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6.Myth: Girls have been shortchanged in our gender-biased schools
Fact: No fair-minded person can review the education data and conclude that girls are the have-nots in our schools. Boys are slightly ahead of girls in math and science; girls are dramatically ahead in reading and writing. (The writing skills of 17-year-old boys are at the same level as 14-year- old girls.) Girls get better grades, they have higher aspirations, and they are more likely to go to college.
Maybe girls are just smarter. Wouldn't that explain the 'evidence' just as well? Fortunately, this is something we can test! What would it mean for a school to be biased toward one particular gender? I'm not an expert but since we're all making stuff up, how about this: the amount of time teachers spend with kids. We could test whether attention from teachers made kids more likely to succeed in education, couldn't we? And then we could measure whether girls or boys tend to get more attention. Other measures might be devised.
Have studies like this been carried out? I've no idea, but I'd be surprised if they hadn't. But it doesn't matter: it's the sort of test we'd need to do to determine whether girls are just better at school or whether the school system gives them an unfair advantage.
Another issue is that this claim is very US-centric. As I understand it, boys have enormous opportunities in US schools that girls do not. I'm talking in particular about sport scholarships. In many places, girls are severely disadvantaged. In many places, they aren't allowed to go to school at all or are attacked with acid or bullets if they do. Those girls don't get the chance to get better grades or go to university. But if this is true in the US (I've no idea whether it is) then let's not just assert that it's because schools are biased toward them.
Is this a claim feminists actually make anyway?
7. Myth: "Our schools are training grounds for sexual harassment… boys are rarely punished, while girls are taught that it is their role to tolerate this humiliating conduct."
(National Organization of Women, "Issue Report: Sexual Harassment," April 1998.)
Hey, a source! Too bad I don't have time to verify it. Let's assume it's legit for now.
Fact: "Hostile Hallways," is the best-known study of harassment in grades 8-11. It was commissioned by the American Association of University Women (AAUW) in 1993, and is a favorite of many harassment experts. But this survey revealed that girls are doing almost as much harassing as the boys. According to the study, "85 percent of girls and 76 percent of boys surveyed say they have experienced unwanted and unwelcome sexual behavior that interferes with their lives."
Sneaky. The statistic quoted, assuming it's correct, doesn't say much useful about harassment, does it? It's no surprise that both girls and boys tend to experience harassment but the author doesn't say anything about the extent, degree or type of harassment. Is harassment of boys as routine and endemic as it is of girls? This is something else we can test and – again – I expect somebody has. But the author doesn't seem to have looked. He's found a stat that seems to fit his preconceptions and that's good enough for him.
(Four scholars at the University of Michigan did a careful follow-up study of the AAUW data and concluded: "The majority of both genders (53%) described themselves as having been both victim and perpetrator of harassment — that is most students had been harassed and had harassed others." And these researchers draw the right conclusion: "Our results led us to question the simple perpetrator-victim model…")(See: American Education Research Journal, Summer 1996.)
More smoke. This does nothing to either confirm or refute the 'myth'. It's saying something completely different.
8. Myth: Girls suffer a dramatic loss of self-esteem during adolescence.
Fact: This myth of the incredible shrinking girls was started by Carol Gilligan, professor of gender studies at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Gilligan has always enjoyed higher standing among feminist activists and journalists than among academic research psychologists.
Ad hominem. Attack the argument, not the arguer.
Scholars who follow the protocols of social science do not accept the reality of an adolescent "crisis" of confidence and "loss of voice." In 1993, American Psychologist reported the new consensus among researchers in adolescent development: "It is now known that the majority of adolescents of both genders successfully negotiate this developmental period without any major psychological or emotional disorder [and] develop a positive sense of personal identity."
I think we've lost sight of the myth here. The author seems to be suggesting that there's a persistent claim that girls suffer from a loss of self-esteem during adolescence more than boys. Is this really a common claim by feminists? But either way, the cited study seems to suggest there's no differential. So isn't the claim correct? I sure as shit had a crisis of self-esteem during adolescence and so did absolutely everyone I know. That includes some girls. I survived it. So did everyone else who is still alive.
I really don't see what point is supposedly being made and I certainly don't understand what the supposed evidence says about the claim one way or another.
9. Myth: Gender is a social construction.
Fact: While environment and socialization do play a significant role in human life, a growing body of research in neuroscience, endocrinology, and psychology over the past 40 years suggests there is a biological basis for many sex differences in aptitudes and preferences. In general, males have better spatial reasoning skills; females better verbal skills. Males are greater risk takers; females are more nurturing.
I'd love to see this 'growing body of research', but of course none of it is cited. I wonder why. Stating a thing doesn't make it so and 40 years of studies with the same outcome ought to have dredged up enough evidence to cite, right? Apparently not. Perhaps those four decades also chivvied up some evidence that aptitudes and attitudes are not determined by biology alone. To make an argument, the author would have to demonstrate why those studies are flawed and the ones that happen to support his conclusion are not. He doesn't do anything even similar to that.
If the author were concerned with whether or not gender is a social construct, he'd focus on ways to test that. Do girls automatically like pink regardless of culture or do they like pink because they're taught that they should? That kind of thing. But he's not concerned with that, he's concerned with re-enforcing the gender roles he thinks ought to exist.
Of course, this does not mean that women should be prevented from pursuing their goals in any field they choose; what it does suggest is that we should not expect parity in all fields.
