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The IEP are delighted to announce that Samantha Everard is the latest employability professional to become an IEP Fellow.
Sam has a wealth of experience in employability. She set up the SAMEE Charity in 2015 which has two areas of focus - to provide self-employment skills workshops for children of school age, and secondly, The SAMEE Project, which stands for Supporting and Mentoring Enabling Entrepreneurship, which provides business start-up support for disadvantaged and disabled people and guiding them into self-employment and/or traditional employment.
Sam has spent a lot of her life volunteering for the Prince's Trust and working for both WSX Enterprise and Pinnacle where she saw first-hand how unemployed people struggle with their lives. She has extensive experience in Progression and Mentoring and in Skills and Learning which she has utilised in her charity, enabling people to explore their options; those with a disability that want to ensure they are safe and won't lose all their benefits and those with a talent, skill or hobby that they want to explore as a business idea. SAMEE works with these people, handholding, nurturing and supporting them with personal survival budgeting, timetabling their days to make sure they can earn enough on the hours they are able to work. Sam is particularly proud of the people she works with and the charity has a specific project that supports disabled entrepreneurs with dedicated resources for their use, making their service fully accessible, for example, she has just received a business plan in play dough!
Sam has worked hard to build the foundations for the SAMEE Charity and it is now a Disability Confident Level 3 Leader, has ESFA membership, is an IOEE and SFEDI Academy and is registered as a UK recognised Training Provider.
Outside of her main role Sam is a 'My Guide for Guide Dogs', volunteer for Bournemouth Blind, a volunteer for RNIB, she offers assistance to Deaf Plus and other charitable activities. She is also an Executive Officer for Bournemouth Chamber which allows her to work with local Government and a number of SME's, allowing her to engage with the community and network with people that may need her help or that of someone she knows.
Speaking about her Fellowship, Sam said "I would like to work as the IEP Southern representative as I can see a lot of potential cohesion between all the Members. If one agency cannot help someone, then wouldn't it be great if they can refer within our network to someone that can. I would like to see a skills audit across the Membership so everyone gets the advice and guidance they need to move forward in their lives, and we need to ensure that our Institute is able to offer a wide variety of supporting roles across the Southern region. It is also extremely important that we promote best practice and keep up to date with the latest information that clients need like advice on benefits for example. I want to see our Southern network acting as a joined up community that refers from within and ensures our clients get the information, advice and guidance they need to move forward in their lives.
"I am currently working on some new innovative ideas to encourage people to work with us and have now got both a level 4 and level 6 IAG Careers Advisers on my team. We also have disabled volunteers, who are amazing and offer such fabulous work, and have already lost 3 volunteers to full-time work due to the advocacy and references we have offered. I want to continue making significant changes to people's lives and to encourage self-esteem and growth. It is vital that we continue our work and as a Fellow of the IEP, I will continually strive to make this a reality."
Scott Parkin FIEP said "Sam is truly inspiring. She has dedicated herself to supporting the most vulnerable people in society and in making a difference to their lives. Having Sam on board as a Fellow of the IEP will bring huge benefits to our Membership, not only due to the enormous amount of experience and knowledge she brings but in her enthusiasm, commitment and dedication to the aims of the profession as a whole. We are delighted to have her as our latest Fellow and we look forward to working with her in furthering the IEP's vision."
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Directing: B+
Acting: B+
Writing: B+
Cinematography: A-
Editing: B+
Sometimes a character is almost unbearably awkward, rendering the film he's in borderline unwatchable. Such is the case with Nightcrawler, but there is truth to the adage that good things come to those who wait. This movie, in point of fact, is unsettling in all the right ways.
One might even wonder for a while if Jake Gyllenhaal is miscast as Louis Bloom, a guy with no apparent moral compass and who is driven solely by subversive means of making money. In the opening scene, he's chopping up pieces of chain link fence with intent to sell the materials. A security guard tries to stop him, which is a mistake.
It's not often we see Gyllenhaal as such an amoral man. It can be difficult to see him this way. Add on top of that Louis's social ineptitude, combined with an insatiable learning ability that allows him to manipulate people effectively in spite of himself, and it's quite the uncomfortable potpourri of characteristics. But there is a consistency to Gyllenhaal's delivery that wins you over, in a sort of backwards way -- he makes you believe Louis is a sociopath through sheer persistence.
Louis, a seasoned thief who re-sells his stolen goods at a profit, sees a rare opportunity after witnessing something odd at the scene of a car accident on the side of the freeway: guys with cameras, not clearly from any news agency, recording the actions of police officers pulling an injured woman from her car. One of the men with a camera, Joe (Bill Paxton), rebuffs Louis's request to hire him.
So Louis just takes what he sees as the next logical step: he buys his own camcorder. At first it's a cheap one, but a local news director (Renee Russo) sees he has "a good eye" and needs the ratings Louis's footage will get. Louis understands very early on that graphic footage and interviews with eye witnesses to graphic scenes are what sell, and that propriety should be shoved aside in order to get it. He builds up a business, even hiring a homeless man (Riz Ahmed) as an assistant, who navigates and watches the car, and later even operates his own cameras.
Every decision Louis makes, however, is guided by his own naked ambition -- an ambition to run his own successful business, or even to sleep with that news director, with sometimes fatal collateral damage along the way. Louis blithely crosses ethical lines in his work, which is less surprising as we discover later what he is personally capable of; the low-rated news station, and its desperate director, care only about the technical legalities of showing footage he brings them.
This is what turns an otherwise relatively dull movie in its first half to something unusually provocative and unique in presentation. Sure, this movie features a car chase scene, but one impressively staged, with a new perspective: that of the "nightcrawler" racing behind, and filming, the police cars chasing after criminals. And by this point, the fact that all people are there on those streets at that particular moment, has been orchestrated by Louis. Sometimes it's overtly deliberate and sometimes it's just him seizing a sudden opportunity, but either way he can take credit. A local police officer even begins to suspect him.
Nightcrawler is the kind of movie that might lose some viewers by refusing to resort to attention-grabbing theatrics in its initial scenes, and it's too bad. This movie is worth seeing just by virtue of the singular story it tells.
Overall: B+

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An old bus got its new life as the iron Martian Grasshopper with a tea house within. (The Kazantip Republic 2010)
During almost a decade of collaboration with The Kazantip Republic, a famous electronic music festival that used to take place in Crimea (Ukraine), Fluranet Lab had realised several large design projects in frame of the 'Populating Mars' mission. (2007 г. , 2008 г., 2009 – 2011)
'Mars' was one of the festival's locations, so the task was to decorate its infrastructure objects and beach scenery, filling it with wild life forms. Most of them were made out of iron garbage, so was and old bus that became one of the festival's most popular places.


