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ADDISON — Snake Mountain was host to many unfamiliar visitors on Monday afternoon. Two dozen foreign and American students hiked up the mountain's slope, many students of whom had a mere 48 hours earlier been on the other side of the Pacific Ocean en-route to a three-week study-trip to Vermont.
These 25 high school students traveled thousands of miles to participate in the nonprofit, educational program Green Across the Pacific.
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ADDISON COUNTY — A group of high school students from Japan that recently visited Vermont learned not just about the cultural differences between their home country and the Green Mountain State, but also got some first-hand experience and education on how Vermonters are trying to integrate more local foods into their lives.
It was all under the Green Across the Pacific Environmental Leadership Exchange program, an international program, run by Shoreham resident Peter Lynch, which seeks to improve cultural and environmental awareness and cooperation.
MIDDLEBURY — Middlebury Union High School rising juniors Nate Wulfman and Micah Lynch are packing their bags and preparing to jet to China next week for what for both will be a first ever trip to Asia.
Part of a six-student team that draws from high schools across the state, Wulfman and Lynch will explore southern China for 20 days as participants in Green Across the Pacific's (GATP) Chinese-American Environmental Youth Leadership Program.
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February 25, 2012
2 comments:
- Keseven said...
I love this one.. It's so true.. That's what and how life should be.. but then living it that way will not be easy.. isn't it? thanks for sharing this.. :)
- February 25, 2012 at 6:44 PM
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Thank you so much for sharing this. I have been having a stressful time of late, allowing things to overwhelm me when all I really need to do it step back, take a deep breath and stop the ride so I can get off. Life is about so much more than the petty things I'd let get to me. Thank you for reminding me. :-)
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Due to the negligence of a registrar, a 31 year old woman was forced to deliver the placenta in pieces. A month later, an ultrasound scan showed retained products of conception were still present. She was awarded:
Having a child is supposed to be a time of excitement and happiness, so hearing the news that your child has been injured as a result of medical negligence is surely every expectant parent's worst fear. Birth related injuries can happen throughout pregnancy, during delivery or soon after birth. Medical negligence during delivery can lead to complications such as cerebral palsy, while failure to diagnose or treat conditions like jaundice or low blood sugar is also a common problem. While it is always upsetting, the knowledge that your newborn's condition could have been prevented or treated sooner must be especially devastating.
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Thanks to Tres for bringing back this flier from the UK warning us all about the dangers of HIV. Folks may think we are out of the woods when it comes to this dreadful disease, but it hasn't gone anywhere. People are just not talking about it.
I really appreciate the bluntness of this UK ad and perhaps if we stop sugarcoating things, people will wake up and pay attention, not just about the HIV/AIDS epidemic, but about things like the FACT that 1% of the world is controlling the other 99% and people are too apathetic to do anything about it.
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A four-run seventh inning on powered by a two-run single by Mark Frank helped Southeastern open the 2013 season with a 5-3 road win over Northwood on Tuesday afternoon in Dallas, Texas.
The win is the second-straight opening day win and avenges pair of losses to the Knights last season.
The contest was not a particularly offensive affair as the Savage Storm tallied four hits a s team and each team had to fight through three defensive errors in the contest.
Ryan Salter, Vance Woodruff, Aaron Chalk and Mark Frank each collected a hit, with Frank adding the two RBI, while Chalk and Salter each drove in a run as well.
The SE pitching was a little further ahead with Brandon Marris earning the start and going 4.0 innings with a run on two hits and three strikeouts before handing the ball to Eddie Cervantes.
Cervantes would pick up the win after allowing two runs, one earned, on four hits with three strikeouts.
Levi Lewis came on to toss the final 2.0 innings and earn the first save of the season after retiring the side in consecutive innings, registering three strikeouts in the process.
SE jumped ahead first in the fourth inning when Chalk doubled through the right side and Woodruff would score from second after doubling earlier in the inning.
NU would knot the score at one however when Isaac Maturino connected on a single that plated Herb Romero.
The Knights would add another run in the fifth on a RBI single by the leadoff hitter to mount a 2-1 lead.
SE answered in a big way in the top of the seventh with Chalk and Cameron Mann reaching on back-to-back walks to open the inning and scoring on Franks single that chopped over the second baseman's head to put SE back in front at 3-2.
Two batters later, Salter would drive in Nick Grimmett who reached on a fielder's choice earlier in the inning, and Salter would follow up by stealing second and moving to third on an error only to score on a wild pitch to make the score 5-2.
NU would add another run in the bottom of the seventh, but SE would hold off a rally for the 5-3 win.
The Storm will be back on the road for the weekend to play in the Holiday Inn Emerald Beach South Texas Baseball Classic held at Whataburger Field in Corpus Christi, Texas, Feb. 8-10.


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Not all games are created equal, either in consequence or drama. Yesterday's 6:53, 20-inning endurance test sent Jose Reyes' spikes and bat to the Hall of Fame, an indication of something special.
There are dozens and dozens of numbers spawning from this game, and an equal number of snap shot memories, beginning with Alex Cora's sprawling catch into the stands to rob Matt Holliday (pictured).
Take away that catch, and maybe you take away 10 innings of history.
They will be talking about last night for years, but what remains uncertain is how the victory will play out this season for the struggling Mets.
The attributes of grit and resiliency, patience and perseverance, hustle and clutch, all surfaced last night – for both teams – and for the Mets they had been qualities lacking.
"This game] was big for us…We needed to win this game," Jerry Manuel said. "They were fighting all day to stay in the game. Hopefully, that's a sign of things to come for us…We were able to hang around, hang around, hang around…Lay on the ropes for about nine innings and then waited for all the other guys to get out of the game."
It's an oversimplification to suggest the Mets have turned around their season, but it is not a reach to say last night might be the spark they needed.
When the Mets were in Colorado they took in the Nuggets came. It was to be a bonding exercise. They promptly lost two of three to the Rockies. It's impossible for a team to bond more than in a game like last night.
The starter, Johan Santana, pitched seven brilliant innings, and 13 innings later was on the bench in uniform wearing a rally cap. Every Met, save Oliver Perez, played and contributed something. Perez, in fact, was ready to pinch hit.
