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Our kills are clean and secular; theirs are messy and religious.
"In their effort to create a caliphate across parts of Iraq and Syria," CNN
tells us, "ISIS fighters have slaughtered civilians as they take over
cities in both countries.
"In Syria, the group put some of its victims' severed heads on poles."
Stomach-churning as this is, the context in which it is reported - as
simplistic maneuvering of public opinion - numbs me to its horror, because it
quietly justifies a larger, deeper horror waiting in the wings. To borrow a
phrase from Benjamin Netanyahu, this is telegenic brutality. It's just what
the U.S. war machine needs to justify the next all-out assault on Iraq.
"In another instance caught on camera," the CNN report continues, "a
man appears to be forced to his knees, surrounded by masked militants who
identify themselves on video as ISIS members. They force the man at gunpoint to 'convert' to Islam, then behead
This is positively medieval. In contrast, when we kill Iraqis, it's quick
and neat, as emotionless as a chess move. The same CNN story informs us: "Iraqi officials said U.S. airstrikes Saturday killed 16 ISIS fighters, and an
Iraqi airstrike in Sinjar killed an additional 45 ISIS fighters, Iraq state
media reported."
That's it. No big deal. The dead we're responsible for have no human
qualities whatsoever, and our killing them is as consequence-free as cleaning
out the refrigerator. It's simply necessary, because these guys are jihadists,
and, well . . .
"The main U.S. strategic priority now should be rolling back and defeating
ISIS so it can't establish a terrorist caliphate," the Wall
StreetJournal editorialized several days ago. "Such a state will become a
mecca for jihadists who will train and then disperse to kill around the world.
They will attempt to strike Americans in ways that grab world attention,
including the U.S. homeland. A strategy merely to contain ISIS does not reduce
this threat."
And here's South Carolina Sen.
Lindsey Graham, saying the same thing with more hysteria on Fox News, as
quoted by Paul Waldman in the Washington Post: Obama's "responsibility as
president is to defend this nation. If he does not go on the offensive against
ISIS, ISIL, whatever you want to call these guys, they are coming here. This is
not just about Baghdad. This is not just about Syria. It is about our homeland.
. . .
"Do you really want to let America be attacked? . . . Mr. President, if you
don't adjust your strategy, these people are coming here."
The belligerence that passes for patriotism has never been more reckless. I
was stunned by these arguments a decade ago; the fact that they're coming back
pretty much intact, rising from their own ashes to call for a new war to quell
the horrors created by the old one, pushes me to a new level of incredulous
despair. Fear springs eternal and can always be summoned. War devours its own
As Ivan
Eland wrote recently at Huffington Post: "In war, the most ruthless groups
grab the weapons and use them on everyone else. If doubt exists about this
phenomenon, when ISIS recently invaded Iraq, it disarmed the better-equipped
Iraqi military and sent it on the run. In its current air campaign against
forces of the now renamed IS, American airpower is fighting its own weaponry."
He added: "With such a great recent track record, one would think that
American politicians would be too embarrassed to get re-involved militarily in
Iraq. But they now think they need to fight the monster that they created. But
if IS is more ferocious than its ancestor, al Qaeda in Iraq, what more
formidable creature are they now creating in opposition to U.S. bombing?"
Let's let this sink in. We completely destabilized Iraq in our now
officially forgotten "war on terror," displacing millions of people, killing
hundreds of thousands (and by some estimates more than a million), shattering
the country's infrastructure and polluting its environment with war's
endless array of toxins. In the process of doing all this, we stirred up
unimaginable levels of animosity, which slowly militarized and became the
present Islamic State, which is viciously and ruthlessly taking the country
back. Now, with our ignorance about Iraq's socio-political complexity intact,
we see no alternative but to jump back into a bombing campaign against it, if
not a far wider war.
President Obama and the moderate Democrats see this as a limited, "humanitarian" intervention, while the Republicans and the hawkish Dems are
clamoring for a major killfest in order, once again, to protect "the homeland," which otherwise they would prefer to abandon for tax purposes.
And the mainstream analysis remains as shallow as sports commentary. Military
intervention, whether full-bore, boots-on-the-ground, or limited to bombs and
missiles, is always the answer, because war always looks like a solution. What's missing above all else is soul-searching of any sort.
Meanwhile, Iraq and its people continue to suffer, either directly at our
hands or at the hands of the monsters we've created. As the arms dealers would
say, mission accomplished.
Robert Koehler is an award-winning, Chicago-based journalist and nationally syndicated writer. His book, Courage Grows Strong at the Wound
(Xenos Press), is still available. Contact him at koehlercwgmail.com or visit his website at
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Grover Norquist isn't about to let Republicans off the hook on his no-tax pledge, but he seems to be getting ruffled by them. His criticism of potential pledge-breakers got personal last night:
"The pledge is not for life, but everybody who signed the pledge including Peter King, and tried to weasel out of it, shame on him," Norquist said on CNN's "Piers Morgan Tonight" on Monday, adding, "I hope his wife understands that commitments last a little longer than two years or something."
Norquist's comments came as King and some other top Republicans said they were willing to end their commitment to the pledge as Washington scrambles to find a deal that will fend off the looming fiscal cliff. On Sunday, King said that the "taxpayer protection pledge" — first offered in 1986 from Norquist's organization, Americans for Tax Reform — isn't binding today.
"Hey, if you think a commitment is not for as long as you make it for, the commitment for the pledge, as Peter King well knows when he signed it, is that as long as you're in Congress, you will [rein in] spending and reform government and not raise taxes," Norquist said. "It's not for 500 years or two generations. It's only as long as you're in the House or Senate. If he stayed too long, that's his problem. But you don't tell the bank, 'Oh, the mortgage, wasn't that a long time ago?'
"If you make a commitment, you keep it," he continued.
As the Wall Street Journal argues today, it's the voters, not the pledge, that Republicans will have to answer to. The problem for the GOP is that a plurality of voters do want to raise taxes on people making over $250,000, at least according to exit polls. So Republicans from moderate areas seem to face a choice between two bad options: oppose tax hikes and risk alienating voters, or break the no-tax pledge and potentially lose trust with voters.
