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To cope with disruptions in power supply, the Chennai Corporation has begun efforts to get generators for its schools.
Tenders have been floated for the installation of 20 KVA/30 KVA/62.5 KVA generators in eight schools in Anna Nagar at an estimated cost of Rs. 33 lakh. Eleven schools in Thiru-Vi-Ka Nagar will receive 10 KVA/20 KVA/ 30 KVA/ 62.5 KVA generators at a cost of Rs. 54 lakh, a senior Corporation official said.
Another 11 schools in Teynampet will get 20 KVA/62.5 KVA generators at a cost of Rs. 47 lakh. All Chennai High and Higher Secondary Schools in other zones will also get generators. A number of private schools in the city use 10 KVA to 50 KVA generator sets. Bigger educational institutions use sets with capacities of 50 KVA to 500 KVA.
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L. J. Greenberg
L. J. Greenberg, born Leopold Jacob Greenberg (1861–1931), was an accomplished British Jewish journalist. He had become an energetic propagandist of the new Zionism in England by the Third Zionist Congress in 1899, at which he and Jacob de Haas were elected as members of the ZO's Propaganda Committee.[1]
Early Zionism[edit]
He was born in Birmingham in 1861, the son of Simeon Greenberg, a successful jewellery manufacturer. He was educated in London, at a private Jewish school in Maida Vale, then at University College School. Greenberg made friends with many prominent political figures in Great Britain at the turn of the twentieth century. This enabled him to partly fulfill the wishes and dreams of Theodor Herzl, whom he invited to his home in London. His primary aim was to get Zionism accepted by British Jews. In 1900, 99% of them were indifferent to the idea – middle class Jews were busy trying to get accepted as English gentlemen and lower class Jews were too involved in the day-to-day struggles for better wages and conditions. But Greenberg, who had edited a monthly magazine in the 1890s called Young Israel, disseminated the philosophy (Cesarani 1994, p. 107).
The Jewish Chronicle[edit]
Greenberg stressed the need for a platform. So, when he heard that The Jewish Chronicle was for up for sale, he proposed to Herzl that the Zionist Organisation acquire the weekly. However, when the proposal was put before the 1903 congress, it was rejected, so the idea lapsed. Then, in 1904, Greenberg decided to float a company to finance the purchase. He found four wealthy Jewish backers, including Leopold Kessler, a mining engineer who had just returned from South Africa with considerable substance. Greenberg became the Chronicle 's editor in 1907, a position he held the rest of his life.[2]
Political persuasion[edit]
The lawyer Greenberg chose to draw up the Articles of Association of the Jewish Chronicle (JC) was a Liberal Member of Parliament (MP) by the name of David Lloyd George. They had established a good relationship long before he became Prime Minister.
Another close acquaintance of his and Liberal MP was Joseph Chamberlain. Chamberlain later rose to became Secretary for the Colonies in 1902, and Greenberg felt he could approach him with the request that he give the Jewish people a homeland, somewhere in the British Empire, preferably in what is now Israel. But that territory was a Turkish province, so Chamberlain was unable to help. But he did offer the Jewish people Sinai in 1901, as that was distinct from Egypt. The heat and lack of water made it impractical to support a large population, so the offer fell through. Then, in 1903, Chamberlain offered Greenberg the colony of Uganda as a Jewish home. That had a better climate, but the Russian Zionists all rejected it saying with great force, "Israel or nothing" at the 1904 World Jewish Congress in Basel (Cesarani 1994, p. 101). The Western concept of Zionism, headed by Herzl, was foreign to Russian Jewry (Weizmann 1949, p. 73).
First World War[edit]
After Herzl's death, the Zionist movement languished, with only a small bureau of Herzl's followers remaining in Vienna. On the other side of the English Channel, Greenberg edited the JC and took vital steps to secure its future as the sole voice of the British Jewish community, assisted by Jacobus Kann, Joseph Cowen, and Leopold Kessler.
Chaim Weizmann was also in England teaching chemistry at Manchester University, although he and Greenberg were not on speaking terms since Weizmann had headed the "Israel or nothing" lobby (Weizmann 1949, p. 117).
The schism in Zionism had not healed in 1914 when the First World War broke out with a Zionist movement of sorts in each of the belligerent capitals.
Prior to 1914, the Jewish Chronicle had been unrestrained in its criticism of Tsarist Russia, because of the ill-treatment the Jews had endured (Cesarani 1994). Greenberg even expressed the view in an editorial that Britain should join Austria and Germany in a war against Russia. But once Germany violated Belgian neutrality, Greenberg had to abandon Russian Jewry, and claimed that Britain should join Russia in a war against Austria/Germany. The JC placed a placard outside its London offices saying "England has been all she could be to the Jews; the Jews will be all they can to England." In a similar vein, on 4 September 1914, the JC argued "From the Russian people Jews have never experienced anything but the deepest sympathy, and with the Russian people they have ever felt on mutually agreeable terms."