The bullpen gave up one run in 13 innings, but despite all the walks issued it continually refused to yield. Three times in extra innings the Cardinals left the bases loaded.
The offense didn't get its first hit until the sixth inning, and consisted of strikeout after strikeout from David Wright and Jason Bay, until Jeff Francoeur and Jose Reyes delivered sacrifice flies.
The Cardinals had a half-dozen chances to win, but the Mets found a way to deny them until like a child confronted with a math problem, figured out a way.
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Second of three articles adapted from "The Kid: The Immortal Life of Ted Williams," by Ben Bradlee Jr., to be published Tuesday by Little, Brown and Company.
When Ted Williams prepared to start his second season with the Boston Red Sox in 1940, he was in a buoyant mood and why not? He had posted some gaudy numbers in his rookie year: a batting average of .327, 31 home runs, and 145 runs batted in, which led the American League.
Owner Tom Yawkey tended to Ted's every need. When the Kid complained at the end of 1939 that the fence in right field at Fenway Park was too far away, Yawkey ordered it moved in. Bullpens were built in front of the old fence and this likely new repository for Ted's home runs was dubbed "Williamsburg" by the Boston press.
Besides Williamsburg, there were two other significant changes for Ted in 1940. First, he would be playing left field, not right, as he had when he was a rookie. Second, he would switch places with Jimmie Foxx in the batting order and hit third rather than fourth. If Sox manager Joe Cronin thought this would help the team, Ted was thinking more about how the change would affect him.
"Heck sakes, there goes my runs-batted-in championship," he said when the move was announced.
The comment foreshadowed a fundamental shift in Ted's mood, and it was not long before the attractive, boyish charm and innocence that Williams had radiated all of last season faded altogether and Ted unveiled his dark side.
He got off to a bad start, getting only two hits in five games the first week the Red Sox were home. After a few fans jeered him for early hitting and fielding miscues, the highly sensitive Ted overreacted and told a few teammates that he would never tip his cap again.
When some reporters wrote that he was not hustling on every play, Ted was outraged and started a vendetta against the writers. After Williams finally hit his first home run into one of the new bullpens at Fenway, the Globe took caustic note with a banner headline: "Ted Locates Williamsburg."
Seething, Ted popped off to Austen Lake, a columnist for the Boston Evening American: He couldn't stand Boston's fans, its press, and the city itself. "I don't like the town, I don't like the people and the newspaper men have been on my back all year," Ted said. "Why?"
Williams finished 1940 with more than respectable numbers: a .344 average, with 23 home runs and 113 RBIs. His average was 17 points higher than his rookie year, but his power production was off, with eight fewer homers and 32 fewer RBIs compared to 1939. And of his 23 homers in 1940, only nine were at Fenway and just four of those went into the new bullpens.
But the story of 1940 was not a set of numbers that, however good, came in below expectations. The story of the year was Ted's psychic tailspin, an evolving public meltdown that had played out in, and been shaped by, Boston's newspapers.
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It marked the first season of what would become a career-long jihad waged by Ted against the baseball writers, a group whom he would famously deride as the "Knights of the Keyboard." This was a conflict largely manufactured by Williams to fuel his drive to excel. Though his press was overwhelmingly positive, he would seize on a negative story or column to portray all writers as a contemptible lot bent on invading his privacy and stirring up public opinion against him. The newspapers became a bogeyman that Williams constructed to feed the fire of antagonism that was central to his ability to perform well. He always said he hit best when he was angry.
The interplay between Ted and the writers would become an important window into his character, and one of the longest-running dramas in his career. Now, reporters who had fawned over Ted his rookie year and even part of this season had to recalibrate their relationships with him as he cussed them out and treated them like dirt. In the process, the rules of engagement between newspapers and baseball began to change.
Between 1939 and 1960, the years spanning Ted's career with the Red Sox, Boston had eight major newspapers, or nine if one counted both the morning and evening editions of The Boston Globe, which had separate staffs and circulations. The morning papers were the Post, the Herald, the Record, the Daily Globe and the Christian Science Monitor. The evening journals were the American, the Transcript, the Traveler, and the Evening Globe. The Post and the Record dominated the city in 1940 with circulations of 369,000 and 329,000 respectively.
In the '30s, '40s, and '50s, major league baseball was by far the dominant sport in the country, and would often take up a third of the front page of newspapers in Boston, New York, Chicago, and Philadelphia. To be a baseball writer assigned to cover one of the big league teams was a highly prized assignment.
The interplay between between Ted and the writers would become an important window into his character, and one of the longest-running dramas of his career.
The writers wore suits. On long road trips, they'd play poker on the trains with the players and among themselves. Some great yarns came out of those trips, but in the fraternal milieu, it was understood that the stories would stay in-house, never to turn up in print.
On average, the writers were a generation-or-more older than the players they covered. Before World War II, the vast majority had not gone to college, and in the '40s, their salaries ranged between $5,000 and $7,000 a year. But you couldn't beat the perks. In what seems a quaint anachronism today, it was common practice at least into the '60s for the ball clubs to pay all the expenses of the writers when the teams traveled. The reporters would stay at the best hotels, order from room service, and eat at fine restaurants. Moreover, they spent six weeks in Florida for Spring Training on the teams' tab as well. In return for such largesse, the clubs of course expected, even demanded, favorable coverage, and they received it. On the rare occasions they did not, the teams would not hesitate to assert their economic leverage over the papers.
Tim Horgan, who covered Williams and the Red Sox in the 1950s for the Boston Herald and Evening Traveler, said the Red Sox once got a colleague of his at the Traveler fired for writing a story the team deemed too critical of catcher Birdie Tebbetts.
In 1947, Boston Braves manager Billy Southworth was arrested for drunken driving. To try to keep the news out of the papers, the Braves or Southworth himself supplied police a false name. When the Globe's Hy Hurwitz, in a then-rare burst of enterprising zeal, got wind of the story and began poking around, Braves PR man Billy Sullivan, who later became the founder of the Boston Patriots, protested vehemently to the Globe. He argued that no writer whose expenses the Braves covered should even be contemplating stories like that.
