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Guide aimed at recruiting more math mentors
Math is a subject many people shy away from and students dread learning. The Fayette County Public Schools Friends Mentoring Program is hoping to change math's stigma for both adults and students.
A taskforce, made up of current and former math teachers and retired business people, has just started working on a math guidebook that will be used by volunteer mentors to help students at all grade levels. The book will outline sound teaching practices that go along with the Georgia Mathematics Performance Standards.
A reading guidebook has been in use for years, but the program has never had one that focused on math. It is hoped that the guide will help the program attract more volunteers who are willing to assist students with the subject. The goal is to show both adults and students that math can be fun.
The taskforce completed its initial meeting in March and plans to have two to three more to create a draft and finalize the guide before the end of the school year. Anyone who would like more information about the mentoring program can contact Jane Gough, 770-460-3990, ext. 255.
I hope that they make the works available on the Fayette County web site as downloadable .pdf documents.
It's amazing to me in this day and age of electronic publishing that the school system and teachers haven't joined together and published textbooks -- not just a guidebook as mentioned above. Imagine the cost savings if textbooks were internally published instead of purchased from a publishing company. It would be great for students as well. Imagine them being able to put all their textbooks on a flash drive or be able to access their textbooks from home over the web. No more lugging around a 20 pound backpack.
Why can't the teachers across the county join together and publish our own textbooks? It's not like subjects such as mathematics are radically changing year to year. Think of the dozens of teachers across the county for a particular subject and grade level. The administration should allow one planning period for them to collaborate on these collective works until they're published. I would imagine they'd only require relatively minor updates over time.
Use a system like LaTeX (or pdfLaTeX) to produce and typeset these math textbooks. Other than that, you'd need something to create graphical plots and the like. All the tools these teachers would need are freely available open source packages.
Fayette county could even license these for use by other counties within Georgia or the nation to recoup the costs and more. Not only could this save tax dollars, but even be a revenue stream for the board of education.
Sign me up. I'm not a math teacher nor retired, but I'd love to help on an effort like this. I'm probably being naieve, but it seems that there's got to be a better way than continuing down this path.

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IBM Coremetrics estimates a 24.3% increase in online sales over last year. As you can see from this chart, midnight was the magic hour with a nice spike over the last two years. This is likely due to the fact that many major chains made holiday prices effective at midnight online as well as in stores.
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Just over a minute into Yeezus, Kayne West is riding the malfunctioning-star-destroyer glitch-screams of "On Sight" when he poses a rhetorical question: "How much do I not give a fuck? Let me show you right now, 'fore you give it up." He repeats the question, as the screaming robots underneath him disappear into empty black space. Then, welling up like a chorus of angels, we hear a classic-level Kanye soul sample, one of those things that once made his music sound so life-affirming. It's actually a gospel sample, a full choir pleading that "He'll give us all we need," their voices just slightly decayed, like they're coming through an old speaker. And then that choir disappears just as abruptly, the robot roar returning, the laser-sounds pretty soon working like they're fighting each other, like they're pushing themselves so hard that they're falling apart, while Kanye barks about dicks in mouths. He's dangling his beloved old self before us, then snatching it back. A few songs later, as "New Slaves" — the defiant blast of wrath that weaponizes the so-self-conscious ambivalent consumerism that Kanye was doing way back on "All Falls Down" — is fading out, soul-sample Kanye comes back, cooing that he can't lose in Auto-tune over celestial strings while Frank Ocean answers him back. That's where the old Kanye becomes triumphant. He's the vehicle for the new Kanye assuring us, ever so briefly, that these forces that he sees assembled against him aren't enough to drag him down. It's, once again, a rare note of peace in a dark and violent album.
Those two moments stick with me because they briefly bring Yeezus back down to earth and highlight how far Kanye has come in the nine years since he first stepped out to the front of the stage. And they're short, since reassurance is very, very low on Kanye's list of goals this time around. He went into Yeezus to make something stark, cold, bracing, "new wave," and he's done it. In the great New York Times interview that preceded Yeezus, Kanye West talked to Jon Caramanica about how he felt at home back when he was producing for Dead Prez: "I was able to slip past everything with a pink polo, but I am Dead Prez." And we hear some of that duo's righteous downtrodden-people rage in Yeezus, in the DEA/CCA talk on "New Slaves" or in the sharp provocation of "Black Skinhead." But more than that, it sounds like Kanye has made an entire concept album based on the distorto-sandworm bassline of Dead Prez's "Hip Hop," which means he's made, by several orders of magnitude, the best Dead Prez album ever.
