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What a refreshing decision by members of the West Chester Area School District to allow students in its 10th grade to read a book like, "Water for Elephants," that has been described by one reviewer as "an enchanting escapist fairytale." We applaud not only the decision, but the board members who agreed to accept the recommedation of a committee that the book be retained as part of a "literature circle" in the honors English curriculum at B. Reed Henderson High School. Under that program, students can choose among a number of books that have similar themes. "Water for Elephants" is one of the books available, but is not mandated.
The committee, made up of a mix of teachers, administrators, a parent, a student, and a community member, held a thorough review of the book and the complaints by some members of the greater community that it was unsuitable for reading by children of a certain age. After meeting twice, the committee concluded with an 8-1 vote that the literary merit and educational objectives of the book outweighed the likelihood of it having a negative impact on students.
"Water for Elephants" tells the story of an older man in a nursing home reflecting on his life when he worked as part of a traveling circus during the Great Depression. District officials said the critics objected to it because of its sexual content surrounding the main character's interest.
The board was correct to uphold the work of the committee, members of which defended their work convincingly from the complaints of those who would seek to ban the book from the 10th grade readers.
"We are not making this up as we go," said Diane Masar, a Henderson teacher and committee member. "We're thoughtful, educated and deliberate; we take into account the developmental age of students, cognitive age of students, what we see among them socially. This is a matter of course and teaching."
Masar said the students are capable of handling contemporary literature and can "navigate them with the full powers of their intellect." How true, and how reflective of what happens when students truly work through subject material.
Board member Maria Pimley, who was on the committee, said she is personally uncertain whether she would allow her children to read the book at that age, but the bottom line is it would be her choice and not a mandate from a school official, as is the case here. Pimley said she was impressed with the process and thoroughness of the committee's process, and reasoned that it is not her job to restrict material vetted by teachers and administrators.
As for the two board members who chose to ban the book, and those parents and members of the community who spoke against it this week, the nicest thing we can say is that they are innocently misguided in their attempts to shield students from a description of life they find objectionable. But we note that it is one subject that sets their teeth on edge – sexual development – and not others. We would be more sympathetic if they would show up at a public meeting to decry the use of "All Quiet on the Western Front" for its depiction of the horrors of war, or "The Grapes of Wrath" for its description of the degradation of institutional poverty. We will not hold our breath, however.


