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Makes 8, prep time 10 minutes, cooking time 8-10 minutes each
75g of all-purpose flour
1 free-range egg
1/2 tsp of bicarbonate of soda
1/2 tsp of garlic powder
Salt & pepper
1/2 pint of milk
5 chopped spring onions
150g can of sweetcorn, drained
4 tbsp of vegetable oil
1 cup of grated soft mozzarella
Sift the flour into a mixing bowl, add the bicarbonate of soda, garlic powder, salt and pepper. Make a well in the flour, add the egg.
Gradually pour in the milk and mix into a smooth batter.
Add the chopped spring onion and sweetcorn, then leave to stand for ten minutes.
Next, in a mini frying pan, (you can use a regular frying pan, but a mini pan keeps the fritters to an even in size).
Heat a little oil over a medium heat, add two tablespoons of batter. Fry for five minutes on each side.
Add a layer of cheese, when the cheese starts to melt turn the fritters over.
Cook for a couple of minutes until browned. Repeat the process with the remaining batter. Finally, serve with some green chilli sauce and salad leaves.


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Hey guys. Now you have had a go at the system, I just wanted to know what people thought of it.
I find it a very good system for getting up and going quickly. (Obviously less so for those with magic, like all rules sets), but the basics of PC creation seem simple by forming a sentence.
How did you find it? (Separate thread for specific rules - this is just for PC creation).
"It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit." – Harry S. Truman

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When: Saturday August 22nd, 2009 – Friday September 4th, 2009
Where: Tesabaan 5 School, Lampang, Thailand
Rote-memorization is a problem commonly found in Thai education system, which affects Tesabaan 5 School as well. With focus on lecturing, students are not prepared to critically think and analyze lesson materials. We hope to engage students and teachers in active classroom environments.
- Students at the school learn by rote-memorization, which leads to the lack of conceptual understanding of materials. Exams further reinforce rote-learning by having students regurgitate facts from lectures. Gradually under this system, students lose actual learning motivation and problem-solving and critical thinking skills.
- The library, seen as a boring place, could not motivate students to learn independently. Students do not see the need to seek additional resources because they think the materials their teachers feed them are sufficient.
Local Partner
Who: Yonok Foundation
Yonok Foundation, founded in 1988 along with Yonok University, is an educational foundation in Lampang, Thailand. Its mission is to support education, campus ministry, health, and public and civic affairs in Thailand. Yonok partners with the Ministry of Education, Health, Commerce and schools such as Stanford University and University of Washington. The foundation will facilitate contact with the school and provide us with logistical support on the ground. They will also help sustain our project activities after the completion of our project.
- For the students in the school
- To become engaged in active classroom activities
- To increase learning motivation
- To be equipped with problem-solving and critical thinking skills
- For the teachers
- To implement active classroom environments
- To create active learning curricula
- To hold regular support group or discussion on the transition to active learning
- For the school
- To create an environment that encourages students to independently make use of resources of their interest
- Active classroom environment
- Collaborate with teachers in designing fun, creative curricula that will engage students in actively learning school materials
- Lead fun classroom activities with teachers and motivate students to be excited about learning
- Help teachers form support group to help ease the teaching style transition period
- Leadership training
- Train school's student council to become better leaders through active learning activities
- Mentor and supervise leadership project of the student council: help them in brainstorming and implementing library-related activities
- This group will be responsible in continuing the activities and setting up an example for other students in the school
- Library renovation
- Renovate the school library and create a welcoming learning environment that fosters independent learning
Team Member Responsibilities
- Design an active learning curriculum with local teachers
- Engage students in fun classroom activities
- Teach leadership skills
- Mentor students on leadership project
- Create a welcoming learning environment for the school library
Skills Needed
- Interest in empowering youth and in shaping a better future for them
- Interest in education and teaching experiences would be an asset
- Energy, determination, motivation, and willingness to try and learn new things
Project Leaders
- Kin Fucharoen: kinf 'at' sealnetonline.org
- Adriana Miu: amiu 'at' sealnetonline.org


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Today, we're happy to bring you a brand new WoW feature…Head To Head!
Each week members of the Council and/or guest debaters will challenge each other in a no-holds-barred cage match discussing the issues making the headlines today.
This week's matchup pits Greg from Rhymes With Right against Council Alumnus Soccer Dad, as they examine the question:Should articles of impeachment be drawn up over President Obama's extension of presidential war powers?
The president does not have power under the Constitution to unilaterally authorize a military attack in a situation that does not involve stopping an actual or imminent threat to the nation. — Barack Obama, December 20, 2007
GREG: The exercise of the impeachment power by the House of Representatives is not something to be undertaken lightly. And yet, the words of "constitutional scholar", "statesman", and Nobel Peace Prize winner Barack Hussein Obama carry special weight as we consider the decision to commit US forces to military action in Libya over the past weekend. They speak to a situation in which a president might exceed the authority delegated to him under the US Constitution in such a manner as to constitute a violation of his oath of office and, in the words of the constitution, "high Crimes and Misdemeanors" which amount to a n impeachable offense.
Let's examine the reality of the current Libyan engagement. The United States has not been attacked by Libya, nor is there any discernible threat of attack against the United States during the four weeks since Obama made a nebulous "declaration of emergency" over the Libyan situation made via an executive order. Indeed, the grounds for the attack is to protect Libyan civilians from their own government, which while laudable does not constitute any sort of defense of American security. There has been no authorization of this use of force by either house of Congress, and Speaker John Boehner has made it clear that there has been no meaningful consultation of Congressional leadership or communication as to the intended level of commitment or its goals. Indeed, Obama has declared his authority for the use of force to be not the US Constitution, not a Congressional authorization to use the war-making power of the US military, but a United Nations resolution.
Frankly, this situation is virtually without precedent in American history in its disregard of the constitutional limits on the war-making power. In taking this course of action, Barack Obama is guilty of the very offenses of which he and his fellow Democrats accused George W. Bush since the early days of US involvement in Iraq. Some adversarial proceeding is needed to determine if the authority of the president is as small and circumscribed as laid out by Barack Obama in 2007, or whether the new Obama Doctrine (the UN, not Congress, authorizes US military action) is within the bounds of presidential war-making authority.
And herein lies the rub — the third branch of government is uniquely incompetent to judge this matter. When Bill Clinton committed US troops in Kosovo, the DC Circuit Court (Campbell v. Clinton)noted the incompetence of the judiciary to adjudicate such matters. Indeed, it is questionable whether any plaintiff would have standing to make such a challenge. This puts the matter straight into the realm of nonjusticiable political questions. How then can such questions be resolved in an adversarial setting? Only through the process of impeachment by the House of Representatives with a trial by the Senate. The decision to remove Barack Hussein Obama — or to not remove him — for violating his presidential oath by exceeding the constitutional limits of the war-making power will serve to delineate the extent of that power. The use of this process is therefore in order — and I believe that Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-Ohio) has a ready-made template for the articles of impeachment for exceeding those limits (see Articles VII and VIII) on file in his office on Capitol Hill. For the good of the nation and protection of the Constitution, let the process begin.
SOCCER DAD: "When you strike at a King, you must kill him." saying sometimes attributed to Ralph Waldo Emerson
Among the checks and balances provided for our government in the constitution is the removal from office of the President by means of impeachment. Impeachment – a process by which charges are drawn up by Congress and, if approved, submitted to the Senate for trial – is a powerful political tool. But because its nature is not strictly criminal, but political too. Thus conviction requires a two thirds majority of the Senate to remove a President from office. Clearly the founders felt that impeachment was necessary, but with a necessary constraint. A Congress choosing to impeach a President needed to convince a supermajority of the Senate of his guilt. Without this constraint, impeachment could become a political weapon.
