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Kessler and Calzaghe both want the fight it's HBO you should blame
All this *****ing that one is scared off the other, it's not true both fighters are ready, but the offers that both camps were offering are unrealistic, for instance Calzaghe wasn't even paid $2 million to fight Jeff Lacy who was like America's up and coming golden boy, so where does the $5 million each or there abouts come from?
****** and Palle want HBO to pay $5 million for the rights of this fight, but HBO say this is way to expensive, while as us boxing fans would say course it's worth it , it's probably the biggest fight in Boxing at the moment. But this fight involves two Europeans who in all are very unexposed to the regualr HBO watcher in the United States. It's such a shame that this is the case, becasue like i say this is the only fight if any i wish to be made this year, it cant be done at a later date, Calzaghe is getting to old. What do you guys think? I know that these two fighters wont fight for much less when they can go get paid the same if not a bit more against the likes of Manfredo. This will be a let down if this fight doesn't happen.
Surely HBO should have the ***** to pay and imo this fight will be class and this will open the gates for one of these guys if not both to fight biger names in the States which will then be a great investment from HBO. Considering they paid around the same amount $5 million for the Mayweather Mitchell mis match surely this is worth it?
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The expansion of the Islamic State is not a problem for the United States to solve alone.
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The spirit of Saddam Hussein lives on in the Islamic State.
The twin plagues of ISIS and Ebola thrive on the breakdown of the existing order.
IS, formerly ISIS, elicits cult-like behavior in its followers and those it conquers.
Washington sabotaged its own "war on terror" by destabilizing the Middle East even as it coddled the U.S. allies who were actually sponsoring terrorism.
Did the CIA accept information obtained from a journalist tortured to death?
According to Osama bin Laden and Ayman al-Zawahiri's interpretation of Sunni Islamic law, Muslims who support a tyrannical regime or an occupying force are fair game for al Qaeda.
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The newly chosen ninth president of Youngstown State University will be on campus Monday.
Jim Tressel will have a press conference at 7 p.m. in the Ohio Room on the second floor of Kilcawley Center.
A special YSU Board of Trustees' meeting will begin at 6 p.m. in Kilcawley Center. Tressel and his wife, Ellen, are expected to attend that meeting.
A reception for Tressel in the student center will follow the press conference.
Tressel was selected by the trustees in a unanimous vote on Friday morning and he accepted. The terms of his contract must still be negotiated.
Read the full story Monday in The Vindicator and on Vindy.com.
Question: I have a family member who's graduating next week, from YSU. If Tressels signature is on his diploma, can he sell it to any of the "Tresselmania" gang, as memorabilia of their "dream-come-true" debacle? Tim, Bob, Bruce..c'mon, any takers? Yes, it's not the "golden pants" or whatever the hell those kids were selling, but hey, it might have his majesty's name on it! Nah, now that I think about it, if it has Tressels name on it, for those of us who prefer to associate our accomplishments with men of honor and integrity, it means less than the worth of the paper it's printed on (I was thinking of using a different type of "paper" reference, but I thought I'd cut JT a break).
My informal poll of friends, neighbors, and family shows more disapproval than approval.
Netatives include that he's not expected to be a friend to non-teaching bargaining units, that local business people will expect him to "owe" them, that he's not an academic, and that his failure at Ohio State should have disqualified him.
Positives were that he can (potentially) rally the university and community and that he has support of local business.
Hey Youngstown naysayers do you all prefer that we stick with the same type of under-achievers that previously held the presidency? At least Tressel don't NEED the money.
He has more moxie that the previous 6 presidents combined!
Why do all of you negative people still live in Youngstown and discuss YSU? You obviously don't want to be here. Every one of you needs professional mental help in dealing with your tortured mental states. I can't imagine going through every day of my existence being so unhappy and dissatisfied. Please find a new place to call home. And take Bertram with you!
SoupCity85.....trust me, my family member is relieved to be graduating before the "Tressel Regime" begins. And yes, to your surprise, I agree that it will be a "stinking" signature. Everything the new "Prez" does will carry the stench of his shameful actions at OSU. It's his legacy and he should have thought about living under it's shadow, no matter where he goes or what he does, before he perpetrated his lies and cover-ups. Lastly, it's obvious that you can't defend his discretions so all you have left is silly name-calling....typical of those who choose to pretend that Tressel did nothing wrong at OSU.
Oh, and by the way, SoupCity85, I read through your previous posts, and I paid particular attention to one from March, 2010, you know, the one where you had nothing but contempt for YSU because they were not giving you credit for your military service and experience (and once again, strangely enough, I agree with you because I stand by our military veterans and believe that if honorably discharged, they should be automatically moved to the "front of the line" for whatever endeavor they may undertake). What puzzles me is, as you claim, that you served in the military for as long as you did, then you certainly were taught the meanings of the words "honor" and "integrity". Therefore you must know that those are two character qualities that cannot be applied to Tressels history at OSU. Just a tip, but try and remember what you write in your past posts, and review them periodically, so you don't come off as some kind of irrational, ranting lunatic.
I love losers like Chessiedad who have never accomplished anything in life and when they do not get their way they cry and whine and throw a tantrum.
The choice has been made, the vast majority support the choice, so get on board or get the heck out of the way. Work to make our area a better place, not be some loser whiner.
SoupCity...well said. There is a whole lot of "first stone" casting here.
And the "casters", who shield themselves behind the anonymity of their screen names, are duplicitous cowards. Jim, at least, puts it all out there for both his fans and his critics alike.
SoupCity85......you are correct, sir, I cannot claim that I am without sin, however, it is not my character or background that is in question, here. As you and others try to deflect and redirect the focus of Tressels sordid past, making claims that what he did can be excused as "human nature"' well, I for one, am not buying in to that. He did what he did for his own personal gratification and "human nature" or not, those are the facts and they can't be disputed. And for him to be rewarded for that is the height of hypocrisy, especially when that reward involves leading the youth of our community.
Simply put. Every president and presidential applicant in the history of the school accepted or wanted the job to better themselves, personally, until now. Tressel accepts the job to make the school better, and for those of you that don't know, it's not about him in everything he does. He was the scapegoat in Columbus and if that is hard to understand then you can't begin to understand how the real world works. For those of you cheering for him to fail. It's too bad that you will be so wrong and will never admit it.
frinightlights.....take a second and read the articles from ESPN and SI, in the shortcuts below. Then, please tell me, without putting any kind of crazy "spin" on it, how anyone can conclude that Tressel was a "scapegoat" for anyone or anything related to the OSU incidents.
for those who think tressel will turn ysu into the ohio state, you are delusional. be honest, it's all about football. you couldn't care less about student enrollment or how deeply in debt ysu is. will he immediately cut tuition? no. I heard jim Campbell tell dan rivers this morning, " we'll have to talk about this again, closer to football season." hey Campbell, they didn't rehire a football coach. what does football season have to do with it? will they talk about whether attendance has increased since hiring of "THE GREAT ONE."