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So, how long before they start redefining "average" down below the actual average so as to make even more people feel bad about themselves?
After all, it's pretty much just a line of code to reduce the value displayed under "average use" to be, well, whatever the coder wants it to be.
Since average, and the way to calculate it are defined in the industry, changing it arbitrarily will be noticed.
Who's going to notice? Are the numbers available such that an interested person could verify the computation of the average?
The industry takes the very seriously. You can bet people will point it out very quickly. I spent 8 years working with engineers and experts in that field. Like most trades, they like accuracy and professionalism with the engineers.
In Denver we suffered through a drought that lasted a few years. There was a big campaign to get people to reduce their water usage - and it worked! People significantly reduced their water usage - so much that the water board was no longer getting the revenue that it said it needed. So, the rates went up.
Funny how the rates didn't go back down when the drought was over.
Also, not surprisingly, the golf courses got all the water they wanted.
That's a classic conundrum in the industry.
Are you sure yo aren't in a drought? A drought simple means you have less water then demand.
More accurately, current demand will lower you water storage below a certain point. So if your population grows, you could get to a point where demand outstrips even a wet year.
Also, the may be using the money to fund work, like underground tanks.
I will assume you sewage is part of your water bill. They may have a large project that needs funding and your 'water bill' goes u
Ah, but Golf Courses are the red herring of California. It's what farmers, who are wasting massive amounts of water, like to point and scream at, to distract from the real issue - people growing shit where they have no business whatsoever growing shit. (And then shipping it to China. But that's another matter entirely.)
Meanwhile, neither golf courses or farmers will be penalized - nay, households will be put to the sword if they don't wring the drippings out of their laundry and drink them.
Amusing captc
Yes 85% of water usage in California is Agriculture.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W... [wikipedia.org]
That and 90 billion gallons of water in Alfalfa sent to China, and 97 billion gallons
used for fracking...
Also I hear the commercial water rate is lower then the residential rate, ie.
the per gallon price is cheaper for the corporates then for the sheeple.
So basically the citizens are paying corporate welfare to big AgriBiz.
Farmers in California grow a lot of rice which requires a lot of water. Most places that grow rice have lots of water. In California, even in "normal" years, there is no rain in the summer (dry season) so they have extensive dams and canals paid for by state and federal taxpayers which provide them lots of cheap water.
This year, there is a drought so the reservoirs are dry and the farmers are whinging seriously about "their" water.
California has lots of water for people... not so much to grow rice in the desert.
(Same argument applies to most California farming which uses an unsustainable amount of water to grow food in a desert.)
How are farmers wasting massive amounts of water? Do you know anything about food production and agricultural water use in general? American farmers do export a lot of food, but your food prices are low because of the wealth of food grown right in your backyard. Where are farmers growing food where they shouldn't be? Do you have an alternative? In many places, the best farmland is under cities now, perhaps pushing farmer to more marginal lands. This is an unfortunate consequence of growth. Granted.
The CA home user uses about 10% of the water, the other 90% is used by Agriculture and Industry.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W... [wikipedia.org]
The only meaningful comparison would be sustainable water usage.
People may realize one day that it isn't a good idea to build huge cities, swimming pools, golf courses and water shows in the friggin desert.
Queue the late great Sam Kinison:
You want to help world hunger? Stop sending them food. Don't send them another bite, send them U-Hauls. Send them a guy that says, "You know, we've been coming here giving you food for about 35 years now and we were driving through the desert, and we realized there wouldn't BE world hunger if you people would live where the FOOD IS! YOU LIVE IN A DESERT!! UNDERSTAND THAT? YOU LIVE IN A FUCKING DESERT!! NOTHING GROWS HERE! NOTHING'S GONNA GROW HERE! Come here, you see this? This is sand. You know what it's gonna be 100 years from now? IT'S GONNA BE SAND!! YOU LIVE IN A FUCKING DESERT! We have deserts in America, we just don't live in them, assholes!"
so a group of peope had the brilliant idea of building massive cities and huge agricultural farmlands in a desert, made possible by unsustainable draining of acquifers and importation of water from other states.
and now they have a "drought"?
can't raise enough moisture for a tear over here....
So you're against watering crops then?
If you have good land, but it lacks water, then you find a way to add water, and then you can grow food there. Useless land becomes valuable and people can eat. You are apparently against this. Why?
I'm against watering a barren blazing desert in the west trying to pretend its "farmland"
There's no need to pretend. It's a farm when you water crops. It's not a farm when you don't.
Are you against planting crops too?
There aren't a lot of farms in Los Angels, and not all of Ca was desert.
How is producing almost all the tomotoes used 'pretending' to be farmland?
If you have good land, but it lacks water, then you find a way to add water, and then you can grow food there.
Like rice in the Sacramento Valley? Yeah, that makes sense in a semi-arid area.
If you have good land, but it lacks water, then you find a way to add water, and then you can grow food there.
Please define "good" as it pertains to land and growing food. Because I would think that lacking water is a pretty big impediment for good farmland.
And if I take a tonne of gold and bury it in the ground, did I make a mine? Sure, I guess, but most people would call you crazy if you actually did that. It may be "farmland", but it's not good farmland (by and large, some areas of California are different, and some crops work very well in drier weather), especially when you're wasting massive amounts of water even on a good year.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v... [youtube.com]
Actually per the wiki on California water most of the groundwater is not being used because it requires
energy to pump it.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W... [wikipedia.org]
I think they could setup solar thermal powered pumps.
Also the rights to the ground water are totally available to the farmer.
This is more about cheap water, then the totality of water.
There is enough groundwater to do what they need, but they will need to
mind recharge rates if they switch to a major pumping operation or they
end up like the Oolagah Aquifer
In truth this is a 1 out of 100 year drought. It most certainly is not manufactured as it has not rain yet in southern California and the rainy season is almost DONE.
But to answer your post on why? The answer is easy. RAISE PRICES! Raise them high enough and then you can afford to pump them out with disiel powered pumps too. Keep in mind you can't just get the water out of the ground overnight.
You need to have infrastructure to move it, rights, plenty of capital while you wait to get paid, etc. These things
so a group of peope had the brilliant idea of building massive cities and huge agricultural farmlands in a desert, made possible by unsustainable draining of acquifers and importation of water from other states. and now they have a "drought"?
I was thinking the same thing a couple weeks ago: People had the brilliant idea of building massive cities far up north, where ice storms and freezing cold weather is routine, and now they have shortages of natural gas, road salt, power outages due to trees taking down
Why not simply lower the water pressure by 10% to curb water usage?
Why not simply lower the water pressure by 10% to curb water usage?
That might be practical but it depends on geography. You might find that people in low-lying areas need a high pressure just to that the water reaches the houses on the top of the hill. Also it depends on usage - someone with a conventional shower may save water when pressure is reduced, but someone who takes a bath or had a power shower probably won't.
Stop taking baths. Shower.
Might work for showers, but not for people filling bathtubs and washing machines.
85+% of water is used for Agriculture and Industry.
The majority of California water is used by the agricultural industry. About 80-85% of all developed water in California is used for agricultural purposes. This water irrigates almost 29 million acres (120,000 km2), which grows 350 different crops.[8] Urban users consume 10% of the water, or around 8,700,000 acre feet (10.7 km3).[9] Industry receives the remnant of the water supply.[10]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W... [wikipedia.org]
Why not find a way to supply the water people need? Why shouldn't everyone who is willing to pay the transportation costs be able to use as much water as they want?
Why not find a way to supply the water people need? Why shouldn't everyone who is willing to pay the transportation costs be able to use as much water as they want?
Because politics. Farmers want 80% of California's water.
Good Point, one idea is a aqueduct/canal/pipeline from the Columbia River which has a discharge rate FAR beyond
all the other California aqueducts combined.
I'd say bring it down the coast at a flat elevation thus near zero energy requirements.
Would be a good project to put ppl back to work much like the CCC of the last Great Recession...
Because building plumbing is built on the assumption that street water pressure levels are a certain figure. Decrease the water pressure and you find you have a lot of buildings in which the top floor doesn't get less water--it gets *no* water.
Only 10% of the water used in California is home users, 85% is Agriculture, 5% is Industry.
Home users are not the issue here, much like politics and wall street, greed is the issue.
There is merely a shortage of raw materials (H2O) for big agriculture.
Agriculture consumes 80% of the water in California and contributes 5% of the economy. There is sufficient water in California to supply the cities 5 times over.
But before you fly-over states get all self-righteous, think about this the next time you buy fresh salad greens in January.
"There is merely a shortage of raw materials (H2O) for big agriculture."
that's the definition of drought. Not enough water for your needs.
think about this the next time you buy fresh salad greens in January
Or the next time I get rice grown in the Sacramento valley - the perfect crop for a near desert.
BTW, were you under the impression that CA and the Southwest are the only places that are warm in the winter and within easy reach of CONUS? Please check your map. The whole thing, including so-called "water rights", is a big subsidy to farmers, who also yell for cheaper labor because, bottom line, they wouldn't be competitive without these subsidies. Want to ship all our industry to China? No problem - just save
But before you fly-over states get all self-righteous, think about this the next time you buy fresh salad greens in January.
I only buy moles' asses in January. I don't ask why the moles raise livestock, but they sell the stupid ones for extra cheap (which is great because they're less stubborn).
This [accuweather.com] says something different. 2013 was the driest year on record. I think that meets the definition of drought.
Did the usage reports really result in a 5% drop in water usage, or is it the fact that for the past 4 months, you can't watch the news without hearing all about the drought conditions and how people have to stop flushing their toilets so much. Meanwhile, residential use accounts for only 10 - 15% of California's water use, so even if everyone cut their use by 20%, it really wouldn't solve the problem.
Yeah the farmers need to shift to a water wicking method or something similar.
The high evaporation rates is what is using up a lot of the water.
http://0.tqn.com/d/gardening/1... [tqn.com]
Water saving measures have drained funds from water taxes that are used to maintain the infrastructure...
http://www.theglobeandmail.com... [theglobeandmail.com]
Right. Save a couple billion on expanded water treatment facilities but you need a little extra per litre to cover the pipe maintenance.
It's not a net loss.
Water saving measures have drained funds from water taxes that are used to maintain the infrastructure...
http://www.theglobeandmail.com... [theglobeandmail.com]
The smarter towns do what many other (often private) utilities do - have a line item for "fixed costs" and another for "usage". You get a fixed charge of $10-20 for access to the utility, and then a per watt-liter-whatever charge for usage. Even if you use NOTHING, that flat cost comes in every month.
Water billing is largely done on a city/village/town basis. Often, the water comes from a common-source (county 'water agency') which passes on costs to the smaller towns feeding off of it.
Now: if someone along the way mismanages it [dgreport.com], that's a different problem.
Meanwhile billions of gallons of water from California are, essentially, being exported to China [wsj.com].
NB: I apologize if the article is paywalled. The first look is free.
MOD PARENT UP, also around 97 billion gallons went to fracking.
http://www.salon.com/2014/02/0... [salon.com]
I do not understand why politicians wont do this. Raise the rates 400% and water usage will drop and in the end a true crises of NO WATER by the summer will be avoided.
The laws of supply and demand benefit everyone even including the consumer. Why don't the left wing politicians see this? It benefits the consumer as Lake Mead wont dry up totally.
When next winter when the snow and rain returns then you lower prices or keep them high while the reservoirs recover.
You'd have to make a progressive pricing system if they don't have it already: basic usage (what an average family would need for cooking, drinking, and hygiene) is very cheap, a band of usage above that costing more per unit, the next band of usage costing quite a bit more per unit, and so on, about how income taxes are figured.
You'd also want to promote xeriscaping and using graywater for your plants and toilets.
Lake Mead is current at 48% of full pool.
One might say its average movement is toward empty, not towards full.
I think most of the desert cities could do better with conservation, such
as lawns, pools, farming, etc.
A few states are drawing off Lake Mead.
The problem is not a "market failure", it is that the market is distorted. If the true laws of supply and demand were allowed to work on the water market in California, then water would be a lot more expensive right now because of how rare it is due to drought.
If the people are using too much water then raise the price. Define what consitutes a "drought" in strict terms (average rainfall below some amount for X days in a row), and raise the price per gallon of water an extra 50% during these drought conditions. Add in a credit for people below the poverty line so that they don't have issues.
Usage problems will be solved overnight. Charge people more and they will use less. Wallet pressure works a lot better than "peer pressure".
They just need to do what they've done in other western "dry" states and price water on consumption. In my state I pay a normal about $30 a month for the first 7000 gallons, which is enough for most moderately sized households internal uses. But the next 7000 gallons cost me double the $30 and the third set of 7000 costs me triple. In the summer my water bill goes from $30 a month to almost $300. This progressive pricing was introduced during our last big drought and water consumption went down 20% almost immediately and has continued to drop every year. Xeroscaping became very popular.
In fact I'm in the process of ripping up several hundred feet of sod to be replaced with native plants.
That link to 'hackthedrought.org' is blocked because "Suspicious Content. Sites in this category may pose a security threat to network resources or private information, and are blocked by your organization."
Teach them to put the word " |-| @ C | " into their URL! Nasty terrorists!
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NFL wild-card weekend concludes with the San Francisco 49ers at frozen Lambeau Field to face the Green Bay Packers. The game kicks off at 4:40 p.m. ET on Fox. Aaron Rodgers and the Packers have struggled to contain 49ers' quarterback Colin Kaepernick, and get another test today.
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— The Packers have taken one hit already. Cornerback Sam Shields was in a great deal a pain after it appeared he injured his knee. Shields is questionable to return.
— The 49ers get off to a good start, driving 13 plays and covering 69 yards. They get all the way down to the Packers' 4 yard line thanks to a 31-yard completion to Michael Crabtree. They come away, though, with a Phil Dawson 22-yard field goal. 49ers 3, Packers 0.
— San Francisco again gets in the red zone, but the Packers don't break. Colin Kaepernick's pass to Crabtree to the end zone on third down fell incomplete. It was Dawson called to deliver again and he responds with a 25-yard field goal with 2:17 left in the first quarter. The 49ers entered the game ranked 11th in the NFL with a 56.36 touchdown scoring percentage in the red zone. 49ers 6, Packers 0.
— If the Packers offense can't get going, the defense will have to be the answer for now. Tramon Williams steps in front of a pass intended for Vernon Davis, halting the Niners in their tracks. Williams returns the interception 17 yards to the Greeen Bay 30. It's Williams' fourth interception on the year.
— Aaron Rodgers is not one to squander opportunities. He didn't here, dirving the Packers 70 yards in 14 plays. Eddie Lacy carried his fair share of the load, but when it came down to hammer it home, Rodgers looked for primary target Jordy Nelson and found him in the end zone for a 5-yard touchdown. The drive was methodical, taking 7 minutes, 18 seconds off the clock. Packers 7, 49ers 6 .
— They call it Kaepernicking—the 49ers quarterback doing what he does best with speed to burn. He took off for 42 yards, leaving the Packers stunned once again (see Week 1). Only this time, down in the red zone, the Niners did what should be done and scored a touchdown. Frank Gore goes off left guard for the 10-yard score, followed by Dawson's extra point with 2:48 left in the hafl. 49ers 13, Green Bay 7 .
— An interception was dismissed because of an offsides penalty, keeping the Packers' drive alive. Rodgers twice found Nelson, for 19 yards and 6 yards, on the drive and James Jones got in on the action for an 11-yard gain. It set up Mason Crosby's 34-yard field goal as the half expired. 49ers 13, Packers 10 .
— It's been all punts, all the time for both the Packers and 49ers. The Packers are impress in defense against the Niners since they are so depleted. Star linebacker Clay Matthews is on the sideline, along with Sam Shields and Andy Mulumba, who is filling in for Matthews. Not that the 49ers aren't moving the ball—Kaepernick is averaging more than 12 yards a carry, in addition to his 160 passing yards so far. But the Packers have stopped the Niners six times on third down conversion attempts.
— The Packers, meanwhile, are turning to Eddie Lacy and James Starks. It was a scoreless period, with both teams threatening and neither yielding.
— Rodgers was toast, or should have been . The 49ers were on him like a pack of lions. Rather than getting torn to shreds, he squirmed, fought and ran his way out of trouble, avoiding the grasp of Ray McDonald to get the most unlikelies of pass completions to Randall Cobb. Lacy's first push for 3 yards almost got it done; John Kuhn's 1-yard run did with 12:06 left. Packers 17, 49ers 13 .
— Vernon Davis has been kind of quiet, but on a seam route, he splits the Packers and is open for a 28-yard TD catch. So, while the Packers jumped ahead, the lead didn't last for long. A scoreless third quarter has turned into an all-out attack in the fourth. The 63-yard drive only took 1:35 with 10:31 left. 49ers 20, Packers 17 .
— As much as the Packers needed Rodgers to return from the collarbone injury, they also needed Cobb. The two are magic together—and dangerous. Play-action to Lacy helped the Packers spring Cobb for a big gain. He only has two catches, but they are for 51 yards and more important, have come at critical junctures. The second of his catches set up Crosby's second field goal of the day from 24 yards with 5:06 left to tie the score. 49ers 20, Packers 20 .
— We've hit the two-minute warning all tied up. Kaepernick found Crabtree—who still appears a little hobbled post-Achilles surgery— for a third down conversion. An 11-yard pass to Frank Gore has the ball on the Packers' 40 on a first down. It's imperative that the 49ers at least come away with a field goal here.
— A second-and 8 pass to Davis falls incomplete. On third-and-8, Kaepernick pump fakes then rushes to the edge for a huge 11 yard gain. Gore runs three straight times to get the first down, and the Packers did not have any remaining timeouts. With two seconds left, Dawson came onto the field and booted a 33-yard field goal to send the Niners on to the divisional round where they will face the Carolina Panthers. 49ers 23, Packers 20 .
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Green Bay has struggled defensively and in the past nine weeks, have given up an average of 400 yards a game. That's the kind of weakness that the 49ers can take full advantage of. Running back Frank Gore (who had only 14 yards last week) is a huge threat and if the running game is shut down, Kaepernick has the ability to get the ball to Anquan Boldin and the recently-returned Michael Crabtree.
The 49ers are on a six-game winning streak during which Kaepernick is completing 61.8 percent of his passes and has thrown 10 touchdowns and just one interception.
Rest assured, though, that the Packers will focus on themselves. They made it here despite being without Rodgers in the second-half of the season with a broken collarbone. He showed some rust early in his return last week in the elimination game against the Chicago Bears, but turned it on the second half and will be that much healthier this week.
He'll have Randall Cobb and Jordy Nelson to attack the 49ers' secondary and Eddie Lacy has had another week to get healthier as well.


