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Today marks the tenth anniversary of the death of Sophie Lancaster, killed for dressing in her own unique way, daring to look 'different.' Since Sophie's death, her mother Sylvia has worked tirelessly to raise awareness of prejudice against subcultures through campaigning and charity work with The Sophie Lancaster Foundation.
The Sophie Lancaster Foundation stated on their official Facebook page:
"It is almost impossible to believe that 10 years has passed since Sophie's death. Her loss is felt as strongly now as it was then as her legacy grows and unites us. Today is a day for remembrance of a life cut cruelly short and we know you will join us in sending much love and respect to Sylvia and all who loved Sophie."
This is the description of the Foundation in their own words:
"Since Sophie's death on August 24th 2007, following the horrific attack on her and her partner Rob in Stubbeylee Park, Bacup, Lancashire, we have had lots of kind offers of support and donations. Sophie and Rob dressed in their unique way, expressing their individuality as creative artistic people.
After consulting family and friends, we felt that a charity should be set up in Sophie's name. The charity, known as The Sophie Lancaster Foundation, will focus on creating respect for and understanding of subcultures in our communities.
It will also work in conjunction with politicians and police forces to ensure individuals who a part of subcultures are protected by the law."
The Foundation became a registered charity in 2009 (number 1129689). The following are their aims:
- To create a lasting legacy to Sophie.
- To provide educational group-works that will challenge the prejudice and intolerance towards people from alternative subcultures.
- To campaign to have the UK Hate Crime legislation extended to include people from alternative subcultures or Lifestyle and Dress.
"So far, to meet these aims and objectives we have promoted the Foundation nationally and internationally, ensuring Sophie is recognised in the media and elsewhere. This has involved Sylvia Lancaster being interviewed many times for TV and Newspapers and many magazines have included features on Sophie's death and the work of Sylvia in setting up the Foundation. Including a "Tonight With Trevor McDonald" special.
The partnership with Illamasqua and Propaganda has proved invaluable and The Foundation is proud to work with them. Their profile in the beauty and business world has carried the work of the Foundation into new areas and brought new supporters and collaborators to join us.
For more information and to give your ongoing support to this cause, please visit the official Facebook page at this location and The Sophie Lancaster Foundation official website at this location.


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Students of American film and musical theater will have a special reason to celebrate this film. It signals that, after several disappointing attempts over the last 30 years, Hollywood has finally rediscovered the secret of translating a Broadway musical onto screen. The new formula has three parts: choose an inventive risk-taker for the director, give the starring roles to actors with hidden talents and reshape every scene into a cinematic narrative rather than a theatrical spectacle.
Set in Victorian London, Sweeney Todd tells the grisly tale of a barber who vows to take revenge on the wicked Judge Turpin, who had him sent to prison on a trumped-up charge so that he could seduce the barbers beautiful wife. Sweeney escapes from prison only to learn that his wife took poison after the judge had his way with her. So Sweeney re-opens his old barbershop intent on luring the judge into his chair, where he can slit his throat.
But his plans go awry, driving Sweeney over the mental brink. He determines to express his rage at the worlds injustice by slitting the throat of whoever comes to him for a shave. Sweeney disposes of the bodies by sending them down a chute to a pie shop a floor below, where they are chopped up for meat pies made by a certain Mrs. Lovett. The barbershop and the pie shop both thrive, and Mrs. Lovett and Sweeney become a bizarre romantic couple, even as he descends into homicidal madness and serial murder.
Not recommended for children, the film has a misanthropic theme, and the scenes of throat-slitting are particularly disturbing. To deal with this, both the theatrical and film versions have had to find ways to distance the audience from the slaughter. In the original 1979 stage production, a gigantic set evoking the Industrial Revolution era presented the story as a parable of the oppression of the lower classes by a corrupt legal system. The cannibalism of the human-meat pies was a grisly societal reversal, with Londons poor feeding off the corpses of those rich enough to afford the pampering of a barbers care. The actors, especially the unforgettable Angela Lansbury as Mrs. Lovett, played the whole show as macabre music-hall slapstick, with Cockney accents and bizarre attire and hairdos. The 2006 revival, starring Patti LuPone and Michael Cerveris, set the story in a madhouse, turning it into a nightmarish tableau in which the actors played all the instruments.
The film version creates yet another mode of aesthetic distance. It transforms its mise-en-scène into something resembling a video game matrix, using Dickensian London as the background for a gruesome game of revenge. Dante Ferretti, the production designer, has created an environment of grays and sepia shadings, populated by pale-faced denizens of Fleet Street whose black-rimmed eyes have grown accustomed to the sights of murder, infidelity and injustice.
Sweeney Todd is part of a new age of Broadway-to-Hollywood transfers. Film versions of popular Broadway musicals were standard, popular fare from the 1930s to the 1970s, culminating in a series of classicsWest Side Story, My Fair Lady, The Sound of Music and Olivereach of which won the Academy Award for the Best Picture in its respective year. For hits like The Music Man, Funny Girl, Fiddler on the Roof and Cabaret, some of Hollywoods finest directors used every production technique at their disposal to transfer to celluloid the stage versions of musicals with lavish sets, glamorous stars and gorgeous soundtracks. But the Hollywood formula soured in the 1970s, when putting musicals on the screen brought financial disaster and came to be considered box-office poison.
Then, in 2003, along came Chicago, a film version of the 1976 Kander and Ebb musical (which had been overshadowed during its original Broadway run by the record-breaking success of A Chorus Line). The film adapted the stage play to the aesthetics of 21st-century filmmaking, with dazzling sets, dream sequences and eye-popping editing of the song and dance. It raked in Oscars, including one for Best Picture. The phenomenal success of Chicago emboldened producers to reconsider the Broadway musical. Since then, two very successful film adaptations of Broadway musicals have appeared: last years Dreamgirls (starring the pop diva Beyonce Knowles and a singing Eddie Murphy) and this years Hairspray (with John Travolta singing and dancing in a fat suit as the heroines mother).
Sweeney Todd bears the imprint of its director, Tim Burton, who has established over two decades a body of films known for their dark visual mood and grotesque comic tone. These include Beetlejuice, two of the Batman movies, Edward Scissorhands, Mars Attacks, The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and a decidedly darker remake of a childrens book favorite, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. In Burtons hands, the Sondheim musical becomes a frightening horror film, prompting A. O. Scott of The New York Times to call it dark and terrifying.something close to a masterpiece, a work of extremeI am tempted to say evilgenius. The film revels in the bone-breaking crash of the victims bodies dropping through the chute to the grinding-house. Its Tim Burton gore set to music.
The casting is brilliant, with Johnny Depp, the foremost box-office star, as leading man. Depp has previously appeared in five Tim Burton films (Edward Scissorhands, Ed Wood, The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, as well as his voiced character in Burtons animated film, Corpse Bride). But can he sing? Yes, indeed. In the 1980s Depp worked as a bass player and background vocalist for a band. His voice, thin and somewhat harsh, has an edge that fits the angry, obsessed character of Sweeney Todd. When Depp reaches for the high notes, he evokes a cross between Paul McCartney and Sting.
As Mrs. Lovett, Helena Bonham Carter provides a perfectly bizarre match for Depp. She too is a veteran of several Burton films, expanding in this new film her portrayal of a crazed depressive in David Finchers Fight Club. Bonham Carters singing improves as the film moves along, but it is her marvelously matter-of-fact approach to the proceedings, coupled with her devious romantic devotion to Mister Todd, that almost steals the film from Depp. Burton and screenwriter John Logan have pared down Hugh Wheelers award-winning Broadway book to allow the actors faces to express a complex mix of grief, desperation and anger that only a film can convey.
The cast (which includes Sacha Baron Cohen as the flamboyant Signor Pirelli) owes an enormous debt to some longtime associates of SondheimJonathan Tunick, who orchestrated the music, and Paul Gemignani, who conducted the orchestra for the films score. The lush and powerful music adds dramatic impact to every scene. Sondheim himself supervised the music cutting, especially the somber choral pieces that pervaded the original stage version and several of the romantic numbers between two young lovers, whose innocent romance provides a delicate contrast to Todd and Lovetts murderous partnership.
This film is a visual delight. Closeups of the sensuous features of Depp and Bonham Carter add eroticism. Early in the film, Burton takes the viewer on a quick trip through the streets of London, from the harbor where Todds ship lands to the site of Mrs. Lovetts pie shop, in one elongated tracking shot that resembles video-game animation. When the evil pair are shown in a crowd, they seem isolated and ignored by passersby. That device works well in the sequence in which Sweeney loses his mind, brandishes his barbers straight razors and proclaims that they all deserve to die; the crowds rush by minding their own trivial business. Burton and Ferretti provide a playful contrast to the films generally grim environment in a sequence in which Mrs. Lovett describes her and Sweeneys future married life as that of a bourgeois couple on holiday by the sea. The screen becomes a Tech-nicolor world, filled with near-cartoonish Mary Poppins images of the happy pair frolicking on the boardwalk and picnicking in the park.
The new formula works, but who would have guessed it? A musical directed by a master of the horror genre? Starring roles played by actors not known for their singing abilities? A frightening amount of blood poured out while sumptuous Sondheim music plays behind? It works because these elements serve the storys vision, a tale of a man driven to homicidal fury by injustice. Tragically, Sweeney succumbs to revenge. Though we are horrified by his behavior, we understand his pain, anger and desperation as we understand the soul of a Prince Hamlet, a Medea, a Willy Loman or the many others in our world today whose hearts are filled with sad and angry music.


