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Virtually everything went right for the Oconomowoc wrestling team.
Competing in their home gym at the WIAA Division 1 sectional Saturday, the Raccoons qualified a stunning seven grapplers for the state meet in Madison, with five sectional champions, the most since advancing seven in 1998.
Cooney hasn't qualified more than three wrestlers in any one season since 2000 and had sent seven entries combined over the past five years. But this time around was a massive breakthrough for the Wisconsin Little Ten dual-meet champion.
Logan Ballering (152 pounds), Joe Nettesheim (170), Brett Samson (195), Nick Gomez (220) and Michael Mohr (285) all won sectional titles, with Eric Lease (138) and Richard Kuehl (182) taking second places. Top-two finishers in each flight advanced to the showcase beginning Thursday at the Kohl Center.
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The most uplifting performance came from the senior Lease (36-6), who needed back-to-back wins to advance after falling to Cedarburg's Jason Ipsarides (43-2) in the semifinal. Lease pinned a wrestler who had defeated him at the regional one week earlier, Austin Yde of Arrowhead, then won an 11-4 decision over Max Nelson of Wauwatosa. Nelson came into the meet with an undefeated record, but the win meant Lease would get to attend his first state meet.
"Eric had to wait until everything was done," Oconomowoc coach Steve Olson said. "He watched Logan punch his ticket, he watched Nettesheim punch his ticket, Kuehl, Samson, Mohr, and then it was his turn. With those guys doing that, I think it ramped him up a little bit, gave him a little more fuel for his fire. Everyone in that gym was pushing for him. Everyone on the team was screaming. It was electric. Lease winning made a great day perfect."
Lease's postseason run last year was short-circuited by a finger injury, and he was working with a shoulder injury sustained at the Mid-States Tournament shortly after Christmas this year. The win made Olson and his staff look smart for nursing Lease along slowly.
"We pulled him at conference (from the finals), and I know there are people wonder ing why we did that, because we lost conference by 5 points," Olson said. "Putting Eric in there might have changed things, but this is what we were saving him for. His run was going to be his run, and we weren't going to take that away from him. I was so impressed with his attitude; he did an awesome job."
Wins keep coming
Ballering (36-5), competing at 152, will be the lone return qualifier in the lot. The junior advanced to state as a freshman before missing his sophomore year with injury, and he was especially impressive Saturday in beating Hamilton's Nick Knoebel in the first-place match, 16-11. Knoebel boasted a 35-3 record heading into the match and had defeated Ballering in the regional in overtime.
"Logan's on the rise," Olson said. "He's very fluid and moving very well."
The sophomore Nettesheim (26-12) won two nail-biters at 170, a 6-5 outcome over Jordan Fisher of Nicoelt in the semifinal and a 4-3 win over Justin Seeke of Cedarburg in the final. Battling an illness, Nettesheim recorded a reversal with five seconds left after incurring a takedown with 20 seconds on the clock to go down 1 point. Seeke defeated Nettesheim at the regional, 8-1.
"He's been battle tested," Olson said. "He gets in these tight matches, he's a good from a lot of positions; all-around, he's just solid."
Fellow sophomore Kuehl (30-7) took second at his flight, with a pin over Devine Burt of Wauwatosa in the semis paying dividends when Burt won his third-place match and Kuehl fell to Ayoola Olapo of Menomonee Falls (45-2) in the final. Kuehl was awarded second place without the need for a wrestleback.
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The top three flights all belonged to the Raccoons. The freshman Samson (33-8) needed three pins to win a sectional title.
"He's a freshman at 195, and I was not worried exactly, but you're on a big stage now," Olson said. "How was he going to handle it, the nerves? He kept his composure and did a great job just wrestling. The kid scored a point, it didn't bother him, he just continued to wrestle and got pins."
Gomez (16-1) continued his rapid ascent coming off injury and won a 7-2 decision over Hunter Higginbotham of Germantown (7-2) in the final. Mohr (39-4) just missed qualifying last year, but he was dominant with two pins at the sectional en route to a title. At No. 6 in the state, Mohr has the top ranking of any Oconomowoc wrestler, according to the Feb. 11 standards released by Wisconsin Wrestling Online.
Nick Brenning (126) and Brandon Laughlin (132) both dropped opening matches. State matches begin at 3 p.m. Thursday at the Kohl Center.
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Oconomowoc matchups Thursday at the state meet:
138 - Eric Lease, Sr. (36-6) vs. Alex Blaney, Sr., Bay Port (44-1)
152 - Logan Ballering, Jr. (36-5) vs. Tyler Dorfner, Jr., Greenfield (29-15)
170 - Joe Nettesheim, So. (26-12) vs. Duncan McKinney, Jr., Holmen (36-12)
182 - Richard Kuehl, So. (30-7) vs. Quinn Faust, Sr., Mount Horeb (35-7)
195 - Brett Samson, Fr. (33-8) vs. Connor Johnson, Jr., Rhinelander (40-3)
220 - Nick Gomez, Jr. (16-1) vs. Isaiah Hayes, Sr., De Pere (24-5)
285 - Michael Mohr, Sr. (39-4) vs. Quincy Stokes, Sr., Oshkosh West (27-12)
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Charles Jost remains jailed accused of Social Security fraud for allegedly working with his sister and brother-in-law to cash his mother's check. Portage County has filed a zoning enforcement action as the first step to getting a court order to clean up the filthy property. The Alm Road property has tarps and plywood making a shelter against an old bus. There are old bikes, tires, cardboard, and garbage scattered on the land. County officials say there's little that can be salvaged, and it could take ten dumpsters to haul the junk away. The property is also considered a health hazard because human waste was found on the site.