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All over the world news agencies are reporting the startling revelation that at Normandy High School in suburban St. Louis—the neighborhood I live in—students are now being tested for HIV after an infected person told health officials as many as fifty teenagers might have been exposed to the virus that causes AIDS. While public officials are calling for more education, the root of the problem is profoundly moral and cultural.
School administrators have not released any details describing how the virus may have spread in the school. But we are all aware of the usual suspects: drug use and sexual activity. This is yet another item on a list of problems plaguing a district already known to be among the worst academically performing districts in Missouri and in jeopardy of losing its accreditation.
If the virus entered the high school because of sexual activity, this story will be one fundamentally about adolescent sexual morality. According to the most recent date from the Centers for Disease Control, nearly 48 percent of high school students report having sex. Even worse, some 15 percent of high school students report having four or more partners.
Since Normandy High School is nearly 99 percent black, stereotyped analysis is emerging from those saying that they are "not surprised" given the neighborhood's demographics. In other words, "there go those blacks living the sexual lives displayed in hip hop." But beyond the racially charged stereotypes, this potential tragedy confirms the existence of widespread sexual confusion among teenagers in general.
In 1996, the PBS documentary "The Lost Children of Rockdale County" put on display the syphilis outbreak in an upper-middle class, predominantly white Atlanta suburb which affected more than 200 teenagers and revealed parts of their lives unknown to parents: group sex, binge drinking, drugs and violence. Some of the students involved in the epidemic were as young as twelve years of age.
In a culture that glamorizes and celebrates non-marital, extra-marital, impulse-driven sexuality it is no wonder our children are confused about what their sexuality is designed for. Ill-equipped and cowardly parents have outsourced sex education to school teachers or the federal government. Additionally, religious leaders have often failed in their responsibility to assist parents in the nurture of their children's sexual lives by teaching young people what is best in the long-run — a sexual life characterized by fidelity and virtue.
As a result, high school students are reduced to learning about sex primarily from movies, music, internet pornography, and television programs or, even worse, their parents' own sexual infidelities.
Many high school boys have stooped to using girls' bodies as tools in some sort of right-of-passage ritual to affirm their masculinity. Many high school girls are more concerned about getting pregnant than they are about contracting STDs and HIV. Risky behavior has been desensitized.
Preserving sex for the context of life-long, committed love has disappeared along with the wisdom of delayed gratification. As the Rev. E. Dewey Smith, Jr. reminds teenagers, "You have the rest of your lives to have sex."
Do we live in a country where we have no higher expectations of people than we do of animals? We cannot expect our dogs to control themselves, so we spay and neuter them. People, on the other hand, have choices. We choose to indulge or curb our impulse and desires. "Raging hormones" do not trump reason and virtue. Biology is no excuse for low expectations. We can expect high school students to preserve sex for life-long, committed love because they are human beings.
If our children are being infected with STDs and HIV, this will have profoundly deleterious affects across society, including our economic life. Expenditures for STD treatment add strain to a troubled health system. A sick and dying workforce saps economic vitality. Engaging in physically and morally debilitating behavior is no way to prepare to participate in a competitive global economy.
Dehumanizing sexuality sabotages personal identity, the family, and the public good. Like Rockdale county, perhaps Normandy High School is another wake-up call to baby-boomers that their sexual revolution is damaging – in some cases killing — their children and grandchildren.
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Yes! There are deliberate and malicious blocks and obstacles, including racism, which the latter, by the definition I'm aware of, is inherent in the institutions of American society. And life is not easy for anyone, no matter how it looks. We all have our changes, although certain people and races seem to have and to some extend do have some advantages.
However, I, as a black woman, am and have been covertly harassed to the point of persecution for almost 50 years in this country, and hardly a day goes by that I am not for at least the past 6 ½ years, and that mostly by the black people around me! This includes the highest echelons of this society like The Schomburg Collection in New York City, to the lowest sinks of those with whom I am in close quarters, including many of my family members! I'm sure you're asking yourself why this would be so; what's wrong with this woman?
The fact is, however, that people are doing this to me out of envy because I am one of the most excellent people I know, morally, and in every other conceivable way! If you don't believe me, read some of my books on Amazon, including my 2009 Pulitzer contender entitled, "Nowheresville, Everywhere, Earth." The rest of my books there have black and green covers.
I'm not a perfect person, but as Audre Lorde, the renowned black poet, prescribed in her book entitled, "Sister Outsider," I endeavor to be excellent and do my very best every single day and most days I succeed magnificently as anyone who endeavors to do so can and WILL do, as well! I am fed up with Americans' behavior toward me in general over these many years. I have written about it repeatedly in every forum I can find to no avail. However, the people who are so willing to persecute me in the way they are doing, even after all this time, half a century (!), still seem not to be able to grasp the import of what they are doing, the consequences of their behavior and that I do not intend to lay down and let them with impunity!
The problem with most of the people I encounter, black or otherwise, and which for many years was my own problem, is their inner ATTITUDES from which their actions flow. With most people, it is always someone else's fault about what happens to them, even when they themselves are plainly wrong or mistaken to anyone objective. This lack of clarity about reality is the real enslaver of people and it is encouraged assiduously by all and sundry among all races. Further, most of the people I do business with and know personally when they are under the slightest pressure behave extraordinarily badly, yet expect and demand that I don't. Not only that, they're vastly incompetent and lacking in resource in their jobs as well as in life. They take no pride in their jobs and then blame other people because they CHOOSE to continue to do things day in and day out that they absolutely hate and then feel that they should be able to expect others, particularly ME to do things I hate because they have to!
Also, this is never expressed directly because these people do not know how to express themselves honestly and even if they do, they prefer to use emotional blackmail and other energy vampirism to get their way and to try to control situations. If the solution is not at hand to questions I ask, very few employees take the time to or believe they should look very far to find it. Many are even willing to hang up on me and not answer the phone when I call back!
There are very effective and deliberate ways to gain the clarity one needs. The technique I use is to first ask myself what my motives are before I do things. If they are not affirmative or positive, I find I need to check myself or at least reconsider what I'm about to do. This is not often difficult for me because I have a very good moral compass or director and a good deal of self-control or I couldn't have survived among you even as long as I have. Second if I feel extraordinarily confused, I ASK my higher self, whatever that may, and it is a scientific premise that most human beings only use 10% of their brains capacity at any given time, so even if one doesn't believe in a supernatural agency or a god or goddess to put it plainly, then ask whatever extra resources you have inside, even if it is only the 90% of your brain power that you don't usually use, to give you the clarity you need. This has not failed me once in the several years I've been practicing it and no matter how bad I feel, I get the clarity I need, usually very quickly.
Another technique I use is that if I find myself holding on to anger or resentment about a situation and trying to force my way through, I surrender that desire and look elsewhere, and 100% of the time I've been practicing this, I have gotten the product, information or whatever I've been seeking at a lower price and with a smile. In other words, from my experience, these techniques WORK 100% OF THE TIME! TRY THEM!
These things are often not easy to do, but they are CRUCIAL to all people in overcoming many of the stressors in our lives which multiply exponentially daily. For more information on this, Google the revolutionary church I've founded which is unlike any in all of recorded history yet includes the tenets of many past ones, at "Free Church of the Divine Marriage."
In closing, I'd like to say, "May you have the future of your choice; may you have a thousand reasons to rejoice." That is what I am set on doing! On person who seems to agree with me is Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor who has praised the wisdom of my tools twice this year, in writing! Blessed be!


