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Inflation, poor attendance, lackluster play and massive debts are causing Brazil's football clubs to count their pennies this Christmas.
It takes a helluva lot of talent, and/or smarts, to allegedly pull one of the greatest sports fixes of all time. However, it takes even more oomph to never get caught.
A reporter once wrote that sports train us for the heartbreaks of real life without imposing any actual consequences. That's the beauty of the game: there's always next year. But there is no next year for Jonathan Denver. And this is what's robbing sports of everything good.
Despite sports being an entertainment industry, being a fan is not about maximizing pleasure. In order to earn the right to celebrate victory, you must experience the agony of defeat.
The futebol drama unfolds as president Dilma and her close advisers seek to balance the nation's civic religion and number one source of nationalistic pride with more serious matters of state
Sandusky's arrest last November triggered a wave of news coverage. But what is the media coverage saying, and how might it affect the public conversation as Sandusky's trial moves forward?
It's not just colleges, or sports, or the Catholic Church. To make sure that parents and children are not afraid, we need to reconsider and reconfigure the norms in every institution that they participate in.
I have no idea whether Mr. Sandusky perpetrated these heinous acts or whether Dr. Spanier, Mr. Paterno, Mr. Curley, Mr. McQueary or anyone else knowingly or recklessly facilitated or even tolerated them. I do know that in America, we are innocent until proven guilty.
But this is much bigger than boxing. What happened in the ring Saturday night is a microcosm of what is taking place within this country. The state of manhood in America is increasingly troubled.
Under pressure from key sponsors and the powerful Sao Paulo business lobby that is close to FIFA, the Dilma government responded to Blatter's bullying by agreeing to cover cost overruns on stadium construction.
Brazil has been getting bashed in the global sports press for not making enough progress in constructing stadiums with the amenities FIFA likes to offer its fat cat supporters. But these critics miss half the point.
With Brazilians recovering from carnival hangovers the sports world is feeling the lingering effects of a game fixing case local media are calling the Whistle Mafia.
Bribery, gambling, and other strong-arm tactics make for a full day in the life of a gang member. But similar tactics have also become a large part of the world of sports.
There's a separate manual for the issuance of justice in society and sport. African-Americans often get the short end of the stick when compared to their white athletic brethren.
We are in an era of high-profile tawdriness among our highest profile athletic stars. From Tiger to Big Ben and now LT, we are seeing patterns of behavior that have gone unchecked for years and, in the case of Taylor, decades.
By suspending Roethlisberger, Roger Goodell is sending a message to the entire NFL cohort that it is a privilege and responsibility to play in the league, and that off-the-field misconduct will not be tolerated.

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Here's an idea/legend/adventure thread to get your players in the mood for Rogue Trader 2009...
The Halo Stars have obsessed travellers, rogue traders and sages for thousands of years. A vast and largely unexplored region of space, the region is rumoured to contain lost human civilisations ready for exploitation, archeotech beyond the dreams of the most avaricious Adeptus Mechanicus Arch-Magi, and alien empires of great antiquity and sufficient natural resources to make a man as rich as a Sector Governor.
This reputation for exotic treasure sends thousands of souls into the region every year in a variety of craft. Few return. Despite the improbability of successful explorers returning without having fully exploited discovered treasure themselves, certain treasure stories have gained a certain....respectability would be the wrong word, notoriety a better word, but credibility is probably stretching the point...Perhaps momentum is a better term to describe the way in which a handful of tall tales have spread throughout the Calixis sector, and entranced legions of gold diggers to seek their fortune amongst the cold stars.
Historically and critically minded individuals view these Halo Stars legends with suspicion, regarding them (if they take the time to consider them at all) as lures for the gullible, set in place by unscrupulous investors and, in some cases, pirates, hoping to prey on those foolish enough to stake their lives on a third hand wild conjecture whispered in an orbital bar on the edge of the Imperium. But others, with the time and resources to research these myths often find bizarre indications that they are not all the fever dreams of pirates and warp-maddened rogue traders...
One of the most commonly repeated legend is the story of Ryman's Xenos...
Hespellizah Ryman was a notorious rogue trader who rose to prominence in the century following the ending of the Macharian Crusades. From the distaff line of a former ruler of the Hive world of Canopus, Ryman was infamous for his wealth, ambition, libido and loyalty to the Imperium. He managed to walk the tricky tightrope between the acquaition of wealth via interstellar trade and maintaining good relations with the major Imperial power blocs. A shameless self-publicist, rogue and racketeer, his career peaked in 570 M41 when he took his flagship into battle alongside his contempary and friend Kobras Aquairre in order to crush the infamous Cabal of the White Sorrows. He survived the battle as one of the most senior free captains present, and successfully pursued actions in the Chancellary Court for salvage of many vessels damaged in the struggle. After a long period of restful litigation and refitting, he took his newly installed twelve-ship-strong fleet to the edge of the Halo Stars in 585...and vanished.
All of this is a matter of historical record, and indeed is just within the living memory of the oldest and most heavily rejuvenated of the Calixis sector's ruling elite. However, information as to what Ryman did next is based solely upon a single document: the logbook of the smallest vessel in his fleet, the Avid.
The Avid, a light clipper vessel only just capable of warp travel, dropped out of the Aether in 637 M41 just rimward of the world of Faldon Kise. It was only discovered when the inhabitants of that rough, primitive world, communicated its existence to a passing Battlefleet Calixis squadron, which prompted a boarding action of the drifting vessel.
The Avid was totally deserted, a floating hulk without power or crew. Quite how it had made a warp jump without even residual power was unknown. The Imperial Navy, after thoroughly searching the ship inspected the data-log of the vessel. The precise details of what was discovered remain a mystery: the log was rapidly sealed by the Ordo Xenos, but the story still leaked out from Naval boarders who claimed to have read the log. Spreading like wildfire and no doubt embellished in the telling their story - as whispered in a thousand below-decks drinking dens across the sector - is as follows...
