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The first day. Stowing belongings while half asleep. Putting together lunch with 30 fellow students and strangers. Getting to lowenine.org late because of erroneous information. Rain. Wind. Uncertainty. It had all of the makings of the worst start to the work week ever. But it was not.
From past experience, the worst thing that can happen is to get to work that first day to find that they are not quite sure what to do with you: "Well, we would use you on this and that, but we already have a crew on this and that. Wait a few minutes while we figure this out." I understand that this is the product of spring break, when organizations are awash with volunteers, but it is hard to communicate to students who have anticipated this moment for months. Working with lowernine.org was not like that.
We huddled together in the cold by the banana trees, waiting for our assignments. Laura introduced herself and the Lower Ninth. I think the reality of what the people here have faced Katrina really became a reality to the students. A wall of water. Weeks of flooding. 100% of the housing in the ward ruled uninhabitable.
Within 30 minutes we were spread out around the Lower Ninth. Shoring up flooring in an old double shotgun house. Preparing to install insulation and sheet rock in a home in the Holy Cross neighborhood. We spent the day ripping up linoleum and carefully removing baseboards to make way for a base and a tile floor through one half of a home on Gordon Street. We were almost exactly a block over from Ronald Lewis' backyard museum on Tupelo Street, which we will visit after work this afternoon. Happily, I think most groups will stay on site and task throughout the week, which should provide them a sense of what a week's worth of work can accomplish.
Even after seven years and nine visits since Katrina, the abandoned, overgrown homes and empty lots are haunting. The Lower Ninth is only 30% occupied. Government neglect, corporate racism, shady contractors, and socioeconomic realities have combined to create a perfect storm of dysfunction. And the people here have to live with. Still, most of what happens, comes from agencies like lowernine.org with volunteers like us.
We got to know the homeowner immediately, which is an important connection with the neighborhood and why we are here. And more importantly, for the students, we got to meet his 92 year-old father's dog, Oreo. Work went in spurts, but it is clear we are readying for more work intensive tasks down the road.
We took a short break for lunch. Visited the corner grocery across the street. And several snoozed in the van. Afterwards I visited the other groups to see how their day was going. Unfortunately, work was easy compared to the confusion of organizing shower opportunities, with limited access to belongings, because of the afternoon program at the All Souls Church.
To avoid the confusion, I decided to take a short trip over to the Chalmette National Battlefield and Cemetery. Sam, one of the leaders, and a couple of students in her group, Jenn and Anna, came with me. As it turned out, we arrived just before closing, but one of the rangers gave us directions to park outside of the gate at the cemetery, which we did. The weather had thankfully cleared and the walk under the live oaks, surrounded by the mostly Civil War-era graves was quite moving. And I reminisced about that first March after Katrina, sitting under those same oaks, reading, thinking, and coming up with the idea for the New Orleans course.
We came back to All Souls and I cooked a batch vegetarian red beans and rice while, Theresa orchestrated two beautiful salads. I think sitting down together and eating took the edge off of a frustrating post-work experience.
Most of the students went into the French Quarter for beignets and cafe au lait. I literally walked the Quarter. I took Royal from Frenchmen Street and crossed to Canal, returning by Decatur. It was cool and not very crowded, unlike the Spotted Cat, which was packed. As a result, I decided to head over to Kajun's Pub on St. Claude. It was on the way back across the Industrial Canal and one of those places I've meant to visit for years.
From all appearances it is a simple neighborhood bar, which on the edge of the Marigny makes a very interesting neighborhood. Its story is one of those wonderful tales that flow through the pages of Dan Baum's wonderful book, Nine Lives, which chronicles the experiences of nine very different New Orleanians from Hurricane Betsy through Hurricane Katrina. And beside Ronald Lewis, one of my subjects is bar owner Joann Guidos. I won't go through the details of Joann's life journey; you should read the book for that because Baum does a much better job of it. Suffice it to say, she has built an environment that is the triumph of acceptance and tolerance; one that stayed open through Katrina due to her grit and many gallons of fuel for her generator.
I talked to the bartender, a history major at the University of New Orleans; naturally, we do make the best bartenders. She asked what I did and I told her about my job and my teaching and this class and that we are using Nine Lives, and on and on. She turned away to wait on another customer and furtively called upstairs for Joann to come down and meet me, which she did. And it was a most delightful experiences.
We talked about her path, the bar, and the book. I hated to leave, but it was getting late. She offered to meet and talked to the students in the class, which I am seriously considering, and I promised to come back over the weekend.
Potholes and pitfalls notwithstanding, it was a good start to the work week.


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Ive just bought the ADC 11 and picked a bosch NTC temperature sensor to do some monitoring. The sensor code is 0280 130 085.
I have noticed on some of the specifications for other sensors, rather than just showing the sensors characteristics in graph form, it also gives the equation for the characteristics. Is there any way I can gain the equation for my temperature sensor to enable me to convert the voltage into a temperature.
Cheers and thankyou for your time

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I didn't get to post these pictures from 28 August 2015. Just before sunset, the sky was filled with "popcorn" clouds. Perhaps you saw them, too?
Here's a description of these cirrocumulus clouds from The Weather Network:
"These high-altitude "popcorn" cloudlets can be a harbinger of unsettled weather. If they occur with cirrus and cirrostratus clouds spreading broadly across the sky, they may mean rain is on the way within 8-12 hours."


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Enjoy the diversity of Europe, so many cultures and new ideas
I am from Mexico since Sept 08 live in Germany and since Sept 10 in Frankfurt.Here in Frankfurt I have the opportunity to be in touch with persons from all over the world and learning from them.I am pretty open and I have friends from many countries and cultures.I really love to cook, of course I can cook mexican food much better than you will find in a mexican Restaurant here in Europe ;), but I have learned also how to cook some indian and chinese food from my friends, so when I have the opportunity and time I enjoy cooking for people.I like to go out meet people and have nice conversations, I do not dance a lot, yes I know as mexican I should, I think Im the only one in my family that does not hit the dance floor every party, but yes at least I know some Salsa movements and I am trying to improve.The countries so far I have visited:visited 26 states (11.5%)Create your own visited map of The World or another interesting project
The limits of your language are the limits of your world. Live and let live.
Why I'm on Couchsurfing
I already had two wonderful experiences when I was living in Emden in Germany, I was surprised that someone wanted to visit Emden haha and my guests were really nice persons.
Right now I live in a small apartment where the only place to sleep is my bed so do not have the possibility to host but if you want someone to show you Frankfurt or for a drink or so just let me know.
I have to say also that I came here to Frankfurt alone and I did not know anyone. Thanks to Couch Surfing I have met nice people and actuallz made good friends here.
I host twice when I was living in Emden.
In Frankfurt I have participated in some CS Meetings and Tandem meetings as well.
One importante experience for me is when I went alone to vienna for new year on december 2009 and I ended celebrating in a CS Party :D that was a really nice experience.
I am interested in languages I can speak Spanish, English and German I studied also French but almost is gone, now I would love to learn portuguese.
When I have the opportunity and money ;) I like to travel, but I do not like to go to beaches or so I like to go where I can experience the culture from another country.
- culture
- dancing
- dining
- cooking
- chinese food
- mexican food
- partying
- drinking
- traveling
- socializing
- surfing
- languages
- beaches
Music, Movies, and Books
I really do not go to movies so oft, I am the person that see movies for the first time when they been showed in TV :)
Music, I like Rock, but music with a message for example Calle 13 from Puerto Rico or Molotov from Mexico.
I do not read a lot, but I am really interested in my culture, I like to know everything about my ancestors. The book I can recomend for everybody that wants to know where the mexicans are coming from is Aztec from Gary Jennings is an incredible book.
Teach, Learn, Share
I think we can learn from everybody it is always interesting to hear something new.
Countries I've Visited
Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Canada, Cuba, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, Mexico, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Slovakia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, United Kingdom, United States, Vatican City State
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This week I want to share another blog.
A blog from a very nice and kind person,
A blog from a very nice and kind person,
who inspires me with her adorable, colorful crochet works.
Karin has an amazing blog, with lots of tutorials,
lovely photo's and lots of interesting crochet works.
In the 70's she started crocheting
and after a while she quit with that.Since early August 2009 she has started crocheting again.
She made / started with white crocheted curtains and rugs.
Now she is in love with color, lots of color.
And with all these beautiful, brightly colored wool and cotton she tries all sorts of stitches and patterns, and shares that with us.
She has made some awesome blankets and accessories.
And on top of that she has a page with free patters on her blog.
Karin gave new life into a great joyful hobby,
bursting with possibilities, and to see that makes me
want to crochet even more myself.
I hope you find it as inspiring as I do.
Have a good day!
Have a good day!