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text: Filmed in Hanover at the sold-out TUI Arena, in front of an audience of over 10,000 fans, star violinist David Garrett presents Music – Live in Concert. Joined by his band and the Neue Philharmonie Frankfurt for this stunning live extravaganza, David brilliantly combines different musical styles and eras. With arrangements of the great composers from Beethoven to The Beatles, Coldplay to Clementi, David captivates his audience with different elements from the world of music and wows them with stunning visual backdrops and pyrotechnics. As David puts it, "On one hand I try to see classical music in a new perspective, on the other hand I want to integrate elements of classical music into pop, yet leave its original energy intact… Great music is always timeless!"


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You can have it all – a beautiful home, an exciting master-planned community lifestyle and Fort Bend schools – and you can have it now, when you purchase one of Plantation Homes' move-in ready homes in Richmond's Grand Mission Estates. The builder has two homes available in the 60-foot section of a community centered on a 38-acre lake.
Vaulted ceilings are a star attraction in a home full of special features at 19818 Quarry Stone Lane. The 14-foot ceilings create a spacious, airy feel in the builder's popular Nederland II design. The four-bedroom, 3.5-bath home has an open-plan design that allows guests to move easily between the kitchen and the family room. The gourmet kitchen sports dual islands, allowing the chef to prepare the meal at one while family and guests sit at the second. The kitchen also boasts 42-inch cabinetry and an enormous pantry for keeping clutter to a minimum. A wine room, just off the kitchen, stores the owners' favorite vintages. Owners also will love entertaining guests in the state-of-the-art media room. A study toward the front of the house makes a quiet home office. The design also includes a luxurious master suite, a mudroom, utility room and a three-car garage. The home is priced from the $360,000s.
A two-story home at 19910 Sonterra Lane is masterfully crafted down to the finest detail, with arched doorways, an elegant curved staircase and decorator niches. The home is the perfect size for large families as it has five bedrooms and five bathrooms. Downstairs, guests will be impressed by soaring, vaulted ceilings in the family room, a gourmet kitchen with granite countertops and 42-inch cabinets and a formal dining room with a butler's pantry for extra storage. A lush master suite provides a retreat from the everyday world, with a master bath that features a soaking tub, glass-enclosed shower, dual sinks and a large-walk-in closet. A second bedroom is just right for overnight guests. Upstairs, there are three bedrooms with en suite baths and a large game room. The design also has a two-car garage, utility room and large, covered patio. The home is priced from the $420,000s.
In addition to these homes, Plantation offers 14 designs ranging from 2,384 to 3,505 square feet and priced from the $310,000s for 60-foot properties. The builder also offers nine designs on 50-foot homesites starting from the $260,000s. Homes are easily customizable, allowing buyers to decide what features they want in their homes. Options range from wine and media rooms to outdoor kitchens and garage extensions. All homes are built with energy-saving features that exceed the platinum standards of the Environments for Living program.
Grand Mission Estates is located off the Westpark Tollway at Grand Mission Boulevard in West Houston. Residents enjoy a number of amenities including two recreation complexes, one with a junior Olympic pool, free-form pool with 18-feet dual water chutes, a spray park and clubhouse with media and fitness centers. The second facility offers a resort-style pool, shaded pavilion and playground. Grand Mission Estates is a short drive to many shopping and entertainment venues, including several golf courses. Students attend highly regarded schools in the Fort Bend Independent School District.
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You're Nothing
If there was any worry that Iceage would suffer a sophomore slump, You're Nothing has crushed it with the heavy weight of industrial-grade punk.
The Danish punks' 2011 debut, New Brigade, was impressive for the songwriting chops the 18- and 19-year-olds displayed. That talent hasn't burned out, and they're bolstering it by drawing out the songs and beefing up the sound. It's not more for the sake of more, though. The thicker layers and surprising bridges have purpose.
The first two singles, "Ecstasy" and "Coalition," start the record by setting a tough standard. The first might not sound like ecstasy, but as Elias Bender Ronnenfelt yells, "Pressure / Oh God no / Pressure," amid a shifting tangle of heavily distorted guitar and crashing drums, you wonder if it feels like ecstasy to them. "Coalition" is pure aggressive energy.
They reach the high mark a few times again, on "Everything Drifts" and the title track, most notably. "Morals" moves back and forth between a somber, martial march and a more frantic chorus that repeats some of the most intelligible words Ronnenfelt utters, "Where's your morals?" And speaking of understanding, Iceage gave us one track in their native tongue titled "Rodfaestet" and, just like the songs in English, it doesn't suffer from being indecipherable to most people.
That's not to say that the lyrics on You're Nothing aren't worth understanding. "Everything Drifts" (and its intense bass) blends rebellion and nihilism with verses like, "Dare you look into the abyss / Confront what you received / There's a vile fury within us / Despite what you've been fed / Everything drifts / Soon it's done / Don't find a place to stay."
The easiest thing to understand is that Iceage's initial success was not a fluke. You're Nothing is proof.
-- Ashley Dean
Veronica Falls
Waiting for Something to Happen
Veronica Falls is good at striking sonically appealing balances. The London quartet's reverby pop rock is relatively quiet, but doesn't lack energy. It sounds upbeat while telling sad or creepy tales. The drums are punchy, but the vocals are gentle.
All of those things that make Veronica Falls good are there on Waiting for Something to Happen. But with the exception of "Buried Alive" -- "Bury me alive / I don't care if people cry" -- the band is sounding a little less spooky this time. (The first record included a song about a notorious suicide spot.) The multi-part harmonies, lovely as ever, sound backed by a little more life force. The back-and-forth of the two guitars is a little more playful.
But there's nothing drastically or even substantially different, either in comparison to the self-titled debut or track-to-track within this record. Most of the songs hold pace at mid-tempo. "My Heart Beats" is a little louder and uglier, with yowling feedback up front and a stiffer backbone throughout, and "Broken Toy" picks up some speed. "Daniel" goes in the other direction, slowing things down and taking the drums out of the equation.
Veronica Falls doesn't really need to change things up, though. Guitar-driven and harmony-laden pop rock isn't really supposed to challenge you or foster experimentation. It just needs to be good, and Waiting for Something to Happen is great.
-- Ashley Dean