Of course, there's also a third way that the Journal outlines, which would require a compromise between Norquist and Republicans on tax reform. And while it would require eliminating deductions without lowering rates, it's better than the alternatives of a.) voting to raise tax rates on those making over $250,000 a year, or b.) going over the cliff and getting blamed for tax increases across the board:
The Bush rates expire on December 31 unless Mr. Obama signs an extension, and he shows no inclination to do so except for anyone earning less than $250,000 a year ($200,000 if you're single). The question is how Republicans should handle this reality while staying true to their principles and doing the least harm to the economy.
This is where Mr. Norquist can give some ground. If taxes are going up anyway because the Bush rates expire, and Republicans can stop them from going up as much as they otherwise would, then pledge-takers deserve some credit for that. Mr. Norquist says it violates his pledge to eliminate deductions without lowering rates, but at the current economic and political moment it is also a service if Republicans prevent tax rates from going up. Speaker John Boehner deserves some leeway to try to mitigate the damage by negotiating a larger tax reform. …
Mr. Norquist's tax pledge has been one of the few restraints over the years against those bad Beltway appetites. Democrats demonize Grover because they know this. They want to pit Mr. Norquist against other Republicans precisely so they can dispirit the tea party grass-roots and take away the tax issue as a GOP advantage.
But this only works if the GOP appears unified on the issue. The more Republicans who attack Norquist's tax pledge, the more leverage Democrats will think they have in getting their desired tax rate increase.


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But it's freedom of choice, and I'm only 21, so it's not so bad. In a couple of years I'll probably find anyone under 18 to be repulsive. Lmao.
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GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) — The image of a dead preschooler cradled by the prime ministers of Egypt and Gaza in a hospital hallway has drawn attention to the dangers Gaza's children face in this crowded urban battle zone.
Gaza kids at risk in crowded urban battle zone
Children make up half of Gaza's population of 1.6 million and seem to be everywhere in the current round of cross-border fighting between Israel and Gaza's militant Hamas rulers.
Children loitered Friday outside a Gaza City morgue for a glance at the latest "martyrs." Others followed adults to funerals or even rushed to the site where Israeli missiles had just struck a government building and fire was still smoldering. Despite outward bravado, young boys of elementary school age said quietly that fear of airstrikes kept them awake at night.
So far, six of 28 Palestinians killed in Israel's offensive this week have been children, ranging in age from just under 1 to 14 years, according to Gaza health officials. Most were killed by shrapnel while in or near their homes. In Israel, 12 children were hurt in rocket attacks this week.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has accused Hamas of using Gaza's civilians, particularly children, as human shields by launching rockets from crowded residential areas.
Gazans argue that Israel is unleashing massive airstrikes on their territory without regard for civilians. They say that even Israel's self-described surgical strikes on militant targets put civilians at grave risk in Gaza, one of the world's most densely populated places.
Mahmoud Sadallah, the 4-year-old Gaza boy whose death moved Egypt's prime minister to tears, was from the town of Jebaliya, close to Gaza City. The boy died Friday in hotly disputed circumstances.
The boy's aunt, Hanan Sadallah, and his grief-stricken father Iyad — weak from crying and leaning on others to walk — said Mahmoud was killed in an Israeli airstrike. Hamas security officials also made that claim.
Israel vehemently denied involvement, saying it had not carried out any attacks in the area at the time. Gaza's two leading human rights groups, which routinely investigate civilian deaths, withheld judgment, saying they were unable to reach the area because of continued danger.
Mahmoud's family said the boy was in an alley close to his home when he was killed, along with a man of about 20, but no one appeared to have witnessed the strike. The area showed signs that a projectile might have exploded there, with shrapnel marks in the walls of surrounding homes and a shattered kitchen window. But neighbors said local security officials quickly took what remained of the projectile, making it impossible to verify who fired it.
Mahmoud's 12-year-old cousin Fares was injured in the right leg by shrapnel and was still visibly shaken several hours after the incident. "It's terrifying. I don't sleep at night," the boy said of the massive Israeli air attacks of the past three days. "I'm staying up all night."
Mahmoud's body was taken to Gaza City's main Shifa hospital around midmorning, just as Gaza Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh of Hamas was showing Egyptian Prime Minister Hesham Kandil around the wards of patients.
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Yesterday we talked about the family table, and how it's a great place for kid's to learn social skills. Where else can you find such an accepting, loving and warm place? Also, I stated that one of the most powerful places on earth is the family table, so let's look at that...
The fact that the table is such an essential part of family life isn't because it's the place that we highlight the day's lessons, or because our kids learn new culinary skills. And it's not because we teach them to be good scholars or effective communicators, although those things are good.
The real secret is that the table is where we impart our faith. And what could be more positive than teaching love, forgiveness and mercy?
And, the best part is that the government's not invited to dinner tonight, so they can't control what we talk about!
Again, we remind ourselves of William Ross Wallace's statement ---
"The hand that rocks the cradle is the hand that rules the world."
Hmm... take some time to reflect on that.
True -- eating together has many positive benefits. I've talked about these benefits in many previous blogs. Obviously, nutrition is a big reason. But the fact that we are free to talk about the Scriptures, mention Jesus' name and build up our kids' faith -- that's the most wonderful thing about the family table!
Yes, the table is where the kids learn manners, how to converse, and how to serve others. But the fact that we live out our faith and express our views at dinner -- that's a beautiful thing.
So, the table is a powerful place, and a great place to teach positive social skills.
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Green Skin wrote:The pineal gland in a pregnant woman produces a flood of DMT on the 49th day of conception.hobbygoblin wrote:ok i got a random fact.
the most powerful drug in existance, Dimethyltryptamine, aka DMT is also naturaly produced in the human brain durring deep REM sleep which happens about 5 times of each night for short periods of time.
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Call for volunteers: 40th annual Texas Folklife Festival is June 10-12
(April 7, 2011)--The UTSA Institute of Texan Cultures invites the UTSA community and friends to be part of the 40th annual Texas Folklife Festival, June 10-12. Volunteer support is critical to the popular festival's success.