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The willingness of the Red Sox and other teams to pay the writers' expenses, and the newspapers' ready acceptance of the arrangement established a corrupt foundation for the player-reporter relationship. In addition, some writers of the day were personally corrupt — part of a culture that was built on sloth and collaborating with one another, not competing.
Writers who were on the take had non-baseball "accounts," as they were called, that paid them to write stories — usually short items. The sponsors were racetracks, boxing promoters, wrestling promoters, dog tracks, or anyone else who wanted publicity. This system allowed the papers, which knew of the practice and encouraged it, to pay the writers less money knowing they would supplement their salaries through their accounts.
The other prevalent practice among many of the leading beat writers of the day was a general non-compete ethos whereby scoops were discouraged — and often shared — because they made those that didn't get them look bad. In addition, there was collaboration in the writing of stories and sharing of quotations.
Meanwhile, the arrival of Williams began to change the dynamic of player-press relations. The other players — even if they privately held writers in the same contempt Ted did — were polite and friendly and at least pretended to like them, fearful that otherwise their careers could be hurt by bad press.
"I remember one time I asked Ted how he could talk to the writers the way he did," said Don Buddin, who played shortstop for the Red Sox from 1956-1961. "He said, 'Son, if you hit .350, you can do a lot of things.' "
At first, the writers had thoroughly enjoyed their repartee with Williams. He was new, immensely talented, raw and ebullient, amusing, clever, and he talked nonstop. He'd received a charmed press his rookie year, but in 1940, as he brooded and sulked, he began to lash out at the writers with increasing frequency. Like the fans, reporters found Williams easy to provoke, and then his public rages would become fair game to report.
By far the leading Boston sports journalist of the day — the most widely read, the most outrageous and the most brilliant, even in the non-sports realm — was Dave Egan, a columnist for the Record whose nom de plume was "The Colonel." And this leading light had a vendetta against Ted, to whom he referred as "T. Williams Esquire."
Egan was about 5-foot-7, 150 pounds, and dapper. An elegant writer, he was a provocateur, who delighted in cutting against the grain, seven days a week. If Ted was the darling of Boston, Egan, by definition, had to knock him down.
Egan was far more educated than his brethren on the sports pages. Born in Newport, Rhode Island, in 1901, the son of a milkman who fathered 16 other children, Egan won a scholarship to Harvard, sailed through in three years, cum laude, and went on to Harvard Law School, graduating in 1925. He practiced law for a year, and then went to work as a sportswriter for the Globe, where he had been a night office boy and done some writing while in college.
Egan ranged widely and colorfully. When a dog wandered on to the floor of the Boston Garden once during a Celtics game, the Colonel linked the moment to his antagonism for referees, writing that the refs had "whistled him in off the street." In 1943, when a cab driver struck Boston Braves manager Casey Stengel one rainy night in Kenmore Square and broke his leg, Egan suggested that the cabbie should be hailed as "Man of the Year."
The core of the Egan indictment against Ted was that he was the consummate individualist "just not suited for a bicycle built for nine," that he was too money-hungry, and that his boorish on-field behavior such as spitting and gesturing to fans set a poor example for young people. But his harshest charge, the one that frosted Ted the most, was that he failed in the clutch. The evidence for this, the Colonel kept saying, was that in the 10 most important games of his career — the seven World Series games of 1946, the playoff game for the pennant against the Cleveland Indians in 1948, and the final two games of the 1949 season against the New York Yankees in which the pennant was on the line — Ted hit just .205.
Williams's defense, of course, was that in a career that spanned 22 years, wherein he played in 2,292 games and hit .344 lifetime, it was unfair to cherry pick 10 games and ignore the countless other times when he did come through.
Ted always read Egan carefully when the Red Sox were at home. When the team was on the road, Williams would have his pals in Boston call and read him what the Colonel had written. If it was bad, Ted's anger would usually help him to go on a tear. Then he'd want to know if Egan had mentioned any of the good things he'd done. Invariably, there would be nothing, which would only fuel Ted's theory that the Colonel was simply out to get him.
If Egan helped shape, even manipulate, public perceptions about Ted, he also directly affected Williams's views of the writers as a whole. It didn't matter to Ted that the vast majority of his press was favorable; when the Colonel unloaded on him, it was as if all the nice notices had never appeared.
Egan died suddenly in 1958 at age 57 after several heart attacks and decades of drink. Boston Archbishop Richard J. Cushing presided at his funeral.
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For the writers, their daily encounters with Williams were a tumultuous mixture of riveting theater, sheer excitement and resentment at having to absorb a matinee idol's torrent of bile and abuse. But their front row seat also gave them a fascinating perspective on the development and evolution of Ted's mercurial and fragile persona.
They learned his moods and eccentricities, what approach he might favor, how he would play them off against each other, how he could be extraordinarily kind to people, and how, for all his raging at the press, he devoured everything that was written about him. They also learned how he craved fame, but not the inconvenience of celebrity — a naivete which betrayed a basic misunderstanding of the writers' role in ferreting out information about him, an outsized personality that the public thirsted to know more about.
Bob Ajemian of the American was a young reporter thrown into the Williams fray in the late '40s and early '50s. He had grown up in suburban Boston as a great fan of Ted's. "We were all just crazy about him … But to be with him in the locker room was scary. He radiated so much energy and appeal, and he intimidated us. His voice was unique. He spoke with certitude. 'What the --- do you know?' He was a transcendent figure. You didn't want to be on the wrong side of him. The press was largely afraid of him. He would berate you publicly and loudly, as opposed to taking someone aside for a private beef."
Following the upheavals of 1940, there would be many more outbursts, fulminations, obscene gestures and spitting episodes as Williams's career unfolded, but in the end, he was able to gradually turn public opinion in his favor.
The crowd could lash out at him if he made an error or behaved like a lout, and the boos would grow even louder after fans saw they could provoke the thin-skinned Kid into some outrageous response. So it was in 1950, after he gave them the finger, and in 1956, after he spat at them.