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SA puts rhino on CITES agenda6 March 2013 South Africa is one of 178 countries gathered in Bangkok this week to decide how to improve the world's wildlife trade regime, and to ensure the survival of threatened species. More than 2 000 delegates are attending the 16th Conference of Parties of the Convention on the International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) which started in Thailand's capital on Monday. The CITES parties meet every three years to consider amendments to the appendices of the convention, to assess its implementation, and to make recommendations to improve its effectiveness. South Africa is hosting and participating in a number of side events during the conference, three of which will focus on rhino matters, including conservation, safety and security, and rhino economics and trade. The Department of Environmental Affairs said that among the tabled proposals at the conference is a proposal to up-list the rhino due to poaching, from which several countries have suffered, including South Africa. "This would have widespread implications for South Africa's white rhino population including the creation of disincentives for the private sector," the department said. It said that central to South Africa's conservation model was an "undisputed record" of having brought species populations to healthy recovery. Among these were the white and black rhino, which had come close to extinction almost a century ago. Water and Environmental Affairs Minister Edna Molewa said last week that efforts to protect the country's rhino population were aimed not just at protecting a species from extinction, but at securing and conserving all South Africa's natural resources. "The fact that the criminal syndicates involved in rhino poaching also undertake other crimes means that this current situation can be considered a national security risk. "It is therefore imperative that the national response be comprehensive, as it threatens not only the sustainable development path of the country, but also the heritage of future generations." Ahead of the conference, Molewa met with representatives of the Chinese and Vietnamese delegations to discuss issues of mutual cooperation in the field of biodiversity, particularly the continued illegal trade in rhino horn. The department said the discussions had "confirmed the two countries' willingness to continue to cooperate with South Africa in the areas of law enforcement in relation to illegal trade in wildlife species". The talks with Vietnam established that the implementation plan stemming from the Memorandum of Understanding relating to Biodiversity conservation, signed between the two countries in December, would be signed and rolled out during the visit of a high-level Vietnamese delegation to South Africa in April. Discussions with China had centred on the finalisation of a memorandum of understanding, also to be signed in April. The Memorandum on Biodiversity Conservation also deals with illegal rhino hunting and will also be followed by an implementation plan, similar to that concluded with Vietnam. The department said it was also agreed that China and South Africa would ensure the immediate roll-out of technological innovations in the fight against wildlife crimes. The matter will also be further discussed within the Brazil, Russia, China and South Africa (BRICS) member countries at bilateral and multilateral levels. Source: SAnews.gov.za
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After Karnataka were rolled over for 192 on the opening day of their encounter against Delhi at home, the point of debate was the wisdom of opting to bat first on a grassy pitch. Their batting coach J Arunkumar defended the move, saying the batsmen had come out with a plan to bat positively after seeing off the new ball. He admitted that the batsmen failed to execute their plans properly, playing the wrong shots before getting settled.
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"It was a collective decision to bat first. We felt it was a good surface to bat on if you played positively and the batsmen went with that mindset," Arunkumar said. "Unfortunately, before they got settled they were dismissed. Robin's wicket was unfortunate. It looked a bit dicey. Nobody settled in long enough to start playing strokes. Stuart settled in and he too looked positive. We saw that Shikhar [Dhawan, the Delhi opener] also did the same." Read more
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"…we were so utterly burdened beyond our strength that we despaired of life itself. Indeed, we felt that we had received the sentence of death. But that was to make us rely not on ourselves but on God who raises the dead."
2 Corinthians 1:8-9
"The mundane, the divine, and things in-between"
It's CSS's 17th birthday today! Mention of "imperative" and "declarative" (indicative) in the linked article makes me think discussing theology (law/gospel) to webdevs ain't that hard.
Headship implies laying down one's life to serve another. The apostle Paul could not have made this clearer when he said:
Ephesians 5:23-24 For the husband is the head of the wife as Christ is the head of the church… wives should submit to their husbands in everything. (25) Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her…
The Bible always explains that by headship it means acting like Christ. The Lord Jesus constantly knows our every need, our every thought, our every feeling. He literally understands us better than we understand ourselves. Not only that, our crucified Lord spares no pain or effort or humiliation to satisfy our needs and bring us comfort. Our eternal happiness means everything to him. He guides, and yet allows us to make mistakes. He has power, but never abuses it.
Guidance stemming from a passion to thoroughly know your wife as Christ knows you, and a sacrificial devotion to her happiness, is what the Bible means by being the head. It means Christlike gentleness and selfless preoccupation with identifying and meeting a loved one's needs.
This video pretty much sums up why I've quit social media.
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From Ken Sande's Resolving Everyday Conflict
Peacemaking applies the gospel and God's principles for problem-solving to everyday life. Practical peacemaking involves asking four important questions, four questions answered by principles called the 4 Gs. They are:
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My sister asked about Wilson and Chester as birthday gift…Sooo,here they are. Though, I'm not fully satisfied with Wilsons face, oh well.
A man feeding swans and ducks from a snowy river bank in Krakow
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Wish i didnt suck at painthing as much as i do V_V
I imagine Wilson to be that kind of guy who doesn't drink often (or I'd even say - almost never), so when he gets his hands on alcohol, he gets drunk really fast and starts to complain and whine how nobody understands his brilliant mind and great ideas and acts kinda childish in general.
That only time he drinks in the lab (whatever the reason is), Wilson starts to complain about his life to the radio, throws some stuff at walls, and eventually falls asleep on the floor, so Maxwell uses his powers to move Wilson to the bed and maybe fixes something. He doesn't really care about the scientist's problems, all he needs is him to be ready to continue working next morning.
횟불 왜 양손으로 못 들고 다니지…. 무서운데…….
Second that for writers as well, big time!
And musicians, I can never seem to get down what I hear in my head!
basically every artist has this problem so yeah
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Thirty two year old actress January Jones stars in the award winning television drama Mad Men and has helped draw a lot of media attention to the popular show as well as attention to the ongoing debate of the ideal look for women. Jones, who plays housewife Betty Drapery on the television series, says that the show's creator, Matthew Weiner, tells all of the women on the show to avoid strenuous exercise because it can cause too much muscle definition. He makes this request in order to maintain the look the early 1960s women aspired to.