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When Invisible Children Singby Chi Cheng Huang, Irwin Tang
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Expecting to treat some mildly ill children from the streets of Bolivia on a quick "service trip," an idealistic young medical student gets more than he bargained for when he takes a year off from Harvard Medical School to work at an orphanage in La Paz. As he comes to know the children, and sees how they live, Chi Huang is drawn deeper and deeper into
Expecting to treat some mildly ill children from the streets of Bolivia on a quick "service trip," an idealistic young medical student gets more than he bargained for when he takes a year off from Harvard Medical School to work at an orphanage in La Paz. As he comes to know the children, and sees how they live, Chi Huang is drawn deeper and deeper into their complex and desperate lives. The doctor soon realizes that to truly help these children, he will have to follow the example of Jesus: live among them, love them in spite of their brokenness, and cling to his faith in God's goodness, even when it appears it is nowhere to be found. A true story that will inspire and challenge readers to greater faith and action. The book includes a Foreword by Harvard professor and world-renowned expert on the moral and spiritual development of children, Dr. Robert Coles.
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When Invisible Children Sing
By CHI HUANG IRWIN TANG
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Chapter OneWe've Been Waiting for You
Noon, August 1, 1997; Plaza San Francisco, Downtown La Paz, Bolivia
A child.
His hands all too visible, cupped as if holding water, but holding nothing. His eyes adhering to my every twitch. His eyes glazed over from sleeplessness, from 3 a.m. flights into the sewage system, from wincing too hard trying to forget, from seeing everything, even the eyes of all those who see straight through him. He is invisible.
I reach into my pocket for a small metal disk that will make him more visible. These disks are almost magical, the way they work. The child is watching and waiting. He speaks poor Spanish. He is Aymaran-of blood indigenous to the Andes mountains. I fumble the metal disk. It falls to the pavement.
The street. This is his workplace, his bed, his table, his plate, his fine crystal. This is his home, Mother Street. I pick up the metal disk and place it in his cupped hands. Now they are not so empty. Now he is not so invisible.
Money. The metal disk is known here as a boliviano. It is the currency of Bolivia, worth about twenty American cents.
Everyone loves children, as long they belong to someone. When they belong to the street, few love them. And the childrenknow it. Those cupped hands never ask for love. They ask for money.
I crouch down to ask him his name. He looks at my face. He knows I am new to La Paz. He knows it is my first day to walk the street. He knows he might get easy money from me. But he is not sure what I want now. Most people drop the coin in his hands and walk away, returning to their own sweet oblivion.
The child looks into my eyes, and he walks away.
* * *
The hill is steep and covered by cobblestones. The stones warp my feet as I lean forward, walking fast, as I usually do, marching double time to the girls' orphanage at the top of the hill.
By the time I reach the door of Yassela Home for Street Girls, I'm grabbing my sides and ready to vomit. A young girl runs by, giggling at me. Mountain climbers wear oxygen masks at ten thousand feet. Paceños-the people of La Paz-live their entire lives at more than twelve thousand feet.
I look around me at the snow-covered, craggy peaks of the Andes mountains. Each year, tons of silt roll down from these mountains, enriching the soil of the altiplano, the five-hundred-mile depression from which La Paz springs. The mountains only partially shield the 2 million Paceños who live there from ice-winds that blast through the altiplano. I'm told the wind is cruelly cold at night.
Panting for air, I bend over to catch my breath in front of the orphanage door. A little eyeball peers through a low peephole and examines my face. The peephole slams shut, and feet pitter-patter away as a little girl's voice shrieks, "Strange Chinese man! It's a strange Chinese man!" The door swings open to reveal a middle-aged mestiza woman, her hands clasped before her food-stained apron. "Dr. Chi," she says. "You're here already. My name is Señora Lola."
Señora Lola leads me silently down the stairs into the cozy main activity room where girls from three to sixteen sit quietly in groups of three or four. They knit. I take my position in the center of the room. "Hello, my name is Chi. I am going to be the orphanage medical doctor here for the next seven months." The girls glance up at me, return to their knitting.
A little girl peers up at me with her twinkling, starry eyes. Her rich chocolate skin is accentuated by her simple pink dress, with which she obscures her face. She lets down her dress slowly, slowly, and ever so carefully she reaches out to me. "Do you want to see my room?"
I put my fingers in her hand. "Sure. What's your name?"
"My name is Chi," I say.
"Chinito," she says. Chinaman.
"Actually," I say, "it's simply Chi. Chi Huang."
Señora Lola and I follow Sara to her room. The air is stale with mold. Posters of teenage singing sensations spice up the pastel pink walls. Sara hops onto her bed. From under her covers, she brings forth a ragged doll, its head secured by thin cloth. The doll has one black plastic eye and one imprint of an eye long gone. "Her name is Isabel," Sara introduces.
I kneel down so I'm eye to eye with the doll. "Isabel, how long have you been here?"
"Long time," Sara says.
"Do you like it here, Isabel?"
"I miss my mommy."
"Where's Mommy?"
"In El Alto."
"Where's El Alto?"
"It's high above, in the mountains. It's far, far away. And it's very, very poor."
"Why are you here, Isabel?"
"Because Mommy does not have any money for us to live with her."
"Do you get to see your mommy?"
"Yes. She visits every week."
Sara's shoulders slump, and her eyes look far away.
"Will you show me the rest of your house?" I ask her. Sara's face lights up again. She jumps off her bed and scurries out of the room. We walk into the concrete courtyard, where a nurse grabs my arm. Nurse Olivia is a large woman, a strong woman. With her rouge thick and her silver hair pinned tightly into a bun, she looks like a big-limbed Tammy Faye Bakker. "Chi," she says, "I know it is your first day, but I need you to see this girl's arm." She raises her eyebrows and peers into my eyes. "Her name is Mercedes."
The bedroom hosts six sets of bunk beds. Mercedes, about fifteen, sits on her bed, which is a lower one and neatly made. Her hair is a bird's nest beneath which her face is safely sequestered. Her clothes hang loosely over her slender frame, her faded pink sweatshirt having seen the scrub brush one too many times. Her skin is a dark olive; her brown eyes are encircled by black rings of makeup. She looks down and away, deep into a bedpost.
"My name is Chi," I say, as I sit down on a parallel bed. "I am the new orphanage doctor. What's your name?" I ask. She studies the bedpost inside and out. A lightbulb hanging from the ceiling yellows everything. "Señora Olivia wants me to take a look at your arm."
No response.
"Can I look at it?" I ask gently.
"No," she says.
"Why don't you tell me what it looks like since you're not going to show it to me? Is it red? Is there blood coming out of it?"
"What happened?"
"I have a cut."
"When did it happen?"
"Last night."
"How did your arm get cut?"
"I cut it," she says.
"With what?"
"With Gillette," she says. With a razor blade.
I try to slow my breath. "How come?"
"Because I wanted to."
"Were you mad at yourself? Were you sad?"
"No, I just felt like doing it." She looks as far away from me as she can. "It feels good. I enjoy cutting myself," she says.