But in each case, after Ted took his medicine with a fine or a half-baked apology that the team forced him to issue, the fans would welcome him back and bathe him in their cheers and applause. The 1950 reception was especially meaningful to Williams. "I got an ovation that I'll never forget," he said years later. "It was one of my biggest thrills in baseball. I learned that night that New England fans really were for me and cared about me."
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Ted's central claim that it was the malevolent writers who prompted the harsh treatment from the fans was spurious, at best, but gradually the fans seemed to conclude that Williams was right. They came to accept Ted's fragile psyche, and his insistence that he was being persecuted. They admired his independence, his individuality, and his determination to buck convention, stick to his guns, and do things his own way — even if that stubbornness hurt him in the short term.
After the fans again welcomed Ted back after he spit at them in 1956, even some in the press began to take note of the shift in public opinion and questioned whether reporters had overstepped their bounds.
"The tide has begun to turn in this case of the Boston sports writers versus Ted Williams, and the verdict is becoming increasingly favorable to Ted as public opinion starts to make itself felt . . . " wrote the suburban Lowell Sun in an editorial. "If there has been a case of injustice done by a group of sportswriters to a great sports figure, this is it. Time after time they picked Williams apart, they have tormented him, they have knifed him, roasted him, flayed him, tortured him, and have obviously taken what can only be called a sadistic glee in doing so. It is sports journalism at its lowest."
In 1957, when Williams was defying nature and batting close to .400 late in August at age 39, the Fenway crowd nearly rioted when a decision by the official scorer, the Globe's Hy Hurwitz, initially went against Ted.
In a three-week newspaper strike that same month, fans flooded the sports departments with calls wanting to know first what Ted did, and then what the Sox score was.
The American responded to the shifting public mood in January of 1958 by running a 15-part series entitled "The Case for Ted Williams." The series totaled 18,000 words and was prompted by letters objecting to criticism of Ted and demanding more positive treatment. The Herald followed with a flattering, seven-week serial of Williams's life by cartoonist Vic Johnson — 49 strips in all.
The warm communal feeling toward Ted held through the end of his playing days in 1960, and would grow exponentially in his retirement. He became a beloved figure. Visiting Boston later in life, Williams would always be struck by how fans showered him with unabashed affection of the sort he'd not been able to sustain in his playing days.
He would take great satisfaction from this, and delight in the fact that he had outlasted the bastards: the writers.This article was adapted from "The Kid: The Immortal Life of Ted Williams," to be published Tuesday by Little, Brown and Company. Ben Bradlee Jr. is a former Globe editor and reporter.


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Fortran 2003 explicitly supports object-oriented programming (OOP). OOP aims to increase a program's maintainability in part by reducing cross-module data dependencies and to increase a program's reusability in part by providing for extensible derived types. Emerging compiler support for Fortran 2003 inspires a more modern program design and implementation style. This course provides the requisite skills. Day 1 introduces OOP in Fortran 2003. Day 2 introduces patterns of best practice in program organization. Day 3 explores several paths toward parallel OOP. Examples will utilize introductory-level numerical algorithms from linear algebra and differential equations inspired by multiphysics modeling that is coupled field problems common to many interdisciplinary, engineering, and physical science simulations.
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Room 250
University of California
Berkeley, CA
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415 20th Street (Thomas L Berkley Way)
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- Undergraduate-‐level familiarity with differential equations & matrices.
Course Syllabus
Day 1: Object‐Oriented Analysis, Design & Programming
Why Object-‐Oriented Programming (OOP)?
Conventional programming costs and complexity; Alternative programming paradigms; How performance informs design; How design informs performance.
The Object-‐Oriented Way
Object-‐Oriented Analysis (OOA). Object-‐Oriented Design (OOD). Unified Modeling Language (UML): use case and class diagrams. OOP in Fortran 2003: User-‐defined structure constructors; encapsulation and information hiding via modules and private scoping; composition, aggregation, and inheritance via extensible derived types; static and dynamic polymorphism via generic interfaces and class variables.
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Background Materials
The course will draw material from Ref. 1 below. Ref. 2 is recommended for Fortran background. Ref. 3 links to open-‐source software that will be used extensively on Day 3.
1. Rouson, D., J. Xia, and X. Xu (2011) Scientific Software Design: The Object-‐ Oriented Way. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK.
2. Metcalf, M., J. Reid, and M. Cohen (2011) Modern Fortran Explained. Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK.
3. http://trilinos.sandia.gov/packages/fortrilinos/
Appendix A of Ref. 1 summarizes useful mathematical material.
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The When, How and Why about our very existence. This is how I would grade the two general schools of thought:
Theists Atheists/Science
When Wrong Evidence and Much Discovery
How Wrong Evidence and Much Discovery
Why God's Will No Explanation
Do you think science or atheism does, can and/or will ever answer Why? Must there even be a "reason" for the Universe.I do not think "to do good" is a necessarily a valid answer for atheists; why do good? It may be a valid answer for a theist. I feel the "why" questions undermines atheism because religion offers an (albeit, a ridiculous) answer. What are your thoughts on this matter?
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Not answers, bad punchlines. Religion is about the same as your dad saying "because I said so". Just replace *I* with *God* and you're there.
The first "why" Dale refers to, is the one that means, "How come?". (i.e. how did this come about)
The second "why", that he is rejecting, is the one that means, "What for?" (i.e.to what purpose is this designed)
As humans, we are born with curiosity - children have it in abundance. By pointing to God as the answer, we are stifling the inquisitive mind set in children that we so need to encourage, for discovery and development.
Yes Strega, I like the analogy. In fact that is exactly what it felt like during my catholic school days.
I understand the "What For" implies a supernatural response.
Is it true that merely asking why living things strive to survive and propagate is a similar situation? Trees produce seeds. They expend energy to do so. Ant colonies defend their queen, it's what they do.
Religion offers the bad punchline, as you say and an atheist can't even ask the question. Would you say that agnostics could ask, but do not expect any answers. And finally, would a deist be comfortable with such questions?
Whenever I attempt any conversation like this in my daily life, people usually look at me like I am crazy. I have not yet lost my curiosity to the noise.