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The College of Southern Nevada is currently hosting a Juried Student Exhibition of which I won Best of Show. I wanted to include some of the art from the show. The judge was Denise R. Durante, a Public Art Cultural Specialist, Artist and Co_owner of D'Arte Designs, LLC in Ls Vegas, NV.
A week after the awards ceremony, I returned to the gallery with our daughter, Reanna to take in more of the art displayed. The gallery space was quiet that day and offered time to view the work more closely. It was well worth an other look with so many excellent pieces to see and study.
Here are just a few photos from the Exhibition. I hope you enjoy them.


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Recently Life has caught me off guard, gotten my attention, left me feeling both fragile and thankful. Gratitude runs deep for family and friends (today the focus will be on the women) who have graced my life in these days.
As many of you know, a couple of weeks ago my great granddaughter was suspected to have leukemia by her pediatrician. The overwhelming sense of fear was palpable for my granddaughter Amanda (18) her mother Jennifer and myself. Thank goodness for FaceTime and cell phones that kept me connected at a moment's notice.
I am grateful for a woman doctor who is observant and deeply committed to her patients and families. Out of the ordinary, she made herself available via email and was responsive when contacted. She was proactive about potential medical needs as well. When she called Amanda with the final results of blood work her opening statement was "prayer works."
I am overwhelmed with the maturity, love, and emotional strength of my 18-year old granddaughter, Amanda. Sure there were lots of tears, fear, and an immediate feeling of being overwhelmed. But I watched as she researched the disease, formed her questions, asked her doctor for clarification and through it all remained a "normal" routine of mothering. She is an amazing mom to Katalina.
My daughter, Jennifer, is another hero in this recently journey. Her strength for Amanda was so beautiful to observe. Her immediate response to the medical news was to enlist prayer warriors. Within hours the request had gone from East to West and even out of the country. Jennifer is also a woman who lives with chronic pain but manages to be an excellent teacher, wife, mother, daughter, and friend to many. Life is not easy for her but she marches onward bringing joy to others.
The list goes on… women who prayed and laid hands on Kati… for my daughter-in-law to be for being a strong woman who has vision... for Sue who blogs about the ordinary activities of daily living and makes them sacramental… for extended family who express concern and care... for Angela who writes beautiful weekly devotionals that are invitational and grace-filled… for friends who support me from afar with their strength and care… for moms challenged daily with difficult children who are determined to get them the best care possible… for a friend who invites me to be creative when I don't think I have a creative bone in my body… for another friend who helps me be able to walk… for poetry reflecting the nuances of living… for neighbors who watch out and care for each other… you all know who you are in my life without naming.
Thank you! Thank you for reminding me that when life feels fragile that faith bolsters, love matters, friendships are essential and that the moment doesn't have the final say. Thank you for inviting me to be creative and metaphorical as I meander through the day. Each of you have graced my hours and brought me joy in the moment. You make my life rich.


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Georgetown U. Professor Compares Israel to ISISHistorians in the News
tags: Israel, ISIS
As outlined in great detail by the Washington Free Beacon, a Georgetown University professor whose father pled guilty to terrorism charges has come under heavy criticism for comparing Israel to the terrorristgroup Islamic State of Iraq and Levant (ISIL or ISIS) on Twitter. Georgetown University History Professor Abdullah Al-Arian, who is the son of Sami Al-Arian, a controversial critic of Israel, tweeted his mocking version of a common nursery rhyme that lumped Israel into the same murderous category as ISIS, which just released a video showing its apparent beheading of an American journalist.
The junior Al-Arian's exact Tweet was, "Israel and ISIS sitting in a tree, K-I-L-L-I-N-G, First come the bombs, then come the savages, then come the U.N. to survey the damages."
Al-Arian quickly deleted the tweet, but it had already been publicized. Critics immediately expressed outrage at the statement's patent falsehood. A frequent contributor to the Al Jazeera network, Al-Arian teaches history at Georgetown's School of Foreign Service in Qatar, a country that provides the bulk of financing to Hamas.
CEO of the Israel Project Josh Block responded to the hateful message by commenting, "It is shocking and disgusting to see a Georgetown University professor or faculty member making comparisons between ISIS and Israel—let alone that Georgetown would pay someone like that to teach young people about the Middle East. When you realize that the person is the son of master terrorist Sami Al-Arian, it is both even more troubling to see Georgetown affiliated and less surprising that he would hold such views."
The younger Al-Arian recently stated regarding Hamas' reign of missiles on Israel, "There were low expectations in terms of its performance against the recent round of Israeli incursions. It's been exceeding all expectations." Al-Arian also implied that Israel forced Hamas into the recent conflict by acting to sabotage the terrorist group's political alliance with the more "moderate" Palestinian Authority that governs the West Bank. "If we really take a very close look at the chronology of events that have led to this latest Israeli offensive against Gaza, we would find that actually Hamas has not chosen the option of a military or violent confrontation with Israel," Al-Arian stated in July.
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But I didn't really want to just do the photo share. I wanted to talk music. You know how some songs just throw you back in time, to a certain age or era of your life? That is what I wanted to share today, some of my remember back when songs.
Kid Age - like pre-pre-teen. Is that a thing?
Jack and Diane by John Cougar Mellencamp - This was back when he still had Cougar in his name. My cousin Melissa and I listened to this song like crazy! When I hear it now, I think of hot summer days in cut off shorts and Ghostbusters T-shirts.
Say Say Say by Michael Jackson and Paul McCartney - Another Melissa memory. We used to act this video out in her bedroom. I was always Paul, she was always Michael, because she was bossy and dictated who would play whom. (who?) In the video, MJ jumps out from behind a tree; Melissa would make her entrance by leaping from behind a dresser or her closet, whichever she felt like at the time.
Hey Mickey by Toni Basil - Yet another musical adventure with Melissa, where we would act out the video.
The Middle School Years
Bon Jovi - I discovered Bon Jovi in middle school. He never left my walkman that year!
Poison - Another discovery. I listened to them all up and down the east coast on a vacation one summer.
High School
Dinosaur Jr. - I loved this band! Very mellow and sunny days for me.
R.E.M. - Another love affair here. I don't listen to them much anymore, but I used to constantly play them. Orange Crush was my fave for a long time.
Nirvana- Smells like Teen Spirit- Yep, I was that girl who wore Dr. Martens and listened to Nirvana. I felt like, finally, music for me, when this video came out!
College (Bear with me, I am almost done)
I wish I could share all the music that makes me think of this era, but it could go on and on! So I will share just three, but know that the others included Rush, House of Pain, Eric Clapton, each representing one of my friends from these days.
Queen - Killer Queen - I met one of my best friends my freshman year in college. She played this for me once and told me it made her think of me. Now this song makes me think of her! We still talk all the time though.
Blind Melon - No Rain- You couldn't go anywhere in 1993 without hearing this song! I hear it now and think of sitting on grass outside the dorm, with my above-mentioned friend.
The Proclaimers - I'm Gonna Be 500 Miles- I started dating my now husband the summer before I went to college. I'm pretty sure I listened to this song more than 500 times, pining away for him. Lol.
As for now, I am still making these music memories. Van Morrison's Moondance makes me think of my wedding; it was the song Billy and I danced to. American Woman by Lenny Kravitz makes me think of driving across the country in a moving van. Home by Edward Sharpe makes me think of my brother's wedding day, it was the song he and his wife walked in to the hall to, and it was such a joyous moment.
What about you? What songs/bands remind you of sometime in your life? I would love to know!


text: I really was going to do the housework honest but I just had this idea in my head inspired by the plushie toadstool that LucyKate has done a beautiful tutorial for, alas my skills with a needle are quite lacking so instead I painted one. Well actually its slightly more complicated than that, I had a vintage children's book that was in very poor condition so I cut out the pages and stained a page with a tea bag, let it dry then painted it with watered down acrylics. Technically its black tea-ed down as I used the left over bit of black tea from staining the page as my water cup. I'm not sure if that is lazy or not but it was fun and I think the fun bit is what crafting is all about.


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Highlights were the two sparring Rough-legged Buzzards and the flock of around 40 Lapland Buntings at Burnham Overy, 25+ Red-throated Divers at Cley, some Redpolls of various guises at Titchwell and overall around the 100 species for the day with the sun shining throughout. The "HB" Snow Bunting was pretty tame and came very close at Salthouse.
I can thoroughly recommend the White Horse at Brancaster Staithe where an ejoyable birthday concluded with a lovely meal of some Mullet & Monkfish washed with Adnam's ale.