Apparently they (the show as a whole) are creating quite a public stir by making such a request of their actresses. However, the public seems to find it refreshing that someone on television recognizes the appeal of natural curves over stick thin, bony, sometimes borderline anorexic looking figures.
Even Britain's Equalities Minster, Lynne Featherstone, has stated that she believes the voluptuous women of Mad Men should be the true role models of young children.
This lifestyle does not seem to be bothering Miss Jones any. She likes the idea of having a full figure.
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In the early 1800s, Central America declared independence from Spain eventually becoming the Federal Republic of Central America. This ended in 1938 but I was recalling this while reading a article titled One-Party Control Opens States to Partisan Rush in the New York Times. Fit it in with various states petitioning for independence from the US government and it offers something to think about.
What the article is talking about is that while at the national level, there is bi-partisan control of government, there is a trend for individual states to move into either the blue camp or the red camp. From the article
Though the Nov. 6 election maintained divided government in Washington, the picture is starkly different in capitals from California to Florida: one party will hold the governor's office and majorities in both legislative chambers in at least 37 states, the largest number in 60 years and a significant jump from even two years ago.
While I see more than two tendencies in Central America, it is interesting to compare Central American countries to US states. Here in Nicaragua there is a lot of discussion of one party control. We don't, however, seem to see that as an issue in say Alaska or California.
We know people move between states and as state-level polarization increases, this certainly could become a significant reason for moves -- both by families and companies. Is the same thing happening in Central America?
Up until the war between the
Up until the war between the states (USA), individual states did have lots of power. With the victory of federalism over states rights, much heralded in the north but so much in the South, and being dependent on federal funding, states have lost much of their prior power. As the states do not have much real power, then being one-side red or blue is not seen as important as bi-partisianship at the federal level.
I live in a stronlgy blue state, and we do see the excesses of power. Several mandates voted by the majority of the people have simply been ignored Not really democracy in action at times. I'll vote across party lines for Red candidates but mainly as an opposition to one-sided power. Checks and balances are needed at all levels
The recent pot legalizations by various USA states will be a test of states right to self determination vs federal power.
In Nicaragua, I never really got the sense of departments being a rallying point of political identity, as much as being from certain regions of Nicaragua.
I think Boaco, RAAN, and RAAS tend to be politically opposed
...to the FSLN. Jinotega is actually pretty much split down the middle -- and there are some FSLN members for the job only, having come from Contra families. One cynic I met at Laguna Apoyo said that was why Jinotega got stuff -- the FSLN couldn't count on it.
Since the election in 2011, people in town seem to wear their political beliefs more lightly, with the other party having a rally without the tension I saw at its rally last year, even to the point of trucks full of people stopping off for buying ice cream or stuff without looking nervous. That didn't happened in 2011. I've met FSLN from various class backgrounds; I've met people who hated the FSLN who were small shop keepers with kids in school in Miami.
South Carolina's version of a one party state was pretty nasty -- blacks had the brunt of it, but poor whites were pretty excluded from having opportunities and any say, either. To have opportunities, people had to move out of the communities that stereotyped them by who their families were.
I think the European multi-party system is more likely to represent different interests more fairly, but those different interests have to be willing to work for the best compromise for the whole society.
Best measure of a society that's functional is social mobility. Places that see education as a public good with results that are performance-evaluated tend to do better than places that divide their educational systems into one for the rich and another for the hands and servants.
For what the South was like just before the Civil War, I recommend the various books by Frederick Law Olmstead about his travels. Slavery did a huge amount of damage to creativity and initiative. Southern culture before the Civil War was derivative architecture, derivative painting, derivative clothing (and most of the technologies used for rice and indigo production came from Africa). The South forever has been expecting the state or foreign investors to save them. In my time there, same as Olmstead's, if only the outside would build them a highway.... This is somewhat like Nicaraguan expectations that foreigners will invest in it, and why I'm glad to see Nicaraguan rich investing in Nicaragua.
(Google Google) I'm please to say that a man from the western half of Virginia did invent the cigarette rolling machine -- his birthplace was in Roanoke, VA: James Albert Bonsack. McCormick's reaper was invented in the Shenandoah Valley. Roanoke is at the terminus of that. Neither happened before the Civil War. Most inventions seem to come from middling men and women -- not from either the very poor or the very rich.
Nicaragua was fairly polarized between the very powerful and the very powerless for centuries. The technology still comes from the outside, but at least the local kids are learning how to fix things. Maybe their children will learn how to invent better ways of doing things.
One problem isn't redness or blueness, but urban vs. rural. A friend has been explaining Eastern vs. Western. My politics were forged in the Civil Rights Era in the South, so it took me a while to see where he was coming from.
The FSLN seems like an urban party most of the time, at least in terms of the people running it. German Pomares was one of the few upper level FSLN members who came from a peasant background -- and he died. The PLI I don't know as much about but the flavor is slightly patron-based rural, small shop keeper, based on who shows up in the rally trucks and buses. A lot of the poor find it psychologically comforting to believe that their upper classes care for them. That sort of seems universal. Left politics are pretty much universally urban, where the daily visual space is collectively constructed. The farm worker either wants land of his own, or he wants a good boss who takes care of him. If he believes in his boss, he'll defend him. If not, not.