In 1916 America remained neutral. Britain was virtually exhausted. A new front had to be opened. The Allies first decided to attack Turkey, but that operation was a disaster. Then the British decided they would invade the Turkish colonies and promise the Arabs home rule. Col. T. E. Lawrence played a key part and the British used Egypt as their base to invade Iraq, Syria and Palestine, Palestine being put in the trusted hands of General Edmund Allenby.
Still the Americans were neutral. While in Russia, there had been a revolution that had removed the hated Czar and seen Lenin and his Bolsheviks take control. American opinion turned against Britain, and the Americans were even considering entering the war on the side of Germany.
At this point, Weizmann made an interesting discovery: he found it was possible to extract acetate, needed to produce dynamite, from chestnuts. As the British war effort was almost at a standstill for the lack of acetate, Weizmann's discovery assumed capital importance. The Prime Minister, David Lloyd-George, is said to have offered Weizmann anything to show his gratitude. According to legend, Weizmann is said to have replied: "All I want is a homeland for my people". Greenberg, at the same time, was asked: "What can we do to bring American opinion back to supporting Britain?" Greenberg answered: "Give the Jewish people the homeland they have been dreaming of for 2,000 years!" They also asked Greenberg what to do to win back Russian opinion and got the same reply.
Just as Allenby's army set out from Cairo to conquer Palestine, the British Government issued a statement by the Foreign Secretary, Arthur James Balfour, offering a Jewish national home in Palestine. That pledge was the document that ensured the creation of modern Israel and meant that the British had to concede the creation of an independent state. However, after the 1917 Balfour Declaration, Greenberg still kept on sniping at Weizmann, writing, for example, that Weizmann should have demanded "a Jewish state" rather than a mere "national home" and complaining that Palestine meant "both sides of the Jordan river". That row only ended when Greenberg died in 1931. Greenberg did not live to see the declaration of independent Israel.
Delayed burial[edit]
Greenberg had expressed the wish that he should be cremated and his remains buried, without any religious ceremony, near Mount Scopus in Palestine. The casket containing his ashes arrived in Haifa in November 1931, but the Orthodox rabbinate in Jerusalem insisted that since Jewish law prohibits cremation, it could not be buried in consecrated ground. Letters flew back and forth between London and Palestine as his son Ivan tried to resolve the impasse. In January 1932, Joe Linton, one of Weizmann's aides, suggested burying the casket in Herbert Bentwich's private garden near Mount Scopus. This would have been a nice irony since the two men had loathed one another. In any event, this solution was over-ruled by the rabbinate. By May 1932, the casket was still in the customs office in Haifa, and officials threatened to throw it out if something was not done about it. Eventually, through the combined efforts of Moshe Sharett (later Foreign Minister and Prime Minister of Israel) and Chaim Arlosoroff, both high-ranking officials in the Jewish Agency, a resting place for Greenberg's remains was found at Kibbutz Degania[disambiguation needed] by the shore of the Sea of Galilee.
- ^ Nahum Sokolow, History of Zionism 1600–1918, p.xliii (1919)
- ^ "Leopold Jacob Greenberg (1861–1931), journalist and Zionist". Museum of the Jewish People. Retrieved 3 April 2008.[dead link]
- Cesarani, David (1994), The Jewish Chronicle and Anglo-Jewry 1841–1991, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, ISBN 0-521-43434-3
- Weizmann, Chaim (1949), Trial and Error, the Autobiography of Chaim Weizmann, First, Edition, ASIN B000P3VU1A, New York: Harper and Brothers, OCLC 512638


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Russell Brand Explains 'Morning Joe' Hijacking
The comedian says he was polite until he encountered "rudeness from the crew" and became aware of the show's approach.
Russell Brand is finally explaining what happened when he hijacked a segment on MSNBC's Morning Joe last month.
Appearing to promote his Messiah Complex tour, Brand grew increasingly frustrated with the setup and the hosts referring to the comedian as if he wasn't there, leading him to admonish them for their lack of "manners" and take the interview into his own hands, promoting his tour and delivering the news himself.
Writing in an op-ed in The Guardian, Brand says he was polite when he arrived at MSNBC's studios, until he encountered "rudeness from the crew."
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"I was surprised by the soundman's impatient intrusiveness and yet more surprised as I stood just off set, beside the faux-newsroom near the pseudo-researchers who appear on camera as pulsating set dressing, when the soundman yapped me to heel with the curt entitlement of Idi Amin's PA," Brand explains.
He goes on to say that when he sat down, he realized what he was in for, claiming that he became aware the show was broadcasting "the shrill white noise of dumb current affairs."