The Texas Folklife Festival is the biggest cultural celebration in Texas. More than 250 participant groups, including more than 40 ethnic communities, come together each year to celebrate their heritage. On the grounds of the Institute of Texan Cultures at the UTSA HemisFair Park Campus, the three-day event showcases the Lone Star State's diversity and rich heritage through a wide variety of ethnic food, music, dance, arts and crafts.
The 2011 festival dates and times are:
- Friday, June 10, 5-11 p.m.
- Saturday, June 11, 11 a.m.-11p.m.
- Sunday, June 12, noon-7 p.m.
Festival volunteers must attend an orientation session at 6 p.m., either Wednesday, May 18 or Wednesday, May 25, at the Institute of Texan Cultures. Parking for orientation will be available in the ITC employee lot at the back of the building (entrance on the corner of Tower of the Americas Way and Durango Boulevard).
Festival volunteers receive a wristband valid for free admission each day to the festival, along with parking passes and free shuttle service to and from the festival grounds. Volunteers can purchase the 40th anniversary volunteer t-shirt at a discount price.
Orientation will cover the volunteer handbook, procedures and job descriptions. Festival officials will be present to answer questions.
To get started, volunteers can visit www.texasfolklifefestival.org and click the "Volunteers" link. For more information, call the volunteer hotline at 210-458-2216.
The UTSA Institute of Texan Cultures is the forum for the understanding and appreciation of Texas and Texans through research, collections, exhibits and programs. The museum strives to become the nation's premier institution of contemporary cultural and ethnic studies focusing on Texans and the diverse cultural communities that make Texas what it is.An agency of the UTSA Office of the Vice President for Community Services and a Smithsonian affiliate, the 182,000-square-foot complex features 45,000 square feet of exhibit space and five recreational Texas frontier period structures. The museum is on the UTSA HemisFair Park Campus in downtown San Antonio at 801 East Durango Blvd., San Antonio, Texas, 78205.


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Post Senior Bowl Mock Draft Feb. 4th
The Senior Bowl has come to a conclusion and there have been some interesting moves for certain players' draft stocks. Things continue to fluctuate as we get deeper and deeper into draft season. Players rise and fall as the All-Star games are played and the Combine closes in. So here's another look at what may just happen in late-April when the draft rolls around.
1. Carolina Panthers
|Da'Quan Bowers – DE – Clemson
With so many talented options and several holes that need to be filled, it's a good thing the Panthers have so much time to decide. The effects of the Julius Peppers hangover are still lingering, and Carolina should end up taking Bowers, the guy that's most often considered the best player in the draft.
2. Denver Broncos
|Patrick Peterson – CB – LSU
There doesn't appear to be a more well-rounded player going into the NFL Draft than Peterson, and it has shown. He's gotten plenty of attention at the Senior Bowl despite not even playing and will be on every team's wish list. The Broncos need help in the secondary, and Peterson is a dream come true.
3. Buffalo Bills
|Nick Fairley – DT – Auburn
The Bills have so many holes that no one knows for sure where to begin. So why wouldn't they start with taking the best player available and give their defense an anchor to build around. Fairley is a huge talent that should be absolutely dominant if the Bills can control his temper.
4. Cincinnati Bengals
|AJ Green – WR – Georgia
There's a good chance that the entire Bengals' offense will have a whole new look in 2011 with Palmer, Benson, Ochocinco (or is it Johnson?), and Owens all likely to be headed elsewhere. With that mind, what better way to start the rebuilding process then with an extremely talented player like Green?
5. Arizona Cardinals
|Von Miller – OLB – Texas A&M
Before the season ended and the All-Star games began, Miller was a lock as a Top 25 pick. With a great outing at the Senior Bowl and so many different weapons that he brings to an NFL team, the Cardinals will be looking to help ease the pain of losing of Karlos Dansby in 2010 by bringing Miller into the mix.
6. Cleveland Browns
|Gabe Carimi – OT – Wisconsin
The Browns have many needs ranging from wide receiver, to cornerback, to offensive line. With a new quarterback now in place and a promising stable of running backs, the most reasonable option for Mike Holmgren and the Browns seems to be nabbing a tackle like Carimi to protect these valuable assets.
7. San Francisco 49ers
|Prince Amukamara – CB – Nebraska
Part of the reason that the 49ers struggled to win games this season was due to their subpar passing defense that couldn't buy a stop. With an aging defensive backfield, adding a pure cover corner like Amukamara might make things a lot easier and take the pressure to make plays off of the offense.
8. Tennessee Titans
|Blaine Gabbert – QB – Washington
The Titans are in need of a new franchise quarterback with Vince Young headed out of town. Whoever the new head coach is will be looking to add a proven winner with a reliable arm, and the consensus is that Gabbert is the best quarterback in the draft, so Gabbert should be headed to Tennessee.
9. Dallas Cowboys
|Marcell Dareus – DL – Alabama
The Dallas defensive line always seems to be missing one key component year in and year out, and they may try to find that missing piece in 2011. With Dareus playing alongside players like DeMarcus Ware and Jay Ratliff, things may start to fall into place for the Cowboys' defense.
10. Washington Redskins
|Cam Newton – QB – Auburn
The McNabb experiment for Mike Shanahan was an epic failure, and it's back to the drawing board for the Redskins. Newton is a specimen that has unparalleled athleticism for a player of his size and also possesses a great arm and outstanding instincts. He will be a huge difference-maker in Washington.
11. Houston Texans
|Cameron Jordan – DE – California
The Texans have struggled to put pressure on the quarterback aside from Mario Williams, which needs to change in hopes of helping their league-worst pass defense. Jordan has proved over the last week or so that he is a force to be reckoned with, and he should make a great duo with Williams in Houston.
12. Minnesota Vikings
|Jake Locker – QB – Washington
It appears as though the Vikings aren't set with Joe Webb as their starting quarterback, so their best bet would be using their first pick on one. Locker has had an up-and-down career, but he has too much potential and upside for him to go much further than this point in the draft.
13. Detroit Lions
|Robert Quinn – DE – North Carolina
The Lions are in desperate need of a cornerback, but Peterson and Amukamara are gone and everyone else would be a huge reach. So they do the next best thing to defend against the pass by adding a scary pass-rushing threat in Quinn to help Ndamukong Suh strike fear in opposing quarterbacks.
