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What Should DeKalb's School Board Do With All That Cash?
This week's news that millions have been found in DeKalb's school budget begs the question: where should the money go? Patch wants your opinion.
Talk about a nice problem to have. DeKalb school officials this past weekend came across $21 million in previously overlooked revenue - news that interim school superintendent Michael Thurmond shared with "stunned" school board members Monday. Thurmond also said another $7 million in unaccounted revenue in the current fiscal year was discovered. So, if you were running DeKalb's school board, where would you spend the money? Teacher pay raises, or hiring more teachers? Better classroom technology? Paying down those legal fees the board's suspended members racked up at taxpayer expense? Or paying down the system's $15 million deficit? Share your thoughts in the Comments section below. See Also: Questions Arise After School Board Millions …
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Tom, the best way to pay down the County's Debt is, #1 Stop creating it, and #2 Get rid of all the Fraud, Waste and Abuse of our Tax Monies that flow to this corrupt organization. Get rid of all the Family and Friends that have been given high paying jobs they aren't even remotely qualified to perform. As for that illusionary "money", show it to me. I would suggest the BOE get an independent, …   more ›


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I just made this for lunch and had to share. It was inspired by the Tunisian Kale Salad in Kris Carr's Crazy Sexy Diet, I created my own variation here.
*note: I do not really measure when making salads, so everything is an approximation and can be adjusted to your preference.
serves approx. 2
For the Salad:
- 1-2 cups kale, de-vined
- 1/2 cup shredded green cabbage
- 1/2 cup pea shoots, chopped (you can get these at Trader Joes or use other spout-like variations)
- cilantro, chopped
- basil, chopped
- 1 red pepper, chopped
- handful of sunflower seeds
- 1/3 cup tahini
- 1 heaping tbsp nutritional yeast
- olive oil and water (use as much or as little of each as you like)
- juice of 1 lemon
- agave, to taste
- ginger
- cayenne
- garlic salt
Combine all the veggies in a big bowl.
Combine all the dressing ingredients. Depending on how liquid, oil-based or water-based you prefer your dressing, use as much or as little oil/water combination as you like.
Pour the dressing over the salad and gently coat.

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Huge breasts saved a girl from serving a 14 month sentence!
A Japanese model who goes by the name of Serena Kozakura was sentenced to 14 months in prison for willful destruction of property on November 6 2008. She allegedly kicked a hole through the door and reentered her boyfriend's apartment following an argument with another woman she found there.
She appealed the sentence to the Tokyo High Court. During the appeal hearing, the man and another witness both testified to the woman's kicking and entering. But the hole measured 28.3 inches by 8.7 inches, which is way too small for Kozakura's famous 40 inch breasts to bust through.
In a country which is accustomed to a smaller built, Kozakura said after the ruling "I was always worried about being a little fat, but this time I was glad. It was definitely my breasts that won for me today."


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Three Wilmington College students will present their research in such fields as sociology, psychology, gender studies, anthropology and criminology at the North Central Sociological Association's Student Sociology Conference.
The Greater Cincinnati Consortium of Colleges & Universities will recognize a member of the Wilmington College's psychology faculty with a 2011 Celebration of Teaching Award.
Two Wilmington College students will present a paper highlighting their original research at the North Central Student Sociology Conference in Chicago in April.


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a fail so epic it's almost a win. - HOLY SHIT! did u c what mike did?
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A fail so epic it can almost be considered a win. Person 1 - "How the hell did you manage to slam halfway through your roof dude?"
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Adj. --A status of Fail, derived from the words "fail", and "spectacular". This is the second highest rank of Failing, next to Epic Fail, and can be used to describe: A: A single, godly fail, though the more common term for this is a more severe "Epic Fail". B: A string of consecutive Failures, normally to the amusement of onlookers. "Dude, your drawing of a duck looks like a second string Patriots QB...it's so failtacular!"
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a fail so epic its almost a win. my friend crashed his car into his house, so i told him he was a failtacular
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a fail so epic its almost a win Tyler: I love the song "Somebody Like You" by the Scorpions.
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December 9, 2006
Brandon Castel BuckeyeGrove.com
The Nov. 29 game between Ohio State and North Carolina was billed as the game of the year. And while it lived up to the anticipated excitement and certainly had no lack of competitiveness, the game was missing something. A big something, or more a big someone named Greg Oden.Oden had surgery at the Indiana Hand Center on June 16th to repair a torn ligament in his right wrist. Although many Buckeye fans circled that bout with UNC as the day they were hoping Oden would make his scarlet and gray debut, more conservative estimates did not have him returning until after the new year. So it came as a surprise to many when Oden took the court last Saturday against Valparaiso. The man (literally) who has been called everything from the next Bill Russell to the second coming of Patrick Ewing, finally made his much anticipated debut wearing a protective brace on that right wrist. With limited mobility in his shooting wrist, the prodigy scored 14 points, grabbed 10 rebounds and blocked five shots in his first 23 minutes of live action in six months. While Buckeye fans, and college basketball fans everywhere for that matter, held their breath in awe of the physical specimen, Oden himself was not nearly as impressed with his own performance. "I feel I can do a lot better," Oden said. "It was just the feeling I had after the game, that I could have done better." ...More... To continue reading this article you must be a member. Sign Up Now for a FREE Trial
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Officials in Springfield, Mass., have deferred a decision on whether to negotiate an agreement with one or both companies seeking to develop casinos in the city.
