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A 2010 report by IFC on Gender and Investment Climate Reform in Tonga shows that only 16 percent of the female population operate a registered business or participate in paid work. Many women also operate informal businesses and are unaware of the benefits of running a registered business. They also lack information on the processes needed to register.
IFC is helping a newly formed businesswomen's association on the Pacific island of Tonga, The Women in Sustainable Enterprises (WISE) association, to connect businesswomen across all industries in Tonga and provide them with a platform to lobby for reforms that will help encourage women to set up businesses, create jobs, support their families, and foster sustainable economic growth across communities and the country.
Founding member and a registered business owner, Rubina Nakao, said, "Every person in business has challenges from time to time,and can always use a word of advice and encouragement at an appropriate moment. At times, a structured mentoring approach may be what is required to take an individual through the development process, and WISE Tonga feels we can be integral in fulfilling this role."
One of WISE's key objectives is to promote the benefit of registering a business, such as better access to credit, more legal protection, and stronger local government support.
"We want to bring in women from the informal sector, the grassroots area, and nurture them into the formal sector, so that in the end they pay their business license, learn to pay tax, and get recognized as women in business," said Lee Miller, another WISE's founding member and a business woman.


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'Fast 8' Gives Scott Eastwood the Job of a Lifetime as Kurt Russell's Protege
The Fast & Furious crew just added another new member to its growing #family, officially confirming Kurt Russell's return in the process. And while Scott Eastwood will probably make a fine addition to Fast 8, Russell reprising his role as Mr. Nobody is just a bit more exciting, don't you think? (Of course you do.) In any case, Eastwood has signed on for the upcoming sequel, in which he'll share some screen time with Russell.


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Trading Idea: What to Expect with Pulte Breaking Support
Published on Thursday, 27 December 2012 08:00 Written by TradersHuddle Wire
New York, December 27th (TradersHuddle.com) - Shares of PulteGroup, Inc. (NYSE:PHM) closed the trading session at $17.79 below calculated support at $17.89. The stock broke down technically, raising concerns as the move might trigger additional selling.
PulteGroup, Inc. (NYSE:PHM) constructs and develop residential and active adult communities. The Company also provides mortgage financing, title insurance, and other services to home buyers. Pulte has operations in various markets across the United States and Puerto Rico.
Pulte's stock was trading in a well defined range with support at $17.89 and resistance at $18.86; given that this range was broken traders will be closely monitoring the stock's price action for clues of direction.
From a technical perspective, it can be expected that previous support becomes resistance, as the new range gets defined. However, $17.89 will remain in focus as Pulte's price action places the stock near the broken support. Traders will be waiting to see if it can bounce back and return to its previous range.
Traders wanting to establish a short position in Pulte can do so if the stock breaks the intraday low, or if the stock bounces back and selling materializes again at previous support of $17.89. However, if traders want to build a long position, the best entry point to do so is when the price action takes the stock back to calculated support.
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ATLANTA (CBS/AP) The Georgia cop who took the first police report from the woman who accused Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Ben Roethlisberger of sexual assault has resigned.
Milledgeville police Chief Woodrow Blue on Friday confirmed that Sgt. Jerry Blash resigned Wednesday.
That's one day before the Georgia Bureau of Investigation made public all documents related to its investigation of a 20-year-old woman's claim that Roethlisberger sexually assaulted her.
Prosecutors say they're not charging Roethlisberger. Blash is the only officer who interviewed the quarterback, with whom he posed for pictures earlier that night.
He acknowledged in an interview with investigators that he made some derogatory comments about the alleged victim to other officers.
Multiple calls to a number listed for Blash rang unanswered.
15, 2010 - Ben Roethlisberger Police Documents: "No, This Is Not OK,"
Alleged Sex Assault Victim Told QB
12, 2010 - Ben Roethlisberger Sex Assault Case Dropped in Georgia, Not
Enough to Win It Says D.A.
12, 2010 - Milledgeville Union-Recorder Pictures: Cops and
Roethlisberger Pose Before QB's Alleged Sex Attack
9, 2010 - Amber Hanley, College Student, Stiff Arms Ben Roethlisberger,
Drinking Champion
9, 2010 - Ben Roethlisberger Update: DNA Request from Police in Assault
8, 2010 - Ben Roethlisberger Sex Assault Accusation - Second in a Year
for Steelers QBSeptember
10, 2009 - Lawsuit Against Steelers QB Roethlisberger Dropped If He
Admits Rape
21, 2009 - NFL QB Ben Roethlisberger Denies Sex Assault
Ben Roethlisberger Police Report: Cop Who Interviewed Accuser in Sex Assault Case Resigns
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Re: # of Accounts - Really help or hurt?
The EQ FICO on here is used by nearly all of the mortgage lenders out there.
The scores from ScoreSense are not FICO scores. They are FAKOs and lenders don't use them at all.
You can only buy your EQ FICO from myFICO.com, your lender, or Equifax.com (they push their FAKO, but a couple of products still offer a FICO. Buyer beware).
You can only buy your TU FICO from myFICO.com or your lender.
You cannot buy your EX FICO from anywhere as of a few years ago. Experian blocked consumer access to your own scores, though your lender can still get it for you.
Aside from the above, some banks and CUs offer a FICO at a free or reduced price. You can also get your EQ FICO from Unitus Community Credit Union, Digital Credit Union, and M&T Bank. You can get your TU FICO (TU08..newer version) from Wal-Mart if you have their CC. And you can get your EX FICO from PA State Employees Credit Union (aka PSECU) for free if you have their checking acct. There are other banks and CUs out there that offer a FICO as part of a benefit. Check with your local lender to see if they do so.
Scores from other sources are not FICO scores. Any service that offers all 3 scores together aren't FICO scores at all. 99% of the services out there offer scores, but none are FICO scores and lenders don't use them. They also offer advice around these FAKO scores and the advice is often counter-productive to your own FICO.


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The fact that one of the chief purported culprits in the illegal phone hacking served as spokesman for the Prime Minister after being editor of the News of the World may yet bring down David Cameron's fragile coalition government. Cameron will need to do everything he can to distance himself from the Murdochs. Realizing that in the present climate News Corp's bid for the 61% of BSkyB that it does not already own would likely be rejected upon whatever pretext the Media and Culture Secretary Jeremy Hunt could find, News cleverly forced a referral to the Competition Commission as a delaying tactic. The move took Hunt by surprise, as he was poised to tell the House of Commons that he was looking for an excuse to scupper the bid by seeking the advice of two other regulators (Ofcom, the communications regulator, and the Office of Fair Trading, the consumer protection agency). Perhaps with the passage of time afforded by the Competition Commission referral (a minimum of six months), tempers will have cooled and News may be allowed to buy in the 61% of Sky, which is a marvelous and valuable company. But I doubt it. I do not think that any government for the foreseeable future will want to be seen to be doing any kind of favor to the Murdochs.
In fact, the atmosphere in Britain may be so poisonous to Murdoch's interests (after James' decision to close the News of the World failed to defuse tensions, and seems like many of his decisions – taking stakes in ITV and Premiere, for example – to have been too clever and too little thought-through) that selling up is the only viable solution. At least that would dampen the furor that can be heard even this side of the Atlantic and threatens advertising at News Corp. properties including Fox and the Wall Street Journal.
Just as Murdoch himself snatched control of the News of the World from Robert Maxwell in 1969 by presenting himself as a harmless antipodean alternative to the then better-known and more-reviled quantity of the "bouncing Czech", there are plenty of would-be newspaper magnates who could step in to buy News International to give the impression of a new broom. Chief among them is Russian oligarch and former KGB man Alexander Lebedev, who with his son Evgeny bought both the Evening Standard and The Independent in the UK, and has said that he wants to divest all his interests (including his one-third stake in Aeroflot) except media, of which he wants to acquire more. There may be other of his countrymen who are similarly-minded, including Chelsea Football Club-owner and avid yachtsman Roman Abramovich and the aluminum magnate Oleg Deripaska (#9 on the Forbes list), who seems to like to dabble in British politics. Inevitably there are sheikhs and Chinese who might also fancy ownership of The Times, Britain's oldest daily paper, and The Sun, its highest-selling.
In the US, News Corp. shareholders have already launched a lawsuit against the management (the Murdochs) in response to the damage that the hacking episode has done to the company and its stock price (down more than 7% on Monday alone). As attached as Rupert may be to his beloved UK papers, the best thing for shareholders may be to find a buyer as quickly as possible, and get out before the Sun or the Sunday Times is forced to follow the News of the World into oblivion.