If you could take a month off work to strive night and day to come up with a better excuse for sexism, do you think you could? Let's turn the argument around to reveal what the author really means: women can't do some stuff as well as men, so we get to treat women like idiots. Poor little things, trying to do men's work. We indulge them, bless their hearts, but they can't expect us to pay them the same as men or treat them with the same respect.
More women than men will continue to want to stay at home with small children and pursue careers in fields like early childhood education or psychology; men will continue to be over-represented in fields like helicopter mechanics and hydraulic engineering.
First, hilarious choice of macho occupations. Second, isn't this begging the question? It's such transparent bullshit that I'm not even going to bother teasing it out.
Warning: Most gender scholars in our universities have degrees in fields like English or comparative literature–not biology or neuroscience. These self-appointed experts on sexuality are scientifically illiterate. They substitute dogma and propaganda for reasoned scholarship.
If they are university scholars, aren't they appointed by the university? In what sense are they self-appointed? Besides, the term' 'gender scholars' is deliberately and stupidly vague. What does it mean? Do all these 'gender scholars' have the same sort of outlook? Do they make the same claims? Is it the gender scholars who came up with all these supposed myths?
10. Myth: Women's Studies Departments empowered women and gave them a voice in the academy.
Fact: Women's Studies empowered a small group of like-minded careerists. They have created an old-girl network that is far more elitist, narrow and closed than any of the old-boy networks they rail against.
Citation needed.
Vast numbers of moderate or dissident women scholars have been marginalized, excluded and silenced.
Citation needed. Look, just asserting something doesn't make it so. Haven't you understood that yet? If your claim is true, it's interesting. If it's just made up, it's worthless.
I don't know how to go about measuring empowerment. But I know a silencing tactic when I see one. The author is asserting with no evidence that women's studies is no good based on no stated criteria so women should probably just shut up and stop being annoying.
So there you have it: the 10 most common feminist myths debunked, apparently.


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Future Forest and Related Publications (pdf)
Collins, T., Goto Collins, R., Edwards, D. (2016 forthcoming) Seeking shared and cultural values in a Caledonian forest: integrating deliberation, ecology and artistic engagement. In Ecosystem Services Journal, Special Session on Cultural Ecosystem Services: Frontiers in Theory and Practice, Ed. Kenter, J. Netherlands: Elsevier Publications.
Collins, T., Goto Collins, R., Edwards, D. (2016 forthcoming) A Critical Forest Art Practice. In Landscape Research Journal ______.
Collins, T., Goto, Collins, R. (2016 forthcoming) Defining a Practice: With Reflection on Sylva Caledonia. In Elemental: An Arts and Ecology Reader, Brady, J., Ed. Liverpool UK: Gaia Press
Edwards, D. Goto Collins, R., (2016 forthcoming) "Does the Conservation Status of a Caledonian Forest also Indicate Cultural Ecosystem Value?" In [an as yet untitled book on bio cultural diversity in Europe.] Ed. Agnoletti, M. of the University of Firenze, Italy. London: Springer-Verlag.
Collins, T., Goto Collins, R., Edwards, D. (2015) Future Forest: The Blackwood, Rannoch Scotland. Oxford and Roslin: Landscape Research Group Press and Forest Research.
Collins, T., Goto Collins, R., Edwards, D. (2014) "A Case Study: Forest Futures, Kinloch Rannoch: Artistic engagement, interviews, deliberations and social learning to reveal hidden cultural values" in, the UK National Ecosystems Assessment Follow-on, Shared Plural and Cultural Values: A Handbook for Decision Makers. Eds Kenter, J., Reed, M. et al. Cambridge: UNEP-WCMC
Collins, T., Goto Collins, R., Edwards, D. (2014) "Future Forest – Caledonian – Aware Access – Blackwood', in Imagining Natural Scotland. Ed Griffith, D. Glasgow and Edinburgh: Creative Scotland.
Collins, T., Goto Collins, R., translation by Mhoireasdan, B. (2013) Eden3: The Forest is Moving: Tha a' Choille a' Gluasad. Perth: The Perth Museum and Art Gallery.
Plein Air and Related Dialogues (text & video)
- The Breadalbane Deliberation 1.0, with Alec Finlay an artist and poet, Anja Gunderloch an expert n 18th century Celtic literature, Jake King an expert in the terminology and meaning of the Gaelic landscape and John Stuart Murray a biologist and a landscape architect; all are recognized experts in the literature and language of Scottish place names.
A Critical Forest Art Practice: The Future Forest Workshop (text) in Kinloch Rannoch. With a range of arts, ecology, humanities and forest management and forest community experts talking about the social and cultural aspects of the Black Wood.
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Welcome to Burkina Faso
Land of Honourable Men
"Hello. My name is Adama Zonga. Welcome to Burkina Faso. And my name is Marie Kere. Welcome.
Our country is the 'Land of Men with Integrity'. This is what the name Burkina Faso means. It can also be interpreted as the 'Land of Honourable/Incorruptible Men'.
Marie and I are very proud of where we live and want to serve our country when we're older. I'd like to be a doctor and I explain why in the video. Marie wants to be a police officer.
Hopefully, Marie won't come up against too much serious trouble. Although there are over 60 different groups in Burkina, we all live together peacefully. This is not the case in some of our neighbouring countries."