Mayor Domenic Sarno had set last Friday as the date for announcing the next step in the city's review process, but has delayed that announcement until Feb. 11. Sarno could choose to negotiate a host community agreement with MGM Resorts or Penn National Gaming, or both. Any agreements would then have to go before city voters.
Mohegan Sun and Hard Rock International also are seeking the one available license for western Massachusetts.
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VIDEO: Troy, Albany, Schenectady mayors, HUD seek to help neighborhoods
ALBANY — A meeting of the minds was had between local mayors and U.S. Housing and Urban Development Deputy Secretary Maurice Jones and other stakeholders on Monday to discuss the current housing market and its effect on neighborhoods.
Troy Mayor Lou Rosamilia, Schenectady Mayor Gary McCarthy and Albany Mayor Jerry Jennings emerged with Jones after the meeting to tell media members what the group had discussed and some actions President Barack Obama is looking to take in the future.
"We've come a long way in respect to the housing market," Jones said at a Monday morning news conference. "Foreclosure notices have been cut in half nationally since before the housing crisis began. Our housing market is seeing momentum now as it has seen in about five years' time. We're seeing encouraging increases in price and home sales in the capital region are moving. However, none of us are satisfied."
The group, also comprised of local housing counselors, lenders and real estate brokers, discussed what could be done further to help mitigate problems facing local neighborhoods. Four different proposals were discussed by Jones the he said he hopes will help residents in both being able to pay their mortgages and preventing a foreclosure.
The first is expanding the Home Affordable Refinance Program by breaking down barriers for competition in the program, extend the program to all government sponsored loans and eliminate the cost of manual appraisals, which Jones said would save borrowers hundreds of dollars. A bill currently in the senate is sponsored by U.S. Senators Bob Menendez, D-New Jersey, and Barbara Boxer, D-California.
Another would extend the HARP program to families without government sponsored loans, sponsored by U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-California, and another that would cover the closing costs for borrowers looking to rebuild their equity and take a shorter term loan, sponsored by Sen. Jeff Merkley, D-Oregon.
The last proposal is called Project Rebuild, which would work with lenders to give a prospective homeowner or company owner the ability to purchase a vacant home while the government would give money to help in rehabbing the building.
This proposal is sponsored by Sen. John Reed, D-Rhode Island.
It is a presidential election season, though, and Jones noted these pieces of legislation are already in the Senate. He said Obama is looking to have them passed before November but also acknowledged it is an election. Continued...
"The president has been fighting for these pieces of legislation for quite some time," Jones said. "I hope now congress can come back into session and pass these. It should have bipartisan support."
The mayors were only given one wish and Rosamilia is hoping the Project Rebuild Program is one that gets passed and implemented.
"We want to focus on rebuilding vacant properties, put a resident in there, put that building back on the tax rolls and improve the quality of life in the neighborhood," Rosamilia said.
Rosamilia said he looks to work with organizations such as the vacant property workgroup and Habitat for Humanity if the program is implemented. He hopes it could attract other organizations that would be interested in improving an already existing structure.
At the end of the press conference, Jones said he hoped the group that met on Monday would be able to meet regularly as a forum to further discuss these issues, something all three mayors agreed on.
Rosamilia said it was only the first meeting and particular strategies were not discussed from the rebuild program, but he said the meeting was really a starting point.
"It's a great opportunity for us to come together," the Troy mayor said. "I hope we continue to meet."
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What's in a name?
The folks at Greater Vancouver Zoo think there's plenty. And so, apparently, did the 125 people who helped name their baby zebra.
After more than two weeks of sifting through suggestions offered through a link on the zoo's facebook page, they chose Kito, which means "jewel or precious child."
The young male zebra is growing quickly.
Zebra mothers keep their foals separate from the herd for a period long enough for the youngster to imprint its mother's stripes (which are unique to her), smell, and call.
Some interesting details about zebra's stripes are provided by zoo staff: the stripes, for instance, are a type of camouflage called "disruptive colouration," in which the goal is to confuse predators. Not only do the stripes make it difficult to tell individuals apart, but when a herd runs away, all of the stripes appear to go in all different directions, and that can cause a split-second hesitation on the part of a predator – giving the zebras a chance for escape.
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Laptop buyer's remorse
A couple weeks ago I bought a Hewlett-Packard TouchSmart tm2-1070us Notebook. This is a laptop with a touch-sensitive screen, that can swivel around and fold down over the keyboard to turn the laptop into a tablet.
