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"Congressman Jolly appears to be making the smart move by getting out of the Senate race, even though he'll face a difficult re-election campaign against candidate Charlie Crist in a district that is more Democratic than it was last year," Orlando said. "With Florida Lt. Gov. Carlos Lopez-Cantera and Ron DeSantis likely stepping aside too, Senator Rubio is in a good position to consolidate support."
On the Democratic side, most likely primary voters--61 percent--are undecided while Patrick Murphy gets 16 percent followed by Alan Grayson with 14 percent. Lateresa Jones gets 4 percent and Pam Keith pulls 3 percent.
"Alan Grayson and Patrick Murphy are still unknown quantities to most Florida Democrats," Orlando noted. "Patrick Murphy is the establishment choice, but Alan Grayson is hoping to capitalize on the intensity of younger voters that supported the Bernie Sanders presidential campaign."
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I'm Right, and You're Wrong…
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"The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this 'emotion' is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder, or stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead. His eyes are closed." Albert Einstein
In today's world it seems we want to remove the mysterious. We all want "evidence" and we want to be "right." In religious and political circles we've abandoned civility for the sake of proving who is "right" and who is "wrong." Richard Rohr says he doesn't recall Jesus ever saying "This is my commandment: thou shalt be right." The amazing arrogance of people today to claim the truth creates walls, wars, and wailing.
Where is the embrace of the mysterious? When asked which is the greatest commandment in the Law, Jesus replied: "Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. This is the first and greatest commandment. And the second is like it: Love your neighbor as yourself. All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments." (Matt 22:36-40)
Does loving our neighbor require that we first prove who is right? Does standing in awe at the sunset require that we first argue about color refraction? If I am in Venice, Florida and pull into a service station, do I demand proof that what comes out of the hose is gasoline before I pump it into the tank of my beautiful car?
Faith, by definition, requires walking ahead without clear "evidence or proof" that what we believe will happen. If we remove faith and the mysterious from our lives, we are not reaching for our ultimate best; rather, we have deteriorated into mechanized robots — or as Einstein says, "as good as dead."
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If you've read The Simple Dollar for a while, you know that I'm a big believer in the maxim that time is money. I'm quite passionate about time management, because I see it as a way to maximize what I earn from the time I spend working so that I can spend more of my time doing other things that I'm passionate about, like spending time with my family or reading engaging books.
In fact, one of the most powerful books I've ever read was David Allen's classic time management book Getting Things Done. It drastically altered how I managed my time and made it possible for me to hold down a full time job and build The Simple Dollar at the same time while also maintaining a home life with a good marriage and two very young children.
Since then, I've read a lot of good time management books. For the most part, they've simply supplemented the GTD system that I already use with specific tactics or made me re-evaluate some life choices in a philosophical way.
This book, 18 Minutes by Peter Bregman, comes very highly regarded from multiple readers of The Simple Dollar who recommended it to me (I get about ten book recommendation emails a week). Bregman writes a column for the Harvard Business Review on managing yourself, of which a significant focus is time management.
The focus of this book is on eliminating distraction, finding focus, and making good choices about what to do with your time. His approach is a bit different in that he talks about making proactive distractions for yourself, so that when you're distracted from the task at hand, you stumble right into something else that's useful.
So many of us with busy lives are so caught up in the overabundance of things that we have on our to-do list that we never bother to stop for a moment and ask ourselves why we're doing thse things. Often, we're filling our day with things that are, in the big scheme of things, pretty unimportant, and those unimportant things are crowding out the genuinely important ones.
Bregman's advice is to simply "pause" for a bit and get things in perspective. A "pause," in Bregman's book, is a time where you simply look at the things you're doing and order them in terms of how important they are to you in your overall life. Where do we want to be going in a general sense? What kind of person do we want to be?
Recognize that all of the choices we make have costs and they have benefits. A choice to work late might mean less sleep or less time building a deep relationship with our spouse or our wife. What's the right choice? It can be a challenging question, but without pausing sometimes, we don't have the time to give it the thought it needs to be sure we're coming up with the right answer.
What Is This Year About?
One big part in determining what's important is thinking about the things you want to achieve over the medium term and the long term. Where do you want to be a year from now? Five years from now? Which of the things on your plate is most likely to help you get to that place?
So much of what we do on a daily basis has little impact on our lives from that perspective, and thus it's worthwhile to actively lower the importance of such things. The things that are actually important are the things that have long term impact on our lives and we should strive to focus on those as much as possible.
What Is This Day About?
This, of course, brings us to today. Once we understand what big things we want from life, it's easier to prioritize the things that need to be done today. In other words, if we have a long checklist of things to take care of, which of those actually has a significant positive impact toward our long term ideas?
One way to effectively do this is to simply surround yourself with things that all have a positive impact toward our long term goals. Load your office down with things you'd like to make progress on over the long term, and do the same with your home.
Thus, when you are distracted, something that Bregman more or less describes as inevitable, the things you're distracted by are also things that relate to a long-term goal. For example, if one of your big goals is improving your fitness, put a resistance band near your desk. That way, when you're distracted, you'll see that band and do some stretches, filling your time with something goal-oriented instead of something useless.
Is 18 Minutes Worth Reading?
The entire focus of this book seems to be dealing with our overcrowded lives, where our day-to-day activities don't match up with the things we want out of our lives. I found that it offered a lot of good, sensible advice, but the specific implementations seem to be extremely varied in that you're going to find some that work for you and a lot that do not, and the ones that work for you are going to be different than the ones that work for someone else.
For me, I felt like I got quite a lot out of this book. The ideas in it made me reorganize my office in a more "goal-oriented" fashion, as described above, as that was the most powerful idea that came from this book for me. If I can get one "home run" idea from a book, then it was a worthwhile read for me, and I think there are a lot of "home run" ideas in this book for people struggling with time management.
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Diablo 3: Reaper Of Souls
Malthael, the fallen Archangel of Wisdom, vanished after the events depicted at the end of Diablo II: Lord of Destruction®. In Reaper of Souls, he returns as the Angel of Death and seizes the Black Soulstone, which contains the essence of the Prime Evil. It now falls to the players to track down Malthael and stop him before he unleashes irreversible havoc on the world.
Fortunately, a new hero is ready to join the cause and bring Malthael to justice—the Crusader. Driven by a centuries-long quest to cleanse the corruption blighting their beloved Zakarum faith, Crusaders are warriors of righteousness who have been hardened through relentless, brutal combat with the foul evils plaguing eastern Sanctuary. In addition to wearing immensely heavy armor and wielding a wide range of cruel and punishing weapons, this new playable class in Reaper of Souls uses battle magic to strengthen allies and weaken foes. A natural walking tank, the Crusader adds power and versatility to any party of adventurers.
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• In addition to taking the story of Diablo III from the legendary city of Westmarch to the unhallowed halls of the Pandemonium Fortress in Act V and introducing the incorruptible Crusader class, Diablo III: Reaper of Souls increases the game's level cap to 70. Players continuing on with their existing Barbarian, Witch Doctor, Demon Hunter, Wizard, and Monk characters will benefit from an array of fearsome new spells and abilities as they advance in level.
• The expansion also accentuates the key features of the Diablo franchise, with a greater emphasis on randomized environments to explore; epic new quests; horrific new monsters to defeat; and substantial updates to the loot experience, enabling players to further customize their characters with new and improved multilevel Legendary items, new Blacksmith and Jeweler item-crafting options, and more.
• Diablo III's Paragon progression system is also being majorly upgraded for the expansion, adding even more end-game character advancement and replayability. Two new game modes—Loot Runs and Nephalem Trials—are being added as well, providing fun and rewarding challenges for players to tackle when they're not busy saving the world.