I feel my stomach turning. "It doesn't hurt?"
"It hurts later," she says. There is no pride in her confession, but no shame either. I am sickened, perplexed, and my throat tightens out of anger. Knowing the tremendous odds against her survival, why does she make her life even harder? "Is there any pus coming out of your wound?"
"Yes," she says.
"I need to treat it."
"It doesn't need to be treated," she tells me.
"If you don't treat it, the wound will become necrotic," I say. "You'll not only get the skin infected, you'll get your muscles and bones infected."
She stares at nothing. "If you get your muscle and bone infected, I will have to cut your hand off."
She looks at me, and for the first time I see a young girl in her eyes. She is wondering who I am, why I am here, and if she can trust me. She looks away for a long spell. "Okay," she says.
We walk to the orphanage examination room, a small room stocked with only bandages and hydrogen peroxide. Mercedes sits down on the wooden examination table.
"It is 2 p.m. now. What time did you cut yourself ?" I ask her.
"Fourteen hours. I can't sew up your wound. I'd be closing a wound filled with germs, keeping them in your arm. So we'll have to disinfect your wound and bandage it. Please uncover your arm."
She uncovers her right arm. I disguise my gasp as a deep breath. Over twenty razor blade scars run up the palm side of her arm, tracing ragged lines from wrist to elbow. By their color and texture, I discern that the scars vary widely in age. Has she been cutting herself since the age of twelve? Ten?
"Uncover your other arm," I say.
Dozens of parallel scars line her other arm.
"Do you have razor blade marks elsewhere?"
"No," she states with a twitch of the eye.
She's lying to me. But do I have the right to insist on seeing the other cuts? If not the right, at least I have the obligation. But if I insist, will I squander what little trust I've earned?
"Do you have any razor blade marks on your legs?" I ask Mercedes.
"This is my first meeting with you, Mercedes, I know. But I need to make a full examination. Are you lying to me?"
Nurse Olivia shouts at her, "How you can do such things to your body, and before the eyes of God, is a mystery to me! You don't love yourself and you don't love the Lord!" Only the vitriol hurled at this child can distract from the horror unfolding before my eyes. Five razor blade marks of six centimeters line each of her thighs. Longer scars cover her stomach, stretching from one side of her rib cage to the other. Is this real? I feel like I am a minor character ("DOCTOR") in a tragic play. With scars closing up over other scars, she has probably cut herself at least two hundred times. If she continues, by the time she is an adult, her entire body, save her face, will be covered by this street map of razor scars.
"Did you do all this yourself ?" I ask Mercedes.
"Yes," she utters robotically. As soon as Nurse Olivia went into her tirade, Mercedes tuned out of reality.
"She is a cutter," states Nurse Olivia.
I clean her arm wound and bandage it up. A putrid odor has been emanating from her lower body and getting worse. I don't want to offend young Mercedes by gagging, so I open the window and the door for air. The odor recalls for me the time I relieved a man who had been constipated for two weeks. She's fifteen! She should be clean and happy. I take a deep breath and reach for a speculum, and then I remember where we are. I have essentially no medical equipment here. I manually examine the labia. As I examine her for herpetic sores, green pus flows steadily out of her.
I sit there dazed. I didn't expect anything like this. I had hoped for docile children who just needed some antibiotics and a break in life. Whatever I envisioned, now that I'm here, I wonder what I can possibly offer these children.
"You probably have a venereal disease," I inform Mercedes.
She looks at me oddly.
"You should never have sex again, Mercedes!" shouts Nurse Olivia. "God has punished you!"
"Please," I implore Nurse Olivia, "let me take over here." Taking a calming breath, I look into Mercedes's eyes. "You have a sexual infection," I tell her, the words altering neither her face nor her breathing.
"Please take these samples, Señora," I tell Nurse Olivia. "I'll be right back." I walk to a neighborhood pharmacy and return with enough antibiotics to cover most venereal diseases. After explaining to Mercedes her schedule of medication, I ask Nurse Olivia to send the blood and cervical samples to the nearest laboratory in order to identify Mercedes's disease. And then I walk to the boys' orphanage.
* * *
Bururu. This is what the street children say when they are cold. You can hear them saying it at night when the cold wind blows.
"Welcome to Bururu Home for Street Boys." Señora Lydia opens the door to Bururu and then points eastward. "As you can see, we are located in the downtown area, not far from the old cathedral of San Francisco and the grand city square known as Plaza San Francisco, where the campesina women set up shop and the street children sell drinks and shine shoes."
Walking past Señora Lydia, I extend my toe past Bururu's threshold. Whuff! A quartet of boys tackles me, staggering me but not felling me. They each grab hold of a limb and try to pull me down, giggling the whole time. I finally catch my breath, and I playfully punch a chubby boy in the chest, swing a skinny boy around by the arms, drag a boy in a fútbol (soccer) jersey across the room, and try unsuccessfully to shake the fourth boy off my leg. My back grows weaker with each giggle, and they pull me to the brown Spanish tiles.
Then one of the boys speaks to me. He stops to see if I understand him, which I don't, before he continues. I'm not even sure if he is speaking Aymara-which is spoken by 1.6 million people around Lake Titicaca-or Quechua, the official language of the Inca Empire, spoken by 13 million people along the Andes mountains. A second boy tries to explain what the first boy said. He is speaking a different but similarly incomprehensible language. Slowly, though, words such as la and el stand out. They mean "the" in Spanish, a language I do speak, shakily.
"My name is Chi," I tell them. "I am your doctor."
The boy with the soccer jersey tells me, "I am Marcos. I am a fútbol player. When I grow up, you won't see me playing in the street leagues anymore. You'll see me only in the stadium. Do you play fútbol?"
Before I can answer, the boys all say, "Upstairs. Let's go upstairs!"
"What's upstairs?" I ask.
"The bedrooms," Marcos tells me.
Room 1 stinks like feet unwashed for a fortnight. A dozen blankets laid side by side on the floor mark the boys' sleeping territories. I walk over to a beautiful, brightly colored blanket and pick it up. The indigenous women, or cholitas, weave these blankets, and every boy seems to own at least one.
"Ahuayo," says Jesús.
"Ahuayo," I repeat.
The children burst into laughter at my pronunciation.
"Ahuayo," I say.
More laughter. I grow popular through incompetence. I study their giggling faces. We look alike, the boys and me. We are all brown. They are short kids, and I am five-six. Their hair is straight, coarse, and black. Mine is so straight that it stands punk-rockishly vertical after a shower. Broad strong cheeks. My fleshy face-flanks make deep dimples when I smile. Eyes like fat or skinny almonds. My eyes are pretty round, but I retain the almond flavor. Yes, this twenty-five-year-old Taiwanese American medical student can pass for their indigenous older brother.
