyed activities, poor concentration and memory, hopelessness, and even thoughts of suicide. The other main classification for depression is as an adjustment disorder. Adjustment disorders are milder than major depression and are usually linked to a stressful situation, like cancer.
Social stimulation is important in lifting your mood. Talking with a close friend or relative and openly sharing feelings and fears can be therapeutic.
Major depression is not something that you can overcome by strong will. It is linked to the neurotransmitters serotonin and norepinephrine, and recent research suggests that additional biological activity involving cytokines and inflammatory responses also play a role. Some medications used to treat cancer can even contribute to worsening depression.
Many people think that depression is normal and expected with a cancer diagnosis. However, while reactions of disbelief, sadness, fear, and grief are normal and expected, a sustained depressed mood is not. Short periods of feeling down and discouraged are part of life, but if those periods turn into days or weeks, you should seek treatment for your depression.
Fortunately, depression and its symptoms can be treated successfully. First, see that you are getting enough sleep. Some of the medications taken during cancer treatment may interfere with sleep, as may worry and discomfort. Try nonpharmacological measures such as warm milk or herbal tea, soothing music, and quiet activity with a regular routine before bed. If those don't work, sleeping medication may be needed.
Planning pleasant activities is another way to fight depression. It's easy to feel alone and isolated if you don't feel capable of participating in activities you formerly enjoyed. Waiting to feel better doesn't work. Instead, plan and follow through with activities that get your mind off your cancer.
Social stimulation is important in lifting your mood. Talking with a close friend or relative and openly sharing feelings and fears can be therapeutic. For some, writing these down in a private journal is helpful. Write without worrying about spelling or grammar. Put down your thoughts and determine later whether you want to share them.
Allowing yourself time for laughter is another good strategy. Find ways to incorporate humor in your life every day, by joking with friends, visiting humor blogs or websites, or watching television comedies.
Accomplishing something specific may also help lift your spirits. After spending so much of your time waiting on doctors, test results, and treatments, it's gratifying to complete even something simple like baking a cake or knitting a cap. Techniques to promote relaxation, such as meditation, music, prayer, yoga, and massage, may also be soothing and may improve your mood. In addition, exercise shows promising results in reducing depression. Severe depression often requires medications for symptom relief. Antidepressant medications are very effective, and combining medication with psychotherapy is considered the most effective treatment regimen for chronic or severe depression.
Depression can occur at any time during the cancer journey, even after successful treatment has ended. Sometimes family members may be more aware of your depressive symptoms than you are, so listen to their observations. You should treat depression with the same importance you treat other symptoms to achieve the quality of life you deserve.
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Wednesday, April 16, 2008
NEW YORK, April 15 -- The Washington Nationals are hoping right-hander Shawn Hill will make his season debut Saturday in Florida against the Marlins, though General Manager Jim Bowden said the plan hadn't been finalized.
"We'll make sure the week goes well and make a decision at the end of the week," Bowden said. "But tentatively, I think that's what we're looking at."
Hill, who has been battling soreness in his forearm since spring training, made a six-inning, 89-pitch rehabilitation start Sunday for Class AAA Columbus. He said Monday, when he rejoined the Nationals at Shea Stadium for a series against the New York Mets, that his forearm is still tight, but he feels he can pitch through it.
"It's the same thing at this point, but it has gotten better each time out," Hill said. "And I'm throwing more and more each time, so it's not going away, but it is improving. I'm not bothered by it right now."
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All uniformed personnel Tuesday at Shea -- players and coaches -- wore No. 42 in honor of Jackie Robinson Day, which marked the 61st anniversary of Robinson breaking the color barrier by debuting with the Brooklyn Dodgers.
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Clabon History, Family Crest & Coats of Arms
Anglo-Saxon name Clabon comes from the family having resided in Cliburn, a small parish in the county of Westmorland (now part of Cumbria). The place name dates back to c. 1140 when it was listed as Clibbrun. Literally it means "stream by the cliff or bank," from the Old English words "clif" + "burna." [1]CITATION[CLOSE]
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Westmorland at Cliburn, a village and civil parish, in the West ward and union [2]CITATION[CLOSE]
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hundred years, spelling variations in names were a common occurrence. As the English language changed in the Middle Ages, absorbing pieces of Latin and French, as well as other languages, the spelling of people's names also changed considerably, even over a single lifetime. Spelling variants included: Clibborn, Cliborn, Cliburn, Cilborne, Cliburne, Clibborne, Clairborne, Claiborn, Claiborne, Clayborn, Clayborne, Claybourne, Claybourn, Clayburn, Clayburne, Cliburn, Cleburn, Cleborne, Cliburne, Cleburne and many more.
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Skip to comments.Rebel Re-enactor with a Cause
Posted on 07/01/2002 2:49:16 PM PDT by TexConfederate1861
Spotsylvania resident Willie Levi Casey Jr. is an African-American member of the Sons of Confederate Veterans and proud to be Southern.
By LAURA MOYER The Free Lance-Star Date published: Sun, 06/30/2002
ROCKVILLE--In the Hanover County woods where men in blue and men in gray are shooting at each other, it's all noise and smoke and stink.
Across a field there's cannon fire so loud it resets your heartbeat for you. Horses whicker, and men shout. Fog-thick gunpowder smoke gives off a rotten-egg reek.
For Confederate Pvt. Casey of the 6th North Carolina State Troop, a Civil War re-enactment unit, the conflict is all external.
In real life, the Rebel private is Maj. Willie Levi Casey Jr. of the U.S. Army--a tasty bit of irony if you're looking for it.
But Casey sees no irony at all in re-enacting as a 19th-century soldier in gray and being a 21st-century African-American.
