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New York Stallion Stakes Quotes
NYSS Spectacular Bid Division
John Terranova, winning trainer of West Hills Giant (No. 5): "He hasn't been as quick from the gate the last couple of starts, but he had run a route of ground the times before that. They helped today with a quick half-mile, so I'm kind of glad he was sitting back there taking his time so he could get a clear shot and an outside run. It was a nice, smooth race for him. He did everything well. He's versatile. He absolutely can do both turf and dirt. Which one he'll be better on, we'll have to see, but there are a lot of opportunities for New York breds on both surfaces. We'll try to take advantage of that."
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"'Complete Streets' program aims for safety, educator tells Saugerties Crowd," June 26, 2014
"Saugerties resident urges officials to slow traffic after witnessing accident that killed her brother," June 2, 2014
"Sen. Gillibrand's Pedestrian Safety Act advances," May 15, 2014
"US Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, in Saugerties visit, calls for federal funding of pedestrian safety measures," May 5, 2014
Saugerties police aim to eliminate car-pedestrian accidents, April 25, 2014
State to work with village of Saugerties on pedestrian crossing signs, April 19, 2014
After pedestrian accidents, local municipalities explore traffic design to make streets safer for walkers, Feb. 22, 2014
Saugerties officials discuss pedestrian safety at Partition and Main streets, Feb. 10, 2014
Saugerties strives to make village intersection safer (VIDEO), Feb. 6, 2014
Saugerties pedestrian dies after being struck by truck in village, Jan. 30, 2014
Saugerties Village Board seeks safety measure for pedestrians, Jan. 6, 2014
Saugerties pedestrian, 67, killed crossing U.S. Route 9W, Nov. 26, 2013
SAUGERTIES >> Another 35 drivers were given warning tickets after they failed to yield the right of way to a pedestrian in a crosswalk during a special enforcement detail in the village, the police chief said.
Saugerties police, with the assistance of troopers from the state police, conducted their second pedestrian decoy operation Friday at the intersection of Washington Avenue and Main Street. In addition to the 35 warnings issued, police also ticketed one driver for failing to yield to a pedestrian in a crosswalk after he began arguing with officers about being stopped, Chief Joseph Sinagra said.
He said there were also a number of traffic tickets issued for other offenses and three individuals who were charged with misdemeanor counts of aggravated unlicensed driving.
Sinagra said his department is conducting the decoy operation to educate drivers about the state law requiring them to yield the right of way to pedestrians using a crosswalk. He said, though, the operation would also get drivers accustomed to stopping at crosswalks.
Friday's operation, like the one before it, involved a police officer wearing bright, plain clothes walking back and forth across Main Street between the Village Diner and Saugerties Senior Housing. Officer Richard Carlson, who acted as the decoy, would first give a hand signal and make eye contact with the drivers of oncoming vehicles before attempting to cross the street using the crosswalk.
Orange cones were set up 75 feet away from the crosswalk to make sure Carlson provided drivers with enough time to see him and respond.
"So if the vehicle does not comply, we gave them every opportunity," Officer Jorge Castagnola said from where he watched the operation.
When drivers did not stop for the decoy, Castagnola would radio to other police officers stationed along Main Street. Those officers would then flag down the offending drivers. After being flagged down, the drivers were directed to additional officers, out of sight, who would explain to them why they were stopped. The drivers were also provided with literature describing the state vehicle and traffic law related to pedestrians in crosswalks.
The police officers also checked to make sure the drivers' licenses were valid.
Approximately 12 officers were involved in the operation and had gone through a one-hour briefing before beginning, Castagnola said. He said the briefing was to make sure each of the officers involved knew how the decoy operation would work and that it was only educational at this time.
Castagnola said the majority of vehicles traveling through the intersection did come to a complete stop to allow Carlson to cross the road. He added that fewer drivers were failing to comply during Friday's operation than had failed to do so during the first.
"Word is definitely getting out," Castagnola said. He said even during the first operation word spread quickly on social media about what the police were doing.
During the first decoy operation, police issued warning tickets to 60 drivers who failed to yield the right of way to a pedestrian in a crosswalk. The warning tickets do not involve any fines or points on a driver's license, but are meant to be educational. Sinagra has said his officers would begin issuing standard traffic tickets later this year after the educational phase.
Sinagra said his officers would conduct additional decoy operations in the coming weeks, especially since the new school year would be starting soon.
Friday's operation occurred near the Cahill Elementary School.
Besides educating drivers, police officers are also educating pedestrians about their rights and responsibilities when crossing the roadway.
The police department began a pedestrian safety campaign earlier this year after a number of vehicle-pedestrian accidents in the town and village of Saugerties. There were 12 such accidents in 2013, two of which were fatal. There was also a fatal truck-pedestrian accident in January in the village, just down the road from where Friday's operation was taking place.


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March 22, 2008
Providence, Rhode Island - Sophomores Thomas Muldoon and Zach Caldwell scored two goals each, and junior goalie Jordan Burke made 17 saves, to lift Brown to a 9-5 men's lacrosse win over Dartmouth in the Ivy League opener for both teams. The win lifts the Bears to 4-2 overall and 1-0 in Ivy play, while Dartmouth drops to 3-3, 0-1 in the Ivy League.
Brown led from start-to-finish with Caldwell and senior Mike Cummins giving the Bears an early 2-0 advantage. The two teams exchanged goals with Towney Swiggett and Jon Livadas scoring for the Big Green and Muldoon and senior Brian Asher scoring for the Bears to keep Brown in the lead, 4-2.
Bears' junior middy Reade Seligmann gave Brown a 5-2 lead at the half on an unassisted man-up goal with 3:56 left in the half.
Dartmouth's Jimmy Mullen opened the second half scoring to pull Dartmouth to within 5-3 of the Bears. But Brown quickly answered on goals by sophomore Collins Carey at 3:43 of the third quarter and Caldwell with 11:26 left in the game to build a 7-3 advantage.
The Big Geeen made a last run at the Bears on goals by Brian Koch and Ari Sussman to trail, 7-5, with 6:11 left to play. But Bears' junior attackman Jack Walsh picked up a loose ball in front of the Dartmouth net to score with 1:20 remaining to ice the game. Muldoon's second goal of the game with 38 seconds left on the clock accounted for the final margin of victory for the Bears.
Burke was spectacular in goal, frustrating the Big Green time after time in making 17 saves. Including 11 in the first half. Caldwell was the game's top scorer with two goals and an assist.
The Bears return to action on Tuesday, March 25, hosting Vermont at Meister-Kavan Field. Game time is 3:00 p.m.


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ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — Minnesota GreenCorps is now recruiting host sites and Americorp volunteers for the upcoming program year.
The Minnesota Pollution Control Agency launched the GreenCorps in 2009. The program works to reduce solid waste and increase recycling; reduce greenhouse gases and other pollutants; reduce stormwater runoff and improve water quality; and train new environmental professionals.
The Minnesota GreenCorps program has placed over 100 AmeriCorps members in positions with cities, counties, school districts, universities and nonprofits in its first four years. Those members also mobilized hundreds of volunteers in community service projects to help improve or protect the environment.
The next program year begins this September. Applications to be a host site are due May 6, and applications to become an AmeriCorps member are due June 7.
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Id like to know whats so different about the v4.5 from the v4.
Can anyone please tell me?
can I just say I love tamagotchis
what's the difference? v4 and v4.5
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Posted 20 August 2007 - 04:20 PM ( #2 )
The differences between the V4 and V4.5 is that the V4.5 has a star on the antenna instead of a ball. There are different games and jobs on the V4.5. The V4.5 has different skill points and characters. And, that's just about it. Just a few minor changes, nothing new.
Posted 20 August 2007 - 04:24 PM ( #3 )
Yeah, pretty much. The v4.5 has funny, happy, and *i dont know* skill points
It also has cute ura characters!
It also has cute ura characters!
Posted 20 August 2007 - 04:41 PM ( #4 )
ok then I won't bye one. Ill wait for v5's. Thanks so much!
Posted 20 August 2007 - 07:09 PM ( #5 )
No problem. BTW the skills are funny, gorgeous, and spiritual.


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KANSAS CITY, Mo. – Announcement has been made of the engagement of Ashley Freund and Jacob Shroyer, both of Kansas City, Mo.
She is the daughter of Keith and Shirley Freund of Crystal Lake. He is the son of Ronald and Jo Ellen Shroyer of Boonville, Mo.
The bride-to-be is a 2003 graduate of Crystal Lake South High School, a 2006 graduate of Truman State University in Kirksville, Mo., with a Bachelor of Science in sociology and a 2009 graduate of the University of Missouri-Kansas City.
She is a licensed master social worker and is employed by Jackson County CASA in Kansas City, Mo., as a case supervisor.
Her fiancé is a 2003 graduate of Boonville High School in Boonville, Mo., and a 2008 graduate of Truman State University with a Bachelor of Science in justice systems.
He is a police officer with the Kansas City Police Department in Kansas City, Mo.
Their wedding will be Oct. 20.


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Pax Romana is the currency in the MMORPG The Secret World, practically TSW Gold. You will need increasing amounts of the currency to be able to afford better equipment in The Secret World, similar to many other MMOs. For example, you can use Pax Romana to buy new clothes, weapons, talismans and materials for the complex crafting system.