The Avid's log revealed that, after gathering his fleet together and arranging a warp-translation point among the Halo Stars and well beyond the bounds of the Imperium, Ryman called his captains to his flagship and boasted that during the boarding action against the corsair flagship the Altar of Torment , he had somehow obtained a chart which pointed the way to the realm of a race of xenos undiscovered by Imperial forces. He proposed a traditional Xenocide campaign against this unknown race, during which they would be purged of life and relieved of their advanced technology, which he then intended to sell at vast expense to the Adeptus Mechanicus, and share out the proceeds amongst the assembled captains. The legend then goes into tedious detail about the celebrations amongst the crews upon hearing this news, and maddeningly omits precise details as to how long they subsequently travelled, in which direction and for precisely how long.
It is said that eventually the fleet of 12 warp capable vessels entered the region of space suggested by Ryman's chart, only to discover an utterly baffling location that was, in effect, a huge junkyard the size of 40 solar systems. This anomalous region appeared to consist of the remains of the remains of tens of thousands of vast spacecraft. Some versions of the legend say that the "junk cloud" was the remains of a vast Pre-Imperial battle between unknown xenos races, others that a huge mechanical world many times the size of any habitable planet had somehow disintegrated. There were no signs of the planetary systems promised by Ryman's chart, but he was still delighted with his find, imagining it as of vast interest to Xenologists and Tech Priests.
But then the first signals started to appear.
The story then goes that in the spinning cloud of junk, simple radio signals were being broadcast, which were rapidly detected by Ryman's fleet. They investigated, and discovered a number of small metallic "pods" of uniform design floating free amongst the junkyard. Speculating that these were perhaps lifeboats dropped by the vessels destroyed in whatever cataclysm had created the "junk zone," Ryman ordered them brought aboard his flagship for closer examination.
It is traditional for the storyteller to then lower his voice, pull a sinister face, and say "this decision was the doom of Hespellizah Ryman..."
Immediately upon being drawn within the vessel, the "lifeboat" sprang to life itself, and began to send out hundreds of metallic tentacles which started stripping Ryman's flagship of electronic components, rare metals and base ores. Crewmen who attempted to stop it were blasted with strange heat rays of unusual design which melted iron like butter and instantly vapoupized human flesh. The "lifeboat" drew these components to itself, rapidly and mysteriously incorporating them within its structure, and increasing size all the while.
Ryman ordered the docking bay purged, but by now the "lifeboat" had filled the entire bay, attached itself like a limpet and was increasing in size until it squatted like a bloated carbuncle on the side of the flagship. Within minutes the thing had diverted all of the ship's power to itself and increased in mass by a factor of ten thousand percent, all of which was based upon material torn from Ryman's own ship. Thousands of metal tentacles ploughed through the vessel, snatching equipment and forcing hatches open. Hundreds, thousands of crewmen died as bulkheads were pried open and exposed to the cold vacuum of space. His fleet watched in horror as the last signals from their flagship died, with crewmen screaming about trying to hold out in the last corners of the ship, and trying to get to the liferafts, and trying to save the captain, who was never heard from again.
But (as the tale traditionally requires the teller to now sonorously intone) worse was to come. As the last signals from the flagship died, and as the surrounding ships watched awestruck through the field of spinning mechanical debris, the ship itself began to reform itself into a vast and glittering...thing. All versions of the legend tell of how the flagship became within scant minutes a huge oviod mass covered in newly formed glowing electrical lights and flowing with metal tentacles. Like some deep sea glowjelly, but scaled in kilometres, not metres, and formed of metal and steel, not organic matter, the thing turned upon the fleet and suddenly spewed hundreds of new "lifeboats" at them. Of exactly the same design as the one which had doomed Ryman, they tore like rockets towards the horrified assembled rogue trader vessels.
Needless to say, the story goes on to describe how the fleet scattered. There are drawn out details of combat (all of which end in the destruction of the human vessels) and stories of horrified flight, fear, terror... The story ands with the Avid drifting without power, and forced to make a last desperate jump through the warp in a lst effort to reach home...
And thus ends the legend. But the story of the spread of the legend and its impact upon the Calixis sector does not end there.
Officially, it is regarded as nonsense. Administratum scribes point to the lack of any genuine paperwork completed by Ryman which would substantiate that he intended to embark upon a xenocide campaign, though others counter that a man like Ryman was hardly the sort to fill out paperwork in advance of doing anything. Other critics of the tale point to the relative inactivity of the Imperium at the time this story began to spread - others argue that in a galaxy with a hundred thousand real threats, why should the powers that be go looking for legendary ones?
Those more familiar with the inner workings of the Imperium detect all the signs of an Inquisitorial cover up. Why would a fleet consisting of tens of thousands be allowed to simply vanish without any investigation? Or has an investigation taken place, and have worrying conclusions been drawn? The region around Faldon Kise is unusually well patrolled by Battlefleet Calixis for a simple frontier world...perhaps they are stationed there to protect from something within the Halo Stars?
Others have drawn disturbing parallels between the story of Ryman's death and an ancient Eldar legend which speaks of the "glittering host," a semi-legendary species of star-beings who were "shaped of silver" and who, while showing no interest at all in the wraithbone constructs of that fickle race, "craved steel above all else." Xenologists permitted to speculate in private on the legend agree that it is possible that xeno races may exist which transcend traditional biological processes and which are entirely mechanical in nature. Techpriests become excited at the mention of the legend, and have scoured the Halo Stars for the legendary "ship's graveyard" which gave birth to Ryman's bizarre machanical creature.
Finally, some historians familiar with Ryamn's personality have declared the whole thing an elaborate practical joke, the act of a mendacious rogue having his last laugh at the universe's expense. They declare that Ryman probably headed straight to some uncharted paradise world and retired in opulent luxury to live out his last days.
The story has spread throughout the entire sector, and improves in the telling every time. It has led to dozens of lost expeditions, and is likely to continue to do so....


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Perfect Attendance Creeps Me Out
On Thursday, CPS held a dinner honoring more than 300 CPS seniors and eighth graders who have from four to 12 consecutive years
of perfect attendance. According to CPS, six seniors have perfect attendance for 12 years of school, and 40
eighth-graders – including two sets of twins – have eight years of
perfect attendance.
