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The summer has come to an end but there are still an abundance of tomatoes left at the farmer's markets or if you're lucky, in your own yard. If you're looking for a unique way to eat them aside from the obvious caprese salad or sauce for pasta, give this a try. Eggs in Purgatory which is a strange way of saying eggs poached in tomato sauce. It sounds weird, I won't lie, but, it is delicious. Eat this on a slice of crusty toasted bread and it is incredibly satisfying. Have a salad on the side if you like and you have a great light meal.
I made this sauce with 10 fresh plum tomatoes but you can make this with a 28 ounce can of crushed tomatoes or the equivalent in diced tomatoes. You can jazz this up by adding olives to the sauce or shredding some fontina cheese on top. I just used my standard, pecorino romano.
Eggs in Purgatory
Serves 4-6 (2 eggs per person)
4-6 large eggs
1 28 ounce can of crushed tomatoes (diced or fresh plum can be used)
1 onion, diced
3 cloves garlic, minced
1 tsp sugar
salt and pepper
bunch of fresh basil (or 2-3 cubes frozen Dorat)
extra virgin olive oil
1 loaf thick italian bread such as ciabatta or a round loaf
pecorino romano cheese
1. Clean tomatoes, remove the core and make an "X" on the opposite side. Blanch tomatoes in boiling water for 3-4 minutes until the skin starts to peel away from the flesh. Drain and chill in ice water until they are cool enough to handle. Skin will easily peel away from the flesh. Use a paring knife to grab the corner of the skin (this is why you make the "X") but you may not even need to use it, just peel it with your fingers. Slice tomatoes in half and with you finger pull out the seeds. Then slice in 4 pieces. If you have a food mill you can put them through the mill to seperate the seeds from the pulp. I got rid of mine and I just use my fingers.
2. Sweat onions in extra virgin olive oil (over low heat) and once they begin to soften add garlic. If using frozen basil add now. Add tomatoes, fresh basil, salt and pepper and cover. Let cook for 10 minutes and then begin breaking up the tomatoes with a wooden spoon or a tomatoe masher. Cover and let cook for another 20-30 minutes. Taste for seasoning and add more salt and pepper. I like to add a teaspoon of sugar for sweetness.
3. Toast 4-6 sliced thick sliced bread. You'll need one slice of bread per egg. While slices are warm rub them with a piece of garlic.
4. Crack eggs into a small bowl (in case you break the yolk or get shells in it) and then add to the sauce, spread the eggs out so they don't touch each other. (The more eggs you make the larger the skillet you will need.) Cover and let cook until whites are set but yolks are still runny.
5. Sprinkle with romano cheese and serve on toast slices.
This is a great recipe to make on fridays during Lent! I know Nanny would have certainly approved!
Nanny with tomatoes from her garden in Brooklyn, New York.


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Perhaps you remember the unbelievable cat-friendly house from Japan that I posted previously. Well, here is another one that may be even more incredible. The Cats' House designed by Japanese architecture firm Fauna +DeSIGN was built for the owners 16 cats (and 5 canines). It has every kind of climbing and perching structure a feline family could ever dream of, all integrated beautifully into a modern interior.
There appears to be great attention to detail throughout the house. Notice the rounded corners on the climbing shelves. Much safer for cats than sharp pointed corners.
There are even access areas for humans to make it easier to clean the upper perching areas.
Lots of natural light gives the space a wonderful open feel. This handsome silver tabby is certainly enjoying himself!
Catwalks and shelves galore along with secret tunnels and passageways just for cats.
This giant floor-to-ceiling sisal-wrapped scratching and climbing post has got to by my favorite feature.
There are many more photos at www.catshouse.jp as well as some videos of the cats enjoying their home.
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Del Frisco's, an expensive steakhouse with floor-to-ceiling windows overlooking the Boston harbor, was a festive scene on Tuesday evening. The hedge fund billionaires Steven A. Cohen, Paul Singer and Daniel Loeb were among the titans of finance there dining among the gray velvet banquettes before heading several blocks away to what they hoped would be a victory party for their presidential candidate, Mitt Romney.
The next morning was a cold, sobering one for these executives.
Few industries have made such a one-sided bet as Wall Street did in opposing President Obama and supporting his Republican rival. The top five sources of contributions to Mr. Romney, a former top private equity executive, were big banks like Goldman Sachs and JPMorgan Chase, according to the Center for Responsive Politics. Wealthy financiers — led by hedge fund investors — were the biggest group of givers to the main "super PAC" backing Mr. Romney, providing almost $33 million, and gave generously to outside groups in races around the country.
On Wednesday, Mr. Loeb, who had supported Mr. Obama in 2008, was sanguine. "You win some, you lose some," he said in an interview. "We can all disagree. I have friends and we have spirited discussions. Sure, I am not getting invited to the White House anytime soon, but as citizens of the country we are all friendly."
(Read More: In the End, Obama Won on the Economy)
Wall Street, however, now has to come to terms with an administration it has vilified. What Washington does next will be critically important for the industry, as regulatory agencies work to put their final stamp on financial regulations and as tax increases and spending cuts are set to take effect in the new year unless a deal to avert them is reached. To not have a friend in the White House at this time is one thing, but to have an enemy is quite another.
"Wall Street is now going to have to figure out how to make this relationship work," said Glenn Schorr, an analyst who follows the big banks for the investment bank Nomura. "It's not impossible, but it's not the starting point they had hoped for."
Traditionally, the financial industry has tended to support Republican candidates, but, being pragmatic about power, has also donated to Democrats. That script got a rewrite in 2008, when many on Wall Street supported Mr. Obama as an intelligent leader for a country reeling from the financial crisis. Goldman employees were the leading source of campaign donations for Mr. Obama, who reaped far more contributions — roughly $16 million — from Wall Street than did his opponent, John McCain.
The love affair between Wall Street and Mr. Obama soured soon after he took office and championed an overhaul in financial regulations that became the Dodd-Frank Act.
Some financial executives complained that in meetings with the president, they found him disinterested and disengaged, while others on Wall Street never forgave Mr. Obama for calling them "fat cats."
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The disillusionment with the president spawned reams of critical commentary from Wall Street executives.
"So long as our leaders tell us that we must trust them to regulate and redistribute our way back to prosperity, we will not break out of this economic quagmire," Mr. Loeb wrote in one letter to his investors.
The rhetoric at times became extreme, like the time Steven A. Schwarzman, co-founder of the private equity firm Blackstone Group, compared a tax proposal to "when Hitler invaded Poland in 1939." (Mr. Schwarzman later apologized for the remark.)
