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The Jose VilsonIt's not about a salary; it's all about reality.2014-10-01T02:19:55+00:00hourly1http://feeds.feedburner.com/TheJoseVilson?format=skinhttp://creativecommons.org/images/public/somerights20.gifTheJoseVilsonhttps://feedburner.google.comOn Writing Like A MonsterJose Vilson2014-09-30T19:19:55-07:00http://thejosevilson.com/?p=14253
On Saturday, I had the pleasure of moderating a non-fiction panel for Las Comadres and Compadres organization featuring former Colorlines editor Daisy Hernandez and writer Alina Garcia-Lapuerta. The panel was uproarious and chock full of information for the burgeoning writers in the audience, some of whom already have their own works in the audience. Even though I was there mainly ...
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On Saturday, I had the pleasure of moderating a non-fiction panel for Las Comadres and Compadres organization featuring former Colorlines editor Daisy Hernandez and writer Alina Garcia-Lapuerta. The panel was uproarious and chock full of information for the burgeoning writers in the audience, some of whom already have their own works in the audience. Even though I was there mainly to let the other panelists shine, I also had the opportunity to reflect on my own successes and failures as a writer. With no agent, a super-tight budget for publicity, and a teacher's / father's schedule, I've still made plenty of headway with my writing.

I've had hundreds of rejections and made hundreds of mistakes, but, in the back of my mind, the word "radical" always grounded me. What does it mean to be a radical writer in a time of polished centrism? If radical means "far-reaching or thorough" (along with advocating for complete sociopolitical reform), then how does my writing propound that? In education, this is especially dangerous considering the levels of acceptability folks want you to reach before you're welcomed into some circles whose borders you never actually see, just feel. If "radical" means getting to the root, not necessarily uprooting, where do we belong in that?

I'm writing this list not as a definition, but as a documentation of the ways and means for how I go about my business here, my book, or anywhere else I've written.

1. Look for what's not being said.

The most difficult part of writing in any circle is to look for the things that aren't "successful" in views and shares, but that are meaningful. For instance, in education, it's super-easy to write a post about the plethora of venture philanthropists trying to privatize our schools. It's equally easy to write about anti-testing too. Yet, I rarely find posts that incorporate both this element with what that looks like for the average classroom teacher (or student). The policy angle has been done over and again. Can we tell the stories without the shame that it's not a carbon copy of someone else's material?

2. Be unafraid to fail.

Many of my colleagues have this fear of failure, as if the blogs we write are the only shot we have of getting people to read us. That might be true sometimes, but usually, I've found that the more we write, the better we get, and the more our writing improves, the more people are willing to give your writing a second chance. We all have different levels of attention we given to different projects, but we can rest assured that, as long as you as the writer are earnest about your growth, your people will continue reading.

3. Develop new words.

Esmeralda Santiago, famous author of When I Was Puerto Rican, had echoed a sentiment Sonia Sanchez had mentioned to me more than a decade ago: we all work with the same set of words, but the way we approach them will make our stories different from all the others. The writer needs to develop the delicate balance between writing from a unique perspective and drawing in an audience who may or may not relate, connecting to something in their purview.

4. Challenge your own contradictions.

Often, radicalism looks less like Chomsky and more like Calvin and Hobbes, reflecting on your own practices and asking hard questions of yourself. For example, let's acknowledge the complications of developing collegiality with one another and understanding that some of our colleagues clash with our deepest principles. Those sorts of conflicts make us more human and more approachable. This also gives us the pathway to lay bare our grievances about one another. These honest conversations rarely go anywhere when people play defense more often than acknowledge flaws.

When people ask me how they can do what I do, I often tell them "Don't." Yes, I have a book and all the praise that comes with it. But there is a certain danger in writing like this. Only in the last month or so did the NYC Department of Education unblock my website from district computers. Some folks still tread nervously around sponsoring what I say, even when they quietly agree with it. Don't be me; be the best you.

You have to be willing to discard the hope that corporate sponsors and luminaries in your field will openly and vociferously endorse you because, as it turns out, you're a radical writer. We're trying to get to the root of things and work from there, not simply gathering words from others.

This is real writing right here.

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My first real introduction to baseball was my cousin Richie's autographed Don Mattingly placard. He put it on his shelf after meeting him thanks to the Miliken Boys' Club in 1991. I didn't understand the sport, and didn't care for it since I already had Patrick Ewing and the Madison Square Bullies playing at their peak. My interest in baseball ...
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My first real introduction to baseball was my cousin Richie's autographed Don Mattingly placard. He put it on his shelf after meeting him thanks to the Miliken Boys' Club in 1991. I didn't understand the sport, and didn't care for it since I already had Patrick Ewing and the Madison Square Bullies playing at their peak. My interest in baseball grew because I too became a member of the Boys Club, observing as the uniformed kids clapped their dusty cleats while the rest of us played pool or watched a movie. I got to go to the Old Yankee Stadium for the first time in 1992 (My counselor would say, "You're not getting a ball from these seats unless Jose Canseco smacks it harder than he's ever done in his life!), but I didn't really appreciate it until 1996.

Enter Derek Sanderson Jeter.

From the beginning, I found myself gravitating towards that team because they looked like they were having serious fun. In particular, Jeter looked like he could have been one of the kids who I saw play in East River Park, the ebullience and bounce every time a play went his way. Even the odd fro-coiffe Jeter sported on his head for most of his life made him seem more, not less, approachable. He had a billion interviews, none of them particularly interesting, and the commercials always came off effortlessly. He just had to smile and deliver the lines. His at-bat routine (slow walk, square feet in the batter's box, right arm extension while re-shuffling his feet, squint at the pitcher, reserve swing his bat two times, then the ready nod) must have added a full 10 minutes to the game, but everyone watched at attention just the same.

He was the man.

Mark McGwire and Sammy Sosa carried MLB from the depravity of the full-season lockout of 1994. The New York Yankees rebounded from having their owner suspended from baseball in the early 90's while Buck Showalter and others in the Yankee brass played the waiting game with their farm system. Paul O'Neill, Scott Brosius, John Wetteland, Mariano Rivera, Bernie Williams, Andy Pettitte, David Cone, Tino Martinez, and any number of players from the dynasty years may have had more critical numbers during the dynasty years (1996 – 2000).

None of this mattered. Derek Jeter was the everyday shortstop, and gave it everything he had on the field. And I kept watching.

As I've gotten older, though, there's all this other stuff that comes to the fore, too. His 2001 locker-room interview after the Yankees lost to the Diamondbacks and, still drenched in sweat and adrenaline, exclaimed cynically that these weren't the same dynasty Yankees, almost dismissing his own .148 batting average in the series. The seemingly infallible Jeter, the one who for years controlled every bit of his persona on and off the field, came unraveled in a moment of bitter honesty. His all-star roster of women he reportedly dated and the unconfirmed but slightly credible stories about his life off-camera brought him down a few notches to some, but he wasn't any wilder than Reggie Jackson, Keith Hernandez, or Lawrence Taylor in their heyday. His shorter range on defense and pretty good statistics still didn't do him favors when people argued that Alex Rodriguez or Nomar Garciaparra were the best shortstops during Jeter's tenure, but he was still the 1996 AL Rookie of the Year and the 2000 All-Star Game and World Series MVP, remarkable considering he only had six years under his belt.

But the scrutiny unsettled many of us because without Paul O'Neill and Scott Brosius after 2001, and with George Steinbrenner's renewed emphasis on paying for players like Jason Giambi, Mike Mussina, Hideki Matsui, and a host of others, Derek Jeter couldn't win as the leader and eventual captain. The acquisition of Alex Rodriguez might have jarred Derek Jeter some, too, because, at the time, A-Rod was considered the next true legend statistically, at least according to ESPN. When Alex, not Derek, had the best infield arm, the best offensive stats, the most MVPs, the largest contracts, the dumbest luck in supposedly clutch situation, and the most stories on the back page of the New York media, I had to wonder if having his best-friend-turned-enemy on his team got to him otherwise unquestioned leadership.