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The Perfect Jogging Jacket from 21 Run
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Events recruitment agency listing
Working in events within the arts sector can be glamorous and exciting, but it can also be difficult and involve a lot of hard work and tenacity. The type of events candidates will be involved in will depend on the company or organisation they are employed by. Working in the events department of a gallery will involve organising exhibitions and openings, whereas working in events for a charitable arts organisation will be completely different.
As with the arts sector in general, competition in events is stiff, with countless graduates flooding the market every year and wanting to get their foot in the door of what is an exciting and challenging sector. In order to stand out and make searching for employment that much easier, signing up to specialist recruitment agencies is imperative. Employers also use recruitment agencies to search through the vast numbers of candidates available in order to find the best choice for their organisation.
Qualifications and salaries
Working in events will require a bachelor's degree, normally in a subject pertaining to the arts as well as a good deal of work experience in the arts sector and in event management more specifically. Salaries hover around the national average, although can be lower for junior roles and often rise to £29,000 - 30,000 for staff in management positions.
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Armed group kill dozens in chaotic Mali
From RUDD KONTE in Bamako, Mali
BAMAKO ,(CAJ News) –VIOLENCE by armed groups, fueled by explosive ethnic tensions, sweeping across central Mali has left 52 people dead and 10 000 displaced since the beginning of the year.
The spate of killings is the aftermath of some Islamist armed groups over the past two years progressively increasing their presence in the region, where they have executed civilians and government officials and committed other abuses.
Their presence, and recruitment of local residents, has inflamed and exploited tensions among the Peuhl, Bambara, and Dogon ethnic groups, spawning the growth of often-abusive self-defense militias.
In some of the most gruesome terror by the militants, in February, armed Islamists executed nine Bozo and Bambara traders returning home from a local market for their perceived support of the Dozos, the self-defense militia.
Since then, at least 16 people – both civilians and armed group members – have been killed in an escalating series of tit-for-tat attacks.
Peuhl and Bambara are terrified by the large groups of armed men often seen driving around on motorcycles and vehicles and gunning down people in the villages.
Villagers, local officials, and elders from both ethnicities said poverty, corruption, inadequate security, and the lack of investigations and justice for communal violence and criminality were fueling recruitment of youth into the armed groups.
Security forces have reportedly reacted with brutality with at least eight suspected Islamists executed and others forcibly disappeared.
Human rights activist, Corinne Dufka, said authorities should investigate and prosecute all those responsible for the deadly violence.
"The Malian government should ramp up efforts to stop this violence."
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Hello again Crafty Peeps,
We are coming to the end of our September challenge, but there's still time to enter here. Have you been checking out all the wonderful inspiration from the team?
It's Anything Goes for the team this week and I have used 'Rainbow After Rain' to create an inspirational quote card.
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Welcome to our latest edition of the Practice Labs newsletter. Like most this seemed like a good idea to do but actually hard to execute with so much else happening. However I have committed to getting 3 versions delivered this year and if you feel the news/information is useful to you then we will look to increase the frequency. We are constantly trying to improve the services we provide to you and your learners so please let us know if we are letting you down in any area whether through innovation, support or infrastructure. Our job is to make you more successful which in turn will make us more successful.
As always, thank you for your business and we look forward to keeping you updated of what is happening in the world of Practice Labs.
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This year we have released new courses for Ethical Hacker and CompTIA Network+. To see what else we have planned for the year check out our 2018 Road Map.
We have officially opened our US office in Minneapolis, MN! This office will be the home base for Sales and Customer Success. We are excited to grow the team here while continuing to work closely with our UK office.
We are very excited to announce the launch of our new Exam Prep product, this is a natural extension to what we already offer learners and customers. Being able to unify both solutions into a single platform gives us the opportunity to bring quality certification preparation content into our existing platform. I believe blending the labs and questions will give learners the best tool available in the market today in achieving their certification and learning goals.
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Bullying — a deliberate attempt from South Asian Kids who are born here to distance themselves from the newly immigrated South Asian children
Oftentimes, it's easy to think of bullying as being something which originates from an individual much different from the target. Unfortunately so, there is a common phenomenon currently occurring for bullies to be targeting individuals who are "one of their own."
These instigators may not be aware that they're demeaning someone who is absolutely no different from them, and just how detrimentally damaging their behaviour may be.
Call it a defence mechanism, ignorance, or a result of a poor upbringing. But whatever it is – it's causing newly immigrated South Asian children to feel ostracized and inferior to their peers.
Time and time again, the concept of those dubbed as "dippers" or "freshies" is always used as a manner to classify the "acceptable Indians" from the ones who are deemed unworthy of inclusion.
To make matters even worse, these taunts and blatant in school emotional antagonism is nearly always instigated by South Asian second generation immigrant children, toward first generation South Asian children.
It's no surprise that this tendency is all too frequent in our schools, since the mass media portrays all Indians in such a unfavourable manner.
The smell of curry and thick accents are synonymous with dark brown skin and hair. This drives western born offspring to become vehemently defensive of their own identities – causing them to wish to differentiate themselves from this portrayal of Indians.
It's essential for our youth to understand that a kid may dress or speak a little differently from them as a result of the environment they've grown up in, or because they truly did just immigrate to Canada from India. It is crucial to engraving the notion that it is *never* acceptable to make these vulnerable individuals feel inferior simply because of who appear to be.
Certain aspects are part of newly immigrated or less acculturated children's lives, and are only a small part of their social self becomes pitted against them. This crumpled the odds of them having a well structured social life. It also sets the tone of their life trajectory.
It's time to stop this phenomenon and educate your children about how excruciatingly hurtful such things can be for someone who may already be well aware of the subtle differences in their persona. Perhaps your child isn't the instigator – but it's everyone's responsibility to ensure kindness is at the forefront of their offsprings behaviour each and every day in and out of a school setting –regardless of if they think they're "too good" to be classified with the kids who are actually in fact just like them.
Believe it or not, when you dig beneath the surface, typically we all wish for the same things in life (more or less). Less assimilated individuals are just children (and maybe even some grown-ups) who want the same thing the "more westernized" groups of society desire – acceptance.
Remind your children (and yourselves) that there's no need to shift the spotlight onto an easier target in order to protect one's own self from being attacked. Rather, enlighten them on the importance of challenging commonly accepted stereotypes and demeaning portrayal of East Indians rather than support them by partaking in the quest to alienate those who don't fit in with "the majority."
Being a minority doesn't have to mean to be on constant guard, it just means we have to be one step ahead the masses and not allow anyone bash those whom we share our roots with.
