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I have spent my entire life cringing at the stupidity, cowardice, and self serving fraud of the intellectual establishment in this country. And now that we have 24 hour cable news, and now that talk radio has become BIG MEDIA (it used to be honest when there was no money in it) the intellectual level of political and social criticism in this republic aspires to Olympian heights of fatuity. Nothing is allowed in political discourse except the bromidic, the stupid, the superficial. Any attempt at truth or honesty is attacked as extreme, even insane, by a cowardly bunch of media pundits trying to score points with each other by ganging up on the victim like schoolyard bullies ganging up on the new kid. Just look at the way they turned Dr. Ron Paul into a doubleplus unperson.
Consider the difference in other countries. Consider that in Italy the newly elected right wing openly compares itself to General Franco and the crowd cheers "Il Duce" at the new Roman mayor. This is the very same country that boasted the largest communist party in Europe in the 1970's.This is also a country with a dozen viable political parties, a country that discusses the idea of regional secession as a serious consideration. How ironic it is that a country such as Italy with broad based support of Fascism and Communism is freer intellectually than the US, a supposed free country with a bill of rights guaranteeing free speech!
In this country, the chattering classes all compete to see who can repeat the same hackneyed phrases more loudly. Any dissent is seen as a reproach on the monolithic poltroonishness of the conformist establishment and its apostles. With the new 24 hour electronic yellow journalism and its vaudeville showmen posing as thinking pundits, the superficiality takes on hyper levels. Complex issues concerning peace and war, foreign policy, terrorism (and its causes), morality, political philosophy become mere talking subjects, theatrical props, for media sideshow barkers pimping for ratings glory. The tendency is to use out-of-context sound bites to invent huge media controversies, full of sound and fury and signifying nothing.
For the past month we have heard a lot about The Reverend Jeremiah Wright. There are endless loopings of the same half a dozen out-of-context sound bites. This is nothing more than a collective gang bang by mindless narcissistic media stars who intentionally dumb down what he said to create a phony scandal for Barak Obama. These tapes were probably unearthed by someone in the Hillary machine, or McCain's, or one of their sympathisers. So now there is open season on this preacher. What is the substance of these attacks? It is no more substantive than late night TV or stand up comics. Besides the misquotations, the media focused on his style as a black minister.
We have heard endless loops showing how outrageous or bombastic he is. We heard clips of him singing Handel's "And the Glory of the Lord" and his "God Damn America". It's as if the media were shocked!…..SHOCKED!! that there is such a thing as black Full Gospel preaching style, complete with spontaneous responses accompanied by organ improvisation. This genre is famous for using politics and themes of racial oppression for over 100 years. You would think that The Reverends Martin Luther King Jr. and Jesse Jackson were unknown. Or Al Sharpton.
The Reverend Wright, in an attempt to add some substance to this sound bite circus, spoke at the National Press Club in Washington DC. last week. He was not giving a sermon. He was not "bombastic". He spoke in a temperate voice and gave a scholarly speech on the black theological tradition in the USA. He talked about the role that "Liberation Theology" played in both the black churches, and in the Yankee Congregationalist, United Church of Christ.
The entire media were glued to this speech. They were not looking for a dispassionate discussion of theology in black churches, or context to his previous statements – that would be too boring – they were looking for another sensationalist sound bite, the more outrageous the better. They got it during the question & answer session after the speech, with confrontational questions which clearly showed the hostile bias of the questioner. The questions assumed that Wright is a kooky conspiracy theorist, and a blaspheming traitor to his country. No one really listened to what he said. In its reporting, the media reduced his comments to platitudes, and the endless references to his speech followed the predictable collective script of the fatuous imbeciles in the media to see who can repeat the same hackneyed phrases to win kudos from their colleagues.
What did he say that was so outrageous? Based on the comments of the lemming pundits, I seriously wondered whether they saw the same speech I did. I listened to the whole thing twice and was hard pressed to find anything that was outrageous or insane. I certainly have my criticism of "Liberation Theology" with its close association with Marxism, especially in Latin America. But this was not the focus of the media. Their focus was on him defiantly defending his "outrageous" remarks. Almost all of those remarks I agreed with.
He was asked if he was patriotic, and said that he served 6 years in the military and that it was more military time than Dick Cheney served. Was this an insane or even false statement?
He said that the US government oppresses people around the world, that it sends Americans, "to die for a lie". When asked why he blamed the US for 911, he said that the "chickens have come home to roost" in the form of blowback from our policies overseas. Most did not bother to find out that he was quoting Edward Peck, the former ambassador to Iraq, and deputy director of terrorism under Ronald Reagan. Wright added, quoting the Bible's golden rule, that you can not do terrorism to others and not have it come back to you. This is virtually the same thing for which Dr. Ron Paul got raked over the coals. Questioning the cause of 911 is the modern American Intellectual Inquisition equivalent of heresy. It is double heresy if you equate our government with a terrorist organisation, even though bombing civilians does cause terror. Recognised states don't do terrorism unless they are Iraq or Iran.
He was asked if he would apologise to the American people for blaming them for 911. He made the distinction, lost on most Americans, between the people and their government. This is total blasphemy in the minds of the orthodox American Establishment. In their thinking the American people and their government are one in the same because of Democracy, and the vaunted electoral process. The idea that the government in this, "the most free and democratic nation on earth – EVER" would have its own corrupt agenda against the best interests of the people is a thoughtcrime. This is odd, since most Americans have no trouble spotting corruption at the state or local level, or complaining of excessive spending and taxation. In the NYC area, we have had three governors (NJ, NY, Conn.) resign in the last ten years for corruption. However, at the federal level, especially when it comes to war, Americans refuse to look at the truly mammoth corruption, distortion, and immorality of their government.