Those soul samples, the ones Kanye rode into the game, were always part of Kanye's Chicago heritage; think of the incandescent Curtis Mayfield horns that Just Blaze sampled for him on "Touch The Sky." But as Kanye himself has pointed out, Yeezus is probably the most Chicago album Kanye has ever recorded, and it's a Chicago album in ways that go way beyond those soul samples. Chicago, after all, is a beautiful city full of lovely and friendly people, a place with a deep civil rights history, the city that produced our first black president. It's also a freezing-cold wasteland seven months out of the year, a place where the entire administrative system is deeply broken, a place where 41 people were shot last weekend. And for all the beautiful Sunday-picnic soul and gospel that the city has churned out over the years, that cold harshness has also come through in plenty of the music, and that's the music Kanye's working with here. Chicago's early house music was all tick-tock robotic minimalism. It's all over Yeezus, and Kanye has found a set of production collaborators (Hudson Mohawke, Arca, Daft Punk back in their vengefully brickwalled Human After All state) who understand that sound and who are willing to grind it further down into digital dust. That same empty chill is still there in Chicago music, in drill music, and Kanye makes the connection as plain as possible. The only other rappers on Yeezus are guys from the drill scene. There's Chief Keef, muttering bluesily and playing the Freeway to Justin Vernon's Mos Def on the funereal "Hold My Liquor." And there's King Louie on "Send It Up," rapping nothing much but still forcefully hijacking the song anyway. More than the actual rappers, though the foreboding empty space of drill absolutely suffuses the album. And as the rap critic Noz pointed out on Twitter over the weekend, the early industrial music of Al Jourgenson and Wax Trax is also Chicago music, and that's here, too, in the apocalyptic pound of those first three tracks and the id-barrage "I'm In It." In fact, the only huge and obvious musical influence here that isn't Chicago music is the scorched-earth dancehall that Kanye samples so liberally on the album's second half, and that stuff has the same end-times effect as the grating industrial textures. It's all rupture.
In fact, the music is so dark and heavy and immersive and powerful, so unlike what we expect from any A-list rap star, even Kanye, at this late date, that it took a while to even register what he was so angry about. Yeezus isn't the political statement that "New Slaves," the one true masterpiece of a song here, made it seem like it was going to be. Instead, it's mostly a severely fucked-up album about relationships and sex. "Blood On The Leaves" is probably the most deeply discomfiting song here. The thunderous moment where the honking brass band from TNGHT's "R U Ready" might be the greatest musical moment on the album, or on any album this year, but the sample I keep thinking about is the other one, from Nina Simone's version of "Strange Fruit," the 1939 lynching lament that's among the most breath-stopping songs in American history. Kanye knows what he's doing in using a piece of that song, but he's rapping about the idea that women trap men by having kids with them. That same dumbshit idea was at the center of "Gold Digger," of course, but that was such a fun and joyous song that it barely bothered anyone. On "Blood On The Leaves," it's much starker and nastier, especially in the way its "Strange Fruit" sample implicitly conflates lynching with child support.
And this is where we bring Kanye's personal life into it. Kanye's first baby, a daughter with Kim Kardashian, was born maybe 24 hours after Yeezus leaked. And it's certainly possible to hear the anxiety of impending fatherhood in Kanye's lyrics here. But in all its nasty anti-woman sentiment and its joyless talk of mechanistic anonymous sex, it's also possible to hear those lyrics as the ranting of a deluded asshole who isn't ready to become a parent, or as an uncommonly vicious album-length breakup letter. Even the album closer "Bound 2," the one song that returns Kanye to his welcoming soul-rap sound and strives for love-song sentiment, has some meanness to it: "They ordered champagne but still look thirsty / Rock Forever 21 but just turned 30." Listening to Yeezus, I kept picturing the entire US Weekly newsroom sitting around and listening to it, attempting to make some sense of what they were hearing. And on Twitter during the leak period on Friday, I slowly watched my entire feed go from bugging out over the album's sonics to getting queasy over its sentiments. That stuff works as rupture, too.
When 808s & Heartbreaks came out, I felt the same way: This was a total shithead move, an album-length character-assassination of an ex-fiancee who wasn't famous and who thus had no real way to publicly respond. These days, I go through periods (mostly in wintertime, mostly when I'm stressed) where 808s is my favorite Kanye album. Poisonous words have been a huge part of Kanye's persona from the beginning. So have total clunker lyrics, and this album has its share of those; Kanye does after all, call himself "a Raptholic priest" and claim to be "speaking Swag-hili" in the space of one verse. But on every one of those past albums, the nastiness and the clunkers have blurred and faded and, in the case of the clunkers, become oddly lovable, evidence of a sort of genius that's powerless to detect its own terrible ideas. They're also cathartic, even in their stupidity, especially when you find yourself succumbing to the same sorts of stupid ideas that Kanye brandishes. Yeezus, like all the rest of those old albums, isn't a perfect work. But it's a complicated and forceful and fascinating and all-consuming one, an album to play when you're punching down brick walls with bare fists, and that's enough for it to be my favorite album of 2013 thus far.
Yeezus is out 6/18 on Def Jam.
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lovely write up.
I had a similar response to the album that Tom did save for the conclusion: fascinating production, but abysmal lyrics (and also, Kanye is still a subpar rapper) do not make for an AOTY.
That's my problem with Kanye every time. Awesome production, mediocre rapping/lyrics.
(I still hate the Swag-hili line.)
I'm amused at how inconsistent the downvotes are for those outwardly denying the deity. Sociology and what not.
despite what he says, he wants to reach the most people out there. and…
"If skills sold truth be told, I'd probably be, lyrically, Talib Kweli" (Jay-Z)
Ooh, best album runs. Let's see. Neil Young had, like, 12 good to great albums in a row.