I thought it would be a cool thing to help with drawing comics, since I could draw right on the screen. Also, I haven't bought myself a computer since 2002 (every computer I've used since then has been one lent to me by whoever I was working for at the time). I thought maybe it was time to have a computer of my own, to separate my work stuff from the rest of my life. Finally, I also wanted to get away from Mac, as Apple has been turning evil lately and I don't want to support them any more.
I started regretting the purchase almost immediately. I brought it back to Fry's (return policy: full refund minus 15% restocking fee within 14 days) less than a week later. Should really have done more research first.
Here's a list of what was wrong with this computer.
The hardware sucks
There's no optical drive. I didn't realize this until I got home. I guess I should have read the box more carefully or asked the salesman, but it didn't even cross my mind that you could sell a computer without a CD-ROM drive these days. So yeah, it needs an external CD-ROM drive to install software or play a music CD or anything.
Even with an external CD-ROM drive hooked up, I couldn't get it to boot from a CD. I went into the BIOS and made that drive first in the boot order, but it didn't seem to make any difference. This meant I couldn't install Ubuntu.
The trackpad is a nightmare. It's the kind where the bottom part of the trackpad is meant to double as the mouse buttons, but the whole surface is touch-sensitive and pressure sensitive. This means it's extremely easy to click when you wanted to move, or move when you wanted to click. (The Macbook Pro gets this right: it has the button separate from the trackpad, so you push the button with your thumb while moving the pointer with your fingers. You can drag two fingers to scroll. It works great.)
On the HP, supposedly I can drag two fingers to scroll, but sometimes it works and other times it doesn't, and I can't figure out why. Sometimes when I drag with two fingers the mouse pointer stays put and turns into a four-directional arrow symbol. I don't understand what this means. Supposedly I can move two fingers apart or together to zoom in or out, but that is also extremely flaky, sometimes working and other times not.
But it's not just the advanced features that don't work. When I go to click on a close button, half the time I miss because the act of pressing down on the mouse button part of the pad moves the pointer off of the button, so I do something else instead. When I try to put an insertion point in text, the point randomly jumps around, sometimes selecting big chunks of the text. Sometimes it brings up the context menu as if I had right-clicked. Dragging a scroll bar is fraught with perils. If I try to hold the button down with my thumb and move the pointer with my index finger at the same time, that means I'm touching the pad in two places, which means unpredictable behavior. The pointer might randomly jump halfway across the screen, or it might not move at all.
I have no idea what to expect when I touch this track pad. All my habits are dangerous now. It's at the point where I'd rather pick up the stylus and poke the screen with it than use the track pad, even if I'm in laptop mode and just trying to click a link.
Actually drawing with the stylus on the screen is pretty good, but using it to click links or select from menus or otherwise interact with a standard GUI is very annoying because the part of the interface I'm looking at is covered up by my hand and the pen, and because the standard GUI rendered on a laptop screen has targets that are physically very small, and sometimes the stylus is registered as a couple pixels off from where I think it is due to my viewing angle. I miss targets a lot. But in tablet mode, that's the only way to click things. (It's still better, slightly, than using the trackpad.)
There's a toggle button on the right edge of the laptop between the power button and the SD card port, which turns the wireless connection on and off. I discovered this by accident, because this button is in the perfect place to be hit by accident when you with the thumb when you're just trying to hold the computer in tablet mode. And then the next time you go to load a web page it suddenly doesn't work, and you don't know why. Now that I've figured out this button, I have to carefully avoid hitting it, forever. Why does this button even exist? Why would you put an "accidentally turn off my wireless internet" button on the hardware? (There's actually TWO such buttons, since the f12 key ALSO does the same thing). The cases when you need to turn off wireless internet on a laptop are exceedingly rare, and can easily be handled through software controls.
The back of the screen and the area below the keyboard both have this stupid spirally abstract cloud pattern etched into them. It's not printed, it's not a sticker that you can peel off, it's actually permanently etched in, like with a laser or something. Who asked for this nonsense?
Probably due to the weight of the touch-screen hardware, the machine is very top-heavy when in laptop mode. It's hard to balance on my lap because it keeps wanting to fall over backward.
The software sucks
I remember when you'd buy a new computer and it would boot to a BIOS screen, waiting for you to configure the drives and install the operating system. It was a little more work to set up, but it gave you a pleasantly minimalistic setup at first. You started with the bare minimum and added things as you needed them.
These days you have to spend the first couple of days just de-gunking a computer from all the ad-ware and useless crap that's pre-loaded at the factory before you can use it. Bahhh. Everything is popping up dialog boxes at you, begging for your attention,trying to get you to buy Norton Antivirus or whatever other crap software paid Hewlett-Packard for advertising space. You configure your network settings once in the Windows wizard that pops up, and then as soon as that's gone a Hewlett-Packard wizard takes over and asks you the same questions all over again, except it's also trying to get you to buy stuff.