And ironically, this might be a brilliant "lemonade moment" for News, where the CEO is about the only stakeholder who is comfortable with the substantial exposure the company still has to newspapers. Getting a reasonable price in an auction for News International might be smartest thing News Corporation could do. Does anyone really think that the value of newspapers in general will be higher in a year or five years or ten? Almost exactly 7 years ago the Barclay brothers paid over $1 billion for the Telegraph newspapers, which, like the Murdoch papers, were solidly profitable. No newspaper is ever likely to fetch such a price multiple – more than 20x operating profits – again. Over the past two years, by contrast, Lebedev paid £1 for each of the Evening Standard and The Independent, both loss-making.
But selling the British papers altogether would also neuter the "media concentration" competition complaint against a full News Corp bid for Sky, which is an asset with brighter prospects than the newspapers anyway. Shareholders have still not quite forgiven Murdoch for overpaying for the Wall Street Journal (almost 15x profits) 4 years ago but he might redeem himself if he managed to find a vanity buyer for the UK papers and in the process save the Sky bid.


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Comic Books
I'm snarled up in the middle of a book project this week, but in the course of going through some old papers I stumbled across this piece. It occurred to me that you might enjoy this story of the cartooning class, from my early days of teaching.
It originally appeared in a 'zine called Caravan I worked on with our own Brandon Hanvey and some other CBR folks about a decade ago or so.
Every teacher — every human being, really — has blind spots, weird little pieces of emotional baggage that they're not entirely rational about.
Mine is bullying. I hate bullies. Hate them.
The reason, of course, is that like many nerdy kids who are into comics, SF, and fantastic fiction, I was picked on a lot when I was little. I remember what it felt like to dread going to school every day, the furtive, fugitive life I led from the second grade until the sixth or thereabouts. Judging my every free moment at school by how risky it would be to go to this part of the playground, to eat at that table. A classroom was hostile territory; the playground and the cafeteria were minefields. The only place I felt truly safe at school was, of course, the library, so I fled there every chance I got — which in itself tended to exacerbate the problem everywhere else. Once these things start with kids, they have their own momentum, they feed on themselves.
When I began teaching my after-school class on cartooning and comics for sixth and seventh-graders, some thirty years later, I still remembered my own outcast status. And it has given me great pleasure over the years I've been teaching it to know that in my classroom at least, the little group of nerds and daydreamers that come together there to do their comics have a safe haven. In my room not only are they safe, they're encouraged. They can let their inner cartoonist geek out to fly free and proud, twice a week, on school grounds. It's what we're there for.
What I was not ready for was the day they decided to turn on one of their own. Especially since it was coming from the girls, not the boys. When boys pick on each other, it's fairly open, obvious, and easy to shut down. But girls can twist the knife in a million different ways and stay under an adult's radar, and they never quit or get tired of the game.
Even worse, in this particular case, the person who started the rock rolling down the hill was me. It was an accident, I meant well, but it was still my stupid mistake that started the whole thing, and I occasionally wonder if I'd known, if I'd been a little more on my game, whether or not I might have been able to save Desiree weeks of torment.
"Is this the Cartooning class?"
I looked up from the pile of papers and administrative memos in front of me to see a black girl of about twelve standing nervously over me. She was a remarkably pretty girl, in a pink dress with ruffled sleeves, and she was clutching a battered binder and a Harry Potter book nervously to her chest. I smiled gently at her and said, "Yes, it is, or it will be in another ten minutes or so. Are you joining us?"
"I'm Desiree. I'm new." She said it like a confession of guilt.
Oddly enough, I'd seen this reaction many times from new kids. They come in scared, not quite sure what it's all about, not daring to hope that we're really going to do comics. It passes after the first few minutes, usually. I put as much reassurance into my voice as I could summon, hoping to put her at ease. "Well, welcome aboard, Desiree. I'm Greg. I teach this class. Do you know what it is that we do here?"
"Well, it's a little more than that, though we do draw. Here." I pulled out one of our class anthology comic books from the month before. "What we do is we make these comics. I ask everybody for four pages. Then I put all the pages together and take them to a print shop and print comic books from them. We do one every six weeks or so. Look through this and you should get the idea." I handed her the book and her eyes got wide.
"Kids did this?"
"Yes they did," I told her, grinning. "And you can do it too." The bell rang and the room started to fill up. "Have a seat and let me get the others started, then I'll come back and get you set up, okay?"
Desiree nodded and plopped down at a seat in the front, directly across the table from where I was sitting, still staring in wonder at the comic book. I stepped to the front of the room and checked off names as they came in. Sebastian, stolidly driven as always, went straight to the cabinet where we kept our work in progress, pulled out his half-finished pages, and returned to his usual table, while Mike and Adam argued over a video game. Susan and Alison were talking about last night's episode of Angel and what vampires could and couldn't do, while Mary, trailing close behind, looked a bit vampirish herself with her black blouse, heavy mascara, and studded black collar. Natasha, chubby and surly, swaggered in with a bag of pretzels and Mike and Adam immediately dropped the video discussion and began hounding her to share.
"Just a work day, people," I told them. "You know the drill. Natasha, Mike, Adam — you have until two-thirty to resolve your pretzel issues, we're not wasting class time on it. You get a snack in an hour anyway, courtesy of the US government. Don't they feed you kids at home?"
"We're hungry NOW," whined Mike. "And lunch SUCKED. "
"Can we go to the vending machines?" Adam wanted to know.
"Can you get back here by 2:30?" I glanced at the clock. It was 2:25. "All right, 2:35," I added, relenting. "On the condition that we do not speak of food again today. I'm tired of you guys wasting the first half hour of class on snack negotiations; we're on a deadline here. Okay?" They nodded and sprinted for the door.
And so on. The usual pre-class banter. During all of it, Desiree sat silently, still staring at the comic as if hypnotized. By 2:35, the group was back and settled at their tables, all pretzel questions resolved. As usual, the tables had split along gender lines, with Mike, Sebastian and Adam at one table, and Susan, Alison, Natasha and Mary at the other. Finally, I was able to turn my attention to our new recruit. I sat back down across the table from Desiree.
"Okay, Desiree. Here's what you need to do. For today, since it's your first day, I need a bio. If you look in the back of the book, you'll see there's a little page that talks about all the kids who did the stories in the book, each one with a little picture they drew of themselves. We'll start with that. Here's the sheet we use." I gave her one of my biographical questionnaires. "Look that over. Make sense?" She nodded. "There's a little space at the bottom there, inside that frame. That's where you draw your picture and then trace it with ink. Let me know when you get to that part, don't start tracing till you show it to me, because there's some tricks to it. After that we'll start you on a breakdown of your story, so be thinking about what you want to make a comic about. Bio and breakdowns, that should be a good first day. Okay?"
"What's breakdowns?"
"I'll show you. It's like a rough draft. You're starting late in the quarter so we'll just do two pages, we won't worry about four."
"I can do four!"
I smiled. "Okay, then, four. But deadline day is in two weeks."
She nodded again and bent over the sheet, face screwed up in concentration, and I returned to the pile of papers. It amazes me how much paper a school administration can generate. And I was just a part-timer. God knew what full-time teachers had to wade through.
About twenty minutes later, I was trying to fill out something called an administrative process feedback survey when Desiree mumbled some words I didn't catch. "What? Did you have a question?"
Desiree hesitated, then blurted, "I said, sometimes I feel invisible."
I raised an eyebrow. "Invisible how?"
"Nobody ever talks to me."
I considered it. I hadn't made a big deal out of introducing Desiree to the others because — well, honestly, I hadn't thought of it. Most of my kids were only shy and isolated outside of class. This was their refuge. I'd just assumed Desiree would acclimate as the others had; their initial caution rarely lasted more than the first half-hour of the first day. "Well, I'm talking to you," I said, lamely.
"You're the teacher," she said, dismissing it. Well, I'd already known it was an inadequate response.
"Uhm. Well, yeah." I put the papers down and looked directly at her. "Here's the thing, Desiree. To get friends you have to be friendly." Desiree looked over at the girls' table with equal parts longing and terror. They were still discussing Angel. I nodded. "Why not go say hello?"
"I can't do that." Desiree looked at me in complete horror.