Iron Maiden's first seven.
Steely Dan's first seven.
Radiohead's Bends-KOL seven album run
Sigur Ros entire catalog (seven albums Von-Kveikur)
Some weaker than others, but not an album below B+ in that whole bunch to me
Yeah, I see where you are coming from at that angle.
Gotta put a word in for my boy Bruce Springsteen from '75 to '84:
Born To Run (75)
Darkness On The Edge of Town (78)
The River (80)
Nebraska (82)
Born In The USA (84)
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Steely Dan blows.
You're still young. You'll understand when you're older. Trust me.
I realized the other day that the girl from "Hey Nineteen" would be around 54 now.
That's all.
understand how to appreciate bands that blow?
Also, Kanye West disagrees with you.
For shame, Broydrick.
My only beef with Steely Dan was them beating out Kid A for Grammy album of the year. I still can't believe that one.
Then again, it is the Grammy's.
Yeah, it was probably wrong (also wrong was caring about what the Grammys thought), but have you heard that Steely Dan album. It's not half bad.
Nah I'm not too well versed in the ways of Steely Dan. It's probably a decent album, I've just always had that in the back of my head haha. I'll have to bury the hatchet someday
barely related, but on another message board that i frequent, one colorful commenter dropped this piece of hilariousness re: vampire weekend's live show:
"fuckers are tighter than steely dan's asshole."
real life LOLs were had.
It's her favorite foreign movie
Guess it's settled! Kevin says Steely Dan blows. Let's all take Aja off our top albums list.
I loved when the up/down votes were not working. Ya never saw comments like that one.
Fuck yeah Iron Maiden!
I've been trying hard to hold off posting links to my own stuff, but I'd love it if you guys would check out my review. I focused pretty heavily on why this album means what it does at this moment in his career.
I'd argue Radiohead is a better example of The Beatles of our generation. But then you could argue Kanye is the Radiohead of hip-hop.
Excellent point. Your analysis is so good that even if it's not true, I'm just going to pretend that it is.
Yeah it was weird how little drill music there actually was when I finally listened to the album, especially after kanye talked it up prior.
Damn. You nailed it. I agree with everything you said.
Then again, my favorite Ye album is 808s too.
Favorite Song: "Black Skinhead".
The production on it is so raw and distorted, its just a really cool feeling to listen to. Daft Punk were way on their game on the tracks they produced. I wish they would do more boundary-pushing shit like this.
I think the Beatles comparisons were fair, but I do agree with you that "Yeezus" is Ye's "MAYA" kind of album. Rick Rubin even mentioned Suicide (a huge influence on MAYA) as a reference for the dirty bass chug on Bound.
So what in the hell is getting released tomorrow that's apparently getting Album of the Week?
You hate, but Hanson is the SHIT.
Also, Sigur Ros new album is stellar.
If they can make an exception for Celebration Rock last year I think they can do the same for Yeezus.
Watching Movies with the Sound Off
Strong contrubutions from Justin Vernon, I like it.
I've been listening to Yeezus and Sunbather as companion albums all week.
What's a black Beatle anyway?
Speaking of career archs, back when 'gum did the Kanye albums worst to best whenever that was I said it was way too soon. I was totally right, doesn't it seem stupid that there is a Kanye best album list that doesn't include Yeezus?
you don't need to clarify SHIT, PLB. STATE THAT TRUTH AND DO YOU YOU BEAUTIFUL KITTY.
Dude, you've really thought this out.
Yup, so right, rapteezus. Every time on sight drops out into that choir the crotch drops out of my 'loons. same thing happened with hell of a life.
this album is just 100% bangers get the hell out of town. all killer no filler (RIP Sum41).
You lose all cred when you compare this to Death Grips. They're completely different in every way.
In his defense – look at the listening party thread. Everybody in there was comparing it to Death Grips.
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^ Coming from the guy who woke up first thing in the morning and immediately checked to see what Pitchfork rated it. Their influence is working on somebody i guess isnt it
Tom: this is a hell of a review. I mean compare it to the Pitchfork murky one: your is truly shines in comparison.
AWESOME. I think this is totally true, which also kinda makes me marvel at the evil genius such an effort as successful as Kanye's would require.
A little late to the party but here's a great article from the Atlantic that gives a perspective I hadn't thought about. It makes sense, too, because most of the songs seem to follow a arc and have a theme, even if a lot of the lyrics are just filler.
I'm confused. Kanye didn't have any children before Saturday, right? Why does he seem so upset about paying child support?
Only feeling two tracks. "Bound 2″ and "Guilt Trip". Ye my n!gga but you can't put syrup on shit and convince me it's good. Hope he rebounds on the next LP.
WHat?!? I can understand if 808s and Dark Fantasy were the first Kanye albums you've ever listened to (surprising as that is), but after that, did you have no desire to listen to his other work?
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Come And get Me > Anything on Yezus
the first half is great, then Kanye feels compelled to bust out the bullshit autotuned vocals again and he he looses me.
kanye badly wants to be an artist like Kool Keith of MF but he doesn't have the creativity or the skill and it falls flat.