Mr. Loeb was not alone in switching allegiances in the recent presidential race. Hedge fund executives like Leon Cooperman who had supported Mr. Obama in 2008 were big backers of Mr. Romney in 2012. And Wall Street chieftains like Jamie Dimon of JPMorgan Chase and Lloyd C. Blankfein of Goldman Sachs, who have publicly been Democrats in the past, kept a low profile during this election. But their firms' employees gave money to Mr. Romney in waves.
Starting over with the Obama White House will not be easy. One senior Wall Street lawyer who spoke on condition of anonymity said Wall Street "made a bad mistake" in pushing so hard for Mr. Romney. "They are going to pay a price," he said. "It will soften over time, but there will be a price."
Mr. Obama is not without supporters on Wall Street. Prominent executives like Hamilton James of Blackstone, and Robert Wolf, a former top banker at UBS, were in Chicago on Tuesday night, celebrating with the president.
"What we learned is the people on Wall Street have one vote just like everyone else," Mr. Wolf said. Still, while the support Wall Street gave Mr. Romney is undeniable, Mr. Wolf said, "Mr. Obama wants a healthy private sector, and that includes Wall Street.
"If you look at fiscal reform, infrastructure, immigration and education, they are all bipartisan issues and are more aligned than some people make it seem."
Reshma Saujani, a former hedge fund lawyer who was among Mr. Obama's top bundlers this year and is planning to run for city office next year, agreed.
"Most people in the financial services sector are social liberals who support gay marriage and believe in a woman's right to choose, so I think many of them will swing back to Democrats in the future," she said.
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Correction: November 8, 2012
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Zanotto became artistic director at the publishing house Codex in 1965, and did various cover and illustrations. In 1974, he became artistic director at Ediciones Record, where he also created the series 'Henga' with the scriptwriter Ray Collins. This series also appeared in Italy under the name 'Yor'. Throughout the years, Zonotto launched such series as 'Wakantanka' (scripts by Hector G. Oesterheld), 'Barbara', 'Nueva York Año Cero', 'Penitenciario' (scripted by Ricardo Barreiro), 'Falka' and 'Cronicas del Tiempo Medio' (written by Emilio Balcarce). The American publisher Eclipse Comics published his comics 'Nueva York Año Cero' and 'Cronicas del Tiempo Medio' in the States in the late 1980s. In the 1990s, he did the graphic novel 'Warman' at Marvel, and 'Starlight' with Robin Wood.


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HLAKAY (meaning "full grown or hardened antlers"; also known as Pierre, Pierre Michel, Pierre Nequalla), Okanagan chief; son of Michel; m. Susan of the Penticton band, and they apparently had no children; fl. 1906–16.
Born about 1835 in Spallumcheen (B.C.) or Nkama'peleks at the head of Okanagan Lake, Hlakay, or Pierre as he was generally known, was a descendant of the Okanagan chief Nicola [Hwistesmetxŵ'qen*]. His significance dates from after the turn of the century, when politics on the Okanagan reserve were degenerating into chaos.
Appointed chief of the Nkama'peleks or Head of the Lake band in September 1907, Pierre lost the position in December 1908 after a disagreement with Indian agent Archibald Irwin over the irregular sale of part of the reserve on Long (Kalamalka) Lake, east of Okanagan Lake. Although he may have initially promoted the idea, Pierre refused Irwin's demand for his concurrence, writing (through a translator) that "most of the people are against the selling of that land." He also challenged Irwin's authority to dismiss him, especially since his interim replacement, Isaac Harris, was not a band member under the Indian Act and because Harris's actions were "inimical to the interests of the band."
Chief Pierre and others hired a lawyer to represent them and report on the behaviour of Irwin and Harris. The resulting series of letters to the Department of Indian Affairs led to a new election, in March 1909. Baptiste Logan became chief, but in April 1910 Pierre and 15 others protested his continuance, charging him with intemperance. Indian Affairs inspector Thomas J. Cummiskey investigated and, advised by two hereditary chiefs, Johnnie Chilleheetsa of Douglas Lake and Louis Clexlixqen of Kamloops, he had Logan deposed. Irwin too was dismissed, in 1911. Concerned about the legitimation of chiefs, Chilleheetsa intervened in the ensuing selection of a new chief, claiming that only descendants of Nicola were eligible. A highly public affair, the election of 27 June 1912 was attended by hereditary chiefs, Oblate missionary Jean-Marie-Raphaël Le Jeune*, and Indian Affairs representatives in a deliberate attempt to buttress the authority of Pierre, who was elected for an indefinite term.
A council with civil, judicial, and police powers was a feature of Okanagan life under Oblate influence. Suspended, probably after the Chirouse scandal of 1892 [see Paul Durieu*], it was now reinstituted by Indian Affairs, supposedly to counteract alcohol abuse on Head of the Lake Reserve. Chief Pierre and the council were reportedly "a power for good" in this respect and in promoting agricultural development after years of decline in ranching and wheat farming [see Cornelius O'Keefe]. During his second tenure Chief Pierre had opportunities to speak out on the most important issue facing British Columbia's Indians – aboriginal title and rights. In testimony on 4 Oct. 1913 before the royal commission on Indian affairs for the province of British Columbia [see James Andrew Joseph McKenna], Chief Pierre demanded that his reserve remain undiminished in size. At the same time he refused to concede title: "I know myself our blood [was] spilt here first, and we are the right[ful] owners of the land." Arguing too that his people retained aboriginal rights to hunt and fish, he complained strongly about restrictive game and fishing laws. He also represented his band at meetings of interior tribes who were attempting to have the issue of title considered by the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council.
During and after Pierre's second term, the Nkama'peleks band continued to be torn by factionalism, and his leadership was repeatedly challenged. Chief "Lame Pierre" – he reputedly had a withered leg as a result of a sports injury – was attacked by Baptiste Logan and others in 1913 for being a "tool" of Indian Affairs and for agreeing, without band consent, to the use of reserve land for an encampment of soldiers of the British Columbia Horse. Pierre resigned as chief, probably in 1915; the circumstances are unknown, but his age may have been a factor. Even then the criticism did not cease. In 1916 a band group claimed that he had been elected illegally in 1912 and publicly accused him of drunkenness, implication in the sale at Long Lake Reserve, misappropriation of resources, and dependence on "half breeds" who were not legitimate band members Pierre died about 1918 at Nkama'peleks. He had been a traditional chief who, in his two tenures, was beset by the arbitrary exercise of power by representatives of the Department of Indian Affairs and by factionalism and disorder on his reserve, much of it the result of the corruption of local officials. He cooperated with other interior chiefs who attempted to keep their reserves intact, protect their aboriginal rights to hunt and fish, and assert their rights to aboriginal title.