Seniors with 12 years of perfect attendance are Cindy Au, Northside College Prep; Priscilla
Barclay, Curie; Angel Martinez, Lane Tech; Eric Ruiz, Kelly High School; Chi Ting,
Whitney Young; and Diana Yung, Jones College Prep. Nearly 250 elementary students and more than 50 high school
students will be honored at the banquet, which is hosted by Robin Robinson and
David Novarro of Fox Channel 32 News.I'm not suggesting that any of these kids missed a day or two along the
way -- though I find it hard to believe that they didn't -- just that I
don't know anyone who didn't miss school and am not sure I'd be able to
relate to anyone who didn't need an occasional mental health day or
have something that they had to do instead. And as a teacher, sometimes I wished that some kids would take a day off so I didn't have to. But that's probably just me.
Congrats to all the students and their families.
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Perfect Attendance Creeps Me Out
All this talk is crap as the parent of a student that has 4 years of perfect attendance in high school people this is not a contest its the lives of real people (KIDS) did we forget that these aren't being forced to do anything they don't want to do when asked if my son wanted to be a jan grad. his reply was "and not get my perfect attendance no way!" that to me sounds like dedication and should be rewarded the same as we would expect in our own lives the kids will take one of two things from this, A pat on the back or a kick to the gut Its up to which one they receive I hope for their sake you pick the right one
Perfect Attendance Creeps Me Out
All this talk is crap as the parent of a student that has 4 years of perfect attendance in high school people this is not a contest its the lives of real people (KIDS) did we forget that these aren't being forced to do anything they don't want to do when asked if my son wanted to be a jan grad. his reply was "and not get my perfect attendance no way!" that to me sounds like dedication and should be rewarded the same as we would expect in our own lives the kids will take one of two things from this, A pat on the back or a kick to the gut Its up to which one they receive I hope for their sake you pick the right one
Perfect Attendance and Sick Days
Why don't kids get 3-5 sick days per semester? That way, one could be out up to 5 days per semester sick and still have "perfect attendance." I don't think that sick children should be discriminated against by being penalized, and I think it is wrong to pressure parents into sending sick (and possibly contagious) children to school. We need to look at this in the context of what are the proper values. Do we want to teach our kids that it's okay to infect other children, just so they can get some silly prize? The real prize is knowing that one is doing the right thing.
Perfect Attendance Creeps Me Out
Is Jamie baiting or for-real?
Perfect Attendance Creeps Me Out
How does one know from reading a list of names that it was all minorities? Isn't that some form of profiling?
Perfect Attendance Creeps Me Out
After reading the list of 12th graders with 12 years of perfect attendance, I was wondering why it only contained the names of minorities? Am I wrong to think that the minorities of this country seem to value their education more than the rest of the country? I am kind of upset to not see any of our children, as in white students, represented on that list. It seems like we're just sitting back and letting the minorities claim all the awards when we should have our children compete with them. That is why I expect nothing less than A's when it comes to my child's grades. What do you guys think?
Perfect Attendance Creeps Me Out
Who the heck is Chris??
Perfect Attendance Creeps Me Out
Perfect attendance always means a couple of things in a child's life. The most important is a safe stable home. Another is a schools where the child actually has some interest, usually joy. Even after six years of Arne Duncan's attacks on Chicago's real public schools, the majority are still providing that, as most parents here know.
The others have problems, which are being doubled each years by the teacher bashing and other corporate "school reform" attacks on public schooling in Chicago.
One piece of advice I'd give every teacher -- and principal -- in a community high school or elementary school is to begin saving all of the attendance information for each class (especially the low track classes) and overall. Graph the days per student and look at what you are seeing -- generally a bi-modal curve. The kids in crisis have absences five or even ten times the "average rate" at your school, and the data spread in two humps on your curve, not one (with a nice bell-shape at the "median").
Arne used "absence" data to attack more than a dozen schools during the past year, and nobody held him accountable for not having truant officers in CPS. More than that, as I've pointed out here and elsewhere, the data themselves were "cooked" (as in Enron).
By reporting on "average" (i.e., it turns out, in this case, "Mean" absences), Arne's claims (put before each hearing officer by Research and Accountability, usually Ginger Reynolds) were completely dishonest in any statistical sense.
It will be possible for every principal in a challenged school (that's the nearly 200 at or near "probation" any of which can go on the hit list next year) to take all the data on absences for this school year within the next month. Set the date at, say, the 150th date of attendance, and then spread the number of days along the "bottom" (we won't even talk about the axes here; just try it) and the number of kids along the vertical and look what happens. You have some kids whose median absences are at or above 100 days; then another group whose median absences are about ten days -- and not one kid, in most schools, at the "average" that Arne was bullshitting about when he was reading his mindless talking points back in January and February attacking those schools.
CTU could have done this independently of Arne and maybe saved a couple of schools if the leadership hadn't combined an awesome amount of stupidity with an equal amount of simple arrogance.
Which is why Chris is rightfully in this thread. One of the reasons CPS attacked Orr was the stupidity of Richard M. Daley, but the pretexts lined up against Orr in the "public hearings" included the shocking "absence" situation (without mentioning the failure to deploy truant officers or any context) and a bunch of other data mendacities that can still be picked apart and reported down the road the next time these dataheads raise their heads and expect anyone to do anything more than laugh.
The numbers are going to bite you in the glutes unless you master them. The "performance" data discussed here provide on set that's being spun against you. And beginning this week (and into next month) you're going to hear all the lies (including those simplistic "deficit" claims) that go with the financials.
Perfect Attendance Creeps Me Out
Interesting that Chris should come up on this thread. He likes attention. He has not yet noticed that he has come up or he would respond with some madness. On that note Chris and other nasty bloggers have driven intelligent concerned people away from this site. Does he really think people will follow him in his effort to un-seat the Union? Be careful; his comments are indicative of a loose one waiting to blow
Perfect Attendance Creeps Me Out
Nice try Johnny O. Problem is that the Housekeeper and I both agree that Dallas [b]never spoke that night[/b]. After Madame Mumbles' sickening sellout, she and her crew went back to the Mart to celebrate. The House was a disaster and Dallas went home pissed. You see, you will never succeed because you continue to openly tell lies. We, on the other hand tell the truth. And there are so many more of us. And the numbers just keep getting larger and hungrier...