"Sure you can. Why not? That's how people get to be friends, they talk to each other. They had to be introduced at some point. It only seems big and scary because you're working yourself up over it." Desiree didn't look convinced. I added, "Look, relax, okay? Those girls are cartoonists, not cheerleaders. All us daydreamers stick together, none of us are the popular kids. It'll be fine. But you have to unclench, okay?"
Desiree thought about it a minute, then she gathered her things and marched over to the girls' table. "Can I sit here?"
Mary and Alison looked up. Natasha stayed focused on her page. Susan glanced at them and then looked up at Desiree. "Sure, whatever."
Desiree glanced at me, I nodded, and then she sat down. "I'm Desiree," she blurted.
"Hi," Alison said.
There was a moment, a brief hesitation where the other four girls looked at each other, then at Desiree, then shrugged and went back to work. Desiree smiled at them and said, "You like Harry Potter?"
"I like Harry Potter fine," Susan said.
Desiree nodded and went back to the bio sheet.
Okay, so it hadn't quite been as easy and lacking in awkwardness as I'd hoped. But, I thought, she'd done it. The hard part was over. It'd be fine. I returned to my survey, feeling a bit smug. Another feat of social engineering accomplished. Damn, I'm getting good at this gig.
That smug feeling lasted about three minutes, until Desiree stood up so suddenly that her chair fell over. "Don't you call me that! My name is Desiree!"
There were titters from the others. "That's enough!" I snapped, and strode over to the table. The girls looked up at me with angelic innocence while Desiree stood, panting. "What was that all about?"
"I was being friendly," Desiree said, helplessly. "And they laughed."
I could feel a slow rage rising. I remembered my own history, the kids who laughed, and I was furious at the idea that any of my students could be one. I glared at Susan and Alison and the others until their angelic who-me? smirks faded into a kind of sullen, defensive guilt.
"Desiree came over here to introduce herself and be friendly because I told her she could," I snarled. "Is there some kind of rule here over who's special enough to sit at this table? Some kind of coolness test? Because that crap isn't allowed in here. Ever. Is that clear?"
"Is that CLEAR?" I roared, really angry now because it was going sour, I could feel it getting away from me. Desiree was going to be an object of derision from that point on no matter what. . . and it was my fault, my stupid up-with-people faith in the goodness of my students that had started it. "Desiree, you can sit wherever you please," I said, still glaring at the others. "Pick up your chair and settle down. "
That bought me thirty seconds while Desiree set the chair upright and gathered her books and drawings. I didn't know what else to do, though. I couldn't order the girls to like Desiree. I was boiling with indecision and self-recrimination and the old anger with bullying was coloring every thought in a red mist.
Susan asked me, in the kind of superior, world-weary way that only an adolescent girl can muster, "Can we go back to work now?"
"Can you do it without being snotty and vicious?" I shot back, seething. "If you think you can manage to be civil, then yeah. Get back to work." I glanced up and saw the boys watching this sideshow with avid interest. "All of you," I added, glaring.
A heavy silence hung over the room. Desiree moved to a table that was away from the girls, away from me, away from everyone. The silence stayed for the rest of the afternoon, and I let it, because I couldn't think of an alternative that wouldn't make Desiree even more of a target than she already was.
I was still cursing myself as I walked up the steps to the Denny administrative office. Jennifer Thomson, the after-school activity coordinator, smiled brightly up at me. "How'd it go today?"
Jennifer looked a little taken aback, and I added, "Oh, I made a stupid mistake today. "
I told her the story. Jennifer shook her head. "Girls can be awful," she said. "Much worse than boys. Desiree? I remember something about her…" She sorted through papers. "Oh yeah, she's special-ed. One of Mrs. Snead's kids. "
I stared. "You put a special-ed kid in my class and no one thought to let me know?" Special-ed. One of the real outcasts. Ostracized by everyone. Segregated from the rest of the students, they had their own part of the building and rode the short bus… the 'loser cruiser,' as we'd called it when I was that age. And I'd thrown her to the wolves. Introduce yourself, it'll be fine.
"Didn't I clip a note to your roll sheet? No, I guess I didn't, here it is." Now Jennifer looked abashed. "Well, what can we do? Should I pull her out of the class? I can, though…" She hesitated. "Mrs. Snead was really hoping this would work. She says Desiree loves to draw, it's the only time she's really happy in class."
"Jen, they'll eat her alive. Once these things get started…"
"I know." Jennifer sighed. "I'll talk to Mrs. Snead."
"Thanks," I said, and turned to go, then paused. "Have her call me or maybe we can meet when I'm back on Wednesday. We might be able to salvage this. Maybe tutoring or something, like with Leon last year."
"I'll do that." Jennifer brightened.
Maybe it was just my damaged pride, but I decided I wasn't going to give up yet.
The problem of Desiree ate at me all evening and all the next day. The trouble was that I was completely at a loss as to how I could have misjudged the others so badly, especially Alison and Susan. They'd always been good kids. Where was the viciousness coming from? Was it some kind of girl thing? The more I thought about it the angrier I got. So help me, I would throw out Alison and Susan before I let them chase off Desiree. If anyone deserved ejection, it was those little bitches. I would by God make an example of them, to all bullies, everywhere. I would… I would…
…I didn't know what in the hell I was going to do, I admitted. The trouble was that I couldn't just issue an edict and enforce it rigidly, polarizing my classroom into two armed camps. No, I had to undo the damage somehow. How I would do that… I had no idea.
The next day, at Madison, I floated the question as a hypothetical to a few of the girls there — same as at Denny, the kids were in groups at different tables, though at Madison, those groups tended to break along age lines instead of gender. I posed my question to the seventh-grade table, where Nadine, Emily, Brianna, Sarah, and Maia were all toiling away. They were a tight-knit little clique, bonded over their love of manga-style comics and cartoons, and often collaborated on their strips for the books we did. I decided they would be good ones to test my hypothetical on.
"If we got a new girl in class, and she wanted to sit here, would you let her?"
The girls looked up at me, a little puzzled. "Sure," Sarah said. "I mean, if she could put up with us. "
"We're kinda goofy," Nadine blurted.
"Kinda freaky," Brianna added.
"Kinda nutty," Maia put in.
They started to giggle, and I couldn't help smiling a little myself. "No, I'm serious," I said, trying to get back on track. "A new girl, she's really shy, okay? She's scared to talk to people. Walks up here and asks to sit down. Awkward, like. Dorky. Would you let her? Without laughing at her?"
"She can't be dorkier than me," Brianna announced. "I am Queen Dork. "
"Are we getting a new girl?" Sarah asked. "Because we are the dork queens, she'd fit right in. "
"No, this was at Denny." I sighed. "We had kind of a bad scene yesterday, and now I'm stuck."
"What happened?" All the girls leaned forward now, interested.
I shrugged and told them. Why not? Maybe they had an idea or an insight. I sure didn't. By now, at the next table, Jamie and Brandy were listening too, and I laid it out for all of them.
Brianna was outraged. "She should come over HERE! We would NEVER do that!" Nods all around from the others.
I considered it for a moment. That would be an elegant solution. After all, here was the groundwork I should have laid yesterday. If I'd led the Denny girls through it like this, there'd have been no problem. It was tempting, but I'd have to somehow get Desiree across west Seattle from Denny to Madison in the fifteen minutes between two-fifteen and two-thirty. The logistical hassles of buses and time… damn it, sometimes I really hated not having a car. "You all are very sweet," I told them, smiling. "But that won't work, there's no bus that'll get her from there to here. But I love it that you all made the offer."
"What are you going to do then?" That was Jamie, ever practical.
"I don't know," I admitted.
The next day, Wednesday, I was back at Denny again and I still didn't know. I arrived a little early to find a perky blonde woman with horn-rimmed glasses waiting outside the classroom door. "I'm Mariette Snead," she said. "Are you Greg?"
I admitted it. She went on, "I'm so grateful to you for taking Desiree on. She's really wanted to do some kind of activity after school, and the other afterschool teachers all said they couldn't–"
"Hold on," I said. "Did Jennifer talk to you?"