He was asked about his relationship to Reverend Louis Farrakhan. As he explained, this had to do with a statement made by Farrakhan 20 years ago about Israel, a sacred cow in the minds of the establishment. Wright explained his position regarding Israel: that it had a right to exist, that they were the children of God, BUT that they need to reconcile with their enemies; the Israelis need to sit down with the Palestinians and come to a peaceful understanding so that their children "don't grow up talking about killing each other". He said that reconciliation, not killing was God's way. Is that an "insane" or "outrageous" notion? Is it theologically erroneous? The media had a field day with Wright's comparing Farrakhan to stock broker EF HUTTON. Do media pundits not understand the use of analogies or similes or metaphors in speech? Wright was saying that when Farrakhan talks, the black community listens. Is this a false statement? If so, then why do the media, who are mostly white, bother to cover Farrakhan?
The punditry went berserk over his "conspiracy theory" that the US Government invented AIDS. The Reverend Wright cited the Tuskegee experiment, where the government used blacks to experiment on syphilis. He also pointed out that the Weapons of Mass Destruction in Iraq were sold to Saddam by the US Government back when he was our ally and that he used them on the Iranians with our blessing. He said that, given the history of our government and its use of deception, he believed "it was possible".
I personally doubt the conspiracy theory that the US Government invented AIDS, but I personally doubt any number of conspiracy theories of my friends, whilst I harbor conspiracy theories of my own with which others disagree. In fact most Americans believe in some form of conspiracy or secret, illegal dealings committed by their government. Why is that? Is this unique to Americans as a culture? I don't know. We know the US Government has lied to us in the past. We know that the US has used the CIA to topple governments in South America at the behest of the United Fruit Company. We know, in spite of the official, revisionist "spin" that the government knew in advance of the Japanese carrier force prior to Pearl Harbour; and that even in the DC media there was open speculation that war with Japan was imminent. We know that the Navy translated the communiqué of the Japanese to their ambassadors in Washington and that they were instructed "to burn all documents and code machines". We know the US Government lied about the Tonkin Gulf Incident, and lied about being in Laos and Cambodia. We know the US Government has been a king maker in the Mideast while denying same. None of these revelations ever get admitted at the time; only years later do books by insiders get written telling the truth. Would there be so many conspiracy theories in America if our government were transparent and honest or followed the Constitution? If you Google "conspiracy theory", why do so many hits deal with the United States? Why doesn't Switzerland come up except as a movie title? Why not Canada?……or Iceland?
Then there was the "God Damn America" quote. He explained this also, yet the media pretended not to hear. He said "damn" is derived from "condemn", and that God condemns the actions of the US Government (again NOT the people) for inflicting violence on other nations and that non-violence was consistent with Christian teaching. He asked the questioner if he heard the whole sermon from which that quote was taken. But context or understanding did not figure into the thinking of the questioner. I wonder if there are examples, say in the Old Testament, of God condemning wicked immoral nations?
This electronic tabloid circus unfortunately drags in supposedly high-brow broadsheet press into the mud. This was especially true last week after his National Press Club Speech. One after another, the senior Washington polemicists and bureau chiefs chimed in so they could be counted in the "me too" column. There were the obligatory references to Wright as "crazy" and "lunatic" or "loony" with no attempt to address what he said. But the "intellectual" writers of the papers of record added new buzzwords, to wit: "narcissistic", "solipsistic", "divisive" "his fifteen minutes of fame" "revenge on Obama".
Here we have the Establishment Left, many of whom, tired of the sleazy fraud of the Clintons, want Obama nominated and hope that he'll beat McCain. Bob Herbert of the New York Times wrote,"….Wright went to Washington on Monday not to praise Barak Obama but to bury him…….Feeling dissed by Sen. Obama, Mr. Wright gets revenge on his former follower…… He's living a narcissist dream. At long last his 15 minutes have arrived."
They called him divisive but not the mudslingers who brought edited sound bites public and replayed them over and over; sound bites that were part of a long sermon. Why are they dumping on Wright rather than blaming the tabloid media for taking him out of context? Here's the reason. To quote Mr. Herbert:
"The question that cries out for an answer from Mr. Wright is why – if he is so passionately committed to liberating and empowering blacks – does he seem so insistent on wrecking the campaign of the only African-American ever to have had a legitimate shot at the presidency."
A.D Lelong [send him mail] grew up in the NYC area. He started in radio in North Carolina as a reporter. In 1994 he moved back to New York City where he has been working as a producer and newsroom sound editor for a news-talk radio station. He currently lives in Queens and enjoys skeet and sporting clays shooting, bird hunting, and sailing.


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The Way We Live Now
by Anthony Trollope
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"The Way We Live Now" is a victorian novel that takes place in the 1870s. Similar to many novels of that era, it is about the changing times… but with an added twist about financial corruption. A victorian "Bernie Madoff" shows up in London flaunting his wealth and creating as much gossip and intrigue as Jay Gatsby did in Fitzgerald's novel of New York in the 1920s.
In this novel, the villain's name is Augustus Melmotte - a sociopath with a huge ego. His life goals are to be elected to Parliament, have his daughter marry a Lord, and of course, accumulate as much wealth as possible. He is a swindler and total fraud, wooing society with his ostentatious spending, extravagant entertaining, and arrogant demands for respect and acceptance.