In late 1998 an independent counsel found that President Clinton had perjured himself and referred his investigation to the House of Representatives. In December the House voted to refer the matter to the Senate for impeachment. Instead of being appalled at the President's misbehavior, Democrats rallied around him, with Vice President Gore declaring that impeachment was "… a great disservice to a man I believe will be regarded in the history books as one of our greatest Presidents." And though it was self serving for Dick Gephardt to claim, "Chairman Henry Hyde once called impeachment, the ultimate weapon, and said that, for it to succeed, ultimately it has to be bipartisan," he was correct. Republicans needed to have a bipartisan agreement on the seriousness of President Clinton's behavior and they didn't.
The issue now is the same. If the Democrats rallied behind an obvious lawbreaker like Clinton are they likely to abandon President Obama? And no, Democrats won't concede the obvious – that President Obama abused his authority in a way that President Bush didn't. Democrats (and their media allies) have accepted the "Bush lied" doctrine. So yes some Democrats supported the war against Iraq, but it was because these poor souls were willfully misled.
In short, the Republicans have no chance of removing President Obama from office. To impeach him will serve to strengthen him and the Democrats at a time when they are reeling, just like the unsuccessful attempt to remove Clinton derailed the Republican revolution twelve years ago.
GREG:Is impeachment a process that is every bit as political as it is judicial? Let me be the first to concede that point. And yet, it is precisely because the impeachment process is political that it becomes the ideal process for dealing with a question that the courts themselves are loath to adjudicate — that of the extent of the war-making powers of the man or woman who holds the office of President of the United States. Because the answer to the question is placed squarely in the hands of one of our political branches (the Legislative Branch) regarding the limits of the power of the other (the Executive Branch), the fact that political as well as judicial considerations will enter into the picture is perfectly appropriate.
And ultimately this is a good thing.
The impeachment of William Jefferson Clinton, when all was said and done, was properly handled by both houses of Congress. The House of Representatives properly raised the question of Clinton's perjury, while the Senate determined that his guilt of the offense (which even many of those voting not to remove him from office conceded), was insufficient grounds to remove him. This ultimately established the precedent that personal misconduct that does not implicate the constitutional balance of powers is not sufficient grounds to remove a sitting president — especially due to the fact that there remains the possibility of criminal charges for that misconduct. Indeed, one of Clinton's final acts as president was to strike a deal with the independent counsel in order to stave off the possibility of his indictment and trial for that personal misconduct. While Richard Nixon resigned prior to impeachment, it seems clear that his acceptance of a pardon from Gerald Ford weeks later established the same working precedent.
I'd argue that the impeachment of Barack Obama would be more akin to the impeachment and trial of Andrew Johnson over the Tenure of Office Act. That battle, properly viewed, is one that helped establish the balance of power between the Executive and legislative branches with regard to the right of the President to select his senior Executive Branch officials free from constraints beyond those set by the Constitution itself. This was acknowledged some four decades later by the Supreme Court in another, unrelated case — one which, had the US Senate removed Johnson from office, would have doubtless been decided differently based upon the impeachment precedent. While Johnson was not removed by the US Senate, he was by no means strengthened during his remaining days in office. Indeed, he was explicitly snubbed by his successor, Ulysses S. Grant, and not even invited to his successor's inauguration.
Would Democrats vote to remove Obama from office over his Libyan War? That is hard to say — but I think they might. We have already seen a number of Democrats condemn Obama over it. If they truly believe that he has exceeded his constitutional authority — a clear case of malfeasance in office — then it becomes possible that Senate Democrats will vote to remove even a president of their own party — who in this case will be replaced by a man who they viewed as a senior statesman among their number for over three decades, Joe Biden. What's more, if they vote against his removal, they effectively establish a congressionally endorsed precedent that will establish that the President, as commander-in-chief, has war-making powers that are unfettered and which exclude the Congress from effective involvement in the decision to go to war. I do not believe that the Legislative Branch will vote to emasculate itself. Yet if Obama is not removed — and I am by no means saying that it is a foregone conclusion that he should be — said decision also has the effect of ratifying the military actions of every president since Kennedy. The partisan impact of seeking the proceedings — which party is strengthened or weakened by the invocation of this process — must be viewed as secondary to the greater question of the balance of powers within our national government.
SOCCER DAD:After I chose to challenge your thesis, I had some hesitations. From your writing it is clear that you have an understanding of constitutional issues that I cannot approach. I could never analyze a hypothetical impeachment of President Obama and conclude that it closely matches the issues of the impeachment of Andrew Johnson. I can't challenge your conclusions, I don't have the knowledge to do so.
However you argue that the issue at hand is the separation of powers. If I understand you correctly, President Obama has overstepped the bounds of his office in an unprecedented fashion and must be called to account. However, if going to war without authorization from Congress is an impeachable offense, there were grounds in the past, for impeaching … President Clinton, who, I just learned (or was reminded) did not get authorization from Congress before bombing Serbia. I suspect that President Clinton wasn't impeached for that because Presidents often extend the reaches of their power as they deem expedient. President Obama's decision to join in attacking Qaddafi, isn't particularly exceptional.
What is clear is that President Obama is being extremely hypocritical. And while that is political behavior, impeachment is too strong a political weapon to be used in this case and is likely to be ineffective, if not counterproductive. Using op-ed pages and Sunday morning talk shows to emphasize the President's hypocrisy is the appropriate response and more likely to convince the electorate of his dissimulation.
GREG: Now you do raise some very important considerations nonetheless. As I see it, those are as follows.
- Impeachment was not intended to be used in this manner.
- Impeachment is too strong a tool to use in this case.
- Impeachment has the potential to leave Obama and/or his party strengthened at a critical time.
To the first argument, I will simply respond that impeachment is the tool made available to call a president to account. As you have noted, it has not been used in this manner in the past — and your Clinton example is the most obvious similarity. I'd argue that Congress failed in its duty when it did not act in that case. The failure to act in the past, however, does not mean that Congress is exceeding its authority by using the power in this case. Indeed, it is an assertion of Congress' proper role.
The second consideration is a critical one. Is using impeachment in this case the equivalent of using a howitzer to kill a housefly? I think not. Obama's actions are a wholesale violation of the limits of the presidential war-making power, and as such may be seen as a "high Crime" meriting impeachment and removal. Use of the process asserts those limitations on presidential power — and failure to use them constitutes acquiescence to the proposition that a president has virtually unlimited war-making power without involvement of Congress.
The last matter, that of the transient political considerations, is quite dangerous in my eyes — and given Democrat calls for impeachment, overblown. But at the same time, Congress — in particular Congressional Republicans — must decide if the risk of continued Democrat control of the Executive Branch and/or possible Democrat gains in Congress and the long-term consequences (implementation of ObamaCare, for example) outweighs the precedent set by NOT impeaching Obama for his overreaching. I would argue it does not.
I think impeachment fits in this case. We have a president who has entered us into an extended "war of choice", rather than a simply responding to an act of aggression against the US, without consulting with or receiving approval from Congress. We have divided power in Congress, so that whatever happens will require the active participation of majorities of both parties. Let's take the opportunity to act to either reaffirm Congress' role in war-making or declare that historical precedent has turned that role into the constitutional equivalent of a human appendix or a prehensile tail. Congress, by it's action or inaction, must decide.
SOCCER DAD: Perhaps I'm oversimplifying but it appears that Greg views impeachment as a legal process with political implications whereas I view it as a political process with legal constraints. I believe this divergence colors our views of the situation.
Rather than saying that "impeachment was not intended to be used in this manner," I would say, "impeachment is a political tool (or weapon) and necessarily requires strong political support to be used." Requiring a supermajority for conviction shows the intent was to prevent impeachment from being used as a way of settling policy differences. If it's clear there won't be overwhelming support for conviction, it should serve as a warning that it is better not starting the process.