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New Hampshire is still Mitt Romney country, but Herman Cain is rising fast, according to two new surveys of Republican voters in the first-in-the-nation primary state.
A poll released Monday from the Institutes of Politics at Harvard University and St. Anselm College shows Romney at 38%, followed by Cain at 20% and Ron Paul at 13%. Tightly bunched behind them are Newt Gingrich (5%), Jon Huntsman (4%), Rick Perry (4%) and Michele Bachmann (3%).
A University of New Hampshire survey released on Friday found a similar order, but included some candidates who will not or have not yet entered the race. Romney again led at 37%, followed by Cain with 12% and Paul at 9%. Former New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani scored at 8%, even with Huntsman; Perry and Gingrich were tied at 4%, followed by Sarah Palin at 3%. Bachmann and former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum were at 2%.
The Cain surge is curious given that he's not visited the state since late August. Trey Grayson, director of the Harvard Institute of Politics, attributed it to the "power of earned media."
"Voters up there watch TV, watch the debates, read on the Internet," said Grayson, a Republican candidate for Senate in Kentucky in 2010. "You need organization, you need money. But you also need good earned media, and he's got that right now."
The major candidates for the GOP nomination will be in the Granite State on Tuesday for the seventh primary debate, co-hosted by Bloomberg News and the Washington Post at Dartmouth University. It's the first debate held since the field of hopefuls seems to have settled.
Given his front-runner status in the state and the debate's primary subject matter -- economic issues -- Romney may find himself both on comfortable turf and the new focal point of attacks from his rivals. Grayson said candidates eyeing the "anybody-but-Romney" vote will also pay more attention to Cain.
New Hampshire is a state where voter preference can shift in a hurry; the Harvard/St. Anselm poll found that just 10% of Romney's supporters will "definitely" support him on primary day.
"This is his firewall, and he can't let it be breached. But at the same time, it probably makes sense for someone to focus there because he's not closed the deal," Grayson said.
It was Perry with the bull's-eye on his back in previous contests, and his lackluster performance triggered a slide in national polling. As he seeks to rebound, he's taking a more aggressive approach, including a Web video on the Massachusetts healthcare reform law, linking Romney with President Obama.
Romney, meanwhile, is lining up more establishment support. On Monday, he announced endorsements from Mel Martinez, a former Florida senator and Republican National Committee chairman, and Judd Gregg, the former New Hampshire senator and governor.


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text: Sony is preparing for the inevitable and will launch a movie and TV video-on-demand service for the PS3 to compete with the glut of other options already available, according to Sony's Peter Dille. He was thin on details, saying the only thing that we'd be getting "very soon" is more details on the service, which he claims will separate itself from the pack that we've already seen. Does that mean low-budget stag films? Exclusively movies/shows that feature Kareem Abdul-Jabaar? Only time will tell. [Kotaku]


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Mustard cover crops appear to be a positive cultural practice and should be evaluated for their potential as a means of reducing lettuce head drop disease and weeds in coastal California counties.
That is the conclusion of Richard Smith, Monterey County farm advisor, after a series of trials with commercial varieties of white and Indian mustard species planted as covers between lettuce crops.
Smith, whose studies were funded by the California Lettuce Research Board, said lettuce drop, caused by the fungus, Sclerotinia minor, is the primary soilborne disease of lettuce in the Salinas Valley.
There has been a flurry of interest among growers in the valley in mustard crops as a cover crop to provide control of head drop and weeds. Many research projects around the world, Smith noted, have shown mustards develop glucosinolate compounds that are antagonistic to disease and weed pests.
In reporting on his project to the board's recent meeting in Seaside, Smith said he recently planted short- and long-range term crop trials with BQMulch, from New Zealand. "It is a variety of Brassica napus that had a very dramatic effect in controlling a high population of S. minor in a trial in Tasmania, Australia."
Glucosinolates reside mostly in the roots of this variety, and Smith said this may improve the efficiency of release of the compounds in the soil. In the mustard covers, the chemicals are in the plant shoots, and stands must be incorporated into the soil before the decomposing matter can release the chemicals.
Hopefully, he added, future cover crop varieties will be developed for improved glucosinolate content.
Sclerotinia impact
In detailing his final results from the Indian and white mustard trials, Smith said they have "a slight but significant impact on Sclerotinia." He also saw some disease reduction with covers of Merced rye used as a comparison.
He also recorded a reduction in weeds in two of the short-term trials at thinning time. However, in the long-term trials, none of the cover crops reduced weeds at thinning and there was no significant reduction of weed seed in the soil seedbank after two cover crop cycles.
All the cover crop plots (including the two mustards and Merced rye) for 2004 and 2005 showed improved head weight yields over the fallow, untreated check plots.
Michael Cahn, Monterey County farm advisor, told the board his project on irrigation of lettuce demonstrated that germination with drip can be improved on a fine, sandy loam soil with water treated with polyacrylamide (PAM) and discharged at a high rate thorough the tubing.
PAM compounds are used in a variety of ways, from wastewater treatment to processing of fruits and vegetables and manufacture of cosmetics.
Sprinklers still dominate
Despite the expanding use of drip in lettuce crops in the Salinas Valley during the past 10 years, overhead sprinklers are still the primary method to germinate a crop.
Some growers have attempted to use drip, he said, but it is often unreliable because of difficulty in moving moisture from the tape to the seed line.
Use of drip for the entire growing cycle could save water, cut labor costs, reduce runoff, and perhaps avoid diseases carried by splashing water.
"Our project evaluated strategies to increase the lateral movement of moisture, including using polyacrylamide to increase the viscosity of the water and thereby decreasing infiltration."
Using tape discharge rates of 0.22, 0.45, and 0.67 gal/min/100 ft., Kahn found that at the high rate lateral movement of water and germination was improved.
The addition of PAM did not improve lateral movement in commercial, surface and subsurface drip fields on Clear Lake clay and Salinas clay loam soils, which had bulk density from 0.86 to 1.03 g/cc.
However, he added, "PAM improved the lateral movement of moisture in a commercial lettuce field located on Pico fine sandy loam with beds that had a bulk density greater than 1.2 g/cc."
He said the project also showed that total water use could be reduced sharply with drip for germination. Drip for the entire crop used 10 to 13 inches, while sprinklers used 32 inches. Run-off was eliminated with drip.
The greatest benefit of germination by drip, Cahn concluded, would be on decomposed granite soils that allow run-off when sprinklers are used.
Lettuce weeds
In his continuing work for the board on new weed management strategies in lettuce, Steve Fennimore, University of California Extension weed specialist at Salinas, screened sulfonylurea herbicides for their effects on a butterhead lettuce germplasm.
His objective is to find herbicides that are compatible with current production practices and do not cause serious injury to the germplasm, ID-BR1, developed through conventional breeding from prickly lettuce and Bibb lettuce at the University of Idaho.
Using Kerb as a standard, he found that ID-BR-1 was tolerant, with no stand reductions, to pre-emergence treatments of Maverick and Upbeet. Maverick was effective on most weeds, but Upbeet was less effective.
For postemergence materials applied at the three to four-leaf stage, Harmony appears to be a good possibility, and Fennimore said he likes it because it has a very short soil residual activity of less than 10 days, eliminating rotational restrictions.
Some stand reduction was seen with Express, and it will probably be discarded from trials.
Fennimore evaluated the Valent experimental, V-10142, and although it was shown to be safe on lettuce in 2004, trials during 2005 proved the opposite. Stinger was found to be harmful to lettuce in the same trials.
Kerb by chemigation
Trials by Fennimore and others on chemigation with Kerb through sprinklers indicate it may have promise. The method has been successful in the Yuma area, and they are evaluating it for other areas. Laboratory studies are focused on factors of soils and organic matter associated with the herbicide's mobility.
"None of the Salinas Valley applications demonstrated any difference between applications of Kerb by chemigation or ground," he said.
Trials in western Fresno County are in progress, although preliminary results indicated chemigation gives some improved control compared to ground applications.