NA, RG 10, 3944, file 1211698-54; 3945, file 1211698-64. Union of British Columbia Indian Chiefs (Vancouver), "Evidence submitted to the royal commission on Indian affairs for the province of British Columbia" (typescript, [1913–16]; photocopy in Okanagan Univ. College Library, Kelowna, B.C.), Okanagan, 4 Oct. 1913. Can., House of Commons, Debates, 14 June 1917: 2340–44. Peter Carstens, The queen's people: a study of hegemony, coercion, and accommodation among the Okanagan of Canada (Toronto, 1991). J. H. Christie, Correspondence between J. H. Christie, Armstrong, B.C., and Department of Indian Affairs, Ottawa, in past twelve months (n.p., [1917]; copy in BCARS, Northwest Coll., NWp 970.5, C554c); Indian affairs in British Columbia; a commentary on an order-in-council ([Armstrong], n.d.; NWp 970.5, C554); Okanagon Indians non-registered; the reason why ([Armstrong], n.d.; NWp 970.5, C555). J. M. McC. Clark, [Letter, 1910 Dec. 3, to Hon. Richard McBride, Victoria, B.C.] (broadside, n.p., 1910; copy in BCARS, Northwest Coll., NWp 970.5, C555).
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Karen Stupski is a sustainability educator, grant writer, and communitarian. In addition to serving as a faculty member at Goddard College, Development Director for the Gunpowder Valley Conservancy (a watershed organization and land trust) and Executive Director of School of Living (a community land trust). Karen lives at Heathcote Community, an intentional community dedicated to sustainable living, where she coordinates the permaculture education program.
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I love applying the lens of history to my work in sustainability, because I believe that we need to understand the historical roots of our current problems in order to solve them. I've worked as a sustainability educator in both academic and community-based settings. I've taught college courses in environmental science, environmental studies and sustainable development. In my local community I coordinated an environmental job training program with an innovative curriculum in environmental technology for unemployed city residents and I currently teach permaculture workshops. I am also involved with two land trusts that promote sustainability.
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Ford To Market Car Bomb Models In Iraq
Financially ailing Ford Motor Company announced today a bold new marketing initiative to increase sales, revealing that because its discontinued Tempo model has become such a favorite platform for Iraqi car bombers, it will aggressively seek to expand its share of the exploding overseas IED market.
"It's a win-win situation for us," Ford marketing guru Cole "Crank" Case said. "We get to move lots of new cars that will be destroyed without any warranty claims. And the collateral damage to other vehicles will increase overall demand. It's a no-brainer."
Ford will be challenged, however, to preserve the qualities that have made the Tempo such a terrorist favorite.
"For one thing, it's a piece of junk that no one wants to keep around very long," Case observed. "And for another, no one would be caught dead driving one. It gives a suicide bomber an especially strong reason to avoid detection."
Mr. Case was not at liberty to identify the current model that Ford will be promoting in the Middle East.
"Let's just say that 'Fusion' has a nice incendiary ring to it, especially to Iranians," Case replied. "Whichever model we choose, it will have to have the same qualities of easy disposability and scant owner attachment which have made the Tempo so famous."
As a concession to the Bush administration, Ford will be shipping its new vehicles through Iran.
"That way the State Department can claim that these are Iranian weapons," Case stated. "Whatever floats their boat."
Some Senators have expressed reservations about Ford's plan.
"They're going to do what?" spluttered Sen. Charles Schumer of New York. "If it were up to me, I'd ban all automobiles in Iraq and force them to blow up camels. At least that way we'd finally get over the hump in Iraq."
American military commanders, speaking on condition of anonymity, expressed cautious endorsement of the plan.
"We already automatically gun down any Ford Tempo that we see," said one top brass under condition of anonymity and permission to have this reporter report him as dead to his commanding officer. "Knowing beforehand the preferred make and model the car bombers use will make it that much easier for us to cull them from the herd."
Shiite militia leader Maqti al Sadr showed grudging admiration for the plan.
"Everyone knows that we don't blow up Toyotas or Mercedes. Those cars are much too well made just to blow up willy-nilly. Fords, on the other hand, are perfect."
Ford expects to sell at least 3,000 vehicles in Iraq's burgeoning car bomb market in the next six months.
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Our brand first launched in February 2005 in high-end retailers including Intermix, Ron Herman, Bergdorf Goodman and Harvey Nichols. Paige's designs became an instant obsession of consumers, celebrities, and prominent fashion editors. Quickly, we unveiled our men's, petites and maternity ranges - all created with the same commitment to the craft.
As our story continues to evolve, we remain devoted to the details. We only partner with the best wash-houses in the country, which happen to be in our hometown of Los Angeles. Every style we create is wear-tested, and tested again. We are completely obsessed with designing pieces you'll live in-jeans that go from morning to moonlight; the perfect pair that works like a charm, always; pieces to help you stand tall in what you're wearing, and take you exactly where you want to go.
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The purpose of this document is to provide a few ideas for those people encountering issues when upgrading from DTP 1.6 or 1.6.1 to our 1.6.2 release.
Some of the bugzilla entries and newsgroup items logged for this issue include:
- BZ 267183: Installing the DataToolsPlatform SQL Developer Tools within an RCP will lead to an NoClassDefFoundError
- Newsgroup: Datatools Install/Uninstall Problems
- Newsgroup: How do I repair eclipse (remove datatools)?
- Newsgroup: Re: Can't install a thing
- Newsgroup: No repository found - Cannot install any new feature in Eclipse
- Newsgroup: Dependency problem: org.eclipse.datatools.connectivity.sqm.core
- Downloaded DTP 1.6.1, EMF 3.4.1, GEF 3.4.1, and Eclipse 3.4.1. Used Update Manager through the Ganymede Update Site to grab the 1.6.2 version of DTP. Restarted. No errors.
- Deleted all DTP features and plug-ins. Restarted. Unable to open DTP perspective in workspace. Tried new workspace, still unable to open DTP perspectives. Closed workbench.
- Started eclipse with "-clean" command-line option. Still not able to use DTP features. Obviously deleting the DTP bits and copying over new ones isn't the way to go.
Few Things to Try
Though I'm currently trying to reproduce the reported issues, but here are a few things to try:
- Delete org.eclipse.datatools.* features (from the eclipse/features directory) and plugins (from the eclipse/plugins directory).
- Install from the 1.6.2 zip.
- Now try re-running the update to see if that clears up the issues.
This worked for me at least once:
- Exit Eclipse
- Remove or rename the folder p2/org.eclipse.equinox.p2.core/cache in your Eclipse installation
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I somehow missed reading Murder at Catmmando Mountain Georgie Shaw Cozy Mystery #1 in this series so I can honestly say that these can be read as stand alone. There is enough background to keep you from having to figure it all out! This is also short enough that it can be read quickly (no excuses for not having the time).