"She said there was some trouble. I just–" Mariette spread her hands helplessly. "I just want this to work. Desiree's a GOOD kid and she could really use a break. She needs to belong to something and I thought she could do this. She loves to draw. "
I thought about it. Mariette obviously was ready to go to the wall for Desiree and I sympathized — if she'd been my student I would have too. Then I realized that she already was my student. If Mariette could do it for a full day every day, while coping with all her other special-ed kids, then damn it, I could manage twice a week for ninety minutes. "Let's give it another week or two," I said, relenting. "We got off to a bad start yesterday, but I'm on top of it now. Maybe we can get things back on track. "
From Mariette's reaction, you'd have thought I'd cured cancer. "Oh, thank you, thank you SO much," she said. "If there's anything I can do to help make this work, you just tell me. "
I nodded and she left just as the 2:15 bell rang. I went on in to my classroom, bracing myself, ready to pounce at the first sign of any repeat of Monday's antics. The kids all filed in and settled into their usual routine. . . but no Desiree. Now, what the hell?
I shrugged, grateful for the reprieve. The truth was, I still didn't know how to handle it if things went sour again. I went through roll and reiterated that our deadline was in two weeks, right before Thanksgiving vacation. Various assents came from around the room and that was that.
About twenty minutes later Desiree came skidding in. "I showed Missus Snead what we did," she said, panting.
She looked very pleased and happy, and for a moment I thought she'd just shaken off the episode two days ago, until I heard whispers and giggles coming from the girls' table. Desiree glared at them. "You just shut up!"
"I'll look after the discipline, Desiree," I said. Then it was my turn to glare at the girls' table. They got the message and shut up.
Desiree found a table of her own and set to work. I led her through the process of doing thumbnail page breakdowns. It took my full attention; I was beginning to realize why Desiree had ended up in special-ed. She wasn't stupid, but she was unfocused. It was hard to keep her mind on the page in front of her.
"I want to do Harry Potter," she said.
"No, you should do something new. A woman named J. K. Rowling does Harry Potter. It belongs to her. You should do something of your own. "
"But I don't know what to do!"
"It doesn't have to be a made-up story," I explained. "Lots of kids do something about their families, or mean teachers, or something like that. "
"I want to see the Harry Potter movie," Desiree announced.
"Lots of kids do. . . but right now we're doing this," I said, patiently.
There were whispers from behind us. I whirled and glared at Susan, who flinched a little. "Yes? Question?"
"No, no questions here," Susan said innocently, which made the others snicker. At that moment, I could have cheerfully throttled her. But Desiree was tugging anxiously at my sleeve.
"What about this? My sister Monet bugs me all the time. Can I do that?"
"Sure," I said, then added, "but you can't just say it. Show it. Draw your sister doing the things that bug you. "
Alison muttered something that sounded suspiciously like 'runs in the family,' but Desiree didn't hear it, so I let it go.
The next four classes at Denny were the hardest I'd ever had in my teaching career. My attention was completely split. Whenever I tried to help Desiree, she was so demanding the other girls would whisper and giggle, and when I shifted my attention to them to try to teach the whole class instead of just tutoring Desiree, Desiree would lose interest and flounce around the room.
It was becoming painfully obvious it wasn't going to work. The class was suffering. The Wednesday before Thanksgiving, deadline day, was particularly ugly. Desiree was completely hyper and when Alison made a rude remark about it, Desiree hurled her books to the floor and screamed, "Shut up you BITCH!"
"Desiree!" I thundered. "Sit down and shut up!" I glanced at the clock; ten to four. "All right, that's enough, you all can go early today. I've had about all the fun I can stand. –Desiree, you stay. "
The others filed out, giggling. Desiree glared sullenly up at me. "Am I in trouble?"
"Yes you are," I said, curtly. "This is a classroom. You don't ever talk to people like that in here. "
"But she–"
"I don't care. When the girls are mean to you, I stop them. Isn't that right?"
Desiree nodded, reluctantly.
"That's my job. When you are mean to them, it's my job to stop you. I don't want anybody being mean to anybody."
"They just always laugh," Desiree muttered, helplessly. "It makes me so mad."
That got to me. I pulled up a chair and sat down. "Desiree, I know. I can't help that. I swear to you, I will stop as much of it as I can, I won't let them be mean to you in this room. I promise. Do you believe me?"
She nodded.
"But you have to help me. There's a saying, 'living well is the best revenge.' You know what that means?"
"Not really."
"It means if you live your life happy, mean people can't hurt you, because you don't care, life's too good. And that really grinds down people who don't like you, seeing you happy. Get it?"
"Yeah." Desiree brightened a little. I wasn't sure if it was because she understood or because she just liked the idea of Alison and Susan being ground down, but I pressed it anyway.
"So if you come here, do the work — and you're doing really well, you're good at this, Desiree — then there's no reason for you to be angry. They can't touch you. Don't let them ruin this for you. You love to draw comics and you're doing it well. That's what you should be thinking about. "
"Okay," Desiree said. "Can I go now?"
"Yes, we're done. Have a good Thanksgiving."
She scampered off and I sighed. The holiday weekend would be a welcome break. After that… I'd give it one more week. If things didn't get better after that, well, I was just going to have to break the bad news to Mariette, that was all.
The holidays weren't much of a break, mostly because I worried about my Denny class all weekend. It was good to see my family again, but I was distant and distracted. My mind kept wandering to the situation with Desiree. Finally, Mom asked flatly what was bothering me. It dawned on me that Mom had been a schoolteacher for many years before she took her corporate job. And she might have an idea.
"Girls are terrible, that way," Mom said when I finished explaining. "For every time you catch them, there's a dozen more you'll miss. They're good at keeping it quiet. "
"I know," I flared. "I'm sorry, that wasn't at you. But I'm just so frustrated. "
"Have you tried talking to the other girls?"
"Talked, threatened, punished. It just escalates things. "
Mom considered it. "Try this. Enlist them."
"Enlist them? Those poisonous little bitches? How?"
"Make it a team effort," Mom said. "Get them on your side, explain why it's important for Desiree to stay in your class. That might work."
"I think it's gone too far for that now." I sighed.
"Try it and see," Mom said. She added, "I didn't raise you boys to give up."
Maybe just this once, I thought but didn't say.
The Monday after Thanksgiving, Desiree was absent from class. I was guiltily relieved. For most of the day we were back to our old dynamic; without Desiree there to act as lightning rod, the kids reverted to their usual good-natured selves.
"The books are due back from the printers tomorrow, and I'll have them here on Wednesday," I said. "Okay? Any questions before we move on to the next issue?"
"What did Stupid Girl do for the book?" Mary asked.
My good mood was instantly washed away in a red wave of anger. "She did a hell of a lot more than any of you," I snarled. "She did four pages and a cover in two weeks while the rest of you were giggling and screwing around for five. Don't you dare refer to Desiree by that name in here again." I said it in a hard, deadly tone that I normally would never use on a child, no matter what the provocation, but I was furious. Mary actually looked frightened. Good, I thought, darkly. You should be scared. This is what it feels like. "And none of you are good enough at this that you can't use a little criticism. The next time I hear a crack like that about anybody in here I will subject that smartmouth's work to a public critique of their OWN stuff, in front of the whole class, that will humiliate her so badly that she'll never dare pick up a pencil again."
Now all the girls looked scared. Even Sebastian and Adam looked a little nervous. Suddenly I realized, hey, these girls are your students too. They're not stand-ins for the playground criminals of thirty years ago. Calm down.
What had Mom said? Enlist them.
"Look," I said, in a calmer voice. "I know Desiree is high-maintenance. I know she can be irritating. But she's here by request. Mrs. Snead over in special-ed asked me to let her in here. Special-ed kids don't get to do a lot of stuff around here, you know. They don't get to be in the band, or take drama, or play on many of the teams. They're kind of in their own bubble. But this is something they can do. Desiree's doing it. She's doing it well. Let's not poison it for her."
Susan nodded, slowly, and Mary and Alison actually looked ashamed. I pressed the advantage. "I need your help on this," I added. "I can't build her up if you guys just tear her back down again. This is your chance to do a legitimate Good Deed, to really help make someone else's life better in a serious way. And all you have to do is not pick on her. I'm not saying you have to be pals. Just be nice." I grinned. "I know you can. I've seen it."
That got a laugh. The whole atmosphere of the room changed in that moment: suddenly, that quickly, we were a team. Susan said, "Can we put it on the Good Deeds board in Mrs. Nelson's room?"
"I'd rather you didn't," I said. "Though it probably qualifies, sometimes you just have to settle for the feeling you get when you do the right thing. It's a good feeling, trust me." I paused. "So, do we have a deal?"