Amidst the smoldering financial scandal, Trollope weaves a satirical tale of London's upper class society. While the snobby landed gentry are breaking with tradition to fuss over the crude foreigner Mr. Melmotte - hoping that will enhance their own financial situation - the young women in London are having romantic trysts and rebelling against the conventional rule of marrying an appointed suitor. As the plot unfolds, each bold move away from tradition is explained away blithely with statements like the old cliche, "Everyone is doing it, so why shouldn't I?", and as though their actions could not be helped, "we belong to a newer and worse sort of world."
After reading Trollope's "The Eustace Diamonds" several years ago, I commented in my review that I doubted I would read any other Trollope novels. Despite the amusing plot, I was appalled at the blatant anti-semitism. It was difficult to determine if Trollope himself was anti-Semitic or was merely expressing the sentiments of the elite British society. Then I decided to give him another try with what has been referred to as Trollope's "opus" - The Way We Live Now. Unfortunately, it was more of the same… distasteful descriptions of the Jewish characters who turn out to be the villains of the novel. There were however, equally disparaging remarks about the American characters as well. Perhaps the British elite were narrow-minded, despising anyone who was not from their own ethnic background.
Trollope did excel in character development and provides the reader with an assortment of richly drawn characters. They range from traditional conservative, stoic Roger Carbury… to his spoiled, rude, over-indulged nephew Felix Carbury who spent most of his time drinking, gambling, and chasing women. There is Ruby Ruggles - the vivacious working class orphan who wants adventure. And Paul Montague who gets entangled with an unscrupulous American widow "those crazy Americans" who is rumored to have killed a man.
Perhaps if I had read "The Way We Live Now" at an earlier time in life, I would have given it the highest rating, but after a while, many of the British period novels seem redundant, and my tolerance for the excessively wordy 800 page literary composition about stuffy Brits, untrustworthy greedy Jews, and suppressed women has pretty much waned for now.
Read during Summer 2004
I'm not sure I would have made it through the maze of characters unless I had seen the recent miniseries. A sprawling Victorian soap opera and social commentary, heavy handed at times and it was a bit depressing to have the only morally upright character be the priggish Roger Carbury, obessed with his cousin Hetta and intensely petty about his ward's love for her. I was intrigued to see that Paul Montague, Hetta's love was made much more 'good' in the miniseries, except for one glaring change in his trip to Lowestofe with Mrs. Hurtle. The miniseries pulled out the salient points but the depth in the novel made it a good read that might have been deadly on TV. I'm still not sure I'll dig into Barchester Towers in the near future, though.
The change to Victorian/Edwardian England brought about through the amoral influence of new money. Vices turn virtues - the seven deadly sins are no longer deadly, nor considered evil where selfishness rules. A very long work worth reading. It is good as a retrospective to uncover the beginning of our current poor moral environment. It was meant as a wake-up call, but obviously went unheeded.
I have been interested in Victorian novels for most of my reading life. Early in that life, before I knew what a Victorian novel was, I fell in love with Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre. The other early love of my reading life was for the novels of Charles Dickens that began with a reading of Oliver Twist that so enveloped my imagination that I brought it along in my backpack to Boy Scout Camp in the north woods of Wisconsin. Never mind that there were no merit badges to be had for reading Dickens, or any other nineteenth century author. My life-long infatuation with Bronte and Dickens and my interest in Victorian literature was continued in my teens with the discovery of the novels of Thomas Hardy, especially The Return of the Native. I fell in love with the intelligent Clym Yeobright and his difficult relations with the alluring Eustacia Vye (a love I more recently found that I shared with the fictional Holden Caulfield, perhaps the only thing I shared with him). The sensationalism of Hardy in his novel, Tess of the D'Urbervilles, the education of Pip in Dickens' Great Expectations, and others satisfied my teenage reading desires and furthered me on the road of Victorian literature. It was not until my post-college years that I would come to appreciate the intelligent novels of George Eliot and the later Dickens along with those of Anthony Trollope. It has been during more recent decades that I have included reading and rereading Middlemarch, Bleak House, and the Barsetshire novels in my traversal of Victorian literature.
Most recently I have been reading Anthony Trollope's The Way We Live Now, a novel written late in his career. Unlike his early novels, this was a critique of the England of his age, including a broad-based attack on Victorian class, finance, politics and culture. Set in the 1870s it tells a story of two families struggling to adapt to the changing times. The Carburys are one family with Roger Carbury, the squire of Carbury Manor, leading them both morally and financially. The other family is represented by a young Paul Montague who becomes entwined in the shady financial dealings of a confidence man named Augustus Melmotte. Financial collapse entraps all of the families in some way and provides a sense of realism as the story is based on real-life events. In some ways reminiscent of the later Dickens' social novels, Trollope's novel is presented as a more realistic slice of life, foreshadowing the turn toward naturalism near the end of the century. Most of the characters are quite unlikable and there is little incentive to sympathize with them when they are taken in by the vulgar predator Melmotte. While there is humor in The Way We Live Now, it is a sharper and darker humor than that which made Trollope's early novels such a delight to read. However, the novel retains a relevance for our own day when financial scandals are still in the headlines.
One of the best books I've read this year, see my full review at: http://livritome.wordpress.com/2013/10/12/trollopes-the-way-we-live-now/
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The Coyotes are 33-25-11 with 77 points. There are 13 games remaining, though, so things are still very much up for grabs. The situation calls for a bit of desperation.