"One of the things that's surprising when you go on telly a lot is that often the on-camera 'talent' (yuck!) are perfectly amiable when you chat to them normally, but when the red light goes on, they immediately transform into shark-eyed Stepford berks talking in a cadence you encounter nowhere else but TV-land -- a meter that implies simultaneously carefree whimsy and stifled hysteria," Brand adds.
Brand then continues describing his frustration with on-camera interviews and the "detachment" that occurs.
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ORLANDO, Fla., — It's early on a Sunday morning, and I am watching two dental professionals sharing what truly is 21st Century dentistry. Dr. Steve Schmitt, a San Antonio based prosthodontist, and Dr. Ben Young, a south Texas periodontist, are sharing what should become what many call a "industry disruptor" within their industry. As the […] [Read More]
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Ever since I first started working as the publicist for the Austin and San Antonio Innotechs, I have had the pleasure of working with William "Whurley" Hurley, one of the leaders in technology. Whurley is one of the innovators in the new "mobi" movement. For most of us, this is the technology that will make […] [Read More]
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My best friend and I will celebrate our 13th wedding anniversary today, and I find myself lost for words to describe how I truly feel about her. I am never lost for words, usually. However, my wife, Jacqui, is the kind of person that makes it difficult to share with others what makes our marriage […] [Read More]
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For the past couple of days, I have heard what people in the public relations "biz" terms as sound bites on education. Prompting the discussion is the soon to be released (at least in San Antonio) "Waiting for Superman," a movie about students trying to get in a charter school program in the District of […] [Read More]
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This isn't a post-by-post deal. Just because you aren't a rude piece of shit in one post doesn't' mean I'm somehow obligated to be respectful to you when I reply.
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You're a vulgar piece of shit, Roger. You're going to get from me what you give. It's way, WAY to late for you to be bawling about me playing the game you set the rules for. Grow up, you whiny piece of shit racist.
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Man dead after car rolls down embankment on Calder Fwy
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A MAN is dead after his car rolled over an embankment in Melbourne's West.
The Sunbury man in his 30s was thrown from the vehicle and died at the scene on the Calder Freeway in New Gisborne around 4.40pm.
Police believe the driver, who was travelling south on the freeway, lost control of his car 500 metres north of the Kilmore overpass which crashed into an embankment and rolled.
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Selah Hayes blogs at Selah's Muse
My name is Selah Hayes. I am a homeschool graduate and the oldest of 6. I am worried about the wellbeing of my two adopted siblings, who are twenty years younger than me. Several years ago I contacted CPS about my concerns, but the situation has remained unresolved due to what I believe to be the involvement of HSLDA, as there very little likelihood my parents would secure any other lawyers when they are already HSLDA members. For a long time I said nothing, because I had no idea that anyone knew who HSLDA was or why they were a threat to anyone's safety. Today, at the encouragement of a few I know, I am telling my story, because I hope that it will help make a difference. My parents did fairly well when it came to accomplishing their academic goals for us, but in many other things, my parents were far from stellar—and worse. But with the help of organizations like HSLDA encouraging the unrestrained scope of parental rights, my parents have been given permission to act as they do with no consequences.
Fear the Social Worker
My parents started homeschooling in 1988 when Ohio regulations were still new. Their pastor and most in our church were opposed to homeschooling and very vocal about it. Our county superintendent insisted on conducting a home visit. My parents, who were new members to HSLDA were advised by HSLDA to not allow it. The superintendent warned my parents that he would have my brother and I removed from my parents care and placed in foster care because good parents who have nothing to hide would have no problem proving that they could provide a safe place for their children to be educated. Our pastor agreed. My parents followed the advice of HSLDA, and HSLDA contacted the superintendent and informed him he was outside the law in his threats. I was 4 at the time, so I don't know if HSLDA threatened legal action against Mahoning County if they pursued a case with my parents or not, but I've always assumed they did. Someone did visit at some later point though, and knocked on the door. My mom refused to open it, and made us sit silently on the couch. She checked the windows and told me later that the visitor walked around the perimeter of the property.
After this, we were educated on the terrible people who worked on the school board, and the social workers who were employed to investigate claims of neglect and abuse. We were taught that social workers were kidnappers, that the superintendent didn't like homeschoolers and that everyone assumed we were either abused or otherwise neglected. We were punished if we answered the door or the phone, and often hid from our grandparents if they were visiting without prior notice.
