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LORETTO - Central coach Dale Walters' goal when he took the job five years ago was to be a District 6 Class AA champion.
"I never gave it a thought that we could possibly make a run at a state championship," he said. "But after going through this year, I think we're pretty close."
Central captured the hearts of its fans and captured the attention of District 6 and the state by making it to the district championship and the PIAA state semifinals, where it lost to powerful Neshannock, 15-5, in five innings Monday at St. Francis University.
"This was by far my favorite season," junior pitcher Kylie Gunnett said. "I started as a freshman and a sophomore, and we only made it to the second round of districts both years, so this was amazing."
"This was an amazing season," senior center fielder Kate Blattenberger said. "I couldn't have asked for anything to go better, other than to get a couple more wins. We beat Philipsburg and Bald Eagle for the first time in history, and we made it this far for the first time in history. We made history."
Central served notice early when it beat Bald Eagle Area, 5-3, on March 23, and it it followed that with a 6-4 win over defending state champion P-O on April 13.
"They are the standard," Walters said of P-O and BEA. "They've got tradition. They've got great coaching. I think we've put our name up there at the top of the pole with them. From now on, people are going to have to recognize that Central is coming to play, and it's not going to be an easy game ever.
"Bald Eagle was one of our first games, and it gave us huge momentum and confidence in ourselves that we were at the top of our class," Blattenberger said, "and we can compete with just about anyone."
The Lady Dragons could make another state run next year. It won't be easy as P-O returns all but two starters, and the rest of the district will be putting a target on Central as a team to beat.
"I am looking forward [to next year]," Gunnett said. "We only lose two seniors [Blattenberger and Paige Mock], so hopefully we'll be back."
Gunnett, who will play travel ball for Walters this summer, will be counted on next year to make big pitches and make improvements in her game.
"One thing I know about Kylie is she'll work her rear end off for me, for herself and for her team," Walters said. "She's a worker. Maybe we need to get her a little stronger and working more on consistency. I think she'll be one of the better pitchers in the area.
"We just have to keep getting better. We've really learned how to win, and we've learned how to play in some big games, which we haven't had to do before. We want to hit better. We want to pitch better. We've got some ninth-graders coming next year who are going to help us. The future is bright for us."
A big loss
One big loss from the team is Blattenberger, the leader of the Lady Dragons who other teams learned to respect when she came up to hit. She took a .525 batting average and seven home runs into Monday's game.
"I'm really looking forward to see them play," Blattenberger said, "because a lot of them grew up this year. They're going to be set next year without me and Paige because they matured. Going this deep into states, they know what they have to do to get there."
"First of all, I'm going to miss Kate from a personal standpoint," Walters said. I've been coaching Kate since she was 9 years old, and she's just a super kid. She's the kind of kid you'd be proud to call your daughter. From a leadership standpoint, that's going to be huge shoes to fill for next year, and also from a talent standpoint."
Lancers create havoc
Walters called in some college players to help the Lady Dragons practice for Neshannock's college-type short game.
But nothing the Lady Dragons practiced or had seen this year got them ready for the pressure-inducing drag bunting and slap hitting. The Lady Lancers beat out almost every bang-bang play at first base, which were many.
"We're not used to four or five of their first six hitters being slap hitters," Blattenberger said. "I think we played one girl [during the regular season] who was a slap hitter, and she wasn't like them. We knew what we had to do, but even when we did it right, they made it on base because of their speed.
"I think two or three of them were outs. The umps gave a couple of them to the runners. I guess they were close enough to give it to them, but from my view in center field, they were out."


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Teach kids about copyright: a list of resources from Creative Commons
Open curriculum alternatives to MPAA's new anti-piracy campaign for kids.
It has come to our attention that the Motion Picture Association of America, the Recording Industry Association of America, and top internet service providers are drafting curriculum to teach kids in California elementary schools that copying is wrong, or as the headline on Wired.com reads: "Downloading is Mean!"
This message is way too simple. In this digital age, the most important thing we should be teaching kids is to be creative and take full advantage of all the web has to offer. Copyright, asking permission, open licensing, and all the other legal nuances, should be seen as secondary (and even complementary) to this purpose. We should be starting the conversation with the things kids can do versus what they can't do.
In addition to the campaign's overly simple and negative approach, other issues include the complete absence of fair use from the curriculum—exceptions and limitations to copyright that allow various uses of copyrighted materials for educational, journalistic, and other purposes. Wired.com reports, "Its president, Marsali Hancock, says fair use is not a part of the teaching material because K-6 graders don't have the ability to grasp it."
Assuming the net generation and their younger counterparts are as dumb as assumed in the above statement, the curriculum still leaves out a crucial and growing part of the Internet landscape—the commons of free and open materials in the public domain and/or released under open licenses that actually encourage copying, redistribution, revision, and remix! In short, everything this simplified anti-piracy campaign is conveniently leaving out in its copyright curriculum for kids.
There is a more balanced approach to educating kids about copyright that includes the alternatives, and here are some organizations and experienced educators who have developed copyright curricula. The following list of resources are open educational resources (OER), licensed under a CC license that enables free and legal reuse, redistribution and remix. In short, stuff that is free and just fine and even great to copy!
Copyright curriculum for kids
Common Sense Media's K-12 Digital Literacy & Citizenship Curriculum
Common Sense Media has developed a comprehensive K-12 Digital Literacy & Citizenship Curriculum for educators to use in their classrooms. Part of the curriculum focuses on Creative Credit & Copyright, which you can navigate easily via their Scope & Sequence tool. The resources are aligned to Common Core standards and licensed under CC BY-NC-SA.
New Media Rights Copyright FAQ Videos
New Media Rights has developed a series of short Copyright FAQ YouTube videos (because what better way to interact with youth but through YouTube?) answering common questions about copyright and the public domain. These videos are drafted by lawyers and read by students and are licensed under CC BY.
Electronic Frontier Foundation's Teaching Copyright Curriculum
EFF developed this copyright curriculum for teachers to use in the classroom several years ago to counter campaigns like the one above, proving that topics like fair use can be taught! Teachingcopyright.org is available under CC BY.
Australia's Smartcopying Guide for Schools
Australia has an official website for its schools regarding copyright for educators and students. However, this website, called Smartcopying, doesn't just cover Australian copyright law—it also covers open educational resources and Creative Commons licenses. It's quite the comprehensive resource with lesson plans, info sheets, videos, and more, and is licensed under CC BY-SA. Even if you're not Australian, these resources are useful if you're an educator, so check it out at http://www.smartcopying.edu.au/ and navigate using the horizontal menu to the topic of your choice.
National Library of New Zealand's Free to Mix Guide for Educators
The National Library of New Zealand takes a different approach to copyright education; instead of focusing on what students can't do, it focuses on what teachers and students can do with its Free to Mix guide. The guide was popular enough to spin off its own remix by CC New Zealand (pdf) with beautifully done graphics. Both versions are licensed under CC BY.
Shared Creations: Making Use of Creative Commons
Emily Puckett Rogers and Kristin Fontichiaro with the University of Michigan created this short and colorful lesson plan book for elementary school teachers that covers copyright, the public domain (even trademarks and patents!), and Creative Commons. This book is short and sweet with age-appropriate activities (that are even fun for adults). You can browse the book for free online or purchase a hard copy at the publisher's website. The book is licensed CC BY-NC-SA.