If there was a history of Congress and the Senate impeaching and removing Presidents from office for failing to consult Congress, I'd agree that this. It wasn't just Clinton. President Reagan attacked Qaddafi in 1986 in response to the discotheque bombing without Congressional approval. (He did consult with Congressional leaders, but that isn't what's required.) As far as i can tell, neither did President Bush get Congressional approval before invading Panama to capture Gen. Noriega. If this is a "high crime" it is also common and not one that any Congress has sought to challenge in the past. So it's not simply that impeachment would be "too strong;" its use here would be unprecedented.
As I noted in the previous paragraph, President Obama's action is not unprecedented. But should political calculation come into play? Absolutely. If Congress could send articles of impeachment to the Senate but the Senate fails to convict (and it won't convict) what exactly has been gained? A shot across the President's bow? The President won't have been reined in and he will suffer nothing politically. Republicans though will be portrayed (unfairly, to be sure) as the heavies and will suffer politically. If there is any hope of defeating President Obama's agenda it will require continued Republican electoral dominance. Impeachment would risk that. It's not worth it.
Greg prefaced his opening remarks with a statement from then Sen. Barack Obama denying the President the right to declare war in certain circumstances. By deploying troops in a fashion that violates that standard, President Obama is acting hypocritically. That statement was political and cynical, but it has no legal force. No legal action should be taken against the President.


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Professor Sue Roulstone is Emeritus Professor at the University of the West of England, Bristol. Much of her work has focussed on children and family perspectives on speech and language impairment. Sue spoke to I CAN about best practice around involving children and young people in sharing their views and decision making. Ensuring the voice of children and young people …Read More


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God and Omniscience
Discussions on a ranges of philosophical issues including the nature of truth and reality, personal identity, mind-body theories, epistemology, justification of beliefs, argumentation and logic, philosophy of religion, free will and determinism, etc.
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Rev 6:16 and Rev 7:10 seem to offer up that two are present. There are many more verses that just mention one figure and one throne. Not quite sure what the theology is on this. I always figured God would be manifest as the Father and as the Son. Like when Jesus is resurected, he ascends and sits down at the right hand of the Father. I think Judgment and Revelation will look like that.
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Point is, Huskies need Montgomery to step up
That's the way she ended all four years as a high school player in West Virginia. Now as the freshman point guard on the UConn women's basketball team, Montgomery hopes to continue her streak in leading the Huskies to a sixth national championship.
She already proved her ability to lead UConn to one postseason title in the Big East tournament. But Montgomery wants to show she can lead the Huskies, who face No. 15 seed Coppin State in the first round Sunday at State College, Pa., to the ultimate title.
"I feel like (winning the Big East tournament) just showed us that we could do it and now I think it made us hungrier," said Montgomery, who was voted on to the all-tournament team.
Montgomery certainly played her way onto the all-tournament team. She averaged 12.0 points and four assists in three games, and the Huskies will need similar numbers from her during the NCAA tournament.
"I remember the last time we won a national championship without a great effort, a great tournament from our point guard. I think it was never," UConn coach
As well as Montgomery has played up until this season, she admits she needs to play even better in the NCAA tournament.
"There is a tremendous amount of pressure just because this is nothing that we've done all season," Montgomery said. "I might have done good in the regular season, but now everything's changed. Teams are going to play 10 times better than they've played before and everybody's going to have their 'A' game."
According to Montgomery's teammates, they say the Big East Freshman of the Year already has come through plenty of times this season.
She enters the NCAA tournament with the fourth-best scoring average on the team at 8.8 points and she shares the team lead in steals with Ketia Swanier with 58. She needs just 11 assists to set the program's all-time freshman record.
"She's definitely the right kind of kid to handle that pressure," forward Barbara Turner said. "She has the confidence; she has the swagger. She has everything and she's been playing really well. She has the momentum right now, so I'm more than confident that she's going to be capable of helping carry us through this NCAA tournament. I have no questions about it."
Earlier this season, however, Montgomery struggled in the marquee games.
Against North Carolina and Tennessee, both of which UConn lost to in the regular season, the freshman averaged 3.5 points and four assists in the two games. In the 89-80 loss to the Lady Vols, Montgomery virtually was absent in the offense, as she did not attempt a shot the entire game and drew much criticism from Auriemma because of her passive play.
"You think you can handle it, you think you're going to be OK, but not having that experience definitely makes it tough," said Hartford coach Jen Rizzotti , who started every game as UConn's point guard as a freshman. "As a freshman in college, it's a lot different than any other year of your life."
Realizing she was one of the main reasons why UConn lost to Tennessee, she vowed not to let her teammates down again. She pretty much upheld that promise ever since.
Since the Tennessee game, Montgomery has averaged 11.4 points a game and attempted at least four field goals in those 19 games. She also kept her teammates involved in those games, averaging 4.1 assists since Tennessee.
Montgomery had her signature game of the season in leading UConn to a 75-68 win at Louisville. She scored 11 points of her collegiate-best 26, the highest single-game scoring effort of any UConn player this year, in the final 3:14 of the game.
"In the beginning of the season, I was like a deer in headlights," Montgomery said. "But now I feel more calm and under control. I think, definitely, this is the best I've been playing all year."
Her numbers reflect that Montgomery is playing her best the past few weeks. She is averaging 13.3 points and 3.4 assists the past seven games.
"Renee has really matured a lot in the last couple of months and she's not afraid to take big shots," Auriemma said. "She's bailed us out a lot when the offense has struggled. ... She's come a long way that kid."


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Letters to the Editor
What could be more interesting to a teacher than reading about a
teacher who is unresponsive and insensitive, "killing a poet'' who
might be musing on her own mortality? But all is not lost because this
fledging poet has a mother, also a teacher, and she is all the good
things her daughter's teacher is not. As a fair-to-middling teacher, I
can only guess what a burden it must be to be as wonderful as
Harvey-Ann Ross is and to have the heavy responsibility of being a role
model for all the other less-than-wonderful teachers like me. Charles
Tonawanda, N.Y.
Under Pressure
Your article on stress ["Stressed Out,'' January] was much like many
others I've read on the clinical and textbook definitions of stress.
All are good and true, but they were not able to help me. Four years
ago, I was a completely burned-out teacher. In January 1987, I had just
about hit bottom. But I got professional help and slowly began to work
my way back. I had to identify the feelings that were causing me
stress, take charge of my life, and stop expecting someone to rescue
me. I also had to stop doing too many things and being in too many
places at once. This meant understanding why I wanted to do it all, and
then simply saying "no.'' I have also learned not to react to student
misbehavior with outrage but to calmly state what is unacceptable and
what the consequences of misbehavior will be. Most importantly, I have
learned that I have to take time to listen to my feelings and identify
them. When I'm stressed, it usually means I am denying a feeling. I
cannot keep going 90 mph all the time. Today, I am effectively teaching
more students than ever and feel productive and happy in my work.
Everything is not perfect, but I have learned a way to live with life's
Elaine Hughes
East Junior High School
Ponca City, Okla.
Great Section
On behalf of our board of directors, I applaud your special
technology section ["Teaching With Technology,'' January]. It
articulates very well the need to integrate technology into classrooms
across the nation. Please let your readers know about our organization,
the Technology Student Association. We are a national organization for
students. Since 1978, we have grown to 75,000 secondary and elementary
students in 1,500 programs spanning 43 states. The annual dues are $4.
The TSA also includes educators, parents, and business leaders who
believe in the need for a technologically literate society. Our
address: TSA, 1914 Association Drive, Reston, VA 22091; (703) 860-9000.
Rosanne White
Executive Director
Technology Student Association
Reston, Va.
Kudos to you on the computer articles! I've ordered a number of computer items advertised and written about in Teacher Magazine. Most have been fantastic. However, as tax time comes, readers need to be reminded that generally the purchase of computers and software by teachers is not deductible. In fact, the Internal Revenue Service has informed us that the purchase of books, videotapes, and so on by teachers is also nondeductible. (I bet my subscription to Teacher Magazine will be ruled nondeductible, too.) The IRS rationale is simple: School districts provide all of these things for teachers, so there is no reason for teachers to purchase such "luxury'' items on their own. Ric Loya
Huntington Park High School
Huntington Park, Calif.