In The Secret World, your character feels like most people in real life: Many of the things you would like to have are just too expensive. To survive in TSW and become a great player, you need the best possible equipment that costs a small fortune of the currency Pax Romana. So you can grind enemies and hope they will drop small amounts of TSW Gold, or you can easily buy Pax Romana at MMOGA!
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By Brendan Conway
Pershing Square Capital Management chief Bill Ackman now says he'd "welcome" Herbalife (HLF) suing his firm.
The comments, made to Bloomberg Television's Erik Schatzker this afternoon, put the size of the company's short position against Herbalife as "over 20 million shares." Watch the clip here.
At today's closing price of $33.74 per share, that's around $675 million, or close to one-fifth of the company's market cap.
For good measure I guess, Ackman called short selling "a very noble thing" and said
Go here to see our blow-by-blow of the presentation as it happened earlier today.
Here's the Bloomberg transcription of the "welcome their suing us" part:
"We welcome their suing us. If they sue us, we get access to inside information on Herbalife that we can prove that we are telling the truth. For me to say a company is a pyramid scheme is something I do not do lightly. This is a company we started analyzing a year and a half ago, this is a company that we have done an enormous amount of work. We will make our work available…I believe that it is a certainty that this company is a pyramid scheme. And I would not say that if I did not believe that to 100% confidence level because I understand the implications of saying publicly that a company is a pyramid scheme if it's not a pyramid scheme. This is what I believe based on very careful and thorough analysis of every fact we've found. There is not a fact we have learned that is inconsistent with this company being a pyramid scheme…This is the highest conviction I have ever had about any investment I have ever made, full stop."


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Microsoft has always talked about the support of this feature for disc-based titles, but it has not yet confirmed support using this feature for Xbox Live Arcade or to download title offerings. Sony has already confirmed earlier this year that they, too, will support partial-download play.
At one point, a rumor was circulating that Microsoft was looking at dropping this feature, but apparently this was not correct. The questions that have gone unanswered are surrounding download titles.
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also brownnose, 1939, American English colloquial, said to be military slang originally, from brown (adj.) + nose (n.), "from the implication that servility is tantamount to having one's nose in the anus of the person from whom advancement is sought" [Webster, 1961]. Related: Brown-noser, brown-nosing (both 1950).
also brown-noser: He got there by being a pious and effective brown-nose
To flatter and pamper in order to gain approval and advantage; curry favor; apple-polish: He's just like any other person who's in a position to screw you. You gotta brown nose
[1930s+ Military academy students; fr the color of feces presumably acquired when one has one's nose at the flatteree's anus]


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MANLIUS — The Manlius Historical Society met Sept. 6 at the First State Bank building with president Robert Andersen presided over the group of seven.
Kenneth Rodgers presented the minutes of the July 25, which were approved. He also gave the treasurer's report, which was also approved.
Under old business, Andersen reported he was going to delay plaques for the front of building and concentrate on outside of building repairs. Also to file appeal with DOR on upstairs taxes.
Under new business, Ed Behrens had installed new storm door on back entrance. Andersen will talk more to Kurt Peterson about repairs and painting to the outside of building. Patti Glafka made a motion to remove the fire escape, which was second by Lois Swanson. The group also discussed a time for mailing out requests for donations.


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Everchanging Destiny
I am a huge Twilight fan but didn't really care for Breaking Dawn. This story begins where Eclipse leaves off, with Edward and Bella still together as vampire and human. This story is both romantic and suspenseful, full of twists and even a new vampire clan threatening the Cullen's way of life. What would happen if Bella hadn't become a vampire yet? There's only one way to find out!
1. Dream
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Life was good. No more than good, it was perfect. I looked across the room at my beloved husband Edward, looking more beautiful than anyone ever had a right to, sitting by the fire in our perfect little cottage. He was smiling at me like he was the luckiest person in the world to have me, which I never could fully understand. How could he think he was the lucky one? This Greek god with the sultry, golden eyes was for some unknown reason in love with me. I was the lucky one.
That would have been enough for me. He alone would've been more than I could have ever imagined wishing for. But my luck and good fortune had brought me so much more, our daughter Renesmee. I looked down at her exquisite face, exquisite because she looked like her father, with the exception of having my eyes. As I rocked her to sleep I couldn't help but remember the night we created this miracle, the night on Esme's Island after our wedding, when I finally got to have Edward, in every way a person could have someone.
When it came to Renesmee, that's really all I could remember. I was told of all the sickness and pain that came with carrying her, but somehow it had escaped my memory. There is no way a bad thought could come into mind while looking at her face.
As I hummed her my favorite lullaby, the one Edward had written for me in my previous life, my human life, I started to become very dizzy. Everything in the room started spinning out of control. I was starting to lose sight of everything I loved.
I started screaming for Edward as I couldn't see him anymore, everything was black.
"Edward, where are you? What's happening? Edward!"
It was only a few seconds but it seemed like an eternity before I could suddenly hear his voice again but it seemed so far away.
"Bella, I'm here my love. Bella, can you hear me? Come back to me Bella. Carlisle, come quick. I think she's coming around."
Carlisle? When did Carlisle get here? I saw a small beam of light in all of the darkness. It slowly grew larger and I could see some shadowy figures looking down at me. As things slowly came into focus, I could see Carlisle looking into my eyes with his pointer light thingy and behind him was my Edward. I was so relieved to see his perfect face. Even though it had only been a few seconds, it was too long to not be able to look at him.
"Edward? What happened? Where am I? Where's Renesmee?"
Edward came to my side and slid my scared, shaking hand in his. "I'm here Bella. You are going to be ok." His sweet smelling breath made me lose all concentration as it always had. It was intoxicating. I had to focus.
"Edward, where's Renesmee?" He looked at me with his worried eyes and crooked grin he always had
whenever I did something stupid.
"Esme is right here and Renee is still in Jacksonville." He must have misunderstood.
"No, not our moms, where is Renesmee?" He looked at me in utter confusion and asked "What do you mean, Renesmee? I think you are still a little confused my love."
What was he talking about? How could he not know what I meant by Renesmee? "Edward, I mean
Renesmee, our daughter!" As soon as I screamed the words I felt a sharp pain in the back of my head. It felt like someone had hit it with a hammer.
"Daughter? Bella, what are you talking about? You must have hit your head harder than we thought to ever come up with that dream!"
Dream? What does he mean, dream?
"Bella, sweetheart, you have had quite a blow to your head. You were walking into the house to meet
Alice with all of your honeymoon clothes you wanted to pack and you must have slipped or tripped on something. It's really impossible to tell with you what actually caused your spill. Anyway, you must have hit your head on the driveway pavement. You have been out of it for hours, well at least from our point of view anyway. You were evidently very busy in that bewildering mind of yours."
I couldn't breathe. Could it be possible? My perfect happy ending was only a dream? My honeymoon, my night with Edward, our beautiful daughter? My transformation from a plain, clumsy Jane to a beautiful, powerful vampire? It couldn't be. It was too real.
Edward must have seen the confusion on my face as I saw him look at me with amusement. "You know, it's incredibly frustrating to not be able to read your mind right now. I would love to know what you were dreaming about. It sounds quite fascinating."
I was already having a hard time remembering to breathe; he didn't have to make it worse by flashing that smile at me.
"You will have to fill me in when you are feeling better."
"No Edward, you don't understand! I wasn't dreaming! It was real, all of it. Why are you doing this to me?"
"Shhhh……shhh Bella. Calm down. This will not help you with your recovery. Just rest and things will become clearer. Relax. I will be here. I will not move from your side. You can scream at me later." As he winked I felt myself slipping back into unconsciousness. "It's the pain medicine Carlisle gave you taking effect," Edward whispered softly in my ear. "Get some rest." I would have tried harder to fight it but I wanted to go back to my happy ending so I let it overcome me.
When I awoke several hours later, I realized Edward must've been right. The memories I had about him, Renesmee, my new birth, the Volturi, the other vampire covens, were all fading. They were just fuzzy pieces of a puzzle I couldn't quite fully put back together. Before I could give it another thought, I felt his wonderfully cold, smooth lips upon mine.
"Welcome back. How do you feel?" When I didn't answer him right away he gave me the Edward worried look again. He should know by now the effect his kisses have on me. It always takes me a minute to gain my composure.
"Well, besides the fact that it feels like someone's drilled a whole in the back of my head with a jackhammer, ok I guess." Edward hated seeing me in any kind of pain so he immediately called to
Carlisle for more pain medicine.
"No!" I stopped him in mid-sentence. "I've been asleep long enough. What time is it?"
"It's 2:00 AM," he replied.
"Two o'clock!" I screamed. "I have to go. Charlie is going to kill me!" I jumped off Carlisle and Esme's bed which is where they had put me after my "spill" as Edward so amusingly referred to it, in one fast motion which was a monumental mistake. The dizziness overcame me and I felt myself starting to fall. I knew that feeling all too well. Unlike my last fall, I luckily had Edward there to catch me with his superfast reflexes and incredible strength this time. He had me cradled in his arms in an instant, chuckling as he so often did at my expense. After he softly kissed me on my forehead, he let me know that Carlisle had called Charlie and explained what happened. He promised Charlie I was fine but thought it was better if I had stayed with them for the night, just as a precaution. Charlie knew I was in the hands of the best doctor Forks had ever seen so he agreed.