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What does the layout for an RV electrical system look like?INVERTER-CHARGER COMPONENTS
- 12 volt battery stores energy, microwave needs 3+.
- Inverter with Charger & Transfer Switch is automatic.
- Battery Cables must be heavy duty to resist power loss.
- Remote Panel control & monitor of inverter from inside the RV.
- AC Breaker Panel connection to inverter for RV circuits.
- RV Generator powers the charger for rapid recharge.
- Catastrophe Fuse protects battery and 12 volt circuits.
- Solar Panels in sunlight make electricity for batteries.
- Brackets secure panels to roof. Tilting in winter helps.
- Wiring Harness special wire goes down fridge vent.
- Regulator/Meter on kitchen wall, easy to see power flow.
- 12 Volt Batteries last longer with solar and run appliances.
Inverter/chargers take over the function of the RV converter. They are designed to be wired into the AC breaker panel. The manufacturer's instructions cover many possible hookup patterns. Your RV installer can locate the unit in a dry compartment near the coach batteries. Some battery banks may need to be increased to three or more batteries so that the microwave oven works to capacity.
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Vantage has three containers that you can use to feature the main elements of your business. These should have around 20 words per container.
Use these page blurbs to spotlight the following: About Us, Testimonials, Contact Us, or Product/Service highlights.
Each page blurb links out to the appropriate pages on your site, directing viewers to explore your site and learn more.


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I want to love smoothies, I really do, and both Cat and Nicola have made me yummy green smoothies that I've really liked, but invariably, the ones I've tried to recreate have always had bananas in. I'm quite particular about bananas: I like to eat them only, and they can't be too ripe, never before a race because they make me feel sick during a run, never ever in a smoothie unless they're well hidden and certainly no artificial banana flavours.
So imagine my joy when the lovely Stephanie (not a real magpie!) offered to guest post for me, featuring a banana-less smoothie? She writes a blog that you should definitely check out: she's got legs to die for, awesome taste in short shorts and bakes the most delicious-looking cakes when she's not busy running marathons and being a yogi. We're taking on the Yorkshire Three Peaks this year, and Steph is 100% in charge of snacks…
Baked Apple Smoothie
Serves one, easily doubled.


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Around the world popular motorbuilding thoughts now the CAFE RACER. I started this a cheap Honda FT500 basic modell. This is a most nasty Honda modell what i saw. Therefore the works was not eazy!
This is my second self build motorcycle. (but in the garage already the third 😉 )


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Occupy Central leaders will announce the next stage of the protest movement on Wednesday, according public broadcaster RTHK.
At the same time, organizers of student activist group Scholarism threatened further mass action if Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying still refuses to meet them by Wednesday.
Chan Kin-man, a co-organizer of Occupy Central, said protesters should not disrupt public order and should avoid violence.
Also, he said they should avoid any untoward incident with mainland tourists who are expected to come to Hong Kong for the "golden week" holiday around China's national day on Oct. 1.
Chan did not give details about the impending announcement but reports said it could be about ending the protest on Wednesday or extending it.
On Tuesday, the second day of the protest, more people took to the streets, expanding the occupation of major access areas beyond the main business and financial district to Admiralty, Causeway Bay and Mong Kok.
Robert Chow, a spokesman for a pro-establishment group opposed to Occupy Central, urged the protesters to leave Causeway Bay and Mong Kok and give them back to ordinary citizens.
Chow said the demonstrators were causing traffic jams in several areas and should confine themselves to Central and Admiralty.
Public opinion could turn against Occupy Central if people suffer prolonged inconvenience, Chow said.
Meanwhile, pro-establishment lawmaker Wong Ting-kwong said the police were justified in using tear gas on protesters after they tried to storm police barricades and rush the officers with umbrellas.
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Thermal Towns Route
The province of Pontevedra is rich in mineral and thermal waters, and this can be seen in the heritage of its towns and in the deep-rooted tradition of hydrotherapy.
In the 19th century, bathhouses and spas lived a golden age which would last until the early 20th century. As Rías Baixas were also part of this phenomenon, and thus, some important hydrotherapy centres can be found in some towns, as Mondariz-Balneario or A Illa da Toxa.
Some thermal facilities have been preserved until today, but others have disappeared due to historical events. However, they have left their mark on the landscape, architecture or the collective memory.
The Diputación de Pontevedra has decided to promote this heritage by creating the Thermal Towns Route, an offer for wellness and recreation that can be enjoyed in seven towns in As Rías Baixas which are famous for the medicinal properties of their spring waters.
Caldas de Reis, Catoira, Cuntis, Mondariz-Balneario, O Grove, Ponte Caldelas and Vila de Cruces make up this route, endowed with information boards with QR codes. The relevance of this route goes beyond health tourism, as these destinations also offer culture, nature and food.


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Part two of several posts from the German Autofest. I do not know why I took so few photos of Porsches. Maybe because they are just so common? I really like the Panamera and it reminds me of the 928 in many ways (except the Panamera has 4 doors). Enjoy!
Porsche Panamera
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Australia fast bowler James Pattinson will miss the Ashes series following a recurrence of a back injury.
Pattinson was left out of the tour to Bangladesh in September with a lower-back stress fracture, which he suffered as a teenager.
The 27-year-old, who has 70 wickets from 17 Tests, took 32 wickets in five Championship matches for Nottinghamshire last summer.
He will take an indefinite break from bowling.
"Obviously I am extremely disappointed with this setback after just getting back into a good run of playing cricket," Pattinson said.
"I'm especially disappointed to miss out on the possibility to play in a home Ashes series.
"Over the next few weeks I will discuss all available options available to me with medical staff, to work out the best plan to prevent this from happening again."
Australia's sports science and sports medicine manager, Alex Kountouris, said Pattinson's condition had been monitored and scans confirmed he had aggravated a previous injury.
"Whilst this is very disappointing, we are confident that he can recover from this and return to playing," added Kountouris.
The five-match Ashes series begins in Brisbane on 23 November, with the final match commencing on 4 January.


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No Fly Zone Over Syria???
Joe Lieberman has suggested that a "No Fly Zone" may be needed over Syria should the violence continue to escalate.
Sen. Joe Lieberman suggested Sunday he would support military intervention in Syria if its president resorts to the kind of violent tactics used by Libya's Muammar al-Qaddafi.
Dozens reportedly have been killed in protests against Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's government, raising questions about whether the international community would get involved.