Editor's Note: According to the IRS, subscriptions to professional journals and trade magazines related to work may be claimed as a miscellaneous tax deduction on federal income tax returns.
Thank you for your excellent January special section, but please answer this question: Where can I go to be trained to use technology in my classroom? It amazes me how little I hear from institutes or schools on the availability of seminars, workshops, etc. I'm willing to be trained.
Becky Cook
Mathematics Teacher
Winston-Salem/Forsyth County Schools
Winston-Salem, N.C.
Not-So-Great Section
The author of "How To Buy A Computer'' ["Teaching With Technology,'' January] needs to do his homework better. He says you cannot run Mac software on an Amiga, but this isn't true. A-MAX not only runs Mac software but also runs it faster than a plain Mac, thanks to the Amiga's graphics chips, which take the burden off the main processor. With one of the various add-ons, you can also run MS-DOS programs.
Macey Taylor
Computer Consultant
Tucson, Ariz.
It's a pity that your magazine, which has found its way into classrooms around the country and is read by teachers, dealt with technology so superficially in its recent issue. The true value of technology is not as a teaching tool but as a learning environment for students. Why are teachers in central positions or alone in all your photographs? Why do you emphasize the position and involvement of the teacher all the time? If technology is to serve any purpose at all, it must change the role of the teacher from an information provider to a learning facilitator and information guide.
Chris Morton
Center for Information Systems and Research
Yorktown Heights, N.Y.
I read your recent issue on technology and was surprised by the
uniformly enthusiastic tone of all the articles. I was even more
surprised by the total absence of any discussion of the health hazards
of computer usage. In particular, I was astonished to find a
description of model computer labs "with PCs lined up back to back like
tightly packed rows of corn.'' From a health point of view, this is the
worst way to line up computers. I urge you to run an article on the
risks facing people in schools as a result of the rush to technology.
It is essential that educators be sensitive to environmental health in
their own schools.
Herbert Kohl
Point Arena, Calif.
More Hoops
I definitely related to Jeffrey Wells' article ["Jumping Through
Hoops,'' November/December]. I graduated two years ago and am currently
suffering through substitute teaching while seeking permanent
employment. I graduated summa cum laude and was considered an excellent
student teacher. I have applied to 35 school districts and had only
three interviews. I saw wives and daughters of school district
employees get jobs that I was passed over for. Districts also don't
seem to want anyone my age (I'm over 30). Discouraged? Yes. Thinking of
leaving the field? Yes. Let's begin to clean up the system. Lynn
North Babylon, N.Y.
Reading Jeffrey Wells' article brought back not-so-fond memories of my quest for employment after graduation in 1988. I began college under the impression that Pennsylvania was in dire need of chemistry teachers. I was a recipient of the Pennsylvania Scholars in Education Award designed to attract top students to math and science teaching. I thought finding a job after graduation would be no problem. I was awakened to the reality in my senior year. I applied for six jobs but only heard from one district, which sent me a rejection letter. I called the others and was told that the position was filled or that there had never been a position in the first place.
At the beginning of August, I began weighing other alternatives. Then, two weeks before school was to start, one of the districts with a "filled'' slot called. I got the job and began to teach a new course with no textbook or materials.
When I read about education reform, I wonder if any of it is
worthwhile as long as the hiring process remains so political and
mysterious. Articles about teacher shortages in Pennsylvania are
starting to appear again. I wonder how many college students will be
fooled they way I was.
Philip Palko
Saltsburg, Pa.
Many Thanks
Your article on Howard Middle School in Ocala, Fla., ["Rebirth,''
October] truly changed lives. The school has received more than 70
calls from around the nation, and about 30 groups have either visited
or asked for details about the project. Thanks for what you've done for
the hardworking people at Howard. Gloria Houston
Visiting Assistant Professor
Department of Childhood
College of Education
University of South Florida
Tampa, Fla.
Editor's Note: Houston helped restructure Howard Middle School's language-arts curriculum.
A Few Good Men
I appreciated your article about the reasons why men don't want to teach preschool or the early grades ["Looking For A Few Good Men,'' November/ December]. After 13 years teaching preschool and elementary school, I have discovered another important factor: the desire to get married. One would think that women would understand teaching better than men, but I have not found that to be the case. Most think I "play with kids'' for a living. Last month, a woman said, "Really? Oh, how sweet,'' when I told her I taught 2nd grade. Would an engineer have this problem?
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Arizona's Sheriff Joe "Pinky" Arpaio, who is the self-proclaimed toughest sheriff in the entire United States, has just made headlines again with his most recent press release. Sheriff Joe has said that since he forces male convicts to dress in feminine pink jumpsuits and pink flip flops, he has decided to start forcing the female convicts to dress in masculine camouflage jumpsuits and camouflage flip flops.
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As a vegetarian and a dancer, one of my biggest dietary struggles is getting enough protein. I'm not someone who naturally gravitates toward foods with a high protein content, so it's definitely something I have to actively think about, or it easily falls by the wayside. So for this recipe, I turned to the classic, old school, original vegetarian protein- tofu! Though many meat eaters are put off by this squishy, bloodless foe, I confess I've never had a problem with the texture. In an attempt to make it less threatening, many recipes call for making tofu crisp on the outside with a chewy interior, so I decided to keep the crispiness without sacrificing a moist and tender interior.
In this delectable preparation, small, soft morsels of tofu are soaked in rich coconut milk, subtly flavored by ginger and cardamom, rolled in flaked coconut, and then lightly baked to perfection. The result is a delicately flavorful dish with an irresistibly soft and slightly toothsome texture. It's my new go-to for an easy week of lunches or dinners, and I'm sure once you try it, it'll be yours too.
Note: I know this seems like a labor intensive and time consuming recipe, but most of the prep time is just waiting while the tofu is being pressed and marinated, so it makes a great weekend activity if you want something you can do while accomplishing other things at home, like laundry, homework, etc.
Baked Coconut Tofu
Prep: 2 hours and 10 minutes
Bake: 40 minutes
Total time: 2 hours and 50 minutes
- 1 14 oz package super or extra firm tofu
- 1/3 cup light coconut milk
- 1 large egg
- 1/4 teaspoon ground ginger
- 1/8 teaspoon ground cardamom
- 3/4 cup unsweetened coconut flake
Drain and press the tofu. Carefully remove the block of tofu from its packaging. Place it on top of a doubled paper towel on top of a plate and wrap the paper towel around the tofu. Take another paper towel, fold it in half, and place that on top of the tofu block. Then, take a second plate, turn it upside down, and put that on top of the paper towel. Place your can of coconut milk on top of the second plate. Your contraption should look kind of like a burger, with the paper towel-lined plates as the bread, and the block of tofu as the patty (lol at the meat analogy in a tofu recipe).
As the paper towels soak up the liquid, replace them with new ones (this time varies, so check them about every 15-25 minutes). Leave this setup, switching out paper towels periodically, for 1 hour.
While it's sitting, prepare the marinade. In a bowl, mix together the coconut milk, egg, and spices and pour into a large shallow dish. Transfer it to the fridge until the tofu is done.
Once the tofu has been pressed, use a sharp knife to slice it cleanly into ten equal(ish) pieces. Lay the pieces in the dish and marinate in the fridge for 30 minutes. Preheat the oven to 350 degrees Fahrenheit. Remove the dish from the fridge, flip the pieces over, and return to the fridge for 30 more minutes. Line a baking sheet with parchment paper.
Once the tofu is done marinating, remove it from the fridge and place the dish on the counter. Spread the coconut flake on a large plate and position it between the dish with the tofu and the parchment lined baking sheet, creating a sort of assembly line.
Pick up the first piece of tofu and roll it gently in the shredded coconut, coating all sides evenly, and place it on the baking sheet. Repeat this process until all of the pieces have been covered and placed on the sheet.