Obviously, winning things changes perspectives, too. In 2009, with A-Rod imploding with a steroid admission, baseball (and sports media) re-adjusted itself again to make Derek Jeter the face of baseball again. The contract negotiation of 2010, where only the Yankees insisted on kicking dirt on his legacy only made the Yankees look ridiculous since Jeter only wanted to be with the Yankees. With MLB hungry for a beacon of steroid-free superstars, Derek Jeter, the crown jewel of the most storied franchise in the league, fit perfectly.

He also happens to be my favorite player. Watching a few games every year (including Game 1 of the 2009 World Series) meant donning one of two Derek Jeter jerseys proudly down the school hallway and to the game. Seeing his face sparks memories of parades and met promises. Even when, for a second, I felt like Jeter should have retired in 2011, when it became super-obvious that he couldn't reach for many fast grounders hit to left, when teams put their best second-basemen in line with his opposite field ambitions, when his screaming hits weren't homers but doubles just inside the warning track where Jeffrey Maier couldn't tip it, he was still my favorite. He allowed us to project our aspirations on him because, even when he failed miserably, he at least signaled to us that he was trying his best, and that there might be a next time.

Except there's no next time. This is it, my favorite baseball player's jersey hanging the way his bat does now. I could care less about the things he didn't accomplish, nor do I care for hero-worship, but the most you can expect from anyone with that many fans is to give it all they got.

Thank you, #2. You're the man.

"I'm not going to boast about being the shortstop on a team that has won three of the last four World Championships, but it does feel good. I'm not going to tell you that as a 26-year old multimillionaire who still has all of his hair all of his teeth, and can get dates, I have a perfect life, but it's good. I'm not going to tell you that you should want to be like me, because everyone should want to be their own person, but I assure you that it's fun to be me. What I do want to tell you is that I'm proud of where I am and how I got to this stage in my life, and I think there's a way for everyone to benefit from all that I have experienced while making it my dream. I'm proud of the guidance my parents gave me in helping me determined the best ways to methodically move closer and close to my dream, and I'm proud of how I've worked to reach that dream and maintain it. For me, the dream of being a baseball player is a daily challenge – not only living that dream but ensuring it stays alive."

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For the last week or so, I've had NFL Hall of Famer Cris Carter's words ring in my head in his response to the current consternation about NFL running backs Ray Rice and Adrian Peterson. His quote "My mom did the best job she could do. My mom was wrong" juxtaposed with "You know what? Take em off the daggone ...
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For the last week or so, I've had NFL Hall of Famer Cris Carter's words ring in my head in his response to the current consternation about NFL running backs Ray Rice and Adrian Peterson. His quote "My mom did the best job she could do. My mom was wrong" juxtaposed with "You know what? Take em off the daggone field because, you know what, as a man, that's the only thing we really respect. We don't respect no women. We don't respect no kids. The only thing Roger and them do, take them off the field cuz they respect that" made me think about schools and parenting.

In particular, it made me think of the unwritten rules about parent-teacher communication, and how often many of us would observe parents not just threaten to beat their kids, but also hear of students get a beating, prompted by that educators' phone call. Some of us might have even hoped that the phone call would lead to such a beating.

Yet, as my friend Alexa (@alexachula) said this on Twitter:

"Listen, beating your kids doesn't work. They're still not doing HW, fighting, cussing, & talking back. I spend 6.5 hours w/your kid, I know."

This is a critical aspect of the Adrian Peterson conversation for educators. In the past, I've been of the mindset that sparing the rod meant spoiling the child. When I think about the hundreds of students I've taught and met, my best students never got beaten. Love, structure, and discussions seemed to work best for them. It was my more rambunctious kids who were the most fragile and, often, the most beaten. They also felt the least loved. Corporal punishment is still legal in 23 states, despite the studies showing more progressive ways to instill discipline and positive school culture.

So, all that beating seems to accomplish is making kids less confident in their own person and more agitated at the sight of authority. That includes teachers.

Even our classroom management strategies might need an upgrade, for, if schools are supposed to function as safe havens, why do we continue to work against that so often? Why do we run mock prisons and threaten students ad nauseam about ending up in jail or flipping burgers for a living? How do we re-define the word discipline as restraint towards achieving a wholeness, not destroying as a means of stripping apart?

This cuts across so many lines and gets more complicated the deeper you look, but it's unfair for us to not look, to not see the legacies we've inherited, and the impressions we leave on the children who will have to ask themselves the same questions, scars and all.

A love supreme, a love supreme, a love supreme …

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Last week, I found myself as restless as the first day of school. In fact, I got to school at 7:10am every day, when school usually starts at 8am. I racked my brain around what the next logical step is in my curriculum. Negative exponents are especially difficult if students don't get a lot of practice with the concept, and ...
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Last week, I found myself as restless as the first day of school.

In fact, I got to school at 7:10am every day, when school usually starts at 8am. I racked my brain around what the next logical step is in my curriculum. Negative exponents are especially difficult if students don't get a lot of practice with the concept, and if they can't make a seamless connection between negative and positive integer exponents. I decided to breathe life into it by waiting and waiting and not settling for mediocre understanding, returning to the idea of folding for amount and folding for size. Tight with behavioral expectations, loose with the learning timeline. My classroom and quiz questions all sounded like this: "What is the reciprocal of 3^-4?" "What's the difference between -2^3 and (-2)^3?" "Prove that x^0 = 1."

Here I am, successfully proving that I can deliver middle-school-level math material with higher-order thinking. There they are, answering two-thirds of the questions correctly. Two thirds of my students passed my hardest quiz of the year thus far. I'm not happy, but I'm happier.

Usually, I wait a while before drawing bolder lines between what they can and can't do in my class, but this week, I decided that the tough love was necessary early and often. As the pseudo-dean of the floor last year, I saw this set of students as seventh graders run roughshod over most teachers' rules, ignoring stern warnings and detention sessions alike. I'm sticking to my "no yelling" policy, but the usually patient Mr. Vilson has a sudden sense of urgency. As I hold myself to a higher standard of teaching, I find myself expecting the same from the students in front of me. They're responding by excelling in my quizzes. I'm onto something.

The expectations I have for them and the expectations I have for myself ought to match the expectations they have for me and for themselves. Duh.

For the first parent-teacher conference, I had plenty of parents come in, many of whom were told explicitly to come to my class by their sons and daughters. I'm not sure if that's a good thing, but seeing 25 of 90 parents on Back To School Night is pretty good. I told them the same thing I'm telling you now. Students can check their grades whenever they wish. They need to work hard and there's no such thing as a math person. Parents can ask me questions as they need to. My syllabus is available to them. When they're concerned about their child's behavior in my class, they respond not to me, but to their children. They thank me. Two of them remind me that I had their children nine years prior. I tell them that it's an honor to serve them again.

It's amazing that I've gotten this many chances to get it right and keep doing so. In my tenth year, Lord knows that even my best lesson plans have nothing on inquisitive and slightly sugar-influenced children. I'm not all that perfect, either.