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Calling mainframe IMS program from Java
I am working on web application. We have IMS screens exist in mainframes.
I need to invoke the IMS transaction from Java and display the results on the web screen.
I am using a socket connection to talk to IMS environment.
I am passing all the parameters needed to invoke the IMS program but I am getting an error - contents of buffer invalid.
How can I correct this error? any help will be appreciated.
What are you using to pass the parameters to the IMS program?
P.S. - I thought I was the only one that worked in an environment like this.
I think you should have someone to look in the IMS Connect task to see if there is an error message there that gives you more information.
If that doesn't help you, my guess is that there is something wrong in your headers. Either there is something wrong with the data in one of the fields or you got the wrong length on a field.
Also check if the length field in the beginning of the header and in beginning of the segments is OK.
My experience of IMS Connect is that it is very easy to use if you get it working but there can be some problem in getting the headers correct when you write your own socket program.
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You haven't heard a song this piano-driven from Tennis before – Patrick Riley's guitar is buried deeper beneath Alaina Moore's keys and vocals than usual – but we do wish the band had taken the opportunity of covering such a stripped-down track to lighten up a little on the reverb. After all, it's the intoxicating, confessional closeness of Trish Keenan's (rest in peace) stunning voice and lyrics that make the original so memorable. Give it a listen.


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Background The aim of this study was to investigate the prevalence of self-reported social phobia in a community sample of Swedish adolescents in junior high school, at the risk-period for developing social phobia. Of particular interest was to investigate gender differences in prevalence across ages. Prevalence of sub-threshold social phobia was also studied. Methods Students in grades 6-8 (aged 12-14) from seventeen schools in five Swedish municipalities were screened by means of a self-report questionnaire, the social phobia screening questionnaire-for children (SPSQ-C). Results Data from a sample of 2,128 students were analysed and showed a point-prevalence rate of 4.4% (95% CI 3.5-5.2) and a significant gender difference (6.6% girls vs. 1.8% boys, P < 0.001). No significant differences in prevalence of probable cases emerged across the ages. At sub-threshold level, marked social fear of at least one social situation was reported by 13.8% of the total group. "Speaking in front of class and "calling someone unfamiliar on the phone were the most feared social situations. In the social phobia group, 91.4% reported impairment in the school-domain due to their social fear. Conclusion Social phobia is a common psychiatric condition in Swedish adolescents, especially in girls. As impairment in the school-domain is reported to a high degree, professionals and teachers need to recognize social phobia in adolescents so that help in overcoming the difficulties can be offered.
Human beings are social creatures. Accordingly, fear of social situations can be severely disabling. Social anxiety disorder (SAD) is characterized by excessive fear of negative evaluation in social or performance situations. SAD has an early onset and often goes undetected an untreated. Descriptive studies on non‐clinical samples are required in order to find ways to prevent SAD and associated consequences. This thesis aimed at examining epidemiological variables of SAD in adolescence which is the critical period for onset of SAD. More exactly, issues of detection and prevalence, victimization and developmental course were addressed.
Data was collected in four different community samples, using cross‐sectional and longitudinal designs. In the first study (n=169), psychometric evaluation of a screening questionnaire for use with adolescents was conducted. The second study (n=2128) investigated prevalence of SAD in students in grade 6‐8 (age 12‐14 years). In the third study (n=3211), the association between SAD and victimization in high‐school students (aged 17) was investigated. Finally, in the fourth study (n=350), longitudinal associations between social anxiety and depressive symptoms were investigated, with 4 waves of data from grade 7 to grade 11.
Self‐reported SAD was found among 4.4% of students in grade 6‐8 and among 10.6% of high‐school students. Females reported SAD to a significantly higher degree than males in all age groups. Experiences of peer victimization, maltreatment and sexual victimization were significantly more common in those reporting SAD than in non‐cases. Social anxiety was stable over adolescence. Further, peer victimization in grade 7 predicted social anxiety that mediated subsequent depressive symptoms. In conclusion, self‐reported SAD is common in Swedish adolescents and especially in girls and older adolescents. Social anxiety is stable over adolescence and correlated with depressive symptoms over course. The high prevalence rates, stable course and mediation of depressive symptoms call for early detection and prevention of social anxiety. The relationship between victimization and SAD needs to be investigated further in controlled prospective studies on children and adolescents.


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Reclamation is an interesting RPG...it's a post-apocalyptic RPG about hope. See, the title refers to the move to restore the planet, rather than let it fester in a post-apocalyptic waste.
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WHAT YOU SHOULD KNOW: The PDF has copy and paste disabled, but is clickable, searchable and bookmarked, which is good since it runs almost 300 pages. The book is black and white, with art ranging from "alright" to "really good". The PDF is $14.95 and the hardcover is only $29.95, with a bundle available at RPGNow.
The Prologue lays out the premise: Essentially, the Sickness swept across the land, drove people nuts, and pushed the world to nuclear war. And sometimes people get completely consumed by The Sickness and its gets worse, they become part of the Mortis-Horde. So, yeah, it tosses a little zombie apocalypse in there on top of the "regular" end of the world. It's a good fiction piece that provides the set-up, hitting all the big points like the world is wrecked, but nature has adapted strangely (including maze-like forests sprouting up and deserts flooding), people gaining powers and people organizing into "cells" (setting up the perfect starting point for PC groups, may I say). More importantly, it introduces the reader to the Reclamation, which injects some hope to the setting.
The Introduction covers the basics in plain English: Post-apocalyptic, this is an RPG, breakdown of the character sheet, etc. The game doesn't use dice, it uses decks of playing cards. That is, a deck per person. When performing an action, you flip over one or more cards depending on your attributes and you add black cards to the total but subtract red cards...and aces are kind of a big deal, both ways. There's an optional rule for taking two cards off of the deck, called "Burn cards", to skew attempts at counting cards.
Character creation is handled through a few steps. First, you select your Mark, which is how the Fallout has affected you. You can be a Survivor, which means that you bear no outward signs of being affected by the Fallout (but you have been). The Magi can cast spells and bend reality to their wills. The Host have become part machine. Pariahs have become, essentially, monsters. Paragons have become something more...the next step in humanity. These all have little history bits to them, with information like where the Marks started, or linking them to aspects of our history and mythology.
Next, you pick a Generation, which determines your trait points and talents. Forerunner has more talents, God's Ten Percent has more trait points, Descendants are in between.
Then, you pick a Background: There more than a couple dozen of these, with options like Anarchist, Avenger, Dreamer, Nomad, Prophet and Warrior. Each one gives you a mechanical advantage in the game and a role-playing advantage. A Cynic, for instance, can spend a Drive Point to determine if someone is trying to screw them over, and can gain a Mark of Experience when they expose the truth about someone.
With that all done you spend Trait Points, spread out over 8 traits (Strength, Dexterity, Speed, Resilience, Intellect, Manipulation, Perception, Spirit), with 20 being the mortal limit, 1 being poor, and the rest scaling in between. Pariahs and Paragons can actually break those human limits, by the way. You also get a number of Secondary Traits (like Movement, Damage Bonus and Dodge) that are derived from your Primary Traits.
Next are Talents, which are divided into four groups (Scholar, Rogue, Leader, Hunter) and cover most of your basic skill options like Biology, Intimidation, Diplomacy and Stealth. There are 32 talents in all. Each one is broken down with flavor text, basic description and in-game examples of uses.
You also get Kewl Powerz, and some book keeping with things like Pain Points, Drive Points, Injury Points, Radiation Points, the Soul Path (which tracks from Despair to Hope) and thresholds for The Sickness.