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|2010-04-28, 20:48
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Pretty sure it does, albeit without the near-homicidal tendencies that tend to come with it. Just as some guys like to incessantly tease a female friend he (to a certain extent) has the hots for, IMO it makes sense for relatively strong-willed girls to act cold and abusive towards guys they like as a way of conveying their feelings.
Hell, I daresay the situation with little sisters IRL is similar to this, but that's off topic.
|2010-04-28, 22:57
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Gee... am I the only guy here who has dated a Tsundere and enjoyed it?
Sure getting to know her is a real pain, but once you know her buttons it's a blast. You lead the conversation so you can make a comment that you know will set her off. She starts raging at you and you just play along until you can't hide your smile anymore. You start grinning and she's all confused, but then she starts to get that you've been doing this on purpose (you need a smart Tsundere, dumb Tsundere are no fun at all), then of course she's even madder at you (but usually more willing to forgive).
So then you become all contrite on her while making comments about how she's too much fun (and cute when she's angry- they hate that comment). Once she's starting to cool down a bit you hit her with an embarrassing compliment (I found that telling her she's got "a cute butt" seems very effective) and just watch her turn bright red and start stammering before walking off in a huff.
It's a blast... once you know where the danger lines are and once she knows you are going to stick around and aren't trying to use her. Of course, learning where those danger lines are and earning her trust in the first place- that's not nearly as much fun. I guess most guys aren't willing to put in the effort.
That and it requires a lot of self-confidence as a guy to deal with a Tsundere, and most guys who have that confidence are jerks who don't really care about the girl. Essentially you need a guy who is self-confident, kind, and has a warped sense of humor to boot.
If you want to see an anime that depicts more of what a real Tsundere romance is like (rather than the exaggerated ones like Louise and Saito) watch Cross Game.
Aoba is a lot like a real life Tsundere, and Kou is basically the exact type of guy that can handle one. (As opposed to the more common male leads of idiots and/or perverts).
|2010-04-28, 23:07
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I'm sure a lot of people have very tsundere elements to them, but of course nobody would adhere to it perfectly. My mother acts the role quite often, even saying things like "why the hell am I cooking for you parasite" when she's pissed off.
The tsundere archetype appeals to me on some basic level; I wonder if my mother being like that has any impact on my taste?
|2010-04-29, 00:00
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|2010-04-29, 03:13
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|2010-07-09, 13:00
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Sorry if I'm digging out this thread out of nowhere, but I found it messing around with google trying to find a "how-to-handle-a-tsundere guide" or something of the sort.
I'm currently dating a tsundere. Yes, they exist xD the one I know and love isn't the kind that plays "I hate you", but rather has a hard time opening up and talking about certain things, to the point where she'll get depressed or angry.
So yeah, I normally wouldn't have registered, but Sackett's reply caught my eye. I've had that "cute when you're mad" situation before, but I don't push it or plan for it to happen like that xD mostly because intend to stick around with this girl for as long as I can (forever, if possible). The few times it's happened I remember quite clearly out of how fun they were, though.
Unfortunately, when she's being difficult to talk to (she'll jump if I use the wrong words, or just won't care about much of the stuff I say. I guess you could say she's willing to change for me when she's "dere" and couldn't give less of a damn when she's "tsun") I also get somewhat down, since I lack that self-confidence that Sackett mentioned ^^'
You might not be able to sit back and relax much if you date/love a tsundere (specially when you're convinced that she's your special one), but it's well worth it. I bet I could remember every word out of any of the times she's been truly sweet to me, it makes you feel so special that you feel like your heart could explode any second =)
|2010-07-09, 13:29
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Actually, going by how broadly the term "tsundere" is applied to fictional characters, I'd argue that a solid majority of all North American women (and possibly a solid majority of women worldwide, but I'll stick to the continent that I know best) could be called "tsundere".
The following is an argument I made about a year ago on the matter...
Increasingly, the following appears to be true of tsunderes:
They are any anime female character that...
1) Isn't a Yamato Nadeshiko
2) Has more overt personality than Yuki Nagato
3) Isn't entirely sweet, or entirely firm/rough/tough
In other words, the character could be harsh 90% of the time and sweet a mere 10% of the time, or sweet 90% of the time and harsh a mere 10% of the time, and still get labeled a tsundere.
Well, if this is the case, I don't see what makes the tsundere special at all anymore. Most girls, or for that matter, most people, have their harsh moments and their kind moments; it's called displaying a full range of emotions. :P
|2010-07-09, 15:11
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|2010-07-09, 15:23
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Well Triple R, I have gotten the impression that the Japanese assume any American woman is a tsundere by default.
|2010-07-09, 15:35
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I read a manga once, though, where the female American transfer student was every bit as cheerful and moe as Ritsu from K-On! is. The name of the manga was... Midori Days (?)... if I remember correctly.
|2010-07-09, 21:52
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Most anime personality archetypes are "idealized and extreme" versions of real world counterparts. Archetypes don't actually exist, but real personalities can trend towards them. Real world tsundere (or any other type) would necessarily be more complicated than the "comic book representations" of them.
|2010-07-10, 11:31
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Yea, real people aren't that simple. Though, I have a tendency to love and hate the same things.
For some reason seeing this thread makes me think "what if I started classifying everyone I see under a trope?"
|2010-07-11, 15:26
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Some girls are that great balance, who are prickly on the outside and reserved, but over time they warm up and begin opening their shell for a bit. (Or let you inside it) Tsundere girls in real life strike me liked Helga from Hey Arnold! People who are generally irritable, but have their own personal issues to deal with and in privacy are very concerned and passionate about certain people.
Now, there are girls who are literally bipolar. Just the drop of a hat could make them angry or shouting at some random person. The only issue is that, I think it was called perfectly in this thread, in real life, it's never made as something cute or completely endearing as opposed to anime. ^^;
Funny though, in terms of animes, I have only seen tsunderes who are some-what realistic or just overly exaggerated (Mostly used for comic effect). But it oddly enough makes me think, I don't think I've ever seen a girl in an anime who was medically diagnosed of being mentally ill.
|2010-07-12, 02:25
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This is why I like the tsunderes who start out somewhat closed, then open up, as opposed to the ones who just flip through emotional masks on a dime. Developing tsunderes in real life are something of a treat to come across, as long as their tsuntsun is just "You're asking about my personal life? I won't and shouldn't tell you" rather than the "DO NOT TALK TO ME DONT U C IM BUSY BEING A LONER AWAY FROM STOOPIDHOMO SAPIEN SAPIENS RAWR!!!!11" that can be cute in anime yet annoying or scary as hell in real life.
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Dubai: The continuous failure with the bat cost Indian opener Virender Sehwag four places as he slid to 18th in the ICC ODI rankings for batsmen but skipper Mahendra Singh moved up by two places to number four.
Sehwag has failed to fire in the ongoing tri-series in Australia while Dhoni has been a success.
Young batsman Virat Kohli continues to be India`s best ranked batsman at number three, behind South African duo of Hashim Amla (1) and AB de Villiers (2).
With his two 90 plus scores, left-handed opener Gautam Gambhir has gained six places to find himself at number 15.
In the bowlers` list, off-spinner Ravichandran Ashwin is the only Indian in top-20 as he jumped to number 11, a gain of three slots.
Left-arm paceman Zaheer Khan is the next best for India, way behind at number 30 after dropping two positions.
Meanwhile, England captain Alastair Cook and fast bowler Steven Finn have broken into the top 10 after stellar performances against Pakistan in the four-match ODI series, which they won 4-0.
Cook has jumped 27 places to eighth position after finishing as the leading run-getter in the series with 323 runs, including back-to-back centuries in the Abu Dhabi ODIs.
Cook, who won the Test Player of the Year award at the LG ICC Awards in London in 2011, has now become the second highest-ranked England batsman after Jonathan Trott who has dropped two places to sixth position after managing just 38 runs in the series.
Flamboyant Kevin Pietersen is the other batsman who has made a charge on the batting ladder. The Surrey batsman scored 281 runs in the series at an average of nearly 94 following scores of 14, 26, 111 not out and 130.
For these entertaining performances, Pietersen has been rewarded with a jump of 22 places which puts him in 26th position.
Finn has achieved a career-best ranking by rocketing 67 places to ninth position. The 22-year-old Middlesex bowler claimed 13 wickets in the series and he is now the second England bowler inside the top 10 after off-spinner Graeme Swann, who has finished in third position after gaining one place.
Stuart Broad is the other England bowler to have improved his ranking. He is now in 24th position after rising five places.
Pakistan`s Umar Akmal has dropped out of the top 10, falling to 13th position, down by three places, captain Misbah-ul-Haq has slipped three places to 29th spot.
Shahid Afridi has dropped one place to 38th position, Younus Khan has slipped seven places to 43rd spot and Mohammad Hafeez has fallen five places to 48th position.
The only Pakistan batsman to make an upward movement is Asad Shafiq who has gained nine places and now sits in 70th spot.
Pakistan bowlers to drop in the bowlers chart include Mohammad Hafeez, who has slipped from second spot to sixth position, Shahid Afridi, who has dropped from 11th to 15th spot, and Umar Gul, who has ended in 35th position after falling 11 places.
Saeed Ajmal, who finished with 10 wickets in the series, leads the bowlers` table, followed by South Africa's Lonwabo Tsotsobe.