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Goodness. I hope that I don't begin procrastinating on other things in my life like I have with getting these pictures posted. And the worst part is I don't have ones of the basement or playroom taken (or the third bedroom, as it is for the new baby and isn't complete yet). I'll take those tonight (I can hear you saying "Suuuuure...") and add them to a follow up post.
I can obviously tell that I am not used to the time it takes to clean a larger house. And our drive home is a little longer now each evening, so that cuts into a lot of the extra time I used to have. The majority of the posts on this blog were written when we were living with my in-laws, which meant when I came home from work, there was no housework to be done, my daughter had already been fed dinner, and my dog was living with my parents for the summer. What else was a girl to do but blog?
Okay, okay. Enough of the excuses. Here are the pictures already!
|Master Bedroom. Behind me is the master bath. Door to the right of the bed is the closet.
|Morning Room. Slider off to the side that leads out to the deck and patio.
|Kitchen / Breakfast Bar
|Living Room
|Dining Room
|Daughter's Room
|Upstairs loft
|Alternate view of upstairs loft.
|Kid's Bathroom
|A yard! Our yard came in VERY fast and VERY well.
|View of deck and patio (taken during move-in weekend, so no yard here!)


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Baby is the size of a beach ball! That feels fairly accurate!! I definitely feel like I have a giant ball in my belly! Baby is approximately 19.75 inches long and 7.25 lbs.
Baby has been moving around a lot this week! Which is kind of uncomfortable feeling at this point. I can feel it skimming its limbs along my hip bones, feet are sticking out the side, lots of cervix punches. Maybe it's trying to escape!
How I'm feeling?
I really can't complain. Other than my belly feeling heavy and my body is sore/tired after a lot of walking, I feel great. I am ready to meet the baby but I'm also not at the desperate "get this baby out of me" stage that so many women experience. I feel very lucky that I feel this good this far along. I also think it helps that I'm off work so 3 days a week I genuinely get a good break and can go at my own pace.
On one hand, I am so excited to meet the baby but I'm also a bit sad that I won't ever be pregnant again and anticipating a new baby of my own again. This pregnancy went by so quickly-- had lots of good moments and a few that I could have done without (never ending morning sickness and the breech situation) but in the end it is all worth it and I'm just grateful to have had this opportunity again and to be having a healthy baby.
Pregnancy insomnia is starting to kick in a bit. I wake up a lot more either because it takes so much effort to roll over, I am too hot or I have to pee. I did have some contractions one night that I thought might be something but just some false labour.
Hubby has been turning on some meditation app at night that quickly puts us both to sleep.
I've also been napping during the day often. I find by mid afternoon I'm ready to recharge- especially if I've done a lot of walking in the morning.
Hubby has been turning on some meditation app at night that quickly puts us both to sleep.
I've also been napping during the day often. I find by mid afternoon I'm ready to recharge- especially if I've done a lot of walking in the morning.
It was an uneventful week which is nice for once! Spending lots of time with the kids and having 6 days mostly to myself has been a nice break. I feel completely ready for the baby, other than some nerves about having another child to care for!
Looking Forward to?
Absolutely meeting this baby!
Baby Purchases & Projects?
Baby Bump
The crib has been set up in our room. A lot of to-do items have been checked off my list so I feel ready for baby to come but I'm also not in a huge rush either. I'm enjoying time with our family of 4, some me-time, and the gorgeous weather. I know this baby will come when it's ready.
Baby Bump
39 weeks exactly
** Since I usually post these updates a week behind, I am officially 40 weeks today!! Full term baby!! A month ago I didn't think I would make it to this day (with all the breech drama) so I am happy to have reached this milestone on baby's time!


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Epiphone Prophecy Les Paul Custom EX Plus Overview
The Epiphone Prophecy Les Paul Custom EX Plus re-launches Prophecy range, pleasing shredders everywhere…
The Epiphone Prophecy Les Paul Custom EX Plus first appeared back in 2008. With a darker, rock oriented aesthetic, high gain pickups and fast, slim neck (all, of course, with Epiphone 's quality construction), it quickly became a favourite of those who liked to play shred guitar. Those who missed out on this superb guitar the first time around can now rejoice – Epiphone has reissued the guitar, and a fine instrument it is too.
High gain EMG humbucker pickups
The Epiphone Prophecy Les Paul Custom EX Plus, cosmetically, seems to make its musical allegiance very clear. With black hardware, and subdued finishes with stunning quilted maple veneer top, complimented by contrasting binding and block fingerboard inlays, this is a guitar that looks a bit 'meaner' than an average Les Paul. The body is constructed from mahogany, beneath the maple veneer, and this is matched with a mahogany set neck. The neck profile is a very shredder-friendly, slimmer, SpeedTaper D-profile, finish in satin. This is completed with a 24 fret ebony fingerboard, with a 14" radius.
To match the more 'rock' appearance of the guitar, the Prophecy Les Paul Custom EX Plus is equipped with pickups to provide suitable 'firepower'; two high output EMG humbuckers feature. An EMG 85 is fitted in the neck position, delivering thick, warm tone, via its alnico V magnets. This is paired with the more powerful EMG 81 in the bridge position, which provides more gain, and a slightly more 'edgy' tone via its ceramic magnets. This is a pickup combination favoured by many 'shred' style players, including Zack Wylde.
The Epiphone Prophecy Les Paul Custom EX Plus is equipped with quality hardware, befitting its 'high performance' design. A familiar Tune-o-matic bridge is fitted, along with Grover tuners, and a graphite nut should minimise string breakages, when performances become a little more extreme. Call our stores or customer service team (01925 582420) for availability.
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WA Branch Conference
The Power of Pain
The Power of Pain
Saturday 7 September 2013
City West Function Centre, Perth
8.30am - 5.30pm
Plus! Sundowner Drinks & Nibbles 4.30-5.30pm
City West Function Centre, Perth
8.30am - 5.30pm
Plus! Sundowner Drinks & Nibbles 4.30-5.30pm
The conference will include the following presentations:
- The Language of Pain and The Use of Hypnosis in Pregnancy and Childbirth - Allan Cyna DRCOG, DipClinHyp, FRCA, FANZCA, PhD, Senior Consultant Anaesthetist at the Women's and Children's Hospital
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The Wake County Board of Education on Monday, discussed the possibility of a Spanish language immersion program at Hodge Road Elementary to begin in the 2014-2015 academic year among kindergarteners.
The Dual Language Spanish Immersion Program at Hodge Road Elementary would be for native English speakers and students whose first language is the language taught in the program. For Hodge Road, that means Spanish.
Half of students' classes would be taught in Spanish and half would be taught in English and content for science, math, literacy and social studies courses will be delivered in both languages.
The proposal also includes establishing a full Chinese language immersion program at Stough Elementary in Raleigh, which means students would learn all core content in English and Chinese.
The proposal, presented by Deputy Superintendent Cathy Moore, Assistant Superintendent Todd Wirt and Senior Director of Magnet and Curriculum Enhancement Programs Beth Cochran, said dual immersion programs help non-English speakers as much as they help native English speakers.
With content in both languages, students with limited English proficiency can still understand and learn content to increase academic success, one of the reasons county officials chose the program for Hodge Road.
Higher scores
In the 2012-2013 school year, Hodge Road posted a 22.9 percent proficiency rate, meaning only 22.9 percent of the school's students were testing at or above grade level.
The school also didn't meet its' growth targets and for more than 40 percent of the school's students, English is not their native language.
"My students are not proficient in a language and so the dual immersion program would be building their language in Spanish at the same time they would be building their language in English," said Hodge Road Elementary principal Debra Pearce, who has been discussing the possibility of the program for the past two years.
"I'm elated that my children are going to have this opportunity," Pearce said.
The staff's presentation to the school board called the proposed dual program at Hodge Road a "perfect match … with high LEP population and desire to attract non-LEP students to the school."
And although the county didn't break out how many of Hodge Road's LEP students speak Spanish, the presentation noted Spanish was an important tool for an increasingly diverse country.
The presentation cited research by the Pew Research Center that found Spanish is the second most-spoken language in the United States.
According to the U.S. Census's American Community Survey, about 11.4 percent of Knightdale residents speak Spanish.
Pearce estimated about 52 percent of her school's student population speaks some level of Spanish. Almost all of her LEP students speak Spanish, too. She said the school has three students who speak Russian, one student who speaks Creole and another student who speaks Arabic.
Taking cues
The county already has a full Spanish immersion program at Jeffreys Grove Elementary School in Raleigh, which is in its second year.
For the 2012-2013 school year, Jeffreys Grove had a 58.2 percent reading proficiency rate. The year before, the school met its growth targets.
Lisa Cruz, the principal at Jeffreys Grove, said the program has been well received by families at the school.
The full immersion program at the school is now in its second year, with kindergarten and first graders taking part. The plan is to add a grade each year as students progress through the school.
Cruz said it's been impressive to watch kindergarteners who enter the school without speaking any Spanish become so comfortable with the language that they can express themselves in it by the middle of the year.
"I think it's an incredible gift to give a child a second language," Cruz said.
The county identified a Chinese immersion program for Stough Elementary because of its success in the Global Schools Program.
Currently, the county offers 15 Chinese programs: four in high schools, four in middle schools and seven in elementary schools. The county's presentation said Mandarin Chinese is the most widely spoken language in the world, outnumbering English speakers two to one.
The proposed Dual Language Spanish Immersion Program at Hodge Road would cost $44,950 a year to operate.