Casey, a 40-year-old resident of Spotsylvania County's Chancellor area, is a Southerner by birth and proud of it by choice.
He's been re-enacting since 1997 and was welcomed as a full member of the Sons of Confederate Veterans Matthew Fontaine Maury Camp No. 1722 two years ago.
It all makes sense, he said, if you view the Civil War not as a textbook struggle between good and evil, but as the nuanced conflict it truly was.
"Look at the mentality of a black person in the South" at the time of the Civil War, Casey said. That person's ancestors might have been living in the South for 150 years before the war.
In such a case, he said, "You may be a Southerner by force, but you are a Southerner."
Historians have long held that black Southerners, free or slave, did not serve the Confederacy as soldiers, but worked instead as teamsters, laborers, cooks and personal servants.
If those black men took up weapons in battle, this official version of history goes, it was because of circumstances and self-defense, not because they believed in the Southern cause.
But recent scholarly works--many by African-American academics--have alleged a historical understatement and even a cover-up of blacks' real participation.
Casey, who earned a degree in history from Presbyterian College in South Carolina, said his reading over the past few years leads him to believe that tens of thousands of blacks, slave and free, fought for the Confederacy.
Their motivation, he believes, was not to support slavery but to support what they saw as their country--the South--and to improve their own lot in life.
"You would fight to gain status. Because you know that even if you lose, you're still one of the brothers in arms," Casey said. "You're fighting to make your life better."
Casey's persona as a re-enactor is a free black cabinetmaker from eastern Tennessee, able to read and write, with a wife and a child at home.
But he has a real-life link to the Confederacy as well--one he always vaguely knew about but pinned down only in recent years.
Casey grew up in Cross Anchor, S.C., in the 1960s and '70s. It was an area full of Caseys, black and white.
He and his siblings knew they had a white great-grandfather, a man who had never married their American Indian/African-American great-grandmother even though they had six children together.
A family photo of the couple's son Barney Casey shows a bulky man in overalls with lank gray hair and white skin. He's Willie Casey's grandfather.
Willie Casey was well into adulthood when he decided to research the white side of his family.
In the course of his genealogical effort he came across the Civil War record of one Pvt. Martin Luther Casey, a South Carolina soldier killed in 1862. That man was the older brother of Casey's great-grandfather.
Being a collateral relative of a Civil War soldier qualified Casey for membership in the SCV. He's twice been elected aide-de-camp of the local group.
His acceptance into the organization doesn't surprise him. "Most people will welcome you according to how you treat them," he said.
The SCV denounces racism and has vehemently fought the usurpation of the Confederate battle flag by the Ku Klux Klan and other hate groups.
"These are guys who are trying to remember their ancestors in a positive manner," he said. And that's what he wants to do, too.
Still, Casey is often asked to explain himself--not to his fellow re-enactors or SCV members, but to people who just can't understand where he's coming from.
"People say to me, 'Do you support slavery?'" he said.
"I say, 'No. I support preserving Southern history and telling it the way it is.'"
1 - Walt
2 - Walt
3 - Walt
4 - Walt
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Bonus - Walt
Answer #'s correspond to the quotations in post 9. Bonus corresponds to the quotation in post 14. Each quotation is identified by it's actual pro-yankee author and the source where it came from.
1. Walt, http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/703308/posts?page=2#2
2. Karl Marx, Address of the International Working Men's Association to President Johnson, 1865
3. Karl Marx, On the North American Civil War, October 20, 1861
4. Walt, http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/700651/posts?page=88#88
5. Karl Marx, On the North American Civil War, October 20, 1861
6. Walt, http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/688238/posts?page=62#62
7. Walt, http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/688238/posts?page=42#42
8. Karl Marx, On the North American Civil War, October 20, 1861
9. Walt, http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/688238/posts?page=42#42
10. Walt, http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/662922/posts?page=85#85
11. Karl Marx, On the North American Civil War, October 20, 1861
12. Karl Marx, On the North American Civil War, October 20, 1861
13. Karl Marx, letter to Abraham Lincoln congratulating him on reelection as President of the United States, January 28, 1865
14. Walt, http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/664750/posts?page=51#51
Adolph Hitler, Mein Kampf Volume 2, 1926
In other words Walt, who would no doubt agree with practically every one of those quotes that was not his own, echoes the pro-yankee sentiments expressed by two of the most notorious totalitarian nutcases in all of history.
Charles Francis Adams, United States Ambassador to Britain, to Karl Marx of the International Workingmen's Association (my emphasis added in bold)
Legation of the United States
London, 28th January, 1865
I am directed to inform you that the address of the Central Council of your Association, which was duly transmitted through this Legation to the President of the United States, has been received by him.
So far as the sentiments expressed by it are personal, they are accepted by him with a sincere and anxious desire that he may be able to prove himself not unworthy of the confidence which has been recently extended to him by his fellow citizens and by so many of the friends of humanity and progress throughout the world.
The Government of the United States has a clear consciousness that its policy neither is nor could be reactionary, but at the same time it adheres to the course which it adopted at the beginning, of abstaining everywhere from propagandism and unlawful intervention. It strives to do equal and exact justice to all states and to all men and it relies upon the beneficial results of that effort for support at home and for respect and good will throughout the world.
Nations do not exist for themselves alone, but to promote the welfare and happiness of mankind by benevolent intercourse and example. It is in this relation that the United States regard their cause in the present conflict with slavery, maintaining insurgence as the cause of human nature, and they derive new encouragements to persevere from the testimony of the workingmen of Europe that the national attitude is favored with their enlightened approval and earnest sympathies.
I have the honor to be, sir, your obedient servant,
Charles Francis Adams
ROTFL!! GOP, you sir have made my night. Tex, great article posted as usual and thanks for posting the truth
Marx isn't the only totalitarian nutcase to espouse Walt's position.