Will Georgie finally be able to put the attack that happened years ago to her and which killed or didn't kill her boyfriend to rest. Who did it back then--If you read Murder at Catmmando Mountain I'm sure these were questions that you were left with--I know I would have been. All will be answered in this book. Now to go get the 3rd in this series!!
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Georgie Shaw and Detective Jack Wheeler have a second chance at love—despite the fact they met during the investigation of a Murder at Catmmando Mountain. Decades earlier, Georgie lost the love of her life in an attack on the beach that left one man dead and two others missing including her fiancé, Danny Farrell. When Georgie returns to Corsario Cove, more than memories haunt her as a song Danny wrote just for her echoes in the air: Love Notes in the Key of Sea. Who else, other than she and Danny could know that song? A new mystery brought Georgie and Jack together, will an old one drive them apart?
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"Gather round!" Gather round and check the flow! (Repeat 4x)
Ayo check it
Now the ultraviolet seems to have me slippin
Well I'm on guard son, there'll be no ass whippings
Behind my back, I know mc's be tripping
Some say "What's up?" Some stick out their bottom lip and
I motivate, spark the L then skate
There's no debate, I put the funk on your plate
So get it straight, it's the lyrical mechanic
I cause a panic, of depression that's manic
Harder than granite, I revolve like the planet
And got the game to leave the chickenheads enchanted
Word to Janet, and her brother Jackie
I put the squeeze on mommies like Pataki
"Gather round!" Gather round and check the flow! (Repeat 4x)
Now, I dehydrate your body just like a Heineken
Tip-toe through your tulips like Tiny Tim
Back up son, it's Diamond D and his mighty men
You wanna see a show? Call Chris Lighty and
I'll come to your town, tear the walls down
Pound for pound I gets down for my crown
I gets busy, you can ask my nigga Wizzy
I'm slicker than that fox found on Thin Lizzy
You wonder "Is he, slacking?" But I'm a mack and
I'm always packing, cause niggas don't know how to act and
They wanna riff, made because I got the gift
Enjoying a spliff, on 125th
I roll on your set like a brand new Perelli
Got more charisma than Arthur Fonzarelli
Got a belly, but that don't slow me down in a telly
Put it on ya like the Claw did Jim Kelly
"Gather round!" Gather round and check the flow! (Repeat 4x)
Now check it
To all my foes you can just keep hushin
The stage ain't the place you wanna be rushin
Cause there'll take place a spontaneous combustion
Life's a game of chess and I play like a Russian
I mean to win, pass me the gin and a pen
And on a skin, I spend no more than a Benjamin
Franklin, and I'm off to the bank and
I roll with a crew that passes out the most spankings
This side of the Mason Dixon
I bought your tape and I erased it like Nixon
In Watergate, mom don't blame me if your daughter's late
Cause she was hooking, one of my niggas saw the bate
I bob and weave like Julio Chávez
Vacate in San Juan or Isla? Budez?
Trying to get these beaches, I cut off the dreads
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Look out for my peeps like Alphonse D'Amato
Witty and shifty describes my sticcatto
Peace dun, the lyrical desperado
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The Atlanta Journal-Constitution and WSB-TV said an Atlanta police report shows officers responded to a call shortly before 1 a.m. Saturday in southwest Atlanta from a friend of the rapper who was concerned about his behavior. The police report said Gucci Mane, whose real name is Radric Davis, became "increasingly agitated with officers and began cursing and threatening them."
The report said the 33-year-old rapper was checked out at an Atlanta hospital and charged with carrying a concealed weapon, disorderly conduct and marijuana possession.
Davis was indicted in April on an assault charge involving an incident at an Atlanta nightclub. He pleaded not guilty.
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Something profound appears to have occurred—a cosmic shift in the education reform debate that reflects our larger social debates in the U.S.
After Ladd and Fiske published a commentary in The New York Times, "Class Matters. Why Won't We Admit It?," and Diane Ravitch blogged "Scrooge and School Reform," several commentators quickly chimed in about the poverty debate in education.
Amanda Ripley commented on her own blog to clarify: "I also agree that out-of-school factors are hugely impactful on student learning, of course."
And more directly and fully, Peter Meyer has offered "A Christmas Carol For Our Schools": "What I don't understand in all of this is who exactly is claiming that class (or poverty or parents or kids) doesn't matter? Ladd and Fiske spend most of their essay stating the obvious: that socio-economic circumstance matters to education outcomes."
It appears we are experiencing a Christmas Miracle in 2011; we have now come to agreement about the corrosive power of poverty on the educational outcomes of children (although it appears less clear if we are all admitting the same about the inordinate inequity in our country). So let's consider if this miracle has occurred, and then, if so, what does that mean?
Poverty Matters?
"As with Ravitch's 'miracle' argument ('the accounts of miracle schools demand closer scrutiny,' she asserted in the Times last May), Ladd and Fiske build mighty big straw men," claims Meyer. While I find Meyer's point here ironically creating a strawman to contest the use of strawman arguments, we must acknowledge that the education reform debate has become mired in both charges of strawman arguments (a cyclic and fruitless venture) and surface arguments about whether or not poverty matters.
First, if no one is in fact denying the influence of poverty on student outcomes and teacher/school effectiveness, why does this charge even exist? The answer lies in the two most common refrains coming from education reformers who insist that schools are the single most powerful tool for reforming society (a position that brought me into education and a call that drew me into a doctoral program)—"no excuses" and "poverty is not destiny."
Choruses of "no excuses" and "poverty is not destiny" punctuate almost all of the discourse and even reform plans coming from Secretary of Education Arne Duncan, Bill Gates, and Michelle Rhee, and the implications of these bromides are where the problems rest.
In short, the real debate is not whether or not one side believes poverty matters and the other does not (this is genuinely a false dichotomy that likely does not exist). The real debate is where the source of what matterslies and how to address the impact of poverty on the lives and learning of children.
Now, at the risk of oversimplifying, let me offer that the education reform debate is actually occurring between two factions (although within each, there is a great deal of diversity of perspectives) that can fairly be labeled (for convenience, not to marginalize) "No Excuses" Reformers and Social Context Reformers.
"No Excuses" Reformers insist that the source of success and failure lies in each child and each teacher, requiring only the adequate level of effort to rise out of the circumstances not of her/his making. As well, "No Excuses" Reformers remain committed to addressing poverty solely or primarily through education, viewed as an opportunity offered each child and within which (as noted above) effort will result in success.
Social Context Reformers have concluded that the source of success and failure lies primarily in the social and political forces that govern our lives. By acknowledging social privilege and inequity, Social Context Reformers are calling for education reform within a larger plan to reform social inequity—such as access to health care, food security, higher employment along with better wages and job security. [1]
If We Agree on Poverty, What Next?