School of Open's Copyright 4 Educators
The School of Open, a community of volunteers around the world providing free education opportunities on the meaning and impact of openness in the digital age, offers an online course called Copyright 4 Educators. While this course (offered as adapted to both US and AUS law, but open to anyone) is primarily designed for educators and not kids, teachers can take what they've learned and then relay it to their students. The School of Open also offers more kid-friendly resources such as Get CC Savvy, Teach someone something with open content, and numerous lesson plans and activities integrated in CC for K-12 Educators. All School of Open courses on the P2PU platform are licensed under CC BY-SA; others hosted elsewhere may be licensed under CC BY.
This list is not exhaustive; if you know of other copyright education resources, please share them below! And if you would like to contribute to providing free copyright, OER, or CC education opportunities for kids (or adults), please join the School of Open community in its efforts! Visit http://schoolofopen.org/ to get started.
Originally posted on the Creative Commons blog. Reposted using Creative Commons.
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Hello. You say they curriculum is being drafted. Is there a group doing this under the auspices of the CDE?
I see this:
Is this what you are referencing? I can check that document and can see who to contact on that, but I am interested in who else might be contacted about this issue.
Hello Ray,
This is Glen Warren, the guy referenced in the Wired article. Please take a look at these two links and contact me with any questions you might have.
A very good article. I particularly like the list of alternatives to the copyright industry's self-serving offering. As I said on my blog: If the government allows corporate propaganda in the classroom, then they're betraying the children they're meant to nurture.
I work as a copyright agent and while I agree that online piracy must be tackled, launching a campaign for kids is not the answer.
As the author points out. Simply teaching kids to be creative and unique is all that is needed if we really want to educate our kids that copying someone's work is bad. The television teaches kids to be copycats by emulating their favorite celebs/artists and that's where the problem lies with online piracy.
I have seen acceptable use statements here in Virginia where you could be suspended for downloading software, altering computer data or software, removing computer data. So broad as to include someone in Elementary school copying a file to a floppy or USB stick.
I have also seen similar statements about not downloading or copying anything. No discussion about open source, creative commons, or fair use.
The message they receive is one-dimensional and it keeps saying piracy -- which is NOT violating copyright -- do the Somali pirates attack with guns or make illegal copies of DVDs?


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A 25-year-old Town of Tonawanda woman who thought she was in North Buffalo while driving south in a damaged vehicle on Route 219 in Orchard Park, a 29-year-old Buffalo man who told officers he was "buzzed" after driving repeatedly in circles in a parking lot on Abbott Road, and a 20-year-old Depew man who drove onto the exit ramp of Route 219 were all charged with driving while intoxicated, Orchard Park police reported Monday.
Maham Sindhu was arrested by Officer David Bowersox as she was driving her car south with two flat tires and swerving from lane to lane on Route 219 at about 10:55 p.m. Thursday. Driving a car with front-end damage and both passenger side tires flat, Sindhu claimed she was in North Buffalo and refused to take a breath test, police said.
She was charged with driving while intoxicated, refusing to take a breath screening test, driving with unsafe tires and driving with an open container of alcohol.
Arlin Venters, 29, of Buffalo, was arrested by Lt. Jason Schiedel as Venters was driving out of a parking lot and into the northbound lane of Abbott Road at about 9:14 p.m. Friday. The operators of an Abbott Road bar called police and said Venters was driving in circles in their parking lot just before police arrived. Venters, who was released to his mother, was charged with driving while intoxicated, failure to obey a traffic device, moving from a lane unsafely, operating a motor vehicle while using a cellphone and having an open container of beer in his car. Telling police he felt "buzzed," Venters has a July 9 court date.
Schiedel arrested Shawn Naumowicz, 20, of Depew, as he drove onto the exit ramp of Route 219 off Big Tree Road after police reportedly spotted him speeding along Big Tree at about 2:29 a.m. Sunday. Naumowicz was charged with driving while intoxicated and aggravated DWI with a blood alcohol level of 0.21 percent, nearly three times the state's legal limit. He was also charged with making an illegal U-turn, driving the wrong way on a one-way street, having an uninspected motor vehicle and having no front license plate. He was released on bail and has a July 16 court date.
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Over the past year, Tiffin has seen many new businesses sprout up downtown.
Several young business owners have brought forth a new and exciting atmosphere to the downtown area, Seneca Industrial and Economic Development Corp. President and CEO Rich Focht said during his quarterly report to Tiffin City Council March 18.
"In the downtown area, I think I've seen more new stores open up in the past year than I can remember in a long, long time," Focht said. "Two of them that really stick out, that are significant, are Bailiwicks Coffee Co. and Phat Cakes. The reason I mention them is because they're owned by young entrepreneurs, they're very well run and they present a great atmosphere for shoppers. (These are) the kind of stores you like to see involved in your community."
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Mark Bunky tinkers with a bicycle in his downtown repair shop, Bunky's Bicycle Service.
The exterior of Phat Cakes and Cafe.
ConnXtions, a sister store to Best Break.
Tiffin Mayor Aaron Montz said it is good to have young business owners in the area, because they will have a longer investment in the community.
"It's great seeing both people who have lived here for a while, and also people coming to the community like Zach (Harder) and Jessica (Williams) who started at Bailiwicks," he said. "They're not Tiffinites; they moved here from another community to bring their business here."
Montz said more businesses are sprouting up around town because the economy is turning around and people are noticing the positive atmosphere that is going on at City Hall, SIEDC and Seneca Regional C hamber of Commerce and Visitor Services.
"It goes a long way to have that positive mentality and encouraging of businesses," he said. "Every time we hear rumor or any information of a business considering Tiffin, we go
out and lay out the red carpet for them."
He said he's met with someone who is hoping to bring a fast-food chain to Tiffin at the end of this year or early 2014.
Montz said he has a meeting Monday with a business that is interested in the warehouse building on the Stalsworth property, located behind the former hotel.
"Tiffin has been wanting this restaurant for a long time," he said.
One issue new business owners such as Williams from Bailiwicks and Wendy Welly from the soon-to-open Phoebe's faced was working with Richland County to get their building up to code.
Richland County is under contract with Seneca County to do building inspections and enforce the state building code, City Engineer Curtis Eagle said.
He said businesses in Tiffin used to have to go through the state in order to get their building inspected, but now the city and county have contracted Richland to do the work.
Eagle said Richland has been easier and more convenient to work with than the state.
Montz said it would cost too much for the city to have its own plans examiner and building inspector.
"As much as it may be a hassle to go through Richland County, it's a necessary evil," he said.
Bailiwicks Coffee Co.
Last March, a family that came to Tiffin seven years ago finally achieved its dream of opening a coffee shop.
Bailiwicks Coffee Shop, at 62 S. Washington St., was years in the making for owners Jess and Travis Williams and Jess' brother, Zach Harder.
"Our dream had always been to be downtown," Williams said. "When we thought of a coffee shop and art gallery, I think of older architecture, older buildings. We didn't want anything commercial, anything kind of cookie cutter."
When the company was first getting approval for the building plans, Richland County rejected their initial plan, Jess Williams said.
"After you've been in a couple years of research and planning, and being told flat-out, 'No, it's not going to happen,' I'd say that was a pretty large challenge," Williams said. "We were able to go back and figure out what they needed for us to change. We were able to work with them to kind of create a compromise."