Bake the tofu pieces for 40 minutes, flipping them over and rotating the baking sheet halfway through. They are done when lightly browned or golden on both sides and tender through the middle. Cool and serve, or store in the fridge in an airtight container for up to five or six days (if it lasts that long). Enjoy!


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Infinite Column by Constantin Brancusi – Romanian sculptor
Let's feel (experiment!) and understand the mechanism of our chakras that allows yogis to Realize that "We are One". Enjoy!
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(click!) Sam's Slideshow: "We are One –Living in the moment!" – 8 Years of Free (Sahaja) Yoga Meditation in Halton
"Actually I never talk to them about Sahaja Yoga, I said first get your realization (awakening of Kundalini energy). Supposing you have to put the light on, what I would say, that alright, press the button. You press the button and you get the light. But there is a big mechanism behind it, and a very big history for this electricity.
So Sahaja yoga has a tremendous traditional history and also it has a mechanism which works it out. But it is so well done and such a fine mechanism that it doesn't fail, like German things … Germans are very good with their hands, with machinery, but now they have to learn about the machinery within, and have to become experts of that. :-)"
(excerpt from Public Lecture of Shri Mataji at Munich Deutsches Museum ,Germany – 7/9/84)
jai thank u foor the online lessons i am really enjoying these teaching
our should bless you all
jai thank u for all the pictures ,
video and the online programs aim really
enjoying these teachings,
God bless u all for the mighty job u are
doing to enlighten the world for our mother
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Thank you for a wonderful video.
I absolutely LOVE this video of Shri Mataji!! It is so enlightening and powerful. I strive to live the life she describes. Amazing!! With Love.
It is so nice to see this video again. It is so strong, and she explains everything so perfectly. I hope lots of folks take the time to watch, enjoy, and absorb it.


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A pale medieval manuscript, your skin
is touched, illuminated by these words
that flicker, feathered like the wings of birds.
I imagine your life spelled out in ancient
tongues upon your skin, a vulgar Latin,
a hieroglyphic tinged in pigments of amaranth
and rust, underneath your tunic, like a psalm.
Let me thus lift up, as from your outstretched
arms, this binding, this fabric coverlet that
hides the pages of your flesh, your fragrant
etymology, your history, your verse.
For I would pull you to me, trace out that
finery of words, transliterate your soul into
my alphabet of longing, mouth unto mouth,
until I brand you mine, mine, mine.
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The quotation is from Ovid: "What (modesty) forbade me to say, love has commanded me to write."ReplyDelete
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Very sensualReplyDelete
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Whenever I find myself in need of lush, beautiful poetry...something to open the world up wider than I can see...I come here. This is an exquisite poem! Thank you :)ReplyDelete
smoking...i like the archaic language on skin...read it!ReplyDelete
Fantastic! I love the deep sensuality here, the words are so charged!ReplyDelete
In a breath, I heard you speak this piece ~ balanced and poised, sweet with sweat, intimately open ~ lashes closed. Simply superb my dear Sam, superb!ReplyDelete
Everything in four stanzas-tight, evocative, tantalizingly obsessed.ReplyDelete
Very good.
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Wonderfully written. I can see everything, and it is steaming!ReplyDelete
A touching piece. It's full of sweet!ReplyDelete
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Passionate display of beauty, and your gift of word use give to this so much more breath. Incredible Sam! ~AprilReplyDelete
Ahh... deliciously sensuous and tender, and yet so intense!ReplyDelete
But that's exactly how love is... isn't it?! :)
Very beautifully written, my friend... the word-play was impeccable, and so tastefully done!! Really lovely!
ohh.... and love for words and language... (sigh)... tell me about it!!! :)ReplyDelete
One of the best love poems I've read. Nothing syrupy here - the texture, the color, the taste, the smell, the heat and the ardor so controlled but so breathtaking. Beautiful. Gay @beachannyReplyDelete
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Why in the great wide universe of things to scare you would any author in this day choose vampires? To hear it from some, zombies have replaced vampires as the go to monsters in any horror novel. Don't get me wrong I love rotting hungry corpses as much as the next guy, but I still think the night walking blood drinking undead have more to give.
The modern vampire occupies one of several traditions. Readers have seen their share of everything from gentlemen in capes to crazed demon like creatures. Vampires can be ruthless but seductive, or gentile but heartless. They can command kingdoms or slink alone in the shadows as solo predators. I came upon the idea for the vampires in Undead Heart while reading about the book of Enoch. I immediately began imagining what I could do with the nephelim, beings born of human and angel. These beings coukd be immortal, retaining qulities of both. In the bibke theynare most often refered to as giants. Still these beings had to have enough human qualities as to be recognizable to the reader while being unlike anything the reader could be familliasr with. I admit the war between the vampires and lycans comes from the Underworld series of films but also has a healthy tradition in fiction. I wanted a story that did not have a clear cut good guy bad guy cast. As in life the details matter and there is always a little shade of gray.
Some of the best monster stories I have read have found a way to pit the monster against human adversaries but at the same time allowing the qualities of one to transfer to the other. A truly dramatic story has the monster demonstrating more human qualities and the humans become monstrous in their own way. It becomes easy to see the monster in ourselves but not so easy to see the human in the monster. That was a challenge I really looked forward to tackling. This idea guided me through the development of the world in Undead Heart. At its heart, no pun intended, it is a story of growth and romance but within a framework that makes it accessible but weird at the same time. I had a lot of fun writing it and look forward to revisiting this universe often.
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Wednesday, 28 July 2010
The Noachian era – but only on Mars?
Was the red planet once blue? Image courtesy of NASA.
Joel Kontinen
Recently, Science published a paper on the assumed watery past of Mars. It even mentioned the Noachian era that obviously caused the red planet to change its colour to blue.
In their paper, Richard Morris and colleagues acknowledge that the evidence for " outcrops rich in carbonate minerals [on Mars]… has been sparse".
"Using the Mars Exploration Rover Spirit, we have now identified outcrops rich in magnesium-iron carbonate (16 to 34 weight percent) in the Columbia Hills of Gusev crater. Its composition approximates the average composition of the carbonate globules in martian meteorite ALH 84001. The Gusev carbonate probably precipitated from carbonate-bearing solutions under hydrothermal conditions at near-neutral pH in association with volcanic activity during the Noachian era. " (italics added)
For them, carbonate-rich outcrops suggest that Mars was once warmer and wetter than it is now.
For reasons that do not sound very scientific, some secular scientists are willing to accept the Noachian era – as long as it occurred on Mars four billion years ago and not on Earth 4,500 years ago.
However, the evidence points to a real global flood - on Earth.
Morris, Richard V. & al. 2010. Identification of Carbonate-Rich Outcrops on Mars by the Spirit Rover. Science 329: 599023, 421 – 424 (23 July 2010).
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Eastside's first center for victims of sex trafficking opens in Bellevue
Oct 11, 2016 at 12:53PM
At any given time in King County, 300-500 underage girls are being trafficked. The average age of entry is 12-14 years old, with some as young as 8 or 9.
Young boys are also increasingly becoming sex trafficking victims — Some estimates have males making up 40 or 50 percent of sex trafficking cases in the U.S.
Elaine Adams was first exposed to sex work by a family member when she was 15. The relative — whom Adams had trusted and admired — convinced her to help her at a bachelor party in Bellevue. All she would have to do was dance, the relative told her.
It sounded harmeless, Adams said, but the encounter left her terrified and was the first part in a grooming process that most young victims undergo.
"You're traumatized," she said. "It's not only the threat of physical violence, but also brainwashing. They find your vulnerabilities."
In addition to using her low self-esteem against her, the people grooming her also used fear and violence. Adams was already broken from being raped at age 13, she said. As the years went on, Adams said she was raped so many times, she lost count. The sex trade soon felt like her identity.