In Refugees, meet a boy who had to leave his home in neighbouring Ivory Coast because of the war there.
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This recipe is a culmination of my grandmothers and my moms recipes and a little of my own.
- 2 lb
- ground beef
- 1/2 tsp
- white pepper
- 1/2 tsp
- mustard seed or ground mustard
- 1/2 tsp
- garlic powder
- 3 Tbsp
- morton tender quick salt
- 3 Tbsp
- liquid smoke flavoring
How to Make Summer Sausage
- 1Combine all ingredients together making sure it is mixed well.
- 2Shape into two rolls and wrap in foil.
- 3Refrigerate for 24 hours.
- 4Take rolls out of refrigerator and place in pan, cover with water and boil for 60 minutes. Place a lid or something on top to keep the rolls submerged as they boil.
- 5Drain and poke holes in the foil to allow them to drain and cool. Remove foil and put in ziplocs or bowls and refrigerate to cool. Slice and enjoy with some cheese and crackers.
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I want one of those so bad.
In Response to Brian's Query re: OSU funding
[EDIT: I removed the $ from the O$U title on the diary link after I realized the negative implications of such an oversight on my part.]
I only post this to give an idea of what the bucknuts are up to down south. In no way do I approve of their institution.
The Wall Street Journal did an Expo on the buckeyes a couple of years back. This is a direct cut and paste from that article: (hope this doesn't offend any blog rules. If it does, I apologize and will remove this content immediately).
The Wall Street Journal Online - By Jon Weinbach
At $109,382,222 for the current year [ed: 2007-2008], Ohio State's athletic budget is the largest in the nation and the biggest in the history of college sports. It allows the school to field 36 varsity teams in everything from baseball and soccer to riflery and synchronized swimming. The school spends about $110,000 on each of its 980 athletes, which is triple the amount the university spends per undergraduate on education.
The budget for this academic year allots $65,000 in private jet time, or roughly 11 hours, to men's basketball coach Thad Matta for recruiting trips over 200 miles -- and a further 15 hours of jet time for the coach's personal travel. A just-completed $19.5 million renovation of the football team's practice facility, funded with a large donation from Limited Brands Chief Executive Leslie Wexner, added a players-only entrance, a lounge that has six flat-panel TVs, three videogame systems and a juice bar. "There's always a race to get up there after practice," says Jake Ballard, a sophomore tight end for the football team that enters this weekend ranked No. 1 in the country.
The men's and women's ice-hockey teams train on a $75,000 hockey treadmill that features a lubricated, ice-like surface that tilts at sharp angles and goes as fast as 16 miles per hour. Men's hockey coach John Markell solicited a donor to buy the equipment, which he says has become a key part of players' workouts. It's a machine most college teams -- and even many National Hockey League clubs -- haven't purchased. "We don't have the space or resources for that," says a spokesman for the Anaheim Ducks, last season's Stanley Cup champions.
Here in Columbus, the OSU athletic department is a gold-plated island in a region getting roiled by harsh economic forces. The lavish program is the most vivid example of how college sports have turned into a humongous business and created a parallel universe of high-living in the world of academia. OSU's athletic budget, which has grown 46% in five years, has expanded despite a prolonged downturn in the Ohio economy and several rounds of public-funding cuts to higher education. The state's median household income fell 9.3% between 2000 and 2005, one of the worst declines for any state during that span.
Foreclosures and Poverty
Ohio has the nation's highest rates for foreclosures and delinquent mortgages, and during the second quarter of 2007, 22.9% of Ohio homeowners with subprime loans were over 90 days late -- almost twice the national average, according to the Mortgage Bankers Association in Washington, D.C. The state is home to two of the five poorest cities in America -- Cleveland and Cincinnati, both of which had more than 25% of residents living below the poverty line in 2006, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. Ohio has been ravaged by the struggling U.S. auto industry and the forces of globalization. From 2000 to 2006, the state lost about 200,000 manufacturing jobs and added just 40,000 new positions to offset the decline. Companies such as Mr. Coffee, Rubbermaid and Hoover closed plants and shifted production abroad.
From 2002 to 2005, the Ohio Legislature decreased annual support for the state's universities. In response, OSU instituted its highest annual tuition increases in nearly 40 years, boosting rates nearly 60% from 2002 to 2006.
Ohio State was one of just 19 schools to turn a profit on athletics in 2006, according to data collected by the NCAA. OSU says its athletic department is self-sufficient -- it uses sports revenues to pay for its teams and operations. It doesn't draw from the same budget that's used to fund academic departments. How much the athletic department spends is determined by how much it brings in, not by how much the university decides to give it. A 2005 economic-impact study, commissioned by OSU, estimated that the school's sports program pumps over $100 million a year into the local economy, with more than a third coming from Buckeyes fans' spending on hotels, food, parking and shopping.
In a sports-mad country, why Columbus? The alma mater of track star Jesse Owens, golfer Jack Nicklaus and basketball Hall of Famer John Havlicek, Ohio State has a long history of passionately supporting its athletes. OSU's teams are the premier sports attraction in Columbus, Ohio's state capital and biggest city, and the school has the largest enrollment in the country, with more than 52,000 students. TV broadcasts of OSU games routinely attract 60% of all local viewers, and in Columbus, the OSU football coach's Sunday-morning chat show gets better ratings than "Meet the Press."