I can only give you my opinion, Robert, and it will probably clash with other peoples. Watch me care :)
It's the prime function of life to procreate itself. That's what life does. That's how the trees and ants got here - amoebas splitting and hydra growing detachable branches, and evolution and development. So they carry on procreating. We are hard-wired to procreate. If you were to post a thread on a forum with the word "sex" in the title, it will get lots of hits. We can't really help ourselves.
Here come some blatant generalities so brace yourself if you are not in my general definition :).
Atheists feel that it's all a random set of circumstances, we are evolving, we continue to evolve, and if we don't screw it up with annihilation, we will likely evolve into something that makes us today look like starfish to the future beings we become. We are not the 'end result'.
Theists feel it is all part of a design, and that there was a creator who specifically created us as humans, and we are all acting our parts in a play that has been written for us, and that we have to prove ourselves to our God. We are the only beings that matter, or ever mattered. We started as humans and that's where we will remain. We are the 'end result'
Agnostics are the waverers, the followers of Pascal's Wager, the ones who say no I don't really believe in God, whilst they cross their fingers behind their backs. They don't walk under ladders, and have 'lucky underpants' and don't really know who is right and who is wrong, so they generally agree with everyone but don't want to follow the 'instructions' in a god's rulebook. They say "who can know", but don't feel passionately about it either way. They don't know if we are the 'end result' or not.
Deists believe that there is a divine being, a cosmic supervisor, but not in a divine plan - they also tend not to believe the deity needs worship - in fact the deity might be totally ambivalent to their existence. They don't have a rulebook to follow, nor do they feel they will be judged, but they do think that there was a point of creation, even if it was as long ago as the big bang. They are usually fine with evolution, so don't believe we are the 'end result'.
The most wildly curious of the above is probably the atheist.
Does that answer your question?
Yes! Even though you called them blatant generalities, I think you bring out some of the finer points I am fuzzy on. I am late to the dance because I was so focused on the hard sciences. For me, Pascal's Wager just seems dishonest, and Theism just seems like fantasy. I was a deist most of my life but recently I decided that I can't believe that anymore for complete lack of evidence. I do admire the distinguished deists and the age of reason. The difficulty I am having is understanding all the many subtle and not so subtle implications of non-belief; It seems VAST! Thanks..!
But they pale vs. the implications of belief in an invisible, ineffable, unreliable, and sometimes hostile and impulsive deity.
I would add about deists that deism is almost indistinguishable from the theological movement called The Death of God. While it's a movement with a number of wrinkles, one of the major ones is that God made the world (the universe and everything in it) then either died...or went away.
Is it true that merely asking why living things strive to survive and propagate is a similar situation?
I think it is. Living things are made of matter obeying the laws of physics. They exist because, randomly, long ago, some matter developed the ability to self-replicate. Over time, it evolved into the living things we see today. It only makes sense that the living things that strive to reproduce and do it well are the only living things that exist.
If there were living things that did not strive to survive and propagate, they would die out without a supernatural support system! So as I see it, the universal instinct to survive and propagate supports a God-free universe, not the other way around.
@ Blaine - thank you :)
@ Robert - my pleasure and I had to use the term 'blatant generalities' or I'd have been steamrollered for pages.
@ Stutz - that's excellent - that provides logical support for my opening statement. Thanks, I like it a lot.
I am sure you mean bated... unless you've been eating worms and your breath smells like them.
"..stifling the inquisitive mind set in children.."
Happily, the religion in my life just made it easier to explore ideas. As a 'catholic' kid growing up, their crazy crap was so transparent to me that it 'just could not be right'. I think kids ultimately do 'religion' to themselves, because just showing even a minor bit of independence can take you away from the fold. Their stuff is very weak actually, just ask questions and see where it takes you!
If your lucky it will not take 30 years...
Epicurus would approve! The more I read about the Epicurean school of thought, the more I like it.
"You atheists can't accept the mystery of existence and of the creation of the universe" is an accusation I've heard levied against atheistm more than once.
While science today loves to speculate about multiple dimensions, a multiverse, string theory, branes and so on, it IS speculation, and likely always will be. In the end, it isn't science which needs to remove the mystery with the fantasy of a gray-bearded magical sorcerer as the explanation for everything.


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Saturday, November 15, 2008
The UFT and Green Dot Schools: Pragmatic Unionism or Trojan Horse?
The September issue of the New York Teacher hailed the opening of the Green Dot Charter School in the Bronx. Expanding from its origins in Los Angeles, Green Dot has come to the city with great fanfare: it has received praise in the mainstream press in California and elsewhere, and the blessing of UFT and AFT President Randi Weingarten. In 2007, Weingarten sidestepped the AFT affiliate union in Los Angeles, which had been feuding with Green Dot, to meet with its founder and CEO Steve Barr. At that time, Weingarten announced an agreement with Barr to sponsor and bring a Green Dot charter school to New York City, despite the Los Angeles local's charge that Green Dot had been poaching resources from the LA school system and privatizing public high schools.
Randi has claimed that Green Dot is a special case among charter schools, that, rather than avoid unionization, it seeks to create partnerships with teacher unions. It can be a compelling argument, since most trade unionists would agree that having a union is preferable to being unorganized, and since the overwhelming majority of charter schools are agressively anti-union. The UFT leadership has additionally argued that the Green Dot contract in effect in Los Angeles contains features that are superior to those we currently have. But is this really the case? Is the UFT's cozying-up to Green Dot an example of a creative and far-sighted strategy, or is it going to permit a corporate Trojan Horse into the New York City public schools, weakening the contract we work under, splitting the work force, and furthering the privatization of public education?
In September after the NY Teacher article appeared I called Academic High School Vice President Leo Casey and asked him to send me a copy of the contract between the UFT and Green Dot. To my surprise he told me that no contract had been negotiated yet, and that teachers in the Bronx school were working under the terms of the LA contract between Green Dot and their house union, The Asociasacion de Maestros Unidos. While I found this rather odd, since the partnership between the UFT and Green Dot had been announced months before, I said nothing and proceeded to obtain a copy of the LA contract, which can be found on Green Dot's web site.