Lieberman, chairman of the Senate Homeland Security Committee, told "Fox News Sunday" that if Assad starts slaughtering his own people, he will risk other countries imposing a no-fly zone "just as we're doing in Libya." He urged Assad to, instead, negotiate with the "freedom fighters" in his country.
"There's a precedent now that the world community has set in Libya, and it's the right one," Lieberman said.
I don't think many people would argue that the bloodshed is heart wrenching. I abhor violence, and detest aggression.
However, something to keep in mind is that liberty and freedom, once stifled by tyranny, often requires quite a lot of bloodshed to restore. This wording was at the heart of the majority of the words of our founding fathers.
But I can't help but wonder, is there consistency here? Lets say we have some people who do not agree with the government, and want to see things change. This group of people talks about revolution, and maybe even collects some small weaponry to form a "militia" (as is their right as Americans). Perhaps they begin protesting by distributing literature urging people to stand up and be counted for liberty, or some other freedom movement idea.
Would our government respond peacefully to these people, who are (up to that point) acting peacefully and within their rights? Or would our government come down on them, threaten their freedom, and kill them if they do not acquiesce?
See, this is what bothers me here. I am not saying that I support Syria or Libya slaughtering their own dissidents. Not in the least. But it seems excruciatingly obvious that even our own government is accustomed to violently squashing insurrectionists and dissidents.
And I DO idolize our founding fathers. However, I see their errors and evils as well. George Washington marched on and killed US Citizens in the Whiskey Rebellion, because they would not comply.
But this is even deeper than that (which, honestly, is an understandable squashing of a rebellion, as it violated the will of The People). Now a days in America, death is used as the ultimate threat for every single one of 600,000 different laws If you do not wear your seatbelt, you can be killed for it. Seem silly? Try not paying the ticket, then refusing to surrender. Fight for your freedom, as a free man should be allowed to do when an "authority" attempts to enforce a victimless law. You will be killed for resisting this tyranny, make no mistake.
And, in the case of the above rhetorical question, you can be certain that dissidents are killed routinely. There are multiple counts of "freemen" either being killed or imprisoned for their activities (which, in all fairness, have not always been above board). We are all familiar with the Montana Freemen, right? And their untimely demise.
But an even more clear case is the Hutaree's. Held without trial for years, judges have repeatedly ruled against the Federal Government while they tried to built their case.
So it makes me wonder. What happens when the "freedom bug" hits America? You can already see the waves building, and with the economy getting more and more shaky you can be that a maelstrom awaits us somewhere in the darkness. Will our own government exercise the restraint they demand in Libya and Syria? Or will they continue acting just as atrociously?
Regardless, the one thing Sen. Lieberman and I can agree on:
"Each of these situations is unique," she said on CBS' "Face the Nation." "Certainly we deplore the violence in Syria."


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Back in the summer of 1989 (feel free to stop reading if you hate blogs posts that start this way), I worked in Yellowstone National Park, waiting tables at the Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone Lodge. It was that summer that a cassette tape changed my musical taste... forever.
'60s psychedelic icon than with Cleveland DJ The Mad Daddy. I could describe it to you note for note, but his guy's already done it, "There are, broadly speaking, two types of people in the world. Those who realise that the Wavy Gravy compilations are the greatest albums in the history of mankind; and those who suffer from unsightly genital warts. Which are you?"
I probably listened to that cassette 120 times in 120 (late) nights that summer. Not every night, but some nights 3 times in a row. By mid-summer, it took every fiber in our gaggle of stoners to not quote it verbatim every time we'd play it for someone new. We were annoying college students.
I never knew my favorite track from the summer of '89 wasn't just an novelty/obscurity, but a Garage rock classic! I've since become instantly enamored with any band who covers it. Clearly there was no better track to use in the climactic scene of Stomp! Shout! Scream!
[For the record, the Shandells' track is actually called "Gorilla." "Go Go Gorilla" is by the Ideals and more of a doo-wop classic.]
Wednesday, July 7, 2010
Q: What's wrong with you? A: Wavy Gravy
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|Iraq PM Maliki and Iraq Deputy Prime Minister for Energy Hussain al-Shahristani
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Baghdad said it is still firmly opposed to Iraqi Kurdistan's plan for an independent oil pipeline through Turkey, insisting that only the central government has the right to export crude.
Iraq's deputy prime minister for energy, Hussain al-Shahristani, told Reuters he had conveyed Baghdad's views to Turkish Energy Minister Taner Yildiz.
"Turkey is aware of Iraq's concern and total rejection of that (KRG pipeline) plan. We have reminded Turkey that this is in breach of the agreement between the two countries that regulates exports from Iraq through the Turkish pipeline," al-Shahristani told Reuters.
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That's All Folks……..Or Is It??
So yous know now dat meez can alewt meez mommy afuw shes passes out, and giv hers massages, and call fuw help, and dwive da wheelchaiw. So meez bets yous finks dat's it, wight?? Well yous wuld be wong. Meez helps sis Lexi push mommy outta da shower tu, And one of da funnest fings meez dus is tu bwing meez mommy small items when hers can't get tu dem. And sumtimes just cuz meez wants hers tu feel special. 🙂 So da time came when meez wus finally big nuff tu cawwy fings in meez mouff and so mommy and mowe ovew sis Lexi decided it wus time fuw meez tu leawn tu help mommy anuddew way. At da time meez didn't know what 'Special Days' wus, so meez didn't know dat mommy had a 'Special Day', but Lexi did. See at da time mommy played da piano and sang fuw a local chuwch. Meez luvs tu heaw meez mommy play and sing. 🙂 But sis Lexi knew by da songs and all da fone talkin' dat mommys 'Special Day' wus comin' up. So duwin' da day sis Lexi and meez ( me liked tu follow hers wound) wuld be in da kitchen and shes wuld stawt pawin' at da cwackew box and den lookin' at meez. So meez wuld go and paw at da cwackew box tu. And da cwackews fell outta da box. Lexi picked dem up wiff hews mouff and cawweed dem tu mommy, hoo pwaised her and luved on hers and gav us tweats. Lexi wuld du dis wiff da bwead tu, or whatevew might be in da kitchen. Well, meez wanted tu be like meez sisfuw, and me wanted da pwaise and luvin tu, so meez stawted duin' it meself. Okay, meez likes peanut buttew so sumtimes meez wuld hav tu open da package and hav a little lick afuw takin' 'em tu mommy (aftew meez found out what wus in da package) but hers always got dem. Sowt of. MOL Anyways, dis wus all good purractice fuw mommys upcomin' 'Special Day'. And just cuz it dus come in handy when mommy's havin' a bad day. Meez will tell yous all bout dat latew.