I can't believe I missed that many :o(
I missed as many as you did! LOL!
I thought GOPcapitalist was giving us a "gimme".
We congratulate the American people upon your re-election by a large majority. If resistance to the Slave Power was the reserved watchword of your first election, the triumphant war cry of your re-election is Death to Slavery.
From the commencement of the titanic American strife the workingmen of Europe felt instinctively that the star-spangled banner carried the destiny of their class. The contest for the territories which opened the dire epopee, was it not to decide whether the virgin soil of immense tracts should be wedded to the labor or the emigrant or prostituted by the tramp of the slave driver?
When an oligarchy of 300,000 slaveholders dared to inscribe, for the first time in the annals of the world, "slavery" on the banner of Armed Revolt, when on the very spots where hardly a century ago the idea of one great Democratic Republic had first sprung up, whence the first Declaration of the Rights of Man was issued, and the first impulse given to the European revolution of the eighteenth century; when on those very spots counterrevolution, with systematic thoroughness, gloried in rescinding "the ideas entertained at the time of the formation of the old constitution", and maintained slavery to be "a beneficent institution", indeed, the old solution of the great problem of "the relation of capital to labor", and cynically proclaimed property in man "the cornerstone of the new edifice" -- then the working classes of Europe understood at once, even before the fanatic partisanship of the upper classes for the Confederate gentry had given its dismal warning, that the slaveholders' rebellion was to sound the tocsin for a general holy crusade of property against labor, and that for the men of labor, with their hopes for the future, even their past conquests were at stake in that tremendous conflict on the other side of the Atlantic. Everywhere they bore therefore patiently the hardships imposed upon them by the cotton crisis, opposed enthusiastically the proslavery intervention of their betters -- and, from most parts of Europe, contributed their quota of blood to the good cause.
While the workingmen, the true political powers of the North, allowed slavery to defile their own republic, while before the Negro, mastered and sold without his concurrence, they boasted it the highest prerogative of the white-skinned laborer to sell himself and choose his own master, they were unable to attain the true freedom of labor, or to support their European brethren in their struggle for emancipation; but this barrier to progress has been swept off by the red sea of civil war.
The workingmen of Europe feel sure that, as the American War of Independence initiated a new era of ascendancy for the middle class, so the American Antislavery War will do for the working classes. They consider it an earnest of the epoch to come that it fell to the lot of Abraham Lincoln, the single-minded son of the working class, to lead his country through the matchless struggle for the rescue of an enchained race and the reconstruction of a social world. [2]
Signed on behalf of the International Workingmen's Association, the Central Council:
Longmaid, Worley, Whitlock, Fox, Blackmore, Hartwell, Pidgeon, Lucraft, Weston, Dell, Nieass, Shaw, Lake, Buckley, Osbourne, Howell, Carter, Wheeler, Stainsby, Morgan, Grossmith, Dick, Denoual, Jourdain, Morrissot, Leroux, Bordage, Bocquet, Talandier, Dupont, L.Wolff, Aldovrandi, Lama, Solustri, Nusperli, Eccarius, Wolff, Lessner, Pfander, Lochner, Kaub, Bolleter, Rybczinski, Hansen, Schantzenbach, Smales, Cornelius, Petersen, Otto, Bagnagatti, Setacci;
George Odger, President of the Council; P.V. Lubez, Corresponding Secretary for France; Karl Marx, Corresponding Secretary for Germany; G.P. Fontana, Corresponding Secretary for Italy; J.E. Holtorp, Corresponding Secretary for Poland; H.F. Jung, Corresponding Secretary for Switzerland; William R. Cremer, Honorary General Secretary.
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Marx actually lays it out pretty well. The war was brought on by the slave power for the most heinous and immoral of reasons.
The record amply indicates that no more than a handful of blacks fought for the CSA.
Bump for dixie. There you have it, everybody! After being accurately compared along side Marx in his pro-yankee arguments, there's Walt in his own words endorsing Karl Marx!!!
Oh, and thanks, Walt, for confirming what we've suspected all along. And to the other south-bashers out there, how's it feel to be the direct political heirs of Karl Marx?
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Tuesday, August 2, 2011
Nothing so plain about my Paganism
I had been operating under the belief that in order to communicate most clearly and honestly, I needed to be open about my paganism. I thought it would be dishonest to remain "in the broom closet." I am now entertaining the idea that by using the term Pagan (or pagan), I merely muddy the waters of communication making it far more difficult for me to assert my views in a productive way.
I believe what I believe. Based on my understanding of the history and theory of earth-centered and mystical spiritual traditions, I have called my beliefs pagan, and I continue to believe they are. Unfortunately, I have found that very few people, whether Abrahamic, Pagan, or non-theist, seem to resonate with my personal experience or definition of the term. It seems it would be better to simply communicate my beliefs and the context of those beliefs without attaching a label to them. In this way, I need no longer argue with those who actually believe very similar things as I do, but have bad associations with the term "Pagan". In this way too, I may communicate my spirituality without having to endlessly negotiate terms with or differentiate myself from folks who share my label, but who believe wildly dissimilar things and practice in a radically different manner than I do. It does me very little good to keep saying, "But I'm not that kind of Pagan." First off, it is such a waste of time. Secondly, it sets me up as an antagonist of people who would normally be my natural spiritual allies.
So that leaves me with a blog title that doesn't quite fit. I need to change it. Any ideas?
19 comments:
- Morgaine said...
Hystery's Mystery?
In the Light (and the Dark as well),
- August 2, 2011 at 8:02 PM
- Morgaine said...