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- Lower Salary: although a Green Dot teacher's salary maxes out much sooner than ours- 8 years versus 22- the maximum salary is far lower: $80, 992.
- No Mandatory Arbitration of Grievances: grievances are handled by mediators and thus even if a teacher wins there is no binding legal precedent set for the future; the battles must be continually re-fought, a guarantee of long term abuse and teacher demoralization.
- No Set Work Day: the contract calls for a "professional work day," which is to include the student day, staff meetings and time needed for preparation. In effect this means that the workday will be set by the most obsequious and sycophantic teachers who are trying to impress the principal. In
addition, the principal can call staff meetings before the beginning of the school day and continue them after school "if school business was not otherwise completed in regularly scheduled meetings."
- No Tenure Worthy of the Name: "Any teacher receiving a 'practice does not meet standards' rating shall be given a six month improvement plan" If it is judged that the plan has not been met, the teacher can be fired the following year. There is nothing approximating the protections we currently enjoy regarding the 3020-A dismissal process.
- No Seniority Regarding Teaching Assignments
- Overly Detailed Teacher Evaluation Procedure: ripe for abuse by nit-picking or vindictive administrators.
So there we have some of the salient features of the Green Dot contract. But what about the school vis-à-vis students and parents?
- Students Chosen by Lottery: sometimes called "cherry picking lite," this process favors the most informed and committed parents, skewing the student body towards those who've enjoyed greater parent involvement in their education, and foisting more troubled and academically challenged students on the remaining public high schools, which will then be blamed for their increasing problems, punished and closed.
- Compulsory Parent Involvement: parents must sign a participation contract, opening up further possibilities for subtle, or brazen, efforts to mold and manipulate the composition of the student body, as we have seen with reports about Eva Moskowittz's Harlem Success Academy.
- Cagey Language Regarding School Statistics: Green Dot claims that "98% of seniors graduate," but this ignores the attrition rateprior to senior year. As has been documented with KIPP schools, the student attrition rate in charter schools can be high, giving a false sense of their effectiveness.
Potentially most disturbing is language in the contract regarding the assignability of the contract. By this is meant the ability to maintain union representation of teachers in the event of "corporate merger affiliation, change of affiliation, employer or transfer of employees." While the contract calls for the participation of the union in this process, the ultimate power is held by the Board of Directors. And while the contract also states that the "current" contract shall remain in effect, it must be asked, what would happen should the contract expire: would a new corporate entity be able to walk away from the union? As I understand it, the Green Dot teachers in NY are employees of the corporation that runs the school and are not covered by the Taylor Law, which would enable them to continue working under the terms of an expired agreement. Should I be correct in my interpretation, the Board of Directors could essentially "run away" from the union at an opportune moment. This would likely be when the school has "scaled up" and can function as a franchise operation, which is the emerging model of corporate and foundation supported charter schools.
I raise this issue because of some of the powers behind Green Dot. While Steve Barr, founder of Rock the Vote, is the public face of Green Dot and is its spokesman, in fact the Chief Operating Officer (COO) of Green Dot in NY is Jeffery T. Leeds. Mr. Leeds is the head of Leeds Equity, a private equity firm. These are firms that make their money by purchasing publicly-owned businesses, reconfiguring them, and then selling them back to the public, often after stripping away resources and enjoying hefty fees in the process. In Los Angeles, the COO is a former partner in Bain Capital, one of the most prominent private equity firms, and Mitt Romney's corporate alma mater. Traditionally, private equity firms have taken public corporations private - in a process known as "strip and flip" – but we may be seeing these operators entering into the public sector and applying their model to privatize these schools, after getting the taxpayers to fund their start.
In additon, Leeds Equity is the owner of The Sexton Corporation, a supplier of contingent – read temporary- labor which "helps its clients reduce recruitment and labor costs." It is also the owner of Datamark, which owns and does marketing for private, for-profit proprietary schools, which are consistently mired in scandals regarding their hard sell recruitment procedures. In fact, Leeds has partnered with disgraced former Massachusetts governor William Weld, whose reputation was tarred by his association with Decker College, a scam proprietary school that was forced to close for fraudulent and unethical practices. Rudy Giuliani is Chairman of the Board of Advisors of Leeds Weld Equity Partners.
While I'll probably be accused by some of undue paranoia, I'd respond that in the past two years we have seen corporate greed, self-dealing and self-delusion on a scale that continues to dwarf the most extreme accusations of Wall Street's critics, and that it's fair to ask whose interests are really being served by the expansion of charter schools like Green Dot.
And it's fair for UFT members to ask if their union is making the correct choice in allying itself with corporate entities whose commitment to public education, and to the continued existence of strong, viable unions, is open to question.
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One more nail in our coffin.
- Saturday, November 15, 2008 5:58:00 PM
- Chaz said...
The Green Dot schools are just a start of a slippery slope to the elimination of union protections.
- Saturday, November 15, 2008 6:40:00 PM
That's an understatment Chaz. I think we're already quite a ways down that slope.
- Saturday, November 15, 2008 7:20:00 PM
- ed notes online said...
Great work Michael. There's little we seem to be able to do right now other than get info out to people. Armed with as much knowledge as possible they will hopefully be able to make good decisions in the future.
- Saturday, November 15, 2008 10:48:00 PM
"No Tenure Worthy of the Name: "Any teacher receiving a 'practice does not meet standards' rating shall be given a six month improvement plan" If it is judged that the plan has not been met, the teacher can be fired the following year."
My soul sister "Randi Rhee."
- Saturday, November 15, 2008 10:54:00 PM
A pretty thorough-going example of UFT complicity in corporatization.
Jeffrey Leeds is also on the Board of Directors of EDMC Corporation, the parent company of Art Institute of New York, where the UFT organized a rally on behalf of its members for a contract last Thursday night.
- Saturday, November 15, 2008 11:26:00 PM
- Woodlass said...
Thorough, and a great read if it weren't so totally disheartening. Thank you for the work that went into de-coding this stuff.
About the paranoia you mention towards the end, someone (Unity?) called me paranoid in a comment to my latest post, which was also yesterday.