We were also taught to tell everyone that we were best friends with our parents (I couldn't stand my mom and I was terrified of my dad.) If we told anyone anything that went on in our house, we would be in trouble, either lectured, punished, or both. Punishment took the varying forms of extra chores, paddlings (often designed to be humiliating), writing lines, loss of a meal (usually reserved for waking up late), loss of allowance (usually reserved for doing chores 'poorly'), early bedtimes (bedtime for me was usually 8 or 9, bedtime for little brothers was usually 7). My parents main concern was that someone might 'think' that we were being abused when we weren't, according to them. If I told someone it was my daily chore to shake out the rugs, collect the trash, clean the bathroom and get my brothers' breakfasts (all before 7am and at the age of 11), I would be in trouble.
We were taught to say things like:
"Well, we have a few chores we do, like feed the dog and cat…"
"No. My parents have rarely ever had to spank us." (Lies. Unless 'rarely' means once a week to several times a day, oh well then yes we were 'rarely' spanked.)
"If we are bad, then they make us write lines or do an extra spelling or math page." (Usually a punishment for a poorly done household chore or poor school performance.)
Beware the Belt and Stinging Word
I saw my parents beat my first brother with a belt around 1990. I saw my dad during a family worship time, pick my first brother up out of his chair and kick him across the room and then walk over to where he was laying curled up in a ball, crying, and continue to kick him in the stomach and back around 1996. I often saw my dad throw pots and pans across the kitchen. Around the same time (1996) after yet another consistently occurring discussion between my two brothers and I about sharing our pool toys, my dad stepped in to stop the discussion, but with an exceptionally detailed description of how he planned to drown me and my two brothers in the pool, but not my little sister "because she was good" if he ever again heard us mention it again.
My dad took a great deal of pleasure in punishing me. He visibly enjoyed using the paddle on me, and it felt more like a horrible game of softball.
My mom was better known for screaming and taking issue with our lack of good attitudes, promptness, performance, and perfection. When my mom took my first brother with her to care for her parents, my responsibility was to cook, clean, educate my second brother and little sister and myself, under the watchful eye of my dad's mother (who is an amazing woman although her son is not.) My mom would return home and within 10 minutes of being home would berate me over the condition of the kitchen (crumbs on the counter left from having made lunch a few minutes earlier and not cleaning up the counter immediately after). Or scream at me for the disorganization of the books on top of the piano, the coats on the coat rack or the amount of firewood on the front porch. My mom took great pleasure in alienating me from any friends I might have had or wanted to have. She frequently went through my things and 'donated' anything she thought I didn't 'need'. As I got older and got a job I would frequently come home and find my closet torn out with one of the two reasons frequently being used: I took up too much space and my sister needed more room. Gosh why are you so selfish? Or: I was such a pig, the proof was in how I folded my sweaters or arranged my shoes or didn't pick up after my sister.
In all of this time I never called my parents into the county. I was terrified to, even though the thought crossed my mind, I knew no one would believe me. Plus I had been told that folks should mind their own business, and it was my parents business how they chose to raise us. They loved us, they were looking out for us, this was all done in our best interest. I managed to convince myself that we weren't being abused, that it would be worse somewhere else. But I prayed at night when I cried myself to sleep, that my mom's conspiracy theory of the black helicopters was true. I prayed that someone would be so horrible that they would invade us, rape me and impregnate me and take me away, because that fate seemed merciful and granted me something to control instead of the life I had.
When I was fifteen I began starving myself and excessively taking laxatives to lose weight because my dad told me I was fat. I wanted to die.
Adoption and the Rod
My parents lost a baby when I was 18 and began the process for adoption when I was almost nineteen. The social worker came to the house, we were told to make us look good, so I told the social worker the equivalent of "everything here is hunky dory", never thinking for a minute that if we were given a baby that I wouldn't be there to make sure it was so.
When I was 18, someone gave us Pearl's book, To Train Up A Child. My mom got it in her head that she had terrible children because they didn't act the way that book said they ought to, so she thought she'd start over. I read the book and was infuriated. I wanted to burn the book, but I was afraid so I hid the book. When my baby brother came home (at five weeks old) she wanted that book. She was going to "do it right this time." She screamed at me to find it, I told her I didn't know where it was. I hoped she'd never find it. She did, and shortly thereafter bought two dowel rods of different thicknesses.
Before my baby brother was 18 months old he had received daily, sometimes more often than that, beatings with the rods on his thighs, buttocks, feet, hands and face. My mom used the rod occasionally on my little sister too and tried to hit me with it once. It was about this time she started throwing me into walls, ripping out my hair, and digging her hands into my arms instead of hitting me with the rod. She claimed that if she was ever turned in for domestic violence that it would be my fault because I was a terrible adult child who refused to submit. She also said that I would cause any man who married me to beat me, if he didn't divorce me first. Either way, she would side with him, when I left I would deserve whatever I got, my parents would have no place for me.
Almost two years after getting my baby brother, my baby sister was placed with us. (It should be noted that both children are black and my family is white.) My mom wasn't as violent with her. She just seemed less attentive to her. I was then kicked out of the house for dating, and mom stole my cell phone, about $1000 in money and items, tried to steal my car, and my hope chest. This was 2006.