Supporting the program is seen as a civic virtue. Over the past five years, giving to the Buckeye Club has increased an average of 12%. The booster club's membership of nearly 3,700 is up 32% from 2003. In addition to Mr. Wexner, a 1959 OSU graduate, prominent donors include Robert Schottenstein, CEO of M/I Homes Inc., one of the country's largest home builders.
The enormous financial rewards for successful programs have fueled an arms race among schools to build larger, more lavish venues that can ring up millions from luxury suites and sponsors. Over the past five years, schools in the NCAA's top six sports conferences raised more than $3.9 billion for new sports facilities, according to the Chronicle of Higher Education.
At Oklahoma State, oil and hedge-fund mogul T. Boone Pickens gave $30 million to renovate the football stadium, and put his name on it. He has also committed $165 million more to build an "athletics village" on campus. Nike founder Phil Knight recently donated $100 million to Oregon's athletic department, which plans to use the money as a safety net to cover potential operating losses. The department still plans to ask for public funds to build a $200 million basketball arena.
Other big spenders include the University of Texas-Austin, which has the nation's second largest sports budget at $107.6 million, although it fields 16 fewer teams than Ohio State. Last year, the Longhorns' athletic department paid $152,585 for nutritional supplements like Gatorade and PowerBars.
Preserving 'Opportunities'
The football and men's basketball programs at OSU are the only sports there that turn a profit -- and their revenues support teams other universities have eliminated for lack of funding. "We never want to get into the business of taking opportunities away from students," says Gene Smith, OSU's athletic director.
Ohio State's varsity synchronized swimming team competes in a two-year-old, $20 million facility, nicknamed the "Taj Mahal," that features seven bodies of water and two whirlpools for athletes to relax in during competitions. A multimillion-dollar renovation of the school's "Scarlet" golf course, completed last year and overseen by Mr. Nicklaus, added a short-game practice area and enlarged the course to over 7,400 yards. OSU's pistol team maintains a supply of about 30 firearms for the team's 11 members, and all shooters receive an array of free Nike gear, including polo shirts, a jacket and shoes. "We're a good-looking team," says James Sweeney, OSU's pistol coach since 1999. This year, for the first time ever, OSU's rifle and pistol teams received scholarship money to recruit top competitors.
At other schools, there is a more Darwinian approach to smaller sports. Last year, Rutgers cited budget shortfalls for its decision to cancel six sports, including swimming, men's tennis and fencing. But the athletic department still gave assistant football coaches a sizable raise, completed a $12.5 million renovation of football's training complex, and is in the midst of a stadium renovation that will add nearly 10,000 seats.
At Ohio State, "nonrevenue" sports such as men's lacrosse and women's track don't have to worry about earning their funding. Excluding football and basketball, OSU's other 34 teams generate about $1.5 million in revenue. Last year, for example, expenses for the women's hockey team totaled a little over $1.2 million while the sport brought in just $1,642, all of it from arena concessions. Many sports, including rifle, pistol, and women's fencing, don't contribute any revenue at all. "I'm sure my scholarship is possible because of the football team," says Lindsay Quintiliani, a sophomore goalie on the field hockey team.
Last season, Ohio State's football program generated about $57 million in revenue. The sum included a $4.75 million payment from the NCAA for advancing to the national championship game and $31.65 million in ticket sales from home games at Ohio State's 105,000-seat stadium. Team expenses, which include nearly $2 million for meals and travel, as well as debt payments to cover stadium renovations, subtracted about $21 million. Still, football supplied nearly $36 million in profit to the athletic department's coffers. The University of Florida, which beat OSU for the national championship in January, made about $34 million on football last year.)
OSU's men's basketball team, which moved into a new, 19,500-seat arena in 1998, advanced to last year's national championship game and turned a record $9 million profit.
A significant chunk of the athletic department's budget is spent in ways that benefit the school's general fund. This year, the athletic department will spend $12 million on scholarships or "Grantin- Aid" to pay for athletes' tuitions. A few years ago, the department contributed $5 million to help fund renovations to the campus's main library. OSU's sports program is also among the few that pays for all maintenance, security and operating costs at its facilities. (The utilities bill at the football stadium last year: $731,309.) In addition, the athletic department transfers about $1.7 million to the school's academic-support center to pay for tutors and "life skills" workshops for athletes. "I think we're paying somebody $25 an hour to tutor physics," says Mr. Smith.
Last year, the issue of swelling athletic-department budgets was taken up in Washington by the House Ways and Means Committee and the Senate Finance Committee. In a strongly worded letter to NCAA President Myles Brand, former Ways and Means Committee Chairman Bill Thomas criticized "highly paid coaches with no academic duties," and wrote that Division I football and men's basketball "more closely resemble professional sports than amateur sports."
Judy Bunting oversees OSU's 46 cheerleaders and four student mascots. Her team gets about $169,000 from the athletic department, and supplements it with interest income from a special endowment established by a donor a few years go. "We probably have more scholarship money than most," says Ms. Bunting. In contrast to the spirit squads at Notre Dame and UCLA, OSU's cheerleaders get seats on the football's team's chartered jets. "That's a big plus," she says. "We used to drive vans and fly commercial."
cheerleaders get seats on the football's team's chartered jets. "That's a big plus," she says. "We used to drive vans and fly commercial."
My son trains on one. Weird. Plastic slats and lasers. Helps, though.
Almost would have to give a -1 for the use of O$U, but given the tight relationship to the subject matter, you get a pass.