HP has started using this horribly inappropriate "Nightmare before Christmas" font on all their stuff, with the slogan "The computer is personal again!" Whatever, guys.
There's a button on the edge of the screen that rotates the screen orientation 90 degrees each time you press it, so that you can use the tablet in portrait mode or landscape mode. That's fine. But for a while, every time I touched this button, a program called "BumpTop" would take over my screen for no reason I could understand. It would launch into some kind of stupid tutorial and I would close it. By the fourth or so time that BumpTop came up and took over my screen, it said "You are now done with the tutorial". Which of course I wasn't, but it had apparently been advancing through the tutorial each time I closed it. I finally uninstalled BumpTop (actually Sushu uninstalled it for me to get me to stop bitching about it).
BumpTop is an amazingly useless piece of showing-off-ware. I wrotea separate rantabout BumpTop and why it's useless and fundamentally misguided.
Besides BumpTop, other useless software that showed up to beg for my attention included two wretched things called "HP Advisor" and "HP TouchSmart" which are installed and taking up space in the windows taskbar by default. Hp Advisor appears to be a combination of adware and redundant interface to things you can do through the Windows control panel. HP Touchsmart is an overblown and redundant full-screen touch interface for browsing multimedia files. Whatever. It also has a 'browser' button which launches IE full-screen, and - this is the weird part - Hulu, Netflix, and Twitter buttons. Those are websites; I don't need a special button to launch them, though I'm sure they paid HP nicely for the privilege. The weirdest one is Twitter; when I think of things that would benefit from a full-screen touch-enabled interface, Twitter isn't anywhere on the list. What possible purpose does this serve?
Windows 7 (which, amusingly, has an internal verison number of 6.1) appears to be, at least, no worse than Windows XP; it just sucks more memory and randomly changes parts of the interface around so you have to relearn everything for no real benefit. The hourglass is now a blue ring exactly like the ones the moai heads spit at you in Gradius. Every icon in Windows Explorer now gets a little check box when you select it, which is just confusing; it turns out that this is an alternate way to select multiple files at once, if you don't want to shift-click, control-click, or drag a box around the files. That would have been a great innovation for, say, 1990, when the conventions of selecting icons were still being established, but it seems like a weird thing to start messing with now.
I do appreciate that Windows 7 didn't blue-screen-of-death on me five times in the first day like Vista did. That's a definite improvement.
I actually like the Windows 7 feature where you can drag a window to the top of the screen to full-screen it or to one side of the screen to half-screen it. The latter makes it easy to compare two windows side by side, which is the only real use case for non-fullscreen windows anyway.
My plan was to wipe Windows 7 and install Ubuntu, but since I could never get the laptop to boot from a CD-ROM (see above), I couldn't do this.
Manga Studio really, really sucks
I'm splitting this part into a separate blog post because there are so many reasons that Manga Studio sucks.
Suffice to say here that the unreliable trackpad input, the clunkiness of Windows 7, and the horrible UI failure that is Manga Studio all combined to make an absolutely miserable, frustrating, hair-pulling out experience that had me doing more swearing and nerd-raging than drawing.
The only way to make it usable would have been to hook it up with an external CD-ROM drive and an external mouse (thus defeating the purpose of a tablet computer), wipe Windows 7 in favor of Ubuntu (providing I could figure out how to make Ubuntu compatible with the touchscreen and pressure-sensitive stylus input), and replace Manga Studio with some other software. But GIMP is equally horrible interface-wise and Photoshop doesn't run on Linux, so I don't even know what software that would be.
That's why I declared the whole thing a failed experiment and brought the laptop back to the store.


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October¹s re election of Hugo Chávez as president has re-assured Venezuelans, if nothing else, that there will be political continuity though the economic outlook remains murky.
³It is a complicated economic and regulatory environment for banks to operate in,² says Theresa Paiz-Fredel, an analyst at Fitch. ³The cost of inflation weighs on their efficiency.² BBVA Provincial stands out in Venezuela, not least for having an ample cushion to deal with the uncertainty.
Its total assets of 82.9 billion Bolívares ($19.3 billion) as of mid-year, are smaller than those of Banesco and state-owned Banco de Venezuela, according to the country¹s bank regulator. But it is more profitable, with a return on average assets of 6.5% and a return on average equity of 62.6%.
For the second straight year, BBVA Provincial¹s size and strength mean remains best placed in the banking system to face these challenges. In addition to being among the most well capitalized banks, the bank¹s risk management and strong asset quality also set it apart from its peers. The bank has higher loan loss reserve levels and capital coverage as well as lower exposure to government assets than most of the sector, which is dominated by public sector banks with, in general, lower asset quality.
³Banks in Venezuela tend to be highly profitable in nominal terms,² says Paiz-Fredel. ³They have wide interest rate margins which can compensate for credit costs and inefficiency.² Higher margins the net average interest in 2011 was 11% have insulated Venezuela¹s stronger banks. There has also been a shift to less regulated segments, and to retail lending, which has higher margins. Growth was strong in 2012, thanks to loose monetary and fiscal policy in the lead-up to the elections.