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ellen lucket baker has created a new fabric collection for japanese company kokka called 'stamped'. the collection is inspired by the handmade look of block-printed fabrics and uses geometric shapes and organic designs all printed on a versatile linen/cotton blend that adds warmth and texture to the designs. ellen lives in atlanta and is the author of "1, 2, 3 Sew" which was published by chronicle books. her 'stamped' collection previewed at the international quilt market in houston last weekend and the six designs, each in three colorways, will be available in early 2013.
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I've long since tired of hearing about poor ol' Ian Tomlinson. Who's he, you ask? If you were to believe any of the anti-police sentiment surrounding the incidence of his death, you'd think he was a completely innocent man on his way home from work, an angelic bystander who got attacked by the police for no reason.
Well, it's a bit more involved than that.
On the day of the anti-capitalist G20 protests that shut the City of London down on April 1, Tomlinson, a newspaper seller, was standing in the way of a police van in the middle of the road, smoking a cigarette, and telling the police where they could go and what they could do with themselves. After stubbornly standing in their way for several minutes, Tomlinson was forced out of the way by riot officers.
Tomlinson continued to dawdle around the City for a half-hour after the incident, when he was shoved to the ground by an officer, who probably recognized him as a troublemaker. Witnesses say that Tomlinson reeked of alcohol. Tomlinson got back up moments later, after remonstrating with the officer who pushed him, and walked 200 feet before collapsing and dying. Initial reports were that Tomlinson died of a heart attack, though post-mortems revealed internal bleeding or an "abdominal haemorrhage."
So there you have it: This "innocent bystander" was a moron, a drunken slob, a defiant British bulldog type, with his cigarettes, his sweat pants and his "don't you tell me what to do, mate" attitude.
Yet people were outraged at his death, setting up a memorial to him outside the Bank of England and holding a memorial protest march for him on the following day, April 2. Which tells you all you need to know about how downgraded society has become. Our great caring liberal society needs a poster boy on which to hang their grievances against the police and Ian Tomlinson fit their bill perfectly.
Which brings up another loser who was on the receiving end of so much undeserved sympathy. Nicola Fisher, a former heroin addict and someone who hasn't done a day's work in all of her 35 years, attended the memorial "service" near the spot where Tomlinson died. When she started arguing with a police officer, a sargeant with the Territorial Support Group, the officer in question smashed her legs with his baton.
However, this young woman, who believes so fervently that capitalism is evil, sold her story to the newspapers for £50,000, using media mogul Max Clifford as her agent. She felt a great need to tell us of her "ordeal," yet Conservative London Assembly member Brian Coleman remarked that "all right-thinking people will have little sympathy for her," and I entirely agree. But, all too predictably, all you heard from the media was how a large, violent policeman cowardly attacked a 115-pound woman.
We bash the police far too much, and we love it when somebody stands up to them, no matter how much that somebody resembles pond scum. What is it about society and the media, that they will stick up for the criminal elements and scroungers, simply because they walked into a well-deserved instance of police brutality? Why do we place so much trust in these rent-a-mobs and the violent gatherings of The Great Unwashed, society's leeches who criticize law-abiding, hard-working folks for the "crime" of earning (and having) money.
In the case of Nicola Fisher, who waved her finger in the policeman's face, the officer perceived a threat and he acted on it. Tomlinson, who was shuffling along directly in front of the officers moments before his death, was perceived by the officer to be taunting them—which he just might have been—and the officer shoved him out of frustration. How on earth was the officer in question supposed to know that Tomlinson would die 15 minutes later?
The police, alas, are human and what's more, they do a very hard, thankless job and witness things that most people never do nor should ever have to. Except for right-wing tabloids, we never hear of policemen who die on the job, good policemen who took a bullet for a colleague or died in a crash or in any other way to protect the public from thugs. Our reporting on matters of the police is distorted.
As I say, the police are human and they make mistakes. They aren't perfect and a few of them are bad apples. But considering society's approach to them, it's a wonder so many men and women still apply for the job of protecting an ungrateful public.


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In an unprecedented decision, the Delhi High Court annulled the law that criminalizes adult homosexual relations. Pronouncing the order in Naz Foundation (India) Trust v. Government of NCT, Delhi and Others, Writ Petition (Civil) No. 7455 of 2001, a division bench of Chief Justice A.P Shah and Justice S. Murlidhar said We declare that Section 377 IPC, in so far it criminalizes consensual sexual acts of adults in private, is violative of Articles 21, 14 and 15 of the Constitution.
About the Naz Foundation caseIn 2001, Naz Foundation filed a public interest litigation before the Delhi High Court challenging the constitutional validity of Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code, 1860. The Delhi High Court dismissed the Petition in 2004 holding that the question was merely academic and there did not lay a cause of action. A subsequent review petition was also dismissed.
Naz Foundation then filed a Special Leave Petition before the Supreme Court of India challenging the orders of the Delhi High Court. On 03.02.2006, the Supreme Court set aside the order the Delhi High Court and remanded the case back to the Delhi High Court for a decision on the merits of the case. In 2nd July 2009, the Delhi High Court annulled the law that criminalizes adult homosexual relations, ending an eight year old legal battle for gay rights. Again On 20th July, 2009 one Mr. Suresh Kumar Koushals file a Petition in the Supreme Court against the Delhi High Court judgment which decriminalized consensual sex between adults under Section 377.
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Criminalization of homosexual conduct is unreasonable and arbitrarySection 377 IPC's legislative objective of penalizing unnatural sexual acts has no rational nexus to the classification created between procreative and non-procreative sexual acts, and is thus violative of Article 14 of the Constitution of India. Infringement of, the right to equal protection before law requires the determination of whether there is a rational and objective basis to the classification introduced. There should be a just and reasonable nexus between the classification and the object sought to be achieved by the legislation. Section-377 of IPC, its legislative objective is to criminalize all the sexual activities which are against the order of nature, thus punishing the unnatural sex. Section-377 assumes that natural sexual act is that which is performed for procreation. Hence, it thereby labels all forms of non-procreative sexual act as unnatural.
This gives a very narrow view to the distinction between the procreative and non-procreative sexual act. Hence, the legislative intent of creating a public code of sexual morality has no rational nexus with the classification created. Further the very object of the section is vague, unreasonable, and arbitrary and based up on the stereotyped notion that sex is only for procreation. Now if this presumption is accepted is correct then, what justifies the policies of family planning and the use of the contraceptive devices Sex as used in Article15 cannot be read restrictive to gender but includes sexual orientation and, thus read, equality on the basis of sexual orientation is implied in the said fundamental right against discrimination. Criminalization of predominantly homosexual activity through Section 377 IPC is discriminatory on the basis of sexual orientation and, therefore, violative of Article 15.
The prohibition against homosexuality in Section 377 IPC curtails or infringes the basic freedoms guaranteed under Article 19 (1)(a) (b) (c) & (d); in that, an individuals ability to make personal statement about ones sexual preferences, right of association/assembly and right to move freely so as to engage in homosexual conduct are restricted and curtailed.
The prohibition of certain private, consensual sexual relations (homosexual) provided by Section 377 IPC unreasonably abridges the right of privacy and dignity within the ambit of right to life and liberty under Article 21. Right to privacy is implicit in the right to life and liberty and guaranteed to the citizens, in order to be meaningful, the pursuit of happiness encompassed within the concepts of privacy, human dignity, individual autonomy and the human need for an intimate personal sphere require that privacy dignity claim concerning private, consensual, sexual relations are also afforded protection within the ambit of the said fundamental right to life and liberty given under Article 21.
In Maneka Gandhi v. Union of India, (1978) 1 SCC 248, a seven-Judge Bench decision, P.N. Bhagwati, J. (as his Lordship then was) held that the expression personal liberty in Article 21 is of the widest amplitude and it covers a variety of rights which go to constitute the personal liberty of man and some of them have been raised to the status of distinct fundamental rights and give additional protection under Article 19.
Public morality is not the province of criminal law and Section 377 IPC does not have any legitimate purpose. Section 377 IPC makes no distinction between acts engaged in the public sphere and acts engaged in the private sphere. It also makes no distinction between the consensual and non-consensual acts between adults. Consensual sex between adults in private does not cause any harm to anybody. Thus it is evident that the disparate grouping in Section 377 IPC does not take into account relevant factors such as consent, age and the nature of the act or the absence of harm caused to anybody. Public animus and disgust towards a particular social group or vulnerable minority is not a valid ground for classification under Article 14. Section 377 IPC targets the homosexual community as a class and is motivated by an animus towards this vulnerable class of people.
Finally, I want to conclude by saying that homosexuality is not an offence; it is just a way of pursuit of happiness, a way to achieve sexual happiness or desire. I can see absolutely no reason, apart from blind prejudice, which prevents two gay people going through a civil ceremony which will give them the rights and securities which heterosexual couples enjoy. Marriage is a sign of commitment and love. If two men or two women want to show that commitment, how does that destroy or damage the ideals of marriage.
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The Witcher (Wiedźmin), Enhanced Edition
Released - 26 October 2007 (EE: 16 September 2008) by CDProjekt RED, Poland
Genre -Pure blooded RPG
Multiplayer - No
Engine: Aurora
Requirements - PC: Minimal: Pentium 2,4 GHz, 1 GB RAM, GeForce 6600. Recomended: Intel Core 2 Duo 2.13 GHz, 2 GB RAM, GeForce 7900 GTX
Price - 10$ on gog.com (look what you get for your money)
Official website: thewitcher.com
Based on the works of the polish writer Andrzej Sapkowski - 5 book saga and 2 books of stories. Mature RPG game, telling the story of Geralt of Rivia, witcher, who slay monsters for money and are mutants, often unacceptable in society. Dark and unforgiving world. There's no black and white, there are diffrent shades of gray only. There's no good or bad choice. This is The Witcher.
Graphics: 8/10 - The game is 4 years old now and is based on Aurora Engine (Neverwinter Nights) which looks like this. CDProjekt squeezed everything from it to look like this:
So yeah it looks really good still. And what's great about it - the graphic style and architecture of the world is AMAZINGLY cool and atmosphering. The lack of epicness - no big castles and big battles - dark fantasy in it's esseMusic: 10+/10 - Easily one of the most amazing soundtracks I heard. It's diffrent. Without pathos and unnessecery epicness, like many other games (Mass Effect). Flutes, acoustic guitars and many ethnical instruments make an amazing slavic atmosphere. Composed by Adam Skorupa and Paweł Błaszczak.
Voice acting: 9/10 (polish), 6/10 (english) - I suggest playing with polish voices and english subtitles, cause polish voices are amazing, even if you don't understand them. I didn't hear much of the english version, but I think it's rather medicore.
Story: 9.5/10 - Very mature, deep, suprising, with many hard choices, which will affect the story. Addictive, memorable, with complicated characters and philosophical disputations. Near perfections.
Dialogues: 9/10 - intellingent, well writen, funny, mature - just like in the books.
Mechanics: 6.5/10 - Weak point of the game (although improved in many ways in EE). I liked the combat system, but it's a hate or love thing really. It's sort of rythm based and a little bit too static. You can still encounter technical issues from very old Aurora engine, even they covered it pretty well.
Difficulty: 6/10 - Not a very challanging game, if you know some tricks. Playing for the first time on normal, I died maybe 20 times. Even less on hard when I played third time - cause I knew how to play. Some bosses are piece of cake, some are hard. But there is a mod enhancing the difficulty drasticly, so feel free to use it :)
Price to value: 9.5/10 - Huge. It's very cheap in digital dowload and fully loaded (contains lots of goodies) in normal box for sth like 20$. With 40 hours of gameplay and massive replayabilty, it's one of the best offers you can have.
General Feel: 10/10 - I would say this in few words: it's crude, uncutted diamond with warm soul inside.
Overall: 9/10 - if you can see through the stone sheath to it's heart - it's a perfect game.
- Based on my favorite novels - (better than Lord of the Rings for me)
- Amazing story
- Great audiovisuals
- Deep and complicated morally
- Atmosphere
- Mature, sex, blood and curse words implemented
- Fantasy world reflecting our world's problems - racism, poverty, crime
- Great characters
- Funny, with great amount of easter eggs and references
- Loooong- Good price
- Nice combat system...
- ...or not so much great
- Should be more difficult
- Technical issues
- Many NPC clones- Not so many armour and weapon types