Chapter 3 is the rules chapter, explaining HOW the system works. Essentially, your ranks in your talents (1-5) determines how many cards you draw, which you add or subtract from your relevant trait. Target numbers are listed on a simple chart, broken down into two types of actions, Measured and Threshold checks. The former involves degrees of success, the latter involves straight up success or failure. There are also Competition checks (contested stuff) and Luck checks, which are pretty much straight card draws.
Drive Points are kinda like bennies, action points, etc...you can spend Drive Points to re-flip new cards (hopefully removing a red card, for instance), add flat bonuses, even bend the rules a bit.
Once all that is out of the way, the book dives into Combat. Initiative is based off of your Speed (Alertness) trait and talent, and there are rules covering things like surprise. Interestingly, you set the Aggression Rank for your attack (from 1 to 20), with a lower rank meaning you are being more aggressive. You would always use that, right? Well, your opponent can either defend or counterattack...and counterattacking is easier, the less careful the attacker is. Nice bit of strategy there (and examples are provided all over the book). The amount of actions per round is based off of your Warfare skill.
Damage is handled with Pain and Injury Points. As you get hurt, you lose Pain Points. Then you start adding Injury Points. Every 5 Injury Points requires you to make a check to avoid passing out. Flipping Aces is a big deal in combat as well...black Aces are critical successes, red aces are critical failures.
Ranged combat has a slightly different set of rules (like no counter attacks), and there are contingencies for stuff like Headshots, Gag n' Stab (think stealth kills from modern video games), Quickdraw, even using terrain to your advantage.
You can even gain Epic Action points, which lets you do crazy, over the top stuff (but they are rare). And there's even optional minis rules (that are very detailed for being optional), along with an in-depth combat example. One other thing I loved in this chapter is how there are stat-free enemy profiles scattered all over the section. Good stuff.
The gear section is a bit different in this book, covering things like food, water and shelter, which are just as important as weapons (especially when you have Kewl Powerz). There's even an interesting paragraph on some Hosts serving as power sources. There's no laser guns, but there are plenty firearms to choose from, and damage for things like electricity and falling are covered here as well. Equipment purchases are handled with Resource Points, rather than cash.
Facing the Fallout covers a lot of the setting aspects, like The Sickness, including theories on what it is and where it came from (The Magi believe it came from a devilish being called The Usurper), and how gaining Radiation points makes you vulnerable to The Sickness...as well as the nasty part: The Marks are powered by Radiation. Using your Kewl Powerz can let The Sickness get its claws deeper in you.
It's all very cool and creepy, with multiple steps that can be fended off essentially by doing Good Deeds. The Sickness can leave psychic scars on you, and that's if you kick the effects of The Black Dream (the feverish state when The Sickness digs in).
Chapter 7 explains the Kewl Powerz in detail. Surivors can rack up Radiation to make Luck Checks to change events. Paragons have five Disciplines, each with their own effects, and can build their way up to Paragon Transcendence. Magi learn rites from four Traditions (Osiris, Gaia, Odin and Khronos), and there are a BUNCH of them (from tricks like Invisibility and entanglement, to making wounded enemies stop fighting you to resurrection). Hosts can "evolve", having a slew of powers they can gain in steps. For instance, they can grow claws...this allows them to form pistols...which allows them to grow shotguns (and so on). Pariahs can develop along different lines, like Daemons, Moon Beasts, Hercules, Psionics, Seraphim and more, each with their own powers. Vampires can regenerate by drinking blood, for example, then gain supernatural strength, and even gain the ability to enslave people. This all culminates in a Pinnacle Power. The Vampire's Nosferatu Power, for instance, activates all the other powers from his gene pool (aside from Enslave). Each gene pool has an Achilles Heel, though, keyed to the type of Pariah.
And yes...you can mix two types of Marks, and the last part of the chapter breaks down what each combination is like.
The last chapter is the GMing chapter. A lot of it is pretty basic stuff, but this is also where the enemy stat blocks are, like the dregs, abominations, thugs, and so on. It's not a HUGE selection, but it's a broad one. A sample Haven is provided (set in New Orleans), as well as a sample protagonist group.
I didn't much care for the Epilogue piece, as it seemed too grim for a setting that appeals to me because of the hope of Reclamation.
The book ends with a character sheet and index.
WHAT WORKS: Reclamation. Seriously...I LIKE that there's this growing viral movement of "let's take back this world." That is reason #1 why I would pick this over other post apocalypse games. Reason #2 is the kewl powerz. (Seriously, there's some great options for Magi, Host and Pariahs, and the Survivors and Paragons have their own cool tricks, if not as flashy). Tons of examples, both short and in-depth. The flavor fiction is generally well done and kept short and to the point.
WHAT DOESN'T WORK: At times it seems like it might get over complicated, but nothing that a few cheat sheets can't handle. Some of the art sticks out like a sore thumb against the rest of the pieces. Needs more random tables.
CONCLUSION: The biggest thing that sells me on the book is the whole Reclamation thing, followed by the coolness of the Marks. I like the card deck game system, but some of the book keeping seems like it could get excessive at times. Way more plusses than minus, and probably the post-apocalyptic setting that has interested me the most in a very long time. It does need more random tables, though. You have a big, crazy, kitchen sink setting with fantasy, sci-fi and horror elements...you need random tables that you can draw cards against. That said, I always love a setting where the odds are stacked up against the PCs, and then they are expected to go save the world anyway. Big thumbs up.


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Friday, February 26, 2010
Putting ideas into action
The previous article talked about how businesses can use their resources to "Pull" kids through school. Bradley Troast, our Northwestern University PIP Fellow wrote this article, showing how ContextMedia, donated and installed a beautiful 32" flat-screen television at Cabrini Connections, to enhance our communications to our students and volunteers.
This is an example of how a company can use its own technology to help a non profit. Watch for future articles showing how we continue to work with this company.
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I'm testing my new tire on the back roads of Ternate, Cavite. So far, I have failed to explore the beach resorts near Puerto Azul but succeeded in
penetrating the defense taking a short beach stroll in Cavite de Boracay with a bonus of probably-not-always-allowed tour inside the Ternate Marine Base. The road in this mountain, doesn't end in the Marine Base. It ends on a gated, exclusive resort on a cove known as Caylabne.
According to their website, the name was derived from Calabuenaor "Good Bay". Google translate explained to me that Cala is Spanish for "cove" and Buena for good. Okay, Calabuenaor doesn't exist on the web except from their website (or related to their site). Anyway, I promise I won't do much talking on this post. This is not a review per se. I'm not a guest, just a solo motorcycle rider who happen to be exploring the roads of Ternate. It so happened that the road ends here… their resort. I thought you might like seeing what it's like so…..
Again, this is not a review of the resort so I won't be making any observation or recommendation. I was only there for about 30 minutes and stayed along the roads. I never got near the beach, the cottages or any other amenities of the resort. Please go to their website or contact them if you wish to find out more.
Then I checked my tire just before setting off again. I'm starting to get used to it, thank God. Taking a closer look at it, it really does look like there less contact point to the road when it is upright. Although that presents an exciting opportunity to lean the bike lower when banking, it is not needed often.
I have already been to two beach resorts but I still have to check something out. If you are in Ternate or Maragondon, and you want to go to Nasugbu, Batangas, you have the go all the way around and up to Tagaytay because of Mt Palay-Palay and the mountainous terrain of the area. That's like more than 2 hours of driving. But now, that barrier has been breached! The Ternate-Nasugbu Tunnel is now open! Read about it on the next post.