"A Modern View of Brighid: Spiritual Feminism for the 21st Century"
(I could offer ideas for renaming your blog all night. I'm not certain at all that it would change the content or how I look at it or what I get out of it.)
- August 2, 2011 at 8:16 PM
- Daniel Wilcox said...
Hi Hystery. Have you considered using one of the tags that some of the women used in the 19th century such as Lucretia Mott (whom you admire)? Or maybe just Plainly. Short. Subdued and yet open. For me I've given up on labels. None of them work but seem always to need clarification. I'm sending this via cell from the coast of southern oregon. In the light. Daniel
- August 2, 2011 at 8:22 PM
- Lone Star Ma said...
I think it's fine. I also like the old title.
- August 2, 2011 at 9:14 PM
- Hystery said...
I will continue to talk about my paganism whatever new name I come up with just as I will continue to talk about my plain tendencies and my Quaker spirituality. I'll also discuss how Calvinism and its offspring (Congregationalism, Unitarianism, Transcendentalism) affect me. I can't forget about Methodism or Theosophy or Spiritualism which appear in my spiritual genealogy. If I remove "Pagan" from the title, I may find that I feel more free in my writing. I may explore more widely. We'll see. One never knows.
I actually have frequently considered Daniel's suggestion of using just "Plainly" as the blog title. On more than one occasion when the Pagan part of the title was feeling too tight and uncomfortable, I simply dropped it and left "Plainly" on its lonesome for a number of days or weeks until the mood passed.
I might call the blog "Plainly" and the occasionally add another word for a short time just for fun. Plainly Spiritualist. Plainly Pagan. Plainly Nuts. In this way, I can experiment with the many facets of religious/spiritual identity. I suppose the irony is that with many of us, we aren't "plainly" anything at all. We aren't our labels. We defy definitions. We are simply ourselves.
- August 3, 2011 at 3:12 PM
- raewytch said...
I like the old title. Its what drew me to look at your blog. Im a pagan and also like the quaker spirituality so wanted to read what you had to say.
But if you feel the need to change it then you must do what feels right.
Lots of love anyway
rachel x
- August 4, 2011 at 9:14 AM
- naiadis said...
Part of me would be sad to see the 'pagan' title go, since that was how I found your blog and I'm not sure I would have found it any other way. It's been fascinating to read your writing. However, it's easy to understand the need for a name change.
It's funny -- when I'm dealing with other pagans, I find the term "pagan" to be so open as to be almost meaningless. Reading that you find it to be too tight a definition at times is an interesting insight from the other end of the spectrum.
Whatever you wind up calling it, I'll still be reading along.
- August 6, 2011 at 2:37 PM
- Michael Bright Crow said...
Dear One,
I still like the original title. It suggests that, were people to pay attention to what you do, how you honor the earth and her people, they would recognize that you are plainly pagan.
You challenge resonates with me. Were you to substitute "Christian" for "Pagan," much of what you say would apply. "I'm not THAT kind of Christian."
This is part of why I became a convinced Quaker: according to the labels, I'm both Christian and Pagan, but according to the orthodoxies, I'm neither.
I follow Jesus as my spiritual master, yet I reject the body versus spirit dualism of historical Christianity.
What is important, what is sacred, is being, not words about being.
Blessed Be,
Michael Bright Crow
- August 8, 2011 at 11:48 AM
- Hystery said...
I've started and erased my answer to your response to my post many times because I can't figure out how to write something that conveys my sense of gratitude for your words. You said exactly the right thing which is something you tend to do, but it still caught me off guard.
- August 9, 2011 at 9:50 AM
Hystery, you have described a feeling I understand all too well, and I know it's exactly the same sort of sentiment that inspired Ruby Sara, who used to author "Pagan Godspell," to switch blogs (and titles) entirely.
Yes, I've often thought "Why do I keep using this word when all it does is cover up anything I'm trying to say in too many assumptions?"
Also, I vote "Hystery's Mystery" =P
- August 20, 2011 at 1:47 AM
- American Neopagan said...
I have struggled with the "Pagan" identifier myself. Principally because of issue you raised: the necessity of having to explain that I am "not that kind of Pagan". No matter which identifier you use, however, if it is one used by others, then you will have to draw the same kinds of distinctions. Whether Quaker, Christian, Pagan, or whatever, we are necessarily both like and unlike each other.
The only other alternatives, I think, are to either avoid any labels or make up a label which no one else uses. Either way, I think you will end up having to explain as much or more than you did when you used a more common identifier.
Of course, you will avoid the unpleasant associations with others with whom you don't identify. But you are also giving something up: First, you are giving up the possibility of community. But also you are giving up the opportunity to help define a communal identifier that is very much undefined at this point.
I think we need to fight for the right to define "Paganism" for ourselves. If we surrender it to those who embarrass us, then I think we might find one day that we have let someone else define all the our words for us, and we have none left to describe ourselves.
- August 20, 2011 at 7:12 PM
- kevin roberts said...
"Definingly Indefineable."
"Definitively Indefinite."
"Infinitively Definitively."
i dunno.
"The Golden Bough" is already taken.
"The Book of Quagan."
yes? no, maybe not.
you know, hystery, being a Quistian, i take a lot of heat from militant atheists about the bad aspects of some forms of christianity. and i also find myself having to recite the litany of "but i'm not that type of christian . . ."
so i guess i don't have any answers, but i understand something of your question.
- September 5, 2011 at 8:49 PM
- Mary Ellen said...
I emphasize with the need to grow beyond the title. Pagan is only a part of the mix, though I find it a positive term and don't need to have it defended or defined. There's some seeking involved in your writing - but also some teaching and sharing of a formidable amount of insight and scholarly understanding. Hystery's - views? musing? - but these don't get at the depth of some of your exploration. Good luck - I hope the testing of titles is a fruitful exercise!