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In a nutshell the answer is No
Nicaraguans, the powerless majority, are lightyears away from having a clear view of what is really going on or at best they just ignore it. Here in Nicaragua most people live where they live not because of their politics but because that is where they make their living. This last elections, at least in Chinandega most people didn't vote, the opposition that is, since most everyone perceived the whole affair to be a sham. As many people said " we voted but we didn't elect ". Wether the investors are foreign or local doesn't really matter. A business man is all about the profit , nothing else be it Pellas or a Canadian mining company. What are we to do ? We need the jobs. Nicaragua is still very polarized between the very powerful and the very powerless. As far as I can remember we had people that learned to fix whatever technology we had. I do hope our children will learn how to invent better ways of doing things. A lot of the poor find it psychologically comforting to believe that their upper classes care for them.? I don't know about that. Most poor I know are not so kin on the rich and powerful. That great majority are so painfully ignorant about almost everything and so missinformed they are so easy to manipulate. They go around repeating what they heard from the "leaders" like parrots it is so sad. That is how it has been since forever. We Nicaraguans are either naive or slow, or so it seems. I tell you and believe me I am not the only one to think about it this way, it is just that we aren't that many, but the whole freaking thing is nothing but plain Bullshit. The Sandinistas, Ortega and Murillo were once part of that, had a great opportunity to take a whole generation of Nicaraguans and teach them to be leaders and thinkers and doers and inventors you name it. The Sandinistas couldn't do it . Whatever the reasons, valid or not, they couldn't do it, and for sure the other parties couldn't do it either. Or maybe they didn't want to, who knows, maybe it wasn't in their best interests. And Now we have Ortega and Murillo bent on creating a nation full of people that can't or won't think for themselves and follow their beck and call like a bunch of borregos. They look so smashing wearing their psychodelic t-shirts. Pretty cultish don't you think. Reminds me of another youth movement back in the early 1930's in Europe. The way we have been going about fixing our problems is laughable and enfuriating at the same time. LOTS of WORDS and not much doing. On this land for so long we have been ruled and defined by these two very Nicaraguan sayings: Muchos los diablos y muy poca el agua bendita / Too many the demons and not enough holy water and No hay nada mas peor que poner a un Indio a repartir chicha / There is nothing worse than having an Indio in charge of the drinks.
Any solution...
to how you see it?
Long version or short version?
Let me just say in general terms what we have to work with. Our political scene is completely broken. Those on top are doing the same as those before them, just enough to give an appearance of giving a damn, and those wanting the power only desperately waiting their turn to do the same. A vicious cycle if there ever was one. I hear the complaints from all sides about how things are in Nicaragua but when you tell them that all of us need to start changing our attitudes and stop harping endlessly about who's done what or not and instead get our heads together and come up with solutions that will benefit everybody, not just one side, the finger pointing and blame game goes off. There is a small sector that could care less who's in charge as long as things are done as honestly and openly as posible. It is hard to give your blind trust after having been burned for so long so many times. I keep going back to Education. It isn't that I expect everybody to become full fledged doctors, architects and so forth. I mean basic education on the least. I'll give an example or two of the many that I've witnessed just this past week. There are this two 11 yo kids that go to the school I am volunteering at. One of them happens to live on the same block as me. The other spends the entire afternoon along with his not much older brother waiting for their grandparents to finnish work at the mercado to go home. A merchant that likes to flaunt his money around rents the wharehouse next to my house and he takes this two kids and pays them 10 cordobas a piece to fight each other for his amusement and his workers' too. I had a little talk with him and he politely told me he didn't see any harm being done. He takes one of the kids along with some of his workers on his truck during school hours to unload whatever he is dellivering on his truck for a few pesos. The kid is being raised by his 20 yo sister that already has a 4yo of her own. Their mother is in Panama. I seriously doubt this kid will finnish elementary school. NO formal education of any kind but that of the streets provided by the likes of thugs and drunks, all no older than 20 themselves and a few older guys that don't know any better or could care less. On Saturdays I go to a little town called La Bolsa to teach English to 5 kids, ages 7 to 9. The brother of one of the girls came by one day and was standing by the door. I invited him to join us and he refused the invitation. The next Saturday his aunt told me that the boy told his mom that he didn't want to go to school anymore. Give me my machete and let me go work on the fields. His mom said if that's what he wants she won't say no. He is only 9. The mom is only 22yo. Our governments don't pay, and haven't paid much attention to our youth. Our Youth as Dario said Juventud divino tesoro / Youth divine treasure, has been and is being wasted. No education being taught at home and those that go to school are receiving an education that is so behind is frightening to think what or how they are going to manage higher grades and what kind of profesionals those that manage to stay in school will become. But that is not the saddest part. I've come to know nearly 400 kids on the almost 2 months and I can tell you there are about 5 to 10 kids on every grade that show potential and want to learn so bad you can almost touch it. I offered those kids to continue during the vacations the classes 3 times a week for an hour and those I expected to say yes did say yes and a couple that I wasn't expecting did too. So can you imagine if we could take all of those kids that want to learn and invest in them and to those that are on the fence show them that they can also aim for something better if they are willing to give a try we will be there to help them . I only have a high school diploma and yet dream of a better life, society and world and along with the little english I can teach them I try to make this kids dream for themselves of a better world were they can have the tools to make their dreams and the dreams of others a reality. We need to invest in our YOUTH. With clarity, honesty, unbiased and without ulterior motives. It is time for us the adults to start acting as such instead of acting as a bunch of spoiled mocosos. For their sake and our own.
Same could be said for a lot of countries...
"5 to 10 kids in every grade that show potential and want to learn so bad you can almost touch it"
Nicaragua is not that special when it comes to that comment.
IMO its all relative and in most case appropriate.
What is Nicaragua or the US/Canada etc doing with all its better educated people?
The guy at Home Depot will not only tell you where the copper pipe is, he will explain the process of making it and could design the factory that did.
I suggest that the state sponsored education in Nicaragua is at a level that is appropriate for its current and immediate future economy?
The 5 to 10 kids in every grade will be the entrepreneurs that hire the other kids in the class.
I agree with this
What got my dad out of the tobacco fields was a community that did invest in education, and a country that provided ways for bright kids like him to go to college (mix of federal works project money and a loan from an uncle), then the GI Bill took him to graduate school. I keep wondering where the FSLN scholarships are for young people like my friend who fixed a digital camera and who wants so badly to study in the US. But he does have a university in town to go to.
My neighbors are obviously ambitious for their daughter.