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http://thejosevilson.com/best-laid-lesson-plans/feed/0http://thejosevilson.com/best-laid-lesson-plans/Join The EduColor Movement, Part 1 of ManyJose Vilson2014-09-16T19:51:54-07:00http://thejosevilson.com/?p=14228
It's been a few years since Arvind Grover, ed-tech specialist in NYC, and I looked around boutique education conferences and said, "Wow, these spaces need a lot more diversity." When a few of us sat there and said we'd create a clearinghouse to rate the diversity of any conference we came across, I didn't think we'd have much impact. How ...
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It's been a few years since Arvind Grover, ed-tech specialist in NYC, and I looked around boutique education conferences and said, "Wow, these spaces need a lot more diversity." When a few of us sat there and said we'd create a clearinghouse to rate the diversity of any conference we came across, I didn't think we'd have much impact. How many people of color were willing to jump into spaces they didn't feel invited to? How many people were ready to have that conversation about race in education reform at all? While supposed ed-reformers like former Washington DC schools chancellor Michelle Rhee and principaneur Steve Perry ran around telling the world that teachers' union stunk and that the current teaching corps, 85% of whom are white, have low expectations of the neediest students of color, no one in that stratosphere was willing to say, "There's a progressive way to discuss race in education reform."

Insert EduColor.

This collective of teachers, parents, students, and other education denizens from many different backgrounds has secretly taken the lead on a lot of great efforts in the last year or so, building up leaders in their edu-communities, promoting diversity in different spaces, and holding organizations and personalities to higher standards when talking about race.

Soon, we'll grow this collective, but for now, the 40 or so people in this coalition, many of whom you recognize in this work, have one ask: sign this petition, please.

Readers of this blog know how I feel about the teachers who wore the NYPD t-shirts on the first day of school. (For added context, please read NYC Educator's post on this as well.) Now, our EduColor team has asked everyone involved to not do what's popular, but to do what's right, even people who I have a good relationship with. Our calls for justice are an assertion that, yes, our voices belong here. At a time when a majority white teaching profession comes in conflict with a majority non-white student body, having thorough race discussions in our school buildings as part of our professional development coincides with the calls for the NYC Department of Education, the United Federation of Teachers, and the group of NYPD t-shirt wearing teachers to address this better than using policies and codes.

The transition from EduColor from humble clearinghouse to rumbling coalition isn't lost on me as the founder. Now, we have an independent set of folks who think we can do better than the current crop of folks on the proverbial "both sides" trying to tap into discussions of race.

The petition is an important piece. Be a part of our community. We can do this.

 Sign This Petition

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I've started my unit on exponents the same exact way for the last five years. I'd give my students the definition of exponent and base, and give them examples of how each of them work. From there, we'd see what happens as I made tables to show growth patterns. What happens as the exponent increases? What happens as the exponent ...
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I've started my unit on exponents the same exact way for the last five years. I'd give my students the definition of exponent and base, and give them examples of how each of them work. From there, we'd see what happens as I made tables to show growth patterns. What happens as the exponent increases? What happens as the exponent decreases? What if the exponent is zero? Negative? What's the difference between a negative base and a negative exponent?

This year, I changed my whole lesson planning by introducing them to the problem of folds.

In this problem, I take a sheet of paper and fold it in half. I then take the paper and fold it again in half, and do it again for emphasis. I then asked them, "What do you notice?" I let them tackle this for a longer while than I'm used to. The students came up with a bunch of different observations:

As the stage increased, the number of boxes doubles.

As the stage increased, the size of the boxes shrunk in half.

It looks like division / multiplication.

I didn't really tell them which is right or wrong, but they put something into my lessons that I didn't anticipate: I could use this problem for both positive and negative numbers, the positive numbers dealing with the amount of the boxes and the negative numbers dealing with the size of the boxes.

For the rest of the week, instead of giving them a mix of computation problems for their first activity, I decided to just put up the complex ones I would ask for homework and let them argue. Indeed, many of them did argue with each other. Maybe it got a little loud for my taste in one of the classes this week, but, for my kids to have the permission to argue with each other gave all of us a sense of how the school year might proceed.

This is all buoyed by my loose-tight structure in class. I'm demanding "good morning" from each of them, and asking them to jump into their work as soon as they walk in. I'm demanding that they listen to each other and questioning them on what the other is saying. I'm not collecting all their classwork and notes, but I'm asking them to participate more intentionally. With a vibrant, organized classroom around them, including a Martin Luther King Jr. poster behind them, I'm hoping they feel welcome.

With me going back into the classroom full-time, one might expect that I have a sour taste in my mouth. There's evidence to the contrary. On Friday, I spent the last two periods grading my work and cleaning my classroom. One of my colleagues who needed the room during the period saw me going about my business and remarked, "You look like you belong here. You look happy."

I said, "Hell yeah."

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Hey everyone, Last night, I had the pleasure of being invited by Dana Goldstein, author of the must-read education history book of the year The Teacher Wars, and New York Times education writer Motoko Rich to speak at the New America NYC panel on Goldstein's aforementioned book. We did a good job parsing some of the education issues of today. ...
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Hey everyone,

Last night, I had the pleasure of being invited by Dana Goldstein, author of the must-read education history book of the year The Teacher Wars, and New York Times education writer Motoko Rich to speak at the New America NYC panel on Goldstein's aforementioned book. We did a good job parsing some of the education issues of today. Glad the place was sold out, and there might be another one soon. In the meantime, listen to the convo here!

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Hey everyone, I wrote up a resource on how to teach about and beyond the events of Ferguson, and included examples of how some teachers are already doing it. Please read and let me know what you think. 3. Bring it back to the individual. We don't often get the chance to reflect about our misgivings or perceptions of each ...
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Hey everyone,

I wrote up a resource on how to teach about and beyond the events of Ferguson, and included examples of how some teachers are already doing it. Please read and let me know what you think.

3. Bring it back to the individual.

We don't often get the chance to reflect about our misgivings or perceptions of each other. Especially in diverse communities (and I do mean diverse and not just communities of color), we often dodge racial conversations because we pretend that avoiding the subject means peace. Instead, confronting our own prejudices head-on would make us better people and leaders. Understanding the lens through which we see the world and how others see the world will combine to grow a sense of empathy within our communities, so that when conversations like Ferguson do come up, everyone understands how to approach it.

Read, share, and let me know what you think. Thank you!

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http://thejosevilson.com/contribution-fergusonsyllabus-edutopia/feed/0http://thejosevilson.com/contribution-fergusonsyllabus-edutopia/Pedagogy First (A Note on Elizabeth Green's Building A Better Teacher)Jose Vilson2014-09-09T18:39:00-07:00http://thejosevilson.com/?p=14200
Every so often, I love reading other folks talk about standards without any current teachers present in their conversation. Even a cursory read of education history in this country shows how intellectual [white] men throw their moral and scholarly swag about what teachers should and shouldn't be focused on. On the other hand, the teachers I eavesdrop on try to ...
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Every so often, I love reading other folks talk about standards without any current teachers present in their conversation. Even a cursory read of education history in this country shows how intellectual [white] men throw their moral and scholarly swag about what teachers should and shouldn't be focused on. On the other hand, the teachers I eavesdrop on try to out-intellectual the folks imposing their "thought leadership" onto those of us in schools. Over and again, I see templates and talking points, and less about the day-to-day events and adjustments we as teachers have to make to make school work when other adults can't.

Thankfully, Elizabeth Green's book Building A Better Teacher does quite a bit of this.

As an urban middle school math teacher going into my 10th year, I valued getting a different perspective about teaching. Hearing things about Finland, Singapore, and Japan are nice, and all the cool kids who get to travel over there and tell us how their talking points matched with their experience over there is all well and good, but on more than one occasion found myself saying, "So what does that have to do with me?"