"We're fighting for our lives and it's something (that) for us to get in the playoffs, we have to win the majority of our games," Coyotes defenseman Keith Yandle told the Dan Bickley Show with Vince Marotta Tuesday on Arizona Sports 98.7 FM. "That's what we like to do; we like to play that type of hockey and that's what we get paid for.
"It's one of those things. We have to be desperate; if we're not, we're going to find ourselves on the outside looking in."
It's really that simple for the Coyotes.
The Coyotes, of course, have proven capable of beating some of the best the NHL has to offer, which is partly what makes their inconsistency so maddening. It's not as if the team isn't talented enough to win, so why haven't they?
"I don't know if there's a certain explanation for it," Yandle said. "It's the NHL -- every team is good, every team can win games."
Of course, that does not mean Yandle and the Coyotes don't have losses they regret, but that is bound to happen throughout the course of an 82-game season.
"For us, we've just got to find that consistency of bringing it every night."
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Adele, a manager at Timberland's International Design Center in London, shares the following story about a day of service with City Year London:
What an excellent day at the Peel Institute!
On Wednesday 9th February, City Year joined forces with volunteers from Timberland, Burberry and Wilton and Bain to transform the gardens of the Institute, a community centre which serves the diverse communities of Islington providing opportunities and facilities for education, recreation and the advancement of social, economic and mental wellbeing.
We were welcomed by young leaders, in their bright red, easily distinguished gear ( supplied by TBL), who have worked for City Year from September 2010 so far. What an inspiration it is, to see young confident people leading and being fully engaged in community service!
City Year service days are a unique opportunity to transform a community site while working with other dedicated volunteers in an enjoyable atmosphere. The ARAMARK civic engagement team are young devoted and energetic corps members whose focus is on staging these events, organising and preparing all projects so volunteers can simply step in and make a difference.
City Year strives to make their service projects inspirational, transformational and sustainable. As such, they work closely with the local community to find what areas need physical change and how to use volunteer muscle to make that a reality.
As a result of recent government cuts, non-essential maintenance of the Peel Institute has had to be stopped, and as a result the gardens had become overgrown and uninviting to the community. During our day of service, we worked on improving the garden and outdoor space, and prepared an area to be used as a playground in the future. City Year hopes to continue working with Peel, engaging volunteers to utilise and maintain the general upkeep of the outside space.
Timberland volunteers all enjoyed the experience, and we look forward to working with City Year again!
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New survey highlights parent-teacher problems
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Children are much more likely to succeed in school if their parents are actively involved in their education, according to the National Center for Education Statistics. The center reports that children in both two-parent and single-parent families are more likely to earn high grades and less likely to repeat a grade or be suspended or expelled if parents take an active role.
A study released in June 2005 by MetLife Inc., however, indicates that new teachers often find the relationship with parents problematic at best.
Teachers vs. parents
The MetLife insurance company has conducted an annual, nationwide poll called the Survey of the American Teacher since 1984. The most recent survey, for the 2004-05 school year, focused on the relationships between new teachers (those with no more than five years experience) and other teachers, administrators, students and parents.
The teachers surveyed by MetLife recognized the importance of their relations with parents. About eight out of 10 strongly agreed that teachers must be able to work well with students' parents to be effective in their jobs.
Yet, to many, this goal seemed out of reach. New teachers identified communicating with and involving parents as the greatest challenge they face, and 20 percent described their relations with parents as somewhat or very unsatisfying. This was the highest degree of dissatisfaction reported for any teacher relationship.
One in five new teachers also reported that relationships with parents are their most significant source of on-the-job stress.
And in today's legal climate, adversarial relationships can have serious implications.
"Right now, teachers are running scared," said Cheramie Moore, a sixth-grade teacher at Wessendorff Middle School in Rosenberg, Texas. "We have many parents who come looking for a lawsuit. Teachers are very vulnerable."
Such attitudes can contribute to the persistent shortage of qualified teachers, according to the poll. Survey respondents who said they were likely to leave teaching were nearly twice as likely as other teachers to report unsatisfactory relations with parents (32 percent vs. 17 percent).
Preparing for parents
About a quarter of the new teachers cited in the MetLife survey felt that they are not prepared to engage with parents successfully, indicating they may not have received sufficient preparation on such contacts during their training.
"The pre-service education of teaching staff usually devotes maybe one class, if at all, to this whole business we call family involvement," said Frances Guzmán, an education associate with the Intercultural Development Research Association, a San Antonio nonprofit educational training and research group. "Usually, [it's] not even a class--it may be just a particular session in one of their classes."
And classroom training isn't enough, experts said.
"It's about on-the-job training," said Donna New Haschke, president of the Texas State Teachers Association. "You learn more as you talk to parents and as you progress in your own career. But I don't think anybody should expect that it's just natural to be able to talk to parents readily and successfully. It takes time."
Dr. Larry Abraham, chairman of the University of Texas at Austin (UT) College of Education's Department of Curriculum and Instruction, agreed.
"It's a matter of sitting down with [parents] and listening to what they have to say and helping them to see what the school and the teacher feel is really best for the kids," said Abraham.
Abraham said the best way to prepare teachers to work with parents is to have them experience the daily realities of the classroom.
"That's one of the reasons we send students who are preparing to be teachers into schools for many months, for years, to get as much exposure to what really goes on in schools," Abraham said.
Creating smooth parent-teacher relations can be particularly challenging in schools that serve large numbers of low-income and minority students.