I saw my siblings once about 2007, in a parking lot where I ran into my mom. My baby sister had no idea who I was, she was 1 when I left.
I was invited to the house for a brief visit in 2008, and was surprised to find my baby sister dressed as a boy and her hair cut like a boy's. I was told I couldn't visit again by my dad in a phone conversation because I offended my mom and little sister by snapping some photographs of everyone. I didn't see anyone again until 2010 other than my mom on rare occasions when she would deign to invite me for coffee or drop by my house with nary a phone call and explain in some detail why I was so wrong, even though I was barred from reciprocating.
Concerning Revelations
In 2010, I discovered that my baby brother and sister had no idea who I was even though I was told that they were constantly reminded of me.
I found that my parents could afford nice things now, yet insisted on buying second hand toys for them because they (the children) needed "to prove they can take care of them (toys, dolls, etc)". My mom's theory was "he who is faithful with little will be faithful with much," so to prove if a child "deserved" a good quality item she would purchase a sub-par item and observe how well you took care of it. If you did well you might get an upgrade. She bought my baby sister an art easel and a Caucasian porcelain doll from a garage sale and gave it to her for her 6th birthday and said "this is to see if you can be trusted. If you break or destroy them, you'll never get another one."
The children were labeled liars, thieves, and suffered from selfishness, entitlement, and ungratefulness. There was the constant story of how the two of them would steal hamburger buns and eat them and lie about it, and the story about how the children found what appeared to be a burnt out light bulb and took it to their hideout to play with it, and my dad found it and was furious because they had "stolen" it from him. My parents constantly said that they hoped the children would "appreciate them (my parents) for all they've done for them." And my parents kept saying they were going to turn them into "better" black people who could speak properly and would go better places.
My dad made a point the one afternoon to repeatedly say in front of the children that 'they were very bad. They are ungrateful and have an entitlement attitude. They steal, and lie about it. They expect things to be given to them and never say thank you. The rest of you (me and my biological siblings) were never like that." Baby Sister hung her head and dug her toe in the gravel and Baby Brother started talking about leaving again. He was always talking about "Someday when I'm 18 I'm going to . . . " It was a litany of things: Leave, get married, have babies, find his "other" family . . . " He once said that he kept his bags packed so he could go find his "new" family.
In the time I was there, I never saw the children hugged, told they were loved or valuable. One night when putting them to bed, I noticed locks on the outsides of their doors, I was informed this was to "keep them out of the street at night." They were 7 and 5. My baby sister's room was immaculate, and everything put away perfectly. She even scolded me about my organization skills in my car.
I was again banned from visiting them when a family member asked why my mom was working I respected my mom's wishes to not discuss it. and explained to the family member I didn't know. My first brother went home and told my parents some story about how I lied about my mom. My dad met me in their driveway a few evenings later and insisted in screaming at me. I got in my car and left without saying a word. This was Sept. 2010.
Making a Move
After discussing the summer's events with a few friends, I finally agreed that what I had seen was abusive and endangerment.
After another family gathering in Dec. 2010, where I saw the children from across the room. They were not permitted to speak to me, and my baby sister's head was yet again shaved in a boy's haircut and was wearing boy clothes handed down to her from my baby brother. I gave gifts to my sister to give to the family for Christmas, and the next day my mom called me 10 times just to tell me that because of my summer acts of treachery, and disobedience to my father for not allowing him to scream at me, they did not want my gifts and wished to return them to me. I told her to keep them and not to bother calling me back until she was done playing games with me over having a relationship.
In discussing the events further with a friend, I finally decided a few weeks later to call CPS about the locks on the bedroom doors, my baby sister's hair and clothes, and the garage sale items they were given as 'presents' for their birthdays. CPS filed a report and visited my parents' home, but they were denied the access they needed. It seems that my parents called HSLDA, just as HSLDA urges its members to do, and that was that.
CPS called me back and wanted any more information I could provide so they could pursue the case further. I assume they were trying to get a warrant so that they could properly investigate in spite of HSLDA. I told them I could tell them what happened to me, and what had happened before I moved out, but none of it was anything I had heard happen or had physically witnessed over the summer. I told them that my mom swore she was a different person, but that I had seen no such indication of any such change and I had no reason to believe anything was any different. But that was not enough.
The Repercussions
My mother flagged almost all of the pictures I had of Baby Brother and Baby Sister on Facebook as copyright violations. I had to remove them. My mom told me that she has no daughter by my name. When my fiancé and I got engaged, he sent them a letter introducing himself and announcing his intention to marry me. They responded that I was a liar, that I had failed to tell him the whole story, that they wanted nothing to do with us or any of our children. That I was a threat to their family's safety, and that their "case workers and lawyers" told them to have no contact with me. This was in 2012.