Green's book, in sharp contrast, expounds on ideas I've only heard in passing, like the heavily-touted Japanese model of lesson study or Magdalene Lampert's TKOT. I appreciated hearing the trials and failures of these pedagogical movements as well. It's great to hear that teachers want to observe each other, come together, and make observations about how they can improve their pedagogy and assessments. It's great to hear that people had the time and resources to work with each other and feel vested in this intellectually challenging work. It's great to hear that, at some point, a group of folks actually wanted to disband the "ed-schools from afar" approach.

It also felt weird that, simultaneously, article after article came out disputing some of the claims in the book, which I found odd. For instance, Reiko Watanabe came out with an article explaining why Green's excerpt from her book, which appeared in the New York Times, had gotten Japanese schools all wrong. According to him, juku school, and not "regular school," were the reason that students learned. In American terms, he's saying that companies like Kumon and Kaplan matter more than the schools the students attend by day. While that might have some credibility, especially when it comes to SAT prep and the like), I'm not convinced that rote memorization school and beating kids over the head with facts like a thousand hammers into a child's skull is the best way to get kids to learn.

Then again, I'm not a standards-deliverer. I'm a teacher, a pedagogue. As a few of us have said time and again, I can take a set of great standards and deliver it in monotonous worksheets or I can take a set of inappropriate and unintelligible standards and still get kids engaged in lessons about it. Thus, pedagogy must come first.

Perhaps that's the implication in her book, too. Yes, she pays lots of attention to what many dub as the best classroom management system out there (Doug Lemov's Teach Like A Champion is the handbook), but she dedicates many pages critiquing its militaristic and often callous procedures. [Full disclosure: reading too much about the charter movement made me wince a bit, but that's neither here nor there.]
She noticeably doesn't critique Lampert's open, patient, and precise approach to teaching mathematics. And, instead of just listing the things Japanese teachers did, she breaks down the sort of dialogue that happens in the lesson study meetings. The structures obviously support the pedagogy, and the structures include the standards, but the pedagogy still wins.

That's why, when watching men debate each other over their own agendas, I wonder if those men have actually put both feet into the classroom and debate over the 30+ kids in front of them, and, if not, why they don't ask the folks who must. Like Green did here. L'chayim.

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Tiffanie Drayton's open letter to the teachers who wore NYPD t-shirts on the first day of school ought to be printed and passed around in every staff meeting: To your Black and Latino students, many of whom must have serious conversations with their parents about safeguarding their person from those charged to serve and protect them — the NYPD — ...
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Tiffanie Drayton's open letter to the teachers who wore NYPD t-shirts on the first day of school ought to be printed and passed around in every staff meeting:

To your Black and Latino students, many of whom must have serious conversations with their parents about safeguarding their person from those charged to serve and protect them — the NYPD — your actions are deeply hurtful. Any remaining innocence they brought with them to the classroom that enabled them to readily accept you, a White person, as a loving, caring, respecting authority figure has been undermined. The relationships students and teachers struggle to build across racial divides can only be maintained when both parties respect one another; their history and most importantly their struggle. It is quite a delicate process that requires objectivity, fairness, empathy and most importantly, sensitivity. Traits and characteristics that the you, the "educators" obviously lack based on your outrageous choice to wear those shirts, despite being warned against it by your own union.

This set of teachers only underlined the oft-held perception, mostly from people of color, that anyone who works in an authoritative position cannot be fully trusted. By wearing those shirts, the teachers immediately made a connection for the students and parents between two agents of the state who have historically underserved people of color. Even with those of us who are thankful for the services both the police and schools provide for the public, many of us have historically had a distrust of them, which has also allowed for others to take advantage of that mistrust. The same can be said for our fire departments, hospitals, postal workers, or any entity created by our government.

Institutionalism racism is by design, and often, we are the embodiment of the institution.

Here's the thing, too: I have yet to hear a solid argument for why the teachers would wear a Support NYPD t-shirt on the first day. For one, the New York Police Department as a whole holds a special place in New York, cemented every September 11th and every seventh inning stretch at a Yankees or Mets game. When in Rome, we salute the police, so supporting the NYPD comes as regularly as the pledge of allegiance in our schools. Even though teachers and police start off at similar base pay, police prestige is still high. Plus, most of the conversations I see in the media isolate individual bad actors within the police department and don't condemn the cops as a whole.

But maybe that don't convince the teachers who took it upon themselves to wear the shirts. They have cousins who serve on the force, and neighbors who have lost their lives in the line of duty, fighting for the safety of their community. At least that's the argument. [Full disclosure: I do, too, but that's the equivalent of mentioning a friend of color to dissuade people from calling them a racist.] Maybe you just don't like UFT President Michael Mulgrew and the UFT's direction, so this felt like a way to spite him. Maybe you don't like Al Sharpton, because, believe it or not, a lot of us don't like him.

Maybe you actually thought Eric Garner should have been killed for resisting arrest because resisting arresting is an obvious violation of his right to live.

All of this falls apart when you hear both Mulgrew and Sharpton say they're not only not trying to take down the NYPD, they're hoping for justice for Eric Garner and anyone who's ever been victimized by the "few bad actors." So is the argument for wearing these t-shirts that they don't want to get rid of the "few bad actors" who use the badge and the gun as a means of terrorizing youth of color? Is the argument that, just like teachers who say racist things to our kids or under-educate our children because they probably won't make it far, the police should be given clemency because they're "serving the people?"

It seems like it. To wit, this quote from one of the supporters says a lot:

"What happened [to Garner] was a terrible tragedy, and it's not our place to be deciding who's guilty and who's not guilty. I don't see it as a political message. I just see it as we want our children to respect policemen, to respect firemen, to respect teachers, to respect everybody."

It's an argument I've heard echoed a few times. So, instead of demanding a full investigation, instead of educating themselves on abundance of young men and women of color who are disproportionately affected the imperfect workings of the law, instead of developing support systems for the children and parents in their community who may have held resentment towards the police after the incident happened in their own neighborhoods and others like Ferguson, MO, instead of asking the police to do a better job of policing their own (something that we as teachers need to take on more as well), they wear T-shirts in support of NYPD.

Because everyone ought to be respected equally. It just so happens that policemen, firemen, and teachers should get respected more equally than others.

Well, OK. Policing, like teaching, is a political act. Instead of creating a teachable moment about how we as a city respond to tragedy, this set of teachers wants to show that, yes, everything is alright and we have no reason to reflect or get better at serving the public. I do mean we this time.

Not all my teacherfolk are my kinfolk.

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02/26/04The Xavier entrepreneurial center recently celebrated the grand opening of its new learning lab in the Hamilton County Business Center. Through the financial support of Provident Bank, the entrepreneurship program signed a three-year lease last summer for 1,100 square-feet of space in the business incubator, located at 1776 Mentor Ave. in Norwood, about one mile from campus.
For a school our size, to have this is a major step in entrepreneurship, says Ed VonderBrink, director for the entrepreneurial center.
VonderBrink says the new space provides students with a variety of real-world learning and networking opportunities. Its a place for students to go to brainstorm their ideas, he says. Theres an environment or a culture that exists therea whole bunch of people starting their businesses, trying to figure it out. So theyll be constant access and revisions of ideas and concepts.
The University provided computers and workstations for the lab, which serves as the corporate headquarters for FliXthe student-run video rental store located in the Gallagher Student Centerand will be home to future student-run businesses. This spring, Sherrie Humans entrepreneurship class is meeting at the business center, and VonderBrink says affiliation with the incubator gives students access to the seminars and other programs provided by the Hamilton County Development Co., which oversees the facility. Thats the value to this, he says.Our students are getting the same opportunities to learn that the other tenants of business center are getting.