"It is time for the meeting." Señora Lydia stands in the doorway to Room 1. She is of pale Spanish skin, her white, oval face shining through a shower of dark curls. Dressed "Euro," like an Upper West Side art dealer, she escorts me through the carpentry room. Aged five through seventeen and of both indio and mestizo blood, the boys hammer together bookshelves and footlockers. Bang! Bang! Bang! They are dressed in cotton shirts and blue jeans or beige slacks.
"Many of these children came from off the streets," Señora Lydia tells me. "The others were dropped off by parents who could not afford to care for them."
We enter the meeting room, and four women sitting in a semicircle stand up and give me solemn smiles. "Some of you have already met him," says Señora Lydia. "Let me introduce him formally. This is Chi Huang."
Nurse Olivia shakes my hand. "God bless you for coming here," she says.
"I am the social worker at the Yassela Home," says Señora Lola, who seems to possess a knowing peace. "I handle fights and hurt feelings, and I keep order."
"Hello." A woman in blue jeans and a collared shirt waves. "My name is Jessica. I do whatever needs to be done. I pick up the loose ends."
A psychologist named Eva tells me, "The boys need more men around here."
"The girls will like him too!" exclaims Nurse Olivia. "He is a godsend! A blessing!" She opens her arms to the heavens.
Señora Lydia clears her throat. Although she is now the head administrator of three orphanages, in earlier years Señora Lydia Morales spent many nights on the streets of La Paz coaxing street children to leave the street and join her orphanage. On the streets where women get beaten, raped, and murdered, Señora Lydia earned the trust and respect of the children by practically living in alleys and nooks. That is why some tiny fraction of the La Paz street children population is willing to leave the familiarity of the street to live in her orphanages.
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One of the most sdisturbing but uplifting books I've ever read. Instead of spending money on frivolous things, we Americans would be more satisfied to help mankind.
This book is interesting on several levels. First, it tells the fascinating story of Dr. Huang and his work with the street children of Bolivia. His approach of focusing on the stories of several children makes it very easy for the reader to connect with and understand the children. In addition, the book really explains generational and intractable poverty and the forces that keep it in place. I suspect similar forces are in place in all settings, even in a country as wealthy as the United States. Moreover, he describes his own childhood living with a family recently immigranted from Taiwan and his family's experience with the health care system in the U.S. It is a must read for employees in social service settings. Last, because he is an physician, he describes in detail the medical and mental health issues faced by the children, and I would recommend this book to be required curriculum for anyone planning to do medical mission work. (Or work with the homeless in the U.S. for that matter.)


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âYoungbloodâ is another comic thatâs jumped aboard the Obama train with a flipbook cover featuring the president and a six-page story that has him being briefed on the new Youngblood team, which is actually a version of the original Youngblood team and has little to do with the Youngblood group featured for the other 20 pages of the comic. Itâs a good thing that most people buying this book for Obamaâs face wonât want to read the contents, because itâs confusing as all get-out.
The main story makes for the strongest issue of âYoungbloodâ yet with Joe Casey and Derec Donovan firing on all cylinders, tying together seven issuesâ worth of build-up for an action-packed and, sometimes, humorous climax. The new, media-friendly Youngblood squad is rescued by part of the old team from Stormhead, a superpowered terrorist causing a tornado, and the Televillain, a bad guy with odd television powers, while the other half of the old team travels into a television to rescue Scion from the set of âOprah.â Wait, did I actually type that sentence? Thatâs some crazy stuff.
While previous issues havenât coalesced the way that Casey and Donovan would have liked, this issue really does coalesce, with a chaotic pace that makes every problem seem huge and that everything could fall apart at any second. The highlight of the issue is Johnny Panic guiding Shaft and Cougar through the television world, trying to find Scion and Oprah. Itâs an old gag, but it works well here.
The team-up of the two Youngblood squads works well, too, as the real force behind these villainous attacks is revealed â- at least to the readers. Itâs not a surprise, but the overt actions they take to protect themselves sure is. Hint: a character gets shot with a laser beam from a satellite.
Donovanâs art is cartoony and dynamic. His depiction of Oprah hasnât improved since last issue, but his composition is better. The colors of Bill Crabtree are quite good, not always using solid colors, but a more textured look. Though, he does use a lot of bright, primary colors, which is exactly what this book needs.
The confusing part comes with Rob Liefeldâs six-page Obama story, which is entirely disconnected from the main comic. He introduces a new Youngblood squad filled with âold favoritesâ from the original team, but doesnât really do much. Readers will be confused why Diehard has his old look or why a diseased (and possibly dying) Badrock is suddenly fine. With Mayâs solicitations showing that Liefeld is taking over the bookâs art and writing chores, the cliffhanger ending of Casey and Donovanâs story is even odder.
Itâs a shame that just when Casey and Donovan were hitting their stride, Liefeld has returned to make the book return to its early â90s roots. The lack of explanation for readers as to the two differing versions of the characters or the future of the book is disheartening, but not surprising. But, hey, there is an Obama cover, so who cares whatâs inside the comic, right?


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If I wanted to avoid having to enter the short code in onto each post to display the images/slideshow by editing my single.php file what code would I need to add? Thanks for any suggestions.
If I wanted to avoid having to enter the short code in onto each post to display the images/slideshow by editing my single.php file what code would I need to add? Thanks for any suggestions.
You need to use the do_shortcode function. Something like this:
<?php do_shortcode('[portfolio_slideshow]');?>
Thanks for the quick reply...
I was also having problems getting the slideshow to actually slide... I removed all of the other plug-ins that were using jquery and it still didn't want to slide... I uploaded three new picture is specifically into that post and when I viewed the source code the images were there along with the Google hosted jquery script. I couldn't get it running so I switched to http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/slideshow-gallery/
It is sliding correctly.
Thank you for the short code function tip... I'm sure I will make use of that somewhere else.
I saw a problem recently where the Cycle portion of the plugin wasn't loading properly. (The plugin requires both jQuery and the jQuery Cycle plugin to work). It was because their theme did not have
<?php wp_footer() ?> in the footer, which is where the cycle script is placed.
If you still want to run the plugin, check your theme for this line. It's very important and should be in every theme.
I was just doing the same thing. Just a heads up that do_shortcode returns the output but DOESN'T display it. So you need to use:
<?php echo do_shortcode('[portfolio_gallery]');?>
Another tip that might come in useful. If you want to display portfolio galleries on pages or posts via template tags, try using a Custom Field. For example, add a custom field called Portfolio and for value put [portfolio_gallery].