Nationalization talk died down before the elections, and the government, despite lingering perceptions that this will not always be the case has not taken over a financial institution since mid-sized bank Banco Federal in 2010.
Fitch expects 2013 to be more challenging, but not necessarily detrimental to domestic banks¹ overall performance. There has not yet been a deterioration in asset quality, Paiz-Fredel says, and the banks remain adequately capitalized. LF
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"Entertaining and light"
The performance was key to me, moreso than the story which I found very lightweight. If you mildly like Austen, or like modern people tackling Austen this is a nice book to listen to over an afternoon. It respects Jane Austen's work well enough and acknowledges the contemporary yearning for Austen's world with a only mildly annoying modern character going into that world, which is Austenland.
As I wrote, it was narrator Katherine Kellgren's performance that made this book well worth it and very entertaining.
"Enjoyable, but a little less sleuthing"
I enjoy listening to the adventures of Georgie, the impoverished royal. Compared to the first book there is a little less sleuthing because she's so busy keeping track of her house guest and keeping up appearances. Regardless, the police are involved as is her grandfather and other fun characters from the first book. Here she seems to fall into or runs into trouble, being at the wrong or right place at the wrong/right time.
At the end there is a preview for another Her Royal Spyness mystery. The little bit I heard doesn't make me rush to buy it. Well I'll wait for a sale.
"Scalzi has done better"
I've listened to other Scalzi books and maybe the best ones are the books narrated by Wil Wheaton. But even if Wheaton narrated this one, it probably would still be disappointing. There are a few themes in Scalzi books, and not to have any spoilers I won't mention them, but when I encountered one, I could link a similar idea better fleshed out in another of his books. There is also an element of crassness in Scalzi's writing, there just seemed to be a lot of unnecessary crassness that seemed not to develop the characters but just seemed to be there for crassness sake.
I'm not tempted to listen to the rest of this series. This first book is ok, but not great, and doesn't seem to warrant buying the rest of the series.
"Fun read of a lush life"
This was a really fun listen and at times I laughed out loud. This is my first Anthony Bourdain book, so I don't know how it compares to his more famous book.
Did I learn anything? Not really. This book is one where you just sit back and enjoy the ride and it is a fun ride that goes to various parts of the world and US. It is also like sitting at the bar with the world 2nd most interesting man as he spins tales about crazy girlfriends, lucky jobs, and life enjoyably wasted on booze and drugs.
I've seen criticisms about authors reading their own books, this is one of those things where the author does a really good job.
To truly enjoy this book, belly up to the bar, or sit out on the patio with a drink and a nice app.
"Half good, half a tad dull"
This is a good intro to economics. The beginning of the book was quite interesting and engaging but towards the end a little less so. I enjoyed the comparison of the life and opportunities of a girl in the West and a girl in the rural undeveloped world. But for some reason the book is not as engaging in the second half of the book.
"Something to listen to while touring the sites"
This will not replace Let's Go New York. There are 26 short segments that sound like something a very informed tour guide would give you for several notable sites like Ellis Island (Staton Island Ferry), the Brooklyn Bridge, the Empire State Building, Times Square and the like. Depending on your listening device you might be able to get the chapters that relate to the spot you're touring and listen while wandering around. But if your device doesn't break it up into parts, it's just not as useful and you realize books with pages are better.
"Slow, plodding but very informative"
There was a chance I was not going to finish this book because it was a little dry and there was so much necessary information the author was putting forth. But after listening I believe I am a better and informed Christian and would recommend the book with the caveat that it is a little difficult to really get into the book, in the beginning.
One of the things Peter Brown does well is provide a sense of the culture and environment people lived in for the modern reader. He made me realize my concepts of what was wealth and poverty did not match up to late Roman views of wealth, and the importance of citizenship, and poverty. He translates the past for the modern reader. Unfortunately it take a while to translate and can be a tad uninteresting.
"Good read after seeing Waiting for Superman"
If you have seen the documentary Waiting for Superman and liked it, this is a great followup, featuring one of the people from the movie, Michelle Rhee, who was in charge of the DC Public School system.
The book is a bit more of a biography as her life relates to public education. There is the life of her Korean parents, her upbringing, her college years, working in the Baltimore schools, and then the meat of the book, her role as Chancellor of DCPS. What you get is her point of view, and not an attempt at an unbiased/biased analysis of education reform. You get her views and impression of then Mayor Adrian Fenty and union head Randi Weingarten. You also get her passion for wanting better for inner city kids. The passion and desire come through clearly with the narration.
I am a resident of DC and have lived in the District since the Mayor Williams years. I was very aware of the many challenges Rhee faced. Parts about the sheer amount of waste she found made me very angry, because I know there are parts of DC government that are still that way. I am also very aware that this is just her point of view and she leaves out voices that are not hers, which is understandable. She tries to be inclusive, like with an example of why people wanted to keep a school open for reasons that had more to do with community spirit and nothing to do with education.