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Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading. Anyone can play along! Just do the following:
- Grab your current read
- Open to a random page
- Share two (2) "teaser" sentences from somewhere on that page
- BE CAREFUL NOT TO INCLUDE SPOILERS! (make sure that what you share doesn't give too much away! You don't want to ruin the book for others!)
- Share the title & author, too, so that other TT participants can add the book to their TBR Lists if they like your teasers!
"What ails you , Ralph?" asked Gervase.pg4 The Wolves of Savernake by Edward Marston.
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Sunday, 6 September 2015
Back a few years ago, Paul, the guy I started Sonic Masala with, had a favourite band. That band was Monotonix. The Israeli garage rock unit were a maniacal maelstrom of sound and fury, throwing themselves figuratively and literally under the bus of the rock gods gig after gig. The underground swell of hype that built over their shows grew to the point they were looking at becoming global superstars. But as with all pent up balls of sonic light, it has to burn out, and in 2011 Monotonix called it a day.
And today we have Yonatan Gat, the frontman from that venture, having released a 10" Physical Copy beast on Joyful Noise Recordings (grab it here - it has a blood red smear on the vinyl which is pretty great looking too). It includes the seven minute instrumental fried jam that is '0'. It has received the requisite Steve Albini noise treatment, so it sounds loud and abrasive. The thing this, there is a unhinged yet meticulous approach to '0' that Albini, or any other producer at the top of their game, just cannot harness - it is in the creative DNA. Gat may be more improvisational and rhythm driven, but his confrontational sense of melody and explosive expression is still very much in evidence here.
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Today's Highly Educated Terrorists
Today's terrorists, yesterday's graduate students.
"The Idea Lab" page in last Sunday's New York Times Magazine had an interesting article titled "Engineering Terror: Why are so many extremists from a single profession?" by David Berreby. It explained, much to the chagrin of the former president of the National Academy of Engineering, that "in the ranks of captured and confessed terrorists, engineers and engineering students are significantly overrepresented."
The article cited the research of sociologist Diego Gambetta and political scientist Steffen Hertog whose databases of terrorism perpetrators evidences this trend. "For their recent study," Berreby reported,
the two men collected records on 404 men who belonged to violent Islamist groups active over the past few decades (some in jail, some not). Had those groups reflected the working-age populations of their countries, engineers would have made up about 3.5 percent of the membership. Instead, nearly 20 percent of the militants had engineering degrees. When Gambetta and Hertog looked at only the militants whose education was known for certain to have gone beyond high school, close to half (44 percent) had trained in engineering.
Terrorism, it must be said, has always been an individual avocation. The reasons why someone picks up a gun or throws a bomb represent an ineluctably personal choice born variously of grievance and frustration; religious piety or the desire for systemic socio-economic change; irredentist conviction or commitment to revolution.
Joining an organization in pursuit of these aims is meant to give collective meaning and equally importantly cumulative power to this commitment. The forces that impel individuals to become terrorists and insurgents are thus timeless—and, in fact, have less to do with one's chosen profession than perhaps with other factors.
[amazon 0826414354 full]For terrorists to survive, much less thrive, in today's globalized, technologically savvy and interconnected world, the preeminent terrorism expert, Walter Laqueur has argued, they have to be
educated, have some technical competence and be able to move without attracting attention in alien societies. In brief, such a person will have to have an education that cannot be found among the poor in Pakistani or Egyptian villages or Palestinian refugee camps, only among relatively well-off town folk.
Because engineering is often the most prestigious vocation in developing countries, it makes sense that this new generation of well-educated terrorists would disproportionately come from that profession.
This was in fact the conclusion also reached by Peter Bergen and Swati Pandey in their 2006 study of madrassas (Islamic schools) and lack of education as a putative terrorist incubator. Using a database of some 79 jihadis who were responsible for the five most serious terrorist incidents between 1993 and 2005, they found that the most popular subjects amongst those jihadi terrorists who attended university was engineering followed by medicine.
Bergen and Pandey further observed that 54 percent of the perpetrators either attended university or had obtained a university degree. The terrorists they studied "thus appear, on average, to be as well educated as many Americans—given that 52 percent of Americans have attended university.
Finally, they observed that two-thirds of the 25 terrorists involved in the planning and hijacking of the four aircraft on September 11 th 2001 had attended university and that two of the 79 had earned PhD degrees while two others were enrolled in doctoral programs.
The popularity of medicine as a terrorist vocation most recently surfaced in connection with the botched attempt to bomb a nightclub in central London and the dramatic, but largely ineffectual, attack on Glasgow's International Airport in June 2007. Six of the eight persons arrested were either doctors or medical students; the seventh person was employed as a technician in a hospital laboratory; and the eighth member of the conspiracy was neither a medical doctor nor in health care, but instead had earned a doctorate in design and technology.
Medical doctors becoming terrorists is hardly new, either. George Habash, the founder and leader of a prominent 1960s-era Palestinian terrorist group, the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), was a medical doctor. As was the PFLP's head of special operations, Wadi Haddad.
Ayman al-Zawahiri, al-Qaeda's chief strategist and bin Laden's deputy, is a trained surgeon. Orlando Bosch, who was active in the militant Miami, Florida-based anti-Castro movement and was charged with the inflight bombing of a Cubana Airlines flight in 1976 that killed 73 persons, practiced as a pediatrician.
The more salient point may be that, contrary to the common place belief that poverty and lack of education breeds terrorism, to a large extent, those historically attracted to terrorism have in fact tended to be reasonably well, if not, highly educated; financially comfortable and, in some cases, quite well off; and, often gainfully employed.
[amazon 0198208065 full]Peter Hart in his seminar work, The IRA and Its Enemies found that IRA Volunteers in West Cork circa 1920 were "more likely to have jobs, trades, and an education than was typical of their peers."