On the page template, add the following :
$portfolio = get_post_meta($post->ID, 'Portfolio', 'true');
echo do_shortcode($portfolio);
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Scorpio Woman and Pisces Man Compatibility
Famous Scorpio-Pisces Couples: Demi Moore and Bruce Willis, Goldie Hawn and Mark Russell, Nicolette Sheridan and Michael Bolton, Roseanne and Tom Arnold, Jamie Lee Curtis and Christopher Guest
One of those near ideal matches, both temper the other and bring out the best. In my opinion and experience, water signs (Cancer, Scorpio and Pisces) need to stick with each other because of their depth and capacity for feeling plus their need to connect and bond, which the air, fire and earth people don't understand. Water signs have the capacity to be deeply wounded if they interact with the more casual, utilitarian or "sporting" types. Furthermore, water signs never want to end anything so it can be a dream-come-true to find someone else who feels the same way. Many astrologers have written perceptively about how hard it is to be a "Dionysian" man, a Pisces male, in our culture. It is the very antithesis of hard logic and forthright action we associate with men. Having a strong, understanding Scorpio woman by your side can be a life saver, literally a lighthouse on the shores of a stormy sea. Whereas the soft, dreamy fish takes the sometime bitter vindictive edge off the scorpion's sting. There may be no better match than this one.
How to Attract a Pisces Man as a Scorpio Woman: Your seductive charms are all you need. He will respond to your vibration as a magnet. Once you have drawn him into your force field, your receptive strength and understanding are enough to make him yours, all else being equal. The attraction between two water signs far transcends language, even body language, and relies heavily on instinct and animal magnetism instead, such things as the scent of a woman. As soon as you begin to talk, you'll realize he "knows things about you" that he really has no way of knowing. Get use to it. You are dealing with a magic force of psychic proportions and soulful depth. Imagine what a great lover he"ll be.
How to Attract a Scorpio Woman as a Pisces Man: The natural instinct of a Scorpio woman should tell her of your interest and intentions through the ethers. The most perceptive creature of all the zodiac has caught your eye and is about to draw you magically toward her. Every Scorpio woman believes in only one kind of love – love at first sight! With her it is an immediate "Yes, completely" or "No, never." You can enjoy the deep soulful connection you feel as she looks into your eyes—unlike other women, she doesn't look away but meets your steady gaze. The merging has begun.
Degree of Romance: There is no more romantic combination in the zodiac. Pisces courts a lifetime with music, candlelight and flowers, personal poetry and an adoration approaching ecstasy. Scorpio understands and willingly receives.
Degree of Passion: These two experience the kind of passion most people just read about. It is deep and true to their natures to love only one, only one way, forever.
Degree of Friendship: It's a lot more than that. it's like the kind of friendship men develop in battle when you are willing to put your life into each other's hands.
Degree of Marriage: Superb.
Progression of Relationship: It becomes emotionally intimate almost right away. Pisces experiences such a feeling of peace and relief.
Sex: Here is a poem by metaphysical poet John Donne that describes the experience of two souls merging above two bodies and becoming one and the soulful experience that orgasm is like a small death.
by John Donne
Because such fingers need to knit
That subtle knot, which makes us man ;
So must pure lovers' souls descend
To affections, and to faculties,
Which sense may reach and apprehend,
Else a great prince in prison lies.
To our bodies turn we then, that so
Weak men on love reveal'd may look ;
Love's mysteries in souls do grow,
But yet the body is his book.
And if some lover, such as we,
Have heard this dialogue of one,
Let him still mark us, he shall see
Small change when we're to bodies gone.
When It's Over: It should never end because certainly neither one will ever get over the other and may never love again as well. This is part of their wordless understanding of one another and the level of trust they reach instinctively.
Our Rating: 10/10
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Dear Raymond,
Cardinal Rule #1 – never take anything at face-value!
However, on a side note, and trust me on this one, a Scorpio doesn't need to lure anyone in, ANYONE at all, whomever – usually finds their own way to the path inevitably.
Please however note that once a Scorpio begins to tell you their secrets, that means you are getting closer to their vulnerable side, so yes while one might crave emotional intimacy, a Scorpio hardly ever lets anyone in, so if you find that you know only what others know, then you obviously don't mean much, therefore be privileged to even be in the same room with one, and I say that with no apology.
None the less Raymond, with a Scorpio you are never obligated to do or say anything against your will, (just don't lie, is all we ask), but if you want to go, go, if you want to stay, stay – its not that serious – then that's our way of knowing if you're loyal or strong enough to keep around.
Antonette Franklin
Can't touch this.
Everybody loves Raymond.
Tum chup nahi rehe sakte kya ?
Nǐ shì rúcǐ fēngkuáng, tā bùshì huájī xiào!
Dear Raymond,
Faithfully yours,
Antonette Franklin
Jamie lee Curtis is a cusp and her husband is an aquairus. Just thought you should know.
Kurt Russell is also a cusp sign.
And Goldie Hawn is also a cusp sign.
This is a great tip particularly to those fresh to the blogosphere. Simple but very precise information… Many thanks for sharing this one. A must read post!|
Scorpio women think pisces men are their soul mate… Pisces are not that into scorpio women as scorpio think… the connection between them is more like what scorpio wish to feel and pisces know how to make her feel… so its just illusion. I have had 3 relationships with pisces. I try to cut the last one off from my life…and I have every reason to leave him, but its so hard… he says I m the love of his life and he don't want to lose me, and I feel his pain… he has never being engaged with anybody but me… but he broke my trust… and I m quite sure he moves on quickly from me… because thats the way pisces are (not everyone probably)… Pisces should be with aquarius women… and if you look at the other forums, then pisces men are very into these girl… and not scorpios, you can see even in this forum that only scorpio women comment here how in love they are… you cant see pisces men much sry for the spelling


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I installed bbPress and for the most part it was a fairly simple setup. I just had to activate the plugin and the forums showed up automatically on /forums. One thing I wasn't sure about (and I did look through the documentation) was how to set up login/register buttons for unregistered users. Currently, if you go to this forum as an unregistered user, it says "You must be logged in to create new topics." Am I supposed to use shortcodes for the login/register buttons? If so, where do I insert them?
You can insert a shortcode on any WordPress page or use the bbPress 'Login Widget' in your sidebar.
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Magoffin removed all of the top order, including opener Marcus Trescothick for 20, on his way to figures of eight for 20 from 11 overs.
Chris Jordan claimed the other two wickets, while Jos Buttler was the top scorer with 22 on a dismal morning for the visitors. Sussex began their reply before the interval and had reached 13 without loss by lunch.
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It rains here 9 months out of the year.
Sure, permits should be reduced. But extending the sidewalks for outside dining? Don't hold your breath.
It sure would be nice if some Seattle neighborhoods had sidewalks.
Of course when we gave away, free, all of that extra sky space, we could have done what Paris did in the 1870s and mandated wide setbacks, light angles, and any of the other elements that would have made the development less heinous. Instead we let our mayor simply give it away to his boosters, no strings attached.
What's amazing is that the guy can get away with making statements like this without any serious challenges.
No more fat mayors. Never trust anyone with a waist size over, say, 34". If they don't have sufficient virtue to govern themselves, why expect them to be able to govern a city.
Why aren't there more?
Are you really THAT stupid?
This is only the 4th nice day since the beginning of the year.
Matthew is right.
Yes, a simpler and cheaper permitting process would be good, but I can't get all that worked up over it. This is the first weekend that it has been nice enough for outdoor dining since, oh, last September.
February was incredible.