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She seemed evil – Part 1
_A fictionalised novel based on real lives
Everyone is online nowadays…
X has always had a very big imagination and also she has always been scared by the act of looking at people's profile pictures. The problem is that she often found herself "jealous" of people's past even though she never cares too much about people's lives. It is somehow contradictory, inconsistent, illogical and irrational: she cares about the stories behind a picture, the stories behind what brings people into her life in a certain moment right there even if it is only for one single day.
Since she was a child, intelligent enough to make her teachers blush, she has been asking questions, many questions, to the adults she has been in contact with, even if it was for a moment: friends of her parents, parents of her classmates, relatives of some sort. It was not important for X. She has always been curious, curious about the reason why a specific person on a specific day was there somehow in front of her.
Y has a very peculiar look. Her outfits are always very much "meditated". Nothing is left without her full attention and care. Everything about her is exercised under a great deal of self-control. This appeared clearly to X in the pictures Y had on her virtual profile. What didn't appear was the reason, the real reason of her being a sort of virtual exhibitionist: were Y simply someone who was trying to attract attention from the people online? What reason was behind showing her tattoos, her hidden bitchy smiles, her extravagant outfits with horns and evil symbols. Why was so much of her right there available to everyone? "She seems evil" – X thought and out of curiosity she decided to write her a short message. She didn't notice Y wrote her too while she was sending her first message. Weird. The message from Y was again very much controlled. It was quite long and a bit accommodating but that was only the beginning. X was surprised that they wrote each others almost at the same time.
18.30, Wednesday the 2nd of November: this is the time and day they met for the first time. X wrote it down in her diary. She had a passion for writing notes since she was a little child.
It has been quick the time in between their first chat and their first meeting and after that they kept chatting virtually too.
X was shocked to find so much in common with Y and was excited reading the long messages Y wrote to her: raw, cruel, morbid, dark.
Y was a tiny young girl with so many weird passions that no-one really explored and her maniacal self-control in the chats with X was less evident after couple of days. In fact it was slowly fading through smiling emoticons and a total surrender to honesty. Nothing would have changed her attitude; even when chatting about blood, blades, violence and other creepy things she was fine, curious, weirdly morbid. Well, X a long time before was very dark too, having some weird inclinations which made her life more complicated. She was the victim of bullies at school and later on she bullied the bullies (like Y did). At the beginning she felt like crap about it afterwards but then she started thinking it was the result of natural selection. X was at the centre of everyone's attention during secondary school (the only one she could remember) and she hated every single day at that school for pricks, outcasts, poor, neglected and broken children. Often she saw her mum crying because the teachers told her that her little daughter was a "peculiar" girl, a "weirdo" too clever for her age who would always have problems socialising and accepting the world and the people around. That was partly true I suppose. The aunt she loved most told her that she was surely on the Asperger Syndrome's spectrum when she was a young child and no-one could judge better than her as she spent the first years of her life with this lovely aunt and her grandparents. X's mum indeed was trying to get a Bachelor when X was 5 years old. Life was not easy for X's mum: being an adult student, she was distressed, nervous and she couldn't cope having X and her older brother around at home playing and shouting while she was preparing for her exams. When X and her brother were left alone together it was a nightmare for her as he was extremely abusive and soon enough her parents found this out as she was absolutely distressed and depressed. So they decided to do what they thought was better. Her brother was sent to her dad's mum's house (a scary old woman who X really hated). Whereas X was supposed to stay at her mum's parents's house all afternoon after school. The grandmam was lovely to X. She used to pick her up from school and when she was sick, she cooked delicious food and before lunch she washed the little hands of X within hers with rose smelling soapy water in a small bucket. Actually this is the first and sweetest childhood memory that X could remember vividly: she could still feel the smell. It is such a sweet memory: her hands marked by some wrinkles but still soft enough and gentle. X always kept thinking about this one memory in very specific periods of her life in order to feel love, to prove to herself that her heart could melt a bit. She did it purely because sometimes she doubted she has a heart.
Apparently all of a sudden one day X stopped being empathic with people and she became a jaded young girl. Her mum told her that one day she realised her daughter was dramatically changed. One day she realised X wasn't a baby girl anymore. Now X doesn't remember much of when she was a "normal" child if and when she really has been normal. What she remembers well enough is that she was too wise, too sensible and too "deep" if compared to her classmates.
Perhaps the medication she took since she was 11 years old for a problem she was born with, simplified this change but what she knows for sure is that she was too young when she realised how ephemeral and evanescent life was. How temporary reality was, how subjective feelings were, how stupid humans were to be attached so much to something that exists for such a brief time. Then she realised that death exists…
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Stars: Maggie Q, Shane West, Lyndsy Fonseca, Aaron Stanford
Runtime: 60 minutes (taken from iMDB)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
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Summary: When she was a deeply troubled teenager, Nikita was rescued from death row by a secret U.S. agency known only as Division, who faked her execution and told her she was being given a second chance to start a new life and serve her country. What they didn't tell her was that she was being trained as a spy and assassin. Throughout her grueling training at Division, Nikita never lost her humanity, even falling in love with a civilian. When her fiancé was murdered, Nikita realized she had been betrayed and her dreams shattered by the only people she thought she could trust, so she did what no one else before her had been able to do: she escaped. Now, after three years in hiding, Nikita is seeking retribution and making it clear to her former bosses that she will stop at nothing to expose and destroy their covert operation.
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The course focuses on Adult Chinese learning and HSK test. You can learn Chinese systematically and also have the desire to attend HSK test level 1 to 3. Our textbook highly match the HSK tests from the content and form to the levels. The course trains students' integrated language ability including listening, speaking, reading and writing skills. The essential ideas of the communicative approach and task-based language teaching will be used in the courses.
HSK level 4 to 6 are designed for those who would like to have an intensive training for preparing HSK test 4 to 6. The syllabuses of HSK tests, old official examination papers and other related materials will be used in the course. The learning, reading and writing skills will be practiced according to the requirements of HSK tests.


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Quail Valley Elementary
Your Digital Learning Specialist: William Jeffery
I am very excited to have the opportunity to work with you and your students this school year as your Digital Learning Specialist.
Below you will find a list of just a few of the technology tools already on your campus. I have also included some Atomic Learning videos that you can view. If you have not already explored Atomic Learning, when you have a moment we highly recommend it. If you have not heard about or used Web 2.0 tools, then you are going to be very excited about the tools listed below. These are just a few of the tools that are approved for you to use with your students. If you are not sure how to use one of these tools, I would be happy to provide assistance.
This is going to be a great year!
Helpful Atomic Learning Videos
Atomic Learning provides you with on demand learning. Not sure how to use PowerPoint or Excel don't worry there are videos for that and much more.
Atomic Learning has been purchased for not only all of our staff members, but also for all of your students and their parents. This is a wonderful resource that you can share with your parents at Open House.
iPad Tips & Tricks Training: http://www.atomiclearning.com/k12/ipad-tips-tricks-training
Webinar: iPad Apps Used in the Classroom Training:
SMART Notebook
SMART Board Notebook 11 - Fundamentals Training: http://www.atomiclearning.com/k12/smartnb11
SMART Board Notebook 11 - Objects, Files & Media Training:
Learn More About Discovery Education
Webinar Wednesdays
To Request a Digital Learning Specialist
In order to request our support with lesson modeling, training, or assisting with integrating technology into your curriculum, please submit a case in CRM. We will be more than happy to help you with your technology needs. Click on the hyperlink below for a video on how to enter a case. The video is in Atomic Learning, when you click on the link you will be prompted to login. To login to Atomic Learning use your regular network login.
To view the CRM training video click here ->Entering a Case in Financials/CRM


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The Lord of the Rings: The Third Age (Xbox)
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DescriptionUnlike the Game Boy Advance version of the game, the console version of The Lord of the Rings:The Third Age introduces entirely new characters which aren't mentioned in the books or movies. The game does relate to the movies by including scenes from all three movies, with new background speech by Ian McKellen (Gandalf).