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In 1914, Arizona had 12,075 miles of roads, but only 2% of these roads were paved. The same year, the Secretary of State licensed 5,040 motor vehicles. The increasing number of motor vehicles led to an increased demand for good roads. The Arizona Good Roads Association formed 1910, and in 1916 the Federal Highways Act gave states funding to finance highway building.
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A journey called life
I believe we all have come into this world for some reason. The whole journey of life revolves around this reason. What am i here for? What am i going to achieve in my life? These are some of the basic questions in many people's mind.
The truth is many people don't know what they want from life. Most of us never realise our goals or what we have to achieve , they just keep on living their life discontented. Why do so many people live in state of fear or depression? The reason lies within themselves. I think that's because they are not living the true life, the life that they are satisfied with. They try to convince themselves that they are living the happy life , which they aren't. Maybe they are in the wrong profession or living in the wrong place or with the wrong person, the reasons are infinite.
Actually life has to be lived with fulfillment, with great wisdom and joy. This is what many people fail to recognise. Our truths, the secret to a happy life lies within us not with the external world, because the world holds no answers. Its time we find ourself, who we are, what we want. If that happens you'll find that life is a joyous walk in the park, rather than a road full of thorns.
Look in your heart guys , you'll find answers that many people never get in their life time. This is the time to be who we are, time to belive in ourself. So guys have a happy and successful life because -
"Life's an ice-cream enjoy it before it melts. "


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many people in our great land are disappointed this morning. they worry
about the rights of the most vulnerable, unborn children. they have been
called misers, when secretly they give tremendous amounts of their income
to help the poor and needy . . . before they give a huge chunk to the
many more citizens are ecstatic. they have a champion for gay marriage,
reproductive rights, and government assistance to the poor and needy. they
see hope for the underdog and justice for the down trodden. i understand
their joy.
the community i worry about are the cynics, the ones who believe that we
are all motivated by self interest. they don't trust our sincerity or our
integrity. they are suspicious, pessimistic, and fatalistic. they poke fun at
our hurt and deride our happiness. "first of all, you must understand that in
the last days scoffers will come . . ." 2 peter 3:3
i would rather have hope.
"hope does not disappoint us, because God has poured out His love into our
hearts by the Holy Spirit, whom He has given us." romans 5:5


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Thursday, July 25, 2013
Revenge on the Left
There are plenty of pounds of flesh out there for the normal, sane, conservative or libertarian to enjoy as they watch their leftists cousins deal with and suffer from what is literally insanity.
But let me give you another little morsel of revenge. A morsel you may not be able to enjoy fully now, but will be as time progresses.
The teachers union.
Teachers and educational administrators, for the most part, but not all of them, are overpaid, glorified baby sitters. There are very few "educators" or "scholars" who genuinely care to educate the future. Most went into teaching because it was:
1. an easy job
2. required little to no math (unless you were a math/science/STEM teacher)
3. and you got summers off
That's the truth and you public educators can stop cowardly hiding behind "but it's for the children." The jig is up, you've been exposed, you are pretty much some of the lowest form of vermin in this country as you are genuinely abusing children, you're not fooling anyone, so own up to it.
However, there is another juicy little irony about teachers and teacher unions types - they always vote for socialism/leftism/government.
The reason this is ironic is because while that may ensure more money for their baby-sitting career, because of the policies enacted by the leftist politicians (which they voted for) society has started to deteriorate. Specifically, the quality and caliber of people are decreasing over time with each successive, and increasingly, fatherless, generation. And once Suzie Jones-Smith is bored with the rigamarole of giving birth and child rearing, she's going to drop off her ill-reared, improperly brought up, guaron-freaking-teed to be a problem child, child at the public schools for the teachers to deal with.
In other words, teachers, by them essentially voting to replace the family with the state, are ensuring future generations of children are lower quality and therefore poorer students. They will be less disciplined, will have more problems, will be less obedient, will have less respect for authority and in short will make their baby-sitting career absolute hell. Teachers 20 years from now will not be dealing with children of the 1950's, obedient, sitting in their chairs, listening to the wisdom of their elders, aspiring to work for NASA and go into STEM, but rather will be dealing with something more representative of a Chicago proper school where it's a quasi baby sitting operation/juvie-prep-school.
The only thing that makes it better is that by their own left-voting hand, they've made sure their industry is RIFE with progressive credentialism, now requiring teachers essentially get masters to do a job any high school graduate with a 3.0 could do. This, combined with the debt they pay to get that Masters in Baby Sitting, should put a smile on any real American looking for some pound of flesh for the havoc the teachers unions have wreaked upon the US.
Enjoy the decline!
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Don't be shy, Cappy. Tell us what you rilly thinka them dang lib'rals.
Actually, this was a pretty good strategy until recently. All those teachers needed to do was retire and then die of old age before the whole rotten edifice came crashing down. Alas, now things have reached a state where that crash can't be postponed beyond your 80th birthday so you just might live long enough to reap what you've sown.
Sorry Cap wrong here. All totalitarian societies pay the enforcers and teachers. If the kids are unruly they will hit them with drugs until they are zombies. The teachers are a protected class and the average serf will be starving in the gutter before a teacher comes to harm from the state. It is in the teachers best interest to abuse the kids, more power to the state and less thinkers. Sure will collapse but that problem is in the future, and even then only a problem if we go Yugoslavia.
Yeah I get a kick of teachers unions. Chicago was the best recent example.
Go on strike/protest before the Presidential election to get more money. More money was given.
6 months later Chicago blows their school budget and they have to close schools.
Teachers can't understand what happened so they start protesting.
Anybody that doesn't have their heads up their ass can understand what happened.
- handbanana said...
now if only there was a way for our children to enjoy the decline without suffering through state sanctioned indoctrination.
perhaps... home schooling?
- Eric Mueller said...
They've constructed quite a system for themselves. A woman in a church group I meet with got a Master's degree to teach art. (I don't recall the art class I was forced to take in 6th grade being that difficult). Well, she quickly found there are no jobs for art teachers in the local school systems.
The bureaucracy then told her if she gets a Master's in special education, there are jobs. She didn't want to be a special education teacher; she wanted to be an ART teacher, but obediently enrolled in the special ed Master's program.
It blows my mind why so many people put up with that simply because they think they "want to help children". Wow, if only there existed another way to help children than teach in a public school...
Leftists are nothing if not unimaginative.
My mother with a 1930s Grade 12 from a rural school in Saskatchewan taught be how to read and that was in the 1960s so the decline in the teaching professional has been happening for a long, long, long time.
One of the benefits of having surgery this past year is that I had to move my office upstairs and I get to see who goes to work and at what time. Anyone in the private sector is leaving at the latest 7:30 a.m. and you don't seem them again until about 6 p.m. The three teachers on the crescent - it is rare if they leave anytime before 8:30 a.m. and they are always back from 'work' at no later than 4 p.m. Yes, they 'might' do marking/prep for the next day at home, but any teacher than has been teaching for more than a couple of years has their teaching plans/lessons in place
"Sorry Cap wrong here. All totalitarian societies pay the enforcers and teachers."
so, in 1990 the former soviet union unleashed the dogs of war and killed millions? no, it died with nary a wimper.
we call pull that off here if we try hard enough. er, i mean, stop trying at all.
enjoy the decline.
Let's call the Leftists for what they truly are: Neo-Socialists