Kanye's production on Pusha T's "Numbers on the Boards" reeeeeeeeeally sounds like Dead Prez though. Not that the entirety of this record doesn't sound like them too, but the bass on that Pusha song is very clearly indebted to "Hip Hop."
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"Vitiated on account of malafide"
Thank you, the IPL, and Lalit Modi specifically, for introducing us to this phrase. It appears to be Modi's main defence in misconduct charges related to bid-rigging, 'arm-twisting' and summat to do with the sale of TV rights.
It basically boils down to: "He's well got it in for me," and is aimed at Arun Jaitley who was one of those who prepared the report.
Jaitley is apparently a big supporter of BCCI president N Srinivasan and Modi has taken issue with Srinivasan having a conflict of interest, being both a team owner and administrator.
The whole investigation would appear to be some sort of exercise geared towards working out just what degree of corruption should be considered acceptable within the upper echelons of Indian cricket. Imagine a group of burglars meeting up to discuss whether or not they should draw the line at stealing children's toys and you're halfway there.12 Appeals
Chris Gayle's 17 sixes were no great surprise
The worth of a Twenty20 player cannot be measured via a single innings. That's a mistake many people make – they confuse aberrations with excellence. It's therefore worth underlining the sheer inevitability that it would be Chris Gayle who would break the record for the highest individual score in the shortest format.
It doesn't actually matter all that much that he was facing Ishwar Pandey, Ali Murtaza and even an over from Aaron Finch (although Luke Wright's four overs for 26 look pretty fine in this context). Whoever was bowling, it takes phenomenal ability to hit 30 of the 66 balls you face for boundaries. As a child, we never once managed it when bowling a tennis ball to ourself via the wall of the garage and we were bowling underarm and umpiring as well.
Gayle finished with 175 not out, having hit 13 fours and 17 sixes in another good advert for his core strength. His team, Royal Challengers Bangalore, won. You may well have guessed that last bit.16 Appeals
Delhi Daredevils' big mistake
Since they added extra teams, the IPL now takes even longer to take shape. Relatively speaking, it's still early days, but thankfully one team is doing badly enough that it is actually worth remarking upon. Step forward Delhi Daredevils.
After helping Delhi Daredevils to their feet again, we examined them closely and we can exclusively reveal where they're going wrong.
Delhi Daredevils on paper
However, let's first take a look at what's right, because they're not short of good players and they actually topped the league last year, even if they didn't win the competition.
They have Morne Morkel, who was the top wicket-taker in 2012 and he's supported by some of the better Indian seam bowlers, such as Ashish Nehra, Irfan Pathan and Umesh Yadav. Opening batsmen are critical in Twenty20 cricket and Delhi have Virender Sehwag and David Warner who are then followed by Mahela Jayawardene further down the order.
It's all good, right?
It is NOT all good
Take a look at Delhi's squad and there he is, stinking up the place like a medium-paced chunk of ancient cheese that someone's been sick on. Delhi have the right to field the 35-year-old innocuoso, Ajit Agarkar.
He may not be playing, but it's hard for any player to avoid being tarred by association. If Agarkar's in the Delhi squad and you're in the Delhi squad, that makes you equals, which means you must embrace mediocrity with all your heart. Every time he turns up for training, he's lowering the bar with his filthy long hops, bringing everybody down.
Frankly, we won't be surprised if Delhi fail to win a single match this year.10 Appeals
The best players for a fantasy IPL team
We selected a fantasy IPL team on Cricinfo and were about to set up a league so that people could compete against us when we suddenly thought: 'No, wait, this is bollocks.'
Do you want to know who the best players are for a Cricinfo fantasy IPL team? It's whoever happens to be playing today. That's the game.
You have a ridiculous number of transfers open to you, so the game is basically just to go into your account daily to transfer players. It's not about picking guys you think will perform well; it's about staying on top of things. It's about checking the fixture list and ensuring you have the maximum number of players appearing each day.
You know you're having a bad week when you're this angry about the rules of a fantasy IPL game. You might say we should get some perspective, but that isn't the problem. This isn't what we're annoyed about. This is just overspill.17 Appeals
Two things wrong with the 2013 IPL
Let's start slowly. We've plenty of time. Two things for now. More may follow.
1. Adam Gilchrist is playing
Adam Gilchrist is about 110 years old. More importantly, he is not a cricketer. He was once, but he isn't any more. No cricket competition should field people who aren't cricketers.
2. Six terminology
We've come to terms with sixes being referred to as 'maximums' even if we get MASSIVELY ANNOYED when someone calls fours 'boundaries' in such a way as to imply that the two words are synonyms. They aren't. A four is a type of boundary. A six is still a boundary as well. It's not 'sixes and boundaries'. That makes no sense.
But that's not our point. Our point is actually something we're slightly less annoyed about. On the homepage of the IPL website, they list 'IPL leaders'. These are the players who have scored most runs, taken most wickets and so forth. One of the categories is 'maximum sixes'.
Firstly, this mashes together two terms for the same thing, but more importantly, they aren't listing the players who've hit maximum sixes, because no-one has hit the maximum.