After a year in business, Jess Williams said the shop continues to exceed expectations, and first-year sales exceeded its goal by 50 percent.
Bailiwicks offers several locally produced items such as photography and baked goods. It also hosts a variety of events and activies such as a poetry slam, jazz night, live music, and Jess Williams said they are looking to start an open mic and karaoke night.
"We want this to be a meeting group for people of all demographics, age groups and interests," she said. "Our goal is to make this a place for the people of Tiffin to be proud of. We'd like to be as involved with the community as we possibly can."
Phat Cakes and Cafe
After selling cakes from her house since 2009, Natalie Wertz brought her sweets to the downtown area in March 2012.
Phat Cakes and Cafe is at 45 S. Washington St. and shares a building with Bunky's Bicycle Service.
"This was perfect because it was across the street from The Ritz and it was so neglected that it kind of needed some love, so we took it on," Wertz said.
While Bunky's opened in July 2011, Phat Cakes took a little longer to open because of the remodeling she had to do to the inside of the building, Wertz said.
She said it took about a year to put the building together, and dealing with the red tape was a challenge, as well.
In addition to cakes, Phat Cakes offers sandwiches, cheesecakes, cupcakes, cookies, homemade soups, hot-pressed paninis, salads, wraps, wine, craft beers and other items.
"We wanted to offer a lot more to downtown Tiffin if we were going to be here," Wertz said. "Tiffin needs more than just cupcakes."
Phat Cakes offers a German soup night and has a person come into the shop to make homemade breads. It also has beer and wine tastings and
has birthdays, live music and such events.
"Obviously, it's just grown more than what I ever could've imagined," she said. "People of Tiffin are really supporting us a lot more than I thought they would. It's really nice to see they're as excited as I am, and it keeps us excited."
The biggest cake Phat Cakes has made was a 200-pound, 7 1/2-foot dragon cake for Tiffin University that served about 550 people, she said.
"It was a team of people back there, it was kind of like 'Cake Wars' or something," Wertz said. "It was three days of non-stop work. It was definitely a little adventure."
Bunky's Bicycle Service
After more than a decade since his retail store closed in Tiffin, Mark Bunky brought back his bicycle service in July 2011.
The business is owned by Keith Comer and Tony Conolo and Bunky acts as the business' operator and head mechanic.
"They're friends of mine, and basically it provided me with a place and a business to do what I do," he said. "What's different about this one obviously it's smaller and it's more focused on repair and service work on the bicycles."
Bunky said business has gone well at the new location, and he said he does repairs on all types of bicycles.
"There's plenty of demand for the service work as long as department stores continue to sell a lower-quality bicycle that maybe doesn't function as well," he said. "It gives me an opportunity to keep those things running."
In addition to bike repairs, Bunky sells a newly designed adult comfort bike.
"It's taken a hundred years for the bicycle industry to discover this position it's kind of the sweet spot," he said. "I encourage people to try them because it's a different sensation. And most of the time when they try it, they realize it's more comfortable than anything they've ever ridden."
"A couple of times I've had opportunities to leave the area and do the same thing this is what I like to do in other places, but I didn't want to leave Tiffin," Bunky said. "This is where I want to stay. I hated driving back and forth to either Fremont of Findlay. I'm not much for riding in a car for any period of time, I'd rather be on the bicycle."
Bunky's offers community bike rides where people can join Bunky on a roughly 8-mile route around Tiffin, including on two bike trails. The ride is to take place Thursday nights at 7 and some Tuesdays at the same time, when the weather improves.
Line Drive Cards
After 22 years of business in the mini mall formerly known as Laird Arcade, Line Drive Sports Cards relocated its operation in December.
Owner Dan Fox said the transition from his old location to 112 S. Washinton St. has gone smoothly.
"I needed more room. I do a lot of gaming now - Magic, Yu-Gi-Oh! - so I needed a place to set my people," he said
He said the new location is bringing Line Drive more foot traffic.
"They've been playing this game for two years, and I finally found them about a month ago," he said. "It's helped quite a bit having a streetfront."
He said business has improved since opening the new store, but the costs have risen also.
"I've always been down here (in downtown area)," he said. "I like it, it's central. The Westgate out there, that's nice but I don't see a lot of kid traffic out there."
Every Saturday, Line Drive hosts a Yu-Gi-Oh! event at 11:30 a.m. and a Magic tournament at 3:30 p.m.
Don't Panic Tattoo
After two years of working for other tattoo shops, co-owner Tony Urbanik decided to start his own studio in downtown Tiffin.
Don't Panic Tattoo Studio opened Jan. 17 at 257 S. Washington St., next to the Hunan King Chinese restaurant.
"I felt like doing my own thing," Urbanik said. "I wanted my own business."
Co-owner Kershuana Young said they looked around town and said downtown was the best location for a tattoo shop.
She said she and Urbanik took about a month redesigning the interior of the shop before opening.
In addition to tattoos, Don't Panic offers body jewelry, after-care products and will be selling T-shirts in the future.
Best Break sister store ConnXtions offers downtown Tiffin a source of nutrition, said part-owner Maggie Powell.
ConnXtions, which shares a building with Red Raven tattoo shop, had its official grand opening Feb. 28. The business sells Herbal Life products, and customers can buy a "membership" for $5 which includes a shot of aloe, a tea and a shake.
"Herbal Life products are great because they can help people get nutrition," she said. "We offer a healthy meal replacement. To get all the nutrition that's in one of our shakes, you have to consume about 3,000 calories in different foods to equal all the nutrition we have in one shake."
She said the shakes are about 180 calories and are full-balanced meals and are great for people who are looking to lose weight, gain weight, athletes and for people who are looking to be healthier.
"We wanted to open up downtown because there are a lot of businesses downtown, and this is a nice place for them to leave their offices, walk here and actually have a healthy meal alternative," Powell said.
ConnXtions also offers activities such as 24 Fit Camp, which is a boot camp that helps people lose weight and get more active, she said. It also offers a zumba class, which is a workout similar to a Latin dance, and it plans to offer running and cycling clubs when the weather gets warmer.
ConnXtions also will offer a "clothes swap" for people to exchange clothes that no longer fit due weight loss.
Despite some setbacks, Phoebe's hopes to open its doors April 8 and be the latest addition to downtown Tiffin, owner Wendy Welly said.
Phoebe's, at 138 S. Washington St., will offer vegan, vegetarian, gluten-free and other healthy food options.
It will be part storefront, which will offer many healthy food options, and part vegan deli, Welly said.
She said she experienced a recent setback in ordering a part for the business and the manufacturer did not ship the part as early as expected, but she still thinks she can open the store and deli by April 8.
She said there were many unforeseen issues and costs that went into starting the business, but she is excited to get started.
Welly said Phoebe's will offer food for people with gluten intolerances and vegans, but will also have food for people who do not have such diet preferences and restrictions.
"I think the palates of both types of people will be satisfied," she said.
Phoebe's will expand its food options as it gets more established, she said.
"I looked around several areas in Tiffin, and I was drawn to the building itself," Welly said. "The look of it and the feel of it. It had that historic look."


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Idris Jala & His English Language Fallacy
"You can be a high income economy with the national language," said Idris at the CEO Forum organised by the Perdana Leadership Foundation.
He cited examples like Korea and Japan that became high-income nations without mastering the English language. "We need to remember that Korea became a high-income nation without using English. Japan went without that too," he added.