I live in Ohio and am sitting in a Marriott now in Columbus. I was at Ohio State three hours ago. Why is that important? I don't know, except to echo that they live, breathe, eat and excrete Ohio State around here and that translates into dollars.
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I spent 20 of my 30 years on this Earth in Cbus and I've always believed that OSU has a significant advantage in terms of raising mad cash and selling lots of gear because they are the only big university in the state. Almost every other big time, top 25 football program has competitors inside its own state borders.
Cali - USC, UCLA, CAL, etc.
PA - PSU, Pitt
IL - Northwestern, Illinois
Iowa - Iowa, ISU
IN - IU, Purdue, ND
VA, NC, SC, FL, AL, MS, TX, AZ, WA, etc. all have at least two big schools.
OSU and Tennessee are the two that come to mind that do not. It is a unique and beneficial situation. It makes a significant difference because the entire state pours $$ into the OSU football program. There are no other programs to compete against.
You know you have the state wrapped around your finger when the local NBC station preempts ER to let everyone know the Buckeyes arrived in Champagne, IL, which is exactly what happened in 1996 (when ER was one of the most popular shows on TV).
There was an article on the back page of SI last summer that looked at the OSU AD funding and compared a player on a gameday to a loyal homeless fan. It was very sad.
That's the article you are talking about. I agree that it is sad.
Before I read these I was figuring basketball and concessions are better at OSU (shirts/hats/etc). UM bball has drawn very poorly for most of this decade (I'm figuring that will change). I'm guessing the OSU bball program has recently made more then the UM bball program. Part of my childhood was spent growing up in Columbus and as others have stated, they live, breath and sleep Ohio State there. During the fall, you see so many people wearing Ohio State gear it's amazing. I'm guessing they do very well on merchandising sales.
In stead of flying chartered jets, couldn't they just buy better looking cheerleaders?
What is going on in Columbus? Why do players stay at the luxury Blackwell Hotel for home games? Why are there 15 plasma screens in the locker room as well as private basketball and raquetball courts and juice bars? Why is the 21 year old student driving a Ford Expedition to his morning class?
I can see how this "lifestyle" would be a selling point in the recruiting process. I would like to think that at Michigan, the coaches aren't selling the lifestyle, but rather the the tradition, the chance to play on the big stage, the top notch education, and the alulmni network.
Agreed how does a 21yr old college student get a Expedition? and why are they staying at the blackwell they are at home?!? you know what I have a hockey game tomarrow i think i'm go sleep in the local marriot? sorry I'd rather sleep in my own bed!
I was an undergrad during our national championship year. I lived on State Street. In the late summer of 98 you could set your clock by the caravan of new model SUV's to football practice each day. Lets not start casting aspersions on other programs citing circumstances that are very prevalent in our own.
Stayed in a local hotel for home games. Easier to enforce curfew and all that.


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High schooler Patsy Klein (yes, really) has just been given an unthinkable assignment: she must kill a list of ten people, or her mother will die. It's a harsh reality that Patsy's mother is one of the millions of Americans who's taken on more debt than they can handle…and the nation's biggest bank, Valor Savings, is erasing that debt in a horrifying manner. The person who's contracted the debt has the choice to pay it back, be killed, or kill others in their same position. Patsy has decided to take on the killing for her mom.
I'm going to take a minute here to talk about how utterly ridiculous this plot is. So this banking conglomerate, Valor, is going out and KILLING the people who collectively owe them probably billions of dollars. Maybe it's just me, but this makes less than no sense. If a person who owes you a lot of money is dead, how can you ever get back any money from them? This is, unless, I'm misunderstanding the whole plot, and somehow Valor automatically takes everything the person owns after they are dead–but this was NEVER mentioned in the book.
Looking past the plot, main character Patsy is just flat and emotionless to me. Understandably, she is nervous when she has to make her first kill, but after that the assassinations become kind of matter-of-fact to her, to the point where she even takes a shower and chills out in a man's house after killing him. The killings themselves only become interesting to the plot when Patsy somewhat forcibly pieces together that all of the targets on her list have something to do with her. But, even by the end, the most intriguing thing about the book has not been unraveled.
There is a love interest, of course. Wyatt Beard goes to kill Patsy after finding out she was the one who killed his father. Inexplicably, they immediately like each other and become inseparable for the next few days. There is very, very little substance to their relationship, but that doesn't change the fact that they are somehow making out before they know each other's names. It even happens that not only did Patsy have to kill Wyatt's dad, his older brother is also on her list! Even though Wyatt knows this, they continue together towards what can only be an ill fated end.
Hit was a miss on so many levels for me, and I am disappointed because it sounded like something new in the tired young adult genre. It seems that Hit is the first book in a series, but I'm pretty sure I will not be continuing this journey.
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I've established these rules for the server so that everyone can have fun, be treated with respect, and we can have a safe place for kids of all ages to create incredible constructions, battle zombies, stare at endermen and explore The End.
Main Goal: The main goal of the Gameknight999 Minecraft Network is for all of us to be able to play Minecraft together and have fun. I love Minecraft, and of course I love writing about Minecraft, but more importantly, I love playing Minecraft with all of you. But the only way we can do this, with the server growing larger and larger, is to have some rules for everyone to follow.