Both Loya and Adams said that no young person truly chooses to become a sex worker — grooming and coercion is at the core of the sex trade. Part of the process is also glamorizing sex work, making victims think they're free and/or loved by their pimps, Adams added.
Because of the mental and physical effects of sex trafficking, Loya said trauma therapy like that offered at Escape to Peace is key to helping victims work through overwhelming experiences and recover. The center will also house victims over 18 years of age and partner with other organizations to shelter underage victims.
"When I first started this work, it was about awareness, prevention and detection. But then I realized that I couldn't be out there, thinking I was creating awareness of the situation, without somewhere for these victims to go," Loya said. "But, there's still that awareness piece. People are shocked when they hear sex trafficking is an issue around here."
Gradually, Adams found her way out of sex work. Family members began taking her to church and the birth of her oldest son made Adams realize her life had to change. Now, she is an advocate for sex-trafficking victims and refers to herself not as a survivor, but an "overcomer".
When asked what she would tell victims still entangled in sex trafficking, Adams' answer is simple: "There is help out there. There are safe spaces. There are so many people like myself who have overcome this. Just try."
The Escape to Peace center at 11100 Main St. will officially open to clients next month.
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But veined and dotted with pipes and pumps and meters, Faw was also a delicate target, easily damaged by wayward ordnance or sabotage. So, on the first night of the war, when others were trying to destroy Iraqi targets, the men of the Naval Special Warfare Task Group were trying to save one. Large, specially equipped Pave Low helicopters flew dark, low and fast toward the refinery from just over the Kuwait border. Dispersing on arrival, the choppers simultaneously dropped five separate teams of 20 Navy seal commandos each at five "key nodes" around the huge complex. Their orders: hold each target until relieved by 1,000 Royal Marines. It was a mission for which the seals, along with elements of the U.S. and Royal air forces, had been training for weeks. The goal was to make sure that the battle took, as one commando later put it in the jargon that comes with its own camouflage, only "one cycle of darkness."
U.S. special forces, a fabled but mostly misunderstood arm of the U.S. military, didn't win the war in Iraq. But America's secret army, deployed in greater numbers than ever before and working for the first time with the support of the entire chain of command, did as much as the pilots, tankers and artillery to shorten the war. And now, as the U.S. finds itself in a deepening struggle to root out stubborn pockets of resistance and track down Saddam, the Pentagon's most specialized units are again playing outsize roles. Last week Army special forces, along with troops from the 101st Airborne and 4th Infantry divisions, launched a series of raids on a variety of strongholds north and west of Baghdad, killing dozens in a pro-Saddam movement that one Marine colonel in Baghdad told TIME was becoming "more and more organized and military-like."
Nearly seven weeks after President Bush declared that the war with Iraq was over, the conflict has entered a spooky twilight phase when some days and hours can feel just as intense as those during the original invasion. But the postwar assault on Saddam's die-hards is just the latest mission for the secret commandos who are increasingly seen as the soldiers best suited for the U.S.'s continuing contest with a highly unconventional enemy in Iraq and around the globe. Special forces "have been a huge combat multiplier in this joint campaign to topple this regime," declares Army Lieut. General David McKiernan, the top U.S. commander in Iraq. "Their effects were felt before D-day and are still felt today."
The increasing faith in special-operations forces (SOF) can be traced to one man: Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld. Since taking over as Pentagon chief, Rumsfeld has repeatedly handed the commandos starring roles in the war on terrorism and pressed his Vietnam-era generals and admirals to abandon old ways of fighting for new approaches that emphasize speed and stealth. That push is only a piece of the larger war he has been waging on old-fashioned military thinking. But the "SOF guys," as they are called around the Pentagon, have emerged as the biggest winners in the Rumsfeld era. The defense chief has set in motion a host of changes that will boost their budgets and swell their ranks in the next five years. And last week Rumsfeld took the extraordinary step of recommending a retired four-star general, Peter Schoomaker, an original member of Delta Force, to be the next Army Chief of Staff. This is the first time in U.S. history that a top commando has been tapped to lead the entire Army and is yet another indication of the Administration's growing reliance on America's secret soldiers. "God love him," said Air Force Colonel Randy O'Boyle, who directed part of the Faw operation. "(Rumsfeld) had the confidence to unleash us on the target."
Some 10,000 special-forces troops saw action in Iraq, the largest such deployment since World War II and three times the number who participated in Gulf War I. From a secret base in western Saudi Arabia, they seized a pair of airfields and scoured the Iraqi desert for Scuds every night for nearly a month. In the east, they secured a port for the delivery of humanitarian goods. And in the south, they fought to keep Saddam from destroying the 1,000 oil wells that are the country's financial future. Teams in humvees and low-flying helicopters rolled into dozens of towns in search of arms caches; riverine squads on inflatable boats cleared mines and other vessels from Umm Qasr harbor; and with help from the Marines, Army Rangers and some locals, a seal team freed Private Jessica Lynch from a Nasiriyah hospital.
Special forces were usually ahead of the tip of the spear: as U.S. troops pushed toward Baghdad, secret combat teams zipped into Iraq aboard specially outfitted MC-130 Combat Talon planes that used highways as landing strips, surprising the enemy at its rear. On the road to Tikrit, they fingered Iraqi vehicles fleeing the capital for destruction by M1 tanks. And inside the capital, the elite Delta Force slipped into Baghdad's back alleys and into its sewers to eavesdrop on communications, cut fiber-optic cables, target regime leaders and build networks of informants.
Sometimes they just got lucky: a 12-man Green Beret team in customized humvees came upon a Shi'ite cleric and several hundred of his anti-Saddam disciples near Basra on March 20, according to the team's intelligence officer. The cleric sheltered the U.S. troops and their vehicles in warehouses as they plotted joint maneuvers. The Americans deputized the locals and then passed out Chinese-made weapons to the cleric's men and led them on a number of successful raids, seizing more than 100 antitank missiles. When the same Green Berets couldn't dislodge a well-entrenched Iraqi detachment from around a bridge in Basra, they broadcast the sound of approaching tanks from their humvees, drawing the Iraqi troops out of hiding and exposing them to firea model psychological operation. "It was bait-and-ambush," the intelligence officer said later.
Some of the special-forces troops in iraq had seen it all before12 years ago, to be exact. Long before the war with Iraq began, officials at the U.S. Special Operations Command in Tampa, Fla., combed service records for names of commandos who had seen action in 1991's Operation Provide Comfort, which gave food and shelter to Kurdish refugees after Saddam crushed their rebellion. The goal: to lure these American soldiers out of private life and back into action. "We wanted them for the places they'd been and the people they knew," said a top officer. Army rules prohibit the service from relying on more than 100 retired commandos at any time; by mid-March, a top Army official told TIME, 88 had been tapped to return to the region.
Grouped in tiny knots of fewer than half a dozen, many of these special-forces veterans were dropped into northern Iraq months before the war. The teams began to renew old ties and make new ones, traveling with interpreters, wearing local garb, trying to blend in and take control. An Army captain who jumped into the region with a team of four others told TIME that his detachment suddenly found itself in charge of 300 Kurdish fighters from the north, known as peshmerga, who had been fighting Saddam for a dozen years. Joint strategy meetings were anything but regular Army. "A lot of communication goes on over pita bread, chai and rice," said the U.S. officer. "We ate what they ate."
But they fought with very different weapons. The Army captain carried a special scope that enabled him, while hiding several miles away, to fix on elements of an Iraqi artillery battalion south of Arbil, moving toward the city. With U.S. and Kurdish troops blocking the way, the Army officer radioed targeting information on his scope to Air Force air-traffic controllers. They sent B-52s packing a flurry of 2,000-lb. bombs to push the Iraqis 10 miles back down the road. Several U.S. officials who worked on coordinating air strikes for special-forces teams told TIME that often as little as 10 minutes elapsed between an initial call for help from the Kurdish-controlled areas of the north and the first bombs falling. "How do you make 50 special-forces teams look 10 feet tall?" asked General Richard Myers, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff in the war's opening days. "You put Navy, Marine Corps and Air Force power with them. With the right communications and laser designators, you've got a pretty formidable force."