The MetLife survey found that new teachers working in low-income areas are far more likely to describe parental relations as their biggest challenge (40 percent vs. 24 percent for teachers in schools with fewer low-income students).
And many low-income families are minority members as well. By contrast, the Census Bureau reports that in 2000, the nation's elementary and secondary teaching work force was 86.4 percent white.
To break down language or cultural barriers, Abraham said that UT teacher candidates sometimes provide tutoring and English as a Second Language classes for parents.
Lending parents a hand
Parents may be unwilling or unable to participate in their children's schooling.
"The traditional model has said, 'I care so much about my kids that I'm going to go to the school whenever anything happens,'" said Guzmán. "That's all well and good, but if I'm working three jobs, or if the school is only holding meetings during the day, that's not a good match right away."
Volunteers lend a hand in some communities.
"A lot of our kids come from single-parent homes, so as far as a lack of parental involvement, that's where we fit in," said Melissa Vela-Williamson, recruitment and public relations coordinator for Big Brothers Big Sisters of South Texas. "We kind of participate in the family unit.
"In our school-based program, a volunteer big brother or big sister meets their little brother or little sister at school once a week for about an hour, and during that time they're able to work on homework, or visit the library, play on the computer, use equipment in the gym--it's really up to them how they spend their time together," said Vela-Williamson. "But it has been proven that these relations have helped these children academically and emotionally."
Haschke said a partnership between parents and teachers is key.
"It's so critical to the children to know that their parents and their teachers care about them and that they're going to be working in tandem to make sure they get a good education," she said.
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Myth: Anything packed with fiber will help you slim down
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Picture Obsession is Loose Again!
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08:21am 19/02/2003
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Time for school. I'm behind in Geo to...Gah, I hate school with a passion. Its like freakin prison *grumbles and storms off*
08:16am 19/02/2003
Nickleback- Leader of Men
Yesterday one of the kids in my school was playing his guitar in the hall and it tore me to shreads. I felt so empty. I would have given anything at that moment to have Steve with me, to make him the one who was playing. *Sighs* Where ever I go, there are always things reminding me of him. And when there isn't, my thought stirr and he is brought back into my attention. I don't know, maybe this is what loves like. I can't wait unlill the Ex. I have a funny feeling I'll know when I see him up close.....
05:13pm 18/02/2003
OK, I promise there wont be any more pictures....for now ^_~
I'm bored out of my mind. And waiting from Steve to come back online. *Sighs* I think I love him. I've been telling him that I love him in response to when he says it to me but untill now I havn't ment it with my entire heart. Now, When I say it, it sounds cheap. Like nothing could ever express it oraly. I feel like he's always going to be there to lean on. And some how I can only hope that we work out. He makes me feel loved, like no one else can.
I didn't get to talk to him yesterday because my father kicked me off the net. That did nothing but fuel my resentment towards him. If your reading this, and just happen to be a teenage girl with a controlling father, only you could understand my frustration. I am forced to lie to him, to go behind his back, because he is so protective and strict. The very thing he tires to protect me from is the world. And becasue he is keeping me from it, I only crave to be free even more.
Parents have much to learn...they should realise that there is no right way to be a parent....
Tons of pictures, And I love them all :p
04:40pm 18/02/2003
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BEWARE! If massive amounts of photos in journals annoy you, turn away now, lmao. I've got crazy over Lestat ^_~ Honestly...I can't get enough of him *sighs*
Teacher Student relationship, am I mistaken? This is my favorite picture ^_^
you mock me?
He looks so...hurt
*sniffles* If he cries, I will to
eek! Me and Steve! *giggles and runs off*
oo...such a sexy picture, makes me all tingle ^_~ jk jk
omg, this is getting out of hand *drools*
this picture was actually in a dream of mine. Only I couldn't make out the face clearly...*ahem* On to the next picture! lol
A tad bit more colorfull than the others >.>" also more erotic <.<'
he looks so innocent somehow...so delicate as he takes her hand...*sighs* I only know one other man who has ever convinced me of being gental. He knows who he is.
He looks spitefull, no? lol. Hope you enjoyed that as much as I did ^_^
*Ahem* Picture Crazed ^_^
05:48pm 17/02/2003
Summerwind Was Always Our Song- The Ataris
Mmmmm...Cute, no? This picture makes me melt into a puddle. *sighs* His expression is so wild ^_~
-Ahem- Anyways...this is The Ataris for all you ignorant people ^_~ cute aren't they? Well, thats not why I like them. Thay play like mad, and plus they play the song "San Dimas High School Football Rules" and that song is part of my life. Mostly because it speaks volumes of how me and Steve feel about each other (so maybe it's our song?) Sorry, lol. I've been talking about Steve alot... that's because I've been waiting for him to come online ^_^ and he is always on my mind anywas :p lol
Well, I'm off to hunt for more pictures ^_^
One Month!
04:00pm 17/02/2003
Saliva- Always
Wow...I just realized that the first day I met Steve was on January 17!
That means I've known him for a month *sigh* it's like our one month anniversary ^_^
I found out he's come up with another gift for me -.- These gifts drive me insane. I spent the day drilling into Marissa to tell me, because she knows what it is, and all I've learnt is that it's not something he's made and I'll have to wait untill summer to get it! Thats such a long time! *dies* X.x
I hope Steve is online today...then I can see if he rememberd ^_~ c-ya people
08:31am 17/02/2003
Fuel- Won't Back Down
Yup, It's about that time to crawl from the saftey of my bed out into the freezing cold. More and more I find that school is starting to feel like prison.