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Springbrook will be easy after O'Reilly's, except if you go up past the fudge shop all the way to The Best of All Lookout then it kicks up into 25% territory in the last couple of k's.
The road condition is great, good sections on new smooth tarmac....just watch the oneway bridges, one of them is a bit ordinary especially on the down track.
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Is a reversal of fortune at hand for Japan's heavily indebted companies?
Jefferies analyst Sean Darby thinks the real story in the Japanese equity market this year could be a shift from companies with net cash on their balance sheets to one which favors those with high debt.
Why? In the deflation environment that's plagued Japan since its stock market bubble burst in the early 1990s, investors have bid up the stocks of income-producing companies with strong balance sheets. Likewise, they avoided the stocks and bonds of companies with weaker balance sheets.
That relationship has held for more than a decade, according to Darby, adding that stock prices of companies with sustainable income streams have outperformed those with poorer quality incomes by a three-fold margin over the past 12 years.
However, an important turning point could be at hand, according to Darby. He sees a catalyst for change in Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's election-campaign pledge to push for a more aggressive monetary policy, including calls for the Bank of Japan to flood the economy with yen to achieve inflation.
If Abe is successful in bringing about the proposals, companies with high debt levels would likely begin to outperform as investors reassess their views about debt when CPI inflation is on the rise, according to Darby.
Stocks prices could even rise rapidly to anticipate changes in inflation, if history is any guide, according to Darby. In the early 1990s, Tokyo stocks fell quickly even as what was to become a long-lasting deflationary period was still in its infancy. By comparison, urban real estate prices deflated much more slowly, in a fairly consistent annual percentage decline over the period.
Recent gains in Tokyo stocks are likely to continue throughout the new year. Darby forecasts an end-of-year-target for the Nikkei average of 11,806, representing a gain of 12.7% for the 12-month period. The Japanese currency is also set to weaken further, he said, forecasting an U.S. dollar exchange level of 96 yen by year\'s end.
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SMC swipes seven bases in Game 2 win to move into second place in Region 10. The Pioneers won Game 1 7-3 and Game 2 3-2 on Saturday.
Spartanburg Methodist turned on the speed and raced toward the top of the standings.
SMC stole seven bases in the second game of a doubleheader Saturday afternoon to beat Florence-Darlington Tech, 3-2, and finished off a four-game sweep of the weekend series. The Pioneers moved from a tie for fifth place to second, just one game behind Louisburg for the Region 10 lead.
"It was a very good weekend for us," SMC head coach Tim Wallace said. "We hit well, we pitched well and the last one when it was close, we did what we had to do. We put pressure on them with the running game and got the win."
One of the best things to happen to SMC was when a runner was apparently picked off first base. That happened four times to the Pioneers in the series finale and each time, the runner made it at least to second base safely. Two of those runners scored.
Tied 1-1 in the bottom of the fifth, Wesley Rogers put down a perfect bunt down the third-base line with one out. Florence-Darlington Tech pitcher Gunnar Kines tossed over to first to keep Rogers close, but he was already headed for second. The throw to second got away and Rogers ended up at third.
Matt White walked and stole second, setting the stage for Reid Moman's two-run single to put SMC in front, 3-1.
"That was the plan all along," Wallace said. "We were going on the first movement (by Kines), no matter what. If he threw to first, we were going hard to second. It put pressure on them. ... Speed is the one thing that can be a plus for us. We're going to live or die with it."
Louisburg still leads Region 10 with a 9-5 record, but SMC climbed to 8-6. USC Salkehatchie and Guilford Tech are tied for third at 8-8 with Florence-Darlington Tech, USC Lancaster and USC Sumter all at 7-7. Before this Friday, the Pioneers had lost eight of 14 after a 14-2 start.
"We have just scuffled for the past few weeks," Wallace said. "We haven't played with a lot of energy. But we worked on some stuff this week and we talked about some things. Like I told the guys afterward, you see the recipe for success now. You don't have to go back to the cookbook. It's just a matter of bringing all the ingredients."
Josh Escoffier, a freshman sidearm pitcher, saved the series finale when he came in with one out in the sixth, the tying run on third and the go-ahead run on first. He struck out back-to-back batters to end the threat. Then he fired a hitless seventh to end it.
"That was a tough spot (in the sixth)," Escoffier said. "I knew I had to get two strikeouts. I was able to do it and we got a big win."
Chris Washington pitched a seven-inning complete game in the opener of the doubleheader, allowing three runs on five hits in a 7-3 win by SMC. He recorded the final nine outs without allowing a hit.
"This was huge for us," Washington said. "We were in a slump, but now we're feeling pretty good. This weekend should bring a lot of confidence."
Washington had all the runs he needed in the first inning. SMC scored four times, three coming in on a home run by Elliott Caldwell and the last on a single by Collin Steagall. Caldwell came to the plate after the previous two batters had walked on four pitches each.
"I thought about being paitent and taking one because the (Florence-Darlington Tech's starting pitcher) had thrown eight balls in a row," Caldwell said. "Then I said, 'You know what? Forget it. If it's in there, I'm going to smash it.' "
Caldwell did just that and sent the first-pitch fastball halfway up the trees beyond the left-field fence. He added an RBI single in the fourth. SMC scored three in that frame, stealing two bases and twice using the hit-and-run to safely advance on the base paths.
Moman went 2-for-4 in the doubleheader with two walks and reached base five times. Caldwell was 3-for-7. Jake Walton had two hits in the opener, as did Steagall. Shell McCain had a two-out RBI double in the fourth inning of the second game to get the Pioneers on the board. Ricky Rice (Union County) got his first weekend start in that one and allowed one run in four innings.
"I think we're as good as anybody in the region," Caldwell said. "We're finally putting it all together."


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1. Be Quick.
There's no crying in baseball, and there's no waiting around in social media. As soon as former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney uttered the fateful phrase "binders full of women," blogs, Facebook, and Twitter lit up with commentary, including video and images.
[ Read VP Debate: Twitter Users Call Malarkey Early, Often. ]
As reported by NPR's "All Things Considered", Veronica de Souza watched that second debate in a funk, having just been laid off from her job as a (wait for it) social media manager. Within a minute of Romney describing the binders used to facilitate a job search in the state he governed at the time, de Souza looked for and saw that "binders full of women" was free on Tumblr. She snagged the blog name, and posted her own images of women sandwiched in three-ring binders. After she opened up the blog for outside submissions, she had 3,000 submissions within five hours, she told NPR, including one showing Hugh Hefner leaning up against a rack of binders and another showing the iconic image of John Cusack in the movie "Say Anything," with the boombox held over his head replaced with binders.
This is not to say that businesses should be waiting with their figurative fingers poised over the keyboard, ready to grab related URLs whenever anyone utters anything that might take off virally on social media. But companies that are making use of external social media should be looking for opportunities to play off these memes.
And memes wait for no one: de Souza told NPR that she wasn't sure what she would end up doing with her Tumblr blog, but whatever it was she knew she had to do it quickly. "… this is going to live out its course," she said in the interview. "I know that it'll be mostly done in about a week."
2. Use Humor.
The reaction to the debates on social media proved yet again how important--and powerful--a sense of humor can be in the blogosphere. Text and images circulated widely across social media played off Romney's binders full of women bit, as well as off his vow in the first debate to essentially take down Big Bird, and President Barack Obama's third-debate comeback on military spending that referenced "horses and bayonets." The text and images not only were created quickly, many were also Letterman clever.
Humor plays well on social media, and it tends to get passed around. Office supply (and binder maker) Avery went with Romney's remark and posted an update to its Facebook page, saying, "We're hearing a lot about binders today! It's terrific to see so much passion this election season. And we're always excited to hear folks talking about binders." At last count the post was liked by 350 people and had been shared from Avery's Facebook page 54 times. (It can be argued that Avery also got a boost from the more than 1,000 fake binder reviews posted on Amazon.com, including, "I was originally going to rate this only 1 star. You see, I'm a big girl and I can only squeeze about 53% of myself into this binder. But then I decided that I'm not going to worry about the other 47%.")
3. Measure What Matters.
Social media analytics platforms can benchmark many things, but that doesn't necessarily mean all those things are worth being measured. We saw that here at The Brainyard from the plethora of quick-and-dirty infographics released after the debates and from the dozens of pitches we received promising "compelling metrics" from social media conversations about the debates. Some of those promised metrics would have mattered to our readers, some would have been interesting but not important, and some would have been neither.
Organizations tapping into the reams of data generated from social media likewise need to know that they can measure and analyze just about anything, but that doesn't mean they should. It takes time to do a meaningful analysis of any data point. It's best to pick a few key data points--the ones that matter most to your particular company and industry--and do a good job of analyzing those.
What have you learned to do (and not to do) from the recent debates? How will you apply it in your own social media work? Please let us know in the comments section below.
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The Civil Wars Postpone Tour Dates Due to 'Serious Illness'
The Civil Wars have postponed a handful of tour dates overseas starting March 26 due to a serious illness within the band's family.
The Civil Wars' Joy Williams and John Paul White delivered the disappointing news to their European fans Friday morning (March 16) through their official Facebook page, writing: "Due to a serious illness in the band's immediate family, the Civil Wars' spring tour dates from March 26th in Koln through April 4th in Istanbul are postponed. We are extremely sorry for this inconvenience."
The European tour would have been the first time the duo had performed overseas with scheduled stops in Germany, France, Belgium, Switzerland, Sweden, the Netherlands and Turkey. No further details were given as far as who is ill, but we all send our well wishes for a speedy recovery.
The duo recently picked up two Grammy awards last month and are currently creating quite a buzz in regards to their collaboration with Taylor Swift on 'Safe and Sound,' a song the three penned together as well as their involvement with 'The Hunger Games.'
Check back with Taste of Country for any further updates about the Civil Wars and the rescheduled dates, which are supposed to be revealed sometime next week.