Don't worry...they're starting to allow yuppie cafes to eat up 50-75% of the sidewalk space in Ballard.
Moreover, they're allowing these places to install permanent railings, thus preventing the sidewalk from ever being used by pedestrians again.
Thanks, Mayor McDeveloper! Who needs pedestrian-friendly streets, when we can line the pockets of the wealthy instead?
You had me until "ashtrays".
No kidding. Ashtrays? Dominic? Do you smoke... cigarettes?
Sure would be nice to be dozing on a bed of cash on a golden bed frame right now. Aint gonna happen. Nice thought, though.
This is a photo of East John on 15th, up where the Safeway is now (you'll notice the condos on the right-hand side that are now across the street from the entrance to the parking lot), when the streets were widened for more automobile traffic in 1934.
If we take back that street width, we'll have more than enough room for sidewalk cafes and all the rest.
Light rail construction is well under way. Soon, we'll have residents from Tukwilla to Othello Street coming to enjoy our sidewalk cafes. Like Paris, and Berlin. Ride the wave.
I was in Portland today...tons of sidewalk tables at the cafes there. It really is nice down there. And the people? So friendly!
I love outdoor seating. Until the fifth or sixth streetkid/junkie/methaddict/drunkindian/crackwhore harasses me for change or food. Then I'm done.
Sidewalk width is overrated. You don't need wide sidewalks to attract public use. Quite the opposite, most of the time.
But yeah: restaurants should be required to get two separate permits to NOT have sidewalk seating. The city's goal should be to FILL THE SIDEWALKS with people.
Safer that way, too.
Narrow sidewalks are as terrible as narrow sofas.
Judah @ 11: I notice the old sidewalks and newly laid sidewalks are the exact same size in that photo. What would be reclaimed, exactly? Grass? That neighborhood doesn't exist anymore, my friend.
And Dominic, drinking on the sidewalk is the pinnacle of urban living? Really? Your small world makes me sad. I enjoy drinking, too (and outside when I can!), but surely there are more and better things to be found in any city than this.
Joe Bar has the best outdoor seating in town. Love that Joe Bar.
I just dropped by (usually only read you through links on other blogs), and this is an interesting topic. The problem with sidewalk seating is that it is PUBLIC property that a PRIVATE entity closes off to the public. You can't sit at the tables unless you're a customer, but the sidewalk still belongs to you. If a restaurant wants outdoor seating, it should build it. Patio seating is not the same thing as sidewalk seating - patio is private property. Sidewalks should remain clear for pedestrians.
Kinda. It's my understanding that a business owner can rent out the sidewalk in front of them from the city. I believe that's how Joe Bar gets away with having sidewalk seating that isnt fenced off that people can bring their drinks freely onto. So then, I guess that wouldnt make it completely public?
1. why have a permit at all?
2. the barriers are from the stupid state liquor board they exist to keep little kiddies out of where alcohol is served. REmove them!
3. If you don't like sidewalk cafes step into the street and help calm traffic.
4. no business is going to overdo it to the point of making the neighbors all mad. That'd be bad for business.
5. In general do whatever they do in Europe and stop bitching about how it might not work or we're different or whatnot.
For example, it is a fact that's it's winter here. As far as I am aware, it is sometimes winter in NY, Paris, Glasgow, Longon and other places too. In fact, it's often colder there, than it is here.
All places that have sidewalk tables.
You know what6 else they have?
roast chestnut vendors
book stalls
hot dog carts everywhere
people setting up big speakers in parks and having a huge Dominican party with about 200 family members
People preaching on the corner
People blasting disco music (guess it's rap now, I wouldn't know) while 150 do rollerskating dancing
People selling their stuff on the street to make rent money taking up half the sidewalk
Much of it without any permit!!
All kinds of people doing thing and having fun which it seems too many Seattleites are just too uptight about.
yes as to the lack of setbacks, that's why so much of our city architecture sucks.
but it's done. the street it there it is too narrow.
the solution would be to require bigger setbacks for new construction downtown.
in Fremont or W Seattle the solution would be different. the lots are stoo small to impose a nice 12 foot setback. so we should say the commercial lot on the arterial can buy the adjoining single family lot in back and it can all be commercial ie expand the commercial and reduce the SFH.
This would work all along Aurora, too.
THEN the lots would be big enough (after combinging them) for a bigger building that has enough room for a nice setback.
You can't have a nice setback if you have a tiny 3000 SF lot on Aurora Ave N currently holding a house used as a comuter laptop store or something, the lot is too small.
Sidewalk cafes are awesome. When they're available people will brave pretty bad weather to be outside. The sidewalks are rarely so crowded anywhere that the loss of width would matter that much.
@14: Most outdoor restaurants in other places has the staff deal with this and it works fine.
@8 and 9 Uh, hate to be master of the obvious here, but: smoking ban = smokers outside. And having ashtrays is better than having cigarette butts covering every square inch of sidewalk.
What I'd really like to see around town are some Woonerven!
It sure would be great if everyone in Seattle spoke French. Y'know, like in, like, Paris. Too bad Seattle is such a podunk backwater hick town. Why don't the damn guv'mint do something about that? I blame the guv'mint, and the, like, media.
Especially The Stranger, to whom I say: "J'accuse!"
For example, it is a fact that's it's winter here.Way to start off with a credibility-builder there, PC.
You know, until very recently (this decade) London didn't have ANY sidewalk cafes. Unheard of, probably illegal. Glasgow? Not a chance. That's a Paris thing, and of course in the Mediterranean.
But times change, laws change, things change. It would be easy for the city to make urban life a priority, and start encouraging food carts and sidewalk cafes, if they wanted, and if they had a clue what urban life meant. But they don't. They're too obsessed with the idea that someone might see an advertising sign somewhere.
This sidewalk's for normal eatin', not that fancy eatin'!
So, with the dozen nicotine addicts in front of each cafe/bar added to the sidewalk diners, what will be left of the public right of way that is the sidewalk? I moved out of Fremont because it became nearly impossible to walk down a sidewalk without a pack of smokers blocking the entire thing. What kind of tease is it to have outdoor seating, on the sidewalk, but not allow smoking? You can have your smoke on the outside of the rope, but your beer must stay inside the rope!
Just change the damn smoking ban to allow bars & restaurants to have smoking on their outdoor patios & decks. People get their sophisticated outdoor dining, and the rest of the citizens get to actually use the freakin' sidewalk!
(Maybe the mayor has finally learned that a lot of bars & restaurants just set up sidewalk tables without any sort of permitting, realizing that enforcement is going to be lax at best? He wants his piece of the pie.)
You mean on Capitol Hill, right? Seattle is bigger than that fuckhole, try going somewhere else. Open your eyes, dipshit.
Watch the potty-mouth language, you ... you ... you piece of poop!
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Confirmed: Geoff Johns Is the New President of DC Entertainment
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DC Comics has released a first look at the pencils for artist Jim Lee's "Before Watchmen: Nite Owl" #1 variant cover.