If we are to take Meyer and Ripley at their word, and if we can fairly extrapolate their confessions to the entirety of the "No Excuses" Reformers, then we must ask some important questions and make some serious changes in both how we debate education reform and conduct education reform.
• Why do we persist in and even increase our dependence on testing, labeling, and punishing students and teachers when we know that standardized tests remain significantly biased by socioeconomic status (linked to parental income and level of education), race, and gender (Santelices & Wilson, 2010; Spelke, 2005)? As long as we continue to evaluate student achievement, teacher quality, and school effectiveness by a tool proven again and again to be primarily a reflection of social conditions beyond the control of the people and institutions being judged, we will never find any common ground—regardless of any concession by reformers about the impact of poverty on children's lives and learning.
• Why do we insist on claiming "miracle" and representing outliers as normal? Just as one example, consider the rush to make claims by misusing data in New Jersey. Yet, when a blogger examines the claims and the data carefully, the initial claim disappears, and the result is corrosive for both any further claims of success or any hope for real education reform.
• Why have we created, maintained, and perpetuated an education system that parallels and creates a stratification of students built on measuring, labeling, and sorting—in other words, what sense does having an education system that mirrors our society make if our belief is that those same schools will reform society? If we are to embrace and support public education as a vehicle for social reform, then we must create schools that are unlike our society. We have never done this, and nothing being placed on the table today by "No Excuses" Reformers is offering anything other than schools that perpetuate the status quo of the current U.S.; in fact, a central goal of "no excuses" ideology is using education to instill middle class norms. By definition, then, normalizing is counter to transformation. Schools that transform society ask teachers and students to confront, question, and change the world—not conform to it.
• Why are our reform strategies mired in the same formula—standards, testing, and accountability—since the evidence on the effectiveness of this paradigm (ironically) suggests that it is ineffective at best and counter-productive at worst? James Traub in 2000 carefully and clearly made a case for the ineffectiveness of traditional bureaucratic approaches to school reform. But what followed was No Child Left Behind (NCLB), what was called at the time a massive expansion of the bureaucratic approach to reform. After nearly a decade of NCLB—fifty separate and unsuccessful experiments with accountability—Hout and Elliott have shown that accountability remains essentially ineffective—or at least ineffective if measured against the (misguided) promises that came with our commitment to NCLB (closing achievement gaps, reducing drop-out rates, increasing raw international test rankings). If, as Meyer suggests ("thirty years of 'war on poverty' (vis Lyndon Johnson, 1964) and stultifyingly little school improvement to show for it"), we must admit the failure of social welfare in the mid-twentieth century, then we must now admit the failure of bureaucratic education reform based on the accountability paradigm.
• If we believe schools are revolutionary, a door to an equitable society, why do we maintain a school system that privileges affluent students by placing them in the smallest classes with the most experienced and qualified teachers (see the disproportionate by socioeconomic status access to Advanced Placement and International Baccalaureate programs as well as the correlation of SAT scores and socioeconomic status) while promoting the experimentation of teacher assignments (Teach for America) with the student populations fairing less well in our schools—children in poverty, children of color, special needs students, and English language learners? Regardless of the words any of us, regardless of the slogans, the patterns of the system we create and tolerate reveal where our true commitments lie.
• And finally (this to me is the greatest question that must be answered) what logic or evidence supports the implied message of "poverty is not destiny": That poverty is within the power of people living in poverty to change, that the affluent are somehow not culpable for or powerful enough to change the conditions of inequity? Ample evidence shows that the U.S. is one of the most inequitable democracies in the world (a ranking we choose to ignore while dwelling on PISA), but we seem determined to remain committed to narratives of equity in the face of evidence revealing inequity. Until we examine, as I noted above about educational outcomes, the sources of social inequity, we are likely never to address the impact of poverty on the lives of children and their families.
I am willing to concede that nearly no reasonable people are claiming that poverty doesn't matter in student educational outcomes, but I must ask that the "No Excuses" Reformers also concede that no Social Context Reformers are seeking to use poverty as an excuse or to maintain some failed status quo of public education.
I also concede that it is far past time to admit the U.S. needs genuine social and educational reform—both of which must be based on a genuine commitment to equity and an acknowledgement that both our society and our schools are currently inequitable.
This concession and action based on it would indeed be the Christmas miracle we need and our children and society deserve.
In "Poverty Matters!: A Christmas Miracle pt. 1," I conceded the new refrain that no one is discounting the negative influence of poverty on student learning, specifically on the narrow representation of learning through test scores. I also ventured to identify the broad positions of the education reform debate, acknowledging the problem with suggesting anything has two sides but believing that this characterization is fair—with the "No Excuses" Reformers embracing rugged individualism ideology and trusting schools can be a powerful social reform mechanism and Social Context Reformers arguing that social norms create as well as maintain inequities regardless of merit and that school reform will succeed only within larger social reforms. I also confessed that I began my teaching career as a social reconstructionist (more in line with the "No Excuses" Reformers in some ways) but have come to see through the evidence of my nearly thirty years as an educator that the Social Context Reformers are where my allegiances lie.
Here in part 2, I want to be brief, but I think it is time that the "No Excuses" Reform movement answer some questions that simmer beneath their claims of "no excuses" and "poverty is not destiny." I want to move past the data and to why that data exist, and it is in the why that what claims the "No Excuses" Reformers are making become clear.
• Every year the SAT has been administered, there has been a powerful and consistent positive correlation between parental income/parental level of education and student scores. Except for the more recent writing section of the SAT, another important pattern includes that males score higher than females in the math and reading sections (although the names for these sections have changed over the years). And yes, there are also clear patterns connected with race. (View SAT data HERE). My question is, what is the why behind this data? If we follow the logic of the rugged individualism narrative, the why must lie in the students and thus within gender, race, and class. Is one gender inherently superior to the other, one race superior to the other, one class superior to the other? These top scores are then deserved within the categories—ostensibly a reflection of innate ability, effort, or both? I need this answered.
•And what about our prisons? Disproportionately housing males, and disproportionately housing African American males. What's the why here? (See the data HERE.) Those in prison have created their lot purely because this is what they deserve due to something inherent in their gender and race?
I could spend more time with the data, the mountain of data showing strong correlations within subcategories by gender, race, and socioeconomic status, but we are spending far too much time on that data and almost no time with the why—and the disturbing implications lurking beneath "no excuses" ideology.
In 2011, white males remain disproportionately in the ranks of the winners. Females and people of color remain outliers in the rarefied air of the 1%. But few people chanting the "no excuses" mantra will take the next step and explain or confront why—or acknowledge that this ideology implies an answer that perpetuates racism, classism, and sexism.