14. St. Louis Rams
|Julio Jones – WR – Alabama
Even without having a clear number one receiver in their offense, rookie quarterback Sam Bradford still managed to have an impressive season, breaking multiple rookie passing records. With a player like Jones still available, Bradford should be smiling ear-to-ear with this pick.
15. Miami Dolphins
|Mikel LeShoure – RB – Illinois
The Dolphins may be losing both of their running backs, Ronnie Brown and Ricky Williams, this off-season and will need to find a big-time running back to take their place. Both Mark Ingram and LeShoure and viable options here, but I think LeShoure has a higher ceiling and should be headed to Miami.
16. Jacksonville Jaguars
|Ryan Kerrigan – DE – Purdue
The Jaguars used the majority of their picks last year to bolster their defensive line, so now may be the time for them to move to the next level of the defense. With Kampman, Knighton and Alualu now in place, Kerrigan could be a huge difference-maker as an outside linebacker in the Jacksonville defense.


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Laura and Christian are amazing. I photographed their wedding in April (see next post for their blog of their wedding photos) and they offered to model for me for this shoot that I had in mind. Every once in a while it's really great to shoot something for yourself. I decided that I wanted to do 2 very different shoots as personal projects. The first, was with Charlotte and AB (see their sneak peeks here) which involved something more wooded and dark, and then Laura and Christian, which was lighter, and more country. I just like to get the creative energies in my head out in a form that I can see, and why not shoot too?!
This shoot was far more than I ever thought it could be, so take a look at a few sneak peeks and be sure to come back for more in a few weeks…..trust me, you will def. want to see this whole thing….just amazing.
A few people to thank first: Laura and Christian, for modeling and being so amazing and laid back, and up for anything. I had so much fun seeing you again!
Heather "the makeover maven" Brinkman– For your amazing talent, super fun personality, and just being an amazing person…..so love you!
Ana Rivera from One-i productions: I am so so glad you came to video this. I am so excited that you are excited. Cant wait to see the amazingness you have.
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THE FIRST results from animal experiments suggest that the residues of pesticides in stored grain can cause mild liver damage. The results may mean that officials need to reassess the safety limits for pesticide residues in stored grain.
Aladin Hassan, who is coordinating the study in 10 countries, is a researcher in Vienna at a centre investigating nuclear techniques in food and agriculture. The United Nations' Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and the International Atomic Energy Agency jointly run the centre. Hassan said: 'The residue bound to grain has been found to be substantially absorbed by (laboratory) animals. The levels which are currently accepted as safe would have to be readjusted should we confirm these toxic effects by further study.'
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Is this possible to write a Micro kernel using c, Yeah we can write it using assembly but just curious.
Also please refer me to some micro kernel programming tutorials and guides. Thank You
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Hope this helps: http://mikeos.berlios.de/
Posted 24 June 2013 - 20:32
Yup this is basically what C was invented for originally. It is a systems programming language after all
You will need a little (inline) asm for a couple of things but over 99% can be done in C. The Linux kernel is mostly C for example (although the Linux kernel is monolithic not micro, perhaps a better example is the GNU Hurd kernel as it is a micro kernel written in asm/C http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurd )
Posted 24 June 2013 - 20:46
You may also have a look at MINIX 3, a micro-kernel OS that is actually stable
Posted 25 June 2013 - 22:56
Another existing OS kernel you could consider looking at is ReactOS. Unlike Hurd or Minix, it is not a true microkernel. ReactOS shares the same architecture as Windows NT, so it is a hybrid kernel. However, unlike virtually every other open-source operating system, ReactOS can be compiled on Windows - a huge advantage considering the primary focus of the Neowin community. In fact, the project has a full development/debug environment, ROSBE, which they built specifically for that purpose. Take a look at the ReactOS Development Guide and Development Wiki before checking out a copy of the source code to look at the kernel. Although their kernel still has some hacks in place, particularly in the memory manager, it is fairly stable and very well documented.


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As we continue to make the rounds, checking in with admissions directors at top business schools around the globe, we had the good fortune recently to speak with Dawna Levenson, director of MBA admission at MIT's Sloan School of Management.
Levenson's MIT roots run deep. She has an undergraduate degree from the school as well as an MBA from Sloan. She spent 18 years working for the company now known as Accenture but then decided it was time do something new and different.
"Why not my alma mater?" she thought. She initially took a job in professional education, but while in that position she reconnected with Sloan and became part of the Admissions Committee as a reader. She read for many years while continuing to work in professional education, but Sloan "just felt like home," so when a position there as associate director focused on the Master in Finance (MFin) degree program arose, she jumped.
A year ago last February, she became the director of MBA admissions, responsible for all three of the school's masters programs: the MBA, the MFin and the Master of Science in Management Studies (MSMS).
"To be perfectly honest, this job is better than I ever imagined," she says. "To work at MIT Sloan in this capacity certainly is a dream come true."
Read on to learn more about why Levenson is excited about some of the changes to MIT Sloan's application this year, whether candidates without a background in engineering should bother to apply and just how the application process unfolds for her and her team.
CA: What's the single most exciting development, change or event happening at Sloan this coming year?
DL: We are very excited about our application. We posted the questions on our website earlier this summer, and the application went live last week.
Every year we tend to change up one of the questions. For some time we have included a question related to our mission statement. We think it's really important to understand that we are a mission-driven school, so we've kept that question in this year.
We also have an optional question that invites applicants to tell us anything else about themselves that may not have been captured elsewhere in the application. A couple of years ago we decided that people can send in videos, PowerPoint presentations, really whatever format they choose. That remains the same this year as well.
New this year we are asking people to write their own professional recommendation about themselves, as if they were their own supervisor.
How did the question come about? I don't know exactly the moment when it happened, but someone in the room proposed it, and it sort of took off from there. Yes, in part, it is a nod to the fact that we know that applicants are sometimes asked by recommenders to draft their own letters of recommendation. But that was really secondary.
We really like to be innovative and change our question every year, since applicants can find sample responses to our last year's question online. Who knows? Maybe they can even buy one on Amazon. We went with this question because we like the data we get from recommenders in terms of the different qualities we are looking for in an applicant.