For all the worry about moving human targets, few objectives received as much attention from military planners as the giant Faw facility, stretching out several miles along the Shatt al Arab waterway. Several U.S. military planners told TIME that Central Command regarded Faw as so important to the future of Iraqand so likely to be subject to an act of sabotage by those loyal to the Saddam regimethat many believed it should be seized before the decapitating attacks on Saddam and his inner circle began. "We felt this was a strategic target to begin the war," said Navy Captain Bob Harward, who planned and commanded the operation.
In the end, it didn't happen that way. President Bush jump-started the war when his intelligence chief told him that informants had details on Saddam's whereabouts. That attack failed, but the planning for the raid on Faw began long before the shooting started. Weeks earlier, the U.S. sent Predator drones aloft to map the refinery from above. Working in neighboring countries, the seals divided into five teams to study the information, learning about the refinery, where the Iraqi army had built fortified positions and how to avoid parts of the facility where gunfire could start larger explosions.
Minimizing collateral damage was vital: a secret Navy estimate predicted that if Iraqis sabotaged just one of the two offshore oil terminals, 12 times as much oil could pollute the gulf as the Exxon Valdez spilled into Alaskan waters in 1989. "There was a huge interest in maintaining oil infrastructure from Day One," said an Air Force major. The seals rehearsed the entire operation twice.
The goplats (gas and oil platforms) mission, as the military called it, began at dusk on March 20. All the practice paid off: the Pave Low choppers had no trouble finding their drop points; one chopper lowered its seal squad right on top of a fortified Iraqi bunker. The commandos hardly went in alone: 20 different types of aircraft circled overhead helping out. Navy jammers stir-fried Iraqi radio communications from upstairs; A-10 Warthogstwin-engine jets armed with 30-mm machine gunsbore down on military vehicles; British jets fired specialized precision-guided bombs at Iraqi antiaircraft guns, as reconnaissance planes identified enemy troop concentrations and relayed coordinates to AC-130 Spectre gunships. While the entire operation took six hours from start to finish, the vital valves, metering stations and manifolds were seized just minutes after the operation began. The U.S. suffered no casualties. Central Command refused to quantify the Iraqi toll, but a U.S. officer told TIME that 40 Iraqis were killed in one fire fight alone. There was general agreement that most of the Iraqis either working at or defending the complex gave up or fled. "They didn't know we were there until we were on top of them," said a Navy officer involved in the operation, "and many of them were very happy for us to arrive."
As easy as the military made it look, Faw was a mission that just 10 years ago the Pentagon would have been reluctant to undertakeand for good reason. The mere idea of choreographing a battle with units from different servicesmuch less with elements of a foreign army and air forcewould have been far more dangerous if not impossible in the mid-1980s. That's because for all their box-office power and dazzle, special forces have long been a Pentagon afterthought, an orphan merely tolerated by mainstream generals and admirals but never really loved or understood. Though they have been glamorized from time to time by PresidentsJ.F.K. transformed the Green Berets into a tool to fight communismspecial forces have always been the runt of the military's litter. To many senior officers, they didn't inspire a lot of confidence.
That view was confirmed over the years in several high-profile missions in which special forces flamed out. In 1980 the ambitious Delta Force rescue mission for American hostages in Tehran had to be scrubbed after one of the U.S. helicopters crashed into a C-130 cargo plane at the Desert One staging site in southeastern Iran, killing eight. Special forces again overplayed their hand in the 1983 invasion of Grenada, where, in what should have been a walkover, commandos suffered unusually high casualties in two separate missions. One reason for their mixed results was that conventional military planners didn't know how to use the units in the first place and were reluctant to mix them in. Many just assumed their best use was as lone rangers, sent off on some long-shot charge all by themselves.
That suited everyone fine for years, because the special warriors, derisively dubbed snake "eaters" by their more conventional counterparts, have always been different. They tend to be older and more specially trained than regular troops. They generally operate only at night, which has fostered their Pentagon moniker, "the Dark Side." Being nocturnal isn't the only reason for the nickname: they carry themselves with a hidden swagger the regulars sometimes resent. They have separate bases, and when they don't, they often live apart and by different rules. And while their unit cohesion is legendary, many of these soldiers tend to be loners, in part because that's always been an element of the training too. Notes Colonel O'Boyle of his colleagues: "They know that if they're shot down, nobody will be there to rescue them. We tell them they'll be executed or become a pow."
The tensions began to ease about 10 years ago, after Congress passed a law designed to end the services' silly longtime rivalries and force them to work together more. But it wasn't until Rumsfeld returned to the Pentagon in 2001 after a 24-year absence that things began to really change. Rumsfeld's ideaand he wasn't the first to have it, just the first Pentagon chief to enforce itwas that a few special forces, with the right gear, intelligence and a little luck, could sometimes substitute for the brawn of a 3,000-man brigade.
Rumsfeld's views on this point hardened after 9/11. In a world where terrorists lurk, handfuls of commandos can scour the earth much faster and more effectively than thousands of G.I.s moving in division strength. And if you combine the commandos' unusual skills with those of more conventional forces, the results can be dramatic. The Pentagon took Rumsfeld's theory for a test drive in Afghanistan, where a relatively small force of several hundred special forces, relying nearly as much on cash as on pinpoint firepower, routed the Taliban and took over the country in two months. But in Afghanistan, the special forces weren't cut loose. Instead, Rumsfeld teamed them with U.S. bombers for a potent ground-air duet that pulverized the Taliban from 35,000 ft. with a minimal U.S. presence on the ground. In part because of the success of special forces in Afghanistan, by the middle of last year, a huge shift in their favor was under way in Washington.
In January, Rumsfeld proposed giving the special-operations command the highly prized authority to propose and carry out missions for the first time. He then asked Congress to increase the SOF budget some 30%, to almost $7 billion, and to expand the number of commandos roughly 10% over the next several years. But Rumsfeld isn't stopping there: a senior U.S. military official told TIME that Rumsfeld has ordered more special-forces personnel to be "forward deployed"that is, stationed overseasand some will be given the same kind of civilian cover that intelligence agents get in order to stay closer to the action. "The global nature of the war, the nature of the enemy and the need for fast, efficient operations in hunting down and rooting out terrorist networks around the world have all contributed to the need for an expanded role for the special-operations forces," said Rumsfeld at a January briefing. "We are transforming that command to meet that need."
It would be wrong to imagine that Rumsfeld can convert his special units into supersoldiers who can do anything or stop anyone. Even he knows that. Special forces have yet to find Osama bin Laden after a 20-month manhunt in Afghanistan. And for all their military success in Iraq, notes a Pentagon official pointedly, "we haven't got Saddam, and we haven't found any weapons of mass destruction." But for the officers who have been fighting the military's conventional thinking for decades, Iraq was the war they had been waiting for. "There are certain things we can do, and there are certain things we can't," said a top special-forces officer who served in Afghanistan. "We can't take and hold ground. But there are some things we can do, and finally the civilian commanders have learned the proper mix."