"You must be starving" Edward said in his velvety voice. "Let me get you something to eat. I can bring it up here for you since your sea legs seem to not be working still." He delicately sat me down on the bed with another gentle kiss and was off in a blur. I don't know if I'll ever get over the marvel at seeing him move with such graceful speed. In what seemed like no time at all, Edward was back with a plate full of scrambled eggs.
I shoveled the eggs down like I hadn't eaten in ages. After I cleaned my plate Edward took it from my still slightly shaking hands and placed it on the nightstand. He moved to sit closely in front of me; legs crossed Indian style and grabbed my hands with his long, icy fingers which always seemed to burn me instead of feeling cold.
"So, why don't you tell me about this dream of yours?" Again, the sounds… the delicious scent…he really needed to stop doing that until my head was back to normal.
"It doesn't really matter. It was just a dream." He must have seen the disappointed look on my face because he leaned forward and pulled me into his rock hard chest and caressed my back in long, gentle, icy strokes.
"Of course it matters. Bella, I always want to know what is going on in your mysterious mind. You know it drives me insane that yours, the one mind I want to see more than anyone else's, is the only mind in the world I cannot read. You look upset and that is never acceptable to me. I need to know what happened in there so I can help you feel better. Please, tell me about your dream."
As usual I couldn't deny him anything he wanted so I surrendered and started to explain what fuzzy pieces I could remember. As I started to reveal the different scenes, I was sure to edit very carefully what little of the vivid memories I had left. Especially the details of the morning after Edward and I were finally able to show our love to each other. In the dream, I remember waking up with black and blue marks all over my body and feathers flying through the air from the pillows he had to bite to control himself. If I ever told him this he would never give in to my wants so I left that part out.
As I droned on, trying to remember what I could about Renesmee, his finally turning me into a vampire, the showdown with the Volturi, I could see him stiffen and start to get very agitated. His fists were clenched like he wanted to break something and his eyes grew more and more distant. I was choosing my words very carefully, trying not to reveal the worst parts I could remember, but it didn't seem to be helping. It was at this point I realized this was a mistake and decided to just shut up. I was pretty much done anyway.
"Edward, what are you thinking? Are you ok? I knew I shouldn't have told you anything. Please don't let this bother you. It was only a dream. Yes, there were some not so pleasant parts like the Volturi but most of it was great. Our finally being together, our daughter, my new birth into a beautiful, powerful vampire!"
As soon as I got those last words out he jumped from the bed and started pacing around the room frantically holding his face in his hands and shaking his head back and forth as people did when they were trying to shake some awful, painful memory away.
"Edward? Say something."
His pace slowed down and he removed a hand from his face, giving me the "one minute" sign with his finger. Slowly, calmer now, he joined me again on the bed. His face was down, staring at the beautiful silvery lace blanket that lay over the bed for several minutes. I finally reached my hands out and lifted his strong, beautifully pale face until his eyes met mine. I have seen pain in Edward's eyes way too many times for my liking in the past so it was easy to recognize how much he was hurting.
"Edward, what is it? This was a good dream!" I smiled and playfully nudged him to show him I meant it, but that only seemed to upset him further.
"Oh Bella", he finally spoke in a low, defeated tone. "There are so many things wrong…I…I don't even know where to start." He paused for another minute, I assumed to gather his thoughts, before he spoke again. I didn't understand his reaction. What about this dream wasn't a good thing? I was more beautiful and strong as a vampire, we were able to be together and we had a daughter…a perfect happy ending. What could he possibly be upset about? Did he finally come to his senses and realize he didn't want to be with me for eternity? That he could do much better?
As if he could suddenly sense my rapidly increasing fears, he grabbed my wrists and held my hands up to his stone cheeks.
"Bella, I don't know what scares me more, your dream or your excited reaction to your dream."
I was confused. I started to mumble, "Why? You know this is everything I want in this world, to be with
you forever." He tried to give me a half-hearted smile but his attempt was futile.
"OK," he began. "There are three things. Let's start with the Volturi. You seem to think that is what bothers me the most but to be perfectly honest, it bothers me the least. Protection from them is at least something I could be successful at giving you."
As he started to go on I interrupted him. "But don't you see Edward; you didn't have to protect me.
For once, I was able to protect you!"
He couldn't help but give me that half smile I loved so much at my excitement that I could do something for him, but it didn't last long. The annoyance was back in his smoldering eyes.
"Thank you for the introduction to point two," he said in a much calmer voice now. "May I continue?" I shook my head in agreement.
"Bella, I know I agreed to your condition about it being me who…changes you…" He could barely get out the words. His voice was so pained now. "I plan on honoring that agreement after the honeymoon as promised. It's just…your excitement about being turned into a monster hurts me more deeply than you will ever know. I know you think it is going to be this perfect life for us, and eventually it probably will be. You just don't understand how hard it is going to be for you in the first couple of years. I don't know if I will be able to even handle watching the pain my venom will cause you for three days much less watching you be tormented by your new thirst for two years. I don't know if I can bear never again seeing your face blush whenever you are embarrassed or not hearing you whisper my name when you are dreaming. You seem to think me ending you is a great gift I am giving you. It is insane."
I couldn't help interrupting again. "But Edward, you're not ending me; you're giving me eternity, eternity with you. Nothing in my dreams could even compete with the happiness that you are going to give me."
He just sat silently shaking his head again. We were never going to agree on this but luckily for me it had already been decided.
"And point three?" I asked, almost afraid to hear what his answer was going to be. The last two weren't so great.
He sighed and looked at me with even more pain then I have ever seen before. If vampires could shed tears I was certain there would be too many rolling down his angel-like face right now.
"Bella, you know how important it is to me that you experience everything the human world can give you, right?"
As I sat their listening, I couldn't help but smile a little, remembering the time he made me go to prom because "it was an important rite of passage" he said I shouldn't miss. I remembered dancing, something the clumsy like me should never attempt, and him pulling me up so close to him it took my breath away. I remember kissing him under the lighted gazebo on that misty night outside of the prom hall. He was right. That is definitely an experience I would never forget. Not the prom, but my time with him there.
He must have seen me drifting away because he grabbed my hand again. "Bella, focus please. This is important."
I eventually came back to the present and he continued. "You know…you know that something like
Renesmee could never happen with me, right?"
He stared into my eyes waiting to see my reaction. I must have made some kind of expression he didn't like because the pained look in his eyes grew even worse. I didn't actually now what kind of reaction I had given. I didn't really know how I felt about it. Yes, in the dream it was wonderful to have that with
Edward but it was however only a dream that was fading more and more by the minute. I couldn't even remember what our daughters face looked like anymore. Before the dream I had never even thought about it. I didn't care about children. After all, they were messy, loud, and ultimately would take away time I could be spending with just Edward. So why did I give the reaction I must have given to cause him so much pain?
"Edward, that doesn't matter to me. It's you and only you I want to spend forever with." I tried to spit the words out as quickly as I could so he wouldn't think I needed time to think about it. It didn't work.
"Bella, you are only 18 years old. You may not think you want this now but you might in the future. You should want this in the future. If you dreamed about it, maybe it is something you want deep down but don't consciously think about. Look at Rosalie. Remember her story?"
As I drifted off again, I remembered the night that Rosalie, Edward's sister for all intents and purposes, came to talk to me in Edward's bedroom. It had taken me by surprise as Rosalie was never very friendly towards me. It was only after she told me her story that I understood why she was always so cold to me.
Rosalie had always wanted a happy family life while she was growing up. She dreamed of having the perfect husband, the perfect house, the perfect social life and most importantly, the perfect children.
She thought she was on her way to having all of that when her life suddenly changed in one horrific night. Her perfect future had turned into a perfect nightmare. She was dying but Carlisle saved her that night, made her immortal. Unfortunately it meant she could never have her dream of having a family.
That is why she resented me so much. I could still have all of that but was choosing to give it all up.
What she didn't understand was that was her dream, not mine. My only dream was Edward.
The feel of his cold, strong lips upon mine brought me back to the present again.
"Bella, I…I wish you would just think about…"
It was time to interrupt again. "Edward, I have thought about it. I have thought about it and thought about it and then thought about it some more. How could I not when you are constantly making me think everything through. I have made my decision over and over again. You are everything I want and need. We've been through this. It has been decided. Please don't let one clumsy accident and stupid dream change everything."
His expression still looked pained but it was slowly starting to grow into acceptance. He forced a little smile and leaned over to kiss me again. It was at that moment that I realized my mixed feelings earlier about children were just a reaction to the dream. This is definitely what I wanted for the rest of my life.
I looked out the window for the first time and saw that the sun was already up in the sky. It was covered by a thick layer of fog like most days in Forks but it was there. Our conversation had been so intense that I hadn't even realized the time was passing by so quickly. Edward asked if I had wanted to sleep some more but I didn't feel tired at all. Just a little emotionally exhausted from the conversation. The throbbing pain in the back of my head had almost disappeared as well.
"I think I should probably get home. I'm sure Charlie's worried about me."
Edward gave me another soft, long, lingering kiss and nodded in agreement. He was still worried about my sea legs so he grabbed me up in his arms in a quick, effortless motion and carried me out to his car.
As we were driving to Charlie's house, Edward had kept one hand on top of mine on the leather seats in his silver Volvo. As always, he was driving too fast, especially with only one hand, but it didn't seem to bother me anymore. His superfast reflexes made driving with one hand for him much safer than humans driving with both hands.