There were various murmurs of assent. "Good," I said. "Then let's go to work."
"And that was that. After that day, I never had any trouble over Desiree again," I finished. "She's doing great and so are the others. I'd like to take credit, but I can't. It was Mom's idea, she used to be a teacher."
It was a few weeks later, over at Madison. The girls had asked me about what happened to the shy girl at Denny and peppered me with questions when I said we'd worked it out. One question had led to the next and I'd ended up telling them the whole story.
"Wow," Brianna said. "You were really worried about her, weren't you? Like she was one of your own kids. "
I chuckled. "You're all my kids," I told her.
Even the poisonous little bitchy ones.
Man, I love these stories (and your determination to do right by these kids, no matter what). As always, thanks for sharing.
Being an after-school worker myself, these segments are almost always my favorites on the site.
Our Desiree is named Nic, and despite being almost widely accepted and loved by the entire school, his hyperactivity and stubbornness get on the nerves of the other kids, and it's the best way to guarantee that you will be sitting out an activity or seeing the principal if you pick on him in front of me.
I think it's something about holidays. Christmas is always the worst with Nic, and I understand why, because as an orphan, Nic misses his parents most around Christmastime, and becomes nearly impossible for even me to deal with.
I think Nic would do well in a cartooning class, because he says the most imaginative things, to the point where he goes on about them for so long that the other kids get bored and tired of listening to him, but for me it's a blast, just wondering "Where is he going with this?"
Most nerdy kids grown up can see a little bit of themselves in the special ed kids, I think, and because we know what it's like to be picked on, we go that little extra mile to make sure it doesn't happen to anyone else, especially the Nics and the Desirees who can't tell exactly what they've done to deserve it.
A touching column as always, Greg, thank you.
My wife teaches middle and high school students at the alternative school in our district. She has kids who are special ed as well, they kind of get dumped there by their home schools who don't want to deal with them even though that's not what the school is designed to handle.
I am always amazed by the love and patience that the teachers have for these kids. They are trying desperately to prevent kids with issues from slipping through the cracks of the system. I know this is going to sound corny as hell, but people who care about kids this much (like you, Greg) are the real super heroes. I couldn't do what you and my wife do and you have my deepest admiration, sir.
Good story. I was afraid you were going to say you got fired after you yelled at the girls that first afternoon. Glad you didn't.
This is a wonderful piece that really hit close home to me. I had a lot of similarities to Desiree, and still do. As an adult there isn't so much of the active, to-your-face teasing, but there's still discrimination against the " special-ed " ( or neurologically diverse, as it should be called ) people. And it's hardly something that most people notice.
To call the bitchy clique girls on their treatment of Desiree, to let them feel what it's like to be the target of criticism, was a wonderful thing to do. Thank you, Greg.
That's one of the coolest stories I've heard for a while. Despite all the bad news and political crap in the world, I like hearing about human nature's good side (or at least, the redemption of the bad side).
Man, I need to try this. I run up against this stuff a lot in Sunday school teaching, unfortunately (and the irony makes me less than happy, considering the setting).
But thanks for the story, Greg. You're a good man.
Great story. Thanks for posting this.
Cool story, Greg!
Once again, Greg, you're my hero. Thank you for the story. Um, am I supposed to be crying at the end of it? 'Cuz I am.
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That's some incredibly eerie lighting. What a great shot!
Gorgeous capture!
very nice
Great shot my friend!
How nice, really great colours ( :,
I wonder why ppl leave those things outside for the whole year o:
I wonder why ppl leave those things outside for the whole year o:
Wow, this is beautiful. The angle, the light, the atmosphere, the footprints - and the title makes it perfect. Wonderful shot, thank you for sharing!
Très jolie photo, le foin fait penser à la saison de l'été. et de retrouver cette balle dans la neige, donne un air d'abandon.
I've gotta learn to photo this good
So wonderful ! And the footprints are from a fox ?
As always perfect shot
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I don't have a DVD drive in my Windows Media Center PC that's connected to my TV. I was wondering if there's a way I can insert the disc into a networked PC that has a DVD drive and watch the movie on my Media Center PC.
Yes you can share a dvd drive just like any other drive. To set it up right click on the DVD drive and select
This may work if the dvd is one file/encryption/legal stuff isn't a factor. (ex. a burned DVD) but to play a dvd on the fly you may have to look into something like anyDVD(as talked about in my link). it will decrypt the dvd on the fly as you are streaming it across.
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All in all if sharing the drive does not work, then you will need to use software as mentioned above in order to do that.


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Hub hub[edit]
I saw you close Hub hub, at AFD and in the page log. The AFD was only open for 34 minutes. The rationale in the AFD was "delete" and in the page was "deleted "Hub hub" (Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Hub hub)", which indicates there was a valid AFD that decided to delete. I would have to disagree. I do agree with the outcome (and !voted in the AFD), but I don't think you can call that a valid AFD, and I don't think that it qualified under speedy (which doesn't matter, since you didn't close under speedy). Just concerned over the policy implications of doing that. PHARMBOY (moo) (plop) 21:11, 1 November 2008 (UTC)
- I speedy deleted it under A1; I believe when I clicked the delete option in the AfD closing script, it automatically deleted it with a link to the AfD as a summary. I've clarified why I speedy deleted it at the AfD. seresin ( ¡? ) 21:27, 1 November 2008 (UTC)
The AfD closes you asked me about...[edit]
Done, added to the AfDs. If you'd like more info, please let me know. I think I read the consensus right, if you have a different opinion, I'd like to hear it please as there are always different ways to see things. TravellingCari 14:21, 2 November 2008 (UTC)
Bernard Mariette[edit]
I'm surprised that you removed the PROD on this article. Are you really saying that Wikipedia should have a page on every CEO? I thought that WP:BIO indicated that you had to be notable, this person certainly fails WP:BIO.Paste (talk) 21:26, 2 November 2008 (UTC)
- Not necessarily, but those sources are certainly enough to warrant a full AfD of the article, which you are, of course, fully free to open should you be convinced the subject of the article fails WP:NOTE. seresin ( ¡? ) 22:32, 2 November 2008 (UTC)
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I have nominated HAGGER? (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) for discussion. Your opinions on the matter are welcome; please participate in the discussion by adding your comments at the discussion page. Thank you. Ten Pound Hammer and his otters • (Broken clamshells • Otter chirps • HELP) 02:23, 3 November 2008 (UTC)
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I see that you are now working on the "Arbitration Report" ("T.R.O.L.L.") page for the "Signpost". If you ever have any questions about the arbitration process or the status of cases, I'd be glad to answer them. Regards, Newyorkbrad (talk) 23:56, 23 November 2008 (UTC)
- Thank you for your offer. If I have any questions, I will do so. seresin ( ¡? ) 23:02, 24 November 2008 (UTC)
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This article was split off from the main article of the show he was in. Could you please drop by the discussion and change your vote to a merge back to where it came from, or explain why you are not supporting a merge so other commenters have the full story. - Mgm|(talk) 20:47, 24 November 2008 (UTC)


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I would love to be kept up by baby ducks with mustaches!
Little bunnyis so right, there is no price for that lol
Hahaha this is a great comic!
yeah he does that to me too
Babyduckwith mustaches!!!!
mustaches make everything funny....
mustaches make everything funny....
Imma eat that moose.
evil bunny!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
This motherfuckin' moose keeps me too awake at night.
...cute bastard..
...cute bastard..
i laughed so hard when i saw this!!!!!
I have to agree with Bunny. I whisper 4 more days in Russell's ear just as he starts to sleep. He's becoming twitchier as the days go on.
Hahaha great xD
silly rabbit, you can't pay moose - they don't need money
sooooo funny, especially because I wouldn't be bothered at all - moose are my favourite animals and anyway, is he sure that it wasn't the duck with a moustache under his bed?
I wish I had a moose keeping me awake every night.
Hahaha this is amazing! Going to start referring to my insomnia as "The Moose". I love the style of this.
Oh man there was a giant moose in the thumbnail and everything and it STILL freaking surprised me!
Story of my friend's life RIGHT HERE!! And I am the mind-messing bunny in her nightmares.
I'm not sure... those baby duck mustaches are awfully itchy.
How did it get in there?
Hahahaha! XD
I hate when that happens. Very accurate description!
Those darn mooses.
So that's what is keeping me up! Screw you, Bunny, after I spent all that money on the sleep study!