Meez also had tu leawn tu help sis Lexi push mommy outta da tub. Cuz no mattew how much meez dances, mommy just won't get outta da watew. Meez had been layin' on da side of da tub when mommy showewed since meez came tu live hewe, and watchin' sis Lexi stwuggle tu push mommy up off da bottom of da tub. Fuw munfs now meez wuld get in da tub wiff dem, but meez wuld get all wet and den jump back out. Well dis one day it's like da light went on, and when mommy passed out and Lexi jumped in, meez followed. And meez got on da uddew side of mommy and looked ovew at Lexi fuw appwoval, and den undew mommy's awm meez went and wees pushed wiff all ow might. Wiff da 2 of us wowkin' tugeddew wees had mommys head and awms up and ovew da side of da tub in no time. And now meez knows what all da towels on da sink and da hooman pawdee box is fuw. MOL When wees get dun wees woll wound on da towels till mommy comes tu and can dwy us off purrawpew. Mommy has a big ole showew chaiw now, but hers still sumtimes falls off and Lexi and meez awe der tu da wescue. 🙂 Dis wus purrawly da easiest lesson meez had. MOL
On anuddew note, yesfuwdays pwice checkin' wus vewy innewstin'. Wees leawned dat even tho' wees liv in one of da poowest areas of one of da poowest States in da U.S., ow pwices awe a bit highew den most. Meez did get asked a foo questions, so meez fawt me wuld answew dem fuw evewpawdy in case yous don't wead all da comments. Ow gwocewy pwices came fwum Walmawt in a town 'bout 45 minutes away cuz mommy figgewd dey wuld be cheapew, and da taxes awe fuw suwe cheapew. Wees only hav 1 little gwocewy in ow small town, and yous wuld need tu add at least $1.00 tu all da pwices and da tax is highew, 10% hewe. Gas pwices wus fwum da beginnin' of da munf when mommy bawt it. Pwices change almost daily, and each station can hav der own pwice. Wees hav 2 stations acwoss da stweet fwum each uddew and dey'we owned by da same pewsun and get der gas fwum da same twuck, but chawge diffewent pwices. And people buy da mowe spensiv gas cuz dey fink dey's gettin' bettew gas. MOL Der's a town 5 miles down da woad, and der gas is always mowe den hewe in ow town. Each station kinda sets der own pwices. Da gwocewy pwices wus fwum weceipts fwum da last kupple munfs cuz mommie can't affowd tu buy all dat at once, and hers will buy fuw us fiwst anyhow. Anyways, it wus vewy innewstin' tu see da diffewent pwices acwoss da wowld. Fanks Bacon (http://piglove.wordpress.com/) and Fozziemum (http://dinz1234.wordpress.com/) fuw suggestin' dis.
So dat's not all folks, but til da nex time, Hav a Pawsum day!!
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Luv and Hugs and Kitty Kisses ♥♥♥
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Peanut butter? Dat stuff are yummy!
Angel Prancer Pie LOVED peanut butter!
You kittehz are just amazing. We can't wait to read more.
Yes, things are much higher in this poor part of the state. We often travel half an hour across the state line to get better prices.
Have a great Friday!
I still say y'all are amazing kitties. My girls are so spoiled they wouldn't think to do any of that. I know they love me but they are pampered princesses. Mol That is ok though cuz I don't need those things from them so I never even attempted to train them. Although I did try to train Winter to tolerate baths, but that didn't work out. She gets more difficult each time I give her one.
See the problem of your prices being high despite a not high standard of living is greed really. They know you need things and they know there are only so many places available to you to get them from. So you are in a buy it or you don't get it situation. 😦 It is a shame things are like that. I am sorry to hear you are unfortunate in that situation. Love ya!


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Clank bassist interview
Clank, interviewed at Foufounes Éléctriques 15th Anniversary Show featuring Fair Warning, The Absurds, My Dog Popper, Unruled, Genetic Control, Fail-Safe, and Bad Results, summer 1998
From Vol. 1 No. 5, 1999
What was a pretty promising lineup pretty well delivered, with the main bummer being Foufs moronic policy of having the bands go on at 8:30. My Dog Popper, Gen Con and Failsafe went over best, the most like they used to be, though Fair Warning, who closed out the whole shebang, most definitely kept the spirit intact.
Louis: OK it's right after the Fair Warning show, which ended with that song, 'You are the scene.' I'm interviewing E— MacD—-, legendary figure from Fair Warning and Failsafe and Megalo and Rhododendron and LA and etc. etc. etc.
Clank: I'm not E—, I'm Clank.
L: Clank?! Whoa, OK. Good show wasn't it?
C: I had a great time. The spirit was willing, but the body was weak.
L: That was the story in the pit, too. The crowd hasn't gotten any younger either.
C: There were fellow weak bodies in the pit?
L: Very weak fellow bodies.
C: Well, I'm glad that we were able to inspire a pit, even.
L: Oh yeah, it was a very inspired pit, trying to make the most of our means, given the time that's passed and all. Somehow not many of the young punks came out for this, though deep down I guess they know where the roots are.
C: I can only hope. I was very happy to be able to make an announcement about Ani DiFranco getting married (which he did before they played 'Caught In A Trap').
L: People were listening, as soon as you got up people hushed up, 'E—'s gonna say something!' You got big respect here tonight.
C: My arms are aching, and I could barely even hold the sticks by the end of the show, but somehow I managed to get through it.
L: And quite well, too, I must say. 3 encores? That was more than just getting through it.
C: Did you notice that the second time that we did 'You are the scene' it was quite a bit slower than the first time? (laughter)
L: Well, luckily most of the crowd was so inebriated that they didn't notice that you played it twice anyway, so there you go.
C: I had an excellent night. And I'm glad that with all the ups and downs that Foufounes has had over the years that right now they have a very well-oiled machine going for promotion, production. It was a pleasure to work with them. And security—
L: They were good this week…
C: We talked to them and tried to make sure they knew what to expect.
L: There was, I heard, somewhat of a tragedy earlier on during the My Dog Popper set, somebody broke a leg…
C: Broke their leg?!
L: Yeah…
C: Holy moly…
L: Apparently that was very very quickly dealt with. I must say, even though it wasn't the most lively pit, it was a very sympathetic pit.
C: I guess uh, gee, you know, I was glad there was only fake blood at this show, not like that crazy Vomit show that we did a couple years ago, with the real blood.
L: Yeah, the real blood (see FP #2).
C: And I didn't have to punch anybody out, I was glad for that.