I heard nothing directly from them, but keep hearing through my grandparents how much they miss me. But then I was not told of my mom's dad's death. At Christmas this year (2013) I called them to wish them a nice Christmas. They responded by bullying my grandparents into giving them an address (my fiancé's was given).
I then received a letter. The letter stated that I am a pathological liar, that I fabricated the entire story of my parents' abuse and tried to get someone else to report it and when that failed I either reported it myself or told my 'fabrication' to a mandatory reporter. (My second brother was privy to my concerns but I never tried to 'get' him to report.) They stated it was fortunate that they had the people on their side that they did, otherwise I could have caused a terrible problem for their family. Because of this situation though their "lawyer and case worker" (notice how it goes from being a swarm of people to two) recommends they have nothing to do with me. And because of my betrayal, my siblings want nothing to do with me and so out of respect for them, they don't even say my name around them anymore. (Awww, how nice. Out of respect huh? Seems trivial, but never once in 30 years have my parents done anything out of respect for anyone but themselves.) And because of my mistruths, no one in my family wants anything to do with me at all, so good luck finding anyone who will listen to me or believe my story.
I've only told this story to a few close friends, and my fiancé and CPS one time. I'm scared that my baby brother and sister will end up dead, missing, or on drugs someday. (Baby Brother is going to be 11 and Baby Sister just turned 9.) I'll not call my parents again since I don't want a restraining order drawn against me. But it irritates me that a case which would have been otherwise easy to investigate and correct is thwarted in this instance because HSLDA is my parents' attorney and HSLDA assumes that all parents who homeschool are naturally wonderful and that anyone who turns them is naturally demented or wants to destroy the family. All I want is for Baby Brother and Sister to be happy, safe and happy, and I'm fairly certain that if things are the way they were 2 1/2 years ago, or the way they were when I lived there, that that is just not the case.


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OLPC Cost Rises To $188 Per Laptop 270
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Sure, a Western adult would prefer an Eee - I can't wait to test drive one myself. But you omit a few other differences that demonstrate why OLPC is better for their target market - children in developing nations.
Eee networking - conventional wifi-to-Internet
OLPC networking - mesh ad hoc OR wifi-to-Internet
Eee screen - conventional indoor only
OLPC screen - unique dual-mode, clearly readable even in bright sunlight
Eee hardware - conventional non-rugged Western office / home environment; requires stable AC power
OLPC hardware - sealed against elements, child-tolerant; runs on AC power, hand or foot power, solar cell
Eee software - conventional Linux
OLPC software - highly customized for non-computer-literate children
Eee development - requires conventional developer tools; system restore requires external media
OLPC development - "show source" button allows children to explore and modify most aspects of the environment with nothing more than the built-in Python editor; and versioned filesystem ensures machine can be rolled all the way back to original state with no external media support
The OLPC is very unconventional, and is much better suited to children in developing classrooms than any other machine on the market. *That* is what makes it special, not an arbitrarily low price point.
Both spec and price seem to be changing. The base flash drive size has dropped from 4GB to 2, base memory from 512MB to 256, the onboard VGA camera has disappeared from the base model, and yet the anticipated price has risen by $250.
Interestingly, several countries have started to use Euro for foreign trade because of the isntability of the dollar, oddly enough including North Korea.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eurozone [wikipedia.org]
I beg your pardon but you are only addressing one small part of the vision behind OLPC.
What has been accomplished is magnificent:
There is a lot more of the same. The initial price was but one target, and while that arrow is not going to hit the bullseye, it will strike one of the higher scoring rings. Meanwhile, the OLPC deserves kudos for racking up good scores on a lot of other measures of success.
Old programmers never die, they just branch to a new address.


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Young people coping with cost of living by staying with their parents
Published at 14:08, Friday, 08 June 2012
The number of young people aged between 20 and 34 who still live with their parents has grown by 20 per cent since 1997, fuelling fears about the reflection this has on their finances.
Nearly three million young adults were living in the family home in 2011, an increase of almost half a million over the previous 14 years, despite the number in this age group remaining largely unchanged, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) said.
Men are more likely than women to have not yet flown the nest, with around 1.8 million men (one in three) and 1.1 million women (one in six) aged between 20 and 34 still living at home last year.
The figures raised fears that home ownership has simply become "out of reach" for many young people, with a tough jobs market making the struggle to get on the property ladder even tougher.
According to the Council of Mortgage Lenders (CML), the average first-time buyer property cost £44,000 in 1997 and by 2011 it was around three times as much, at £132,000.
Meanwhile Standard Life has found that 62 per cent of parents are planning to give their adult children more financial help than they received themselves due to university fees, high living costs, debts and house deposits, averaging a total bill of more than £15,000 per child.