As a KPI supremo in the Najib administration, it is a shame and a sham for Idris not to understand the underlying KPIs which had helped both South Korea and Japan to become industrial superpowers in the region.
Language is merely a medium. What both the Japanese and Korean governments did right was to promote meritocracy, innovation and knowledge acquisition as something very crucial and critical to their national pride. It was not a question about language.
However, both Korean and Japanese industrialists and scientists received their headstart from their unique relationship with the USA. Early industrialisation in Japan was assisted and sponsored by the Americans and the Korean war.
What the Japanese learnt from the Americans were put into great use through their unique initiative and ability to conduct 'reverse engineering' to improvise what the technology they had accumulated.
Early manufactures from Japan were knock-offs and did not meet any international standards. But they were adamant to continue improving and had put quality assurance and technical reliability as the most important KPIs.
Korean companies accepted their weaknesses and did a major turnaround in the late 90's to put technology advancement, product quality and creative design as their next competitive advantage. Today, some of their companies such as Samsung, LG, Kia and Hyundai are ranked among the global corporate giants.
It is a fact the two communities benefited from early knowledge acquisition from the English speaking knowledge communities in USA and Europe. In fact, the need to acquire English proficiency has become an important ingredient of success in these societies and other emerging societies in Asia including Vietnam, China, Cambodia, Thailand and others.
As a KPI Minister, it is pertinent for Idris to acknowledge the limited knowledge acquisition available in the Malay language. Intellectuals who had acquired knowledge in some of the best universities overseas should be encouraged to share their thoughts, knowledge and views in Malay. There are easily hundreds of thousands of books on various fields available in South Korea and Japan. These including translated books from the original English writers.
What about Malaysia?
Earlier, I had warned analysts not be too eager to praise Idris for some of his statements. He had merely succeeded in making some statements. It is time to judge him on his ability to turn his ETP into a success. Unfortunately, not many investors are taking his ambitious plan seriously.
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You would have thought Unmoputers were a bad bunch living off licences, govt contracts pretending to be succesful businessmen. But even their leading light is a sham. I guess you sleep with a dog and you get lice.
But the Great Mahtahir had a answer for future and Vision20/20 He redefined "Developed status" as falling short of true developed.
Why not simply state now we are developed, why wait for 2020.
Stupidy and incompentce has no boundary!
If you think B.M. can achieve many things why then it is not used outside the Malaysian Embassies all over the world where they are located. Instead Jawi is used !
Why is it that all the Malaysian students are required to learn B.M. ? So that the non Malays are slowed down for the Malay just like the use of the remove class for the non Malay students
who wish to move on to do their secondary school education ? Shenanigan Mahathir can use all kind of tactics to do that but that would stop the non Malay students to become top professionals.
Or is it to 'polish the shoes' or to glorify the Arabs ?
We are Malaysians and not Arabs. The only common thing Malaysia has with the Arabs is the adoption by the Ketunan Melayu of their religion period and nothing else. Before the adoption what was your religion ? For sure it cannot be Islam unless of course the Malays civilisation only came into being just a few hundred years ago. And this may be true.
Becareful young man,Perkosa will jump on you and accuse you a pengkhinat negara for "questioning" BM.Already you are titled a penumpang,pendatang...so pls don't get yourself another title,let Idris do his work as he seem to have put in lots of homework to get the working paper out.So far Idris don't play rhetorics politics,unlike the unwanted Penang guy who only dared to shoot LGE Dap but shy of saying a word against Perkosa.
Anon 9.47 P.M.,
I am just waiting for the Perkasa cowards !
Come on you good for nothing and dependents of wheel chairs and charities to survival.
They just want to run 50 meters in a hundred meter race and who don't know what a race is all about. The worst part is even with 53 years of dependence plus the head start before the non Malays came they are still left far behind.
May be it is time the Original People of Malaya should send them back to Indonesia.
They can threaten and frighten a lot of non Malays but robbers and pirates from Indonesia don't frighten me at all. A cow horn will always be a cow horn and can never be an elephant ivory, regardless of what people like shenanigan Mahathir , Perkasa and the likes can do or polish. It is in the genes bloody horn horns !
This guy Idris Jala is 'bird' talking without any depth.How can Malaysia compares to Korea & Japan?? The 2 latter countries is a homogeneous and nationalistic society! Malaysia's population is rojak mixed.
Do you seriously think potential investors will come to Malaysia in times to come, knowing full well the local populace is lacking in English???
- cheahsinkooi said...
Idris Jala, I beg to differ. The Koreans/Japanese could do it with their mother tongue because they have a united,dedicated, hardworking, meritocratic,innovative workforce. Just compare that with the mess we got right now...We are already loosing our competitiveness to countries like Thailand and Indonesia.
It is indeed very very amazing a guy like Idris talked garbage with regard to English language. Does he that dumb dumb that Japan and Korea just to mention a few, work hard, practice meritocracy, no such issue like BUMIPUTRAS, sons of soil, 30% free hand outs etc....called them whatever you like?
Idris, lets get real. If you can talk like that, then i am afraid ETP will just another talk show by UMNO/BN that is practically worthless.
Agreed with you, Khoo, especially on the point about meritocracy. Without meritocracy and all that goes with it, there is little chance of achieving developed status.
Remember in the 1970's we used to laugh at Japanese cars and say that if you meet with an accident in a Toyota, you're a gone case? But today, Toyota is the best selling car maker in the world. How did the Japs turn it around? Through innovation, quality control, improvement and sheer hard work. And all these qualities can only be fostered against a backdrop of meritocracy.
So to say that Japan & Korea became developed without much English is true. But one must not forget they learned from the West IN ENGLISH at first, then through meritocracy improved the technology they learned.
Even Mahathir says that English is the language of science and technology today, so we will downplay the importance of English to our peril.
- ikonoklast said...
Idris ,
How many textbooks.journals,novels,films or
newspapers are there in BM?There are countless numbers of them in Japanese or Korean.
Are you aware that until a few decades ago, you need only six years of education to complete Malay education. Only six years ? What can you learn in six years, main bola lah !
- Ivan said...
Somehow i find it very frustrating trying to comprehend all the crap garbage that is continously being spewed out by our ruling political leaders! They must be thinking we are damn stupid or what!
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Idtris Jala is just a hypocrite. His children study in the elite Garden International School in KL. English is important for his children but not for other people's children.
You know why many Malaysians (esp non-urbanites) are afraid of English? Because of pop culture, where mixed language is not seldom heard in Malay dramas! So we must review how English was applied in Malaysian culture in comparison to Japan and Korea. Let's make English "just an international language", not some class symbol that degrades the status of local lingos and consequently dilutes a country's national identity. In majority of other countries (except Africa), American cartoon TV shows and movies are dubbed in local lingos, and this might be why all those local lingos remain vibrant as of now because pop media helps kids cherish their mother tongues. How this affects their command of English is not an issue; they'd be well taught English in school albeit for 4 hours a week (and only this short for national language as well).
Let's stop pointing fingers at each other and help BM and English co-exist harmoniously again.