The advantage of you doing the supplemental teaching is that you're Nicaraguan. Too often, teachers who aren't part of or from the local culture aren't seen as quite real. I was only a role model for my white Appalachian students. For black students, I was a white person to practice talking to white people. That wasn't nothing and was going to help them, but not the same way.
Me, I got drafted into working with this one college kid, and see that I'll be drafted into helping with the neighbors' child's English. The little girl at two is beginning to understand that I speak another language than the Spanish her parents have been teaching her. A kid who figure out how to draft adults here for language lessons could pick up German, Russian, and English, maybe even Mandarin or Cantonese if the Chinese people here retained their great grandparent's language (I've heard they didn't and are now monolingual Spanish-speaking).
Very desperately poor people anywhere don't tend to look beyond survival today. Once they're beyond that, they start looking ahead beyond tomorrow. Some interventions to help can make things worse (insisting that "sub-standard" but cheap houses be torn down and replaced with cleaner but more expensive housing, for example).
Rebecca Brown
" ..Very desperately poor people ...
....don't tend to look beyond survival today".
So true, lives of quiet desperation . . . the distance of the cost of a medication for their child from heartbreak.
But the children, especially the poor ones, still dream big.
What is the one thing that Nicaraguan children COULD learn that would get them a job and move them into a different world?
HINT: Pellas (and anyone else investing in upscale Nicaraguan tourism) is going to be looking for these people.
HINT #2: CR is full of them --(and has quite a few $500 /night resorts as well).
Actually, studies show that children tend to be realists
... in what they dream. My dad's family was not brutally poor, and his mother had some family who'd been to college, one who ran a beer and liquor distillery when that was legal who had serious enough money, so he got encouragement to stay in high school and plan to go at least to a two year school, but his dream was to become a bookkeeper. Kin encouraged him to go to Virginia Tech rather than the two year business program.
I don't think my friend here is interested in learning better English to work front desk at a hotel. He's already doing that with the English he has. He wants to be an engineer. I don't know what the ambitions the neighbors have for their daughter, but wouldn't be surprised if they weren't along the lines of doctor or lawyer, maybe international banking at some level (mom works in a bank). Speaking English would be useful for those, and would pay a whole lot better than hotel jobs (owning a hotel would be different).
Hotel jobs are what kids do when they're working their way through college. Your need is not their dream. One kid here went to San Juan del Sur to become a bartender and came back to Jinotega after two months.
One of my brother's observations was that in very poor parts of the US, the McDonald's and other fast food jobs were held by adults. In more prosperous areas, by young adults. By that rule of thumb, Jinotega is fairly prosperous.
Most people who fantasize about teaching English here don't know how long it takes anyone to become fluent in a foreign language (six years for most of us, not that we won't have useable skills before then). Many people study some and when they don't magically end up fluent in a year, they stop studying. Some people can become fluent in less than six years, but it's not the way to plan your educational curriculum. Jinotega has an English Center, and another school for elementary aged children. Fluent English or even useful English isn't going to be here next year or the year after that. The fluent English speakers here lived in the US for over a decade as children in American schools.
If I were going to teach adolescent or adult beginners with no prior lessons in English, I'd study TESL teacher education material and find appropriate texts to use. At the college where I used to work, the people who worked with people whose native tongue wasn't English did have training. I had some training but not enough to qualify me for teaching those students in the TESL classes.
People who don't know what they're doing are more likely to convince students that they can't learn the language than to help them. I can spot language interference patterns and talk to students about what their language does and what English does differently, or how translation of some words is tricky because the concepts are used metaphorically in English, but not in Farsi. I know enough to know what I don't know.
Rebecca Brown
Dont worry its being done.
When the jobs are there, they will have enough English speaking staff.


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The same winners over and over
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I haven't posted in a while here, but rest assured that I am still around and still trying to kick it up and make the site better; this is the reason why I am also addressing to as many as I can, as a true online bingo community that we are. I am going to discuss about a subject that I get emailed from fellow players, for which I think it's best we come up with a good solution that is satisfactory for everybody; it's the same winners over and over again.
Our opinion about it
First, I would like to tell you guys about our position on the matter; unlike certain "rumors" around there, we do not have a device that controls who wins or why; I think as a senior site that we are (Because Bingo Hall is a senior site) our reputation means a lot to us; it's not something we can touch or grasp but everything starts from there; if we don't have this, I think it's safe to say that Bingo Hall wouldn't be what it is today. We also believe in the fact that this site should be fun and entertaining, where your voice is actually heard; everyday that we work here, we make sure it happens. Second fact about this rumor is the fact that we don't own the software we use; we license it. This means that in the end, we have no access to any random generators that determine who wins or who loses. I like this approach because if you allow this to end in the wrong hands, well a lot of bad things might come out of it. Think of it, as perhaps having power/electricity in your house that comes off nuclear energy; you like the fact that your Government is using nuclear power to make it, but would be a bit scared if everybody could have access to nuclear power and make their own. A bit dangerous there…lol
Open to solutions
Having said all of this, I would like to know what possible solutions we can come up with to make everybody happy, winners and non winners; naturally, we would like for everybody to win, we understand the fact that you deposit $25, get a bonus of 250% and get nothing out of it. It's frustrating, specially if you repeat this process a few times. Internally, we only have a few incentives to work around this, my favorite one being perhaps a room made of people who were unable to win, give them a chance to be winners and the other incentive would be to open a few more rooms, to spread the joy a bit. Part of the reasons why we have multiple part bingo games here at Bingo Hall, is exactly that, to make the variety of winners a bit more colorful. I am open to suggestions, comments and as a community that you all are, it's perfectly valid for me, that every opinion counts. In the end, we would like to do what is best for everybody.


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A dream might become a reality.