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TWIN FALLS, Idaho (AP) - A 19-year-old Idaho man with his last name tattooed on his forearm apparently tried to give police a fake name and was arrested.
The Times-News reports 19-year-old Dylan Edward Contreras was arrested early Saturday on outstanding warrants.
An officer says he told three men who were walking on the street with a dog to move to the sidewalk, and that one looked like he might run away, so he asked for identification.
Contreras identified himself as Emiliano Velesco, and a police database search found no matches. The officer then had a dispatcher run a check with the birthday he was given and the last name tattooed on the forearm.
Contreras had three warrants for failure to appear on charges including providing false information.
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RGN writes, "The state of technology has always incrementally increased. With the advent of High Definition graphics becoming a normality thanks to the Xbox 360 and later PlayStation 3, we expect to see further advancements with the PlayStation 4 being able to play 4K movies for example..."
PlayStation might have the raw horsepower but I think Xbox is moving forwards further into a virtual reality type of gaming with Kinect and theyre about to annouce Kinect 2.0 for Xbox 720. PlayStation is gonna need more than just graphic displays and large data discs they are gonna need actual virtual content!!
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Oh, I can hardly keep up. This is part of something called The Winter Blog Blast Tour, but suffice it to say, there's a good, wide-ranging interview with Carrie Jones here. Carrie is absolutely first class when it comes to giving good, honest advice.
And, upon further examination, it appears that Micol Ostow is on this tour as well. All the more reason!
UPDATE: Don't miss a Q & A with Carrie on the web site of award-winning author K.L. Going.
Monday, November 5, 2007
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My first interview is up today!
Meanwhile, I just read Carrie's and it's brilliant, obvs.
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CAMBRIDGE, Mass. - In their second game against Harvard this month, the first of which MIT won, 19-7, the Engineers were edged out by the Crimson, 13-12. MIT's record dipped to 3-5 for the season.
Less than 30 seconds into the first period, Harvard had scored their first goal. Freshman Ory Tasman (Orlando, Fla.) put MIT onto the board with three minutes remaining on the clock, which was followed by yet another Harvard goal a few seconds later. Before the end of the first period, however, freshman Zach Nelson (La Jolla, Calif.) had scored one goal and junior Craig Cheney (Sherwood, Ore.) had scored two, giving the Engineers a lead over Harvard, 4-3.
In the second period, junior Scott Stephens (Los Altos, Calif.) gave the Cardinal and Gray a two-goal lead, but the gap was quickly closed when the Crimson managed to get the ball in the net twice, tying the game at 5-5. With one more goal by Tasman and another by sophomore Jack Clark (Laguna Beach, Calif.), the game was tied at 7-7 at the end of the second period.
The only MIT goal in the third period was by Tasman, while Harvard scored four additional goals, raising the score to 8-11. In the final period, the Engineers tried to play catch up with one goal by freshman Kale Rogers (Newberg, Ore.) and three more by Tasman, raising his tally for the game to six. MIT made one last attempt at the Harvard goal with less than five seconds remaining but it was successfully blocked by their goalkeeper. The game ended with the Crimson victorious, 13-12.
Junior Andrew Dorne (Irvine, Calif.), who was in net, had five impressive blocks in the second period and two in the fourth period, helping to prevent Harvard from making any additional goals.
The Engineers will return to the pool on Saturday in search of a win in games against Iona at 3:00 and Fordham at 7:00.


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Social Media and E-Government: A Case study Assessing Twitter As A Tool for Implementation Of The Open Government Directive
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Monday, 6:30pm
The first official order of business carried out by President Obama in 2008 was the presentation of a memorandum entitled Transparency and Open Government. Three pillars for Open Government are outlined in the document and consist of transparency, participation and collaboration which form the foundation for the initiative. Here we report on a case study, where the use of social media by the United States Department of Agriculture was assessed in relation to the agencies implementation of goals set by the Open Government Initiative. In the Open Government Initiative, the use of social media features strongly as a means to connect with the public and to promote the three pillars. We question whether use of social actually results in realization of the three pillars, but with a particular focus on dialogue between the USDA and the public. We apply a mixed-methods approach based in grounded theory, social network analysis, content analysis and discourse analysis. Early findings suggest that although the USDA is mentioned there is no clear evidence of discourse, in the sense of exchange of tweets between the USDA and other posters. This is assuming that anyone who may post from the USDA would do so under the auspices of the organization and not as an individual with a unique user name. Our research indicates that traditional definitions of these terms (transparency, collaboration and participation) may need to be expanded to account for the types of interactions occurring via social media. In this paper, we report on our research plan and initial observations.


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The Andrews University Dairy swept the top spots in milk production awards at the annual meeting of the Berrien County Dairy Herd Improvement Association held on Dec. 21, 2005. The awards included:
- "High Herd in Milk" - This coveted award was due to the 28,450 pounds of milk on average that each cow gave last year. That equals 3308 gallons of milk per cow!
- "High Herd in Butterfat" - The AU cows averaged 980 pounds of butterfat.
- "High Herd Increase in Milk" - The amount of milk AU cows gave in 2005 was 8.2% more than they gave in 2004.
- "High Cow in Milk" - This award was given to cow #311 for her outstanding production of 42,001 pounds of milk! The average cow in Michigan gives about 22,000 pounds of milk a year.
- "High Cow in Butterfat" - The winner of this award was cow #1634 who produced the richest milk of 4.4% butterfat for a total of 1686 pounds last year.
The Dairy also boasts nine old cows that have produced more than 200,000 pounds of milk in their lifetimes. Much of the milk produced goes to Old Europe Cheese, Inc. in St. Joseph, MI. Some of it also goes to Das Kaese Haus in Middlebury, IN. An infant formula plant in Indiana also buys milk from the Andrews dairy on occasion.
The AU Dairy and Farm employs more than sixty students throughout the year and eight full-time staff. Several students are in the Dairy Herd Management program training to become top-notch dairy managers and herders. We thank all of them for their excellent work!


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Previously, Jim Cramer identified 10 stocks that he thought could move sharply higher if their respective management teams took steps to unlock value.
Don't just stand there, do something!" exclaimed an animated Jim Cramer at the time. As a result these stocks have come to be known as Mad Money's "don't just stand there – do something' stocks.
And, of the 10 companies identified by Cramer, if there's any managment unlocking value it's Hess.