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Cash at the end of the last quarter was $46.3 million and the company still had no debt, hundreds of patents (nearly 700), several licenses and a few grants (helping to pay for continued research)… The current price is near book for the cash alone; giving zero or little value to the rest. It would be nice to see them trade at a premium again, but this company doesn't really deserve a premium until they can either A) begin manufacturing their own product or B) sell significant quantities of existing products. The products that they announced at the end of Q4 could turn out to be their big sellers, but I'm not expecting much unless we see several press announcements (similar yet grander than the announcement about Ball Horticulture on April 23 of 2012).
Sentiment: Hold
Are mutual funds liquidating?
¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬We are selling at a premium: $46,000,000/35,000,000 shares equals a $.10 premium. At 35,000,000 shares, that 10 cents equals $3,500,000. The figure would probably be some $2.5 million larger if our ivy league educated educator managers hadn't invested in this semi socialistic BRIC country's debt ridden factory.
$242,000,000 spent over the past 20+ years and we have nothing to show for it.
For GOD's sake, how embarrassing.
Add another $400 million that ADM invested in this POS company and it's incredible that MBLX can only generate around $5 million in annual revenue. Check out the Analyst Estimates for revenue and EPS next year. The projections are actually getting WORSE, not better. The analysts who cover this stock and talk to the management team know there are no significant customers or products in near future. MBLX will be out of cash in about 1 year status quo. They must be desperate on what to do. Desperate people do desperate things. Current shareholders are going to get hosed - in my opinion. Hard to believe this stock was over $20, and that Eno is still running the company.
Sentiment: Strong Sell
Preliminary additions and deletions to the Russell Index aren't announced until June 14th. This could be the heavy seller, idk. There has to be a way to know who it is.


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Eastern New Mexico at No. 11 West Texas A&M
■ What: Eastern New Mexico (6-13, 1-8) at West Texas A&M (16-3, 7-2), 7 p.m. Tuesday at WT Fieldhouse.
■ Quoting WT coach Jason Skoch: "That's the most laid back and comfortable I've ever seen Abilene Christian play. They played great, and we didn't. Eastern New Mexico is good, and we don't know who's going to play. We don't know much about them."
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Ceviche from Acapulco
Total Time
Prep 15 mins
Cook 6 hrs
Excellent meal for the summer, since there is no cooking involved and it is cool. Any thick, firm white fish can be used. The citrus juice cooks the fish. You can also add shrimp or scallops and substitute for part of the fish. This is adapted from "A Treasury of Great Recipes" by Mary and Vincent Price. Cooking time is the marinating time in the refrigerator. Letting it sit in the vegetable mixture overnight is not included. Posted for ZWT5.
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- 2 lbs red snapper fillets or 2 lbs halibut fillets
- 2 cups lemon juice or 2 cups lime juice, your choice
- 2 cups onions, chopped
- 1⁄2 cup tomato puree
- 1⁄2 cup tomato juice
- 1 tablespoon salt
- 16 green olives, chopped
- 2 tablespoons Worcestershire sauce
- 1 teaspoon Tabasco sauce
- 2 jalapenos, chopped
- 3 tomatoes, firm, peeled, seeded and chopped
- 2 tablespoons cilantro or 2 tablespoons parsley
- avocado
- Cut the fish into 1 inch cubes. Marinate in 2 cups lemon or lime juice in the refrigerator for 6 hours.
- In a bowl, mix 2 cups chopped onion, 1/2 cup tomato puree, 1/2 cup tomato juice, 1 tbsp salt, 16 chopped green olives, 2 tbsp Worcestershire sauce, 1 tsp Tabasco, 2 chopped jalapenos, 3 chopped peeled and seeded tomatoes, and 2 tbsp cilantro or parsley.
- After 6 hours, remove the fish from the refrigerator. Pour off 1 cup of the lemon or lime juice and add the above sauce to the fish and remaining juice. Mix well and let stand in the refrigerator overnight.
- Garnish with avocado if desired.
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Yum! DH and I both love ceviche, and this one didn't disappoint! I used halibut for the fish, lime juice, and Valentina hot sauce (quite a few dashes of it, to be exact -- DH likes his ceviche spicy). I didn't have any canned tomato puree, so I replaced that with an equal amout of El Pato spicy tomato sauce (the yellow can type). I also used Clamato for the tomato juice because I had an open bottle in the fridge left over from another recipe. Loved the chopped olives in this, too. We enjoyed this with lots of saltines. Thanks for posting! Made by a fellow Honey for ZWT8
Loved this. I was going to buy halibut to use in this, but the store had a fresh seafood mix that I decided to go with instead. I served the ceviche as small appetizers, so we got around 8 servings out of the recipe. I also topped it with a bit of pico de gallo. It was overall a very impressive addition to my Cinco de Mayo feast! [Made & Reviewed for PRMR]
This unlike other ceviches because the flavor of the Worcestershire sauce really comes through - in a good way! Loved it!


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Talk about easy access! The road crosses right over Water Holes Canyon; some calss 3 and you're in.
Adam, scramblin down.
Galen seems to be enjoying himself.
Someone was not having a good time.
The color was stunning!
Someone had driven a bolt and left a rope attached - handy, since the dryfall might otherwise have demanded a rappel.
It was pretty wonderful.
Later, we headed upstream, crossing this car far below the bridge.
Leaving Page, we crossed into Utah on a stunning bridge over the Colorodo
That's a big dam!
And (tho I hate to admit it) a pretty lake on the other side.
Dinosaur prints were near the visitor center
Inside, there was a 3D map of the area, with the dam near center and the Paria entering along the L side; Buckskin Gulch joins the Paria just below the upper left corner.


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Charter schools test church and state boundary
Like an ancient Greek or European Renaissance philosopher, Steiner felt entitled to offer opinions on just about everything. He embraced the ancient theory of humors in the body, formed theories of physiology and light and was an enthusiast of Emerson, Goethe and of Eastern mysticism. In 1924, he offered a reincarnation genealogy of a number of famous men. Emerson, he said, was in an earlier life the Roman writer Tacitus.
Steiner's philosophy offers a detailed conception of human development and of how the soul, spirit and body interact as a child grows to adulthood. When he founded his first school in Stuttgart, Germany, in 1919, he told his teachers that their mission is not "simply a matter of intellect or feeling, but, in the highest sense, as a moral spiritual task" requiring a strong link "from the very beginning between our activity and the spiritual worlds."
Advocates of private Waldorf education are emphatic that Steiner's spiritual philosophy undergirds his educational methods. A true Waldorf education is only possible where teachers are "free to work out of a clear recognition of and commitment to the development of the spiritual nature of the human being," reads an official position statement from the Association of Waldorf Schools of North America.
Defenders of public Waldorf-inspired charter schools argue that anthroposophy is not a religion, and in any case that the public charter schools using the approach do not teach or use its mystical underpinnings. They point instead to a transformative educational philosophy that emphasizes art, stories, physical movement, social interaction and a firm grounding in nature and in the natural rhythms of life.