If one of the definitions of the word is "Exhibiting extreme fear of others," I plead guilty, and so can we all. The Weingarten team has been amputating contractual protections for the past decade. We aren't becoming extremely afraid of her "collaborative" style for no reason.
I am paranoid about electricity ever since I stuck a nail in a live socket when I was seven. It's a little extreme, but it made me hyper aware that electrical current can cause pain. If we lean towards paranoia now, it's understandable. The things they're signing off on will certainly do labor more harm.
- Sunday, November 16, 2008 9:04:00 AM
Thanks for the post Micheal.
May I suggest a lead or headline:
1. White kids from professional and upper middle class families don't apply to Green Dot schools. They compete for seats in Greenwich Village, Riverdale, Forrest Hills, Brooklyn Heights, and gifted and talented programs and specialized high schools around the city.
They have more experienced/higher paid teachers, take high stakes tests that confer 'merit' on their privileges. They are more likely to benefit from active, well endowed, politically connected PTAs. They may have private tutors, quiet places for reading and homework, books in the home, adults with the time and wherewithal to attend to their physical and emotional needs, safe places for recreation, good health care and nutrition, etc, etc.
2. Only a small percentage of NYC students enjoy as privileges that which should be the condition for all. UFT policy should be driven by the interests of the membership. With whom do the interests of the large majority of the membership lie? With a privileged minority in the 'white' schools? With a relatively small number of parents of color seeking to place their child in a charter school such as Green Dot? Or with the large majority who have access to neither of the above? Programatically, how can this common interest be expressed? If the UFT leadership won't give expression to the interests of the large majority, then who will?
3. Green Dot is not an appropriate response to the two tiered system of public schools, one for the haves, another for the have nots. Green Dot is a diversion offered to a relatively small number of families to deflect attention away from the real task at hand, the elimination of the two tiered system of public education and the direction and control of public schools by the public.
4. A change in the bargaining strategy and alignment of the UFT as well as our own pedagogy and humanity starts with programmatic espression of solidarty with the large majority of NYC parents and students. "In the beginning was the word"
5. To the extent that teacher unionists oppose the privileges of race and class operating in the schools and citywide, to the extent we oppose the disappearing of Black and Latino educators, we affirm the growing unity and hopes of the people for change.
6. It remains for the rank and file opposition to propose a new direction for teacher unionism, an about face from decades of Shankerism, that by definition will appear shocking, political and radical at first but will, upon reflection, appear as sensible and reasonable as the night following the day. Simply put, the UFT needs to stop acting white.
Sean Ahern
- Sunday, November 16, 2008 10:07:00 AM
- Marjorie Stamberg said...
Thanks for doing the research on this, Michael. Really important, and one more example of UFT/Unity leadership methodology -- capitulate to what they see is the "least worst" variation of any management onslaught, and try to "ride it out."
This methodology might work in small things, but is utterly disastrous in big.
They did it with "merit pay," changing some semantics to "bonus pay," --anyway you cut it, it's still pits teacher against teacher and violates hard-fought union principle of "equal pay for equal work."
--Marjorie Stamberg
- Sunday, November 16, 2008 10:55:00 AM
there is still nothing on uft.org about the rally...
no news flash...no action alert...
no fliers...
no posters...
the best is...the da resolution that is posted online doesn't include the amendment (rally).
pretty sad
- Sunday, November 16, 2008 11:41:00 AM
Isn't it ultimately about the kids? Why shouldn't teachers be accountable for educating children? Hiding behind the cloak of the inefficient, low quality and high cost failing "public" school system in the cities with the greatest needs seems blatantly self-serving. Which of course it is!
- Sunday, November 16, 2008 12:36:00 PM
In his September 15, 2008 article, Mr. Fiorillo states: …" As I understand it, the Green Dot teachers in NY are employees of the corporation that runs the school and are not covered by the Taylor Law, which would enable them to continue working under the terms of an expired agreement."
Below are some relevant provisions of Section 2859 of the State Education Law regarding Charter School personnel with respect to Article 14 of the Civil Service Law – The Taylor Law.
3. School personnel. (a) …. An employee of a charter school shall be deemed to be a public employee solely for purposes of article fourteen of the civil service law, except for section two hundred twelve of such law, and for no other purposes unless otherwise specified in this article, the board of trustees of the charter school shall constitute a board of education solely for purposes of article fourteen of the civil service law, except for section two hundred twelve of such law, and for no other purposes unless otherwise specified in this article, a charter school shall be deemed to be a public employer solely for purposes of article fourteen of the civil service law, except for section two hundred twelve of such law, and for no other purposes unless otherwise specified in this article ….
(b) The school employees of a charter school that has been converted from an existing public school who are eligible for representation under article fourteen of the civil service law shall be deemed to be included within the negotiating unit containing like titles or positions, if any, for the school district in which such charter school is located and shall be subject to the collective bargaining agreement covering that school district negotiating unit; provided, however, that a majority of the members of a negotiating unit within a charter school may modify, in writing, a collective bargaining agreement for the purposes of employment in the charter school with the approval of the board of trustees of the charter school.
(b-1) The employees of a charter school that is not a conversion from an existing public school shall not be deemed members of any existing collective bargaining unit representing employees of the school district in which the charter school is located, and the charter school and its employees shall not be subject to any existing collective bargaining agreement between the school district and its employees
(c-1) Reasonable access. (i) If employees of the charter school are not represented, any charter school chartered pursuant to this article must afford reasonable access to any employee organization during the reasonable proximate period before any representation question is raised; or
(ii) If the employee organization is a challenging organization, reasonable access must be provided to any organization seeking to represent employees beginning with a date reasonably proximate to a challenge period. Reasonableness is defined, at a minimum, as access equal to that provided to the incumbent organization.
- Sunday, November 16, 2008 12:44:00 PM
This is only the beginning. Thanks to Randi and Unity
- Sunday, November 16, 2008 12:49:00 PM
The argument being made that it is about the kids is ridiculous. By applying market forces here, you create a two tiered system where those who are in the know get a better system than those who are not. Many children are left behind. To blame teachers for the results is crazy. Obviously, 12:36 p.m. doesn't teach.