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CONTENTS: * Columbian March * Apollo March * Royal Hussars March * The Centaur March * Fidelity March * Loyalty March * The Royalist Overture * Mooning Serenade * Friendship Mazurka * Roses and Orchids Waltz * Royal Emblem Overture *.
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- Royal Hussars March
- The Centaur March
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of Innovation and Improvement
Nina S. Rees, Assistant Deputy Secretary
What's New
Innovations in the News
What's New
From the U.S. Department of Education
U.S. Secretary of Education Rod Paige has announced his resignation after successfully
launching No Child Left Behind and helping to deepen a culture of accountability
in American education. President Bush declared that the Secretary inspired
his department and implemented the most significant federal education reform in
a generation. (Nov. 15)
President George W. Bush has
nominated Margaret Spellings as the new U.S. Secretary of Education. She has
served as Assistant to the President for Domestic Policy throughout the Presidents
first term. (Nov. 17)
The final special education reform bill that reauthorizes
Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) has been passed by both
the House and the Senate. This bill is aligned with No Child Left Behind
and creates more opportunities for parental involvement and parental choice in special
education. Secretary Paige issued a
statement after the House-Senate Conference Agreement on IDEA reauthorization.
(Nov. 17 and 19)
U.S. Deputy Secretary of Education Eugene Hickok released the Evaluation of
the Public Charter Schools Program (PCSP), a report from the Departments
Policy and Program Studies Service. Data for the report is based on school years
1999-00, 2000-01, and 2001-02. Some highlights from the evaluation include: PCSP
money is the most prevalent source of start-up funding for charter schools, and
charter schools are more likely to serve minority and low-income students than traditional
public schools. The Departments Institute of Education Sciences has also launched
rigorous examination of the effect of charter schools on student learning.
(Nov. 22)
Secretary Paige addressed the Annual Conference of the National Alliance of
Black School Educators saying, Historians and other scholars will look back
on the No Child Left Behind Act as a necessary, evolutionary step to secure
and sustain the rights of all Americans. At the conference, OIIs Associate
Assistant Deputy Secretary Michael Petrilli conducted workshops on alternative routes
to teacher certification and public school choice, and OII Policy Analyst, Stacy
Kreppel, held a workshop on implementing supplemental educational services. (Nov.
From OII
Alternative Routes to Teacher Certification,
the latest book in the
Innovations in Education
book series, has been released. The book features guidelines from promising
alternative route programs: recruit widely and select carefully; design a coherent,
flexible program; provide support; and continuously reflect and improve. The book
is available free as a single copy or in bulk from
ED Pubs (order number EU 115P) (Nov. 19)
The Family Policy Compliance Office in OII has published
a response to a letter inquiring about the applicability of the
Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA) to the release of anonymous
student level records to researchers. (Nov. 19)
The grant competitions for Advanced Placement
Test Fee and
Incentive Programs are now open. (Nov.11)
Charter Schools
Seeds of Change, a report from the Progressive
Policy Institute, examines charter schooling in New York City and the future of
charter initiatives there and in the state. (Sept. 2004)
Fast Break in Indianapolis, by Bryan C.
Hassel, looks at the successes and challenges of charter schools in Indianapolis,
where the mayor has the authority to issue charters for new public schools. (Sept.
Education Reform
Americas Choice School Reform Design (see
# 40) has become a for-profit subsidiary of the National Center on Education
and the Economy with the goal of serving more schools and students. (Nov. 16)
Teacher Professional Development
National Endowment for the Humanities offers approximately thirty seminars and
institutes for the intensive study of important texts and topics in the humanities.
Stipends to K-12 teachers, ranging from $1,800 to $4,200, are available to help
defray expenses for the 2- to 6-week sessions. The deadline to apply is March 1.
(Nov. 15)
Michael J. Petrilli
Associate Assistant Deputy
Cynthia Hearn Dorfman
Director of Communications
& Development
Cynthia Cabell
Graphic Editor
Margarita L. Melendez
Copy Editor
Marcie Brown
Contributing Editor
Mariana Cotlear
Feature Editor
Sharon Horn
Program Manager
Innovations in Educations
Book Series
Article Submissions
Dean Kern
Stacy Kreppel
Jim Houser
The special education teachers of Californias Chico
School District have a first-person understanding of what it means to be a hardworking
student - particularly those who have gone through the alternative route to certification
offered by the Northeastern California Partnership for Special Education. This program
requires aspiring special education teachers to complete a rigorous application
to be accepted into the program, and then to participate in a challenging, multi-faceted
regimen in order to become certified.
The California State University at Chico (CSUC) launched
this program in 1989, in partnership with 57 local education agencies, the California
Commission on Teacher Credentialing, and the federal government. The program was
created in order to bring qualified teachers to the understaffed special education
programs of school districts in Northern Californias rural Chico area.
The program has attracted teachers who bring multiple perspectives
to their schools. Many candidates are career-changers, and some are parents of students
who receive special education. The program targets African American and Hispanic
candidates, who are underrepresented nationally among special education teachers.
The programs leaders emphasize its rigor. To apply,
candidates must come into the program with a bachelors degree and a GPA of
at least 2.67, demonstration of subject-matter competency, and successful completion
of the California Basic Education Skills test.
Candidates then pass through an extensive interview process
guided by the Star teacher selection systemdeveloped by the Haberman
Educational Foundation (see
# 7 ), which has a 95 percent predictive rate over its 35-year history.
This serves to inform both the instructors about the abilities of their candidates
and also the candidates about the rigor of the program.
Once candidates are selected, they begin to fulfill the
requirements of their Individualized Induction Program (IIP), which is
crafted to chart their progress and is anchored in standards: the California standards
for the teaching profession, the education specialist standards for earning the
credential, and the academic content standards for students. A candidate must meet
all of these standards by the end of training.
The programs final evaluation of a candidates
readiness to teach special education rests on the following accomplishments:
At the end of the program, each candidate submits a portfolio
and gives an oral presentation at a peer-reviewed session.
Of course, the programs administrators and the school
district both have a vested interest in ensuring the success of their candidates.
For this reason, they provide an individualized support network that includes supervision
and mentoring. Program participants begin teaching full time while undertaking the
highly structured, organized, sequential learning experience. It takes approximately
two years to complete the program, including either summer school on the CSUC campus
or on-line courses taken through real-time broadcasting on the Internet.
The curriculum is ultimately geared to pupil outcomes, and
under the Pupil Assessment Project, for example, candidates focus on the learning
of four or five of their most challenging students and how to further their achievement.
The emphasis is on using ongoing assessment to support pupil growth.
Teaching strategies form the core of the program. We
are a fifth-year program, meaning that candidates come in with subject matter content,
so the focus is on pedagogy, says the program director. However, its
very content rich. And the fact is, both content and pedagogy are special education
The program has helped to eliminate the emergency credentialing
of special education teachers. Since 1990, the program has graduated 331 fully credentialed
teachers, 91 percent of whom teach in the regions schools. As a result, 206,875
special education pupils have gained credentialed teachers.
These new teachers also bring their learning experience
to the larger environment of the schools in which they teach. They introduce new
educational practices to veteran general education teachers through the university
link to cutting edge research, and candidates are often asked to model practice,
consult with other teachers, or present at board meetings.
The success of the program depends on the large scale cooperation
of all stakeholders: the state, the school district, the university system, school
faculty, and the candidates who take part in it. The alternative route program has
required extensive infrastructure building and commitment. It received the 2004
American Council on Rural Special Education (ACRES) award for Exemplary Preservice
and Inservice Teacher Preparation. This program is featured in the latest OII
Innovations in Education book, Alternative Routes to Teacher Certification.
Innovations in Education: Alternative Routes to Teacher Certification.
Note: The featured program is an example of one alternative
route to teacher certification. The program is innovative, but does not necessarily
have evidence of general effectiveness from a rigorous evaluation. The success of
the program may not be replicable, depending on unique conditions in differing locations.
U.S. Deputy Secretary
of Education Eugene Hickok and officials from
The Reinvestment Fund, Inc. toured the Mathematics, Civics and Sciences
charter school in Philadelphia. In 2002 the Fund established a Charter School Capital
Access Program, which helps charters buy property and renovate or construct buildings.
The NCB Development Corporation, a consortium that includes The Reinvestment Fund,
received an OII
Credit Enhancement for Charter School Facilities grant to attract private
sector resources for the benefit of charter schools. [More-Philadelphia
Inquirer] (Nov. 20) (free registration)
One Community, One Voice is a new initiative in Lexington
(KY) to infuse resources and support from the University of Kentucky into two elementary
schools with the goal of closing the achievement gap. Organizers will look at magnet
schools for ideas to develop approaches that could be transportable to other schools.
(Nov. 2)
Two high schools in Ohio offer the Play It Smart program.
The year-round program sponsored by the National Football Foundation, and supported
through an OII grant, helps athletes improve their academic standing through tutoring
and homework assistance. Athletes are also required to perform community service.
Enquirer] (Nov. 11)
In the past six years more than 1,400 people have embarked
on one of Kentuckys six alternative paths to teaching. Nearly half earned their
alternative certification last year, according to the latest state data available.
Courier-Journal] (Nov. 15)
Rockford College (IL) is starting an alternative teacher
certification program. The first phase is class work with clinical study. The second
phase is serving as the teacher of record for the entire school year, which includes
working with a mentor every week for two hours a week, plus classroom sessions.
(Nov. 15)
The New Mexico Public Education Department has received
a five-year grant from OII to create an alternative licensure program aimed at recruiting
more qualified people into the classroom. Officials hope to attract 700 mid-level
professionals and military retirees into the field of teaching, especially in rural
school districts. [More-ABQ
Journal] (Nov. 12)
One girl, Hannah Bernhardt, 8, says that Maya and Miguel,
the new Ready to Learn TV program produced by Scholastic and funded by a grant from
OII, is good because children who only speak Spanish understand whats
happening and those who only speak English can learn a few Spanish words. [More-Washington
Post] (Nov. 10)
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Seth Godin has this image he uses when he speaks of a unicorn in a balloon factory.
The balloon factory isn't really a bad place to work if you rationalize a bit. It's steady work, with a bit of a rush around New Year's. The rest of the time it's quiet and peaceful and not so scary.
Except when the unicorns show up.
At first, the balloon factory folks shush the unicorn and warn him away. That often works. But sometimes, the unicorn ignores them and wanders into the factory anyway. That's when everyone runs for cover. It's amazingly easy for a unicorn to completely disrupt a balloon factory. That's because the factory is organized around a single idea, the idea of soft, quiet stability. The unicorn changes all that.
The balloon factory is all about the status quo. And unicorns (leaders) change the status quo.
Welcome to changing the status quo.
Hannah Parsons and Benjamin Day have created a marketing partnership to take care of their people. Yes, there is a possessive in that last statement… their people.
Combined, the two of us have been in the profession for 17 years. In that time, we have completed 450 some real estate transactions. The greatest challenge that exists to the real estate professional in this day and age is sustaining the energy required to navigate the story that unfolds before, during and after a real estate transaction.
It takes guts to be in your client's kitchen hearing of their familial loss.
It takes guts to find alternate lenders on deals that have died the day before closing.
It takes guts to persevere through a "professional colleague's" negotiation tactics that amount to references like, "little lady" or "this is not my first rodeo".
It takes guts to help clients out when life has thrown them a brutal curveball.
It takes guts to have real skin in the real game.
The Balloon Factory doesn't want the factory workers to have skin in the game. That's the entrance of a unicorn.
Pikes Peak Urban Living is about helping clients with sustainable financial decisions. It is about placing relationship ahead of profit. It is about durable strategies embodied in life-giving actions.
"Life-giving actions? Are you REALTORS?", hoots the balloon factory.
What is precious in this frenetic world is also highly disruptive. Two suggestions to disrupt the frenetic: time and space.
The consumer-centric principals of Pikes Peak Urban Living are that consumers deserve quality, but they also deserve the opportunity to let something breathe. They need to be informed objectively, but they also need to allow their right brain to come in and play with the decision. We are guides in the process, facilitating better, more productive outcomes. We catalyze positive action in our community, from our church, to Pikes Peak Urban Gardens, to The Cultural Office of the Pikes Peak Region, to our preschools and elementary schools.
We are parents.
We live here.
We are building a road, via real estate, for people to live better lives and enjoy a better story.
Road-building isn't always sexy work. But sometimes, it helps the unicorns find the balloon factory.
Benjamin Day and Hannah Parsons have formed Pikes Peak Urban Living at The Selley Group. Today is day two of boutique brokerage empowering consumers with both measurable data and human empathy.
Thanks for joining us on this journey!!