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Chase is going to be the best dad ever!! He's so darling with our niece, Eleanor. I love watching them play. I can't wait for him to be playing with our baby girl... Oh ya!! We had the ultrasound and found out that we're having A GIRL. We're very excited about that. Chase thought we were having a girl. {I thought it was going to be a boy}
I'm not too sure why I made the title Happy Father's Day. I don't have much to say about it. I gave Chase the book, Strong Fathers, Strong Daughters. He's reading it now and loves it... sometimes we'll read it together. {i actually already read it, ha} It's all about how important of a role a father is in a daughter's life. Wow. Every man should read this book, asap.
On Father's Day we stopped by Bruce's {my step-dad} place to wish him well and then went to Chase's parents house for a yummy dinner. My dad lives in Canada, so I didn't get to see him. Hopefully he'll come visit soon. {side note: i had a trip planned to go up to canada in two weeks for a week with my sister, but her kids don't have passports, so we had to cancel the trip, hopefully just postpone the trip.
Since I haven't been blogging lately, I'll give you a little update:
Chase is very busy with work!! He's outside all day everyday and I'm jealous of his tan... though it's a farmers tan. He loves yards and gardens too.
We planted a garden this year and Chase is so attentive to it. {in fact he's sitting outside right now "watching it grow."
I'm in school at Elase Academy now. I really enjoy the school. I'm there all day every day though and I'm getting exhausted.
My feet swell up and hurt everyday! :( and my wedding ring doesn't fit my finger anymore. I really wish I could wear it.
I'll be done school in August... and then I'll be an Esthetician. Fun.
Our baby is healthy and I'm feeling a lot better then I was the first trimester! I actually like being pregnant now.
Well, I'll try to be better about posting on my blog.
Xoxo, Brittany


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HAWX 2 DLC Swooping Onto PSN
France-based publisher Ubisoft has announced the latest downloadable content pack for HAWX 2. The "Mig Alley" and "Cold War" DLC packs will be making its way onto the PlayStation Network.
The DLC packs are now available on the PlayStation Store for €3.99. The MIG Alley pack's content and description is as follows:
- New Team Battle Mission: Trigger-Happy
- New aircraft: Mig-15 Fagot
- New aircraft: F-86 Sabre
- Bonus skin for F-22 Raptor
- Bonus skin for F-35B Lightning II
"Go back in the time and relive the first all-out jet fighter dogfights in two iconic aircraft, the infamous Mig Alley: F-86 Sabre and Mig-15 Fagot. Create Team Battle missions featuring just these two new planes and fight other players in the Trigger Happy Team Battle mission, featuring an intense naval battle. In addition the pack also includes bonus skins for the F-22 Raptor and for F-35B Lightning II."
Cold war pack:
- New aircraft: F-4E-Phantom II
- New aircraft: Mig-21 Fishbed
- Bonus skin for Eurofighter Typhoon
- Bonus skin for A-10A Thunderbolt II
- New Team Battle Mission: Search and Destroy
"Take to the skies in two famous aircraft that clashed in the Vietnam War: F-4E-Phantom II and Mig-21 Fishbed. Fight in a new Team Battle mission, Search and Destroy, which takes place in the Russian mountains requiring careful manoeuvring to attack ground targets or engage in dogfights. Also unlock two extra skins for the Eurofighter Typhoon and A-10A Thunderbolt II."
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I serve this when the missionaries come over because it makes a ton. I also like to take it to ward chili dinners. My kids think it's great that you eat it with a chip instead of a spoon.
2 1/2 lb. ground beef, cooked (I usually use a pound)
3 cans (15-oz ea.) tomato sauce
2 cans (16-oz ea.) pinto beans, rinsed and drained (I sometimes use more to make up for less meat)
1 can (10-oz.) diced tomatoes & chilies (undrained)
2 envelopes chili seasoning
2 lbs. Velveeta, cubed
1 c. whipping cream or evaporated milk
Fritos Scoops chips
Heat all the ingredients together except for the Velveeta cheese and the whipping cream (and obviously the chips!). Once it's heated through add the cheese and stir until melted, then add the whipping cream. Serve with the chips, using them like spoons.


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The mix of fiction and documentary that takes us inside a Hasidic community in Brooklyn in "Menashe" turns out to be something of a double-edged sword.
Director Joshua Z. Weinstein, a documentarian making his first drama, has said some of the footage was shot "secretly," which raises issues of cultural appropriation that the movie never really addresses, even as it moves us closer to the culture in question (the film is almost entirely in Yiddish, with subtitles).
The film stars Menashe Lustig, a Hasidic comedian and widower who has lost custody of his son because the law and custom forbid children to be raised in a home without a mother — a situation that forms the spine of the story here.
Menashe loves his son (Ruben Niborski) and wants to raise him, but his refusal to seriously pursue a new wife and his failures as a breadwinner put his parenting at risk. Menashe is a likable blunderer but a blunderer nonetheless; he can barely hold down the cashier/delivery job at a nearby convenience store, a job he owes to his brother-in-law.
His rabbi gives him two weeks to shape up, find a wife or lose supervision of the boy. Decision day is to occur on the anniversary of his wife's death, when Menashe is to host a ceremony in her honor.
The burly Lustig has a melancholy quality — he plays "himself" as a fellow with a good heart but one who has become a little too comfortable with failure. He is devoted to his son but lacks the discipline to make the choices that will allow him to be a better father.
For every loving gesture (using his last savings to buy his son a baby chick), there is a failure (leaving the back door open on his delivery truck, sending the day's delivery out into the streets).
Our hopes that Menashe will ace the memorial ceremony (and the "bachelor-proof" kugel recipe) aren't high.
The movie was, apparently, shot guerrilla-style by director Weinstein, although the filmmakers have been coy as to which scenes were captured stealthily and which are dramatized. This leads to questions about tact and voyeurism that go unanswered — and, frankly, made me a little queasy.
And, even though the approach gives us rare insight into a closed-off community, it also appears to have limited Weinstein's visual choices. If he's not using a hidden camera, he's imitating one, and the movie's shaky/sneaky peering eye grows stale.
The technique also leads to an emotional distance. For all its insight into Hasidic life (the more you know, the more you'll get out of the rituals and practices on view), the movie's one non-Yiddish scene is what most hits home: Menashe in the storeroom at work, drinking 40-ounce beers with his Latino pals, a situation that somehow extracts from him a candor that's missing from his guarded interaction with Hasidic friends and relatives.
That's part of Weinstein's point.
Menashe wants to be a good father and a devout man, but the world he values won't let him be both.


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Tuesday, March 2, 2010
My messing around with FAT code broke fat12...fixing it
Posted by Dmitry Grinberg at 1:50 AM
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- Daniel said...
That sucks! These recent posts are all very exciting, seem like last phase kind of things. Keep it up! :D
- March 3, 2010 at 9:27 AM
- Coffee-Turtle said...
Glad this is still going on strong. I have to buy more hardware since my LD is showing signs of wear and tear. If you or anyone have any good resources for getting LD parts, I'm all ears. A whole new LD is $200+ still!!
- March 5, 2010 at 1:43 PM
you could try usedpdaparts.com, buy a broken LD and use the parts from it that work, eBay or Amazon has all sorts of stuff, from batteries to touchscreen, but in varying conditions.
You could spring for a "Used" "Refurb" or "Like New" LD.
- March 7, 2010 at 9:49 AM
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I think the best house guests are the ones who don't mind that your floors haven't seen the light of day in weeks and insist on cleaning up after dinner even though they drove 12 hours in a snowstorm from New York just to see you.
The perfect house guests are willing to flip through decorating magazines for you and talk for hours about fabrics, curtains, and all kinds of house projects. They even slip their painting clothes into their luggage just in case you need help with any unfinished projects around the house.
They drive all over town to every Walmart in the greater Knoxville area looking to find enough ticking fabric to make curtains for your livingroom and dining room and then stay up late into the night sewing them.
And when they are not sewing curtains, the perfect house guest has the most amazing voice and plays the guitar and sings songs to you. She even takes requests and lets you sing even if it is off key.
The perfect house guests even babysits so you can have a moment to yourself even though he has lots of work to get done.
They make you laugh and grateful that you're not only family but friends. They help celebrate your 12 year olds birthday and make each of your kids feel loved and special.
And let you take mounds of pictures even when they are suppose to be leaving.
And makes the perfect lemonade sign for your pink lemonade party you decide to throw right in the middle of their vacation for 14 of your friends and 21 kids.
And when it's time to say goodbye, you get a little misty eyed, because you're actually going to miss them and then they mention they might make a second trip in the summer just in case you have any house projects you need help with. Perfect!