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Go ahead, say it George Karl: These Nuggets can win the NBA championship
It is time for Nuggets coach George Karl to show some real faith in his team. Go big. Or go home.
Denver has won a franchise-record 13 NBA games in a row. Lucky roll? Or a team coming of age? Karl is very careful not to burden his young players with too many expectations. I believe, in part, that's because Karl doesn't want to take on the pressure of delivering in the white-hot spotlight of the playoffs. But you know point guard Ty Lawson isn't afraid of the Miami Heat, much less the Oklahoma City Thunder or the San Antonio Spurs.
So, if you ask me, the Nuggets should embrace big dreams and shoot for a championship. Yes. Now. In 2013. Peter Burns disagrees. He's not sold on this team as a true contender. Listen to us debate here:
This should be the Nuggets' attitude: Why not us? Why not now?
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Australia are not as talented as England and replacing Micky Arthur with Darren Lehmann will not alter the facts, according to David Lloyd.
The tourists took the decision to sack Arthur as coach just 19 days before the first Ashes Test, with Lehmann signing a three-year contract to succeed the South African.
Australia enter into the opening match of the Ashes series on Wednesday at Trent Bridge as the underdogs to regain the urn, while England are hoping to make it a hat-trick of triumphs over their rivals.
Although Australia may have been provided with a fillip when Lehmann was brought in at the end of Arthur's controversial reign, Lloyd does not believe a change of coach will have a significant impact on the series.
Lloyd says, despite the appointment of Lehmann, the quality of the respective sets of players will determine who will win the Ashes, and England have the squad with the greatest depth of talent.
"It's Arthur's fault now, but if England win the Ashes whose fault is it then? There's too much emphasis put on the coach," the former England coach told The Telegraph.
"Did a coach motivate Gary Sobers, Sachin Tendulkar, Brian Lara, Shane Warne? No, a bit of talent helps. Australia are not as talented as England, simple as that. Man for man they aren't. They can change their backroom as much as they like, they can't change that."
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Ex-sprinter believes he can revitalise Torres
Former Olympic gold medal-winning sprinter Darren Campbell has claimed he can fix Fernando Torres' goalscoring problems.
Torres' lack of form has been well documented since his £50 million move to Chelsea in 2011, with his pace in particular seeming to have dropped since his days at Liverpool.
And Campbell, who briefly worked with the Spain international during his first year at Stamford Bridge, believes the striker just needs a fortnight's specialist training to recover most of his speed.
"It's something that is best done in pre-season but I think Fernando just needs two weeks when he hasn't got to worry about playing on the Saturday and just put in a nice two-week training programme that I think would definitely bring the majority of his speed back," Campbell, who now works as a sprint coach in football and rugby union, told the Daily Telegraph.
"I'm sure I could fix him. It doesn't have to be a lengthy process because these guys are already extremely fit. That's the great thing about working with footballers and rugby players. You're not having to worry about the base fitness so you just go in and teach the raw speed.
"In the case of Fernando, I think he would also probably need to do a bit of weightlifting as well as the running and the speed drills to put some power back into his muscles. That's why sprinters lift weights, to gain that explosive speed and power.''
Campbell was first invited to work with Torres at the suggestion of Dr Bryan English, the then Chelsea medical director who the sprinter knew from his days as the UK Athletics doctor. However, the relationship came to an end when English was sacked by Andre Villas-Boas, upon his arrival as manager at Stamford Bridge.
"I only did about two or three sessions with Fernando but I could see his confidence coming back," Campbell said. "The biggest problem is that when you lose your speed you're unable to do what you used to be able to do, and so then you start trying harder and harder. But that can be counterproductive.
"If you want to be quick, there's an element of relaxation that's involved. You've only got to look at Gareth Bale. He runs at high speed but it's all relaxed and there's no tension in him. The problem with someone like Fernando Torres is that the harder he tries to find that speed, his efforts are actually detrimental."
This season Campbell has been working with Cardiff City, and in particular with striker Craig Bellamy on a programme designed to prevent hamstring problems.
In the past he has also helped return Jack Rodwell to fitness before his move from Everton to Manchester City in the summer.


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A conference for young democrats will begin in Greenville Friday, bringing a few big names in the political party along our way.
The 2014 Young, College, and Teen Democrats of North Carolina State Convention will open with Senator Kay Hagan at the Greenville Convention Center starting at 3 p.m.
The College Democrats will host a gala at the East Carolina Heart Institute Friday evening featuring American Idol Season 2 runner-up and Congressional Candidate Clay Aiken.
Our state's Attorney General Roy Cooper will be the headline speaker for the Keynote Luncheon and Awards Recognition Ceremony 1 p.m. Saturday in the Carolina Ballroom of the Hilton Greenville.
Saturday evening will conclude with former NC Secretary of Commerce and candidate for Congress Keith Crisco at the Greenville Museum of Art for the Rural Caucus Gathering.
Tickets can be purchased online or at the door during registration on Friday from 1-2:30 p.m. At the City Hotel and Bistro and Saturday from 7:30-1 p.m. at the Hilton Greenville.
The events are scheduled Friday through Sunday.
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The Kilgore College Children's Chorus and East Texas Community Chorus are seeking singers for this spring.
About the Kilgore College Children's Chorus:
The Kilgore College Children's Chorus, comprised of boys and girls in 5th-8th grades, is accepting members through mid-February.
Rehearsals are set for 4:15 to 5:30 p.m. on Thursdays beginning Jan. 30 at Trinity Episcopal Church, 906 Padon St. in Longview.
Directed by Dr. Jim Taylor, director of choral activities at KC, the KCCC is open boys and girls who can demonstrate that they can carry a tune. Boys' voices must be unchanged.
Tuition is $125 with partial scholarships available thanks to Ana-Lab Corporation, General Dynamics, Texas Bank & Trust, Austin Bank and individual donors.
"This chorus enables children of East Texas to fall in love with music through enthusiastic and artistically expressive performances of choral music," Taylor said.
The KCCC will perform in three concerts this spring at Trinity Episcopal Church in Longview: Winter Concert, Feb. 27 at 7 p.m.; Spring Concert, April 24 at 7 p.m.; and at the KC Masterworks Concert, "Mozart Requiem," with the Longview Symphony April 29 at 7:30 p.m.
For more information or to schedule an audition, e-mail Jim Taylor at: firstname.lastname@example.com or call (903) 983-8122.
The chorus is operated through the KC Continuing Education Department.
About East Texas Community Chorus:
The East Texas Community Chorus is accepting members for the spring semester through mid-February.
Open to singers high school age and older, rehearsals are set for 7 to 9 p.m. each Monday at First United Methodist Church in downtown Longview beginning Feb. 3.
Potential singers are invited to come to one of the first two Monday night rehearsals.
Tuition for the chorus is $60. The chorus can be taken for college credit by registering through the college.
The chorus will have two concerts this spring: Spring Concert, 7:30 p.m. March 18 at Longview's First United Church; and the KC Masterworks Concert, "Mozart Requiem," with the Longview Symphony 7:30 p.m. April 29 at Trinity Episcopal Church in Longview.
The ETCC is run through the KC Continuing Education Department and is directed by Dr. Jim Taylor.
"My vision is for the ETCC to create truly artistic music for the Kilgore/Longview area," Taylor said. "I want to provide enthusiastic singers an opportunity to sing repertoire beyond the reach of the church choir, and to be a place of inspiration where local music professionals can participate and get recharged."
For more information about the ETCC, e-mail Jim Taylor at: firstname.lastname@example.com or call (903) 983-8122.
About the director:
Dr. Jim Taylor, KC's Director of Choral Activities, was a full-time music minister for 24 years.
He has conducted internationally and is a widely published composer of choral music.
He leads with enthusiasm and humor, and knows how to bring the best out of a choral ensemble in a way that makes striving for artistic excellence an enjoyable experience that helps students grow in their musical skills.