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"Blue Christmas" will be held Monday, Dec. 10, 7 p.m., at First Baptist Church of Southington, continuing the church's tradition of offering a worship service for people who are feeling a loss during the holidays. The loss may be due to the death of a loved one, divorce, unemployment, financial problems, for anyone who is struggling to find joy and peace in this season.
The Rev. Jerrie S. Matney, interim pastor of First Baptist Church, and The Rev. Sandy Koenig, pastor of Plantsville Congregational Church, will lead the program. The service will include worship, prayer and special music. There will also be time to hang a commemorative ornament on the Christmas tree in honor or in memory of a loved one.
There is no charge to attend and all people are welcome regardless of their denomination or faith.
For more information, call the church office at (860) 628-8121.


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3 [a]I am the man who has seen affliction
by the rod of the Lord's wrath.
2 He has driven me away and made me walk
in darkness rather than light;
3 indeed, he has turned his hand against me
again and again, all day long.
4 He has made my skin and my flesh grow old
and has broken my bones.
5 He has besieged me and surrounded me
with bitterness and hardship.
6 He has made me dwell in darkness
like those long dead.
7 He has walled me in so I cannot escape;
he has weighed me down with chains.
8 Even when I call out or cry for help,
he shuts out my prayer.
9 He has barred my way with blocks of stone;
he has made my paths crooked.
10 Like a bear lying in wait,
like a lion in hiding,
11 he dragged me from the path and mangled me
and left me without help.
12 He drew his bow
and made me the target for his arrows.
13 He pierced my heart
with arrows from his quiver.
14 I became the laughingstock of all my people;
they mock me in song all day long.
15 He has filled me with bitter herbs
and given me gall to drink.
16 He has broken my teeth with gravel;
he has trampled me in the dust.
17 I have been deprived of peace;
I have forgotten what prosperity is.
18 So I say, "My splendor is gone
and all that I had hoped from the Lord."
19 I remember my affliction and my wandering,
the bitterness and the gall.
20 I well remember them,
and my soul is downcast within me.
21 Yet this I call to mind
and therefore I have hope:
22 Because of the Lord's great love we are not consumed,
for his compassions never fail.
23 They are new every morning;
great is your faithfulness.
24 I say to myself, "The Lord is my portion;
therefore I will wait for him."
25 The Lord is good to those whose hope is in him,
to the one who seeks him;
26 it is good to wait quietly
for the salvation of the Lord.
27 It is good for a man to bear the yoke
while he is young.
28 Let him sit alone in silence,
for the Lord has laid it on him.
29 Let him bury his face in the dust—
there may yet be hope.
30 Let him offer his cheek to one who would strike him,
and let him be filled with disgrace.
31 For no one is cast off
by the Lord forever.
32 Though he brings grief, he will show compassion,
so great is his unfailing love.
33 For he does not willingly bring affliction
or grief to anyone.
34 To crush underfoot
all prisoners in the land,
35 to deny people their rights
before the Most High,
36 to deprive them of justice—
would not the Lord see such things?
37 Who can speak and have it happen
if the Lord has not decreed it?
38 Is it not from the mouth of the Most High
that both calamities and good things come?
39 Why should the living complain
when punished for their sins?
40 Let us examine our ways and test them,
and let us return to the Lord.
41 Let us lift up our hearts and our hands
to God in heaven, and say:
42 "We have sinned and rebelled
and you have not forgiven.
43 "You have covered yourself with anger and pursued us;
you have slain without pity.
44 You have covered yourself with a cloud
so that no prayer can get through.
45 You have made us scum and refuse
among the nations.
46 "All our enemies have opened their mouths
wide against us.
47 We have suffered terror and pitfalls,
ruin and destruction."
48 Streams of tears flow from my eyes
because my people are destroyed.
49 My eyes will flow unceasingly,
without relief,
50 until the Lord looks down
from heaven and sees.
51 What I see brings grief to my soul
because of all the women of my city.
52 Those who were my enemies without cause
hunted me like a bird.
53 They tried to end my life in a pit
and threw stones at me;
54 the waters closed over my head,
and I thought I was about to perish.
55 I called on your name, Lord,
from the depths of the pit.
56 You heard my plea: "Do not close your ears
to my cry for relief."
57 You came near when I called you,
and you said, "Do not fear."
58 You, Lord, took up my case;
you redeemed my life.
59 Lord, you have seen the wrong done to me.
Uphold my cause!
60 You have seen the depth of their vengeance,
all their plots against me.
61 Lord, you have heard their insults,
all their plots against me—
62 what my enemies whisper and mutter
against me all day long.
63 Look at them! Sitting or standing,
they mock me in their songs.
64 Pay them back what they deserve, Lord,
for what their hands have done.
65 Put a veil over their hearts,
and may your curse be on them!
66 Pursue them in anger and destroy them
from under the heavens of the Lord.
4 [b]How the gold has lost its luster,
the fine gold become dull!
The sacred gems are scattered
at every street corner.
2 How the precious children of Zion,
once worth their weight in gold,
are now considered as pots of clay,
the work of a potter's hands!
3 Even jackals offer their breasts
to nurse their young,
but my people have become heartless
like ostriches in the desert.
4 Because of thirst the infant's tongue
sticks to the roof of its mouth;
the children beg for bread,
but no one gives it to them.
5 Those who once ate delicacies
are destitute in the streets.
Those brought up in royal purple
now lie on ash heaps.
6 The punishment of my people
is greater than that of Sodom,
which was overthrown in a moment
without a hand turned to help her.
7 Their princes were brighter than snow
and whiter than milk,
their bodies more ruddy than rubies,
their appearance like lapis lazuli.
8 But now they are blacker than soot;
they are not recognized in the streets.
Their skin has shriveled on their bones;
it has become as dry as a stick.
9 Those killed by the sword are better off
than those who die of famine;
racked with hunger, they waste away
for lack of food from the field.
10 With their own hands compassionate women
have cooked their own children,
who became their food
when my people were destroyed.
11 The Lord has given full vent to his wrath;
he has poured out his fierce anger.
He kindled a fire in Zion
that consumed her foundations.
12 The kings of the earth did not believe,
nor did any of the peoples of the world,
that enemies and foes could enter
the gates of Jerusalem.
13 But it happened because of the sins of her prophets
and the iniquities of her priests,
who shed within her
the blood of the righteous.
14 Now they grope through the streets
as if they were blind.
They are so defiled with blood
that no one dares to touch their garments.
15 "Go away! You are unclean!" people cry to them.
"Away! Away! Don't touch us!"
When they flee and wander about,
people among the nations say,
"They can stay here no longer."
16 The Lord himself has scattered them;
he no longer watches over them.
The priests are shown no honor,
the elders no favor.
17 Moreover, our eyes failed,
looking in vain for help;
from our towers we watched
for a nation that could not save us.
18 People stalked us at every step,
so we could not walk in our streets.