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Sixth grade students were in Washington D.C. for a class trip and posed for a photo Thursday morning on Capitol Hill. Just hours later, authorities received reports of multiple shots fired and the entire area was put on lockdown.
Beechwood Principal Jamie Flaherty says all students on the trip are safe and accounted for. She says the events Thursday afternoon will have no impact on their plans while in D.C.
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Developing A Comprehensive Plan To Treat Plantar Fasciitis
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Can PRP And ESWT Be Effective For More Chronic And Thickened Fascia?
If symptoms continue and patients do not report progress within three to six months, our next line of treatment includes platelet rich plasma (PRP) injection or extracorporeal shockwave therapy (ESWT) for the more chronic and thickened fascia. It is our belief that after a period of three to six months, the plantar fascia no longer has adequate blood supply for healing and is more of a plantar fasciosis case than a plantar fasciitis case. In such cases, increasing the blood supply to the damaged region may better resolve the chronic pain.
Platelet-rich plasma is an autologous, biological, blood-derived product, which one can exogenously apply to a variety of tissues. The PRP releases high concentrations of platelet-derived growth factors that enhance wound, bone and tendon healing. Growth factors release when the platelets become activated, subsequently initiating the body's natural healing response.4 Platelet-rich therapy is safe and the technique does not impair the biomechanical function of the foot. The patient may wear a short controlled ankle motion (CAM) boot walker for approximately two weeks after PRP injection to allow the body's inflammatory response to heal the thickened, scarred fascia. Often, a second injection is required in severely thickened and damaged plantar fascias.
An alternative to PRP is ESWT. Shockwave has a similar mechanism of action as PRP and can initiate an inflammatory response. Shockwave requires no period of immobilization, providing patients with an immediate return to work and resumption of full activities within two to three weeks. Weil and colleagues found electrohydraulic ESWT to be as effective for chronic plantar fasciitis as a percutaneous plantar fasciotomy.5 We will perform ESWT with a low-energy machine at 10-day intervals and have found three treatments to be optimal. We tell patients to limit activity and rest the treatment region after each procedure to allow the healing factors of the body to work optimally on the damaged fascia.
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Surgical treatment, whether it be Topaz (Arthrocare) or an open release, is our last resort for patients with moderate to severe, persistent symptoms that have been resistant to at least six months of non-surgical therapy. We have found that less than 5 percent of our plantar fasciitis cases make it to the operating room. Surgical procedure alternatives for recalcitrant plantar fasciitis include: isolated partial or complete release of the plantar fascia or a fascial release in combination with a nerve decompression; calcaneal spur resection; or excision of abnormal tissue. Surgeons may perform these as either open or endoscopic procedures, both of which have advantages and disadvantages.
The most common surgical procedures that we perform in our office include the Topaz and endoscopic plantar fasciotomy. Topaz Coblation is an alternative procedure to the endoscopic plantar fasciotomy that we find successful in our hands. It is a quick, straightforward and minimally invasive technique associated with patients' speedy return to their daily activities.