I'm told its a choice we make (going to school) when in reality it isn't. We don't chose to wake up at early hours and spend the day listening to some spitefull middle aged man drooning on and on. Our parents do. Oh well, at least I get something out of it.
I'm cutting this one short. I have to brush my teeth. Yes, thats right, the most important thing is brushing my teeth ^_~ Smelly breath is honestly the biggest turn off -.-"
Isn't he cute? ^_~ I love Hoobastank! lol *huggles him adn then runs off to huggle steve*
05:56pm 16/02/2003
Hoobustank- Crawling In The Dark
Today was a bust. I spend the entire day standing outside in the freezing cold walking halfway home. Its times like this when I find it impossible to avoid looking over my life, wondering if everything was worth it.
I'm not a depressed person, and like to think I am happy, but when you are shuffeling home in the cold and you're alone, and tired, you begin to break things down in your mind and sometimes what you come to is quite depressing. Often I've feel small, like I couldn't change anything. How many poeple have lived long lives and died, never making much of a differance durring their lives, only focusing of survival when survival was pointless becasue we all end up facing death at one point or another.
Durring the time I spent outside today I realised what I want most is to be rememberd. To be loved. Not to simply die and be forgotten. When I say I want people to remember me, I don't mean that I want to be written about, or be famous, only to have someone to love me so much that I become a part of their life and become part of their soul. to be on their mind in moments of pain, to fill them with joy.
And if I could find someone to share this feeling with, I would feel safe. For me, love is when you devote part of your soul to another being. I don't think a soul is a physical thing, but you feelings, you hopes, everything that makes you who you are. If you gave part of that to someone, along with trust, you offer them love.
And love is what makes us imortal in a sense. Because I believe that in the end, your life doesn't flash before your eyes, but all of the emotions you have experienced do instead. You feel life in the most extreme way and if you feel love for someone, you hold them in your mind for the rest of eternity. The eternity which are those last few moment before death, or those moments of pain and lonliness.
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Sean Hayes is a funny guy, as anyone who's watched him in Will & Grace or Promises, Promises can attest. He's even proven himself a capable TV producer with Hot in Cleveland. But with his new show, Grimm (debuting tonight on NBC), Hayes shows off a new side to himself: his inner geek. A darker alternative to Once Upon a Time, Grimm takes the original fairy tales as collected by the Grimm brothers and wipes off the Disney gloss so that the stories become warnings once again. Since he's the executive producer, you won't see him on the show — yet. But if what you're really itching for is his return to the screen, he's got that on the way as well, with a Hot in Cleveland cameo, two new shows in development, and becoming Larry in The Three Stooges. Vulture chatted with Hayes about his many projects, why Zachary Quinto's coming-out announcement should not be news, and his former co-star Debra Messing's comeback.
Are you a closet sci-fi/fantasy geek?
Sure I am! Ever since I was a kid, I've loved anything that's good, that's out of the ordinary. Star Wars, like billions of other people; Doctor Who. I loved The X-Files. The suspense of that show every single week, that's something we want to emulate. We aspire to replicate that tonally and story-wise. I just loved the idea that these things could be really happening right now, if you just allowed your imagination to run wild. You remember that poster on Mulder's wall? "I want to believe." I'm Mulder. I want people to believe something could really be out there and grab them.
So your goal is to spread paranoia?
Yes, totally! [Laughs.] It's like if you're watching a story on the news, if there's something about a crime, I want you to think, That could be a Grimm creature. Most of the original fairy tales are actually really gruesome — very violent, very sexual. So we're exposing the truth of them. When Disney took over fairy tales, they were all cutesy and wonderful and very childlike, very positive. It was brilliant, but it wasn't the truth of them. People actually die, and they weren't about happy endings. And now, since life sucks for a lot of people, a lot of the content on TV and film reflects that, so we're a sign of the times. We have some really terrible things. We have a fractured Hansel and Gretel story that will blow your mind.
Fairy tales are having a revival right now, what with Grimm, Once Upon a Time, and the various fairy-tale movies in production. How will yours break from the pack?
If anyone ever does a Grimm fairy tale, it's always a period thing. So when my producing partner Todd Milliner called me up and said, "What if they came to life and lived amongst us right now?" I thought that was the best idea in decades, and I've only been alive for four of them. So I think our way is the best and most interesting and thought provoking, because it's taking the crime of each fairy tale and putting a twist on it.
In addition to Grimm, you're also developing two shows that would herald your return to the screen as an actor: One's a Western, one's a comedy.
Right now, both are in the script stage, and if the powers that be deem them worthy of a pilot, that's the next step. The Western, still untitled, is a one-hour show, with a hint of Northern Exposure. It's basically about the first therapist on the range, and we're going to explore mental illness back in the late 1800s, before there was a label for anything; I would play the therapist, Jacob Morris. The other show is called Us, and it's a half-hour sitcom, and I would play one of the dads, Patrick.
We've seen plenty of shows about two parents raising a kid, from My Two Dads to Two and a Half Men, so besides the fact that they're gay, how will it be different?
Our show is going to be different in a way that we won't have to have the conversation about being different, as far as parenting similarities and differences go.
What did you think when Zachary Quinto came out recently?
I thought he was already out. What?
He just came out, and then he was surprised that it got so much coverage. Should it be a big deal, or do you think whether someone is gay or not shouldn't be a big deal?