Perfect Attendance Creeps Me Out
To Spooky:
Try as you may, you cannot cover up the fact that Chris has some serious anger issues. Bloggers can and do state their opinions. Chris makes threats and that is not only creepy but criminal. He gives all teachers a bad name writing such nasty things on this blog.
Since you like posting links so much, how about posting another video. The one of Dallas telling the members what a great contract he got us. You know, at the House of Delegates when we voted on the contract. You do remember what he said don't you? Why don't you put that up on here? So much for the "Dallas Cheerleader"
Perfect Attendance Creeps Me Out
I have seen toomany parents send their children to school sick just for the [erfect attendace award and becasue they do not want to stay home with them adn nurse them. I have seen too many children in the main office, sleeping there with fever and atrash can next to them for a day, instead of the parent picking them up. This, since there are so few and the linmos they buy for 8th grade graduation has to go.
Perfect Attendance Creeps Me Out
Let's see there are 365 days in a year and the children are in school 188 days. Creepy? Mental health day? Children staying maintaining perfect attendance because of SE schools? Have any of you j** offs ever talked to one of these children? Maybe you should. You would see good children, driven to excellence. I guess you synics rather talk about the 23 children who have been killed this year (only 2 at a CPS school-during off-hours) then the 400 children who are doing something good with their lives. Alexander, the only thing creepy is that you sit behind a computer all day locked up in your apartment like Anne Frank.
Perfect Attendance Creeps Me Out
I personally think that anyone with "perfect" attendance over a long period of time deserves some recognition, but that was far from my interest in last week's honors reception.
Most of the honors, as even a quick read of the list shows, were for academic events that aren't comparable to the rest of the public schools in the USA.
But in the area of National Merit Scholarship finalists (based on PSAT scores, then maybe some other indicators), CPS has fewer in a system with more than 400,000 students than Naperville's high schools have. Why is it that none of my colleagues in the press asks Arne Duncan about these sillinesses when he's rattling on across his talking points about what a great job he's been doing?
And -- this question's up close and personal -- how is it that CPS can't manage to get scholarships for all of its National Merit Finalists? I know we're in a town run by one of the lowest scoring mopes ever to take a standardized test -- from elementary schools all the way through the Bar Examination -- but you'd think there's be some consistency.
Perfect Attendance Creeps Me Out
Now these are what I call creepy.
But I love them.
Hey does that mean I am creepy!!!!!!!!!
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Perfect Attendance Creeps Me Out
Want to know what creeps me out?
He rants and raves like a lunatic. His lack of respect and common decency is one thing. His threats clearly indicate a disturbed personality. A major concern of mine is all those other personalities he pretends to be. He aint foolin me, does he fool you? The only one fooled is him.
He is Creepy!
Perfect Attendance Creeps Me Out
Perfect attendance can and should be valued as a source of pride but not at the expense of other children should that child show up to school sick. Sick children expose their germs to other students not to mention the exposure to the teachers. My mother who is a teacher missed two days of work from being exposed to sick children. How very productive to the other students to have a sub. NOT!!!
Perfect Attendance Creeps Me Out
I don't understand why something that is valued and a source of pride has to be shredded by your catty insinuations to something objectionable? Can't we just stick to attacking the Union, CPS, principals, LSCs, NCLB, Daley, each other and leave the functioning students alone?
My guess is the students and their families might find you rather creepy.
Perfect Attendance Creeps Me Out
back when i worked in corporate america, i always thought the co-workers who got awards for perfect attendance (no sick days, no vacation days) at the annual company dinner were creepy and it was creepy to award such behavior. but, that's just me.
i no longer care if my children have 100 percent attendance. they're not qualified for the "good" schools in CPS and their attendance records are not going to influence their enrollment into the neighborhood high school.
Perfect Attendance Creeps Me Out
This is one of those areas in which I try to check my own normalizations. Though I personally feel it's important to have days away from school, I also know that our society "taints" the absence of people in low-income neighborhoods quite differently -- and having perfect attendance can be one way in which parents fight those latent dominant-culture assumptions. If the families of my Latino students insist that their children always be in school, that attendance percentage will speak favorably for the children as they try to be seen as serious students in other arenas.
I also think that
Perfect Attendance Creeps Me Out
for the reminder, I will be sending my children to school sick when they are in the 6th and 8th grades to score the 100 points for attendance. You're right, why should the SE schools deduct 2 points for each day a child is absent. It's ridiculous!!!
Perfect Attendance Creeps Me Out
Totally agree with both Mom above and Alexander (though I don't think I'd say "creepy"...it's somewhat depressing to me, though I can't succinctly explain why here). I find it especially daunting as 7th grade approaches--when my kid's attendance is going to be a part of the selective enrollment equation. She and I are firm believers in mental health days, heading out of town if the opportunity presents itself, and actually (imagine) enjoying stopping to smell the flowers as we toddle along through her ever-shortening childhood.
Although, I was a perfect-attendance kind of kid. They used to give us White Sox tickets for that--do they still?
Perfect Attendance Creeps Me Out
The thing I don't like about it is...I keep my sick child at home so he doesn't infect others and those who are trying to get this award come to school sick and get my child sick. It's crazy!! If a child is sick they should not be at school trying to get an award there needs to be a balance somewhere.


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I'm from Chicago. First thing, about the Science & Industry Museum, it's not downtown per se, but a few miles south of the city. To get there, I would take the Metra Electric train south to 55th,56th, 57th Street (this is all one stop). You can access this station (Millennium Station) at the corner of Randolph & Michigan. It will be about a 20 minute ride. If you want to check the schedule here's the website www.metrarail.com.
The Disney Store you want to see is on the 700 block of Michigan Avenue. It's outstanding. Also, near the Water Tower, you will find the American Girl Store. Bring your $$, you'll need it. I also agree with Navy Pier as a great location to spend the day.
The John Hancock observatory is a little more picturesque than the Sears Tower as it overlooks the lake. The Sears does too, but I prefer the Hancock Tower. On a clear day, you'll see Michigan, Indiana, and Wisconsin. Not bad huh!