Would-be buyers have struggled to raise the 20 per cent deposit often demanded by lenders, which led to a boom in the rental sector last year as rents soared, which will also have left many young people unable to leave home. They face a tougher time trying to raise a mortgage in the coming months as lenders are tightening their borrowing criteria and increasing rates.
Prospective buyers were dealt another blow when a two-year stamp duty concession for first-time buyers ended in March this year.
However, the Government recently launched its NewBuy scheme to help those who have been shut out of the housing market, which could help as many as 100,000 people buy a new-build home with a deposit of five per cent or 10 per cent.
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Fresh Start: plants that bring you joy
(I hope people don't think I'm presumptuous but I'm starting a fresh thread on a previously popular topic. My suggestion is to start to post to this, and leave the original one alone, so it will quickly drop off the page.)
I am no longer a big daylily fan, but "Chicago Apache" is such a rich color, heavy blooming and its foliage stays decent looking for much longer than most daylilies. The form and color make me happy.
I had a big empty spot next to "All Gold" haknone grass. I put a beautiful clump of sedum "Autumn Joy" there and was reminded again why this plant is a classic. Maybe it will be replaced by Autumn Charm, but its form and vigor when well grown is unmatched. Same for Matrona, which would be a great contrast with the gold grass; however I didn't have a spare one foot clump hanging around to transplant.
If I went to the garden I know I'd come up with others. Isn't it interesting how often the tried and true rises to the top? If something is beautiful but only hangs around a season or two, the joy it brings me is diminished. Sort of like loyal people you love: part of their beauty is that they keep showing up.And everytime they do, their beauty and the happiness they bring you is clear.
Yes, Chicago Apache is still one of my favorite daylilies and as we speak, mine is still going strong too. Love this one!
I've been on this binge to eliminate all the daylilies in my garden which just don't cut mustard for me anymore and from an original high of 30-40 varieties, I'm probably down to maybe a dozen plants. Interestingly, almost all the ones I've kept are the reds, the oranges and orange reds. IMO daylilies are one of the best sources for strong reds in the summer garden. You just can't beat some of those colors.
I appreciate info on good daylilies, thanks! I love them and have several swaths but I wouldn't mind getting some stronger varieties. Chicago Apache looks like a winner!
'All Gold' Japanese Forest Grass sounds excellent too. I just got 'Aureola' last week and suddenly I'm infatuated with these.
Great thread Idabean!
-kato, that is a good question. I've always read that the hirta Rudbeckias were short lived perennials/biennials but this is my third year with my plants. At least I assume they are the original plants and not seedlings of the first year plants....
Right now I am mightily enjoying my bronze fennel plant. I find the taste of it reasonably revolting, so am leaving it for ornamental purposes. It is so useful in the garden! It is like Thalictrum- adding an airy presence and some height without blocking the views or giving any feeling of "heaviness" to the bed. Plus the foliage is nice and dark colored. Me likey. ;-)
OK, I may be breaking some rules here, but technically you didn't state our photos have to be of perennials. I guess this one could be a perennial in a very warm climate, but it isn't around here. It comes in for the winter.
Colocasia 'Black Coral'
This is my second year with this one. Last year I had one plant, but they multiply, so this year I have 6. Maybe a dozen next year?
We've had a pretty cool summer, so my Colocasias haven't grown like they normally would in a hot, humid summer, but they're still fun to grow and pretty dramatic.
How did you overwinter that? I brought my 'Black Coral' in the house last winter, and it's done OK this year (back outside), but didn't grow as strongly as it did last year. Of course, our season has been shorter and MUCH cooler, so that could have something to do with it.
Echinaceamaniac - love that 'Salsa Red' and great shot!
Ooh, tj, that is a beautiful daylily!
I also love my Chicago Apache. I don't even really like red, but I was walking through the parking lot of my local supermarket, of all places, and was stopped in my tracks by Chicago Apache in the rows of plants for sale in the front of the store. Bought it right then and there and decided to start a red/orange/yellow bed, which is a huge departure for little old pink/purple me.
But sadly, my Chicago Apache is long gone for this season. It bloomed last month. Everything is early this year, it seems...
Two things making me happy right now (and for the past few weeks) are my rooguchi clematis. Got this from a friend who moved several years ago, and it lived in a pot (where else) for many years till I finally planted it this spring. It has climbed higher than it ever did in my friend's garden, which surprised me because I didn't think it was much of a climber, and while the bloom has not been profuse, it has indeed been prolonged, and the little bells hang down around the arbor and over the white picket fence and make me smile.
The other thing that makes me smile is the Quickfire hydrangea I just got at a swap this spring. Again, still in its pot on the patio, but the color has turned to a lovely pink now and every time I come in the house it makes me happy.