"How is your head feeling?" he asked trying to cover up a chuckle. While he always worried about my clumsiness it also seemed to amuse him. I really, really didn't like that.
"It's fine. Just the embarrassment is lingering now." I hoped he noticed the annoyance in my voice.
He couldn't help but break out with a low key laugh, "and here I thought I could go hunting and you would be safe with Alice." I'm going to have to remind her she needs to act more quickly when you're in her care. I don't need you falling again getting anymore crazy ideas in your head. There are too many there already."
As we pulled up to the curb in front of Charlie's house, I could see him pulling back the curtains to see who was arriving. Edward got out and opened my car door for me, always the perfect gentleman. It was so obvious at times that he was from a totally different era, the way he spoke, the way he carried himself, his never-ending chivalry. No one in this day and age could come close to measuring up to him.
I seemed to have got my legs working again but as we walked to the door Edward had his arm tightly around my waist just in case. He knew me too well.
"Bella" Charlie said in his over-protective fatherly voice. "Are you ok? I've been really worried."
"I'm fine Dad. I've been through this routine plenty of times before as you well know. The Cullens were very nice as usual and took good care of me."
"Let's get you into the house," he groaned looking at Edward as if my clumsiness was somehow his fault.
He took a minute to glare at Edward which he has always done, but not as much as he had in the past two days. As we walked through the door I heard him mumble to Edward again…"Keep her happy and safe huh?"
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It's never wise to read too much into wins and losses during spring training, but overall play is closely monitored for strength -- and weakness.
In the latter category, let's go back to Glendale, Ariz.
During a March 23 Cactus League game against the Dodgers, the White Sox made 4 errors and were hammered 10-4.
The following day, the Sox were sloppy again and made 2 more fielding miscues in an 8-2 loss to the Royals.
The games didn't count, but White Sox manager Robin Ventura wasn't happy about the defensive decline.
"It hasn't been good," said Ventura, who during his playing days as a third baseman won six Gold Gloves, five with the Sox. "That's something that needs to be taken care of before we get out of here. Sometimes I think you get close to getting out of here and some things kind of get pushed aside. We'll get it taken care of before we leave here."
If the first three-plus weeks of the season are any indication, the White Sox need to head back to Arizona for more glove work.
Heading into Tuesday night's game against the Indians at U.S. Cellular Field -- which was rained out - the Sox have 13 errors in their first 19 games. In the American League, only the Angels (14) had more muffs.
Still trying to get the offense going, the White Sox have little or no room for defensive mistakes.
In Monday night's loss, relief pitcher Matt Thornton's throwing error in the eighth inning opened the door for Cleveland's 2-run rally and eventual 3-2 win.
It might be a little early to worry about the last-place Sox' slow start, but the defense is an immediate issue.
"As far as us playing defense, you don't see this coming," Ventura said after Monday's loss, the Sox' fourth straight. "Every night you're making that one mistake, and at this level it's going to hurt every time you do it. It can go on for a period of time so until you clean it up, it's pretty simple."
In other words, the White Sox need to clean it up quick.
"You work on all of it and do it," Ventura said. "Again, you have to execute it. And until we clean it up and get consistent with it, it's hard to win at this level when you keep giving opportunities away.
"The first day, you're concerned that you don't like seeing it. But again, it can always get better. Even last year we wanted it to get better. Until you're perfect at it, you're not happy."
Tuesday's postponement was the second for the Sox on their homestand. Cold and windy conditions wiped out Friday's game against the Twins.
No makeup dates have been announced for either game.
• Follow Scot's White Sox and baseball reports on Twitter@scotgregor, and check out his Chicago's Inside Pitch blog at dailyherald.com.


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In 15 years the Alliance has grown from five airlines offering a combined total of 6,000 daily flights to 578 airports in 106 countries to a network of 25 airlines carrying more than 600 million passengers on 20,500 daily flights to 1,293 airports in 190 countries. To paraphrase the CEO of one of our member carriers: "If Star Alliance doesn't fly there, you probably don't want to go".
This growth has been achieved by a combination of adding airlines to the Alliance and by providing customer benefits which on a global scale an airline cannot offer on its own. Examples are through-checkin, mileage accrual and redemption, Star Alliance Gold and Silver benefits and Alliance wide fare products.
Below please find the elements of the 15th Anniversary Campaign:
Thank You for 15 years of loyalty
As part of its 15th Anniversary, Star Alliance is thanking its customers for their loyalty. This theme is being promoted through various channels, such as www.staralliance.com, Facebook, twitter as well as member carrier customer and inflight magazines. In keeping with the tradition of featuring a personality in its advertising, the Alliance has selected its own CEO, Mark Schwab, who conveys the thank you message: "On behalf of all our Member Airlines, who are committed to working hard for you, now and in the future, I'd like to say thank you. You've earned it."
CEO Customer Forum on Facebook
In line with its growing presence in social media, Star Alliance will for the first time ever hold a live customer forum on Facebook. As part of the CEO thank you message, Mark Schwab will be responding to customers' feedback, comments and suggestions on the Star Alliance Facebook page. This will be hosted from the Star Alliance head office in Frankfurt and he will be available on www.facebook.com/staralliance on May 14th, 2012 from 10.00 – 11.00 and 18.00 – 19.00 local time Germany (08.00 – 09.00 GMT and 16.00-17.00 GMT).
Star Alliance 15th Anniversary Frequent Flyer Bonus (FFP) Promotion
In order to reward all our frequent travellers for their loyalty, all Star Alliance member carrier FFPs are offering their most active frequent travellers a bonus of 15,000 miles/points* . This will be awarded to the 15 FFP members registered in each programme who travel on the most Star Alliance airlines between now and 14 November. For exact details, please refer to the individual FFPs via the following link: www.staralliance.com/en/benefits/frequent-flyer/ * or equivalent value in the respective FFP
Star Alliance 15th Anniversary Competition
Star Alliance is also rewarding customers with a selection of "once in a lifetime" trips. In a web based competition participants have to find an aircraft which is hidden somewhere on the Star Alliance network. The lucky winner and 14 friends can jet off to one of 27 global festivals. Further prizes include a Business Class Round the World ticket for two and 15 further round-trip air tickets to enjoy one of the 27 global festivals on offer. Further details can be found at:
15th Anniversary Round the World Promotion
As part of a special promotion, the Star Alliance network will be offering a 15 per cent discount on the Round the World (RTW) fares in Economy Class. This applies to the base fare of all RTW Economy Class tickets sold between May 15th and May 29th, 2012. All applicable taxes, fees and surcharges will not be discounted. Full details are available at
Celebrations in Star Alliance branded lounges
Passengers using the Star Alliance branded lounges at the following airports: Cairo, London - Heathrow Terminal 1, Los Angeles - Tom Bradley International Terminal, Nagoya and Paris – Charles de Gaulle Terminal 1, on May 14th, 2012 will receive a small gift. In addition, the lounges will also be providing special cakes and other local celebratory items.


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AUSTIN, Texas — Governor Rick Perry called a second 30-day special session of the Texas Legislature on Wednesday to pass widespread abortion restrictions across the nation's second-largest state, after the first attempt by Republicans died following a marathon one-woman filibuster.
Perry ordered lawmakers to meet July 1 to act on the abortion proposals and two other issues. The abortion rules would close nearly all the state's abortion clinics and ban abortion after 20 weeks of pregnancy.
The debate about abortion restrictions led to the most chaotic day in the Texas Legislature in modern history, starting with a marathon filibuster and ending with a down-to-the wire, frenetic vote marked by questions on whether Republicans tried to break chamber rules and jam the measure through.
Senator Wendy Davis, a Democrat, made a daylong attempt to talk the bill to death. During the speech, Davis became a social media star.
But just before midnight, when the session was to end, Republicans said she strayed off topic and got help with a back brace — breaking filibuster rules — and cut her off. That cleared the way for a vote.
But when Lieutenant Governor David Dewhurst, a Republican, tried to call the final votes, nobody seemed to hear. Some 400 supporters in the gallery took to their feet with a roar, drowning out his voice.
Dewhurst gathered GOP lawmakers to register votes. Democrats held up cellphones, which showed it was past midnight. But Dewhurst and other Republicans insisted the first vote was cast before midnight by the Legislature's clock and that the bill had passed.
By the time decorum was restored and the 19-10 vote in favor of the measure was recorded, the clock read 12:03 a.m. The bill had passed, but did it count? Were votes tallied in time? After protests from angry Democrats, senators met privately with Dewhurst for more than an hour. Eventually, he declared that while the bill had passed, he did not have time to sign it, so it was not approved. In return for declaring the measure dead, Democrats promised not to question the date of the vote any further.


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The Detroit Lions did their best to lose a game they should have won. To show there is at least a little justice, they stole it back at the end.
The record will reflect that Matthew Stafford suckered the Dallas Cowboys to score a touchdown with 12 seconds left that produced a hair-raising 31-30 Lions win.
But no highlight show, nor any one story, can accommodate all the incredibly big plays in as delicious an NFL game as you could hope to see between now and the next Roman numeral.
Stafford passed for 488 yards. Calvin Johnson caught 14 balls for 329 yards, seven yards shy of the league's single-game record. The Lions had an astounding 623-268 edge in total yardage.