I finished the book feeling a sense of gratitude to Mayor Fenty and the changes that he made. I also left with a feeling that too many inner city and poor kids are getting screwed for no good reason and it is up to parents and regular citizens to change things.
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This was a bit of a chore to listen to and seemed to push Dicken's political cause at bit too clumsily. I really wanted to like this and hoped it was a good fit with the Christmas Carol. It was okay at the start but then it just seemed to drag. The supernatural parts, which I guess were to be like Scrooge's visit by the 3 ghosts, weren't that great, to me. It just seemed to lack the same magic, which may explain why this book is not as popular as his others.
This is a sympathetic look at hoarders, looking into the details of why they have difficulty getting rid of 'stuff'. There are several individuals and families the authors mention and they are a diverse set of hoarders ranging from well to do hoarders who have piles of antiques and artwork to urban cat hoarders and hoarders who live in squalid falling down homes.
Listening to the book made me look at some of my own bad habits with stuff, material things (and electronic files), which is a different feeling than looking at the cable show "Hoarders". With the TV show I don't engage in self reflection and it's more like a freak show. Because the authors get deep into the 'why' and the struggles the hoarders grapple with, one can see small, but similar motivations in ourselves.
The authors also demonstrate the problem with what most may consider the simple solution of just forced clean ups. They provide examples of failed clean ups and the challenges that are faced. I had to stop listening at one point because I was completely grossed out during one clean up story. If dirt, filth, rats, dead cats, poop, and roaches, lots of roaches disturb you, you may not want to listen.
At the end there are resources mentioned to help people struggling or family members of people struggling with hoarding.
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I really like John Scalzi's books, so I got this one. Is it worth $4 or a credit? For 21 minutes, no. I may as well have sought out the text and read it. The narration is good and the story, what little of it that was there, was a fun listen and I wanted more. There is a good wanting more and there is a bad wanting more, this is the bad wanting more, because there isn't.


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Transliteration qadowsh |
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Root Word (Etymology) From קָדַשׁ (H6942) | |
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Strong's H6918 - qadowsh
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1) sacred, holy, Holy One, saint, set apart
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Strong's H6918 - qadowsh
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Ofc. William McGary, 26, died last week after being hit by a car while he directed traffic on Dave Ward Drive.
McGary's funeral today was held at Valley Baptist Church in Searcy, followed by a graveside service.
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those npigglets will turn out just fine
those npigglets will turn out just fine
dont taze me nigga
Too bad that wasn't a .45...
My name is Cheryl and I'm your daughter.
Wherever this is, I hope I never find myself there. Not a white person in sight.
These vermin are breeding like crazy and we're paying for them... they're all on fucking welfare. We're basically paying for our own destruction.
Those poor fucking kids.. having a ghetto trash cunt for a mother like that. ugh.. makes me sad.
Don't question Authority. They don't know shit either.
The city leaders must have been relieved that Atlanta didn't make the Superbowl, victory riots could have rivaled the old days of Detroit.
If you lose a fight to a midget, you become one. It's true.
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'dissed' always come back and spray the crowd with bullets.
doesn't the guy at the end say he will be back?
how does a mall exist when all the patrons have no jobs and steal what they want?
and fuck whitey too......
Fred do I have to take a break?
(I learned that from Howard. Say something racist and then shit on whitey after you realized you said something racist)
Tennessee's deadbeat dads: The three men who have fathered 78 children with 46 different women... and they're not paying child support to any of them
I'm sure thats just a normal day for those fine folks. You have to teach the kids at a young age.
The big one in the pink jogging pants who hit the door shortly after the tasing was hot.
And the funniest thing of all....watching the guy claim the kids. How often does that happen?
Howard 100 & Howard 101, Know More Bullshit!
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I don't see any point in going for anything but a disc wheel. I hear conflicting story's ranging between there been bugger all difference between them to the opposite.
Someone mentioned that TWE has a disk wheel for $800, haven't checked that out. Mail order there seems to be plenty of options between $900 and $1,500. I don't object to paying more if there's value in that purchase. One that stuck out at me today was an FF one;
With the current discount, it works out at $840 delivered, so its a cheap option.
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1. | glasgow kiss | ||
A headbutt. Within Glasgow itself the term 'Gorbals kiss' is often used, referring to the most dangerous area of Glasgow. It is hypothesised that within Gorbals it is known as a Crown Street kiss; and on Crown Street it is called a Number 73 kiss; and at Number 73 it is known as Steve's kiss. Steve, however, calls it whatever the fuck he wants to. Love ain't like the movies
it blisters and bruises and knocks you about with its fists It Leaves you a wreckage all postaged and packaged and sealed with a Glasgow kiss - Sealed With A Glasgow Kiss, Carter USM. |
2. | Glasgow kiss | ||
Glasgwegien slang for headbutt Ahm gonna gee yeh a glesga kiss
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A Headbutt that knocks someone out. The headbutt is much used as a method of attack in Glasgow pubs on a friday night- hence the name The Glasgow Kiss. Drunkard in a fight: "Say that once more mate and you'll be getting the Glasgow Kiss"
4. | Glasgow Kiss | ||
A Head Butt aimed purely at the lips, causing them to Split open, Swell and or bleed. The Glasgow kiss was founded in the UK and is still used today as a surprise attack as the faces come together when trying to intimidate one another; this is usually when it's the most opportune time to strike. "Do you know what a Glasgow Kiss is?" BAM!!! "Now Ya Do!"