Bunny and me seem to think along the same lines far too much are you sure he is evil?
LOOOL the baby duck xD"
I just laughed and said aloud, "Well said, bunny, well said."
I find too much joy in these comics. Like, a lot more than I should. Oh well :'D
I find too much joy in these comics. Like, a lot more than I should. Oh well :'D
oh my gawd so thats what it was! damn you moose!
I'll kill the moose, for a price. But I'm eatin' good tonight!
This is hilarious!
lol, such a cute moose!!
hahahaha oh this is great, baby ducks with mustaches? *see a baby duck with a mustaches under the bed*
glad I have no moos in my bedroom
glad I have no moos in my bedroom
Its a room with a moose
Omg! <3
this is hilarious x3
this is hilarious x3
Ah. So my neighbours' kids are my personal mooses. Guess it's karma-stuff of some kind.
This is hilarious man, the whole thing is just perfect. Great job.
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IMHO, there is more to the strategy of Vicis since their influence in stock selling, considering the condition of the company, might imply they are getting out before it is worth nothing if they sold all their shares. They very possably may be using this storm to profit. Here is how:
If vicis sells all their stock, most longs that are left that have stock holding panic sell as they are selling and the price even goes down further. Just remember, someone out there has been buying all those shares. Anyway, so Vicis sell the stock and files they have sold with SEC. They have a set point where they turn and start buying it back at the depressed price! The one thing people are forgetting here is that if they are playing for a PR down the road or the q1 financials, then they now would not be subject to a blackout since they are under the 10%. So, they depress the stock, and turn around and slowly buy it back headed towards some specific date they have set as a target to then have to file that they have purchased back over the 10% again. So, maybe they set that, the filing causes stock appreciation, then a pr of the restructure and approval of a new credit agreement shortly after that causes more stock appreciation and then finally the pr of the 10q with a profit causes even more appreciation! We will see if I am right or wrong over the next few weeks, but pr seems to come in droves IMHO and that would be a well planned orchestration to allow them to gobble up tons of the companys stock prior and then when it is starting to rise as the PRs are released. Could be wrong though, but agian Im just looking at the players and the whole situation.
Thanks everyone! Now whats your thoughts on where this thing is headed?
but should we worry that vicis is getting out?
I don't think we should necessarily be worried about it. We are already at the pps we are at with Vicis selling that much and like steve said they are still in the red big time on this investment and are likely looking for a way to make it back more quickly i.e. buying back at this price that we are buying at, lowering their cost basis, and eventually making bank alongside us when the price goes up
no bc vicis isnt getting out. If they were they would have sold ALL of their shares awhile ago. They know the only way they will get their investment back is through stock. They won't get anything on the books and they know that.
They also could be exchanging stock for options like DD on ihub said. Bc the options are currently "out of the money" vicis wouldn't have to report them. This would help with driving the drice down while really losing nothing.
Or maybe they agreed to a refi in exchange to bring down their ownership %. Still way too many good possibilities and not enough bad ones imo


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During his testimony, Trawick described the moment the shot was fired. "She did not hit the barrel of the gun, but I know it takes the brain to think when you pull the trigger. So, when she hit my hand, the gun went off and I was like 'man, are you alright', but she didn't say nothing so I ran."
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Research centre for education in science and mathematics (CRECIM by it's spanish initials) is a Special Research Center of the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, created in 2002 from Consolidated Research Group TIREC (Computer Technology and Research on Scientific Education).In 2007 CRECIM became part of the Research Park at UAB.
CRECIM is an Entity dedicated to promoting a better Scientific, Technology Engineering and Mathematics literacy of the citizens and analyze the orientation given to the teaching and dissemination of science
CRECIM develops its activity around four different areas such as: Research, Training, Diffusion and Transfer of knowledge. Although the main goal of CRECIM is educational research, the other three areas of performance show the intention of the centre to bring the research results to the key agents involved such as teacher trainers and educational authorities, and in short, to classroom reality.
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Teaching and learning science with digital tools
This traditional research line at CRECIM aims to analyse the advantages, benefits and limitations for the incorporation of new technologies for teaching and learning the several scientific disciplines through all the different education levels, from primary education to University, both on-class and on-line. Some of the national and international projects undertaken in this research line are STTIS, RENOLAB, IKUITSE, IEFNET, POSTRES, NEFREDUCA, AFINET.
Teaching innovation in the field of new technologies for teaching and learning sciences
A common aim to all researches at CRECIM is to make their research results get to the classroom, by means of teaching innovation. Thus, all the researchers of the centre are involved in this research line and every project has some aspect addressed to teaching innovation. The contribution of Secondary School teachers collaborating with CRECIM is especially important.
Fostering Vocations scientific and technical: Prat de la Riba i ECB-Ingenious
Due to the current situation, in which there is a significant lack of young people who decide to start scientifictechnical training, CRECIM dedicate efforts to investigate and determine which educational actions can help in order to increase the number of scientifictechnical vocations. We are carring out two projects: ECB-Ingenious project, that it has the objective of increasing the links between science education and careers in Europe. Moreover we are promoting initiatives like Prat de la Riba project, to bring the school and the business world with the background to get young people to work the contents of the subject of Technology.
Scientific Literacy and Scientific Competency
This research line is focused on the analysis of the conditions needed for a Science teaching aimed to achieve scientific literacy and scientific competency. Some examples of projects previously developed are PISA-PENCRI (where we analysed Catalan teachers' perceptions about scientific competences evaluated in the PISA international test) and GIMMS in which it has been explored a new teachers formation model (Mentoring) aimed to develop scientific competency. We currently started the COMPEC project.


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Capping the Cost of Atrocity; Survivor of Nazi Experiments Says $8,000 Isn't Enough
By STEVEN GREENHOUSE
Published: November 19, 2003
The medical experiments that Simon Rozenkier says he saw and experienced in Nazi concentration camps strain the imagination.
He saw a hunchback whose hump had been cut off by Josef Mengele, the infamous Nazi doctor. He said Dr. Mengele had thrown a Jewish man into a bath of ice and let him freeze to death, in a study intended to help Nazi pilots survive when they were shot down over icy seas.
Mr. Rozenkier, a native of Poland who emigrated to New York in 1947, said he saw Nazi doctors administer intense X-rays to the genitalia of Jews and Gypsies to sterilize them. And he vividly recalled how a Nazi doctor, Horst Schumann, had repeatedly injected him with chemicals -- he was told they were vitamin supplements -- to sterilize him, all part of a Nazi effort to perfect ways to keep Jews from reproducing.
''They told me, 'These shots will give you muscles to work,' '' he said. '' 'Do you understand that, you redheaded dog?' ''
When Mr. Rozenkier and his wife encountered problems having children in the early 1950's, he contacted the German consulate in New York. Officials there sent him to a doctor who determined that he was sterile, confirming his own doctor's findings.
This year, Mr. Rozenkier filed a lawsuit accusing two German pharmaceutical giants, Bayer and Schering, of providing experts and drugs to Dr. Mengele and other Nazi doctors for sterilizations.
''What they did to me is beyond right and wrong,'' said Mr. Rozenkier, who lost his parents and four siblings in the Holocaust. ''They should be punished.''
His lawsuit, in Federal District Court in Newark, has created a legal and diplomatic tempest because the German government and German companies insist that there is no place for such litigation now. They point to a 2000 agreement between the United States and Germany that created a $5 billion fund to compensate Nazi slave laborers and victims of medical experiments.
German officials and companies say the fund was created partly to prevent lawsuits like Mr. Rozenkier's, which are difficult to litigate and which embarrass the Germans with details about past Nazi horrors.
Mr. Rozenkier, who lives on Staten Island, said that his lawsuit was warranted despite the agreement because, in his view, the $8,000 that the fund awarded him was woefully inadequate. The lawsuit does not seek a specific amount. He further argued that the German foundation that administers the fund had violated the agreement by capping awards to the victims of medical experiments and not individually judging how much each victim should receive.
But Roger Witten, an American lawyer representing Bayer and Schering, said Mr. Rozenkier's lawsuit should be dismissed. ''Everybody feels sympathy for the plaintiff here,'' Mr. Witten said. ''These are all people who went through horrible things.'' But he said creation of the fund should have ended these cases in American courts.
In the agreement, the American government promised that in suits brought in federal court, it would urge the judge to dismiss the cases if there were valid legal reasons for doing so. The government would do so without taking a position on the merits of the complaints.