There are seven playable characters in the game which have been created specifically for it, as well as small appearances by characters such as Gandalf, Aragorn, Eowyn, Faramir, and Gothmog.
The game covers events in all three movies/books, mostly with references to major events shown through cut scenes, or the scenes from the movies with Ian McKellen's narration.
A classic RPG game, The Lord of the Rings: The Third Age has gameplay elements similar to Final Fantasy, where you have a party of characters, each with a different set of skills and attributes, who gain levels, making them stronger as the game progresses. Battles are turn-based, and let the gamer make different decisions on what they want to do to change the outcome of the battle. The game travels through many areas throughout Tolkien's Middle Earth, including The Pelennor Fields and Moria.
There are no Xbox user screenshots for this game.
There are 26 other screenshots from other versions of this game or official promotional screenshots.
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Alternate Titles
- "Wladca Pierscieni: Trzecia Era" -- Polish title
- "The Lord of the Rings: Uchitsu Kuni Daisanki" -- Japanese title
- "LOTR: 3rd Age" -- Common abbreviation
- "Le Seigneur des Anneaux: Le Tiers Age" -- French title
- "Il Signore degli Anelli: La Terza Era " -- Italian title
- "El Señor de los Anillos: La Tercera Edad " -- Spanish title
- "Der Herr der Ringe: Das dritte Zeitalter" -- German title
- "A Gyűrűk Ura: A Harmadkor" -- Hungarian title
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- Fantasy Creatures: Dwarves
- Fantasy Creatures: Elves
- Fantasy Creatures: Orcs
- Fantasy Creatures: Trolls
- Inspiration: Author - J. R. R. Tolkien
- Inspiration: Movies
- Physics Engine: Havok
- PlayStation 2 Greatest Hits releases
- PlayStation 2 Platinum Range releases
- Xbox Classics releases
User Reviews
|If this game was a singer, Simon Cowell would shoot it!
|M.Allen (88)
Critic Reviews
|Dec 07, 2004
|8.5 out of 10
|Nov 04, 2004
|80 out of 100
|XBox Front
|Jan 08, 2005
|79 out of 100
|Eurogamer.net (UK)
|Nov 10, 2004
|7 out of 10
|Dec 24, 2004
|7 out of 10
|Nov 05, 2004
|13 out of 20
|Dec 18, 2004
|6 out of 10
|Feb 06, 2006
|5.8 out of 10
|Game Revolution
|Nov, 2004
|Digital Press - Classic Video Games
|Jul 07, 2005
|3 out of 10
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LicenseInclusion of stories and themes from the books could not be put into the game, since EA owned the rights only for the movies, and not the books. Therefore the game could only include ideas not shown in either the books or the movies, or have them tied in some way to the movies. Both of these were done in creating the game.
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- EA - Lord of the Rings: The Third Age (Publisher's product page.)
- Wikipedia: The Lord of the Rings: The Third Age (Information about The Lord of the Rings: The Third Age at Wikipedia)
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A Guide to Star Citizen Gaming
Star Citizen is an upcoming crowd funded game by Chris Roberts, the same person who created Wing Commander and Freelancer. The main target of this upcoming title is to give its gamers unparalleled dynamic sci-fi universe experience. The creator is confident that it will be more than just a space combat simulator. It is also expected to be bigger than a first person shooter or an MMO game. The target is hours and hours of unending gameplay and even more.
Star Citizen is being viewed as the combat genre comeback for PC gaming. The followers of this game expect a bigger, vastly detailed and highly customizable gamer experience and features. Star Citizen boasts of a completely rigid space ship simulation and handling. The following new bits of information pertains to the recent development of this game.
New Star Citizen development updates are presented by Robert Space Industries. It has plenty of details that gamers would never want to miss.
As a rule, the developer states that, regardless of how expensive parts may be if it's not right for the job, then it is not right at all. The remarks further implied the a highly sophisticated ship does not mean it is the best as it can still be outmaneuvered by a ship driven by a very good pilot. Therefore, what was added to the game was the ability to upgrade your ship according to your personal preference and not what the rest think as a standard option.
Moving on with this game you get the ultimate chance to engineer your own space escapade. Star Citizen will put you in the center of a dynamic universe with friends, foes and the mysterious beings.
You will experience the freedom to plot your path around the universe. And you can do this while assuming the role of a trader, a space buccaneer or whatever you may be. In short, you can control you own fate in this game.
One of the things that you can fully control in this game is ship modification. This is the one of the important promises of the game's developer. By full taking full control over modification, the gamer will have the ability to rearrange space requirements, durability, software, signature, heat load, mass, power consumption and what not.
To summarize, Star Citizen recognizes that fact that your options matter. In this game, you can manipulate or decide on other things besides your ship's structures. You can also choose your occupation. Star Citizen will react based on your inputs or gameplay. Most importantly, there is real science in every movement on this game. This game will expand the limits of our imagination. Go to this page to read more about this upcoming game from Chris Roberts.


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I live in St. Louis, MO, but my heart and soul hang out at the beach. I am a multi-genre, award winning writer, and speaker. I am a seasoned pre-k teacher, on line writing instructor, wife, mother, Nana to twelve. Hopefully, something I say will make you smile, further your writing career, or inspire you to write from the heart, too. firstname.lastname@example.com. Twitter, @WriterLindaO.
Tuesday, March 1, 2011
Stepping out of your comfort zone
Can you figure out my favorite song and the artist by reading my submission? It will probably be simple.
My heart has been a lead-heavy weight since we broke up, and drowning my sorrows with scotch on the rocks for the past two weeks isn't cutting it for me. Thought I'd kissed you off and I was through with you. I decided to find someone else. I had no idea whether it was Monday, Sunday or any day in between when that gal strode into the bar with her spike heels and bleach blonde hair, towered over me, breathed down my neck and offered to make my dreams come true. The well-endowed babe with the German brogue tried to seduce me, did her best to convince me that she had what it takes. But despite her come hither looks and blatant sexual offers, I couldn't get my mind off of you. There have been numerous femme fatals and I admit I haven't been true to you. I've had my share of big-boobed broads, but this one was nothing compared to you. All I could think about was how you looked the first night we met, your outfit made of amoeba embellished material. I figured your makeup and clothes were a result of youth and naivete`. Girl, your simple magnificence made me do a double take.
Baby, you will forever be in my ticker and spiritual psyche. Your presence is always with me and I can't get you out of my cerebral cortex. When I'm a geezer on a cane you will be my thrill, my burst of oxygen; I will breathe you in. You have always been my compatible sexual partner, my dearest acquaintance. You will always be in the vital vascular organ located right here in my chest; I can't get you out of the spiritual part of my being either. My passionate affection for you cannot be quantified and my honor and esteem for you is vast. You are seemingly not growing older, you are eternal, very pleasing to look at. You are like fine, frilly woven string. You are excellent! This is my last declaration, an announcement that I want the entire world to hear. Your presence resides within me, and I can't live without you, because no one else compares. I'm finished with the booze, the babes and the bars. Baby it will always be you!
7 comments:
- Susan said...
Oh man, Linda. That was HARD. "Til there was you?" Honestly,I don't know and can't wait to see the answer. Susan
- March 1, 2011 at 12:43 PM
- Lynn said...
I'm clueless. I don't even know the correct words to a song!
- March 1, 2011 at 4:23 PM
- Pat Wahler said...
Can you hum the melody?
- March 1, 2011 at 5:08 PM
- Linda O'Connell said...