To aspire to a society based on equity and merit is to dream as Martin Luther King Jr. did, but to make claims that equity and merit do in fact exist in order to mask the pronounced privilege that is the status quo of the U.S. is the same strategy that quotes King's "I Have a Dream" in order to ignorehis more challenging arguments:
"The curse of poverty has no justification in our age. It is socially as cruel and blind as the practice of cannibalism at the dawn of civilization, when men ate each other because they had not yet learned to take food from the soil or to consume the abundant animal life around them. The time has come for us to civilize ourselves by the total, direct and immediate abolition of poverty."
And note that King didn't implore us to urge those living in poverty to suck it up, work harder, and simply take advantage of our meritocracy. No, he confronted sloganism that trumps action: "Let us be dissatisfied until America will no longer have a high blood pressure of creeds and an anemia of deeds."
Unless I can hear an argument otherwise, I remain convinced there is no excuse for the "no excuses" claim, in society or in schools. Social context matters, and social norms create the winners and the losers regardless of some genuine merit. To cling to hollow ideals simply because they appear to promote a national character only insures to corrupt that character, and likely destroy it.
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Iran cancels release of detained American
۱۹ شهریور ۱۳۸۹
Iran has canceled the planned release of a detained American woman because the legal process has not been completed, Tehran prosecutor Abbas Jafari Dolatabadi was quoted as saying on Friday.
"Because the legal procedure on her case is not finished, her release is canceled," the ILNA news agency quoted him as saying.
Iran had said it would release Sarah Shourd, one of three Americans detained near Iran's border with Iraq in July 2009, on Saturday. Foreign Ministry spokesman Ramin Mehmanparast said earlier on Friday President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad had intervened in the planned release of Shourd who, along with the two other detained Americans, has been accused of spying.
"The reports (on her release) cannot be confirmed by the judiciary and of course any decision on the named suspects depends on taking the legal procedure," he said. Dolatabadi did not say when she would be freed.
Intelligence Minister Haidar Moslehi has said Tehran has proof the three Americans had links to intelligence services. He said last month the investigation into the spying allegations would be completed soon.
The families of Shourd, Shane Bauer and Josh Fattal say they were on a mountain hike in northern Iraq at the time of their arrest. Washington says the spying allegations are unfounded.
Iran had said the three would be put on trial, without giving a date. They have not been formally charged but under Iran's Islamic law, espionage can be punishable by execution.
Journalists have been invited to attend a ceremony on Saturday at the Esteqlal Hotel in Tehran for the release of Shourd.
Washington, which cut diplomatic ties with Iran after its 1979 Islamic revolution, called on Thursday for the immediate release of all three, saying they had committed no crime.
Their case has further complicated relations between Tehran and Washington already fraught over Iran's nuclear activities.
Western powers suspect Iran is trying to develop nuclear weapons under the cover of a civilian atomic energy program. Tehran denies this, saying it needs nuclear technology to generate electricity.
President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said in February the three U.S. citizens might be released in exchange for Iranians jailed in the United States.
source: Reuters
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Liverpool, bursting at the seams with links to its flourishing rise through trade, travel and entertainment. From its quaintly cobbled Georgian quarter, through the naval-soaked ropewalks and onto the bustling dockside business district. The Gin Journey explores each era and how gin was firmly at the helm.
Visiting bars hidden away from the hustle and bustle, you will be enlightened with stories about the boozy botanical trade. Your Gin Guardian will spin stories of sailor's desires to romp around the city streets, navy strength booze in hand. Learn of Liverpool's ability to provide palate pleasing juniper juice for the world.
The Gin Journey Liverpool is an exploration into Liverpool's boozy history with a gin cocktail and a gin at every stop aka the best history class you've ever been to.
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The tour includes 5 samples of gin, 5 cocktails, in 5 amazing venues a chauffeured drive from bar to bar and a ridiculous amount of fun.


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The IRS on Monday announced that monthly child tax credit advance payments will go out starting this summer to eligible parents. The installments are part of the American Rescue Plan COVID relief bill signed in March.
This child tax credit is not new. Eligible parents already receive $2,000 from the government for each qualifying child when they get their tax refund in the spring. The change here is that the amount has increased and there will be the ability to receive up to half of the money in the form of monthly payments in the second half of this year. The monthly payments will be an advance on the money parents would get when they file their taxes in 2022.
Who is eligible for the child tax credit?
About 39 million households will be eligible for the monthly child tax credit, which the IRS says covers about 88% of children in the U.S.
Married taxpayers who made less than $150,000 in 2020 and who filed jointly will receive the full amount, as will qualifying widows and widowers. The full amount will also go to heads of household who made up to $112,500 and individuals who made up to $75,000. The amount will be phased out after that.
How much is the child tax credit?
It's $3,600 for each child under age 6. That breaks down to $300 per month. For children ages 6-17, it's $3,000 or $250 per month. Children who turn 17 in 2021 are among those who qualify.
When do child tax credit payments start?
July 15 is when the monthly payments begin. They will continue through December.
Because this is starting in the middle of the year, only half the money will come via monthly payments. The rest will come after taxes as part of the refund next spring, or will be deducted if the taxpayer owes the IRS.
When will the monthly child tax credit payment arrive?
The IRS says the payments will be made on the 15th of each month unless it falls on a weekend or holiday. Payments will arrive either by direct deposit or in the mail as a paper check or debit card.
Do I have to take the monthly child tax credit payment?
No. The IRS says it will have an online portal set up where taxpayers can opt-out of the monthly payment and take it all in one lump sum in the spring of 2021.
Is it better to take the monthly child tax credit or the lump sum?
It depends on your financial situation. One reason there was a push for the monthly payment was to help cut childhood poverty. Parents who have a lower income and are struggling could use the money immediately on food, diapers, clothing, child care or whatever is needed at the moment.
If you're someone who doesn't need the money immediately, or who anticipates possibly having to pay the IRS in the spring, you could opt-out and know that the full amount will be available at tax time.
Do I get the child tax credit advance if I had a child this year?
The IRS says the online portal will include the ability to report having added a child in 2021. It will also allow taxpayers to update their income and filing status.
Will the monthly child tax credit continue in 2022?
The increased and monthly child tax credit from the American Rescue Plan is only good for 2021 and is not set to continue in 2022. But in President Joe Biden's American Families Plan, he is proposing extending it to 2025. Some members of Congress have called to make it permanent.


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The Dangers in the Military Takeover in Egypt
The democracy of the street -- which 16 months ago led to the overthrow of the longstanding President Hosni Mubarak -- is claiming the same kind of people's victory in the overthrow of Morsi.