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By Brendan Conway
Your Thursday reading in 20 words or less:
- Vanguard Group's new indexes aren't opaque boogeymen, and you may actually want some of the features that are drawing scrutiny. — Brendan Conway, Barrons.com
- A profile of Reggie Browne, whom Forbes.com dubs the "ETF Godfather." — Ari I. Weinberg, Forbes.com
- A financial adviser argues that there's a tremendous void in bond ETFs, due to be filled by new products. — Brendan Conway, Barrons.com
- Rajiv Jain is betting on the emerging-markets consumer. — Reshma Kapadia, Barrons.com
- You may not know just how mainstream emerging-markets bonds have become. — Stefan Wagstyl, FT.com beyondbrics blog


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Few creatures are as mysterious and captivating as the whale, and few connect with us so emotionally and spiritually. After hunting whales for generations, we have brought their widespread slaughter to an end, but these graceful giants still face threats on a number of fronts, and the battle to save them goes on. This film takes an intimate look at four types of whales: pilots, humpbacks, bowheads and orcas, through the eyes of the humans who are closest to them. From the struggle to save a pod of pilot whales in the Florida Keys to the groundbreaking work of a scientist risking life and limb in the Arctic to the controversy over military sonar, you'll go to the front lines of whale conservation.


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Albino Sailfish, The Real Deal!
We first saw what appeared to be an albino sailfish back in 2008. The image did not have a accompanying story with it and I had my doubts about it truly being and albino. Here are some incredible photos from just a couple of months ago near our old fishing grounds in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico. As you can see there are images of the fish from several angles and there is no mistake about this one, it is definitely an albino sailfish! It's extremely rare that any albino fish would grow this size, but a sailfish is the fastest fish in the sea, which clearly works to its advantage when avoiding predators!
These incredible photos were taken by Jon Schwartz
"They were flipping out because they've never seen anything like that in their lives, and they started looking at the eyes, and the eyes were red and pink, and they started hollering out albino, albino, and then they called into the marina, and that's when we learned that it was a special thing."
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The Department of Transportation (DOT), Department of Department of Design and Construction (DDC) and the Fulton Area Business (FAB) Alliance met last Wednesday with community members at the Lafayette Avenue Presbyterian Church, located at 85 S. Oxford St., as part of an ongoing collaborative effort to redesign the space.
Emily Weidenhof, Public Spaces project manager for DOT, said that while the space is owned by the agency, community involvement is a crucial part to providing a fully functional design.
"We're here to bring a temporary materials plaza into a more substantial, permanently designed public space," Weidenhof said.
She explained that a high volume of pedestrians, nearly 400 during peak hours, and a low number of cars, roughly 95 parked around the same time, is the reason why DOT focused on the square, which is actually a triangle between Lafayette Avenue, Fulton Street and South Elliott Place.
"It's also full of a lot of businesses, so there are a lot of people walking around, eating and shopping," Weidenhof noted.
Phillip Kellogg, manager of the FAB Alliance, said that aside from the subway tunnels underneath the park and some budgeting constraints surrounding the project, the possibilities are endless.
He looked at the forum as a necessary component to the design process.
"What's really exciting is that it's a blank slate," Kellogg said. "The community needs and wants opportunities like this to provide their input."
While it has been three years since the FAB Alliance introduced the Fulton Street Vision Plan to the neighborhood, Kellogg said there has been overwhelming feedback and focus from the neighborhood.
"It will be a real opportunity for a community-based project," he said. "It already has the support of a ton of residents and almost unanimous support of the businesses."
Laura Marquez, an assistant principal at Brooklyn Tech High School, came out to represent her school and the students who regularly frequent the square before and after class.
"The school is a large part of the Forte Greene community," Marquez said. "Overall, we like the idea of updating the square, and the consensus of the community, and for us, is that's a good thing."
Marquez said that as students often hang around the square to study or eat with friends after school hours, she hopes there will be regulations to keep them out of trouble.
"If students are studying after school, sometimes they stay in school, and if it's a nice day, they may go out to the square," she said. "When the sun goes down it's time for them to go home."
Velez Moore, a resident of Fort Greene Place, often frequents the triangle and says she wants more benches along the sidewalk and additional, smaller umbrellas for the tables.
"There are more tables than there are umbrellas, so when it's sunny there's not a whole lot of protection there," Moore said.
She did not agree with DOT's proposal to extend the sidewalk on the Lafayette Avenue side of the space, as she says delivery trucks often park in the area. Additionally, Moore said she is also opposed to permanent seating.
"I was against that from the beginning because it attracts undesirables," Moore said.


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RailComm's 2.4 GHz Spread Spectrum RADiANTTM data radios will be used to establish wireless communications networks to link the derail and control panel locations. Solar power will be used and the associated hardware will be sized based upon the location of the derails and their expected usage.
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How hot is too hot for high school athletes? With the mild summer, schools haven't had to worry much about it yet, but the state is cracking down on what conditions are acceptable for practices and games.
The Michigan High School Athletic Association's new policies are in effect for this season and apply to all sports, whether they're played inside or outside. They're focused on the heat index – the combination of temperature and humidity.
Coaches and trainers say heat is always a concern, and they're not afraid of new policies.
"I've done this 17 years, and we've had some hot ones, and it's been tough on kids," East Lansing football coach Mark Pendred said during a day full of scrimmages in St. Johns.
Tough enough that MHSAA decided it was time to step in.
"We new that a lot of schools already had strong policies, but we thought we can create this one for the ones that don't," MHSAA Media and Content Coordinator Geoff Kimmerly said. "For those schools that would like something more uniform, they can adopt this if they'd like."
It's a "model policy," not required, but strongly encouraging schools to monitor the heat index closely. It advises athletic programs to take measurements 30 minutes before activity starts and an hour after play begins to ensure weather conditions aren't putting athletes at risk.
"That's really what this is all about is keeping our athletes safe and making high school athletics as safe as possible," Kimmerly said.
Part of the policy includes recommendations for specific measurements. For instance, if the heat index is below 95, activities can go on as usual. If it's between 95 and 99, they're supposed to increase water breaks and reduce time outside. When it goes above 99, athletes should also be allowed to change clothes and remove equipment, and if it gets higher than 104, all activity should stop.
MHSAA hopes schools will appoint one person per team to be in charge of taking and recording the measurements, like a trainer or coach.
"Heat illness is a serious thing and it can progress quickly," East Lansing's athletic trainer Missy Phillips said. "Prevention is key."
Like many trainers and athletic directors throughout the state, Missy Phillips has already started following the policies. She's looking forward to when MHSAA launches a web portal for athletic administrators to input and store their measurements, so athletic directors can monitor their own school and others.
"Just gathering data is always good to see what the trends are," Phillips said.
Coaches feel it won't interfere with the game too much.
"We'll see how it goes, but I think they're doing what's best for kids," Pendred said.
When post-season play begins, MSHAA will be strictly enforcing these guidelines. In the meantime, they hope coaches will get a psychrometer device that measures the heat index digitally.
MHSAA is also developing a mobile app to make it even easier for schools to monitor the weather right from the field.
The webpage for athletic administrators to keep track of heat index information is expected to go live by the end of the week.


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STERLING — The mother of a 6-year-old boy who accidentally drove an ATV into a ditch in June 2012, leading to the death of 5-year-old passenger Diezel Rupp, received a year of probation on Thursday.
She pleaded guilty to misdemeanor child abuse, which dropped a more serious felony charge of negligent child abuse, causing death. Her husband and the boy's father, Christopher Harms, took the same plea the week before, but isn't set to be sentenced until Aug. 5.
Donelle, Christopher, the victim's father Jeremy Rupp and his girlfriend Jennifer Harms were all at the ranch the Harmses were leasing outside Crook when they left the children, who were riding an ATV, unattended in a "safe area" for about two minutes.
During that time Donelle's son drove, with Diezel riding tandem, about an eighth of a mile away from the home before riding into a ditch. The boy was thrown clear of the accident, but Diezel was struck by the tumbling ATV.
The timbre of the hearing was as emotional as it has been in hearings for the case's other three defendants.
Donelle apologized to the court and Diezel's family for what happened, saying that their children help them with the farm and that they use four-wheelers in their work.
"I never imagined this would happen," she added, with a strained voice.
She said values their life on the farm and that she doesn't have to put her kids in daycare because they could be with her while she worked.
"A case like this is a tragedy. It's of special concern for the entire community," said District Court Judge Charles Hobbs. But he hesitated to call it a tragedy, he said, because it downplayed the personal responsibility in the incident. "Your role, your responsibility is something that is a fact. There's little I can do ... with this legal process that has to do with that reality."
Donelle's plea makes Jeremy Rupp the only defendant who hasn't pleaded or had their case dismissed (Jennifer Harms's case was thrown out in November).
His jury trial is still slated for Aug. 5-9.
Contact Journal-Advocate staff writer David Martinez at 970-526-9283 or email@example.com