''The U.S. side embraced the idea of legal peace for German companies,'' Mr. Witten said. ''This was not just in the interests of German companies and Germany, but also in the foreign policy interests of the United States for German companies to be able to put this behind them.''
A State Department official said last week that the department would file a statement recommending that the judge in New Jersey dismiss the case if there were any valid legal grounds to do so.
Mr. Rozenkier's lawyer, Carey D'Avino, said, ''The State Department apparently plans to file a statement with the court for diplomatic reasons, but the U.S. shouldn't file such a statement because the Germans have failed to live up to the letter and spirit of the agreement and failed to live up to their side of the bargain.''
Experts on Holocaust claims disagree about how the federal courts should treat Mr. Rozenkier's case.
Stuart E. Eizenstat, a former deputy treasury secretary who had helped negotiate the agreement with Germany, said the suit should be dismissed. ''If the plaintiff were correct in this case,'' he said, ''it would undercut the entire thrust of the German settlement, which is to put an overall cap on claims, to create a quick claims mechanism and to avoid individualized hearings.''
But Lawrence Kill, a New York lawyer who had signed the agreement after representing former slave laborers who sued Germany, said Mr. Rozenkier's case should be allowed to go forward because the Germans had apparently violated the agreement. ''A side letter to the agreement called for individual consideration as to the amount medical victims are entitled to,'' Mr. Kill said. ''How can we give someone who was subject to some of the worst kinds of atrocities imaginable the same as somebody else who might have had a toenail removed in a Nazi experiment?''
Mr. Rozenkier said the sterilization shots he had received caused his genitalia to swell and bleed and caused wrenching pain for days. The shots also caused a more lasting anguish. ''After the war,'' he said, ''when I finally got in touch with my brother, Aaron, who had escaped to Russia, he said: 'I hope you're going to have a big family. Look what we lost.' I said, 'O.K., we'll have a family.' But it never happened.''


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March 23, 2016
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March 23, 2016
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Nice rooms , front desk staff very helpful.
Paying parking is too small for the number of people. At that size, they should not be charging.
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March 21, 2016
Cheap for a suite with sofa bed. Bathroom was OK.
Dated, stains on all the furniture. Frosted glass window into the hallway was unnerving. Parking wasn't free.
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February 17, 2016
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February 17, 2016
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The maintenance person was very nice. The location was easy to find.
The entire hotel feels like it is struggling. $1.50 for lobby coffee, mis matched sinks, old feel to the rooms. The price was okay, but this place needs an upgrade.
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February 9, 2016
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The front desk assistance was exceptional. They had some trouble locating my reservation, however definitely made up for that.
Too many kids playing and making noise in the halls. This hotel books many kids sport team groups and the children tend to use the picnic hallways as a playground. This stay wasn't too bad, however, in past, I've had to call the front desk due to noise.
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December 27, 2015
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Balcony was pretty run down
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November 2, 2015
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October 3, 2015
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Large room, good amenities.
Wiffi went down, gym was very small... But adequate
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September 22, 2015
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From last experience, pleasantly surprised. Price met expectations. Appreciated increased hospitality on arrival and throughout stay. Suite very nice - lots of room and liked the privacy of the bedroom on its own. Lots of bathroom amenities. Nice.
Air condit. loud - affected sleep, couldn't turn off as room became too stuffy. Mattress hard and affected sleep. Wondered why breakfast was in lobby Sunday morning? For guests or conference? - if so, not very considerate of other hotel patrons.
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Old hotel
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September 14, 2015
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I liked the locations of the hotel, and the rooms were very clean, very good job by the cleaning crew.
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Peru State rushed for 280 yards and held Southwestern to 46 rush yards on the way to a 44-21 win in the inaugural Kansas Collegiate Athletic Conference versus Heart of America Athletic Conference Football Classic at Winfield, Kan. on Saturday.
With the win, the Bobcats moved their season record to 2-0. This is the first time since 2000 that the Bobcats have begun the season with back-to-back victories.
Southwestern fell to 1-1 with the loss.
The key quarters of the Saturday game were the second and third, where Peru State racked up a 28-7 advantage.
Offensive leaders for Peru State were Prescott Valley, Ariz. quarterback Tyler Audsley, who rushed for 95 yards on 17 attempts and scored three touchdowns, and Liberal, Mo. grad Ethan Bray, who finished with 88 yards rushing and two touchdowns.
Passing wise, Audsley was 13-of-19 for 165 yards with one touchdown and one interception.
Receiving leaders were J.D. Faxon of Odell, six catches for 39 yards; Nate Tromblee of Lincoln, three catches for 81 yards and one touchdown; and Lance Steffen of Murdock, three catches for 36 yards.
Defensive leaders were Curtis Larsen of Plattsmouth, nine tackles, a sack and two tackles for a loss; Briar Burr of Wood River, eight tackles; and Garret Campbell of Santee, Calif. and Jon Draeger of Syracuse, each with seven tackles.
Campbell's special team's paly was also a highlight for the Bobcats. His two kickoff returns totaled 103 yards and gave Peru State outstanding starting field position each time.
Campbell was named the player of the game for his efforts in kick returning and on defense.
Peru State returns to action at 2 p.m. Saturday at Graceland University in Lamoni, Iowa. This will be the first Heart of America Athletic Conference match up of the year for both teams. The YellowJackets are 1-1 with a win over Mayville State University and a loss to McPherson College.
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Complementing the technical nature of Videon's business is an employee-focused work environment. We maintain a casual atmosphere with programs rewarding employees for biking and running and a "bring your dog to work" philosophy. A culture of trust, hard work, and personal responsibility combines with a relaxed and friendly atmosphere to make Videon an excellent place to both work and play.
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Honey Mustard Pork Tenderloin
Total Time
Prep 15 mins
Cook 35 mins
Easy and elegant tasting way to make a tenderloin. From my local paper.
Ingredients Nutrition
- 1 (8 ounce) package baby carrots
- 12 new potatoes, halved
- 1⁄3 cup honey mustard
- 2 tablespoons olive oil
- 1⁄2 teaspoon garlic pepper seasoning
- 1⁄4 teaspoon season salt
- 12 -16 ounces pork tenderloin
- Preheat oven to 425F.
- Put carrots and potatoes in a large saucepan, fill with water to cover them, bring to boil and let them boil for just 2 minutes.
- Drain and set aside.
- Combine honey mustard, oil, garlic pepper and season salt in a bowl.
- Spread half of the mustard mixture on the pork.
- Toss the carrots/potatoes with the other half of the mustard mixture.
- Place pork in roasting pan and spoon the vegetables around it.
- Roast uncovered for 25-35 minutes, or until meat thermometers reads 160 degrees, stirring the vegetables once while cooking.
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Very simple to prepare. The honey mustard mixture wasn't as flavorful as I had hoped, but did keep the pork very moist and juicy. The carrots and potatoes roasted beautifully. A no fuss meal that appears very impressive.
very easy to prepare. I did have to cook it a bit longer than the 35 minutes. the pork stayed very tender. this is a keeper!
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Radiation therapy students benefit from new linear accelerator simulator
One of St. Catharine College's newest programs has exciting new technology that will give students a distinct advantage over students in similar programs at other colleges and universities.
The radiation therapy program at St. Catharine College, which enrolled its first cohort in January 2013, recently obtained a linear accelerator simulator through a grant from Norton Healthcare in Louisville, Ky. A linear accelerator is the primary tool used when administering radiation therapy to a cancer patient.
The simulator, created by a company called VERTUAL, arrived shortly before the fall semester began at
St. Catharine College. The technology is referred to as the VERT. The company that created it, VERTUAL, works in conjunction with a company called Virtalis. Both companies are based out of Great Britain.
Carol Scherbak, assistant professor / chair of the radiation therapy department, said an engineer at Virtalis set up a room plan so the VERT could be installed. After three days, the equipment was in place. Then, a few days before classes began, Dr. Andy Beavis, who is the co-founder and co-inventor of the VERT, came to campus from Great Britain to train Scherbak and Tom Rally, instructor / clinical coordinator of radiation therapy, on how to use the machine.
Scherbak used an analogy to describe training using the VERT and training without it.
She said training to use a linear accelerator without the VERT is akin to describing to someone the rules of basketball and explaining how to dribble, pass and shoot without using a ball. Then, after explaining how the games works, the student is sent to start for one of the most highly-regarded college or pro basketball teams in the country a few days later.