I didn't know what day it was when you walked into the room...the big bosomsed lady with the Dutch accent tried to change my point of view...You're in my heart, you're in my soul, you'll be my breath should I grow old...
(Rod Stewart's Final Acclaim)Read some of the lyrics and they'll make sense now that you know the song.
- March 1, 2011 at 6:22 PM
- Chatty Crone said...
I was lost too - until your answer. sandie
- March 1, 2011 at 8:06 PM
- Lisa Ricard Claro said...
OOOoohhhh....LOL I had no clue until I read your comment above. And I love Rod Stewart! How did I miss it?
- March 1, 2011 at 9:09 PM
- Julia Gordon-Bramer said...
I got it! Halfway through, I began to hear "Tonight's the Night" in my head!
- March 4, 2011 at 7:47 AM


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A former white Christian supremacist who left the movement he helped build will be in Whitefish on Monday, April 24, to share his story and offer ways to counter the movement he once was part of promoting.
Christian Picciolini will speak at 7 p.m. at the O'Shaughnessy Center, 1 Central Ave. The Montana Human Rights Network is sponsoring the presentation.
Montana was in the national media spotlight recently because of Richard Spencer, who lives part-time in Whitefish and heads the National Policy Institute, a white nationalist think-tank and publishing firm. He was noticed on a national level when he shouted "Hail Trump, hail our people, hail victory" during an alt-right conference after Donald Trump was elected president.
Recently, The Daily Stormer neo-Nazi website encouraged an online troll storm against local Jewish residents and businesses in Whitefish to defend Spencer's mother, Sherry Spencer, whom the website operator perceived had been wronged by members of the Flathead Jewish community.
"Montana has long been a target of the white supremacist and violent anti-government 'Patriot' movements," Montana Human Rights Network Executive Director Rachel Carroll Rivas said in a press release. "Similarly, Montana made national headlines in 2016 as the state exported a number of extremist activists central to the standoff at the Bundy Ranch in Nevada and at the occupation of the Malheur Refuge in Oregon.
Rivas also pointed to the Montana-based Oath Keepers group, which she called "extremist" and whose "predecessors in the movement included the Militia of Montana and Freeman."
After Picciolini left the movement he helped build, he began the dramatic shift to work to disengage youth from white-supremacist groups and violent extremism. He is an author and Emmy Award-winning director and producer. In 2010 he co-founded Life After Hate, a nonprofit organization dedicated to helping communities implement long-term solutions that counter racism and violent extremism.
His memoir, "Romantic Violence: Memoirs of an American Skinhead," details his involvement in the early American white power skinhead movement in the 1980s and '90s.
Last year Life After Hate launched ExitUSA, which the Human Rights Network called North America's only program run by former extremists that is focused on helping people disengage from white-supremacist ideologies. Picciolini won an Emmy Award for producing ExitUSA's anti-hate public service announcement, "There is life after hate."
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Breha Organa falls into the "cool that they made it" category, because this character has about a 4 second screen time at the end of Revenge Of The Sith. The figure itself has only basic articulation, but features a nice paint job, especially on her dress. You can position the arms in a way that it's possible for her to hold a baby Leia figure, but unfortunately, due to the lack of any bendable knees (or movable legs) and the hard-plastic robe, you can't sit her down and recreate the Revenge Of The Sith film scene. There were no weapons included with this figure, which makes her a bit boring. Overall it's a good figure which when standing next to Bail Organa looks very nice!
Queen Breha Organa is AlderaanGÇÖs Minister of Education and the wife of Senator Bail Organa. Having longed for a child of her own for many years, Breha eagerly accepts one of PadmeGÇÖs motherless twins and adopts her as the daughter she always dreamed of having.


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Category : 4th Class
Environment is the natural surroundings of a living thing in which it lives and survives. Environment is everything that makes up the surrounding of a living thing.
Natural Environment
Environment comprise of both living (biotic) and non living things (abiotic). The non living things in the environment are sunlight, water, air, temperature etc. The living things in the environment are human, plants, animals, etc. Each living thing has its own environment where it lives and grows. For example environment of a plant are sunlight, weather, air, water, soil in which it grows and the animal that consumes it. We, human beings, depend on our environment for all our need?. Each of the living things depends on the other living and non living thing in its environment for its survival.
Humans, while making life more comfortable for themselves, have damaged the environment in which they live, in many ways. Our actions are causing disastrous change in the environment. We exploit our environment to our maximum utility and in turn do nothing for its good. The condition is very alarming and needs proper thinking and action. We should do everything possible to save our environment before it is too late.
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The 3000 Class Association exists to assist the development, promotion and organising of 3000 sailing, for both the Laser 3000 and V3000.
Membership entitles you to sail at Open Meetings and the Nationals and participate in the enjoyment of these events.
By ensuring the continuing existence of a Class Association, membership also keeps the class alive in the public's eye and thus helps maintain boat re-sale values, so if you own a 3k it's in your interest to join - the fee is only a nominal £10.
For a membership form, please click here
Membership also entitles you to a useful discount on Noble Marine insurance - click here to visit their site.
Currently the Committee of the 3000 Class Association consists of:
- Tony Hunt (Class Secretary)
- Nick Arran (Class Chairman/Technical Officer)
- Alison Williams (Events Coordinator/Sailing Secretary)
- Daniel Hollands (Website & Forum Administrator)
- Myles Ripley (Finance Secretary)
Jeff Vanderborght (Vandercraft) is the Manufacturer's Representative
The Committee would welcome new blood to help drive the class forward, so if you'd like to get involved, or if you have ideas as to how the class can advance. please don't hesitate to get in touch.
Contact details are on the Contacts page
David Fenech and Ali Williams hotly pursued by (or should that be in tandem with?) Nick Arran and Myles Ripley


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Cleveland, Ohio, is infamously known for two cases of police homicides: the "Cleveland Atrocity/137 shots" on November 22, 2012, and the police killing of 12-year-old Tamir Rice on November 29, 2014.
The Cleveland Atrocity involved 61 police cars pursuing two Black Cleveland residents — Timothy Russell and Malissa Williams — in Russell's car, into a schoolyard of neighboring East Cleveland. When the car came to a halt, 13 Cleveland cops, 12 white and one Latino, shot 137 bullets into Mr. Russell's car, brutally executing both passengers who were unarmed. National police policy restricts police pursuits to just two cars and forbids cops from shooting and killing out of their geographic jurisdiction.
The police killing of 12-year-old Tamir Rice shocked the nation when Cleveland police officers Frank Garmback and Timothy Loehmann drove their zone car a few feet from Tamir Rice and opened fire within seconds, killing the youth at the Cudell Rec Center on Cleveland's west side.
The City of Cleveland has had a sordid history of police violence and racism. Racial violence and police oppression climaxed in the 1960s in the Hough and Glenville majority African American neighborhoods on Cleveland's east side. A "Jim Crow" sign excluding Blacks from a "white" establishment near Hough sparked six days of rebellion on July 18–24, 1966. Four people were killed, about 30 were injured, with hundreds of arrests. Hough borders what is known as "Little Italy" and University Circle, where racial tension was typically high. Then Cleveland Mayor Ralph Locher called in the Ohio National Guard to suppress the violence.
The election of Carl B. Stokes, Cleveland's first Black mayor in 1968, was a first step in representing the City of Cleveland's demographics, but the city and county remained segregated and unequal — embroiled in poverty and police violence, racial profiling, and incarceration of Blacks.
Under the Stokes administration another July uprising broke out, almost to the day of the Hough rebellion two years earlier. What is known as the "Glenville Shootout" between Cleveland police and Black freedom fighters led by Fred (Ahmad) Evans on July 23, 1968, left seven people dead: three civilians, three police officers, and one bystander. This sparked the Glenville rebellion, which was again suppressed by Ohio's state military police.