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The Chef: Elizabeth
The Menu: Maybe the most delicious pb & j ever. Multigrain bread, crunchy all-natural peanut butter and sweet apple butter made for a lovely, yet lonely, lunch.
The Goods: So, the plan was for everyone in the office to do a cleanse this week and get our digestive systems working good as new. We'll be posting on each of our experiences on our "cooking" day, and let you in on how these little food-free experiments are going. You may have noticed that it says, "the plan was for everyone" to cleanse this week. Well, here's what happened when Elizabeth gave The Master Cleanse a try.
For anyone unfamiliar, the Master Cleanse involves drinking a mixture of filtered water, lemon juice, maple syrup, and cayenne pepper for 10 days. It's a widely used cleanse, and seemed fairly innocuous. Elizabeth started on Monday, thinking that having the first day done with when she got back to the office today after the long weekend would be a boon. The cleanse proved to be a touch too intense, and by 9:30 pm Ms. Elizabeth was cranky, dizzy, had an absolutely splitting headache, and was ready to shiv someone for something solid to chew. Thankfully, a well-stocked pantry kept her from committing any crimes, and she thoroughly enjoyed a simple bowl of noodle soup. As the only one in the office who's eating, pb & j seemed the obvious choice for lunch since it didn't make the kitchen smell like food and was portable for a sunny, early afternoon stroll. Make sure to check back all this week and see how the other VN staffers are doing on their fasts, and kudos to them for sticking with it!
Also, we've just received word that VegNews is nominated for "Best Vegan Publication" in the 2008 Vegan Environmental Awards, which is quite an honor considering that the awards are given in Britain and we, as you may have noticed, are based in the US. Click here to vote for us!
Tuesday, May 27, 2008
Cleansing Week: Day One
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Labels: apple butter, bread, cleansing, Elizabeth, Master Cleanse, peanut butter, sandwiches
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- VeggieGirl said...
Now THAT is a scrumptious-looking PBJ-type sandwich - yum!
Good luck with the master cleanse!
Hooray for VegNews getting well-deserved recognition! :0)
- May 27, 2008 at 4:53 PM
- men work gloves said...
Well, it is great recipe given by you, I really tried to make it at my home, Low carb diet does not allowed high foods in carbohydrate, especially white flour, sugar and starchy vegetables.
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Still Simmering
Many virtualization startups are busily remaking themselves as cloud players, but within the nonstop chatter there are ones that still call what they do 'virtualization.' Database and network virtualization are coming on strong, while virtualization management and monitoring aren't doing too shabby either. Following are 10 virtualization startups that are getting attention in the industry at the moment.


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PASADENA, Calif.Many meat-eating animals have unique ways of hunting down a meal using their senses. To find a tasty treat, bats use echolocation, snakes rely on infrared vision, and owls take advantage of the concave feathers on their faces, the better to help them hear possible prey. Leeches have not just one but two distinct ways of detecting dinner and, according to new findings from biologists at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), their preferred method changes as they age.
Medicinal leeches, like many aquatic animals, use water disturbances to help them find a meal. Juvenile leeches eat the blood of fish and amphibians, while adults opt for blood meals from the more nutritious mammals. Since it was known that leeches change their food sources as they develop, the Caltech team wanted to know if the way they sense potential food changed as well. Their findings are outlined in a paper now available online in the Journal of Experimental Biology.
The group set up experiments to test how much leeches rely on each of the two sensory modalities they use to find food: hairs on their bodies that can note disturbances in the water made by prey moving through it and simple eyes that can pick up on the passing shadows that those waves make. They monitored both juvenile and adult leeches as they reacted to mechanical waves in a tank of water or to passing shadows, as well as to a combination of the two stimuli. The leeches in both age groups responded in similar ways when only one stimulus was present. But when both waves and shadows existed, the adult leeches responded solely to the waves.
"We knew that there was a developmental switch in what kind of prey they go after," says Daniel Wagenaar, senior author of the paper and Broad Senior Research Fellow in Brain Circuitry at Caltech. "So when we saw a difference in the source of disturbances that the juveniles go after relative to the adults, we thought 'greatit's probably matching what we know.'"
However, the team was very surprised to see that the individual sensory modalities aren't modified during development to help decipher different types of prey. The leech's visual system doesn't really change as the animal matures; neither does the mechanical system. What does change, however, is the integration of the visual and mechanical cues to make a final behavioral decision.
"As they mature, the animals basically start paying attention to one sense more than the other," explains Cynthia Harley, lead author of the study and a postdoctoral scholar in biology at Caltech. She says that the team will now focus their studies on the adult leeches to learn more about how this sensory information is processed both at the behavioral and cellular levels.
Paper coauthor Javier Cienfuegos, now a freshman at Yale, contributed to the study while a high school student at the Polytechnic School, which is located next to Caltech's campus. He ran about half of the experimental trials and was "instrumental in the success of the study," says Harley.
|Contact: Deborah Williams-Hedges
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Stevens Senior Donald Montemarano Accepted into Navy Officer Candidate School
Imagine being in your early to mid-twenties and assuming control of a $1.5 billion nuclear-powered submarine.
This is a reality for the Submarine Officers in charge of driving, powering, arming and operating the Navy's Fleet of attack, ballistic missile and guided missile submarines.
A Stevens senior in naval engineering, Donald Montemarano may become one such Naval Submarine Officer. Recently accepted into the US Navy's highly prestigious Nuclear Propulsion Officer Candidate Program (NUPOC), he will participate in coursework, training, and deployment aboard a submarine.
Montemarano, who hails from Edison, New Jersey, is one of five Stevens' students to have been accepted into the Navy's highly competitive Officer Candidate School (OCS), a strong endorsement of the kind of graduates that Stevens produces.
During the rigorous interview process, one that included an admiral, Montemarano cited his experience at Stevens as a deciding factor in his success.
"In the interview, they want you to figure things out for yourself, not to give a prepared response," says Montemarano.
"Stevens provides a well-rounded education, well beyond the technical subjects," he says. "In the broadest sense, the engineering discipline stresses upon us the ability to handle a variety of situations."
Montemarano, who also plays saxophone for the Stevens concert and jazz bands, also acknowledges his fraternity, Sigma Nu, for enhancing his social and leadership skills.
"Greek life at Stevens is great," says Montemarano. "Being evaluated for my character and command presence, I had an advantage."
Eventually, explains Montemarano, he plans to use his Stevens education in naval engineering combined with his first-hand experience on board with the Navy to build nuclear submarines.


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Like the mag, reading for a while, but issue 179 has some strange stuff
News section, page 8, about Ubuntu: "GNOME 3.8 is kept from the 13.10 release and includes Gnome style apps".
What does this even mean? The whole text reads like it was written by someone who doesn't know what Ubuntu and Gnome are. So Gnome 3.8 isn't included in Ubuntu 13.10, but it also includes programs with a Gnome style? Like all Gnome releases do?
Gaming feature, page 48: "SDL invokes the X library for things such as in-game audio"
Bzzt - X has nothing to do with audio whatsoever


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Dear Miss Manners: Our son has brought home his girlfriend twice, each time for a weeklong stay. On both occasions, within an hour, she sat his father and me down to have a discussion about our son by stating, "This is what I need you to do to get Jackson to marry me," and "This is the conversation you need to have with him."
Dear Miss Manners: Our son has brought home his girlfriend twice, each time for a weeklong stay. On both occasions, within an hour, she sat his father and me down to have a discussion about our son by stating, �This is what I need you to do to get Jackson to marry me,� and �This is the conversation you need to have with him.�
On both occasions, we explained that our son would make that decision on his own.
During the second visit, she also let us know how �cool a girlfriend� she is because she was taking our son to a strip club that night. I was dumbfounded. I told her we didn�t need to know those details.
The rest of the second visit had her traipsing about my home in her underwear and a T-shirt; talking about her sexy look to my husband while I wasn�t in the room; and standing at the top of our stairs in said underwear, trying to get my husband to engage in conversation (requiring him to look up at her). I was infuriated, ceased communication with her and left for the grocery store, praying they would be gone when I returned.
To my horror, she is (not surprisingly) pregnant. I�m not sure how I can get past the seething anger I feel every time I think of her, let alone the idea of being tied to her for the rest of my life. I am filled with rage every time her name is mentioned.
Please give me guidance on how to handle this rage and still support our son. Loving the child is without question, and we have also found ourselves quite taken with her child from a previous relationship.
Gentle Reader: Where was your son when all this was going on? And where is he now? Are they to be married?
In any case, you are, as you are chagrined to admit, tied to your unwelcome visitor for life. Your access to your grandchild will depend on her good will.
This will be as severe an etiquette test as Miss Manners can imagine. You will have to keep reminding yourself that you are doing it for the sake of your grandchild, not just to satisfy yourself but to provide an alternative household and way of behaving � which it seems likely that the child will need.
Dear Miss Manners: How did we arrive at the etiquette rules regarding men wearing hats inside buildings? What was the original rationale?
Gentle Reader: It is widely thought that the custom evolved from knights� lifting or removing their headgear to express politeness, to show their adversaries who was about to hack them to pieces or to make eyes at married ladies whom they idolized.
Dear Miss Manners: Is there a way to politely drop the hint that a baby shower at work is unwanted?
I began my new job and my pregnancy at the same time (not that it was planned that way), and, as time goes on, I find that I am less and less comfortable with my co-workers socially. I don�t want to mix with many of them socially, and I don�t want to be the object of one of those forced in-office celebrations.
Do I allow my co-workers to express their (willing or unwilling) delight at my pregnancy � and simply view it as a social duty I must perform?
Gentle Reader: Has anyone actually mentioned throwing you a shower, or are you just afraid of the possibility?
If someone asks you directly, you may politely decline by insisting you wouldn�t want to burden people in the workplace. If they�re planning a surprise, however, you must endure it.
With all of the thank-you letters you�ll have to write, surely you�ll find something socially redeemable in your co-workers.
Write to Miss Manners � who sometimes responds with help from daughter Jacobina Martin or son Nicholas Ivor Martin � at www. missmanners.com.