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- 匿名使用者2 0 年前最佳解答
Dancersby William MeikleYes, I know its getting dark, and I know its getting cold, but just come over here for a minute. It wont take much of your time. There's something I want to show you, someone I'd like you to meet. Come on. Humour an old man who needs to tell his secret. It's just there, behind the church. Yes, in the older graveyard. You're not afraid are you? I promise, there's nothing here that would ever hurt you. Not you. Watch out for the moss on the stones. Some of the slimier varieties can get embedded in your clothes, and it's murder trying to get it out. Just about there is usually the best spot. Stand quietly now - let your eyes get adjusted to the dark. You'll soon see why I brought you here. There she is. Do you see her? She's standing right there. Look - in front of the large grey angel, just to the left of the patch of moonlight, almost underneath the old elm. Yes, there, beside the largest headstone. My beautiful Sarah. Forever young, forever twenty. See how the red of her hair glows like a burning firebrand, a halo around the white perfection of her face. And look - she's wearing the dress. The one I bought her for the dance, the last dance of our youth. Three pounds two and sixpence that dress cost me - more than a week's wages in those days. Times have changed, haven't they? My mother told me that I was mad, spending all that money on a slip of a girl who was no better than she should be. But I knew that she was worth every penny. I was drunk with the delight that danced in her eyes when she tried it on, swaying her hips to get the full effect from the long flowing pleats. I can still remember even now, fifty odd years and many strangers' kisses later, the sweet honeyed taste of her lips as she thanked me, the pressure of herhands on my back as we embraced. I wish she would touch me now. Just one touch, to bring us together at the end. If only she could see me. I have so much that I've never told her. How still she is, how composed. The wind refuses to ruffle her, the rain refuses to dampen her, the earth refuses to cling to her. Yet there's something more. Look closer. She breathes; she blinks; her lips part and then connect, but there's no steam. Not like you and I, standing here puffing at each other. It may be almost winter here, but for her it's late summer, always summer. Those lips. How deep and red and enticing they were that night, glistening moistly as she looked up at me. Smiling, dancing, laughing, we moved across the dance floor. We were young; the war had barely touched us, and I was in love for the very first time. The night held the prospect of many new pleasures. And then he arrived. I knew he was going to be trouble. Right from the start I could see what he was. American, charming, arrogant and different. Hello excitement, goodbye dependability. In the space of a minute I'd lost her forever. Shall I tell you how it happened? He butted in on our dance. Just barged right in, excused himself, and then off they went, whirling round the floor in a flurry of legs and feet and arms. I tried to stop him as they came round again, but he had all the advantages - height, weight, diet, composure and training - while I merely had my rage. Afterwards, as I lay there on the floor, my tongue counting teeth as my handkerchief vainly tried to soak up blood, I heard a laugh. Looking up through eyes which had already begun to puff up, I saw her. Only six feet away, but already distant, clinging to the conqueror. Her hair made a redscar where it fell on her shoulder, and in that moment I knew what I would have to do. Can you see? She's moving. But watch. Do her legs bend? Does she walk like you or me? Or does she glide, smooth and silent like a great white owl? Listen. Can you hear any gravel being trodden underfoot? Or is there only you and me and silence? You can't tell, can you? She deceives the brain, but doesn't brook too much attention. Try not to look too closely - set your mind on other matters. Ah yes. The chiming. It must be eight o'clock again. Do you think she's able to hear? She'll be heading for the wall. When she reaches it she'll rest her elbows and look over there, to the field on the left, where the airfield used to be. I remember the women, silent, waiting, listening for the sounds which would tell them that their men were coming back. They used to peel off one at a time as the planes returned, until only a few were left, watching and waiting and wondering. See how the moonbeams dance around her, making her glow. So white, so brilliant, so pure. And no shadow to taint the vision. He was corrupting her. I could see that, even from the few glimpses I had of them together. There they were, laughing and giggling like a pair of kids fresh out of school. And kissing! In public! Right there on the main street for all too see, and again, later, in the pub, flaunting themselvesin front of me. Of course she had stockings. And lipstick. And chocolate. And cigarettes. The price of her innocence, the wages of sin. I hoped that I wouldn't be too late, that she was still capable of being saved. I watched. I waited. I planned. He continued with her destruction, but soon I'd have my turn. See how she moves between the stones, not attempting to pass through them. Does she look solid to you? You can't see through her, not like in the books or the films. Do you think that if I went over there and put out my hand she'd be able to take it, be able to feel? Would she notice that I was there? I have often, over the years, thought about why she returns. It is only now, when I'm near my own end, that I'm able to look at it dispassionately. Maybe, when I go to join her, we'll both understand. Did you know that I used to be a mechanic? Well I was, and a good one at that. It was easy. I already had the run of the airfield, so it was simple to wangle myself in on the servicing of his plane. Once I had spent five minutes aboard, it was only a matter of waiting for the next flight. I was subtle though. I didn't want the plane blowing up over land; not over England anyway. My work might have been noticed. No, the explosion would occur only when the plane climbed to more than one thousand feet. That should do it. By the time it reached that height it would be well outover the channel. He took it out the very night day. Look. She's reached the wall. See how her elbows stay white, despite the damp and moss and stone? Her eyes will be moist. Will those tears be real? Could I perhaps touch them? Touch them and somehow feel her pain? The next day I saw the flight take off, twelve planes slowly gathering in formation before beginning their long climb into the sky. I watched them until they rose into the clouds, then listened as they droned away. Was there an explosion? Did the droning lessen? I never did find out. Whether I'm a murderer or not, he never came back, and I never lost the guilt. Later that day, when the sky was once more filled with sound, the women left the wall, one by one, until she was the only one remaining, trying to pierce the clouds as she peered avidly eastwards, willing him to return. I stood, just about here, and watched, cursing her for her devotion, cursing him for his hold on her, as darkness fell and the skies grew silent. It was late summer, and the temperature was dropping rapidly. A light drizzle began to fall, chilling me to the bone. And still she waited, and still I watched. See it. There's the cigarette. How ungainly it looks in those pearl white fingers. It burns - there's a good quarter of an inch of ash on the end - but there's no smoke, no smell. He started her off on that habit. She'd told me that morning that she did it because it made her look like a real lady. As if she'd not been a lady before that. It made me angry, so angry that I could watch no longer. See how she turns, surprised. Now she'll look confused for a second. Then she'll see that it's only me; only the young, fresh faced, solid, dependable me. Watch closely now. You may just catch the disappointment as it flits across her face. Look, she turns her back again, returns to her vigil. One look and I was consigned to despair. I grabbed her by the shoulder and pulled her around to face me, demanding that she explain herself. She struggled in my arms but I held on as we moved around in a parody of a waltz; held her as she screamed, her once-beautiful lips contorted in rage. She pulled away once more, and this time she was too strong for me to hold on to her. Surprised to be free so easily, she lost her balance. I reached out desperately for her as she fell, slowly, slowly, towards the unyielding gravestones. And then came the sound, the one I hear late at night in my dreams, the sound of her neck as it broke. So now we wait, she for a sweetheart who will never return, me for an end to the guilt and the hope of forgiveness. Which of us is more dead? And the time passes and I watch, every night, as she dances, just for me.
- 匿名使用者2 0 年前
This is a story that has been really popular in West Palm Beach, Florida for about 5 years – at least that's how long I have been hearing it...
Back in '75 a young couple, both 18, decided to get married right after high school. The father of the bride lived in Palm Beach in a mansion and was able to afford a big wedding for them. To make a long story short, they got married and the wedding was beautiful.
After the wedding they had a big reception in an old building and everyone got pretty drunk. When there were only about 20 people left, the groom decided that they should play hide-and-seek. Everyone agreed and the groom was "it." They all went and hid and the game went on.
After about 20 minutes everyone had been found except the bride. Everyone looked everywhere and tore the whole place apart looking for her. After a few hours the groom was furious, thinking the bride was playing a terrible trick. Eventually, everyone went home.
A few weeks later the groom, having placed a missing persons report, gave up looking for her. Heartbroken, he tried to go on with his life.
Three years later a little old woman was cleaning the place up. She happened to be in the attic and saw an old trunk. She dusted it off, and, out of curiosity, opened it. She screamed at the top of her lungs, ran out of the building and called the police.
Apparently, the bride had decided to hide in the trunk for the game of hide-and-seek. When she sat down, the lid fell, knocking her unconcious and locking her inside. She suffocated after a day or so. When the woman found her, she was rotting, her mouth in the shape of a scream.參考資料: http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/blbride.htm 這裡還有很多不錯的


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