L: Well, see, we're progressing, as elders we're seeing what kind of legacy we want to leave…
C: (laughter) Yup…
L: I wonder whether all our old bands had much to do with the new scene going on now…
C: They got a cool scene going on up at Underworld, lots of great shows. I'm always happy people are still playing in bands, it's the best, exorcism for a person. It's such a positive thing, to get together with people and create something. Get something out of it. Even all the Fair Warning songs, just the same three chords played with a slightly different rhythm in a slightly different order. I think it's a creation, it feels good, and it's fun.


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Lino Cayetano enjoys Venice in Taguig
There's no more need to book expensive trips just to see this majestic view.
Former Congressman Lino Cayetano is enjoying life as a private citizen. Now that he is out of the politiko loop, he now has time to do leisurely visits around Taguig.
Cayetano felt proud as he checked out the Venice Grand Canal Mall in McKinley Hill, which was the perfect carbon copy of the Italian tourist spot.
What a beautiful sight!
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"Obama is a War Criminal!", and so IS Trump
The following is a link to a transcript of a speech given by Francis Boyle, professor of international law at the University of Illinois College of Law. He's the senior professor at the College of Law having taught there for 41 years and attended Harvard Law School, the same as war criminal Barack Obama.
It's not a long speech, more like some prepared remarks. He explains how he was initially "fairly disposed toward Obama" but learned quickly like many of us that Obama was just a Big Fat Liar, and a war criminal to boot. His remarks were evidently in response to the University of Illinois giving Obama an "ethics in government" award (at least it's not another Nobel prize). He doesn't mince words.
"The University of Illinois is giving him an "ethics in government" award. This is a sick joke and a demented fraud! The University of Illinois, for its own typical bootlicking reasons, wants to whitewash all of Obama's international crimes. Obama should be sitting in a jail cell in The Hague with the International Criminal Court and not here getting some bogus "ethics in government" award from the bootlickers of the University of Illinois campus bigwigs."
He goes on the say he's hardly alone in his sentiments (Chomsky, Unger, etc.) and that Trump is simply continuing the same policies put in place under Obama and Bush. But, he says, Obama definitely knows better (as opposed to Trump who knows only himself) because "He's a magna cum laude graduate of Harvard Law School just like I am. Obama has abandoned and betrayed every known Principle of the Rule of Law that I ever learned at Harvard Law School including the United States Constitution which he doesn't give diddly-squat about. "
Just to be clear, he states:
"Obama is a monster! He's a criminal! As I said he should be in jail, not getting some bogus "ethics" award from the bootlickers at the University of Illinois administration."
Right on, Francis.
He goes on to list some of Obama's war crimes including his "genocidal work" in Afghanistan, and his wars in Libya, Syria and Yemen. For those that know the truth about U.S. imperialism it's not new nor a surprise (always an enlightening read however). But shout it from the rooftops Professor, the more the merrier as they say in antiwar land.
Which brings me to Trump. I've been concerned about all the talk of the deep state, the democratic party and evidently the lizard people as well all wanting to take down Trump. My concern isn't for Trump. His supporters who dig in even deeper (THEY hate HIM so HE must be on OUR side!) and many others, including a segment of the left, are quite concerned about our "democracy" and our "constitutional process" being damaged beyond repair (FUBAR) because of this elected and unelected cabal trying to prevent him from doing his duties and possibly remove (a bona fide war criminal) him from office.
The most common refrain is that they're preventing Trump from seeking peace (yes, I'm exaggerating) with North Korea, Russia and Syria, like that's some kind of fact or something and that it will result in World War III or worse. All of this conjecture on what Trump would or wouldn't do is all based on Trump's own words (as opposed to what he's actually done), and what exactly IS Trump boys and girls? That's right, a Big Fat Liar just like Obama (and a war criminal to boot).
Here's Paul Craig Roberts:
"This plot against Trump is dangerous to life on earth and demands that the governments and peoples of the world act now to expose this plot and to bring it to an end before it kills us all."
In other words,
"The reason that America is at risk is that the CIA and the presstitute media have put America—and Europe—at risk by frustrating President Trump's intention to reduce the dangerous level of tensions between the two major nuclear powers."
Regardless of what Trump would or wouldn't do without parts of the ruling class affecting him, what he has done is without question. The fact is that Trump is also a war criminal like his predecessors. It's too fucking late, he not only should be removed from the office of the president like yesterday, he should be put on trial and sentenced to life in prison for his crimes. Regardless of his meetings with Kim and Putin and his interminable bullshit tweets, Trump has been Commander in Chief (CINC) of the U.S. imperialist military machine for over a year and a half and is responsible for the war crimes conducted under his command, of which there are many. It's that simple. It has to be that simple, doesn't it?
So all this talk about Trump being stopped from doing this or that regarding foreign policies is troubling to me because he's already done enough to justify throwing him in prison alongside Obama and Bush and many, many others, and throwing away the fucking key. No one talks about THAT.
Those attempting to defend Trump against the deep state seem like they're accepting Trump's war crimes because they think, based on Trump's own words (um, he's a fucking liar) that he wants some kind of peace with Russia, North Korea and Outer Space (you know that's next don't you?) but the deep state won't let him, and those trying to stop him are out to start absolute chaos. The last part certainly is true but that doesn't change what Trump has done while in office. Since when do words from a lying billionaire cancel out the murdering of innocent children?
It all seems so ass backward, which of course is the way it is now. War is peace, Freedom is Slavery, Ignorance is Strength and Donald Trump, the war criminal, is our only hope for "Peace".
I've been an admirer of Francis Boyle for many years
for the professor's principled and unwavering support of Hawaiʻi and the Hawaiian people in international jurisprudence.
I am out of snarky remarks, Big Al, but you didn't
disappoint my latest request to you to bitch about serious matters like war criminals. Thanks.
The whole US government is a war criminal too!
We cannot let Congress off the hook for the out of control militarism and imperialism that is taking place all over the world. Only Congress has the authority to declare war and yet Congress has abdicated that authority while continuing to pass obscene budgets for war making. The last DoD budget is case in point wherein Congress actually gave Trump a larger budget than requested! And zero Democrats voted against it.
The entire value system in this country is skewed.
"I don't want to run the empire, I want to bring it down!" ~Dr. Cornel West
"There is no instance of a nation benefitting from prolonged warfare." Sun Tzu
"Propaganda is one hell of a drug." Abby Martin
The country never had a value system to start with.
Unless you consider endless wealth and power a value system. When the founding pigs founded 'Murica, they weren't building a democracy. They were building an empire. Why else do you think the US has been at war for its entire existence?
And now that empire, and capitalism along with it, are in yet another state of decay. But the two-party plebs would rather argue over which 'libtard' or 'trumptard' token policies caused this shit.