Please check out Millenium Park and our really cool bean, Skygate! Don't forget our beautiful Buckingham Fountain at night and the downtown Museum Campus which contains, the Adler Planetarium, the Shedd Aquarium and Field Museum.


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In February 2013 I got this private message on Meetup. A man in San Diego saw a picture of me on my profile. It was a photo taken on a casual day without any makeup or fancy hairstyling. So when this Drew Brees look-a-like former semi-professional baseball player turned real estate investor contacted me, I thought it was prank. It wasn't. This was the message I got:
"hey, hows it going...My name is Nick. I like to do yoga, into most sports .....i'm 6'1, 190lbs, 37yrs old, no kids, never married, non smoker, never used meetup before, can text me if like, in chula vista"
Since he included his number I verified that his name really was Nick and he did indeed live in San Diego. Nick wasn't too from my place in Santa Monica. Before I knew it he was re-arranging his schedule to see me. No matter how hard I made it for him he would make himself available. Heather said he was a gift and asked me: Will you receive it. I did but all Nick did was complement me on my appearance and never really tried to get to know me beyond that. The guy never asked me for an entire two months who my favorite author was even though he knew I liked books. Nor did he ever ask if I had siblings. Beyond that, his frequent comments about my physical appearance were so alien to me I dropped him. All he every talked about were my measurements. Seriously, non-stop, and for the first time in my life I felt like I was the subject of locker talk right in front of me. Hello ... I'm a person? My brain works!
So I told the Drew Brees look-a-like: "I don't think you are what I am looking for but nice."
That was it. He tried to pull me back into communication with him for another month but I was done. Ironically, I didn't know about The Quest until after getting to know Heather in a miracle moment after discovering May Cause Miracles by Gabrielle Bernstein. Heather was a fellow reader and we hit it off through BodyTalk.


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Marine Pride
Carl | May 10, 2013
The morning silence explodes in a roar
As ship after ship sends shells slamming into the shore.
Up on decks in rank after rank they stand in silence, waiting.
The word yet to come.
The Gunny roars out, "Saddle up! Stand by!"
It's over the side and down the rope ladder, on the rising tide.
Four abreast its over the side, down the rope for a Higgins Boat ride.
As each boat fills and moves, another appears to take Marines for a ride.
Out in the water, 'round and 'round they circle,
"Now keep your head down!"
Boat after boat till they're all there.
The Marines are ready; the run to the beach is near.
The ships still fire round after round.
Good Lord almighty! Is anyone still alive on the ground?
Out of the heavens in screaming dives,
Planes drop their bombs, taking still more lives.
In sweeping turns, they wash the beach clear
For fellow Marines so dear.
The flag goes up, the boats move forward,
Lining abreast like an old Calvary charge.
Gunning their engines to hold the line.
Some Marines peer over the side to see
This island we're taking . . . just so wide.
God! Its dirty and dark with a mountain on the side.
For this piece of dirt were taking this ride?
"Knock it off! Get down, if ya wanna stay alive!"
Closer and closer the boats on line
Head for the beach and a place in time.
"Incoming!" yells the Gunny this time.
Keep your heads down; we'll ride with the whine!"
Up onto the beach the Higgins Boats climb,
Dropping their ramps amid the incoming whine.
Out over the ramp the pride of the Corps
Roars in unison, "This island is mine forevermore!"
The bullets and shells find there marks.
Blood makes the black sand blacker.
Whole units are wiped from the roll call of men,
All that remains is the pride within.
For days on end they fight and die,
There is not a Marine who from death is shy.
Shot down once, twice, three times or more,
Onto and up this bloody beach they did pour.
Up that mountain they climbed,
Into the history books and forever in time.
Out over the land a Marine could see,
Dark dirty beaches and a bloody sea.
Through the horror of it all some did live to pay respects,
To those that fell on that dark dirty beach and bloody sea.
Here as in many other lands
The pride of the Marines made their stand.
The history books can tell you the feat of these men.
But listen close, brothers and sisters—to the pride within.
Nihil D. Benuche
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Not sure which arena it was, they don't seem to be named? Or at least I can't find where they are in chat box or anything anyway, one of the portals back to town spawns on a rock, it's too high for players to enter.. this is on the blue teams side where this portal spawns, I assume that should narrow it down enough for you guys to find it was a swampy kind of arena, had wrecked boats and such. | |
It's a pretty simple suggestion for the skills tree: Can we have a check box (on the site, maybe in game too) that shows totals of everything we've selected? For example we can see our total str/dex/intel but we can't see totals of anything else.. so maybe like for 'increased physical melee damage' it can just have Totals: 128% Increased physical melee damage 24% increased armor etc.. for everything we have added together |


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05 Dec 2013
Shocking as it may sound, it is in fact possible for New Orleans to lose a game at home. But the Panthers will need to switch up their offensive philosophy and go counter-intuitive: pass on first down, run on second and third. Cover Watch looks at St. Louis and Arizona.
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I'm a Panthers fan, but I just can't imagine them winning this game in the SuperDome. I would love to be wrong. This feels like a 28-17 kind of game to me. The Saints are going to be out to prove something following the ass-kicking they just received in Seattle.
Though much is made of it, New Orleans doesn't really seem to have an unusually big home field advantage in the historical data. New Orleans is alos a bit weaker than their record suggests since they're 4-2 in close games.
With close wins against San Francisco, Miami, and New England, Carolina might not be the sleeper team they were four weeks ago, but they may still have people underestimating them.
Quite frankly, I think the game is a toss-up, and I wouldn't see a Carolina win as much of an upset.
FWIW Advanced NFL Stats puts a Panthers win at around 29% if I'm not mistaken. Going off record, we'd expect a pick'em so 57% for the Saints. Using an estimated wins thing sorta based off of Football Perspective, I might also expect a closer game around 53% for New Orleans. But I get the impression the 'at large' perception is more inline with Advanced NFL Stats.