Well, of course it's important. And it's great. Everybody who comes out does so according to their own individual level of acceptance. But I think that anytime someone comes out, it should be boring, you know? It shouldn't be news. Hopefully, in time, we won't care. Grimm, by the way, is not gay. [Laughs.]
Good to know. Did you get injured at all making The Three Stooges?
You know, we all had stuntmen, but we all got hurt pretty bad! My jaw got really hurt from being slapped so much, that I had to ice it all the time. But people will laugh so hard at it. We did.
What about your upcoming cameo on Hot in Cleveland?
I just did that on Friday! I play Chad, a hand model who goes on a date with Wendie Malick. It'll probably air in January.
Which will be around the time we get to see Debra Messing in Smash — both of you back on the air again.
I love Smash. I e-mailed Debra, "This is the best thing I've ever seen you do" — and she's done some amazing things. She's so talented. And if one of my other shows happen, we'd both be back on the air full-time. That would be wild.


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Some friends of mine taught me a new word – hangry. This word, a combination of hungry and angry, describes anger or other negative emotions which are primarily or entirely due to a lack of food. They have used this for years with each other, after seeing that hunger could result in anger.
There is some solid science to support this. Low blood sugar starts a cascade of events in our hormones and neurotransmitters that reduces the ability of our bodies to process serotonin, a hormone that affects both appetite and mood. How strongly we each feel this depends on a number of things. Those who struggle with anger or moodiness in general will be more prone to being hangry. Likewise, those given to low blood sugar will be more at risk. General self-control will also be a factor. However, regardless of how well or poorly you deal with it, "hanger" is a reality.
Watch yourself and your spouse – is this a hidden cause of some of your marital problems? If so, find ways to avoid low blood sugar, and never argue on an empty stomach!
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Shotgun shells:Must be 7 1/2, 8 or 9 shot size target loads only no exception. Shotgun shells, shooting apparel, ear and eye protection and rental guns are always available in our pro shop along with much more.
Shooter safety is always number one at Prado Olympic Shooting Park, so we will review this first:
- Treat all firearms as if they were loaded at all times.
- Keep the barrel / muzzle pointed in a safe direction at all time. Do not point at anything you do not intend to destroy.
- Keep your finger out of the trigger guard and off the trigger until the gun is mounted, pointed in a safe direction and ready to shoot.
- Guns must be unloaded and action must be opened at all times. This includes from car to field and from station to station. The only exception is when in a station to shoot your clay target.
- Only one shell can be loaded at a time for trap singles, no exception.
- Shooting is only allowed from shooting stations one thru five and nowhere else on the trap field. If you are not sure please ask one of our friendly staff members.
- Ear and eye protection is required for all shooters under the age of eighteen and highly recommended for all others.
Field Etiquette
As a brief overview on etiquette, you will go out to any of our fields and set your gun(s) in the rack located behind the field. This lets the shooters ahead of you know that you and your party are waiting to shoot on that field. Once on the field, place the same number of tokens in the box to the number of shooters in your party. For example, four shooters equals four tokens. In turn, you will do the same. If there is another group waiting when you are finished with your round, please come off the field and let them shoot. If no one is waiting, you are welcome to keep shooting on that field.
Trap Rules
There are five stations in the game of trap. Each shooter will start on their own station starting at the left side of the field. For example, if there are three shooters, the first three stations from the left will have one person on each. Each shooter will then take turns shooting one target at a time until each has shot five. From there, each shooter will move to the station to their right and shoot five more and so on. If you have not completed your full round by station five, you will go back to station one and work your way to the right until you finish. You will shoot five targets from each of the five stations for a total of twenty five targets.


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Madagascar's government has said it will take action against soldiers who rebelled at a key army base amid a deepening political crisis in the country.
Mamy Ranaivoniarivo, the defence minister, said on Monday it would be necessary to take "military measures within the army", without specifying what action might be taken against the soldiers.
Soldiers in Camp Capsat at the outskirts of the capital Antananarivo said on Sunday they would no more take orders from the government, and set up defences outside the camp against a rumoured attack by the presidential guard.
"At the heart of the current crisis is a political problem. This needs a political solution," Ranaivoniarivo said.
"The military should not be manipulated and divided by this crisis."
But the soldiers, who said they were defying orders to put down opposition protests, have denied they had staged a munity.
"This is not a mutiny," Colonel Noel Rakotonandrasana, a spokesman of the soldiers, told reporters.
"We cannot accept the repression of the civilian population," he said.
Rajoelina, who wants the president to step down, has been in hiding since Saturday, after security forces intensified a crackdown on his movement.
A UN official said on Monday he had been placed under UN protection.
"In line with efforts to resolve the Madagascan crisis, and preserve peace and stability, the United Nations decided to place Mr Rajoelina under its protection in a diplomatic residence," said Tiebile Drame, the UN envoy to Madagascar's political crisis.
But Yves Sorokabi, an associate UN spokesman in New York, said that Rajoelina was in the French Embassy, not under UN protection.
Madagascar has been in turmoil since the beginning of the year when Andry Rajoelina, the opposition leader, began protests against Marc Ravalomanana, the president.
"We no longer take orders from our hierarchy, we are following our hearts. We were trained to protect property and citizens, not to fire at people. We are with the people," one rebel soldier said.
The presidential guard was criticised last month for shooting dead 28 protesters marching on the presidential palace. Around 100 people have died in Madagascar's political unrest this year.
The opposition called for another anti-government demonstration on Monday in Antananarivo's May 13 square, and around 5,000 protestors marched peacefully in the centre of the capital.