Yet, Detroit needed to cover the last 80 of those yards in 1:02 with no timeouts to come from six points down. The Lions didn't even need all of that clock.
Stafford threaded two indescribably accurate, laser-like strikes, one to Kris Durham for 40 yards to the Dallas 23, then a 22-yarder to Johnson, who the Cowboys will undoubtedly start covering at any second now, on a play that settled at the Dallas 1.
With the clock running, Stafford repeatedly signaled that he would spike the ball as the Lions rushed to the line and got set. Everyone believed him.
As the ball was snapped, no lineman really blocked, no receiver took off on a short route. The defense was fairly passive. Only Stafford ran a play, leaping, leaning, and stretching the ball for the tying score. David Akers' point-after was the difference and Ford Field went crazy as the Lions reached the midway point of the season with a 5-3 record.
It may prove to be a seminal moment in the Lions' never-ending bid to return to respectability if not prominence. If Detroit wins the NFC North and/or qualifies for the playoffs, this is the game that will be remembered as the tipping point.
Still, as good as Stafford was, as good as Johnson was, as good as Reggie Bush was with eight catches and 92 yards rushing, none of them is really the reason the Lions deserved to steal one.
This one belonged to the Detroit defense. Sure, the scoreboard might beg to differ with 30 up there for the Cowboys, but the Lions' offense chipped in with four turnovers in a matter of six possessions, and the kickoff coverage team was woeful.
Stafford threw two interceptions, one off of Johnson's hands, and one was returned 74 yards to set up a four-yard Dallas TD drive. Johnson and Bush both fumbled.
But through three quarters, Tony Romo had just 88 yards passing and the Boys could do no more than turn short-field opportunities into just 13 points.
Yes, the Lions defense was burned for two long touchdowns in the fourth quarter, but it still added up to just 268 total yards for Dallas.
The big question, perhaps, is why the Detroit defense is not always so stout. The tackles, Ndamukong Suh and Nick Fairley, are formidable — Dallas averaged 2.4 yards per rush — the linebackers are solid, the secondary is taking shape around safety Louis Delmas, and two young players, end Ziggy Ansah and corner Darius Slay, are brimming with potential.
That unit certainly deserved to win on this day.
But the Lions are and, at least for the foreseeable future, will remain a team judged by its offensive firepower.
Johnson proved, once again, that he's the most feared weapon in the NFL.
The buildup to Sunday's game included a little bulletin board material courtesy of Dallas receiver Dez Bryant. Truthfully, what he said was fairly harmless. He felt "I can do whatever he can do," referring to Johnson. Statistically, entering the game, he was justified in showing such confidence.
Exiting the game, the comment looked silly. Bryant had three catches and included a nifty sideline pivot that turned one of them into a 50-yard scoring play that put the Cowboys up 27-17. What he will be best remembered for, though, were two sideline temper tantrums that showed he doesn't even belong in the conversation with the cool-headed Johnson.
As always, Johnson did his talking on the field. It started with an 87-yard reception — a 10-yard pass and a 77-yard run — and then a two-yard TD catch on fourth down that gave Detroit an early 7-0 lead and had to demoralize a Dallas defense that was all but celebrating a goal-line stand.
And the Cowboys defense continued to be abused right up until 0:12 remained on the clock when Stafford and the Lions stole a remarkable win.
Contact Blade sports columnist Dave Hackenberg at: firstname.lastname@example.com or 419-724-6398.


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Mark Hyman, MD: Should You Fire Your Specialist?.
"Medical students are trained to see the body as a collection of isolated parts instead of one whole system. The ensuing move toward medical specialization — organizing medicine by organs and diseases, by location and symptoms — is flawed and, as a result, modern medicine is at a breaking point."
From Gabriel Sanders: A fantastic, eye-opening article.
Ref: The Huffington Post
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Tuesday, September 18, 2007
Adapting Texts for Quality Use
What about with teaching math in the classroom? I am currently using textbooks that are several years old. I assigned one of the story problems from the textbook to my students the other day. They were supposed to set up an equation that modeled the situation described. They struggled mightily. I changed the context to something that they were more familiar with, and they were immediately able to set up an equation to model the situation. The only reason they had been struggling with it in the first place was that the context was unfamiliar to them. And now the connection to the dilemma posed by Driscoll & Carliner.
Should I be adjusting about 75% of the textbook to make it work better with my students?
I think so.
Am I doing this?
So what is going on? I know what I should be doing but I am not doing it as much as I should be. Jordan School District does great things with their math teacher trainings. We have the opportunity to collaborate and a very good structure in place to support this collaboration. I think there needs to be more, though. The vast majority of coordinated training efforts are done during the school year. The vast majority of the teachers have the summer off, at least from teaching. I propose allowing teachers the opportunity to spend their summers doing what the rest of the world does during their summer, namely working.
I realize some teachers may not take anyone up on the offer to work more, but I think that a lot of the young teachers will. We (the young) are in a position where we have to take second jobs to be able to afford necessities, such as a home, anyway. The low pay is what keeps a lot of qualified and quality teachers away from the profession. I often hear things like 'you don't get paid, but you get the summers off'. I may get the summer off from teaching, but it only because I have not yet found the opportunity to get a full-time summer job doing what it is that I am trained to do, namely teaching math or improving my ability to do so.
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- Dave said...
It's very cool that you are applying your studies in the program to the work you are doing in your district, Richard!
You might consider writing a proposal to get grant funding that would provide summer stipends for any math teacher that would like to do the kind of work you are suggesting. There is a lot of NCLB and private foundation money out there waiting for the right proposal to come along. Perhaps there is a grant writer within your district that could help you locate the right grant RFP and also help you write the proposal.
- September 19, 2007 at 8:56 PM
- Richard said...
I have actually already written one proposal for funding to get this type of thing started. It didn't work, but I am going to try and get another one done in the next month or so that will provide money for next summer. If anyone has any suggestions as to some friendly sources of money, let me know.
- September 19, 2007 at 9:04 PM


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When it comes to the Premier League, it's almost an annual occurrence that certain players will fail to show the sort of form that people expect of them.
The English league is naturally competitive and, for some, it can be described as the most fiercely contested in the world. So I suppose certain figures coming from abroad must be given considerations when it comes to settling in and taking time to find their feet.
However this year there has been a host of players who have been quite frankly disappointing in the way that they've conducted themselves- and that's including those who set the very same division alight last year.
So here we look at the biggest disappointments of this season...
Roberto Soldado
Soldado, who cost Spurs a club record £26million, was the player I was most excited about during a summer of tasty transfers. But after a bright start it's looking as though my faith has been misplaced.
It recently dawned on me that Soldado has only scored from penalties this season. He scored 59 goals over the past three seasons in Spain but if he doesn't start scoring from open play soon then Spurs, who are pushing for a Champions League place, will have to look to the transfer window in January.
Marouane Fellaini
David Moyes' deadline day decision to bring in his Belgian giant from Everton has backfired. When you compare Fellaini to former United midfielder's such as Scholes and Keane you begin to see why the Red Devils will definitely struggle to win the title this season.
Not only does he not fit into United's midfield, it's becoming increasingly clear to see that Fellaini doesn't even fit into a United shirt period.
Ashley Young
Now at the age of 28, the once promising young talent has little time to establish himself before the World Cup next year. Moreover, Young has found first team opportunities hard to come by this season having fallen back in the pecking order behind Valencia, Nani and new kid on the block, Januzai.
His antics on the pitch have been disappointing if not disgusting. If he doesn't start playing like the respectable, skillful and pacey player he once was at Villa then not only will he not make the team for Brazil but he might also find himself at a new club.
I hear Crystal Palace could do with a new winger… and a few penalties.
Ricky van Wolfswinkel
The handsome Dutchman has done little this season to justify his club's record signing of £8.5million. At his former club, Sporting CP, Ricky managed to score every other game but for Norwich he's only managed to score once in eight games.
There is no doubt that Wolfswinkel has quality but it's his quantity that has left Norwich lingering near the relegation zone. With a team spoiled with naturally gifted goal scorers Norwich may be better off starting Hooper or better still, Elmander.
Stevan Jovetic
Before his £22 million arrival to the Premier League Jovetic was the hottest prospect in Serie A. However, he has been used sparingly under Manuel Pellegrini and has only three appearances in the league so far.
With such fierce competition for a start in the first team from the likes of Aguero, Negredo and Dzeko, Stevan may have to look elsewhere for more first team action.
Jesus Navas
Navas is another Spaniard I put my faith in at the beginning of the season in the hope he'd score me some points on fantasy football. He's done nothing. Even West Brom's left back, Liam Ridgewell, has more points than him. In my opinion Navas is the fastest and most competent winger in the league, but his lack of contribution has forced me to reconsider that.
Stewart Downing
As much as it pains me to say this, I have come to realise that Downing is just a very mediocre player who just had a couple of above average seasons.
After years of waiting for Stewie to fulfil his potential I have concluded that he already had... at the age of 25. To think that at Downing's peak, in 2008 at Middlesborough, Redknapp almost offered £15million plus Gareth Bale to acquire his services is mind-numbing.
West Ham seems the perfect place for Downing, whose best and only attribute is crossing, to see out his average career.