We also realize that many people are being asked to write self-reviews in the work place. In fact, I just finished doing my own earlier today. We like to look to industry and pick up on trends and practices there when we can.
CA: What is the one area of your program that you wish applicants knew more about?
DL: I think a misconception is that given that we are the MIT Sloan School of Management, people feel that they have to have an engineering background to come here. In fact, many, many people who don't have engineering backgrounds apply, and we wish more did. It is really not the case at all that you need an engineering or science background to apply to Sloan.
CA: Walk us through the life of an application in your office from an operational standpoint. What happens between the time an applicant clicks "submit" and the time the committee offers a final decision (e.g. how many "reads" does it get, how long is each "read," who reads it, does the committee convene to discuss it as a group, etc.).
DL: Our first deadline is coming up in September, and it is really important to emphasize that we are looking for completed applications on that date, including recommendation letters. Nobody wants to review a partial application.
Once our deadline arrives, we then review all of the applications. We have a core group of people who review them.
Based on the recommendations of those reviewers, we invite a subset of our applicants for an interview. Interviews are a required step in the process and are by invitation only. Toward the tail end of October we will start sending out interview invitations, and we will interview candidates in November and through the first week of December.
Our interviews are face to face. We travel the world going to major cities to make it as easy as possible for those invited to come interview with us. The interview runs between 40 and 45 minutes, and interviewers will ask similar questions to those on the application itself. In some cases the people who reviewed the application will still have some open questions, and the interviewer will dig a little deeper – probe a little more.
Ours is a behavioral interview model, and we always leave room for candidates to ask questions of us. Our interviewers are all trained to provide consistent feedback, so that one interviewer's "great" means the same as another's (although "great" is not the language we use).
We then take all that feedback, and a subset of the Admissions Committee – a smaller committee – goes through the feedback from the interviews and the initial application reviews and makes a decision to admit, waitlist or deny.
Everyone who is waitlisted from Round One will then be considered as part of our Round Two.
CA: How does your team approach the essay portion of the application specifically? What are you looking for as you read the essays? Are there common mistakes that applicants should try to avoid? One key thing they should keep in mind as they sit down to write them?
DL: We very much have a behavioral interview style and a competency-based approach to everything. We have identified a set of competencies that we are looking for in our applicants based on research done 14 to 15 years ago; they have really stood the test of time.
They include qualities like leadership, relationship building, the ability to pursue goals, creativity, innovation. We are looking for evidence of these qualities in the essays as well as in the interview.
CA: Anything else you'd like to add about the admissions process?
DL: I'd just like to emphasize that there are not tricks at all in our admissions process. We really want to get to know people. We want to make sure people are capable of being successful in the classroom and that are a good fit for Sloan.
We provide many, many ways for applicants to get to know us, and we really encourage people to take advantage of them. One way is to attend one of our events around the world. We have just begun a global trek that will take us to every corner of the globe, and I encourage prospective applicants to go on our website to see when we will be in their area.
Get to know us, get to know our process, what we value, our students, our alums. When you do this, you are signaling to us that we are a school you are seriously interested in.
CA:What is the most challenging part of your job?
DL: What keeps me up at night is making sure that my team and I are representing Sloan to prospective applicants as best we can. I fully understand that the responsibility my team has is to be that first impression all over the world. For someone at an information session, we set the tone for all future interactions with Sloan.
That's a huge responsibility on our part. We have to have the right level of enthusiasm, to be able to answer their questions timely and accurately. It is all very important for us to do in the right way, and I think that is a challenge.
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Jacob Schlottke---Gone too soon, and the world is a little less bright because of it. RIP, brother.
One, two, Evans is coming for you...
Well now that Obama's wife has come out and told us " for the first time in her adult life she is proud of this country" McCain has a better shot. Obama is an extreme left winger with populist ideas that he cant possibly deliver. Once the general election starts people will see that Obama is all talk and no substance.
Obama should say America needs a Muslim in office to keep America safe.
Interesting little snippet from an interview here:
Not only did she say that but I heard that he had a flag of Che Guevara at his campaign headquarters. Not exactly what you want in a U.S President.
Big what do you mean she didnt have anything to be proud of. She was afforded an education at two of the best schools in the world Princeton and Harvard, and by her own admission she did not have the academics to get into Princeton. She could be proud of that because she more than likely did not pay for that education.
Also what did Bush 41 lie about?


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– Manny Sanders: learning from the best. [Craig Wolfley's Blog]
– There's a slim chance that Aaron Smith could play in a limited role on Saturday. [Tribune-Review]
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Higher Education and Training Minister Dr Blade Nzimande says work is underway towards the establishment of the new comprehensive health and allied sciences university.
The mooted university will be incorporated into the existing University of Limpopo's Medical University of South Africa (Medunsa) Campus in Pretoria.
Minister Nzimande, together with Health Minister Aaron Motsoaledi, had appointed a joint task team (JTT) to investigate the feasibility of establishing the institution. The two ministers today visited Medunsa to engage with the university community before submitting a report back to them on the feasibility of the new university.
Speaking at Medunsa on Tuesday, Minister Nzimande said the task team's report had been submitted to him, Minister Motsoaledi and the university's council.
"I am very pleased to ... report back to you on the considerable progress that has been made with regard to establishing the new university ... It will be important to synchronise all feasibility studies, which are currently underway and related to the new university, so that they can be considered simultaneously by Treasury.
"These include those pertaining to the new academic hospital, the new Polokwane academic health complex, the new Soshanguve hospital and the refurbished Dr George Mukhari Hospital, as well as the feasibility study for the new university.
"With regard to the transitional and incorporation processes, a Protocol for Engagement between the Council of the University of Limpopo and the Interim Council of the new health and allied sciences university has been prepared, with the Department of Higher Education and Training acting as facilitator," he said.
Minister Nzimande said the task team has also recommended an exciting academic model and what is called a "Programme Qualification Mix suitable for a comprehensive health and allied sciences university in the South African context".
This, he said, would include all programmes currently offered on the Medunsa campus. This includes disciplines such as optometry, prosthetics and orthotics and rehabilitation, and other programmes that are increasingly popular internationally.