- September 11, 2011 at 3:42 PM
- staśa said...
It makes me sad when people feel they have to abandon a term because of what other people think of it or think it means, rather than because of their own inward truth.
When you say you are a feminist, how do people react? Do most people you use that term with think it means the same thing you do?
I find there are as many misconceptions about feminism as there are about Paganism, and that when I say I'm a feminist, what I've said and what they've heard are so far apart that the conversation has just become horribly muddled. (You've seen this happen in on-line discussions we've both been part of.)
Yet I will not give up the term "feminist." Part of it is my own stubborn integrity. Part of it, I'm sure, is because it pisses me off too much to have anti-feminists win by having degraded the word so much to make me abandon it for those difficulties.
So I, myself, think (as I believe I've said before) that the question is not so much what other people think, but what the truth is in your own heart, and what words express that with the most integrity for you.
If "P/pagan" does not, then don't use it.
But if "P/pagan" does, do you really want to abandon it because of other people?
Perhaps you do; but I think it's worth teasing out those two separate strands.
- September 22, 2011 at 6:07 AM
- Hystery said...
I also have considered my (near) rejection of the word "pagan" in light of my refusal to reject the word feminism. The obvious comparison here is one of the most compelling reasons I have to continue in my use of the word.
Certainly there are elements of feminism, both contemporary and historical, that I find irritating or even offensive. I am still able to move past those rough spots to embrace a term which I understand to signify an approach to human rights that transcends any specific mistakes that anyone calling her/himself a feminist may make. I should be able to do the same with Paganism.
Perhaps my reactive attitude is a manifestation of intellectual elitism. With feminism, even that which annoys me is ofen well-grounded within the academy. The debates between different branches of feminism are intellectual debates (or at least this is how I have experienced them). However, my experience of other Pagans often takes place outside of the academy. When I write about Paganism, I do so for a largely liberal Christian or secular audience. My defense of the efficacy and worth of Paganism is a scholarly exercise, and I am frankly embarrassed by those Pagan expressions that seem poorly grounded in intellectual discourse. I want to show my Christian feminist peers that Pagans are not silly, undisciplined people. I want Pagans to prove themselves as every bit as disciplined as other religious scholars. There are many days when this is a tough sell.
This intellectual elitism also explains, in part, my continued fascination with liberal Christianity which has such a well-established intellectual foundation. I am, in the end, still a very "Protestant" Pagan. (And here I am defining the Protestant movement not by its evangelicalism, but by its long relationship with discourse and exegesis). I see that I most react to being mistaken by others as a Pagan who is body-oriented and emotional in approach. I was trained to never trust my gut and to be suspicious of those who do, and I'm unlikely to shake that early lesson.
It is such an irony that I spent ten years of graduate school trying to understand "embodiment" and "experiential thealogy" as gifts of the women's spirituality movement. I worked hard to understand embodiment as a "way of knowing" that challenged patriarchal religious hegemony. But I learned to understand these things within an academic framework in which I studied, researched, and wrote about embodiment and experience. (Related to this is a seminar during which we spent several days talking about silence!) Isn't that funny? And guess what? When I got finished with the academic process of defending non-academic approaches, I trusted my body and emotions even less than when I began! Why? One cannot (or at least I did not)use my brain to make a connection to my body.
Do I regret this? Yes and no. I am who I am. I am a product of my training and I do believe that although I did not escape the worldview of my childhood Protestantism, I did absorb some of the lessons, at least at the intellectual level, of Paganism, and this has modified my Christian perspective in fascinating ways.
- September 22, 2011 at 9:05 PM
- Hystery said...
Also, I note that I call myself a feminist despite the disapproval of those who reject the term. I call myself a Pagan despite the disapproval of others who embrace the term. The latter is much more difficult than the former.
- September 22, 2011 at 9:28 PM
- staśa said...
I am reminded of Audre Lorde's "The Master's Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master's House."
And I thought, no, that's a misuse of her essay. But then, re-reading what you wrote, I thought, No, it's not a misuse, at least not in response to some of what you've written...
Lorde's critique of the feminist movement at the time wasn't intellectual: it was experiential. It was gut-level. It was based in her experience of her life as a Black lesbian fighting for her survival (and later, as a Black lesbian with cancer fighting for her survival). It was bodily.
Paganisms, in the collective state in the West that they are today, are not an intellectual pursuit; they haven't been connected with the academy long enough to produce the kind of rigor you're longing for; and it's honestly not clear yet if many Paganisms would survive such a thing -- because the Goddess is not God in a skirt, and most Paganisms are not Christianity, even feminist Christianity, in different guise. They are something different entirely. They truly are a different way of knowing, a different way of experiencing.
It's not clear to me how Paganisms would be changed by squeezing them into a completely different box.
But there are groups that are working to see how far Pagan academe can go and work. Ritual theory/ritual studies as a cross-disciplinary field makes my head itch, it's so abstract sometimes (making ritual that abstract??), but it's there and it's pretty rigorous. There are people I could put you in touch with vis a vis Ritual Theory, Pagan Theaology, and third-wave feminism in modern Paganisms -- Grant Potts (PhD UPenn), Christine Hoff Kraemer (PhD BU), off the top of my head.
The academia of Paganisms is changing every day. I know I can't keep up with it. But I'm also clear that it's my call to be an applied theaologian, not an academic one. :)
- September 23, 2011 at 7:34 AM
- Hystery said...
Before I read your latest response, Stasa, I was thinking about my own last response and thinking that it was very much representative of one side of my personality which is pretty linear, disciplined, etc. while the other is more mystical and open. On good days, the two sides work well together like peanut butter and chocolate. On other days, however, when my scholar self gets to be grumpy, my mystic self scampers off and hides.