Modern education is little more than toeing the line for the capitalist pigs.
Thank you
for enlightening me once again.
"I don't want to run the empire, I want to bring it down!" ~Dr. Cornel West
"There is no instance of a nation benefitting from prolonged warfare." Sun Tzu
"Propaganda is one hell of a drug." Abby Martin
Thank you
for this BA. So many people, too much koolaid. Bad combo.
Ya got to be a Spirit, cain't be no Ghost. . .
Clearly expresses my opinion of Obama, lying ff that he is.
Clinton came in at the height of Reagan mania giving him a far-fetched and feeble pass for being a liar and a crook. Bush was plain stupid. Trump even dumber than Bush. Obama has no excuse lame or otherwise. He won with a landslide vote and a clear majority for change. He was smart and knew better. Of all the roaches to hold office in the last 50 years, Obama is the slimiest of them all. When Michael Moore, Maher, and other Hillbamabots like them praise Obama, it makes me want to barf.
"Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich."--Napoleon
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To add to my comment above
There seems to be an intimation that some of us are not discussing serious topics. Here is my perspective. We can bitch and gripe about it all, but at some point we have to step up.
I spent every Saturday for four and a half years on the ground with a local Peace vigil and completely echo Big Al's sentiments. What my personal experience taught me is that most people I met, regardless of political self identification, agree that we must end all these wars, but are at a loss as how to do that. The only way I could see doing something, , was to participate in the Peace vigil and educate people about these wars. That Peace vigil lasted for 13 and a half years, of which I spent the last four and half years participating. It finally folded due to age and health issues of the few remaining participants.
I have written here about how the obscene amounts of money spent on the military (bases in nearly every country in the world) and on these wars is destroying our country from within. We have money for bombs but not to help our own citizens.
I wrote a lengthy series of seventeen essays on neoliberalism and how that economic philosophy goes hand in hand with our nation's imperialism. I tried to write several essays about the deep state and shadow government which play a distinct part in our imperialistic wars. Finally, I just got tired of trying to do the heavy research that was required to tackle these complex subjects. And it seemed to me as though most people were not making the connections I was trying to write about.
So the question is: Is it a chicken and egg thing or is it a vicious circle? I do not know for sure, but I do know that wars will continue escalate regardless of whether or not we jail Bush, Obama, Trump or any other political figure for war crimes unless the deep state is also dismantled. Wars are being waged to enrich the oligarchs and big corporations and they will always find bought off and/or patsy politicians to do their bidding. There is big money to be made here. Until the profit motive is taken out of war, they will find a way to continue making war and resource theft.
"I don't want to run the empire, I want to bring it down!" ~Dr. Cornel West
"There is no instance of a nation benefitting from prolonged warfare." Sun Tzu
"Propaganda is one hell of a drug." Abby Martin
I'm with you GG
Our local peace vigil is 15 years in the making. Every Sunday, for all these years, displaying peaceful resistance. We report the weekly casualties, and each has a reading or story to share. We stick together because there seems to be nothing else to do against the machine. Holding signs and banners so that others may see our plight. The 'authorities' have yet to shut us down, which may come to pass. Silly little liberties like freedom of speech and the right to assembly are quickly going the way of the Dodo, it appears. I only wish more people could care and speak up in the name of humanity. Tears.
Listen to your higher mind.
I envy you and your compatriots
Our Peace vigil was in front of the local courthouse. Our town has a very lively downtown, especially on the weekends when folks come from all around to visit. We had signs and a banner that read "No Blood For Oil." We did not do casualty figures or sing or chant, but instead smiled and greeted those who passed by trying to start a conversation. I found the best approach was to avoid moralizing, at least at first, and used the fiscal costs as a way to start the conversations. Most people have zero idea of how much money is being wasted on war and when they would hear the figures, they were shocked.
In the end, it was just me and Don who was in his late 80's. Our other last stand guy, Bill had to drop out due to very bad health. Don and I tried to go on, but it was not the same for Don without Bill who was a founding member along with Don. Since Don was the last remaining founder, he decided to disband our vigil. It was in June of 2016 and I still miss it.
I tried to recruit people, but it was very difficult to get people to join us because it meant giving up a Saturday. I really looked forward to doing the Peace vigil each week and found it very rewarding.
"I don't want to run the empire, I want to bring it down!" ~Dr. Cornel West
"There is no instance of a nation benefitting from prolonged warfare." Sun Tzu
"Propaganda is one hell of a drug." Abby Martin
That was a noble effort on your behalf
I am stymied by the fact that there are no young'uns involved. We are all in the later phases of life, some more later than others, but no-one under 60. What happened to the enthusiasm of youth? It seems this is where us old hippies go, with no magnetism toward idealism for the kids. Sundays works here before the church bells ring, it is like our sunday service. Not in the chapel, but in the company of nature.
Listen to your higher mind.
A couple of reasons
I think that no young people would get involved. First, of the 100 counties in NC, only two have an average age population older than ours. Second, for some reason the college kids (there is a small college here near the downtown) never stopped to talk to us. We had a number of high school kids stop and wanted to hold signs for one day, but not commit to every week. The high school kids we met were incredibly informed. And third, this area is known for outdoor activities such as fishing, hiking and cycling, so many people use the weekend to engage in those activities.
Here is the essay I wrote about our Peace vigil and the men I knew who participated in it. There is also a picture of the five of us. I still miss it.
"I don't want to run the empire, I want to bring it down!" ~Dr. Cornel West
"There is no instance of a nation benefitting from prolonged warfare." Sun Tzu
"Propaganda is one hell of a drug." Abby Martin
Check, check, check, check, maybe the end of the empire is near
"Four sorrows are certain to be visited on the United States.
First, there will be a state of perpetual war.
Second is a loss of democracy and Constitutional rights as the presidency eclipses Congress and is itself transformed from a co-equal 'executive branch' of government into a military junta.
Third is the replacement of truth by propaganda, disinformation, and the glorification of war, power, and the military legions.
Lastly, there is bankruptcy, as the United States pours its economic resources into ever more grandiose military projects and shortchanges the education, health, and safety of its citizens."
Chalmers Johnson, The Sorrows of Empire, 2005
Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give the appearance of solidarity to pure wind.
George Orwell
Obama over Trump for me in a second
You want to talk about a criminal. Every fiber of Trump's being is criminal and Trump is President not Obama. Not to mention Trump is extremely stupid and short sighted, with no leadership qualities, unlike Obama.
Beware the bullshit factories.
Here we go again.