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Rule 1: No Swearing or spamming or cheating or hacking
Rule 2: No Griefing, even if it's not claimed
Rule 3: Be respectful, even if you disagree
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Rule 5: No advertising in Chat of any kind
Rule 6: Keep the drama at a minimum
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Rule 8: No hacked client! Using hacks will get you banned!
Rule 9: One Strike and YOU'RE OUT!
Rules on the server may not be up to date. Always assume the rules on this web page are current and correct.
Let me go through these rules in detail:
1. Swearing: I have no tolerance for swearing. If people try to defeat the anti-swearing software by replacing letters with numbers or symbols, you will be permanently banned. This includes any racist language. There is no reason for swearing or racism on the server, and violators of this rule will be dealt with swiftly and severely. Keep it in mind, I see EVERYTHING you type, and I check the chats every morning, so please use appropriate language. If you see someone swearing, please submit a support ticket.
Spamming: Don't do this. It makes it difficult for others to communicate and is disrespectful to everyone. The penalty will be a temporary mute on the first offenses, temporary ban on a second offense, and permanent ban on the third offense.
Cheating/hacking: If you are caught cheating, by using hacking software, you will be banned permanently. Optifine is NOT hacking software, and you will NOT be banned for using Optifine. Just because someone is really good in kitPVP or Survival Games, that does not mean they are hacking. If you see someone flying that shouldn't be, or are in creative, or . . . please take a screen shot and submit it to me on the support ticket system.
2. Griefing: We have anti-griefing software on the server. Watch the video to see how to use it; it's very important that you protect your claims. The video is here: http://bit.ly/mcgpuser. That being said, if you destroy someone else's creation, you will be temporarily banned, the length of the ban is up to the staff member. It doesn't matter if things are claimed or not; if you grief them, you will be temp banned. On your second offense of griefing, you will be permanently banned, and your IP address will also be banned. I will not tolerate people destroying other people's stuff. Please do not take things out of other people's chests unless you have permission, that is stealing and is not OK.
Inspection Software: Please realize, we have software that lets us inspect a broken building, to see who did the greifing. It will show us who broke the blocks and when they did it. So please, don't destroy other people's creations, unless you goal is to be banned.
3. Be respectful: It is difficult for myself and the admins to keep everyone happy in all circumstances. Sometimes, an admin will discipline someone who is misbehaving. It may seem unnecessary or arbitrary to you, but likely it has been a reoccurring problem, and the offending player has been warned multiple times. If you see an admin mute or kick or a ban a player, it is a mistake for you to say that it's unfair, because you don't know what's been going on prior to that single incident. If you think an admin is being unfair, you should send me a support ticket followed with a screenshot. I can check the chats and see what was said. It is rare that I disagree with an admin, but sometimes I do, and we discuss what has happened together, to find ways for all of us to work and play together. If you have a complaint about an admin, don't be disrespectful and say mean or disrespectful things. Instead, continue to play the game, and send me a support ticket. There is no guarantee that I will undo the decision made by the admin just because you send in a complaint in the support ticket system. But yelling at the admin in the game is not a way to help the situation, it will only cause more problems. Be smart, be respectful, and use the support ticket system. If you are disrespectful to a staff member, you will be muted. If you do it again, you will be temporarily banned. If you continued to be disrespectful, you will be permanently banned.
4. No asking for Gamemode, OP, Rank, Permission, Items: The only reason why someone asks for Gamemode 1 or to be opped is because they want to grief. If you ask for these things, you will likely be permanently banned. Please do not ask to be staff. This is an invited position and we do it very rarely. Do not ask staff for items, we will not give them. You can use the /kit command and get lots of stuff. If you don't know how to use the kits, ask someone and they will show you.
5. No Advertising: It is incredibly disrespectful to advertise for another server on my server. I've spent a lot of time and money to grow the server to the level it is at, and I don't appreciate anyone trying to direct players away from this server. There is nothing wrong with wanting to play on other servers, just please do the advertising somewhere else. People advertising will be temporarily banned on the first offense and permanently banned on the second offense.
6. Keep Drama to a Minimum: If you are saying things to purposely make people upset, or if you are baiting people into arguments, or if you are just complaining constantly, these kinds of actions have an effect of increasing the drama on the server, and makes for an uncomfortable environment. If you having an argument, then send direct messages; don't fill the chat with your arguments. If you are upset with another player, use a direct message. If you disagree with an admin, use a direct message. If you are angry at someone about something that happened in real life or on social media, use a direct message. All of these things are best aired through direct messages, and should always be done respectfully. Not everyone will agree, that's real life. But we must all learn to get along so we can all have fun. If someone is consistently increasing the drama and making things tense, they will be warned, then muted, then temporarily banned, then permanently banned. I want everyone to have fun on this server, and will not let an individual ruin it for everyone.
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8. Do not build single block towers: I know it's tempting because of all the blocks you have in the kits. But I am the one that must go around and get rid of them. I can inspect the blocks and see who built them and when they built it. There is not argument here; if you build a single block tower and I have to clean it up, then you will be temporarily banned. It's OK if your single block tower is part of your house, or a parkour game, or part of some construction. But when you build a single block tower, just to look around, then use your pickaxe or axe or shovel, and dig it up when you're done.
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Card boys' golf: Alexandria finishes second in CLC standings
Brainerd won the Central Lakes Conference team championship with 56 points, followed by Alexandria at 52 and Fergus Falls at 47.