The minister said it was also important that the new university, which is yet to be named, be financially and academically viable.
"To support the projected increases in student enrolments (a headcount of 7 000 students by 2019, and 10 000 by 2024), existing space on the Medunsa campus will need to be modified, reassigned and better utilised, and a number of new buildings and facilities will be required, including purpose-built administration, student and science and technology buildings, larger teaching venues, an expanded library building and additional recreational facilities.
"It is estimated that the total cost of all new buildings and extensions, alterations and renewals of existing buildings for the first five-year phase (2014-2019) of the new health and allied sciences university is likely to require a minimum initial capital injection of almost R1 billion."
Minister Nzimande also announced an interim council that will be vested with the responsibility of laying the foundation of the new university.
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Context matters in international affairs, as in other areas. That's why, although I understand why he acted as he did, I'm troubled by the impact of President Obama's decision to cut off some military aid to Egypt.
If he had taken this action when the military first staged their coup back in July, that would have been one thing. He could have cited U.S. law that forbids providing aid after a military coup and the world would have understood if not necessarily agreed with him. But by waiting and dithering for three months, his decision is harder to explain or defend because it is happening in the context of other U.S. actions that are alienating all of our traditional allies in the Middle East.
Obama has won hosannas from many Americans for refusing to stage air strikes on Syria and instead striking a deal with Bashar Assad to supposedly eliminate Syria's chemical weapons. He has won even more praise for his now-famous phone call with Iranian President Hassan Rouhani and his willingness to strike a deal with Iran. But, whatever the merits of those policies (and, in defense of Obama, it must be said that it is possible that the deal with Assad could succeed and that, even if the Iranian deal doesn't work out, it is one that any president would have to explore), they are not being greeted warmly in Riyadh, Abu Dhabi, Kuwait City, Jerusalem, Amman, and other American-allied capitals. Neither is the partial cutoff to the Egyptian military that will encompass only "nonessential" aid (e.g., F-16 fighters, Apache helicopters) while allowing crucial spare parts and counter-terrorism aid to flow.
America's allies believe they are locked in an existential struggle with both Sunni and Shiite theocrats—al-Qaeda and the Muslim Brotherhood on one side, Hezbollah and the Quds Force on the other. They are in favor of suppressing the Muslim Brotherhood and in favor of bombing the Iranian nuclear program. That doesn't mean that the U.S. has to adopt their policy preferences. But we need to be aware of them, and to be aware, moreover, that the dominant perception of the U.S. in the region is of a superpower in retreat–a superpower that refuses to uphold red lines and that wants to pursue diplomatic deals of dubious reliability as a cover for full-scale disengagement.
Unfortunately the partial Egypt military aid cutoff–part of an Obama tendency to split the difference on difficult foreign-policy decisions (remember the Afghan surge timeline?)—will only feed that narrative. On the merits, Obama's decision is defensible; indeed, after initially opposing an aid cutoff, I reluctantly came around to supporting it. But now I'm having second thoughts. I'm afraid the consequence of announcing the aid pullback now is that it will reinforce the tendency of our allies to be a lot less willing to rely on us and to listen to us. They may well wind up taking actions that Washington argues against—in the case of Israel, bombing the Iranian nuclear program; in the case of Saudi Arabia and the UAE, which have already provided billions in aid to the Egyptian military despite a lack of American support, pursuing their own nuclear programs; in the case of Iraq, Turkey, and Qatar, cozying up to Iran; and so on. A couple of commando raids in Libya and Somalia will not dispel the impression of an America in retreat; it may even reinforce that view by showing how the U.S. prefers to engage in hit-and-run raids rather than in deeper engagement.


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That in his new book Pope Benedict XVI says of condoms "there could be single cases that can be justified" is not the only passage getting attention. Turns out Jewish leaders aren't very happy with Benedict's comments on Pope Pius XII, who has been referred to as "Hitler's Pope" for turning a blind eye away from the Holocaust.
Here's the word from FaithWorld:
In the book-length interview with a German journalist, the pope says of Pius: "The decisive thing is what he did and what he tried to do, and on that score we really must acknowledge, I believe, that he was one of the great righteous men and that he saved more Jews than anyone else."
"Pope Benedict's comments fill us with pain and sadness and cast a menacing shadow on Vatican-Jewish relations," said Elan Steinberg, vice president of the American Gathering of Holocaust Survivors and their Descendants.
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1 La Pelosetta
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I - Le Vele
This rocky beach, enclosed to the north by Capo Falcone, has an extraordinary location opposite the little Isolotto della Pelosa, which is reached by a ford surrounded by an absolutely magnificent sea. This popular destination has all facilities (bar..
2 The beaches of the Isola dell'Asinara
Nature and gardens
I - 07046 Cala-d'Oliva
Asinar Island's beaches are truly fabulous, in particular Cala d'Arena, the furthest north on the island and one of the most beautiful thanks to its white sand and 16C tower; Cala Sabina in the northeast, at the foot of the granite headland of Punta ..
3 Punta is Arutas
Nature and gardens
I - Punta-is-Arutas
This relatively quiet beach is covered with little white, pink and pale green grains of quartz that look like pearls. In winter, surfers come here for the big waves. The seabed, which gets deep very suddenly, is home to a multitude of little schools ..
4 Costa Verde
Nature and gardens
I - Pistis
The path between Capo Frasca and Capo Pecora (47km) offers fabulous walks along this wild and steep coast, with a few forays into the foothills of Monte Arcuentu (785m) to the east, with its volcanic relief. A series of sandy beaches, fringed with du..
5 Piscinas
Nature and gardens
I - 09010 Piscinas
Welcome to the mini-Sahara of Sardinia. The dunes stretch over 5km and are around 60m high, lining the emerald sea and pushing inland as far as the woods of the hinterland; only the robust scrubland, dotted with olive trees bent by the mistral's wind..
6 Nido dei Passeri
Nature and gardens
I - 09017 Tonnara
The coastal road leads up to a sheer cliff dropping into the sea, a natural bastion of sorts; out at sea, coral reefs sticking out from the water have been colonised by birds and nicknamed "Sparrows' Nest" by inhabitants. On still days, thr..