I also don't think the Panthers are going to get it done like the Seahawks did it. The Seahawks got their pressure, and I would expect Carolina to do better, but that didn't really stop Brees from getting off accurate passes that challenged the Seahawks deep. Those huge plays were largely, and just barely, broken up on the backend. In many ways I think Brees presents a particularly challenging matchup for what I might call "pressure" defenses. Even as I expect the teams to be closer than the narrative suggests, I don't think the matchup is to the Panthers' particular advantage.
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Deputy Mayor Scott McFadden raised the idea of the municipality partnering with a private-sector company to grow medical marijuana at the former jail southwest of Peterborough.
"It already comes with security," he noted. "It used to be used for keeping people in. In this sense, it would be used for keeping people out."
The provincial government closed the facility on the 105.8-acre property at the west end of the village of Millbrook in May 2003. It's undertaking an environmental assessment of the former jail property.
Under McFadden's vision, the township would acquire the property from the province then find a private-sector partner. Together, they would take advantage of new regulations on the growing of medical marijuana.
The regulations appear to eliminate the home-based growing of medical marijuana, McFadden said.
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The Relationship Between Vision and Productivity
A great podcast by Michael Hyatt on how better productivity practices don't help unless you are headed in the right direction in the first place.
Here's his summary:
In this podcast episode I talk about the relationship between vision and productivity. I share the story of becoming a divisional leader at Thomas Nelson. Better productivity would not have improved our operating results. We needed a better vision.
And here's his outline:
I discuss how any leader can develop vision by following these seven steps:
- Get alone with a journal and a pen.
- Make sure you won't be interrupted.
- Close your eyes and pray.
- Jot down your current reality.
- Now write down what you want to see happen.
- Share your vision with those who have a stake in the outcome.
- Commit to reading your vision daily.
Leadership Lessons from Star Wars
This was funny, and insightful. It discusses five leadership mistakes embodied by the Galactic Empire in Star Wars.
Here's a key part:
Mistake #2: Depriving people of the chance to have a stake in the organization.
By consolidating his power, the Emperor didn't just ensure that his organization wouldn't survive his death. He also deprived a key motivation for both his employees and the public-at-large: a feeling of having a stake in the success of the organization. The Emperor disbanded the Galactic Senate, removing the idea of any democratic stake in the government. He wiped out all references to the Force, so there was no longer any guiding ideology. His sole idea for maintaining control of the Empire was building the Death Star, on the theory that, in the words of Grand Moff Tarkin, "Fear will keep the local systems in line. Fear of this battle station." Similarly, while in the first Star Wars film, there was a scene showing officers in the Imperial Navy discussing strategy, byReturn of the Jedi, it was clear that no feedback was being solicited anymore. The Emperor or Vader gave orders and that was it. No further discussion.
But as was ably demonstrated in this exchange in the movie Office Space, this is the worst possible way to get the best work out of your employees. Fear, combined with a sense of powerlessness, only inspires the bare minimum amount of work:
Peter Gibbons: You see, Bob, it's not that I'm lazy, it's that I just don't care.
Bob Porter: Don't- don't care?
Peter Gibbons: It's a problem of motivation, all right? Now if I work my ass off and Initech ships a few extra units, I don't see another dime, so where's the motivation? And here's another thing, I have eight different bosses right now.
Bob Porter: Eight?
Peter Gibbons: Eight, Bob. So that means when I make a mistake, I have eight different people coming by to tell me about it. That's my only real motivation is not to be hassled, that, and the fear of losing my job. But you know, Bob, that will only make someone work just hard enough not to get fired.Key Takeaway: In order to get the best work out of people in your organization, you need to solicit their feedback, engage them in the decision-making process, and ensure that they have a stake in the success of the organization.
Is your organization led like the Galactic Empire?
Stop Stealing Dreams
Stop Stealing Dreams is Seth Godin's new free e-book on the world of education. Here's the description:
The economy has changed, probably forever.
School hasn't.
School was invented to create a constant stream of compliant factory workers to the growing businesses of the 1900s. It continues to do an excellent job at achieving this goal, but it's not a goal we need to achieve any longer.
In this 30,000 word manifesto, I imagine a different set of goals and start (I hope) a discussion about how we can reach them. One thing is certain: if we keep doing what we've been doing, we're going to keep getting what we've been getting.
Our kids are too important to sacrifice to the status quo.
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Information for Professionals Working with Children & Young People
Children and young people who are exposed to domestic abuse may develop serious emotional, behavioural, developmental and academic problems.
All children are unique and have different levels of resilience and therefore will cope with their experiences in different ways.
Effects of Domestic Abuse on Children & Young People
Physical problems - particularly stress related problems
- Headaches
- Stomach cramps
- Asthma
- Skin disorders
Changed sleeping patterns
- Disrupted sleep
- Nightmares
- Bed wetting
Aggressive and disruptive behaviour
- Verbal and physical
- Passive
- Withdrawn behaviours
- Excessively clingy
Emotional problems
- Fear and anxiety resulting in low self esteem and lack of confidence
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- Depression/low mood leading to suicidal thoughts and self harm, eating disorders
Interpersonal problems
- Isolation
- Alienation from peers
- General poor social relationships
- Confusion and fear in relationships with the opposite sex
Development of an Unhealthy Belief System
Impaired cognitive functioning
- An inability to concentrate
- A reluctance to attend school
- Truanting
- Exhaustion
Communicating with Children & Young People
Domestic Abuse causes a crisis of trust in relationships for children and young people. Research by Thomas and O'Kane (1998a) identified the following important areas when working with them;
- Relationship, trust and honesty. Children communicate best with people with whom they have relationships of warmth and trust. It is important to be friendly, and open, empathetic and above all 'straight' with children.
- Active listening. The skills of 'active listening' developed in counselling can be helpful in work with children. This means responding to cues, restating and drawing out the meaning of what the child is saying combined with the expression of warmth, empathy and acceptance. It should also be remembered that body language-an adult's tone of voice, facial expressions, and even style of dress-can affect how children communicate.
- Choice, information and preparation. Children must have a choice about whether and how they participate in a decision-making process. They are more able to have their say if they have been prepared for the discussion and given time to think about things beforehand.