A high-profile case in 1992 involved Cleveland police officers Michael Tankersley and Jeffrey Gibson using a chokehold to subdue young Black male Michael Pipkins, claiming he stole a car. Pipkins went limp after the police assault and was pronounced dead hours later. Internal police review board findings determined that the officers caused Pipkins' death by failing to take him to a hospital immediately. Hundreds protested for weeks after Pipkins' murder. The Justice for Michael Pipkins Committee kept weekly pickets at City Hall going for over a year, while Pipkins' parents took their petitions for justice for their son into the community every chance they had. The city eventually banned the common police practice of using the chokehold to subdue victims.
Systemic problems within the Cleveland Division of Police (CDP) continued. There was no end to the abuse of force, deadly force and racism; lack of accountability and transparency; poor reporting practices and backlog of unanswered citizen complaints.
The U.S. Department of Justice (USDOJ) investigated the CDP in 2002 and entered an agreement to correct these problems. It didn't happen. Five police shootings, four fatal, occurred in the next few years. Most egregious was the 2005 police killing of 15-year-old Brandon McCloud when police faked a late-night search warrant (signed the next day by Judge Gaul). The cops accused the youth of a holdup and barged into his grandmother's house and held her at gunpoint while detectives John Kraynik and Phil Habeeb went to the boy's bedroom and shot 10 bullets into young Brandon. They said they feared for their life because the boy was holding a kitchen knife.
Frank Jackson became mayor in 2006, on the heels of five police shootings, four of them fatal. The day after he was sworn in, he announced at a news conference that "excessive force will not be tolerated and that officers will be held accountable for any violation of that standard." He pledged to implement strict policies regarding use of force and retrain the police force. Deadly-use-of-force case investigations would require detectives to record witness interviews. The new administration found a backlog of hundreds of use-of-force cases that were unresolved and more than 40 use-of-deadly-force investigations that were still pending with the prosecutor's office.
Mayor Jackson, now in his third term, fared no better than previous mayors in cleaning up the police violence and racial profiling. Jackson presided over the Cleveland Atrocity, "137 shots," which brought the feds back to Cleveland. The USDOJ was summoned to Cleveland by dozens of organizations and citizens who called on the U.S. attorney general for a federal investigation. Mayor Jackson also called on the USDOJ after he saw the community's flood of correspondence.
It was also under the Jackson administration that serial killer Anthony Sowell was discovered to have strangled 11 African American women and buried them in his yard in 2009 in the low-income Mount Pleasant neighborhood, a mile from affluent Shaker Heights. Such horrific crimes could continue because the system failed. Prejudicial judgment against a Black female who tried to report Sowell's kidnapping her and raping her was ignored. Her report was stamped "Not Credible" by the department. Five more women fell into the killer's hands after that.
Meanwhile, missing person and rape reports went unresolved. The arrest of Ariel Castro in 2013, who abducted and enslaved three girls since 2002 on the near west side of Cleveland, was a bitter victory because it took 11 years to find Amanda Berry, Gina DeJesus and Michelle Knight.
When the USDOJ finally answered the appeals from northeast Ohioans for a federal investigation of CDP in 2014, it was on the heels of the Tamir Rice killing and another brutal crime by Cleveland police — the killing of Tanisha Anderson in a domestic disturbance. The family of Tanisha Anderson called 911 for help when she was having a psychological episode. When police arrived, 38-year-old Anderson was fearful and resisted, a cop tackled and restrained her while handcuffing Ms. Anderson behind her back, killing her within minutes. These two cases proved to the USDOJ and lots of others that Cleveland Division of Police had some serious problems menacing Blacks and others in Cleveland.
The Cleveland Consent Decree of 2014 sighted hundreds of issues of negligence and unconstitutional policing within the CDP, but never mentioned race as a factor. Racial profiling and implicit bias are discussed as community groups like the Collaborative for a Safe, Fair and Just Cleveland push for the inclusion of these issues. The "Cleveland Eight" — a coalition of NAACP, CAIR-Cleveland, NLG, ACLU and others — challenged the Consent Decree when Judge Solomon Oliver signed the agreement without public input.
Protests were numerous and large after the police homicides of Tamir Rice and Tanisha Anderson, three months after Michael Brown's murder-by-cop in Ferguson, Missouri. Black Lives Matter, a hashtag that created a movement, fostered a Cleveland chapter founded by the cousin of Tamir Rice, Latonya Goldsby. The Cleveland protests were diverse, bringing local social justice groups, community activists, and some clergy together under the direction of Black leadership. The Memorial Shoreway was shut down by hundreds of protestors a few days after the shooting of Tamir Rice and one day after the acquittal of Michael Brown's killer in Missouri.
A few arrests occurred sporadically during many months of protests over police homicides. The acquittal of Michael Brelo who fired 49 shots of the "137 shots," in the spring of 2015 brought the arrest of 71 protestors who were stalked by military grade police for hours until they were forced into an alley and arrested on Memorial Day weekend, causing a long weekend of incarceration for the protestors.
Keeping the Consent Decree on track and transparent is still an issue, especially when police union president and outspoken critic of police reform Steve Loomis sits on the Community Police Commission. Consent decrees nationally are under threat of dissolution by President Donald Trump, whom Steve Loomis met with before the election and pushed his union membership to endorse despite protest from the Black Shield, Cleveland Black officers' union.
All Cleveland City Council seats and the mayor's office are up for grabs in 2017. Most city council reps face election challenges by grassroots organizers this fall. As the neighborhoods sink further into poverty and violence, the city council and the mayor endorsed a taxpayer-funded refurbishing of the privately owned Quicken Loans Arena, ignoring 20,000 petition signatures denouncing the council vote and asking for the $88 million "Q" deal to go to a vote of the people.
In mid-June 2017, it was decided that five of the "137 shots" cops will be rehired after justice was reversed through arbitration. The main shooter, Michael Brelo, was not named for rehire but he has appealed his termination from the force. Two protests at Heritage Middle School on June 16 and Cleveland City Hall on June 19 called on Mayor Jackson to appeal the rehiring of these officers in "the worst atrocity in the history of the nation" as described by lifelong Glenville resident Don Freeman.
In the 50 years since the Hough rebellion, Cleveland has barely moved an inch away from police brutality, racial injustice, and government corruption. Anti-Muslim bigotry and anti-immigrant sentiment have been on the rise in Northeast Ohio, just as has occurred across the nation since the election of bigoted misogynist Donald Trump to the presidency. Social justice and labor activists will be tested in the coming months and years. All of our coalition building and political and community organizing can provide a basis for building a united labor-community fightback to roll back, once and for all, these attacks on Black people and on democratic rights as a whole.


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THANK GOD HILLARY LOST THE ELECTION. This could have been us. Germany's socialist scum chancellor, Angela Merkel, who has been flooding the streets of the country she's supposed to be protecting, with violent rapist migrants from Africa, Asia, and the Middle East, has taken the next step in her globalist agenda.
Germany let in almost a million migrants in 2015 alone. That's roughly double the population of Wyoming, if you needed a relative comparison. As if that wasn't bad enough, now the government is apparently seizing private residences against the will of the owners, fixing them up at the owners expense and moving migrant families into them. This measure is more extreme than traditional socialism and boarders communism. This is why we need a second amendment. I doubt we'd see the authorities knocking on a door in Texas attempting to seize the property to give to a gaggle of rapist migrants. Not effectively, at least. Not without an exchange of bullets. Speaking of bullets, we certainly dodged one with Hillary losing the election. She was a known advocate of globalism and refugee programs. Who knows if she'd be so brazen as to start seizing private property, but now we don't have to worry.