"You don't even get a practice game. You don't even get to play with the ball," Scherbak said of training to use a linear accelerator. "You're just thrown in there. You don't know the people. You don't even know how the clinic is set up."
Rally said that's an accurate analogy and took it a step further.
Even training in a hospital with a real linear accelerator and no patient on the table is not as comprehensive as training with the VERT.
"Still, it's just a dry run of everything until you're thrown on the floor," Rally said. "You're out there trying to learn how to do it and there's a sick patient lying on the table. All of a sudden, there's not time for you to learn. That patient's hurting, they're getting sick to the stomach. The pressure is on you."
The VERT, though, adds a new layer of learning.
"This is a live game with no live people," Rally said.
Using the VERT provides more information than the student could see even with a patient lying on the table receiving treatment.\
"How much more information is (used in the VERT) than if you just saw a sick patient laying on the table? You can see the lungs, you can see the spinal cord, you can see what the radiation is hitting," Rally said.
Scherbak explained that even a stripped down linear accelerator costs around $2 million, so obtaining one for training purposes isn't practical. The linear accelerator that appears in the VERT is roughly a $3 million machine, Scherbak said.
"So now our students can take this and become proficient in using this," she said. "You can imagine how difficult it would be. You can imagine if now you're in a scenario and you're in a room with a couple of therapists you don't even know and an actual patient on the table. Now you have to perform."
Using the VERT allows radiation therapy students to learn in a safe environment, which includes safety from destroying expensive equipment.
"None of my students have ever done anything like this, but I have heard of students running the gantry into the stepstool. That's $13,000," she said. "This hand pendant, just the hand pendant itself is $1,500. If we drop this, it's $1,500."
The linear accelerator at St. Catharine College is 3-D, she said, so there's no worry about damaging it.
Another advantage training with the VERT has is the ability to correlate several pieces of information together to get a more complete picture of the patient.
"We can correlate the organs. We can correlate this CT scan we did to see what's actually going on to the point where we can then look at this nice CT scan and we can actually look at the dose," Scherbak said.
"The only thing the students cannot do is touch the patients with their hands. Other than that, they can do everything," Scherbak said.
For more information about the radiation therapy program, contact Scherbak via email at email@example.com or via phone at (859) 336-5082 ext. 1399.
Founded in the Dominican tradition in 1931 and sponsored by the Dominican Sisters of Peace, St. Catharine College, a Catholic Dominican college inspired by its founders, welcomes all to the challenging pursuit of truth, preparing them to become critical thinkers, ethical leaders and engaged citizens.


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Everton 2 Sunderland 1: Quick-fire Fellaini makes life difficult for Sunderland... and manager Moyes
Marouane Fellaini is not going to make it easy for Everton to keep hold of him.
The big-haired Belgian is on fire at present and turning in the kind of performances that will get the biggest clubs in Europe chasing his signature and manager David Moyes knows his club cannot afford to turn down offers of £20million-plus.
Without the 6ft 4in Goodison midfielder, Sunderland would have beaten their bogey manager Moyes for the first time in 18 attempts.
Topsy-turvy: Nikica Jelavic celebrates as Everton dumped the game on its head to delight the home fans
Back on track: Marouane Fellaini equalises for Everton to start the turnaround
Everton: Howard, Coleman, Jagielka, Heitinga, Baines, Mirallas (Naismith 30), Osman, Neville (Vellios 73), Pienaar, Fellaini, Jelavic (Hitzlsperger 86).
Subs not used: Mucha, Oviedo, Distin, Gueye.
Booked: Heitinga
Goals: Fellaini 76, Jelavic 79
Sunderland: Mignolet, Gardner, O'Shea, Cuellar, Rose, Johnson (Vaughan 84), Larsson, Colback (Wickham 88), McClean, Fletcher (Saha 69), Sessegnon.
Subs: Westwood, McFadden, Kilgallon, Bramble.
Booked: Rose, Gardner, Vaughan
Goal: Johnson 45
Att: 35,999
Referee: Lee Mason (Lancashire)
They led through Adam Johnson's first goal for the club and looked comfortable until they were 'Fellainied'.
He drilled in a 76th-minute equaliser for his sixth goal of the season.
And two minutes later, for an encore, he produced a backheel that fortuitously squeezed through the legs of John O'Shea to set up Nikica Jelavic's joyous winner.
It stretched Everton's Premier League run to just one defeat in 20 games and while the odds are still stacked against them maintaining their current fourth place, you would not bet against it.
For Sunderland boss Martin O'Neill, it is a different story. Although they can at last claim an outfield goalscorer other than Steven Fletcher and their first goal from anyone in nearly nine hours, defeat leaves them perilously close to the relegation zone.
They must be thankful that Reading, Southampton and QPR cannot muster a win among them. 'Fellaini is a really important player for us,' said Moyes.
'He has great chest control, soft feet and when we needed him to drop back in with 15 minutes to go. He can play deeper as well.
Breakthrough: Adam Johnson celebrates opening the deadlock for Sunderland
Keeping it up: Tim Howard saw his side maintain their excellent record over Sunderland
Diving in: Steven Naismith tries to drag the ball away from the sliding Jack Colback
'He might have got a bit lucky with his flick going through John O'Shea's legs but Jela needed one put on a plate for him at the moment. The players showed great character to come from a goal behind.'
O'Neill, who was left without skipper Lee Cattermole, seemed unable to comprehend his side were beaten despite a first-half display he called 'exhilarating'.
'We should have been out of sight at half-time. Instead of being one up, we should have been three up,' he said.
'It was a great performance by our players. We knew we would be under pressure in the second half. Their second goal epitomised that bit of misfortune.
'I am disappointed we didn't see it through. With 14 minutes left it looked as if we would get three points; we didn't get any. We were playing against a team who have a great chance of playing in the Champions League.'
Effort: Hard workers James McClean and Seamus Coleman (left) vie for possession
Well done: Players rush round Johnson to congratulate him on his first league goal
Tucked away: Johnson fires his strike past Tim Howard
Adam Johnson was only the second player to score a Premier League goal for Sunderland this season (as well as Steven Fletcher).
Excluding own goals, his strike was the first League goal by a Sunderland player since September 29, ending a run of 444 minutes without one.
But Martin O'Neill's Sunderland are still the only Premier League side yet to score a headed goal this season.
Moyes would not have enjoyed the first 45 minutes of his 400th Premier League game in charge. Everton allowed Stephane Sessegnon and Fletcher early chances while, at the other end, things were so bleak Phil Neville tried his luck from 30 yards.
Thomas Mignolet palmed it away. Sunderland struck with the last attack of the half. Seb Larsson's corner was half-cleared to Craig Gardner and when he played the ball back in, Johnson burst ahead of a static Leon Osman to tuck a first-time finish past Tim Howard.
Johnson celebrated the strike with the natural glee of a £10m signing who has struggled since leaving Manchester City.
He was left out of Roy Hodgson's England party for this week's friendly against Sweden, while Osman is in the squad. Everton, who had lost Kevin Mirallas with a hamstring pull after 30 minutes, were lacklustre in their attempts to draw level.
Their best two efforts were from Johnny Heitinga, the second of which was hoofed off the line by Johnson. But Fellaini turned the match on its head in the final quarter.
He was given time in the Sunderland area to turn and shoot home Steven Naismith's pass after Jelavic had dragged Carlos Cuellar out the way.
Two minutes later, Osman redeemed himself with a clever pass in to Fellaini's feet, he backheeled to Jelavic and the Croat finished for his sixth goal of the season.
Tussle: Sunderland's Danny Rose and Everton's Naismith (behind) battle for the ball
Respect: Everton players applauding for Remembrance Day before the game
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text: I have an XP Workstation which is member of an AD Domain. I have to reinstall Windows XP on the machine. After that I should ask the Domain Admin to re-join the machine to the domain. Is there any way of backing-up an restore the domain account on the machine to avoid re-joining to the AD domain?


text:
Hi, I'm not very techy guy, but I need your help.
I installed and activated WordPress https v.2.0 to my site, but it does not convert it to https.
It put automatically my site url into SSL Host field in form: http://www.mysite.com
I purchased SSL through my hosting company (bluehost.com) along with static IP.
What else should I do to make it work?
Thanks a lot.