5. | Glasgow kiss | ||
a vicious headbutt (is there another kind?) Zinedine Zidane showed his displeasure with Materazzi's comments by giving him a Glasgow kiss, drawing a red card from the 2006 FIFA World Cup Final.
6. | Glasgow Kiss | ||
To headbutt someone "Yeah, i so gave her a "Glasgow Kiss""
7. | Glasgow Kiss | ||
A lame ass cover band from Port Clinton, OH. They try to be funny but really aren't. Don't sleep with these guys because rumor around town is that 2 of them have STD's. What else would you expect? JOE: Yo dude! Glasgow Kiss is playing at Nicks Roadhouse this weekend?
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2012: Jake Shows Us His Favorite Things From The Past Year
Books and movies and boy bands, oh my!
The LGBTQ has many sub-communities within itself, and often while speaking on the whole, many supporters forget who all is included. One such group that seems to be sidelines in the "T." Transgendered youth have struggles just like the rest of us, and their own plight is not something to take lightly. The discrimination transgendered people experience is part of our own, and unfortunately, as of late, I meet many people in the LGBTQ community who refuse to believe that transgendered individuals are the same as themselves.
With that in mind, I have been lucky enough to encounter two individuals who, despite the obvious lack of support regarding their gender identity, manage to keep a wonderful outlook on life. They are women. They were born women, and they will always be women. Unfortunately, whatever divine power there may be decided that they would be born sexually male, and due to this minor inconvenience, it has caused them to work through some of the most difficult and rewarding experiences of their entire lives. I wouldn't know what all they experience, being a gay man who identifies as male, but I'm curious to see what actually goes on in their lives.
The year 2012 was a pretty historic year in terms of marriage equality. The lower house of Uruguay's Congress voted in overwhelming support of a bill that would legalize same-sex marriage. At the very last minute, however, the upper chamber of Congress opted to postpone the vote until April 2013 in order to further discuss the language of the bill. This bill is expected to pass the Senate in April and President Jose Mujica has promised to sign the bill into law as soon as it reaches his desk. To me, the progress in Uruguay signifies more positive change in the world than the victories we experienced here in the United States, though those victories obviously hit much closer to home. Any stigma or stereotype that we can break regarding Latin countries and homophobia is a huge victory. We also experienced some victories in the fight for marriage equality right here in the United States in 2012. Maine, Washington and Maryland all voted to approve bills that made same-sex marriage legal on election night.
This year has already proven to be looking good for marriage equality. On February 5th, the lower house of the United Kingdom's Parliament, the House of Commons, voted 400 to 175 in favor of a bill that would legalize same-sex marriage throughout the entire UK. Before this bill can become law, though, has a few more steps to go before becoming law. The House of Lords is usually a more difficult house to pass through, but this bill in particular is expected to pass due to the overwhelming support in the House of Commons. Despite a large lack of support in his own Conservative Party, Prime Minister David Cameron has vocalized his support for marriage equality, saying: "I am a strong believer in marriage. It helps people commit to each other, and I think it is right that gay people should be able to get married too. This is, yes, about equality. But it is also about making our society stronger." (The Advocate)
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Why do so many fans hate Yamcha
Often I hear Yamcha called useless, a wuss(even by Chris Sabat), or even a bad friend that mistreated Bulma. I really don't see these as making any sense.
In his first arc alone, Yamcha prevented the gang from dying many times. He brought carrot Bulma to Goku, destroyed a pillar in Pilaf's Castle that was about to crush Bulma, grabbed Oolong and Bulma then ran them to safety. Then finally he stuns the Great ape by leaping and grabbing its tail right as it had Bulma in its jaws Yamcha is average compared to the saiyans and other alien fighters but he's more powerful then any human who is not Krillin, Tien, or Uub(if you count him as human). Isn't going to battle to help your friends knowing you're totally outmatched true courage?Yamcha has been a stand up friend throughtout the entire series, when Tien apologizes for breaking his leg Yamcha completely accepts it in good nature. Even his infamous death to a Saibaman was the result of him volunteering specifically to protect Krillin from a second and final death.
As for Bulma, Yamcha did alot for her. He quickly went from an untamed bandit living in seclusion in the desert to a a civilized teen with a well paying job in the city. Their relationship ultimately ended after about 14 years but Yamcha remained friends with Bulma and her new family for years.Basically I think more fans should realize a character don't need to be the strongest to be a great hero and extraordinary person.