At certain Charter schools, parents must become active. In many public schools, the PTA consists of a couple of parents looking out for their own offspring.
Ask an urban high school teacher how many parents show up to see them on open school night.
Let's get real. There are many reasons why children fall behind. Bad teachers is way down on that list.
- Sunday, November 16, 2008 12:55:00 PM
Whoops. Looks like Michael Fiorillo was caught with his pants down:
- Tuesday, November 18, 2008 5:30:00 PM
Caught with his pants down???
What is so "pants dropping" about Casey's piece?
I'd rather be caught with my pants down than with my lips on the leaderships' asses.
- Tuesday, November 18, 2008 7:59:00 PM
Don't most of the charter schools the UFT represent have different contracts with varying strengths and weakness? That is why they are negotiated with the individual employer so there may be differences. Making contrasts about LA's teacher's making less than us only makes me appreciate what we do have.
- Tuesday, November 18, 2008 10:54:00 PM
I was talking tonight to a colleague of mine that is a chapter leader in the Queens HS and we came around talking about the ATR rally this Monday. He was telling me how pathetic it was that so many CL's in the large HS's had so few if any people going to the rally. Schools with 100s of members and only 1 or 8 people going. Apparently the dr was upset and trying to get the CL's to get people to the rally but when it came to getting actual numbers of people attending Monday some CL's just shut up. I thought some ICE people were from Queens HS's. I hope you guys are getting people out. I know James Eterno is from Jamaica and Bryant HS has a CL that is ICE but I heard there were no concrete numbers of staff members come out for the rally. Isn't Newcomers also in Queens? Will you get a good number out on Monday? If this is your platform about getting mobilizing membership, a low turnout on Monday doesn't help your cause. More importantly, as our brothers and sister ATRs, we should be standing together with them to correct this injustice.
- Tuesday, November 18, 2008 11:23:00 PM
What's so "pants dropping?"
I don't know. How about the fact that Green Dot teachers are making MORE than the DoE teaches, and Fiorillo reports it as LESS.
Are maybe facts just don't matter with you guys.
- Wednesday, November 19, 2008 7:59:00 AM
- ed notes online said...
Oooh! Fiorillo has touched a sensitive Unity nerve. This is one toothache that will not go away.
- Wednesday, November 19, 2008 11:01:00 PM
- NYC Educator said...
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- Thursday, November 20, 2008 7:57:00 PM
- NYC Educator said...
I haven't seen the city contract, so I don't know about it. Here's what Unity won't tell you, though.
They claim that Green Dot's "just cause" provisions are better than tenure. However, they've yet to provide evidence it's saved a single teacher's job. In fact, they've as yet been unable to demonstrate it's ever even been used.
The California model of "just cause" is not remotely tantamount to tenure. And frankly, we have no idea how many hours NYC Green Dot employees will work. If you work 10% more, your pay is not higher than ours. If you work more than 10% more, your pay is less than ours.
Also, that doesn't even factor in the lack of tenure and seniority that Green Dot boasts of on its website. If you think Green Dot proclaims its teachers have no tenure because they have something better than tenure, I have a bridge in Brooklyn to sell you.
Regrettably, Ms. Weingarten appears to already have purchased the one in San Francisco.
- Thursday, November 20, 2008 8:57:00 PM
Sorry, i neglected to carefully edit the first post; here it is again:
As I said in my original post, when I spoke with Leo Casey, he told me there was no current contract between the UFT and Green Dot. A little strange, I thought, since this romance between the two has been going on for months, and you'd think that that if this relationship was so progressive, a contract would be in place when the school opened.
No? Okay, so be it. I then asked Mr. Casey if the Green Dot teachers in the Bronx were working under the terms of the LA contract. He told me they were. I then proceeded to look up the contract on their web site. The contract contains a salary schedule, but I found nothing there that says that Green Dot will pay 110% of the local scales in that district. If someone can find that language, please publish it in this blog and I will stand corrected.
Other than that, Mr. Casey did nothing but make unfounded criticisms of my piece: nothing about the infinite school day, nothing about the lack of seniority in programming or layoffs, nothing about the lack of arbitration in the grievance procedure, nothing...you get the picture.
The sad reality is that our union is incrasingly an appendage of management. Recently in my district the union held a workshop on ARIS, urging Chapter Leaders to become involved in administering it on the school level. Great! So now Chapter Leaders are supposed to help with a program that is all about monitoring teachers. After all, teachers have ALWAYS had and used the data about their students. Aris is about using data, which may or may not be valid, to oversee teachers by remote control. It's a management tool posing as an instructional one.
As for Queens Chapter Leaders who happen to be ICE members bringing out their members on the 24th: what exactly does that have to do with the issues I originally raised?
And wasn't it rank and file and dissident agitatation that shamed and embarassed the leadership to act in the first place, acting in response to a problem of their own creation, namely the destruction of seniority in the 2005 contract?
PS: I'm willing to post my criticisms and comments openly and publicly, and I'm proud to have my name identified with opposition to privatization, profiteering and union misleadership. If my critics and critics of the opposition are so proud of Unity policies, why don't they identify themselves?
- Friday, November 21, 2008 3:25:00 PM
Fiorillo did a shoddy job of research, looking only for evidence that would support his ideological bent, and even now caught in the most basic misrepresentation, refuses to own up. If he knew how to get in touch with Casey to ask about a contract, he also knew how to get in touch to ask about the salary. He didn't want to know the truth.
- Friday, November 21, 2008 9:36:00 PM
It's true, there is an error in my report about Green Dot salaries in LA: I reported that it only takes eight years to max out on the salary scale, when in fact it takes twelve.
Other than that, Mr./Ms. Anonymous, please provide the facts that refute the numbers I provided, which come straight from the AMU contract, by way of the Green Dot website.
- Friday, November 21, 2008 10:54:00 PM
So you're saying that Green Dot teachers in the Bronx do NOT receive 110% of the DoE salary? Let's be completely clear about it.
- Saturday, November 22, 2008 12:22:00 PM
Let's also be clear as to what exactly their working hours and days are when we talk 110%.
- Saturday, November 22, 2008 8:16:00 PM


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