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Role Models
The State of comedy isn't what it used to be, but it's still good for a laugh
Role Models
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Cast: Paul Rudd, Seann William Scott, Christopher Mintz-Plasse
While Judd Apatow has been building an unstoppable empire of hilarity over the last few years, David Wain and his pals have quietly assembled their own insular but dedicated cult of comedy. Shows like "Stella" and "Reno 911!" and movies like Wet Hot American Summer and The Ten have put Wain in regular contact with a stable of fine comedic performers. So far, though, mass appeal has eluded Wain and his chuckle pals.
Role Models, the latest writing/directing effort by Wain, is a rather blatant attempt to crack the mainstream. That might come as something of a disappointment for fans of Wain's edgier efforts (like The Ten, for example). While the straightforward buddy comedy of Role Models is unlikely to garner the same rabid (and deserved) fanbase as the straight-faced teen sex parody Wet Hot American Summer, the film is packed with enough big laughs to amuse a wide range of audience members.
Paul Rudd (a longtime Wain compadre who also contributes to the script) and Seann William Scott (still living off his American Pie fame and deserving better roles) star as Danny and Wheeler. Danny is an uptight cynic who hates his job lecturing middle school kids on the dangers of drugs while peddling a hyper-caffienated energy drink named Minotaur. ("Taste the Beast!") Coworker Wheeler is (no big stretch for Scott) an easygoing horndog, happy to dress up in a giant foam minotaur costume and humiliate himself for minimum wage. When his seven-years-and-holding girlfriend (the suddenly ubiquitous Elizabeth Banks) dumps his unhappy ass, Danny gets amped on energy drinks and goes ballistic. Arrested for assaulting a police officer and driving their minotaur-shaped monster truck into a large piece of statuary, Danny and Wheeler find themselves with a choice: Go to jail for 30 days or spend 120 hours mentoring disadvantaged children.
Against their better judgment, they opt for the second. That sends them to Sturdy Wings, a Big Brothers-type program led by enthusiastic nutcase Gayle Sweeney (Jane Lynch, another Wain collaborator). Naturally, the boys are assigned the two most troubled kids in the program. Wheeler is brothered up with foul-mouthed little troublemaker Ronnie (Bobb'e J. Thompson from "Human Giant"). Danny, meanwhile, is stuck with dorktacular Augie (Christopher Mintz-Plasse, previously immortalized as McLovin in Superbad). As expected, their early interactions are disastrous; but our juvenile adults soon bond with their young charges. Wheeler teaches Ronnie the fine art of booby appreciation, while Danny sacrifices his dignity to participate in some good, old-fashioned LARPing (that's Live-Action Role Playing for those of you with girlfriends).
The standard wise-kid-melts-the-heart-of-a-cynical-adult plot is tempered by loads of crude humor, the occasional spot-on ad lib and some unexpected thematic elements. The LARPing subplot is actually handled with some sympathy, and a running joke about KISS is well worth the effort. (Scott's explanation of the subtle sexual innuendo present in KISS' "Love Gun" is a definite highlight.)
Role Models isn't a clever film. The script sticks to its high concept plot like glue, barely giving its main characters room to breathe and shortchanging most of its supporting players to boot. (Girlfriend Banks, for example, barely registers.) Still, it makes with the funny, generating far more laughs than you'd expect from--for example--Lynch's salacious handling of a bagel dog. Sure, the people who formed legendary L.A. improv group The State (Wain, Kerri Kenney-Silver, Joe Lo Truglio and Ken Marino, all of whom are present here) are capable of generating much more subversive material. But it's no crime to rest on your laurels, take a paycheck from a major studio and pump out a good wiener joke now and again.
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"I myself am convinced, my brothers, that you yourselves are full of goodness, complete in knowledge and competent to instruct one another." (Romans 15:14 NIV)
"It looks like it might just happen." Those are Anne's words a few days back. We were walking around Dock Street at sunup, Anne looking for her perfect photo, that special pose, that candid moment to catch in time on her camera. She's good with the camera, at capturing that single moment.
I have been telling people for years that the most important thing you can do with your computer is to back up your data. You don't necessarily need to back up everything on your hard drive, but you need to make frequent and regular backups of the data that you create.
A friend and I were talking. Between us we have the world figured out... Well, almost.
We got to musing on the economy and how things are and likely will be in the near future. Housing is all but at a standstill, and fuel prices are still going up. What we figure, is things are not going to get better anytime soon.
Now I don't want to sound like doomsday, but we really are not in good shape in this country right now. Not only that, it's going to take a while to get back to somewhere normal again.
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Now you are saying to yourself, "Has this guy finally flipped his lid? I knew those middle school kids would eventually drive him crazy."
She wears the pink and black Jennie Finch Mizuno batting gloves, rocks the pink and black Mizuno mitt, even checked out the pink and black cleats at Hibbett, "but they didn't fit."
Her favorite color isn't pink, though.
Cedar Key's starting first baseman Shawna Fenton wears pink gloves because "I like to aggravate the guys - you know, let 'em know you can wear pink and play good baseball."
Bronson Eagles' head basketball coach Kelly Beckham announced Thursday that he will leave Bronson Middle-High School, where he has been for nearly 25 years and more than 500 wins, for Gainesville High School.
Beckham will finish out the school year at Bronson, and start at GHS in the new school year.
His academic duties at GHS will be largely similar to those at Bronson — he will be a Dean of Students. What will change the most is the basketball. 5A GHS has about 2,000 students; Bronson, in class 2A, has 453 or fewer.
Cedar Key baseball dropped its last home game 17-8 to Bell, playing six good innings after coming this close to a 10-run meltdown.
"We were down 13-0 when we first came to bat in the first inning," said head coach Joe Bishop.
Bell batted through the order twice in the first inning, with C.J. Harris and Tyler Stofel each hitting home runs, but much of the scoring was due to defensive errors.
Cedar Key School Island City Young Authors' Conference
The annual Young Authors' Conference will take place on Friday morning, April 25.
K-5 students will share their published works during the Authors' Chair. Our featured guest artists include author and illustrator, Rebekah Raye and storyteller Kaye Byrnes.
The conference will include a book sale sponsored by Barnes and Noble.
It appears the Arts Festival of 2008 was successful and the Chamber of Commerce did another great job of encouraging the most qualified artists to attend this annual event. Thanks to each and every one of you that gave so much of your time and the great effort contributed by all of you in making this weekend a success.
Your Police Department was somewhat busy over the weekend but most of the crowd abided by the rules of the road. We, too, appreciate the cooperation of all those attending the festival, as you are part of the fun and relaxation enjoyed by every one in attendance.
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At the 2013 Frankfurt auto show BMW showed off the production plug-in hybrid i8 model, a vehicle using carbon fiber construction that may lead the way for the industry.Galleryby Wayne Cunningham
BMW went back to the drawing board to come up with the i8, a car with three motors, four seats, all-wheel-drive, and a swooping exterior that's straight out of the future. Our first impressions on the road.Reviewby CNET
This year's Frankfurt auto show made it clear that compact SUVs are the latest trend in the automotive industry, but coupes may also be making a comeback, with entrants from BMW, Mercedes-Benz, and Volvo.Articleby Wayne Cunningham
This year's International Motor Show in Frankfurt was packed with sexy concepts and production models as well as a few fun surprises along the way.Articleby CNET staff
Porsche's hybrid super sports car has been a long time coming, but with a total of 887 horsepower on tap, it seems to be worth the wait.Reviewby CNET
Porsche joins the ranks of Ferrari and McLaren with its 918 Spyder hybrid super sports car.Galleryby Josh Miller
At the Frankfurt auto show, Kia Motors toys with the idea of adding a small urban crossover concept to its lineup of vehicles.Galleryby Antuan Goodwin
Betting that wealthy people also want smaller cars, Mercedes-Benz introduces the GLA-Class compact SUV at the 2013 Frankfurt auto show.Reviewby CNET
One of the most popular new car styles is the compact SUV, and Mercedes-Benz chimed in with its own entrant at the 2013 Frankfurt auto show, introducing the entirely new GLA-Class.Galleryby Wayne Cunningham
This year's Frankfurt auto show was a good mix of concepts and new, innovative models, with a healthy dose of compact SUVs. The Frankfurt location meant an emphasis on models from Mercedes-Benz, BMW, VW, and Audi. Check out the sights of the 2013 Frankfurt auto show.Galleryby Josh Miller
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The Persian Hamadan Rug
The quality of Iranian rugs is all over the map. They have been described as "the good, the bad and the ugly," but more on that at a later date. What we need to keep in mind is that rugs are fashion. Most rugs will decline in value. What was paid for a Kerman rug in the mid 1960s will not be paid for the same rug today. Those colors are not "in" now. What matters in today's market are color and design, not country of origin.
Rugs woven in the Hamadan district have been coming into the United States for decades, so it is important for the rug-cleaning specialist to be familiar with this old and (soon to be) new standard.
It is a real mix of different cultures and rug designs. The region has approximately 600 villages in the area that contain as many as 40,000 looms. Hamadan is the market town for the villages that surround the area. Probably more rugs from this region have been imported into the United States than from any other area of Iran.
Hamadans were the working man's rugs between the World Wars. At the time, a 9-by-12-foot rug sold for about $50 to $75. During the same period a Sarouk sold for $395.
The enormous variety of Hamadan rugs appear to have sundry and varying designs with little rhyme or reason, (Photos 1 and 2) but each design is highly restricted and corresponds to a specific village.
Hamadans are coarsely woven and usually have geometric designs, and look tribal or nomadic. This is a village or cottage household industry. While the rugs are made for export they have not really degenerated very much as a consequence of commerce with the West for so many years. The workmanship and materials can still be quite good today.
I recently purchased a more traditionally sized 5-by-10-foot Hamadan from a major furniture retailer in Virginia. The cost was $149, or $3 per square foot! It is hard to imagine how the sheep can be shorn, the wool spun into yarns, the yarns dyed, the loom set up and the knots tied, the rug washed and sold to the local market, exported, sold to a wholesaler here and then to the furniture store, and still a profit can be made.