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Hi to all boxing lovers here... I am very excited for this upcoming bout between Pacquiao and Dela Hoya. I think this Filipino fighter will outdone Dela Hoya who is a legend on the Boxing sport.
i think you should try to watch boxing sometime...
hours more to go and Dela Hoya will taste another defeat and this will be in the mighty hands of Filipino pride "Pacquiao"...lol
i'm not really that much of a boxing fan either (actually i'm not much of a fan of sports that lets its players leave the match black and blue all over... i see it as, well violent... yeah yeah i know its a sport, an honorable sport but that's just how i feel about it lol)... but anyway considering what i've heard and seen in some instances, i think de la hoya might win... lol we'll find out soon enough anyway... ^_^ P.S. Stavarous you're a filipino? hmm pareho tayo... hehe natutuwa akong makilala ka... ^_^ hope you get to read this... lol ^_^~Crescent"...beneath the truth lies a lie and behind lies hides the truth..."
yeah im a Filipino... it's nice to meet you also but i just dont get it why you pick Dela Hoya to win the fight. Nasa Pilipinas ka pa rin ba?


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Randolph County Superintendent Dr. James Phares did not resign as expected at Monday's county board meeting, saying instead that the board should "wait on direction" from the state board of education.
Phares told The Inter-Mountain last week that he would resign Monday, in light of the state board's president saying he wanted Phares to replace Jorea Marple, who was fired in a surprise move Nov. 15.
At Monday's meeting, Phares instead read from a prepared statement.
"The state board wants to focus on the audit response at the Nov. 21 (Wednesday) meeting," Phares said.
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"I believe it would be more appropriate for our Randolph County Board of Education to wait on direction from the state board before taking next steps," he said.
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Marple's firing on Nov. 15 led to two state board members, Jenny Phillips and Priscilla Haden, resigning their positions.
A second state board meeting was conducted the same day that led to Deputy Superintendent Charles Heinlein being appointed temporarily as the state school superintendent. State Board President Wade Linger then announced that he wanted Phares for the job.
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Our Lipscomb:Next campaign is well underway, and as we go down our project list we will fill this page with completed projects.
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This $8.5 million, 24,800-square-foot building is home to Lipscomb's School of Nursing and also provides facilities for other health science students. It includes the Health Simulation Laboratory, which features 19 state-of-the-art computerized mannequins that can display symptoms and treatment responses for wide a range of illnesses and wounds in an authentic hospital-like setting; a 14-station assessment skills lab that is be used to practice physical assessment and diagnostic skills and to learn immunization techniques, safety methods and CPR; bedside technology, collaborative learning spaces and more. The facility is so well-equipped that in the event of a disaster on campus or in the community it can be converted into a 30-bed triage and stabilization site for patients prior to being transported to higher levels of care. Classrooms and collaborative learning spaces are large enough to allow the rapidly growing nursing program to triple in size from about 30 student nurses per year to 100. The Class of 2014 includes 79 student nurses, an increase from 36 in the Class of 2013.
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The 15,000-square-foot facility opened in November 2013 and provides pharmacy and other health sciences students with the latest in technology and research environments. The building includes specialized laboratories and other environments that support learning and research in the natural, applied and pharmaceutical sciences at Lipscomb. It will also facilitate collaboration with other academic institutions, clinical research organizations and biotechnology and pharmaceutical companies in middle Tennessee. A large portion of the building is dedicated to individual faculty research bays with support rooms for biology and chemistry studies. "This new facility gives the university capabilities that we have never had before," said Roger Davis, dean of the College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences. "A new era of science research is beginning on this campus that builds on the significant science work that has been taking place at Lipscomb for decades."
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Students in the late 1970s and early 1980s conceived of, funded and even helped to build Bison Square, which has become the heart of the Lipscomb University campus. Osman Fountain was created with donor funding to honor the students' vision by revitalizing the Square and positioning it as emblematic of Lipscomb's spiritual mission. In addition to the constant reminder of the river of life, the fountain includes a baptistry where students may to commit their lives in faith in a special setting with other members of the Lipscomb family. The fountain is named in memory of Ty Osman II, son of Ty ('87) and Nancy ('86) Osman of Brentwood, Tenn.
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The Student Activities Center has been expanded and renovated as part of Lipscomb:Next. New locker rooms, restrooms and showers were relocated from their origin position near the entrance of the SAC to the back of McQuiddyGym, which has been incorporated into the SAC. The performance studio and weight room have also been expanded and significantly enhanced.


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After the morning preliminaries, senior Shawn Parkhurst walked in the back hallway of the Flickinger Center holding half a turkey sub.
He's been through this routine before. There are many things out of his control at the championship meet, but his nutrition is very much in his control and something he's honed over his swimming career at Canisius.
Attention to detail is one of the reasons Parkhurst has become one of the all-time best swimmers in Golden Griffin history. And one of the reasons he has excelled at the Metro Atlantic Athletic Swimming and Diving Championships.
The senior from Scriba, Oswego County, won his third straight MAAC title in the 1,000-yard freestyle on Friday and followed that up with an emphatic title in the 200 butterfly on Saturday. Parkhurst found another gear in the final 50 yards, giving him a time of 1:48:16 – a new MAAC and school record.
That gives Parkhurst five individual MAAC titles in his Canisius career.
Saturday he added a second-place finish in the 1,650 free for good measure, helping set the tone for the Golden Griffins' men's squad, which finished third at the MAAC Championships. Rider took the overall men's title followed by Marist. Niagara placed 10th in the 10-team field.
On the women's side, Canisius took fourth place – its highest finish ever – as Marist won the team title. Rider was second followed by Loyola with Niagara placing ninth in the 10-team field.
"It's a long three-day process," Parkhurst said. "It seems like it's over in a snap, but it's a lot of racing and lot of strain on the body.
"Staying hydrated and eating well throughout the event and through the taper process, the week leading up to it, is really important. I started to work on that a little bit and made it a better process so I'm able to last all three days a little better than before."
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Perhaps the best display of that came in the 1,000 final on Friday night. Parkhurst took first place in 9:19.62 as the Griffs swept the first five places along with senior Robby Novak (Williamsville North) taking ninth place.
Freshman Spencer Bray (Orchard Park) came in second followed by sophomores Sam Hansen, Sean Wurster and junior Corey Petrie (Lockport).
"When I first came it was me and Robby swimming distance," Parkhurst said. "Then we added in Corey Petrie. Now we've got Spencer and Sean. It's a close group of guys and we push each other in practice every day."
The underclassmen have "really displayed themselves in a great manner at the meet. They've stepped up where they've needed to step up and earned valuable points for the team and we work for a championship. They're working hard."
While Parkhurst helped set the tone for the emergence of the Canisius swimming program, the freshmen have compiled an outstanding season and turned in some impressive performances at the MAAC meet.
Case in point on the women's side, freshmen Clare Battaglia (Williamsville North) and Alex Doody (Sacred Heart). Battaglia set school records in the 100 backstroke, 200 backstroke and 200 individual medley at the MAAC meet. Doody set school marks in the 200 breaststroke and 400 IM.
Battaglia took second place in the 100 back, third in the 200 back and fourth in the 200 IM. Coming into the championship meet, she had won 17 of the 23 individual races she entered in the regular season. But her approach to this weekend was to take it all in and feed off her teammates.
"I tried not to have expectations coming in," Battaglia said. "It's my first year and I wanted to just get used to things but I'm learning a lot. With the help of my team, it's making it fun and easier to get used to.
"I'm really happy with it. This year for me was all about getting used to things. I'm happy with it. Happy with my team. So an overall success."