- Support and encouragement. Children need support and active encouragement to speak up, especially when they have something difficult or negative to express. An adult may sometimes need to offer to express children's views for them. Children do not like it when they feel they are being judged or criticized, and they do not like to be 'put on the spot'.
- Activities. Many children find it very boring to 'just sit and talk'. Games, writing, drawing and other activities can be used to make the process more interesting. 'Life story work' can be an excellent way to involve children in reflecting on their situation (see Ryan and Walker, 1993).
- The child's agenda. It is important to give children space to talk about issues that concern them rather than just respond to adults' questions.
- Serious fun! The fact that serious matters are being discussed does not mean that everyone has to be po-faced. Some children find this threatening, and most find it alienating. If decision-making processes are made more enjoyable, children are more likely to get involved.
- Risk-taking: Safe risk-taking when participating allows children to learn from their mistakes, to take responsibility for their own actions, and to gain a growing sense of autonomy: adults need to learn to 'let go' sometimes.
(Taken from 'Children in Society' edited by Pam Foley, Jeremy Roche and Stanley Tucker)
Messages that Children & Young People Need to Hear
- Violence is not OK
- The troubles between your parents are not your fault, you are not to blame
- It must be scary for you
- I will listen to you
- You can tell me how you feel-it is important
- You do not deserve to have this in your family
- There is nothing you could have done to prevent/change the situation
- Do not intervene in incidents-we can talk about how to keep you safe if it happens again
- You don't have to choose between your parents
Useful Contacts
Surrey County Council Children's Services
Are the lead agency for Child Protection. If you are a professional worker with information or concerns about a child or young person, you should call their Contact Centre on 0300 200 1006. In addition, you should also confirm your referral in writing as quickly as possible. If you are in doubt about making a referral to Surrey Children's Services, you should consult, within your agency, with the manager or practitioner with designated responsibility for child protection.
Surrey Safeguarding Child's Board - Important Information on the following issues can be found using the links below;
What to do if you are concerned about a child or young person
SSCB Safeguarding Children (Child Protection) Procedure Manual
Training offered by the Safeguarding Children Board
Practice development groups - contacts and forthcoming meetings
Help for Professionals Working within Education
Schools may be the only place where children and young people affected by domestic abuse and violence feel safe. They can play a vital role in supporting them, and in preventing abuse in the future by promoting healthy relationships and gender equality. ESDAS is happy to discuss how you can appropriately & safely raise awareness of domestic abuse and violence within your school. Alternatively Women's Aid have produced a Toolkit for Education called Expect Respect which can be found at www.womensaid.org.uk
Research shows that those children who are supported and given an opportunity to work through their experiences show the best recovery and go on to form good relationships in adult life.


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We are in the process of building a home. I fell iove with Glen-Gery Knob Hill colored brick. Our local brick supplier gave me some addresses of homes with the same brick on them. Problem is that I noticed that on some of the homes around 15 years old that the bricks had FADED!! (almost didn't recognize them.) I'm hoping that they were a bad batch but would like to know if anyone else has had a problem with their brick fading. |
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I've noticed ours has faded a bit. I would never have noticed if I hadn't taken a picture when we bought the house and again last year. The brick is a yellowish tan which goes all the way through and it has surface colors of rust, brown, and white. It's the brown and rust that faded. I also bought some landscaping block that was a dusty reddish color and it is pink now. I bought it about 10 years ago and I'm pretty sure it is a concrete, not fired brick. They have the color all the way through and when one chips it is darker inside. |
- Posted by Karen45624 (My Page) on Sun, Jul 17, 11 at 9:36
The Knob Hill brick has a tan background with some grey, red, and slightly darker brown mixed coloration. It seems like the red and Greys are more faded out and the brick looks mostly tan after fading. Today I went to see another house that was 5 years old and the brick looked like new. I think I'm going to call the manufacturer and ask them if they have had complaints. |
Depending on what the compounds providing the color to the clay the bricks are made from, some changes in color with long term UV exposure can occur. |
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30th Jun 2009, 03:58 PM | #1 |
My intro + Nali Weapons II X
Hi, I don't want to start a new thread just to introduce myself, so I am Feralidragon, a.k.a. {WINGS}xXx in the servers.
Basically I am another active UT99/UT1 (whatever you want to call it) modder in the community for about 1,5 years (the same on mapping, but I don't make many maps), but I only code UScript side, as I don't know how to script in native (but I want to learn some day in the future), but also I do my own models and skins (not the best ones, so most of my work you might find either original or just very weird ). I am already registered here for a long time, but only now I decided to post something after months of inactivity. I just did a few mods, like Nali Weapons, XPickups for the recently released UT99.org CMMP2 (mostly coding and FX) and a new Rocket-X (the Venom-X) for my clan, besides other little coding requests (which most where I never did such thing before) where I could learn a lot UScript I know nowadays, but of course, there are still many things I still need to learn there, but I am getting by building some stuff. Also I want to say that the UT community is still much bigger than it actually seems: there are still a large number of mappers, as some more modders than you actually know for UT1, but we are just still "isolated" from eachothers, and some of these mappers/modders are just starting to learn. So advise you all, in case you really enjoy and play this game, to browse UT1 sites, clans and communities once a while, since the fall of NaliCity (which I only heard off, but hadn't the chance to see in the time it was up) must not mean the death of such big community. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- About this mod I am showing here, this newest version was released on April this year, the previous versions were released since last year, and a final version will come sooner or later (in the next couple of months). This mod is mostly designed for Monster Hunt, and there are already some servers running these (not my own, just 1 server for each clan or community, like in {WINGS}, unrealteam.de, killerbee's palace, etc), and that's why I keep releasing new faster and more stable versions. The big downside is the filesize, but I can't do anything about that. And before you ask: "Why the hell is this mod called Nali Weapons anyway?" Let me just say that this mod wasn't supposed to be a mutiplayer mod at the start, it was and still will be for a Single Player project of mine, that I might or not finish LOL So no, it wasn't a random name I found, it has that name for my own reasons. Also, before someone starts to say that some weapons are too overkill or something, the big nuclear weapons are just like bonus weapons I just wanted to add, and they aren't meant to use in normal maps, still they can be used safelly in any server, and they are being used for some servers without any stability issues. For the ones who are still wondering, here's: - The trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yo1HoD5u3es - The nuclear explosions video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bFC6v8Fa2sM - And the official website with everything you need to know: http://www.feralidragon.ut99.org/ The trailer is a bit outdated, since the fire weapon suffered some changes in the second mode and also in the flames effects as seen in the picture below. Also the newest weapon isn't shown there. So you can also see screenshots in moddb.com, here: http://www.moddb.com/mods/nali-weapons-ii And finally, the downloads: Nali Weapons II X version (Client):http://wwwnew.filefront.com/13541115...eaponsIIX.rar/ Nali Weapons II X configured inis for MH (to work properlly with UTJMH v2.9):http://wwwnew.filefront.com/13547429...SettingsX.rar/ Enjoy, and don't have any problems on giving any kind of criticism, since afterall, was with help of criticism this mod got more stable and enjoyable to play. Last edited by Feralidragon; 1st Jul 2009 at 03:12 PM. Reason: Taken off the uz link to avoid further confusing, if you want the uz link, go to my site or pm me |
30th Jun 2009, 08:44 PM | #2 |
hi and welcome.i will try the naliweapons soon.