I was sitting on a bed in a hotel room. I had seen it before, it was very similar to the ones in all my other Gerard dreams. It was really dark, and I could barely see a few feet in front of my nose except for the faint sickly glow emanating from the cell phone held by the man sitting in a chair in the corner. It was Gerard, I could already tell. The medium-length, messy black hair, the skinny black jeans, the profile I knew so well and the beautiful hazel eyes lit up by the phone's light, yet shrouded with worry. Almost in a trance, without any permission from my feet, I suddenly got up from my seat and glided over to Gerard. I already knew he couldn't see me. I had tried to talk to him before, with less than great results.
He lifted the phone to his ear and spoke. "Mikey........ Mikey? Listen, if you're there, I'm getting really worried. Please come back, it's been over an hour and a half. Mikey? Please?"
He sighed and hung up, muttering, "No answer, for the tenth time!" under his breath. There were a few minutes of silence, with just slow breathing and occasional scrapes of shoes against the hotel room floor to puncture the silence. Then came the part that began the nightmare. The phone rang.
For some unexplainable reason, the voice was suddenly magnified from Gerard's phone to fill the whole room. It gave me chills up and down my spine even though I had heard it before in these dreams. "If you want precious Mikey," it cackled, "go to Fourth Street. He'll be waiting for you."
Gerard instantly tried to trace the call, to no avail, and I could almost see the war he was waging with himself. His safety.... or his brother? It was a no-brainer for Gerard. He slipped on a hoodie and walked into the night. I followed, like a second shadow.
Gerard walked down long streets. It was a foggy, cold night, but I couldn't tell where we were because the fog shrouded the buildings around us. We passed by a sewer vent, and the stench made me lightheaded. I braced myself and walked on.
We soon reached a lamppost, where, in the faint glow, I could see a sign saying Fourth Street. Gerard looked around, and I shivered. Again, I knew what was coming next. But I had to do something! I tried to scream out a warning, but suddenly, the dream changed. A shadowy figure grabbed me by the throat and forced me, gasping and choking, into the light, then pressed a knife into my flesh.
"Here's precious Mikey," the stranger rasped. "This is your choice. He goes free.... in exchange for you!"
I was Mikey???
Gerard hesitated, then spoke. There was no hint of a tremor or regret in his voice. "Done." He stepped forward.
"Gee, no!" I screamed, but the man pushed me forward and I sprawled into the street. He grabbed Gerard and was about to stab him when Gerard elbowed him in the stomach and the man doubled over in man. I r3egained my footing and groped for control of the knife, but the stranger twisted it away and stabbed me in the arm. I screamed, and Gerard, still trying to pin the man down, looked towards me.
"Mikey!" he yelled.
I saw it happening in slow motion. As Gerard loosened his grip inadvertently in concern for me, the attaxked smiled, wriggled away, and plunged the knife into Gerard's chest.
"No!!!!!" I howled. "Gerard! Gerard!!!!!!!"
Tears poured down my cheeks and I fell into the gutter, sobbing and banging my fist against the cold stone.
I woke up, tangled in the bedcovers, sweat pouring down my thin frame. I took a deep breath. "It's a dream. It was just a dream," I whispered, trying to calm myself.
Suddenly, pain shot through my arm. I looked down at it and saw a tiny cut, red with blood, on the exact place the man had cut me in the dream. I gasped. This was my warning flag. It had all been a dream, but if I didn't do something, it would become a reality.


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Kindle Paperwhite Has a Screen You Won't Want to Put Down [HANDS-ON]
When Barnes & Noble released the Nook with GlowLight earlier this year, we suspected that it was only a matter of time before Amazon answered with its own e-reader with a built-in light. Today we saw that reader in the form of the Kindle Paperwhite. The e-reader has a backlit display, improved screen resolution and new hand-tuned fonts especially for the Kindle. Fonts are available in six different styles and eight different sizes, so you can read at just the right size for you.


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Blue Foundation is a Danish band founded in 2000 by producer and singer Tobias Wilner and his brother Anders Bertram. In the years following the band saw many members come and go - including singer Kirstine Stubbe Teglbjærg as vocalist in periods from 2000 to 2008. Today the band is based in Prospect Heights, Brooklyn and Copenhagen, Denmark. Since 2008 their line-up has consisted of Tobias Wilner (producer, multi-instrumentalist and vocalist) and Bo Rande (producer, multi-instrumentalist). They are possibly best known for their songs Eyes on Fire from the Twilight Saga and Sweep from Michael Mann's Miami Vice.
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Book Description:The most comprehensive study ever undertaken of the musical instruments of native people in Northeastern North America, Visions of Sound focuses on interpretations by elders and consultants from Iroquois, Wabanati, Innuat, and Anishnabek communities. Beverley Diamond, M. Sam Cronk, and Franziska von Rosen present these instruments in a theoretically innovative setting organized around such abstract themes as complementarity, twinness, and relationship. As sources of metaphor--in both sound and image--instruments are interpreted within a framework that regards meaning as "emergent" and that challenges a number of previous ethnographic descriptions. Finally, the association between sound and "motion"--an association that illuminates the unity of music and dance and the life cycles of individual musical instruments--is explored.Featuring over two hundred photographs of instruments, dialogues among the coauthors, numerous interviews with individual music makers, and an appended catalogue of over seven hundred instrument descriptions, this is an important book for all ethnomusicologists and students of Native American culture as well as general readers interested in Native American mythology and religious life.
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Bernabi Elementary School in Spencerport named Blue Ribbon School
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Bernabi Elementary School in Spencerport was recognized as a Blue Ribbon School by U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan. Two hundred eighty-six schools were recognized nationwide.
Bernabi is the only school in our area to receive the honor. The Blue Ribbon program honors public and private schools that demonstrate academic excellence or dramatic gains in student achievement.
"We are proud and honored to have our Bernabi learning community receive this prestigious national recognition," Spencerport Superintendent Mike Crumb said. "The overall success of our students is a reflection of the many years of hard work by our teachers and administrators, along with the support of our parents, families and community."
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Rutland DPW going socialMay 10,2013Rutlands DPW
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Now Rutland residents can follow the citys Department of Public Works through social media.