The globalist migrant issue is growing in Europe. In Sweden, a 70 year old woman was charged with a hate crime for going on facebook and writing that she saw migrants shitting in the streets and setting fire to cars. Note the fact that she wasn't making threats or directly attacking an individual, she was simply making an observation that there were people behaving like animals in the streets. Which was 100% true. This is why we need a first amendment. You can't make this stuff up. It's absurd. The left has completely lost its collective mind. I actually don't know which is worse, charging someone with a hate crime for merely pointing out that people were setting cars on fire and shitting in the street, or government seizing properties from its citizens and giving them to the car burning street shitters to live in. Oh I know, letting them in to begin with. That's worse. Who knows, maybe giving them houses will keep them from shitting in the streets, but I won't get my hopes up.
Gatestone Institute: Authorities in Hamburg, the second-largest city in Germany, have begun confiscating private dwellings to ease a housing shortage — one that has been acutely exacerbated by Chancellor Angela Merkel's decision to allow more than two million migrants into the country in recent years. City officials have been seizing commercial properties and converting them into migrant shelters since late 2015, when Merkel opened German borders to hundreds of thousands of migrants from Africa, Asia and the Middle East. Now, however, the city is expropriating residential property units owned by private citizens. In an unprecedented move, Hamburg authorities recently confiscated six residential units in the Hamm district near the city center. The units, which are owned by a private landlord, are in need of repair and have been vacant since 2012. A trustee appointed by the city is now renovating the properties and will rent them — against the will of the owner — to tenants chosen by the city. District spokeswoman Sorina Weiland said that all renovation costs will be billed to the owner of the properties. The expropriation is authorized by the Hamburg Housing Protection Act (Hamburger Wohnraumschutzgesetz), a 1982 law that was updated by the city's Socialist government in May 2013 to enable the city to seize any residential property unit that has been vacant for more than four months. The forced lease, the first of its kind in Germany, is said to be aimed at pressuring the owners of other vacant residences in the city to make them available for rent. Of the 700,000 rental units in Hamburg, somewhere between 1,000 and 5,000 (less than one percent) are believed to be vacant, according an estimate by the Hamburg Senate.
By: Dave Wilkins
Twitter: @davewilkins12


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Air Lift: Ski Jump
Ski-jumping--hurtling down a ramp at speeds of 60 mph, then soaring through the air--is an excellent illustration of the aerodynamic forces of lift and drag. NSF-funded scientists Paul Doherty, of The Exploratorium in San Francisco, and physicist George Tuthill of Plymouth State University, explain, along with U.S. ski team members Todd Lodwick and Bill Demong.
Air Lift: Ski Jump
LESTER HOLT, anchor:
This year, the U.S. team is a serious medal contender in Nordic Combined, a sport that combines ski jumping with cross-country skiing. U.S. hopefuls Todd Lodwick and Bill Demong, along with George Tuthill, a physicist funded by the National Science Foundation, explain the principles of physics behind the long, soaring jumps.
Hurtling down a snow-covered ramp at speeds well over 60 miles an hour, jumping off the edge, and launching into the air, then landing two football fields away from where you started. Ski jumping looks pretty simple, right? In fact, each step of a jump, from takeoff to landing, requires a complex manipulation of forces: gravity, drag, lift.
TODD LODWICK (U.S. Ski Team - Nordic Combined): If you can think of an airplane trying to land on a runway, we're pretty much doing the exact same thing.
HOLT: Todd Lodwick is planning to compete in his fifth Winter Olympics with the U.S. Nordic Combined team. For the aerial portion of the event, Lodwick knows that controlling his body position will mean the difference between a gold medal and disaster.
LODWICK: I think the number one thing in ski jumping is actually flexibility. You have to be very flexible, so that you can get into a position you feel comfortable and powerful enough to get out of.
HOLT: During his jump, a ski jumper has to put his body in two completely different positions: one for coming down the ramp, another for gliding through the air.
Dr. GEORGE TUTHILL (Plymouth State University): They have two contradictory missions. The first is on the end run, and just before the takeoff, is to gain the maximum amount of speed. In the air, they are trying to maximize the effect of the air on them. Maximize the lift that's produced by their body and the skis.
HOLT: As the ski jumper comes down the ramp, or "in-run", the air around him creates resistance, also known as drag. To minimize drag, the skier will streamline his posture.
TUTHILL: That involves, the chest parallel to the snow as much as possible, the head down. And the arms behind them.
HOLT: But when the skier reaches the "takeoff," he has to dramatically re-adjust his body, leaping forward and upward, simultaneously, all in a tenth of a second.
Dr. PAUL DOHERTY (The Exploratorium): When they're coming down the ramp, they have to minimize the air drag. They want the highest speed possible. But after they leave, they need lift. They want to fly like a bird through the air.
HOLT: Once in the air, the skier re-positions his body, to take advantage of "lift," the upward force that helps him glide through the air.
TUTHILL: The lift that a ski jumper gets, is more like the lift your hand would get if you held it out the window of your car and angled the fingers up a little bit, holding your palm flat. You would feel a very strong push, of the air, that would force your arm upward.
HOLT: Catching the air has been made easier by holding skis in the "V" formation.
LODWICK: The biggest change in ski jumping over the last 20 years, definitely has to be the "V" style.
BILL DEMONG (U.S. Ski Team, Nordic Combined): When you see videos of old-school ski-jumping, they often have their skis parallel and underneath them. And originally that was what was considered stylish. But what we learned in the late 80s and early 90s is that by separating the skis into a "V" shape, you were able to get 30 percent more lift.
HOLT: That's because higher-pressure air under the skier, pushing upward, has a wider surface area on which to act.
TUTHILL: And it's the force of the air on the base of the skis and the chest that really provides the lift.
HOLT: It's hard to believe, but the first skiers to use the "V" formation actually had points taken off by the Olympic judges.
But this year, whichever skier uses it to best advantage will come home with the gold, and the memory that, at least for a few seconds, he came as close as a human being can get to flying.
Science Activity (Grades 6-9) from Lessonopoly
Objective: Make a ski ramp and run your own jumper to determine which design makes for a faster ski and a longer jump.
• 1 piece of stiff cardboard or foam board 8 x 16 inches (22 x 45 cm)
• A large manila folder, cut in half
• Several books
• Several coins of different denominations (penny, nickel, quarter)
• Masking tape
• Pencil
• Ruler
1. Tape the ½ manila folder to the stiff cardboard or foam board, allowing about 3 inches to extend beyond the end of the stiff board. The manila folder will have a gentle curve at the bottom of the board to form a ramp.
2. Place the books on top of each other to form a stack about 8 inches (22 cm) high.
3. Tape the manila ramp to one side of the stack of books, allowing the bottom of the ramp to meet the edge of the table top.
4. Use the coins as your downhill ski jumpers. Starting at the top of the ramp, release one coin at a time to slide down the ramp. Keep a record of the distance traveled by each coin.
5. The "K" point is determined by the point where the first jumper's coin lands. For subsequent jumps, use a ruler to determine how many mm the jumper landed beyond the "K" point. Subtract points for each mm short of the "K" point.
6. The winner is the one that goes the farthermost distance.
1. How can you make your ski jumper go farther?
2. How can you reduce friction?
3. How does making the ramp steeper affect the ski jumper's distance?
4. How does taping wings for added lift on the coin affect the distance?
5. Which coin travels farther? Why?
Explain what design factors helped make a longer ski jump.
Preserving skiing's origins in China's remote west
On the western edge of China, Sulita straps on his skis and heads out into a winter morning. The temperature is -22 degrees Fahrenheit.
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