Your latest comment including mention of other Pagan academics reminded me of yet another element affecting my attitude. I was *never* involved (nor tempted to be involved) with a practicing Pagan community. From my teenage years to the present, my experience of Paganism has been through the academic and intellectual world. To me, academic Paganism *is* Paganism.
I know that some will be very tempted to tell me how much I am missing, but I remind folks that I am an extreme introvert *and* that I have very rich social connections that work well within the context of my introversion, so I really don't need any help in this area. Also, I'm a Quaker so...
I don't think of intellectualism as somehow divorced from mysticism. Yes, the two become strained at times when I'm being a bit battered by some of the more androcentric elements one finds in scholarship, but I have been lucky enough to have an almost exclusively feminist academic background. That helps. The battering comes when I try to insert my feminist approach into a more traditional academic situation in which feminism and Paganism are still both marginalized. I do tend to internalize my own oppression. It is difficult to understand how I could have worked so hard for so long only to be so thoroughly rejected by my acaemic peers. When both Pagans and traditional academics sneer just a bit when I mention the Goddess feminist academic background from which I emerge, I tend to shrink just a bit.
- September 23, 2011 at 9:46 AM
- Hystery said...
Anyway, for me, intellectualism, when left unbattered, can be mystical and experiential. The Pagan and feminist academics who wrote the texts that inform my understanding of spirituality also emphasized embodiment and experiential spirituality, but they did so within the framework of scholarship. I appreciate their thoughtful and often poetic approach which integrates mind and body and therefore seems to me to be preferable to either the aridity of atheist scholarship or the goofiness (sorry!) of Pagan ritual. (As I've mentioned on your blog, I'm really unlikely to ever hold my arms up in the air unless there is something falling down on top of me.) After the pattern of introverts from Northeastern Protestant backgrounds, I am "experiential" in a manner that may be difficult for more exuberant types to discern. But it is there.
Some of this negativity from me may actually be far more about conflicts between introversion and extroversion (another thanks to Stasa for posting an article on this very topic.) It could be that I am reacting less to thealogical differences and more to issues of expression. Extroverts embarrass me and their continued attempts to draw me into their activities annoy me. A lot. I was especially hurt when people suggested that I wasn't really understanding Paganism because my Paganism is centered in reading and silent contemplation rather than in community interaction and activity. In fact, I started to develop a more negative reaction to Paganism only after I began to spend time online in conversation with Pagans who were critical of my approach and who seemed to reject the idea that one could possibly get most of one's spiritual fulfillment through intellectual engagement with readings and study. (To be fair, my rejection of Christianity only extends to those Christians who likewise reject an intellectual approach).
But all of this is not communicating the most important point for me which is that my mysticism exists within the context of my intellectualism. I do not separate the two. Mysticism without intellect is merely emotional reaction. Intellect without mysticism is merely....grumpiness. I've been grumpy lately.
- September 23, 2011 at 9:49 AM


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S: Pico School Plan for Change
BC: References | Bolman, L. G., & Deal, T. E. (2010). Reframing the path to school leadership (2nd ed.). Thousand Oaks, CA: Corwin Press. The Center for Comprehensive School Reform and Improvement. (2009). Professional learning communities. Retrieved from http://www.centerforcsri.org/plc/program.html Deal, T.E., & Peterson, K.D. (2009). Shaping school culture: Pitfalls, paradoxes, and promises (2nd ed.). San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass.
FC: P | Pico School Plan for Change | Janet Bernes, Heather Dougherty, Alan Kinoshita, Michelle Sawyers Organizational Leadership EDL 515 March 11, 2013 Cynthia Spicer
1: dedicated to: the students, parents, and teachers of the world
2: The Human Resource Frame | The Pico Staff needs to feel empowered, respected, and appreciated. Creating a family-like atmosphere, where all members of the organization have roles and responsibilities is imperative to the successful functioning of Pico School. The teachers at Pico School need a principal who listens, communicates, and tends to the "human" needs of the employees.
3: Creating a Plan for Change | Three areas of change will occur at Pico School. The common theme of this change is Empowerment. 1. Empowering teachers so they feel part of the Pico Learning Community. 2. Empowering students by allowing them opportunities to better the learning environment. 3. Empowering the community to be connected to the vision and the goals of the school.
4: Teacher Empowerment | The teachers at Pico do not trust the new principal as they see him as an outsider. The teachers do not feel empowered by the principal because he tends to make all the decisions. Bolman and Deal (2010) believe a family works better when everyone in the family shares the responsibility for problem solving. To build teacher confidence the principal will build capacity within the Pico staff by creating a learning community that has the same values, beliefs, and vision. By sharing the responsibility, teachers will have a feeling of ownership which will help the staff feel appreciated and recognized.
5: Areas of Change for Teacher Empowerment | 1. Create Professional Learning Communities. Teachers will secure more responsibility so they feel like they are making a difference. "PLC is an ongoing process used to establish a school-wide culture that develops teacher leadership explicitly focused on building and sustaining school improvement efforts" (The Center for Comprehensive School Reform and Improvement, 2009, para. 1 ).