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An international conference to mark the centenary of the outbreak of World War One
From the sound of artillery to the drone of Zeppelins, those living through World War One were only too familiar with the sounds of war, whether on the home or fighting fronts. These ominous sounds of death and destruction formed a backdrop to the alternative sounds of war: music-making. For civilians and soldiers alike, music of all kinds played a central part in the battle, whether as entertainment, as a powerful means to boost morale, as a vehicle of government propaganda, as a therapeutic tool, or as part of commemoration rituals.
The centenary of the war is a timely opportunity to reconsider the fundamental role of music and musicians during the exceptional circumstances of 1914–1918. Speakers from 12 countries will consider the contribution of music in all its forms to the war, whether Western Art or popular music, on the home or fighting fronts, and in combatant or non-combatant countries. The event will also include a concert and wine reception, and access to the screening of Pax Aeterna. Full programme details: http://www.themusicofwar.org/
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A Winters Night
* Disclaimer* All charectors in this story belong solely to Stephenie Meyer. The idea is of course mine though ツ
Renesmee pov
It`s the middle of winter and i feel like i should be sweating I thought to myself , Thats a dumb idea i`m half vampire i cant sweat. Duh... It`s a good thing noone can hear me they`d think i was crazy or something. As i continued to wake up i rolled over and opened my eyes.
" It was all a dream" i thought out loud "well that`s a downer"
I then realized i need to stop thinking about my dream before dad heard my thoughts. Crap to late.
" You okay in there ness?" dad yelled
" Yes dad fine i`ll be out in a few minutes" I yelled back
I started to smell the bacon and eggs, all to much for me to eat. Then i realized jake must be here. I looked at myself in my mirror, that covered the whole back wall of my room, Aunt Alice had gotten it for me.
" I look okay" i thought to myself.
I threw on my polka doted robe and headed to the kitchen. Jake was sitting at the kitchen table, black shorts and nike tennis shoes only with mom and dad, him eating like a pig as usual. That didn`t stop my thoughts though
" oh my gosh he`s so.." My thoughts we cut off by dad clearing his throat. He looked at me intensly but wasn`t mad. It took dad a while to get used to the fact that i was growing up, thats my body, my feelings, everything was changing about me.I still remember the conversation we had exactly a year ago tomorrow.
" Dad, i am getting older you need to understand that. I might be slowing down but i am still changing"
" i know you are nessie it`s just well I`ve only had 7 years to get used to this, you`re just growing up so fast" he blurted out
" I know im technically 7 dad but EVERYTHING about me is 15" i whispered that one
I knew he had hated that i said that but we both knew i was right, i think mostly he hated the fact that i had feelings for jake.
Jacobs pov
"WOW" was all i could think when Nessie walked into the kitchen. I stopped myself from thinking anything else before Edward could read my thoughts and get mad. I couldn`t help myself though it was so hard and my thoughts started to wander...
" She looks gorgeous when she first gets up, her eyes are so beautiful, her lips what i`d do to kiss her lips.." I stopped realizing i had gone to far. I was right Edward was staring at me, he didn`t look mad though, he looked well amused.
" oh my god he`s actually smiling at me! but he just heard what i was thinking he should be furious.." i thought to myself.
That of course only made him smile bigger and i swear i heard him laugh.
Edwards pov
I know they both had to se me smile.
" i wonder when they`ll realize they have the exact same feeling for one another, better yet when they`ll have the nerve to tell one another." i thought
At first i had hated the fact that jacob had imprinted on Renesmee, but as he was around more and i got to know him more the idea didn`t bother me so much. I knew he would love her and could protect her if need be. That idead made me smile. Bella looked at me confused.
" what`s goin on ?" she asked
" I`ll tell you later" i replied and kissed her on her head.
I started thinking again... i sure hope they figure stuff out before i explode hearing all this...
Leahs pov
" Should i knock or just go on in" i asked myself outloud. This is good i smell jacob this shouldn`t be to bad with him here. I`d been running for 5 hours but it felt like days.
" Stupid leeches always getting in the way, always new ones coming here, Who.Do.They.Think.They.Are?" i thought
As i went to knock on the door Edward swung it open,
"Dang for a second i forgot he could hear my thoughts."
"What is this about a new Vampire around here? Explain please?" He asked and instructed at the same time. I truely didn`t know where to begin.
Jacobs pov
i heard leah at the door so i got up and went into the living room.
" What`s goin on leah?" i asked her as nicely as i could considering she had ruined my morning with renesmee. Leah looked worried.
" Is everyone okay?" i asked
" well sort of" she replied
" well??" i was starting to get mad
Leah wasn`t exactly fond of Bella or her family. She didn`t really come her unless she had to or was desperate.
" Well spit it out Leah" i barked at her
" I was running in the woods and well...Caught the scent of a vampire...Only this vampire wasn`t a full vampire..." she hung her head and looked even more worried " this vampire was only half vampire..." she whispered
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Day 1: Arrival in Rio de Janeiro (African heritage tour)
Morning arrival in Rio de Janeiro with accomodation at selected hotel. In the afternoon: African Heritage Tour. This orientation tour of Rio offers a fascinating introduction to the roots of African culture in Brazil. We will visit a temple of Candomble where this uniquely Brazilian religion combining both the Yoruba and Catholic faiths will be explained and used to illustrate how African culture shaped the Brazilian identity of today. Evening free. B
Day 2: Rio de Janeiro (Sugar Loaf)
Today you will enjoy a city tour including Sugar loaf. This exciting tour will take you to Sugar Loaf, Rio de Janeiro's famous mountain set at the mouth of Guanabara Bay, and reached by a series of thrilling cable car rides. After enjoying the view, you will begin an excursion into the Afro-influenced world of samba and Carnival, with your first stop at the Sambadrome, the locale for the city's famous carnival parades. Here, the cultural and historical aspects of this incredible celebration are explained at the Carnival Museum. Next, you will proceed to a nearby barra, or workshop, where you will meet the local artisans designing and creating the fantastic floats and costumes that will appear in the renowned parade (visit to barra available from October to February only). In the evening: Traditional Afro-Brazilian dinner and dance. In this excursion, you will enjoy dinner in a restaurant specializing in feijoada, the native Brazilian dish developed by slaves. Next, you will proceed to downtown Rio and stop by a famous gafieira, or traditional dancehall originally established by emancipated slaves. Overnight in your selected hotel. B, D
Day 3: Rio de Janeiro (Corcovado Mountain)
Corcovado excursion after touring Rio´s beautiful beaches, you will pass through the charming neighborhood of Cosme Velho, home to the base of Corcovado Mountain. From here, take a small gauge railroad through the lush Tijuca Rainforest to the mountain's top, where the fabled Christ the Redeemer statue stands. Enjoy an unsurpassed view of the Cidade Maravilhosa from this worldrenowned landmark. Evening free.
Optional excursion, Rio by Night recommended for those interested in a trip to one of the city's favorite nightspots for a review of Brazilian Carnival, dance and folklore. We also suggest dinner at a churrascaria, a typical all-you-can eat Brazilian barbecue dinner at a fine restaurant. Overnight in your selected hotel. B
Day 4: Rio de Janeiro - Salvador
Transfer to Rio airport for your flight to Salvador. Upon arrival in Salvador de Bahia, meet and transfer to your selected hotel. Evening free. B
Day 5: Salvador (African oriented historical tour)
African-oriented historical city tour. We trace the African roots of Salvador on a city tour which combines the newer, modern section and the older Historical Center of Salvador, the Pelourinho area, so called after the pillory which stood in the main square, in front of the central slave market. We visit the Afro-Brazilian Museum which traces the West African origins of the city and see the superb wooden, sculpted panels of the orixa`s by Salvador`s most celebrated artist, Carybe. We visit the Church of Our Lady of the Rosary, the famous Black church, built with meager resources over a period of almost 100 years. The Casa do Benin (Benin House) nearby further investigates this permeating African influence. The buildings may be European but the rest is African. Evening excursion to a uniquely Bahian event: a rehearsal (show) or Olodum, one of the many Afro-blocos, or musical groups, enjoying great success in the current renaissance of Afro-based rhythms in Salvador. This frenetic, pulsating music is directly derived from the music of West Africa. This visit is particularly interesting, as Olodum is famous for their collaborations with Paul Simon on the Rhythm of the Saints album. Overnight in your selected hotel. B
Day 6: Salvador (visit to a cacao plantation)
We leave the city behind and drive through the oldest farmland in Brazil. This is the land of sugar cane and tobacco plantations, peaceful colonial towns and busy country markets. We visit an experimental cacao plantation. Nearby we stop at a small but self-sufficient farmstead with it's own manioc flour mill and have a great insight into rural life in Brazil. We also visit the Sisterhood of the Boa Morte, a sorority which traces it's origins back to the time of slavery. Overnight in your selected hotel. B
Day 7: Salvador (Visit to the Children of Brazil street)