Analysts say the stance of Madagascar's military, which has generally stayed neutral during previous political turmoil, will be pivotal to the final outcome of the power struggle.
"I think this is very serious," Lydie Boka, the chief Madagascar analyst at the French risk group StrategieCo, said about the mutiny.
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Honoring RBFD Chief John Abbatemarco
The Borough of Red Bank is in mourning to recall the life of former Red Bank Volunteer Fire Department Chief John Abbatemarco (1973), and flags at municipal facilities are ordered at half-staff until the funeral on Monday, January 20, 2014.
It has been my special grace to have known John most of my adolescent and adult years, and I am a better person for having been the recipient of his accumulated years of local history, judgment and calm, dignified wisdom. The Department has lost one of its most beloved former chiefs, one who has provided inspiration and balance to so many companies and succeeding chiefs of the volunteer Fire services.
John was special not because he was a Chief, but because of his unaffected dignity and his ability to connect with everyone. His former barbershop was the meeting place every afternoon for the hottest information before the age of tweets and Facebook. It was not digital information, but personal, with a smile and a few colorful words bantered in good cheer. His shop was the gathering place of so many, including those who just did not have family and friends. He welcomed them all with genuine warmth.
He was the same to the younger generations of firefighters. To them, he was "Johnny A", but to him, they were his "kids". His pride was evident till his last breath. How wonderful it was to witness the outpouring of affection and attention by so many young volunteers who gathered at his bedside to stand with him and to pray during his last illness. He was indeed a second father to many, and he was proud of that title.
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This adult super deluxe Darth Maul costume includes a hooded black tunic, trousers with attached boot tops, sashes and molded rubber 3-D belt and vinyl mask.
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Summer Feeding Program Filled Empty Bellies
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OKLAHOMA CITY - This summer, thousands of Oklahoma children were at risk of going hungry without access to their schools' free or reduced-price meals. Most of these kids came from families who already struggled to make ends meet. Fortunately, children 18 and under received a nutritious breakfast and/or lunch through the Regional Food Bank of Oklahoma's Summer Feeding program.
The Regional Food Bank provided free summer meals at more than 30 sites around the metro. This summer, the program provided more than 114,000 meals to hungry children. Last summer, the Regional Food Bank provided more than 75,000 meals to children through the Summer Feeding program.
"One in five children in Oklahoma struggles with hunger," said Rodney Bivens, executive director of the Regional Food Bank. "No child should have to worry where their next meal will come from. This program ensured that children received adequate nutrition during the summer months when school meals were not available."
According to a survey of the Summer Feeding program, 90 percent of parents indicated they needed Summer Feeding for their children.
"One grandmother was raising her grandchildren and was looking for somewhere to eat," said Brinda Embery, Summer Feeding site coordinator at MLK Elementary School. "When she found out about Summer Feeding, she started crying with relief. She didn't know how she was going to feed the children on her income."
The Regional Food Bank's Food for Kids Backpack Program helps fight childhood hunger during the school year by providing a backpack full of nutritious, kid-friendly food to children over weekends and school holidays. Last school year, the program served more than 11,500 chronically hungry children in 374 schools in 49 central and western counties. Before receiving help from the program, many of these children had very little or nothing to eat between school lunch on Friday and school breakfast on Monday.
Through September 30th, thanks to the generosity of Top of the World, Trusted Choice-Independent Insurance Agents of Oklahoma, Harris Foundation-OKC, and one anonymous donor, all tax-deductible donations made to the Food for Kids Backpack Program will be matched, dollar for dollar, up to $100,000.
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The Regional Food Bank of Oklahoma is a private, 501(c) (3) nonprofit organization that acts as a link through which the food industry and community may donate food and other goods. The products are then distributed to more than 750 schools and charitable feeding programs in 53 central and western Oklahoma counties. In the last fiscal year, the Regional Food Bank distributed 46.2 million pounds of food and product to help the charitable community effectively feed people in need. Since its inception in 1980, the Regional Food Bank has distributed more than 400 million pounds of food to feed Oklahoma's hungry. Visit regionalfoodbank.org or scan the QR code below to learn more.


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If you're a gamer and have ever played popular video games with a war theme such as "Halo" or "America's Army," then you're already partially trained to operate the R-Gator, John Deere's autonomous utility vehicle used in the U.S. military.
This year marks the 10th anniversary of this cyber war hero, commissioned in 2004 in response to the U.S. military's call for a robot big enough to carry smaller robots used to disarm roadside bombs. Since then, the robotic Gator's use has extended to anything the military defines as dull, dirty or dangerous.
"The best way I can put it is, we try not to replace a person with a robot, but to allow the war fighters to do more higher-value tasks and use the R-Gator to do the things like perimeter control or carrying supplies," says Mark Bodwell, manager of the military utility vehicle business with John Deere.
The R-Gator is not sold on the farm market yet, but many of its components were derived from John Deere's agriculture and turf division, making the transition to autonomy just a step away in agriculture and other peacetime industries.
For example, John Deere tractors already can turn at the end of rows by themselves and follow a combine with a grain cart. The company experimentally used its robotic greens mower to mow the baseball stadiums of the Arizona Diamondbacks and the Durham Bulls. And, in Europe, John Deere sells a robotic mower named Tango.
Market demand will dictate further applications, Bodwell says.
Price also will be a factor. After all, not everyone can afford an $80,000 to $1 million robot (price dependent on the number of sensors).
Source: Farm Industry News