Nicolas Anelka
The name Anelka is a familiar name in English football and a menacing one for Premier League defenders. West Brom is now Anelka's sixth Premier League team as he tries to add to his tally.
But at the grand old age of 34 and having scored none in his seven starts this season it should be time for Nicolas to start thinking about retirement.
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Bale receiving treatment on thigh injury
Real Madrid have confirmed that Gareth Bale is receiving treatment for fatigue in his left thigh muscle.
The world-record signing was due to make his home debut for the La Liga club on Sunday when they welcomed Getafe to the Bernabeu.
But that plan was curtailed when the 24-year-old felt discomfort in the pre-match warm-up, and Real have now confirmed the nature of the problem.
"After the tests carried out today on Gareth Bale at the Sanitas La Moraleja hospital, fatigue in the left thigh muscle was found. It will be treated," a statement released on the club's official website read.
Despite Bale's absence, Real ran out comfortable winners over their city neighbours, with goals from Pepe, Isco and a Cristiano Ronaldo brace securing a 4-1 victory.
No timescale has yet been given for Bale's return, although manager Carlo Ancelotti said he was likely to miss Wednesday's fixture at Elche after Sunday's match.
But the Italian went on to indicate he is hopeful the Welshman will return when Real entertain local rivals Atletico Madrid on Saturday.


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Heffernan has a point on security: police
Jaws dropped when colourful Liberal senator Bill Heffernan produced dummy explosives to make a point about security at parliament house.
"I just thought I should demonstrate today what a joke the security has turned to in this building," he told a Senate hearing in Canberra on Monday.
The senator brandished what appeared to be a pipe bomb and some sticks of dynamite to illustrate how easily such contraband could be smuggled past security.
His explosive revelation comes amid a trial of new scanning procedures at entrances to Parliament House.
Officials from the department running the building and the staff or MHRs and senators no longer need to undergo metal detector screening or to have their bags examined in an x-ray scanner.
Politicians have always been exempt from such checks.
Still checked are all members of the public, journalists and contractors.
The change will save the Department of Parliamentary Services about $400,000.
Departmental secretary Carol Mills insists the saving can be made without compromising security.
"This is a way that we can allocate our resources to high-risk areas," she said.
Senator Heffernan was not convinced.
"This is stupid," he told Ms Mills.
The senator saved his best shot for another committee where high-ranking Australian Federal Police officers were appearing.
He produced what appeared to be a pipe bomb and several sticks of dynamite wrapped in tape which he said he'd managed to bring through security.
"Clearly you can do what you bloody well like," he said.
AFP commissioner Tony Negus said Senator Heffernan had alerted him to his planned stunt and he was satisfied the supposed bombs were inert.
He acknowledged that someone could bring bomb ingredients past security into the building over time.
"Under the current arrangements, that is a risk," he said.
Mr Negus said the AFP had expressed their concerns about the changed security arrangements.
"We have briefed the presiding officers of the parliament on our concerns and what we would put forward as being an appropriate level of security, and those elements are being considered," he said.
Comment was being sought from Senator Heffernan and from the Department of Parliamentary Services.
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Have you ever wondered how well your favorite Chevy would do if you put it on the dragstrip against a grab bag of other musclecars? Well, wonder no more. That's what the Pure Stock Drags (www.purestockdrags.com) is all about.
The 2006 Pure Stock Drags was a record-breaker, and Chevy lovers have a lot to crow about. In fact, the quickest car at the meet has been a Chevrolet in four of the last five years. This race saw the record for best e.t., set last year by an L88-spec'd Corvette, shaved by over two-tenths of a second to 11.54 at 120.75. It looks like Chevy dominance is here to stay.
To go fast at the Pure Stock Drags requires three basic elements: careful planning to maximize power-to-weight ratio, careful tuning to get the engine in top shape, and skillful driving to get the best possible launch. The car owner does everything-no sponsors or pit crew is needed. That's why fans of this race find it so enjoyable and challenging.
It all happens in September, the second weekend after Labor Day. Musclecar lovers converge on the Mid-Michigan Motorplex, a fast quarter-mile dragstrip near Alma, Michigan. All American makes are welcome, and all model years from 1955 through 1974 are invited.
Early Friday morning, an amazing array of performance cars from Detroit's golden era line-up to be teched in. It's an incredible cross-section of top-shelf iron like you've never seen-big-block, small-block, road racer spin-offs, ZL1s, full-size Impalas with the big 409, 454 Chevelles, El Caminos, COPOs, Yenkos, Corvettes of all years and displacements, even the odd Caprice and Monte Carlo SS. And they're all here for one reason-to light up the quarter-mile.
The rules are pretty strict: The car has to be as the factory built it, stock block (up to .070-inch overbore is OK), heads (no big valves, porting, or gasket matching), cam and valvetrain (no rollers), and carb. Exhaust must use the OEM manifolds and tailpipe exit. Carb jetting, distributor tuning, and low-restriction air filters are OK, as are X-pipes systems and aftermarket mufflers. The great equalizer is that all cars must run on stock-sized tires. This may shock you, but the hot ticket for a quick launch is repro bias-plys pumped up to 45 psi. Low 60-footer so far on 'em is an incredible 1.81.
The Pure Stock Drags is a Friday/Saturday event. Here's how it works: Friday is open track. Tune your car, run your best time. Saturday, the fastest and slowest times are tossed out and all runs are averaged. Then you're paired with the car running closest to your time for a best-two-out-of-three shootout.
Lots of new cars showed up in September, boosting turnout to a record 136 cars. The weather was ideal and many regulars ran their best time ever. Those on hand witnessed one heck of a shootout in the final rounds between two heavy-hitter L88 Corvettes. Jimmy Johnston, nicknamed the nuclear power shifting machine, was a runaway winner in 2005 with an 11.75 e.t. This time he was battling for his life against newcomer Julie Pennington, also in an L88. Coached by her husband Terry, Julie staged for the last run of the day, and cracked off a mind-bending 11.54 at 120.75. More good news: Seven of the 10 fastest cars were Chevrolets.
They have a saying at the Pure Stock Drags-Pure stock is the way to rock.
10 Years Of Fastest Cars At The Pure Stock Drags
In 1996, the quickest car at the Pure Stock Drags ran a 13.43. Ten years later, the quickest e.t. was 1.68 seconds and over 22 mph quicker. Here is a list of the best e.t.s (in competition, not qualifying) from the meet, going back a decade.
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Many American's continue to see the cost of their prescription health care rise.
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Insurance plans say they have seen the cost of prescription drugs rise by nearly 26 percent in just one year. Most of that is due to people who rush to the buy new drugs that hit the market each month. This new marketing plan hopes to change that.
Starting in January Blue Cross Blue Shield will begin paying pharmacists $1 for each consumer they switch from name brand to generic. A move pharmacies believe is a good idea.
"It's to everybody's advantage that blue cross does this i think that generics are just as effective," says Pharmacist Charles Grow.
And Grow believes that this will not only save his customers money but also the insurer.
"A lot of insurance companies are going under and that is not in the best interest of the consumer," adds Grow.
Most of his customers already ask for generics, it's something they say is the only way they can survive.
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HARTSVILLE, S.C. – The Coker women's tennis team suffered a tough 9-0 loss to Division I Liberty University on Saturday.
Senior Alyssa Blanchard (Columbia, S.C.) played a hard fought match at No. 1 singles, losing 7-6 (7-5), 6-2.
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|2007-08-13, 05:45
|Link #41
Rosa Gigantea
Join Date: Aug 2007
Location: France
Age: 27
Yumi said she wouldn't worry about going down the ladder because she wasn't wearing a skirt. So, that means knowing her undies can be seen, Sachiko went down the ladder to hug her petite soeur.
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|2007-08-14, 06:04
|Link #43
Join Date: Sep 2004
Location: DisneyLand Paris
But I agree the scene was there to show how much Yumi-chan holds Sachiko as an ideal in her mind, and how she uses her image of her as standard for her ideal persons (the contrary also stands : Sachiko already fit Yumi-s ideals, that's why Yumi was lovestruck at first sight of her, at her welcome ceremony....I do think these two psycho phenomenon mingle with each other, it happens a lot in real life after all )
Depends on how you see sisterly love.... when I first watch the 1st ep of Marimite, I thought it could be shoujo-ai, and then I researched on the net what an ESU novel meant, and the definition struck me as fitting. After, when a story is based only in a one gender school, we're bound to have some real love (as in physical too) relationships, like Sei and Shiori.
I think I could recognize my few BEST friends wherever and whenever, no matter the crowd, and I can't say I'm in love with 3 people at once! I'm already in love with someone, I don't waver about it and we're gonna get married in a few years, but my love for my best friends is strong, and our understanding of each others is enough for us to spot each other at once in a crowd
>>Those are some STRONG feelings being held back out of:
*Scared to make the 1st move
*Scared to lose friendship
I agree too
*Scared cause it's same girl on girl I'm not too sure about this one, seeing how she has many, many examples of girls being open with girls around her.... without forgetting
Spoiler for not sure if you read about this story yet:
I don't think they don't converse much, we just don't see them.... I think that, since we've known that Shimako was living in a temple and Sei knew it, and a few other little scenes that made me think they do keep in touch by talking with each other, on the phone during holidays even, before graduation. But I think too, that there were some things they didn't need to discuss like between Sachiko and Yumi, because that's a kind of things they already understand about each other....
|2007-08-14, 06:28
|Link #44
You can reach for my hand
Nope, not thinking you're contradicting me at all..