30th Jun 2009, 11:21 PM | #3 |
What's the difference with .uz? What is .uz?
1st Jul 2009, 01:44 AM | #4 |
.uz is UnrealZip. Typically, this file type is only of interest to server admins who allow players to download packages that they are missing from a "redirect" server. UnrealZip files are compressed so they are smaller and take less time to send than the uncompressed packages.
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1st Jul 2009, 12:08 PM | #5 |
I just added the UZ files to give full server side support, otherwise most admins wouldn't add this pack to their servers due to its big size (around 80Mb).
Of course, clients, or better yet, normal players will only have to download the client version to play with the pack, and the custom inis in case you play MH with UTJMH2.9 enabled. |
1st Jul 2009, 02:13 PM | #6 |
It doesn't matter if I install the .uz version instead of the normal one?
1st Jul 2009, 03:02 PM | #7 |
your sig is very long
Guilty of waiting, we bond together born to suffer, only those ill fated eyes, liberate our minds. Behold the sign you are killing us. |
1st Jul 2009, 03:25 PM | #8 | |
UZ files are just the normal files compressed in the UT format, so they can be used in redirect servers. So in case you join a server with these and you don't have the mod installed, instead of downloading the 80Mb of the real thing, you will only download 40Mb or less, and then your system uncompress temporary the files so they can be used by the client side UT. So you have to download the "normal" version only in order to play with them. And the configuration files are just for people who want to try these in MH with UTJMHv2.9 activated. Is it good now? |
1st Jul 2009, 03:43 PM | #9 |
Guilty of waiting, we bond together born to suffer, only those ill fated eyes, liberate our minds. Behold the sign you are killing us. |
1st Jul 2009, 11:34 PM | #10 |
It's not working. It redirects to mediafire with all of mediafire's common error BS.
2nd Jul 2009, 06:15 AM | #12 |
Well, I just tried the links and they work perfectly. FileFront changed their layout, so maybe you're making some sort of confusion, or your connection or browser are forcing a media fire redirect.
6th Jul 2009, 09:50 AM | #13 |
This is getting old fast. Everytime I get halfway or more I lose my connection.
Now that I've been thwarted a couple of times and my winzip trial has expired, any good freeware that can open rar files...? |
6th Jul 2009, 11:02 AM | #14 |
you could try an older version of WinZip that doesn't expire and not work anymore. Some older versions of WinRAR keep working also, but I'm not sure about the newer versions.
7th Jul 2009, 04:25 AM | #15 |
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7th Jul 2009, 03:38 PM | #16 |
7Zip works nicely. Im gana try this mod out right now.
30th Jul 2009, 10:05 AM | #17 | |
At least I always used WinRar, and never gave any sort of trouble lol |
1st Aug 2009, 03:41 AM | #18 |
Gotta be the nicest looking weapon mod for UT without a doubt. They look good enough to be for the newer UTs. Really runs slow on my system though.
I don't know why it's mainly for monster hunt. The gravity gun kills titans instantly..... |
1st Aug 2009, 07:42 AM | #19 |
About slowdowns, most people don't have slowdowns with this mod by using its default settings, but it can indeed happen in lower end systems. Also, when loading for the first time this mod in UT, the loading time takes a bit, since it has to load 80Mb integrated in a single package, but once in game, you are able to run it smoothly. If so, for best performance you have to go the the mod settings and tweak some of them: http://www.feralidragon.ut99.org/index.php?page=Set The settings for the best performance you can get with this mod are: Client Settings Be sure the distance detail settings are in the minimum. Pickups Settings Disable everything. Miscelaneous Settings Disable the following: - Enable Flame Tracker burning flames - Enable Corpse/Pawn Overlayer Effects - Enable Modifier Chargers - Enable Weapon Chargers - Enable Pickup Chargers - Enable Charger Lights - Enable Weapons Dynamic Light - Enable Ammo Dynamic Light - Enable Pickups Dynamic Light - Enable Chargers Dynamic Light With those disabled, you should have max performance with these. Also, I said these weapons are more suited to Monster Hunt, because they are used mainlly in that gametype (people like them mostly there), and also since I gave extra MH support. Any regular monster can be killed with the Graviton at first shot, but you have to consider that on the server those kind of monsters are severelly tweaked in their Health, plus the Graviton uses 1/3 of its max ammo to launch that vortex, and its range is very low (which you can notice in case you play against bots). Also, about the looking, while you say that, I am not convinced with my own work, and in the final version I want to enhance at least the skins and some fire effects, but of course, performance wise. |
2nd Aug 2009, 09:26 AM | #20 |
i like the cybots,the gravitron and nuclearlauncher.
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Vienna, 1010, Austria
1876 property opposite the opera house, popular for its old-world opulence, central location, and Pierre-Yves Rochon redesigned restaurant. Its Rote Bar serves classic Viennese dishes like tafelspitz (boiled beef).
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