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Hey all,
Recently in class, we have been doing networking and set up a dozen IBM's on a network and the likes.
Anyway, i went home and tested whether i could detect packets across the wireless with CAIN.
TO my suprise easily enough, form details and server passwords were easily discovered and easily crackable.
So back at school i tested this with my teacher and sure enough the sniffer easily routed the packets...and recorded
Now to my question:
If this network sniffing is possible to do over wireless and LAN. What can i do to stop malicious users to connecting to my wireless...Or even the schools proper network?
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posted by Howard Fosdick on Wed 29th Aug 2012 20:25 UTC
Can Hewlett-Packard bounce back? Third quarter results are in and they don't look good. Total revenue is down 5% year over year, and profits tanked on a $9.2 billion noncash write-down on the 2008 EDS acquisition. What's HP's strategy? Meg Whitman has now been CEO of the struggling giant for a year. She compares HP's turnaround to that of Starbucks, saying "Usually these kinds of turnarounds take anywhere between four or five years... There's nothing fancy about these turnarounds. This is not advanced business, this is 101." I question if refocusing on core competencies is enough. Maybe HP needs to get into the smartphone and tablet markets. Maybe it needs to expand its services business. Think I'm wrong? Then bet your money on HP stock and get rich. HPQ trades at its lowest point in a decade and sells for an rock bottom forward P/E of 4.2.


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I am running Linux Mint 13 MATE (32-bit) and it is great. However, I am very keen to run an old KDE3 app (Quanta Plus) which is no longer available in the Ubuntu Precise repos.
My aim has been to add this app and its dependencies using the Trinity Desktop Environment repos.
So, I added the Trinity repos and signing key to my apt sources using the instructions for Precise at http://www.trinitydesktop.org/wiki/bin/ ... stallation.
I reloaded Synaptic - and Quanta-trinity appears amongst the uninstalled apps. Hooray! I mark it for installation, and all seems to go well. Synaptic now tells me it is installed.
But how do I launch it? It doesn't appear in the Mint menu. I have looked for it in usr/bin but cannot see it. I have attempted to launch it from the terminal using a variety of likely commands, but nothing happens. I'm baffled.
Any suggestions welcome! Thanks in anticipation.


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[Update: 09:00] EA has now sent over a trailer giving a peek at the game.
Hot on the heels of the announcement of Command & Conquer Generals 2 over the weekend comes word of another new C&C game, a free-to-play social affair by the name of Command & Conquer Tiberium Alliances. It's being developed by EA Phenomic, the studio behind the free-to-play Battleforge and Lord of Ultima.
Built upon HTML 5, Tiberium Alliances will be playable in any web browser supporting it. EA describes it as an MMO packing "hardcore strategy gameplay" with alliances to form and a "dynamically updating map" to conquer, but offers few details on how it'll actually all work.
"In the quest for world domination, players must choose their friends wisely and foster strategic alliances as they fight against each other and hordes of mutant enemies," reads EA's press blurb.
But will battles resemble the real-time C&C we all know and remember fondly then grimace slightly as we remember recent entries, or your typical, plodding browser strategy game? EA's not spilling any screenshots or real details for now.
"We are thrilled to have the opportunity to forge new ground with this acclaimed franchise," Phenomic senior producer Martin Löhlein said in the announcement. "We're hoping to deliver an experience that will allow our loyal fans to play their favorite franchise anywhere they go, while introducing the exciting world of Tiberium to new players."
Command & Conquer Tiberium Alliances enters closed beta on December 15. You can sign up now if you fancy seeing what it's all about.
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Carlene Carrier's teaching experiences spanned continents and cultures, from parochial schools to middle schools, charter schools and even classrooms in the jungles of Africa.
MIDDLEBORO – Carlene Carrier's teaching experiences spanned continents and cultures, from parochial schools to middle schools, charter schools and even classrooms in the jungles of Africa.
But the longtime teacher found her niche at the Henry B. Burkland Elementary School in Middleboro, where she closed her classroom for the last time recently, retiring after 28 years there.
"She's just a great person," said Burkland Principal Derek Thompson. "She enjoyed what she did. She did it for all the right reasons."
The school embraced Carrier from her first day when fellow teacher Carol Damon, now retired, reached out and offered to share her classroom because Carrier's was one of several that were closed due to a mold problem.
"She jumped in with both feet and never looked back," said Damon. "She's what you call one of those ladies who have teaching in their blood. It was a calling," Damon said.
The choices Carrier made reflect the lessons she's learned. She choose not to put her own children in day care and put her career on hold to be a stay-at-home mother.
It was during that period of her life that Carrier and her family followed a film crew to Africa, India and China. The Carriers were part of a company that filmed "The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles", which her son Corey starred in. Carrier lived with the the Maasai, an East African tribe taught their children in an open-air classrooms next to a river where hippopotamus wallowed.
Damon knew of Carrier's brush with Hollywood but said, "She never bragged about it. She was humble, but don't ever underestimate her quietness. She'd fight for students in need," Damon said.
Carrier's approach to teaching went beyond academics, she instilled life skills. She taught her students how to take a journey into a book, how to express themselves and be listened to. Carrier embraced the advent of technology and the instant answers that come from Google, but she never gave up her hard copies of encyclopedia and dictionaries. Instead they became part of her curriculum, and she taught children how to use the spine of a book to begin their search for information.
Longtime family friend Kevin F. Flaherty said Carrier's journey's around the world enabled her to bring back her experiences to her students.
"Carlene was actually there and can say what it's like standing in front of a pyramid or riding a camel," he said.
But Flaherty said Carrier also taught her students about their own backyards when she'd take them on field trips into a swamp, armed with buckets, butterfly nets and spades.
Carrier, who is 4-feet-8, says if she could wave a magic wand and be granted one wish, " I'd like to see more time for teachers to share literature."
Even after learning to read on their own, children still love to have someone read to them. "Once they reach the age when they can read, not many are read to, and so many kids enjoy being read to. " Carrier said.
Carrier started off every school year reading with a British accent from the Minpins, a book by Roald Dahl The story is about a boy who is forbidden to go into the woods near his home, but he goes in anyway and falls into a world of little people – Minpins, she said. As soon as Carrier called her class to gather for the Minpins, they'd run to their places, "They enjoyed the pleasure of being read to, they just didn't want me to stop."
Carrier said it's a different experience as a listener, "In today's world, children need to learn to listen." She said listening is an art she instills on her students.
Maya Fontinah was one of her many students who helped Carrier clear out her classroom. The lanky fourth grader, 10, said Carrier made school fun, "She put on (children's singer and comedian) Bill Harley the first day of school." Carrier also taught her class a trick to solve division, by asking, 'Does MacDonald's sell cheese burgers?' The first letter in each word represents a step: divide, multiply, subtract, compare, bring down, Maya said.
The 60-year-old teacher considered each class a family, "I spent more time with some children than their parents," explaining how busy work schedules cut into family time.
While many new teaching methods promote better education, Carrier said some key skills are falling to the wayside. She says people are giving up human interaction to communicate electronically, and muses how restaurants are full of people focused on their devices, rather than their dining companions.
She understands the no-touch rule that permeates today's relationships between teachers and students, but says, "I still hug them."
Now that she's retired, Carrier plans on getting started with her latest endeavor, to write a children's book, "It was inspired by the Burkland kids." But she's keeping mum on the plot, "I'm not saying."
Carrier said she will keep her hand in education and continue to work with children, but her next goal is to adopt a new dog, because her 3-year-old granddaughter Jordyn has taken over her old dog.


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