Chris Gayle hit the most in 2012, but he also played out plenty of dot balls and ran a few singles. He therefore cannot have struck 'maximum sixes'. He spurned literally hundreds of opportunities.
We're happy for the 'maximum sixes' category to remain, but only if it features no players whatsoever.
… and one thing that's right about the 2013 IPL
Royston Dias might play and all sports competitions are greatly improved by the inclusion of players with funny names.27 Appeals
Sourav Ganguly's hair
If you've missed or boycotted this year's IPL, you have only missed one thing: Sourav Ganguly's hair.
Young Sourav brought himself on to bowl against Delhi and promptly bowled Kevin Pietersen first ball. He then went on a raised-fist jaunt across the field sporting a bizarre bouncing flap of hair.
The image we've linked to above simply doesn't do it justice. It was like he'd slept in a pool of Rogaine which had affected only one side of his head, giving rise to a huge wedge of hair, far longer than the rest, which was reaching out to the world, eager for new experiences.
Sourav has a history of bad hair. For a time, he was doing that thing where men shave too high so that their hair line goes up from the ears towards the eyebrows. It made him look like he had learning difficulties.
Update: Here is the full horror in video form. (Thanks to Deep Cower)17 Appeals
Lasith Malinga leads the bowlers
It's nice to see bowlers being decisive in a Twenty20 match. Far too often they might as well just glue different mugshots onto a bowling machine and use that instead.
In the Champions League final, Mumbai successfully defended 139. For a large proportion of the match, the commentators were talking up Chris Gayle and how amazing a Twenty20 batsman he is. Gayle is amazing, but he specialises in hitting sixes slightly more frequently and slightly more reliably than other six-hitting batsmen. It might seem like he's the perfect Twenty20 player because of that, but even the sport's ball-whoppiest format presents different challenges from time to time.
Gayle was actually dismissed by Harbhajan Singh, who finished with the best figures (3-20), but it was Lasith Malinga who stood out, not least because he'd also seemed like a monumental stumbling block for Somerset in the semi final.
In that match, the Zoidermen had needed 29 runs from 18 balls, 12 of which were to be bowled by Malinga. Based on how he was bowling, they basically concluded that they needed to score 14 off his two overs and 15 off the other, no matter who bowled it. Some have been at pains to stress the importance of James Franklin's performance, but we'd give half the credit for that over to the Malinga-enforced run recalculation.2 Appeals
Royal Challengers Bangalore hit a six off the final ball to win
We've seen a handful of games where one team needs a six off the final ball to win – it's hard to beat. We'll talk you through the climax of Bangalore's win over South Australia in the Twenty20 Champions League:
Some Aussie guy ran in and bowled and Bangalore's wicketkeeper tonked it for six. Then some other Aussie, an older one, had a bit of a cry into his hat. Then all the Bangalore players did some jumping.
After that, there was a bit of talking and a microphone was held in front of the faces of several players, one of whom was wearing glasses. A man in a suit held a massive cheque. Then there were some adverts.22 Appeals
Royal Challengers Bangalore get another life
Those who suggest we might have lost track of the IPL during the league phase may have a point.
We were at a friend's house yesterday and he switched on the IPL, asking: "Is this important?" to which we answered, with some confidence: "No."
Turns out it was important and we were also wrong about which team was going to win. Chennai Super Kings, who came second in the league, go through to the final, but Royal Challengers Bangalore, who came top, still have another chance. They will play the winner of the third v fourth match which takes place today.
This system for how four teams can be reduced to two finalists is a good one. It's a shame it's undermined by the plodding league that precedes it. King Cricket's IPL-related search traffic is about a fifth of what it was in mid-April, so that's not just our opinion.
We're going to make use of play-offs when we're choosing from menus in the future. There has to be a better way than 'thinking about your decision'.5 Appeals
Rajasthan Royals sponsorship
Take a look at these two people:
In the West, having tanned skin is a sign of wealth. In India, having pale skin is a sign of wealth.
Many Westerners use sun cream so they can be in the sun for longer or smear themselves in fake tan. Many Indians hide from the sun and may even use not-at-all-scary-sounding skin bleaching products or lightening creams, like this one advertised by Shah Rukh Khan.
Everyone wants to be someone else, except for the marketing executives (particularly those who have persuaded people that the way to get a tan is with sunblock protecting your skin).
So is this the story behind Shane Warne's face? No, we believe it's more to do with Barista's sponsorship of the Rajasthan Royals.