I love to hear other sides and ideas on how people view it..
1.) What I meant by Sei and Shimako not talking much, yes I'm sure we don't SEE everything they do, but when we do see what they do, it's like there's an invisible space of not being to attach to each other.. It seems they are kinda avoiding each other a bit (I have the same experience, and no the reason was not because I pursued someone)
2.) As for pretty boys.. All I can think about are backstreet boys, lol harharhar
3.) And yeah, guess you're right about "looking for the qualitites" of your previous love one.. However, note that it happens to every first DEEP love.. And one more to counter, there's no cure for love but to love more, so if you are loving someone DEEPLY it'll take one to forget.. It's not time.. Tried and tested by me.. n_n
But if you loved someone deeply, then loved another again lightly, you can forget both and move on..
4.) You still won't blush until you like the person in a crush like way, right?
5.) I couldn't exactly picture myself thinking I would find my bestfriend in a crowd full of people if he/she was in a mascot suit, and ran out there, even if I should say I am afraid of going down the ladder or have a fear of men.. Don't get me wrong, I love my bestfriends dearly, very dearly indeed that when they're sad I cry.. Bu this thought could only be done with someone you love dearly, not friend love, mind you..
Well, these are my point of views.. Could be just me.. n_n
Anybody wanna join in for clarity?
Anyway, I've been wanting to post about their possible "endings" for Maria-sama characters.. And I'm gonna start with Yumi and Sachiko.
Will add more, I thought about more before.. I just got home.. ^^;;
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|2007-08-14, 23:59
|Link #46
A White Rose
Join Date: Apr 2007
lol When Sei offered offered to do anything that Shimako wanted her to do, the translator put a (!) next to it. It seemed a lot more serious than how Sei usually treats Yumi though. Shimako, in typical Shimako angst manner, says she doesn't need to be embraced, it's enough Sei's there and on and on. However, I don't think they have that sort of relationship, ie. yuri, despite Sei's offer.
Sachiko and Yumi's relationship is another matter. I think that they might not develop into lovers, but there is a lot of sexual tension there. However, Yumi does not consider her reactions to Sachiko as abnormal, ie. when she's staring at Sachiko changing, stuff like that, even though she berates herself for it. Kinda makes me think it's not love in that way at all, because if she had feelings for another girl, she surely would ask herself questions about it.
On another note, Suguru is pretty!! I think he's very cute. Too bad he's gay. lol Or is he a bi? Poor Yuuki. He's straight, right? Being preyed upon like that by a senior must be seriously freaky. I especially feel for him when he had to sleep in Suguru's room at the New Year's visit to Sachiko's house.
Shimako doesn't want to be a nun anymore, right? She said it was a childish dream or something like that. But is she a Buddhist or a Christian?
I think Shimako and Sei do converse a lot, but not in front of anyone. They know practically everything about each other, right? Like Shimako's family and all. But I understand Stephanie..when they talk, it's as if they is no emotions in their words, and something is separating the two. There's just something missing. It's not like how other seours talk. Like Yumi said in the 1st season, I still can't understand Sei and Shimako's relationship. They do understand each other, and I'm sure they talk a lot to each other too, as Shimako disappeared during lunch when Sei came back from her college entrance exams or something, but they way they interact make you think, "They barely know each other."
Gah, the White Rose family gives me a headache talking about them. I'm gonna start blabbing incoherently if I continue.
|2007-08-15, 00:40
|Link #47
You can reach for my hand
Yes, Suguru is kewt! >.<
No, Shimako is a Buddhist be she wants to become a nun.. That's why she entered Lilian, to practise..
I remember her words, not exactly but kinda like this: "What would people think, having a budhist family and becoming a nun.. More importantly, what will my father think?"
Well, that's why she wasn't able to just pull her hair down and relax until the episode where Sachiko and others reveal her identity as a Budhist.. (The part where 1st years are being welcomed.)
After that, she feels a lot of fresh air entered her lungs and, she's free..
As for Yuuki.. Ugh, the anime is SOOO lacking, in the scantalation I read in Lililicious, Yuuki entered the room where Sachiko, Sei and Yumi where (Before they sang the "boat" song, or something).. Sachiko quickly wears a robe, while Sei doesn't care if her 'assets' were seen (She's not wearing a bra.)
Yuuki asked if he could stay with them because Suguru was creepy. Suguru then follows and ask for Yuuki to come back. Sei comes for Yuuki's defence..
Later, Yuuki and Suguru sleeps in the room just beside them and if anything should happen, all Yuuki needed to do was scream.
As for other parts, when the lights were turned off.. Sei hugs Yumi like a dirty old man. Yumi shrieks, "Onee-sama! Help!" Sachiko quickly opens the light and scolds Sei. Suguru opens the door and gives the look like, "Look who's doing it as well.." to Sei.. lol.
Then Yumi dreams. Sei have been drowning her with candy..
Yumi: Stop it! Stop it Rosa Gigantea!
*Sachiko and Sei wakes up*
Sachiko: It seems even in her sleep, you bug her.
Sei: Hey! My presence is a high fee!
Yumi: Thank you, Sachiko-sama..
*Sachiko and Sei stares*
In Sachiko's mind: Yumi, looks like I'll be depending on you again..
|2007-08-15, 05:56
|Link #48
Join Date: Aug 2007
Location: Imperial Manila, Philippines
WHOAH.. I like
|2007-08-15, 06:00
|Link #49
You can reach for my hand
Just in case, no it's not fan fic.. It's in the manga.. (^__~)
Here's a link:
It's around Volume 4
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|2007-08-15, 23:26
|Link #50
A White Rose
Join Date: Apr 2007
I'm falling in love with Suguru...I'm already in love with Sei's antics, but Suguru is like amale version of her. XD
|2007-08-16, 00:15
|Link #51
You can reach for my hand
Actually, these aren't the only things missed out in the anime and OVAs.. n_n
lotsa lotsa more..
I'll add them later here.
Actually, there's many more, look here:
http://www.geocities.com/marianaisho/story/index.htm <-- (Warning, contains spoilers, may loose your excitement)
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|2007-08-16, 11:32
|Link #52
Join Date: Sep 2004
Location: DisneyLand Paris
1) I had the exact same impression of them watching the 1st season, didn't really feel anything for this family but strangeness and didn't think further about that. But after knowing more about Sei, more about Shimako, and more about how they met each other, I re-watched the 1st season and was amazed at how I didn't perceive them the same way : now knowing their background, I really felt the glass separating them vanish in my mind and their bond then appeared to me as obviously deep, and even deeper because it's not easily understandable by other people with not the same circumstances and definitely not the same kind of mind/logic (like Yumi-chan, and it was through her innocent eyes that we saw Sei & Shimako in the 1st season)
2)..huh? why them, lol ? they're not even the "pretty" girly type! lol
4) ..huh....YES I would, that was precisely my point ! O_o I can't have a crush on anybody being too physical towards me to my tastes! It's simple embarrassment ! and, all the more if I'm doubting what the other aims at!
Well, I know people are very different concerning blushing easily or not, or being prudish or okay with other people seeing/touching them, but while I know I was a lot prudish when younger, I still know I'm far from the most prudish ones (still talking about when we're young enough for school), and this while being raised in a French country! French are rumoured to be er...promiscuous but many of my comrades who were as or maybe more prudish than me were French girls O_o
During junior High or even High school, we kept our eyes on the walls while changing, in order to not embarrass our comrades who maybe don't feel at ease with their own bodies.. I remember the only ones who didn't care who watched them, whom they watched, and whom they touched or by who they were touched, were the ones who claimed loudly they weren't a virgin for quite some time now, and who were obviously, closed with guys...
I'm not saying here they were wrong or anything like that, some of them were good friends of me too, but just pointing this out to say : it's just a question of being embarrassed or not, and one reason of embarrassment can simply be prudishness, or lack of self-confidence leading to not wanting anyone to look too well at our bodies, or not being used to physical closeness....
and I think Japanese people would understandingly be that kind of embarrassed if we French are in those situations! And I don't think a petite lady from a good family has been raised with being ok while looking at another one changing!
All that babbling to say, Yumi never surprises me by blushing. cutie girl ^-^ no wonder Sei teases her
For the rest, after writing my answer to you, I feel the discussion doesn't stay grounded on marimite enough anymore, so we should continue via PM or mails, or msn
These forums are for discussing Marimite, and maybe how we understand it thanks to real facts, them being personal or not, but when the facts remain without their transparency with Marimite, we should not debate them here, and leave the place for Marimite-grounded(?) discussions
|2007-08-16, 12:26
|Link #53
You can reach for my hand
Eh, ok.. though I consider "blushing" different from "embarassment"..
(About the touching touching stuff and how it is that when Sachiko touches her, it's different from Sei who hugs her..)
Anyway, to get back, just one more thing..
I didn't say Sei and Shimako's soeur stuff was shallow, I know too well it's deep, but somehow the way they show it is different, kind of like there's a force field a bit but somehow what-not..
(hard to explain, kinda like, deep inside.. I care for you, yet we must keep a distance kind of thing)
Anyway, too sleepy to actually be thinking and let's drop the topic.. zzzzz
|2007-08-16, 23:57
|Link #54
A White Rose
Join Date: Apr 2007
Stephanie, you're right about Sei and Shimako. Shimako said that they can't get too close, because they are too similar-they will end up depending too much on each other and get hurt.