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The city has already used the social media sites to alert the public to the closure of the Crescent Street Bridge and a street closure to repair a water main leak.
Information about neighborhoods affected by water-main flushing was also loaded onto the sites.
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If anyone ever had hope that an Obama-Clinton dream team would be a ticket to ride to easily victory in November, the glaring proof that she's imagined Obama dying of an assassin's bullet should wake us from that dream turned mightmare forthwith. Without a Sirhan Sirhan wannabe making her the nominee, you can't have a vice president having an unconscious fantasy about a clone of Lee Harvey Oswald making her president.
Some of the mainstream media reporters are calling Hillary's damage control statement an apology, but thank goodness for the Internet and cable news where sensible people are saying that if anything her so-called apology was so insincere it was almost worse than her original remark.
Obama, showing true class, isn't voicing public outrage, but I can't imagine him ever considering her as a running mate after this.
Michelle, who risks losing not only a president but a husband, might remind him how Hillary is likely to convince a few unhinged sharp-shooting white Appalachian males to vote Democratic.
The Secret Service has a difficult enough job as it is without investigating more psychotics who think they'd be doing Hillary a huge favor if they personally made her president.
I was going to write this column about how John McCain's inner meanness and a certain tendency to have loose lips was starting to show with his recent statements about Obama never being in the military, his bringing up Reverend Wright again, and his delight in mocking of Obama's youth.
But this makes McCain look merely like an eccentric sharp-tongued elderly uncle.
I and others have called the heart of Hillary cold and calculating, but how is that consistent with these remarks being accidental?
Before someone comments that I am suggesting Hillary wants to become president so badly that she's consciously wishing for Obama's death, I want to be clear that I am writing as a psychotherapist who believes in the unconscious. I believe that some references and slips of the tongue are representative of unconscious wishes too unaccepatble to reach one's conscious awareness.
I don't condemn Hillary for having this unconscious fantasy. She's human. You may have the unconscious wish that your beloved wealthy aunt dies and leaves you a fortune but that doesn't mean you want it to happen.
I do condemn her for her lack of self-awareness, insight, empathy, and genuine remorse, in her so-called apology:
"I regret that if my referencing that moment of trauma for our entire
nation, and particularly for the Kennedy family was in any way
offensive. I certainly had no intention of that whatsoever."
She regrets IF her reference was in any way offensive? Also, let's not forget that she made the same reference in a Time Magazine interview published on March 6th. (Here)
This, in my book, is not a sincere apology for suggesting that one reason for staying in the race is that her opponent might be assassinated.
Afterthought: She also never mentioned Barack Obama, focusing her non-apology on the Kennedy family. Yet what she was talking about was the possible assassination of Barack Obama. The comment wasn't really about Robert Kennedy. It was about Obama! Why no apology to him and his wife and especially to his children who are old enough to ask:
"Daddy, is it true Senator Clinton is still running against you because she thinks you might get killed?"
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So she said the same thing, almost exactly word for word back in March and none of the pundits kicked her in the butt for it then. Now that she's apparently dead in the water people want to beat her dead horse.
God knows I am no fan of Hillary Clinton but if you look at what she is saying it's simply that there's nothing magical about the month of June in the quadrennial cycle we all put ourselves through.
Where were you back on March 7?
This is hypocrisy IMHO.
And this bit about the insincere apology is at best weak.
What would you rather have heard her say? If you think her apology was so weak as to castigate her unmercifully you must have some idea for an apology which isn't weak.
This reminds me of the castigation of the Klebold and Harris families after Columbine. All of these critics were complaining that they weren't sincere enough in their apologies. What did they want? Perhaps having all four parents commit ritual seppuku on the front steps of Columbine High School?
As to why nobody picked up on her comment in Time, first I don't think you expect me personally to read everything that is written about politics. Others should have picked this up, but I primarily fault TIME managing editor Rick Stengel who interviewed her for not asking her follow-up questions such as:
"Have you thought about the possibility that Senator Obama might be assassinated and that this is part of your rationale for continuing in the race?"
As to what kind of sincere apology I'd personally expect, it would have to be one that was totally honest. Since I don't know what is in Senator Clinton's mind I can only speculate that it might include an admission that like most people she's had thoughts go through her mind that Obama could be assassinated. She could say that she spent eight years trying to put it out her her mind that this could happen to her husband when he was president.
She could say that when one in is public life such horrible thoughts always lurk in the recesses of their mind.
She could say that she's well aware of the racial hatred that still exists in this country and that one would have to be in deep denial not to believe that their are bigots out there that would risk giving up their own life to stop a black person from becoming presdient.
She could say that while it is true she is tired and worn out from all the campaigning, as someone who has been through the rigors of several campaigns of her own and her husband's this is no excuse for having put into words what has occassionally crossed her mind.
She also never mentioned Barack Obama, focusing her non-apology on the Kennedy family. Yet what she was talking about was the possible assassination of Barack Obama. The comment wasn't really about Robert Kennedy. It was about Obama! Why no apology to him and his family? (I didn't think of this when I wrote the column and it should be added to it as an afterword.)
And then she could say that what what we have yet to hear, that what she said was very very wrong to put into words and she was deeply ashamed of herself.
The New York Times so far has 260 comments to their editorial about the non-apology Say What? Hillary Clinton Does it Again HERE.
Stengel didn't follow up because it was clear in the context what she was talking about.
I believe you and others are unfairly smearing this woman in this instance.
We agree to disagree, I guess. Well at least I do.
And his name is name is not Barak, it is Barack.
I have a very dear friend who was there the night RFK was killed. He dropped out of Democratic politics the event was so devastating. It took several years for him to return to Democratic politics. He recently confided this fact to me. He was our Co-Manager in a Congressional campaign in 2006.
This makes one wonder what kind of people seeks the office of the Presidency? This takes us back the Vice-Presidency of L.B.J. and two confirmed reports that L.B.J. was involved in J.F.K.'s untimely death, by E. Howard Hunt (a death bed confession) and L.B.J.'s Mistress. Then we have the historical reports by Freedom of Information claimants of the firing on the S.S. Liberty in the Middle East.