Waldorf schools are into rhythm, including the rhythm of a day, of the seasons and of life. Math is taught with motion and stomping, daily routines are carefully observed and marked with reassuring rituals, and seasonal changes are brought into the classroom via a "nature table," where natural objects are displayed.
Waldorf education offers a "unique view of the human being," said Patrice Maynard of the Association of Waldorf Schools of North America. "The child is not just body and mind, but body, soul and spirit. Waldorf recognizes that aspirations, inspirations, idealism and love are spiritual qualities as important to the growth as physical nourishment." The trouble, Maynard argues, is that "the way the laws of the land have been interpreted, any mention of spirit has been forbidden."
Waldorf classrooms
Waldorf schools also emphasize sensory comfort. Classrooms are often furnished in wood, and lighting is more subdued. Allesandri also said that the classrooms are managed with more soothing routines, and dimmed lights or a candle might serve as cues that in a traditional classroom might involve a whistle or a teacher's loud voice.
Waldorf classrooms emphasize the "health-giving power of routine in a child's life," Maynard said. "Every day has a rhythm, and a child finds ease in the comfort that the rhythm will be reliable." Maynard describes visiting a class on "bread roll day," which the students gleefully announced to her. "The little child is smelling, touching and tasting," Maynard said.
Among these rhythmic routines are "nature tables," which bring pieces of nature and the seasons into the classrooms, creating conversation pieces. Critics have characterized these tables as "altars." But supporters say they are no different from the ubiquitous boards in mainstream classrooms with construction paper cut-outs such as snowmen or turkeys.
Waldorf critics also look to teacher training. Michael Bush at the Pacific Justice Foundation questions the pressure on public school teachers to receive formal training at Waldorf teacher colleges. "If the techniques are valid," Bush said, "then let them teach them to teachers outside the system. For whatever reason, they insist on everything going through the Rudolph Steiner schools." Bush argues that the closed and inbred character of the system adds to the cultish aura.
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The key legal question seems to be whether Waldorf-inspired public schools can use Steiner's unique philosophy of child development without moving into the spiritual space.
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The Henderson County Special Olympics drew students from more than 12 area schools Thursday at Hendersonville High Schools Dietz Field.
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After driving about half way to the 4WD McNasser Gulch trail head, Dan could go no further. So we started hiking from here around 7:30am.
Grizzly peak must not see a lot of action as we found evidence that our friend Sean climbed this on August 7th! Don't know what year.....
I think this may be Garfield Peak.
Grizzly Peak.
We gained the saddle on the right side of Grizzly by going up the grass to the scree. It was not as bad as I thought it would be.
Work up through the grass to the saddle.
Once on the saddle there was an excellent view down into the Grizzly creek drainage and Grizzly Lake. The water was very blue!
Final ridge run to the summit
Jason and Dan celebrating that they made it to the top in under 2 hours.
Summit shot. I also made it in just under two hours.
Dan and Jason chillin on top.
Me on top
View to the north. The East Ridge finishes along this route.
View down McNasser Gulch
Grizzly Peak
Another Grizzly flower shot
Even more flowers. Jason must like these since they are yellow!
Look down McNasser Gulch
This is one of the first views of Grizzly that you see as you work up the valley. It is the peak at the end of the valley in the center of the picture.
Some peak across the valley.


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Debt Commission Chairman Believes the Kids Listen to 'the Enema Man and Snoopy Snoopy Poop Dogg'
It's no surprise that Alan Simpson, a 79-year-old former senator and the current co-chairman of President Obama's debt commission, isn't quite familiar with rap stars Eminem and Snoop Dogg. But why exactly, in his lovably crotchety "kids these days" rant on Fox News yesterday, did Simpson misidentify both of them with scatological monikers? Does he think that poop is the cool thing among teens right now? We would hate them, too, if we thought that.
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Persistence and local extinction of lion prides in the Ngorongoro Crater, Tanzania
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African lions (Panthera leo) live in social groups (prides) that exhibit group territorial behavior. Pride persistence is expected to depend on its ability to compete against neighboring prides as well as on average rates of reproduction and survival, thus providing a meaningful measure of intergenerational reproductive success. We used Akaike's Information Criterion (AIC) to select the best approximating models explaining how demographic variables influenced pride persistence during a 30-year period in the Ngorongoro Crater, Tanzania, and identified landscape factors affecting those demographic variables. Pride persistence to 10 years depended on adult female density (pride size) and cub productivity (the ultimate source of new females). Average age of adult females had a weakly positive influence on pride persistence, while the effect of female mortality was weakly negative. Adult female mortality increased with disease epidemics and in territories with high human disturbance. Cub productivity was highest in territories closest to rivers and only slightly higher near swamps, and also high in areas of higher vegetative cover and high human use. No landscape variable significantly affected female density. The growth and population size of the Crater lions was closely linked to demographic performance of individual prides, while territorial behavior played a key role in mediating the interactive effects of landscape and demography.
KeywordsAnthropogenic factors Disease outbreak Landscape variables Pride territory Reproductive success Territorial behavior
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- Title
- Persistence and local extinction of lion prides in the Ngorongoro Crater, Tanzania
- Journal
Population Ecology
- Online Date
- September 2009
- 10.1007/s10144-009-0176-y
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- 1438-3896
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- Springer Japan
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- Anthropogenic factors
- Disease outbreak
- Landscape variables
- Pride territory
- Reproductive success
- Territorial behavior
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- Bernard M. Kissui (1)
- Anna Mosser (2)
- Craig Packer (2)
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- 1. African Wildlife Foundation, P.O. Box 2658, Arusha, Tanzania
- 2. Department of Ecology, Evolution and Behavior, University of Minnesota, 1987 Upper Buford Circle, St. Paul, MN, 55108, USA


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JBoss AS 6.0, a free Java EE 6 compliant application server, is now available.
JBoss developer, Gavin King announced the availability AS 6.0 noting that this release contains built-in support for CDI, JPA 2, Bean Validation, EJB 3.1, JSF 2.0, Servlets 3.0 and more.
JBoss AS 6.0 is available for download at SourceForge and more information on this release can be found in the Executive Summary and Official Documentation.
Issue 26: Linux Shell Handbook 7th Ed./Special Editions
Buy this issue as a PDF
SUSE Joins the Microsoft Test Drive Program
Customers can take a free test drive of SLES for HPC on the Azure Cloud
SiFive Launches a Line of Open Source Chips
San Francisco-based chip company announces their first fully open source chip platform.
Fedora 24 Released
The whole distro gets rebuilt on glibc 2.3
Canonical Announces Cross-Distro Support for Snaps
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CoreOS Announces Distributed Storage System
The new Torus distributed storage system is available under an open source license on GitHub
Google Beats Oracle in the Android Lawsuit
Juries decides Google's use of Java APIs Was Fair Use
Linux is the Largest Software Development Project in History
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Linksys Says Yes to Open Source Firmware
Home routers will give room for custom firmware but still comply with FCC rules


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