There are similarities. Like in 2011, the military's move against the sitting president was calculated as a response to massive popular protests - the military then and now claim to be operating on behalf of the Egyptian people. In 2011 people in Tahrir Square reached out with flowers to soldiers climbing down from their tanks. Yesterday the throngs crowding Tahrir Square cheered the military helicopters flying over the square.
But there are serious differences, and major dangers. This time, the sitting president was not a U.S.-backed military dictator kept in power by U.S. funding and political support. This time, the deposed president was Egypt's first democratically and popularly elected president in several generations. This time, when the military deployed armored personnel carriers in the streets of certain neighborhoods of Cairo, it was only, apparently, in areas known as strongholds of former President Morsi and the Muslim Brotherhood-based party he represents.
Whether or not the military's removal of the president constitutes a coup, the removal of a president by force, by the military, doesn't bode well for Egypt's fragile, incomplete and already flawed democracy. Where has that ever succeeded? For people's movements, the take-over by the military of implementation of the street's demand that Morsi must go, doesn't bode well for the future of that movement. Things remain very fraught.
Certainly the military did some things right. The announcement by General al-Sisi, the army commander, of the military's "roadmap" for the post-Morsi period, was quickly followed by statements of agreement and support for the military by a broadly representative group of leaders of key Egyptian constituencies. They included the head of the Coptic (Christian) church in Egypt; the imam of Al-Ahzar, the thousand-year-old institution known as the center of Islamic thought in Egypt; Mohamed el-Baradei, the leader of one of the largest opposition movements and former head of the UN's International Atomic Energy Agency; and crucially, a spokesperson for the youth-led tamarrud, or Rebel, movement that had initiated the call for these recent days' protests. Even the al-Nour party, rooted in Egypt's most extreme Salafi movements, which had been Morsi's key coalition partner, participated in the parade of voices heralding the new military-led post-Morsi order.
General al-Sisi called for a technocratic cabinet to be formed, to govern the country and to review the constitution, which he suspended. He said there would be a new election law drafted for parliamentary elections, and that an "ethical charter" would be drafted to guarantee freedom of expression and free media. And he said that all measures would be taken "to empower the youth to take part in state institutions and to be key players in the process." The general claimed that the military does not want to play a political role or to rule Egypt - and on some level that's probably true. But of course the military said that last time too, and yet continued to rule (quite brutally, by all accounts) for more than another year until President Morsi managed to send them back to their barracks.
He said that the military was responding to the Egyptian people's "call for help," and that he did not intend to hold on to the reins of power but to "make good the demands of the revolution." The roadmap included anointing the chief justice of the Supreme Constitutional Court as interim president, with the power to rule by decree. But the Constitutional Court is hardly an independent institution, let alone one representing the revolutionary process that began in Tahrir Square in 2011. Every judge in that court was appointed by the Mubarak regime; Adly Mansour, the chief judge and now interim president, has been on the court since 1992, and while he was chosen chief justice only a couple of months ago, he remains a hold-over from the Mubarak dictatorship - hardly a representative of "the revolution."
President Morsi had made huge mistakes. Not only did he fail (as almost any new president taking power after decades of dictatorship and entrenched neoliberal economic catastrophe would have failed) to improve the lives of ordinary Egyptians with jobs, electricity, water, security, etc., but Morsi and the Muslim Brotherhood that backed his party moved to strengthen the Brotherhood's power and influence across Egyptian politics. Moves away from women's rights and towards more conservative Islamist-oriented rules began to emerge. He consolidated his own power, rewriting key constitutional provisions while the Mubarak-era judges undermined the elected parliament. The democracy - the real democracy, not simply the election - fought for in Tahrir Square remained largely out of reach of the citizens of Egypt.
So the breadth of the anti-Morsi protests was understandable, and the mobilization of recent months incredibly impressive. The Tamarrud movement, led by an informal group of young activists, captured the increasing anger with an unprecedented petition campaign calling for Morsi to step down - exaggerated or not, the iconic claim is that they achieved 22 million signatures.
But what happens now? The military is once again the center of power in Egypt. Armored personnel carriers are once again visible on the streets. Morsi's whereabouts are unknown, although he is rumored to be in the Cairo headquarters of the Republican Guards - whether he is free to leave is unclear. There are reports of 300 warrants having been issued for the arrest of Muslim Brotherhood activists.
What will happen if the supporters of former President Morsi, supporters of the Muslim Brotherhood and its political party, remain in the streets? The pro-Morsi demonstrations were way smaller than those calling for his ouster; but there are still hundreds of thousands in the squares. The students at Cairo University, known as a pro-Morsi stronghold, are outraged at the APCs surrounding their campus. The threat of violence remains sky-high. At the main pro-morsi mobilization site in Cairo's Nasr City, Morsi managed to get a message to the crowd via a scratchy cell phone. The song that followed his cri du Coeur that he would never step down, was a well-known Egyptian militant song whose refrain says something like "keep your weapons close." Egypt remains as polarized as perhaps any country but Syria in the entire region - the threat of civil war is not out of the question.
And beyond the threat of violence in the streets, having the military in control means that U.S. influence is much greater - because the Egyptian military is thoroughly dependent on the U.S. for economic support and access to weapons. After the overthrow of Mubarak, the U.S. promised around a billion dollars in economic and development aid for the "new Egypt." But less than a quarter of that has actually been sent. On the other hand, the $1.3 billion the Egyptian military receives in U.S. tax dollars every year has continued to flow in full and on time. (It's not clear whether military aid to Egypt even faced any sequester-based reduction, since the Pentagon has a lot more flexibility in its accounts than domestic programs do.) Eighty percent of all Egyptian arms purchases are enabled by U.S. tax dollars, and the U.S. (along with the UK on a much smaller scale) continues to provide training for the Egyptian officer corps. However they choose to use it, the Obama administration and the Pentagon hold enormous potential capacity to influence the military's trajectory. And that too bodes badly for the Egyptian people's ability to realize the goals of what they still call their revolution.
It remains unclear what the impact of Morsi's overthrow will be in the region. Certainly Morsi's recent move towards a stronger level of support for the Syrian rebel opposition, and parallel consolidation of his government's ties with Saudi Arabia, Turkey, and Qatar in the context of the regionalization of the Syrian civil war, fueled his opponents' anger. He was perceived as pulling Egypt further into not only a regional war, but a sectarian one as well, and Christian, secular and even many Muslim Egyptians were not happy. What role, if any, the military and the military-backed interim government will play in Syria remains unclear.