Our end was near, our days were numbered,
for our end had come.
19 Our pursuers were swifter
than eagles in the sky;
they chased us over the mountains
and lay in wait for us in the desert.
20 The Lord's anointed, our very life breath,
was caught in their traps.
We thought that under his shadow
we would live among the nations.
21 Rejoice and be glad, Daughter Edom,
you who live in the land of Uz.
But to you also the cup will be passed;
you will be drunk and stripped naked.
22 Your punishment will end, Daughter Zion;
he will not prolong your exile.
But he will punish your sin, Daughter Edom,
and expose your wickedness.
5 Remember, Lord, what has happened to us;
look, and see our disgrace.
2 Our inheritance has been turned over to strangers,
our homes to foreigners.
3 We have become fatherless,
our mothers are widows.
4 We must buy the water we drink;
our wood can be had only at a price.
5 Those who pursue us are at our heels;
we are weary and find no rest.
6 We submitted to Egypt and Assyria
to get enough bread.
7 Our ancestors sinned and are no more,
and we bear their punishment.
8 Slaves rule over us,
and there is no one to free us from their hands.
9 We get our bread at the risk of our lives
because of the sword in the desert.
10 Our skin is hot as an oven,
feverish from hunger.
11 Women have been violated in Zion,
and virgins in the towns of Judah.
12 Princes have been hung up by their hands;
elders are shown no respect.
13 Young men toil at the millstones;
boys stagger under loads of wood.
14 The elders are gone from the city gate;
the young men have stopped their music.
15 Joy is gone from our hearts;
our dancing has turned to mourning.
16 The crown has fallen from our head.
Woe to us, for we have sinned!
17 Because of this our hearts are faint,
because of these things our eyes grow dim
18 for Mount Zion, which lies desolate,
with jackals prowling over it.
19 You, Lord, reign forever;
your throne endures from generation to generation.
20 Why do you always forget us?
Why do you forsake us so long?
21 Restore us to yourself, Lord, that we may return;
renew our days as of old
22 unless you have utterly rejected us
and are angry with us beyond measure.
19 Therefore, brothers and sisters, since we have confidence to enter the Most Holy Place by the blood of Jesus, 20 by a new and living way opened for us through the curtain, that is, his body, 21 and since we have a great priest over the house of God, 22 let us draw near to God with a sincere heart and with the full assurance that faith brings, having our hearts sprinkled to cleanse us from a guilty conscience and having our bodies washed with pure water. 23 Let us hold unswervingly to the hope we profess, for he who promised is faithful. 24 And let us consider how we may spur one another on toward love and good deeds, 25 not giving up meeting together, as some are in the habit of doing, but encouraging one another—and all the more as you see the Day approaching.
26 If we deliberately keep on sinning after we have received the knowledge of the truth, no sacrifice for sins is left, 27 but only a fearful expectation of judgment and of raging fire that will consume the enemies of God. 28 Anyone who rejected the law of Moses died without mercy on the testimony of two or three witnesses. 29 How much more severely do you think someone deserves to be punished who has trampled the Son of God underfoot, who has treated as an unholy thing the blood of the covenant that sanctified them, and who has insulted the Spirit of grace? 30 For we know him who said, "It is mine to avenge; I will repay,"[a] and again, "The Lord will judge his people."[b] 31 It is a dreadful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.
32 Remember those earlier days after you had received the light, when you endured in a great conflict full of suffering. 33 Sometimes you were publicly exposed to insult and persecution; at other times you stood side by side with those who were so treated. 34 You suffered along with those in prison and joyfully accepted the confiscation of your property, because you knew that you yourselves had better and lasting possessions. 35 So do not throw away your confidence; it will be richly rewarded.
36 You need to persevere so that when you have done the will of God, you will receive what he has promised. 37 For,
"In just a little while,
he who is coming will come
and will not delay."[c]
38 And,
"But my righteous[d] one will live by faith.
And I take no pleasure
in the one who shrinks back."[e]
39 But we do not belong to those who shrink back and are destroyed, but to those who have faith and are saved.
Holy Bible, New International Version®, NIV® Copyright ©1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 by Biblica, Inc.® Used by permission. All rights reserved worldwide.


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As the days shorten, I start to prepare more substantial meals for my family. Soups, stews and pastas move in to take the place of lighter summer fare. The pasta I am featuring today was developed for the McCormick Go4Gourmet promotion and they are sponsoring this post.
McCormick herbs and spices have long been a mainstay of my pantry. They are readily available and I know from experience that they are dependably fresh and of top quality. Equally important is the company's ability to communicate with its customers. They keep coming up with fantastic new recipes and spice blends that the adventurer in me simply can't resist. So, I watched with interest when McCormick launched a challenge called Go4Gourmet. You can imagine how thrilled I was when they asked me to create a recipe for the current round. My recipe had to include chorizo, Brussel's sprouts, smoked paprika and chicken stock.
The ingredients I received for the challenge included a jar of McCormick's smoked paprika. I planned to use it as the flavor base for my recipe. I thought it would work well with the Spanish chorizo and allow me to create a one-dish meal that was filling, earthy and vaguely old-world, but without ties to a specific cuisine.
You'll need a large skillet and a 5 to 6-quart pot to make this family meal. The sausage is browned and the Brussel's sprouts are braised in a broth that develops a vague smoky sweetness as it simmers. While it bubbles away, water can be brought to a boil for the pasta. The dish can be on the table in about 45 minutes. Be sure to serve it with lots of crusty bread and a large chopped salad.
Smoky Bow Tie Pasta with Brussel's Sprouts, Chorizo and Raisins...from the kitchen of One Perfect Bite
2 tablespoons butter
6 to 7 ounces Spanish chorizo, cut in 1/4-inch dice
1 teaspoon smoked paprika
2 pounds Brussels sprouts, trimmed and cut in half
3/4 teaspoon kosher salt
3/4 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper
1 cup golden raisins
2 cups 1 (14.5-oz.) can reduced sodium chicken broth
1 teaspoon liquid smoke
1/4 teaspoon red pepper flakes (optional)
12-ounces bow tie pasta (farfalle)
1) Heat butter in a large (12-inch) skillet. Add smoked paprika and diced chorizo. Saute until fat is rendered, about 5 minutes.
2) Add Brussels sprouts, salt, and pepper to skillet and saute over medium heat for about 5 minutes, until lightly browned. Add raisins, chicken stock and liquid smoke. Lower heat and cook uncovered, stirring occasionally, until sprouts are tender when pierced with a knife, about 15 minutes.
3) Meanwhile, cook pasta in boiling salted water until al dente. Drain pasta, reserving 1 cup pasta water, and shake dry, then return it to pot. Add sprout mixture, including liquid, to pasta and toss to combine. If mixture appears dry, moisten with some reserved pasta water. Adjust seasoning with salt and pepper to taste. Transfer to a serving bowl and serve. Yield: 6 to 8 servings.