Ah...novel time!! Thanks a lot! Can you read Japanese? Or did you find this somewhere??
|2007-08-17, 00:26
|Link #55
Junior Member
Join Date: Jul 2007
Age: 37
Well, if you'll ask me the way the characters were written and drawn are, well, just to tease - a prelude. They are certainly developing feelings, duh. Obviously, they cant show them as lovers, but they are giving very strong signals that they have this tension or passion which they are unable to categorize given the fact that they are young and new to that emotion. Surely when they reach the age and they can accept what they are feeling and not give a damn about society, they will turn to each other. One cannot deny strong feelings. But since this is anime or manga and there are limitations, we may never see them as lovers.
|2007-08-17, 07:05
|Link #56
Junior Member
Join Date: Jul 2007
i'm still holding out that the series will end with a kiss between sachiko and yumi (once they reach a point where they've matured enough to realize what type of love they share with each other), and we the fan will be left to assume they progress as lovers from there (may get a picture of them farther down the road still as a couple as picture are a big theme in the series), or to believe it was just a kiss between close friends..if it should happen i will definitely believe they former.
|2007-08-17, 07:09
|Link #57
You can reach for my hand
Hehe, I too want that ending.. However, knowing the series and how Oyuki Konno works, if she may want that ending, I don't think it'll be a kiss.. She won't let them kiss..
(ZOMG!! What's with me! It should be a face, lol)
Well, mainly because it's probably not how the anime/story flows..
Nope, can't read Japanese
I found it in the 2 links I gave below all those.. =P
|2007-08-17, 08:15
|Link #58
Join Date: Sep 2004
Location: DisneyLand Paris
>>Eh, ok.. though I consider "blushing" different from "embarassment"..
Yeah, they're different, but I was talking about cases where one leads to another quite easily.....I feel weird after all these discussions, it's like only the French and the Japanese people I know react to embarrassment by (at least) blushing, with all the explanations I gave on this matter...it's like it's not a normal thing seen anywhere else
>>(About the touching touching stuff and how it is that when Sachiko touches her, it's different from Sei who hugs her..)
Once again, I think it's because of the overall attitude of the character : Sei always does that, and Yumi didn't have any special thoughts about her at the beginning, whereas any small movement of closeness from Sachiko is a rare treat, you feel she just isn't used to closeness (physical and emotionally too), so it leaves a bigger impact, you end up thinking : "whoa, *this* Sachiko is indeed behaving like that ... with me.... *honored*....
>>I didn't say Sei and Shimako's soeur stuff was shallow, I know too well it's deep, but somehow the way they show it is different, kind of like there's a force field a bit but somehow what-not.. (hard to explain, kinda like, deep inside.. I care for you, yet we must keep a distance kind of thing)
No, I didn't mean that's what you implied (the shallow thing). This "not get too close" stuff is not what I try to argue, I agree with it being here, but the fact itself that it's there without a "clear contract" thingie in itself make me feel a deeper bond and understanding between this pair. Being "close or not" is after all a relative thing as all, I think when they say they don't want to get too close to each other, we should take it as "we could get so much closer than we are already, but that's precisely what we both need to avoid at the moment"....and that means to me, that they're indeed closer than they let it show.
I can't feel any coldness or try-to-avoid-attitude. I just think they were very content that way when they were together at Lilian, nothing angsty or frustrating, or lacking as it is now for Shimako towards Sei.
I think I can't convey my thoughts with the right nuances in English, I'm sorry because each time we debate something, I make you understand something different than what I aimed at, in spite of all the words I try to use... I need an english teacher anyone volunteer ? lol
|2007-08-17, 21:26
|Link #59
Rosa Gigantea
Join Date: Aug 2007
Location: France
Age: 27
Blah! Why don't you two just create a poll about how their "blushing" and so on so forth "crush" stuff and post your point of view, then have the members vote?
(Other's might've been to intimidated to join in the conversation)
Hehe, it's like a never ending debate between you two
To make it simple, you two view it differently.
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Wojtek Wolski never expected to play hockey in his country of birth.
But with the NHL players locked out, the Washington Capitals forward decided to embrace his Polish roots and sign with KH Sanok of the Polish Ice Hockey League, rather than looking for a higher level of competition. And it sounds like Wolski, a first-round pick of the Colorado Avalanche in 2004, doesn't regret the decision.
"I have never had the chance to play in Poland because I grew up in Canada," Wolski said on the IIHF website. "I felt that this may be the only opportunity for me to play in Poland so I didn't want to pass it up. I am trying to get involved as much as I can.
"I think it's a big part of the decision to come play in Poland, getting involved and trying to help Polish hockey as much as I can."
And fans in Poland are giving back, too. In their own unique way.
"The last game we were in Hungary and I scored in a shootout to win it," Wolski said. "The fans got pretty excited and started throwing me chocolate bars."
Montreal Canadiens forward Blake Geoffrion has been cleared to return home for a three-week rest and is expected to make a full recovery.
The 24-year-old will spend U.S. Thanksgiving with his family.
"I want to sincerely thank all fans, friends, family members and everyone from the hockey world for the incredible support I have received," Geoffrion said Thursday in a statement released by the Canadiens. "I was cleared by the neurosurgeon and the Club's medical staff to return home for a 3-week period of complete rest. I am very happy to be home for Thanksgiving.
"I am very grateful to Geoff Molson and Marc Bergevin for the unrelenting support they have shown myself and the members of my family. I also wish to thank all members of the media for respecting this healing period."
Geoffrion underwent emergency surgery on a depressed skull fracture on Nov. 9 after being hurt while playing for the Hamilton Bulldogs of the AHL. The injury was so serious he was kept in intensive care at Montreal General Hospital before being released less than a week later.
Boston Bruins goaltender Tuukka Rask will play one more game for HC Plzen of the top Czech league before returning to Beantown, according to a numbe rof online reports.
Rask is expected to finish his stint with Plzen on Friday and fly back to Boston on Sunday. If the lockout wipes out the season, he'll reportedly consider returning to Plzen.
The 25-year-old Finn, who is expected to be the Bruins' go-to goalie when the season begins, has gone 6-2 with a 1.85 goals-against average and .936 save percentage in eight games with Plzen, the top team in the Czech league.
Defenceman Mike Commodore, an unrestricted free agent, has signed a professional tryout agreement with Hamilton of the AHL.
Commodore, 33, is expected to join the team on Saturday, according to the team.
The 33-year-old started last season with the Detroit Red Wings before being traded to Tampa Bay Lightning in late February. He wasn't re-signed by the Lightning.
Commodore has played 484 games in the NHL, recording 23 goals and 83 assists.


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(11) Anonymous, April 2, 2007 12:25 PM
I disagree because all situations need to be presented.
Rabbi, I teach in a vocational high school that is mostly male. We have a female oriented counterpart where I live, too. However, the students in my school are not distracted by the opposite gender and they are still mostly in the lower fifty per cent of their respective classes. While I will agree with you that teens are distracted by their opposites, they are in school for an education, ultimately. If education is valued at home, any distractions may be sidebars. If education as the key for success is not valued at home, as it becomes more apparant in my world with my teens, then we are talking about something very different. Also, a lot of the girls yeshivat where I live teach them a watered down curriculum than the boys for whatever reason.
Chag Sameach,
(10) Sally Hardy, August 6, 2006 12:00 AM
Separate Gender Education
Thank you for your story on single sex education. Most private schools in Australia are single sex education. Both my brother and I went to single sex schools. My preferred type of education is a home environment, in which our children (both boys and girls) learn how to function in a family and see their roles reflected in Mum and Dad's roles. However, if this were impossible, a single sex education would be a good choice.
(8) Margarita, May 11, 2006 12:00 AM
Your responce
It would be great if after we all left our comments on your article you wouold be able to take couple of minutes and answer to question we had. You are very interesting and very compassionate speaker, if you would please give us the responce in next week like a little article format what do you think about us (especially when we are disagreeing with you).
Kind regards, with the hope to hear your views even more often than just once a week,
(7) Michal, May 8, 2006 12:00 AM
Your are absolutely right
Dear Rabbi Salomon,
I always like to listen to what you say. You are so "up to the point" and
really always give us "something to think about".
This time, with the different Gender classes they found out in Bavaria too.
Here the Catholics are more religious than anywhere else in Germany and the all the time kept beside mixed schools especially those for girls only. And the outcome was very good.
I have been teaching too. When you look for instance at a 7th Grade, the difference in behaviour between girls and boys make your "hair stand up" when you teach them. The girls start to be young ladies, grown up already, the boys behave like kindergarten kids.
All the time showing off, wanting to make impression on the girls, who at that age look down on them and it needs all the strength of a teacher to have them learn the same things, which they have to learn. You always are trying to seperate them anyhow. I never was never was very successfull,
when I was not very strict.
Now everywere they start saying things
you told us. The nearly use the same explanations as you do.
(By the way you gave me a new thinking on the "mechitza". As a ger, I hade never seen such a thing until last year. I nearly got out of my mind, felt very degraded as a woman and just
found it "archaic" and totally out of the time. Now I have something to think about. Maybe in the end it turns out that our Sages were right also???