For those of us in the U.S., the most important point should be to stop greater U.S. intervention in Egypt. As it did in 2011, the Obama administration is vacillating on its Egypt position. As theWashington Post described it, "Just two weeks ago, the U.S. ambassador in Cairo said Washington supported the Muslim Brotherhood-led government and felt it would be unwise for Egyptians to think 'street action will produce better results than elections.'...After voicing support for Morsi, the Obama administration appeared to distance itself from him this week. Hours before Egypt's generals announced that they were appointing a temporary government to replace Mohamed Morsi, however, U.S. officials signaled that they understood and shared the concerns that sparked a rebellion against the Islamist leader."
Part of the reason U.S. officials will likely resist identifying the military's action as a coup, is that officially, if not always in practice, coups have consequences in U.S. foreign policy. U.S. law prohibits sending aid to a government which comes to power by removing an elected government by force. We can expect to hear a lot of synonyms, and not too many overt uses of the word "coup." For the moment, U.S. military aid will probably continue to flow -the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff implied that it would be how the military runs things, not the act of removing an elected leader that will determine Washington's position. "At the end of the day it's their country and they will find their way," General Dempsey said, "but there will consequences if it is badly handled."
For now, our main hope should be for a tamping down of the violence, and a rapid end to military governance. Egyptian society had been divided almost down the middle between supporters and opponents of Morsi, although the recent protests may well indicate that even many of his supporters, disillusioned, have moved to the other side. But there is no question that there are many people on both sides, this is not "the people" against "the dictator," or even "the people and the army" against "the dictator." The revolutionary process that began in Tahrir Square has transformed Egypt in many ways - but it was an incomplete revolution. For now at least, it still is.


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When I started this blog the first photo I ever posted was this one:
He was just as little as Janey is now.
And now he's so big.
My little one was 5 in October and time certainly does fly! He likes to be outside all the time and is often found running round the garden in pyjamas and wellies very early in the morning. Happy Birthday to Patrick, he sounds like the most adorable little boy.ReplyDelete
happy birthday big guy!!ReplyDelete
Happy Birthday Patrick!
My baby turns 5 a few weeks after Christmas and time is also flying by for me.
Oh yes Happy Birthday little man. My grandson was 5 in October and grand daughter to be 5 on 27 December nearly a Christmas Day baby. How quickly they grow!ReplyDelete
Oh Sarah, they do get big too quick. I feel like I have watched Patrick grow up with Maggie through reading your blog since the beginning. Our deal's still one right? Because he is such a sweetheart and Maggie could use some good behavior to model ;)ReplyDelete
Happy Birthday, Patrick! The dimple remains an identifying features on him, doesn't it?ReplyDelete
Happy birthday Patrick!ReplyDelete
Awh, what a little cutie! I think I started following your blog when he turned 3 so I have to say that I can't believe he is now 5 either, haha! Time certainly does go by too fast! Happy Birthday to your sweet Patrick! :)ReplyDelete
Happy Birthday, little Patrick :)
Mine was yesterday...you know, all the nicest people have December birthdays ;)
I hope that none of your b-day gifts get wrapped in Christmas paper! I still hate that and I am way older than 5.
Happy Birthday Patrick!!! I started reading your blog when he was about 1 and I just love cutie pie Patrick pics! :)ReplyDelete
Happy birthday Patrick! My little boy turned 10 on Saturday. :)ReplyDelete
Happy Birthday to your adorable five-year-old! I love your comment about him being a good father one day. I think about that exact thing when I watch my son be sweet to his stuffed animals or (for the most part) his big sister. I'd like to think I have a hand in his sensitive side, but in all honesty he has the greatest father, too : )
Enjoy the big birthday!
Happy, Happy Birthday Patrick! What a wonderful helper you are to your mom!ReplyDelete
He was such a cute baby! So chubby!!! He is still So adorable. Happy Bithday wishes to a sweet little boy :DReplyDelete
Hi Sarah,
I discovered your blog tonight and let me just say your posts resonate with me deeply. This post moved me to comment about my son, Patrick Charles, who turned 5 in December also. I am looking forward to reading your blog regularly. god bless your family!


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The fashion exec who accused two NYPD cops of raping her said today their stunning acquittal last week has left her heartbroken and shattered.
The alleged victim in the sensational trial spoke out for the first time about her reaction to a jury finding police officers Kenneth Moreno and Franklin Mata of the top rape counts.
Here is her statement:
"I know that in a criminal trial a verdict of not guilty does not necessarily mean the defendants were found innocent, but I am devastated and disappointed by the jury's decision. I have waited two and half years for closure that will now never come. Hearing that verdict brought me to my knees; it brought me back to my bedroom on that awful night when my world was turned upside down by the actions of two police officers who were sent there to protect, but instead took advantage of their authority and broke the law.
Everything they say about the difficulties of a rape trial is sadly true. One's word is not enough in these days of CSI and DNA. Even if people believe you, you are tested beyond what any crime victim should have to endure. While on the witness stand, the defense attorneys seek to shame and humiliate you for hours, even days, with deeply personal questions about your body, your intimate life and your social life simply because you dare to come forward. How saddening, how utterly disheartening.
I want people to know I take great comfort and express my thanks in the swift action from Mayor Bloomberg and Police Commissioner Kelly to fire Misters Moreno and Mata from service immediately following the verdict. Thank you both for making such a strong statement that this City will not tolerate criminal actions by its police officers. Not a single officer in uniform sat behind the defendants when I testified. That speaks volumes. I know there are thousands of real and good New York City police officers who would have acted very differently that night.
I want to especially thank Coleen Balbert, Edward Tacchi, Randolph Clarke, Dianne Spence and the entire District Attorney's Office. I cry as I write this because I know they are hurting just like me, and because I know that beyond just doing their jobs, they are real people who care. I have spent countless hours over two and half years with these people and I am blown away by their dedication to fight for truth and justice. Before the jury went into deliberation, I told Coleen this has been personal for me, and their endless efforts to help me has meant the world. And even after this shocking ending, I mean that still, I will love them forever. When Ed told me after the verdict, "I am saddened for this injustice, and so sorry to you for this failure," I lost it. My heart broke. What I can only say about Ed, Randolph and Coleen is that they did the best for me, they are the best to me, and to so many others they have touched. What sets them apart, makes them best-in-class, is their heart. They gave me a voice after a night when I had none.
To my friends and family, you are the silver lining of this, you keep me going. I am also so amazed and touched by the thousands of people who have expressed their outrage at what happened to me. How amazing are the people of New York City, and all over the country, to speak up in my honor. Thank you so much. I am overwhelmed by your support. I want you to know that if I could I would shake your hand, I would hug you, and I hear you. For me, public opinion will be the ultimate verdict."
Kenneth Moreno's lawyer, Joseph Tacopina, released this statement in response:
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