6: The PLC at Pico will improve teacher leadership as staff work toward creating a student-centered school. The overall goal of the PLC is to enhance student learning through teacher empowerment. The Pico culture will, "recognize and capitalize on the collective strengths and talents of the staff" (The Center for Comprehensive School Reform and Improvement, 2009, para. 3). Examples of PLC teams: * Assessment Team * School Improvement Team * School Wide Behavior Team * Inclusion Team * Curriculum Development Team *21st Century Learning Team
7: 2. Change the format of staff meetings. Pico staff meetings are hierarchical in nature, with the principal leading the discussion and providing little opportunity for teacher-led discussions and input. To create a collaborative school culture centered on student learning, the structure of staff meetings will change. PLC teams will be included on staff meeting agendas providing an opportunity for teacher leaders to share and discuss items pertaining to school enhancement and school growth. Likewise, meetings will change from the stand and deliver style to an interactive and engaging meeting where all teachers are involved. Meetings will be thematic in nature, with the principal acting as a coach rather than as a manager.
8: Student Empowerment | At Pico student behavioral problems have occurred. Many times it is an adult that deals with these problems. To truly empower the students, responsibility and ownership can be transferred to them. Deal and Bolman (2010) discuss that by allowing more people to be involved in shaping the schools culture allows for more growth and development.
9: Instead of only having adults deal with student problems, it is suggested that a Peer Mediation program be created. By having students engage in helping to resolve problems, students are not only given the opportunity to learn problem solving skills, but it also empowers them to help shape their learning environment. Students will learn to: Help peers resolve their conflicts. Learn conflict resolution and anger management skills. Improve public speaking skills. Make new friends and learn how to cultivate positive relationships with a variety of personalities. | Areas of Change for Student Empowerment
10: Peer Mediation | Student Qualifications 1. Students must show a natural tendency of offering help. 2. Students show strong leadership qualities. 3. Other students look up to them both positively and negatively. 4. Student has a sincere interest in making the school a safe and peaceful place.
11: This program will: 1. Help students build relationships. 2. Empower themselves and others. 3. Give the students an opportunity to receive feedback. All of these elements are addressed by Deal and Bolman (2010). These ideas can help students to actively engage and work within the Human Resource frame.
12: Community Empowerment | Involving the community is a challenge many schools face. The current parent-teacher council that exists at Pico is a great start to empowering the community. There are several other areas that could be changed to increase the community role in the school.
13: Areas of Change for Community Empowerment | 1. Expand the parent-teacher council to include members of the community. 2. Start a Principal Blog. 3. Have bilingual staff translate for parents at meetings. 4. Hold English classes for those parents that do not speak English fluently. 5. Plan annual community events at the school to celebrate art, history, or an event special to Pico.
14: Why Empower the Community? | Parental and community involvement in the school requires many things. "One of the more crucial factors is the extent to which the school's culture creates an inviting, open-door image and links to the values and sentiments of parents, community, and society" (Deal & Peterson, 2009, p. 185).
15: FAMILY IS EVERYTHING | The changes outlined for Pico School will bring the community into the school and give both parties an opportunity to connect. By having English classes and offering translations for non-English speaking parents, the community will be empowered to show up at functions and help their students.
16: The Future of Pico | E | ~ Excellence, Caring, Justice and Faith ~ | Pico looks forward to a future full of positive growth and excitement as each of the stakeholders within the school have their needs met within the Human Resource Frame. Teachers are an integral part of the leadership of the school, with Professional Learning Communities determining needs for students and identifying needed professional development for teachers. Students are accountable for their behavior, and those around them, through the Peer Mediation Team, which results in more on task behavior and greater instructional time in the classroom. Parents, through the many events that occur at Pico, see themselves as important figures in the school and their child's education, which leads them to often volunteer at the school.
17: Pico | The mountain lion, Pico's mascot, stands for strength. The strength that Pico exhibits includes the ability to recognize and advocate for the needs of others, within the school and community. This desire to help others causes the family of Pico to continually reassess itself and it's impact on stakeholders. Pico prides itself on the premise that it's job is to, "understand people's needs and concerns, and to serve them by building a caring community" (Bolman & Deal, 2010, p. 128). Pico will continue to demonstrate success over the years as the essence of the school blooms with the four most important values in education: excellence, caring, justice, and faith (Bolman & Deal, 2010).


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Publisher: Penguin
Pages: 300
Release Date: April 11th 2017
Summary (from Goodreads):
Seventeen-year-old Molly Peskin-Suso knows all about unrequited love-she's lived through it twenty-six times. She crushes hard and crushes often, but always in secret. Because no matter how many times her twin sister, Cassie, tells her to woman up, Molly can't stomach the idea of rejection. So she's careful. Fat girls always have to be careful.
Then a cute new girl enters Cassie's orbit, and for the first time ever, Molly's cynical twin is a lovesick mess. Meanwhile, Molly's totally not dying of loneliness-except for the part where she is.
Luckily, Cassie's new girlfriend comes with a cute hipster-boy sidekick. Will is funny, flirtatious, and just might be perfect crush material. Maybe more than crush material. And if Molly can win him over, she'll get her first kiss and she'll get her twin back.
There's only one problem: Molly's coworker, Reid. He's an awkward Tolkien superfan, and there's absolutely no way Molly could fall for him. Right?
This was a really cute, fun book about romance, crushes and family. There's a great diverse range of characters and three of the most lovely little love stories.
Love story one, and the main one of the book, is Molly. She's had 26 crushes in her life – 25 of which have not been Lin Manuel Miranda – but she's never acted on any of them. Enter cute, hipster Will who's fun and friendly and also the best friend of her sister's girlfriend. If she can date him then she can keep her sister close and have her first kiss too. But then there's Reid, her nerdy co-worker who she's super relaxed around and might just be even better crush material, as long as he doesn't fall for her best friend Olivia…
Reid was the obvious contender for a real crush in my eyes, despite Will being very cute. I thought he'd end up being a stereotypical good looking ass but he was actually very sweet. To me though, he just wasn't the right one for Molly, while Reid was someone she could talk to and hang out with, which is more important to a relationship than butterflies in the stomach. I liked Molly's theory about why she had never acted on her crushes and how she just needed to be rejected to get it over with. When you're young you sometimes think that being rejected by a crush is the worst thing that could happen, and while it might not be great and could be awkward for a while, you'll very soon get over it. Trust me.