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Wensleydale Wednesday: Recursive edition.
December 2, 2009
Look at me blogging while you read my blog! And oh yes, the kitties. Nuno took this picture to document the kitties sitting a foot apart since they totally hate each other and this never happens – my blogging in the background is totally incidental.
(One of these days, I will post a photo of me where I didn't just get home from work and look like I was run over by a truck full of dirty diapers, I swear.)
Mama Blogging.
November 10, 2009
She has a few words of wisdom for this young whippersnapper. He'd better not stay up past his bedtime.
Not to be confused with "mommy blogging" – by this I mean, my mama is blogging! I set up a tumblr account for her and she has entered the blogosphere! Introducing – MamaPeke! I'd invite you to say hello to her personally, but I don't think you can comment via tumblr – in any case, you can read her musings (and a great recipe for cinnamon rolls) and then comment here if you so choose. Or you can read her musings and then make some kickass cinnamon rolls. That's another possibility.
PS: I also have a tumblr account for non-nanny related shenanigans.
Weekend Update.
October 4, 2009
[Pawtucket, RI. 2005.]
Down to the wire on this, I know. It's been that kind of day. After I wrote my last entry, I made a nice fall playlist and got in my car to drive up to Brighton to visit a dear friend. And my car didn't start. Soooo. I called around and it was actually my employers who drove over and gave me a jump (did I mention that I work for the GREATEST FAMILY EVER?) – which, y'know, was also in their best interest since it means I'll be able to go to work tomorrow. Anyhow, I did not drive to Brighton as I did not want to get stuck there.
I did, however, drive to juice up the battery a bit. It was a very zen-like enterprise; drive as far as I could without stopping. I drove out past Fall River on 195, went to a drive thru to get a snack (so I didn't have to turn off the car, though I did feel bad for how much gas I wasted while I sat idling in the parking lot. Oh well.), and drove back. All journey, no destination whatsoever. It was very soothing. And my playlist was lovely: all songs that remind me of fall.
[Easthampton, MA. 2006.]
For some reason, those songs are always kind of sad songs for me. Fall is my difficult season. October is traditionally my worst month. Fall to me is grey skies and cold rain and the smell of leaves and woodsmoke. Slow music. Very acoustic. Almost dirge-like. And it was so lovely to see the leaves turning while listening to songs that evoke for me of the very soul of this season. I sang along, of course. Singing in the car is one of my favorite pastimes, it's really a force of will for me *not* to sing along if I know the song. This is, I've found, best done alone. Not because I'm self-conscious, but because my singing apparently bothers my co-pilot.
(This has nothing to do with my voice, which has been trained. Singing is like my secret super-power. No one knows I'm actually quite good at it until they hear me, and then there is much surprise. Nuno is just a purist who wants to hear the recorded music without any extras on top.)
And so, it's been that kind of a day. I played a bunch of Civ, and even started a decent game with Nuno. I can definitely attest to having mellowed him out a bunch over the last two years – when we started dating, he would have been out for blood. Now? We're chatting back and forth so that we don't step on each other's toes. We're not exactly collaborating, but we're respectful enough of the other person's strategy to interfere as little as possible. It's way more fun than trying so hard to "win."
[Reykjavík, Iceland. 2005.]
I originally sat down wanting to write about books that I've read and how I'm going to be blogging about my biblioholic activities over here since I don't have the time to update separately at GoudaBuddhaBooks anymore. I'm sad to admit this, since I love Kat and I love books and I love the idea of collaborative blogging, but realism indicates that any efforts that I made over there right now would be half-assed and I really prefer, when possible, to put my whole ass into things.
So, I suppose that, along with the other new project I have cooking in my wee brain, will come later.
For now, it's half past bed time for this old man.


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1. If you could work for any one government agency which would you choose and why? (if you're in the US here's a helpful list) Why?
National Weather Service
...I want to stand in front of a 'green screen' and play with all the 'computerized' weather predictors
2. How difficult is it for you to forgive someone who refuses to apologize?
My brain doesn't want to wrap around this one...it depends on who the someone is and how close I am to them. God convicts me and pardons them most of the time, hahaha.
3. What is your favorite meatless supper?
Hummus with sweet peppers/whole grain pita chips
4. Wednesday August 10th is National Lazy Day...will you be celebrating? If so, tell us how so we can be lazy too.
My National Lazy Day celebrating has never been acknowledged...but today's lazy will last as long as my blogging time...then on to the rest of the day.
5. As a child did you have any special back to school traditions and if so, what were they? If you're a parent did you carry on those traditions with your own children?
Back-to-school traditions at my house included a lunchbox and new clothes that Mother made. For my kids, we'd fulfill the list provided by the school, usually get some new shoes and jeans...then I'd bore her by getting a 'school' picture while getting on the bus...she REALLY didn't like that her senior year.
6. Write a summer tongue twister.
Skoot skillfully shopping for school stuff soon-to-be shuffling schedules and skyping
7. Would you be interested in observing a surgery or do you turn away when the nurse brings out the needle?
Don't like feeling needles but not scared of them; I wanted to watch as they put stitches in my foot one time but didn't let myself watch...I chickened out. I do watch surgeries on TV though.
8. Insert your own random thought here.TODAY is HUMP day...
a day that I need a LAFF...
...'cause my body decided to wake up at 6:30am
as if I had some reason to wake up at 6:30am
...'cause my car is exhausted from having
driven around the world and back again yesterday dropped off/picked up/payed for skoot's auto repairs and all the way downtown and back for MORE furniture
...'cause my body got a glance at what moving day will be like carrying furniture/boxes up a flight of stairs
dreading the three flights of stairs awaiting us in the T'town 95% humidity and 95-degree weather
...'cause the opportunity to talk with Skoot about life, politics and our economy
while enjoying bumper-to-bumper traffic en route to IKEA (35 miles away)
...'cause maybe Skoot will miss me when she's back in CollegeTown remembering
what Summer fun was had me and her Daddy because of our hilarious personalities she had access to OUR credit card
Mama's Losing It posted this today
...it fulfilled my 'laff' need
...watch it and tell me if it hits your funny bone, too:
...it fulfilled my 'laff' need
...watch it and tell me if it hits your funny bone, too:
I REALLY needed to laff today and this DID it!
I remember those 'young kids' days of chasing, cleaning up, and 'trying-to-keep-them busy'. Mama's Losing It cracks me up "hiding" in her hat
I remember those 'young kids' days of chasing, cleaning up, and 'trying-to-keep-them busy'. Mama's Losing It cracks me up "hiding" in her hat
...reminds me of Susannah Wesley throwing her apron over her head for 'prayer time'...same thing, kinda!
...I will REALLY miss my Skoot after she's back in CollegeTown.
She's very eager to get there and reacquaint herself to her
we're paying for it all FULL independence, hahahah.
Just poking a little fun her way.
What things do you want to type and cross out?
Jer. 33:3 "Call to me and I will answer you
and tell you great and unsearchable things you do not know."


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[This post is by Rich "geekyouup" Hyndman, inspired by the fact that life just got that little bit easier — Tim Bray]
Whether you have just started out in Android app development or are a veteran of the craft, it probably won't be too long before you'll need to implement horizontally scrolling sets of views. Many existing Android apps already use this UI pattern, such as the new Android Market, Google Docs and Google+. ViewPager standardizes the implementation.
ViewPager was released as part of the Compatibility Package revision 3 and works with Android 1.6 upwards. After following the instructions to obtain the package you can right-click on your Android project in Eclipse, choose 'Android Tools' and 'Add Compatibility Library', making the new classes available.
ViewPager is a ViewGroup and works in a similar manner to AdapterViews (like ListView and Gallery) so it shouldn't feel too foreign. Note that if you use ViewPager in an xml layout, be sure to use the full class reference, e.g.
ViewPagers source their views from PagerAdapters which give you have full control over the reuse and recycling of the views. A PagerAdapter implementation called FragmentPagerAdapter is provided to facilitate the use of Fragments in a ViewPager; This is immensely powerful and as simple as implementing getCount() and getItem(). There is a sample called Fragment Pager Support provided in the Support Demos to illustrate this.
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FragmentPagerAdapter will detach each fragment as you swipe through the list, but keep them in memory so they can simply be reattached when the user swipes back. If you have a larger number of Fragments, the FragmentStatePagerAdapter is worth considering as it will remove them, with the downside being they need to be rebuilt as the user swipes back to them. So, if you have fewer, more complex fragments the FragmentPagerAdapter makes sense, but consider FragmentStatePagerAdapter for larger sets.
public static class MyAdapter extends FragmentPagerAdapter {
public MyAdapter(FragmentManager fm) {
public int getCount() {
return NUM_ITEMS;
public Fragment getItem(int position) {
return ArrayListFragment.newInstance(position);
On the more simplistic side I recently wrote a ViewPager/PagerAdapter example that serves up simple TextViews. One thing to note is that if you are implementing your own PagerAdapter it is up to you, the developer, to add and remove your views to and from the ViewGroup. To facilitate this the ViewPager is passed into the PagerAdapter methods instantiateItem() and destroyItem().
The source code for ViewPager is also included and available in <android-sdk>/extras/android/compatibility/v4/src. It is worth checking as you can generate the reference documentation from it using Javadoc. In the reference docs / source you'll find other useful methods, for example setOnPageChangeListener(), which enables your application to track which View is currently visible.
public Object instantiateItem(View collection, int position) {
View v = layoutInflater.inflate(...);
((ViewPager) collection).addView(v,0);
return tv;
public void destroyItem(View collection, int position, Object view) {
((ViewPager) collection).removeView((TextView) view);
If you are launching an app onto Android Market that uses ViewPager then please ping me on Google+ or Twitter, I'd love to see how widely it is being used and the innovative scenarios in which it appears.