Morning visit "The Street Children of Brazil". These are the children who spend their days on the streets and their nights in the alleyways and doorways of Salvador. The Axe project was set up to help these children find their way in society by offering them real opportunities for education and training as well as involving them in creative and cultural activities. We will visit one of their training centres where we will see the positive work of the Axe Project and given an explanation of the aims, hopes, challenges and success stories of the project. Afterwards we will visit a traditional capoeira school to see these kids at leisure, learning this martial art of Angolan origin. Tonight features Bahia by night, an excursion that takes us to Solar do Unhao, one of Salvador`s oldest and most eerily atmospheric buildings, originally used as a loading station for the importation of slaves. We begin here with a full buffet of the best in the exotic cuisine of Bahia. Soon after, a dazzling folklore show of Bahian music, dance and pageantry follows, illustrating all that is unique in the Afro-Brazilian culture. Overnight in your selected hotel. B
Day 8: Salvador - departure
Check out and transfer to Salvador International airport for flight back home. B Key: B: Breakfast, L: Lunch, D: Dinner
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To rebuild the California Republican Party, Jim Brulte will first have to climb out from under a mountain of debt.
The former GOP Senate leader, who is expected to take the helm of the embattled party next month, said Wednesday that the party is between $500,000 and $800,000 in the red, a figure he says could vary based on the potential for legal battles with former vendors.
"This is more like a bankruptcy workout," Brulte said of setting up party infrastructure as chairman. "First of all you have to pay off your debt, hopefully while you're doing programs simultaneously. We have to increase our income and reduce our expenses, that's just prudent."
Brulte's estimate, which he said was based on briefings he's received, suggests a much more dire financial situation than the one depicted by the party's latest campaign finance filings, which showed its primary committee inching back into the black after a difficult year.
Anemic fundraising and cash issues forced the party to lay off staff and downsize its Sacramento office months before the November election. It now employs just three full-time staff members, two of whom work out of their homes.
In addition to the fundraising struggles, the party has seen its share of the electorate drop to a record low of less than 30 percent of the state's voters. Republicans hold no statewide office and lost key congressional and legislative races in 2012, ceding coveted supermajority control to Democrats in the statehouse.
Brulte chalked up the House and state Senate losses to President Barack Obama's landslide 23-point victory in the state and a new political district map that was advantageous to Democrats. But he said the surprise Assembly defeats were the result of "poor execution" on the part of the GOP and legislative leaders.
"We didn't have to lose those seats," he said. "We got away from the basics. That's political malpractice."
The Fontana Republican, who has worked in governmental affairs for Sacramento-based California Strategies and ran his own public affairs shop since leaving the Legislature in 2004, said the party must focus on "the nuts and bolts that are necessary to win elections" to prevent a replay of the 2012 results.
Brulte declined to take a position on policy and ideological rifts within the party, saying he sees his job as rebuilding candidate recruitment, voter registration and get-out-the-vote programs ahead of the 2014 contests, which as a midterm election will likely see lower Democratic turnout than the recent presidential vote.
He said fielding strong candidates, including a credible challenger to Democratic Gov. Jerry Brown, should be a top priority.
"I believe how you win as a party is by having everybody block and tackle and execute, and that means we have to contest every office from mosquito abatement district to utility districts, to city council, to county supervisor all the way up to governor," he said. "That should be our goal."
Brulte would not name names, but said he is "actually aware of some people who will probably be running for governor I have no doubt in my mind there will be a credible challenger to Governor (Jerry) Brown."
The current debt level means that the party will rely heavily on volunteers as he and other leaders seek to revive strategic and fundraising programs he said have been allowed to atrophy in recent years.
Brulte blamed, in part, a heavy reliance on cash generated by having former GOP Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger in office.
"The party got lazy. It believed because it was getting these huge contributions there was infrastructure," he said. "Well, once we didn't have a Republican governor, some of those contributions dried up. We shouldn't be surprised by that."
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With visitor numbers to Egypt returning to the pre-revolution levels of 2010, when the country welcomed a record 360,000 US tourists, it is little wonder the Egyptian Tourist Authority's New York tourism attaché Mohamed Hegazy feels "very optimistic" for 2012.
"We are coming back rapidly in terms of tourist numbers," Mr Hegazy told e-Travel Blackboard in an interview.
"2010 was the highest number we received – we reached 360,000 US tourists. The highest figure before that was around 187,000 in 2006, so it doubled in four years."
According to Mr Hegazy, despite the turbulent events of last year, Egypt still brought in around the same number of tourists it had received just four years prior – that is, around 187,000.
"We were relatively pleased to keep more than half of our business in a market that was very touchy about security," he remarked.
According to figures from the country's central agency for public mobilisation and statistics, Egypt welcomed some 753,000 visitors in February 2012, compared to the 211,000 who stayed during the height of the civil unrest last February, Gulf media reported.
With visitor numbers again on the rise, Mr Hegazy said now was the time for the country to lure travelers to attractions beyond the Giza Pyramids.
"At the moment we would like to push new experiences to the American tourists, like the Red Sea, the South Sinai for its magnificent beaches, its coral reef and fish," he told e-Travel Blackboard.Add to this, the country's Nile cruises, its black and white deserts, religious attractions (including the oldest mosque and synagogue in Northern Africa), its first-class golf courses, 4wd safaris, and other leisure tourism and business travel offerings and you have a destination that will appeal to any demographic, Mr Hegazy said.
Egypt plots path beyond Pyramids as tourism trebles
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May the Almighty God have mercy on me, and forgive me my sins, and bring me to everlasting life. Amen.
May the Almighty and merciful Lord grant me pardon, absolution, and remission of all my sins. Amen.
O my God! I firmly believe that Thou art one God in three Divine Persons, Father, Son, and Holy Ghost; I believe that Thy Divine Son became man, and died for our sins, and that he will come to judge the living and the dead. I believe these and all the truths which the Holy Catholic Church teaches, because Thou hast revealed them, who canst neither deceive nor be deceived.
O my God! relying on Thy infinite goodness and promises, I hope to obtain pardon of my sins, the help of Thy grace, and life everlasting, through the merits of Jesus Christ, my Lord and Redeemer.
O my God! I love Thee above all things, with my whole heart and soul, because Thou art all-good and worthy of all love. I love my neighbor as myself for the love of Thee. I forgive all who have injured me, and ask pardon of all whom I have injured.
O my God! I am heartily sorry for having offended Thee, and I detest all my sins, because I dread the loss of heaven and the pains of hell, but most of all because they offend Thee, my God, who art all-good and deserving of all my love. I firmly resolve, with the help of Thy grace, to confess my sins, to do penance, and to amend my life.
+ Bless us, O Lord! and these Thy gifts, which we are about to receive from Thy bounty, through Christ our Lord. Amen.
+ We give Thee thanks for all Thy benefits, O Almighty God, who livest and reignest forever, and may the souls of the faithful departed through the mercy of God, rest in peace. Amen.
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KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia -- Kei Nishikori of Japan reached his seventh quarterfinals of a breakthrough season when he beat Albert Ramos of Spain 6-7 (5), 6-2, 6-1 in the Malaysian Open on Thursday.
The question is: Can he win it? In his six other quarterfinals this year, including at the Australian Open and London Olympics, he lost them all.
On Friday, the third-seeded Nishikori will play Nikolay Davydenko, whom he beat in the London Games.
The second-seeded Juan Monaco began his chase for a fourth title this year by beating Taiwanese wild card Jimmy Wang 6-4, 7-5. The Argentine responded to losing his serve three times by breaking Wang five times.
Alexandr Dolgopolov of Ukraine, the No. 4 seed who also had a first-round bye, lost to Alejandro Falla of Colombia 6-3, 3-6, 6-3.
"I started really bad and missed a lot of balls," Dolgopolov said. "I came back in the second set but it was an up and down match."
Falla's second quarterfinal of the year will be against Julien Benneteau of France.
Dutchman Igor Sijsling served up only his sixth win of the year with a second-round upset of No. 5 Feliciano Lopez of Spain, 7-6 (0), 7-6 (2). They played impeccably on serve with 11 aces each and no break points conceded, but Lopez crumbled in both tiebreaks.
Davydenko, the inaugural Malaysian champion three years ago, defeated Denis Istomin of Uzbekistan 7-5, 6-4 for his second quarterfinals in two weeks.


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its really good, but the radar doesent work!
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great game, oh yummymelon repaire stations are their for you to use, why shouldent we use them
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This was excellent. It was not too difficult, but challenging enough to not be boring. The characters were very customizable and there were plenty of secrets and quests and stuff. I also liked how there were a lot of dialogue choices. If anyone has a problem targetting, just wait until you press the attack button before you hover your cursor over a monster. I'd love to keep playing the rest of the game, but I'm a cheap bastard.
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