Barista are selling Royals-themed coffees during the IPL and in return, Warne will be sporting a face the colour of their Espresso Italiano.12 Appeals


text: Button says Red Bull are way ahead 7 April, 2011 Jenson Button Apr.7 (GMM) Jenson Button believes F1 is yet to witness the true performance of Red Bull's 2011 car. Reigning world champion and current championship leader Sebastian Vettel dominated the season opening Australian grand prix from pole, finishing 22 seconds clear of Button's McLaren teammate Lewis Hamilton. Vettel's Melbourne feats were without the aid of KERS, with Button believing Red Bull is struggling with the technology. "That's good for us," the 2009 world champion is quoted by El Pais. "We need a powerful KERS to compete against them because in every other area they are very competitive," said the Briton. "At the moment I think we're a long way from Red Bull," the McLaren driver acknowledged. "I get the impression that Seb is yet to show the full potential of that car." The Cologne tabloid Express said it is possible Vettel might lap the entire field this weekend in Malaysia. "At Sepang the aerodynamics are much more important (than in Melbourne)," said Hamilton. "So Red Bull should be even better there." Vettel said KERS is worth about five-tenths per lap, and his teammate Mark Webber on Thursday said using the system in Malaysia is a "no-brainer". Tweet


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No names. no details. I just wanted everyone to know, I SUCK! I am a failure at life and i should probably be shot or something.
How do you not take it personally when someone tries to impeach you? How the hell did they want to impeach Daphne for not having paperwork in ontime. I bet I would have done the same damn thing. Do you know what? Let them impeach me. I don't even care anymore. I would just love to see Donald take over and see where that leaves them then. Play catch up for the rest of the semester and see how much you love SGA then. If you really think that he's going to do a better job at President, do more for the students and figure things out that quickly, i'll hand in my friggin letter of resignation right now. So, it's officially Lent and I'm giving up cursing... (oops), red meat, cafinated drinks (sweet tea, soda, coffee, hot coco, and other), and I'm making an effort to do one good dead a day, consciously.
I turned 22 today and the Steelers won the Superbowl. Does life get better? If so, don't tell me.
I have been puking all morning and I have so much work to do. I'm in my office, of course, but I just wanted to say happy 1 day belated birthday to lexy, who is totally hot and awesome. I hope she has the best birthday ever because she deserves it... belated. (Hey, I'm never on time...) I love you lexy! (I love frank too) PS- did anyone ever realize that Lexy rhymes with Sexy?? Coincidence? i think not.
Jonae is so funny...
I quit. I give up. I no longer want this stupid fucking job and I quit. It's not worth it. I try really hard, I really do, and I feel like I'm the only one sometimes. I think Jonathan is right in what he said, but I have expectations of the people I work with and if they don't meet those expectations, I have no trouble telling them so. Why does everyone hate me?post a comment
Why has it been a while? because I have no time whatsoever. I am President of SGA. I was VP last semester, until Daphne resigned. I am still working as an I-fellow. I am still doing Circle K. I am trying to write for the Carolinian (my first article...majorly sucked). I think i may have to drop that. I am taking 15 hours. I am a secretary in ASG. DAMN!!! I hardly have time to breath right now. I am freaking out like every day. Panic attacks, here I come! I CAN DO IT!!! There was this guy last semester, but that one ended forever this past weekend. It kinda half ended right before New Years. Then he called me and I got confused. New Years Resolution #1: Get over Joe (It's getting easier and better). Anyways, I'm flippin because I'm going to fail this damn spanish class I'm taking. it's 502, graduate level lit. I HATE SPANISH LIT!!!! I better go return some books before the bookstore closes and all. I have devoted myself WHOLEY to my jobs and education and my health is so suffering. Did I mention I'm still trying to play ultimate on top of all that other stuff? Yeah, right... because I have time... I thought about running for something in ASG, but i know it would be suicide... but I will step up if no one else is willing to. I have to point my committee in better directions. I need to type up those minutes and get work done before the meeting this weekend. I will NOT let my committee falter. i will organize the damn Service NC and it will fucking ROCK!!! I WILL be masterful, because I am... and I won't let stupid classes, stupid people, or stupid other things get in my way. I WILL DO GREAT THINGS!post a comment
To get what you want, you have to be willing to take risks. There are no big wins without big risks.
That's actually the title of a Big Pretty and the Red Rocket's song. That's ok. Anyways, SGA, Circle K and Internatinoal Fellow stuff is all ruling my life right now, as usual. Oh yes, and that whole "classes" thing. Haha, almost forgot about that one. I'm currently sick. I get all bummy when I'm sick. I hate that. Tomorrow is dad's birthday. We're going out to dinner on Sunday. Dinners with the family have changed. I think we're all tired. We're not tired of each other, but we're just tired. I guess thats the price you pay for getting older.
I just wanted to make a note that men are assholes and complete pigs and I so hate them ALL. Yeah, I know I'm being a man hating whore and all, but after last night, I think I deserve it. I can't bring myself to wish ill on another person, in all seriousness, but I have to say, I'm not particularly fond of him and therefore all men right now. YOU PEOPLE SUCK, and you know what... YOU'RE NOT THAT GOOD!
It's Tuesday. I'm supposed to be in class right now, but I had too much work to do. I am stressed out because I don't want to do student government anymore. it offers me so little! i mean, it has nothing to do with what I'm going for in life and even if it might someday be good for a resume, i don't really care. I'd like to work as a volunteer for something anyways. Maybe I'll just move to Guatemala and mary Belariano. (HAHAHAHA...I'm not serious). I could be a school teacher and teach them all.. about the world. Teach them how horrible and wonderful it is at the same time. Michelle L and Bo, would you guys come with me?