7 Tuerredda Beach
Nature and gardens
I - Capo Malfatano
The fabulous Tuerredda beach (good facilities) is located in a gorgeous cove between Capo Malfatano and Capo Spartivento. With its impeccable white sand, a backdrop of exquisite valleys and a sea veering between azure and emerald green, it is indispu..
8 Palazzo dei Normanni
Architecture, castles and historic districts
P.za Independenza 1 I - 90134 Palermo
The Norman palace stands at the centre of a series of squares, in gardens laid out at the end of the 19C. Previously seat of the emir of Palermo, the old qsar was enlarged and improved by the Norman kings, then abandoned before being restored under t..
9 La Kalsa
Architecture, castles and historic districts
Porta dei Greci I - 90134 Palermo
The district developed under Arab rule, around the citadel of the emir. It retains its Arabic name "al haklisah", meaning "the chosen one, the pure one", and its oriental atmosphere, emphasised by its Arab-Norman monuments. Centre..
10 Oratorio des Rosario di San Domenico
Religious buildings
P.za S. - Domenico 1 I - 90133 Palermo
This private chapel is a Baroque masterpiece, attributed to Giacomo Serpotta. During your visit, you will be surrounded by putti, the small cherubim that were so dearly loved by Italian Baroque. The entire interior is sculpted in the stucco, to achie..
11 Oratorio del Rosario di Santa Cita
Religious buildings
v. Valverde 1 I - 90133 Palermo
The chapel is the masterpiece of Baroque sculptor Giacomo Serpotta who worked here from 1686 to 1718. Angels and joyful putti cavort with total liberty of movement and expression; playing, sleeping, crying, laughing, climbing up the window frames, gl..
12 Cattedrale di Santa Maria
Religious buildings
P.za Palazzo 4 I - 09100 Cagliari
The cathedral was built in the 13C and substantially reworked between the 17C and the first half of the 20C. In its current incarnation the cathedral is a veritable palimpsest of styles. Take a look at the two pulpits depicting scenes from the life o..
13 Fountain of the Four Rivers
Architecture, castles and historic districts
Piazza Navona I - 00186 Roma
This Baroque masterpiece by Bernini (1651) stands at the centre of Piazza Navona. The statues represent four great rivers (the Danube, the Ganges, Rio del Plata and the Nile), symbolising the four corners of the earth.
14 Museo Nazionale Romano: Palazzo Altemps
Museums and art
P.za S. Apollinare 46 I - 00186 Roma
Recently restored, this magnificent 15C palace today houses the Ludovisi-Boncompagni collection: in the first half of the 17C, Cardinal Ludovico decided to embellish his villa with a mass of statuary by the greatest artists of the age (including Bern..
15 Octagonal Hall
Museums and art
v. Giuseppe-Romita 8 I - 00185 Roma
Recently restored, this superb brick octagonal room (its cupola recalling that it served as a planetarium in the 1920s) was probably a frigidarium (cold room in baths complex) or ancillary area. Today it houses some important Antique statuary: the Re..
16 Church of the Gesù
Religious buildings
P.za del Gesù I - 00186 Roma
Often copied, this is the Jesuit church par excellence. It combines the solemnity and simplicity of the Counter-Reformation with some incredibly exuberant interior decoration from a century later, at the very height of Baroque movement. Baciccia's fr..
17 Piazza di Spagna
Architecture, castles and historic districts
Piazza di Spagna I - 00187 Roma
Rome's most elegant square with tall façades in warm tones derives its name from the Spanish embassy based here in the 17C. It is dominated by its famous Trinità dei Monti steps (the Spanish Steps), near to which stands the Barcaccia Fountain (17C) b..
18 Trinita dei Monti Steps (Spanish Steps)
Architecture, castles and historic districts
Piazza di Spagna I - 00187 Roma
With its 138 steps and perfect perspective, this monumental staircase is a Baroque masterpiece. The architect Francesco de Sanctis played with dimensions here, broadening out and narrowing the steps to emphasise the height effect. This gracious and m..
19 Basilica of San Giovanni in Laterano
Religious buildings
P.za di Porta San-Giovanni 6 I - 00185 Roma
Founded by Constantine, the basilica was totally rebuilt during the Baroque period and 18C. Galilei's façade gives access to a rather cold and solemn interior by Borromini and followers of Bernini. In contrast with the nave, the transept is awash wit..
20 Catacombs of San Callisto
Religious buildings
v. Appia Antica 110/126 I - 00179 Roma
This is a huge cemetery, where more than 500 000 people are buried, including all the 3C popes. Its main attraction is the extraordinary wall paintings of the Sacraments Room, dating from the end of the 2C or start of the 3C.


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Cheltenham midfielder Frankie Artus will be out for up to six weeks with a cracked fibula.
Artus sustained the injury during the 3-1 defeat to Barnet on Saturday.
Town physio Ian Weston told the club's official website: "Frankie has had an x-ray and has also seen the consultant."
He added: "There are no major concerns about the injury but he will be out for around six weeks.
"He will have another x-ray in a month to check that the healing process is taking place."
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Errors Lead to Loss
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. – A season high six errors, including four in the seventh inning, doomed the West Virginia University baseball team as it fell 10-7 to Youngstown State on Friday afternoon at the Wake Forest Baseball Park.
Leading 5-4 entering the bottom of the seventh inning, the Penguins tacked on five runs, two unearned, to extend the lead to 10-5 thanks in part to a myriad of fielding blunders by the Mountaineers.
Despite the loss, West Virginia pumped out 12 hits, marking the third-consecutive game the Mountaineers have had 10 or more hits.
Trailing 4-1 entering the fifth inning, WVU score three runs by way of four two-out hits, tying the game at 4-4. Junior designated hitter Jacob Rice knocked a double that drove in left fielder Bobby Boyd, followed by back-to-back-to-back singles by junior third baseman Ryan Tuntland, junior first baseman Nate Antone and sophomore second baseman Billy Fleming.
The Penguins quickly regained a 5-4 lead in the bottom of the fifth as a leadoff triple to center field by Drew Dosch proved to be costly. Dosch scored on the next at bat by way of a Kris Moules ground out.