If a hair gets harmed on Barack Obama's head the number-one suspect should be no other than HRC! Dam it Clinton is a Lawyer. She should know better!
Those of us that support Barack Obama have to have his back covered. Let's hope that tomorrow the Super-Delegates wake-up and decide that they have had enough of the Hillary Rodham Clinton Circus!
"This takes us back the Vice-Presidency of L.B.J. and two confirmed reports that L.B.J. was involved in J.F.K.'s untimely death, by E. Howard Hunt (a death bed confession) and L.B.J.'s Mistress."
I knew of the interview with the mistress. I did not know of the Hunt death bed confession. In fact I didn't know Hund died. I will find the accounts on the 'net. Thank you for making us aware, Mr. Dolik.
— Kent Shaw
Precisely why he should not pick her for VP. His life would be in danger all the time. She should be shown the door and told not to come back!
Hold your hats. I am in complete agreement with Sandra Price.
— Kent Shaw
Hillary's remarks may lend credibility to the Vince Foster/Ron Brown conspiracy theories not to mention that former Clinton Whitewater partner Jim McDougall was locked in solitary confinement without his heart medication and died shortly after he contacted the New York Times and offered to sing like a canary.
Where is the evidence that the Hillary assignation remark was unconscious? One has to take into consideration that most psychoanalysts are sitting in the wrong chair when Hal Brown insists that the remark was not intentional. Is there a possibility that not only was it conscious but that the intent was to trigger an assignation by a racist right wing lunatic? Could H.R.C. be that desperate and psychotic?
I'm with ya' on this one, Hal. Nice column. Buddha said something to the effect of, "There's no such thing as an accident." He was a pretty smart guy.
Buddha probably said lots about all events having a cosmic connection. He also said the following which perhaps Hillary Clinton could take to heart:
Whatever words we utter should be chosen with care for people will hear them and be influenced by them for good or ill.
You will not be punished for your anger, you will be punished by your anger.
All that we are is the result of what we have thought. If a man speaks or acts with an evil thought, pain follows him. If a man speaks or acts with a pure thought, happiness follows him, like a shadow that never leaves him.
Meanwhile, as I commented in the other thread about this subject, I am sure Obama has defended Clinton to his children as they must be hearing a lot of negative comments about her. So I can't imagine what it would be like for his children if somehow they heard that Senator Clinton said their father might be killed and then she'd get to be president.
I don't see how Clinton could begin to apologize to the Obamas for that. The pain, even trauma, of words like that said to children can't be undone once spoken.
This could have been a dream team Obama and Clinton. This is what the United States needs right now. Considering this outrageous comment Senator Clinton made i think not. She is hoping and praying that Obama gets killed so she can take the White House. Senator Clinton Shame on you for your so called mis spoken words. When you dig a hole for someone else make sure you dig another one beside it for You. Also I belive that she needs to bow out of the election and save the little pride she has left so Obama can fix this jacked up economy that Bush destroyed.Obama 08!!
What the country needs at this time is to get out from under the most corrupt government ever in America. Today the Libertarians are in convention to establish their Presidential Candidate and their V.P. Take a minute to listen to some of the speeches from the candidates.
This is the movement of the future and the only way we will ever be able to have respect for our government. The agenda is based on individual liberties.
This action group is not dead!
Do you even have to consider the conspiracy element? They are too temperamentally incompatible to work as a team, much less would either be willing to accept the probable political irrelevance of the vice-presidency. Thomas Jefferson was saddled with Aaron Burr. Ronald Reagan and George H. W. Bush were saddled with each other.
I have always doubted – and especially now after her latest remarks, whether or not they are actually significant – that he would offer or that she would accept. She believes that she is owed a presidency and, like Lucifer in Paradise Lost, she would rather reign in Hell than serve in Heaven.
Most sincerely,
T. J. Flapsaddle
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Rockdale Post 77 had gone through its first 14 games of the American Legion baseball season unbeaten. But nothing had come quite as easy as victory No. 15. Fred Williams hit a grand slam and a three-run home run, Daniel Jackson added a pair of two-run home runs, part of a seven-home run day as Post 77 trounced Dawsonville Post 247, 32-0 Sunday.
"It was a good day offensively for us, we got to swing the bat, every got at least, looks like seven at bats. It was a good day for us," said Rockdale coach Jack Murphy. "We're not that good, they're not that bad, (but) hitting is contagious. The guy's got it going."
Rockdale led 5-0 before opening things up in a marathon fourth inning. Stewart Spence hit a grand slam, Cole Murphy added a solo shot and Williams ripped a three-run home run to cap an 11-run inning and put Post 77 up 16-0.
The visitors added nine runs in the fifth and seven in the sixth as Williams and Robert Bell each launched grand slams, and Jackson hit a two-run blast in each inning.
"Seven home runs and all the walks they gave us, it just snowballed and got out of hand," Murphy said.
Starter and winning pitcher Matt Anderson (4 IP, 4 K) and Ryan Knight (3 IP, 8 K) were the beneficiary of the offensive barrage. Rockdale stays on the road when it travels to Canton Post 45 today at 6:30 p.m.
"We're a good team (but) we got a ways to go," said Murphy.
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The sustainability of euro area debt: a re-assessment
AbstractThis paper re-assesses findings of the literature that the systematic debt stabilising response in fiscal policy has been sufficiently strong for keeping debt ratios on a sustainable path in Euro area countries. In doing so, it adjusts the standard approach to the specific context of Economic and Monetary Union. Results show that before 1993 policy responses towards net and gross debt are comparable. After 1993, the reaction to net debt weakens while policies react more strongly to the build-up of gross debt according to the definition of the EU fiscal rules. This suggests that financial assets have increasingly been used for managing gross debt ratios while improving net worth has received less priority.
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