I'm dead tired. I've been working... too long. Point is, you should join the "I love Sandy" club... all the international students this year did... :)
AH! I have a new crush. No names, yet, of coure, because there's a very ODD chance he might end up reading this. That and I can't let everyone else make fun of me with names yet (it doesn't make sense, don't try to make sense of it). Anyways, he's totally sweet and hot and funny and wonderful. I love having inside jokes with guys, and we have a few. For reasons I won't go into, it's highly unlikely anything will ever actually happen, but I am still allowed to like him. And I do. (and no, he's not married, gay, or in some religious order of somekind.) I just wish he liked me, and I'm thinking he probably doesn't. I've been trying to talk to him a lot, but so goes my life that he doesn't really seem all that eager to talk to me so much. It's so sad to want to give up before anything ever happens. Haha, I must really SUCK. Rejection left and right. Good thing I don't have too many quams or inhabitions about that kinda thing. Maybe someday. I hate being so vague, but just know... it's better this way. Night all! Love ya!
I love my SPAM Diverse Collegiate Butternut Woody Roots. Leadershape was amazing. I loved it! I can't really talk about what happened too much because... I'm trying to keep it a surprise for when my friend's go. I loved it though and I can't think of a reason why anyone wouldn't. I miss EVERYONE so much!!post a comment
Today, Bill and I have been married for 3 years. As he pointed out the other night, there were many breakup threats... all of which originated on my end (dum dee dum...) and many trials, because of the distance and all, but we're still happily married and just as in love as ever... heh. Anyways, My baby and I are doing something... but I'm not sure what yet. Maybe he'll be a total sweetie and surprise me, or maybe we'll just end up getting lunch and i'll tell him I want a divorce... again. But of course, I'll totally be kidding.
So, in about a week, one of my two bestest friends in the world, Lindsay Ong will be graduating from the wonders of High School and entering UVA, because she is so friggin hot like that.
So, today I watched Seven Years in Tibet for the first time in a long time. Mmm, I forgot how good looking Brad Pitt was in that movie. Beyond that, it, one reminded me of Brad Pitt. Two, reminded me of Tashi Wangden (*sigh*), and three, reminded me of the start of the political situation currently still in effect in Tibet. TIBETAN FREEDOM!!! I need to write to Tashi again. It's been a little too long. God, I miss him. Heh, the irony. Anyways, I have been studying the Tibetan characters and words for about 2 weeks now, but not everyday. I made a (REALLY CRAPPY) painting of a buddhist temple... which is actually located in Bangkok, but serves the purpose well. At the bottom of the painting, in tibetan, i wrote "Tibetan Freedom." I really have nthing against China... i guess. I don't really agree with its governments decisions a lot, but that can be said about a lot of countries. ANyways, I'm going to go running, but... Tashi, where ever you are... Thu-chi che. Feh yong.
It's the summer. I'm at UNCG working (well, I was earlier). There's something very wrong with that. Right now actually, I'm chillin (like a...) in Tower Village using Andrew's computer. He's getting kind of annoyed because I keep taking pictures of him. Little does he know I'm going to sell him on Ebay... just kidding. Or am I. I don't think he would sell for much because he only showers once a week or so. That and his hair is too long. And he looks funny with glasses. And he can only speak like 10 languages instead of 15, like me... I wish I could speak 15 languages.
I just wanted to wish Amy Lynn a Happy 21rst Birthday! She's the best. She's been my support system at UNCG... I don't know what I'd do without her. We went out to lunch with Bill, Bo, Laura, and Chris. Then, Chris, Amy Lynn and I pummled Bill, Bo and Laura with water balloons. Later we went to dinner with her family (AL, Chris, Bill and I) and then watched Star Wars Episode 2. Ah, I love my girl like a sister. She's prety much my sister by now anyways. well, Happy 21rst Birthday Amy Lynn! I LOVE YOU!!post a comment
I just got back from Washington DC with Katie. We had a blast walking around and talking crazy pictures. We went to a bunch of different museums and did a lot of crazy things. Thats Katie and I... CRAZY!