"She seems to be progressing every time she swims," Canisius coach Scott Vanderzell said. "She's a very talented athlete and very confident person. It's about getting comfortable and gaining more and more confidence. Being a freshman, first time at the meet, I think it's about getting a feel for it a little bit."
While the freshmen are getting a feel for the meet, they're also knocking out some amazing times. On the women's side, seven individual Canisius school records were set at the championship meet – five of them by freshmen – along with four relay records On the men's side, six individual records were set, two of them by Bray (500 free, 200 back), along with one relay.
For Niagara, senior Aubrey Kettrick brought an individual title to Monteagle Ridge, winning the 200 freestyle on Friday while setting a Niagara school record with a time of 1:51.29. She finished third in the 100 free on Saturday.
The MAAC award winners were: Women's Most Outstanding Swimmers: Kate Conard (Marist) and Kelly O'Connor (Rider); Men's Most Outstanding Swimmer: Lorro Bilonic (Saint Peter's); Women's Most Outstanding Diver: Chelai Eliazar (Marist); Men's Most Outstanding Diver: Trevor Hiller (Rider); Diving Coach of the Year: Melanie Bolstad (Marist); Women's Coach of the Year: Larry VanWagner (Marist); Men's Coach of the Year: Mohamed Abdelaal (Saint Peter's).
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5 Superheroes Who Should've Gotten Movies Before Ant-Man
Modern superheroes are taking more money from civilians than their villains ever dreamed of, but it's the same few heroes being replicated more often than the dollar bills they're earning. Every Superman movie since 1980 has been a mistake, there are enough Batmen for a Bat-Basketball team, they rebooted Spider-Man like it was two hours of blue screen of death (which would still have been better than Spider-Man 3), and Iron Man has appeared in more entertainment gossip pieces than the actor who plays him.
Not so much method acting as giving the coolest guy the coolest stuff.
The whole point of superheroes is imagining things above and beyond what's possible. (I've already come up with 6 Ways to Build a Better Batman.) "Strong guy hits people" and "rich guy wins over the homeless" are already far too common in the real world, never mind cinema. The industry has gotten so desperate that news of an Ant-Man movie wasn't followed by laughter and the real announcement. Ant-Man's only qualification for superheroing is being invented around the same time as tie-dye clothing and unprotected group sex, and being a worse idea than both. Comics are stuffed with superheroes who would make much better heroes.
#5. Armor
The X-Men are the most diversely powered superhuman group in fictional history, so it's strange that their only spinoff is "White Guy With Knives, Twice." He's already come back from one unsuccessful movie that should have killed him off (Marvel may have confused superheroes with slasher movies). An angry man waving knives around isn't a movie franchise, it's your father carving Thanksgiving dinner.
"It's time you got an honest job doing situps all day like me!"
If you want spinoff movies -- and Marvel knows that every addition to the film franchise is at least $100 million, so they really do -- the X-Men have more interesting characters than every soap opera in history fighting to the death inside a nuclear reactor. And the most moviegenic is Hisako "Armor" Ichiki. Armor is a badass girl with a robot suit made entirely of psychic special effects. There is no nerd money that combination of niches wouldn't earn.
When she dresses in pink, it's to punch your face in.
Did we mention it can scale in size, making Armor the only person who can think "Pacific Rim is awesome" so hard that it actually happens?
Hisako doesn't take no drift from nobody.
An awesome female lead and an ability that kicks ass when it's active, but doesn't render her permanently immune from harm (it's hard to build tension when the hero's only power is "can't actually be killed," Logan). As a teenage girl who could stomp the sharpened weasel into two-dimensionality, she seems specifically written to take the piss out of Wolverine. And he's had two tries already.
When she flicks a V, it stands for "Very Badly Wounded."
#4. Rescue
Iron Man is more cinematically popular than popcorn. He's made more money for Marvel in our world than he ever did in his, and his entire power set is "making awesome new things." He's the perfect launch point for a spinoff. And the comics have already introduced one.
The Rescue armor
Rescue is what happens when Tony finally builds something that can't be misused by bad guys. The way he said he would three movies ago. I'm no security expert, but when your suits have been used in attempts to assassinate the president of the United States, you might not have reduced your contribution to terrorism.
"The real terror is what this techno-corset built for a man half my belt size is doing to my kidneys."
Rescue is an unarmed repulsor-powered protection and rescue system, and he gave it to longtime ally Pepper Potts because he knew he couldn't wear it for 40 seconds without hot-wiring a plasma cannon into the codpiece. And never mind civilians: Rescue could save superhero movies. Keeping these inhuman ass-kickers interesting has become a serious problem. We need new story structures beyond "Here's a good guy and a bad guy and some rocket punching and now just a good guy." Do you have any idea how bad things have to get before I say something bad about rocket punching? Rescue offers a whole new arena for awesome special effects: the superhero disaster movie.
Disaster movies are big business, but they've always been crippled by a ridiculous lack of real conflict. When your only hero against the rising oceans of bullshit is an earnest stubbly man with a laptop, you're just marking time till the 80-minute mark so he can shout "Wait a minute!" and technobabble it all away.
Now imagine a movie where someone could punch 2012 in the face!
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And if any movie ever deserved it, it's 2012.
Instead of churning out villains who fail to threaten the immortally armored hero -- remember, it only took them two movies to shrug and say "Let's try that guy with whips" -- you can have your hero fighting an unlimited special effects-fest. A Rescue movie would be the ultimate crossover, not between heroes, but entire genres, a clash of cataclysm-level computer graphics in a whole new field of cinema excessexiness. And that field would be erupting into a supervolcano underneath a crashing space station.
#3. Oracle
"I'm an ultimate supergenius with the most advanced equipment ever made!"
"Cool, what are you going to do with it?"
"... iunno. Punch people, I guess."
Punch people AWESOMELY.
Superhero movies shouldn't be a single genre. Right now they all boil down to super-Rocky -- get beaten, get angry, get back -- and that's awesome, but punching people shouldn't be your only strategy when you've got more electronics than the NSA's Christmas list. Superheroes should strike in every genre of movie, and Oracle offers the most intriguing: the superheist.
Barbara Gordon is Oracle, Gotham's ultrahacker, the only mastermind in the city coordinating groups of people against crime. Heist movies make so much money that even Ocean's Eleven got two sequels, and their only superpower was George Clooney's photogeny. Imagine a heist in the heights of Gotham spires, retrieving information about an evil kingpin's secret plans, with heroes like Black Canary, Shiva, and Lady Blackhawk. All heist movies have characters who are practically superhuman in their single specific skill anyway. Might as well make it official.
In fact, if we could just make this movie in the meantime, that would be awesome.
Make the bad guy the Riddler and he can finally become as cool in the movies as he is in the Arkham games. The superheist is a huge pile of money on the table just waiting to be taken. Which is also usually the plot of these movies.


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The 4 Easiest Ways to Accidentally Ruin Your Relationship
#2. Not Knowing How to Argue
How It Ends
It used to be that you'd have lively debates about politics or religion. When things got heated, you'd find an excuse to end the conversation and take leave until you cooled off. But as time went on, it got worse, and now you find yourself fighting over the most meaningless bullshit imaginable. "I know the top was wobbling -- I have eyes! But it never fell down, so he's still in the fucking dream world. You're exactly like your dumb whore of a mother!"