Much like he has all season, sophomore left fielder Bobby Boyd set the tempo early for WVU with a leadoff single through the left side, followed by three stolen bases, including a swipe of home plate on a successful double steal.
Boyd finished with a team-leading three hits, three stolen bases and two runs. Antone and Tuntland each added two hits, while Fleming drove in two runs.
WVU starter Corey Walter (0-2) was charged with the loss, allowing four earned runs and striking out three throughout his five innings of work. Zach Bargeron, Ryan Hostrander and Brock Dykxhoorn came out of the bullpen to complete the effort for the Mountaineers.
Youngstown State starter Blake Aquadro (1-1), who was credited with the win, struck out two and allowed four runs on seven hits in five innings.
The Penguins were led at the plate by Josh White, who went 3-for-4 with two runs. Mike Accardi, Phil Lipari and Marcus Heath added two hits apiece.
WVU will play in a doubleheader tomorrow, facing Youngstown State at noon and Wake Forest at 4 p.m. A pair of southpaws will get starts as Means will pitch game one and Musgrave will take the hill in game two.
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Critical Review by Donald Barr
SOURCE: "Three Minds in Trouble," in New York Times Book Review, May 19, 1957, p. 4.
In the following review, Barr lauds Narayan's The Printer of Malgudi for its comedy and subtlety.
The town of Malgudi, fermenting with dreams, is the setting R. K. Narayan has devised for his novels of life in modern India. They have all been charming novels—modest in dimensions, gentle both in laughter and in pain, alive with an easy eccentricity—and the latest of them, The Printer of Malgudi, is something more than charming.
It is the subtle story of three minds and six wild universes. These universes of philosophy, influence, art, love, sudden glory and vainglory have a kind of unearthly abundance. They keep no books. They are made of hopes. Kipling's puritan God of Things as They Are does not preside over any of them. The three minds are not geniuses but the brains of little bubbling, faltering fellows with complaining families and the ordinary male's mixture of remorse and absent-mindedness.
Srinivas, over whose shoulder we watch the story, is an editor, or rather a weekly philosopher, who is enabled to write his provincial magazine only by vigorously neglecting his wife and refusing to open any letter that might be a bill. Srinivas' young friend, Ravi, is a love-torn accountant with a brilliant talent for drawing one picture, the image of a girl with a gem in her earlobe and a highlight on her cheek whom he once saw and has never been able to find again. Srinivas' printer, Sampath, is a masterly first-impressionist, in whose spacious gestures and rich evasive words a creaky press and one exhausted boy somehow become a big establishment, and who moves among the imaginations of his friends like some minor deity.
These three are seduced from their own dreams into another, more vivid and less innocent hallucination: they go into producing a film. Each finds here an awful, prosperous travesty of his desires. Passion leaves Ravi mentally deranged; success leaves Sampath morally deranged; only the philosopher Srinivas escapes, and he is not unscathed.
The story is very tidy, but it is not intellectually dapper in the fashion of a French novel. It is worked out in the English style with seemingly unstudied detail that covers the almost allegorical outline. And there is in the writing something that is distinctively Mr. Narayan's, though it may be a trait of his Hindu origins: he moves so naturally and unapologetically into strange incidents and speeches that he seems without our noticing it to enlarge our powers of fancy. His is a delightful and as yet not wholly recognized talent.
It is a comic talent of a special kind. Conventional comedy shows us a world where there is no real and present pain and where every man has his price. In ordinary farce there are thwacks and betrayals and even death, but we are kept at an ironical distance from the characters, so that blood is merely red ink and agony merely a grimace. In ordinary dramatic or sentimental comedy we are close to the characteristics but real pain is not. In Mr. Narayan's world there is farcical violence and dismay, and we are deeply involved in the characters, yet we never go beyond a certain buoyant pathos into tragedy.
Life in ordinary comedies is continually making good men shrug and retract what they thought were their principles; only villains and fanatics and sour fools adhere to their stated purposes. Mr. Narayan's dreamers do preserve their principles, or at least they recover them, but they are not contemptible. He accomplishes in his mild way what Cervantes and Dickens did, a comedy of innocence.
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This is the Honqi L5 limousine. It's a very big, very powerful and very important car for very important people, and the very first production model has just been sold for £480,000.
This Chinese limo just sold for £480k
Yep, a Chinese customer has bought the very first production 'Red Flag L5'
Well, near enough £480k, anyway. Bloomberg is reporting that a Chinese customer in Nanjing has bought the very first production Honqui L5 saloon; China's most expensive car.
Mr Wang Zhonghua is the man with the cash, and will take delivery of his new 'Red Flag' L5 some three months from now, following its unveil at this year's Beijing Motor Show. We saw the L7 last year too at the Shanghai Motor Show, and this one looks equally like a European luxury car that crashed headfirst into the 1960s.
It weighs over three tonnes. It's 5.5m long, 2m wide and 1.5m tall. It sports a 6.0-litre V12 producing 402bhp and 405lb ft of torque channeled through a six-speed automatic gearbox. It's got four-wheel-drive. We're told there is much leather and wood inside, coupled to a nod to the digital age.
Sure, it looks weirdly cool, but we don't have to tell you exactly what £480,000 can buy you. Well, we will a bit. It will buy you a Lamborghini Aventador Roadster (£290k), a 5.0-litre supercharged Range Rover (£100k), and around £90k to play with in the classifieds.
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South Texas Girl Scouts kick off fall product sale
CORPUS CHRISTI - The Girl Scouts of Greater South Texas council kicked off their Fall Product Sale with a picnic for about 75 girls and their families Sept. 22 at Schanen Estates Elementary School.
Through activities like a hula-dance race, and sponge in the face, the girls learned customer service skills and team building.
The girls sell nuts, granola and other treats in the fall, and not only raise money for their troop but also learn five skills: goal setting, decision making, money management, people skills and business ethics.
The picnic is a way for Girl Scouts from the Corpus Christi area to learn these skills, and to have fun with their peers. Shireem's Dance Troop was on hand teaching the girls Polynesian dancing skills. Ainsworth Trucking donated water.
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