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Cool cumbers - cream cheese, cucumber, tomato, alfalfa sprouts, lettuce or organic spring mix
Dolmades (or "Dolmas") - Greek style rice filled grape leaves
"Lebne" Pita - Arabic/Greek kefir cheese w/ Arabic pickled turnips and Arabic pickles
Humous Pita, - "Ramallah Original" w/ Arabic pickled turnips and Arabic pickles
Mimi's Peanut butter & jelly
Yaiya's Greek Sandwich - (Greek Feta Cheese, Tomato, Cucumber, & Organic Spring Mix)
"Italian Tofurkey" - (also called "vegan salami")
Italian meat lasagnaSoups of the Day - 2 soups offered daily 1 meat based & 1 vegetarian or vegan )
Italian vegetarian lasagna
Italian meatballs in marinara sauce
All American mac "n" cheese
All American mac "n" beef
Vegetarian chili
Turkey chili
Beans & franks
Italian penne pasta w/ sausage, cannelinni beans & spinach
Italian ravioli - meat, spinach & cheese or cheese
Italian fettuccine w/ chicken in alfredo sauce
Italian calzone - several varieties
Russian piroski - meat filled closed pie - beef or beef & cheese
Greek spinach & feta spanakopita - filo filled closed pie
Arabic style spinach & cheese pie - dough filled closed pie
Greek mousaka - pasta, beef, eeggplant, potato & beschamel sauce
French quiche - Lorraine, artichoke, or sun dried tomato
Breakfast burrito -varieties listed in breakfast menu above
Twice baked Potato w/ topped with cheese - not daily
Monday : Chicken noodle
Tuesday : Chicken dumpling
Wednesday : Boston clam chowder
Thursday : Split pea w/ ham
Friday : Boston clam chowder
...soups we alternate and write on special white board: Black Bean, Egyptian Lentil, Tomato Lentil, Gourmet Pumpkin, Butternut Squash, Carrot Ginger, Vegetarian Split Pea, Hearty Garden Vegetable, Gourmet Indian Vegetable, Vegetable Barley, Magic Minestrone, Mushroom Barley
Spring mix basic w/ veggie toppingsDressings: Italian, Blue cheese, balsamic vinaigrette, ranch, oil & vinegar, honey dijon mustard, thousand island, olive oil, to name most
Spring mix w/ tuna salad
Spring mix w/ white albacore tuna salad
Spring mix w/ fresh roasted turkey or chicken breast
Spring mix w/ salmon filet
Spring mix w/ fresh avocado
Athena the Greek - spring mix topped w/ Greek salad
Chef (classic recipe w/ lunch meat & cheese)
Ted's Sandwiches: many variety deli meats & cheese, tri tip, albacore tuna, tuna, egg, poultry spreads, etc."To go "salads:
Ted's "Lavosh" or "Aram" bite size or wraps - vegetarian or turkey
Bagels with cream cheese
Ted's Humous and a few other wraps & specialty ethnic foods
Falafel sandwich w/ tahini sauce
Ted's Greek yogurt parfait w/ granola & fresh fruit - seasonal
Ted's Chicken terriyaki bowl -rice, chicken, broccoli
Ted's Spaghetti & meatballs
Ted's Fettuccini w/ chicken in alfredo sauce
Meat ravioli in marinara sauce
Spinach & cheese ravioli in marinara sauce
Indian wrap style and dinner style entrees - Sukkis catering
Greek "dolmades" - rice filled grape leaves
(check our specials white board for recipes made daily!)
Red Potato salad w/ mayoThank you for your patrongage!
Red Potato & egg w/ mayo
Macaroni salad w/mayo
Cole slaw salad w/ mayo
Shrimp salad w/ mayo
Mediterranean 3 bean salad w/ Greek "Gigantes"
Avocado & red kidney bean salad
Lentil salad
Raw Veggie salad
Thai noodle salad w/peanuts
Chinese chicken salad w/peanuts
Mediterranean orzo pasta salad w/ Greek feta cheese & sun-dried tomatoes
Greek style pasta salad w/ feta cheese & Kalamata olives
Mediterranean style pasta salad w/ veggies feta cheese & Kalamata olives
Moroccan couscous salad w/toasted pine nuts, cranberries & garbanzo bean
Brown rice/lentil salad
Tabouleh salad - parsley based Arabic salad - vegan
Peruvian quinoa salad - white or red quinoa - vegan
Italian caprese salad - tomato, mozzerella cheese, fresh basil
Italian cheese tortellina pasta - sauce varies
Italian anti-pasti salad w/ meats, cheese, olives, peppers, etc.
Italian penne pasta w/ veggies, basil pesto & toasted pine nuts
Italian penne or bow tie pasta w/ marinara sauce & Parmesan cheese
Whole wheat bow tie pasta w/ sun dried tomatoes, veggies & Parmesan cheese
Roasted root vegetables - seasonal
Brussel sprouts - seasonal
Roasted potatoes - seasonal
Yam casserole - seasonal


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Traditionally Kerala houses had interior wood work done with wood carvings by skilled artisans. In the earlier days house was built with wood, brick and clay tiles. Content of wood was very high as the cost was not high.Arappura, Pathayam, Machu (sealing between tiled roof and Room space) were all done by wood and mostly teak wood. Verandahs and living halls were having round pillars in woodof rosewood or teak with decorative carvings on top and bottom
Even today this wood work and carving work is used in high cost houses being built in Kerala with all the beauty and splendor of yester years. Some of the wood work now being used can be classified into following types
1. Charupady for sit out and balcony (Fully covered and partially covered)
2. Wood paneling of wall on either side of main door which can be opened as two parts to either side with carving work and possibly with pictorial lock like manichitrathazhu
3. Wood paneling for round pillars inside the house
4. Wooden flooring
5. Wood paneling with top carving work for inside room walls
6. Decorative cots in wood with designs similar to cots of old Kings
7. Stair case posts with carving
8. Cup boards and sofas with carved back rests
9. Modular kitchen with wooden cabinets for storage and proper keeping of kitchen utensils and tools(This is a modern day addition)
10. Wood carved Mukhappu above tiled slope roof
11. Wood carved Thoomanam
12. Aattu Kattil