Winston Churchill was a much bigger war criminal than Obama
People are still getting killed because of those arbitrary lines Churchill drew in the Middle East after World War I. He was also a great leader and motivator and orator with a sense of what is right in the end. Bloody tyranny could still be ruling Europe if not for Churchill's leadership and intelligence and foresight. It's easy to look at the big picture and jump to wrong, self serving conclusions.
Beware the bullshit factories.
Yes I admit it
Here we go again.
The passion overtakes me, because I'm freaking upset about all the manipulation and greed and narcissism.
Sorry about that.
Beware the bullshit factories.
I can agree with you.
I'm freaking upset about all the manipulation and greed and narcissism.
The difference, though, is that I'm unwilling to apply the blinders just because a particular candidate sports a (D) next to their name.
I voted for Obama twice. Shame on me.
I'll take Churchill over Hitler
Fucking "lesser-evilism" is a propaganda tool of huge use to the greater evils.
Beware the bullshit factories.
It's not an either or here Tim
Hitler was a war criminal
Churchill was a war criminal
Obama is a war criminal
Trump is a war criminal
The difference between Obama and Trump seems to be that people refuse to admit that Obama was because he was 'Mr. Charm' while he was doing it and Trump is seen as a water buffalo and Obama is still seeing awards regardless of that fact.
BTW. People are being sold as slaves in Libya because of Obama's actions. History is always affected by people's actions. Hitler's actions are still affecting people today so I really don't understand your point. Bad is bad and evil is evil. No way to quantify Evil.
The public has been conditioned over time—in ways that would make Pavlov's dawg seem like an in independent thinker
and bill clinton was a war criminal, as were harry truman, dubya bush, poppy bush, colin powell, jimmy ('I never dropped a bomb') carter only *aided* war criminals over iran, the list would go on and on to those who aided and abetted the, from samantha power to madelieine albright, to dick cheney's 'secret energy tak force'...well, you get my drift.
and those heroes w/ feet of clay...the list is too long to bring. zionists, the one who escorted war criminal nareda modi on his amerikan charm offensive after the US state dept. had denied him entry for his crimes, those in the O administration who'd done shuttle diplomacy and put their arms around genocidaire paul kagame...condi rice, and on and on.
So you have to choose one of those to defend you against Hitler
You going to choose Trump? It seems like the good ship C99 sometimes sails close to false equivalence land.
Beware the bullshit factories.
You are displaying a false
equivalence right there with the Hitler thing. Really? Is that the best we can do then, let's all get on board with one ugly racist after another when it can talk the good talk and not be Hitler? Using Churchill is rather telling in and of itself, hardly a bastion of progressive or liberal or whatever you want to call it values, and certainly a rabid Imperialist in the finest old British tradition. But hey, whatever works for Trump Derangement Syndrome I guess.
There's a meme in there somewhere
I'm up here on my moral high ground, chiding you for an insufficiently vehement, out-of-control emotional reaction to Trump.
Trump occasionally does the right thing for the wrong reasons
Can't say that of any of the last four Presidents, all of whom always did the wrong thing for the worst reasons (money and power).
There is no justice. There can be no peace.
I don't know, maybe Trump understands reverse psychology better
The U.S. making noble-sounding noises and leading war alliances hasn't worked, has it? It's only made things worse, with everything bad spreading, and everything the planet needs getting bogged down, while every other real power in the world dodges the hard questions and pursues its own narrow self-interest.
So let the U.S. make selfish, perhaps even stupid-sounding noises and seem too unpredictable to lead for a while. Let's see if that gets better results.
Maybe all the other powers on earth will now have to pull more of their own weight, learn to co-operate, and actually solve the world's problems together — with the added emotional kick of thinking that, every time they succeed, they're spiting the United States?
Imagine North and South Korea saying: "Bolton, Trump — hey, you know what? We're the Korean people and they're not. Screw those guys, let's talk."


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You are almost guaranteed to get a post from me when the Ottawa Citizen publishes stuff about Lisgar Collegiate Institute, Ottawa's oldest high school. I taught at Lisgar for three years and, while I worked with many excellent teachers and students there, I did not find that the school lived up to its self-image as the be-all and end-all of high school education in Ottawa. The story today talks about how cross-boundary transfers affect schools. Just to clarify, in Ottawa each student is supposed to go to the high school in whose area they live. However, for various reasons (I remember my friend needing to transfer so that he could take Typing in French) some students are allowed to attend a different school instead.
The problem with this particular approach is that schools with a good reputation disproportionately attract more good students. Schools with poor reputations disproportionately lose good students. Reputations and standardized tests results are maintained even though the quality of teaching, and the actual student improvements, may well be better in the "bad" school.
But the transfers hurt more than just the "bad" schools. For example Lisgar, which accepted 80 transfers this last year, is over-crowded. Many Science classes are not held in Science labs and it is extremely difficult to get computer time for non-Computer classes. Every student at Lisgar has his or her learning opportunities reduced because of the overcrowding.
The brouhaha of the Citizen article is that the Ottawa-Carleton District School Board (OCDSB) is planning to make it more difficult to transfer away from the "home " school. In particular, some parents are worried that this will make it harder to get their kids into Lisgar. The change to transfers makes sense in line with the fact that the OCDSB uses a community schools model where each school serves the needs of its community, and so transfers should not really be required. However, what the board seems to have missed is that having specialized arts programs and gifted programs at only some schools takes away from the community model. Once you start putting special students in only some schools, the rest of the schools are left with the less-special students. Not exactly true community schooling.
Even if the board allowed no transfers at all there would always be wealthy parents who move so that their children can attend the school of choice. Given that the OCDSB does not fully abide by the community school model and that some parents already can choose schools, I feel that the smartest thing to do would be for the OCDSB to move to a model where everyone can choose which school they go to and each school can choose which segment of the population will be its specialty.
Monday, November 16, 2009
Lisgar, school transfers, community schools, and school choice
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Environmentalists trashing the environment (again)
From Der Spiegel
Once...rubbish is collected, the sorting continues. Special machines with infrared sensors discern six different types of plastic. But then something strange happens -- more than half the yoghurt cups, plastic juice bottles and packaging foils are incinerated. That is quite legal. Under German law, only 36 percent of plastic rubbish has to be recycled.
The remainder can be sold for a profit, for example to plants that burn rubbish to produce heating or power. Such facilities are everywhere in Germany. Municipalities across the country built then in response to a ban on storing garbage in landfills. Indeed, now there are far too many of them in Germany -- and there is a shortage of burnable waste.
The result is that firms are buying up as much plastic waste -- which burns well due to the high quantity of oil in plastics -- as they can get their hands on. Indeed, some companies have even resorted to importing plastic waste to burn -- hardly a contribution to an environmental utopia.