Rounding out the field were St. Cloud Tech with 42 points, Willmar 41, Sartell 31, Sauk Rapids 22, Rocori 17, St. Cloud Apollo 7.
Earning CLC All-Conference honors for the Cardinals were Nick Brundell, second in the CLC standings, Lukas Bigger, third, and Austin McCulloch, seventh.
The Central Lakes Conference boys' golf championship came down to the final meet of the season, and, unfortunately, it didn't end in Alexandria's favor.
"With three points separating the top three teams, and Alex in third place going into this meet, we knew several things had to happen," said Cardinal head coach Rick Larson. "One of them did happen, with Fergus Falls struggling in the windy conditions and finishing in the middle of the pack.
"But the second thing that needed to happen did not," he said of his squad's second place finish. "It was a valiant effort by the team, but placing second to Brainerd today allowed Brainerd to win the CLC. We did move up to second, but the players were thinking bigger."
The Cardinals were so close to picking up the win as Brainerd edge Alexandria by three strokes 317-320.
"Only four team strokes kept us from becoming CLC champs," said Larson. "Every player can think back to their round and know that there was at least a couple places where a better decision or better shot or putt could have saved a stroke or two. But then again, that is golf."
The Cardinals did put forth a valiant effort, with junior Nick Brundell earning medalist honors as he carded a 1-over-par 73, while senior Austin McCulloch added a 79.
"Nick had one of his better rounds of the season, which included a double bogey and an eagle," said Larson. "Austin had a solid round as he has done all season, and finished in the 70s."
Freshman Lukas Bigger came in with an 83, junior Brady Hafdal an 85, junior Nic Hanson an 86 and senior Tanner Gustafson a 92.
"Lukas had it going, three over through 12 holes, but could not finish the round," noted his coach. "Brady had two double bogeys and several bogeys for his round, and Tanner just plain struggled all day. His driver got him into trouble early and he never really recovered."
The Cardinals finished second in the final Central Lakes Conference standings, with Brundell, Bigger and McCulloch earning CLC All-Conference honors as they finished 2-3-7 in the standings.
"Up next is the 8AAA section meet at GreyStone Monday and Tuesday [June 4-5] of next week," said Larson. "If everything comes together, we will be in the hunt."
TEAM SCORES - 1. Brainerd 317, 2. Alexandria 320, 3. Sartell 324, 4. Willmar 326, 5. St. Cloud Tech 330, 6. Fergus Falls 334, 7. Sauk Rapids 348, 8. Rocori 351, 9. St. Cloud Apollo 378.
MEDALIST - Nick Brundell, Alex, 73.
ALEXANDRIA SCORES - Brundell 73, Austin McCulloch 79, Lukas Bigger 83, Brady Hafdal 85, Nic Hanson 86, Tanner Gustafson 92.


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In my This War of Mine review , I said I would cover the new expansion update. Since it is now out, that is precisely what I shall do. Because I have other duties to attend to, including another upcoming review, hint hint, I decided to make my custom playthrough be short and easy.
At the menu screen, you now have the option to create your own story. This differs from the "choose a story" menu screen in that, when you choose a story, you don't have total control over the scenario itself. You just choose a set of characters, and it's one the game already made for you. Sometimes, their scenarios come with built-in difficulty factors, but those factors are beyond your control.
Customizing your game, however, gives you a bit more freedom. You can choose which combination of civilians you want to start out with, and even customize your own. It's not Sims body-shop level customization—it's just enough for them to be given a backstory that fits in with the general gist of the game without them feeling too much like outsiders. In fact, you can even go so far as to upload your photo and insert yourself into the game. This doesn't really seem like the kind of scenario in which you would want to vicariously insert yourself at first glance, but on the other hand, putting yourself right in the line of action is potentially powerful. I have not done this yet, but I might in the future.
The special abilities that come with the new civilians' occupations are not readily obvious until you begin the game, but you cannot determine how high your characters' combative abilities are, or how good they are at cooking, and so on—that just goes with the occupation. I suspect the purpose of this is to prevent eager players from exploiting the system by creating an overly powerful character. These special abilities and limitations make the civilians you customize feel more like the survivors that already come with the game. Roman, for instance, is the best at combat and stealth attacks, but is less empathetic.
The one inherent flaw with custom civilians is that the full extent of their abilities isn't immediately known. They may need a few more thorough playthroughs with other players before their usefulness is fully understood. For this particular run, the civilians I created were never placed in a situation where I'd need to understand their strengths and weaknesses. This is one reason why making this test playthrough easy may have been a mistake, but I'll write more on that later.
For this playthrough, I created Angie the insurance agent and Yosef the psychologist, and paired them up with my OTP Roman and Katia. Since we never had to deal with winter thanks to my customization points, this gave the characters plenty of time to explore and do good deeds with minimal stress. I worried that starvation was going to become a problem at one or two points, but I managed to find the food we needed in time, and by the time the others reached the edge of starvation again, the war was over. And thus, everyone lived happily ever after.
On this test custom map, I included the two new locations: the looted gas station and the old town. Both are relatively easy to navigate, outside of a few places where you'll need a few lockpicks and a handsaw, but the latter is deceptively easy. Every location has some sort of document or item you can examine that will give you a good idea of what life in this location must've been like. The old town uses this feature to craft a very tragic story that gradually unfolds with exploration. Once you reach the highest point of the house, you'll quickly realize that your character is in a lot more danger.