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1. | marshmallow | ||
a person who is a wuss or a sissy. also one who is gullible and often described as a goody two shoes. Example 1-
person 1: "eeww i saw you and your girlfriend kiss yesterday!" person 2: "oh, shut up, you marshmallow." Example 2- person 1: "OMG that guy in the movie just chopped off that guy's head!!!" person 2: "stop being such a marshmallow; it's just a movie." |
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I perfect treat when at camp. Marshmallows are going to take over the white house!
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fluffy sugury little squares of heaven. best fuckin candy in the world. i could eat these little fuckers all day and never get sick...
i hope i turn into one someday so i can eat myself... If i eat too many marshmallows, maybe i'll turn into one...
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The manliest food in the world. It's squishy. Often white. Contains sugar and gelatin. Tastes like heaven. Used for the game "Chubby Bunny" Mats: I like to eat marshmallows.
Lisa: Geez, you're so manly. Xavier: Hey, wanna play Chubby Bunny? Shay: Sure, I'll go get the marshmallows. |
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the slang word for paraphimosis, or the condition of the male foreskin becoming trapped behind the knob and swelling up, giving the appearance of a marshmallow. oi sarah gave me a hand job the other day, i looked at it after and turned out she gave me a marshmallow as well.
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Someone who is so easy going that they are pushover and easily persuaded to do things that they did not want to do. "My boyfriend didn't have enough money for pizza...I ended up buying for him and his friends...I am such a marshmallow."
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A term of derision used by police officers patrolling Williamsburg, Brooklyn (mainly the 94th precinct) for the bohemian or "hipster" interlopers/residents. Related to the fact that they are stereotypically both white and soft. "police radio crackles": "Car 32, we need you at 242 south forth to break up a party...lotsa complaints"
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Dam....Hopsin Will Always Be Top In My Favorite Rappers.....but honestly I think Novi came hard on this one because he touched every point.....except for the part where Novi says"see you come out of Hot Topic bitch,and smack you for your contacts and ICP shit" Hopsin would never buy any icp shit real talk
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they always have the advantage to respond to what the other person said, but now they both have released disses, lets see what happens next
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"Garlick maketh a man wynke, drynke and stynke"Garlic is well known for its pungent smell and ability to repel vampires (and the above quote makes me think it could explain strange men hanging around nightclubs like a bad smell!). Some people find the smell repugnant. I once shared a house with a woman who insisted on using a garlic crusher because she swore she hadn't been able to find a boyfriend when she had chopped it by hand and the smell got into her fingers. I have always been of the belief that if everyone eats lots of garlic you don't notice it so much. And surely it is hard to avoid eating a lot of it a lot of the time!
Thomas Nash, 16th Century poet
Colin Spencer revels in garlic – 'the smell I inhale like perfume, the aroma on others breath is a sign of life and its celebration.' Not surprising coming from a man who says he has happily peeled 200 garlic clove for garlic soup. One can only assume that he didn't eat it alone in one sitting!
One of the things I love about garlic is the way its flavour changes depending on how you prepare it. Roasted garlic is one of the loveliest ways to eat it, and the easiest. So I liked the idea of green pea and roasted garlic soup which I noticed in a Nigel Slater book while browsing in a bookstore recently. He had got the idea from Nigella so I checked How to Eat when I got home and, lo and behold, she had a recipe for a pea and garlic crostini. I basically made this and added stock. It is so simple it is embarrassing – barely a knife stroke involved and there is lots of time to relax in the backyard while it cooks.
Nigella delights in the brilliant colours which she describes as having a 'day-glo vibrancy'. The bright green is so lovely that it seems a shame to eat it, but eat it we did with much enjoyment. Roasting mellows the sharp edges and intensifies the flavour of the garlic leaving it with a sweet pungency that enhances the peas. Served with pumpkin scones, the soup made a simple but very satisfying supper.
I am sending this recipe to Sunita of Sunita's World for her Think Spice event which is all about Garlic in January.
Pea and garlic soup
(adapted from Nigella Lawson)
serves 2 (as dinner with bread or scones)
1 head of garlic
1 tsp olive oil
2 cups frozen peas
2 cups stock
Freshly grated parmesan cheese
Freshly ground black pepper
Slice the top off the head of garlic so you have just nipped the top of all the cloves (or almost all of them). Place on a square of foil and drizzle with oil. Bring edges of foil together to make a bag that is sealed at the top with a twist. Roast in 200 C oven for about 30-40 minutes. (Nigella said 60 minutes but that was too long for me because the cloves were already starting to brown slightly by about 35-40 minutes.) Garlic cloves should be soft and easy to squeeze out of their skin. (Although, unless you have asbestos hands, you might want to cool it a little before squeezing cloves out.)
Place garlic cloves, peas and stock in small saucepan and bring to the boil. Use hand held blender to puree soup. Serve with some freshly grated parmesan cheese and black pepper.
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