At some point, you finally just have to decide which doomed path you're willing to walk. End the relationship and start over with someone new? Or stay in this one and feel your sanity seeping out of your skull, making that slow farting noise a balloon makes when you don't tie the end? Forever.
Sadly, I've seen the latter far more often. Even when it ends with a police car in the driveway and one drunken half of the party being hauled off in his underwear. For an example of this, watch any episode of Cops ever aired.
"I know my rights! I can do what I want in my own living room!"
How It Sneaks Up on You
Ever heard the phrase "spiral out of control"? This is almost always a case of two people who have issues to work out, but no idea of how to go about it. Instead of trying to resolve a conflict, they're trying to "win" a verbal contest. Instead of expressing their point of view, they're trying to bully the other into submission.
When things start to escalate, the words tend to get buried under tone, bad phrasings and the volume of your voice. As a couple, once you cross a certain line with any or all of those three factors, the words themselves lose their meaning, because you're both transformed from debaters to combatants. And the role of a combatant is to hurt the other while deflecting blows against himself. And of course the easiest way to deflect a verbal blow in a fight is to just tune out the words. To not hear them. Or to use a giant shield, because it's really hard to concentrate when the other person has a goddamn shield.
"For some reason, I have no desire to argue right now."
How to Avoid It
Without counseling and changing core aspects of yourself, the argument-riddled relationship has no good ending. There are thousands of sites out there with excellent tips on how to argue constructively, but it boils down to these basic rules:
- Don't attack -- no name-calling or neck-punching.
- Don't bring up shit from the past -- stay focused on the issue at hand.
- Listen as much as you talk -- it's an exchange of perspectives, not an open mic night for your bitching.
- Be calm -- if shit gets real, take a break and start with the first rule when you get back.
- Remember: It's about resolving issues, not a contest that ends with a winner and a loser.
"Now, let's discuss that toilet seat problem. Discuss it ... to the death."
#1. Making Them Your Mommy
How It Ends
You get home from work three hours after your husband. When you walk in the door, you find what appears to be a small Armageddon in the living room. Dishes are still in the sink from three days ago, the laundry is piling up and ... what the fuck is that smell? Did someone hide a body in there?
As you pass your husband, who is sitting at the kitchen table, meticulously painting the intricate scales of his pewter wizard/dragon combo miniature, he welcomes you home and asks, "I'm starving. What's for dinner?" When you wake up from the ensuing rage blackout, blood and human hair matting your clothes, you discover that the eastern half of your town is gone. Just ... gone.
It's been going on for years, and it just gets worse over time. He acts like a 14-year-old, and you're his mother. You didn't want another child, you wanted a husband. You're so sick of doing chores while he does hobbies, and it's not goddamn fair. Why can't he just get up and do one lousy load of dishes? Just once? No asking. No bragging afterward, like he just donated a kidney to a dying man. Just get up and be a goddamn fucking adult!
"See what I'm doing here? That means I get to do the weird shit in bed tonight, right?"
Quietly, angrily, you start running dish water.
How It Sneaks Up on You
I personally think this one stems directly from the person's parents. When a guy depends on his wife to do all of the chores, I think it's kind of obvious that he had always depended on his mother to do that stuff for him. In which case, I think it's perfectly reasonable to allow his wife one free shot at her, for producing that level of helplessness in a fellow adult.
But it's not just men -- I've seen women do the same in return. The most common form I've seen it take is in finances. She'll simply dump her check in the bank and then let her husband worry about paying the actual bills because she's "not good at math." If she wants to buy something, she asks him for money, permission or both. She's assigned him the role of her father. And it's kind of creepy.
"Oh, get an extra $20. I need to upgrade my stupid '90s hat."
It eventually gets to the point where the person playing the dual role of spouse and parent feels like they're supporting the entire marriage while the other person just rides along, providing the occasional orgasm in return. And just like the other cases, they either let that linger, choosing to live in misery ... or they tally up their losses and move on.
How to Avoid It
I know so many couples like this, and interestingly enough, they all handle it the same way. They wait until they're away from their spouse, and then complain to their friends. What they don't understand is that by not confronting the guilty party, they're enabling the behavior. The only way around it is to address the problem with the source. And not by passive-aggressively painting dicks on all of their clothes.
Confronting is always key.
As crazy as this sounds, there's a good chance that the guy playing video games while the bathroom marinades in piss stains doesn't even know there's a problem. If he's been taken care of his entire life, he most likely thinks his actions are normal. He's been taught that his role in life is to go to work, and then find something fun to keep himself occupied and out of other peoples' hair. The same with the woman who can't be bothered to look at the bank statement. That's something the "man of the house" does.
If the problem is brought to their attention and they still refuse to do anything about it, that's a whole other issue that requires a counselor or lawyer. But most rational, sane, not-pieces-of-shit humans tend to at least make an attempt to fix a problem when it's brought to their attention.
For more Cheese, check out 5 Ways You Know It's Time to Get Married and 5 Bad Ideas for Dealing With Bullies You Learned in Movies.


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It's been a couple years since I posted the best of Dieselpunk... so here's an update
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That last one is a German Messerschmitt Me 323 Gigant the largest aircraft used during WWII. Even more amusing, this was a powered variant of the Me 321 assault glider, which was so large they needed three Bf 110 twin engine fighters to tow them, and later the He 111Z, which was two He 111 bombers joined together at the wings with a fifth engine in the center...ReplyDelete
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'They just told me that guy over there had to Pooh-rah."
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Greensboro, NC -- UPDATE: The Greensboro Police confirms that power has been restored to thousands.
Jason Walls, a Duke Energy spokesperson, tells WFMY that a logging crew was cutting down a tree when it came in contact with the line.
Power was knocked out for approximately an hour and caused some headaches in morning routines across the Triad.
WFMY News 2 is on top of a story that is affecting thousands of people throughout the Triad this morning.
We have learned that there are thousands of power outages in Guilford and Rockingham Counties.
There are more than 7 thousand outages in Guilford and more than 3 thousand in Rockingham County.
In Greensboro, the following intersections are affected:
Traffic lights out at Lake Brandt Road to Lawndale Dr.
Traffic lights out at Lake Jeanette Road and North Elm St.
In Wentworth:
Traffic lights are out on Highway 14 and Barrymore Rd. and the
911 center is operating on generators.
UPDATE: The GPD says that Duke Power confirms the cause of the outages in Greensboro are due to an issue with a transformer. Officers don't know which one.
WFMY News 2 will keep you updated as we get information.
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Saturday marks the 20th Komen Lowcountry Race for the Cure, an event that has grown from 612 5K finishers in downtown Charleston in 1994 to 5,376 on Daniel Island last year, when a total of 9,300 registered for either the 5K, 1-mile or to "sleep in for the cure."
If you go
What: 20th annual Susan G. Komen Lowcountry Race for the Cure.
When: 7-11 a.m. Saturday. Expo starts at 7 a.m., survivor ceremony at 8 a.m., one-mile fun run and walk at 8:30 a.m., 5K at 9:15 a.m. and awards ceremony at 10 a.m.
Where: Family Circle Stadium, Daniel Island.
Cost: Late registration is $45 for the 5K and fun run, or $35 to "Sleep in for the Cure."
Packet pick-up and late registration: 9-6 p.m. Friday at Family Circle Stadium and starting at 7 a.m. Saturday at Family Circle Tennis Center.