Kato, your photo makes me happy too! LOL. Love the phlox and the perovskia together, and the rudbeckias set it off so nicely!
mary_littlerockar - Absolutely LUV that red ring milkweed! TFS the photos. Any chance you can share the botanical name? I have species milkweed that have been perennial in my garden for the past 40+ years but that one looks like it would be a very lovely addition to the garden.
All lovely photos and sentiments. Remember someone else started "this thread" ; I just wanted to dig us out of the ditch of nastiness we fell into. Maybe that's why I used the word "joy" instead of "happiness." I didn't remember the word was happy ...but I do like the concept of joy......
Ech, would you share the link to your ech website?
That ech you photographed is spectactular. And you say it is in its second year? Well, it passed the first hurdle, or the first year. I'm still lookiing at that puny double delight and feeling p'o'd. I really don't need to wait till I have the trowel in hand. I can just rip it up by the roots, can't I?!
I have a little surprise that I found in the garden recently. I has this plant in one of my shadier beds and it looked kind of like some sort of cimicifuga, but never could remember what it was and didn't bother to check to see if there was a tag. Well, it bloomed and I rushed to check for a tag. It is Anemonopsis macrophylla and she's a beauty! So happy I purchased this one, even if I hadn't remember what it was I had bought!
That milkweed is awesome! I love the white flowers with the dark stems, butterflies or not I'm going to be on the lookout for that one!
Dee, Mary has the name in there, it's asclepsias variegata. It makes me happy just thinking about getting it :)
Karin- I love the forest grass. The only time it doesn't look great is winter, and even then it still looks a neat tan.
Must not aknowledge the elephant ear. I thought I was past that obsession.... Obsession does not always equal happy LOL
I agree, that milkweed is probably one of the most spectacular plants I've seen recently. The leaves remind me of something and I'm not sure what - a poinsettia or fig or ?
ruth - I keep it in a sunny window, but in a unheated part of my house. When temps drop below 50, I stop watering. Around mid February I take them out of their pots, clean and divide and start them growing again in a warmer area. They seem to need a good long growing season to do well.
-Susan, I would love to see a pic of that Anemonopsis if you can get one! That guy has been on my want list (aka where-the-heck-do-I-put-it-list) for a long time.
So here is a shot I took of the bronze fennel. Didn't show up as much as I would like, but it adds such a nice light touch to the garden. Hopefully it will bloom next year...I thought it was biennial but it flowered last year too.
I too love that red ring milkweed. Also love the red Echinacea.
Sedum Matrona, mentioned by idabean is a very worthy sedum to have. Always a good show. Here is one of mine.
And diggerdee mentioned Hydrangea Quickfire. A lovely shrub with snow white bloom that over a couple weeks turns to pretty pink. Bees love it. And I do too. First the whole shrub. Then a closeup.
Wow. I love the nice Hydrangea, Milkweed, and everything else! I can see why they bring everyone so much joy. Hosta 'Stained Glass' is beautiful with very bright colors and it has fragrant blooms that smell like Honeysuckles. This plant should brighten anyone's day!
mary_littlerockar - love that milk weed! Its beautiful!
Also LOVE the chicago apache day lily! I saw my neighbor's blooming the other day and was wondering which one it was and I think its this one. They are very impressive. The only day lilies I have are the orange ditch lilies and a few stellas (one is an apricoty-salmony color though) so I'm definitely looking into getting some more... appealing ones
Speaking of daylilies...One that I got by mistake a few years ago is a big favorite for it's height, long and heavy bloom and just plain good looks. It has been around a long time. That would be Kwanzaa.
I would like to add ornamental grasses to this list of plants that bring joy. This is Pennisetum orientale 'Karley Rose'. Late to break dormancy, but quick to start sending up those rosey plumes. Adding new plums constantly till frost. Many types of grasses out there, I think that Karley Rose is one of the best to add inetrest to a mixed bed or as a stand alone.


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Scrap the weekly or monthly aspect, AMV's require too much work for that. Make it a random contest, one every few months with a month time line to do it in. That way we will get the most participation and it stays "fresh". A good example of why I say it won't work weekly or monthly...POTW...Poems which are easy...started out with a lot of entries and DIED in 3 weeks. Why would this last on a weekly/monthly basis when it is so much harder?
I say we give it a poilt run and see how people respond.
Its infuriating how no one wants to take a chance on anything here. Jesus i mean seriously would it be so bad to give it a shot. Why not in a month im sure 30 days is more than enough a person needs to finish a Well done AMV one took me 2 months but thats beside the point. Random.....well i dont like that because he dedication woudl drop so i say give it a shot
..:Open Your Wings Evil Angel:..
Until then I am closing this.12. Contests are allowed subject to approval by staff.


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