Love story two is Molly's twin Cassie and Mina, a girl they meet in a club and who becomes Cassie's first serious girlfriend. These two are adorable together and I loved the way their story was written. The;r relationship puts a strain on Cassie and Molly's relationship, which Cassie does her best to balance but things inevitably get complicated along the way.
The third is between their two moms, Nadine and Patty. Patty had the twins via a sperm donor, and many years later Nadine had their little brother Xavier by the same donor, which I thought was really sweet. During the book, gay marriage is legalised and Nadine and Patty can finally get married. I think what I loved most about this was just seeing an LGBTQ+ family living a normal and happy life. It just made me smile.
There's ups and downs in the book as Molly and Cassie fall out, Mina meets their slightly racist Grandma and Reid looks like he might get his head turned by newly single Olivia. I got frustrated with Molly because I just wanted her to talk to Cassie and Reid rather than making assumptions about what was going on with them. Communicate, people, it's important!
This was a book that just made me smile with all its lovely characters and relationships. It's great to see a diverse range of characters in a book, and I love an LGBTQ+ book that isn't a coming out story too. If you're looking for a diverse contemporary romance read then this one's for you.


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UPDATE: The Giants have also announced that Steve Kline, the left-handed reliever who retired last season, will be the new pitching coach at Augusta. Those kiddies better learn how to laugh.
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Any conversation about who might manage the Giants down the road has to include the name Steve Decker. The former San Francisco catcher has had a Midas touch in the Giants' system, and the team announced today he is being promoted to manage the Double-A Connecticut Defenders.
Decker, 43, had a long run of success managing the Giants' rookie-league Class A team in Salem-Keizer, Ore. Last year, he led the high Class A team at San Jose to a California League-best 85-55 record. Ross Grimsley, the former major-league pitcher and a long-time coach in the Giants' organization, will be the pitching coach.
Meanwhile, Andy Skeels, who led the Giants' low Class A team in Augusta, Ga., to a South Atlantic League title last year, will manage San Jose. Dan Rohn, who (in my view) has done a terrific job managing at Triple-A Fresno, will return for a third year. He also must be considered major-league managerial timber.
On another matter, I talked to Giants official Bobby Evans after I posted yesterday's blog on Jesus Guzman. Evans said the Giants at this moment do not view him as a contender to make the 2009 team out of spring training, although, Evans said, "He could turn some heads. You never know. (But) I wouldn't factor him into the front pages of our expectations for the big-league season."
The Giants believe he needs to go to the minors to continue his development, particularly on defense.
As for Ty Wigginton, the it seems the Giants are weighing the same question they have posed elsewhere on the diamond, namely the short-term benefit versus the risk of blocking a prospect such as Conor Gillaspie. In other words, if Wigginton can get a deal similar to Casey Blake's, three years at something like $6 mil per, I'm guessing the Giants will not bite.


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MARIETTA, Ga. -- Two teens are in jail after vandalizing a Cobb County high school while broadcasting the whole crime online over the weekend.
The suspects proudly displayed their alleged crime spree to followers on Snapchat. Looking for 30 seconds of social media fame, they ended up getting a whole lot more.
Officers said that one a weekend afternoon, Gary Higginbotham and Christopher Gonzales burglarized and vandalized Lassiter High in Marietta, Ga.
They also targeted several restaurants the same day. Sharing their actions live on social media, they proudly showed their faces. Officers said the teens smashed holes in the gym ceiling using a basketball and even tossed furniture around.
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Walking over to the school cafeteria, they also grabbed food from an industrial freezer. And after parading on the roof of the school, officers said they drove to nearby restaurants spraying cars and customers with a fire extinguisher.
"We just see smoke," Chef Omar Vera from Marlow's Tavern said.
Vera said the teens were particularly overbearing at the restaurant.
"Maybe they got their 30 seconds of fame and they sure got it," he said.
It turns out those 30 seconds are also giving them days in the slammer. And that's in no small part due to the fact that they actually recorded themselves jumping on the hood of a Cobb County police car.
Investigators don't think it's a laughing matter though. The teens are now facing several charges including burglary, vandalism and making terroristic threats. Both Higginbotham and Gonzales were jailed on $40,000 bail.


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Persian Gulf carriers push for increased access to Europe, dialog on state support
Middle Eastern airlines have long been accused of receiving unfair government support, but they are arguing that their model should serve as an example for the world. "Yes, we have governments support us, in the same way as Europeans did before their privatization," Qatar Airways CEO Akbar al Baker told delegates at the Arab Air Carrier Organization (AACO) annual general meeting here last week. He argues that once airlines in the region "are properly mature," they will launch initial ...
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Admirals win AHL title by sweeping Marlies
Mike Kostaka scored two goals and Dustin Tokarski made 18 saves to lead the Norfolk Admirals a 6-1 victory Saturday night and a 4-0 sweep of the AHL Calder Cup Finals series.
The Admirals, who are top affiliate of the Tampa Bay Lightning, won their first American Hockey League title in their 12-year history. It was also their first trip to the finals.
Norfolk's Alex Picard, who scored six goals in 42 regular-season games, was selected as the playoffs MVP after scoring nine goals in 18 postseason games.
It was also the first finals for the Marlies, who are the top farm team for the Toronto Maple Leafs.
Two days earlier, Norfolk won Game 3 in Toronto on an unexpected overtime goal that bounced off the boards. The AHL said Friday the goal should not have counted since it occurred during a delayed offside call.