Shuttles: Due to extreme traffic congestion in the past, organizers urge participants to carpool or to use a free shuttle service starting at 6:30 a.m. from the CARTA parking lot at 3621 W. Montague in North Charleston or at Mount Pleasant Towne Centre.
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The goal for the 20th is lofty: 12,000 registrants and $1 million raised.
Grantees for 2012-13
In the 2013 fiscal year, the Lowcountry Affiliate of Susan G. Komen for the Cure has awarded more than $520,000 to nonprofits providing breast health education, screening, diagnostic and support services to our local communities for the 2013 fiscal year.
Alala Cancer Society, $28,500.
Allendale County Hospital, $59,080.
Barrier Islands Free Medical Clinic, $31,050.
Beaufort Jasper Hampton Comprehensive Health, $59,759.
Best Chance Network, $76,054.
McLeod Health, $52,988.
The Regional Medical Center of Orangeburg and Calhoun Counties, $47,000.
Roper St. Francis Healthcare/Roper St. Francis Foundation, $82,305.
Smith Medical Center, $17,429.
Volunteers in Medicine, $70,449.
Source: Lowcountry Affiliate of Susan G. Komen for the Cure
Komen Lowcountry Executive Director Taffy Tamblyn says the organization is excited about the anniversary and expanded the event in the hopes to keep the celebration going throughout the morning. Among those added features are a food truck rodeo and children's activity area.
Tamblyn says the push to raise more money is in response to even greater demands from Komen Lowcounty's expansive 17-county region.
A total of $1 million in grants to community clinics and hospitals was requested last year.
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And while about $900,000 was raised last year, 25 percent is required to go to the national Susan G. Komen for the Cure foundation, which handles grants for breast cancer research, including some at the Medical University of South Carolina.
From the rest, Komen Lowcountry awarded a total of $524,614 to 10 different nonprofit facilities that provided mammograms, exams, breast cancer education and other resources, mostly to people in need.
Among the array of services, which literally reached 750,000 women and men, were 4,009 mammograms, 2,377 clinical breast exams and 22 breast cancers detected. Most of those people would not have had access to those services otherwise.
From a historical standpoint, Komen Lowcountry has awarded $5.5 million in grants to community nonprofits, not including funds to Susan G. Komen, since its inception.
One woman's story
Among the women helped this year was Linda Gill of James Island.
In February, the 55-year-old survivor of three previous cancers, all gynecological, became suspicious when her English bulldog, Homer, started "rooting around my right breast as if I had cheeseburger droppings on it."
Eventually, that led Gill to find a lump.
Unfortunately, the former caregiver had used up her savings paying for her other cancer treatments and a back surgery and couldn't afford insurance because of those conditions. A sonogram taken at a facility in Orangeburg confirmed that she had breast cancer, but she had no money for a biopsy.
She called Komen and Community Outreach Coordinator Lucy Spears lined one up at Roper Hospital. With that confirmation, Gill was able to get Medicaid and have her surgery and treatments covered.
"I don't know what I would've done without Susan G. Komen's help. Without it, it (breast cancer) would have killed me," says Gill, adding that she also rewarded Homer with a real cheeseburger.
While Gill was unaware of the Race for the Cure, the event offers those who have battled and survived, along with family and friends, a chance to give back, remember and celebrate.
The fighter
That's what appeals to Kathy Elsner, who at 42 continues her battle with cancer that started in her breasts more than two years ago.
"I've been to a lot of cancer events, but what I like about the Race for the Cure is that it's festive, even while dealing with something that is heavy," says the Isle of Palms resident.
The married mother of two was 39, a year before her planned routine mammogram, when a sneeze dropped her to her knees.
The sneeze had cracked a vertebrae in her back. After a week of baffling doctors, they found out Elsner had stage 4 breast cancer that had spread to her spine.
Initially, she responded well to treatments and the tumors disappeared. But cancer reappeared in September 2012 and it's been an on-and-off battle since, with lung infections, hospitalizations and fatigue.
"From the beginning, I told my doctor that I will be dancing at my children's weddings and to do what you have to do to get me there," says Elsner, noting that her doctors doubt she'll be cancer-free until another treatment breakthrough comes along.
"I'm optimistic and I still truly believe I'll be dancing at my children's weddings."
To that end, Elsner and dozens of family and friends that make up Team Elsner have participated in the last two Race for the Cures and plan to do it again this year.
About 200 team members already have surpassed a goal of raising $20,000 and Elsner thinks they may come close to matching last year's donation of $26,000.
A new survivor
Stacie Fuss participated in her first Komen Lowcountry Race for a Cure last year, just three months after finding a lump in her left breast.
"I did not have a known family history of breast cancer. I had no idea that I was at high risk of getting cancer, and I was three months shy of my annual mammogram, which I always do in October, because it's Breast Cancer Awareness Month," says Fuss.
She called her doctor, saw several over the next five days, had a mammogram, an ultrasound and a biopsy, and was diagnosed with Stage 2 Breast Cancer.
"Talk about changing your life," says Fuss, a 45-year-old professional recruiter and married mother of two daughters, ages 10 and 12.
Then she went on the breast cancer roller coaster: a double mastectomy and reconstruction, a BRCA gene test that showed she was at high risk for ovarian cancer and, as a result, had surgery to remove her ovaries. She also had eight rounds of chemotherapy in seven months.
"I was a few weeks into my chemo when the Komen Race for the Cure came around last year. It was my first Komen Race and I was part of my husband's team through work at Cummins," says Fuss.
"Then another large group of friends from my tennis team surprised me; they had formed a team to walk in my honor. They all got dressed up and decorated their tennis racquets with my name and raised over $1,200 for breast cancer, for me, and it was amazing."
This year, Fuss chose to create a "What The Fuss?" group, playing off her last name. The team will be composed of many of her friends who supported her last year and some new friends this year.
"At last year's race, I was just starting down this path. I was scared and exhausted and sore from surgeries and was feeling pretty awful from chemo. Today my chemo is done, my surgeries are done and I am currently in my last two months of weekly infusions of another medicine called herceptin, which is supposed to help prevent my kind of cancer from coming back."
She adds, "What a difference a year makes."
Reach David Quick at 937-5516.
While the Race for the Cure is known for its 5K event, the survivor ceremony held at 8 a.m. sets the tone for the morning.×
Local fireman John Johnston, a regular at the Race for the Cure who completed the 39.3-mile Avon Walk in full gear (minus the boots) in the spring, will be joined by nine other firefighters in full gear Saturday.×
While the Race for the Cure is known for its 5K event, the survivor ceremony held at 8 a.m. sets the tone for the morning.×
Participants have learned to take pink to another level at the annual Race for the Cure events.×


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Lori Loughlin and John Stamos who played Uncle Jesse and Aunt Becky on the hit '90s sitcom, cozied up to one another in the theater as seen in a photo Loughlin posted on her Instagram.
"Fun night at The Music Box theater with my dear friend @johnstamos #pippin," read the caption.
The actress posted another photo a few hours later with the pair's costar from the sitcom, Bob Saget.
"Great hanging with my family @johnstamos & @bobsaget last night! Love you guys!!" Loughlin wrote.
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Stamos will be getting back into character later this week: he and his fictional Full House band, Jesse and the Rippers, will be performing on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon Friday night, PEOPLE confirmed Tuesday.
Though it's no Smash Club, we're hoping that with Loughlin and Saget in town, Becky and Danny will be there to cheer him on.


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