Outside of this danger, this playthrough was relatively easy enough. However, in making things easy, I feel like this was a mistake. My party had the resources it needed, nobody had to make a tough choice, everyone survived to the twentieth day, and my survivors lived happily ever after. Under any other circumstances, I'd be thrilled to get such an ending, but it didn't feel like a genuine victory because I'd deliberately tilted the scales in everyone's favour. No one actually earned their happy ending, and it just didn't feel true. It was like the difference between climbing over a mountain, and being airlifted to the other side.
This is not a criticism of the custom story design itself. This is just a slight warning against making things too easy for your characters. Do it so you'll get a very basic idea of how this customizing works, but not if you want a fulfilling gaming experience. Sure, you'll have an easier time winning, but you won't actually learn anything.
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text: Intestinal Myiasis: All Worms in Stools Are Not Worms!Murali, A. MD*; Kannan, R. MD*; Srinivasan, N. MD†; Kumar, J.S. MD†Infectious Diseases in Clinical Practice: January 2010 - Volume 18 - Issue 1 - p 65-66 doi: 10.1097/IPC.0b013e3181ab2e92 Case Reports Abstract Author Information Myiasis is the infestation of humans with fly larvae. In intestinal myiasis, commonly due to Eristalis tenax, fly larvae are found in the intestine and excreted in the feces with or without symptoms. Here, we report a case of a patient who presented with passage of "worms" in stools that were confirmed to be maggots of Muscina stabulans. He was treated with an enema and was asymptomatic at 3 months follow-up. From the *Saveetha Medical College; and †SRM Medical College, Chennai, India. Reprints: A. Murali, MD, Plot No 8, I Ave, AG's Colony Phase III, Mugalivakkam, Porur, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India 600116. E-mail: email@example.com. The authors have no funding or conflicts of interest to disclose. © 2010 Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, Inc.


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Created by Joe Diebes, Christian Hawkey, and David Levine
– Gallery Exhibition: January 16February 1, FREE
– Performances: January 23-25, January 30-February 1, 8pm, Tickets Required
* $15 in advance available at BRICartsmedia.org and 718.683.5600
* $18 at the door
BRIC House
647 Fulton Street, Brooklyn, NY 11217
BRIC is proud to present WOW, an experimental opera created by the collaboration of three Brooklyn artists—Joe Diebes, Christian Hawkey, and David Levine. The opera explores the legendary tragedy of the Milli Vanilli lip-syncing scandal, using various spaces in BRIC House. The audience will be taken through a gallery (featuring a group art exhibition curated by Merkx&Gwynne), a performance space, an artists' studio, a TV studio, and a resource room, creating a unique multi-layered experience. For more information, visit BRICartsmedia.org.
647 Fulton Street (note new address!)
Brooklyn NY 11217


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The timezone in Thackers Ranch is America/Whitehorse
Sunrise at 07:14 and Sunset at 16:51. It's light
Latitude. 40.6919°, Longitude. -118.1389° , Elevation. 1265m
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Marion Bartoli of France advanced to the second round of the Pan Pacific Open on Monday with a 6-1, 6-4 win over local favorite Kimiko Date-Krumm, who had to deal with the distraction of a rowdy fan.
After dominating the first set, the ninth-seeded Bartoli faced a tougher challenge from Date-Krumm, who came back from a 3-1 deficit in the second set.
"Playing her in Japan is a tough challenge," Bartoli said. "I expected her to fight to the end. I knew she would make a comeback in the second set and she did but that forced me to stay focused."
Date-Krumm, who turns 42 on Thursday, closed the gap to 5-4 but was undone by two unforced errors in the last game when she was forced to contend with a loud, intoxicated supporter.
"I heard it and found out after the match there was a drunken fan," Date-Krumm said. "Maybe he was cheering for me but it was distracting and broke my concentration on some big points. It's too bad something like that can happen."
Bartoli, who improved to 4-0 in head-to-head matches against Date-Krumm, said she has a lot of respect for the 107th-ranked Japanese player.
"I would love to be able to play at her level at 42," Bartoli said. "I'm 27 and am amazed by her condition every time she steps on the court."
Bartoli will face Germany's Julia Goerges in the second round on Tuesday. Goerges beat Romanian Monica Niculescu 6-3, 6-2.
Caroline Wozniacki of Denmark beat Bojana Jovanovski 6-0, 3-6, 6-4 to advance.
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Kaia Kanepi of Estonia, who lost Wozniacki in the final of the Korea Open, defeated Spain's Silvia Soler-Espinosa 6-1, 6-4.
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Urszula Radwanska of Poland coasted to a 6-2, 6-4 win over Japan's Kurumi Nara, while 17th-seeded Nadia Petrova of Russia downed China's Peng Shuai 6-1, 6-4.


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Law360, New York (February 19, 2013, 3:02 PM EST) -- Peter F. Garvin III is a partner in Jones Day's Washington, D.C., office. He has more than 30 years' experience in counseling and litigation relating to United States and international government procurements, including contract award and administration, bid protests, preparation and litigation of claims, cost accounting, defective pricing and Defense Contract Audit Agency audits, delays and differing site conditions, patents and data rights, contract terminations, U.S. General Services Administration supply schedules, Foreign Military Sales transactions, security clearances, M&A due diligence, joint ventures and teaming agreements, and...
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